Jiajing spent more than a week visiting the tomb, and most of that time was spent on healing and recuperating after the battle with the one-horned silver python.

Back at the Dragon City Hotel, the guy in charge of their residence hurriedly ran over to tell Jiajing that the Mercenary Guild had sent someone to find him.

Jiajing rewarded the guy with a silver coin, felt uncomfortable, and his clothes had an embarrassing smell of sweat, so he went to freshen up first, and then went to the mercenary guild alone.

The tasks he posted weren't too difficult, but the pay was too high.

Three days after he left, a large mercenary group received news that the heavyweight of the Essence, the Fire Magister Pauli Zonsi, was hurrying to Punksa City in the north of the Essence with dozens of followers.

When Jiajing came to the Mercenary Guild, he saw that there were fewer people in the guild than before, and when he paid the task bounty, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Why are there so few people in the guild today?"

The beautiful receptionist smiled sweetly: "Of course, I heard that the swamp clan in the swamp is about to move again today, this time it seems to be real, a large number of swamp lizard shooters and werewolves have invaded the prairie outside Punksa City, all the way to the main city, and many mercenaries have rushed to help." ”

The receptionist shook his head helplessly: " Every year before winter, the swamp tribe with poor food will be like this, burn and loot in the area where humans live, and retreat immediately with a shot, which is quite annoying, but the empire never makes any big moves to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, just take the bonus to induce the mercenary group to fight those invaders from the swamp, the task is not very difficult, a werewolf ear is worth five silver coins, the lizard shooter is a gold coin, hundreds of thousands of invading swamp tribes, for the mercenary group, it is simply a big gold mine, those werewolves and lizard shooters are not stupid, they go to rob and kill when they see civilians, and turn around and run when they see mercenaries, so they are not difficult at all for powerful mercenary groups...... This kind of work that is not dangerous and can make money is what many mercenaries look forward to every year!"

When the receptionist handed Jiajing the letter with the whereabouts of the fire magister Pauli Zongs, he seemed to remember something, so he continued: "But what is strange is that even the imperial magister Pauli Zongsi rushed to Punksa City this year, and I don't know why it is." ”

After Jiajing thanked the receptionist, he returned to the Dragon City Hotel and told Claude about it.

Claude was recording something in a notebook, and after hearing Jiajing say this, he suddenly frowned: "Today's swamp is composed of a large area of grassland and swamp, not only the swamp tribe, but also many human beings live in it, and the swamp tribe we are talking about is mainly werewolves and lizard people living in the grassland area. These swamp werewolves are similar in shape to the Kasia werewolves, but their combat effectiveness is far inferior to Kasia's wolf cavalry, but they are superior in numbers, so they are unique. The swamp occupies one-third of the space, the lack of natural resources, and the surrounding power greatly restricts the development of the swamp clan, if they have enough food, they will definitely be a powerful force that many big mercenary groups are very afraid of, and the prestige is not under the Kasia Empire!"

Hearing Claude give such a high evaluation to the Swamp Clan, Jiajing heard it for the first time, so he asked curiously: "Who are the Swamp Clan?"

Marco on the side interjected with a smile: "There are many kinds of swamp tribes, there are many frogmen, swamp dwarves, lizard people, werewolves, and swamp humans, among which werewolves, lizardmen, and swamp humans are the most numerous! Today, the terrain of the swamp is complex, and fierce beasts are everywhere, in addition to those large races with their own civilizations, there are poisonous flies, blood-sucking giant mosquitoes, black mud demon snakes, demonized bulls, swamp lizards, bipedal wyverns, these brutal beasts, and even the super Warcraft-level hydra clan is hiding in it!" Therefore, the swamp clan is not as unbearable as the folk say, even if it is as powerful as the empire, they do not dare to rashly march into the swamp today to annihilate them in one fell swoop, so even if they are repeatedly invaded and plundered, the empire is just to induce the mercenary group to fight back, after all, you come and go, and it won't be long before they will retreat by themselves. Today, even if the swamp is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it does not dare to go outside the swamp to confront the imperial army head-on, which forms a delicate situation of mutual containment - a big war cannot be fought, and a small war is inevitable. ”

After listening to what Marco said, Claude also pondered for a moment, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at Jiajing: "Boss Jiajing, do you really plan to go to Punksa City to find Pauly Zongs? According to the old man, even big people like Pauli Zongsi rushed to Punksa City, I am afraid that this swamp war disaster has its behind-the-scenes abruptness, which is far less ordinary than what we see on the surface." ”

The Magister's position in the empire was not in the slightest under those generals who had made great achievements, and Claude was worthy of being meticulous, and he quickly saw that this was unusual.

Jiajing was a little unimpressed: "Of course we have to go, we are not going into the swamp today, there should be no danger." ”

Marco nodded with a steady expression: "Hmm...... In this case, well, tomorrow I will go buy some necessary medicinal materials, just in case, many magical beasts in the swamp are highly poisonous, especially the two-legged wyvern, and there is also a swamp gas and poisonous gas on it all year round, if it is not a local, once it is trapped, it will be very deadly. ”

Marco had been to the vicinity of the swamp to pick herbs before, and naturally knew the danger there, otherwise the empire would not have allowed them to remain entrenched in its north for so many years, serving the tigers, and plundering supplies every year.

Jiajing thought for a while: "It's okay, let's have a good rest today, tomorrow you go to buy medicinal materials, how many gold coins do you need, just tell me, I still have a lot of gold coins here, if it's not enough, you can also take all the jewelry I wear." ”

When Jiajing came out, Yihong Tavern had already made a lot of money, in addition to leaving the necessary working capital, Jiajing even if he brought 100,000 gold coins out of the problem, but the gold coin texture is heavy, Jiajing's storage bracelet can only hold 1,000 catties, according to 50 gold coins a catty, at most it can only hold 50,000 gold, in addition to the necessary materials, Jiajing only carried more than 10,000 gold out.

Yan Mei was afraid that he would not have enough money on the road, so she specially bought some expensive jewelry, magic crystals, etc., thinking that if Jiajing was short of money, she could also save the emergency by being them, so Jiajing didn't have to worry too much about money now.

When Marco heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, in fact, it doesn't cost a few dollars to buy those medicines, but I really don't have any money now, so the boss will give me ten gold coins." ”

The two Punal brothers widened their eyes and asked in a daze, "Ten gold coins is enough, what can I buy?"

The two Punar brothers have been with Jiajing for so long, and they have a little bit of pride, ten gold coins, they really won't take it seriously, after all, the money can't even afford a jar of Biluochun.

Marco smiled bitterly: "You are all rich people, naturally you don't know the suffering of the poor, we are tired and tired to help people see a doctor, and we can't save ten gold coins in a year, if the fee is expensive, it is to rush the patient to the therapist, just rely on those who are sick to buy medicine, the money can't make much money, don't look at my reputation as a pharmacist, it is all piled up by low-cost medical treatment, I have been practicing medicine for so long, although I haven't made any money, the technology of seeing a doctor has improved a lot......"

Marco looked at Claude, and then at the Ponal brothers, and shook his head helplessly, "Alas, the life of a pharmacist is not easy, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to pay for Ponal's medical expenses himself." ”

Xiaoting also muttered a cherry mouth: "Ten gold coins is enough for ordinary people's expenses for two years, and for us ordinary people, ten gold coins is already a lot." ”

After listening to Marco and Xiaoting's words, Claude, who had been a businessman, glanced at Marco and shook his head worthlessly: "You are too old-fashioned! Those nobles will also get sick, they can't find a healer to treat them well, so they will naturally look for you, just cheat him once, it's enough for you to spend a year, if this doesn't work, you can also configure some poisons or other hidden special-purpose medicines to sell to those mercenaries, I think the medicine you used last time you treated Punavi for snake venom was very good!"

Marko's honest face suddenly brightened, and he suddenly slapped his thigh, and exclaimed: "Alas! What Lao Ke said is reasonable, the disease is not cured by a therapist, and in the end I have to ask for a pharmacist, haha, I have always been afraid that the fee will be expensive, and those civilians would rather stay at home and recover slowly on their own, rather than come to see a doctor again, but those nobles have money, and they can completely practice double standards!"

Marco has always maintained the price of medical treatment on a horizontal line, without much fluctuation, at most when the price of drugs rises, the medical expenses are also raised a little, and now after listening to Claude's unintentional words, he suddenly realized that the original pharmacist is also an elite profession that can make a lot of money and has a bright future!

Marco's heart immediately became comfortable, and the economic problems that had been bothering him suddenly became clear.