Chapter 9: The House of Mercenaries

"What! is there anything wrong with a mercenary group of fourteen?!" Marcus was not happy to see the other party's disdainful expression, he had never been looked down upon.

The other people present were snickering, and the church member also changed from surprise to bitter smile, he shook his head and said, "I don't know which small village you came from, but I really haven't heard of a mercenary group with fourteen people, and we have at least two hundred mercenary groups registered here, not to mention those mercenary groups with extraordinary strength." ”

Greif: "However, I see that some mercenary missions are just simple things that don't require a lot of manpower, are they?"

"Let me tell you, even if it's a very small mission, other mercenary groups will assign some people to complete it," the church official crossed out the "fourteen" in the pamphlet, and then put the pamphlet and pen back, "A mercenary group with a number of people like you, it is estimated that there are some small places that are suitable for your work." ”

Greif stops Marcus, or the one-eyed man will step forward and reason with both hands.

"Hmph, we fourteen of us won't necessarily lose to those mercenary groups of hundreds of people!" Kesi put her hands in front of her chest, and she saw the snobbish eyes of the church personnel in front of her, and she felt a wave of disgust.

"Forget it, no matter how good you are, you don't meet our requirements," the church member kept looking at Field's black armor, the three-pointed harpoon on Greif's back, and Marcus's war hammer, "You have very good weapons, why are there so few of them, are they all stolen?"

Seeing the other party's face, Fei De just felt ridiculous in his heart, he didn't expect that the original mercenary house would also have a number of members. However, he had never thought of completing the task with fourteen "single leaders", and this time he came just to inquire first.

Then a church member sitting inside walked out, with a black beard and neatly combed hair, looking like a seasoned administrator.

"You stand down first," the middle-aged man in black and red asked the church member to leave, and he stood in front of Fed, "Hello, my name is Ernest, and I am the head of the mercenary house in Holy Light City, may I ask which of you is the leader of the mercenary group?"

The other party looked gentle and polite, and compared to the snobbish guy just now, Kesi and the others immediately had a good impression of him.

"I'm Fed, the leader of the Potato Mercenary Regiment. ”

"Hello Field," Ernest pulled out a pamphlet from behind his waist, then picked up the note and wrote "Potato Mercenary Regiment Leader Fielder," "May I ask how many people are in your group?"

"For the time being, there are only fourteen people. ”

"Fourteen, do you intend to be permanently stationed in the Papal Domestication?" Ernest wrote quickly, and as soon as Fielder spoke, he was able to write it down immediately.

"Hopefully. ”

"Well, I wonder if your regiment has its own flag?"

"I guess there is. ”

"That's great, I hope that your regiment can be the permanent mercenary group of our country, and the flag of your regiment can be set up on the roof of the mercenary house. After Ernest finished speaking, the other church personnel and other members of the mercenary group behind him were taken aback, especially the snobbish guy who ran to the person in charge of the mercenary house just now.

"They don't necessarily have the legal license to buy mercenary groups," snobs whispered.

But Ernest just waved him away, ignoring what the snob said.

"We may need to complete some tasks and get paid before deciding whether or not we will be permanently stationed in your country. "Fidel sees it all.

Ernest put the pamphlet back, nodded and said, "Of course, I have a task in my hand now, and this task is not difficult to say, easy to say, and it does not require a lot of manpower. He said as he told the snobbish guy to go back and pull out the papers in the fifth drawer in the cabinet, counting from the bottom up.

When the snob heard that it was the documents in the fifth drawer, the corners of his mouth went up, he glanced at Fidel with his eyes, and immediately turned around and went back to get the papers.

"What are the tasks in terms of content, remuneration, and time limit?"

"There will be detailed information in the mission document, and the main thing is to remove the plants," Ernest said. ”

What kind of task is this? Do you even have to help someone remove the weeds from the back garden? Everyone except Phyll had a puzzled look on their faces. Marcus muttered even more: "Lao Tzu is not a gardener, is my war hammer going to remove flowers and weeds?!"

However, after the snob gave the mission document to Field, everyone understood the key to the job.

The location was a farmhouse in the west of the Holy Light City, and the time limit was one month, and the reward was fifteen hundred gold coins. However, the key mission content is just an understatement: there are giant plants that attack people, please send capable mercenaries to come.

Giant plants that attack people? The first thought that came to Fidel's mind was a carnivorous flower. Occasionally found in the dense forests of the central kingdom of Salins, the carnivorous flower does not like water and sunlight, and only likes to catch small animals such as hares, voles, or foxes. They tend to grow in dirt and have deep roots, and you can't see them growing on the surface. Ordinary people wearing shoes to step on those carnivorous flowers will not cause the other party to attack, even if you hit it with a stone, it will not make the carnivorous flowers have any reaction, only throw a pheasant on it, the carnivorous flower will come out of the ground, swallow the pheasant in one bite, and then bring it back to the ground to digest it.

Fed, he had never seen such a plant, and he didn't expect to come across anything like it here in the Papal States.

"What's this giant plant that attacks people?" asked Kess, holding the mission announcement, pointing to the words on it.

Ernest nodded, and said with a serious face: "This is the difficulty of this task, those giant plants are rumored to be one meter high, and all of them are hidden underground, but when livestock pass by, they will come out of the ground and eat piglets and lambs." ”

"Wow! a meter-tall plant, it sounds scary, will it eat people too?!"

"I don't think I'm going to eat people, don't worry. ”

Greif asked, "So what's the easy part of that?"

"The object of the task is plants, not humans, of course, it is easy to complete, in fact, this is a task that any mercenary group can complete, but those mercenaries are rare and strange. If you are willing to accept this task, I hope you can leave as soon as possible, because the employer has urged it many times. ”

Despite Ernest's words, Fed noticed the rather high payβ€”he had just seen that the task of escorting fifty villagers was only seventy gold coins, and finding the horse thieves that had been rampant in the vicinity of the Holy Light City recently and eliminating them was only eight hundred and twenty gold coins.

Fett realized that this task was not easy, but he didn't think too much about it and directly agreed to the other party.

"We took on this task. Fid said to Ernest.