Chapter 16: The Hunters' Guild
Nottingson City, located on the southern border of the Kingdom of Estateson, is the largest military town in the Kingdom.
The reason why it is so important is that to the southwest outside the city, there is a famous military power, the Moya Universal Kingdom.
The Moan Kingdom is extremely powerful, and although it is still nominally a member of the Mayan Empire, it often sends disguised paramilitary forces in private to engage in murderous and oversold goods.
The frequent raids on the frontier outside the city of Nordinson led to the looting of many merchants' goods and money, and the difficulty of using the army to effectively protect them prompted the Kingdom of Phutton to take a compromise measure: in the city of Nordinson, follow the example of other kingdoms - form a Hunters' Guild.
The Hunters' Guild was originally nominally a hunters' guild for the purpose of culling demonic beasts and obtaining magic crystals and demonic souls in their bodies, but now the hunter's job is no longer so simple.
After decades of evolution, the Hunters' Guild has become a huge organization that integrates guards, bodyguards, search, hunting, spying, and treasure hunting. Even the clubhouse at the headquarters of the Hunters Guild in Nottingson City turned out to be a bustling trading place, with many shops in the clubhouse, and a huge circular open-air gladiatorial arena was built in the center of the clubhouse.
Many of the captured monsters were locked up in a prison at the edge of the gladiatorial arena, waiting for their final fate - to be killed.
Although a large number of hunters were severely injured by the trapped beasts in a desperate situation during the gladiatorial performance with the monsters, many performers still poured into the arena one after another, playing the role of slaughterers.
Many slaughterers are not only to get the considerable appearance fee, but also to obtain the magic crystal and demon soul in the body of the monster if they are lucky, and they will also directly receive an honor from the empire because of the accumulation of consecutive victories and the high ranking of points: baron!
This title seems to be just a false name, but the huge interests hidden behind it have made countless people look sideways!
The Baron is the last nobleman of the Elastonian Empire, but it is not easy for a commoner to become a nobleman.
As a low-class nobleman, although it cannot be hereditary, it is the starting point to the upper class of society, and has the opportunity to enter the Estateson Kingdom Academy for further study, and if you succeed in your studies, you will be directly sent to various parts of the kingdom as officials, and from then on, the fate of yourself and your family will be completely overturned, and you will become a member of the kingdom's elite.
What's more, the baron also enjoys a special allowance issued by the kingdom every month, and the lucky ones who can enter the kingdom academy for further study are free of all study fees, which is enough to make everyone jealous.
In the huge hall of the Hunters' Guild, a young man in a gray cloak was looking around.
Lu Xiao had just arrived here, and the purpose of this trip was very clear, to obtain the Earth Elemental Demon Crystal.
This is the largest hunter guild in the Kingdom of Elaston, and it is also the largest magic crystal trading place, but after tossing and turning in the bazaar several times, Lu Xiao reluctantly left the bazaar and came to the center of the hall of the club.
Since the Magic Shard is a rare commodity, it has a very important role to play in creating the Sushi level badge.
The Primus Badge is usually divided into grades according to the level of the entrance in the body and the corresponding color, in order from low to high: white, blue, blue, red, green, purple, yellow, gold, etc., that is, the badge worn by the junior Prima who breaks through the first-order entrance is white, the Intermediate Primer badge of the second-order entrance is cyan, and the badge of the third-order senior Primer is blue, and so on.
Don't underestimate this simple badge, it is not only a symbol of the status of the Sushi rank, but also has a series of extremely important special effects: replenishing the continuous consumption of the elemental origin in the body, adding additional bonuses to attack and defense, and purifying the mixed explosive qi in the origin, so as to maximize the success rate of breaking through the entrance.
There are also some Sushi badges made of special magic crystals, which can collect the elemental data released by the opponent in the air during the fight between the two sides, and then understand the attribute composition of the opponent's origin, escort the defeat of strong enemies, and act as an auxiliary role for soul detection.
These very direct effects have led to the high price of magic crystals, and some rare magic crystals are even more priceless, once they appear, they will be subject to crazy bidding, and the price of the transaction is even secret, which is enough to see how precious the magic crystal is.
For a young man who came out of the mountains and villages, although he is the head of a family, but the family is declining, and the income of money is extremely meager, before Lu Xiao leaves, although he has made very full preparations for collection, he has only found out several times in the bazaar that his little coin is not even enough to buy a low-grade white magic crystal, let alone obtain a pure high-grade earth element magic crystal.
The taste of no money troubled the fledgling teenager for the first time and made him feel lost.
There was nothing to do, Lu Xiao walked towards the hunter registration office of the guild hall, it seemed that he could only register as a prospective hunter first, and then see if there was any lucrative work to get started, but if he wanted to save money through hard work to obtain magic crystals, this road may be difficult to walk.
During the march, Lu Xiao accidentally heard a burst of whispering, and looked left and right for a long time, only to find that many people pointed at him and muttered something in a low voice, and even a few onlookers let out a soft snicker.
"What's going on, am I anything special?"
Lu Xiao muttered secretly in his heart, trying not to be humble or arrogant to move his square steps, and swaying freely in his gestures, without a trace of embarrassment!
Unexpectedly, after walking dozens of steps like this, the voices of everyone talking became louder and louder, and there were more and more snickers, many people pointed at his back, and most of them showed a very strange expression of envy and jealousy between their eyebrows.
"What's the matter, why are they looking at my back and snickering?"
Lu Xiao glanced back at his back intentionally or unintentionally, nothing particularly unusual, but when he just wanted to retract his gaze, he suddenly found that there was a person closely behind him, and it turned out that so many whispers came from this.
It was a girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in spotless pale white clothes, although her slightly bulging breasts were quite immature, but they had begun to take shape, the girl's hair was as black as ink, lightly attached to her chest, her round little face was drooping low, and her slightly shy eyes looked at her chest blankly, and the two small hands holding each other trembled faintly, nervously rubbing their thumbs.
Lu Xiao looked at the girl who bowed her head and was silent, pursed the corners of her lips self-deprecatingly, and asked, "Hey, have you been following me?"
The girl's cheeks flushed, and she nodded slowly, the crimson that had filled her ears.
"Then why are you following me, are we very familiar?" Lu Xiao said coldly to the girl.
Since he was a child, Lu Xiao was almost alone, and the girls in the clan greeted him sweetly, but Lu Xiao also ignored him. In Atupu Town, Lu Xiao occasionally gets together with foreign teenagers, and they also learn skills and discuss with each other, and they don't even look at foreign girls, and they don't even look at them, and they don't have any pity for the jade, so that many admirers can't get close to them, so they can only stay away.
The girl stood dumbfounded, not daring to shake her head or nod, tears rolling in her dark and clear eyes.
Turning around, Lu Xiao walked straight forward, and before he took a few steps, Lu Xiao turned around abruptly and glared at the girl who was still persevering behind him.
"Hey, have you had enough? I don't know you, what the hell do you want to do?" Lu Xiao said coldly.
A crystal teardrop rolled down from the girl's eyes and hung quietly on the edge of the corner of her mouth, and the girl lowered her head, still standing dumbfounded, without saying a word.
Many crowds of people began to gather around to watch the excitement, which made Lu Xiao feel embarrassed.
Raising his hand and pulling the girl's arm, Lu Xiao pushed away the gradually surrounding crowd, walked quickly to a secluded place, then let go of the girl's arm, and asked softly, "Are you hungry?"
The girl nodded slightly.
Lu Xiao reached into his arms, took out the money bag, pulled the girl's palm, poured half of the coin into her palm, then put away the money bag and walked quickly.
After not taking a few steps, Lu Xiao found that the girl was still following closely behind him with the coin in both hands, and had to make him stop and reflexively face the girl again.
"Hey, little girl, I've already given you half of all the money, what else do you want?!Please, don't follow me, can't you succeed!" Lu Xiao almost pleaded.
There's no way, I met a weak woman, and I'm still a little weak woman, I can't fight, I don't scold, I don't beg her what else can I do.