Chapter 18: Mercenaries

The market in Kribi City is located in the northeast corner of the city, and through the bustling crowds, Levi makes his way to the market while keeping an eye on the soldiers around him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Although most people now use the continental lingua franca to communicate, Levi also saw vendors selling in Northville in the market, and he didn't come to these local vendors in Kribi City, and it was inconvenient to communicate and a waste of time.

Looking for a shop that didn't look big, Levi quickly picked out some food such as pancakes and jerky and put them in his backpack, and in the store, Levi also found that he was selling linen robes, and after looking at the tattered robes on his body, Levi decided to buy one and put it on, and when he finally paid the money, it was a total of fifty-six copper coins of silver coins, and the food in the backpack was enough for Levi to eat for a while.

There are many vendors in the market, some selling food, some selling salt, and some selling swords, but the main purpose of Levi's entry into the city is to buy food, and now that he has done it, he should think about how to get out.

However, if he left the city now, he would have to spend the night outside the city, and Rivi hadn't slept in the wasteland for more than a month, and he didn't know if he could sleep because of his shallow sleep, and he had to guard against Erima, who might chase after him at any time.

Levi walked briskly along the brick and stone streets in the direction of the north gate, the city gate where he had entered was the south gate, and now that he was going out of the city, he naturally had to go out through the north gate.

When Levi came to the street where the North Gate was located, it was also dark, and he leaned cautiously against the corner of the house, and Levi observed the soldiers inside the North Gate, who were closing the gate.

The gates of Kribi City will be closed after seven o'clock, Rivi was speechless, how could he forget about this, although there is no war now, but Kribi City is also the southern front of the Kingdom of Northwell, and some of the systems left over from the military fortress period are still used today, but they are not inland towns on the side of the Kaos Empire.

If the city gates are closed, Levi will not be able to leave the city tonight, so he can only find a place to rest for the night, and wait until the city gates are opened early tomorrow morning to leave the city.

"Master Devon, I really saw the man you confessed, a man in his early twenties with blond hair and red eyes," Levi, who was about to leave, suddenly heard someone talking in front of him.

Sneaking over, by the light of the wind lantern hanging in the house next to him, Levi saw the soldier, and a tall male knight he had never seen.

This tall knight is, of course, Di Wen, who is in charge of guarding the north city gate today, and he looked at his subordinates with a sinking face and said, "Then you won't follow him?"

"Master Devon, haven't I been looking for you for a long time to report to you?" the soldier smiled wryly.

Originally, Di Wen's mood was not bad today, and the merchants who passed through the north city gate would obediently stuff some money to him when they saw him on duty, but now when he heard such a report from his subordinates, he suddenly lost his good mood.

Compared with the small benefits offered by those merchants, Devin valued Erima's reward more, because as long as she completed the task she assigned, the reward she gave was real hardware!

"Do you remember where he went?" said the two of them, and walked over to Levi.

If Levi had continued to stay here, the two of them would have seen him as soon as they turned around, and in a hurry, Levi looked left and right, saw a brightly lit tavern, and immediately pushed the door and walked in.

Jingle bells, the bell hanging on the tavern door made a soft sound, and Levi walked into the tavern and found a place to sit down.

Devon's voice talking to the soldier passed outside the tavern and faded away, and Revi, with his head down, let out a long breath and then raised his head—to meet the gazes of everyone in the tavern.

That's right, everyone in this tavern was looking at him at this time, there were big men with axes on their backs, there were also swordsmen with swords, men and women, dozens of men and women.

"Sir, are you here for a drink, or are you here to hire a mercenary?" a female voice sounded behind Levi, and he subconsciously looked over.

It was a petite girl who spoke, but at her height of perhaps less than 160cm, she was carrying a warhammer taller than her, and her fiery red hair was tied into two braids.

"Chrissy, this is not good, this gentleman should be hired by me" The big man with a bear's back stood up, his muscles bulging, just looking at his body, the two were completely incomparable.

"Towan, do you dare to fight me?" said the red-haired girl with a sneer as she lifted the war hammer with six sharp hammers on her back to the ground.

Seeing the red-haired girl effortlessly pick up a sharp-horned war hammer weighing at least two hundred pounds, Levi was almost numb now, how could the woman who appeared next to him be one who could beat him ten.

"Okay, Chrissy, the most important thing is to look at the employer's meaning" One hand was placed on the girl's shoulder, and Levi looked at the owner of the hand, only to see that the other party was a man of about eighteen or nineteen years old, with cold eyes.

Levi also understood that the large group of people around him were probably mercenaries waiting for work in the tavern, and now they regarded him as an employer.

The kingdom of Northwell is very developed in commerce and trade, so there are many merchants, so the most concerned about the merchants is, of course, the safety of the goods on the road, and being attacked by robbers or monsters along the way will cause them unnecessary losses, so hiring mercenaries to escort the goods is the practice of most merchants.

"Sir, are you here to hire mercenaries?" asked the man behind the red-haired girl Chrissy.

Originally, Levi was about to say no, but he hesitated when he thought that he would have to cross the Valley of the Titan to the hinterland of the Kingdom of Northwell, because he would be much safer with the mercenaries to help him deal with the battle.

"How much does it pay to escort me through the Valley of the Titans?" Levi decided to ask first.

"Sir, I'll only need twenty silver coins" As soon as he heard that Levi was really the employer, the big man named Towan suddenly shouted.

"Sir, I only need eighteen silver coins"

"I'll only need seventeen silver coins," shouted the other mercenaries as they crowded in front of Levi.

"Valley of the Titan Gods, we only need ten silver coins," the man said.

Ten silver coins, this price can't be said to be low, and there are still many mutated creatures in the Valley of the Giant God that can be transformed by spells in the atmosphere, and the danger is very high, and the other mercenaries stopped talking when they heard the man say that he only needed ten silver coins.

"Joel, isn't five silver coins too little?" Chrissy said, pulling the man.

"Mother's illness won't last long," said the man, Joel, in a sparsely undulating tone, and Levi looked up at his waist to see a sharp knife about an inch long hanging from his waist.

"You only need five silver coins, right?" Levi stood up and said, he still preferred to hire these two, not only was the offer not high, but Levi also found that the mercenaries around him were very restrained in their attitude towards the two, especially that Towan, who didn't dare to refute in the face of the red-haired girl's provocation, and the girl's strength could be seen.

"That's right, but only for you, not including the cargo," Joel replied.

"Okay, tomorrow morning at seven o'clock, as soon as the north gate opens, can we leave?" Joel and Chrissy nodded as they had no objection to this arrangement.

The other mercenaries returned to their seats when they saw that Levi had finalized the mercenary, and now the merchants had their own caravanserais, and their lives were not easy.

Under the principle of proximity, Levi opened a private room in the tavern, and now he has nothing to lack except for a bunch of tools and parts, and the last thing he lacks is money, and after getting the key, Levi goes back to his room.

Going up to the room, Levi stood by the window and looked at the nearby streets, and when he saw that nothing was going wrong, he threw down his backpack and began to think about what to do when he left the city tomorrow.

However, until the early hours of the morning, Levi could not find a feasible and safe way, because he could only get out of the city through the gates, and he could only hope that he would not run into the knight tomorrow.

It's okay to bump into the knight, but the most important thing is not to let Erremar catch him, otherwise Levi, who can't enter the library now, will be finished.

The moon soon fell, and the night passed, and the streets outside were bathed in sunlight, and Levi, who had stayed in his room for a short nap, grabbed his backpack and went down to the tavern early.

But he was stunned, under the tavern, the two mercenaries he hired last night were actually ready earlier than him, the man with the sharp knife leaned against the door of the tavern with his hands crossed, and the petite girl still had an expression of not waking up.

Looking at this red-haired girl named Chrissy, Levi was suddenly curious about what his expression would be if he didn't wake up, and in Levi's impression, he only needed to sleep for one to two hours a day before waking up.

"I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Levi," Rivi, who had noticed that the two sides had not exchanged names until now, walked up to the man and said.

"Hello, Mr. Levi, my name is Joel," the indifferent man introduced himself.

"My name is Chriss, Mr. Levi," Chrissy yawned heavily, her eyes not even opened, and she was clearly still in a trance.

Although I am curious about how the two brothers and sisters became mercenaries, time waits for no one, as soon as the city gate opens, Rivi is ready to leave the city immediately.

The two siblings, Joel and Chrissy, put Ri in the middle, and Levi took out the pocket watch he took out from the workshop and looked at it, it was now past 6:50, and the north gate was about to open.

The three of them walked towards the North City Gate together, but what made Levi stunned was that even though the North City Gate had not yet opened, there was already a long queue in front of the city gate, and there were caravans out of the city, and there was an endless stream of carriages.

What gave Levi the most toothache was that he actually found the guy hooking up with the knight among the soldiers, but the other person was now dozing off next to the city gate.

Seeing this, Rivera put on the hood of his newly purchased robe and lined up at the back of the line with Jorcrris.

"If you don't see that knight, it's a big deal to rush over when you can't do it," Reeves thought, what he was worried about now was that the two brother and sister mercenaries, no matter which country stormed the city gates, it would be a felony, and they wouldn't fight back and arrest themselves.

The procession slowly moved forward as it had done yesterday, and the soldier checked the goods with the manifest, and when it was correct, he waved his hand and let him go, and it was about to be Levi's turn.