Yoda is a mercenary, a subordinate of Mr. Resarit, Wiggins's friend of life and death, one of the three pirate brothers. He has a quarter of his Noord bloodline and a sixteenth of his Ryerdian bloodline. Today was his first battle, and after a fierce battle, he had taken out 5 Grey Cloaks and was now collecting loot. He and Jager were in charge of the southern slopes, and he was in charge of scavenging the scraps and bits of the ash cloak, such as the dinar, the ring, and the sacrificial bone meal. Jager followed him, and when Yodah had finished looting, he stripped off the Grey Cloak's equipment, weapons, and even his clothes, and used them as military supplies.

Jager is a very frugal person, and he will never let go of any opportunity to make money. That's why he'd often yell, "Hey, Yoda, you're missing something valuable!" Yoda would ask curiously, "What?". "Gold Tooth! Gold Tooth! This old fellow has gold teeth!" Jager exclaimed excitedly, then pulled a knife from his waist and smashed the gold tooth off. So Jager was like a locust, and everywhere he went, there was always nothing left. So much so that the captain's orders are always overfulfilled.

After stripping off the cloaks of the black cloaks, Jager, who firmly believed that "thrift and stinginess is a virtue", stripped off their obscene clothes and pants again. Even so, he still didn't enjoy it. He was about to pick up the other party's crotch cloth one by one, but Yoda stopped him. Jodah made a cross on his chest, "It would have been a great sin to expose their bodies in the open, and now you have to take away the last fig leaf from them, and the Lord will not forgive you." ”

Jager nodded, seemingly agreeing with Yoda's words. And then........ A punch knocked Yoda unconscious. Anyway, when he had gathered up to the last corpse, Yoda woke up. There was a sound of the cloth tearing apart, and Yager suddenly stopped moving. Yoda was very strange, and according to what he knew about Jager, he should have deplored the fabric at this point, right?, looking forward curiously, Yoda's mouth let out a "hissing" inhalation.

It turned out that after Yager took off the corpse's clothes, he felt that the cloth was bulging, and there were some awkward hands. So I felt a secret hole sewn up with different fabrics, and after tearing it open, something actually fell out. If you look closely, it is actually a red gem the size of a baby's fist, with six edges and corners, the cutting surface is smooth as a mirror, and there is no trace of chisel, it seems to be natural. The fiery red color is very pure, and the sun shines on this gem, like the stars in the night sky, shining brightly.

"It's ........ It's ........," Jodah stammered so much that he could barely speak. Jager's eyes lit up, and it seemed that there were many dinars in front of him. "I ...... I'll go......... Call the chief!" Jodah still stammered. Jager nodded silently, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

In the evening, on the hillside, I held Jamila in my arms and watched the afterglow of the sunset. "Head, some people say that when they were sorting out the spoils of war on the southern slope, they found a huge ruby, you see?" At this beautiful moment when "the sun is hanging in the west, and the beautiful woman is accompanied", Mo Tea actually came over to make trouble very blindly.

I shook my hand impatiently, meaning to let him deal with it himself, and not bother me. He hurriedly turned his head again, and continued to hug Jamila, only to find that his arms were empty. Glancing to the right, he saw that Jamila was standing politely on the side, with a peaceful smile on her face, her right hand lightly resting on her left hand, pinned in front of her. Although the atmosphere was still harmonious, there was obviously an awkward separation between the two of us.

"Ahem, okay, you can take me to see the tea. I tugged at the placket, felt a little dry tongue, and secretly complained in my heart: I comforted my sister just now, but you came to stir up the situation, and lost a good excuse for "comfort", and it is impossible to think about warm nephrite in my arms, alas.

Jamila looked at the departing figure from afar, and suddenly turned around, lowered her jade face, and breathed low and soft. A breeze blows, and the pink skirt floats like a wave. "It is suspected that the spring breeze blows twice, and the face is dyed red like a peach" Thousands of thoughts came to mind.

"Oh, that's huge. But why would these fanatical madmen have such a thing?"

I rubbed my chin and asked. "Well, I guess it was snatched from some passing rich merchant! After all, they caught a lot of people. Manid came out of nowhere. "Manid, why are you here, by the way, you think such a large gem should sell for a lot of dinars, right?" I looked at this large and terrifying gem as if to signal the arrival of a day when I had a long life.

"I don't really know that, but I have a friend who is in the jewelry business, and I've seen him auction something like that, and I'd guess it would cost tens of thousands of dinars to say the least. Manid said with some uncertainty. ”

A few ........ I was so surprised that I felt like I was going to jump.

"Then we'll sell it in the next town!" Mocha interjected. But Manid hurriedly waved his hand to stop him, "No, this is just a preliminary estimate, I have a friend who lives near Zenda, we can first find him to appraise and find out the market price, and then it is not too late to find a rich man who loves gemstones." “

I pondered for a while: "It's okay, it's safer to find someone to estimate the price, and save a loss." In this case, let's go back to Chanda to replenish our supplies first, and go to Suke by the way. ”

Later in the evening, Sooke and I sat at the table and drank. Su Ke was obviously in a good mood, he didn't even wipe the table, he cooked a table of dishes himself, and said that he wouldn't let me pay for anything.

Suke raised his glass, "To you, Mr. Resarit!" With that, he craned his neck and drank it all. I took a small sip, put the glass on the table, picked up a slice of beef and chewed it with relish.

Suke said excitedly: "Mr. Resarit, you are amazing, you really helped me kill them and save so many people!

The rest of the conversation in the tavern gradually became quieter, and everyone seemed to be waiting for my answer.

I said unhurriedly: "Hehe, Su Ke, you don't have to thank me, but I still have to thank you, if you didn't provide this information, I wouldn't have a chance to get rid of them, these are all things that I should do in Resarit, you don't have to be polite." ”

Su Ke was even more excited when he heard this, Huo stood up and almost overturned the table: "The hoe is strong to help the weak, to save the dead and to help the wounded, this is exactly the 'chivalry' that Instructor Kai often talks about! You deserve this!" After speaking, he hurried inside, as if he was rummaging through the cabinets to find something. After a while, he walked back, carefully holding something in his hand.

I stood up curiously and saw what Suker was holding.

A glittering medallion with a sharp sword and a domineering spear intertwined with each other. In the center is a corner cross of pure gold, surrounded by a layer of miserable green metal of unknown nature, and the background color is that dazzling pure white, highlighting an extraordinary nobility. In the dim light of the hotel, the badge seemed to be wrapped in a layer of holy light, and all the jewels were eclipsed.

I asked, somewhat confused, 'What is this?'

Su Ke replied in a reverent tone, "This is a mercenary certificate, and only the elite of a very small number of mercenaries are eligible for it. This kind of medal is unique to Chanda, and only Chanda is qualified to cast it on the whole continent. This one was lost to me by Mr. Ramon in a bet when he was in remorse. And now, you're eligible for it!"

Su Ke respectfully pinned the medal to my chest with both hands, and did not forget to dust it off.

After a moment of silence, everyone stood up, and Wiggins was the first to applaud. In an instant, thunderous applause completely overwhelmed the tavern. Everyone looked at me with respect and respect in their eyes, and even offered to join my team.

Seeing the medal pinned securely to my chest, at this moment, my eyes moistened. Countless images flashed before my eyes, starting with the task of Zhiva, to defeating Karadus, fighting bandits with Rogge, freelancer, and rescuing Jamila's parents...... From now on, I am no longer an unknown ordinary person, and for the first time, I am officially recognized as a top mercenary!

I stroked the medal on my chest again and again, and muttered, "I am, the top mercenary." ”

Suke said on the side: "This medal actually has other uses, but Mr. Ramon didn't elaborate at the time, you go to the square and ask Instructor Kai and Count Alassis, maybe they know." ”

I took a sip of the toast, pushed open the door to the tavern, and strode out. What I didn't see was that Suk watched me walk into the night in the tavern, and murmured, "Resarit, maybe one day your own strength will surprise you." ”

Instructor Kai was stretching far away, as if he had just woken up, but the moon had just risen. When he saw me, he smiled and wanted to say hello, but he suddenly shut up, just looked at the medal on my chest in a daze, and didn't say a word for a while.

After a while, he looked at me with a strange look: "Ressarit, where did you get this medal?"

So I told him what had happened. Instructor Kai nodded as he pulled his hand at the sparse beard on his chin. When I had finished, he said in a slow tone, "It seems that you have gained some favor from the townspeople, but this medal is of no other use to you. However, Count Arassis seems to have some special rules, and I don't know the specific situation, so you should ask him. ”

I nodded, and was about to turn around, but I heard Instructor Kai sigh heavily: "I think at the beginning, I wasn't a top-level mercenary." ”

"I have traveled in Calradia for thirty years, and in order to make a living, I have been an arena fighter, I have served in the armies of two kingdoms, and I have been forced to be a bandit for a few days. Now that I'm old, I don't have the courage to take any more adventures, so I can only stay in this quiet little town and watch the young people like you come and go. Young people, you may encounter many difficult choices in your upcoming adventure, just as I did back then, and the different choices you make will have a subtle impact on your life. I've had three difficult things to decide. When I was sixteen years old, I could no longer stand the quiet and mediocre life in my hometown, although I now think about how precious that life was. But at that time, I longed to learn about the troubled times outside and wanted to write a legend with my own hands, so I rushed out of the house with a sword despite the opposition of my family. The outside world was competitive and bloody, but it was also exciting, and I experienced a lot of things and made a lot of friends, all of which I couldn't get back home. Many years later, in the middle of a snowy night, I got drunk and slept in an inn when I suddenly dreamed of my hometown. The next day, I left everything I had at hand and rushed back to my hometown. But I've been gone for too long, and decades of time and war have taken everything from my memory, leaving only abandoned houses and mass graves outside the village. ”

He slowly crouched on the ground, his eyes misty, as if he was remembering something. I crouched down beside him, looked at the bluestone floor and said, "You have chosen your own way of life and have done nothing wrong." ”

Instructor Kai did not answer, but continued to talk to himself: "The second incident happened when I was twenty years old, when Ryerdian was conscripted at a high price due to the shortage of soldiers, and I was conscripted into the army for 30 dinars a week's wages. Over the next few months of fighting, I was rewarded by my superiors for killing Virgians I didn't know, and I was promoted to sergeant. The Virginians were defeated, and I was recommended to a lord as a promising battlefield star, and had the privilege of accompanying him to the king's dinner. Oh, and if I stay in the army, I'll soon have a small territory of my own. In the process of withdrawing, we passed by a surviving village of Vegia, and the lord gave me the task of going to the village to collect a few cows for his table, and of course, he would be happier if I could get a few beautiful women for his bed. But there were no more cattle left in the village, and the angry lord, in order to teach the miserly villagers a lesson, ordered the soldiers to burn the village. That night, I secretly left the army, and of course, I lost the piece of land I was about to get my hands on. ”

My thoughts drifted away with his words: "There is no room for mercy in war, and the enemy lord will do the same." Instructor Kai glanced at me and continued. The difference is that this time he spoke with a bit of sadness, sadness and disappointment in his tone: "At the age of thirty, I rescued a woman named Karina from the hands of a gang of robbers, she was as beautiful as a white tulip, and I fell hopelessly in love with her. I proposed to his father, but was rejected, and her father felt that his daughter should marry a wealthy businessman, and