August 15, 3691 in the continental calendar at 17 o'clock in the evening.

In the southern part of the Yarra continent, in the heart of the Neville Federation, the small town of Kanzir.

The afterglow of Hubert, the sun god, is still sprinkled on the earth, and the figures of the three goddesses of the moonlight slowly emerge from the sky. The light of the sun and the moon shine together on the calm town, dyeing the town's buildings with a layer of dusk color.

The Neville Federation is the most commercially developed country in the entire continent of Yarra, and the whole country is tainted with a strong commercial atmosphere, even in an ordinary town like Kanzir.

The town is a ring layout common in the Commonwealth of the Neville, and the center of the town is a thriving and busy market area, with a large number of townspeople bringing their produce to sell in the stalls in the city center. In the market, you can buy fresh fish from the small river to the south, fresh vegetables from the farm in the west of the village, fruit with green leaves in the orchard to the east, freshly brewed ale with foam, home-baked bread, bacon from wild animals outside the village, and even, if you are lucky, you can buy local products from other countries.

The ring of buildings surrounding the market area is called the Inner Ring District, and the Inner Ring District is home to a variety of shops. In the weapons shop, there was the clanging sound of metal clashing, the aroma of various herbs wafting from the pharmacy, the potions in the alchemy shop shimmering with different colors, and the magic house fluctuating with the power of magic. The food in the restaurant and the noise in the tavern are irresistible to the temptation of passing travelers.

Beyond the inner ring area, the central ring of the town is divided into two parts, the eastern half of the district, where the various administrative bodies of the town are located, and the western half of which is the church of various gods. In the Quaternary Age, although the gods could not descend to the world because of the divine barrier created by Yara, the church, as the agent of the gods, still fought for the gods for their faith.

The outermost part of the town is the Outer Ring Road, which is an area where all the townspeople live, and is a little more cluttered than the rest of the town, but more full of life. Outside the outer ring area, there is a low, loose and simple wooden wall. The wooden walls were not so much for defense as for marking the extent of the town.

A large north-south road runs through the middle of the town, dividing the whole town in two. As twilight approached, people in a hurry walked along the main road into the town, and from time to time a horse-drawn carriage or a magic cart passed the pedestrians who were rushing and disappeared into the town.

At the same time that Hubert's finally disappeared into the sky, another carriage appeared on the main road outside the town. The middle-aged townsman who was hired to drive the car sat in the driver's seat with a leisurely expression, but the atmosphere in the car behind was not so leisurely, and the fierce quarrel could be heard from a distance.

"You can't even detect traps, you can't even find secret doors, and you dare to call yourself the best explorer in town?" questioned a knight girl, with medium black hair draped over her shoulders, wearing silver-white full-body chain mail, tall and tall, even taller than many men, and her gorgeous face became full of majesty because of her frowning eyebrows: "Do you know that yesterday's trap, if we were not strong enough, would all be dead by now? Is this how you are responsible for your companions? This is your work ethic?"

"What kind of jokes are you talking about. The only short male in the carriage retorted unwillingly: "Dismantling the trap is obviously the job of the dismantler, why do you blame me? And I've been in that cave at least twenty times, and I've never heard of a secret door." You also saw it yesterday, and I searched all over the cave, and there was no secret door at all, and you were just messing around. ”

"It's the dismantler's job to dismantle traps, but detecting traps is the explorer's job. It's clearly written in the Adventurer's Guild Guidebook. "It was another priest girl who spoke, dressed in thin leather armor, with a mace hanging on the left side of her waist and a silver book of law hanging on her right, and her long silver-white hair that stretched to her waist and rose and fell with the bumps of the carriage. The girl's forehead has a crescent-shaped scar, which makes the originally beautiful face a little weird. As she spoke, the girl took out a thick book from the backpack beside her and pointed to the page she had turned on: "You see, the adventurer team exploring the ruins needs to have at least three people, the defender is responsible for the battle, the explorer is responsible for the exploration of the environment (including the exploration of enemies and the exploration of traps), and the dismantler is responsible for the destruction of traps (including physical traps and magic traps) and the opening of passages. This is the official guide to the Adventurer's Guild, so you can't go wrong. What's more, you see, Omisius in the knights and princesses, Euler in the Ode to Light, Haynes in the destruction of the God of Destruction, Duck in the legendary fate, Nefarian in the history of the rise and fall of the New Empire, Michelle in the legend of the ancient continent, these people are all excellent explorers, who said that detecting traps is not his job?" With each name, the priest girl took out a book from her backpack, and in an instant a thick stack was stacked in front of the girl.

The short man's face was full of surprise when he saw a ghost, and he stared at the nerd in front of the girl and asked, "This, this, what is this?" ”

"What else can a book?" The priest girl was putting the books back in her backpack one by one as if she were treating rare treasures, and when she heard his question, she replied with an idiotic expression, "You don't even know books?" In our previous adventures, the explorer was responsible for detecting the trap and Vivien was responsible for cracking it, right, Vivian?" he said, patting the third girl in the car on the shoulder.

"Huh, what are you talking about?" The person who was slapped on the shoulder was a girl who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, a green flat hat for shade from the sun was beautifully buttoned on her head, blue hair parted from side to side, combed into a short ponytail hanging on both sides of the head, and a pair of eyes were large and round, full of confusion. The girl was wearing a blue dress with a texture like overalls, with small pockets everywhere, a pair of blue waterproof leather rain boots on her feet, and a large blue backpack on her back that could almost be curled up in by the girl, and the surface of the backpack was also covered with pockets of various sizes. When the girl heard the priest's question, she looked blankly at the sky: "Ah, we came out of the cave?

"God. The priest girl covered her face with a broken expression: "We have all returned to the town, and it is either dawn or already dark." What the hell have you been thinking all day! O Almighty Denya, please save this fool. ”

"I'm sorry, I was thinking about it just now. As she spoke, the girl's voice grew lower and lower until it disappeared, apparently lost in thought again.

"You lunatics. Seeing that the carriage had entered the town and stopped in the center of the town, the man grabbed his luggage and jumped out of the car: "I'm fed up with you, and I won't work with you anymore if you don't catch up." ”

"Stop. The knight girl also jumped out of the car and blocked in front of the man menacingly: "You want to leave like this?"

The man was taken aback by the girl's might, and involuntarily took two steps back, only to realize that he had fallen behind, and hurriedly stiffened his neck and said, "What are you doing, even if I don't do my duty, I'm going to quit, what do you want?"

"At the beginning, the team formation requirement we posted in the central square was to hire an adventurer whose explorer ability has reached the bronze level, right?" the female knight said with a straight face, "We ask for ten days of hire, and we will be paid a salary of four gold coins per day. When you enlisted, we paid you three days' salary in advance, right?"

"No, that's right, what's wrong?" the man's voice began to feel a little weak.

The seriousness on the female knight's face grew stronger and stronger, and she took two more steps forward. The momentum forced the man to retreat again and again, until his back leaned against the carriage: "Because of you, the employment agreement was terminated prematurely, so we have the right not to pay you the twenty-eight gold coins for the remaining seven days." ”

"I didn't want it either. The man seemed relieved.

The corners of the female knight's originally tense mouth suddenly rose slightly, and a dangerous smile appeared on her serious face: "It's not over yet." All of the above is based on the fact that you have done your job. But now the situation is that you are not doing your job. According to the rules of the association, we have the right to pay only half of the agreed salary if the assignment fails due to the reasons of the hired person, and we have the right to refuse to pay any salary if the hired person uses deceptive means in the first place. You don't know about this rule, do you?"

The man wiped the cold sweat on his head, coughed dryly and asked, "Miss Knight, you have to chant the spirit of chivalry countless times a day, but being so concerned about money is not in line with the spirit of knights, right?"

The smile on the female knight's face did not decrease, and without a trace of hesitation in her voice, she stretched out her left hand to the man: "Humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, mercy, honesty, spirit, justice, and making amends for one's own losses do not violate any of the eight virtues of knighthood." On the contrary, my actions are honest and fair. So, please give us back the twelve gold coins. ”

"I won't pay you back, you're talking nonsense, I didn't use deception at all. The man was completely panicked and shouted loudly.

"Really, do you mean that you are really a high-level Bronze Explorer?" the female knight continued to sneer, her left hand still spread out in front of the man, "If you insist, I can go to a nearby city and apply for arbitration in the Adventurer's Guild." Whether you cheat or not will be judged by the Adventurer's Guild. You can rest assured, I will pay the hundred gold coins for applying for arbitration. Of course, you can also choose to decline, but it is natural that the guild members will decide your adventurer qualifications at that time. ”

The man stared at the female knight for a long time with his mouth wide open, and then angrily took out a money bag and threw it in the female knight's open hand, and fled from the female knight as quickly as he avoided the plague. ”

Ignoring the man's angry words, the female knight hurriedly opened the money bag, poured twelve gold coins into her hand, and wiped the shining gold coins one by one with gentle movements and affectionate eyes with the flannel cloth used to maintain the armor, intoxicated and selfless, with a happy smile on her face.