Characters in this chapter: (Victor), (Alleyne), (Porcha), (Hank), (Resarit).

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Chapter 027: (Goddess of Chaos)

The setting sun was shining in the west, and the moon was rising in the eastern sky with a faint glow, one fading and the other brightening.

In the evening, the mercenary team arrived at the riverport town of Fenrad, located in the upper reaches of the 'Polak River', a prosperous town under the jurisdiction of the Imperial City of Sagoth, which was a trade transit point between the Nord Kingdom and the Kingdom of Vegia.

Most of the pig iron, furs and ceramics that are abundant in the Kurau region are transported here by river, and then transported by sea to the seaport towns of Hati, Wochoz, Paraven, Aaron, and even as far away as the kingdom of Yamuna on the other side of the North Sea.

The ice and snow continent is located in an extremely cold place, and there is no sunlight in October all year round, and most of the land is covered with thick ice and snow, which is not suitable for large-scale livestock breeding. What is most lacking is the fur to protect against the cold, but very few merchant ships sail to the Ice and Snow Continent.

Mainly because this route needs to pass through the waters near the 'Sea Monster Islands', and these islands are occupied by the notorious White Raven Pirates, except for the Nord merchant ships escorted by the Nord Kingdom warships, few other merchant ships of the Chamber of Commerce dare to appear in this area.

When Victor led the team to appear less than two hundred yards from the city gate, he found that the wide and tall city gate had long been closed, and a few torches were sparsely shining on the long pitch-black wall.

Soon after, the gates slowly opened, and a loud sound of footsteps ushered in a group of Nord warriors dressed in short-sleeved tight-fitting leather jackets, stiff ox boots, nose guards, and battle-axes and round shields. These Nord warriors can give a sense of oppression just from their momentum.

Most of the soldiers were over six feet tall and weighed more than 200 pounds, and they had broad chests, well-developed muscles, and dense bones that no enemy would dare to confront them on the battlefield. The Nords are the strongest people on the continent of Calradia.

A man in armor stepped out from behind the soldiers, and Victor could tell that this man was the leader of the soldiers without having to guess. In addition to the Nord's usual features of long blond hair and pale skin, he has a large beard and a scar on his face.

"Everyone, dismount me!" the bearded man asked in a loud, low voice, "who are you, and why are you here so late?" He didn't take a tomahawk, but only a short knife at his waist, which made him look more like an officer.

Although the lingua franca of the other party is not standard, it can be understood so-so. Victor turned over and dismounted, took two steps forward, and then said, "My lord, we are mercenaries from Zendar, and we plan to hire a cargo ship in the port of Fenrad to go to the Duchy of Rhodok. ”

"Show me your mercenary credentials first," the bearded man said again, with extreme impatience in his tone, "I can allow a small number of you to enter the city if your identity is confirmed." ”

"Alleyne, bring us our mercenary credentials. When Alleyne heard Victor's order from ahead, he pulled out a thick piece of parchment from a copper box in the carriage and walked quickly to the front of the line and handed it to Victor.

Victor turned his hand and handed the mercenary qualification certificate to the officer in front of him for a look. In addition to the official documents of the mercenary qualification certificate written in six languages, the parchment also contains the official seal of the mercenary guild and the family seal of Count Arassis, the lord of Chanda.

After confirming that it was correct, the bearded man returned the mercenary qualification certificate to the other party, and then spoke, "After paying the entry tax, you can enter the city." Of the ten dinars, only ten were allowed to enter the city, and the rest had to wait until dawn before entering the city. ”

The lords did this mainly to prevent the mercenaries who had infiltrated the city from joining forces with the enemies outside the city to take over their towns. This happened during the Novi War. Especially in times of war, strangers wearing weapons were not allowed to enter the town.

Resarit, who was also the treasurer, reluctantly counted out ten dinars from his purse and handed them to the other party. These ten dinars are equivalent to a month's salary of an ordinary mercenary, and it is no wonder that this young financial officer is distressed.

In fact, the city tax does not require ten dinars at all, which is nothing more than a disguised blackmail by this officer, but the mercenaries who want to enter the city have to buy it. Otherwise, the officer guarding the gate would not have risked being blamed by the lord at night and ordered his soldiers to open the gate.

After receiving the gold coin from the mercenary, the bearded officer warned with a blank face, "Remember not to cause trouble when you enter the city, let alone wander around the streets, and if there is any trouble, you will not be spared." His tone is unquestionable. "Alright, let's go into town!"

After deciding who would follow him into the city, Victor instructed Mathilde and Resarit to lead the other mercenaries to camp in a clearing five hundred yards outside the city. In addition to a few mercenaries with better skills, Victor also brought the horse thief into the city.

After Victor, Alleyne and the others entered the city, several Nord soldiers worked together to close the wide and bulky city gate. They walked briskly down the deserted streets, then made a few turns on the way, and at last they headed straight for a remote and dark alley.

In one of the most remote, narrow, and filthy streets of the Commons, there is a small hotel called 'Goddess of Chaos', which is open for business day and night, and especially in the evenings.

The reason why this hotel has such a name is probably limited to the area near it. The streets around the hotel are notoriously chaotic areas of the town of Finnrad, where the soldiers who maintain law and order are never willing to set foot in the area because of poverty and chaos.

At the door of the hotel hangs a sign depicting the famous Freedom Fighter Serena, but the portrait of her is more like a vengeful witch than a relevant, apparently by a destitute and crappy painter.

A small lamp, blown by the wind, shone on the poor professional competitive fighter, but it did not in any way entice passers-by to admire her more closely. However, before entering the tavern, Alleyne glanced intently at the seemingly familiar woman in the painting.

But in any case, the dim light was enough to draw the attention of the passers-by to the door of the hotel with the beech branches nailed to it, and on the other hand, it drove out more or less the darkness that shrouded the filthy alley.

Victor and his mercenaries entered the small, low elm door, descended the steps made of stone blocks, and came to a smoky, soot-blackened damp and noisy hall.

On the right side of the hall, a stove is built against the wall. A flickering flame burns under the stove, on which all kinds of food are boiled in metal vessels.

Among these foods are the shop's traditional Minglai enema and the unchanging air-dried meat, and no one wants to know what the ingredients of the meat sausage and dried meat are. The chef who cooks these foods is the proprietress and shopkeeper of the restaurant, 'Poison Woman' Tessia.

Next to the stove lay a small, filthy table and a small stool that had been painted with gold dust and red lacquer. This stool is the one that the hotel hostess Tessia sits on while she waits for her guests.

Victor, Alleyne, and the others sat down at several connected tables in the noisy hall, and Hank, the 'big man', loudly beckoned to a promising/posing waitress in his deep voice to prepare food and drinks for them.

Two young waitresses were busy trying to satisfy the various hungry customers who were shouting at them from all directions at the same time, and providing information on the quests to the mercenaries and bounty hunters.

"Would you like a special service in the evening, sir?" asked the maid who was passing by suddenly stopped beside Ellen and bent down ambiguously. The top button of the maid's dress has been unbuttoned, and from the neckline, two snow-white hills can be seen.

Alleyne turned his head to look and tilted his head, as if he wasn't interested. But the probe on the side was staring at the waitress's exposed chest with those little eyes of Mimi, and the restless thief hands were eager to immediately pounce on the two plump snow-white hills in front of him.

The maid watched the other party tilt her head and didn't understand what he meant, but it didn't matter, she didn't plan to let him go. It's the first time she's seen such a handsome man, and that commotion/moving heart can't help but be a little springy.

Before Alleyne could think of how to refuse, a large, calloused dirty hand pressed against the glass in his hand and crushed it heavily on the bar. Then the dirty hand shook it in the air ostentatiously, and the pottery shard fell to the ground without a scratch on the palm.

Standing behind Alleyne was a seven-foot-tall man, his muscular upper body covered only with a piece of hard leather armor and his arms as thick as tree branches. He stared at Alleyne like a bear and said viciously, "Boy, are you seducing/seducing my woman?"

The horse thief, who sat across from Alleyne, hurried to hide at another table, fearing that he would be brought into trouble when the fight came. Polcha was secretly lucky, fortunately he didn't pounce on the maid with a hot head at that time, otherwise he would have been his own if he was unlucky.

Alleyne turned to look at him for some reason, and looked up at the other party with contempt, "You broke my glass, and I haven't even drunk a sip of the wine in it." ”

"I'm asking you," the annoyed man raised his voice and asked aloud, "is it the woman who is seducing/seducing me?"

At this point, the whole bar fell silent, and almost everyone was watching this side. There are bounty hunters, mercenaries, ruffians, thieves, townspeople, and even nearby pirates. Several of the big man's companions stood by the wall with their arms crossed, looking like they were waiting to see a good show.

Alleyne asked him in a teasing tone, "Is she your woman?"

"Sao," said the strong man, dragging the maid along, "tell this boy if I'm your man." ”

"He's the man I slept with yesterday," said the sexy young maid, scratching her head, "as long as you have money, everyone here can be my man, and you'll be able to do it." ”

"You, get out of the way. The strong man violently pushed the maid aside, and the maid fell into Porcha's arms impartially.

The horse-thief who rose again took the opportunity to put his arms around the maid, and the coquettish maid twisted her body provocatively in Porcha's arms, causing Porcha's thief hands to shake the maid's buttocks, and with a stroke of smoke, the hands climbed up the two longed-for snow-white hills in front of him.

"You look like a fool. Alleyne said calmly. His tone was flat, and he couldn't hear anger or anything else.

"Bastard, what are you talking about!" the strong man felt insulted, the thick green tendons on his neck kept throbbing, and the muscles on his body squirmed as quickly as if they were full of bugs.

The people in the bar immediately roared, commented, and discussed. The muscular hair has reached the point of this metamorphosis, which shows that this strong man is not an ordinary small character, although he can't talk about walking sideways, but at least no one wants to provoke him casually.

"He said you were like a fool, do you understand?" repeated Victor, who was sitting at another table.

The strong man turned around and walked over angrily, glaring at him angrily, "I think you guys are here to make trouble on purpose, right?"

"We don't want to make trouble," Victor replied quietly, "but that doesn't mean we're afraid." ”

The strong man coughed a few times, and a mouthful of thick phlegm had reached the mouth of his throat. He was going to spit a mouthful of thick phlegm in the other person's face first, and then punch him in the neck. However, when the phlegm reached the throat, it was no longer possible to spit it out.

The strong man's mouth opened wide, his eyes widened, and he stared at one of the arms that suddenly stuck his neck, and he didn't know how this hand appeared. However, the high bulging tendons on that arm told him that the owner of this arm could easily strangle him no more than it was to break a cup.

Barely giving anyone time to think, the big man suddenly threw the strong man behind him, and with a bang, the strong man crashed into his companion's body, and the powerful force of the impact made his companion embarrassed, let out a painful wail, and could not get up from the ground for a while.

The strong man who got up from the ground smashed his spit fiercely, gritted his teeth and roared at the other side, "Lao Tzu must kill you, brothers, copy the guys for me, and abolish them." ”

Just as Alleyne and the other mercenaries stood up and were about to show off their weapons. From the stove on the far right came the voice of a beautiful woman, "Enough trouble? ”

In the face of this woman's reprimand, the strong man and his companion did not dare to say anything, but retreated to the corner of the hall with a frightened expression.

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Inexplicably, a large number of words were harmonized, and the article alone was checked no less than four or five times. If there are still typos or are harmonized out, please help point them out.

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