Chapter 10: Secrets from the Ancients

"The Yellow Skeleton Mercenary Regiment of the Bronze Skeleton Agrell, the Bronze Hammer Mercenary Regiment of the Dwarven Grand Forge Calendine, and the Longbow Mercenary Regiment of the Half-Elf Rousseau are the three most powerful mercenary groups in the vicinity. After a pause, Wang Xu added in a low voice: "Agreel, you know, although his mercenary group only has about a hundred people, he himself can summon hundreds of skeleton soldiers, so his mercenary group is the strongest, and the other two mercenary groups also have nearly a hundred people, and they also have considerable strength." ”

The information leaked by Wang Xu is almost the most common news that every mercenary knows about the bad street, with his rigorous and meticulous character, he will never casually expose the privacy of others, whether this other person is a friend or an enemy, Wang Xu will not talk nonsense, he has seen too many things, and he deeply understands the truth that more words must be lost.

"Teacher," Livka frowned at Wang Xu's words, and she turned her head to look at Warren, "If we set up a mercenary group, then the strength of our mercenary group should be ranked fourth." ”

Warren nodded silently, not answering Livka's question, and then, he looked at Wang Xu and asked, "In addition to these three mercenary groups, are there any more powerful forces on the way from here to Hill City?"

"That's a lot," Wang Xu took a deep breath, then exhaled heavily, and then replied in a low voice: "On this road, there are countless small gangs that rely on robbery for a living, their numbers are different, but their strength is not bad, and some gangs even have magician-level mages in them. ”

Listening to Wang Xu's answer, Warren's face became more and more solemn, and there was a trace of fear in the eyes of Livka, Downs, and Thornton sitting next to him, and the four of them recalled their tragic experience when they crossed the Forest of the Dead, which cost the lives of fifty of their companions.

"This is not over yet," Wang Xu planned to tell them some more terrifying realities, not to intimidate them, but just to remind them that the Eastern Continent was extremely terrifying, "There are dozens of high-level demonic beasts on the way, among which there are many eighth-order demonic beasts of equal strength with the two of us, and even a few ninth-order and tenth-order demonic beasts, in case, I'm talking about just in case, if we pass by, they happen to come out to forage, then the situation will be terrible." ”

After listening to Wang Xu's words, all four Warren fell silent, and the three young people looked at Warren with frowns, waiting for Warren's decision, after all, in their team, Warren is not only the strongest person, but also the most experienced elder, so his decision is the core decision of the entire team.

Warren thought for a while with his face strained and closed his eyes, and then squinted at Wang Xu and said, "Since you know the situation around here very well, otherwise, we will give you 10,000 gold coins, let's sign a contract, we will hire you as a guide, and you will take us to Hill City." ”

Listening to Warren's idea, the three young men nodded slightly at the same time, very much in favor of the decision to hire Wang Xu as a guide.

However, Wang Xu didn't want to be their guide, he was also going to go to the dwarf tribe in the dark mountains to change some ore after completing the task given by Agrell, he felt that it was indeed very simple for him and Sangu to cross the cat's paw path, but if they brought Warren and them, it would be troublesome, the more people there were, the more obvious the target, and the easier it was to attract high-level demonic beasts that went out to forage.

"I'm sorry," Wang Xu shook his head slightly, and refused in an apologetic low voice: "After completing the mission given by Agrell, I have other important things to do, so if I don't go back to Hill City for the time being, you might as well go find someone else." ”

Listening to Wang Xu's answer, Warren muttered in a low voice, as if thinking about something, while Livka pursed her little mouth, puffed out her cheeks, and squinted at Wang Xu with an angry look; Downs and Thornton's eyes always wandered between Wang Xu and Warren, but they didn't think of any good ideas, so they could only wait.

"Otherwise, you can make a condition, if we think it is suitable, we will sign a contract, if not, then we will find someone else to be a guide. Warren is worthy of being an old man who has lived for more than 100 years, and he has a lot of social experience, although he was just rejected by Wang Xu, but in an instant, he thought of a new way.

"Well," after listening to Warren's new suggestion, looking at his resolute gaze, Wang Xu understood that if he didn't agree to him, then he would still offer a new condition, everyone is a mixed person, if he continues to reject others, it will seem that he is too uneducated, and the conditions offered by others are already very high, and it is not a big deal to exchange ore with the dwarf, and he can do it in the future, after figuring it out, Wang Xu pursed his lips, sighed, and replied: " Okay, you are an elder, for the sake of your face, I agreed, and I won't open new conditions, just 10,000 gold coins, but I'll put it in front, the road I take you is just a relatively safe road that I personally think, I can't guarantee that there will be no accidents on the road, and I can't guarantee your safety, I'm just a guide, if something happens, you can only solve it yourself. ”

"Okay," Warren took out an empty parchment scroll from his space ring, and took out a quill, he wrote a contract on the parchment scroll, and after writing it, he pushed the contract to Wang Xu, "We don't need your protection, you just need to show us the way, if something happens, you can help if you want, if the situation is critical, you can leave by yourself." ”

"Okay," Wang Xu picked up the contract, read it carefully a few times and didn't find a problem, then took the quill handed over by Warren, signed his name on it, Ureo Wharton, and then nodded: "That's it, I'll help Agrell finish things first, and then take you to Hill City, okay, it's not early, I'll go back first, and we'll see you outside the town tomorrow morning." ”

After saying that, Wang Xu returned the signed contract to Warren, shook hands with him, got up and helped Sangu to leave the mercenary union.

Warren and the three young men also got up to watch Wang Xu leave, and after Wang Xu left, Warren turned his head to look at the three young men and asked them, "What kind of person do you think he is?"

"Very mysterious man," Thornton thought for a moment, and then continued to reply, "Didn't you call him Wang Xu, but I just saw that his name on the contract was Orio Wharton, and a man had two names, what does that mean?"

Listening to Thornton's answer, Warren nodded slightly, and Livka and Downs also nodded in response.

"Alright," Warren stroked his white beard, "let's go sign up, well, what should we name our mercenary group?"

"How about the Griffin Mercenary Regiment, Teacher?" replied Lifka in a loud voice.

"That's right, it's called the Griffin Mercenary Regiment!" Downs and Thornton, who had been looking for an opportunity to flatter Lifka, slapped their asses in unison......

The bluestone streets of the town were covered with a thin film of water that reflected the light projected by the magic street lamps on both sides of the street, and Wang Xu felt as if he was walking on a rainbow.

Supporting Sangu, who was so drunk that he was paralyzed on top of him, Wang Xu looked up at the sky that had just cleared up while walking along the street, only to see a few lonely stars flashing there a few times, and occasionally one or two huge flying monsters crossed the sky, which seemed to remind him that this is not the earth, this is the world of Loren, not his home.

After walking less than two hundred meters, Wang Xu came to the door of a double-storey goblin hut, which was no different from the ordinary hut in the town, and this hut was the nest that Wang Xu bought in the town.

took out the key and unlocked it, with a "pop", Wang Xu pushed open the small round wooden door in front of him, helped Sangu into the hut, "bang", closed the wooden door, locked it again, Wang Xu helped Sangu into the guest room on the first floor, and then threw him on the wooden bed in the innermost part of the room.

Out of the guest room, Wang Xu went up to the second floor, returned to his room, locked the door, sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes and reflected on what he had done that day, and after feeling that he had not done anything that threatened his life, he took out the old glittering parchment roll from the backpack system.

He took out an identification scroll from the backpack system, tore it at the old parchment scroll, and a violent white light flashed, Wang Xu threw away the identification scroll that had been used, grabbed both sides of the old parchment scroll with both hands, held it up to his eyes, and looked at the old parchment scroll carefully under the strong magic light in the room.

I saw that the ink painting on the front of the parchment scroll disappeared, and slowly, new black lines appeared little by little in the position that had been covered by the ink painting, and after five or six minutes, a new ink painting appeared on the front of the parchment scroll.

Compared with the disappearing ink painting, this new ink painting is really a map, the peaks, rivers, forests, and roads on it are all marked with ancient elven names, and in the middle of a mountain peak in the middle of the map, a blood-red dot is marked, it seems that the place is the location of the treasure.

However, this treasure map is an ancient thing after all, with the passage of time, many historical place names have changed their names, especially the place names on this treasure map, Wang Xu didn't know any of them, it can be seen that it is impossible to look at the map to find treasures, you can only look at fate, maybe one day, fate can let you find a place.

Wang Xu turned the treasure map over, and saw that there was a map behind it, this map was very brief, and there was not even a place name, but despite this, next to this map, there was an ancient elf script.

The ancient elven text reads: " The demons rushed out of the Black Stone Mountain Range, raided our royal city, our elves were about to perish, I was ordered to take my team to find the demons' passage to this world, finally, I found the teleportation array established by the demons in the holy mountain, this huge teleportation array led to the fourth layer of the abyss, we attacked the teleportation array and tried to destroy it, but it turned out to be cast with obsidian, we couldn't help it at all, at this time, a lot of demons came out of the teleportation array, there were too many, we couldn't hold on, fortunately, I found that the teleportation array was driven by five godhead crystals, I pulled these five godhead crystals from the teleportation array,Hidden in the ground under the teleportation array,The teleportation array that lost its energy source lost its function,But the demons who found that the teleportation array lost its function all rushed towards us,My partners are all dead,I was also seriously injured,I hid in the underground cave and barely survived,I don't know how long I can live,I drew the location of the teleportation array on the parchment scroll,The front is drawn into the entrance to the cave where the teleportation array is located,The back is drawn the road in the cave,I have no strength,I ......"

After reading the text behind the treasure map, Wang Xu understood that this time he really picked up the treasure, five Godhead crystals, what does this mean, this means that if he gets those five Godhead crystals, then he will no longer have to rely on magic elements to inefficiently synthesize spiritual power, he can use the characteristics of Godhead to automatically absorb magic elements, and directly use Godhead to synthesize spiritual power, and he can directly absorb spiritual power, so that he can improve his cultivation efficiency hundreds of times, so that the future ......

"Hehe......" Wang Xu couldn't help laughing, he put the treasure map into the backpack system, and then, from the backpack system, he took out the keels he bought from Rui at noon, and put them into the synthesis system, and then, took out a bunch of dried leaves of plants from the space ring, and also put them into the synthesis system, after doing these things, Wang Xu smiled and muttered to himself: " There is no need to rush the affairs of the godhead, I have to find the treasure place first, and before that, I must first prepare the secret weapon, with it, I can rest assured......"