Chapter 4 Separation and Tasks
When it was time to leave, Jane and Farna packed their packages and prepared to set off with dozens of monster crystal nuclei that they had hunted during this time, some food and water.
It took them four days to get out of the Wienerberg Forest, Jane didn't know how to go in the outside world, Farna took Jane to the nearest town of "Rorol", and the two went to the largest trading house in the town and sold all the crystal nuclei for a fair price, a total of forty gold suks and fifty-six silver suks.
At the town's clothing store, Jane finally broke away from the image of a savage, and put on a well-fitting brown linen casual dress, and a pair of sturdy cowhide boots.
Even in these ordinary clothes, Farna wears a beautiful posture, and the whole person exudes youthful and beautiful vitality, which provokes the owner of the clothing store to praise again and again, saying that he has never seen such a beautiful little girl in this town for half his life.
Out of the clothing store, the two rented a comfortable carriage, and the distance to the city of Luner was a long way, and it would take about eight days to reach it at the speed of a horse-drawn carriage.
The tall coachman's solid arms waved the reins, and the two white horses snorted and pulled the car to speed forward.
Inside the carriage, Jane saw a lion-like eagle-winged creature carrying cargo flying by overhead, and asked Farna what it was.
Farna leaned her chin on her palm and looked at Jane with a smile, "That's a tamed griffin, ten times faster than a carriage, but unfortunately it can only be used to carry goods, ordinary people riding on it will be accidentally thrown off by strong winds, but there are many powerful warriors who buy it as a mount." ”
Jane looked at the griffin with only a black spot left in the sky, and her heart was quite longing, how pleasant it was to be able to fly in the sky.
Before the spring rainy season was over, the rain poured from the sky to all corners of the city, and the raindrops pooled together from the eaves, walls, and leaves, and then fell, dropping in a series of puddles on the ground.
On a side road in Len City, the carriage stopped in front of a huge mansion in Newland Lane.
This is the house that Baron Tifa bought in the city of Len, and it is also where Farna grew up. The Tifa family has a hereditary title, the family territory is in the town of Canlon, six hundred miles away from the capital, and the most famous industry of the family business is high-quality red wine, so Baron Tifa is also a businessman, and he also owns a large noble wine shop in the capital, thanks to the prosperity of this business, Baron Tifa can have such a luxurious mansion in the capital at a young age.
The moment of separation was just around the corner, and Jane felt a little depressed, "Farna, I'll send it here, I'll contact you when I'm settled." ”
Farna's eyes were red, "Aren't you going in, I'll let my father arrange for you to live." ”
"No, to be honest, I'm not good at dealing with this kind of situation. Jane shook her head.
"Then you wait here for me. With that, Farna turned and went into the house, and quickly came out and handed Jane a bag.
"Inside are a hundred golden suks, and a treasure dagger, which was my father's collection when he was young, the sword name is Thunder Blade, you don't always rely on your hands to fight in the future. ”
Jane wanted to say thank you, but couldn't, his mouth was gagged by Farna's red lips, and Farna kissed him tightly, full of reluctance.
After a long time, Farna's face was like a pear blossom, "You must come to me, remember that I am waiting for you." ”
Jane nodded heavily, then turned to leave.
Saying goodbye to Farna, Jane went to the bustling streets and bought a map of Len City and a map of the continent of Hazelas at a grocery store.
On the main axis of the capital, the street is wide and bustling, heavily guarded, with the occasional heavily armored city guard passing by.
Jane followed the map all the way here, and finally saw the signboard of the hunter's hall, which was full of people.
Entering the hall, Jane felt the warm atmosphere, and Jane felt relaxed.
He came to the reception desk and received a strong man who looked to be in his forties, with a rough accent, this man looked at young Jane, but did not see his badge, "Newcomer? Then you have to hand over a gold suke first, and you can only take the task if you become a one-star hunter." ”
After Jane paid the money, the man gave him a hunter's badge and a printed copy of the prey atlas, and shook hands with him, "My name is Su Kecha, I have become a hunter, we are friends, we will deal with each other often in the future, I hope you will become a powerful hunter as soon as possible." ”
"This is the list of one-star tasks that no one has received today, most of the one-star ones are small tasks with low difficulty and little pay, but the promotion points given to you are still a lot, and you only need to complete up to ten one-star tasks to be promoted to two stars, how about it, it's still good. The higher the task, the richer the reward, as long as you have the ability, you won't have to worry about making no money!"
"Can I take more than one star of missions, then?" asked Jane for details.
"That's not good, there are rules, young people have to be down-to-earth if they want to climb up, and they can do as much as they can, and we Hunter Guild are all watching. ”
Jane shook her head helplessly, pointing to a task on the list, "Okay then, I'll take this task." ”
"Hunt the snow wolf, get three complete snow wolf skins to hand in, well, this is indeed a good task, there are eight gold suks in the reward, and ten points of gold stars, okay, I will go through the formalities for you, but remember, the task time for you is only three days, you still have to pay four gold suks of the deposit, if it is not completed after the deadline, this deposit will not be returned. ”
After completing the formalities, Su Kecha said, "One-star hunter, you can go to the hall opposite me to see what you need, the props and equipment provided by our hunter hall are much richer than those shops outside, and they are also of good quality and low price, all of them are from the hands of excellent masters!"
Jane was indeed a little interested, so she came to a hall full of equipment, and on the display tables, there were all kinds of weapons: spears, broadswords, double-edged axes, short swords, daggers, sledgehammers, knight's swords, armor-piercing swords, etc., and the armor had shields of various materials, which could be worn from leather armor to chain mail, steel home, scale armor, etc., and even exaggerated full-body armor, but although there were many categories and the workmanship was not bad, they were all ordinary equipment, and there was no treasure as Farna said.
Jane felt that she didn't need extra armor for the time being, so she went to another prop hall.
The prop hall is full of magic bottles with different effects, such as corrosion, cremation, healing, freezing, etc., these are magic bottles, which are disposable, and the value is determined according to the stars on the bottle, and the cheapest one-star treatment costs five gold coins, Jane suddenly felt how precious Farna's magic was.
Jane bought two one-star healing bottles here, he was used to Farna's healing, he might not be able to use these two magic bottles, but he felt more at ease with them.
There was also a hall full of ordinary swordsmanship and magic books, which could be borrowed for free, but they were of little use to Jane.
After looking at the prey atlas, which detailed the colony of snow wolves, Jane decided to set off as soon as possible to the place of the mission, the Faramo Mountains, about two hundred miles behind the capital, before it was noon.
Jane felt that riding a carriage was too inefficient, and that it would not be worth renting a carriage for a long time, so she went to the mount trading market in the city, ready to buy a horse for a long-term journey.
The cheapest horses in the market cost fifteen gold suks, and they were the kind of weak old horses, which naturally could not be wanted, and they would lose money if they bought them.
And some excellent horses with pedigrees are very expensive, and he basically has no money to buy one.
Jane patiently walked around the market for a while, and found that there were two people selling a griffin, but the price was 1,200 gold suks, and Jane could only look at it.
In the end, Jane bought a red horse, thirty gold suks, which were in good condition and would accompany him on his quest for a long time, so Jane thought the investment was worth it.
On the wide road outside the city, the horses' sturdy hooves lifted the dirt and drove the road at great speed.
In Jane's sight, a series of mountains under the clouds gradually appeared, and from the outside, there were still a lot of snow-white colors on the mountains, and it seemed that the snow had not completely melted, so it was no wonder that the cold snow wolves would live in this mountain range for generations.
Jane rode to the bottom of one of the most snowy mountains, and the horse could not go up, so she tied it to its place and walked up the hill to look for the snow wolf.
On the way up the mountain, Jane crossed the river and saw a lot of other animals, such as wild bears, snow-turned leopards, giant deer, etc., but none of them were targets, so Jane lowered her posture and sneaked over, but fortunately there was no conflict.
After searching for a long time, Jane found wolf-like footprints in the snow, and he followed the trail all the way, only to find his target in a small forest where even the trees were covered with snow.
Three snow wolves with a body of nearly two meters long and pure white are playing and playing, and there is a smaller one licking its belly to rest on the snow.
Jane drew the thunderblade dagger that Farna had given him, bowed and began to approach, he wanted to close the distance as much as possible before the snow wolves found out, killing these wolves would not be a problem for him, but wolf creatures are suspicious by nature, in case they start to escape, with their agility, Jane may not be able to catch up.
When Jane grasped the hilt of the thunder blade, he felt the sword body tremble, and then saw small snake-like lightning wrapped around the blade.
When Jane was still seven meters away from the snow wolf, he suddenly noticed that the three snow wolves had stopped moving, and the other on the ground also got up. Jane knew that they had heard the movement, so she didn't hesitate at the moment, and rushed towards them at a sharp speed, several snow wolves dug the ground with their front paws, and let out a wolf howl fiercely, they still wanted to retreat, but Jane had already rushed in front of them!
A snow wolf had no time to dodge and was stabbed into the chest from the side by a thunderblade, which was not a fatal injury, but the snow wolf struggled twice and found that it had lost control of its body, and then it fell on the snow and wailed but could not get up.
The other two snow wolves pounced, but the small snow wolf turned its back and ran.
I saw the blue thunder light crossing, and I fell on the snow again, from the neck to the hind legs, half of the body was cut, and the incision was smooth and smooth, which showed how sharp the thunder blade was.
The remaining one was biting Jane's arm, Jane's body was even biting the white crocodile, not to mention the snow wolf, it had just bitten Jane's skin and was stabbed into the head by Jane's sword, and her body was dead after two convulsions.
Jane didn't chase the fleeing snow wolf, he could see that the snow wolf was heavy on his feet, and he must have been pregnant with a cub.
With a single sword, he ended the life of the snow wolf, which was still wailing in the snow, and began to peel the skin.
This battle was very easy, it was basically a one-sided slaughter, not only because the thunder blade was very sharp, Jane knew that another reason was the special effect of the thunder blade, that is, paralysis, otherwise the snow wolf who was just stabbed would not be able to get up.
When he returned to the hunter's hall to hand in the mission, it was already evening, and Su Ke was surprised to see that Jane had come again so soon, "Young man, do you have any questions? ”
Jane placed a huge bag on the counter, "This is the quest item, I'm done, you see." ”
Su Kecha opened the package in surprise and began to check, the fur inside still smelled of blood, and the incision was smooth, and the peeling technique was skillful, making the fur very complete.
Su Kecha stretched out his thumb and praised: "It's really good, although it's not a difficult task, but there are not many people who can do it so well and so quickly, one-star hunter, tell me your name, the Hunter Guild will take care of promising young hunters." ”
"Jane Reno, show me the task list, I'm going to take the next one. ”
When she came out, Jane was paid for the previous assignment and had a new assignment.
Jane felt that what she had to do now was to make herself more powerful, and when everything came, she could grasp what was important to him.