These mercenary groups have few shortcomings except for the high price of the commission.

The composition of each mercenary group is slightly different, so the combat characteristics are also very different. Some mercenary groups are good at guarding, some mercenary groups are good at attacking, some mercenary groups are good at concealing surprise attacks, and some mercenary groups are good at field blocking, no matter what combat characteristics the mercenary group belongs to, the overall combat effectiveness is undoubtedly very strong, and the teamwork ability is very strong, the members trust each other, and usually accept difficult tasks with a bounty nature issued by the noble lords.

Surdak and Karl quickly settled on a mercenary group of thirty members.

The cost of hiring this mercenary group also really made Surdak a handful of blood, the mercenary group needs to pay a salary on a daily basis, in the absence of war, Surdak has to pay the mercenary group five gold coins a day from the mercenary day, in addition, killing enemy members in the mercenary station battle also needs to pay a reward, and ordinary desert bandits have a head of hardware.

Regardless of whether killed or wounded in battle, Surdak did not need to pay additional pensions.

After negotiating this, they made an agreement with the mercenary group that they would arrive in the village of Wall in the Wasteland in three days.

Coming out of the mercenary guild, Karl smiled at Surdak and said, "Dak, do you want this mercenary group to kill as many robbers as possible after entering the desert, or kill less, just to defeat them?" ”

This is indeed a difficult multiple-choice question to do.

“…… Why do you ask? Surdak asked as he walked down the steps.

Karl smiled, he didn't know that there was a huge amount of gold coins hidden in the puss mountain, and turned to Surdak and said, "I'm worried...... If this mercenary group kills hundreds of desert bandits at once, won't you have to pay thousands of gold coins! Hey, Dack, when did you become so generous? ”

According to Karl's thoughts, even if Surdak owned a sulfur mine and wanted to hire such a mercenary group of thirty people, he would probably have to tighten his belt to survive in the next few months.

However, he was not worried about whether Surdak could pay the commission of the mercenary group, after all, Surdak still had a military fee for forming a squadron of knights of the guard battalion, and Surdak could also receive a military fee for the militia battalion from the city hall, which Surdak could not afford to spend for the time being.

"Well, I can still make a little bit of money from my sulfur mines." Surdak said with a smile.

He was thinking about whether he wanted to tell the story that there was a group of salamanders in his territory.

"We're going to meet that Viru!" Karl stood on the steps outside the Mercenary Guild's door, looking out across the street, looking for a magic caravan to ride on.

Surdak stood beside Karl, blocked Karl with his arm, stopped him from calling for a passing magic caravan, and said to him: "I'm going to see him, you can go back to the guard camp now, don't be late for dinner in the evening, remember to call the Bird tax officer." ”

Carl was stunned for a moment, looked up at the winter afternoon sun, and said, "Well, I think I'll be able to call Lance in time." ”

Surdak waved at Karl and walked towards the City Hall Parade Square.

"Don't you ride in a magic caravan?" Karl shouted from behind.

Surdak didn't reply, but tightened the collar of his leather jacket and strode along the street trees towards the parade square.

……

Aphrodite sat on a bench in the square, wrapped in a warm fur coat and basking in the sun with the cold north wind on her back.

The sky was blue, only there were some gray clouds in the form of cotton wool, there were not many people in the square, a flock of pigeons landed on the granite paved ground, and from time to time made a 'coo' sound, and a few children took some bread crumbs and sprinkled them in the flock, which immediately attracted more pigeons to fall.

The city of Hylanza is a city with a very slow pace of life, and the citizens here do not have high expectations for life, and when they have money, they will choose to rest for a few months, and they may go hungry until tomorrow, and they will come out of their homes to find a job, and they know how to enjoy life better.

On the benches at the edge of the square not far away, there sat some elderly people who came to the square to bask in the sun.

Dressed in thick cotton clothes, they huddled on a bench and looked around, watching for anything new to happen, like sparrows huddled together on a clothesline.

Seeing Surdak walking back from the direction of the guard barracks, Aphrodite breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was used to being left behind anytime and anywhere, he still felt an inexplicable joy in his heart when he appeared in the square.

Her smile was pure and charming, and her black-purple eyes were as bright as crystal grapes filled with joy.

"I've found out that there may be an alien Hawkeye in Highlandsa City, and I'm going to pay him a visit." Surdak walked up to Aphrodite and spoke to her.

Aphrodi leaned back on the bench like a coquettish little girl reaching out her hands for Surdak to pull her up from the bench.

"You're going to take me? You're not afraid that I'll get you in trouble? ”

Surdak said with some indifference: "If we are still afraid in the city of Highlandsa, then we might as well return to the barren land at once!" ”

With that, Surdak strode towards the side of the road, and the succubus hurriedly followed cheerfully......

……

Viru lay on a wooden bed in a small hotel, his body tightly bound by linen bandages, even his half-length face wrapped in a scarf, his hair somewhat disheveled, tied together haphazardly.

There were several empty wine bottles on the wooden table, and he poured the last bit of the bottle in his hand into his mouth, feeling a warm rush into his stomach.

At this time, it was as if a fire was burning in his heart, but unfortunately this bottle of rum did not extinguish the fire.

He sighed, he could feel those fire elementals getting hotter and hotter, but his body couldn't merge with those restless fire elements, it felt like a flame burned in his body.

Viru never thought that at his age, a fire would actually rise in his heart.

This is definitely a good thing for any warrior, he knows that this is a precursor to his awakening of the fire magic perception, but since he is already a level 19 demon hunter archer, he has already comprehended the qi in his body, he can even integrate the qi into the arrow and shoot it, and the strong body has a natural suppression and rejection of the fire element, so he has not been able to obtain the fire element affinity for a long time.

These fire elements are like a cloud of magma in the body......

But for him now, it is very difficult to have a fire elemental affinity, and if he wants to fuse the flame in his heart into his body, he can only rely on some external forces, such as living in a forge full of fire elements, such as drinking a little more spirits on weekdays, these attempts have not improved his condition, so he began to look around for fire type demonic beasts, and a month ago he happened to encounter a piece of crystallized salamander meat in Bena City.

An inexplicable longing instinctively welled up in his body, letting him know that that kind of Warcraft ingredient was probably what he had been looking for.

He found some clues that the salamander food might have come from a remote mountain town called Hylanza, so he arrived here in a magical airship.

Having lived in the city for nearly ten days, there was still no clue about the salamander.

Sunlight shone into the room through the cracks between the glass curtains of the hotel room, and there was only a very fine speck of light, and he cursed in his heart: 'Damn life'!

Last night he had some nightmares again, in which he saw his former friends, and they came to him one by one, with a kind smile on their faces, and walked up to him and said, 'We have been waiting for you here, why can't you come yet?' ’

Over the years, he has been looking for a way to break through himself, but these nightmares have wrapped around his body like magic vines.

'Tuk Tuk'

The knock on the door brought the drunken Viru to his senses, and he sat up from the cot, he had no familiar people in this small mountain town, so the people who could stand outside the door and knock on the door, apart from the innkeeper and the street girl who did the hotel business, were most likely the ones who knew the news of the salamander, he shook his groggy head vigorously, stood up and kicked the empty bottle on the floor.

There was a 'bang' crashing sound......

Viru staggered to the door, leaning instinctively against the wall and opening the door......

……

Surdak showed his knight's badge of the guard battalion, and easily inquired about the room where Viru lived from the innkeeper, and he took the succubus Aphrodi up the stairs of the hotel and stood at the door of a room on the second floor.

There was a musty smell in the hallway, and it was cold.

The window pane at the end of the hallway was broken, and the north wind blew in, taking away the last shred of heat from the hallway.

Surdak hadn't been to a civilian inn, but of all the civilian inns, none were more dilapidated than this one.

Carefully checking the number of the door, Surdak reached out and knocked the wooden door.

'Tuk Tuk'

Then there was a 'bang' in the room, as if some bottle had been poured.

The wooden door was pulled open from the inside, and a pungent smell of wine came from the room, the smell was simply disgusting, and a strange man wrapped his body in bandages appeared at the door, his eyes were full of bloodshots, and there was an irrepressible fire elemental aura all over his body, but he had a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to see through people, especially when he looked at himself, a fierce momentum suddenly erupted from his body.

As if he was a sharp arrow, Surdak quickly pulled the dwarven chain shield out of his magic waist bag.

Then, before Surdak could react, the strange man stepped forward and stretched out his arms to hug Surdak fiercely.

Hold on tightly......

Surdak was a little dazed at this moment, he could feel that the strange man was trembling all over, and his body contained a huge explosive power, so that it was difficult for Surdak with a power aura to break free for a while.

"Jonbach, you're still alive......"

It was as if a huge fist had struck him in the mouth, and his heart seemed to stop beating suddenly.

When he implanted that keel, he began to gradually merge with the memories left by another soul in his body, he could see a lot of things from the past, he could see the ice and snow in the north, the mountains, the rivers, the cities, but he had been careful not to touch them, he was afraid that after having those memories, he would no longer be himself.

Although he didn't know enough, he knew the name, and he knew that it was the name of the original owner of the body.

“……”

Surdak didn't answer, he broke away from the hug, tried to keep his mood calm, and said calmly to the bandaged weirdo, "Sorry, then you may have recognized the wrong person!" ”

Viru looked at Surdak again, and he looked into his eyes, the gleeful look in his eyes dimming a little.

"Is this your new life?" Viru asked again.

“……”

Surdak did not answer.

Viru tried his best to control his emotions that were about to collapse, restrained his body from shaking violently, suppressed his emotions, lowered his head and said silently, "Okay, I know! Jonbach, I recognized the wrong person! ”

With that, he wanted to close the door.

The fire elements gathered in Viru's body took advantage of his weakness and burst out in an instant, which immediately made Viru's blood boil, and his whole body was like a boiled prawn, with an inexplicable red color from his body.

In a trance, Viru failed to keep the door shut, and collapsed directly onto the floor of the room, which made a dull noise.

Surdak and Aphrodi looked at each other, he had imagined many things after they met, but he never thought that the Hawkeye would give him a big hug after seeing him for the first time, and then turn around and faint.

Aphrodite looked at Surdak with a look of surprise that was full of mixed emotions......

"Hey ......"

Instinctively, Surdak crouched beside Viru, flipped him from his prone position, flattened him on the floor, kept his breathing smooth, and then reached out and touched his forehead, which was hot and hot.

Unfortunately, he was covered in bandages and wore a tough leather suit, and even if he tried to untie them, it would be impossible to untie them in a short time.

Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Surdak hurriedly cast the 'Holy Light Technique' on Viru.

A pillar of light filled with divine aura enveloped Viru's body, and his condition suddenly became a little better.

"Looks like an alcoholic." The succubus squatted aside and covered his nose with his hands, and said with disgust.

Then he said: "He seems to know your past, do you want to know about your past, I can charm him when he wakes up again, and then you can extract his memories at will!" ”

"I don't have that much curiosity, he can recognize the wrong person, don't crowd here and affect me to save people." Surdak shouted at Aphrodite.

"And you don't know him......" Aphrodite made a deceitful expression, but as Surdak had said, she stepped out of the way.

She curiously walked into this room with closed curtains, the room was full of wine bottles, filled with a bad smell of wine, walked to the window and opened the curtains, let the sunlight shine into the room, pushed open the window, let the fresh cold wind in, and the strong smell of wine in the room was immediately washed away.