Chapter 3: The First Cup of Wine (3)
There was a mess outside the "first drink", but Ryan didn't notice these things at all, he was still thinking about those mysterious magic arrays, and Faras was looking at his lover obsessively, in Farath's eyes, there was nothing worth her attention here, except for Ryan.
Alendor was a druid, not good at dealing with people, and he didn't bother to deal with these guys. Flanner was happy to watch the excitement, sitting there drinking juice after glass, only since joining the Ryan mercenary group, unless it was for external entertainment, the butler in the mercenary group almost didn't drink a drop.
Maia and Robin are new to the city, they have their own missions, and either Ryan or Franner will do everything anyway. Only Thomas and Colin looked at Pete and his party with a smile, and their hearts were secretly refreshed: "I can finally exercise my muscles and bones today." β
About half an hour later, the sun had risen overhead, and many mercenaries and adventurers walked into the "first glass of wine" together, but saw the double axe mercenary group looking like they were facing a great enemy, among which the timid ones immediately walked away, but more of them found a good position and called for a glass of wine to prepare to watch the excitement.
For these people who often risk their lives to earn pay, drinking and fighting are commonplace, as long as they are not the protagonists of it, of course, they are happy to watch the excitement, and they have been too idle lately, and if they don't have some fun, isn't it really boring?
The Double Axe Mercenary Group is not the most powerful mercenary group in Seabreeze City, if it is ranked according to the number of members of each mercenary group registered in the Mercenary Guild, it can't even squeeze into the top 20, of course, those top-ranked mercenary groups are not just limited to this one city, they have their own strongholds in almost every important city in the south, plus the members who perform tasks outside, so there are not as many people as the Double Axe Mercenary Group in Seabreeze City, so the Double Axe Mercenary Group can be called the mercenary group that can steadily occupy the top three in Seabreeze Cityγ
Duke, the leader of this Double Axe Mercenary Group, also has his own uniqueness, under his management, the entire mercenary group only undertakes tasks within the area of Sea Breeze City, although this restricts the development of the entire mercenary group in the south, but in this Sea Breeze City, the Double Axe Mercenary Group is the most powerful.
Of course, the biggest factor that really makes the Double Axe Mercenary Group rampant in Seabreeze City is Duke's retribution, as long as anyone or any mercenary group provokes him and his men, Duke will not hesitate to mobilize all his strength to retaliate fiercely, even the other two Sword and Rose Mercenary Group and Wind Mercenary Group with the same name as him are no exception, so behind the scenes, Duke has the nickname of "Mad Dog".
"Hey, it's Duke, the mad dog. Nancy, the female mercenary of the Sword and Rose Mercenary Group, whispered: "It seems that those outsiders are going to be unlucky, even if they are magicians, it is useless, there are 4 intermediate magicians under the hands of Duke, Mad Dog, according to the calculation of strength, it can safely eat the two junior magicians of them." β
Nancy's voice was low, but Duke, who was standing at the gate and listening to his men's briefing, swept his knife-like gaze at Nancy, causing the latter to shiver and then shut his mouth. When Nigel saw that his sister had suffered a secret loss, he glared back with wide eyes, but Duke ignored him and turned his head away.
"Are you all here?" Duke's voice seemed to have been frozen for thousands of years, making people shudder to hear.
"It's still the Eden team," Pete, the leader of the Twin Axe Mercenary Regiment, who was the first to arrive at this bar, stepped forward and whispered, "They are south of the city, and it will take a while to get here." β
Duke slapped Pete hard and reprimanded him in a low voice, "How do you do this?" Send more people to urge, and in less than 10 minutes, even you will take him to 50 whips." β
Pete choked with blood at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't dare to say anything, and hurriedly ran out, Duke has always said yes, he said that 50 leather whips will definitely not be less, and even if you are alive with 50 leather whips, you will become dead.
"It's just a few little guys who don't know the height of the sky, can they use this?" said a man in an intermediate magician's robe next to Duke disdainfully, "I can settle them alone." β
"Humphrey, you're the best mage in Seabreeze City. The other magician beside Duke said with a smile.
This sentence immediately annoyed the mid-level magician named Humphrey, and he replied with anger on his face, "You Edwin can be regarded as the least daring magician in Seabreeze City, right?"
The magician, known as Edwin, gracefully pulled out a handkerchief, wiped the sweat on his smooth forehead, and said slowly, "My name is grace, demeanor, do you understand? from the hillbilly of Mori Town." β
"You idiot from Paradise of Freedom!" Humphrey would immediately scold, "Don't talk to me, you idiot who is more like a woman than a woman." β
"Alright, the enemy is now, so you can say a few words. Duke spoke out to stop his two men from arguing, but before he could finish speaking, he waited until someone outside the door said, "There is only one way that the two of them together may not quarrel." Then a man in his 20s walked into the "First Drink" bar with his head held high, this man was full of confidence, he was wearing a mid-level magician's robe, and on his chest, there were two badges, a flame and a lightning.
"Antonio Carlos?" Duke looked at the magician in front of him in amazement, "Don't you have something to do back to the family?
"Mr. Duke, my personal business is done. The young man with the noble name of the owner bowed gracefully to Duke, and then continued: "I just came back, and I heard that someone dared to provoke our two-axe mercenary group in Seabreeze City?
"What do you mean by that?" Humphrey, who had a more grumpy temper, immediately shouted, "You guy, who has not yet opened your hair, dare to slander me?"
Edwin also forgot about the problem he had with Humphrey, and followed closely behind and said, "You can't be crazy, do you, don't think that being a nobleman is great, I warn you, if you are ......"
Before Edwin could finish his sentence, the old Antonio Carlos magician suddenly had a hideous look on his face, and he pointed at Humphrey and Edwin with both hands, and immediately uttered a few short notes in his mouth. Under the influence of Carlos's magic spell, Edwin's voice behind him stopped abruptly, but his mouth was still open and closed, and it could be seen from the shape of his mouth that Edwin was still talking, but he didn't make any sound.
"It's silence!" Humphrey and Edwin immediately understood what Carlos had unleashed the magician, and Carlos immediately recited a large number of incantations as a feathered arrow composed entirely of flames flew out of his hand and crashed into Edwin.
Edwin couldn't speak, and he couldn't silently use magic, so he couldn't release protective magic, and Carlos was only a few meters away from him, and Edwin didn't have time to take out the magic scroll from his arms for a sneak attack. So when Carlos's "Flaming Arrow" magic slammed into Edwin's body, a red flame covered Edwin's whole body as if it were an appendage, and the latter was shaking, and his face was full of pain, if it weren't for the fact that he was still silent, he might have screamed a long time ago.
Carlos didn't pay any attention to the damage caused by the flaming arrow, and confidently remembered a second spell, this time a blue lightning beam. Since Carlos attacked Edwin first, Humphrey had a little time to pull out a magic scroll from his arms, but unfortunately, Carlos's first magic was fire-based, so the Humphrey magician took out a protective fire magic scroll.
When Humphrey tore open the magic scroll in his hand, and a red halo enveloped him, the blue lightning beam released by Carlos also came to Humphrey. Humphrey's hair stood on end in the arc of lightning, and his hands wiggling the mutilated magic scroll kept swinging.
After doing all this, Carlos leisurely looked at Duke who stood between him, Humphrey, and Edwin, and said with a smile: "Look, are they still arguing now?"
Duke looked at Carlos helplessly, among the 4 magicians under his command, Carlos was the youngest, but his identity was the highest, and his strength was the strongest, just a small sneak attack, even Humphrey and Edwin teamed up and suffered a big loss.
The silence was only effective for a short time, so Humphrey and Edwin could continue to talk again, but the two magicians who had just suffered under Carlos didn't say a word, they just stared at Carlos with hatred, and stood as far away as they could.
Carlos's actions just now were just to teach the other magicians who were also in the Double Axe Mercenary Regiment a hard lesson to ensure his status in the group, so naturally he would not kill them ruthlessly, but the pain on Humphrey and Edwin was inevitable.
Now that everything was in Carlos' hands, he smiled and waved his right hand at Humphrey and Edwin, who were still suffering, revealing a quaint ring on his right ring finger. Both Humphrey and Edwin knew that the ring was the work of Blair, the most famous enchanter in the continent, and it could instantly bless the wearer with an "ice barrier" magic, this ice-based level 6 magic could defend against most low-level magic, and it was not afraid of the warrior's melee attacks, so it could be said that it was the preferred magic used by magicians to save their lives.