Chapter 31: The Mess After the War

On the desert near the Graham Ferry, a mass grave was erected, and the wind was so windy and lifeless that even starlings did not dare to approach to feed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info broke down the hill opposite the mass grave, and a small hill was also erected, and a wooden sign on it was crookedly written with a few words: Tomb of Nightfeather Skode. Not far from the knoll, there was a small bulging dirt bag, and Sharanpova, dressed in white, knelt in front of the dirt bag, her eyes swollen like peaches, and her face was full of tears.

She wept for a while in front of the dirt bag, and then came to Yeyu's grave and cried for a while, and after going back and forth a few times, she finally got up and left this sad place slowly but resolutely, without looking back again.

"What?" Mira slapped her palm on the table, staring at the little sparrow with round eyes: "You said you want to leave the group?"

The little sparrow puffed out his chest strongly: "Yes, my mentor has warned countless times that necromancers are the scum among magicians, and we must resolutely draw a line with necromancers. I didn't throw you a fireball right away, it's already a shame for you. ”

Mira's forehead was bruised: "I've explained to you many times, I'm not a necromancer. ”

Little Sparrow pursed her lips: "I only believe in my eyes, if I stay with you any longer, my magical life will be stained with indelible stains." Don't worry, I will definitely compensate you for the liquidated damages of the contract, but it will take a few days. ”

Watching the little sparrow rush out in a rage, Mira was both angry and sad, and he whispered weakly, "I said that I am not a necromancer, why don't you believe me." ”

Quickleg walked over and touched his head: "Okay, necromancer, let's be necromancer, we thieves claim to be walkers in the dark, and we are not looked down upon." Don't worry, I won't discriminate against you. ”

Mira: "I'm not a necromancer!"

One-eyed waved his hand and said: "This issue will not be discussed anymore, this time we successfully completed the task, and the reward should not be less, but, Ye Yu's family, who will inform it?"

Looking at Tracey, who was crying like a tearful person in front of her, Mira began to regret that she shouldn't have volunteered to take the errand. He really didn't know how to comfort this girl who was crying and coughing violently, and suddenly had an idea: "I promised Ye Yu to help you find the Golden Dragon Grass." ”

Triss raised her face and smiled sadly: "My brother is no longer here, it doesn't matter to me whether I have Golden Dragon Grass or not." Perhaps, I am the yellow leaves of this branch, quietly waiting to fall, fall. You say, "Will I be able to see my brother again?"

Mira said anxiously: "Don't think nonsense, I promised your brother that if he wants to find the golden dragon grass, he will definitely go." In addition, in addition, in addition, Ye Yu died to save me, so I want to take care of you instead of him, don't worry, I will be your brother in the future, you can come to me for anything. ”

Coming out of the dirty, smelly house for a long time, Mira still had the sound of Tracey's crying and coughing in his ears, and he shook his head as if he wanted to get it all out. The north wind blew, and a few yellow leaves fell from the sky, and Mira seemed to see Trace's body fall weakly like yellow leaves, and it seemed to see Night Feather looking at the sky for the last time, Mira's eyes were a little moist, he clenched his fists, and secretly told himself that he must not let this happen.

When the mercenary union was settling the mission, Mira's mercenary group had largely completed the mission, but it had exhausted all the gyphas in the camp, so a part of the gold reward had to be deducted. Fast Legs was about to make a big noise, but the temporary head of the guild immediately added that because Mira turned the tide with one person in the Battle of the Ferry, and kept the ferry without losing the incoming sand thieves at the same time, the Mercenary Guild would always raise Mira's mercenary level to D after discussion, and at the same time raise the level of the skeleton mercenary group by one level.

Mira was still calculating the gains and losses, and the big man and fast legs were overjoyed and said: "Great, it has finally become an E-level mercenary group, and we can all get a salary increase", Mira suddenly had a black line.

The temporary person in charge said slowly while packing up the sundries: "Yes, it's upgraded, congratulations, but can you please go out first, I'm closing." ”

"Closed?" said Mira, surprised, "It's closed so early? ”

"There is no task to take," the temporary person in charge shook his head and said: "The last head of the trade union here was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of banditry, and we communicated many times but failed to bail him out, and then all the mercenaries were forced to enter the desert with the army, and the mercenary union lost all face. After discussion between the president of the guild and the elders, the mercenary guild decided to withdraw from Stilwell City and the province of Stilwell, and if the emperor did not come to his senses, the union would completely withdraw from the Holy Bein Empire. ”

Several people were so shocked by the news that they were speechless, and it took a while for Mira to speak: "The union has withdrawn, so what should we do?"

"Father and mother are married, everyone takes care of everyone, I am going to go to the pedestrian street to set up a cool skin stall, you can come and patronize it if you have time." He looked at Mira: "Young man, at your age, I advise you to go back to school and study hard, knowledge is the ultimate force to change your fate." ”

Mira was full of black lines again: "I just dropped out of school to become a mercenary." By the way, we can go back to Minsk, Uncle Dama must have a task for me. ”

"Dama? That's an interesting old man, but he must have been notified by the union that he's about to close his doors, so if you want to go, you can hurry up, and if you're lucky, you might get the last few tasks." ”

When I came to the street, the north wind was blowing, and several people were pulling out the cold in their hearts, and they were looking around at a loss, and a few mighty and majestic men came over, and they opened their mouths and asked: "Which of you is the mercenary captain?"

Everyone was stunned, but they all looked at Mira, and Mira had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "I am, do you have anything to do?" He had already made up his mind, as long as the other party was looking for trouble, he would run away immediately, and let these unrighteous guys stay and top the tank.

To his surprise, the other party not only did not speak ill of each other, but instead clenched his fists with a sincere expression and said: "Commander, please let a few of us join your mercenary group, we are all high-level swordsmen, but if it is difficult in the group, just pay us the salary of a middle-level swordsman." ”

After interrogation, Mira finally learned that in the war in the desert, many mercenary groups were broken up, and after returning, the union announced that it would withdraw, and the large mercenary groups could also move to other provinces, and the small ones could only be disbanded. In the past few days, the streets are full of free mercenaries who are still looking for opportunities, and these swordsmen have inside information, so they are waiting for Mira to come out at the gate of the union.

Mira didn't reject them directly, but just asked them to go back and wait for the notice after receiving their resumes, looking at their eager eyes full of anticipation, Mila felt like a little devil holding a steel fork and wagging his tail. However, now that my side is also anxious, if I can't receive the task, it is estimated that this skeleton mercenary group will also be disbanded, and I really can't afford to raise more people.

Along the way, Mira received a lot of job resumes, and he almost ran back to the hostel, but managed to attract the attention of several city guards. The innkeeper smiled happily for a while when he saw Mira's embarrassment, and immediately became as sad as Mira.

Mercenaries, living a life of licking blood from the knife edge, money comes easily, and naturally it is relatively refreshing, so it is especially popular with merchants. This time, the mercenary group in the city has been greatly reduced, and the bosses of all walks of life are complaining that they can't do business anymore. If it was true that all the mercenaries had withdrawn from Stilwell, at least the owner of the inn would have to close its doors.

However, Lord Kempinski can't see these changes in the city, or he won't care if he sees them. Since returning from the battlefield, Kempinski has locked himself in the city lord's mansion, and no one has seen him go out. It is said that in his submission to the Emperor, he laid all the blame for the defeat in the war on the mercenaries who accompanied the army, and several mercenary captains who were not fast would have been arrested and imprisoned by him.

However, the empire has never suffered such a major defeat since the founding of the country, and as soon as the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar, even if others wanted to help him say a few good words, they had to take into account the pressure of public opinion. Kempinski himself knew this, and in the days he had been waiting for the Imperial Capital to deal with it, he had been sometimes distraught, sometimes furious, and had already killed a few maids who had only made a small mistake.

During the night, Mira crept out the door.

The cold wind was biting, the cold moon was like a hook, there were almost no people on the street, and even the patrolling city guards didn't know where to hide and be happy. Several warblers with heavy makeup waved to Mira very dedicatedly, and the hanging smile almost shook off the thick powder, and Mira did not dare to make a sound, and walked quickly past them with a red face.

Since she had made sufficient preparations during the day, Mira found the dog cave under the city wall without much effort, and successfully found the castle and walked towards the Valley of the Medicine King in the north of the city.

According to the information gathered by Mira, a long time ago, there was really a medicine king in this valley. The king of medicine gave medicine to the doctors, and also planted all kinds of strange medicines around the grass house where he lived, which was convenient for people to take and loved. When the medicine king died, people built a shrine on the grass house to commemorate him, and spontaneously cultivated various medicinal herbs left by the medicine king, and opened a voluntary medical center. At that time, the Medicine King Valley was full of people, and the Medicine King Palace was also full of incense, so it was not lively.

Suddenly, one day, news came out that an undead creature of unknown origin had been found in the Medicine King Palace, and then the Holy See declared the Medicine King Valley a forbidden place, and arranged a large number of guardian knights and priests to guard the valley mouth. From then on, the residents of Stilwell City could no longer enjoy free herbs, and could only buy high-priced medicines from the people who participated in the trials after the monthly trial in the Valley of the Medicine King, which was arranged by the Holy See.

Of course, Mira would not buy the high-priced Golden Dragon Grass, but he also did not think that the medicinal herbs in the Medicine King Hall were the private property of the Holy See, and they were not just some undead? Uncle Mira was afraid of everything, but he was not afraid of the undead, so he was going to take advantage of the dark night when the wind was high to steal a Golden Dragon Grass and come out, which could be regarded as returning Ye Yu's favor. Because it wasn't a mercenary assignment, he didn't call anyone else, anyway, in his opinion, it was just a matter of playing the harmonica at most.