“...... We only had one priest invited. ”

With that, Cheruth spread her hand in the direction of Raphael, who smiled and bowed to Qiu En and made a discipleship salute.

"Is this happening in human towns," Qiu En's face was a little grim, "Earth bless, it seems that something has indeed happened in the southwest desert during this time that we don't know...... Thank you, Captain Cheruth, that no one could have predicted that such a thing would happen, and the fact that you were able to bring a sacrifice for us was enough for all the Sural tribes to express their gratitude to you, please accept the scroll, and thank you for fulfilling our commission in such a timely manner. ”

Hearing that Qiu En was not dissatisfied with the completion of their mission, the team members all breathed a sigh of relief, only Cheruth noticed that Qiu En used the word "timely" like Carl before, and couldn't help but take the scroll with some confusion, opened the scroll and began to confirm the contents.

Meanwhile, Qiu En, who handed the scroll to Cheruth, looked at Raphael on the other side.

"So, you're the priest who was invited, aren't you?"

Raphael smiled and spoke.

"First meeting, Chief Qiu, I'm just an ordinary believer in the Solan Cult, please call me Raphael. ”

"Oh, is Miss Raphael a sacrifice from the Solan Cult?"

Qiu En was very happy after hearing Raphael's words, although Raphael didn't look much older than Cheruth and the others, but you must know that the Solan Divine Cult is the most authentic birthplace of the Light Doctrine on the continent at the moment, and the sacrifices in the sect are generally more likely to deal with all kinds of curses, after all, light magic is the natural enemy of curse magic.

Although it was indeed a bit disappointing that the Celestia and the others had only invited one sacrifice, since it was a sacrifice from the Solan Cult, it was a pretty good result.

However, just as Qiu En wanted to continue to tell Raphael about the curse that had been asked to heal, suddenly Cheruth, who was holding the scroll, raised her head with a strange expression on her little face.

“...... Chief Qiu, are you sure this is the quest scroll you commissioned in the Mercenary Guild?"

Cheruth's words caught the attention of everyone in the hall.

"Is there anything wrong with Cheruth-chan?"

Sakura, who was sitting with Chiyo, asked a little strangely, and Qiu En looked at Cheruth with some surprise.

"Captain Cheruth, this is indeed the mission scroll that my clan-bred Shin Eagle brought back from the human mercenary union, is there anything wrong?"

"Uh, the quest on this reel...... It should be said that it is very different from the mission we received," Chelus said with a frown as she looked at the scroll in her hand, "We only received a C-level mission to hire a priest and escort it to the Sural tribe on our behalf, and it was released a week ago, but the mission on this scroll is an A-level support mission that was released three days ago...... That's not our task. ”

"A, A-Class Mission!"

Everyone in the team was taken aback, knowing that although the Mercenary Guild's mission difficulty level assessment was not 100% accurate, it was basically appropriate most of the time. Originally, the student trial tasks of the Lorris National Academy should have been jointly evaluated by the instructor of the academy and the mercenary union, and the C-level mercenary missions with low risk coefficient and a certain degree of difficulty were selected.

As for A-level mercenary missions, no matter what the content of the mission is, except for the elite teams of those top mercenary groups, almost most of the mercenary groups will have casualties when performing A-level missions, and it stands to reason that this kind of dangerous mission will not be received by the student team at all.

Hearing Cheruth's words, Qiu Enleng paused for a moment, and suddenly seemed to understand something.

"Could it be that you received the C-class mission that we sent a week ago inviting the sacrifice to the Sural tribe, and that mission must have been canceled by the Mercenary Guild?"

Cancelled?

Cheruth and the others looked at each other, and then Cheruth's face suddenly changed, and after reaching out and rummaging in her pocket for a while, she took out a small magic guide like a badge.

This magic guide is specially used by the mercenary union to notify the mercenaries in the execution of the task in real time, and generally speaking, in the case of major changes such as the cancellation of the commission, the union will use this thing to notify the mercenaries on the mission at the first time.

And right now, on that little badge, I don't know when an inconspicuous line of text appeared: Mission canceled, please return.

Hey, don't you want a voice to remind you to give a vibration......

Cheruth looked at the small badge in her hand with a slight sweat, because she didn't pay so much attention to this mission from the beginning, and it was also the first time to do a mercenary mission, although Cheruth was more experienced than Sakura and others, but because she didn't often come into contact with these things, she couldn't do everything in the end, and she completely forgot about this mercenary badge with no sense of existence along the way.

I forgot about the existence of this thing, so I couldn't see the mission cancellation notification that I sent a few days ago...... Will you be beaten if you say that......

"Ahaha...... In this way, maybe there is something wrong with our mercenary badge that doesn't alert us at all. ”

Pinching the badge in her hand, Cheruth said without changing her face.

"I see," Qiu En's face showed a little apology, "It was the fault of my clan as a client to cancel the mission that had already been released, because we didn't communicate with the mercenary union in time to let you come to the Sural tribe, which is not very safe at the moment, for no reason." ”

The Minotaur Chief bowed his head and apologized to everyone in the hall, which immediately made everyone a little embarrassed.

"No, it's okay Chief Qiu, we didn't encounter any danger along the way. ”

"And being able to help the Sural tribe in distress is also a very meaningful trial experience for us. ”

"It's the mercenary badge that's broken, Chief Qiu. ”

"Ahem," the wolf girl coughed lightly, who was so stimulated by the last sentence from a certain stupid loli, "Chief Qiu, you don't have to feel guilty, although we are just a group of students, but this trip was originally to experience real adventures and exotic terroirs, anyway, this trip to Sural has given us a good opportunity to increase our knowledge, so you don't need to apologize." ”

"Alas, this is also to blame for our lack of judgment of danger in the first place, which is why we have reversed course when we entrust the mission like this," Qiu En explained, "Originally, our Sural tribe has occupied this oasis for nearly two hundred years or so, and there is no conflict with the surrounding demonic beasts and humans, and even the sand bandits have never easily harassed us, but a week or so, the demonic beasts around the village began to appear abnormal.

"They generally start to become very irritable and aggressive, and there have even been a few times when the monsters have attacked our lonely people on the edge of the village. At that time, we soon discovered that the wounds of the clansmen who were injured by the attack of the demonic beast would hardly heal, which was a very unusual thing for the physique of our minotaur clan, and the elders of the clan probed the wounded and thought that it was caused by some kind of curse, and lifting the curse was not the strong point of our beast clan, so we had to issue this task you received.

"Because there are no powerful demonic beasts around here, so in the incident of the demonic beast attacking the clansmen, the clansmen only suffered some skin injuries at most, even if they are suspected of being cursed with unhealable wounds, it will hardly affect their normal life, so at that time, the clan, including a few injured clansmen, just took this matter as a joke and did not pay attention to this matter, plus there was no convenient tool like a human sand boat in the tribe, so it only used the letter eagle to issue a mission to hire a sacrifice and did not send someone directly to the nearby town to invite people。 The original mission released was only the easiest D-level, because the southwest desert was inaccessible and there was a danger of getting lost, so it was mentioned by the mercenary union when it was reviewed. ”

Speaking of this, Qiu En smiled bitterly.

"However, just a few days after the mission was released, the attacks of the monsters became more and more frequent, and even from attacking the tribesmen who walked out of the tribe in twos and threes at the beginning, to gathering together to directly attack the outer walls and fences of the tribe and even wanting to rush into the tribe to attack the villagers, which made us feel that something was not right. To add insult to injury, we soon realized that the curse that spread among the villagers because of the monster's injuries didn't seem to be the usual curse that just hindered wound healing, as we had originally thought. ”

"The curse you are talking about should be the mad curse mentioned by Mr. Karl who led us the way before, right?" Raphael asked, "Mr. Karl said that because of this curse, the demonic beasts have gone crazy, and the villagers who were injured by the demonic beasts are also ...... Are you experiencing similar symptoms?"

"It may be true to say that you are crazy, but in fact there is a little difference," Qiu En sighed, "In the beginning, the injured villagers behaved normally except that the wounds would not heal, but when it came to defending against the attacks of the monsters, the injured villagers behaved much more bravely than the others.

"At first, we just thought they were angry because they were injured by the monster, but after a few battles, we found some clues. The wounded are getting more and more irritable, often suddenly starting to destroy things around them for small things to vent their anger, and although the Minotaurs advocate a powerful way of fighting, the wounded show more of a simple desire to destroy in battle......"

Speaking of this, Qiu En's face showed a somewhat jealous look.

"Almost in a state of sanity, they began to actively crave all forms of destruction. Aside from the fact that they were able to endure the fact that they could not do anything to the people of the Sural tribe, their actions were becoming more and more like those demonic beasts that attacked the village for no reason. ”