After bringing Cherus and the others to the tribal hall, Karl hurried out and returned to the fence outside the village to continue his patrol, leaving Chelus and the others to wait for the chiefs and elders of the Sural tribe in the chieftaincy hall.

And during the waiting time, in order to prepare her friends, Cheruth said the news she learned from Carl along the way plus some of her own bad speculations.

Sure enough, everyone in the team was taken aback after hearing what Chelus said, they originally took this task with the mentality of half-playing and half-increasing knowledge, and the progress along the way was basically smooth, so they didn't expect such a sudden change at all.

"Cheruth," compared to the girls who were a little helpless after listening to what Cheruth said, the little wolf who was the only boy in the team was quite calm, "You mean, it's very likely that we took on a very dangerous mission without knowing it?"

"Suffice it to say, there's no need for Carl to lie to us. ”

"However, our mission is only to help the Sural tribe invite the sacrifice and escort it here," Ji Xiangtian looked at Cheruth, "as long as we leave here and don't participate in the battle, there shouldn't be any danger." ”

“...... Little ......"

Yi Ping tugged at the corner of Ji Xiangtian's clothes, and then looked at Raphael, who was sitting in the chair opposite Celus and Nanoha with Gray Wind.

"Uh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else," seeing the smiling Raphael, Ji Xiangtian was suddenly a little speechless, and quickly explained, "I just want to say that the mission we accepted does not include combat, so as long as we stay in the Sural tribe and don't wander around, there shouldn't be any danger." ”

"It's okay," Raphael said with a smile to Ji Xiangtian, "this is indeed a dangerous place, everyone has guaranteed my safety and sent me here, because it may take a lot of time to heal the curse, don't worry about me going back, it is still safe to be sheltered by the Minotaur here." ”

"That being said, will you be able to find your way back alone?"

Cheruth looked at Raphael with empty eyes, and the completely unconscious idiot looked very confident in this, and nodded without hesitation.

"No problem, Ruth, I can ask the Minotaur to send me back. ”

"Even the post station traffic team between towns can keep up with the lost guys, where does the confidence come from......"

She complained like this, but Cheruth actually knew very well in her heart that Raphael just didn't want to drag their students here because of herself.

It's just that after Raphael was entrusted by them, he did not hesitate to give up his agreement with his companions and follow them here, and now let them just throw Raphael into such a dangerous place and leave by themselves, which really makes these decent young girls unable to pass this level in their hearts.

Just when the atmosphere of everyone was a little solemn, suddenly the door of the hall was suddenly opened, and a tall minotaur walked in in a hurry.

"I'm sorry, but please forgive me for keeping you waiting. ”

The first to enter was a very burly minotaur, with dark brown skin, a ring of thick hair around his neck that seemed to be like a mane, wearing an apparently enlarged leather armor, and carrying two broad axes on his back, and walked quickly to the front of the hall with a crisp but steady look, and turned to look kindly at the people who had risen from their seats.

"I'm the current chief of the Surar tribe, Gravel Qiun, and I'm sorry to be here to greet you so late, so please take a seat. ”

While introducing himself, Qiu En carefully looked around the entire team plus Raphael, and a look of surprise passed by his gentle face.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... May the earth bless, if I'm not mistaken, you don't seem to be very old?"

Seeing Qiu En's reaction, Cheruth sighed secretly, sure enough, there must have been something wrong with the mission they received, and it was obvious that the reinforcements that the Minotaur Chief was looking forward to were not a playful mercenary team composed of a group of half-grown children like them.

Although it was just a joke at the beginning to push Cheruth to the position of captain, although Cheruth was a little casual along the way, she did perform most of her duties as a captain, and in addition to Raphael, who was not a member of the team, only Cheruth noticed the anomaly of the task and brought it up, so the rest of the team subconsciously looked at Cheruth when Qiu En was talking to everyone, obviously fully agreeing with Cheruth as everyone's representative to negotiate with the Minotaur.

"Chief Qiu, please allow me to give an introduction," Chelus did not hesitate to speak, considering that it was not clear what the inside story of this mission was at the moment, she decided that it would be better to make it clear sooner, "We are from the Student Trial Team of Loris National Academy, and I am the leader of the team, Cheruth, as a temporary mercenary conducting the Student Vacation Trial...... This mission, maybe something went wrong in the middle, we didn't know the real situation of the Sural tribe before we came here on the next mission. ”

Qiu En, who had been frowning a little since hearing the word "student", saw that Cheruth's expression did not seem to be fake, and couldn't help but shake his head and show a kind smile again, but compared to just now, Qiu En was obviously smiling a little helplessly.

"Earth bless, little ...... Fellow, the Minotaur has never been very good at talking, I have no ill intentions, and I have seen that there is a Light Sacrifice among you that we desperately need, and in any case, the Sural tribe will always be grateful for your help. ”

Qiu En said, bowing his head slightly, this minotaur chief was obviously not as rough as he looked, and seemed to be very familiar with human speech and behavior.

"Our tribe has been under siege lately by some raiders who behave strangely, and I think you must have experienced a lot of dangerous things along the way to escort this venerable priest here, thank you very much. ”

Everyone in the team showed some strange expressions, not to mention the danger along the way, even the ordinary demonic beasts that often haunt the desert have not encountered one, otherwise they would not wait until they reach the Sural tribe to find out that something is wrong.

"Chief Qiuen, in fact, we only heard about the attack on the Sural tribe after we arrived here, and we didn't encounter any attacks on the way here. ”

Hearing Cheruth's answer, Qiu En was obviously a little surprised.

"Oh, you haven't been attacked along the way?"

"Yes," Cheruth nodded, "and besides, we haven't even seen one of the occasional beasts that we heard before we set out. ”

"Strange ......" It could be seen from Qiu En's expression that what Chelus said was really completely unexpected, "Did you really not encounter those crazy creatures along the way?"

Cheruth shook her head.

"Chief Qiu, is there anything strange?"

"Hmm...... During this time, from time to time, the frenzied attackers would emerge from all sides of the village to storm our defenses, and our men would be outnumbered by the curse they had brought. For this reason, I originally planned to send a few young men with good strength in the tribe to take advantage of the gap between their two attacks to go to the nearby human town to find the human light sacrifice, and by the way, if possible, I also hired some local mercenary groups as support, but unfortunately every time our people didn't go far before they were attacked by those evil things, and in the end we had to use the domesticated letter eagle to send a message to the human town to release the mission remotely......"

Qiu En didn't finish his words, but the meaning was very clear, the Minotaur tribe had encountered attacks nearby after leaving the village several times, but their team actually ran in without encountering anything, and they didn't even have any idea of how dangerous a section of the area they had crossed, which was not surprising.

Cheruth moved the wolf's ears a little puzzled, probably, their luck is better?

"Ahem, probably because we're moving fast, we've rented the best sand boats in town...... Plus I was a little luckier, so I didn't encounter anything and just broke in. ”

Qiu En obviously couldn't find a better explanation, so he nodded.

"I see, indeed, I've always heard that human magic skills are very powerful, and the boats that can travel in the desert are indeed worthy of their reputation. ”

This topic is obviously a little embarrassing, the violent attackers who have been viciously attacking the Sural tribe have adopted this attitude of "avoiding it" to Cheruth and others, and it is obviously not very easy to use luck and sand boat as an explanation, so it is inevitable that the other party will have some bad misunderstanding if they continue to dwell on this topic, and Cheruth hurriedly changed the topic.

"By the way, Chief Qiu En, let's take over this mission first. ”

Qiu En nodded.

"Okay, I see, because our people can't break through to the town, so this mission is directly between us and the mercenary union in the nearby town using letter eagle, please wait a moment, I'll go and pick up the mission scroll that letter eagle brought back from the mercenary union before. ”

With that, Qiu En stood up and walked towards the back of the hall, and soon the Minotaur Chief was back in the hall again, holding a quest scroll that was obviously a little smaller than the Minotaur's larger hands.

The way for the mercenary to hand over the task is very simple, after the employer who issued the commission confirmed that the task was indeed completed in an agreed way, he would hand over the task scroll obtained from the mercenary union when issuing the commission to the mercenary, and then the mercenary could return to the union with the scroll to register the task completion, and obtain the task reward and mercenary points stored in the union in advance.

"Chief Qiu, I'm sorry, but the mission you posted stated that you were inviting one or more Light Priests, but unfortunately, because the same thing happened to your tribe in a nearby human town a few days ago, and a strange curse was left on the townspeople after being attacked by a group of strange attackers, and the Light Priests in nearby towns gathered in that town for this purpose, so we only invited one priest. ”