Chapter 05: The Letter of the Year
Arthur and their first night back in Huaorez did not wait for the expected bloody revenge.
For three days, there was no response to the blood prick, and Arthur humiliated Tristi as if it had never happened.
The stinging forbearance and low-key did not satisfy Arthur and the Blue Enchantress, and it was more terrible to be secretly worried about them than to come directly to the door.
Arthur didn't wait any longer, he had more important things to do in Huaores than the grudge with the Bloodpiercing.
On the fourth day, Arthur took the Blue Enchantress and everyone to the mercenary union in the city.
With the addition of the previous ten warriors, the Blue Enchantress now has a small size of twenty people, but it is a little ridiculous to say that Arthur is the only one in the mercenary group of nearly twenty people who has the qualification of a G-class mercenary. The first thing Arthur had to do was to register everyone in the Mercenary Guild as a mercenary.
The Mercenary Guild has not changed much from Arthur when he left, and it is still a cyan spire stone house. The mission hall on the first floor is the task release and delivery area, and the area for handling mercenaries and mercenary group related affairs is on the second floor.
On the second floor, there are two semi-circular reception desks, each with a young receptionist behind each desk. In the mercenary guild, it is common to encounter mercenaries with eccentric tempers or short tempers, and arranging young girls to handle various mercenary affairs can save a lot of trouble and conflict.
"The Blue Enchantress Mercenary Group renews. Arthur said as he handed over his mercenary badge.
The mercenary union actually provides an intermediary service between the mercenary and the employer, and the cost of maintaining the daily operation of the union mainly comes from two parts. One part is that the union will take a very small percentage of the remuneration from each completed mercenary task as an information fee, and the other part of the fee is the annual membership fee paid by the major mercenary groups, which varies according to the level of the mercenary group.
If a mercenary group does not pay the previous year's dues, it will not be able to receive a new assignment in the union the following year.
This method is not to adopt this method of mercenary union to be powerful or to accumulate money, but an effective way to manage the registered mercenary group. There are so many registered mercenary groups in the union that if a mercenary group can't even pay the membership dues, there is no need to continue to mix in the mercenary world. In addition, some small and medium-sized mercenary groups change frequently, and there are not a few who are wiped out in missions like the "Blue Enchantress" back then. The mercenary union stipulates that the lowest-level G-level mercenary group will be cancelled in the union membership book if it does not pay its membership fees for three consecutive years, and so on, even if it is a B-level mercenary group, it will be cancelled if it does not pay its membership fees for eight consecutive years, and the blue enchantress has not paid its membership dues for seven years.
It was no secret to the mercenary union that the "Blue Enchantress" returned to Huaorez, but the female staff member who received it still looked at Arthur with some surprise, "You haven't paid for seven years, a total of seven hundred gold coins." ”
Arthur directly took out a crystal card and slapped it on the table, "Don't look for it, the extra will be renewed for the next three years." In addition, the mercenary group needs to update some information. ”
"You say?"
"The Blue Enchantress leader Keynes was killed in battle, and the head of the group was replaced by Arthur, and two new deputy leaders, Joan and Huey, were appointed. ”
The female clerk hid her surprise and happily completed the formalities for Arthur, and all the information was updated in the union's magic manual.
Then Arthur applied for the mercenary group to register as a new mercenary as the leader of the Blue Enchantress mercenary group.
"Because mercenary registration requires verification of the strength of new mercenaries, I don't have the authority to handle it, and I need the rank of vice president or above to handle it. Wait a minute, I'll see which vice president is there. After the female clerk finished speaking, she trotted to the back to ask for instructions.
Arthur had the impression that even if the vice president of the mercenary union was not an old man in his seventies or eighties, he had to be a middle-aged uncle in order to deal with those rude and difficult mercenaries.
To Arthur's surprise, the female clerk brought back a girl who looked younger than herself. The girl wore a dark union robe, square-rimmed crystal glasses, and flaxen-colored hair, and looked very sedate.
The female staff member introduced, "This is our vice president Venagia. ”
"Are you Arthur?" the vice president unexpectedly plucked his eyes and leaned in front of Arthur to look at him seriously.
To outsiders, this was a very rude act, and Venegia, who had taken off her eyes, showed scattered freckles on the sides of her nose.
Arthur suddenly grabbed Venegia's wrist, "I remember who you are, where are my things?"
It didn't take much effort to get it, and Venegia, who took the initiative to appear in front of her, was the girl Arthur was looking for to give away the Star Wood locket back then. Although she had only met once, the flaxen-colored hair and the freckles on her face were details that made Arthur instantly recognize her.
Venegia let Arthur grab her wrist, "The first time we met, I grabbed the hand of other girls, and asked for things, it's a bit of a scoundrel, right?"
The female staff next to him and Huey and the others behind Arthur were completely stunned, and the two people who met for the first time seemed to have a story.
Arthur let go of Venicia's hand a little embarrassed, "I came to the Mercenary Guild to find you this time. ”
"Okay, I happen to have something to ask you for, so let's go talk about it. After saying that, Venegia turned around and walked to the back, and Arthur didn't bother to say hello to Huey and followed directly.
Joan looked at the backs of the two people who quickly disappeared at the top of the stairs, and gently stabbed Arya, "You have to be careful, I think the two of them may have had an adulterous affair before." ”
Arya glared at Joan without speaking.
In a large room on the third floor of the union, Venegia sat comfortably in a large, high-backed leather chair and motioned for Arthur to sit on the stool across from her.
Arthur didn't sit down, but stood condescendingly in front of Venicia, and said straight to the point: "In addition to looking for something you wanted to get back to the year, I also wanted to ask President Brandon about something this time?"
"You came to my uncle to ask about the Blue Enchantress's mission back then, right?"
Venegia was a little surprised to guess Arthur's intentions.
"But I'm going to disappoint you, my uncle is dead. ”
"When did you die?"
"Almost half a year after you were attacked. ”
"Was it assassinated as well?" Arthur felt more and more about the horror of this plot, and the other party cut off all possible hidden dangers.
"No, it was just an accident, he was on his way to the headquarters to run an errand, the carriage accidentally fell off a cliff. ”
Arthur lowered his head and fell into deep thought, could it be that he had guessed wrong?
"Well, I don't know if Uncle expected something to happen, but we found a letter to the Blue Enchantress among his relics. ”
Arthur instantly turned from loss to ecstasy, "Where's the letter, give it to me!"
Venegia looked at Arthur faintly, "I can give you the letter, but I have one condition. ”