Chapter 37: Mercenaries
Ed followed Andre and brought a few soldiers to the outside of Hill Castle, there are not only many farms nearby, but also a large market for the convenience of guests from the north and south, few noble psionic knights come here, and the mercenaries are the regular visitors here.
Without much effort, Andrei inquired about the target of the trip, the location of the Mercenary Guild.
This organization often provides employment services for various countries and has a certain influence on the continent, but the king and lords will not openly recognize the legitimacy of this organization, and some psychic knights regard it as a source of chaos in their territory and suppress them, and now the Roland Kingdom is different from the past, and these dangerous guys are more in need of these dangerous guys gradually acquiescing to each other's existence, and even there is such a gathering point near the crown prince's castle, which was unimaginable before.
The guild was in a nondescript building, the dilapidated gatehouse didn't even have a signboard, but there was a lot of space inside, Ed was wearing a cloak and pulled his hood up, and the psionic knights were not welcome here, and most of them hated this kind of place.
Ed is already a little famous, so hiding his identity is a good choice.
The young man looked around, there were a lot of people inside, and looking at the demeanor of the dress, all of them were dangerous people who licked blood with knives.
Walking to the back of the bar, a middle-aged uncle is scrubbing the cup, there are also some simple drinks available, but there is no alcohol, ordinary mercenaries have no psychic powers, it is easy to get drunk and make trouble, break things and pat their butts and leave, mercenaries are not as reputation-oriented as knights, money is omnipotent here.
A thief-headed man next to him stepped forward and whispered a few words in the middle-aged man's ear, which André recognized as a broker who was on the line with him in the castle, who had been introduced to him by the knight beside Eleanor the Younger, and was said to specialize in helping psykers do things that were inconvenient for them to come forward directly.
With an intermediary, Andre quickly met the person in charge of the place through the middle-aged uncle, and the two sides talked for a while, and Ed and they were invited to the inner room, and many leaders of the big mercenary group were already waiting for the arrival of their employers.
The news of the crown prince's decision to send troops to rescue Ovalé City caused a sensation among the mercenaries on the same day, and the leaders of the major forces were gearing up to seize this opportunity and gnaw a piece of the big fat meat.
At present, the situation in the Roland Kingdom is unfavorable, but it is a good time for the mercenaries to sit on the ground and raise the price, they can get a bounty much higher than the bid from Ingier's side on a mission, and in case the battle is lost, the mercenaries can choose to escape and minimize the losses, and most of the defeated knights have no face and time to take care of their responsibility.
Ed and Andre met with more than a dozen mercenary group leaders in the afternoon, the smallest of which had more than 500 subordinates, and Ed selected a few of them with good reviews, and those leaders themselves looked full of ruffians, unlike those who did serious business.
In addition, don't be old with qualifications, most of the surviving members of those teams are old fritters on the battlefield, it's okay to play with the wind, and you can run faster than anyone else in the headwind.
The team with members from relatively poor backgrounds is also easy to be selected by Ed, and Andre and Delia have long made up their minds to recruit some people from these mercenaries to strengthen their own strength.
These people thought that this time it was just an easy job to follow the knight to clean up the battlefield and chase down the deserters, but they didn't know that the employer was planning to dig their corners, and with the power of Deria's star spirit and the great charm of the girl herself, Ed believed that after a few victories, he would be able to take the mercenary group under his command.
After meeting with the big leaders, the guild also arranged some special mercenaries with few personnel but each with their own expertise for the patrons.
In the era of psionic knights across the continent, strange people with other powers almost had no soil to survive, and after they formed an organization to compete with the knights but were completely defeated, the remnants disappeared from the sun, and the scattered people who did not want to make a living in the shadows relied on being mercenaries to survive, and the knights had no intention of hunting down these little people who did not pose a danger.
However, in recent years, these Adepts have been secretly developing new forces and expanding their territory, and they are gathering strength to wait for the time when they will see the light of day, and even the proportion of mercenaries has increased considerably.
Eddard, as the spokesperson of Deria, actually has a lot of say in Roland's counterattack, and today he took this opportunity to finally meet the people with abilities other than the psykers.
First up are dozens of Druid apprentices, with advanced animal communication and healing skills, and are the best scouts in complex combat environments such as jungles, where they can gain information about their enemies through a variety of natural beings and help their armies avoid the dangers of nature.
They were led by a large man with a thick beard, whose age Eddard couldn't tell by his thick hair.
"May the ancient oak bless you and be protected by nature for a long time. I am Malone, son of the stag, and I am honored to serve you!" As she spoke, Malone, holding her oak cane, wrapped her robe in one hand and bent down to bow to Ed and the others, humble but not humble.
Ed nodded at him, and activated the engraving to identify the other.
"The junior druid, who has mastered the 2-ring natural spell from the breath, does not pose a threat to the host, and has been observing and collecting relevant information for a long time. ”
The psionic sigil has been silent a lot recently, but with the analysis of the power of Delia's star spirit gradually becoming more functional, Ed looked at the progress bar, and it was only 5%, which is really long!
Without hesitation, Ed motioned for André to hire them.
He didn't have the pride that the Psionic Knight had long formed, and he pretentiously thought that these Abilities were lowly, but instead, the spirit from the other world welcomed the arrival of these druids, and he was also very interested in the power beyond psionic power.
A soldier led Malloy to a nearby hut to negotiate the terms of the contract, followed by a group of hooded men in gray trench coats.
The leader came to Ed's body, and the boy found that the other party's height was not inferior to him, you know, after being engraved and strengthened twice, Ed's bronze-level body at this time was much stronger than the average seventeen-year-old boy, and it was at least one meter eight or more in his previous life.
The other party didn't take off his hood, and when he came closer, Ed could only see a pretty face, his eyes were very sharp, and he looked directly at Ed, "Forest Ranger Shirin salutes you!"
The tall lady turned her head to look at the hired druids on the other side, and said in a shrill voice to Ed, "I see that you've chosen those nature-loving guys, and maybe you won't need us as scouts anymore!"
Ed could hear the other party's somewhat arrogant tone, but what attracted him even more was that when the other party turned his head, Ed saw a pair of pointed ears at the top of the hat at that moment, could it be...... Genie?
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