Chapter 38: The Mercenary Guild (Part II)
() It has entered September, the air has gradually changed from the original hot and dry to cool, autumn is the harvest season, in addition to all kinds of plants on both sides of the road of the Ice Moon Empire, there are crops planted by civilians, under the irradiation of the sun, the air becomes more fresh, although the direct light of the sun is very strong, but walking in the shade of the trees, you can feel cool and comfortable.
Binglan City is a big city on the border between the Ice Moon Empire and the Orlan Empire, and it is also one of the most peculiar cities on the entire Yangon continent, because two-thirds of the city is in the territory of the Ice Moon Empire, and the other third belongs to the Orlan Empire. Fortunately, the Ice Moon Empire has always been friendly with the Oran Empire, and the cities are under the control of the Ice Moon Empire, but they have to pay some small taxes to the Orlan Empire every year.
Since Ice Lan City is located on the land of the two empires, it has also become the largest transportation and commercial hub in the surrounding area, and the scale of the city is comparable to Ice and Snow City, the second largest city of the Ice Moon Empire, or even more lively. The Orlan Empire and the Ice Moon Empire roamed the city, the largest of which belonged to the merchants. The Ice Moon Empire and the Orlan Empire have always been in trade, and clever merchants will cross-trade items from both countries in order to make greater profits. With merchants, there is naturally another group that cannot be missing, that is, mercenaries. In order to maximize profits, merchants often have to travel long distances to transport goods, so it is essential to hire mercenaries to protect them, after all, no merchant wants to have problems on the road with the goods they have worked so hard to raise.
Magicians have a mercenary union, and mercenaries also have their own mercenary union, but the mercenary union is not as noble as the magician's union, in the eyes of ordinary people, they are just a meeting place for those low-level samurai. From the mercenary guild, you can receive a variety of tasks, and you can get different rewards according to the level of the mission. There are very few mercenaries who are particularly outstanding in martial arts. After all, if the martial arts have reached a certain level, why should they become mercenaries, there are many better options waiting for them.
The Mercenary Guild of Binglan City is located in the northernmost part of the city, very close to the city gate, and the Guild's building is not very tall. But it covers a wide area, with a width of thousands of square meters in the trade union hall. At this time, there are at least seven or eight hundred mercenaries, some of them come alone to take on the mission, and some come to take the task as a mercenary group, but the purpose is really the same, that is, to make money. If you can find a task that is both simple and easy to do. Then, the mercenaries can be at ease for a while.
Of course, not all mercenaries are for the purpose of making money, although the number of such people is small, but they do exist, and their purpose is to travel, and some are adventurous. Although only a few. But it is precisely among these few people that the strongest mercenary exists.
"This task is what I saw first, do you Lanhuo mercenary group want to bully people and rob them?" A mercenary who was not tall, but plump like a leather ball roared angrily, his voice was absolutely inversely proportional to his height, this voice made the entire union spread almost throughout the entire hall, and for a while, the mercenaries who already liked to join in the fun suddenly cast all kinds of different eyes. Humpty Dumpty's body shape looks a little funny. To put it simply, his whole body is like a meatball on top of a fat meat, everywhere is round, and the wide clothes on his body can no longer be seen to be a samurai uniform, from the white shield shape on his chest. Judging by the color of the mercenary logo with two swords crossed, he is just an ordinary fourth-level mercenary.
From high to low, mercenaries are divided into Special, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5 and Trainee Mercenaries. Their emblems are the same, a shield with two long sword insignia crossed over it. And according to the rank, from high to low, the colors of the badge are gold, silver, red, purple, yellow, white, blue, and gray (the color of the metal itself).
"You're the one who bullied, how about it? Ball, get off home. Do you still want to accomplish the task with your virtue? I think you can eat up the proprietor before you are halfway there. A tall mercenary in a blue samurai uniform said disdainfully. Judging by his appearance, he looks more like a mercenary
The fat fat of the short and fat mercenary body trembled, "You, you dare, this is the mercenary union, not your Lanhuo mercenary group, why are you robbing me of the task I am taking." The union will administer justice, right, beautiful young lady. As he spoke, his gaze fell on the face of the young lady in charge behind the mercenary union counter.
In the union hall, there are at least 30 counters responsible for delegating tasks, and on the huge blackboard behind the counters, there are clearly written various levels of tasks and task requirements, no matter which counter, you can take tasks according to the number to complete. If there is no one to take a task within a month and the employer is unwilling to give up, then, the task level will automatically rise by one level, and the level of these tasks is exactly the same as the level of the mercenary, but it does not mean that the third-level mercenary will definitely be able to complete the third-level task, the task of the same level, the difficulty is only close, but it will never be the same.
The lady in charge behind the counter looked like she was twenty-five or six years old, with an ordinary appearance, and the uniform on her body outlined a good figure, and she looked very plump. She glanced at Humpty Dumpty with some impatience and said, "The union will naturally uphold justice, but although you have to take on this task just now, you have always hesitated and have not made a final confirmation, so the Lanhuo Mercenary Group is not a bully." Frankly speaking, with the strength of your fourth-level mercenary, it is difficult to complete this third-level task, don't make noise here, please leave. The one from the Blue Fire Mercenary Group, you can go through the registration procedures. ”
"Fart, it's obvious that I took the task first, you little girl must be a concubine with him, damn, today Lao Tzu has to take this task. Humpty Dumpty's face was already flushed with rage, and he slapped his right hand the counter, letting out a roar.
The symbol on the chest of the mercenary of the Lanhuo Mercenary Regiment was yellow, representing the symbol of a third-level mercenary, and he stretched out his big fan-like hand and pressed it on Humpty Dumpty's shoulder, "Make trouble, don't affect my registration mission." ”
Humpty Dumpty slapped his hand off, "Get out of here, this mission is mine." ”
Among the mercenaries, there were already dragons and snakes, and the members of the Lanhuo Mercenary Group saw that the other party was so arrogant when they saw that the other party was lower than their own level, and they immediately bumped into each other angrily. "What? If you want to fight, I'll kill you fat pig. ”
The lady in charge behind the counter snorted and said, "You have to fight out, otherwise I'm going to call the guard." ”
The fat man who was still arrogant before and the members of the Lanhuo Mercenary Group who had a fierce face suddenly changed their faces when they heard the word "guard". The fat man cursed in a low voice, and squeezed out of the crowd and walked outside. And the members of the Nalan Fire Mercenary Group also honestly began to register the mission.
The level of mercenaries is determined according to the difficulty and number of tasks completed, so even third-level mercenaries may not be able to have the strength of high-level warriors, and most of them are just ordinary warriors. And the guards hired by this mercenary guild all have at least the strength of high-level warriors, and there are many swordsman-level masters. They will never be soft on the mercenaries who dare to come here to make trouble, as long as the guards do it, it is common for the muscles and bones to be broken, so although the mercenaries often use conflicts, they will never dare to provoke the guards in the union.
Seeing that the excitement had passed, the mercenaries who had originally gathered here went to go about their own business. The young lady in charge snorted, she didn't know how many times she had seen this situation, picked up the pen on the table, and slowly registered it for the strong man of the Nalan Fire Mercenary Group.
"Excuse me, is there a quest to buy high-grade magic scrolls here?" a clear voice sounded in front of the counter.
After completing a few registrations, the young lady in charge handed the registration card to the members of the Nalan Fire Mercenary Group, and said impatiently: Won't you go to see it yourself when you take the task? As she spoke, she looked up when she saw the man who asked her. The eyes that had been impatient suddenly shimmered, and it seemed that the shape of the peach heart could be seen in the gaze.
Standing in front of the counter was a tall man, although his body shape was not as exaggerated as that of the strong man of the Nalan Fire Mercenary Group, but his body was slender and well-proportioned. With his long golden hair scattered behind his back, and his blue eyes, as deep as the sea, radiated the brilliance of wisdom, he looked no more than twenty years old, and he was so handsome that even a woman would be jealous. At this time, after listening to the words of the young lady in charge, she couldn't help frowning slightly, and her eyes swept to the blackboard behind her.
The lady in charge coughed, barely suppressing her excitement, "Sir, this gentleman, are you here to take over the task?"
The blonde young man officially read the ice, and when he heard this, he once again lowered his gaze on the face of the young lady in charge, nodded, and said, "Yes, I want to see if there is a task here to acquire magic scrolls above the fifth order." "After ten days of trekking and occasional snowstorm flights, Nian Bing finally came to this Ice Lan City on the border between the Ice Moon Empire and the Orlan Empire. As soon as he entered the city, the first thing he did was to buy a detailed map of the continent, and in the past ten days, if it wasn't for flying and asking to find the exact path, he didn't know how many detours he had made.
As soon as he arrived in Binglan City, Nian Bing's first thought was to replenish the number of magic scrolls he had, and after counting, he only had more than two dozen purple gold coins on his body, and it was enough to buy ordinary scrolls, but when he made the kind of trigger magic scroll that could double magic and achieve the effect of ice and fire, he had to use the best scroll to have a certain chance of success, and the money on his body was obviously not enough, so he wanted to sell a few scrolls for money. Of course, he also looked for the branch of the Magician Guild of the Ice Moon Empire here, but unfortunately, due to the border between Binglan City and the Orlan Empire, there is no mage branch here. Of course, the absence of chapters is also related to the decline of the Icemoon Empire's Mage's Guild.
In desperation, he had to go to the magic shop to sell his own scrolls, but, because the scrolls he made were different from ordinary magic scrolls, those fourth-order to sixth-order scrolls were special scrolls that could release their power as long as they were opened and could be released without magic guidance. Nian Bing had the intention of using a scroll to show his strength, but the value of the scroll was so high, he was really reluctant, and he fell into an embarrassing situation for a while. I went to several magic item stores in succession, and I got the same answer. Eventually, a kind-hearted shopkeeper directed him to try his luck at the Mercenary Guild, and if he could get the task of buying a magic scroll here, he wouldn't have to worry about not being able to buy the scroll, and most of the buyers would be willing to pay to experiment with the power of the scroll. In desperation, Nian Bing asked the path clearly, and had to come here, hoping to meet a suitable task in exchange for money.
In the previous scene, Nian Bing completely saw it in his eyes, and the low-quality mercenaries left a bad first impression on him.
The young lady in charge looked at the handsome Nian Bing with a smile on her face, and the peach blossoms in her eyes couldn't help but develop like pink, so handsome, really handsome, "Sir, then please wait a minute, I'll check it for you." My name is Marry and I'm happy to serve you. ”
"Yo, it's really a pretty sister! Marry complained today, why haven't I ever been treated like this!" A third-level mercenary in his forties next to him said in a weird manner.
Marry sees more of the world in this place where dragons and snakes are mixed every day, and snorted: "Get out of the way, don't be poor here with me, you have the ability, and when you are promoted to a first-class mercenary, I will also find you a task." ”
The middle-aged man in his forties looked at Nian Bing, "So, he is a first-class mercenary? ”
Nian Bing glanced at the troublesome person beside him with some impatience, and the obscene smile on the other party's face obviously looked down on him. He didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of person, and set his eyes on Marry again.
Seeing that Nian Bing didn't say anything, the middle-aged man put his hand on his shoulder even harder, "Boy, looking at you like this, you must be a duck, I haven't seen you here before, isn't the business bad, come here to hook up with a woman? Marry is really a good choice, look at her figure, it's really annoying! However, I'm afraid that her salary can't satisfy you, do you want me to introduce you to a good object, the lady in the city likes a cream boy like you." Oh, oh my god it's unfair! Why can't I be more handsome? Boy, your mother must be beautiful, hehe. His lewd laughter immediately caused the surrounding mercenaries to burst into laughter.
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