Blood-stained gold coins melt in the cup.

Annan fished out the gold coin soaked in blood, wiped the water stains on his clothes, swept past the gloomy waiting mercenaries, and was just about to get up and go with them, when the knight girl suddenly got up.

"I'm with you!"

The withdrawn man also stood up and showed it with action.

Are they asking for trouble?

Annan thought about it, and then saw that the knight girl's mood became depressed, and her sunny eyes appeared mist: "My family was tortured by vampires for a hundred days, drained blood, torn their bodies apart, and fed to pigs when they were still alive......"

Her tone was intensely resentful and sad, but Annan still wondered why the knight maiden suddenly wanted to help her...... After all, these mercenaries seem ready to lead the way and kill people.

"You're going to give us money."

The aphasia boy, whom Annan had always thought was mute, suddenly spoke, and Joan An followed, reaching out to disrupt his hesitation.

"I'm going too!"

Annan grabbed the gold coin to avoid Joan's surprise attack, but she continued to pounce, and the knight maidens followed closely behind, tearing and snatching the gold from the counter.

"We're going to investigate the village, not to play in the mud." An ugly warrior tugged at the corners of his mouth.

When the scramble intensifies -

"Enough!" The white wolf warrior stopped the chaotic crowd and pointed to Annan and Qiong'an, who was about to smash the water glass: "You two lead the way." ”

The knight maiden and the withdrawn man stopped snatching and returned to the table with regret. Astolfo shook his calf under the table, Joan was sent by Olmedo, and he was relieved.

……

"I didn't send anybody."

Olmedo said to Ingrid, who had come from Starmoon Bay:

"Annan wants to play in Betal City, why should I send someone to keep an eye on him?"

Annan, the talisman of the Mage Tower, is still wearing it. But what Olmedo thought was interesting, and a touch of arc emerged:

"But I told Mentor Irilanzer."

Ingrid is not worried about Annan, what she is really worried about is Starmoon Bay: "What about the threat of Gema?" ”

"Ignore him. They have walls, soldiers, and me...... Are you really afraid of a new territory that doesn't have the money you have, and the power you don't have? ”

Ingrid was silent, and Olmedo sighed:

"Ingrid, this is the reason I let you go to Starmoon Bay. You are well organized in dealing with the past, but you are at a loss for what is happening, which is the flaw that shackles you from being an assistant to an official......"

"Let's go back. Even if you don't have faith in me, you should believe in Annan. ”

……

Three warriors, a ranger, and a magician, a standard five-man squad configuration.

Annan and Joan rode in a carriage and followed the mercenary squad out of the city.

The nuances of the two cities bring freshness, and as he passes by a textile mill, Annan hears the sound of the spindles of Susan's spinning machine spinning inside.

This good mood disappears when passing through a dirty street. Unkempt elves, dwarves who look like briquettes, orcs with severed limbs, and even ratmen who burn off their fur...... They were like slaves being stuffed into cramped cages and sold on the cold streets.

"Why are these elves and dwarves being arrested?"

They are not slaves, and slaves do not have undisguised hatred and resentment.

No one paid any attention to him, but the thin and mean female mage replied, "Because of the alien order." ”

Annan thought that the alien order was just to drive out the aliens...... In other words, it is indeed to drive away the alien race, but the professional realizes the cruel business opportunity contained in it: a slave has a few dozen silver coins, a professional slave has a few gold coins, an elf slave has dozens of gold coins, and an elf professional slave has a few hundred gold coins......

"The City Lord's Mansion is indifferent?"

This time, even the female mage did not answer Annan.

After passing through this street that weighed Annan, he got the answer - the street was holding slaves worth thousands of gold coins for only one day...... This street can bring hundreds of gold in taxes every day, why did Betal City refuse?

Lining up to drive out of the bustling city gates, they quickened up and arrived at the village before noon.

The village is set in the snow and is peaceful, provided you don't know what happened yesterday.

"Keep leading the way."

The white wolf warrior ordered Annan to stop.

"It's part of Kinnar." Annan said. As soon as she wanted to ask Qiong An if she wanted to be together, she took the initiative to jump down.

They didn't even know to let the Ranger sneak into the village first to investigate...... Annan, who had followed the scavenger on a mission, thought. The only street in the village was so clean and empty that they had even collected the corpses of the villagers and cleaned up the bloodstains.

Five mercenaries surrounded Annan and Joan, as if fearing them to escape, but they soon ignored Annan as the villagers with farm tools had already stepped out of their houses.

"We are mercenaries of Betal City, where is your village chief?"

The White Wolf Warrior spoke, quietly clenching his long sword, and rushed forward with a roar after the female mage unleashed the greasy spell and the villagers slipped and fell.

"Let's go hide first!"

Annan shouted at them, pulling Joan who was squatting with her mouth covered and running back to the carriage.

Joan climbed into the carriage with a neat movement: "Don't let the vampires know that Joan Iksella Joan of Arc Behdad Clemonket, the princess of the Tatunn Empire, is here!" ”

"Joan of Arc? Isn't it Anfinsen? Annan asked curiously.

Qiong An suddenly blushed: "You, you, you, how do you remember!" "I...... I deliberately said a fake name, my real name will be cursed, in case a vampire is eavesdropping! ”

"I, Francois, am not afraid."

Annan told Joan to hide in the car, and then returned to the village, where he walked past the corpses of the villagers and turned to the corner of the street, where several trucks and stripped frozen corpses were piled up in the pigsty.

It seems that Annan and they are not the only ones attacked by these villagers.

As a benevolent lord, Annan would not say that these villagers had evil retribution, he would say that these people died "worth the money".

The five professionals easily dealt with the villagers, searched for a hidden villager in the village, and learned what happened on the eve of Annan's arrival:

On the day after the villagers went crazy, a woman came to the village and said to the villagers, "I want to drink something from your body." ”

Then the villagers shouted that the vampires had tied her to the stake and prepared to burn her.

"She's a vampire too?" Annan asked.

"She's more troublesome than a vampire, and you should be glad she ran in time, boy." The female mage deliberately scared Annan and said, "That's a succubus." ”

Annan was annoyed as to why he had to evacuate the village at that time.

"There are vampires, and there are demons...... Is this village cursed? "The ugly warrior wiped the blood from his axe with snow.

The White Wolf Warrior looked down at Annan: "It's none of your business here. ”

"Meaning we can go?"

"Hmm."

Annan didn't ask what to do with the trucks, saying goodbye and running back to the side of the road.

"You shouldn't have given them money, we didn't ...... before"

"Shut up."

The White Wolf Warrior interrupted his men's complaints and stared at the turning carriage:

"They will draw out vampires and demons ......"

(End of chapter)