"In fact, I want to retire. Natasha: She's not actually a mercenary who can succeed - I can see it. But I hope to have one last adventure that will at least allow me to earn a pension for the rest of my life, and compensate you, Zode. Don't refuse my compensation, you've given us enough. Far more than we deserve. It's not good, it's not good for us to be friends. Rezenov, who had poured a large sip of wine again, suddenly turned stern and said to Zhou Zhongmou.

"Yes. I didn't expect you to look like a, Rezenov. I just kept the contract I had when I joined the team, and I didn't owe anything to me. You don't owe me anything, Rezenov. You never owe me anything. But if you want to earn back the rest of your life for yourself - and it looks like Natasha has a dowry, then let's go along. Why not?" Zhou Zhongmou shrugged his shoulders, tore off a large piece of pork again, and said after eating it in the thick soup.

The nearest secret realm is still only Labyrinth City, but now this Labyrinth City has become an ordinary bronze-level secret realm, but it has just been downgraded now, and for the time being, no team has gone to the core part to explore the lair inside. The city's higher-ups were also debating whether or not to eradicate the Realm, and the call to keep it in the Realm prevailed - although the traditional ones had come up with ancient records that over time, the Bronze-level Realm would eventually become a gold-level dead land, there was no doubt that the camp trade that had taken place due to the crowd gathering and adventure, and the trade in materials, money, and weapons obtained from the Realm, had made most of the people who benefited from it oppose the antiques. When they also took out the records and obtained the time and chance it would take for the Bronze-level Secret Realm to grow to the Gold level, hundreds of years and less than a thousandth chance would knock the old antiques to the ground - the most important of them was the money figures on the recent transaction statements provided by the local Chamber of Commerce and the Mercenary Guild, Gray Spire.

As for the legendary secret realms in the Eagle's Nest Mountains, at least the current mercenary union really doesn't have much interest - the transportation is inconvenient, and the risk is greater. It's better to brush it up in this downgraded secret realm in front of you. However, despite this, they still put out a number of tasks to investigate various secret realms and explore and seal them with bonuses provided by the union, and the bounties on them are also quite exciting.

Now Zhou Zhongmou and Rezenov are watching these tasks in the union hall, and one of the secret realms known as the Black Swamp has aroused the interest of the two - as for Natasha, she takes Ivan to the temple and asks the priest to cast a spell once more to heal little Ivan.

"The Black Swamp is preliminarily recognized as a bronze-level secret realm. The exact terrain is unknown. Monsters: All kinds of swamp aquatic monsters may be, the details are unknown. Looking at this simple introduction, Zhou Zhongmou immediately scolded a few words about the incompetence of the trade union. However, this also made the union open a lot of tasks for this secret realm, ranging from pathfinding to capturing monsters to sealing, and the bonus is very good, Zhou Zhongmou calculated that if he completed some of them, at least the pension and dowry would not be a problem - no matter how extravagant, the pension needed by ordinary mercenaries and the dowry of ordinary people with a few hundred gold coins is very enough - of course, the money that Zhou Zhongmou allocated to them was enough, but unfortunately they had to use it to save little Ivan- However, this also made Zhou Zhongmou feel that Mrs. Lezeno was very good.

After taking the task, they had to go there on their own, and since the roads were difficult to navigate, the union did not have regular carriages to and from the secret realm and the city. On this mission, Rezenov decided that they would only scout and capture or record some of the monsters on the periphery, and the bounty plus the rest of the money for Ivan's treatment would be enough for him to retire and help Natasha get married—after all, the elder Reznov thought that he could make up for the gap by striking iron. The question now is, what to do with Ivan? At the very least, if the current Ivan is left in the manor, Natasha is not worried that he will be able to survive - in the end, she has to spend some extra money to let Ivan stay in the hotel, and tell the boss to pay more attention.

This time, Rezenov is not ready to join the newcomers, after all, according to what he wants to accomplish, there is no need to bring a few more people, and the current manpower is enough, and it is also flexible. Although Zhou Zhongmou is tall, his movements in the battle are like ghosts, extremely fast, and there is no sense of clumsiness at all. And Natasha, as a demon hunter who eats with agility, naturally does not move slowly, the only one who is slightly slower is only Rezenov himself, but as a savage warrior, he is not dragged down by armor, and he also has a small bonus in agility in class bonuses. For the swamp, the food and water to carry are very important, and Natasha put a lot of clean water and alchemy potions to ignite the fire in the ring this time - these things are surprisingly cheap, but when Zhou Zhongmou knew that these things were failures in the alchemy process, he completely understood after mixing them with water.

You don't need to bring more food - anyway, there are many types of swamp aquatic monsters in the big picture book that are written as edible, and Zhou Zhongmou's large notebook naturally has a series of cooking plans such as toads and frogs that he wrote down from his memories - for this he brought a lot of spices and a special iron pot

Because of the magic tide, the number and quality of wild monsters in the mountains have also increased - at least the number of those demonized animals has increased a lot, if it weren't for Zhou Zhongmou seeing in the records that the so-called magic tide also has the function of greatly increasing the growth rate of plants and the reproduction rate of animals, he would definitely think that the so-called growth of demonized animals is a precursor to population extinction.

There are fewer goblins and kobolds who are blocking the road, and that's because they are attracted by the magic of the secret realm and spontaneously gather into the secret realm. And there are really a lot of demonized animals along the way, from the demonized mouse - by the way, this mouse is demonized and is actually bigger than a domestic hunting dog, which makes Zhou Zhongmou feel that he can use it to make a horror movie. There is also a large demon spider that was already terrifying enough without demonization - Zhou Zhongmou killed several in the town at the beginning, although the size of this thing has become one-third larger after the demonization, but the carapace and the spider silk that spewed out are completely different from before the demonization - at least Natasha's ordinary steel arrow can't penetrate the opponent's carapace at a distance of tens of meters unless it hits the spider's eye, and most of the time it can't even shoot through the spider's web within a dozen meters.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhongmou's magic sword showed enough power, and when he pulled out the big sword, the demonized mouse ran away very simply, and the demonized spider with inferior intelligence did not know to be afraid, but its movements would slow down, and even Natasha and Rezenov would feel very uncomfortable after Zhou Zhongmou drew the sword - the magic power emitted on this magic sword was very ominous. The magic sword slashed those spiders whose carapaces were as heavy as knights' heavy armor was not much more troublesome than cutting the carapace of paper paste, and it was basically cut in two, not to mention the huge strength of Zhou Zhongmou. And since the magic sword was unsheathed, the fluctuations of those demonized animals that Natasha could vaguely sense through her professional skills to track them from a distance also changed direction at the first time and began to move away.