Chapter 33: Tomorrow on the shelves begging for subscriptions! It's ball!
The Mercenary Guild is a two-story building, and its appearance is far less luxurious than the auction house looks, although the auction house is not very good in Lu Xi's eyes.
The door was left open at will, without the scrutiny of an auction house, as if anyone could enter.
Clyde tossed a dozen copper coins to the little boy who led the way, and this time, Clyde didn't let him wait at the door, and the little boy didn't offer it.
The Mercenary Guild is not as safe as an auction house, the auction acts its own image, but it is forbidden for these dirty street children to approach, and it will not do anything to them.
And some of the "mercenary masters" who came out of the mercenary association don't care about any street children, they get drunk and kill people at will.
As soon as I walked into the mercenary association, a burst of piercing noises suddenly rang in my ears, such a loud sound, but I never heard it when I was outside, probably some soundproof elemental circle or elemental magic weapon here, so as not to let out the sound that should not be heard.
Lu Xi frowned and looked around, saying that it was the Mercenary Association, which looked more like the kind of tavern that did not refuse to come, and the smell of wine came from it, and the taste was not good.
In the middle is a round table full of people, all kinds of clothed, unclothed, leather armor, and armored men holding huge wine glasses collide, and their mouths let out earth-shattering laughter or scolding, and some rough female mercenaries sit at the wine table and fight wine, but there are very few of them.
There is a large row of wine cabinet bars against the wall on the left, and there are many people sitting scattered, most of them look like lone rangers, drinking or eating quietly, not like the people in the middle.
On the right, there is only a small counter, like a cash register, and in the counter sits a girl of a small grade, probably only in her early twenties, and she looks very delicate.
On the blank wall next to the counter, there were neatly hung pieces of parchment, far away, and Lu Xi could also see the words "bounty task" on it.
After entering the gate of the Mercenary Association, Clyde walked in front without stopping, a tall and muscular figure, thickly covering Dina and Lu Xi behind him.
Almost as soon as Clyde entered the Mercenary Society, most of the eyes in the room were staring, and the atmosphere froze for a moment, then returned to normal.
Lu Xi was keenly aware of these changes, but he couldn't be sure whether these people determined Clyde's "harmlessness" or Clyde's "threat".
As Clyde walked forward for a distance, Dina and Lu Xi behind him slowly fell into the eyes of others, Dina was okay, her appearance could only be said to be delicate, and many people's eyes were more focused on the elemental mage robe on her body to confirm her danger level.
And it's a little bit bad for Lu Xi, her beauty is too much more than ordinary people, and her skin is extremely fair, so she definitely doesn't look like an ordinary person.
Although the silhouette has been adjusted to the western, the oriental sense of the original appearance still exists, and the black hair and black eyes like a dark night bring her a cold oriental mystery.
Many people's eyes began to move with Lu Xi's figure, and the sound of drinking was much less.
Some people were even about to move, and it wasn't until they saw Clyde in front of Lu Xi that they were a little sober and didn't react to anything they shouldn't have done.
Dina deliberately covered Lu Xi, but unfortunately, she was not as tall as Lu Xi and couldn't cover much.
"The atmosphere here is really annoying." Dina complained loudly, she didn't deliberately lower her voice, but in the noisy mercenary association, Lu Xi almost didn't hear what she said.
Lu Xi didn't answer Dina, just coldly looked back at those eyes from everywhere, and briefly looked at the owner of those sights, without flinching weakly.
It's not that Lu Xi is not afraid, but there are some truths that she understands that the weak will be bullied, so no matter how much fear and anxiety she has in her heart, she must maintain her calm in the face and the illusion that she is very strong.
Sure enough, after looking at each other like this, many people took the initiative to retract their gaze and only used their peripheral vision to observe.
Xiao Yuan approached Lu Xi with some fear, it was just a few months old cub, although its nature made it close to humans, but the kind of dangerous malice in the air, it felt more deeply than Lu Xi.
But even so, instinct allowed it to escape and retreat, but consciousness made it try to stand in front of Lu Xi and make a defensive move.
"Kill you!" The man with a face full of flesh, scars, and a naked upper body made a threat to Xiao Yuan, who was trying to show a protective posture, and his killing intent was undisguised, but his eyes fell on Lu Xi clearly.
Xiao Yuan trembled, and couldn't help but tremble under the killing intent, revealing an extremely frightened expression, which was its instinctive reaction and could not be easily controlled.
As soon as Lu Xi's footsteps stopped, his cold gaze instantly looked over, his eyes were so cold that he couldn't see any temperature, obviously he was just an ordinary person without elemental power, I don't know why, this gaze actually made the man feel some danger.
Clyde also stopped when the man spoke, and looked at it as well, there wasn't much emotion in his eyes, at least the threat to Xiao Yuan wasn't enough to make him angry.
So he just looked at it very plainly, but his own powerful power made his eyes full of threats.
The man and Clyde looked at each other, and after a moment, he looked away and backed down, the breath in the air that was about to stir as the skirmish calmed down.
In the other world, there are only a few very simple levels to divide, such as monsters: normal, low-level, intermediate, and high-level.
Another example is human beings: internship, low, intermediate, advanced.
But it is precisely because there are few grades that the gap between different grades is particularly large, and even the gap between the same grades can be described as vastly different.
A mid-level elemental warrior like Clyde, although he didn't mention it himself, there are very few people of the same rank who can be his opponent, and he is also the most promising to be promoted to a high-level elemental warrior.
The reason why everyone in the Dragon Hunter Mercenary Regiment is so obedient to Clyde is at least one of the reasons why Clyde's powerful power, such as being a mid-level elemental warrior, Helen is definitely not Clyde's opponent, and she can't even make many moves under Clyde.
Although White, an intermediate elemental mage, will have a better result, the bottom line of his ability to fight Clyde is that elemental mages naturally suppress elemental warriors.
This gap is especially obvious at the low level, but after the intermediate level, the gap becomes a lot smaller, and after the advanced level, there is no gap, and even the elemental warrior is stronger than the elemental mage.
Because the entry threshold of the elemental warrior is low, it is difficult to advance, while the entry threshold of the elemental mage is high, and the promotion is easy.
In the mercenary association at this moment, just referring to these people present, Clyde can be said to have no opponents, even if that man is the same as him, he is an intermediate elemental warrior, Clyde is sure to solve the other party within ten moves.
If he wasn't confident enough in his own strength, I'm afraid Clyde wouldn't dare to take the bounty task of stealing the dragon egg.
After the man withdrew his gaze, Clyde looked back at Dina and Lu Xi, just in time to meet Lu Xi's cold gaze that had not yet dissipated, and was slightly stunned.
In his impression, whether it is from a few short encounters in Kuwa Village or his peers in the past few days, Lu Xi is a very "good-tempered" aristocratic lady.
She doesn't mind those occasional faux pas, she doesn't force others to do anything for her, she never bothers others when she can do what she can do, she is very talkative, her smile is very warm, and her attitude towards people is gentle.
Clyde had never seen her look full of danger, and to put it mildly, such Lu Xi was actually more in line with the identity of a "noble lady".
Aristocracy is never a beautiful adjective.
After glancing at each other, Clyde nodded his head and walked back ahead.
Lu Xi eased his emotions, his eyes drooped slightly, touched Xiao Yuan's head soothingly, and followed with Dina.
Dina raised her fist fiercely at the man who scared Xiao Yuan, and cursed a few uncivilized words in her mouth, but fortunately, it was very noisy around, and Lu Xi didn't hear it clearly, otherwise she might have to refresh Dina's image in her heart.
The man glanced at Dina, but Clyde ignored Dina's provocation.
Dina snorted fiercely twice, and stood on Lu Xi's side again, holding her head high, without flinching at all, this is also a survival rule among mercenaries, that is, never show your weakness.
When she first became a mercenary, Dina was also a little girl who was easy to be afraid and afraid, and then those people were even more excessive bullying and teasing, and then Dina saw Hailin's way of dealing with these people, and gradually changed her attitude, and now she can live well in the mercenary association.
What Hailin did was to slam the head of the man who dared to tease her from the middle of the table—action was the most direct and simple language.
"Miss Lucy, you don't pay attention to them, there is the boss here, they can't do anything, don't worry."
Dina didn't forget to comfort Lu Xi, Lu Xi nodded, and looked at the people around who didn't dare to look directly at him anymore.
In fact, she is not very worried, how to say, this is the mercenary association, which is the territory of a large force, although it seems that there are all kinds of people, but they are noisy but not chaotic, which shows that there is some kind of order here, so that they dare not cause trouble easily.
The most important thing is that Lu Xi has money, and this is the place where bounty tasks are posted, and she can post new bounty tasks at any time to find someone to do things for her.
Even the task of stealing the dragon egg can be released, and Lu Xi doesn't feel that it will be too much for him to release some tasks of "mutilating someone".
According to the price of the bounty task that Dina said before, a bounty task like this will only cost a few gold coins at most, and Lu Xi is really quite affordable.
Dina, who didn't know what Lu Xi was thinking, didn't see Lu Xi's cold eyes just now, and still regarded her as a weak noble lady who needed protection, and made all kinds of comforting voices.
Clyde knocked on the counter, and the young girl who was reading a book inside raised her head and smiled not very enthusiastically, "Hello, what service do you need?" ”
Lu Xi and Dina walked into the range of the counter, and immediately found that the sounds around them had become much quieter, and there seemed to be a separate function to isolate sounds, no wonder this girl could read a book.
"Notarization of the bounty mission." Clyde doesn't talk nonsense.
"Okay, how much is the bounty? Where is the publisher? What is the specifics? The young girl took out a crystal plate that Lu Xi was somewhat familiar with and made an operation similar to typing on a keyboard.
"Eight hundred gold coins, the mission is to escort." Clyde turned to look at Lu Xi, who consciously took a step forward.
"I'm the publisher."
The young girl paused, glanced up at Clyde and Lu Xi, and put away the crystal plate, "The bounty is huge, and it needs to be determined by contract, please go upstairs with me." ”
Because the mercenary association has adopted the point model, the role of points is very large, so it is inevitable that some people will cheat on bounty tasks to brush points.
The bounty task of 800 gold coins can already be regarded as the top task in their mercenary association, and the amount of points is also very large, so some kind of judgment must be made before it can be officially issued.
Lu Xi was taken away alone and taken to a room full of traces of various elemental magic circles, and the one who led the process became another elderly man.
The old man's eyelids drooped, and he didn't react to Lu Xi's arrival, and when Lu Xi sat on a chair in the middle according to the young girl's request, the old man spoke, and his voice was hoarse like rusty gears turning.
"Name."
"Lu Xi."
"What's the bounty?"
"One thousand gold coins, later changed to eight hundred gold coins."
"What is the content of the task posted?"
"Hire a dragon hunter mercenary group to escort me to the farm."
"Where is the farm location?"
"I don't know, I only know the approximate range, and I need to look for it."
Lu Xi was very surprised, she was sitting here, hearing the question, she just wanted to answer honestly, and couldn't say a little lie, the role of this room is probably to judge the truth or falsehood.
Of course, if she doesn't want to answer, she can also not speak, the role of these elemental circles is only to tell the truth, and it is not forced to answer, but at the same time, if she refuses to answer, it can mean that there is a problem with the answer.
Fortunately, the old man's questioning was a fixed process, and there was no privacy involved, and it was quickly announced.
The young girl took a piece of parchment from the old man's hand, and then led Lu Xi out of the room and into the common room where Clyde and Dina were.
"The contract judgment has been completed, this reward task can be notarized, this is the contract, please sign it on both sides." The young girl handed the parchment to Clyde.
The process of signing the contract was almost the same as Lu Xi's previous process of signing the contract package at the auction house, and after both parties had signed it, Lu Xi suddenly felt that something vague appeared in his mind.
Upon closer inspection, I found that all the treaties had just been written on parchment, and in addition to the content of the task, there were also restrictions such as "do no harm to the employer", and there was also a sign confirming the completion of the task.
However, this sign is untouchable, and it seems that this sign will only change when Lu Xi thinks that the task is completed "from the heart".
Lu Xi handed the crystal card that had not been in his hand for a long time to the young girl, and the other party took out something similar to a credit card machine, and with a swipe of it, Lu Xi watched the number on it change from 5000 to 4200.
A little distressed, Lu Xi's face remained unchanged, and Dina opened her mouth in surprise, she didn't expect Lu Xi to have so much money after coming out of the auction house.
"The bounty has been received and will be distributed to the account of the Dragon Hunter Mercenary Group after the completion of the mission confirmed by the employer. Do you have any other needs? The smile on the young girl's face was much more real, and with such a large bounty, she could get more of her salary this month.
The task privately determined by Lu Xi and the Dragon Hunter Mercenary Group is all for the Dragon Hunting Mercenary Group, but when it is officially released in the Mercenary Association, it is necessary to pay a lot of fees, and a part of it will be allocated to the Mercenary Association.
After all, things like bounty notarization and the like require a lot of money, and the other point is that you can get points after notarization, and points are what the dragon hunting mercenary group needs at present.
"Notarization of bounty mission failure." Clyde got up, and Lu Xi didn't need to be involved in this matter.
More than ten minutes later, Clyde returned, and all the things they needed to do in the Mercenary Guild were done, and there were still two hours until six o'clock in the evening.