The destination is Prospel, the capital of West Valier. The reason for going there is simple, go and sign up for mercenaries.

The headquarters of the mercenary union on the west coast is well deserved to be set up in the capital of the most powerful country, even if it is a shortcut, the journey of the two people will take at least ten days and half a month, but Henry is not in a hurry, they move forward unhurriedly, and every day repeats the full exercise and rest.

The sage wanted Mira to have enough power before she reached Prospel, and he wanted her to register as a mercenary.

If this is known to the average adventurer, it will definitely laugh and be generous.

Mercenaries with the Gem Badge - often referred to simply as a brand - have quite a few privileges, even the lowest green badges, and some privileges that ordinary people don't have.

First and foremost are guild missions.

As a super-large chain guild in large to medium-sized cities in almost all kingdoms, the Mercenary Guild has a long history and a large number of staff.

"From murdering the king to helping with the harvest, as long as you can afford to pay, the Mercenary Guild will award any task. Don't ask the customer, don't ask the reason, one hand to pay, one hand to deliver. This phrase circulated among the people of the West Coast to a considerable extent indicates the nature of the Mercenary Guild, which is a panacea, so that many people with a little money will choose to entrust it to help.

The guild will take half of the commission, and the remaining half will go to the registered mercenary who accepts the mission.

People who are registered with the guild with the brand are usually divided into two types, those who join the three types of war mercenary groups of ABC and the three types of hunting mercenary groups of DEF (1) are called mercenaries, and those who plan to act alone at that time like Henry and Mira are called adventurers.

There are many benefits to joining a mercenary group, and in addition to the benefits and privileges provided by the guild, the mercenary group also has its own rewards within the group. A larger number of people allows them to accept higher-reward quests, and it is relatively safer to have companions to take care of, which is not available to solo adventurers.

Other than that, the difference between the two is just the name.

The line between mercenaries and adventurers is very blurred, and the line between mercenaries with brands and ordinary people without brands is not particularly obvious.

Therefore, when most people call them according to their own preferences, no one will deliberately emphasize their differences.

Despite this, there are still many people who become registered mercenaries every year, and it is these privileges that attract them in the end. One of the key points is the task collection of daily livelihood sources, in addition to the tasks issued by the guild that can only be received by listed mercenaries, the bounty tasks in cities in various countries are usually the listed mercenaries have the priority to receive them.

So, so, for the convenience of the two of them in the future and the consideration of sharpening the white-haired big Lori, Henry made such a decision. However, this brings us back to the question we had above, how can a little girl who is only 11 years old and has never been exposed to combat before reach the point where she can pass the green card test in just over 20 days?

Ordinary people are afraid that they will laugh out of their big teeth when they hear it - you also see the mercenary test as too simple.

But Henry was no ordinary man.

Mira is not an ordinary person either.

Time passed quickly, and after a long distance through the main road, the two entered the more secluded trail after seeing the vast fields of Inznier, which had been harvested, and the windmill a few hundred meters away.

The news of Yavenella's victory over Sivalier began to spread wildly in the past few days, and the people and the top leaders of the two countries were surging in the trade route, but no longer hindered by the Sivalier army, and the merchants whose interests were the highest priority resumed their business almost the next day.

This made Henry, while admiring the ability of the Sivaliers to block the news, but also a little helpless at the slow reaction of the Avenella.

Sivalier was well aware of Yavenella's military deployment and deployment, and they judged correctly that the Golden Maple Leaf Legion could not be assembled in time, which meant that Sivalier had an excellent source of intelligence in Yavenella.

In contrast, the West Waliers mobilized tens of thousands of troops to attack the border, and even if they did block the news and even slaughtered the merchants of Avenella, it was not only the Avenela who walked on this trade route.

It is impossible for the Sivaliers to kill their own merchants, so in order to prevent them from getting close to the nobles, they must have notified the domestic chamber of commerce early, coupled with the movement of tens of thousands of troops, they even spent more than a week on the border before they were accidentally discovered by Vavasika's scouts.

Lacking effective means of communication between the city-states and lacking enough eyeline on the border, the whole country of Avenella looked like a mess compared to Sivalier.

Perhaps after this battle, the merely inexperienced prince would realize these problems and begin to correct them. Thinking so, Henry slowly made their way to the border of Inznir.

They hadn't interacted much with the locals along the way, except for supplies, and the hostility of the Sivaliers towards Avenela was evident right now, and even if neither of them seemed to be Avenella, it was not easy to touch the mold.

The size of Sivalier is quite large.

Unlike Yavenella, which clings to the foot of the Tambul Mountains, except for Avenella, where the Acasta Plain is mostly mountainous, the whole country of Sivalier is located on the plains.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a magnified Ekasta plain, and the Tambul Mountains that can be seen on this side are still towering, but to reach its base, unlike Yavenella, it is necessary to walk through dense primeval forests for quite a long time.

The forests of the province of Inznir are usually patrolled by troops, and in some places there are even walls to protect the inhabitants from monsters and beasts.

But in the sparsely populated areas of its western border, there is almost nothing.

The people of Sivalier call this completely untouched forest Lapru, which means "frightening" in the local language. ”。 And on the afternoon when Henry and the others entered the forest of Lapuru, the black-haired sage and the white-haired Loanda Lori had the honor of seeing the reason for its name.

"Whoa--"

A long, tremolo chirp echoed through the sky, and the sturdy and powerful horses almost fell to their knees as soon as their legs went limp, and Henry quickly rolled over and dismounted, and then pulled the two horses into the woods with great force.

"Whew-whew-"

A loud whistling sound sounded, and Mira curled up in the sage's arms with some trembling, and the moment the roar sounded, she didn't know why she felt that her hands and feet had lost strength, and her whole body became cold.

Shadows swept across the earth.

With a wingspan of more than ten meters, a huge green wyvern clutches a dead calf on its claws, and the bell tied around the cow's neck jingles as it shakes, apparently belonging to the local residents.

"Woo-" Mira got goosebumps like a fried cat, clenched her teeth, she felt that her legs were unconscious, her spine could no longer support her body, and she could only lie in Henry's arms, and the war horse behind her was so frightened that she didn't even dare to run and be uneasy, and if the wyvern found them, she could only come and take them away, and she could only be slaughtered.

"Forest Flying Dragon. Henry pronounced its name, and Mira looked at him: "It's ...... Is it dangerous. She stuttered a little, and the first encounter with a real dragon kept the girl's heart shaking for a long time—though they only saw it from a long distance through a crack in the woods.

The voice calmed down, and the dragon was gone.

"It's not particularly dangerous. Henry shook his head: "This wyvern has no ability to spit, and its claws and teeth are not very powerful. ”

"Huh?" Mira gave him a blank look, "It just grabbed a calf and flew over!"

"Yes. Henry shrugged: "It's just a calf, if it's its distant relative, the rock-dwelling wyvern that lives in the grasslands, then it will be holding an adult cow and horse in its paws." ”

"And it's a claw scratching the end. The sage added, and Mira gave him a blank look again.

......

The encounter with the Wyvern didn't have a big impact on the two of them, at most it just added some knowledge.

In fact, dragons and the like are quite common on the West Coast, and even there are reports of Earth Dragons attacking a village.

At the confluence of the Mobigas Inland Sea and the North Rical Sea, sailors often encounter young water dragons running in from the open sea. Far more ferocious than adults, these sea dragons are responsible for the sinking of at least a hundred ships and the loss of thousands of lives every year.

When dangerous and powerful dragons are infested, it is natural that there will be people who are determined to fight them in order to gain wealth or fame.

At the edge of the Lapruo Forest, a safer area surrounded by trees was chosen as a place to spend the night, and Henry and Mira met such a person when they had just started to cook dinner in an iron pot.

With a height of more than two meters, Henry could only look up at the other side, and the solid muscles wrapped in scale and chain mail made the blue-card mercenary look far stronger than his brand appeared.

He was drawn by the light of the fire and the aroma of food, and the man with a Rodney-esque voice unceremoniously held out his hand to the iron pot as soon as he sat down. Mira naturally showed her displeasure, after all, it was their food, and why should this uninvited guest take a bite.

"Don't do that, little lady. He let out a gruff laugh from his broad chest and said, "Everyone is a traveler, and it is right to help each other." ”

The man who had unilaterally sought help from Henry leaned the great greatsword two palms wide against his side as if demonstratively, and the heavy greatsword had just sunk into the dirt on the surface of the forest, and he glanced at Henry's greatsword, which was also leaning against the trunk of a tree, compared to which the sage's Kramer looked like a bean sprout.

"Hmph. The two-meter-tall man made no secret of the contempt on his face, Mira glared at him with indignation, and Henry waved his hand to signal that he would not be impatient.

The sage's peaceful performance was seen by the other party as a fear of his own strength, and his chest stood taller. After eating two-thirds of the pot so much that Henry had to cook another pot, and seemed pleased with the taste of the food, the man began to introduce himself to the two rookies he despised as laymen.

"I'm Buniel, the man who wants to hunt dragons. The tall Bunier patted his iron greatsword and said, "This sword is powerful! It's 15 kilograms, and it cost me a full Sivalier gold to make, and it's 2,350 denno! ”

Bunier couldn't put down the giant sword in his hand, and then for some reason he picked Henry again: "Little brother, you look like a northerner, let me tell you, I also have half northern blood." I love the culture of the North. ”

"The northerners should use their big, heavy weapons to conquer the huge monsters. He said, and then a mocking smile suddenly appeared on his face: "But little brother, I'm afraid you can't wield a weapon like mine, hahahaha!"

He let out a gruff laugh and leaned over and patted Henry's shoulder with his palm, while the sage sat there and smiled. Bunier was a little puzzled when he saw that the other party was still immobile, but he didn't think about it, but boasted again.

"If you come from this direction, you should see a green dragon. ”

"......" Henry nodded, then scooped a wooden bowl of broth from the iron pot and handed it to Mira, the girl took a sip, it was a little hot, she stopped to blow but at the same time did not forget to look at Bunier with hostile eyes.

"Well, that's the dragon I'm chasing!" said Bunier, as if speaking in a volume that would scare the creatures away from the woods, "I set out from Vasha, and met this good fellow in the forest on the border of Isabel!"

"I almost caught it in the farm ahead during the day, but this good fellow can fly, and as soon as I pulled out my sword, he grabbed the calf and ran!" Bunier sighed, "I haven't eaten enough, otherwise I would have been able to catch it up and kill it with a sword." ”

"Poof—" Henry skimmed his head, and Mira couldn't help but squirt a mouthful of broth onto the ground next to her.

"So, little brother, and the little lady here, do you want to come with me and be my cook!" Bunier said in a rough voice with a smile on his face again, "Anyway, you don't have much combat power, follow me, so that I can be fed, and then my wealth and reputation will also be counted as yours!"

Bunier said this, and Henry smiled.

"Thanks, no. Then decisively refused.

"Hahaha, you really have an eye-uh-that-that's a pity, then you two have to be careful outside, I tell you, not only these beasts and monsters, but many people will also target laymen like you, after all, not everyone is as friendly as me!" said Bunier at last, then took three loaves of bread and a piece of bacon and got up and walked to the other side.

The sound of heavy footsteps like a bear walking slowly faded away, and Mira, who had finally drunk the broth in the bowl, gave Henry a long breath.

"It's a shame you can put up with that wild man. The girl used an Arvenella-esque adjective to describe Bunier as a rude ogre, and Henry simply smiled, "Young man." ”

He said this, and Mira gave him another blank look.

......

After a night of silence, nothing of interest had happened, and on the seventeenth day of exercise and rest, the two crossed the hinterland of Sivalier to the outskirts of Prospel, the royal capital.

......

Note: Classification and grading of mercenary groups: A = War A mercenary group, B = War B mercenary group, C = War C mercenary group. D = Hunting Mercenary Group A, E = Hunting Mercenary Group B, F = Hunting Mercenary Group C.

Within the Mercenary Guild, hunting mercenaries have a relatively lower status than war mercenaries, so they are ranked in the bottom three using the alphabet. But the jury is out on which mercenary group is stronger. The factors that determine the level of a mercenary group are the number and size, of which the lowest level C and F are 5 people can register, and the highest level requires 1,500 members to become one.

Hunting mercenaries mostly use gathering materials and hunting monsters as a means of making a living. War mercenaries, on the other hand, undertake all kinds of escorts, suppress bandits, and even train army recruits and even contract war tasks.

It can be simply and crudely understood that one is against Warcraft and Beasts, while the other is against humans and other civilized races.