Volume 8 Chapter 17 The Mercenary Guild Turmoil
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Alfred had already asked the proprietress of the old sailor's tavern about Xia Zuo before he came, and he only knew that Xia Zuo's pseudonym Uta had just recently come from the new big 6, first settled in France, and then planned to travel around the world, given that "Mr. Uta" belonged to idle people, so Alfred dared to find it.
"Mr. Uta, think about it, I think this mission should be very simple for you, and this is an upgrade mission of our mercenary group, and we can't give up, so if Mr. Xia Zuo is willing to help us, we are willing to pay Mr. Xia Zuo a reward of eight hundred gold coins. Alfred said sincerely.
"Well, it's interesting, how many days will this mission take?" Xia Zuo became interested, not because of the money, but because he was bored.
"If we go out now, we will be able to feel Fort William in one day, and if we go well, we will be able to end this mission in three days!" Alfred said, paused and said: "If Mr. Uta wants to participate in this mission, Mr. Uta will join the mercenary union first, and there will be three hundred prestige for completing this mission, and we will complete this mission mainly to advance to the level of the mercenary group, and the personal prestige can be given to Mr. Xia Zuo." ”
"Oh, mercenary union?" Xia Zuo pondered.
The Mercenary Guild, together with the Wizards Guild, the Foundry Guild, the Bounty Hunters Guild, and the four major guilds of the Fighting Alliance, this is a seemingly loose but hierarchical trade union organization, the Mercenary Guild undertakes various tasks, and then gives them to subordinate mercenary groups, or individual mercenaries, while the Wizard Guild is the largest group guild among professionals, mainly selling potions, and the Foundry Guild is selling weapons and equipment.
As for the Bounty Hunters' Guild, they will only issue all kinds of wanted warrants, search warrants, and hunt warrants for humans, which may be from a major power or even a certain country. For example, the wanted notice for Xia Zuo is still hanging on the wall of the Bounty Hunter Guild, and the bounty is lower than that of the British Empire, only 900,000 gold coins, but once you hand in the task in the Bounty Hunter Guild, although you get less money, you will get the corresponding group or individual prestige.
As with the Mercenary Guild, the higher the reputation of the Bounty Hunters Guild's Bounty Hunters, the higher their rank. The more tasks you can undertake, the more mysterious tasks you can take on that are not announced to the public, and more importantly, there are discounts on the purchase of items, and the four major guilds have agreements. As long as you reach enough levels in any guild, you can enjoy the corresponding purchase discount. Whether it's potions, weapons. Or some miscellaneous things, even houses, sea boats, purchases will have discounts.
"Take me to see it, to the Mercenary Guild!" Xia Zuo said as he got up.
The Brest Mercenary Guild is located in the town of Milizak, ten kilometers northwest of the port of Brest, in a very rural place, surrounded by large fields of farmland. But because of the mercenary union, the whole town is prosperous, and even the consumption level is not lower than that of Brest Port.
A carriage hurried into the bustling town and slowly stopped at the door of the mercenary union.
Shazo and Alfred get out of the car. Entered the mercenary guild.
This is an old medieval building similar to a church, with five floors high, all wooden structure, very huge, at this time, the mercenary union hall is crowded with people, the noise is endless, and there are many mercenaries gathered in front of each counter, undertaking and paying tasks.
On the north side of the Mercenary Guild, there is a large electronic screen wall, on which new tasks are constantly updated, as well as the elimination of old tasks that have just been handed over.
This is the second place Xia Zuo has seen this kind of wall, the last place is in the underground arena of England City, it is said that this kind of electronic screen wall can only be manufactured by the Steam Alliance, and has been in the stage of technical secrecy, even if the finished electronic screen wall is sold to the outside, the countries outside the Steam Alliance will not be able to crack the mystery, and can only continue to pay high usage fees to the Steam Alliance.
"Ding!S-class quest 'Vampire's Nightmare' is officially announced, according to Article 27 of the Third Regulations of the Mercenary Union, this mission is open to all mercenaries, according to the news, the vampire Marquis Brian is currently showing traces in France, the mission requires, anyone who can provide Brian's accurate location information, a bounty of 200,000, a reward of 2,000 personal prestige points, 2,000 mercenary group prestige points, if you can kill the vampire Marquis Brian, a bounty of 5 million, a reward of 50,000 prestige points, 50,000 mercenary group prestige points, and two alchemy muskets......" The cold electronic sound suddenly resounded throughout the hall of the mercenary union.
Five million gold coins, fifty thousand prestige points, S-level tasks, the mercenary union has not had such a hot task for a long time, and the mercenaries suddenly rushed to the task check like crazy, but soon, a discordant voice sounded.
"Neurotic, the legend of peak strength, come and come, whoever sets the task, you come out, I promise not to kill you......"
"Oh God, this guy has lived for three or four hundred years, and he once overthrew the Holy See Knights of Judgment by himself, God, this mission should be upgraded to the SS rank......"
"Don't look at it, it's scattered, no one can take this task ......"
"Brian?" Xia Zuo had just entered the mercenary union with Alfred when he heard the sound of the new mission, his expression changed slightly, and he stopped.
"What's the matter, Mr. Uta, that mission is S-class, according to the mercenary union regulations, the tasks for evil creatures are all open-ended missions, although this is said, but the mercenary group that can undertake the S-class mission must be at least S-level, and there are less than a hundred S-class mercenary groups in the entire mercenary union, they are distributed all over the world, this mercenary union may not have ......," Alfred said.
"What is the level of your mercenary group? Xia Zuo turned his head and asked.
"The mercenary group is divided into nine major levels, and the mercenaries are the same, which are sss, ss, s, a, b, c, d, e, F, each major level is divided into upper, middle and lower three classes, our Seahorse Mercenary Group belongs to the D-level medium, after the success of this mission, we will be promoted to D-level superior, according to the regulations of the mercenary union, the D-level mercenary group can undertake C-level tasks, I am already a D-level mercenary, but the mercenary group and the mercenary are upgraded separately, even if it is an S-level lone mercenary, the formation of a mercenary group, at the beginning is also F-level inferior, but with their ability, they can always undertake this kind of open task. As long as you do a big task, you can ignore the upgrade task and directly greatly increase the level of the mercenary group. Alfred briefly explained the level of the mercenary group.
As the two of them spoke, the people in the mission inspection area dispersed a lot, this task was too high and difficult, and no one here could do it.
S-class missions, after they are generally laid out, will be hung on the bulletin board for a long time, and even some tasks will be hung for ten years, and no one has completed them. Some tasks are taken down because the time limit has expired, while others are not.
For example, on the bulletin board at this time, except for the new cloth S-class quest "Vampire's Nightmare". There is another S-class task hanging on it, which is at the top of the task list. It's called "Fury of the Deep". The mission is to take out the Atlantic deep-sea monster "Nine Claws".
Well...... Nine Claws is a hegemon-level sea beast, and the sea beast in the East China Sea of the Yunhan Empire "Dong Xun", the sea beast in the Pacific Ocean "Giant Mountain", the sea beast in the Indian Ocean "Evil Kui" and the sea beast in the Mediterranean Sea "Bloodless", and is known as the world's five major sea beasts, all of which have been evil for hundreds or even thousands of years. The ocean is the home of sea beasts, and even epic fighters can't necessarily fight them in the deep sea...... It can only be said that the person who sets out the task is neurotic.
"Let's go. Let's take a look!" Xia Zuo said when he saw that there were fewer people in the task inspection area, and pointed over there.
"Mr. Uta, what are your strengths?" Alfred looked at Xia Zuo with a strange look in his eyes.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm just looking!" Xia Zuo shrugged, he really just went to see, he didn't have the strength to fight against the pinnacle legend, the main thing was that the name Brian attracted him.
I remember three and a half years ago, on the night when Ray helped Xia Zuo get out of the third prison in England, the vampire Eve originally planned to take Xia Zuo away, but ran into trouble on the way, it was the vampire Marquis Brian, who was looking for her trouble.
At the task inspection office, the waiter was holding a thick stack of identical task lists in his hand, and when he saw Xia Zuo coming over, he handed over one.
The list contains not only a detailed description of Blair, but also his "glorious deeds", the prowess he showed in the most recent battle that attracted attention, and even a photo of him.
In the photograph is a handsome-looking young Caucasian man, that is, a white European, with a somewhat pale face, deep eye sockets, and a very cold gaze.
"This guy, pretty handsome ......" Xia Zuo smiled, threw the task list back, and walked with Alfred to the new mercenary office.
"Hello sir, what can I do for you?" behind the counter, the reception maid smiled sweetly.
"Become a mercenary!"
"What's your name, please?"
"Uta Windsor. ”
"Yes sir, don't move, we're going to take a picture of you!
"Click!"
"Okay sir, here is your application form and photo, please go over there and get the mercenary ring......"
The maid smiled and handed the completed application form and the photo she had just taken to Xia Zuo, and Alfred took Xia Zuo to the counter more than ten meters away, there was a large steam machine behind the counter, which seemed to be suppressing mercenary rings, and every mercenary ring placed here was made on the spot.
Xia Zuo handed the materials to the staff behind the counter, and soon got a black ring with a two-handed sword intersecting a shield, and nothing else, and on the inside of the ring, the symbol of F- was engraved.
"That's it?" asked Xia Zuo, placing the ring on his left index finger and shaking it back at Alfred.
"Well, that's it...... This ring keeps a record of your personal information and is updated here every time you complete a task, and it's a ...... Alchemical products, the product of a combination of technology and magic, are difficult to imitate, and it is almost impossible for us to modify the information in it privately, even if we do, it is useless, because it will be different from the reserve information of the mercenary union. Alfred laughed.
"Yo Yo Yo, isn't this Captain Alfred, why are you coaxing newcomers here again?"
"Shabi, you don't scream in front of Lao Tzu, your promotion mission is done?" Alfred suddenly turned around and shouted angrily.
Xia Zuo also looked back, and saw that it was a red-headed young man looking at Alfred with a mocking gaze, this guy also looked like a mercenary, with a musket and a mercenary ring, but his whole body was covered with metal ornaments, and he even wore smoky makeup, which was a bit of a girl's feeling, which made people unbearable to look at directly.
Behind the red youth, there were four people, three men and one woman, all dressed similarly, as eccentric as the red youth, especially the only woman, whose hair was dyed colorful, wearing more than a dozen studs on her ears, and wearing heavy makeup like a prostitute.
"Of course it's done. The red young man named Shabi put on a natural look, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Not everyone is like a seahorse mercenary group, I heard that your mission failed, tsk, it's a pity, it will take half a year to receive the promotion task...... Hey, I just got an S-class mission, an open-ended mission, do you want to do it? haha......"
"Shut up Lao Tzu, we have temporarily terminated the mission, Mr. Uta has temporarily joined our mercenary group and will help us complete the mission, you don't have to laugh, there are times when you cry!" Alfred said with an ugly face.
"Yo, where did you find the new mercenary? You really have a vision, you deserve to be the leader of the D-level mid-level mercenary group for thirteen years, you really have the ability?" Shabi laughed, and the people behind him laughed too.
"Heh, whatever you want, we'll complete the mission in three days, we'll see!" Alfred didn't seem too lazy to argue with the red-haired guy, and as he spoke, he shook his head slightly at Xia Zuo and was about to leave.
"Hey, don't go, I'm not done yet!" Shabi suddenly turned sideways and reached out to stop the two.
"Shabi, Lao Tzu's patience has a limit, don't think that with an A-class mercenary brother, you can run amok!" Alfred stopped, his face completely gloomy.
"Ha, dissipate your anger, nothing else. Shabi smiled, took a step back, put his hands in his pockets, tilted his head to look at Alfred and said, "Let's make a bet, tsk, we won by luck last time, this time we give you a chance to turn the tables, how about it?"
"Bet on what?" Alfred said dryly.
"Same as last time, 10,000 gold, I bet you won't complete the task in three days, if you finish it, I'll give you 10,000 gold, if you don't finish it, you give me 10,000 gold. Shabi said with a smile.
Alfred hesitated suddenly, he had 10,000 gold, but at that time, he needed to go back and discuss with the members of the group to decide whether to accept the bet, and, in fact, in his heart, Alfred could not guarantee that it could be completed within three days, and the round-trip time alone would take two days, which means that the actual task time was only one day, which was a very dangerous bet.
"If you think you can't finish it, don't talk big about it here in the future, and walk around when you see our Sequoia mercenary group, so as not to be embarrassed here. Shabi spoke again.
"Take it, get the money ready. Xia Zuo, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke, looked at Shabi lightly, pushed Alfred on the shoulder, and walked towards the gate.
The two of them left like this, and Alfred did not refute Xia Zuo's words, indicating that he also agreed.
"This guy...... Look how you're going to die!" Shabi kept watching Shazo and Alfred go out, a strange smile on his face.
"Commander, what if we lose? I just bought the Guardian Compass, and the activity funds are less than 10,000. Shabi said to a man behind him.
"Don't worry, will we lose?" Shabi smiled and shook his head: "Forgot the news from the tavern half an hour ago?Fort William was born because of the last impact, a powerful ghost knight was born, and the task has been refreshed to C-level, but unfortunately this guy doesn't know yet, haha......" (To be continued......)