Section 47: Smoke (5)

Fast by, and three weeks after returning to Prospel, Henry and Mila managed to reach the blue card.

The new mercenary badge will be issued in three days, and even if this is still only the first step in the eyes of the truly talented, it is already a hurdle that many people will not be able to overcome in their lifetime.

The most precious thing about the sage is that his gray-haired Lorian often wonders if he has reached the level of omniscient and omnipotent knowledge.

Specializing in the treatment of incurable diseases can be said to be the impression that the two of them have left on the staff of the Mercenary Guild in the past three weeks.

The bird's nest of the petrel fixed to the cliff face, the alert little fish that will run away at the slightest movement, and all kinds of difficult tasks that low-level mercenaries dare not risk losing their mercenary cards have all been easily completed by them, and the completion rate is 100% so far, and the employer's satisfaction level is also the same.

In just three weeks, Henry and Mira earned 17 Sivalier coins.

Such a sum of money was unimaginable for the previous girls, and all they had to do was to complete some tasks that were not too difficult in her opinion?

Noβ€”Mila didn't just wallow in the satisfaction of getting the job done, but began to think, just as Henry had taught her.

If there were no sages and only herself, would she be able to come up with those effective solutions?

The answer is obviously no, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of illiterate mercenaries with green and blue cards have not attempted to take on these tasks for so long.

She wasn't much different from them, and what she knew was just some superficial things.

Knowledge must be studied more diligently, the girl secretly made this idea in her heart, and then while carrying out mercenary tasks, she carefully studied everything that Henry taught her.

This made the sage feel very relieved.

As we've mentioned before, it's easy to get lost and lazy.

Life has become better and more stable, and there are many people who have lost their fighting spirit. Those who are content with the status quo and do not want to work further will also make a lot of money -- who wouldn't want to live an easier life if they could? Comfort is always easier than hard work.

This is a simple truth, and it suits most people, but if this girl wants to realize that little ideal that she has exposed in her heart but still refuses to speak, she can't be like most other people.

"I believe that everything in life is worth giving it your all, and that moderation and moderation are for cowards. Henry spoke, and Mira, who was writing earnestly in Sivalier, turned her head, her eyes wide open, for the sage had spoken in her native language.

"Who said that? There are many meanings in this sentence expressed in the Luoan language, which seem to naturally attract the girl's attention, and Henry smiles.

"Viktor, Viktor Mikhail Vladimirovich. ”

Half of the Luo'an people love him, and the other half of the Luo'an people hate him, not only turning their backs on the essence of the Luo'an people and choosing to become a poet, but also appropriately expressing the Luo'an people's blood and bravery, contradictory duality in the poem. Henry said this, and Mira stopped and hung her head, as she did not know much about the things that her own people had.

"Teacher......" She didn't look up, but Henry could make out the seriousness in her tone.

"We. "The word girl is expressed in the Loan language to emphasize the group to which she refers to 'we'.

"Didn't you lose a lot of things......

The meaning of the young white-haired Lori's deep tone may only be understood by herself and the sage standing nearby. Henry didn't answer, and Mira continued.

"The more I read these articles, the more I realized that there are so many things in this world that I have never understood. ”

"The history of the country, the culture of the country. ”

"Just two city-states separated by more than a dozen kilometers may use different words for the same thing. And then I saw Avenella and Sivalier, and the two countries were different in one way or another......" She looked up, glanced at Henry, and then drooped again.

"They have their own songs, they have their own stories, and we ......" Mira pronounced the word again in the Lohan language.

"We just repeatedly emphasize the glory of the past, and the tragedy of the destruction of the country by the Ottolos. Even when my parents were still alive, what they told me was how cruel and bloody it was during the Great Patriotic War in the past. ”

"But I don't understand. She shook her head, her long white hair swaying slightly with the movement.

"I don't understand this way of trying to emphasize the hatred of the past, I don't understand why I keep mentioning it, why we keep it, why we leave it to our children and grandchildren. ”

"It can't be, something more beautiful. Mira, who spoke sincerely, stared at Henry earnestly with those big eyes.

"......" sincere and profound question hit the heart, and the sage looked at her quietly, and smiled slightly.

"When you value something very much, you will be like this, and you can't extricate yourself. There was only the same calm in his dull gray-blue eyes, and Henry continued: "The reason why the exiled Luo'an people on the West Coast, including your deceased parents, have repeatedly mentioned this to their descendants is because the former Luo'an Kingdom was so important to them. ”

"Indeed, it is a wrong way of life to dwell on the glory of the past and not be able to move forward, and even the culture of one's own country has been lost, leaving only hatred and resentment. ”

"Imposing them on a new generation of Luoans who have not experienced all this, and leaving hatred rather than a legacy of good culture, will only make the situation of Luoans in society more and more embarrassing. Mira listened intently, and Henry continued.

"But ......"

"It's never too late to start, isn't it. He smiled and looked at Mira, and the girl was stunned, and after a while she nodded earnestly, and began to study harder.

......

Time passed quickly, and the two of them stayed in the hotel on the outskirts of Prospel for a few days while waiting for the mercenary badge to be upgraded.

And when the appointed day came, they got on their horses again and headed for the city.

Today, Henry and Mira are on the same brown war horse that is usually used as a carrying item, and the horse is a humane animal, so the two occasionally switch roles, so that these children-minded animals do not feel that they have been left out and feel depressed.

Mira is still unable to ride a horse on her own, and her equestrian training takes a long time, and for now, she has a full schedule of learning swordsmanship and language.

It was not uncommon for children around the age of 11 to learn to ride horses, and child-sized saddles and pedals were also available in harness shops, and although they were relatively expensive, they were now affordable for two people with a fairly stable income.

The striking of the horseshoe reverberated crisply on the stone slabs, and riding horses was not forbidden in the city of Prospel, but no one from the duke down, including other nobles, was allowed to let horses run.

The laws of the kingdom were very strict in this regard, and anyone who violated the rules was punished with the death of the horse, and the rider was fined at least 1,000 gold coins.

Those who fail to pay the fine will directly become slaves, and from then on they will die of exhaustion in order to have a good meal.

"Shhh The warhorse rattled and handed over a silver coin to the chubby stable keeper, and the two turned and walked across the street towards the Mercenary Guild.

"Are you coming? The female staff member who was still sitting at the counter had become familiar with the two of them, Henry nodded, and Mira smiled slightly: "Good morning, Sister Sandra." ”

"Well, good morning, Mira. Sandra, with her short brown hair, said with a professional smile, then lowered her head and took out two blue mercenary badges from underneath.

"It's yours, please take it. "The mercenary badges that are bigger than the green card and use a slightly better quality blue gem are not much different from before, but the bright color proves that they are now the better part of the lower-level mercenaries.

Henry aside, Mira, who obtained the blue badge at the age of 11, can also be regarded as a talent to some extent, and the mercenary group that wants to win over the two has appeared a lot during this time, but both of them have rejected one by one.

Hanging the badge on her chest again, the blue gem shining in the sunlight that poured in through the door, and some movement next to it caught the attention of the two of them, and Mira looked over.

It's acquaintances.

Alain, who was still wearing a green card, was enthusiastically greeting something to two novice mercenaries about his age, and he didn't notice Henry and Mira here, the first floor of the mercenary guild was quite large, and the enthusiastic one-handed swordsman in the rest area on the right was focused on selling and introducing himself.

"It seems that they have broken up with the other three. Mira whispered that Alain didn't see Benois, Jeanne and Ann around him, and that recruiting collaborators requires the consent of everyone in the team rather than his own decision, so not seeing the team members next to him means that the team is likely to cease to exist.

"Who can blame you? Henry shrugged, and the two turned and walked towards the largest plank with the various tasks written on it.

The smell of ink that had not yet dried filled the air, and Mira, who had become accustomed to the smell, looked up at the plank, which was also standing beside a number of other mercenaries, and in the center of the plank was a unique task written on large parchment.

"Liba...... Mission?" was written on the parchment, Sivalier, the most mature language on the West Coast, and the language the girl was learning now. But she's just getting started, and there's no way to fully understand it.

This is the biggest difference between this quest and other quests, because as we mentioned earlier, the vast majority of mercenaries are illiterate, so almost all of the tasks commissioned by the Mercenary Guild are not really written narratives, but are narrated by various simple abstract symbols commonly used by the people.

This kind of image symbol is also a product left over from the northern pirates.,Simple and clear.,The general mission description is less than two crosses.,How can there be a lot of this post this time.。

The Mercenary Guild naturally took this into account, so there was a staff member next to it who was explaining to the mercenaries.

After a few recounts, Mira understood.

This was the "Freedom Mission" she had heard of before, and it was commissioned by the official Sivalier authorities, so it was written in the official language of the Sivaliers.

There is no limit to the number of people you can take in the free mission, just like the escort mission of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance that Lori and Henry once went to, you have to go there, and then prove your strength, you can get paid.

This can be said to be the most stable income in the Mercenary Guild listing mission, Mira noticed that many of the people standing by and listening were blue mercenaries like them, obviously this is already the norm, so the more experienced ones have been waiting here for a long time.

"Let's go. Henry said to Mira, and after the staff explained the requirements for the entire mission, many people turned around and walked outside. You don't need to register for free missions, as long as you have a mercenary card, you can apply.

"Go to Inznir. The sage smiled and said.