Chapter Forty-Nine: A Quest Called Cerberus

Because of Uncle Shuhe's warm hospitality, he took a leave of absence, and the Bingzhiye group did not go back to the college dormitory to sleep, but bought dark beer at Aunt Shuhe's house for a carnival, and slept on the floor until the second half of the night.

The next day, Da Fink met Sofina in front of the office building and was stopped by her.

"Is it done?"

"No, they didn't move yesterday. Da Fink saw that Sofina was still angry, and felt a little creepy: "Captain, don't be angry about yesterday's incident." That, it's my mouth that stinks, I can't speak, I want you daoqian, don't be angry with me. ”

"Hmph. Sofina glanced at him and went into the building.

Da Fink shuddered and sighed, "I'm just telling the truth!"

"It's just that your honest words are not at the right time. Hubble nudged him: "Let's go, it's time to get started." ”

In the morning, Bing Zhixiao took an illusion class, a cooking class, a space magic class, and a practical combat class. Since ancient times, there is a saying called broad and profound, this sentence has always been convinced that erudition can be broader, proficient can be more profound, and all great people must be erudite people. So although he majored in ice magic, he also studied other things, even interesting things like drawing and fishing. He knows that no matter what it is, no matter what discipline wants to go further, it has to have a different way of thinking. It's just that I don't know weishenme, and there are very few people in class today.

After class, he was naturally going to go back to the dormitory, and then go to eat, but he was stopped by Luo and Vain, saying that they should not eat first, and go to the mercenary union first. It turned out that the place where they were going to go to the actual combat exam in a few days had been announced, and they had already checked the materials in the library this morning, and they had found out where they were going to the actual combat exam, and they were hurrying to the mercenary union to take the corresponding task, so as not to let others take the lead.

Of course, there is also a branch of the mercenary union in the academy, and MY0037 is the code name of this branch. The mercenary guild clubhouse is not very far from Shijie Bank, the magic union clubhouse, and the academy's trading center, and it is in the same place, and this place is also one of the places where students often come, and they will take on some simple repair tasks and crafting tasks to do. The people who work in these clubs are almost all teachers in the academy.

Ice Childishness, Carol, Lowe, Vane and Joode Cornelia and Irina were already full of people when they arrived, and the mercenary guild was all surrounded by water. These people are here to rush to take on tasks, or to purchase more haode equipment, weapons, and some items that need to be used, in short, every place is full of people.

Cornelia was a little timid when she saw such a terrifying sea of people: "Luo, let's come back later, there are too many people now." ”

"No, it's late enough. Lo and Vane shouted at the same time, "Don't talk about the better mission later, I'm afraid the mission is gone." ”

Irina hurriedly said, "But how can we get in like this?" The doors of the Mercenary Guild are almost crowded. ”

Carol said, "Let's go to the mercenary guild outside the academy. ”

Luo patted his head: "Look at my stupidity, go quickly." ”

A group of people hurriedly walked to the outside of the academy, but even found a few mercenary unions that were crowded with people. Fortunately, the imperial capital is big enough and there are many clubhouses in the mercenary union, so I finally found a clubhouse in an area far away from the academy that is not very crowded.

The clubs are all very large, but there are not many people in this mercenary union who hand over and take over tasks, only a few dozen people. But there are a lot of people working, and they are very busy. Because the tasks of the mercenary union are divided into regional, national and shijie, and the regional type is divided into inter-provincial, inter-city and the tasks listed by the association, these tasks are recorded by the magic on the stone tablets made of the memory stone that is interconnected by the magic power, and it is always refreshed, so there are generally more than five memory tablets in the mercenary club to record various different types of tasks.

Because of the nature of the task, the price charged when publishing the task is not the same. For example, for a single mission of the shijie type, it must be connected with the information of all the memory stones of all the mercenary clubs on shijie, which requires strong magic power to release and receive this information, which requires the use of very high-grade magic crystals, which are generally above level three, of course, such a piece can be used for a long time.

The Memory Stone will emit the special magic of spatial magic with the support of the Space Magic Array, which will be reflected on the Memory Stone supported by the same Spatial Magic Array, and will not be recorded on other Memory Stones. This kind of space magic array is also different, you can add the code words of the array in the array, that is, similar to making some marks, only the space magic array with the same mark will record the corresponding magic energy, so that it will not be confused with shijie type, country type, and regional type, and recorded on the same stone tablet.

Due to this special nature, many urgent military orders can be communicated through this method when marching to war. However, hundreds of years ago, there was no such convenient space magic jishu, and the tasks of the mercenary guild could only be conveyed on ordinary paper. Military orders in times of war are often not communicated on time. And the person who started this epoch-making space magic was the first space wizard in history, Kemiel Sen Darrenpei, and because of this, his name is even greater than some of the great magicians. Someone said that magic has entered the Internet age. )

Everyone looked at the stone slabs on the walls on both sides, flashing information from time to time, these memory slates have a large amount of memory, and the information of tens of thousands of tasks can be easily recorded, and they will be flipped every minute to display the recorded task list in turn. Only the shijie type and the national type of the two stone slabs flickered relatively little, and it didn't take long to turn to the repetitive task.

"A-class, C-class, B-class, E-class ......" Lo and Irina worked hard to find the tasks on the two intercity slabs that were suitable for the places they were going, while Vane and Cornelia were looking at the tasks of the clubhouse, and Carol looked at the inter-provincial tasks and went directly to ask the union members if there were any tasks suitable for them.

The level of the mission is not based on the nature of the region, and the regional type will also have high-level tasks, while the national type may also have relatively low-level tasks. However, generally no one will do this, because the larger the scope of the published task, the higher the fee, and no one will be stupid enough to spend tens of thousands of dollars to publish a B-level task. So the more advanced the task, the more on the national or shijie-type slate. ,

There will also be a special stone tablet in the mercenary union in big cities, that is, all the tasks above the S level are listed and recorded on a separate memory board. Bing Zhixiao looked sideways, and now there are only 46 missions above the S level, of which three are SSS-level missions, this is a special mission for national wars, and there is no limit to the number of people and times. Although there are still 43 of the rest of the S-class and SS-class, no one in the union looks at them.

"Heh, these tasks are not for you to take, children. A middle-aged man with a big axe on his back walked up to Bing Zhixie and said: "These tasks have been strictly evaluated, and those who are considered to be mercenaries and mercenary groups above the S level cannot take them, and they will die if they do......!"

The middle-aged man smiled horribly, but it was the truth. Although the so-called S-level does not refer to personal strength, people without strength cannot save enough for the union to do high-level tasks just by doing low-level tasks, which means that they must continue to do tasks that are more suitable for their mercenary level to obtain higher work.

And the mercenary level is almost a geometric increase the higher it is, and the mercenaries who can reach the B level and the A level must have experienced countless dangers and countless difficult tasks before they obtained the corresponding mercenary level. These people are people with experience, experience, strength, and experience, and it is impossible for them to be a very weak guy.

It may be relatively easy to be promoted from an entry-level F-class mercenary to a D-class mercenary, like Irina who started doing mercenary missions at the age of eight or nine, and it took 5 years to save up to 8,000 points to upgrade to a D-class mercenary. To move from D to C, it takes 94,000 work, and if you just do the easier E-level tasks, there are only a few dozen or nearly 100 work, and it is difficult to get to C-level. And D-level tasks generally have hundreds, or even thousands, only in this way can they be more promoted, but these tasks are difficult, and difficult tasks can only rely on their own strength. Therefore, it is impossible for a person without strength to reach the S rank.

The voice of the middle-aged man with the big axe made Cornelia and Luo, who were focused in front of the stone slab, come over: "Hey, Bing Zhiyi, don't waste time looking at those flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water, let's hurry up and find something suitable for us." ”

Irina also looked at the slate of the top mission and exclaimed, "Ah, you see that this mission was released 130 years ago, and it hasn't been canceled yet?"

Luo also said strangely: "Yes, it's been 130 years, and the person who issued the mission hasn't died yet?"

The middle-level man laughed: "You students don't know anything, it's an occasional thing that such a difficult task drags on for dozens or hundreds of years, the previous generation died, and the next generation died." ”

"Uh...... , the next generation!" Everyone was amazed.

"SS class. Vane read the mission's fall: "Find a fifty-headed Kerberus (1) and bring it back alive." ”

"Five...... Five-five-five-fifty-fifty Kerberus!" Lo was startled.

Even a man as reserved as Cornelia exclaimed, "Fifty Heads of Kerberus, will there be?"

The big axe man smiled and said: "Who knows, the person who issued the task is willing to pay so much money to send this task, of course there will be no money in the union that does not make money." ”

Vane looked stunned when he saw them, and his face was dazed: "What is Kerberus? Sounds like some kind of magical beast?"

Irina said patiently: "What a guy who can't learn and can't be helped." ”

"Kerberus is the legendary three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell!" said the Axe Man.

(Note: (1), Cerberus

The descendant of Eckadena and Typhon, the hellish watchdog of Greek mythology, this dog has three heads (50 in Hesiod's Theogony, reduced to 3 for the convenience of carving), a mouth dripping with poisonous saliva and a dragon tail on its lower body, and the hair on its head and back is full of coiled snakes. One of Hercules' tasks was to bring it back from hell, Hercules wore only a cuirass and a lion's skin, subdued it, and brought it back to the sun, where Cerberus was so frightened that he spit out poisonous saliva when he saw the sun, and the poisonous saliva dripped onto the ground and turned into highly poisonous aconitum grass. In addition to Hercules, Orpheus, the son of the sun god Apollo, also defeated Cerberus, and according to legend, Orpheus was good at playing the harp, and his sound could move plants, animals, and stones, in order to save his wife Oredicor from hell, Orpheus used the harp in his hand to make Cerberus fall asleep. Virgil says that Cerberus has three throats, Ovid says that its cry is a trio, and Butler compares it to the triple crown of bishops (the bishop is the gatekeeper of heaven, and Cerberus is the watchdog of hell). )