Margaret's commission is not difficult to say, but it is not easy to say. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It's not that difficult in terms of the level of access to the quest and the fact that there are no hard things like hunting a creature or getting something to complete.

But it is also because there is no sure condition for the completion of the task that it has become less simple.

Bring the client Margaret an extraordinary adventure, which lasts for half a month, paying a Padrosi gold coin every day, and all board and lodging.

The conditions are wonderful, but how to accomplish it is a big question. After communicating with Tania, the front lady in charge of the Mercenary Guild, they decided to take the curly-haired and bared forehead lady with them to the countryside near Parnira.

Going to the outskirts to pick up some quests and get a taste of life as a mercenary might have been a great adventure for her.

In the end, it is a noble lady with a certain status, and the direction of Henry's direction must always be reported to the Mercenary Guild. And in fact, before taking on this task, the two have also undergone a certain background check and the test of their own strength.

Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, even if she commissioned it herself, if something happens, the first thing her family will find is still the Mercenary Guild.

After these tedious rules and reports were taken care of, the three of them began to make material preparations.

Judging from the outfit on Margaret, who escaped overnight, she has indeed read a lot of adventure novels: the petite client, who is only 1.55 meters tall, wears a set of pure black slim clothes, small leather pants and short leather boots underneath, and a crossed armed belt around her waist, and a small bayonet sword with a complicated handguard in the style of the East Coast, only 60 cm long.

Coupled with black sheepskin gloves and a heavy black leather bag, if you open an adventure novel that circulates in the circle of high-class aristocratic ladies on the East Coast, I am afraid that it will be exactly like the elegant and intelligent swordsman inside.

But this outfit is not worn by real adventurers, and why?

First of all, it's too hot in this weather.

Margaret had obviously never really used this outfit before, except to try it on and look in the mirror, and it was a cool night when she went out last night, and now in the morning, she was dressed in black and facing the hot sun, and in a short time the curly hair of the eldest lady who showed her forehead was wet.

And the little leather pants she wore were even more so, and when her skin was sweating, a strange layer of lubricant formed between her and the leather pants. Coupled with the slim design, the trouser legs rub up and down as soon as you walk, as if something is pulling your feet with every step, which is very inconvenient and uncomfortable.

The leather is not breathable and the color of the pitch black and heat-absorbing is the same as walking, Henry and Mira are strolling leisurely, while Margaret has been red in less than 15 minutes, and even faintly can see steam coming out of the top of her head.

"Please, please allow the concubine to rest and catch her breath. But she was a person who had been trained in high society, and even in this situation she maintained a decent posture, and even though she had to hold on to the stone walls of the houses on Hotel Street and gasp, she still stood up straight and did not become limp and lazy in the slightest.

But the thing that dampened the eldest lady's "adventurous enthusiasm" is still to come.

As we mentioned earlier, the bustling city of Parniera has beautiful cobblestone pavements on the ground. And the people pass, although not as much as on the main road in the city center, in fact there are more cheap and modest carriages in many places.

What is the result of this?

- Despite the fact that Parnira was already a very prosperous city, even though the Padrosi people were almost 300 years ahead of the West Coast in terms of sanitation, and even though they had set up public toilets with running water everywhere on the basis of this concept.

But you can't ask horses to follow the discipline of humans and control their excretion desires, can you?

On the smooth and sunny streets, there were stalls of brown horse manure and the terrible smell that emanated all the time. For the common class, it was so familiar that it turned a blind eye, and the noble ladies who often traveled in carriages away from the dirty ground were unbearable.

"Woo evil-" There was an unidentified object emitting a foul odor in front of the wall she was leaning on, which made Margaret, who was almost suffering from heat stroke due to the heat, turn her little face from red to white in an instant, but fortunately, our white-haired Luoan girl ran over to help her at the right time, and the sage in front of him shrugged his shoulders and sighed with a hint of helplessness: "Adventure novels are really harmful. ”

Seeing that this "adventure" was about to die early, they had to walk through the shady alleys instead, resting on a bench in a restaurant in front of them and ordering some cold lemonade to refresh their energy.

At this time, the essence of civilization inherited by the Lamanites for thousands of years once again opened Mira's eyes, and once again understood how extensive the sentence "the essence of Lamanite culture lies in the underground dark river" refers to.

The non-stop water supply and drainage systems are separated from each other, and clean mountain spring water flows down from the distant heights. Many restaurants have a square wooden board with an iron ring handle in the dark near the bar, and when opened, there is a cold, artificial dark river that is not exposed to direct sunlight and refreshing.

Huge glass bottles contain all kinds of pre-prepared liquor and juice drinks, corked and tied to the neck of the neck with hemp rope, and then a dozen drinks are lowered into the dark river to cool down, and then brought out when it is time to drink, which can simply give people the highest healing in the hot summer months.

"Whew-ah-" With a slightly sour cold lemonade in her throat, the eldest lady finally breathed a sigh of relief, and she sat on the bench with a clay cup and squinted for a long time, looking exhausted.

At this time, it was less than 12 hours before Margaret escaped from her mansion, let alone the city, and they had not even stepped out of the hotel area, and the client lady with her forehead was already unable to walk steadily.

But apparently her adventurous enthusiasm did not stop there, and after only a few minutes of sitting down to rest, Margaret regained her full of interest after her core temperature had dropped from the cold drink, and stood up before Henry and Mira did, and patted her little face.

"Let's get going!" she said, her words and clothing still giving the impression of being out of place with her surroundings. And our Sage and Miss Luoan looked at each other, then turned their heads and said to the eldest lady in a calm tone, "Before that, can you please change your outfit?"

"Uh, that. Margaret was obviously aware of the inappropriateness of her clothes, but the perception she had formed from reading adventure novels for a long time was not something that could be easily changed in a few or two clicks, and the eldest lady then retorted: "But what the book says is the regular clothing of adventurers?"

"The author's declaration is 'I have experienced it myself,'" she said......, but her voice grew quieter and quieter under the pressure of Henry and Mira's staring gazes, until at last she could barely hear it.

"Well, Margaret. Perhaps because of her age and gender, Mira didn't care about her status, and the details of the Luo'an girl's name made the noble lady stunned for a moment, but then her attention was attracted by the words in the former's mouth.

Mira looked directly into Margaret's eyes, two pairs of eyes of similar colors, one firm and the other blank: "Do you think it is possible that the author of the novel written for the upper class really understands the daily life of the low-level mercenary adventurers?"

"Uh-" The curly-haired lady was stunned for a moment, and the sage on the side added: "Clothes and leather coats with tight long sleeves were worn by the nobles of the court, and they traveled in carriages with awnings, and they usually moved indoors without direct sunlight. Therefore, it pays more attention to its appearance in line with the trend and luxury. without focusing too much on performance. ”

"Even if the writers of adventure novels have a modicum of common sense that colorful costumes full of ornaments are not suitable for field action, their perception remains in the circle in which they grew up, so they describe costumes that are less ornamental and more understated. ”

"It's like the allusion to the Lamanite proverb 'according to the map', they don't really experience all this, but they take it for granted according to their own cognition. ”

"True adventurers and mercenaries wear relatively loose clothing made of breathable fabric. Henry said this, and Margaret immediately began to observe his and Mira's clothes.

"Sackcloth......." she muttered to herself, and our white-haired girl next to her nodded and added, "And your weapon, the swift sword, the bayonet is a magnificent weapon used by the nobles to defend themselves. A single stab is gorgeous and beautiful in a one-on-one duel, but it is not real for a mercenary. ”

"The weapon in the mercenary's hand is the guy who eats, and if it is limited to one type of attack, it will become helpless in other situations. Mira continued, "Anyway, if you really want to experience the adventure, let's go to the clothing and weapons store and change the clothes from this story." ”

She said, and Margaret was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily.

In this way, the trio spent several more hours of preparation, and after changing all their clothes into relatively loose linen adventurer's clothes, and replacing the small bayonet sword with an ornate floral gauntlet at the waist for a more simple short sword, they went on to buy some armor at the weapon shop they had visited once.

Due to the size and size of the armor, it was far more difficult to protect it from corrosion by sea than weapons, and because the craftsmanship and design ideas on the west coast lagged far behind Padrosi, Henry and Mira did not carry their cuirass, but only light armor such as leather gloves and boots.

However, even so, when he arrived in Parnilla, he decided to replace it with the local style along with his armor.

The mature Padrosian bust consisted of a cinched cuirass with flexible layers of armor that defended the thighs, lined not with sultry cotton armor but with a carefully nitrated leather armour. Leather armor can also play a good role in protection when not wearing steel armor on weekdays, although they lack a heavy cushioning lining and perform poorly against blunt weapons and main combat weapons such as swords and axes and spears, but mercenaries and knights do not follow the same path, most of them fight on foot and in the streets, and instead of knights, they focus more on lightness and agility than all-round protection.

The weapons shop on Parnila Street has large, medium, and small sized ready-made armor made according to the general size, but this kind of armor that is not tailored is only sold to the uninitiated, so Henry and Mira have spent a considerable portion of their savings here for more than a week to order armor and a series of matching tools to fit their body.

Just a cuirass with leggings, a week is enough to finish. At the same time that they went to get it today, they also got back a long sword with a total length of about 130 centimeters.

This is Henry's new weapon.

His greatsword has not been unsealed since it reached the East Coast, but the Sage is reluctant to explain why, and Mira will not ask.

Henry's new longsword is carved out of the same mold as the 120-centimeter large one-and-a-half sword that Mila bought a week ago, but because of his height, the weapon in the sage's hand is one size larger, so it needs to be customized along with the armor of the two.

In contrast, Margaret's newly purchased self-defense dagger is just a common mass-produced product, with a total length of 48 centimeters and a blade length of 33 centimeters, which is quite suitable for this client's young lady. Her original trumpet sword was still with her, but a brown linen cloth cover was placed on the hand guard outside, so as not to attract too much unnecessary attention from the ornate weapon that was apparently used by nobles.

Due to her strength and time, Margaret did not wear steel armor, she only bought a short pendulum leather armor with partial chain mail and iron plates as reinforcement. Because it is ready-made, the size is a little larger, and because of this, the curly hair is combed up and tied into a ponytail at the back of the head, the eldest lady who used to be extravagant and seems to be out of place with the surrounding environment is gone, and now she looks like a poor little mercenary in second-hand armor, which is more in line with the low-key needs of the three's mission.

There is a saying that people rely on clothes, and they change into loose and cheap clothes, and Margaret has become much more inconspicuous. But the noble lady herself had no opinion on this, and it was too late for her to be happy that she had finally put on the comfortable "clothes of a true adventurer".

Now that the personal equipment is ready, the next thing that needs to be solved is the problem of travel.

Parnila is so large that it would take them more than half a day to walk from the streets to the outskirts. This is especially true of the vast uninhabited wilderness, so if you don't plan to spend ninety percent of your adventure time on the road, the means of transportation are very necessary.

Because the southern merchant ship they were on was a trumpet, Henry and Mira had to give up the fine Avenella steed that they had been with for many years. Once they arrived in Parniera, they began to look for a horse farm over the course of the week.

As we mentioned earlier, the Padrossi people were very hygienic and so in order to keep the city relatively clean - after all, the large amount of horse manure from carts and horses was enough to affect the city's appearance - and buildings such as horse farms, which produced a lot of smell and filth, were also set up on the outskirts of the city.

So, after changing their equipment and putting the replaced parts back in the inn for storage, and retrieving a series of personal belongings to carry with them, including Henry's sword and Mira's books, they hired a flatbed carriage for half a silver penny, and hurried to the outskirts on wooden planks that were far less comfortable than velvet seats.

After this, under the enthusiastic gaze of Margaret, who was frowning at the stench but still standing still, Henry and Mira bargained for three horses and the corresponding saddle with their remaining savings, as well as a rudimentary flatbed carriage.

Despite the aristocratic origins of Marguerite, it was rare for women to learn to ride horses in the Padrosi Empire. Coupled with the fact that they might have to spend the night in the wilderness, two horses and a wagon, plus all sorts of supplies, spent the whole day in a hurry.

When they were finally ready, the group of three mixed with the various mercenaries and traveling merchants looking for work, and walked slowly towards the outskirts in the direction of the tall east gate of Parnila, in the shadow of the high mountains at the end of the Palohian plateau to the south.

The long-awaited adventure has officially begun.