Even if they don't know each other, under the leadership of Joshua, the two quickly came to the mercenary guild branch of Corey Conrad and registered to report their identities.

It's a pity that there are no tasks suitable for the two of them here in the guild at the moment, maybe the timing is wrong, but after registering their names, they have roughly described it to the staff of the guild, and if they encounter tasks that meet the requirements, they will also be given priority to get the arrangement.

This is a small privilege that official mercenaries at the blue level have at the beginning, and those who come to the local guild to register and report the tendency of the mission can get priority task scheduling rights, and some more advanced mercenaries can even get a special notification.

On the other hand, if you are a well-known mercenary, after registering your name with the guild, there may also be an employer who sees your name and asks you to perform this task.

Joshua was a mercenary in a way.

Orange mercenaries are rarer than blue and green, and although there are some differences depending on the region, the three tiers can be roughly grouped into a ratio of 1:10:200. They were considered to be the mainstays of the mercenary world, and Joshua himself was famous for his superior sword skills and judgment that were known throughout the Soradin Heights.

Although not well known to Henry and Mira, Joshua's late mentor, Adolf Albion, was a well-known figure in the kingdoms of the Soradin Heights. He didn't know where he came from, but judging by his appearance and name, he was probably a native of Avenella, and it took only a few years for him to make a name for himself and become a famous mercenary. Many novice mercenaries and even noble children wanted to worship him, but Adolf finally chose the son of a hunter family at the foot of the Tambul Mountains who was not even a mercenary.

And this teenager. Both eyes are almost blind, and they can only see a rough figure in the daytime when the light is very bright. At night, you can't see anything.

Many mercenaries and noble children who thought they were better than him expressed incomprehension of Adolf's choice, and even some people directly ridiculed him for "having a sick brain", and Adolf only calmly replied to these public opinions.

"It's better to be blind than to be blind. ”

After that, more than ten years passed, and when the once famous mercenary was almost completely forgotten by the people of the Soladin Heights, the young man who was not favored by everyone back then walked to the middle of the stage.

is young, but he is good at swordsmanship.

Someone bullied him and thought that he could easily deal with him, and all kinds of people who found fault and wanted to elevate their status came forward to provoke. But with an excellent foundation in swordsmanship and extremely fast reflexes. Coupled with his keen hearing, Joshua managed to make a name for himself by defeating one comer after another.

In more than three years, he was promoted from the lowest level of the green card mercenary to the orange card, and won the praise of many people for his humble and unpretentious temperament, and also had a good reputation within the mercenary circle.

There are people who like him, and there are people who hate him, and there are not a few people who want to get close to Joshua with ulterior motives - but the red-haired swordsman has a blonde girl who is always by his side, and she takes care of everything for him, avoiding anyone who wants to bully him blindness and cheat him out of money.

Amonica is Joshua's childhood sweetheart. It is said that it was the child of his neighbor's family, and he grew up with him.

The girl looked to be of pure Avenella descent, with blonde hair and fairly fair skin, and she seemed to be very unsensitive to the sunlight here.

Girls always communicate with each other in ways that men might expect. Perhaps because they are fellow adventurers, women are very rare in this industry, and this has not been long ago. In front of them, Joshua and Henry were chatting about some topics as they walked towards the local hotel, and Mira behind them had already made friends with Amonica.

Amonica, who has a very strong personality, starts talking about Joshua non-stop. And the red-haired mercenary obviously had something in common with Henry, which also made the white-haired Luoan girl nod frequently: "Yes, yes! Such words.

The common thread narrowed the distance, but Henry in front of him looked back at the blonde girl who was about the same height as Mira. There was something thoughtful on his face.

"What's wrong?" Joshua next to him noticed Henry's slowing pace, he turned his head, and the sage shook his head: "It's nothing, let's go." ”

......

Joshua and Amonica weren't natives of Corey Conrad - the point we need to make here is that the Soladin Heights are actually quite large.

The Soradin Heights can be imagined as an isosceles trapezoidal with a low overall height, but it is not actually so smooth - the front and back sides of this shape are flooded with uphill and descending slopes, leading north to the Ridera Basin, and to the south to endless grasslands. To the left and right are the rainforest, the sea and the Tambur Mountains.

Most of the countries in the Soladin region are on the slopes on both sides, the influence of the church is very strong on the side near the north, and the side near the south is much weaker because of the threat of steppe nomads, and can be described as the people are not living well, and the royal power and the major nobles are usually precarious and quite chaotic.

On the back side of the heights was a state of order and strict rule of the Church, and on the south side it was rather chaotic and even more barren, and in the middle was the part of the apex of the Soradin Heights, the small area of the kingdom of Corikonrad, where we are now located, like a point of equilibrium, which neither strictly followed the guidance of the White Church nor did it have that kind of chaos.

That being said, while we've used a small area of rhetoric above, in fact, even these gentle strips at the top of the Soradin Heights. It also has a fairly large land area.

If, according to the Ottolo people, the Tambur Mountains were really a mythical wolf lying flat. Then Avennella is its right front leg, while Soladin Heights can be seen as its right hind leg.

It's just that this "hind leg" is compared to the curled up "front leg". It's more like you've straightened out of your body and gone out. As a result, the Soradin Heights are much deeper than the Kiavenella, and the kingdom of Corikonrad, where we are currently located, is actually only the closest kingdom to the east.

Joshua and Amonica came from another small kingdom at the foot of the Tambur Mountains, from which it was about a month and a half to walk to Corriconrad, but fortunately the kingdom was small, but with the help of the Holy See, it had a lot of conveniences, one of which was the caravan of horses.

In order to make it easier for believers to come to the church for pilgrimage and prayer, the church initially began to build such roads, although they were only compacted earth. But it was enough to make a bumpy wooden carriage go - which gradually evolved into a convoy for merchants to carry goods and a means for travelers who could not afford to buy horses.

-- When he heard Joshua introduce himself about this paragraph, Henry had some doubts.

A good horse, if you don't consider the discount of pulling relations, the price is about 10,000 to 30,000 tors.

Considering the fact that this place is very close to the grassland, the price of ordinary horses is actually not particularly expensive, at least the mercenaries who have reached the orange level should be able to afford to buy them if they do some tasks. Joshua, however, now said that they had come in a carriage, and if he looked up and down, the mercenary was wearing nothing more than leather armor. And it seems that there is still a certain thought.

With Henry's knowledge reserves, he was able to tell that this had something to do with the opponent's sword skills themselves, Joshua fought with his superb speed and reflexes, and he was close to blindness so he could not judge the situation with his naked eyes, and most of the time he could only judge the situation by the subtle sounds and the echoes of the surrounding environment. If you are wearing iron armor, you will definitely be affected.

-- This effect does not only refer to the impediment to movement of hard iron armor, although it is partly due to this. But more, I'm afraid, it's a habitual influence.

Swordsmanship, fighting skills. It is a skill that requires the coordination of the whole body and the use of one's own muscle memory to master everything deeply.

It's like we said before. Perennial armor—in this case, hard armor such as single-finger plate armor—and the combat techniques employed by most of those who fought on frontal battlefields were very different from those of the low-ranking mercenaries who generally wore only chain mail and leather armor.

Extending this example further, it's not hard to understand.

It's like a soldier with a shield in one hand who sees certain opportunities without a shield and often subconsciously wants to use a shield strike. The excellent protection of the hard plate armor allows you to choose to carry it hard when encountering some attacks, and exchange a small amount of bruises for a chance to attack - and if you wear it all year round, you will inevitably develop a corresponding habit, which may not be so dangerous for ordinary people, but for Joshua, it is extremely deadly.

- Because he is blind, if he develops the habit of getting people close to him in battle, he will inevitably lose control of the situation.

And if you want to say that you are wearing iron armor but still trying to dodge all attacks, then the added weight of the iron armor itself has become a useless burden?

Historically, there are not a few swordsmen like Joshua who are known for their speed, but the vast majority of them tend to be easily defeated and killed when they enter the frontal battlefield - extreme things have such limitations, simply taking the speed route like Joshua, after changing into the iron armor of the whole body, it should be used to increase the defense, but because it hinders the action of dodging attacks, it slows down the use of the main weapon to actively block, which in turn leads to the need for more defense.

Nothing in this world, whether it's a battle or a war, can never be fully covered by a single, one-sided explanation, but let's turn our attention back to the moment, and the reason why Joshua didn't have horses and was wearing old equipment was obviously not just due to the influence of his chosen school of swordsmanship.

"My dream is to be able to write a biography on my own. Faced with Henry's question, the red-haired swordsman replied a little embarrassed.

"The book that was stolen before was actually blank. ”

"I'm ...... though Unseen. But I was able to feel a lot of things, listen to them, and remember a lot of people's stories. ”

I came up with the idea of writing down all their stories, and I don't know when, but that's it, even though I couldn't see them, I tried to learn to write and learn to write them. ”

"Just because I remember the words of these people I met, I always feel a little lonely, and the stories of many people deserve to be known to more people, probably because of this thought, so I spent all my money on buying paper, pens and books. Joshua smiled, and then a bitter look appeared on his face.

"But after all, it's not that easy, after all, no one wants to teach a guy who can barely see the outline of a person to read. ”

"Heading east, it was Amonica's idea. The two girls behind him laughed crisply and cheerfully, as if they were exchanging something interesting, and Joshua in front of him unconsciously smiled when he mentioned her name.

She said she wanted to see the sea. ”

"And I want to document the bits and pieces of this journey through many countries. Joshua said this, and the group of horses slowly came to the hotel.

"If you can, I'll teach you. ”

"Although it is not common on the west coast, in the Patrosi Empire in the east, there was actually such a thing as 'Braille'. Henry whispered, Joshua turned his head to look at him, and the sage continued, "The principle is actually very simple, the text is transformed into small dots formed by drops of ink on the paper, and the shape of each byte is sensed by touch, and by simply connecting them, you can write words that ordinary people can read." ”

Joshua froze for a moment, then smiled and nodded.

"Thank you very much. ”

The bustling avenue was filled with vendors and other mercenaries, and the group of four arrived at Joshua and Amonica's temporary inn, which was very distinctive, and although it was not very large, it generally had stables.

The cost of the food and grass for the horses was collected by the horse boy at the stable, so he paid in advance when he deposited it, Henry grabbed the luggage, and then looked at the smiling Emmonica on the other side to help Mila carry her things together, and the group entered the hotel. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's lonely that no one posts book reviews...... I felt like I was writing a book as if no one was reading it.