Chapter 17: Trist's Mission
The dinner was very sumptuous, and everyone sat together in an orderly manner. Campbell pushed his chair to Johnson's side, and the two talked in a whisper.
"Johnson, why don't you stay here with me. Campbell was happy to have a few more drinks, but at the moment he couldn't help but keep Johnson.
"Campbell, I still have my mission. I'm going to escort that Wren to the Night Elf Lead. Johnson replied.
"What? Night Elves..."Campbell was stunned, although he had been fighting for many years, he was indeed a powerful elf, and knew that the forest elves were a group of human rejection. Know how dangerous Night Elf territory can be.
"yes, Brother Campbell. I'm a mercenary after all, and I'm used to eating and sleeping in the open..."Johnson looked at Moria, only to see that Molia was still absent-minded.
Campbell also followed Johnson's eyes to see Molia.
"Johnson, be nice to that elf girl. In fact, his father was recruited to the empire by me. But when I returned to San Jose and stepped down, I don't know why he was killed again by the new commander, Romon...... So I also have a lot of responsibility for this. I've been feeling guilty all these years, but it's over, and if Molia wants revenge, then I have no regrets. Campbell said gloomily.
"Big brother, I'll let her figure it out, but no matter what, we still have to go to Shannan first and escort Ren over, because it's our duty. Johnson replied.
"Okay, you can do it yourself. I've heard a lot of rumors about you over the years. You didn't disgrace our Carolingian family. Campbell whispered.
"If you go to the elven territory this time, I'm afraid you will have to pass through your homeland, in short, everything is careful. Some things pass when they pass, after all...... Alas!" Campbell said and stopped.
"Don't worry, brother," Johnson replied. He knew it in his heart.
The dinner went well, and at parting, Campbell gave everyone something, and Wren got a quaint paladin sword. It is said that it was once used by a powerful paladin, and no one has used it until it has been left in Tia's treasury.
Considering Moria's situation, the group did not stay overnight at the Doge's Palace. I found a hotel near the Governor's Palace and stayed there.
Early the next morning, Johnson urged everyone to get up and hurry to complete the task.
"Thank you!" Wren whispered to Johnson. Johnson glanced at Wren and patted him on the shoulder. Wren didn't speak, and everyone already knew it.
"Johnson, Wren and Tylan haven't registered mercenaries yet, why don't we take them to register first, so that we can expand the number of members to 8 by the way, so that we can accept C-level team tasks. Kruger and Johnson suggested.
The number of mercenaries does not determine the level of the mercenary group. Some tasks that can be accepted by only one person usually depend on the mercenary's personal abilities. And this kind of task is judged by the amount of the bounty.
But like some team tasks, there must be a corresponding number of people who can accept them. Seeing that Wren and Tyran were puzzled, Kruger also explained in passing.
It turns out that this pan-continental mercenary group is so stipulated, and any mercenary group with team tasks below D-level can take it at will. It's like Johnson's escort mission they received in Lead Cow Town. Rewards are usually under 10 gold.
C-Class requires a team of at least 8 people to be acceptable, for example, escorting a larger caravan is usually a C-Class mission. The reward is generally around 100 gold.
Class B requires a mercenary group of more than 100 people to be accepted, which is generally to escort several caravans, a bit similar to escort missions, which may generally be released in a kingdom with overstretched troops, or a few caravans will issue one such mission spontaneously.
The A-level mission requires more than 500 mercenary groups, and generally speaking, this is already a mission that will only be issued when the country is waging war. For example, in the war between the 66 countries of Shannan and the Jose Empire a hundred years ago, the 66 countries of Shannan issued hundreds of A-level missions and hired almost all the mercenary teams of Shannan at that time to participate in the war.
As for the S-class, there are only a few mercenary groups in the entire continent that can accept it, and the S-class mission has never been issued since this provision was introduced.
Once you have the qualification for team missions, you can receive tasks from the mercenary guilds in each city. This kind of quest is guaranteed, and the employer must submit the commission to the Mercenary Guild before the guild can post the quest. After the mercenary group completes the task, it can only get the corresponding commission after being confirmed by the mercenary guild. Of course, a small part of the mercenary guild's management fees will be deducted.
So the spontaneous tasks like the last time Johnson took on in Lead Cow Town are not guaranteed. You have to get a deposit first. It's like Johnson's task of escorting Wren to the territory of the Night Elves, which is guaranteed by paying half of the deposit in advance.
"Let's go together, then. By the way, we will also see if there is any mission to escort to Shannan. Johnson replied.
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Campbell's castle is on the west peak of Tia City, while Tia's Mercenary Guild is on the east peak of Tia City. It's a few steps away from the church of the Cult of the Illuminati. I'm afraid it's because mercenaries are easily injured, so it's easier to get treatment closer to the Church of Light.
Everyone came to the Mercenary Guild and proposed to register two new mercenaries, and the guild was naturally willing, registering a mercenary was very simple, just fill out some forms. Wren's profession is written as a priest, while Tyran is filled in as a wood mage as before.
It didn't take long for Johnson to complete the formalities. The Mercenary Guild also sent two cards to Wren and Tyran. This is a continent-wide magic crystal card, which records Johnson and Tyran's funds at any time, although it is still empty. But once they complete the mission, they will automatically get the money allocated by Johnson.
"Are there any C-level missions going to Shannan recently?" Johnson waited until the formalities for changing the number of registered mercenaries in the mercenary group were completed, and then hurriedly came to the counter. Although the mercenary group has been short of money to spend recently. But you can't sit back and eat.
"Wait for me to check, Captain Johnson. "The front desk is a lovely girl, but Johnson wants to get the assignment more now.
"Your luck is really good, originally there was no C-level mission, but because yesterday's B-level mission was not accepted by the mercenary group with corresponding qualifications, so after discussing with the employer today, our Tia branch split him into ten C-level missions, and asked the ten mercenary groups to escort the caravan of Trist, the richest man in Tia City, to the Charlemagne Kingdom in Shannan. ”
"Charlemagne's kingdom ......" Johnson repeated, thinking about what Campbell said yesterday, if you pass by your homeland, you should try not to touch the scene.
"Captain Johnson, will you accept this task?" the girl asked again.
"Accept, accept, I'm sorry, I'm a little absent-minded. Johnson hurriedly agreed. I thought to myself, this should come and come!
"The employer is asking for something urgent, and you have to go today. You have to get to your destination in six days. ”
"Okay!" Johnson agreed.
After Johnson completed the formalities for receiving the task, he was about to arrive at the junction location. It turned out to be the Bigge Restaurant at the mouth of the Shannan Pass. It is a famous restaurant, and after the mercenaries return from the mission in Shannan, they will go to this restaurant to eat Tia's special food. It can be said that the fame is very great.
When they arrived at the restaurant, they found that there were already many people waiting here. The waiting mercenaries were overjoyed when they saw another team coming, because the mission was temporary and everyone was afraid that there would not be enough people to cancel it. After all, the reward for this mission is tens of thousands of gold coins. If these ten teams are divided together, each of them can get thousands. That's a lot of money.
Most of the people were resting in their seats, and today all the food and drink in the restaurant were served free of charge, so people who had nothing to do were naturally eating and eating there. There are also several mercenary group leaders vying for the leadership of this mission.
"Isn't this Jack the Blademan and Reading, the Hammer?" someone recognized Jack and Wren as soon as the Stoner Mercenaries entered.
"They're here too?"
"Jack, you're here too?" someone who knew Jack immediately greeted Jack.
"Yes, we're here with Captain Johnson. Jack replied enthusiastically.
"It's Captain Johnson!" someone who knew Johnson hurriedly greeted him warmly.
"Johnson, is it Johnson from the original Tigers?"
"Then we don't have to worry, with Captain Johnson here, we can do our own things with peace of mind. We listen to Dwayne Johnson in everything. ”
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As soon as Johnson arrived, several teams that were still fighting for the leadership of the escort team stopped arguing. Wren couldn't help but think that Johnson had such a great prestige in the mercenary world, but he could still see something from Jack and Redding.