Although mages, mercenaries and rogues all have their own orthodox guilds, adventurers, a common profession covering a wide range, has become the most popular guild to communicate and obtain tasks. Many people even gave up their guild to inquire about intelligence and accept tasks here.
In the evening, there were almost no people in the crowded adventure guild hall during the day. On the contrary, there were some wretched men standing at the door. They are all local ruffians and hooligans. They squat here to find some old, weak, sick and disabled clients and rob the Commission used to pay the task remuneration.
Because Cohen jaradi, the big backer behind these hooligans, is the son of nobility. He is not only familiar with the security team, but also some officials stay away from him. To some extent, his acquiescence makes these hooligans' behavior more and more rampant.
"Master Cohen." a middle-aged man with a scar on his face respectfully saluted the young man in Chinese clothes, but he was wondering what was going on. It was worth the young master who always had eyes above the top to go there himself.
"You've converged recently." Cohen's face is handsome, but his dark eyes destroy the beauty of his facial features and expose the master's ferocious character.
"Do you want to change the mayor?" there have been similar situations in the past, so guessed the rogue leader amod.
"No, it's just that the once-in-a-year adventurer's exam is held in mivila." Cohen is not worried about the life and death of these hooligans.
The adventurer test is only held once every three years. Although it is only an ordinary screening talent, because the three guilds have secretly competed in recent years, the invigilators are all influential characters. If something happens to the rogue Gang attached to him during the exam, Ken will be involved in the family.
"It's too sudden, isn't it to be notified half a year in advance?" amod is not stupid. When Cohen mentioned the adventurer test, he immediately understood the hidden hint.
"I heard it was a temporary decision..." Cohen narrowed his eyes and focused on the figure who had just walked out of the corner of the street. This is his purpose to come to the adventure guild in person today.
Victor wood... This boy is really lucky.
As a noble. Cohen didn't do his job like ordinary dandies. With some magical talents, he chose alchemist as his profession.
Before Victor showed up. The first place of mivila's Alchemy apprenticeship has always belonged to him. The mountain boy in the name of genius made Cohen second in the next five years. This made him very unhappy.
At the thought of Victor's attack, only one tongue was missing. Cohen was annoyed.
I don't know who invited the stupid killer. Didn't kill anyone.
Victor trotted down the deserted street.
It didn't take much time to leave the alchemy. It found the adventure guild in the west of town according to wood's memory.
Glancing at the group of people standing by the guild gate, I noticed their poor gaze. The Lich path, which didn't want to cause trouble for the time being, went directly into the empty guild hall.
"Master Cohen, don't you teach this boy a lesson? Look at his arrogance. He didn't pay attention to you at all." amod knew the owner's likes and dislikes very well. He had to repair victor who left only his back.
In fact, he didn't dare to do it at all. Before, he sent someone to clean up the poor boy without background, but they all came back black and blue. From then on, amod knew that hooligans like them who could only intimidate civilians could not win over those who had obtained the qualification of mage.
"Don't touch him... At least not now." Cohen, who was scolded by his father after his sent thugs failed one after another, felt that wood from a small mountain village was not simple. Just that appearance is not like ordinary people. It may be the illegitimate son of some powerful man.
Anyway, the mage without tongue will not do anything again. He was in a better mood at the thought of this.
After taking a rough look at the layout of the whole hall, Victor walked towards the goods area and finally stood in front of a group of large cabinets filled with all kinds of utensils needed for adventure.
Hearing footsteps, the dozing old man opened his eyes and saw Victor pointing to the stick in the cupboard.
"Fifty silver coins, sir." the bottom of his eyes flashed. The old man opened the cabinet and took out the convenient tool "tongue stick" specially designed for the tongue less.
The stick head with special fluorescein ore and the continuous release spell can make this small stick look insignificant without any ink. Since it can be written on paper or in the air.
Consuming wood's savings without pain, Victor raised his tongue stick and waved it gently, leaving a red shadow in the air.
Is this the tongue stick? Not bad... It's a convenient invention.
The Lich commented on the most important invention in the main material world in recent decades.
"Hello." the young woman in charge of task contact in the reward area smiled politely, and the word "Weina" was embroidered on her white coat.
[I want to take a simple task.]
The tongue stick scratched a series of elegant characters in the air. The female receptionist named Weina was stunned and quickly took out the information circulating among the guilds from the drawer.
"Just a moment, please." after glancing at the task at hand, Weina answered in a soft and calm voice; "A strange disappearance has been found in Davao village recently. Not only the livestock in the village, but also several people in the villagers are missing. For this reason, the vendors take a detour. The village head takes 500 silver coins as a reward and hopes that the guild can find a bounty hunter for them who can resume the exchange of materials with the outside world."
Noticing what the young man was wearing on his chest, she slowed down her tone again.
It was a silver medallion, with forked lightning encircling a circle of crystal relief. The holder is a mage and majored in advanced Qi. Being able to leave apprenticeship and become a genuine Mage at this age is enough to be crowned with the name of genius, even if it is not a dignitary.
"This task was only hung up yesterday. No one has answered it yet. Do you want to choose it?"
Just hung up yesterday?
Victor paused with his fingers holding the tongue stick.
Could it be this
Tasks like Davao village are troublesome and time-consuming. Ordinary mercenaries despise them. Only those who are eager to become famous and make money will take them.
[nothing else?]
"Yes, but they are all high-level tasks. If you don't mind, you can wait a day or two..." the implication is that only officially registered adventurers and bounty hunters can take it.
Just as Vina looked embarrassed, the noise at the door suddenly rose to a new height.
When Vick turned his head, he saw that the hooligans were flirting with a young woman, and the dirty words floated into the hall with their teasing.
Cohen noticed that Victor suddenly turned his eyes around and sneered.
He knows wood too well. He is clearly an illegitimate son who can't see the light. He always likes to show his poor sense of justice. Whenever he meets aristocrats bullying civilians, he should take charge of it whether he is capable or not.
Just right. You can test how much strength this boy has left.
Cohen pointed out to amod the girl who was going to hide in the guild, and the rogue leader immediately understood it.
The little girl is white and clean. Although she wears old clothes and skirts, it does not damage her beauty. Young master, the taste has changed again recently
Amod made a gesture to the little brother next to him. They immediately surrounded and surrounded the girl alone.
"Come on, little beauty." one of the hooligans held out his hand and grabbed his slender arm, which was only half his arm.
The girl knocked off her greasy palm and opened the door of the adventure guild. Her frightened eyes looked around and fixed on victor. He ran to the only man in the hall. His big eyes were full of hope and helplessness.
"Help me..."
The Lich looked down at the girl who asked for help. There was no emotional fluctuation in her green eyes.
"I live in Davao village nearby and came to mivila town to buy medicine for my sick father, but those hooligans..." before I finished, I was interrupted by a burst of hurried footsteps.
"Smelly girl, dare to hit me and see if I won't break your hand!" the hooligans chased in and looked fierce.
Among this group of people, only one person's clothes are different from those of the hooligans around him. At first glance, he knows that his family is rich. Victor found the reason why the puppet corpse felt "familiar" from wood's memory.
Cohen jaradi, a famous family in this town.
The Lich locked his eyes on the first rogue. The swollen back of his hand flashed an imperceptible light in his eyes. Then he raised his tongue stick and wrote quickly and smoothly in the air.
[she doesn't seem to want to go with you.]
"It's said that our genius has just been injured. It's not good to force ourselves too hard." Cohen sounded in a provocative voice, cheered by the ridicule of hooligans.
[it's just a small injury.]
Compared with the silence in the past, such words made Cohen more angry. He suppressed his anger and tried to get back a game in language: "really? I hope you don't force it too hard. Jingyao college has a clear rule not to accept those who have no tongue."
[then you should know that ordinary rules don't apply to genius.]
"You... Don't be too proud." Cohen's green veins burst on his forehead, raised his hand, the ring storing magic made a loud bang, and a fireball about the size of his head rushed to Victor not far away with burning heat.
Seeing this scene, Weina screamed and crawled down and quickly drilled into the stone table made of anti magic material.
Victor calmly stretched out his left hand. His closed index finger and middle finger were like a sharp blade and cut the flame spell that hit his face directly.
The spell was broken, but the wooden chair placed nearby suffered. The fireball cut in half deviated from the track, one left and one right hit the wooden chair, burning violently, filling the whole hall with choking black smoke.
The culprit who caused all this was in a daze at this time.
Cohen knew that wood was a magic genius, and because of his father's warning, he never had a face-to-face fight with wood. But he really didn't expect that the boy was so powerful.
Although he knew he was not an opponent, Cohen didn't want to give up. In the end, he wanted to use the power of the family to recover the victory.
"Do you want to mind your own business, wood?"
[just doing my duty, because I've just accepted the lady's entrustment.] Victor took off the mage badge on his chest and handed it to the receptionist who poked half his head under the table to observe the situation.
Weina was afraid and hesitant. When her eyes touched those green eyes, her hands seemed to be disobedient. He not only took down the secret silver badge, but also quickly dipped in a special magic potion and pressed down heavily on the task list.
In an instant, Victor wood's font floated from the task list of Davao village.
Put the badge back on her chest, the Lich silk ignored it, stared at her Cohen, and left the adventure guild with the girl he saved.
As soon as their figures disappeared from the hall, the minions on one side immediately shouted discontentedly.
"Master Cohen, this boy obviously doesn't pay attention to you."
"How about getting the sheriff's team to teach him a lesson?"
"Yes, let him know the end of offending you, young master."
"Shut up! You bastards, I said I wouldn't make trouble recently. They all ignored my words?" scolded the hooligans who would only flatter and flatter. Cohen stared at the direction Victor left, and his eyes became more and more vicious: "go to the shadow guild and find me two people so that I won't see that smelly boy again."
"Where's the woman?" amod held back his smile.
The young master said not to cause trouble, but secretly sent someone to kill the boy. It's really
"Kill them together. It doesn't matter what the price is. Thinking of the adventurer test to be held in three days, Cohen explained again:" it's best to pretend to be attacked by a monster. I don't want to be scolded by my father. "
Thinking of his father, Rao was domineering, and Cohen couldn't help shivering.
After being found out about sending thugs several times ago, he was not only scolded severely, but also beaten.
Amod watched Cohen leave in a hurry. When his figure disappeared, he immediately turned his eyes. His eyes were as cold as a snake, and Vina was still hiding behind the counter.
"You know what to do." there is no more obvious threat in the simple and clear words.
Vina hurriedly tore the page recording Victor's task from the thick task list and threw it onto the burning wooden chair. The open fire soon lit the rough parchment and turned it into a pile of scorched ashes in amod's ferocious smile.
Notes——
Tongue free person: refers to a person who has been tortured by the tongue or is born disabled and unable to speak.