In this world, their luck will be infinitely reduced. Any adventer in this world is a non-African. If they don't pay attention to some small things, they will lose their lives.
This time, Lin Xiao, who was born in an ordinary family, became a mercenary and joined a mercenary team.
For safety reasons, Lin Xiao stayed in the mercenary group with his teammates before the current breathing method reached the highest level of awakening qualifications.
Fortunately, this time the qualifications are still good, and the speed of practice is much faster than before. With this breathing method strengthened by the energy of good fortune, his strength is now one of the best in the team and he is the backbone of the team.
This time they received a task. A small noble hired several mercenary groups of different sizes to cross a wasteland that spans thousands of kilometers and go to another country on the other side of the wasteland. There are
many large and small alien tribes and fierce beasts living in the wasteland. This half-orc tribe with a population of more than 1,000 is one of the most powerful alien tribes in the wasteland. Almost all of them came out to encircle and kill, and the battle was quite tragic.
A wave of javelins rained down, Lin Xiao pulled the short javelin off the shield with force, crouched and moved to the left, where three green-skinned orcs were fighting with four mercenaries. There was no such
thing as a fair duel in this kind of battle, he quietly moved over from behind, picked up a short javelin stuck in the ground on the way and threw it down fiercely, less than five meters away, which was within the maximum killing range of the javelin, and directly stabbed into the back of an orc's waist.
The orc roared and tilted his body, and the opposite warrior immediately seized the opportunity to chop him down with a knife, and a hideous head flew out.
"Good job!"
The warrior gave Lin Xiao a thumbs-up and praised him, he laughed, and the two of them killed the remaining two orcs together.
The three of them surrounded the second orc and killed him on the spot. When Lin Xiao was about to kill the last one, he suddenly became alert and shouted:
"Find cover!"
He threw himself to the ground and grabbed the stiff body of the orc to block himself. The next second, a series of air-breaking sounds were heard, followed by screams.
When he pushed away the body with several javelins stuck in it, the few people and the orcs were all shot to death by a wave of javelins.
"Damn!"
The battlefield is so cruel. Acquaintances who usually talk and laugh together and drink together may die in a battle.
Without taking time to sigh, he quickly picked up a large wooden shield dropped by a companion and turned to run. While running, he pulled out the javelin on the shield and went around a carriage. After that, he quickly observed the battlefield around him and found that they were already at a disadvantage.
After all, a tribe with more than a thousand orcs, even if only half of them were dispatched, there would be five or six hundred people, while their several mercenary groups plus the nobles' private soldiers only had two or three hundred people, not to mention that the average physical fitness of the orcs was better than theirs.
The human side could only resist for a while with their fighting skills and defensive advantages, but they were still unable to resist until the end.
Just then, Lin Xiao heard a familiar whistle. He turned around and saw that the one blowing the whistle was the captain of the mercenaries. This was a whistle for summoning people. He quickly crouched over and approached.
Soon, more than 20 people gathered near the captain. Seeing that no one else would come around, he said directly:
"The situation is a bit bad. I guess we can't stop it. I'm going to withdraw."
"What's our mission?"
"What mission? Those noble masters withdrew with their confidants early. Now we are resisting them with abandoned pawns."
Lin Xiao looked up and saw that the carriages where the noble masters were were missing.
"Then why fight? Let's withdraw!"
The group quickly reached a consensus and quickly retreated without caring about others.
As soon as they left, other mercenary teams not far away also withdrew one after another. The battle collapsed immediately, leaving only corpses and carriages on the ground. The remaining orcs dragged the corpses and carriages back happily.
The team left the battlefield and gathered behind a large patch of weeds, but after resting, the team fell into a dispute.
The captain wanted to catch up with the noble team to see if he could do something, but a considerable number of members, led by the vice-captain, did not want to take risks and just wanted to go back directly, so the two sides parted ways.
Lin Xiao understood what the captain wanted to do. He was just coveting the nobles' money. If the noble team had insufficient remaining guards, they would turn against each other in a minute and rob the nobles. This kind of thing had not been done before.
The final result was naturally a split. The team was divided into two, one following the captain and the other following the vice-captain.
Lin Xiao followed the vice-captain. He was not interested in robbing a noble team. This kind of thing was too risky and had no benefit for him.
He did not need the nobles' most valuable breathing method, nor did he need gold and silver coins, so why bother risking his life.
Of course, what really made him make up his mind was that the vice-captain was going to take them through the wasteland to the great empire on the other side of the wasteland. It was said that the royal family of that great empire was the descendant of an extraordinary totem master. Not only did the royal family have a totem master consultant, but there was also a totem master tower in the imperial capital. It was said that the secret of how to become a totem master could be obtained from there.
Lin Xiao was quite interested in this, as it was one of the few places on this continent where he could come into contact with totemists.
Yes, thanks to the mercenary channels and the memory summary of countless reincarnation awakenings in the past, he had guessed that the continent he was living on now was just a world where mortals gathered. Although it was huge, it was just a drop in the ocean compared to the whole world. In the depths of the vast ocean there was an extremely large continent, where totemists and totem knights gathered.
Compared to the real continent, his current continent, which was comparable in size to that of Europe, was actually just an inconspicuous island in the vast ocean. Such islands with a large number of mortals living on them were everywhere in this world.
From this, it can be inferred that the area of this world will be unexpectedly large.
Without an escort mission, the mercenaries marched very fast. It took only half a month to cross the dangerous wasteland and arrive at a small town on the edge of the wasteland.
The town belongs to the Osa Empire. Because of the frequent attacks by ferocious beasts and foreign races, the people are tough. There is a military stationed all year round to defend against foreign races in the wasteland and protect caravans.
The mercenary team of only eight people came to the city gate along the gravel path. Such teams are very common here. Their embarrassed appearance shows that they have encountered failure in entering the wasteland. The guards also teased them a few words and collected a few copper coins from each person before letting them into the city without checking them at all. As soon as
the team entered the city, they went directly to the mercenary guild. The mercenary guild of the small town is located in the south of the city and covers a large area. Lin Xiao followed the deputy captain to the door of the mercenary guild. When he was about to enter the door, he was suddenly stunned. There are
many small signs with various strange symbols hanging at the door. These are generally used to convey various secret codes that do not want others to know. If you know the secret code and see the sign, you will know what is going on.
One of the dozen signs caught his attention. After glancing around, he took out the sign. On the back was a line of address written in small characters.
"Mercenary Guild Courtyard No. 7?"
He paused with a flickering look in his eyes. He entered the guild, found the deputy captain, asked for leave, found the staff, and asked for directions before going out.
This so-called Mercenary Guild Courtyard No. 7 is a property affiliated with the Mercenary Guild, which is specially rented to some small and medium-sized mercenary teams stationed locally as a base. He came to Courtyard No. 7 and saw a familiar emblem at the door at a glance, and he knew it was right.
He knocked gently on the door, and soon the door was opened, revealing a young man, who looked at Lin Xiao with a puzzled look.
He didn't say anything, but took out the sign and handed it over, saying:
"Gaia!"
The man's eyes immediately relaxed and smiled:
"Newcomer, come in quickly."
The attitude was quite enthusiastic, which was completely different from before.
As he welcomed him in, the man said,
"It's rare to have a newcomer. You can call me Mor. I've been awakened for eight years."
"Luo Er, I've been awakened for three years!"
"Smart."
Mor said admiringly,
"I just wanted to remind you not to use your real name. Everyone uses a pseudonym here."
As he walked into the courtyard, Mor continued,
"This is just one of our bases, a place for brothers from other places to stay. There are only three of us who often move around here, including me. With you, there are four of us. According to the agreement, any awakened companion who comes here can get a subsidy and provide some information about totemists free of charge."
"You can choose to take it or not. If you take it, you will need to stay at this base for one to three years, at least one year. If there are newcomers, you can leave early."
Lin Xiaoqi asked,
"What does the subsidy and information include?"
Mor replied happily,
"The subsidy is a set of excellent weapons and equipment designated by you, including controlled weapons such as crossbows and arrows, and one thousand gold coins. The information is part of the basic information about totem masters, as well as how to become a totem master apprentice, including several ways to become an apprentice."
"Hmm!"
This is quite tempting, just what he lacks.
Lin Xiao hesitated for a moment and said:
"I agree."
Moore raised his thumb and laughed:
"A wise choice. In the future, you will know that this choice is definitely a great value. In this case, I will take you to understand the situation here in the next few days, and hand it over in a few days."
Moore seemed a little impatient.
In the next few days, he took Lin Xiao around the city and explained to him the situation of the organization here and the assets it owns.
As a public organization founded by predecessors a long time ago, it has developed for hundreds and thousands of years and has already possessed extremely large dark forces in this world, even this small city is no exception.
Not to mention the forces at a higher level, the organization in the city alone owns half a street and dozens of shops. The rent collected every month is a large sum of money. In addition, there is an underground gang and a large mercenary group serving them, not to mention the support at a higher level.
However, the underground gangs and mercenaries were founded by the predecessors, who are long dead now. Now the gangs and mercenaries are just cooperatives with them, and they need to be hired for money.
As the temporary host of this base, you can ask these two forces to serve you at a very favorable price, for example.
(End of this chapter)