Night Raven Master

Chapter 84 Hunter Village
In the afternoon, Yate and Ashius showed up at the destination—after Yate agreed, Ashius immediately changed his mind and set off immediately.

Because, there were two mercenaries who came with them.

One is called Toke and the other is called Fan Di. The two of them are smiling and standing beside the uncapped carriage.

These two people came here after accepting the mission of the Mercenary Guild.

Confirm whether the demon priest exists, and if so, after solving it, you can return to the mercenary guild to receive two rewards—one is for confirming the authenticity of the demon priest's information, and the other is for solving the incident.

The mercenary guild has a corresponding reward and punishment mechanism. If the information is falsely reported, the mercenary who receives the mission will also get a commission after being confirmed. The amount is probably their travel expenses, no more and no less.

And the mercenaries who bring false information will be punished and paid the money.

If the confirmation is true, then the reporter and the person who confirmed the information will both get a commission, which will be borne by the lord and the mercenary guild. Take the commission.

A relatively complete mechanism constitutes the current system.

In small places, where there is no formal mercenary guild, there is no such mechanism, and only larger territories will appear.

This Toke and Fan Di are acquaintances with Ah Lisi, and Yate also knows these two people.

On the day he first came to Red Rose Town, or Rose City.

The two men followed Art when he lectured the thief who had taken his purse, and later delivered the thief to the sheriff.

Noticing the look in Art's eyes, Tok and Fan Di looked at each other and smiled. This Sir Crawley seems to remember the two of them?

Originally, they only took over the task when they knew that Ahlius was coming to deal with it, but they didn't expect that this "apprentice of the Earl of Mercury" would also come here.

An apprentice of a formal wizard, and Ahlius, a reliable paladin who is talkative but seems safer.

On the way here, Ahlius had told them and invited this person over, but the other party did not talk to them at first, and had been discussing those esoteric issues with His Excellency Ahlius along the way, without talking to the two People have talked with each other, and they think the other party doesn't remember.

Now it seems that this Sir Crawford still knows them.

"Sir Claude, I thought you didn't remember us anymore." Seeing that Ahlius temporarily stopped talking, the two spoke to Art.

"Of course." Art showed a smile, nodded at the two, and then asked, "Are you familiar with this place?"

Along the way, Asius, who looked at the scenery from time to time, looked a little strange, but the two drivers, driving him and Asius in a carriage, did not even stop along the way, so it should be quite familiar with this road.

"Of course." The mercenary named Tok, wearing a short sword and carrying a small round shield, nodded with a smile, "This is a hunter village, because the original village is too far away, so there were hunters here at first. A hunter’s hut was built, and later several lumberjacks and hunters came here, and after a few years after the hut was built, it developed into a small village, which was originally managed by Red Rose Town.”

The mercenary named Fan Di also said: "This neighborhood is close to Rose City, and mercenaries often come and go, so there are basically no monsters, not even many ferocious beasts."

In addition to not being used to the title of Red Rose Collar and Rose City, the two introduced the hunter village relatively fluently.

Is it a safe hunting gathering place for hunters?
And at this moment, two people walked out of the hunter village surrounded by wooden fences.

One looked like a priest in a slightly off-white robe, and the other was dressed similarly to Asius, but it was just a leather armor with a few armor plates hanging on it.

Two priests, it can be seen that they are trainee priests oriented towards priests and paladins.

They walked straight towards Ahlius, paused in front of Ahlius, drew a horizontal line on their chests, and said in unison:

"Master Ahlius."

It seemed that the two were the priests that Ahlius had mentioned and were sent here earlier.

The two greeted each other, and after they knew each other's names under Ahlius' introduction, Ahlius continued to ask for information: "March, Joshua, did you find anything unusual?"

The two looked at each other, and then Joshua, a trainee priest wearing a priest's robe, spoke first, "We came here to investigate, but found nothing unusual. I didn't find any aura similar to that of a demon priest with the detect magic."

Detecting magic can allow the caster to see the aura on the other person, and the size of various auras can roughly judge whether a person is good, evil, chaotic, or lawful. The behavior of the person will affect the aura. Items also affect detection.

Because people like demon priests and demon warlocks are similar to demons, in the aura, the chaotic aura will be more obvious and easy to judge.

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glanced at Art.

The next moment, he saw aura similar to those of the wizard nobles on Yate——

A constantly fluctuating aura that hovers between lawful evil and lawful neutral and neutral good and chaotic good.

A typical wizard, the aura is complex and changeable.

As soon as this thought came to Qiao Xiu's mind, he saw a smile on the corner of the other party's mouth.

Afterwards, an unspeakable sense of fear surfaced in my heart, but it was immediately blocked by a firm will.

But even so, he subconsciously took a step back, and then, the voice that could not be heard with joy or anger rang out: "Patriarch Qiao Xiu, don't use magic spells on others casually, it is easy to cause misunderstanding, isn't it?"

Joshua wiped his cold sweat and nodded.

Whether it is a spellcaster or not, this kind of probing behavior is very impolite, and may even cause conflict.

Ahlius, who was watching from the side, looked at Qiao Xiu and shook his head. Although he knew the nature of the Holy See very well, not everyone understood it.

For example, the Inquisition faction.

And this Joshua was the one who was the closest to the person who was promoted to the Holy See's court in Dullard County before he came.

After a year, this guy still can't change this habit.

He stepped forward and said to the three of Art and Tok: "The detection of the magic has not been found. In addition to not existing, it is also possible that the magic is blocked by some kind of magic item or other means. Let's check it twice. , if there is no result, you can return."

"Okay." Arthur nodded, Toke and Fan Di had no objections, and March, who had been silent all along, also nodded.

Afterwards, everyone entered the hunter village together.

Compared with the villages and towns I have seen before, this hunter village is very small.

There are only thirty households in total.

The materials for building houses are also derived from wood cut from the forest, and materials such as stones are not used as buildings.

Therefore, this hunter's village looks very natural and harmonious.

As soon as the crowd entered the village, an old man who looked to be in his 60s came towards him with three young people.

"I'm Mashad, I've met all the adults." When the old man came to the crowd, he bowed and asked directly, "I don't know what all the adults are doing here?"

They are a hunter's village here. Although mercenaries or adventurers pass by occasionally, because of the route, there are usually not many mercenaries passing by here.

At noon, a young hunter told him that two priests from the Holy See of Holy Light had come, and he had already started to pay attention, "dealing with monsters". For him, such a reason could be said to be a mistake. There are a lot of reasons.

He knew those two mercenary boys, and they had received two commissions from them to help them deliver furs and other goods.

And the young man in the white-gold robe should be a big figure in the church. That one is dressed strangely, but judging from his temperament, he should be a nobleman.
And when I saw these people, I was even more sure that it wasn't because of the so-called monsters, there must be other circumstances.

What happened in the end?

The old man thought secretly in his heart.

Art glanced at Joshua and March, and said, "Someone reported to the mercenary guild that scavengers appeared here and saw blue flames, so I suspect that there may be evil necromancers nearby."

These two priests are not ordinary stupid, they can come up with such ambiguous reasons as "dealing with monsters", and even if they use this kind of reason, they have been wandering around the village, watching the priest named Qiao Xiu use detective on him It can be deduced from the behavior of detecting the magic that this guy must be using the detection of the magic everywhere in the village. How does this look like looking for a monster?

"Scavenger?" The old man was taken aback, obviously not familiar with this kind of monster.

Art unhurriedly explained: "The scavenger is a middle-level monster. It likes the smell of corpses the most, and likes to devour corpses that have been dead for more than ten days. Therefore, when this monster appears, there should be many people nearby." If you find this kind of monster, it means that there may be necromancers nearby."

In the basics of potions given by the Duke of Mercury at the beginning, it also introduced some monsters and materials that can be used on them. Among them, there is a corrosive agent that can quickly digest corpses, and the materials used are scavenging weird stomach acid,

While explaining, he observed the dazed old man: "Are there any corpses of prey that have been stored for a long time in your village?"

"Yes, yes." Mashad replied immediately, "Because the cold winter is coming, we have made a lot of dried meat and stored a lot of ingredients, but we processed it very cleanly, and there is no smell of corpses."

After hearing about the "scavenger", the old man panicked a little. Necromancers are enemies to most extraordinary people, especially to ordinary people.

Art, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes.

(End of this chapter)