The Strongest Mercenary of Naruto

Chapter 458 [Snow Essence Crusade]

After these few days, the remaining aura of the Headless Horseman has completely dissipated, and all kinds of monsters have returned to their original living areas, causing the tasks in the Adventurer's Guild to become more diverse.

However, considering the overall strength of the team members, after excluding those tasks with higher difficulty and lower rewards, there are actually not many tasks that can be selected, but it is enough to make Sato Kazuma struggle to choose.

"Hey, what is this [Snow Essence Crusade]? The name doesn't seem to be a very strong monster, but the reward is quite a lot."

According to the mission notice, every time a snow spirit is defeated, one hundred thousand eris can be paid. Even among the missions that Uchiha Kazuhiko has accepted alone, it can be regarded as a very high-paying mission.

Huihui also saw the content of the mission notice, and explained: "Snow spirits are very weak monsters. It is said that they often appear in the snowy fields with deep snow. They can be easily smashed with a sword, but..."

"Then take this task."

Sato Kazuma, who had been struggling with several tasks for a long time, stretched out his hand and took off the mission notice before Megumin finished talking about the information related to Xue Jing.

"Snow spirit crusade? Although snow spirits are monsters that won't bring any harm to people, it is said that every time a spring is defeated, it will come half a day earlier. If I want to accept that task, I have to prepare."

Akuya was quite satisfied with the reward for this mission, and when Sato Kazuma tore off the notice and left a sentence of 'wait a while', she disappeared.

"Snow spirit..."

Darkness was talking to himself, and then he didn't know what to think of, and suddenly showed an expectant expression on his face.

Not long after, Akuya, who was ready to work, returned to the adventurer's hall, proudly showing off her new attire to everyone.

With a white cotton coat, a snow-white ear hat, and holding an insect net and a few small bottles in his hands, he must be dressed like a child who is going to catch cicadas in winter.

Sato Kazuma looked at Akua puzzled, and said puzzledly: "Please, it's winter and not summer, what's the use of you carrying these things?"

"Who said it's useless, grab Xue Jing like this, and put it in a small bottle!"

Akua glared at Kazuma Sato in dissatisfaction, and made a movement of catching insects with the insect net, and explained: "If you put the bottle containing snow essence and the drink in the box together, you can make a device like a refrigerator , From now on, I can drink cold drinks and drinks at any time! How about it, am I smart?"

Uchiha Kazuhiko looked at Akuya with an expression like looking at a fool, sighed, and complained weakly: "You are smart, you big-headed ghost, in the storage warehouse of the villa's kitchen, there has already been a better [ice ice cream] The magic circle is sealed."

"Huh?! Is it like this?!"

Akua had just moved into the villa, and she didn't know much about the kitchen facilities. After hearing Uchiha Kazuhiko's words, she immediately threw away the bug net and bottle in her hand, pretending that nothing happened.

The crowd had long been accustomed to Akuya's mentally retarded behavior, so they didn't continue to complain about her. Under the leadership of Sato Kazuma, they rushed to the snowfield where the snow spirits haunted.

……

The destination of this trip was a plain far away from the town, but now, it has been turned into a shining pure white snowfield by the falling snowflakes.

In the area of ​​the snow field, palm-sized, fluffy white spheres are floating everywhere. Obviously, they are the target of this trip - snow spirits.

"【Fireball】!"

After confirming their identities from Megumin, Uchiha Kazuhiko cautiously used magic to test, but in the end he directly wiped out a snow spirit.

"It's strange, why is such a weak monster given a bounty of [-] Eris each?"

Generally speaking, the task reward is proportional to the difficulty, but the reward for subjugating a weak monster like the snow spirit is so high, which really makes Uchiha Kazuhiko a little concerned.

"Don't worry about it, let's do it quickly. One hundred thousand Eris will be rewarded for hunting down a snow spirit. As long as you work hard today, you can earn enough living expenses for the whole winter."

Under the order of Sato Kazuma, the crowd rushed into the snow field and began to hunt down these plush toy-like snow spirits.

A creature like Snow Essence, in a normal state, just floats slowly in the air. Once it is attacked, it will suddenly accelerate to avoid the enemy's attack.

"[Burst Fireball]! [Magic Missile]!"

Uchiha Kazuhiko first released a basketball-sized explosive fireball, and then immediately added a magic missile, which hit the explosive fireball that flew to the sides of several snow spirits, immediately detonated the fireball, and wiped out those snow spirits.

"[Latent]!"

Sato Kazuma used the thief's stealth ability, quietly approached a snow spirit, then drew out his novice sword, and killed the defenseless snow spirit with one sword.

"I'm going too!"

Darkness also pulled out his own sword, and waved it at the snow elves excitedly, but of course, there was no need to elaborate on the result.

Aqua didn't have offensive magic to deal with ordinary monsters, and Megumin didn't have any magic other than [Explosion Magic], so the two could only wield their artifacts and magic wands, using them as sticks to beat the snow spirit.

The two were originally non-warrior occupations, and their melee abilities were terrible, so that even after Uchiha Kazuhiko had cleaned up the snow spirits in a small area, they still didn't kill any snow spirits.

"Hoohoo. Damn, they fly so fast!"

Hui Hui, who had the weakest physique, was so tired that she was out of breath, so she smashed a snow spirit that had been chasing for a long time with a magic wand, and said with slightly confused breathing. : "Can I use blasting magic to blow up the surrounding area?"

Uchiha Kazuhiko nodded, and replied with a smile: "Yes, anyway, the mission this time is to crusade against the snow spirits. There is no need to bring back the bodies of the snow spirits. You only need to kill them to complete the task."

"Okay, then I'll kill them all now! Explosion! — [Explosion Magic]!"

After hearing this, Huihui happily chanted the spell, chose an area with the most dense snow spirits, and released a magic that could only be used once a day.

Accompanied by the sound of violent explosions, a huge pillar of fire rose into the sky, dispelling the surrounding cold, and also dispelling the snow spirits within the range.

"Eight! I can kill eight at once, and even my level has increased by one level."

After using the Explosion Magic, Hui Hui collapsed on the ground with a satisfied face. At the same time, she struggled to take out her mercenary card and proudly showed it to everyone.

"Oh, that's really congratulations."

Uchiha Kazuhiko congratulated Huihui, and was about to go to help her up, when the originally soothing wind and snow suddenly became hasty, and a terrifying figure appeared in front of everyone under the cover of the wind and snow.

(End of this chapter)