I, a mercenary, became a beautiful silver-haired boy

The small road 20 to 30 kilometers outside the city, which was originally a road that merchants occasionally passed by, was now filled with blood and corpses.

Elena stood in the middle of the road with his head down and in silence. There were a lot of goblin corpses lying around him. The blood dyed the weeds and flowers on the roadside red. Even his silver-white hair exuded a black and red luster under the sun.

Since the debt of 100 gold coins fell on the orphanage, Elena has been trying to raise money for half a month.

In this half month, he has completed so many commissions and killed so many monsters that even he himself can't remember them.

The dagger in his hand has shown signs of curling, and the string of the crossbow has broken. He hasn't maintained the equipment for too long.

In addition to going back to complete the commissions piled up in his hands and taking the full monster materials to pay back the money, Elena has returned to the city only a few times in the past half month.

When he was tired, he would sleep outdoors. If he was attacked by a monster, he would defeat it. After more than half a month of hard work, the guild had already begun to consider upgrading his adventurer level.

He counted the bodies of the goblins on the ground. There were more than 30 bodies, not more or less. The task of defeating the goblin tribe was completed.

He would probably get more than 30 silver coins when he returned. After selling the accumulated materials on hand, he would probably get about 3 gold coins.

Standing in the pool of blood, Elena counted on his fingers. With this mission commission and the little savings he had left before, he would probably have about 20 to 30 gold coins.

This was not a small amount. If any civilian saw Elena with so much money in his hand, he would probably be so surprised that he could not speak.

"Not enough, it's too late!"

Elena gritted his teeth and kicked the head of the goblin at his feet. The money was getting more and more, but he still couldn't raise enough 100 gold coins before the end of the month.

Even if he were to complete the mission at the same or even faster speed, he would only be able to prepare about 60 gold coins by the end of the month.

There was still a full 40 gold coins short of the goal of 100 gold coins. Even if Elena was given another month to complete it, it would be quite a stretch.

Go to the blacksmith to borrow money?

Elena shook her head. Regardless of whether the other party would give it or not, the blacksmith's family might not have so much money.

Although Elena's master was a famous blacksmith, if you really want to talk about how much savings he had, it's probably not too much.

After all, he had a daughter. Maintaining the blacksmith shop and forging various weapons also required various ores. The blacksmith himself was also practicing, and from time to time he would absorb some magic cores to improve the quality of his body and fighting spirit.

To create more advanced and higher-level weapons, it was not enough to just know how to forge iron. It also required some special combat skills or magic to assist.

Melissa was still young, and she was still growing and practicing. Elena even saw her sitting in front of the furnace swallowing magic cores more than once.

After all, she is a girl, and she still needs various resources to make herself stronger. It is good to have some self-protection ability in this dangerous world.

Even if the blacksmith's family really has more than 40 gold, it is probably all the money they have on hand. Elena doesn't think that the other party will lend him these funds that may affect the quality of daily life.

He is not as close to the blacksmith's father and daughter as he imagined, and the so-called master-disciple friendship is not as deep as he thought.

"In the end, it depends on yourself."

Elena clenched his fist and subconsciously looked at the forest in the distance. He seemed to be thinking about something.

Then he shook his head, turned around and cut off the goblin's ear on the ground, and finally piled the corpses together and set a fire to burn them.

Such a strong smell of blood will not come with ordinary monsters. Those who come are those bloodthirsty ghouls, and some undead will also be born with the breath of death.

If the bodies were not dealt with, this place might become the source of the plague. Even though he was in a hurry to raise money, Elena did not forget the details of dealing with these bodies.

Holding a bag full of goblin ears, Elena returned to the city after a long absence.

He went straight to the Adventurer's Guild and exchanged all the materials on him for money and deposited them. The guild had a deposit service, and with the reputation of the guild, there would be no problem of embezzling adventurers' property. There would be no problem with depositing money here.

Half a month of hard work made Elena very tired. He wanted to go back to the church to have a good sleep. He hadn't been home for half a month.

It's obvious that Weiwei must be worried about him now, but because of the previous agreement, she hadn't come out to find Elena, and Elena didn't want to go back..

He had no money to rest.

He couldn't help but glance at the investigation task on the commission column, and unconsciously his eyes began to emit golden light again, which was beautiful and fascinating.

But soon he closed his eyes and shifted his sight. He still didn't want to take this risk. He would try hard for another week to see how it went.

From now on, challenge the high-difficulty and high-reward tasks first to see how much money he could make after a series of tasks.

He tore off various tasks from the commission column, came to the poster girl again, and set off directly after completing the formalities.

Along the way, Elena's attention was not focused, and even the most basic vigilance was lost. He walked forward numbly and looked like a body without a soul.

But when Elena came to his senses, he was already standing on the outskirts of the forest.

At this moment, the sky had slowly darkened, and it was already afternoon. Looking at the interior of the forest, the monstrous demonic energy gave people a very bad feeling.

"What's going on?"

Elena came back to his senses and frowned. He took out the map in his hand and suspected that he was lost.

The mission location marked by the guild was not here. He had taken a completely opposite path to the real mission target.

Elena did all this unconsciously. He just wanted to complete the commission quickly, but he didn't expect that he would make such a low-level mistake. He was in a hurry and took a completely opposite path.

Come here... child... I'm here...

"Who?!"

Suddenly, Elena looked around with a vigilant face. He covered his ears with one hand and held a dagger with the other hand, and his eyes widened.

At that moment, it seemed that a voice sounded from his ears, calling him with obscure words different from human language.

Elena had never heard such a language before, but he could miraculously understand what the other party was saying, but it was intermittent and difficult to distinguish what the other party meant.

Forest... I'm here... Come here...

The voice sounded again, and at this time Elena finally realized that the voice was not ringing in his ears but directly in his mind.