The villain boss took the cannon fodder script

At the beginning of the empire's unification, the continent was in chaos, with war and death everywhere, and countless refugees wandering around.

As a prestigious family among several major families, Caesar united with other major families to organize the first generation of the 'Church of Light'.

Later, Caesar I proclaimed himself emperor, and several major families were granted marquisships one after another, becoming nobles and serving the imperial royal family.

On the contrary, the Bounty Hunter Guild is an independent hunter organization.

They are mostly a group of free hunters who have no family behind them, are not afraid of death, and are powerful.

The nobles used generous bounties as rewards to let them do things for themselves.

Later, those bounty hunters formed guilds to make it easier to accept bounty missions.

To this day, hunter guilds are spread throughout the empire, are highly organized and disciplined, and are recognized by the royal family.

To join a guild, you need to pass an assessment to obtain a 'coat of arms'. There are five levels: bronze, silver, platinum, black gold and gold.

Among them, the highest-level 'Golden Seal' is owned by only a few people in the entire empire.

You cannot become a guild member without a coat of arms. Although you can accept bounty missions without being a guild member, the guild does not recognize or protect the rights of those people.

If you don't become a guild member, and after completing the task, you don't get the bounty promised by the task publisher, you will have to consider yourself unlucky...

Walker has an assessment today.

As long as you complete a designated D-level guild task and pay the corresponding entrance fee, you can obtain the lowest level bronze emblem and become an official bounty hunter.

After having the most satisfying breakfast since he came to this world, Walker prepared to go to the guild to take on the mission.

Shen Ning had nothing to do and went with him.

The main meeting of the Hunter Guild is in the center of the royal city, but there are branches of the guild in almost every small town.

Today is the day when the guild distributes heraldic tasks, but because Shen Ning and the others came late, there were not many people in the room, so it was their turn soon.

After registering Walker's identity information, Miss Natasha, who was in charge of the heraldry task, saw that Shen Ning next to him did not seem to be wearing the guild's coat of arms on her chest, so she asked casually: "Does this gentleman need it too?"

Walker also realized that the master didn't seem to be a member of the guild yet, but the master was so powerful, even if he skipped the level to complete the task, it would be easy to get the black gold emblem directly.

But Shen Ning shook his head and said that he didn't need it.

After filling out the information, Natasha gave Walker a task sheet.

On the front is the task he wants to complete:

Kill a corpse snake and bring back its core bone.

The grade is only D.

On the reverse side were a few lines, which read [Guild Regulations]. Walker read it carefully from beginning to end:

1. Guild members enjoy the protection of the guild.

2. Members of the guild are prohibited from fighting privately, otherwise the coat of arms will be revoked.

3. Guild members must obey the orders of the guild unconditionally, otherwise their coat of arms will be withdrawn.

……

Because even if he completes the task by then, he still needs to pay twenty silver coins as the membership fee.

For Walker, who now only has five silver coins left and still owes his master two gold coins, making money is also very important.

So he found another task in the bounty task column that seemed relatively simple and could be completed along the way - a perfume plant.

There is a picture of that grass on the task paper, and the most important thing is that its bounty is a full fifteen gold coins!

When Shen Ning told Walker, who was packing his equipment, that he wanted to go with him, Walker was a little flattered. He suddenly squatted down and looked around at his injured left leg.

Walker said seriously: "But Master, you still have injuries on your legs. I think you need to rest."

When he was ready to make money, he would hire the best doctor to look at his master's legs, so as not to suffer any side effects.

leg? He had already fully recovered using healing magic, but Shen Ning had never cared about this minor injury.

"It doesn't matter, this is for you." There was a book and a small porcelain bottle in his hand.

There is some light green liquid in the small transparent porcelain bottle.

"Healing potion." Shen Ning explained.

Think of it as a apprenticeship ceremony.

As for this book, that notebook was also given to him.

"Master, I have the book, but this potion is too expensive, I can't take it."

Walker heard from Brother Fred that this potion was made by a healing magician who condensed magic elements into a high-grade potion and smelted it. A small drop was worth thousands of gold.

He knew that Master was rich, but he didn't know that he could really just give away a whole bottle! He was afraid of dropping it while holding it.

Shen Ning: "..."

This was all given to him by Reina in the palace before he left.

How was he going to explain that he still had a warehouse of small green bottles at his 'home'.

In the end, Shen Ning didn't force him to accept it.

Walker later learned that the [Prince's Notes] he accepted was unique and hard to find.

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This was Shen Ning's second time stepping into the Artemis Forest.

Different from Shen Ning's casual and leisurely mood, as if he were looking at the scenery, Walker, who was walking in front, was always vigilant.

Because it was a solo mission, he didn't want to rely on his master's help, and this time, he just wanted to show his true strength to his master.

Corpse-eating snakes can be found on the outskirts of the forest, and they do not need to go deep into the forest.

Although the corpse-eating snake itself is poisonous, it is not a fatal toxin. He only needs to use the most common antidote, which he carries with him just in case.

……

If Shen Ning had not indirectly burned down the human-faced wolf spider's nest last time, Walker and Fred's team would not have failed the mission, let alone be attacked by the mother of wolf spiders. This was also the last time he helped them escape. A little justification for the dilemma.

As Shen Ning walked, she thought that in the story of this world, the male protagonist Walker should have been the first money he got from Fred, which was enough to pay for the membership fee.

However, after meeting him, Walker is still in a state where he can't afford to eat.

When I bought bread for him in the morning, I was really worried that the hero would starve to death before the story even started.

Because his appearance was likely to change the initial trajectory of the story, Shen Ning took the initiative to follow him even though he knew that Walker, as the male protagonist, would successfully kill the corpse snake and obtain the coat of arms.

And there are still two days before the imperial meeting in the palace, so he is not in a hurry for the time being.

"The snake is there!" Walker suddenly stopped.

He lowered his voice and said to Shen Ning behind him: "Master, I will try to kill it."

He signaled to Master that he didn't need to help him.

"Yeah." Shen Ning nodded.

Walker's heart was in his throat. In the original world, he had never killed a chicken...

Corpse-eating snakes are very common in the outskirts of forests, and can be found wherever there are carrion corpses of other animals.

At this time, in front of Walker, a dark corpse-eating snake was quietly coiled on the corpse of a Flame Dog beast that seemed to have been hunted by other beasts, disembowelled and severely decomposed.