Mercenaries and Adventurers

The steward of that village was also recommended by someone, and came to the Table Corner Tavern, left a commission with Todd, and only waited for the Kiel warrior who didn't know when he would return to the city.

Zhao Ji took a sip of ale and asked Todd about the amount of the entrustment: "Then how is the entrustment amount for this strange thing calculated?"

Todd whispered to Keir: "If you understand what's going on, the other party will take a sum of cash from the village's funds and provide it directly to the person who understands it. If this strange thing is solved directly, then the village will give a piece of money to the village." The public land in the village and a piece of land in the village are for people to build houses."

"How much is this worth? How can a piece of land in a village be as cute as a jingling coin?" Zhao Ji disagreed.

Todd knocked on the tabletop of the bar counter: "Hey, that's not how you look at it. If you have a piece of land, you can rent it out to other villagers for farming. If you don't want the land in the village, you can sell it to others. The main thing is how much cash does each village have, if you say that the things produced by the various villages are abundant, but the cash is actually very little.”

Zhao Ji snorted and said, "Because all caravans don't use cash when they come to the village to trade goods, right? If you just exchange goods for goods, the village naturally doesn't have much money to get out. The coins are all in the village. It circulates in the city, and the village can only be fooled by the caravan again and again."

Todd shrugged: "It's none of our business. Anyway, the reward given by the steward is quite good. If you have an idea, try to take care of this incident. But this incident is quite big. The former When the steward came a few days ago, I heard that a speech was given in the government affairs office, and several hunters in the city had already set off to investigate the matter."

"Didn't the government office send someone there? Where are the guards in the city?" Zhao Ji asked. What's the use of a few hunters? Through his previous adventures in Doral Forest Village, he already knew that behind many seemingly inconspicuous events There are some deeper reasons. Hunters who can only hunt wild animals probably can't settle this kind of thing.

After all, according to Todd's introduction, those missing people disappeared without any reason in the heavily guarded wild camp, and they disappeared without trace. Zhao Ji felt that the reason behind it was not simple. It was probably not an ordinary event, and there should be supernatural factors in it.

Hunters who have no means of confrontation go to provoke alone or in groups, and the end is probably not very good.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji suddenly remembered something: "You just mentioned the rewards given by the village. Are there any rewards for those caravans and chambers of commerce that have lost their buddies?"

Todd scratched his head: "They are all missing, no one thinks they will live in the wilderness for so long, right?"

Zhao Ji thinks so too, missing in the wild where there are more beasts than people is basically confirmed to be dead, other people are not him, and he does not have the same strength in the wild as at home.

Poisonous fruit and water, ferocious beasts, savage strong animals, hunger, thirst, cold nights. Any of these things can be fatal, and he is also prepared to fight against the infestation of these things.

After eating something, Zhao Ji looked at the third entrustment.

This commission is a commission located in the city. A family in a slum area lost their girl. They searched all over the city, but there was no trace. The famous young warrior Kiel found their daughter.

The missing persons in the city, Zhao Ji frowned at this entrustment.

Female, unmarried, missing alone.

There are too many possible directions for these, and none of them are good results.

Zhao Ji looked at Todd, and Todd knew what Kiel was going to ask, so he told Kiel the news he had asked from the host of the missing family.

"The girl's name is Sona, and their family's name is the Doshir family. Although the whole family is not rich, they have a large population, at least hundreds of people. They disappeared ten days ago. Their family asked all the places they could find in the city. I've searched for it. In Kendall City, there are very few cases of missing people in the city. Really, don't believe it."

Zhao Ji really didn't believe it. In this backward world, there are no people outside the city. It's normal for people to disappear. And there are all kinds of forces in the city, nobles, knights, government offices, various chambers of commerce, various churches, various gangs, hidden churches, and so on.

It is too easy to tie a girl who has never been married. Any big man or powerful person can do it.

Seeing Keir's obvious disbelief, Todd explained: "Really, this disappearance is the only disappearance in the past two years. Of course, it is in Kendall City, and the ones outside the city are not counted. Our Kendall City is only one city. Every vehicle going out of the city and entering the city has to be inspected, and there is no one who kidnaps someone to leave the city. Moreover, the family of the missing person is not rich, as long as they can afford the gift money, there is nothing wrong with marrying someone, and there is no need for someone to kidnap someone."

Zhao Ji thought so too, if he couldn't get out of the city, then the missing person must be in the city. But what do you want to do if you kidnap someone in the city? The missing family is not rich, and the family has a large population. If you annoy the other party, you may not be able to beat them. It's okay to marry someone's daughter if you like, at least as far as Zhao Ji knows, most of the locals are migrated from the empire.

If it is a powerful person, they probably would like to marry their own daughter, and the gift money does not necessarily need to be paid, but that is a shortcut for the whole family to go up.

Thinking about it this way, this disappearance in the city is indeed strange, because there is no obvious reason for the disappearance.

"Ask the person who came here, does the missing girl have any young men she likes?" Zhao Ji thinks that maybe the girl is hiding in the home of the man she likes.

"The girl has a marriage contract, and the other party's family also sent people to search together, but they couldn't find it. Besides, how can an ordinary girl need such troublesome search? Our Kendall City is not big, and the law and order are actually pretty good. The government affairs office sent people I went to see it, but I couldn’t find out why the girl suddenly disappeared at home, and I’m also looking into it these days.” Todd knew that this was a troublesome thing, but Keel had told him before that he liked this kind of troublesome thing, so When the other party found him, Todd also entrusted this to him.

"By the way, there is also a reward for the entrustment. If you find the girl's clue, you can get a silver coin from the other party's family. I know it's a bit small, after all, the other party's family doesn't have much money. But the same clue can be exchanged for a bounty from the government office. , I heard from a drinker that one of his family members in the government office has been dispatched to find clues recently. After all, it is normal for a person to die in the city. But one person disappeared for no reason, and everyone It's weird if you can't find it yet." Todd whispered to Keel.

Zhao Ji was a little curious about this matter, but he also felt a little disgusted that the commission was too little. Compared with the other two commissions, the first commission about merchants and bandits pays the most, but it is also the most dangerous.

And the second entrustment pays mediocre, and he doesn't like the return of fixed assets. If someone wants to settle down in Kendall City, he probably likes this very much. But Zhao Ji himself has always had the urge to break out. He wants to get out of Kendall County and see how wonderful and magical this different world is.

So he doesn't want this kind of fixed assets that can bring returns for a long time. In addition, judging from Zhao Ji's weak experience, this commission should actually be the most dangerous one. If it is not serious, the person who intervenes will disappear into the wilderness without a sound, just like the person who disappeared before.

As for the third commission, Zhao Ji thought about it, and if it's all right, he'll go and have a look tomorrow.

It's just that there are a lot of things to do. In the morning after tomorrow, the captain of the city gate guards will have a day off, but then he has to learn his great sword martial arts the morning after tomorrow.

At the same time, tomorrow I have to retrieve the armor that is estimated to be repaired, and I have to discuss with Ganner about the making of the iron armor. Zhao Ji wants to rebuild an iron armor, which can greatly improve the armor's defense. At the same time, he had to get a new shield. The original wooden shield was no longer enough. He needed a new, strong metal shield. Excellent armor to match his longsword and great axe.

In terms of weapons, he wanted to change to a weapon similar to the steel gun used by old Domo, and his dagger also had to be changed. It turned out that the dagger that Todd gave him could be stored away.

The fur of the wild wolf has to start talking with a sewing merchant who can make cloaks, and I hope it will not be particularly expensive. After all, these wolf fur cloaks were all he wanted to give to his friends as gifts.

In the end, through the contact of Jamura, the most important thing is to trade those precious pure element crystals to Knight Crowe.

As for what to get in exchange, Zhao Ji knew what he wanted. He hoped for a way to gain abilities as powerful as those knights. I just don't know if this thing can satisfy Knight Crowe.

Moreover, he has no idea whether his thing is needed by Knight Crowe.

After that, Zhao Ji put away the commission and told Todd that if he had time recently, he would first commission this one in the city. The reward is not much, but it can be famous. Then he will go all out to do the entrustment of the merchant, but the entrustment needs to do some preparatory work in advance.

As for the commission to disappear mysteriously on the way to the village, Zhao Ji told Todd that he had to wait to see if there were any new discoveries and situations from those who had already set off.

After talking about the business, Zhao Ji talked about his visit to Doral Forest Village to fight against goblins some time ago. Of course, it is the version of the story where the altar stone statue is hidden, so there is no need to let the drinkers in the tavern know about those things.

Although Zhao Jiyin skipped the most exciting part at the end, the other battles with the goblins and the wild wolves still attracted the attention and amazement of everyone in the tavern.

Most people believed Kiel's story, but everyone felt that Kiel must have exaggerated and boasted. Only Zhao Ji knew that he was telling the truth.

If people don't believe him, there's nothing he can do.

After all, these drinkers in Kendall City couldn't see the heads of the goblins he cut off with their own eyes. Unless people go to Dorallin Village to see it in person and ask the villagers in person.

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On the other side, Knight Crowe personally sent Jamura away. It was already dark, and he personally told a young servant to send Jamura to the other's home.

On the one hand, this is because of his childhood friendship with Jamura, and on the other hand, it is also because what Jamura asked him to say this time is really important.

Before returning to his study room, Knight Crowe explained to the doorkeeper that no one would disturb him.

Knight Crowe carefully took the little bit of pure elemental crystal sent by Jamura in his hand, brought it closer to his eyes and carefully massed it. The color of this crystalline thing was earthy yellow, and it was made of crystal-like material without impurities.

Close your eyes, carefully use the perspective of energy beyond the senses of ordinary people to experience the feeling that this little thing in your hand brings to him.

At first, Knight Crowe didn't feel the influence of the things in front of his hands. After Knight Crowe sank into a deeper layer of super power senses, he could vaguely feel that he was holding a pure and powerful element in his hand. source of strength.

He himself seemed to have become small, and this little crystal in front of him had become larger than the entire city of Kendall. In this huge contrast, Knight Crowe can still feel the taste of this crystal that has been transmitted from the eternally distant time.

'It doesn't taste like the magic crystals made by magicians~www.readwn.com~as my colleagues said before. ’ Knight Crowe thought, ‘It’s more like the smell of magic power crystallization left from a powerful and old monster. '

‘However, this is an elemental crystal, which is much more than a magical crystal. As Jamura said, it was obtained by the young man named Kiel from a stone statue worshiped by goblins. '

Thinking of the ancient stone statues, Knight Crowe remembered that the Church of Saturn had intervened in it from the very beginning, and besides, he couldn't get involved in the affairs of Doral Forest Village, which was the territory of another old knight.

Withdrawing consciousness from his sinking keen senses, Knight Crowe opened his eyes and stared at the little crystal in his hand.

Everything was different, his eyes told him that the thing in his hand was only this tiny. And his spiritual sense sense told him that if the thing in his hand was released and detonated by some means, not to mention Kendall City, at least the upper noble area of ​​Kendall City where he is now will definitely be exploded by elements melted.

The dislocation of the two senses made Knight Crowe lean back on the high-backed chair. He tried not to let himself look at the things in his hands, so that he would feel better.

Jamura said that these crystals had been identified by the shepherd of the God of Saturn, saying that they were slowly evaporating and melting, but Knight Crowe felt that it would take at least a hundred years for such a small amount of crystals to evaporate. It is estimated that the remaining crystals in Kiel's hands will not evaporate for hundreds of years.

Of course, the area of ​​contact between a small crystal and a large crystal is different. This is something that Knight Crowe did not expect. After all, Knight Crowe is a warrior, and he can't ask for more from the other party.

Holding that small crystal in his right hand, Knight Crowe picked up a letter written to him by a colleague in the army with his left hand.