On the platform on the second floor of the hotel, Landro was holding a wine glass and lying on the railing, watching the people passing by in the reception below. Behind him, more than 20 mercenaries were sitting on benches drinking wine, or
They gathered together in twos and threes and chatted.
They originally attended the cocktail party, but the endless stream of family messengers made everyone very annoyed. First, Landro and Alves found a relatively quiet platform on the second floor. Later, Ollie
Via, Wood, and the leaders of the major mercenary groups also hid.
"How is your health?" Landreaux was looking downstairs in trance when the group leader Bolong walked up to him and asked.
"We have almost recovered." Landro clinked the wine glasses with Bolong without looking back, took a big sip, and said, "Leo gave us several ten-star body tempering pills before he left.
Not only am I fine, but even Lake, who was more seriously injured than me, can now walk."
"Ten-Star Body Tempering Pill..." Bo Long lay on the railing, staring down, and made a toothache-like inhalation sound from his mouth.
As we all know, the main function of the Body Tempering Pill is to assist the knight in tempering his body, making the knight's blood, muscles and bones stronger. As for its healing effect, it is secondary and is just an additional function during body tempering. Therefore, few people will
Use the Body Tempering Pill to make wound medicine.
As the leader of the Ice Star Mercenary Group, Bo Long has to consider human, financial and various resources every day. He knows the value of a ten-star elixir better than most people. Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about Ice Star.
After ten years of accumulation, the mercenary group only had one or two bottles of ten-star elixirs at the bottom of the box.
What he didn't expect was that Leo actually gave Landero and the others a few Ten-Star Body Tempering Pills as healing medicine... He didn't know what to say for a moment.
This is not only a luxury, it is simply outrageous.
Of course, this is lucky for Landero and others. The Ten-Star Body Tempering Pill is so powerful. The additional therapeutic effect can restore them to serious injuries. So, the Body Tempering Pill itself can temper Qi, blood, muscles and bones.
The effect of refining will definitely allow them to gain greater gains.
Sure enough, as soon as this idea flashed in Bolong's mind, Landro said leisurely: "My fighting spirit has broken through... If nothing happens, I should be able to be promoted to the Great Light Five Stars within three months!
"
Bolong's eyes widened, surprised and happy.
He and Landro are not only superiors and subordinates, but also old friends for many years. Landro has been at the level of three stars in the Great Light for more than a year. It took him four years to go from one star to three stars in the Great Light.
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Among them, there are reasons why Landero's own talent is not too high. There are also reasons why the Ice Star Mercenary Group has been suppressed in recent years and has not been very prosperous.
Especially the war with the Thunderstorm Mercenary Group in the past two years has stretched the resources of the group. Not only has there been a large loss of personnel, but also the weapons are old and the elixirs are scarce, making it unable to support the members' training. Therefore, Bolong has always been
I feel extremely guilty for these brothers under my command.
This is why he was so anxious when he heard that Landero, Alves and others were in danger.
"Congratulations!" Bolong said sincerely.
"Thank you," Landero and Bolong clinked their glasses, took a sip of wine, and asked, "How many people are looking for you today?"
"Sixteen families." Bolong frowned, his face hidden behind a huge wooden rum glass, and his voice was a little muffled, "The conditions are all good."
"What are you planning to do?" Landro looked down. Among the crowd, a noble envoy was trying to recruit Tu Su. However, his enthusiasm only lasted for less than a minute before he was cooled down by the indifferent gaze of the barbarian female warrior.
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"The demons have moved south, and sooner or later, the war... no. It should be said that it has swept across the entire continent. No one can survive alone." Bolong's eyes were faint, like two balls of candles beating, and his eyebrows twisted into the Chinese character "Sichuan", "This paragraph
Time. I have talked with many people in the mercenary group, and everyone believes that in today's world, there is no room for the mercenary group to survive. We can no longer support it according to the original model."
"Oh?" Landreaux turned half sideways and looked at Bolong.
A wry smile appeared on Bo Long's face: "The reason why our mercenary group exists is because people have such needs. They need assistance, professionalism, and people more powerful than them to solve problems they cannot solve.
Money is needed to avoid risks they dare not take.
So, we have food to eat. We can take on these tasks and exchange work for food and wealth, instead of taking orders from someone like those family knights. Even if that person is a three-year-old child or a person with a full head
Shit idiot."
Landero laughed, he knew Bolong's past.
When he was young, Borron, who was still a brave knight, once served a viscount. However, he only stayed in the viscount's guard for three months before leaving angrily.
He simply couldn't stand the days of following the tax collector's carriage every day, expressionlessly threatening the common people who couldn't afford the taxes, or protecting the viscount's greedy and lustful idiot son as he walked through the streets. Every time he mentioned those days, Bolong thought that
It is the shame of his life.
Regarding Landreau's laughter, Bolong seemed to have not heard it, and continued talking to himself: "In peacetime, we can do this, and in wartime, we can also live like this. Even because of the war, we still
I may receive more tasks. But, I can’t do that now…”
"Why?" Landreaux's face became solemn.
"Because the war between humans will not destroy the race, but the demons will..." Bo Long said, "You should know what the situation is like in other places now."
Landreaux nodded.
As a mercenary who travels all over the world, Landero has been to many places. Not only Saint-Soulan, but also the Philip Empire, the Pompeii Empire and even the Land of Chaos.
Therefore, he knows better than many people that in this barren and cold continent, Lulian can be considered a paradise.
The climate here is mild, and the land available for cultivation is far more than other provinces. It has been the most important granary of the Saint Solan Empire for many years. In addition, it is surrounded by the Warcraft Mountains to the west and the sea to the south, and its forestry and fishery resources are also relatively rich.
Therefore, people's lives are relatively prosperous, and even in disaster years, the impact is minimal.
However, once Lulian comes out, the situation will be different.
Going north from Lulian, the land becomes increasingly barren. Large areas of Gobi, snowfields, swamps, deserts and mountains with only rugged rocks occupy more than 90% of the land in the Land of Redemption.
Coupled with year-round snowstorms, poisonous miasma, sandstorms and hurricanes, people's living environment is extremely harsh.
Although the noble lords of most provinces own vast territories, their farmland and population are pitifully small. They have to disperse their towns tens or even hundreds of kilometers away, and inhabit mountains, rivers, rivers, and even cliffs.
Plant food in even a piece of soil as big as your palm.
And once a natural disaster occurs, it will be a scene of starvation. Almost every winter, the lords have to send guards to collect the bodies of civilians who starve and freeze to death. Otherwise, the plague will spread, even if they are hiding in the castle
Not immune either.
In some remote areas where the roads are difficult and the news is isolated, entire towns and the nobles in the castles all died within a few days. There have been many tragic situations in history. Occasionally, travelers passing by broke into this place of death.
Only in this place do people know.
Survival is already so difficult, but what's even worse is that the invasion of demons has now exacerbated the collapse of this fragile ecology.
"It is said that the number of refugees in the Pompeii Empire has exceeded five million, and there is a trend of continuous expansion. The same goes for the Fei Lie Empire. The demon army has already invaded their borders, and one of them swept across the Para Plateau.
More than 80,000 people from five Pala tribes were slaughtered."
Amid Landero's gasp, Bolong said solemnly: "Including Gossa of the Pala Mercenary Group and his three hundred mercenaries, all of them died in the battle."
Landreaux closed his eyes and turned pale.
The Pala Plateau is located at the junction of the three empires, close to the Fei Lie Empire. The Pala people living on the plateau are famous for their bravery and cold resistance. And Goza, the leader of the Pala mercenary group, is an old friend of him and Boron.
We have known each other for many years and have worked together on several S-level missions.
To this day, Landero still remembers the burly, chimpanzee-like Cossa dancing with his butt while holding a wine glass in the tavern. That hearty laughter seems to still be echoing in his ears. Unexpectedly
…
"The mercenary system in the north has completely collapsed," Bolong said: "Not only have all the mission halls in the war zone been destroyed, but all mission halls within a hundred kilometers of the war zone have also been cancelled. Many mercenary groups have been operating for many years.
The base is in ruins, and the team members are scattered all over the place. Let alone accepting missions, they are even hungry and full to eat."
Landreaux smiled bitterly.
Under such circumstances, no matter the nobles or the business tycoons, they are unable to protect themselves. There is no one else to issue missions. And this means that the mercenaries who rely on missions to make a living lose their jobs.
Being able to receive a job of escorting a fleeing noble to another place may be lucky for these lonely and wandering companions.
"So, we can no longer survive in this business." Bolong said, "Now, a large number of mercenary groups are moving to the south. Soon, the southern provinces like Lulian, Saxony and Sinasili will be
It’s going to be overcrowded. But where can there be so much work in the mission hall here?”
He sighed, staring straight at the noble envoys passing through the venue below, and said quietly: "Now, we have prepared for the worst."
Landreault followed Bolong's gaze, looked at the noble envoys, and asked, "Resign yourself to them?"
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