The Fairy Forest (also known as the Fairy Forest) is the most mysterious place in the known world.
The entire Fairy Forest covers an area of about 150 million acres - this is only an external estimate. It is said that there are huge lakes and bottomless canyons in the Fairy Forest, so the actual territory area is estimated to be larger.
From a geographical point of view, although the Fairy Forest is not in the center of the Eminor continent, it plays an important strategic role in the continent's offensive and defensive battles.
The Fairy Forest is located in the lower right corner of the continent. Its direct north is in the southern part of the Huayu Plain, the most fertile territory of the Holy See; its direct west borders Tongyunguan (also known as the Holy Snow Mountain Defense Zone), the Amy Empire's enclave in the Holy See;
The southwest and the tall cedar area at the eastern foot of the Holy Snow Mountain are closely intertwined; the southern part of the forest is located on the edge of the large swamp rich in grass coal in the Mercenary Empire; to the east is the picturesque Sea of Tranquility. At the junction of the Fairy Forest and the sea
There are scattered small villages on the beach where humans and elves live together. They are connected to the three countries of Desert Empire, Mercenary Empire and Holy See through sea ships. It must be mentioned that the small seaport formed by these villages is the best way to reach the magician.
The resting port that the holy land of Azure Island must pass through.
Therefore, the Fairy Forest has the reputation of "thick green feathers locking the Three Kingdoms, and light blue silk ribbons connecting Zhan Island".
The Fairy Forest also has a second name - the Magic Forest. The reason for such a name is that in the legend, the Fairy Forest was created by a great sage called the Magic Emperor. Of course, it turns out that this was just the uncivilized Holy See in ancient times.
A rumor deliberately spread.
Whether it is the first name or the second name, both have another meaning: this vast dense forest has too many mysterious places. So far, no non-elf intelligent species has ever been able to escape alive.
In the Fairy Forest, don't even expect to escape unscathed.
According to the records circulated in the magician's manuscripts, the reason why the Fairy Forest is so mysterious that even powerful men like the Holy Dragon must stay away. The key lies in the "Three Harmonies" of the Fairy Forest, which is the favorite among human kings.
It means: time, location, and people.
In the Fairy Forest, there is the most mysterious begging tower in the world - the Wooden Begging Tower. In other magics, whether it is ice, water, wind, earth, fire, or sacred, human magicians once visited it.
In exploration, there were even great human magicians who successfully broke out of the Begging Tower and became magisters. However, the Wooden Begging Tower and the legendary Dark Begging Tower did not leave any human footprints at all in the records. In fact,
, most magic literature does not admit that there are dark type begging towers and wooden type begging towers at all.
The Wooden Begging Tower is guarded by high-ranking elves of the wood type. Similarly, the high-ranking elves are also silently guarding the outer fairy forest. This is the time of heaven.
In the fairy forest, every tree has a history of tens of thousands of years, and the legendary golden tree among them is the same age as the world. These towering trees are all slowly exuding wood magic spirits.
The Fairy Forest is an infinite wood magic field. This is a good location.
Among all races, the strangest is the elves. The biggest feature of this race is that it can communicate with the world, the forest, and animals. In the fairy forest, hundreds of thousands of forest elves are constantly brewing and nurturing their homeland with every breath.
Use your own body and heart to form the beating pulse of the forest. This is human beings.
In such a naturally huge field of wood magic, if any elf releases a first-level wood magic, the effect will be as good as the third-level magic released by other magicians.
As the guardians of the Fairy Forest, the noble, peaceful, and kind-hearted elves do not want anyone to disturb their peaceful life. Moreover, it is rumored that the owner of the Fairy Forest, the Elf King, guards the biggest secret in the world. This is even more important for the elves.
The best reason for us to reject all visitors.
- Classic of Mountains and Seas. Fairy Forest
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Wherever there are mercenaries, there will be underground mercenary guilds.
The so-called underground mercenary guild is a relatively complex and even difficult to understand concept. Many humans, dwarves, and berserkers have taken on tasks in underground guilds for more than 20 years, and they do not really understand the concept of underground guilds. Haha, so, often
Old mercenaries from the underground guild said harshly that people with an IQ below 120 would not understand the true meaning of the underground mercenary guild.
The birth of underground mercenary guilds has a long history - some people say that from the day mercenaries were born, the seeds of underground guilds have already begun to appear. If this is followed, it can be traced back to the ancient Warring States Period at least 55,000 years ago.
period.
In the beginning, there was only one reason for the formation of underground guilds: there were many mercenary employers, and the needs of these employers were all kinds of strange. Among them, some tasks were shady, and the employers who issued these tasks were even more shady. For example, assassinating someone
A king or a noble, such as stealing a certain artifact, such as massacring a village that disobeys an order... In short, these things must be dealt with secretly, and the mercenaries who accept the task are required to die without telling the truth. This is in a world where wars are constantly happening.
It was very common during the Warring States Period in ancient times.
The original purpose of the establishment of the underground mercenary guild was to enable these transactions to proceed smoothly and to ensure that the mercenaries who accepted the task would not be silenced by their employers after completing the task. In the subsequent development, the functions of the underground mercenary guild were enriched.
, there are at least three activities currently being carried out in underground guilds: 1. Some mercenaries have been unable to join the large mercenary groups due to various reasons, and their own strength or mercenary level is very high. Such mercenaries are generally disdainful
Instead of taking on simple tasks, you can find higher paying and more challenging tasks in underground guilds.
It should be noted that these tasks undertaken are most likely to be black tasks, that is, tasks that will not be included in the mercenary log even if they are completed perfectly, which means that the level of the mercenary cannot be increased. This will inevitably increase
The mercenary's demand for underground guilds formed a vicious cycle.
2. In order to seek higher profits, some large mercenary groups usually set up permanent offices in treehouse bars. They often sweep up all the tasks that can be accepted at the level of the mercenary group, and then go to the underground guild to do it again.
Subcontract it out at a slightly lower price. For them, even if the subcontracting is unsuccessful, they will not lose a penny. Of course, in order to ensure the completion rate of the task, they will send out capable mercenaries to complete the task before the deadline.
The task.
3. Some thieves (robbers) have a dark identity, may have several lives on their backs, and are unlikely to receive formal tasks. The demand for underground guilds is self-evident.
What is intriguing is that the address of underground guilds is often not far from the treehouse bar, and there are also three major guild organizations in the underground guilds: the killer guild, the thieves guild, and the gray guild. The gray guild is compared to the mercenary guild.
, is a guild composed of gray mercenaries. The only guarantee that gray mercenaries can get in the guild is: if they cannot get paid after completing the task or are assassinated, the guild will activate the guild funds and issue a reward of up to 100,000 gold coins.
There is a bounty on the head; the Thieves Guild is exactly the same as the Thieves Guild in the Tree House Bar, and is the only guild that exists both above and below ground; the Killer Guild is also the most mysterious among the three underground guilds, whether it is a member or an employer within the guild
, most of them do not show their true colors to others.
Summer January, Year 5 of the Magical Calendar.
The northwest corner of the Fairy Forest is the gathering place of three continental highways, leading to Uru, the capital of the Holy See, to the north, to Brown Mountain, the capital of the Haiha mercenary empire, to the south, and to the east corner of the largest port city in the southeast of the mainland. On the Eminor continent
On the mainland, there are only four such intersections on the mainland, and the degree of prosperity is self-evident.
On the roadside about 100 meters south of the Tree House Bar, there is a bar that is even larger than the Tree House Bar. There are two signs hanging on both sides of the door. The sign on the left is a dagger with this barb.
The sign on the right is a long sword pressed against a shield. Before you even get close, you can already hear the noise inside.
This is the "Fairy Flower" bar, which is famous among underground guilds. The hooked dagger is the unique standard of the Killer Guild, while the long sword and shield are the standard of the Gray Mercenary Guild.
The reason why it has such a name is because the bar is too close to the Fairy Forest. People with stronger strength can even throw stones directly into the Fairy Forest - of course, strength alone is not enough, you must also have the courage. In the Fairy Forest
It's no joke to annoy the elves nearby, it's said to be fatal.
The reason why this bar is famous is that this location can be called the "Golden Triangle" of the underground world. It happens to be in the four zones of the Amy Empire, the Holy See, the Haiha Mercenary Empire, and the Fairy Forest. All illegal things can be done here.
Conducted with great fanfare.
Inside the Fairy Flower Bar, although it is broad daylight outside, the spacious room is quite dark. There are no open windows on the four walls of the bar. This place was originally a military warehouse in Tongyunguan. Later, due to the military's very small matter,
Due to a misunderstanding with a certain generation of fairy forest owners, the Amy Empire was forced to abandon this warehouse and even moved the entire military camp 500 meters northwest. Later, after several twists and turns, the homeless people gathered in this huge house were moved to an underground place.
The forces were forcibly cleared out, and eventually sold permanently to the Thieves Guild in a semi-legal and semi-illegal manner for conversion into a bar with a special purpose. The house must have had windows at the beginning of its construction, but as the size of the bar expanded and the business's special requirements
It has all been boarded up long ago, and even the current owner of the bar cannot tell exactly where the windows used to be.
The thick curtain of the bar was lifted up with the hilt of a sword, and several mercenary-like people filed in. Except for a few guests by the door who looked up in disgust because of the glare of the sun, even the waiters in the entire bar were lazy.
Ignore them. Not to mention ordinary mercenaries, even if the current nominal owner of this territory - Chi Changyun, the empire's youngest defense general, comes, the reaction in the bar will be the same.
The few mercenaries who just came in were obviously regulars here. They suddenly entered the bar from the sunny outdoors. They narrowed their eyes slightly for a moment and got used to it. The person who picked up the door curtain was a young man wearing a worn-out light knight armor. He got used to it after entering.
He took two big steps forward, using his broad chest and the large shield in his left hand to protect his partner behind him; the partner who came in later was a middle-aged magician, and the blue robe was also quite shabby, but the one on his chest
The standard is for second-level magicians. In the mercenary world, magicians themselves are a minority group. Second-level magicians are relatively rare. At this level, they can already use many second- and third-level magics skillfully. On a small scale,
In a conflict battle, as long as you cast spells fast enough, you are already more threatening than two experienced warriors; behind the magician is a thin little man - at most a head taller than an average table, with extremely messy hair and an aura of
There was a strong smell, and several nearby guests noticed the young man immediately after smelling the smell, and subconsciously clenched their wallets; then a person behind him flashed into the bar with lighter footsteps than the little man, and stood behind the door curtain.
The moment it fell, it seemed to disappear in the dim bar. Only the most attentive people would notice a short woman with a long dagger stuck in her waist. The last person to enter was an obvious warrior.
, only dwarves like to use warhammers on their shoulders. However, judging from the body shape, it is impossible to be a dwarf. He clearly looks like a human being less than 20 years old, but he shows enough experience. He seems to turn around casually after entering the door.
The body protected the rear of the entire team. A team that cooperates with such a tacit understanding is extremely rare among the small mercenary groups active near Fairy Flower.
The man in knight armor whispered "Borrow the light, borrow the light" and led several friends behind him towards the bar at the end of the room.
The bar of Fairy Flower is also a place where underground mercenaries hand over tasks. The place is often crowded with mercenaries of all kinds. The middle-aged mage seems to be the head of this small group. He leans on the bar and hands over tasks to the clerk inside. He can vaguely hear
Hearing the sound of gold coins rolling on the counter, the mage calmly swept all the gold coins into his arms, then took the latest task catalog from the clerk's hand, browsing through the dim light. The little man squinted his eyes,
His eyes fell on the wallet of a guest at the table next to him; the young man in knight armor turned around habitually, his back and the mage's back were faintly pressed together, and he casually took a large glass of inferior wine handed over by the waiter.
Beer, eyes wandering in the bar.
The ones at the table recently that were targeted by the little man were a few travelers. It was obvious that they had no experience in long-distance travel. They took out gold coins from their bulging purses to pay for their bills in public. What caught the attention of the little soldier was the money.
The unique luster of the purple gold coin shone out of the bag, and the little man subconsciously licked his lips with his tongue. At the table next to him were several masked people, who looked like a branch of the elves, and their torsos were extremely slender.
At the edge of the Fairy Forest, no one dared to lift their veils to verify which race they belonged to. The two tables next to them were obviously mercenaries from different groups, with long swords and mace spears placed horizontally and vertically. Further away,
There are several tables everywhere, and they are obviously organized mercenaries. At each table, people look up from time to time to check whether a new mission will be released suddenly at the counter. Near the counter are a few mercenaries lying on the bar drinking.
, it can be seen from the clothes and the slight warning distance between each other that these mercenaries are not a mercenary group.
Just as the knight armor warrior was observing the people in the bar, the bar curtain was opened again, and a young man in white entered the bar. Everyone at the door raised their heads - whether it was from the temperament or the bright clothes, this man
It seems that young people should not appear in the underground mercenary guild. He is dressed in clean and shocking white clothes, and under his feet are excellent ground dragon inner leather short boots. This pair of boots alone may require an underground mercenary.
He has been living for a year in the fire and water. The young man holds an extremely rare spear behind his back with his left hand. He looks very young, with a straight nose and fair complexion. He is so handsome that it needs to be described as beautiful. If it were not for his burly figure
, quite a few people would mistakenly think that it was a girl disguised as a boy. The young man had long golden hair flowing down his back, which added to his infinite dignity. He tilted his head and saw the position of the bar, and immediately walked over.
The eyes of the knight armor warrior suddenly narrowed, and his right hand suddenly burst out with great strength to hold the hilt of the long sword. The mage behind him immediately noticed something strange about his partner, and turned around in surprise and followed the young man's gaze.
The blond boy obviously felt the strong murderous aura and looked at the young man in front of him who was only a few years older than him in surprise, but he did not stop.
"Scoundrel, repay my brother's life!" As he roared, the knight-armored warrior pulled out the knight's sword from his waist and raised his shield. The long sword slashed through the void - this is a typical knight's starting move in a duel.
, first told the other party that he was going to attack. The shield, which was as wide as a person, hit the blond young man's chest with heavy dust.
The blond boy reacted very quickly. He saw at a glance that the sword that was coming at him was a feint. He took a small step forward with his right foot and rotated the spear in his left hand 270 degrees vertically. The sharp tip of the spear drew a circular electric light, which shot from below.
It was picked out and stabbed straight and forcefully on the knight's shield. The silver-white pure steel barrel was pressed into an arc shape by two opposite gravity.
There was an exclamation from the surroundings. The two young people's performance was not low, especially the blond boy. The power of his left hand was so great that a spear could actually force the momentum of a large shield. Moreover, the spear spinning move was all-in-one.
People have never seen it before, and they have to admit that the shot that needs to be described as weird just now shocked the entire Fairy Flower.
Fights are too common for the guests of Fairy Flower. How many people will not die on such an occasion? The guests at the nearby tables quickly stepped aside to avoid harming the fish, and the tables, chairs and wine glasses crashed on the floor.
None of the Knight Armor's partners knew why the warrior was suddenly so angry, and they were unable to stop it in time, nor did they rush to help.
The slender knight's sword retracted and thrust out tightly against the inside of the shield. The sharp sword tip barely emitted any light as it stabbed the blond boy's chest.
"Kill! Kill! Kill him!"
In a chaotic situation like the Fairy Flower, all the drinkers have an inexplicable hostility towards people in gorgeous clothes. Even if the young man in knight armor is not a member of the gray guild, there will be no less of such a tide of calls, and many young warriors will jump
Shouting loudly on the chairs and tables, a few excited berserkers even exuded arrogance that was about to go berserk.
The middle-aged magician and several other friends frowned, obviously not wanting such a conflict to occur.
The blond boy's ability to use the spear has reached an astonishing level. The tip of the spear is still firmly pressed against the shield. One hand suddenly bursts out with greater power. The barrel of the spear becomes even more curved. His left elbow droops, and the curved barrel of the spear draws a circle.
In a semicircle of more than 90°, the gun barrel ejected the long sword heavily.
It all happened in an instant.
The blond boy's defense was only maintained for this moment. His left hand holding the gun suddenly released, and the gun body bounced back along the palm of his hand under the pressure of the opponent's shield. When the gun body had rebounded halfway, the blond boy's right hand held the gun from behind.
, rotated 360 degrees with the body as the axis, and the silver gun fired arc-shaped lightning in the bar - in the first 180 degrees, the gun clenched heavily on the shield, which had lost its strength and was fluttering.
The power emitted from the body as the axis was far beyond the knight's imagination. The out-of-control shield drove the young man's body in the knight's armor to stagger forward. During the remaining 180-degree rotation, the sharp spear tip, which was at least 40 centimeters long, struck fiercely.
It cut towards the knight's neck - ah?.
No one expected that the young man in front of them, who was classified as a top-notch person in terms of appearance, would have such keen skills and be able to master the use of external weapons and guns.
The one shot, one shot, one loosening, one grip, one spin, one collision, everything, the exquisite spear moves unfolded like a scroll, and most of the warriors even exclaimed involuntarily: "Okay!"
Most mercenaries are quite familiar with both the standard spears of knights and the spears and halberds used by infantry for close combat. All the spear moves are in the same word as "stab", although a small number of infantry have used the wolf's fangs in melee combat with spears.
After all, the power of swinging and cutting is much smaller. The blond boy used all the spears in just a moment that no one had thought of before - and the silver spear with sharp edges on both sides of the spear tip is even more sharp than a big sword. It is also owned by everyone here.
Never seen it before.
Even so, most people did not expect that the outcome would be no longer in suspense in less than 10 seconds, so that the young man's teammates had no time to rescue him or even say goodbye - such a sharp and violent cut.
Under the circumstances, even if a warrior has soft armor around his neck, it will not have any effect.
Suddenly, silver lightning flashed again next to the bar counter. The two silver flashes of lightning instantly merged together on the knight's armor. There was no sound of metal collision. The two rays of light disappeared at the same time. Under the two-meter-long gun, a man was suppressed.
The silver sword was lying flat on its scabbard. The silver sword had been halfway pulled out of the scabbard.
If it weren't for this flat long sword, life and death would only be a matter of a hair's breadth.
"Oh?" The owner of the silver sword made a hoarse voice that was inconsistent with the figure from behind, and then apologized flatly: "You didn't want to kill anyone? So, I was wrong. I'm sorry." The silver sword was put into the sheath and was slowly buckled by the owner.
On the back, if it hadn't been for the lightning sword just now, judging from the owner's slow movement of holding the sword, most people would have thought it was an old man.
In the underground mercenary world, the strength of mercenaries is more important. Both the blond boy and the owner of the silver sword performed extremely amazingly. The owner of the silver sword did not look back during the battle just now, and waved his hands more than 1.5 meters tall with one hand.
The big sword can actually block a shot that is astonishing as a flying rainbow. What is even more surprising is that the owner of the silver sword is also carrying another more simple-looking big sword on his back. If he is an ordinary mercenary, don't expect these two swords.
After using it, just carrying a long sword weighing more than 100 kilograms will make you collapse from exhaustion.
The blond boy didn't seem to believe that someone could block his spear in an instant. He glanced at the person who had just drawn the sword. It was just a back figure. The original white outfit that might have once been white could no longer be seen. Both shoulders were damaged.
, the hair is not long and shaggy, and you can't tell whether it is black or gray. After a slight pause, the young man's eyes returned to the armored young man: "Why did you attack me?" The voice was extremely pleasant, and it seemed that he was not hostile to the young man because of the attack just now.
, using honorific words in questions like an aristocrat.
"You... you are a bastard. When you broke into Senhua City, more than 2,000 of our knights were killed by you! Where is your murderous red sword? Come and kill me! The honor of knighthood is with me!
"This warrior is indeed a knight or once was a knight.
"White, calm down!" The middle-aged mage pulled his partner hard.
Senhua City? Most people in the bar have never heard of the extremely ordinary town of the Hughes Empire. A strange light flashed in the eyes of the young man Jinfa. He was stunned for a moment and said slowly: "You have the wrong person, I have not
I've heard of the city you mentioned." After saying that, he put the spear behind his back again.
"Boss, let's have a beer to quench your thirst." As he said this, the noble head under the luxurious blond hair moved towards the person who just made the move. Unfortunately, there was no empty seat next to that person, otherwise, it seemed that the blond boy would definitely sit down.
"Your Excellency, you have such a fast sword!" Holding the wine glass, the young man stood behind the man and seemed to be talking to himself, with a hint of hostility in his voice: "Who are you, Your Excellency?"
"You're welcome. But your gun is something I've never seen before." A hoarse voice sounded in a low voice. The customer raised his head and placed two rows of empty beer glasses on the counter in front of him. Perhaps it was because of excess alcohol.
His eyes were bloodshot, his skin was dark, and he had a dense beard extending from his left cheek to his right cheek. He looked like he was at least 35 years old by the sound of his voice. Everyone who noticed this scene felt something faint on the face of the master of the sword.
Something...sad? Tired?
"Oh, thank you for the compliment. When I saw your back just now, I thought I saw an acquaintance." After the blond boy finished speaking, he casually found a seat nearby and sat down.
"Then I can only say that you have recognized the wrong person." In the dim light, the drinker once again raised his glass alone and drank a whole large glass of beer. The brown wine foam flowed along the mercenary's lips.
The corners of his mouth were dripping with tears. To the lonely drinker, it seemed that nothing just happened.
A clerk hurriedly walked out from the back of the bar, holding the latest mission announcement in his hand. The announcement had just been placed on the bar table. Almost everyone at the innermost table gathered around it - this is how the underground mercenary guild handed over missions.
, most tasks do not require level restrictions. Once you grab a good task, you will gain a lot. Haha, of course you have to grab it if you are fast but not slow. And when you see a good task, take it first. If you can complete it,
Do it yourself. If you and your partners are not strong enough, you can invite other gray mercenaries to participate or simply subcontract them.
Those participating in the fight in front of the counter are all magicians or warriors who look relatively gentle. This is not surprising. How many of those big and thick men or berserkers have the money to be literate? Why do they want to fight for tasks if they don't know how to read?
The middle-aged magician just squeezed out of the crowd and almost dropped his magic hat on the ground. His friends had obviously seen this kind of scene too many times and were used to it.
The five mercenaries in the small organization took turns to review the missions, and frowned slightly: As the war between the continents progressed, the registered mercenaries were required by the country where they were registered to return to the country to coordinate defense. More and more missions were completed due to lack of
With enough manpower to complete the transfer from the treehouse bar to the underground guild, the income of the gray mercenaries has increased significantly recently. Unexpectedly, in this case, his captain was still slow and got a fortune that seemed to be a lot of money but was actually very poor.
A difficult task to accomplish.
The magician discussed with the shortest partner who was obviously a thief, stood up, cleared his throat and shouted to recruit people: "Go to the fairy forest for a 20-day mission. If you complete the mission, you will get 20 gold coins. If it is not completed,
There is a hard work fee of 5 gold coins. Who is interested? Three partners are needed."