Chapter 11: Bounty (1)

Mercenary Guild was a public organization that existed in every city on the continent, and it could be regarded as the largest organization on the continent in terms of scale. However, the guild itself did not have much power, otherwise, it would not be possible to get the approval of all the countries on the continent.

The main role of the guild was to contact the mercenaries for rich people such as merchants and nobles to complete their requirements. These requirements were all sorts of strange tasks, some were looking for pets, some wanted to get magic weapons, some wanted to get the fur or cubs on high-level magic beasts. The only thing that these requirements had in common was that they all had high rewards. In any mercenary guild, one would never find a task with less than one gold coin.

It must be said that the ratio of each level of currency on the continent was one to one hundred. One gold coin could be exchanged for one hundred silver coins, and one hundred silver coins were enough to allow a family of three to live a good life for a year. However, the lowest level required for any mission in a mercenary guild was also level four warrior or level three mage. For them, if the reward for the mission was too low, no one would pay attention to it. You have to know that no matter in which nobleman's home, a person with level four warrior or level three mage strength would never earn less than twenty gold coins per month. But most people didn't like to work for nobles.

After Ulysses returned from the practice in the small woods outside the city, he went directly to the mercenary guild office to take up a few tasks to earn some money for the living expenses. Originally, according to Ulysses's simple and unadorned lifestyle, he would use less than fifty silver coins in a year. However, in order to pass the priest exam, he had to buy a lot of books to study the history of the Church of Supreme God and the various regulations of the church. In particular, those regulations of the church changed almost every year, which made him spend a lot of money every year. In fact, these books were available in the library of the church. But to enter the church library he must have the qualifications of a priest, or he must be a nobleman. Therefore, the profession of priests was also known as the profession of "nobles".

"Ulysses, you've come just at the right time. Our group, Raging Gale is going to do a mission to catch the level six magic beast, silver wolf alive. We are short of a light mage, come join us. The reward is no less than three hundred gold coins." As soon as Ulysses stepped into the lobby of the mercenary guild, a heavily armored warrior immediately spotted him and couldn't wait to invite him to do the task together. This warrior was no stranger to Ulysses. He was the deputy leader of the third-ranked mercenary group Raging Gale in Taji City, the level five warrior Hal. Raging Gale was a powerful mercenary group with warriors as the mainstay and a small amount of wind mage as support. The group leader Perth was one of the few level six warriors in Taji City.

"No, Ulysses, you should join our group, Raging Fire to complete the task of killing the level seven magic beast Thunder Tiger. We guarantee that the reward will not be less than 400 gold coins." Another mage wearing a red robe also discovered the existence of Ulysses in Hal's shout, and sent an invitation to Ulysses just like him. This mage was also an acquaintance of Ulysses. He was the deputy leader of the second-ranked mercenary group in Taji City. His name was Rad and he was a level four fire mage. The group, Raging Fire he was in, was the opposite of Raging Gale. It was a mercenary group that was dominated by fire mage and supplemented by warriors. Their leader Yabu was a level five fire mage.

Because practicing magic required a certain amount of magic talent, unlike martial arts that everyone could learn, the number of mages was far less than that of warriors. But the power of mages was stronger than that of warriors of the same level, so strong that a mage could even challenge a warrior that was one level higher. Therefore, the rank of Raging Fire with a level five mage and a large number of level three and level four mages were still higher than Raging Gale, which one level six warrior. However, this situation only happened below level six. After humans broke through the limit and reached the level seven, the gap between mage and warrior would no longer exist.

"Haha! Ulysses, you are really popular! How about joining our group Wild Beast? I will give you five hundred gold coins a month." Kanka came out from the crowd and laughed and patted Ulysses on the shoulder. The mercenary group Kanka was in is the largest mercenary group in Taji City- Wild Beast. As the name suggested, Wild Beast was a mercenary group composed of all beastmen warriors. The group leader was a level six beastmen warrior of tiger race, and the deputy leader was the lecherous lion in front of him.

The beastmen warrior was different from human beings. Although their limit was also at level seven, only the beastmen warrior that could transform had the possibility of reaching that level. The key to have this transformation ability was the bloodline of beastmen warriors. Only the blood of lion, tiger, elephant, wolf, fox and other advanced beastmen warriors could transform. The reason why Kanka was so popular with beastmen girls was that in addition to his golden fluffy face that was popular with beastmen girls, his lion blood was also one of the reasons. More than eight percent of his descendants were likely to have the transformation ability, so many beastmen girls were willing to have s*e**x with Kanka even if they knew that Kanka was a playboy. Of course, Kanka denies this.

The reason why Ulysses was so popular with the major mercenary groups was actually very simple. There were too few light mages in this Taji City, too few. In fact, apart from the priests in Taji City Church, Ulysses had never seen other mages capable of light magic. In his opinion, there were no more than ten light mages in Taji City. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

In fact, what Ulysses didn't know was that he was the only level four light mage in the entire Taji City. This was because most of the people in this world who had the talents of light magic would be selected by the Supreme God to carry out priest education from an early age. When they reach level three light magic, they would take the priest exam. For them who had been receiving priestly education since they were young, passing the exam was a piece of cake.

The reason why outsiders applied for the priest exam was that many nobles were unwilling to send their children to the priest academy where life was simple. They hoped that their children could have a comfortable life before becoming priests. Although priests were a respected profession, families with priests were superior even among the nobles. But the various laws and regulations to be followed by priests were very strict. Becoming a priest means that one would have to live a pure-hearted life. Therefore, many aristocratic mages would take the priest exam after they marry a wife and have children.

The light mages, like Ulysses, who had not undergone orthodox priest education, and were not like aristocrats who could go to the church library to study at any time, but still sign up for the priest examination, were very rare on the continent. However, the light magic that Ulysses had been practicing in the village for ten years was not useless at all. In Taji city, he who was a level four light mage was recognized by the mercenaries as the most popular person in the Taji City mercenary guilds. Almost all mercenary groups had sent him an invitation to join the group before.

After all, it was impossible for the priests of Taji City Church to join these mercenary groups to make money. But it was different for Ulysses, who were not priests but possessed the power of priests. It must be said that, if there was a group member that could use healing spell, acceleration spell, and Light Evil-Sealing Circle, the group's combat effectiveness could be immediately increased by one level. However, Ulysses, who was determined to become a priest, did not agree to the invitation of any mercenary group. Only when he needed money, he would temporarily join a mercenary group to assist them in their tasks. Taji City's three major mercenary groups had all worked with him before.

"By the way, where are your group leaders?" Ulysses looked around, but he didn't find the leaders of the three mercenary groups, which was a bit strange. Generally speaking, these three deputy leaders would always be with their leaders when they took up the tasks.

"Oh, leader, he is inside-" Kanka was interrupted by an exclamation in the hall before he could finish his words.

"How is it possible! Leon was killed! How could anyone in this Taji City kill him? Could the killer have the strength of level seven?!"

"Two hundred thousand gold coins! This is the highest bounty in Taji City's history. But the killer is someone who can kill even Leon! It's not easy to get this money!"

"What happened? What do you mean that Leon was killed?" Kanka pushed the people in the crowd away and walked toward the task bulletin board.

"Could it be..." Ulysses once again had an ominous premonition in his heart, and followed Kanka to the bulletin board.

Looking closer, the top of the bulletin board wrote a message in a bright red font that surprised all Taji City mercenaries.

[A reward of two hundred thousand gold coins has been offered to anyone who can help the city to take out the killer who appears at night in Taji City. Since the last half month, the killer has killed 173 civilians and 12 nobles in an extremely cruel manner. This person appears every night after twelve o 'clock at an unknown location. We hope that anyone who has the ability to fight will help the city to take out this killer as soon as possible. Note, this killer is extremely dangerous, Taji City's most powerful swordsman Leon has died at his hands, please do not fight this killer alone. ]