The Mo Yu mercenary group, composed of Mo Yu, Gao Wen and Jia Luo, had been active in the northern part of the empire for more than two years. Once, they received a mission about a slave merchant group. The mission was to intercept a merchant group that smuggled human slaves to the orc tribe.
The Empire itself has a large number of slave trades, and many nobles and wealthy families have many slaves, but selling human slaves to the orc tribes is a taboo in the Empire. The intelligence of orcs is slightly inferior to that of humans, so despite their strong physique, they have been suppressed by humans in the desert Gobi area in the north. However, if human slaves and orcs give birth to half-orcs, there will often be a significant improvement in intelligence. This is something that humans who rely on their brains to fight would never want to see. A few decades ago, there was a child born from a wolf orc and a human, who became the military advisor of the wolf army. He was extremely cunning in combat and caused the Empire to suffer a lot. The Empire did not want this to happen again, so naturally they wanted to prevent humans from flowing into the orc tribes.
Therefore, due to the blockade of the Empire, the price of young human female slaves in the orc tribes was very high. As a result, there were always some human merchants who coveted profits and secretly transported young slaves to the orc tribes.
This was a job that would cost one's life. If the imperial legions caught such a caravan, they would often behead the caravan members and sell the captured female slaves to legitimate merchants in the country. This was a job that combined righteousness and great profit, so the generals of each legion worked very hard.
Due to the long border between the Purple Eagle Empire and the orc tribes, it is easy for slave caravans to avoid checkpoints. The only time they would be exposed is when they come across supply towns along the way, or when they run into patrols or other caravans on the road. These merchants live a life of blood and knife, and in order to hide their whereabouts, they often attack other caravans and small patrols that they encounter by chance.
After receiving this information, the legion commanders and city lords at the border of the empire will immediately issue orders to have their troops and mercenaries hunt together.
The Mo Yu Mercenary Group had Gallo who was good at tracking traces and could move very fast, so they were ahead of all the pursuers. They chased from day to night, and it took more than ten hours, and finally caught up with the caravan.
Those who dare to do this kind of business are actually big families with deep backgrounds. Although no one will admit the relationship between their family and the slave merchant group, they still support such merchant groups. The merchant group that Mo Yu and his team caught up with actually had a high-level mage and a high-level knight. With such strength, it would be difficult for ordinary small armies to take it down. However, they were very unlucky to run into masters like Mo Yu and Gao Wen whose strength far exceeded the imagination of ordinary people of the same level.
Mo Yu and the other two started their attack after the other party had set up camp.
The mage was beheaded by the secret sword that flew out of the shadows without any warning, and lost his life without casting a single spell. The high-ranking knight was slashed five times by the frenzied Mo Yu in a panic, breaking his arm, and then split in half with one sword. The remaining thirty-odd guards saw that Mo Yu was more terrifying than the orc warriors, and killed their strongest masters right away, and immediately scattered.
Mo Yu went to rescue those female slaves, but found that their condition was much better than he had imagined. You know, ordinary slaves were transported in prison cars for a long time, and they were frightened and lacked water and food, so many of them would become sick.
However, although the dozen or so girls in the car were still frightened, no one was actually physically injured.
When Gallo asked, he found out that it was a girl named Bella among them who suddenly possessed magical powers and used magic to heal the injuries of many girls.
But Gawain was very confused. Magic can only be learned through rigorous training. To be able to use magic suddenly must be a racial talent of some bloodline, or it can only be a power bestowed by God.
The latter is a profession that has long disappeared from this continent: priest.
Ever since the fall of the gods and the slumber of the god of nature, no one can rely on divine favor and prayer to gain power. However, the magic performed by the little girl in front of him was like that of an experienced person who had practiced magic for many years.
Bella told them: "After being captured by the slave traders, I have been praying to the gods, hoping to gain the power to save ourselves."
"But the natural body is asleep and cannot respond to your prayers." Gawain said.
Bella said: "Of course I didn't pray to him. If it weren't for the priest of the Temple of Nature who destroyed my family, I should still be a baron's daughter and stay in my own manor. The god I prayed to was the nameless god recorded in a secret book of the family. She has the power to control time. I prayed for seven days and finally got her response. She gave me the ability to heal others and told me that I only need to wait quietly and someone will come to save me."
"The Goddess of Time? I have never seen such a god in the classics. Could it be that she did not fall because she was not recorded in the books?" Gawain was puzzled.
But since this incident, a mysterious priest named Bella has joined their team. She usually appears in front of everyone as a healing wizard. But in fact, her power comes from the attention of the gods.
This attention fluctuates, and Bella's abilities also fluctuate. At her strongest, she is as powerful as a great magician, and at her weakest, she is only at the level of an apprentice. This shows that the power that this god can display is also very limited.
But no matter what, this god still helped Mo Yu and his team through several crises through Bella. Moreover, as the only daughter of a noble, Bella has strong management skills, which the other three members of the group cannot do. After she joined, the Mo Yu Mercenary Group was truly organized and began to recruit soldiers and grow stronger.
In this way, the team composed of these four people became bigger and stronger. In just a few years, they went from a wandering mercenary group to the rulers of the city.
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After Mo Yu finished recalling these things, she found that it was almost dawn. This time, the recollection was not a simple recollection, but a re-immersion in experiencing a journey. This was somewhat tiring for her, but her own realm was also approaching the limit of breakthrough.
"I feel a change in you." Bella appeared on the terrace.
"Have you received any new revelation? This mysterious god always likes to do this." Mo Yu asked.
Bella said: "The spirit has sent you a message. You and Gawain are indispensable forces. She wants you to break through the Saint Level as soon as possible and go to the south to find the Tower of China. Otherwise, with the awakening of the God of Nature, everything will become meaningless. And she will be waiting for you there at that time and give you a clear explanation." (To be continued)