Reyek returned to the station at the Mercenary Guild with his team members.
A mercenary group of the level of the Serpent of Yevrq has its own separate station in the mercenary guild in most cities.
"Captain."
The attendants in the station who specialized in taking care of the sundries in the regiment immediately stepped forward to welcome Reyek's return.
"Bring me that employment contract." Reyek entered the room inside the station and gave the order to the attendant.
Only five people in the mercenary group followed Reyek into this room, and these five people can be said to be the pillars of the Serpent of Yevrke.
The attendant took out an old parchment scroll from an iron box sealed by magic. Reyek took the parchment scroll and spread it out. He browsed the contents and fell into contemplation.
"Captain, are we investigating the enemy this time?"
One of the five mage in black robe glanced at the contents of the sheepskin scroll, and then asked Reyek in a hoarse voice.
"I have no idea."
Reyek finally gave this answer after carefully reading the various clauses on the parchment scroll.
This is an employment contract.
It was not an employment contract from the mercenary guild, but a private contract.
The purpose of this kind of contract is generally to hire them to do some shameful things, but the reward is far more generous than the tasks received in the mercenary guild.
"The leader must be thinking about a plan! After all, as long as you kill that shopkeeper, you will get more rewards than our annual tasks combined."
The raucous archer was also one of the pillars of the Serpent of Yevrke, and he looked ready to try.
"I object, that guy is not something we can deal with."
A cold voice interrupted the archer's enthusiasm, and everyone's eyes turned to a swordsman who was leaning against the door.
"Isn't it the Chaos Demon? Maurice, are you afraid of fighting against your kin?"
The archer enthusiastically put his hand on the cold-faced swordsman's shoulder, but before the archer could say the next sentence, a long sword had already touched his neck.
"I admit that the Chaos Demon's ability to invalidate magic is really tricky, but the shopkeeper doesn't seem to be able to fight with your name at all. He probably doesn't even know how to swing his sword. Am I right? Morris." The archer held high. Raised hands in surrender.
The swordsman's blade is entwined with gray magic, the most visible symbol of the Chaos Demon.
"Really? I don't know how to use a sword, but I can still kill you easily."
The Chaos Demon named Maurice shook his hand holding the blade slightly, and the blade cut off the two arrows suspended behind the archer with an indistinct trajectory.
"The strength of the Chaos Demons is not only their magic power, but also the purest body and reaction that surpasses human beings." He glanced at the archer's raised hands and said, "The action you avoided just now. In my eyes, the counterattack is as slow as a child, do you think it makes any sense for your swordsmanship to be superb?"
"Morris, that's enough." Reyek reminded the two aloud, and they stopped confronting each other.
"The most troublesome thing is that that guy is not an ordinary Chaos Demon." The swordsman put the long sword in his hand into the scabbard and said, "He has the surname of Arnorrod, Joshua Arnorold, and he is a Chaos Demon. The absolute ruler of China, even if he doesn't know swordsmanship, he can crush your skull with one hand."
"The abilities of your target individuals are the most important."
A man with gold-rimmed glasses intervenes next to Reyek.
"He has a very close relationship with the Seven Sages of Nolan. The man in gray has sent owls to monitor, or... to protect him secretly. The possibility of us wanting to deal with it secretly in Nolan City is basically zero."
"So do you want to give up this commission so easily? I won't mention the deposit provided by the employer. The alchemy medicines he gave can really cure the effects of the gray fog, don't they!"
The archer clapped his hands on the table angrily, and looked at Reyek at the same time.
Reyek fell into a long silence.
The Serpents of Yevrk are indeed the strongest mercenary group in the world, but they had a near-devastating accident a year ago...
While exploring a mysterious ruin beneath the Land of Frost, they encountered a group of monsters they had never seen before.
These monsters are different from ghosts and banshees, but their abilities have caused great trauma to the spirits of Reyek's team members.
At that time, there were 22 members who were affected by those monsters. Although Reyek commanded his mercenary team to retreat, half of the 22 members lost their minds halfway and became extremely Rampage monster.
Only half of the remaining members also endure all kinds of terrifying hallucinations all year round.
Reyek spent the first half of the year traveling around the world looking for a cure for this strange disease, but he found that except during the camp, he and the rest of the group sang and danced like a fool after getting drunk. Two songs that amused the traumatized members to get them out of the hallucinations of fear for a while.
In this half year, he lost six members again, but fortunately Reyek came to Nolan... Here he heard the singing of an elf.
The elf's singing temporarily relieved the symptoms of those members, allowing them to live like normal people.
Reyek looked up from his memory and found that the only five pillars left in the Serpent of Yevrke had been quarreling.
"If this mission fails, the price we have to pay is not that simple!"
"It's enough to lead the target out of the city. No need to come back to Nolan after the big task is completed!"
Reyek quietly listened to the quarrel between them, and took out the two music scores that Joshua had given him before he left from his armor.
"You're focusing on the wrong place." Reyek intervened in their quarrel, his eyes swept over everyone present: "If we complete the mission and remove the target, the magic net will be here. The world has completely disappeared, and Miss Taelin's new song may never be heard in this life!"
At this moment, the five members who were still arguing just now fell into silence, and the whole room was shrouded in a strange atmosphere. The five of them looked at each other, and no one knew how to refute.
Reyek, who was taciturn in front of outsiders, poked the most scruples in everyone's heart with one sentence.