The word "destiny" first appeared in the world of Rigar eleven centuries ago.
Before the rise of the Yetina sect, the original doctrine of the White Holy Religion, the Lamanites, who believed in animistic polytheism like many other places, were the first to come up with this term.
People include many mysterious things that they cannot understand into this, and all things that are too huge and cannot be resisted are summarized in a simple word.
The pessimistic Lamanites felt that even when the empire fell, all this was destined.
It is true that the Lamanites were unable to detect the storms brewing in many places. In the eyes of modern historians, many things, including the demise of the empire, are traceable - but it has to be said that this fate Planting things may actually exist.
At least when Henry and Mira passed the city gate inspection and entered Prosper, and then asked the locals to learn the location of the headquarters of the Mercenary Guild, they were stopped on the broad street. , such a word must have flashed in the minds of the sage and Luo An Loli.
"Hey..." Benny, with a twitching expression, limped up to them.
"Did you, a lowly poor man, escape at the critical moment, just like those damn Ford mercenaries?" Benny, who was followed by a dozen Sivalier guards wearing breastplates, gritted his teeth and said Henry said this.
"Do you know how much money I spent to redeem myself? I didn't need to spend all this money, as long as you despicable people can go up and buy time for me to leave." Without asking, Benny revealed the reason why he The reason for living here vividly and vividly.
"Tuye, Chedus." Looking left and right, the broad street was full of pedestrians, but Benny, who had the upper hand, confidently ordered the guards behind him to attack Henry and the others in Sivalier language.
He smiled triumphantly. The guards behind him did not draw their weapons. They came up to surround the two of them with their bare hands. Benny taunted you in common language: "I advise you to give up your resistance, you despicable poor devils. This is Sivalier." , if you make any moves, the guards will come immediately——"
"Bang -" The broken front teeth flew out with blood and saliva. When the Sivalier guard who came forward first rolled his eyes and fell down.
The sound attracted the attention of pedestrians on the roadside, and many shop owners poked their heads out of their shops to watch.
"You..." Benny, who thought he had the advantage, was stunned for a moment, but then he noticed that a guard quietly walked around behind Mira.
'At least kill this lowly slave. Benny put away what he was saying and winked at the remaining guards behind him. The Luoans were not welcomed in Sivalier. Even if they were killed on the street, they only needed to pay a few dollars. The guards would just turn a blind eye.
He thought this and glanced again. Henry didn't move and seemed not to notice.
Benny couldn't help but smile again, but before it fully bloomed, he saw the girl squat down to avoid the guard's grasp, and then stood with the palm of her right hand upward. As he stood up, he slapped the Sivaliya guard hard on the chin.
"Click!" His own tongue was almost broken when his teeth were bitten down hard by the external force.
"Ahhhhh!" The Sivalier guard immediately covered his mouth with both hands, and blood gushed out from between his fingers. Mira did not stop. She seemed to be thinking when the guard straightened up. After a short while, he got into a good position, stretched out his foot, and kicked the opponent's ankle hard.
"Pfft - thump -" The Silvalier guard who had a close contact with the bluestone on the back of his head rolled his eyes and fainted, while Mira gasped and turned to look at Henry.
"Well, you have memorized all the training, but it's not good that you just hesitated for a while to think about countermeasures. In actual combat, the time left for you to face a real opponent will be very short." Ignoring the people surrounding them There were ten Sivalier guards left. Henry explained to Mira carefully. The girl nodded seriously, her little face solemnly thinking about the mistakes she had made.
"You, you losers." Henry let it go. These well-equipped guards who couldn't even defeat Luo An Loli made Benny feel that he had lost all face. More and more people were watching, and the guards could only Afraid that he would notice this later, the blond young man gritted his teeth and was considering asking the guards to draw their weapons and do nothing without stopping - at most they would pay more, the laws of this country and Avenella is different.
"Ah——" But Henry on the opposite side made a tut-tsk sound to attract his attention.
The sage put his hand on the hilt of the sword behind his back and said calmly: "I know what you are thinking."
"You are thinking that we have the advantage in numbers, and with so many people watching, this man would not dare to draw his weapon."
"To be honest, I don't know what I will do." Henry smiled slightly and said, "Because I am surrounded by so many armed people now, and I feel very nervous."
His tone was as calm as if he was saying he was going to drink spruce tea in the afternoon.
"But this, this is a Claymore. It can easily cut a person in half from the shoulder to the waist, and you are just within its attack range." The expression on the sage's face looked like With a smile that looked more like a devil's, Benny wanted to retreat with cold sweat on his face, but at some point, the crowd of onlookers who had surrounded him made him unable to retreat.
"Now, you should ask yourself a question."
"Should I try my luck and see what effect it would have if this nervous man drew his sword?" Henry put away his smile, and then tightened his grip on the hilt of the sword.
"Do you think you are lucky enough, young man?"
"...Damn it!" The pressure of the condescending sage looking down coldly made Benny sweat. He cursed loudly and then turned around and limped away. The guards surrounding the two were stunned for a moment, and then saw that their master had run away, so they had no choice but to lift up their unconscious companion and leave in a hurry.
"Digege! Digege! Kosas Spa?" shouted the crowd to disperse, and the guards rushed in in a hurry. They were gorgeously dressed and well-trained, holding spears and carrying long swords comparable to Vennera. noble cavalry.
"Cosas Spa?" The guard leader could tell at a glance that the central figures in the incident were Henry and Mira. The sage, who looked not much different from the Sivalier people, was regarded as a local mercenary, so the guard The leader asked him directly in Shivariya what had happened.
"Tubabian, Moxiang." Henry smiled and explained to him that nothing happened. Seeing that the guards had arrived and there was no excitement to watch, the surrounding onlookers also dispersed. The guard leader looked up and down at the sage, then glanced at Mira beside him, and finally shook his head and sighed.
"Don't be so noisy in the future, young man." The sage's standard Sivaliya language seemed to confirm the fact that he was a local. He said this to him, and Henry smiled slightly and said again: "Thank you for your hard work, sir." Then the other party waved his hand and turned to leave.
"...Did you just fool him?" The passers-by and shop owners who were busy with their own affairs ignored the two of them, but Mira raised her head and took a deep look at Henry and said.
"Sivalier is the strongest country on the west coast, and its people have a very serious sense of superiority. They look down on people from other countries very much, and the national guards are even worse. So in order to save trouble, yes, I let That Moxiang believes that I am a Sivalier." Henry shrugged, and Mira rolled her eyes at him again.
"Mr. Sage is such a terrible adult."
Henry touched her little head, and then the two of them led the horses and finally arrived near the mercenary guild.
But before going in, Henry looked around for a while and found the stables where the horses were kept on the opposite side of the street.
Prospel is the capital city where land is at a premium. Located near Vasha, the largest and busiest port on the west coast, its prosperity is far higher than that of Bissanir. Therefore, just to store two horses, Henry spent the price of two Ella silver coins. If they want to live here, I am afraid that all the more than one hundred gold coins they have left on them will be quickly consumed if they are not careful.
The headquarters of the Mercenary Guild is a very huge building made of wood and stone.
This kind of construction can be seen everywhere in Prosper, Civaliedo is a plain, and the only nearby places where stone can be quarried are the distant cliffs of the Prosper channel that gives its name.
However, the chalk limestone produced here is very fragile and difficult to mine, so the locals planted many oak trees. The houses used oak as the main structure, and then filled the wooden frame with stones in the middle, and then covered it with plaster.
The most recognizable part of a typical wood-and-stone structure building is the clearly visible wooden X-shaped frame on the exterior wall. Paired with dry and smooth plaster walls, this style of building also has a unique romanticism of the West Vallier style. Beauty.
The interior of the guild hall is also quite spacious, and the two of them attracted a lot of attention as soon as they walked in.
One of them was so eye-catching that Henry was also stunned.
"?" Mira pulled the corner of his clothes, and the sage let out a long sigh.
"Today is really a day full of fateful encounters." He said this, and the man sitting at the wooden table in the hall stood up. Her long single ponytail swayed slightly, and Mira frowned.
'White? Loans - No. The girl's blue eyes gradually widened, and the man who came to the door had long hair that shone like metal in the sun.
"Silver..." Luo Anda Loli murmured, while the woman opposite walked toward Henry with a smile.
"Long time no see, Henry." She said this, her voice was clear but full of power. The sage sighed, and then nodded: "Long time no see..."
The exchange between the two seemed to end here. The silver-haired woman turned her head and took a deep look at Mira, and then at Henry.
The waves of light flowed between her bright eyes, and she seemed to have thought of something, but she didn't explain it, just smiled lowly.
"You are still the same." She said, and Henry shrugged: "Aren't you the same? It would be better to ask why you appear in such a place."
The conversation once again went beyond Mira's understanding. She stared blankly at the two silent guys. For a moment, the girl felt as if there were two Henrys talking to herself.
"There are not many people in the ice and snow. I miss the warmth of the human world, don't I?" The woman shrugged, then seemed to not intend to stay here anymore, turned around, and left without saying a word.
"Woo-" The moment she walked out of the door, something on her waist reflected the sunlight, making Luo Anloli feel dazzled. But when she calmed down, Mira's eyes widened again.
"Ruby badge...the highest-level mercenary." Mira murmured as she looked up at Henry blankly, and the sage smiled at her and reached out to touch her little head.
"Hello, we are here to register." After walking through the long hall and arriving at the wooden counter, Henry said to the female receptionist in common language.
The staff of the Mercenary Guild come from all over the world, so the official communication language is usually the language spoken by more people.
"Uh - us?" The female staff member was stunned for a moment. Because of her height, she could only see the top of Mira's head from where she sat at the counter.
"Sorry." Henry leaned over and hugged Mira. The girl glared at him dissatisfied, and the sage continued: "Me and her." He stretched out a finger and pointed at the petite Luo Anda Loli said, the staff was stunned again, and some scattered mercenaries and adventurers sitting in the hall to rest also looked at him.
But no one laughed because they were still immersed in what happened before.
"Ah... uh, okay, okay, please register your name here first, and then go in through the door on the left to take the test." The female staff skillfully recorded the names of the two people in the thick book. went up, and then explained the test process carefully, Henry nodded, and after everything was said, Mira patted his arm to signal to put herself down.
"Please pay the participation fee of 10 dannos, 5 dannos per person, 10 dannos in total." She said, and Henry took out a common copper coin, and the woman found two iron coins.
"Then I wish you good luck." She said, then seemed to hesitate.
"If you want to ask about my relationship with the person just now, they are just acquaintances." The sage answered loudly, and the other person nodded, seeming to breathe a sigh of relief for some reason.
The hall became lively again, and the afternoon passed quickly amidst the noise of people.
The test is conducted separately for two people. The lowest level green card test is quite simple. You only need to meet the corresponding physical standards to qualify.
Needless to say, Henry, of course, took only ten minutes to easily hit various targets and avoid obstacles amidst the stunned expressions of the instructors, and then spent another three minutes listening to the short civilian staff's long speech. After a bunch of notes that everyone knew were just a formality, he went out and waited at the door.
After waiting for a full twenty minutes, a tired-looking Mira walked out with a dirty look on her face and a one-handed sword in her hand.
"Passed." She waved her hand to Henry, and the sage stepped forward and rubbed her little head.
There are not many people who have obtained green card mercenary qualifications at the age of eleven. The staff who did not know that Mira had only been training for more than 20 days did not take it seriously and wrote the names of two people. A big circle was drawn on the notebook.
It would take two days to receive the corresponding badges, but as soon as the two of them turned around, as if they saw them passing, a group of four mercenaries - or a small group of adventurers - approached them. get in a word.
"Did you two just pass?" This group of people are all quite young, generally around 20 years old, two men and two women. Judging from the equipment, they are a one-handed swordsman, two archers, and a young woman. The look of a magician.
Henry glanced at her. Her robe was dark blue, and the cuffs had two gold threads, which meant the second stage of the first stage. All of them wore green badges and seemed to be newcomers who had recently become mercenaries.
"Well, yes." Henry nodded, and the male one-handed swordsman who spoke smiled slightly: "My name is Alan, and these are my friends Benoit, Jeanne and Ann." He pointed at the male and female archers and The female magician said this.
"As you can see, our team has some configuration problems, and there are some shortages of front-line personnel responsible for containment..." Alan scratched his cheek in embarrassment and said: "Our ambition is to become a hunting mercenary group. , but after trying this several times, the result was that it failed to contain the prey and was run away or chased by it, so I wanted to find a companion..."
"At least!" As soon as Henry opened his mouth, the young one-handed swordsman shouted eagerly: "Can we at least complete this task together? It is not very difficult. As long as the cooperation is perfect, there won't be too many problems."
"Those experienced mercenaries are unwilling to pay attention to us, so they can only guard here like this..." Alan sighed helplessly, Henry turned his head and looked at Mira, and Luo An nodded. .
"Okay, then please give me some advice. My name is Henry." The sage stretched out his hand.
"My name is Mira." The white-haired loli also said seriously.
