In the bustling wooden house, Linghai, who was wearing black leather armor, sat on a relatively clean chair, drinking fruit wine that was popular among female adventurers. With her pretty face, she held her cheeks slightly, her sea-blue eyes scanning the surroundings secretly, and her brain was working rapidly to remember everything around her.
This place is the Brave Union of the city-state Victoria. It is also the first professional union on the entire continent that was established by the original brave men and carved runes and inscriptions. This union is not under the jurisdiction of the city lord's palace, and even the "Twelve Moments" organization co-founded by the Twelve Churches cannot have direct jurisdiction over the Brave Union, and at most it has a little suggestion power.
Therefore, this professional union located on the outskirts of the Twilight Forest once became the freest and "cleanest" union on the entire continent. As a freelancer, if you want to join the Brave Union, you only need to meet two conditions:
First, do not believe in religion.
Second, in the magic circle of "instinct mapping", maintain yourself and not be swallowed up by negative emotions.
The former is easy to understand, and the latter is also easy to understand. The so-called instinct mapping is to project the behaviors you have done most recently to let others know whether you are murderous or have special hobbies.
XP doesn't count.
And just yesterday, Linghai, who had received the blessing of the black shadow, chose to join the Brave Guild. After a series of reviews, she passed.
It’s just that the cost is a bit high.
Fortunately XP does not count.
Thinking of this, Linghai sighed softly, placed the wooden cup on the seat, left three copper coins, stood up and left, walking under a huge screen. She raised her head and began to browse the contents carefully.
"Hunting the silver-level terror beast (early stage), located in the east of the Twilight Forest..."
When he saw a line of text marked "Important", Linghai's pupils shrank slightly. The silver level terror beast is very dangerous. Although the panel shows that it only has the strength of the early silver level, in fact, such a terror beast is completely comparable to the ordinary late silver or even gold level extraordinary beings. This kind of mission can be easily and directly carried out by a single person. Turn into compost.
but……
Looking at the very attractive bounty and rewards, Linghai pursed his lower lip and fell into a dilemma for a moment. At this moment, she suddenly saw another mission in her peripheral vision.
"Explore the changed Goblin tribe and collect intelligence. The reward will depend on the accuracy of the intelligence."
Goblin...
Linghai loosened the gray scarf slightly. The Goblin tribe itself was very weak, and Linghai was already a late-stage Silver player with a "high" level of dyeing. She could explore the layout of the Goblin toilets if she wanted to. Clear as day. After seeing this mission, Linghai no longer hesitated. She walked directly to the front desk and accepted the two tasks of hunting the horror beast and exploring the goblin tribe.
Kill two birds with one stone.
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"We have money there to reward adventurers!!!"
At this time, in the largest thatched hut in the Goblin tribe, Eluma, who was dressed in blue sacrificial attire, looked at the long mission announcement in her hand, and said in a trembling voice: "You don't want to default on the debt owed to the Brave Guild, do you? ?Don’t you know that even the king dare not owe money to the Brave Guild?”
"Um?"
At this time, his legs were resting on the table. Zhou Li, who was reading the book "The Brave Man" in his hand, raised his head. Then he continued to read the book in his hand and said without raising his head: "What are you worried about? You're not You didn’t look at my plan. This is a business where money begets money. If you don’t want to let go of your children, you won’t be able to trap the wolf.”
"But we have no money! We have no capital at all!"
Eluma's voice was slightly crying, and she pointed to the statement in her hand, her anxiety breaking through the sky: "With our current level of alertness, any silver-level shadow transcendent will be able to detect us clearly. If they go back and submit information directly to the union and collect payment directly from you, what will they do then?!"
The more she talked, the more frightened she became. Eluma sat on a chair, holding her head and murmuring gracelessly: "Let me think about it, let me think about it, I still have three pearls gifted by the gods, but there is no gift from the gods on them." Sell. Two scrolls...can't be activated without the blood of gods. Wait a minute, I still have a platinum-blonde card left by my father. If I sell this..."
After finishing the calculation, Eluma stretched out her hands and collapsed on the table, "It's not enough..."
"well…"
Zhou Li glanced at Eluma and sighed helplessly. It was obvious that she had her own way, but this silly girl immediately wanted to sell the things her father left her to help pay off her debt. Thinking of this, Zhou Li couldn't help but look at Eluma with a soft color in his eyes.
This is why in the previous life, Eluma's ability had not improved in twenty years, but he still kept Eluma by his side and treated her as an equal.
Twenty years later, Zhou Li still remembered that he in the previous time and space would be involved in a war soon. Blood and explosions filled his nerves, and every time he swung his sword, he saw flesh and blood flying everywhere. In hundreds of battles, large and small, Zhou Li was on the verge of death dozens of times. And every time, the one who carried him in the end to escape from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood was Eluma, who only knew a few tricks and was always laughed at by Zhou Li for only running away.
Zhou Li once asked Eluma why he had to go to him again and again to save him during that war. He still remembered that in a battle that could be called a meat grinder, it was Eluma who rescued him from a collapsed fortress. When he woke up again, Eluma's flawless face was carved with a thorn blade. There was a hideous scar, and the thumb of her right hand was finally replaced with an iron joint.
You know, when he just traveled through time, Zhou Li, who had been mentally affected by the seeds of gods, once hated Eluma because of her low combat effectiveness, and he often ridiculed her. But in the end, Eluma still carried Zhou Li, who was determined to go his own way, from the edge of death, taking one step at a time and dragging him back to the city-state.
"well?"
Eluma in that time and space seemed caught off guard after hearing Zhou Li's inquiry. Then she thought about it and answered naturally:
"I summoned you into this world, of course I am responsible for you."
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Um?
Zhou Li, who was freed from memories, was suddenly startled. An idea suddenly flashed through his mind, but it was fleeting. Now he couldn't catch the tail of the idea just now, and then he could only give up.
"Let me ask you, what is the way the union evaluates intelligence missions?"
Zhou Li came back to his senses and asked Eluma a question: "How can the union determine that that person's information is valuable to me?"
"Hmm..." Eluma thought for a moment, then she raised her head and answered with some uncertainty: "Is it an equivalent magic circle?"
"That's right."
Zhou Li nodded and continued: "After the executor chooses to submit the information, I need to go to the Brave Union and enter the equivalent magic circle. In the magic circle, the executor and I will hand over the known information to the magic circle. Formation, the formation itself evaluates the degree of overlap between the two. The higher the degree of overlap, the less reward the executor will receive. This is how the value of intelligence is assessed."
"Wait a minute, don't you mean to????"
Eluma understood Zhou Li's meaning instantly for some reason. She said to Zhou Li in a panic: "Aren't you taking advantage of a loophole? Is this okay?"
Who knows as much information about the current Goblin tribe as Zhou Li? If Zhou Li goes ahead as he says, the person who takes this task will never be able to exchange for a penny in his life, because no one understands goblins better than Zhou Li.
"Of course not."
Zhou Li smiled, then he put down the Brave Exclusive, and said to Eluma and Heishu who was taking notes frantically on the side: "You must remember that it is the stupidest behavior to cut off the root directly from the root. Because you cut this There is only one crop. But if you are willing to invest in giving water, sunshine and fertilizer to the Philippine vegetables, then you will harvest more Philippine vegetables. Come on, Black Tree, what is this called?"
Facing the boss's test, Heishu closed his notebook with a clang, stood up straight and replied loudly: "Sustainably fish in dry marshes!"
"Yep."
Zhou Li snapped his fingers, then looked at the moonlight outside, and a smile appeared on his face involuntarily. He waved his hand, and Heishu left the thatched house very knowingly, then returned home and began to summarize his daily experiences. At this time, only Zhou Li and Eluma were left in the room.
"Do you still remember the twelve cards of the gods?"
Zhou Li's question stunned Eluma for a moment, then she poked her head with her finger and said helplessly: "Although I can't keep up with your thoughts sometimes, I still have a brain."
"The gods cannot directly interfere with the earthly world, so they established religion to spread their blessings. At the same time, in order to strengthen the power of the earthly world, they deprived themselves of half of their godhood and power and created twelve cards, corresponding to the December month of the earthly world. This time we In addition to defeating the demon king who is about to awaken, the other task is to collect these twelve cards to make the gods reappear in the world."
"I found the first card."
Zhou Li interrupted Eluma's narration. Eluma suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at Zhou Li in disbelief.
"The divine card forged by the God of Life who controls plants and living things - the Holy Crown Tree." Zhou Li faced Eluma and said word by word: "I found it."
"Twilight Forest is a magic card."
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In another time and space, the Twilight Forest was not Zhou Li's first stop in search of the divine card, but the last stop.
At the same time, this is also his last battle before defeating the Demon King.
The reason is simple. The gods guide the brave. The aura of the abyss in the twilight forest is on the verge of breaking through. All dream beasts have been contaminated, and all intelligent creatures in the forest have become slaves of the abyss. Therefore, brave men who uphold justice and glory need to conquer the Twilight Forest, and the way to do so is...
Kill all living things that move.
Finally, Zhou Li succeeded.
Goblins, slimes, dusk elves, twisted tree spirits, white spirit tigers, millennium butterflies... a total of 3,213 creatures were completely extinct. All dream beasts were torn apart in reality, and even a group of inexplicable Adventurers who break into the forest and are already contaminated are no exception.
All perished.
When Zhou Li killed the last creature, the Twilight Forest turned to ashes in the darkness. A card representing rebirth and hope rose from the ashes and fell into Zhou Li's hands.
"This is nature's reward for your righteous behavior!"
The gods said so.
