Now, the food problem in Thunderhawk City was solved, and there was so surplus money in the treasury, enough at least to buy the next batch of yarn. After two months of training, the Guard Corps was fully prepared, both physically and equipnt-wise. Finally, Rocky could focus on the next step of his plan.
His next plan was naturally the mission from the rcenary Guild!
Since he had returned from Eternal City two months ago, he had been working hard toward this goal, and now everything was finally in place to take on missions from the rcenary Guild.
So, after returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Rocky didn't go to sleep right away but eagerly took out the mission receiver.
This mission receiver, which he had bought from the rcenary Guild for five hundred Gold Coins, allowed him to easily review all the missions from the rcenary Guild and directly contact them to receive missions.
The mission receiver wasn't large, about the size of a palm, and looked like a dish embedded with a Magic Stone, equipped with several buttons. When Rocky turned it on, a beam of light shot out from it and transford into an image right before his eyes.
"Damn! That scared !"
Startled by the image projected from the receiver, Rocky imdiately thought of a term not of this world: holographic projection.
This mission receiver was just like a holographic projector!
When he looked more closely at the image, he saw rows and rows of information, all related to missions.
Rocky's interest was piqued, and he quickly selected one of the ssages, pressing the buttons on the receiver to read the details closely.
Type: rchant ship escort.
Requirent: A Void Magic Squad of more than ten people.
Duration: Three days.
Mission Objective: Accompany the rchant ship from Baili City and escort it to Hundred Beasts City, making a land stop for resupply. The mission is completed once the rchant ship successfully reaches its destination.
Commission: Thirty thousand Gold Coins.
Mission Issuer: ×× Chamber of Comrce.
Unlike the bulletin board inside the rcenary Guild, the task information displayed on the mission receiver was very detailed, clear at a glance, and very convenient.
When Rocky saw the detailed information of the randomly selected task, he couldn't help but lick his lips.
"Goodness, a three-day escort mission can earn thirty thousand gold coins… That's quite generous."
"I just wonder what kind of valuable goods the issuing Chamber of Comrce is transporting to hire a Void Magic Squad for such a high price."
Although surprised by the high commission of the mission, Rocky quickly moved on to other information because he couldn't take this mission.
Shortly after, another piece of information caught his eye.
Type: Demons extermination.
Requirent: A rcenary Group of over one-hundred people.
Duration: ——
Mission Objective: Head to the forest farm owned by the ngma Comrce Guild in the Jialin Mountain Range, exterminate the demons within. Estimated number of demons is over thirty, specific types unknown, no high-level demons, and the mission is completed once all demons are exterminated.
Commission: Forty thousand Gold Coins.
Mission Issuer: ngma Comrce Guild.
Unlike the previous escort mission, what attracted Rocky's attention was an extermination mission, and the commission for this task was very high, a total of forty thousand Gold Coins!
Furthermore, the requirents for this mission completely matched Rocky's capabilities, even exceeding them, aning that he could definitely take on this mission.
But Rocky didn't act rashly because after carefully reading through the mission information, he realized that although the commission was high, it was also extrely dangerous.
The objective of the mission was to clean out the demons that had occupied the forest farm, and according to the information, the number of demons inside was over thirty! That number was a bit too much!
Thirty demons!
Although Rocky hadn't engaged in large-scale combat with demons before, he knew that such a number and scale of demons could only be confronted by a Void Magic Squad; ordinary soldiers, let alone a rcenary Group of over one hundred people, even a five-hundred-person rcenary group might not be able to handle them!
So, despite the very high commission for this task, Rocky wasn't blinded by the amount of money at stake. He indeed wanted to earn money by completing tasks, but he wasn't about to risk his life for it.
Also, precisely because he maintained his rationality, the more Rocky looked at this task, the stranger it seed to him.
If this task truly required exterminating at least thirty demons to be completed, then why would the ngma Comrce Guild need to hire a rcenary group of more than a hundred people? You should know the commission they were offering was a whopping forty thousand gold coins, a sum sufficient even for a rcenary group larger than five hundred mbers.
This is really strange...
Shaking his head, although Rocky couldn't figure out the answer, he still felt that the task released by the ngma Comrce Guild, despite its high commission, was too dangerous and there seed to be sothing off about it. It was a task he wouldn't accept.
Fortunately, there were many tasks available at the rcenary Guild, and there was a vast array to choose from. Thus, even if this particular task wasn't suitable, there were other tasks to consider.
In this way, Rocky soon began to look up information about various tasks one after the other and noted down the ones he was interested in.
Before he knew it, he had spent most of the evening looking and, by the ti he realized it, it was nearly dawn.
The next day, he called Liliya, Aileen, and Monte into his room.
The tasks from the rcenary Guild were definitely to be taken, but they couldn't be accepted recklessly, or else he might end up spending all they had, which was not sothing Rocky wanted to see happen. Thus, for the sake of safety, they needed to discuss which task to take as a group.
Once everyone had arrived, Rocky took out the task receiver and showed everyone the tasks he had selected the previous night. He believed these tasks were within their capability, but which one to actually take still required everyone's opinions to make a decision.
However, before that, he first brought up that extermination task again, because he always felt there was sothing peculiar about it.
"Look at this task," he said. "Doesn't it seem problematic to you? I just feel there's sothing odd."
After bringing up the detailed information of the extermination task, Rocky spoke.
On being asked, Liliya, Aileen, and Monte all looked towards the task information.
"My lord, is it the requirents of this extermination task that you find problematic?"
Aileen was the first to speak, having just glanced at it briefly.
This was sowhat unexpected for Rocky, as he thought perhaps Liliya or Monte would be the first to notice sothing amiss, but he quickly nodded in agreent.
"Exactly, I don't understand why the ngma Comrce Guild would spend forty thousand gold coins yet only hire a rcenary group of more than a hundred mbers. Logically, a task of this difficulty would require a group of at least five hundred mbers to complete, you know..."
"The ngma Comrce Guild did it on purpose."
Even before Rocky could finish articulating his doubts, Aileen had an answer for him, continuing to say, "The reason the ngma Comrce Guild set the task's requirents so low is actually to attract those rcenaries whose capabilities are clearly insufficient but are blinded by the prospect of money."
"Because if a rcenary group with insufficient strength took this task, even if they couldn't complete it, they could still indirectly lower the difficulty of it — after all, a group of more than a hundred might not be able to exterminate all thirty demons, but could probably kill at least one or two, right?"
"But if only one or two demons are killed, the ngma Comrce Guild definitely won't pay the commission, yet the difficulty of the task would have been reduced. Then, the ngma Comrce Guild could imdiately lower the commission and raise the requirents, allowing a competent rcenary group to quickly finish the task. This thod guarantees them a no-loss situation," Aileen explained.
In just a few words, Aileen had clearly explained all of Rocky's doubts, leaving him completely dumbfounded!
"I never thought it could be done this way..."
It took a good while for Rocky to regain his composure after Aileen's explanation, after which he frowned. Although he had felt this extermination task was fishy, he hadn't realized there were so many twists to it, and the ngma Comrce Guild's tactic was utterly devious!
Seeing through Rocky's thoughts, Aileen then said, "My lord, these are just small tricks of rchants, quite normal. We just need to be more cautious."
When Rocky couldn't help but feel the ngma Comrce Guild was too sly, Aileen appeared unconcerned.
Rember, Aileen was a rchant too!
For a rchant, profits are always the top priority. To achieve their goals while minimizing expenses, such little tricks are nothing.
Moreover, though the task seed sly, it was up to the volunteers. If those rcenary groups, clearly lacking in strength but hoping to make a fortune, ended up annihilated, whom could they bla?
Therefore, to Aileen, such tricks were nothing much at all.
Upon hearing Aileen's words, Rocky, while reluctant to admit it, couldn't help but nod. He also privately felt fortunate that calling everyone together to discuss this had been the right move, because clearly, what seed simple in the rcenary Guild's tasks often had many underlying complications—one misstep could lead to unwittingly benefiting others.
So afterward, he laid out the tasks he had picked the day before, discussing with everyone which task they should take.
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