"Since you're from the Reversed Fire rcenary Group, why would you still want to form a rcenary Squad with ?" The next day, after bidding farewell to his younger sister at ho, Zack stood at the entrance of Shaba Town with Yue Jinghua, shouldering the dry, desolate Gobi winds like the edge of a knife, it took Zack a mont to co back to his senses.
In the town's tavern, represented by Johnny, the rcenaries had started betting on whether this novice squad could complete their first mission.
Nearly ninety percent of people bet they would fail the task.
Even so, Yue Jinghua did things her own way; after leaving a bold statent at the tavern, Yue Jinghua went to the rcenary Guild in the town. She presented a personal recomndation letter from the deputy leader of the Reversed Fire rcenary Group. In the Eastern Continent, a recomndation from the well-known Reversed Fire rcenary Group was not sothing ordinary.
With the help of that recomndation letter, Yue Jinghua symbolically completed the physical test and family background investigation, acquired the rcenary qualification, and received a rcenary Manual, wearing a One-star rcenary Star Badge on her hand.
"I need to beco a Two-star rcenary within a month. To take on Stone Rank rcenary tasks step by step, that would require at least ten tasks, which ans about half a year to successfully promote," Yue Jinghua had already studied the rcenary Manual.
The rcenary Guild is one of the organizations with the longest establishnt and most complete system on the continent; the rcenary system it set up has beco near perfect to this day.
According to the rcenary Manual, rcenary levels are divided into One-star, Two-star, Three-star, Four-star, Five-star, and Star Soul, with rcenary King beyond that. Corresponding rcenary tasks are divided into five major Shell Ranks: Stone, Shell, Bead, Diamond, and Unparalleled, each rank is further divided into Blue, Yellow, and Red according to difficulty levels.
rcenaries undertake tasks that match their level. The rcenary Guild also provides cross-rank tasks, but it requires a small team composed of at least two rcenaries of the sa level to accept cross-rank rcenary tasks.
Upon completing a Shell Rank task, depending on the difficulty level, a Blue Shell, Yellow Shell, and Red Shell respectively count as five, six, and seven Stone Rank tasks. The normal cycle to complete a rcenary task is about five to ten days. Therefore, Yue Jinghua had to team up with others to have a chance at being promoted by completing two Shell Rank tasks within a month.
"Becoming a Two-star rcenary in one month is almost impossible. It's been many years since soone like that has appeared in Shaba Town," Zack was well aware of the difficulty of advancing in ranks among rcenaries, let alone for soone like Yue Jinghua who had no previous rcenary experience.
"The undefeated rcenary King Robb Keri once said, 'To do what others cannot is to be a rcenary,' and there's nothing in the world that's impossible," This is also the foreword found in the rcenary Manual.
Yue Jinghua looked out, in front of Shaba Town was an open cold desert Gobi.
The Gobi seed barren, yet it nurtured plenty of unique resources. Here were Gobi snow lotuses, gastrodia tuber insects, and a variety of highly valuable Dark Insects.
The rcenary tasks in Shaba Town were mostly related to this Tak Gobi. Every year, large numbers of dicine rchants and rchant caravans crossed through this Gobi, trading its produce to every corner of the Eastern Continent.
The task for Yue Jinghua and Zack's rcenary Squad was to collect one hundred poison needles from the Gobi Poison Bee Tail Scorpions.
The Gobi Poison Bee Scorpion is a crawling Dark Beast, not very large, but its attack potential lies in its two pincers capable of crushing rocks and a poison needle at its tail.
Any experienced rcenary has dealt with these scorpions before. This task was commissioned by a dicine rchant residing in the town to the "Coconut Shell" tavern; the difficulty of the task itself wasn't high, reasonably it should be a Red Stone Rank task.
However, the dicine rchant demanded a short tifra. One hundred Poison Bee Scorpions had to be collected within two days, thus the rcenary task's level was raised to Shell Rank.
Despite harboring doubts about Yue Jinghua's actions, Zack still entered the Tak Gobi with her.
Zack voluntarily went ahead of Yue Jinghua, which made her notice that Zack brought a large cloth bag.
Zack was taller than Shangguo people, but due to his family's lack of wealth, he appeared thin. He prepared a pocket in which he stored gloves for handling scorpions, a stick for moving stones, and a light for illumination.
Zack, born and raised locally in this generation, had been dealing with the venomous insects of the Gobi from a young age, familiar with all their habits.
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