vrcanaries 22 Join a mercenary team
22 Join a mercenary team
Name: Anthony (sounds similar to her real name)
Magical talents: Light and Water (dual-elemental healing magic should make it easier to join a mercenary group)
Test Level Required: Beginner (This is not an option)
After filling out the form, Annie handed over a gold coin and was taken inside for an assessment, which involved casting some skills. After the assessment, the staff member took her assessment results and handed them to another staff member.
The staff member who received her assessment results glanced at the flame symbol on her school uniform.
"An alchemy student at the Royal Academy of Magic, Kane? A dual-elemental mage?"
"Wow, the staff member exclaimed in admiration. The Royal Magic Academy of Kane is truly remarkable. A dual-elemental mage was actually relegated to the Alchemy Department!" However, as a Kane native, he was also very proud, as the Royal Magic Academy of Kane is known for producing many talented individuals.
Annie's dual-element magic assessment results came out: Water element, Elementary Level 2; Light element, Elementary Level 1.
She was quite surprised by the result; she hadn't expected her water magic to be only at the beginner level two, as she had assumed they were all at beginner level one. She really wanted to test the levels of her other magics when she had the chance, but she'd have to wait until then.
After obtaining the magician's badge and the beginner's magic robe, Annie found an inn.
After changing out of her school uniform, putting on a magic robe, wearing her magic badge, and holding the magic wand provided by the magic guild, Annie's disguise as a young magician was complete.
Her reasoning for choosing the magic wand gifted by the Magic Guild instead of the black wand she brought from the Dragon Cave was as follows:
That black rod was definitely not an ordinary item, but she didn't know its specific use, and it didn't have any magic stones on it. It would be too strange and conspicuous to use it like that, so she threw it into her own domain. She would wait until her weapon-refining skills improved so that she could identify the black material of the rod and then inlay it with magic stones before using it.
By the way, her spatial domain is already about one cubic meter.
It is said that spatial domains can expand infinitely, and after an advancement, even living beings can enter and exit, including the domain's owner! Therefore, compared to that heaven-defying ultimate domain, this cubic meter is really nothing; Annie is still just a novice magician.
After taking a few more glances at her appearance, Annie sighed: "Sigh, when she was a young girl, she looked healthy and energetic, but when she turned into a boy, she became a thin young boy... I wonder if any mercenary teams would want her?"
The Magic Guild and the Mercenary Guild are two essential institutions in a city.
Compared to the Magic Guild, the Mercenary Guild is much more lively, because the Royal Magic Academy of Kane doesn't have a branch there.
Many mercenaries came and went, and there were all sorts of people: groups of three or five looking for missions, and nobles coming in carriages to issue missions.
Anne glanced at the general layout of the Mercenary Guild:
In the very center of the hall is the reception and information desk and the task posting wall; to the left of the hall is the place to register mercenaries and hand over tasks; to the right is the place to receive and post tasks.
Annie naturally went to the left.
Upon arriving at the designated location, Annie found the corresponding staff member, submitted her mercenary application and relevant documents, and paid some money.
Soon, she received a mercenary's diary and a mercenary badge.
A mercenary's diary is used to record the acceptance and completion of mercenary missions; more accurately, it's a mercenary mission logbook. With this, mercenaries can freely accept missions at mercenary guilds in various locations.
This diary is kept in duplicate, with the Mercenary Guild maintaining an archive. The guild regularly updates and reorganizes the diary, recording the latest level of each mercenary.
According to the Mercenary Guild's regulations, there are only five individual mercenary ranks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Rank 7 and 8 can only be obtained by mercenary teams.
Annie's level is novice mage/warrior (default level). Below that is the default level for apprentice mage, and the default level for ordinary people. Above that is the default level for intermediate mage, and the default level for advanced mage and above.
Other professions are similar to mages, with levels corresponding to rank.
After donning the superior mercenary badge, Annie returned to the quest wall in the main hall.
On one side of the mission wall is a list of mercenary team recruitment information. Although the guild allows individual mercenaries to take on missions, most choose to team up with others for a higher safety factor.
After briefly browsing the recruitment advertisements, Annie chose a level 1 mercenary team called Silver Wolves. They had accepted a mission to escort someone and obtain monster materials, and the destination was the Monster Forest. Both were level 1 mercenary missions.
Mercenary missions are divided into ten levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 10, 19 ...
For a low-level mercenary to take on a high-level mission, they must join a mercenary team of the corresponding level, but mercenary teams will generally consider this carefully for the sake of development.
Conversely, high-level mercenaries who join low-level mercenary teams can only do low-level tasks with the team. However, most mercenary teams distribute rewards according to contribution and rank.
Anne chose a mercenary team of similar level to herself, so that she wouldn't lose out to either of them, and she could be more confident in her choice.
The Silver Wolf Mercenary Group is a team with a long history.
Silver Wolf was originally a fixed team of 10 people (mercenary teams have corresponding number requirements for their level, and small teams usually keep the number of people to a minimum, because if there are more people, the money will be less), but two members had an accident and could not participate as scheduled just before departure. The captain was so anxious that he had to recruit people, but it was not something that could be done in a short time.
The captain finally decided to lead everyone to prepare for departure, leaving only Jim to recruit people at the mercenary workshop. If no one was recruited by departure time, Jim would go directly to meet up with everyone and recruit along the way.
Jim waited anxiously at the Mercenary Guild. When Annie finally arrived, he signed her without asking any questions. A while later, a teenager arrived, and Jim hurriedly signed him as well. Then he took the two of them to meet up with the captain.
Meeting point.
David stared wide-eyed at the two boys Jim had brought.
Jim was a newcomer to the Silver Wolf team, having only joined recently. However, he was introduced by Willie, an experienced veteran, and the captain trusted him, so he was given the task of recruiting. But the two people he brought...
Anthony, a thin and frail young magician, was accompanied by a squirrel as a pet; the other boy, Mor, had dark eyes and black hair, and handsome, chiseled features. He wasn't as thin as Anthony, but as a warrior, he wasn't strong enough either! Most importantly, both of them were only teenagers!
"Jim, look at the kind of person you picked! Are you asking us to be your nannies?" Willie, with her short temper, was the first to question him, glaring at Jim.
"Yes, I'm sorry." Jim shrank back in fright.
David was in a bind. He had never realized that Jim was so timid and inexperienced. He had trusted Willie too much, and now that Willie was the first to question him, he really didn't know how to react.
Alas, even old experience can fail one day...
"Captain, these two are absolutely no good. Let's set off immediately and find more people along the way!" Willie glared at Anthony and Moore with disdain.
By the way, dear readers, to avoid giving you a headache while reading, from this point on, our protagonist Anne will be temporarily renamed Anthony.
Anthony remained calm, glancing to the side to see Moore also looking indifferent, seemingly unconcerned about Willie's disdain.
"Hehe, they have an ace up their sleeve," Anthony thought to himself with a smirk.
"Captain, Captain... um, I've already... signed the contract with them..." Jim glanced cautiously at Willie and whispered.
"What?!" Willie jumped up in anger.
Captain David was taken aback, realizing that he had indeed given Jim the right to sign players... Now he didn't have to worry about it anymore, because the matter was already settled.
And so, Anthony and Moore set off with the Silver Wolf.
Let me first introduce the basic situation of the Silver Wolves. The Silver Wolves consist of 10 people, with a configuration of four warriors, four mages, and two scouts. The person who was involved in the accident was one warrior and one mage, but the replacements, Anthony and Mor, are exactly one warrior and one mage, so the lineup remains unchanged.
Silver Wolves is a veteran mercenary team that has been around for several years, with many of its members being long-term, regular members. After several years of hard work, Captain David has saved up enough money and plans to recruit more people to expand the team and upgrade it to a top-tier team after this mission is completed.
As mentioned before, the Mercenary Guild has requirements on the number of members required for each level of mercenary team.
、、、、、、七个等级，级最低要求两个人，级五个人、级10、级50、级100、级500、1000。
But at this critical juncture, an unexpected incident occurred in the team: two veteran players were injured and unable to participate as scheduled.
One of the tasks was to escort a nobleman named Sherlock back to his family's territory. In order to save time, Lord Sherlock asked Silver Wolf to take him back to his territory via a shortcut through the Monster Forest.
This shortcut wasn't dangerous at all; it was a familiar path for mercenaries on the edge of the Warcraft world, so David readily agreed, though he would charge more for it.
Besides this mission, David also took on some missions to obtain monster materials. He planned to send Lord Sherlock to the territory, then turn back and venture deep into the monster forest to obtain the materials, before returning to the imperial city along the same route. At that time, he could start upgrading his mercenary team.
The Silver Wolf team members were already familiar with these missions, so David did not cancel them due to the team members' unexpected injuries.
Because they are already familiar with each other, the addition of Anthony and Morey, two burdens, will only require a little more effort, according to the kind-hearted captain David.
Fortunately, apart from Willie, the other members of the team didn't have any objections.