holy flame

Taran is a famous ice-free port, one of the few free cities on the mainland, and a famous city of mercenaries.

She does not belong to any country, but a coalition government formed by the local chamber of commerce, managed by businessmen.Moreover, the security of Taran is also controlled by several major mercenary regiments in different regions - freelancers who act alone, hunt monsters and find relics for a living are called adventurers, and the adventurers guild is more like a communication merchant and adventurer intermediary organization, so it seems that the adventurer's guild is more widely distributed than the mercenary guild, but in fact, although the adventurer's guilds in various places have the same name, they are not actually a unified organization, but are controlled by the local governments behind the scenes. a semi-official department.

Since the mercenary carries the word "soldier", it is obviously different from the lone ranger adventurers.They range from six or seven people to as many as a hundred, forming a fixed team. Most of the small ones make a living protecting businessmen.Those with a large number of people were lucky enough to accept the employment of several large mercenary regiments hired by Talan merchants, which became the city's security team and had a fixed station. Most of the others were hired by various countries and made a living by fighting .However, Clorion is not a country with frequent wars, so the mercenary group who can't find a job either takes robbers as a second job, or can only do some business by themselves, or farm the land, but many people have made a lot of money. Fan career.The Mercenary Union is a non-profit organization created by several large mercenary regiments hundreds of years ago to communicate with each other in order to survive. However, the original founder obviously did not expect that today, the Mercenary Guild has become The largest unofficial organization on the continent of Lorien.

However, because of the particularity of the Mercenary Guild, it is impossible for this organization to blossom everywhere like the Adventurer's Guild.Even many small countries like Chris and Sith that don't have much military strength at all, are afraid of the large number of mercenaries that the establishment of the mercenary guild may bring, so they don't allow the establishment of the mercenary guild at all.Merchants wanted to find guard mercenaries, and they had to send people to hire them from other cities. Afterwards, the employers and the hired people would meet outside the city according to the tokens. Of course, this was not the case in Talan, the city of soldiers.

When Samuel and his party came to Talan, it was already the middle of February. On the one hand, it was not a shortcut from the Red Dragon Mountains to Talan, and on the other hand, it was because they were robbed by robbers on the way. up.To be correct, only Zoe and Allen's camp was robbed... At that time, Barn went to find dry wood, Eric and Frank went hunting, Samuel and Julian went to explore the road, and when they were robbed, Alan Mu lay motionless in the tent, while Zooey watched the fun enthusiastically, neither of them even called for help.

The result was that the bandits not only plundered their camp, but took the two men as trophies.After all, even though beautiful boys and handsome young men were untrained, they could still fetch a good price in the slave market.When everyone came back, the robbers could no longer even see their shadows.Samuel was full of anger, and led the other four people to search for robbers' dens all over the mountains and plains, and made a fuss about the robbers within a hundred miles. Fortunately, the robbers who hijacked them were too greedy, because they wanted to sell them. The good price delayed the selling time, and finally they were lucky enough to find the two of them back.

However, this robbery incident was not all good things—Alan, who was almost "inspected" by the slave trader, finally realized that after losing his family and country, he still had "things" to protect.Zoe, who was thrown in a dirty little dark room and spent more than 20 days in cold and hunger, also knew that some things were better not to experience for herself.

When I finally found these two embarrassing guys, I was a little thankful to those thieves and slave traders. These two problem characters were finally no longer so problematic.

"It smells so bad, what's it like?" Zoe, who was sitting in the carriage before entering the city, poked her head out and wrinkled her little nose.

"It's a fishy smell. Once you get used to it, you won't be able to smell it." Frank said with a smile.

Zooey didn't quite understand why she couldn't smell it after getting used to it. After all, the smell wouldn't disappear, but he learned how to do it. After noticing Samuel's glance, he immediately retracted his head into the car— —I think Zoe, who graduated No.9547 from the No. 1 training course for angels in Cloud City, was ever afraid of other angels?Are you afraid of a human being now?Really depressed~

Samuel showed his identity certificate to the guards who were questioning—although he knew that these guards were also members of the mercenary regiment, but he had to say that the mental and physical conditions of these people were better than those of many big cities that Samuel had seen over the years. The soldiers are all well - after the soldiers read the certificate, the guard on their faces disappeared immediately, replaced by a look of guard and excitement: "My lord, are you here to get rid of the sea monster?"

"Kraken?" Samuel was stunned for a moment, "When I decided to set off more than two months ago, it was indeed for Taran's Kraken. But we encountered some accidents on the road and it took a long time. I thought The siren has been dealt with, so I'm here just for peace of mind, isn't it?" Samuel only occasionally entered the city to replenish salt along the way, and didn't think about asking for news, after all, his ultimate purpose of coming here is to enjoy the sunshine He didn't care if he lived in the beach for a year or so, and whether it was resolved or not.

"No, it hasn't been resolved." The guard shook his head bitterly, "During this time, although the government has hired many people, and the mercenary group and the church have also organized people to go there, except for the wreckage of the shipwreck, there is no Anyone come back alive."

"I see. Since this is the case, I will discuss it with the priest of the church. Thank you for telling me the news."

"You're welcome." The guard shook his head shyly, and enthusiastically helped Samuel draw a map to the local church.

"Samuel, this matter..." Riding his horse into the city wall, Samuel was lowering his head and thinking about something, when the duet suddenly sounded, and it was Frank and Julian who appeared on both sides of him.All three were taken aback, and then Falcon and Julian made fake smiles at the same time.

Frank had known for a long time that Julian was pursuing Samuel. Originally in the icy and snowy mountains of the Red Dragon Mountains, he thought Julian was okay, but when he realized that he would stay by Samuel's side for a few years, he simply He desperately started to play the role of an elder, but the more he looked at this frivolous ranger, the more he disliked him...

Julian, on the other hand, was wary of this handsome, gentle, capable and friendly man from the very beginning. After all, it is very popular now to eat young grass.

"This is not right." Samuel looked at the two enemies, not going to give them a chance to quarrel, "The siren is not a rare dark creature, even in the waters around Clorion. Those who always run It’s fine if the small boat transported in the sea is destroyed by the sea monster. Those big ocean-going ships will know some ways to fight the sea monster, and they will also carry the necessary amulets and weapons when they wear them, not to mention the mercenaries and priests gathered together. Even if the number of sea monsters is relatively large, how could it be possible that not one came back alive?"

"The images of Siren, Naga, and Medusa are somewhat similar. Could it be that someone made a mistake?" Julian immediately expressed his opinion.

"It's ridiculous." Frank snorted towards Julian, but the next sentence was not addressed to Julian, "Samuel, the guard said that no one came back alive, which means that there are actually no witnesses. Then Who on earth identified the murderer of the attack as a sea monster?"

"I'm also wondering a little bit. It's useless for us to quarrel here. We should go to the church and ask the priest."

The two men on one left and one on the right snorted at each other again, and rode away on horseback.