Destiny Thief

Chapter 77 Rumors and Gold Mine II
"Grizzly" Cosmo lay on the ground, and he couldn't count how many footprints he had stepped on.The crackling footsteps quickly faded away, and he opened his eyes with difficulty:
"Damn mudlegs—"

Cosmo climbed up, picked up the scimitar that fell aside, his face was very ugly - his scimitar was not out of its sheath yet.Originally, he was trying to intimidate these farmers in the countryside by relying on his status and strength, but before he could clear his throat and say a few words, an iron fist appeared from the crowd, and he was knocked down decisively in a flash.Afterwards, when he fell to the ground, he only saw the raised soles of several straw sandals.

As tragic as him, there are several other leading figures in the mercenary group.

The captain of the second team of "Song of Ashes", Biden;
The deputy head of the "Rock" mercenary group, Barrett;

Several other relatively unknown mercenary characters.

A group of people looked at each other.

"Since this is the case, what should we do?"

Biden, the captain of "Ashe Song", took out a clean handkerchief from his jacket pocket, wiped off the shoe print on his left cheek, and asked nonchalantly.He has a baby face that shows his true age and light blond hair - a hair color that is rare among the common people in the kingdom.Some people have speculated that Biden may be a son of a nobleman, but in the many years he has been in "Song of Ashes", he has never seen him respond directly to this question, nor has he seen any nobleman send people to find his relatives.Therefore, people had no choice but to bury this doubt in their psychology.

"Others went into the depths."

Barrett looked serious, he was a thick and stocky middle-aged man.After what happened just now, the leather armor on his body was gray. While he was dusting off the dust, he bent down and picked up his sword.He glanced at Cosmo, who was tall and big, even if he was compared to those barbarians in the extreme northern wilderness, but the mercenary business is not based on size alone, strength and fame are more important thing.

He glanced at Cosmo, but he didn't pay much attention to it - the background of the underground force, although it is not uncommon among mercenaries, but the other party only relied on the nominal title of "regiment commander" to communicate with him. Standing on a par with each other already made him feel a little unhappy in his heart.He glanced around, then looked at Biden:
"It doesn't make much sense for us to stay here any longer. Let's find our companions."

"But, Barrett, it seems that someone is coming again."

"Those merchants who are as greedy as vultures can always smell the rotten smell of money—"

Frowning, his rough voice seemed to contain great resentment. Barrett saw the figure walking towards the entrance of the rift, and he uttered a proverb that was once circulated among the people of the Kingdom of Elantra—— In the early days of the Va Dynasty, merchants were not a beautiful and enviable profession as they are now.In essence, merchants of that period were closer to vagrants who lost their land and property.

The nobles despised them;

civilians beware of them;

Even the bards, who lived in poverty and often went hungry, wrote all kinds of stories and poems to ridicule them because of their inexplicable pride.

They are not productive, they talk softly, and when no one is staring at them, their despicable and dirty souls are engraved in their bones, so that they get used to stretching out their greedy hands and stealing other people's property.Whenever the war is over, they appear in groups, usually with the vultures that eat carrion corpses. They don't care about the disgusting and pungent smell of corpses, and wear tattered clothes to touch the dead soldiers.Anything worth a little rael pleased them, and the occasional gold coin, gem, and jewel or the like was enough to make them quiver with excitement.

But, now, these guys who are annoying in Barrett's eyes have come over.

"Grizzly" Cosmo stood at the front of the entrance.

Seeing the farmers swarming in and breaking through the blockade of the mercenaries, the merchants who stayed outside, as well as Glo, who was mixed in, decided to enter this crypt fissure after a little consideration—the merchants decided to enter the cave for money. In the mine, the bandit leader's experience and non-contradictory interests made them closely bonded together.

Cozmo pulled out the scimitar from the scabbard - after learning the lesson just now, he gritted his teeth and secretly made up his mind: if the other party didn't listen to the dissuasion, then he wouldn't mind attacking first and giving the other party a little blood. A profound lesson.

The number of merchants is much smaller than that group of farmers, and they may not have the courage to desperately.As the leader of "Blood Fangs", Cosmo is well aware of the greedy and weak nature of merchants, and most of the mercenaries who enter the mine are from his "Fangs Mercenary Group".Thinking of the blood-boiling gold mine, according to the rules of head distribution agreed upon by the mercenary minds before——

Apart from the group of mud-legged people just now, his fang mercenary group will get the largest share-since the mercenary group was formed last month, he has spent a lot of money on Afron's officials, but But did not get any income.For more than a month, Afron's mercenary missions were basically contracted by several larger or more famous mercenary groups such as Song of Ashes, Rock, White Sail, and Flame Rose.

As for some missions that no one approached and the challenge was too difficult, although the amount of reward offered above was very attractive, Cosmo had enough self-knowledge to complete the mission by relying on a bunch of unreliable junk under him. Impossible.

Because of this, the fang mercenary group that has not received the mission is in a state of idleness with all members fully equipped.After hearing the news about the gold mine this time, almost all members of Cosmo's Tusk Mercenary Group participated—except for those few guys: William, Joseph, and Jill.

Thinking of those names, Cosmo couldn't help being annoyed—he hated the incompetence and self-assertion of his subordinates, and even more hated the group of uncles in the security department who cannibalize people without spit out their bones.

A leading businessman stood in front of Cosmo, looked at the shining blade, and stopped in his tracks.

"You are not welcome here, go away!"

Cosmo stared at the merchant's face and yelled viciously.Having been in the dark underground world of Avron for a long time, he had a cruel and sinister temperament about him. He stared, scaring a group of young guys behind the businessman to retreat.

There are exceptions.

Behind the merchant, a young man stood still, even raised his eyelids, looked him up and down, from head to toe, and from foot to head several times.

This kind of scrutiny is undoubtedly uncomfortable.

At this time, Biden, Barrett, and several mercenaries beside Cosmo also came over after seeing signs of possible accidents.

(End of this chapter)