The Witcher: Son of the Planes.

Limonium likes to grow in moist sandy soil. If you pay attention, you will see small white flowers among the purple flowers, which makes it easy to identify.

As he walked and listened to Conrad's popular science lectures, Colin gained a rough understanding of blood-replenishing grass. Looking at some low flowers and plants in the forest, he thought, well, this one is not right, and that one is not right either.

Seeing that some of the Spiritual Light team members who were accompanying him had already collected some plants, Colin felt that his knowledge was crushed again.

Colin doesn't have any knowledge in this area, so it seems he needs to study harder in the future. Otherwise, if he encounters rare herbs and isn't familiar with them, wouldn't that be like visiting a treasure trove in vain?

The rest of the journey in the forest was smooth sailing except for the casual killing of that unlucky bear.

With the joint efforts of all teammates, they quickly collected 20 blood-replenishing herbs, and of course there were also some other herbs.

Soon, the Spiritual Light Mercenary Group returned to the Mercenary Union. After completing the mission, they found a shop that bought and sold materials and sold wolf skins and bear skins. Finally, Colin got 3 Nomisma.

Well, it was not enough to cover the cost of the recovery potion I bought before the mission, but fortunately nothing dangerous happened. This mission was completed in less than a day, and before nightfall, Colin returned home.

When Colin returned to his residence, he did not see Nora at first. He asked the servant and was told that Miss Helen had returned and was discussing something with Nora and Rose.

Colin didn't ask too many questions, but just asked the guards if there were any suspicious people around the mansion recently.

After receiving a safe reply, I returned to my room with peace of mind.

"Miss, is there not enough money?" Nora asked.

"Yes, it is indeed quite expensive. The fees for the public courses are paid when you enroll, but the content is not in-depth. If you want to learn more proficiently, you need to find individual teachers to take small classes, which is expensive. And you have to learn selectively, otherwise you can't afford it at all."

"What should we do? We don't have any way to make money."

"Have you finished reading the books on finance and business that you were asked to study?"

"I've seen it, but I've never put it into practice, and I don't know what to do specifically."

"Rose, are the servants obedient?" Helen asked.

"Everything is fine at home, and the servants are relatively well-behaved."

After hearing Rose's answer, Helen thought, it seems that our top priority is to think of a way to make money, and we also need to prepare start-up capital.

Nora, call Colin over.

……

"Helen, you looked for me." Colin asked after he came in.

"I heard from Nora that you have found a mercenary group. How is it going? Have you been on any missions?"

"Well, I just came back today. It's just a task of collecting herbs. It's pretty easy."

"Do you think we can form a mercenary group ourselves? Take on some simple missions."

"Let's talk about it after a while. I feel like we still have a long way to go. Also, I need to buy some books that introduce plants and animals, otherwise I won't know anything."

Helen plans to contact her family and mail some money.

……

A few days later, Colin received another mission, this time to go to the Dravy Forest to obtain the eggs of the demon hunting spider.

The Demon Hunting Spider is not an ordinary magical beast. The strength of a mature Demon Hunting Spider is enough to reach the peak of the intermediate level.

However, Captain Conrad is a mid-level knight squire, and with the resistance of himself and Sean as well as the spells of the magicians, it should be possible to accomplish it.

Although Colin had obtained 5000 gold coins half a year ago, after spending them all, he had less than 3000 gold coins left. The other items were not much consumed, but the key books and potions were too expensive, so Colin had to spend them sparingly.

The reward for this mission is 150 Nomisma, plus some other gains, it is estimated that there will be about 20 Nomisma in total.

Soon, the Spiritual Light Mercenaries gathered their troops and entered the Dharavi Forest once again.

Following the mission introduction drawings, Colin and his team easily found the cave where the demon hunting spiders lived.

Conrad began to arrange the battle in a while. In short, it was a combination of knights in the front row and magicians in the back row. After lighting a strong insect repellent incense at the entrance of the cave, the furious demon hunting spider rushed out from the depths of the cave.

"I." Colin cursed in his heart.

It's not just one, but one big one and one smaller one, probably a male and a female.

But the arrow is on the string, now is not the time to think about these things, and the teammates began to execute the tactics prepared in advance.

Conrad will fight the male, Sean, Colin and another low-level knight servant will deal with the female, and the magicians in the back row will focus on the female demon hunting spider first.

The demon-hunting spider has eight green eyes, which look at Colin and the others. It mainly releases venom attacks and spider silk entanglement.

Colin dodged the magic hunting spider's spells flexibly. With the combined efforts of the three, no one was entangled by the spider silk, especially the concentrated fire attack from the magician in the back, which had already caused the magic hunting spider to start to be injured.

It made a hissing sound, as if calling its mate to come and help.

The male demon hunting spider heard the roar of its mate and quickly shot out a strong spider silk. Before Conrad could react, the spider silk quickly stretched to Colin and the others.

The male Demon Hunting Spider was much stronger than the female one. He joined the battle and instantly entangled the low-level knight servant. He pulled back and sprayed venom from his mouth, which hit the knight. Soon the paralyzing effect of the venom began to take effect.

In a short period of time, one person was killed. Although the knight was fine for the time being, if the poison spread throughout his body, he would probably become food for the demon hunting spider.

Conrad was only a step slower and soon rushed over and entangled the male demon spider.

Colin and Sean narrowly avoided the entanglement and venom spray of the female hunting spider again and again.

Under the concentrated fire of teammates in the back row, the female demon-hunting spider fell down unwillingly.

The male demon hunting spider did not run away, but attacked even more fiercely. Conrad's arm was also hit by venom, and Conrad's movements became a little slow in an instant.

Seeing this, Colin and Sean rushed forward to resist the attack of the male demon hunting spider together. The magicians also released various spells with all their might.

Before Conrad was completely paralyzed, they finally defeated the small BOSS. The mages took out the antidote they carried with them and fed it to Conrad and the fallen knight's squire.

After a while, both of them finally recovered.

"Phew, that was a close call." If it weren't for the good cooperation of his teammates and Colin's cleverness, there might have been real casualties this time.

Conrad was also a little scared. The inaccuracy of the intelligence this time caused danger. He must be extremely careful when choosing a mission next time. Every year, countless mercenary groups were wiped out due to reduction in personnel during missions. He couldn't become one of them.

After resting, Colin and his team went into the cave to pick up the eggs of the demon hunting spider and collected some spider silk. Then they returned to the union safely.

Because of inaccurate union intelligence, the reward this time was doubled, and Colin received 35 Nomisma.

"It seems that the only way to make money is to complete missions." Colin thought.