Dominate the world in three weeks?

Deep Black Mask is a mercenary team that has just been upgraded to s not long ago, with 27 members - but this is only a count of the number half a month ago, because they encountered a crisis in a mission to escort a business traveler, and now they only have Fifteen people, four mages and eleven swordsmen.

Now this young and promising team is facing the dilemma of struggling to relegation and insufficient funds.

They rushed to Winslet City with exhausted bodies because they saw the huge business opportunities in Postwall Forest, but after nearly ten days of recuperation here, they still haven't found a job that suits them.After all, there are only a few people who can hire an S-level mercenary team, and those who favor an S-level mercenary team are not satisfied with the number of their teams.And even if they want to enter the forest alone, they are so penniless that they don't even have enough magic crystals to supply, such behavior is no different from sending them to death.

This afternoon, Captain Vic stepped into the mercenary branch again to look for possible missions, and a piece of information that had just been refreshed attracted his attention——

Task: Protect the employer and go deep into the west side of the White Bone Tower forest to collect magic plants.

Task time: Gather tomorrow morning for a period of two weeks.

Mission requirements: S-class mercenary team.

Task commission: 500 crystal coins.

500 crystal coins are equivalent to 5000 gold coins. For Wright, who almost went bankrupt in order to heal his team members and repair weapons, it was a huge attraction, so he quickly applied for acceptance like a hungry wolf.

At the same time, Terrence, who was in Winslet's palace, also received a message from the short-term contact device presented by the mercenary union.

Although the task he released stated that he would leave the next day, Terrence never thought that someone would take over the task so soon. The girl who was in charge of the registration counter at that time probably felt that the time was very rushed , will be surprised by what Terrence filled in.After all, the guild will charge a [-]% handling fee based on the stipulations of the task publisher. If no one picks up the task before the deadline, there will be no discount for the second release. Terrence will only pay The handling fee will not be a small sum.

But for Terrence himself, it wasn't the money that caused him a headache, but how he could get the butler at home to agree to stay in Winslet for one more day in case the task was overdue and reissued.

Fortunately, there must be a brave man under the reward, and Terrence got a reply very quickly.

According to the mercenary team information provided by the guild, although the number of Deep Black Masks is not enough, the qualifications of the members are still satisfactory.

Today's mercenary captain is an eighth-level swordsman, and his warriors include a ninth-level archer, three seventh-level heavy swordsmen, and the others are all sixth-level warriors.As for the remaining four mages, all of them are level seven.The difficulty of advancing a mage is far more difficult than that of a warrior. Level [-] is already quite powerful. After all, higher-level mages can recommend themselves to the nobles, and their living conditions are much better than those in a mercenary team.More importantly, the seventh-level mages can already use crystals to increase the power of their spellcasting. From this point of view, the disadvantage of the number of people is not so important-who is the magic crystal that is very precious in the eyes of ordinary people? For the little duke, it is not short of money.

It was inevitable that nights would be long and dreams would change halfway, so Terrence immediately finalized the other party's application.

He sneaked out of the manor early in the morning when the servants in the Lord's Mansion were busy, and Edward was still dreaming sweetly in bed at that time.

—Oh, poor Edward.

Terrence grabbed the cloak tightly, and walked towards the agreed place, thinking silently in his heart.

I am really a kind person, although I did not keep the agreement with you - you are too stupid, who would keep the verbal agreement - but I still left the communicator to you, use your brain and think of a good excuse Putting Borg on the back burner... Well, it's not for me, it's for yourself.

According to Edward's careful thinking, the news of Terrence's disappearance must be concealed for two or three days. By then, Terrence would have been in the depths of the Tower of White Bone Forest. What should we do next?The young duke said, let this former best friend do his best.

Inside a supply station on the edge of Postwall Forest.

Vic and his teammates waited here early, and Vic still can't believe that the employer agreed to his application.

Although the deep black mask is already an S-level mercenary team, there was a big problem with the first mission after the upgrade, and he was unable to receive the mission many times because of the subsequent misfortunes. That bit of pride and complacency.Because of this, he was so excited about this hard-won opportunity that he almost stayed up all night. Before dawn, he dragged the team members out of bed and rushed here early.

A little girl with blue hair leaned against an epee and yawned, complaining in a low voice: "Captain, are we here too early? I didn't even have breakfast, okay?"

"That's right." A woman next to her with red lips couldn't help answering, "If I don't sleep for eight hours a day, my skin will become dull."

"Be patient, everyone." Vic scratched his hair, showing an embarrassed smile. "After all, this is the first time we have received a mission in half a month, so we have to be more serious."

The little girl pouted, and said, "It's because the captain didn't accept non-S-level missions. We don't really care about this. The big deal is downgrading. We can start over."

Vic frowned slightly, and explained: "After all, it took a lot of hard work to succeed in the promotion. Think about our wish, Chris, we agreed to surprise those who looked down on us, how could we Do you just give up so easily?"

"Okay, Chris, Vic is also for everyone's benefit, so don't worry about getting up earlier." The big man next to the little girl gently stroked her hair, and Chris finally calmed down.

While they were talking, a man walked up to them.

"Excuse me, is it the deep black mask mercenary team?"

Vik thought excitedly that his employer had finally arrived, and quickly raised his head.The person standing in front of him was wearing a knee-length dark green cloak and covered his head with a hat, so he couldn't see the other person's appearance, but—is their employer only 1.5 meters tall?

The young mercenary captain didn't want to believe this fact, he tentatively asked: "Are you Mr. Heyman's child?"

Heyman was Terrence's alias given by his middle name, but Vic apparently mistook the well-dressed little man in front of him for his employer's son.

Terrence, who was hiding in the shadow of the hat, curled his lips. As early as when the application task was misidentified by the service staff, he thought that the same situation would happen today, so he just shrugged and replied: "I am Hyman, currently an apprentice pharmacist."

"Hey, are you the employer? It looks like you're only jjj years old?"

Chris jumped out of the chair and stood beside Terrence to compare her size. She was the shortest in the team because of malnutrition and slow growth when she was a child, but Terrence was actually a head shorter than her. .

"I'm just small, I'm 15 years old this year."

Terrence reported his age by half without changing his face, and the expressions of the people with deep black masks suddenly became a little subtle.

Who would believe that a 15-year-old boy would be 1.5 meters tall?It's not the legendary dwarves!

Only a tall, thin man in black silently handed a plate of melon seeds to Terrence's eyes: "Eat more, you will grow taller if you eat more."

Terrence twitched the corners of his mouth. He wondered if the other party was using this to mock him, but the man's voice could not hear any sarcasm, but a faint sympathy.

Vic pretended to cough, blocked the man in black behind him, and said to Terrence, "I'm sorry, we didn't expect you to be the employer. Please forgive me for being rude. But..."

Vic wanted to reject this commission as tactfully as possible. After all, the employer seemed too weak, not to mention that he was just an apprentice pharmacist, and he would become the bait of monsters if he could not go far in the dangerous White Bone Tower forest.The deep black mask has already experienced a huge blow, and he doesn't want his teammates to lose something because of this mission.

But Terrence's next action interrupted Vic's words. He took out a bag and threw it on the table. The rope on it was scattered due to the vibration, revealing the pure blue magic spar inside.

"It's a water spar!"

Chris yelled out in a low voice. She is a water mage herself, so she was very excited to see these shiny little babies.

"As long as you accept the mission, I can provide you with magic crystals and weapons for free—regardless of the quantity. Although I carry water-type crystals with me now, we can buy the rest directly here, can't we?"

Terrence pointed to the weapons area to the east of the supply station.

Vic swallowed, and Terrence took the opportunity to continue: "You have to know, it is rare to find an employer who is not picky like me. The number of your team is so small, if I am not in a hurry, of course I still hope that I There are better options."

Vic felt that his little heart had been stabbed with a sword. He turned his head to look at his teammates and found that everyone's eyes were shining.

"Okay, okay, we have taken over the task, and we have a happy cooperation with each other."

As Vic spoke, he wanted to extend his arm to shake hands, but he looked at the employer who was not close to his chest, and took his hands back embarrassingly.

Terrence didn't see the mercenary captain's movements. He took out a parchment scroll that he had written a long time ago from his pocket, spread it out and put it on the table.

"I think that in order for us to cooperate happily with each other, we should sign a contract. During the employment period, you must protect my safety, and agree that all the magic plants collected on the road will belong to me."

Seeing the parchment, the woman with red lips opened her eyes wide in surprise. She saw that Terrence was no longer looking at a fat sheep who didn't understand anything but only gold coins, and her eyes were full of sincere awe. : "This is the pledge!"

"The oath?"

As a swordsman, Vic didn't know much about magic, so he asked in confusion.In fact, it wasn't just him, even the rest of the mages didn't know what the woman was talking about.

The woman pursed her lips, and she looked around before whispering: "This is a kind of life magic, do you see the patterns painted under the words? It is a unique magic circle, used to guarantee the oath Do it."

Although the drawing methods of magic arrays of different magic systems are different, the appearance of the same type of array cores is the same.Women have seen oath books similar to this pattern.

Terrence chuckled.

This oath was found in the Aldrette family's treasury.Black mages are hidden under the strong suppression of the Holy See. Things related to life magic are often priceless, but every noble will always keep some secrets in their hands.

"Since someone can recognize it, I don't need to explain any more. If you violate the above content, then you will pay a heavy price as written in the oath."

Vic frowned unhappily: "You don't believe us?"

Thinking of his own life being controlled, his face turned red with anger: "You are insulting our personality!"

Terrence shrugged: "We don't know each other, don't I have to be careful? As long as you can complete the work with sincerity, isn't this letter of oath different from a piece of blank paper? Say that If I get up, I will be the one who suffers, after all, its price is not cheap at all."

"you this……"

Vic clenched his fists, and it was his teammate who pulled him from behind.

"Vic, don't get excited. It's not incomprehensible that the other party would do this. We're just doing it to make money. This kind of agreement won't affect us."

Because of the persuasion of his teammates, Vic suppressed the harsh words that were almost blurted out.He stood there motionless, only his chest was still rising and falling.

Terrence raised his eyebrows, positioning the mercenary captain as a type with high self-esteem and no tolerance.This kind of personality will definitely suffer if they want to deal with strangers, but they are going to the depths of the forest where there are few people.

After the analysis, Terrence softened his voice and said: "I don't think you will suffer any losses along the way, Captain Vic. Because I just need the magic plant, and you can take everything from the monster."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, we can add that to the pledge right now."

Terrence took out a pen, added a line to the parchment, and held it up for Vic to see.

"team leader!"

"Vic."

The teammates behind all spoke up one after another, they were really eager for this opportunity to replenish their own pockets and strength.

Vic took a deep breath and nodded.

Everyone gathered together and dripped the blood cut from their fingers on the sheepskin scroll. After a flash of darkness, the oath was established.Terrence and the Black Mask team are finally going to enter the White Bone Forest.