Chapter 47: Followers of the Evil God
The Professionals' Guild is a downstream unit established by the Godslayer Alliance and various forces, responsible for collecting, registering and publishing tasks, and mercenary groups or other associations are paid through the Professionals' Guild, which is equivalent to the Adventurer's Guild.
However, the Professionals' Guild also has a function, which is to register identities.
Everyone who lives in Prometheus must have a civil certificate, and the gods hate this world so much that many followers or followers of the gods have infiltrated Prometheus in various ways and caused great damage to the place.
Learning from the lesson, the Godslayer Alliance and other major forces have come up with this method to curb this phenomenon.
Prometheus does not have an aristocratic system, the citizenship card is divided into six levels according to the rank, each marked with a different color, and the fourth-order legend or above is changed back to issue a high-level citizen card bound to the soul, and it is checked at all levels, so it is difficult for the spies sent by the Church of the Gods to mix with the position of high-level citizens.
Nights come from the different planes, such people are not uncommon in Prometheus, but many of them were captured as slaves when they first arrived, and Nights were lucky, they had strong strength, killed some people who had bad intentions towards them, and at the same time used their status as a member of the Wolf Tooth Mercenary Group to obtain a second-class citizenship certificate.
In the mission release hall, Cangye saw a very interesting commission:
The village of Antaram was mysteriously slaughtered overnight, and all the corpses of the villagers were hung on the hooks used to hang pork in the slaughterhouse, suspected to be done by evil god believers, presumably as war officials, with a professional level of no more than the third order, and a commission is now issued to find and kill the real culprit who slaughtered the villagers.
Rating: E
Salary: 1,200 gold Goddess Coins
Compared to other commissions at the same level, this salary is not high. This was posted by a group of young people from the village of Antalan who were out and about, and they were so weak that they knew they couldn't take revenge, so they each posted this quest with the commission they had earned for most of their lives.
The reason why Cangye took this commission was not for the measly 1200 gold. In fact, the village of Antaran is located against the backdrop of the Lelen mountains, and at the foot of the mountain there is a grave where nearly 2,000 bodies are buried.
Twenty years ago, a necromancer moved into a tomb and turned a mile-radius or so into his own territory.
Necromancers are withdrawn or cruel freaks with little contact with the outside world, and Prometheus can accommodate even abyssal species, as well as necromancers, and in some large city-states you can even see mage towers built by lichs.
Necromancers are extremely dangerous and have to live outside the wilderness for some forbidden experiments.
Therefore, killing them is not against the rules.
It is well known that spellcasters are very wealthy, even necromancers, and perhaps killing a necromancer can dig up a lot of wealth from him, such as some occult books.
That is the purpose of the night. No one dares to openly issue a task in the Career Guild to kill a spellcaster, and through some special channels, similar tasks will appear on the internal bulletin boards of killer organizations hidden in the shadows such as the Killer Guild and the Dark Brotherhood.
Through a large amount of information, Cangye has clearly understood the distribution of the major forces around him for thousands of kilometers, and at the same time, he has also specially marked some targets that can be hunted, such as this necromancer, whose career level is only the third order primary, but the third-order spellcaster profession is enough to increase the difficulty of this necromancer's challenge to A, and a team of professionals of the same level has less than a quarter of the success rate!
After accepting the commission, Cangye went to some secret shops and bought about 5 liters of holy water.
Holy water is something produced by the Church of the Gods, in Prometheus, some fallen priests or priests can also make holy water with the same attributes, the price is not expensive, 5 liters of holy water from the Church of the 'Dawn Light' only costs about 100 gold, and it is guaranteed to be not mixed with water.
The light attribute holy water is tantamount to poison for necromancers, so the success rate of the night's challenge can be increased by another 10%.
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That night, Cangye applied to the regiment commander to perform a solo mission, Jones was very surprised, and then looked curiously at the order in Cangye's hand, and his face changed:
"I said rest brother, you better give up this task."
But as soon as this sentence was uttered, Jones's face showed remorse again.
Accepting a task and returning it will affect the individual's evaluation, and at the same time, 5% of the commissioning fee will be paid.
In the capacity of rest, this fine and assessment will naturally be passed on to the wolf tooth mercenary group.
60 gold to say nothing, but the impact assessment is a big deal. The one-eyed Jones faintly complained about the night in his heart, but unfortunately, he couldn't say it, otherwise such an excellent mercenary would lose more than he would gain by leaving the team in a fit of anger, and the young man was not good at this, and he was too emotional.
Cangye completely ignored the leader's self-pity, and said lightly:
"Don't worry, Captain, it's just one or two cultists who hide their heads and tails."
"These madmen are no ordinary cult!"
Jones almost jumped to his feet in a hurry:
"Brother Sabbat, you don't know the madness of this group of people, they are not human at all, they are monsters......"
Nightshade stopped Jones with a wave of his hand:
"This is Prometheus, the most daring madman in the entire universe is us, does one madman need to be afraid of another?"
This statement made Jones stunned in place, and his heart was entangled for a while, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said:
"I'll let that Blood Wolf guy follow you!"
Such a decision made Cang Yegao glance at the other party, and it seemed that he really valued himself. But Cangye still shook his head:
"I'll still give it a try, even if the mission fails, I have a chance to escape, and I will explain clearly to the guild, this is a personal mission, it has nothing to do with the mercenary group, and the fine will be solved by myself."
Having said that, Jones thought that the mercenary group would have nothing to lose, so he agreed.
Early the next morning, the three clients arrived at the headquarters of the Wolf Tooth Mercenary Group.
It turned out that they had already learned from the guild that someone had taken the task, so they came here with curiosity and gratitude, knowing that because of the low honorarium, no one wanted to accept the commission for several days.
Soon, in the expectant gaze of the three people, a figure quickly walked out.
With long black hair fluttering in the wind, a pale white linen armor, and a hideous ghostly face, his eyes projected a pair of pitch-black pupils.
Looking at each other with Cangye, the three of them were hungry and involuntarily took a step back, not daring to look into his eyes again.
The deterrent value at 11 o'clock in the night played an extraordinary role, the three of them were frightened, but also intimidated by this majesty, and the eyes of the leader looked at the night with a faint sense of awe:
"Big ...... My lord, did you take the commission? ”
Cangye's eyes wandered, looked at each other, and faintly returned:
"Hmm."
"Don't worry, since I took the commission, it will naturally be completed, now let's hit the road."
"Ah...... Be. ”
The leader replied with some trepidation, and then called his companions, who had already prepared the carriage and had to walk a considerable distance from Rover City to the village of Antaran.
On the way, Cangye learned specific information from Yawen, the young man he had just spoken to.
It took seven days for the village of Antaran to reach the town because it was close to the edge of the wilderness and seventy or eighty miles away from the nearest town.
The sheriff of the town had also sent men to investigate, but the murderer had long since left, leaving only the bloody scene of the crime. The three of Yawen are the only second-order professionals in Antalan Village, and they have been working as mercenaries in Rover City in order to earn a living, and it has been half a month since they knew that something had happened in the village.
All their relatives and friends were killed, and the murderer hung on a hook like a livestock, and the three of them almost went crazy, trying everything to find the murderer's traces, and finally succeeded in finding each other a few days ago.
The night looked through the clothes of several people, and a large amount of data appeared in their eyes.
The health of the three of them is only half sufficient, and each of them has a huge gap on their bodies, respectively in the waist, chest, and lower abdomen, and the wound has only been sutured with simple stitches, and the flesh that rolls out is still not scabbed.
The purpose of the murderous method is not to take the lives of three people, but to create maximum suffering, but in the same way, it is extremely stupid to let people come back and report the news.
In a few seconds, Cangye roughly figured out the target's character.
Arrogance, cruelty, and stupidity are also not necessarily strong, otherwise if they had acted on their own, none of these three would have survived.
Then all that remains is the last item to be determined:
"How do you conclude that the other party is a cultist?"