LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 23: Chapter 23
Chapter 23 Three Years Later
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"Helping employers find the required soul beasts as quickly as possible and completing the mission in the shortest possible time is the advantage that our Speed Mercenary Group has over other mercenary groups. To achieve this advantage, we need to use a large number of will-o'-the-wisp fires to improve the efficiency of finding soul beasts."
Teacher Mo looked at Xia Liang and smiled, "Ah Liang, you are the core of our Speed Mercenary Group and a selling point to attract employers. From now on, I will give you an extra 10% of the rewards for completing tasks.
"Isn't this bad?" Xia Liang glanced at the two women beside him.
One of the women with long black hair smiled and said, "Ah liang, don't be polite to Aunt Liu. After all, Lao Mo, my sister and I are all family. It doesn't matter how much you take. The most important thing is that we can't treat you unfairly."
"Yes, yes. Brother Liang, you've worked so hard following us, so you should get some benefits, right? It's decided happily!" said the oval-faced girl standing next to the woman with long black hair cheerfully.
She is Mr. Mo's sister-in-law, named Liu Shu, 28 years old, with the spirit of Lightning Rabbit, a level 31 agility attack type combat spirit master, and a spirit ring configuration of one white and two yellow.
The black-haired woman who calls herself Aunt Liu is Mr. Mo's wife. She is 35 years old and a level 35 auxiliary weapon spirit master. Her spirit ring configuration is three yellow, and her martial spirit is the Thunder Five Rings, which can only add five spirit rings.
When Xia Liang was a freshman at Nottingham College, he had visited Teacher Mo's home and had known Aunt Liu for a long time.
Liu Shu was there at the time, and this older single woman even praised Xia Liang for his good looks and cooking skills, saying that he would definitely be her ideal type when he grows up.
The members of the Speed Mercenary Group are all acquaintances, so Xia Liang dared to ask Teacher Mo for help in obtaining the first soul ring, and therefore had the idea of joining the mercenary group.
This first gathering of the four was not dull at all; instead, it felt like a party and they got along very well.
"Alright. Everyone has got the warrant. Next, let's start working as members of the Speed Mercenary Group. I received a request from the first employer yesterday."
As he spoke, Teacher Mo hailed a carriage at the city gate and introduced to everyone, "The city we are going to is Soto City, located in the Barak Kingdom. The employer is a wealthy businessman, and the task is to help his son obtain the desired 100-year first soul ring. The reward is one thousand gold soul coins."
"If the age of the spirit ring is not specified, the first spirit ring of a hundred years for a general spirit master is usually obtained from a spirit beast with two to three hundred years of cultivation. It is not difficult for our team of three spirit masters and one spirit master. Our Speed Mercenary Group has just been established, and we still need to improve our tacit understanding. This mission is a good opportunity for us to practice. Let's go and get in the car first."
Xia Liang, Aunt Liu and others got into the car and continued talking about the mission.
After a long time.
The basic content of the task had been determined. Teacher Mo, Aunt Liu, and Liu Shu began to chat about some family matters. Xia Liang had nothing to do, so he lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked outside.
We must make full use of the experience in the Speed Mercenary Group in the past few years to learn all kinds of knowledge and practice various combat skills.
After getting the second soul ring and having enough combat experience and a certain self-protection ability, you can then find a way to obtain the opportunity of fairy grass to improve the strength and quality of your martial soul.
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Three years later.
Within the Tiandou Empire.
Outside the city of Silves in the Silves Kingdom.
In a forest without soul beasts, four members of the Speed Mercenary Group were camping.
Outside the tent, Xia Liang, wearing a colorful apron, was standing in front of the stove preparing breakfast.
When working in a mercenary group, they eat soul beast meat obtained from hunting soul beasts for their employers, and they exercise regularly, so their bodies are well-nourished and they develop faster than their peers.
Although he is only eleven years old, Xia Liang is already 1.78 meters tall and looks more like an upright and youthful eighteen-year-old.
However, because he is a living dead, under the influence of the undead attribute, he has no vitality that a young man should have. Whether in terms of image or temperament, he gives people a feeling of being lifeless and without any motivation.
Turn on the fire and heat the pan with oil.
The sizzling sound of boiling oil in the pan echoed in the forest.
In addition to the task of searching for soul beasts, Xia Liang also worked part-time as a chef in the Speed Mercenary Group, so he received the highest reward among the four for helping his employer hunt soul beasts.
It has to be said that the work in the mercenary group is indeed profitable. In three years, he has saved up 15,000 gold soul coins.
Today is the mercenary group's day off, and tomorrow they will start a new mission.
Teacher Mo had already gone to the nearby city of Silvester to look for a new employer, and Aunt Liu was still sleeping in the tent.
Liu Shu was on guard last night, and she was awakened from her meditation until the sound of frying oil was heard. "What a nice smell."
Just as he put a piece of chicken breast coated with flour into the frying pan, Xia Liang looked at the startled Liu Shu and teased, "Sister Shu, it's a good thing there are no soul beasts in the forest. Otherwise, if you had kept watch like that last night, we would have become the soul beasts' midnight snack sooner or later."
Liu Shu glared at Xia Liang angrily, "You're still talking. Who made you grow so fast? It makes me nervous. Ah Liang, are you really at the fifth level of innate soul power? Not to mention that you cultivated to the tenth level of soul power in the past two years, this time in just three years, you have increased from the thirteenth level to the twenty-third level. Ten levels in three years. Is this the speed of cultivation of the fifth level of innate soul power?"
"If you continue like this, in a few years, won't you be at level 33 in spirit power?"
After listening to Liu Shu's story, Xia Liang said seriously, "How can you calculate like that? In the past three years, I have only improved my soul power by seven levels. The remaining three levels of soul power are the benefits of absorbing the second soul ring of 900 years."
"All in all, my soul power only increases by two levels a year. The older a soul master gets, the more difficult it is to practice. I'm eleven years old now. My training speed is obviously not as fast as before."
At this point, Xia Liang shook his head helplessly, pretending to be disappointed and said, "Moreover, Master Su Yuntao said that my skeleton martial soul is a disabled martial soul. Do you understand? A disabled martial soul is congenitally defective. I might be like Master Yu Xiaogang of Notting Academy, unable to break through the bottleneck of level 30 in my entire life. A three-ring soul master. Maybe I will never reach such a realm."
Seeing Xia Liang frying chicken while looking depressed, Liu Shu walked behind him, rubbed his shoulders, and comforted him in a soft but not evil voice, "Look at what you said. You and I both have innate level 5 spirit power, and I was able to break through the level 30 bottleneck before I was 30. Your spirit ring configuration is much better than mine, so you will definitely be able to do it, don't worry too much."
"Let's talk about your second soul skill. Why did you find another amplification soul skill? You didn't see that the superposition and amplification of my first and second soul skills were so powerful that you wanted to learn it too?"
"That's one reason. But the main reason is that I just happened to meet a suitable soul beast."
Recalling the experience of hunting soul beasts and absorbing soul rings a few days ago, Xia Liang's eyes revealed a thoughtful gleam.
"Ironback Demonic Scorpion, this type of scorpion soul beast has given up the scorpion's poisonous properties and focused on cultivating its physique. Not only does it have amazing iron armor defense, but its claws are also extremely powerful."