Chapter 8:

You just got home bad news.
The caravan that hired your mercenary group in the past sued your mercenary group to the mercenary union on the grounds of negligence and fraud and filed a staggering amount of compensation.
The caravan’s loss this time was quite heavy, because the supplies transported were not ordinary items, but expensive spices used by the upper class and silver moon gauze imported at a high price from the elves. This cloth was a specialty of the elves. , Is woven with special crafts and materials. When the clothes are worn on the body, they will produce a strange streamer effect due to the change of light. It is like putting a beautiful moonlight on the body, so it is extremely popular with human aristocrats and royal women. welcome.
In contrast, the price of this kind of cloth is much more expensive than ordinary, but because of the scarcity of supplies, even if the price remains high, it is still sought after. Originally, the caravan wanted to ship this batch of cloth to the capital and sell it to those assets. The rich and wealthy merchants and aristocrats wanted to make a lot of money, but no one expected that they were attacked by Medusa in the middle. The expensive cloth was affected and damaged in the battle, and the loss was immeasurable.
The person in charge of the caravan put most of the responsibility on the mercenary group, thinking that it was the mercenary group that had concealed the existence of the half-blood dragon, and it attracted Medusa.
What's worse, the people in the mercenary group are also afraid of getting into trouble. Except for a few old people who established the mercenary group early in the morning, most of them can't wait to break away from the mercenary group after the incident.
Each mission mercenary union will give certain points to the mercenary group that completes the mission according to the mission completion degree and evaluation level. When the points are accumulated, they can be upgraded to a higher level. If the mission fails, some points will also be deducted. , If the points are deducted too much, it will be reduced by one level from the original level.
Your sister’s mercenary group belongs to the middle and upper reaches of the B level. Although it cannot be compared with those strong A-level and S-level mercenary groups, it also has more than ten years of old qualifications and is considered a good reputation in the industry. The old-brand mercenary group was originally based on this trend. As long as you save two or three years of points, your mercenary group level can be directly upgraded to A level, but because of this accident, the mercenary group fell directly to C level. , But also facing huge monetary compensation.
If this difficulty cannot be overcome, then this precarious mercenary group is likely to be in danger of disbanding.
If there is no choice, most people will not choose to do this kind of high-risk occupation without safety protection and accident compensation, and don't know when they will die on the mission. If they die, saving more money will not help, so Most mercenaries don't have the habit of saving money. Once they get the commission, they will go to pubs, casinos and other entertainment venues to spend and have fun, and use the extravagant life of drunken gold fans to numb their own sex.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult for the mercenary group to pay such compensation at once.
You’ve never seen your sister’s reluctant appearance with such a strong face. Obviously, in order not to worry you, she didn’t tell you too much about the current difficult situation of the mercenary group, and she knew that with your senior priest’s light mage Identity, even the S-level mercenary group will welcome you to join, but you are succumbing to a small B-level mercenary group for her, for which she always feels wronged to you.
But you never feel wronged. Although your sister is a bit unreliable and always careless, but you know that she really cares about loving you. In order to let you live a stable life, she was only twelve years old. Follow the adults to go out to do difficult and dangerous tasks. When you are tested to have magical talents, you will not hesitate to borrow debts from the mercenary union and do your best to provide you to school. She is young, and she is burdened by her peers unimaginable. Heavy burdens and responsibilities, but she has never made any demands and rewards for you.
There was a time when you really couldn't bear it, crying and threw into her arms to make her stop working so hard. Even if you couldn't become a mage, you still had other choices.
But your sister forbids you to give up halfway. She touched your head and smiled as she looked at you with tearful eyes: "Isn't it a matter of course for my sister to protect my sister? It won't be enough to protect your sister when you grow up. ."
You feel very lucky to have a sister who loves you so much. She has suffered too much for you before, so when you have the ability to repay her, you can't help but indulge and take care of her without a bottom line.
In the past few years, you have saved a lot of money thriftily. You originally wanted to buy a small manor of your own in the suburbs, so that you don’t have to squeeze in that small hotel and you can go back anytime with your sister. Belongs to your own home.
However, this accident disrupted your plan. You found that even if you took out all of your deposits, the amount of compensation required by the caravan was still a lot less. In order to make up for the rest, you had to temporarily mortgage your senior priest medal It was given to the union, and it was exchanged for three thousand gold coins.
The gold coins in this world are converted by the price of your previous life. A gold coin is nearly a thousand soft sister coins. Common people generally use lower-value copper and silver coins. High-value currencies like gold coins rarely do. Used.
So to sum it up, your senior pastor medal is still very valuable, and it doesn't mean that it took you so long to pass the senior pastor's assessment.
But senior pastors like you who are so poor that they can pledge the medals of senior pastors that they finally get are also quite rare.
After all, normal high-level pastors are serving in the Holy See and the palace. They never worry about money such as vulgar things. If you know that you are also a high-level pastor, you will be shocked.
Your sister was very angry when she learned that you pledged the medal to the union. She resolutely refused to accept your money. She has a strong sense of responsibility and does not want to drag you in who has nothing to do with the accident.
But you know, your sister has a deep affection for the mercenary group. She has been guarding the mercenary group since its establishment. She is not just regarded as a lucrative job, especially her master, who was originally established The head of the mercenary group is retired because of his family and body. Almost all of this mercenary group is your sister taking care of. If the mercenary group is really disbanded because of this accident, the most painful person is actually her. .
In the end, your sister still reluctantly compromised with your persistence. After paying a huge amount of compensation, your mercenary group still survived in this highly competitive industry, only to be upgraded from C to B again. , And in the case of a sharp drop in internal staff, it is estimated that we will have to work hard for a long time.
After finishing this matter, you breathed a sigh of relief. When you went to the vegetable market to buy some fresh ingredients and returned home, you found a silent and tall figure in the shadow of the corridor.
You froze for a moment, then pursed your lips and smiled at him: "Would you like to come in and sit down?"
The other party did not respond to you, but silently looked at you with those horrible golden vertical pupils.
You first walked into the house, put the ingredients in the kitchen, then poured a glass of water in front of him, "Drink some water first, do you want to eat something today? I'll make it for you."
The moment you turned around, your wrist was caught.
"You... don't you hate me?"
A rough, hoarse, dry voice that seemed to have been smoked by flames came slowly from behind you.
You turned your head and tilted your head in a daze, "Why do you hate you? You haven't done anything wrong, ah... by the way, I haven't thanked you yet..."
"Oh, thank me?"
The dragon man murmured like self-deprecating, and was suddenly irritated by you, grabbing your shoulders and pressing you behind the door. The cold golden vertical pupils contracted into a tight straight line in a hunting state, which is different from the gloomy fangs of human beings. With the threatening growl in the throat, the original handsome facial features have become extremely gloomy and distorted. The dark eyes staring at you have completely lost their reason and humanity, leaving only primitive violence and destruction. All the fierce and instincts seem to tear you apart in the next instant.
"Do you think I will believe your lie?"
Larut pulled the corner of his mouth disdainfully, and his eyes were cold and mocking looking at you.
"You must hate me to death in your heart, just like those timid and hypocritical guys, who are resenting that if I had not recruited Medusa, how could your mercenary group end up like this? Human beings are hypocritical..."
"Wait."
You interrupted him and slid down in front of him like a boneless loach. You got out of Larut’s arms and you ran into the kitchen under the eyes of the dragon to fiddle for a while, He brought out a plate of cut fruit pieces, walked to the dragon man, and then picked up a small piece with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth unexpectedly.
"..."
The dragon man opened his eyes slightly and stared at you gloomily, neither did he vomit or swallow.
"Not poisonous."
To prove your own words, you also picked up a piece in front of his eyes, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.
Larut glared at you fiercely, but didn't spit out anything, so he ate it obediently.
"How is it, is it delicious?" You asked curiously.
"..."
Seeing that he was silent, you put the plate with the fruit cubes on the table, your eyes fell on the dragon man, looked at him carefully for a moment, and then beckoned to him.
Larut stared at you with unspeakable cold eyes for a while, and finally walked towards you obediently.
After he approached, you stretched out your hand and tugged at the corner of his clothes.
Larut quickly grabbed your hand, and his expression was inexplicably uncomfortable. He looked down at you with gloomy eyes, "What do you want?"
Because of the habit he developed in the past, when talking to you at close range, Larut would always bend down and lower his head subconsciously, accommodating your huge height ratio to him.
And when you lowered his head inertially, you suddenly raised your other hand and knocked his head both lightly and lightly.
"You..." Longren stared at you angrily.
"This is revenge against you." You straightened up your chest and complained confidently: "Who made you be so fierce to me just now."
Larut was stunned, and turned his head slightly with a ‘tsk’, his expression was a little bit of disgust and speechlessness, but he didn’t do anything to you.
"Right! And Mr. Dubin..." You suddenly remembered your old account, with obvious dissatisfaction and complaint, "He didn't provoke you, why are you fighting with him?"
"He snatched you." The dragon man said coldly, as if he didn't think he had done anything wrong.
You said angrily: "Then what? Do you want to take me back?"
Larut returns you a cold look of'what's wrong'.
You almost laughed at him, and retaliated by poking your finger at the soft flesh on his waist, "You are ashamed to say, did you know that I was very uncomfortable at the time, and I was snatched as a toy by you. It’s not that I didn’t have any magic power anymore, I must beat you up!"
"You can't beat me." The dragon man coldly told the cruel facts, and after a pause, he seemed to be a little lacking in confidence, his voice was lower, and he said to himself as if shirking responsibility: "How do I know you? Still so weak..."
Then he stared at you with a very dissatisfied look, "Obviously the stupid dog picked it up first, why did you only beat me? You are too partial."
"..." You have an inexplicable sense of powerlessness to face an unreasonable and savage girlfriend.
"Okay, you won." You raised the white flag helplessly, and when you were behind, you suddenly remembered something and threatened with a serious expression: "But you can't play with me as a toy next time, otherwise I will really be angry!"
The dragon man lowered his eyebrows, using a very strange, like something incomprehensible to you. His tone was also extremely serious, and he declared every word: "I didn't treat you as a toy."
You blinked blankly, a little missed his brainwaves, then pursed your lips and smiled and turned off this weird topic: "Believe it or not, I am really grateful for this matter. You, if something happens to my sister, I will really regret that I will blame myself for the rest of my life, and I don’t think this accident was caused by you. You are only one of the victims of this disaster. You have done a very good job of saving them from Medusa."
Larut stared at you deeply for a moment, and asked incomprehensibly: "Don't you blame others at all?"
You think about it, and shook your head slightly, "There is nothing to complain about. Life is always full of unexpected accidents. You are very lucky to live well."
After a pause, you sighed softly; "If you are too greedy, you will be punished."
Whether it is the caravan that puts the blame on the mercenary group, or those who left the mercenary group at a critical moment, you do not resent their selfish behavior, because this is the instinct of people to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and no one will be missed. Unreasonably kind to sacrifice himself to carry these responsibilities.
Even if it were you, if this happened to someone else, you wouldn't be able to take out all the savings for the other person or even mortgage the priest's medal.
In fact, you, like them, are nothing more than ordinary mortals, just trying to survive in this world.
Although you have not seen Medusa with your own eyes, from other mercenaries and adventurers, you have also heard about the horror of this creature. Adventurers and mercenaries who were attacked by such dark monsters survived. The probability is less than 20%. Even if you survive by chance, your spirit will be greatly harmed and sequelae. Therefore, your mercenary group can come back alive under the attack of Medusa. In fact, it is considered extremely difficult. Up.
Although this accident made you a pauper again, and even the senior priest medal was mortgaged, you feel that the money will be earned back sooner or later, but once the life is gone, even the God of Light will not be able to recover.
Mercenary is a dangerous profession that is always accompanied by high risks. If it is only the lowest-level object-finding task, once the mercenary group reaches the C level, the difficulty of the task will increase.
The level of the mercenary group corresponds to the level of the released task. Generally, it is not possible to cross-level tasks, because low-level tasks will naturally be received by low-level mercenary groups. If they are monopolized by high-level mercenary groups, the others The novice mercenary group is difficult to develop. In order to maintain this balance, mercenary workers will not allow the mercenary group to take over tasks randomly. If the low-level mercenary group wants to take up a higher level of tasks, they must pay A certain deposit is given to the union, and if the mission fails, it will not be refunded. This is also to give the novice mercenaries a realistic lesson.
Every year, some reckless and impulsive novice mercenaries are too conceited and overestimate their own strengths. They have crossed the ranks, and advanced missions have failed missions and even destroyed the group. The bad news is not rare. As for the unfounded rumors that mixed races will attract Medusa , In fact, you don’t believe it very much, because you have counted the number of mercenary groups attacked by Medusa every year, and found that even if there are no mixed races, they will still be attacked, but these mercenary groups and adventurers attacked , All have a common feature.
That is, there are usually some strong strong men in the team. Medusa seems to be more interested in the flesh and blood of the strong, and the offspring of mixed races combine the natural advantages of the two races and often have stronger than pure humans. Physique and excellent talent, so mixed races rarely have weak, which is why it is said that Medusa prefers mixed races.
Of course this is just your guess.
"Mei." The dragon man suddenly called you in a low voice.
"Huh? What's the matter?" You regained your senses and looked at Larut with some surprise.
Because Larut doesn't seem to like to call you by name, he often uses "you" or "stupid" to call you.
"Are you really a human?"
The dragon man murmured dullly, and his tone was harder and sharper than before, obviously melting a lot.
You curled your lips, jokingly replied, "Probably so."
Larut was stunned, staring at you straight as if he had never seen you before, his eyes were so strong that he felt a little uneasy.
You blinked in confusion, your eyes stayed in front of the dragon man’s forehead for a few seconds, and your eyes flashed for several times. After you turned around and walked into the bedroom for a while, after groping for a while, when you walked out again, you got a flicker in your hand. Sharp scissors with cold light.
"Lalut, come and sit down."
You showed a clever and harmless smile, beckoning to him like a puppy.
The dragon man did not listen to you this time, but immediately took a step back vigilantly.
It's like anticipating what you will do to him next.
You approach him.
He backed away again.
Obviously the two are completely opposite in terms of size and momentum, but you, who are obviously on the weak side, have the upper hand.
It's like a ferocious Tibetan mastiff with nowhere to go, driven by a kitten just learning to walk.
"It'll be fine in a while, don't be afraid."
"……do not come."
"I have practiced the technique very well now, you can try it."
"……leave me alone!"
Listening to the fierce sound coming from the wooden house, Aleuros and Dubin Qiqi, who stood outside the door, fell into strange silence.
In the end, the Orc, whose face was getting darker and darker, couldn't help it anymore, kicked it out, and the fragile wooden door fell.
After finally driving the dragon man to the corner, you who are about to hold the scissors to his hair to prepare for the'attack', turn your head to look at the collapsed door and two uninvited guests standing at the door. One pump.
"Excuse me... are you here to collect debts?"
Seeing them look unkind, the only reason you can think of is this.
Dubin looked stiff, and withdrew his feet nonchalantly, turning around calmly and walking towards the aisle outside.
You find that he seems to be on the same hand.
"Miss May, excuse me."
Aleuros calmly ignored the strange atmosphere in the room, and gave you an elegant, gentle and friendly smile.
"Are you interested in mermaid breeders?"