"Master Thain, we only need to climb over this mountain range to enter the border area of the Lycian Alliance." In the evening camp, Hussein, the leader of the mercenary group, pointed to the dark mountains in the distance and said
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A month has passed since Thane and the others left Clark City.
Because he was carrying a batch of supplies and some non-combatants, the speed of the journey was slower than when Thain was traveling alone.
Thain claimed to be the leader of the mercenary group, Hussein, as an intermediate magic apprentice.
He then showed the mercenary leader his skills in the fire wall technique, and was immediately recruited into the group by Hussein.
The reason why Hussein was so respectful and enthusiastic towards Thain at this time was also because the other party wanted to keep this powerful magician in the mercenary group for a long time.
In Clark City, there are magician mercenary groups, all of which are large mercenary groups with a certain reputation.
This mid-level servant Hussein is a bit ambitious. It is said that his ancestors were once nobles, and the fighting qi skills he now personally teaches in the mercenary group seem to have been passed down from his ancestors.
But regarding Hussein's deliberate win over, Thain's performance was extremely dull from beginning to end.
Earning gold coins in the mercenary group, or even using his life to obtain one or two noble titles in the future, is not Thain's pursuit.
And he also discovered that the knight group was indeed very different from the magic apprentices.
Back in Peter City, mid-level apprentice Frank soon discovered the strength of senior apprentices he possessed after having a conversation with Thain.
But the Hussein in front of him clearly had the strength of an intermediate knight squire, but he didn't realize that Thain was stronger. He only thought that Thain was just an intermediate apprentice as he introduced himself.
There is such a gap, and Thain judges that it is probably related to the mental power gap between the magic apprentice and the knight's squire.
Magic apprentices with relatively high mental power can keenly judge the approximate mental strength of other apprentices and compare it with their own.
Of course, that doesn't mean that knights don't have the means to identify the strength of their opponents.
When the knights grow to a certain height, their mental power will naturally transform to a certain intensity.
Prior to this, some knight attendants with rich combat experience or who had experienced countless life and death trials could also judge the strength of their opponents based on intuition and danger sensing.
But obviously, our mercenary leader Hussein does not have this ability. He is just a mid-level servant who has a little bit of drive but also acts cautiously.
If he is a truly ruthless person, even if the opponent only has the strength of a low-level knight attendant, he would dare to go to the battlefield hinterland of the Kingdom of Western France and the Oak Empire to perform mercenary missions.
Rather than just leading his own mercenary group like Hussein, he went to the Lycian Alliance to perform a material transportation mission.
The Dark Mountains that Hussein refers to are the last hurdle for Thain to leave the Dark Territory.
Likewise, this is also the most dangerous area that we pass through during our trip to the Lycian League.
That dark mountain range is also called the Warcraft Mountains, and has been a natural barrier on the border of the Lycian Alliance for many years.
As powerful as the Orc Empire, they have never considered crossing that mountain range to attack the Lycian League.
It is said that there are magical beasts in the mountains that are far beyond the power of ordinary people, but no one has seen them.
However, mercenary leader Hussein led his team to the Lycian League several times, and he said that there are indeed powerful monsters living in the mountains.
The strongest monster he has ever seen is a blue-eyed crystal monkey that has reached the level of an advanced monster.
As long as they pass through the Dark Mountains, the danger of this mercenary mission will be reduced by about 70%.
After a night of repairs, everyone in the mercenary group set out to cross the Dark Mountains.
At this time, there were about thirty people in the mercenary group. In addition to Thain and the mercenaries, there were nearly ten people who were the employer and his personal team.
The employer is an old man with a goatee. It is said that he has some connections in the Lycian Alliance, so he came to Clark City to sell food and iron tools.
After selling it to the Lycian League, it would be enough for him to make a fortune.
The employer, the old man, was quite capable. Among the private team that accompanied him, there were only two mid-level attendants, four low-level attendants, and even a low-level magic apprentice as a consultant.
With the strength shown by this old man, he is no less than Hussein's mercenary group.
As a senior apprentice and alchemist, Thain also discovered a trace of the unique elemental rhythm of low-level magic props in the old man.
"Master Thain, I will rely on you a lot this time when traveling through the Dark Mountains." Before setting off, the old man with the goatee walked up to Thain and said respectfully.
With the low-level magic apprentice as an advisor, the old man also knew that the Thain in front of him was not as simple as the mid-level apprentice he indicated.
Faced with the old man's compliment, Thain just said "hmm" and didn't make much reply.
The Shadowy Mountains is indeed the most dangerous area on this trip to the Lycian Alliance. Just on the first day of entering the mountains, one person in the mercenary group was reduced.
This guy was not attacked to death by a monster, but accidentally stepped on a special plant with barbs in the forest. In the end, he was discovered late and died of direct poisoning.
"It's Bai Langhua. Tammad has told them to be careful, but someone will still fall for it!" Hussein, the leader of the mercenary group, couldn't help but cursed, it was his person who died.
Although he was an ordinary member who had no fighting spirit, after his death, according to the convention and the contract signed before joining the group, Hussein had to compensate the deceased's family with a pension.
Thain didn't pay much attention to the dead ordinary person. In the end, he just collected a few drops of translucent liquid from the blackened soles of the person's feet as specimens.
According to the breadth of the Dark Mountain Range and the speed of their group's advance, it would take five days at the fastest to get out of here.
The first and last days are normally relatively safe, but only the middle three days, because in the belly of the dark mountains, danger may arise at any time.
The next day after entering the mountains, Thain released Owl Qi.
The appearance of Owl Qi made everyone in the mercenary group more in awe of Thane.
Especially after feeling that this was a powerful monster, Hussein, the mercenary leader, did not mention the idea of recruiting Thain to join the group.
Their small mercenary group cannot accommodate such a great god.
But besides the regret, there was joy right after.
Because the stronger Thain's performance is, it means that the cost of crossing the Dark Mountains will be lower.
"How's it going, Qi, have you noticed that there are powerful monsters living here?" Thain asked the owl hovering in the sky.
At this time, Qi's brown eyes looked towards the west of the Dark Mountains, which was an area that Thain and others had never passed.
"There are monsters that are no weaker than me in the east and west, especially in the west, where there seem to be stronger monsters living there." Qi replied.
Qi is stronger than the quasi-class monster, so it is naturally a quasi-class monster that can compete with official magicians and official knights.
I didn't expect that there are such powerful creatures in the Dark Mountains.