The large mercenary groups have always maintained a delicate relationship that is neither peaceful nor hostile.
Fighting each other is, of course, commonplace, but usually two conditions must be met: first, it is profitable; second, the fight can be fought.
To put it bluntly, it is cost-effectiveness. Compare the "benefits gained from killing the opponent" with the "estimated battle damage". If it is profitable, fight. If it is not cost-effective, then everyone can just talk a few words and nothing will happen.
Therefore, when someone couldn't stand the provocation from the other side and tried to pull the city defense crossbow, he was immediately stopped by his companions.
Don't be stupid, let's fight against the opponent now. It has no meaning at all except to relieve our anger!
So the mercenary who pulled the crossbow knew that he was too impulsive, and said with some dissatisfaction, maybe the other side had just returned from slaughtering the undead and harvested a large amount of spiritual materials?
This explanation was so far-fetched that others shook their heads.
First of all, the value of spiritual materials can only be regarded as extra money, and it is not worthy for the team to turn against the opponent;
Secondly, look at those Plantagenet mercenaries, do they look like they just came back from a fierce battle outside? There are no wounds or blood stains. They probably spent a day outside.
Finally, the main purpose of the Free Wind Mercenary Group here is to be hired by the Kingdom of Aragon-Castilla to help defend the city of Segovia.
Since you and Plantagenet are under the same contract, there is no essential conflict of interest between the two parties. On the other hand, if you and Plantagenet have a conflict and internal strife here, if Segovia is attacked by the undead and falls, you will suffer consequences.
What should we do if our contract fails?
Isn't that a small gain at a loss?
There are also experienced veteran mercenaries in the Free Wind, and they quickly suppressed the impulsive young colleagues to prevent the situation on the scene from worsening.
However, someone suddenly lowered his voice and exclaimed:
"Look at the man next to the girl, does he look like that person?"
Who does it look like? The other mercenaries who heard this were stunned for a moment. After staring at Asik's face carefully for a moment, they all reacted.
Isn't this the secret order sent by Prince Fernand, asking us to get rid of another mission target?
In the mercenary world, in addition to the explicit employment contracts that require signing, there is also another kind of shady secret order, which mostly involves illegal acts such as robbery, arson, kidnapping, and murder.
Since most of the tasks are bad, large mercenary groups that are worried about their reputation usually won't accept the tasks face to face, and they don't even think about contracts written in black and white.
However, if the client is a powerful person who is not easy to offend, then the mercenaries will pretend not to know and take care of the mission target in private, and then the client will also pretend not to know and secretly send the mission reward. There is no evidence left by either party.
Under the circumstances, an agreement was reached tacitly.
His Highness Fernand, as the prince of the Kingdom of Aragon and Castile, is of course one of those powerful people who are not easy to offend. The secret order was a letter sent by someone, accompanied by a photo of the target, and showed His Highness
A unique seal that cannot be faked.
The content is also very simple: find a mercenary group called Cangqing Sword, torture its leader to death, and give rewards based on the final result. Killing counts as first class, serious injury counts as second class, and seeing blood or humiliation counts as
The third level has different corresponding rewards.
If it was just about the reward, Freewind would certainly not accept such a secret order. The mission content was clearly stated to vent anger, and it would not be good for the team's reputation if it spread out.
However, considering that the defense of Iberia this time, everyone received a mission contract from the Aragonese royal family. If His Highness becomes angry because of this, and subsequently interferes with the settlement of the contract remuneration, it will be enough to cause a headache for the Wind of Freedom.
After all, he is Party A’s father, so there is no need to offend him too harshly.
Therefore, the leader Gaston made a decision: if they did not meet the mission target, then give up; if the other party was unfortunate enough to be met by them, then they would find a provocation and interrupt their hands and feet, which would be considered beneficial to His Highness.
Explained.
Break limbs...
Then break your hands and feet! The mercenaries looked at Asik across from them, and their eyes gradually became a little malicious.
Being stared at by a large number of malicious eyes, even Asik, who did not have a conspiracy sequence, noticed some sinister atmosphere around him. However, the intuition sequence did not warn him, which meant that there was no one among the mercenaries opposite who could threaten him.
, so he just kept calm and paid attention secretly.
The two sides argued for a long time, and finally came to an end. The Free Wind set up a stronghold here to prevent the undead from invading. Of course, there was no reason to shut out the Plantagenet mercenary group.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the two sides had a lot of disagreements in the past. Therefore, the Wind of Freedom was only willing to open a small door on the left near the cliff, allowing the members of the Plantagenet Mercenary Group to line up in a long queue and pass through one by one to prevent them from fighting.
With a large number of people, they broke out into trouble when they entered the camp.
Eric and McGree had no choice but to do as the other party asked. So everyone lined up at the side entrance of the camp and passed through the checkpoints in the camp one after another.
"Peggy." Ask suddenly said.
"Huh?" Paige raised her head slightly.
"There's something wrong with those guys in front." Ask reminded her, "Pay attention."
"Okay." Paige immediately nodded murderously, "If they dare to have bad ideas later, I will kill them all."
"No." Asik was speechless, "I mean, don't kill someone on impulse."
"Why?" Paige was puzzled. If the other person stabbed me directly on the head with a sword, would I have to estimate whether I would kill him?
"After all, we are in the Plantagenet Mercenary Group." Asik lowered his voice and said, "If we rashly engage in a bloody conflict with the opponent, the subsequent consequences will not be good."
If Eleanor or Medea were here, of course he wouldn't have to worry. Only Miss Peggy, who is not afraid of anything, is here. There was a precedent of massacre of the city before, so Asker could only remind her in advance.
one time.
Paige said oh and said, "Then what should we do if the other party makes a move first?"
"Hmm." Asik pondered for a moment, "Then let everyone save one life and break their hands and feet."
That's okay. Peggy thought it would be easy to break her hands and feet, so just break her hands and feet.
It’s an advantage for you!
Soon, as the team continued to move forward, it was Aske's turn to inspect.
The so-called inspection is nominally to see if you are a human mercenary and whether you are an undead person pretending to be one. For example, vampires have the ability to change their appearance at will, and banshees can possess people's bodies and control their host's actions, etc.
wait.
If a large number of vampires or banshees mingled with the Plantagenet mercenary group and suddenly turned against them after entering the camp, then no matter how well the Free Wind's defense line was arranged, they would not be able to hold it.
Therefore, these Free Wind mercenaries got a crystal ball from nowhere, saying it was a special extraordinary item that would glow when they were close to the undead, and they held it so that the Plantagenet mercenaries lined up and walked past.
In fact, they have already done something secretly. When Asker passes by, the mercenary with the crystal ball will quietly slip out a piece of extraordinary properties of the undead bloodline from his sleeve, and press it on the bottom of the crystal ball to let it
Glow.
Then they falsely accused the man of being an undead person in disguise, thus giving him a legal excuse to start a fight.
Although Asker didn't know the specific content of the mercenaries' conspiracy, he probably sensed that something was wrong. However, although he was not afraid of the other side's small actions at all, he was worried about what big news Peggy would make later, so he focused on monitoring
He still put it on her body and pulled her in front of him, never leaving her.
Peggy stamped her feet impatiently, waiting for the mercenary in front to pass the crystal ball inspection and enter the camp, then walked forward with an impatient expression.