The 74 Incident

  Wish everything goes well

  The middle-aged mercenary said this, and the man opposite him frowned: "You're talking about our city master..."

  "That's right, it seems you've also heard...". A hint of mystery appeared on the middle-aged mercenary's face.

  "Alright, your news is no longer a secret, it has spread throughout the entire Lü Yue City. The Lord of the city has personally issued an order that whoever among the young and talented can hunt down the terrifying unicorn lion in the depths of the misty forest will gain his recognition, and the Lord will give his daughter's hand in marriage to him!"

  "Is she the daughter of the castle owner? Isn't that Joana, the number one beauty of our Lieyang City?"

  "Great, and there's something good like this..."

  "Come on, let's go to the Misty Forest and try our luck!"

  "Give up, your abilities are not even worth looking at, and you're already over thirty years old. The lord's orders only apply to young talents under the age of twenty-five!"

  Suddenly, the tavern was in an uproar, and it was clear that many people were also hearing this news for the first time, and the pot had been stirred up.

  "Lièyáng City's number one beauty?" Tang Ge's eyes lit up immediately, showing great interest.

  "Tang Ge, you'd better not dream about it. The Unicorn Lion King is at least a seventh-level magical beast. With the three of us working together, we can barely cope with it, but to hunt and kill it, it's almost impossible." Xia Ming directly shattered Tang Ge's thoughts.

  Xia Ming and Tang Ge are both at the fifth level peak, Su Weiwei should be above sixth level, encountering seventh level demon beasts can barely self-preserve, but wanting to hunt them down is undoubtedly a pipe dream.

  "It's not like there's no chance at all, with this news, many young and talented people will go to hunt the Unicorn King, we can take advantage of it!" Tang Ge fully demonstrated his wisdom, smiling and suggesting.

  "Me too."

  "Misty Forest is a very mysterious place in Lianyin City. During the era of Wandering Soul Calamity, a great war broke out between the Human Alliance and the Beast Clan, countless strong men fell, and we might have unexpected gains." Su Weiwei said thoughtfully.

  "What's holding us back? Let's go!"

  ……

  Misty forest entrance.

  All around were dense crowds of mercenaries, each fully armed, standing outside the entrance, and many more mercenaries shouting loudly, recruiting members to venture into the misty forest together.

  "Snow Wolf Mercenary Group is recruiting a magician, level 3 or above required. Salary: 300 gold coins per day. Only three spots available. Interested parties please sign up!"

  Such shouts are endless, and many mercenary groups are recruiting mages because mages have strong mental power, can sense many dangers, and with the use of many status magic spells, often play a decisive role at critical moments.

  It can also be seen that the danger of the Misty Forest is not comparable to that of the Green Worm Forest, and it is truly full of dangers. Most mercenary groups have more than 50 or 60 people, and larger ones even have over a hundred members.

  Due to their unfamiliarity with these local mercenary groups, and the fact that most of them were locals, Xiaoming and his two companions did not plan to join a mercenary group for the time being. After circling around, they directly entered the Misty Forest.

  In the misty forest, Xia Ming immediately felt a faint chill in the air.

  "It's very easy to get lost in the fog forest, we must find a way to get a few maps." Su Weiwei's voice sounded again like a clear spring.

  "That's right, but don't worry about getting lost." Xiaoming smiled slightly and pointed to a kind of needle-shaped grass on the ground. "This needle-grass is all over the misty forest, it's the best guide. The leaves of the needle-grass only point south, with this wild grass around, we don't have to worry about losing our direction."

  Xia Ming was a master pharmacist, and identifying herbs was no challenge for him.

  "You still have this move!" Tanger was slightly surprised.

  Su Weiwei looked at Xia Ming with some surprise, she didn't know about the Medicine Assembly, only that Xia Ming seemed to have an unusual understanding of minerals, but now he also seems familiar with herbs, which is somewhat puzzling.

  Although they wouldn't get lost in terms of direction, Xia Ming and the other two didn't know the overall situation of the Misty Forest, so they were also carefully probing around the periphery.

  The forest was abnormally cold, Xiaoming took out the strong liquor he had prepared early and threw one bottle each to Tangge and Su Weiwei.

  "Have some hot drink to warm yourself up!"

  Although Tang Ge and Su Weiwei both have aura shields, Xia Ming even has magic, but in a place like this, being able to save a bit is a bit.

  A mouthful of strong liquor went down, and Tong Ge let out a comfortable cry. The warm feeling of the fiery chest immediately surged throughout his body. Su Weiwei also took a small sip, then slightly frowned, apparently not used to drinking it. Unfortunately, she was wearing a mask, otherwise Xia Ming would have been able to appreciate her stunning face flushing red all over.

  After drinking, the three continued to walk and encountered several small-scale demonic beast attacks along the way. Most of them were third or fourth-level demonic beasts, including a fourth-level Rock Snake with hard skin and toxic gas that caused some minor trouble for the trio, who had to exert a bit of effort to resolve it.

  "Ah..."

  Just after cleaning up the body of the Rock Snake, it was somewhat regrettable that no magic crystal was found on the body of the Rock Snake, but soon Xiaoming heard a shrill cry.

  Xia Ming suddenly turned his head and exchanged a glance with Tang Ge and Su Weiwei.

  "Go take a look!"

  The three figures immediately disappeared into this area and quickly flashed towards the direction of the exclamation.

  A figure flashed by, pushing aside the branches of the trees in the forest. Xiaoming saw a dozen or so mercenaries wearing light armor fighting a ferocious magical beast. On the ground lay the body of a mercenary, and it was clear that the earlier cry had been because someone had died.

  That ferocious demon beast is a Shadow Stalker Panther, a very fierce fifth-level demon beast. This demon beast moves as fast as lightning and can use its innate magic to create illusory duplicates of itself to confuse enemies, with extremely high attack power.

  "These people's strength is not quite up to par." Tang Ge took a rough glance, and the combat power of those dozen or so mercenaries was mostly around level three. Dealing with such a troublesome level five magical beast would be somewhat difficult for them. Not to mention them, even if Tang Ge were to face the Shadow Stalking Leopard alone, he wouldn't have an easy time.

  While Tong Ge was speaking, the Shadow Leopard let out a loud roar and its body flashed as it created an illusory duplicate. The two leopards suddenly pounced, one of them jumping towards one of the mercenaries!

  "Damn it!" The mercenary hastily dodged, looking quite experienced, but still failed to completely avoid the leopard's swipe, tearing a large gash on his arm, with blood flowing freely.

  It's impossible for a few mercenaries to encounter a Shadow Panther without losing half of their men.

  Tang Ge beside him had already rushed out, his body was like an arrow off the string, and in an instant he had rushed to the center of the field!

  "This guy, really likes to meddle in other people's business." Xia Ming smiled wryly and raised his staff, reciting a string of smooth notes, and a slow spell was thrown out!