CHAPTER 73 - THE SOUGHT-AFTER SUMMONER
Translated by Luxican
Feng Kuo, Wen Renhuo, and Mu Nan Yan were members of the famous "Phoenix" Mercenary Team in Yujing City.
The three of them were a magician and warrior dual cultivator, a warrior, and a magician. Wen Renhuo, was good at attacking, Mu Nan Yan's earth magic was good for defending, and Feng Kuo was good at defending and attacking.
The three of them had been a team for five years already, and Wen Renhuo and Mu Nan Yan had looked down on each other all this time. If it wasn't for Feng Kuo, the two would have beaten each other to death already.
Mu Nan Yan took a sip of the meditation water and raised her eyebrows.
"You gorilla woman, don't drink it all out," Wen Renhuo scolded.
"Boss, this meditation water..." Mu Nan Yan opened her mouth, feeling a vigorous magic power in her abdomen, like raging waves, it spread out in a flash, she couldn't help but be stunned.
"Is there a problem with the potion?" Wen Renhuo was also a little uncertain. He was a warrior and had no deeper knowledge of meditation water.
Feng Kuo took the meditation water and took a sip.
The role for meditation water was sometimes like a life-saving grace for magicians.
For mercenaries, who often hung on the edge of life and death, even if the magic power was only restored by 10%, it was already equal an extra life.
Feng Kuo widened his eyes, and exclaimed: "A modified version of the meditation water!"
"Boss, the taste is almost the same as the Medicine Association's, but the effect is very striking, it should be some kind of improved meditation water," Mu Nan Yan could no longer hold herself back.
She was an earth magician. When she had drunken the meditation water, her magic power recovered at a 50% faster rate than usually.
If she were to face a magician of the same level, as long as she had some of this meditation water, she would be invincible.
"What's the origin of the little girl? How much of the improved mediation water did she have, we have to buy it all," Feng Kuo had realized that the creator of this meditation water did not yet know its true value.
Wen Renhuo bought all the finished medicine in one go, so Yun Sheng had given him the best price. After conversion, the meditation was only one and a half silver coins. In the Medicine Association, one bottle of ordinary medicine was already five silver coins. In Feng Kuo and Mu Nan Yan's view, even if this meditation water was sold for one gold coin, it was still cheap.
"I...I don't know," After being so frantically asked by the two, Wen Renhuo was confused.
He had already done a good job by buying the medicine of the small thing. How should he have known that her medicine was that good?
"Tomorrow we will wait here. If she comes to sell medicines again, we will buy them all. And we will also ask about how these medicines are made." Whether Mu Nan Yan or Feng Kuo, they took it for granted that Yun Sheng was helping her parents sell medicine.
"Well," on Wen Renhuo's forehead a few cold sweat drops appeared, and he said weakly: " You see, I told the little girl, that she shouldn't set up a stall here anymore."
Two pairs of hostile eyes immediately swept at Wen Renhuo, "However, I told her she should deliver it to my house as soon as she finishes the medicine."
"Then if she doesn't deliver it?" Mu Nan Yan wanted to strangle him.
"It should be delivered, it will definitely be delivered!" Wen Renhuo said feeling more and more guilty.
He wasn't too sure, if the little girl didn't find the Wen Estate, or if she was discovered by other sellers, the improved meditation water would disappear for good.
It was just to difficult to find a little girl without knowing her name nor her surname.
"Alright, we will wait for now. I called you today because of the mercenary assessment. We have stayed at the C-rank for a long time. According to the missions and rewards accumulated over the years, we should upgrade to B-rank." Feng Kuo, Mu Nan Yan and Wen Renhuo were all Yujing City people.
Although the three were mercenaries, they all had their ancestors in Yujing City. The three were from one generation. They had been childhood friends because of their families. And five years ago, because of a random proposal, they had formed "Phoenix".
The strength of the trio was not bad, coupled with their tacit understanding, they had already accumulated a small reputation.
However, their mercenary rank had remained at C-rank, which had always been a pain for these three arrogant and proud people.
After all, only mercenaries of at least B-rank could take on missions crossing borders.
"Our strength is long enough to be B-rank, but we haven't found a suitable summoner," Wen Renhuo drank depressively.
Unlike the other ranks who had no real difficulty, there was a hard condition to become a mercenary squad of B-rank and above, that was, there had to be at least one warrior, one magician and one summoner in the team.
This hard condition was formulated by the three SSS-rank mercenaries who had founded the Mercenary Union, as well as the legendary Windgod Mercenary Squad.
All the mercenaries on the mainland had to obey these conditions, and the squads who met the conditions needed to challenge a B-rank mission. If they were successful, they could be promoted.
"It's not easy to find a summoner. You know that too. In the recent years, the summoners assessed by Yujing City Summoner Temple were robbed without leaving the gate. During the last ten years, summoners from Yujing City were not more than twenty at most. Those people were respected and superior, most of the time they didn't want to become mercenaries. The Great Zhou Empire was withering away, among the warriors, there was no warrior quite as powerful as General Wu Sheng. Future Peng Empire had the most summoners. So, from all the major empires, Future Peng Empire had the most mercenary squads above B-rank." Mu Nan Yan couldn't help sighing.
They became mercenaries not for money, but more for the adventures, mercenaries could experience.
However, the members of the mercenary squad had to be absolutely trustworthy, otherwise, in face of a life or death crisis, the betrayal of one member could doom the entire team.
Summoners could summon beasts, which would consume less magic power than actual magic spells. Under these conditions, having one summoner was equal to having two members, so, even if the restrictions for B-rank missions was removed, their chances of successfully completing them was almost zero.
Over the past decade, none of the C-rank mercenary squads had successfully ranked up.
"Let's wait and see, we will continue looking. In the past two years, we have also paid a lot attention to the improvement of our own strength," Feng Kuo's words ushered in unanimous approval from Wen Renhuo and Mu Nan Yan.
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Just as "Phoenix" was anxious to find a summoner, Yun Sheng was still repeating the work of a Medicine Apprentice in the medicine hall every day.
The herb fields she planted, finally germinated after a few days, including the batch of moonlight grass she had brought from Jiao Ye Village.
Yun Sheng also refined more than ten bottles of Qiqisan and five bottles of mediation water in her free time for a month. She planned to visit the Wen Estate to sell medicine, but what she didn't expect was that something happened that would interrupt her plan.
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