adventurers in the sewers

Chapter 84 Retracing the Path We Came From?

After Dina's reminder, Louis and Nora also noticed the anomaly.

"After changing jobs, did Merry's magical adaptability, which was previously limited by her mortal body, manifest itself?"

Nora murmured.

However, according to her understanding, other geniuses with innate full magic adaptability also gradually reveal their talents in this area over time after changing jobs.

Where are there examples of magic adaptability skyrocketing after a job change?

The three exchanged glances and tacitly remained silent, simply indicating to Merry to continue absorbing magic power until it was completely full.

The silver-haired boy sitting on the sofa was stared at by the three of them, not daring to speak or ask anything, and just kept absorbing magic power.

More than half an hour later, he whispered, "It seems full."

Nora immediately took out a small testing magic stone (which she had taken from her teacher's house) and began testing Merry's magical adaptability.

The results were astonishing; having just changed jobs, the little guy's magic adaptability had already reached an incredible 15.

The score reached the highest in the team.

"Having 15 points of magic adaptability upon job advancement indicates that your talent potential is far greater than that."

"I think it won't be long before you can hold 20 points of magic power, and after your second job change, you will still have extraordinary talent in magic power adaptability."

Nora said, her tone tinged with resentment.

He's a true all-around genius, isn't he?

It seems she needs to step up her game; she can't afford to lose face if her junior brother catches up to her someday.

However, Merry himself was not aware of his genius. He just said "Oh," then stood up, patted his butt, and said, "It's getting late, I'll go cook."

Louis's expression changed immediately upon hearing this, and he quickly said, "I'll do it—cough cough, let's do it together."

Louis has been giving Melli a lot of pointers on cooking techniques these days, but even though the boy tries very hard every time, as soon as Louis isn't paying attention, Melli will make a pot of stew that's hard to swallow.

This child's culinary talent is probably inversely proportional to his magical adaptability.

Seeing Louis lead Merry into the kitchen as if facing a formidable enemy, Nora paused for a moment before suddenly smiling.

Well, it seems that no one is perfect.

The next morning, the entire sewer squad headed to the Black Rock Corps stationed in the southern corner of the city.

As a large military corps with a strength of 50,000, the corps' garrison area is extremely large. Putting aside the strict security measures with guards every three steps and sentries every five steps, the corps' garrison area is more like a small town.

After showing their authorization form and identification to the guards at the entrance of the military corps, Louis and his entourage were politely welcomed into a reception room in a small building.

They were greeted by a middle-aged officer wearing half-body chainmail.

Louis sensed the other party's aura and found that his strength was only close to that of a semi-professional.

Even in the kingdom's regular army, there were basically no professional officers among the middle and lower ranks, which gave Louis more confidence.

Sure enough, the resolute-faced middle-aged officer gave Louis a polite smile: "Captain Louis, thank you for helping Blackrock City resist the demonic tide."

"Your squad is very strong. Forcibly incorporating you into the army would only limit your ability to perform."

"As is customary, you can choose your own legion mission to deal with the elite forces of the demonic tide in the form of an elite mobile squad."

As he spoke, the middle-aged officer handed a stack of task lists to Louis for him to choose from.

Louis squeezed the thickness of the task sheet and found that it was not thick or heavy, about the size of a slightly thicker notebook.

That's normal. There's only so many professional teams available. How can there be so many important missions for professionals to take on?

Although Blackrock City has thousands of permanent professional residents, a large portion of these professionals either work in various professional associations, serve as advisors to nobles and wealthy merchants, or are involved in politics or the military.

Those who actually become adventurers only make up about 30-40% of the total.

Most of the professionals who join the Adventurers' Guild form their own small teams, with the number of teams reaching a maximum of seventy or eighty.

The number of professional teams choosing to participate in city defense missions will be further reduced, leaving very few.

Before reviewing the mission details, Louis asked curiously, "Sir, how long until the demonic tide reaches the city?"

The middle-aged officer gave a wry smile and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, it will only take one or two days. As the demonic tide advances, the wandering demons in the Demon Wasteland are also being swept up, making the demonic tide grow stronger and stronger."

"Fortunately, our Blackrock City has been continuously replenished by various forces, so the current defense pressure is not too great."

Louis nodded.

He handed the task list to Dana and Nora, and they all looked at it together.

The city defense mission is mainly about defending the city. For example, it might involve dispatching a team of professionals to guard a key position on the city wall, or stationing personnel to guard a section of the city wall and then helping the ordinary guards if the defense fails.

There are very few missions that require proactive action, after all, level 1 professionals are still just mortals, and if they get caught up in a huge army, they will die anyway.

Even if there were missions to snipe and assassinate enemy leaders, it wouldn't be their turn to take them on; that's a job only level two or even level three professional teams are qualified to do.

Initially, Louis planned to take on a regular city defense mission, but a mission list caught his attention.

[Mission: Guard the city's underground passages (long-term)]

[Mission Description: Blackrock City's sewage outlets are located in various waterways outside the city. The cunning demons may direct monsters to infiltrate the city through these outlets, attacking the defending soldiers from both sides.]

[Mission Objective: Eliminate all monsters attempting to infiltrate the underground tunnels.]

[Quest Rewards: Common monsters 0.1 battle points/each, powerful monsters 5 battle points/each, Level 1 monsters (demon race)]

500-5000 battle merits per unit.

The so-called underground passage is actually a sewer.

Blackrock City has a vast network of sewers, with sewage outlets scattered throughout the city walls.

Not to mention the diverse and fearless monsters, even in Louis's previous life in ancient times, there were many cases of soldiers sneaking into the city through sewage outlets or latrines to cooperate with the enemy and break through the city gates.

Therefore, someone must guard the sewers to prevent monsters from entering the city and causing destruction.

Louis valued this mission not because he liked the stench of the sewers, but because it was safer than the mission to defend the city.

After all, there are definitely formidable beings in the Demon Tide who are superior to Level 1 professionals. What if they are suddenly attacked?

If you run away at the sight of a strong enemy, the supervisory team will teach you a lesson.

Guarding the sewers would be much better, as the monsters that infiltrate there are generally not too strong, and even if you encounter a powerful one, you can use the interconnected underground passages to get around it.

Louis refused to believe that with his extensive experience working in the sewers, he couldn't shake off a monster or demon that couldn't find its way around.

So Louis quickly called his teammates over to see how the mission was going.

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