Guild Boss's Ambition

"I want it too! I want it too!"

"What bad luck! I'm here to do missions and make money! I'm not a soldier! I'm going to resign now! Even if I have to pay compensation, I'm going to resign! I don't want to work for this shitty guild!"

"That's right! Who wants to follow a brat to fight in a war?!"

"Eh? You have a point, bro. Fighting with a woman like this is like committing suicide. I'm going to quit too!"

The voices of doubt suddenly rose to an extreme. After all, most of the so-called mercenaries were a group of people who only cared about profit and had no moral principles. Before they had a second chance at life, the right and wrong, honor and disgrace they kept shouting about were lighter and lighter than the clouds in the sky. Now, just to evade their duties, they did not hesitate to bully Meng'er because of her young age and tried to push her into a dangerous situation on the edge of a cliff.

“What should I do? What should I do!”

"If this continues, all our men will run away!"

Faced with the current situation, I am extremely anxious, but I am not a person who is good at speaking. In front of so many selfish and angry people, how can a cute creature like me control these brutal and unreasonable thugs with my words?

After successfully gaining the support of the masses, Aifuri, who was the first to challenge Meng'er, stood in front of Meng'er amid the booing. He put on a helpless face and pretended to be objective and said, "President Ehard, you have seen the situation. We all have the same opinion. Instead of cursing at each other, why not let those of us who don't want to stay leave in a friendly way?"

"Well said, let us go!"

"Terminate the contract now! Terminate the contract now!"

Amid the turmoil in the crowd, Meng'er sat silently on a chair at a table. The table was a long and wide table that was moved from the kitchen to the lobby to handle a large amount of documents. However, at this moment, this table only made our young lady the president look even more frail and thin. She was so weak that others mistakenly viewed her as a weak woman rather than a warrior who had received professional knight training.

"Have you said enough? If you have, then it's my turn to speak, okay?"

Amid the noisy discussion, Meng'er said coldly.

With just one sentence, Miss Raftan, who had been standing next to him, knew how to cooperate. The Paladin unsheathed the standard long sword hanging on his waist without warning, blocking Aifuli and Meng'er, and frightened the former so much that he staggered back two steps, yelling angrily, "Why are you drawing your sword for no reason?"

"The war has already begun. If you continue to mess around here, you will only kill everyone." Raftan said seriously.

At the same time, Meng Er stood up proudly and said in a loud voice: "People must be responsible for the promises they make. When you signed the War Mercenary Agreement, I explained the meaning of each clause to you in accordance with the regulations. Now if anyone wants to go back on their word, I, as the president of the Stone House and the client of the military, will follow the rules and deal with it carefully."

"You have the choice between hanging and obedience."

With just a few words, the dissenting voices in the hall were silenced. Feeling that the situation had been reversed, Avery retreated hastily after two sneers. However, everyone with a brain knew that this was a farce from the beginning to the end. As the party supported by the coalition military, the position of the Stone House was unshakable.

"War really makes one's head spin..."

"It's such an easy situation to deal with, why was I so worried just now?"

"Ulu, Ulu, adjust your attitude quickly, otherwise you will only be able to act cute!"

While I was secretly reflecting on my poor performance, I followed the pace of President Ehard and the others to carry out various tasks, such as arranging rooms for adventurers who had no guild accommodation, and discussing with Mr. Strom in the kitchen about the amount of food we currently have, possible food crises in the future, and a series of other contingency measures.

Because of the war, there was suddenly too much work to do.

But in this moment of turbulent change, I suddenly realized the sinister intentions of the Alliance military.

Starting from today, they not only prohibited adventurers from entering or leaving the town, but also prohibited civilians from leaving this city that was about to be devastated by war. The reason for this arrangement was that even during the war, other people were still needed to perform other tasks. Adventurers knew how to fight, but they did not know how to cook or forge iron to repair equipment.

Our city of Mopolis is basically a city prepared for combat. In addition to supplying and maintaining weapons and armor, we also have a series of treatment units. But if we want to retain the war function of this border city, we must also relatively retain local civilians, so the military will completely block the city gates to prevent civilians from entering or leaving.

"Civilians who are unwilling to sacrifice themselves are also dragged into this war..."

"Is this really the right approach?"

"This so-called Alliance of Light doesn't seem to be very reliable in its behavior..."

“By the way, I am a civilian, right? Then aren’t I also a victim of the Sulut dwarf?!”

"If Mopolis is breached, those high elves will kill me, right?"

I imagined the war scene a little, but as someone who has lived in a peaceful era since childhood, I still didn't have much sense of reality for it, nor did I have any special emotions about it. All I did was perform the work of a poster girl in different situations, and then silently wait for the war to come and wait for the arrangement of fate.

"Work."

"Focus on your work."

I kept telling myself this:

"Mr. Avry, please come over here. Here are the keys to your rooms. Please help distribute them to the other roommates. Because this is an emergency, we cannot arrange separate rooms for you. Please understand."

"Oh, dear Miss Lannon, please don't say that. I was just being aggressive just now to evade the responsibilities of the contract. Now that the matter is irreversible, I, Avery, will not take it to heart and do anything to deliberately cause trouble for you. I don't want anyone to disrupt the order of the guild and put everyone's lives in danger."

Different from his attitude in the lobby just now, Uncle Aifuri gave me a polite feeling at this time. Such a strong contrast made me a little uncomfortable. I could only smile perfunctorily and exchange a few words with him casually. Then I went back to the first floor from the second floor to prepare to arrange accommodation for the next batch of adventurers who had completed registration.

However, when I went to the lobby on the first floor again, the atmosphere was unnaturally quiet.

The source of the silence was none other than a small troop of more than twenty heavily-armored soldiers.

This team of heavily-armored soldiers guarded a beautifully-dressed woman, standing in two neat rows along the left and right sides of Meng'er's desk. I used identification skills to check them, and found that most of them were gold-level warriors, and two of them could not be identified to any level. I guess they were either platinum-level warriors or legendary humanoid monsters.

"Ms. Corvina?"

What was shocking was that the gorgeously dressed woman was actually the hostess of the Snake House - Corvina Caesar.

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13. War Mission (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

"Good morning, everyone. I am Ruan Naikovina-Caesar, the son of Farmeron, and a military strategist appointed by the Lord of Surut. I am mainly responsible for contacting various adventurer guilds and conveying various information about this war to you."

With a pipe in her mouth, Corvina expressed her current identity with a charming posture and tone. Although she was extremely beautiful, her surname of Caesar was even more frightening, which immediately caused a lot of discussion among the people present. Those who looked at her not only did not dare to show any covetous eyes, but were also filled with fear of the lower class for the higher class.

After finishing her opening remarks, Ms. Corvina glanced at the crowd and said to Meng'er with a smile, "There are so many people here, it seems inconvenient to talk. President Ehard, do we need to hold this meeting behind closed doors?"

Perhaps considering the credibility crisis just now, Meng'er did not accept Corvina's advice.

"Thank you for your kindness, Ms. Caesar. However, if what you are about to say is not confidential, it may be more appropriate for us to discuss it openly in this hall. This way, I can save the time of repeating what I want to say, and I can also listen to the opinions of everyone present, brainstorm, and jointly discuss countermeasures against the high elves."

"In that case, let's just talk it out here."

Ms. Corvina did not object to Meng'er's decision. She nodded slightly, and a huge parchment scroll appeared from the space ring. With the help of the wizard's hands, she unfolded it and spread it flat on the long office table in the lobby.

Upon seeing the parchment scroll, the adventurers around immediately huddled around the table. If there were not more than twenty guards on the scene to help maintain order, those sweaty and rude men would have surrounded our delicate Ms. Corvina on the spot, ruining the reputation of our stone house and branding the guild with a hat of rudeness and barbarity.

So, the fact that big shots bring guards with them on their incognito visits is not because they are not close to the people, but because the people are too enthusiastic.

The parchment Corvina took out was a colorful map.

The map depicts the geographical location of our city of Mopolis and the surrounding areas. At the same time, there are many unannotated markings on the map, which are probably special symbols that require professional tactical knowledge to understand.

"Oh my, it seems that tactical cartography is also a field that a mission assessor needs to be familiar with—"

"But even if learning is endless, doesn't it seem like there's too much for us to learn?"

Looking at this completely incomprehensible map, I couldn't help but feel a huge pressure.

After laying out the tactical map, Corvina smiled softly and explained calmly, "This is the map of our Mopolis City, which is also the main combat range of this Nature's Wrath. Hmm, roughly? As always, the military will be the main force against the high elves, and you adventurers will help us win this war by completing the war missions we provide."

After a pause, Corvina sat down at the table, turned to face the adventurers on both sides and in front, and said with a smile: "I can tell you very responsibly that 50% of you will die in this war. If you are lucky, it can be reduced a little, but if you are unlucky, all of you will be wiped out. But based on past experience, 50% is the average."

Despite the heavy message she was saying, Corvina still had a cheerful expression on her face, as if life didn't have much weight in her eyes, or she had already lost sight of it.

After a while, she smiled and said, "I would like to advise you all, if you don't have legendary strength, then don't try to escape from this city easily, and hide in this city, because we will definitely find you one by one. In order to prevent you from doing stupid things, I will show you something now, a typical negative example."

As soon as she finished speaking, Corvina flipped her sleeves, and a male head floated in the air in front of everyone!

Seeing the man's head, even the adventurers who were used to seeing life and death couldn't help but gasp.

There was no need for anyone to explain. Everyone and I recognized the identity of the deceased at a glance. He was Boris, the "Ghost Shadow" who had been in the news a while ago. This man was born in the Black Cloud Guild. He was the strongest combat force in their guild and a legendary strongman who was good at covert operations. He was often given the task of assassinating the leaders of the rebels.

however……

He is dead now.

The cause of death is probably this war.

After seeing our surprised reactions, Corvina showed a satisfied expression: "You are all smart people. You know which side is the way to life and which side is the way to death even if I don't say it clearly. Now you must listen carefully to what I want to say, because my time is very precious and I will not waste a single extra minute on you."

For some reason, since her debut until now, Ms. Corvina's performance has been subtly different from my impression of her, as if she was deliberately saying those frowning and annoying words, invisibly pushing herself to the opposite side of us adventurers, making us regard her as an enemy who controls our life and death, and making us focus our attention on her.

War makes people confused, but hatred gives people a direction to vent.

“Huh—”

After leisurely exhaling a cloud of smoke, Corvina turned up his sleeves and put away Boris's head. He continued, "The gameplay of the war mission is very simple. Every two weeks, each guild must complete a war mission assigned to you. There are many types of missions, and you will have the right to choose. But basically, casualties will be inevitable in the future."

At this point, Meng'er immediately came up with a plan: "We have to complete a mission every two weeks. It's December now, and the high elves will withdraw at the latest in early May. This means that in the worst case scenario, we have to complete a total of ten war missions within five months. On the bright side, there is a precedent that Nature's Wrath can be completed in one month."

Hearing this, Corvina raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "The length of time is actually not important. No matter how bad the situation is, the strong will always be able to survive. Moreover, your Stone House is a gold-level guild, and the missions assigned to you are all gold-level war missions. However, based on Ruan's understanding of your guild, you don't seem to have many gold-level adventurers."

Meng'er immediately took advantage of the situation and asked, "Perhaps your military can assign us more suitable tasks? Instead of letting our men sacrifice in vain, why not lower the requirements so that we can bring more assistance to the army?"

Puff -

But Corvina smiled and said without any nostalgia: "War with the high elves is always dangerous, and the so-called silver missions are even rarer. It's not that I want to push you to death, but there is really no safer work to arrange for you in the stone house. So, even if you are unable to do it, for the sake of your own life, please do your best to complete the mission!"

After hearing what Covina said, I, who had been following Ebisu for a long time and learning how to assign tasks, felt as if I were trapped in an icy cave.

Asking an adventurer to do something beyond his ability is absolutely insane!

Even if a general is commanding his troops, there is no reason to casually use his soldiers as discarded pawns.

"No, to be precise..."

"Adventurers are not their soldiers..."

"We are just a group of people who advocate freedom but are bound by reality..."

Precisely because adventurers are not completely under the control of the military, the military can send us to the most dangerous places without reservation, just like randomly betting property that does not belong to them on a certain gambling game. Even if they lose, they have no loss. On the contrary, as long as they accidentally run out of a very small probability of winning, they will successfully get something for nothing.

In this situation, freedom has become a force that pushes us to the cliff.

At this point, I have lost all trust in the Corvina in front of me. Just like the role she deliberately played, she is no longer the kind and loving elder, but a real venomous snake who will do anything to achieve her goals. From the beginning, she has been sending us a message - she is not our ally.

And this message is her greatest return to us as a friend.

If she is really cold-blooded, she could just take advantage of our trust and betray us at the critical moment.

But she didn't do anything so despicable.

After a pause, Corvina continued with a smile, "However, since this is still an adventurer's mission in form, our military will naturally not let you work for nothing. All the war missions we arrange have been evaluated by professionals from the Adventurer's Association. As long as you can complete the mission, you will also receive corresponding rewards, such as - the best food and clean water, and a large amount of gold coins?"

Unfortunately, even after hearing that there were rewards for the mission, the adventurers present still looked uninterested.

After all, no amount of reward is as important as one's own life, not to mention that all of them have only a 50% survival rate.

Seeing that the adventurers still had no enthusiasm, Corvina took out a piece of parchment and showed it to everyone.

"Please, don't look so dead, okay?"

She curved her snake eyes and said with a smile, "In fact, the conditions of our war missions are really good. For example, I personally recommend this supply destruction mission. As long as you successfully burn the high elves' grain carts, you can get a total reward of 100,000 gold coins. With the size of your guild of 600 people, on average each of you can get nearly 170 gold coins!"

Because of Corvina's words, a small number of adventurers in the guild finally had different expressions. Most of them were lower-level adventurers. With their strength, one hundred and seventy gold coins was a huge sum of money that they might not be able to save even after working hard for a whole year. But now, as long as they successfully completed the task, they could get rich immediately!

As long as they had 170 gold coins, they could buy fields and land in the central part of the alliance and become local tycoons.

Anyway, I have to go to the battlefield, and it would be a waste if I don’t take the reward for this mission!

"The survival rate is 50%. I definitely won't be the unlucky one!"

Because of this idea, the adventurers finally became more motivated.

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14. Grain Cart Burning Mission (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

"Mrs. Caesar, could you please tell us in detail about the mission to burn the high elves' grain carts?"

After listening to Covina's recommendation, Meng'er calmly asked for relevant information.

I believe that at this point, Meng'er no longer has any trust in Corvina out of personal feelings, but is simply doing her job impartially. She will analyze and unravel all the information provided by Corvina. On the one hand, she will never believe the one-sided words of the military. On the other hand, she will weigh the interests of everyone in the guild and make the most fair decision.

"Theoretically, all the necessary information has been written down in the assignment."

Corvina thought for a moment while holding his pipe, then said with a smile, "However, it is not impossible for Ruan to explain the content of this mission to you privately. I believe you all know the purpose of burning the grain carts, and our military has already found out the routes where the grain carts appear. As the executor of the mission, you only need to destroy 80% of the supplementary items, and that will be considered as completing the mission."

"What if the grain cart doesn't appear at the designated location as you expected?" Meng'er asked.

Corvina raised her eyebrows and replied with a smile, "If the grain truck does not appear at the designated location within the specified time, then this war mission will be considered completed unconditionally, and you can get this generous reward without spending a single soldier. It is precisely because of the possibility of this situation that Ruan specially recommends that you choose this war mission."

Hearing this, Meng'er asked with a look of fear, "May I ask what is the route of the grain carts?"

"Here—"