Guild Boss's Ambition

She chuckled twice and didn't get straight to the point. Instead, she started talking about Sophie and me.

"If I remember correctly, you sisters should want to earn 200,000 gold in three years to buy back your father's territory, right? But, normally speaking, isn't that a completely impossible goal to achieve? Think about it, even if we complete this marching wolf mission, we will only get 200 gold each, but this journey will take at least a week."

She wrote the equation on the snow with her fingers.

200＊4＊12＊3＝14400

Miss Bai Ye explained calmly: "The conclusion is that even if you complete the tasks assigned to you by the guild without stopping, you can only earn back 7.2% of the . This is the simplest arithmetic, and you know it yourself. But now you still decide to continue working as an adventurer because you believe that your sister can get rich──"

She hit the nail on the head.

Then, she put on a mocking smile and said, "Believe me, your sister's recycling center will definitely be successful and will make $200,000 in the near future, but that will definitely not happen within the next three years. Apart from breakthrough knowledge and technology, there is only one way in the world to increase personal assets so quickly - taking risks."

At this moment, Miss Bai Ye gave me the feeling of a loan shark lending money to losers at the door of the casino.

However, I am indeed a loser who is eager to make a comeback.

I asked her, "I'd like to hear more about it."

Miss Bai Ye glanced at the cute and playful Lan Nong girl, put her index finger between her lips and said, "Let me make it clear in advance that you must not tell anyone else what I am going to tell you. Unless you promise me in person, I won't say a word more."

"Well, I promise you." I promised solemnly.

"Very good, very good..."

Miss Bai Ye nodded with satisfaction and continued:

"As a Paladin of the Church of Light, I believe you are familiar with the history of Nature's Wrath. In billions of years of history, in order to maintain the balance of nature, the high elves would at some point slaughter all the excess humans and demihumans through the war of Nature's Wrath. Adventurers were considered by Red Scarf Wallace and his faction to be the necessary elements to liberate this destiny."

"But unfortunately, things went against our wishes. Under the pressure from the high elves, the nature of the adventurers gradually changed. Today, they have completely merged with the mercenaries of the past and have become a group of people who are afraid of death. Not to mention expecting them to explore the unknown areas beyond the map. The adventure I am going to talk about next is the real adventure, the adventure beyond the map."

At this time, Bai Ye drew a small circle on the snow.

"These are the humans and subhumans from our last generation."

Then she surrounded the small circle with a huge circle.

“And it’s a whole world.”

Then she erased the small circle representing the Alliance of Light and drew a triangle next to it.

She pointed to the traces left by the small circle and said, "Although our previous civilization was destroyed by the wrath of nature, even the high elves were unable to completely eliminate their existence. The adventure I propose to you is to start from this triangle and the Light Alliance to find these historical relics and bring back the things left by our predecessors to the Light Alliance."

Finally, Bai Ye raised two fingers and said with a smile: "Perhaps if you can find a magic weapon of the ancients, you can get 200,000 or more wealth. With just one successful adventure, you can solve the current dilemma. In addition, the risk you take will also become the welfare of the entire Light Alliance, and it is also the greatest contribution to the fight against the high elves."

Miss Bai Ye's lobbying is undoubtedly very tempting, but once you step out of the unknown territory, you will encounter endless pursuit by the high elves, and no one knows what terrible things are hidden in the unknown territory. No matter how you look at it, what Miss Bai Ye proposed is a life-threatening adventure that is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

I fell silent and hesitated.

Miss Bai Ye smiled with relief and looked into the distance.

In the distance are three dead geese returning safely

"You can think about what I just told you slowly, even if it takes two or three years, because with the power we have now, we are absolutely unable to deal with those high elves. I have fought against them three times, and each time I won with blood and narrow victory. They have been tempered by the years. If I was not young at that time and they misjudged my strength, I would not be alive until now."

While talking about the high elves, Miss Bai Ye raised her arm to catch one of the geese.

After a while, her eyes lit up with a cunning look.

"Interesting—"

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36. Plan (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

I saw the geese flying back from afar, and I stopped Xiaoban from continuing the meaningless chasing game with him, which looked stupid and foolish to outsiders. Then I returned to them before Bai Ye and Raftan started.

Seeing me come back online, Bai Ye said with a smile: "Eh? Don't you want to continue playing? It's very cute."

Raftan agreed, "It is indeed a very healing scene."

I squatted on the ground, picked up a snowball, and threw it at Bai Ye.

The next moment, the snowball flew back at the same speed and knocked me to the ground.

"I forgot! This guy knows reflection magic!"

"She only used it once before, during the pasta incident!"

I deeply regret my mistake.

When I stood up dejectedly, Bai Ye began to explain the results of the investigation: "It seems that our caution was not in vain. The spies I sent out sent me back some interesting images. In addition to some marching wolves in camouflage green, there were also several small insects that should not have appeared in the forest. They were holding weapons and looked like professional mercenaries."

I was shocked by what Bai Ye said: "But this forest has been blocked by the Self-Defense Forces, and the Marching Wolf Rebellion has been going on for more than five months. It is impossible for people in the nearby area not to know that there are great dangers in it. Of course, we didn't encounter any Self-Defense Forces along the way, which means that the so-called blockade is not strict."

Raftan frowned and said, "We can't rule out the possibility that it was an adventurer who strayed into the forest."

Hey, hey! Miss Paladin, are you really a man who can automatically enter the thought circuit of going into the forest to save people so quickly?

Bai Ye narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "If they, as adventurers, mistakenly entered the forest, it is because they did not even do the most basic intelligence collection. They deserved to be taken away by the wolves today. Besides, their route has been wandering in the forest. It does not seem that they have just entered the forest, nor do they seem to be leaving the forest. What do they want?"

"Search?" I hypothesized.

"Searching for what?" Raftan asked.

"Marching Wolves? Us?" I made a dangerous assumption.

"Or both?" Bai Ye said with a smile.

Raftan and I looked at each other in surprise.

After a while, Raftan asked, "Miss Baiye, is there any way to know their strength level?"

Bai Ye, who was searching the third wild goose's brain memory, said, "I don't know how many people they have, but there are at least twelve of them. Two of them are very skilled scouts, at least at the gold level. According to the adventurers' usual team-building habits, the strength of the others should not be far behind. We can boldly assume that they have the overall strength to fight against the marching wolves alone."

Raftan said distressedly, "Does that mean they have a way to threaten us?"

Bai Ye said with a smile: "If you want to harm someone, you will surely plan all the details, right?"

Bai Ye's logic is very simple. The people who do bad things in this world are not fools with the letter R on their chests. If the team in the forest attacks us, they are our enemies, and the only reason that may cause us to attract hostility is the intrusion of the marching wolves.

In addition, we walked into the mission that the guards said we were going to complete yesterday. If the other party has their own spies hidden in the guards, then they can know the information of our people through the adventurer information on the mission letter. Then, they can even prescribe the right medicine and arrange professionals who specialize in restraining necromancers, paladins and poster girls to deal with us.

Wait? Is there a profession in this world that specifically controls poster girls?

If you think about it carefully, there shouldn't be any, right?

and so……

Is the job of poster girl actually very powerful?

"No, I think you just take yourself too seriously." Uru said to me in a serious tone.

"Get out of here, you idiot who doesn't know how to find joy in misery!" Xiao Lan, who had lost all his moral integrity, shouted at him.

It’s terrible. Not only is my suicidal desire getting worse, but my personality is also starting to split.

Twenty-four Billy is an old joke that has been used too much and is not funny at all!

While I was stroking my chin and thinking about all that, Raftan continued to discuss with Bai Ye: "Ms. Bai Ye, since you think those people in the forest are suspicious, how should we investigate the marching wolves inside? Should we continue to use your dead geese to explore the environment? But this method should have many limitations, right?"

Bai Ye did not deny Raftan's statement: "There is no simpler and more direct way to find out the truth about the marching wolves than to personally contact them. If I have the opportunity to communicate with one of the marching wolves, I may be able to ask something useful. However, to talk to the marching wolves, I have to go into the forest, and there is a possibility that I will run into that group of warriors of unknown origin."

Without waiting for Raftan to respond, Bai Ye continued, "Now that trouble has arisen, what we need to do is to resolve it. First, we need to determine the identities of those warriors. If they are white, then we can end it happily and peacefully. If they are black, then - just exclude them, right?"

Exclude.

When Bai Ye said these three words, her thin lips still had a daffodil-like smile.

Ego, arrogance, and extremely selfish and narcissistic.

She doesn't love anyone except those she is willing to love, and she even doesn't consider other people as a kind of life.

Because a skeptic can question everything in the world and regard you, me and myself as just a mirage.

Raftan probably noticed Bai Ye's change just like me. She widened her eyes because she caught a glimpse of the real Bai Ye, and her face seemed to instinctively show fear and questioning. At the same time, her body leaned back slightly, as if to distance herself from Bai Ye. However, she quickly regained her balance and returned to the original distance, and the expression on her face immediately returned to her usual seriousness and earnestness.

To some extent, Raftan might also be a terrible person at heart.

At this moment, I really want to upgrade my identification skills quickly so that I can take a look at the character information of the two ladies next to me.

After Bai Ye's dangerous speech, Raftan remained calm and continued to the point: "So, without setting foot in the forest, how can we confirm the identities of those people in the forest?"

Bai Ye smiled dimple-like, pointed at the badge on Raftan's armor, and replied, "Even though the three dead geese didn't see much, there are always some marks on each of them. Through these marks, we may be able to find out something in the village. After all, there are not many gold-level players in the Bright Alliance. It is not difficult to find twenty people among ten thousand people."

Raftan was somewhat speechless: "Is it really not that difficult to find twenty people among ten thousand people?"

Bai Ye shrugged her shoulders, thank goodness she could still wear a shoulder-baring dress in the middle of winter.

"There's always a tavern in every town where we can buy the love we want—ugh!"

Suddenly, Bai Ye, who had been talking in a good mood, suddenly fell to the ground with her hands on her chest, her face full of pain. Soon, the painful expression disappeared without a trace. She turned her head sharply to look at me and said in a cold voice: "Be careful, don't -"

After she said only four words, she fell to the ground in the snow with a plop.

"Bai Ye!" "Miss Bai Ye!"

Raftan and I walked over in amazement. The Paladin quickly picked her up and began to examine her with light magic. After several minutes, she looked up and said to me, "Bai Ye should be fine by human standards. Her heartbeat and breathing are normal, and everything else is fine too. I just don't know what caused her to fall into a coma."

I asked worriedly, "So what should we do now?"

Raftan frowned and thought carefully, then said, "I'm not sure if Bai Ye's condition was caused by someone with ulterior motives, and there is no shelter in this vast snowy area. I think it would be better to take Bai Ye back to the hotel first, and then find a doctor to treat her."

"I see. Let's go now."

I nodded seriously, and since Bai Ye, who knew how to ride a horse, had fallen down, I let Xiao Ban grow bigger and then rode on its back. Bai Ye was led by Raftan, and we rushed all the way back to the town of Root in the snow. Along the way, Bai Ye showed no signs of waking up, but my little butt was tormented without a saddle.

When I got off the dog's back, half of my HP was gone.

But the most urgent priority was to deal with Bai Ye who suddenly fell down. We rushed to the town without stopping and returned to the hotel last night. Raftan carried Bai Ye horizontally and took her to the room on the second floor. I went ahead and opened the door for Raftan who had no free hands. However, when I opened the door anxiously, a crossbow arrow came out of the room and shot directly at my face!

At the critical moment, a gray-black water curtain blocked the crossbow arrow in front of me──

Having never encountered such a dangerous situation before, I froze in place.

It was Miss Paladin who reacted decisively at this time. She carried Bai Ye on her shoulder with one hand, pulled me to the back with the other hand, then kicked down the beam next door, destroyed the environment of the alley and closed it, then turned around and walked quickly!

Seeing what Raftan did, I naturally did not dare to delay and immediately followed her with Xiaoban. When I walked down the stairs, I vaguely heard a man shouting and cursing from behind the collapsed rubble. This made me feel chilled to the core, and I understood exactly what Bai Ye wanted to say to us before he was on the verge of fainting.

"Don't go back to the hotel."

Assuming that someone might be trying to frame us, it was extremely stupid for Raftan and I to run back to the hotel without any precautions. In the few hours since we were out, the other party could have set up a killing trap in the hotel. If Bai Ye hadn't given me a protective pendant in advance, I would probably have a crossbow arrow stuck in my forehead.

At this moment, Raftan's tone was extremely cold while he was running.

"Damn it! Their crimes are unforgivable—"

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37. Shield and Sword (Raftan)

(Raftan-Fritze)

The battle has begun.

After the crossbow arrow was shot, the opponent's hostility was certain.

It is precisely because the mercy and forgiveness of the priest cannot stop the atrocities of the wicked that we need the sword and shield of the paladin.

"Kill the evil that cannot be overcome!"

I carried the unconscious Bai Ye on my back and got on the horse before the enemy caught up with us, and Miss Lan Nong also got on the stitched dog.

After successfully escaping from the hotel, I led Miss Lan Nong towards the direction of the Self-Defense Force camp. Even if the Monte Lock Self-Defense Force really has lurkers from the other side, I believe that only a small part of them has been infiltrated. As long as we go to the Self-Defense Force camp, under the joint protection of the soldiers, it will not be easy for those unknown people to attack us.

But the problem at the moment is that Bai Ye's stitched dog only has short-distance explosive power. After running for a distance, its speed dropped significantly, and it also forced the black horse under me to slow down to avoid falling behind them.

"You'll be caught up."

Even though I didn't hear any horse hooves behind me, I still had a strong premonition.

It was dusk, and the people in the town had always worked from sunrise to sunset. Monte Town was originally a large town with a large population, and at this moment, there were only two or three people on the street. If a fight really broke out, we would not be able to use the chaotic scene to help us escape. That being the case—

I turned my head and surveyed the surroundings for a while, making sure there were no suspicious pursuers around, and then stopped in front of a private house.

I dismounted and quickly whipped the black horse, causing it to continue running along the same path without its rider.

"Miss Lannong, go hide behind the tree first."