
After careful consideration, Shen Yanxiao could not find any reason to reject the invitation.
"Well, when are you going?" Harvesting from this trip to the Phoenix's lair would definitely take some time. He was afraid that he would have to think of first the reason for taking a leave of absence in the two branches of the Holy Roland School.
With Shen Yanxiao's current strength, the things she could learn in the first grade of the Archery Branch and the Pharmaceutical Branch were already very limited. It wouldn't be a big deal if he was absent for a few days, after all, compared to a few days, Inflammation Grass was more important.
The faster he collected the three plants, the faster Xiu's strength was restored, then he could help him unseal faster.
Du Lang laughed and said, “We will depart from Black City after five days.”
Shen Yanxiao nodded her head and agreed with the time Du Lang had given her, she left the Mercenary Trade Union afterward.
Only after Shen Yanxiao's figure disappeared did the stunned young man at the place recover.
“Leader, why did you invite that child to take part in this task? What can a child of his size do?” The young man was very moody. The members of the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps were all elites, that thirteen-year-old brat could not even compare to their fingers. Du Lang actually wanted to take this child on this task, and also find someone to protect his safety? This is unimaginable.
His task was to deal with the legendary Phoenix, and thousands of people had to participate in the entire task, it was very clear how difficult this task was. But the leader was eager to carry the burden with them, what exactly does this mean?
Du Lang glanced at the depressed young man and lightly said, “I have my own reasons, you will know when the time comes. Now come with me and let's discuss this mission with a fellow brother.”
Although the young man was full of doubts, no one from the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps dared to question Du Lang's words, so he could only mutter a few words before he no longer asked any more.
After leaving the Mercenary Trade Union, Shen Yanxiao immediately departed from the Black City and made use of the night to return to the casino. He handed the items he obtained to Qi Xia, and told him the timescales of the three items.
Qi Xia and Shen Yanxiao discussed a little. Since there were still two days, then they did not need to rush over at the moment. They had just decided to do some preparations that night and were scheduled to sneak into the Roland School Pharmacy Warehouse tomorrow night.
The next night, two unfortunate figures quietly went to the courtyard where the warehouse was located.
The other three people wanted to follow but were rejected by Shen Yanxiao.
With Qi Xia, it was already very troublesome. After all, there were many guards stationed in the Pharmaceutical Warehouse. If he went alone, there was naturally a way to avoid all eyes and ears, but adding Qi Xia, he had to be more careful. If the three beasts were also added, he was afraid that they would soon be found upon arriving at the entrance of the Pharmaceutical Warehouse.
Shen Yanxiao had a moonlight necklace hidden in her body and the guards were naturally unable to find her whereabouts, while Qi Xia was a Magician and there was a way for her to hide her breath.
The two men worked together smoothly. In the ten-minute interval when the guards changed turns into guards, Qi Xia quickly unlocked the nine-arc magic array at the door. Shen Yanxiao then immediately went inside to pick up the most valuable herbs in the shortest possible time.
Shen Yanxiao was very careful in doing things, taking only two or three types of each type of medicinal plant. As for the rare type of medicinal plant that only had one stock, he could only reluctantly hand it over.
The movements of these two people were extremely fast; hence, it did not attract any attention. Shen Yanxiao was very attentive and careful in choosing herbs, and the amount of herbs taken was not too large and would not be caught. After completing his task, these two people immediately left the Pharmaceutical Warehouse.
The guards on duty were unaware that someone broke into the Pharmaceutical Warehouse and secretly took out nearly a hundred kinds of medicinal herbs. Anyway, since the Pharmaceutical Warehouse had tens of thousands of different types of herbs in it, it would be difficult for anyone to realize that nearly hundreds of herbs were missing.
Looking at the medicinal herbs in her hands, Shen Yanxiao slowly put aside her worries. With the Pharmaceutical Warehouse of the Holy Roland School this large, he had already obtained over half of the ingredients needed to concoct the Blood Feast Potion. And now there were only over twenty types of medicinal herbs that he still needed to gather.
[TL Sky: I already have enough numbers. Good luck trying XD math]
But for now, he has more important things to do.
The invitation of the Cave Wolves Paying Army Corps was like a cake that fell from the sky.
After returning to the dormitory, Shen Yanxiao lay down on her bed. He went deeper into his mind and entered his spiritual space to discuss the matter with Xiu.
Looking at Xiu's ice-cold and unusual yet extremely dazzling appearance, Shen Yanxiao could only sigh.
"Xiu, what do you think is wrong with this mission?"
Xiu's strange golden eyes narrowed slightly as they looked at Shen Yanxiao before he lightly said, “There are two possibilities, firstly, the master does not understand the true power of the Phoenix, or secondly, the, they wanted to use the support of the mercenary corps to capture the Phoenix. With the current situation, it couldn't be the first. The other party already knew the Phoenix's trail, and most likely they had found it before, so it was impossible for them not to know the Phoenix.” rank
Shen Yanxiao nodded her head, “I also think that the second one is the most likely reason. But if the Phoenix is already a Mythological Beast, even if there are ten mercenaries, I fear that it is still useless. Moreover, one had to be at least Senior-level in his profession to be able to damage a Mythological Beast, and the damage was still considered minor! What else for mercenaries who were at the Intermediate level of their respective professions? Even if the Phoenix just stayed in place and did not defend itself, no matter how much they attacked, they would not be able to injure even a single hair from it.”
'Just relying on those mercenaries to deal with an adult Phoenix was completely useless. I think employers should have a trump card in their hands to do something like this.' Xiu said, his eyes narrowed.
Both of them were very clever individuals, a little mention of the matter and they immediately knew that it was not that simple.
“He may have taken the right action, after all I just want Inflammation Grass. Whether they live or die fighting the phoenix, I have nothing to do with it. Shen Yanxiao did not care about this matter. After all, the goal was not Phoenix but Inflammation Grass. With his stealing ability, he was not the slightest bit afraid of failure. As long as he wanted it, even if Vermilion Bird tried to stop him, it would still be useless.
Thinking of it like this, Shen Yanxiao inevitably looked to the side where the quiet Vermilion Bird stood.
Vermilion Bird was currently waiting for him, his face clearly hinting that he was in a bad mood.
He was a Mythological Beast, yet he had been ignored so far, this was truly unbearable.
Unfortunately, his master was a puzzling existence. Sometimes let it move, but if it was not disguised as a bandit, it was to find a medicinal herb. This was not something a Mythological Beast like him should do!
"Vermillion Bird, if you and the adult Phoenix fight each other, how certain is your victory?" Shen Yanxiao had to think about this plan carefully.
Vermilion Bird humped, “I and Phoenix are both classified as fire magic beasts. If it is the same Mythological Beast, then it will depend on our rank. I am now at rank twelve, a peak Mythological Beast level. As long as the Phoenix will not be reborn, then there is nothing to worry about.”
With Vermilion Bird's assurance, Shen Yanxiao had nothing to worry about. And if the time came when they had to face the Phoenix, in the worst-case scenario, they would only take the Inflammation Grass and immediately blur. Having the Vermilion Bird to protect him, was he still afraid?
Estimating the chips in her hands, Shen Yanxiao thought that this trip could be considered very safe.
But even so, he still had to be more careful with his master. He could not help feeling that there was something wrong about the employer hiring a lot of mercenary corps for this mission.
……
The next four days, Shen Yanxiao continued to run between the three branches. Ye Qing also started teaching him some potion techniques, so his level in the pharmaceutical field also increased.
On the fourth day, Shen Yanxiao took a leave of absence and each saluted Ye Qing, Yun Qi and her mentor in the Archer Branch, saying that she needed to make the trip home.
And in order to prevent any unexpected accidents, he had also prepared over ten bottles of potions for himself, half of them were intermediate level potions and the rest were low level potions.
Of course, before leaving, he did not forget to greet the four animals. They did not ask him any questions but simply waved their handkerchiefs and reminded him to give them some presents when he returned.
After all was done, Shen Yanxiao finally felt comfortable and slept.
The dawn of the next morning was when Shen Yanxiao and Du Lang agreed to meet, so he woke up early and left the Holy Roland School. He changed his clothes at a hotel in Black City.
With an inconspicuous and simple mask as well as simple clothes, Shen Yanxiao did not attract attention as she walked through the streets of the Black City.
And this morning, there was one topic going on throughout the entire Black City.
Early in the morning, a large number of mercenaries gathered in the square of the Black City. The mercenaries were from different mercenary corps and the numbers were now in the thousands. In order for the Black City mercenary corps to create such a huge movement, it would not be difficult to attract the attention of the citizens of Black City.
Immediately, everyone noticed that the mercenaries gathered in the square were all from the middle corps of Black City, none of them were members of the small mercenary corps. Almost all of the members of this medium-sized mercenary corps had crowded around the square.
Everyone was curious why there were so many mercenaries gathered together?
Some well-informed people, who managed to obtain some information from the scattered mouths of the mercenaries, said that this mercenary corps was hired by the employer to kill high-level magical beasts.
The people who heard this news could not help but quietly fall silent. How much money was spent on hiring a lot of mercenaries? This meant that this master was too rich!
The average employer would only hire up to one or two mid-sized mercenary corps. After all, a medium-sized mercenary corps was not that cheap, ah.
And they heard that only a medium-sized mercenary corps was accepted to take part in this task and that the small-sized mercenary corps was underestimated and rejected by the employer.
People all over the city were talking about the great movements of this mercenary corps. And amidst all this, a petite figure quietly walked through the crowd and went where the other mercenary corps had gathered.