The Good For Nothing Seventh Young Lady's

Chapter 328: Departure

No one from the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps could understand their own leader's approach.

It is fine to drag a little weight, but also specifically assign someone for his safety, this is as good as welcoming trouble.

This mission required the cooperation of many mercenary corps in order for them to face a rank eight high-tier magical beast, and no one knew what dangers awaited them. So they had no idea what exactly Du Lang was thinking.

Shen Yanxiao clearly felt the dissatisfaction of the members of the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps about her presence, but because of Du Lang, they failed to refute anything.

Du Lang's orders in the Cave Wolf Mercenary Corps were indisputable. Even if the other members had something to disagree with, they did not dare to say it out loud.

The leader of the other mercenary corps was relieved after seeing that the person Du Lang was waiting for was actually a child.

For this mission, the employer had long stated that he would only take Phoenix's heart, so they were free to distribute other things among the mercenary corps. The strength of the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps was originally already superior compared to them, if amplified even more, items that could be shared by those others would be a miserable sum.

Keep in mind that although the reward the employer gave for this mission was very tempting, it was actually Phoenix himself who was able to tempt so many mercenary leaders to join this task.

Not to mention the magic core, even Phoenix feathers could be sold at a high price.

After all, the Phoenix had almost disappeared in the past few centuries, and currently, it was extremely rare to find it. Everything in it can arouse the interest of some buyers.

It's fishing a little more than usual.

Thousands of mercenaries thronged the square under the bright sunlight. They had all been here for a long time and were now waiting for their master to appear.

After a while, a small group of people walked towards the square.

The leading man was of high height and wore clothes that looked plain and simple. But with a single glance, one could see that the materials used on his clothes were definitely unattainable by ordinary people. Behind the man, there were twelve men dressed in black, and each of their faces did not have any expression. They neatly followed the man in front of them.

Such a group of people would truly look once they appeared in the square of the Black City.

Du Lang looked at the group of people with a slight frown. The six wolves standing beside him also noticed the presence of those people.

“Leaders, these people are not simple just by looking at the momentum and the way they walk. Looks like they're also coming with us on this mission.” The Demon Wolf whispered.

Du Lang nodded. No matter how ordinary these people appeared on the surface, their faces looked a bit strange. They were definitely not mercenaries from Black City.

"Let's just wait and see."

A team of thirteen people walked gallantly in the square, and the eyes of all the mercenaries in the square locked onto this figure of thirteen people.

The man in the lead looked around carefully at the mercenary, he slowly put his hands behind his body then said in a loud voice, "Everyone is here today because of a duty, he said, and this task was released none other than by me."

After the man said his words, the mercenaries in the square were stunned for a moment, they did not expect that this man with a menacing face was actually their master.

From the attitude of the thirteen people, it was not difficult for some mercenary corps leaders to see that they were a group of powerful individuals.

The man continued with his speech, “I invited all the medium-sized mercenary corps in Black City for this task. I don't care if you have previous contradictions and inconveniences to each other. In carrying out this task, I do not want to see anyone destroy the process of this mission.”

The man's voice was cold as he continued to speak, “So before this task ends, please put aside your prejudices against each other and instead put cooperation in your mind. As long as this task is completed, I will definitely give a satisfying gift to everyone.”

Many mercenary corps leaders said that they would cooperate well this time around, even if there was a gap between each other before, no one would want to miss the reward of this task.

Everything was ready and the leader took everyone out of the city, but he did not tell anyone where they were headed. They had just asked all the mercenary corps to follow their carriage.

Since leaving Black City, every single person from the various mercenary corps was on their respective carriage.

Since mercenaries often traveled to faraway places, horses and carriages were the most basic equipment.

Shen Yanxiao, Du Lang and Vicious Wolf were sitting in the same carriage. The Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps had a total of 13 carriages, three of which were responsible for food delivery and daily necessities, and the remaining ten were driven by mercenaries. In addition to the carriages Du Lang had taken, the remaining nine carriages could generally accommodate six to seven people, and there were still mercenaries outside the carriages responsible for driving.

Then five others were riding horses in the middle of the horse-drawn carriage.

This Mercenary corps carriage was not luxurious, paying more attention to security, so the entire journey was very bumpy.

"Leader, the employer didn't tell us where the destination was, but let us follow behind their carriage, what does this mean?" Vicious Wolf would not ask. There was no clear purpose, and they did not know how long it would take. Such a hopeless journey really makes one feel very uncertain.

Du Lang leaned against the carriage with his hands folded on his chest, he glanced at the scene outside the window and said casually, “Phoenix is a rare magical beast for hundreds of years, he said, these people must have paid a lot of money to get the Phoenix trail. They would definitely not allow anyone to reveal the location of the Phoenix. He told us to follow his carriage to make sure that no one would find a way to smuggle news to the other forces.”

The existence of the Phoenix was too rare, once the location of the Phoenix nest was revealed to the public, it was feared that it would instantly attract the interest of tens of thousands of people.

Other than Senior-level Professions, the Long Xuan Empire had many stronger presences. If they were determined to seize the Phoenix, it would be difficult for them to compete with just their current group.

Vicious Wolf frowned slightly. Du Lang was right. Although they had signed an agreement with the employer to keep the entire task a secret, it was still difficult for the team of a thousand to guarantee that there would not be some mischievous bastard. Those people would most likely sell the news after they knew the exact location of the Phoenix's lair.

Even though most of the mercenaries were righteous, it would definitely mix with some ungodly trash mercenaries.

"Leader, what are the chances of completing this task?" Vicious Wolf asked.

No one had ever seen a Phoenix before, and now, their goal was only a high-level rank eight magical beast. Even if they had many participants in this mission, they still could not guarantee that the mission would succeed.

Du Lang replied, "If the employer doesn't provide any misinformation, with this group of people, we should be able to seize the Phoenix and get the reward."

Shen Yanxiao silently listened beside the dialogue of Du Lang and Vicious Wolf. They unintentionally avoided it. He deeply felt that Du Lang might not be a hundred percent confident in the information provided by their employer. About the power information of a rank eight monster, Du Lang might as well have his own doubts about it.

Due to being a wise person, Shen Yanxiao secretly admired Du Lang to some degree.

He could feel trouble on the information about the rank eight Phoenix just because Xiu had told him about the level of the Phoenix. But Du Lang knew absolutely nothing about it. His suspicions were purely based on his sharpness and vigilance.

To be able to sit still at the top position of the Black City mercenary corps, Du Lang was truly not a simple person.

"By the way, I don't know what to call you." Du Lang suddenly asked Shen Yanxiao.

Shen Yanxiao lazily raised her eyebrows and casually replied, "You can call me Huo Xiao," too many identities are also bad because she needs to think of more names. Shen Yanxiao was not good at this kind of thing, so she lazily removed the word "Yan" from her name and added the word randomly.

Shen Jue, Xiao Yan. and now Huo Xiao, Shen Yanxiao really felt that her identity was really complicated, ah.

Du Lang nodded, "Huo Xiao, what do you think of the employer's information about the Phoenix?"

Du Lang suddenly threw a question at him which made Shen Yanxiao somewhat surprised. It seemed like Du Lang was really harboring doubts about the Phoenix level, so he wanted to get some information out of it.

But…

“My understanding of Phoenix is not as much as you think, I only know some of their habits, but I don't know much about its level. After all, Phoenix has not been reproduced in the world for hundreds of years.” Shen Yanxiao replied with an ambiguous attitude. His goal was Inflammation Grass, whereas for the Phoenix matter, he did not need to say more. Because if he really told Du Lang the true level of the Phoenix, with Du Lang's personality, he was afraid that he would soon find a reason to remove the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps from this team.

After all, no matter how powerful the Cave Wolves Mercenary Corps was, they were absolutely still not the opponent of Mythological Beasts.

If that happened, he was just trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it.

Du Lang listened to Shen Yanxiao's words and did not give a direct response, he just looked towards Shen Yanxiao while thinking.

He didn't know why but he always felt that there were some things that he had purposely hidden from him. And these things were most likely related to the Phoenix. But Huo Xiao was not a full member of the Cave Wolves Pay Army Corps, he was their guest whom he invited. Even if he hesitated, he could not force Huo Xiao to reveal what he knew.

Vicious Wolf, who was sitting at the side, looked at the leader strangely. Du Lang's attitude towards the temporary members could be said to be very gentle. Even they, the six wolves, rarely received any kind treatment from Du Lang. Their own leader had always been the head of iron and blood, when did he have such a gentle side?

The more he looked, the more Vicious Wolf felt that Du Lang's attitude towards Shen Yanxiao was worthy of speculation.

Does this little demon really have a great background?

However, no matter how Vicious Wolf looked to his left and right, he really could not see anything special about this inconspicuous little demon. Even the clothes on his body were ordinary clothes that could be bought randomly in the Black City shops, there was actually nothing special.

And other than the ring on one of his fingers, his body did not have the slightest trace of decoration and weapons. Coupled with his young age and thin body, Vicious Wolf was not too optimistic about this temporary member.

How could she be reduced to such a nanny of a brat!