Chapter 18 Departure
Pulling Lu Chen, Sharon returned to the caravan again.
"Little Lu Chen, please listen to me. You can't tell anyone about the magic core and the scroll, otherwise I'll leave you here, do you understand?" Sharon pulled Lu Chen away for nothing, but for fear that he would tell him that he had embezzled a magic core and the scroll. Although he was just a temporary joining, Sharon didn't want to be driven away or showed his employer identity before the mission ended.
According to the mercenary rules, the things obtained during the mission cannot be taken as one's own without the consent of all members. Unless it can be truly concealed, the items obtained will be confiscated and in serious cases will be kicked out of the mercenary group.
Lu Chen naturally didn't want others to know that he had a scroll, so he agreed obediently.
After seeing him nodding, Sharon, who was relieved, noticed Lu Chen's dirty, tortured and scary robe, and continued, "Didn't you change the clothes? Forget it, you can't feel any magic anyway. It seems that at most you are just a student. Just change a clothes that are easy to move. Take off the dirty ones." After saying that, Sharon climbed into the caravan and searched for clean clothes.
Needless to say, Lu Chen wanted to change it. He was busy practicing last night and was too excited to forget it. It was just that it was not convenient to use the space ring at the moment, because there was nothing to guarantee that these mercenaries would not kill and rob. Now Sharon's words were just right for him.
"Come on, try this one."
As soon as he pulled off the broken magic robe, Lu Chen heard Sharon's call, and obediently climbed into the caravan and tried his clothes.
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"It seems a little small."
"Uh~ This is too big."
"This size~it seems to be about the same, move faster."
"Oh, you're just so much strength, are you a man?"
Sharon's dissatisfaction came from the caravan. The commander who had just walked to the nearby group and combined with the fragments of clothes all over the floor, his expression became unnatural. However, when he saw the other person who was coming from a distance, he could only pretend to cough and said, "Sharon, the others are coming soon. Can you stop for a while? I want to ask him first."
"Hmm? What, you come up and help me." Sharon replied casually, not caring about the strange tone.
The team leader's heart skipped a beat, but considering the stability of the team, he still walked to the rear of the car with a tough look. Then his expression turned into a laugh and crying look, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Come and help me. This guy is so useless, only half of it, he actually fell down." Sharon complained.
Lu Chen felt so crying that he was choosing clothes that he could wear, but Sharon suddenly dragged out a set of armor and asked him to put it on. At first, it was nothing when he put the single piece on his body, but after putting the upper body, he couldn't stand it anymore. Seeing that the other party had to put the lower body on his body without saying anything, considering his own safety, he decisively lay down and "pretend to death".
The commander helped Lu Chen sit up and said with a smile: "You can't wear this kind of heavy armor, either. It's not good to change him to ordinary clothes."
"Ordinary clothes have no defense, are there any extra leather armor?" Sharon asked.
After taking off the armor for Lu Chen, the commander looked back and forth on the two of them and replied: "No, but he is about the same height as yours. Don't you have a few sets of newly bought leather armor to put in another car?"
"My? He is a man!" Sharon immediately retorted. She sold it with her own money and planned to take it back and then wear it.
"These sets of yours are not tailor-made. Are there any differences between men and women in standard leather armor?"
"...It's the same. Let's go, my sister sacrifice her clothes and wear them for you. You have to thank me well." As she said that, she wanted to pull Lu Chen out again. In fact, she thought of embezzling Lu Chen's things, just to find some self-psychological balance. To compare the price, even ten sets of her leather armor are not as good as a fourth-level magic core.
Lu Chen couldn't even get into a single word and didn't dare to say anything. Obviously, Sharon didn't want others to know about him, but no matter what she made of, she just helped her a lot. Anything she had to explain was too troublesome, and it might even bring danger. Now this is the best.
"Wait, why are you anxious? You have to tell me his origin first." The commander called out to both of them, thinking to himself: "Sure enough, it seems that Sharon likes someone younger than her, and that guy Haosgoo is out of the way."
Although it is easy to change equipment between mercenaries, it is quite interesting to give their equipment to the opposite sex you just met. Moreover, leather armor is also personal equipment, which only means that the relationship between the two is unusual, and although Sharon is not cold to people along the way, he is still a little too enthusiastic compared to his attitude towards this child.
Of course, if Sharon got a magic core and a scroll from Lu Chen, it would be another matter.
"This guy, his name is strange, Lu Chen, he is a fool with no direction and can't find his way to the academy. According to what he said, the academy he is going to should be on the same road as us. There is nothing else, and he can't even feel the power at all. Just by rushing alone, I really don't know what his head is in." As he said that, Sharon poked Lu Chen's head, and then pulled him to another caravan regardless.
As the leader, he naturally wouldn't believe Sharon's words like this, but he had no choice. No matter how he said that the other party was an employer, it was too much to turn against him. He built a mercenary group, not a thief group. There was also a mercenary union on it. If she complained afterwards, it would be troublesome.
In another caravan, with Sharon's help, Lu Chen quickly put the leather armor on his body, but Sharon's gaze made him feel uncomfortable, as if he was just a "figure" and the kind of person who could change his clothes at will.
"Well, it's pretty good, it's like a mercenary. If you don't have a teacher by your side, it's better not to expose it. Now you are a warrior. How about whether your sister teaches you a lot?" Looking at Lu Chen who was dressed up by himself, Sharon was in a very good mood.
"Have you really grown up? Forget it, is that the leader of your mercenary group? It seems that he listens to you very much, but he doesn't realize he likes you, brother and sister? Or is he having any handle in your hands?" Lu Chen, who could not accept his appearance and age, asked a little depressedly.
"You have to care. Hoho, I'm not big, I think a lot in my head. I tell you that if you want to arrive at the academy safely, you have to listen to my sister. Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and don't say what you don't want to say." Sharon said viciously like a cat with a tail stepped on.
Lu Chen was speechless for a moment, but when he thought that she might be a so-called "child who can't grow up", he stopped talking. Anyway, his goal had been achieved, so there was no need to cause trouble.
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Not long after, all the mercenary groups arrived and skillfully cleaned the battlefield, including the large area of bare and charred black that Lu Chen burned.
Lu Chen, who originally thought he could feel at ease, also found that he seemed to have become someone's royal door panel.
"Sharon, who is this kid?"
"Sharon, why did he wear the leather armor you bought?"
"Sharon, why do you always bring him?"
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"Little brother, tell me what your sister likes."
"Brother, give this to your sister for me."
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Hao Siga regarded Lu Chen as his rival in love when he came to the first year, but after Sharon ignored Lu Chen's resistance and announced that he was his newly recognized little brother, Hao Siga's attitude changed a lot, but he only made Lu Chen miserable and fully experienced the feeling of a group of flies flying around him.
Another thing that made Lu Chen very puzzled, that is, whenever the burly Haosgao came, Sharon would become like a very polite iceberg. No matter how he looked, he seemed to be from a noble family, and he could not see any artificiality at all.
However, Lu Chen also learned a lot from Hao Sigao, and through him he became familiar with several people in the group in a short period of time.
This mercenary group is called "Kamara". Because most of the members are from the village of the same name, it is a three-star mercenary group that has been established for more than ten years. The number of people has remained at about one hundred, and they are all male. The leader is Vincent, and he is also the next village chief.
This kind of man makes money when he is a mercenary, and women take care of everything in their family full-time is the standard practice of poor villages on the continent of Seeds. Mercenary groups like this account for one-third of the total, which is also a custom in this world.
Their goal is very simple. They don’t expect anything to be successful, but they just want to be able to support the entire village. So they have been doing relatively simple and stable tasks, and the mercenary group levels are basically between three and two stars.
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Time was also chatting and cleaning up quickly. As Captain Vincent expected, it was not until dusk that the corpses of the monsters in the scorched ground were brought out.
Lu Chen, who participated in the labor, also knew that these "giant wolf" who died unjustly under his command were called Fire Mastiff beasts, which were fourth-level fire monsters; it would be absolutely tragic to meet ordinary teams, because they were all group monsters and could spray out flames equivalent to third-level fire during battles. Even if the fifth-level magician met them alone, they could only escape.
At the same time, after listening to the mercenary's explanation, Lu Chen was also crying in his heart. It was not until this moment that he realized that the whole body of the monster was full of treasures: fur can be made of leather armor, blood is the material for writing scrolls, bones are alchemy materials, and the least valuable meat is also high-priced food. He just dug up the relatively most valuable magic core.
Overall, the day was still good. Even if Sharon had cheated him away a magic core and a scroll, it was still worth it; but what made him confused was that the soft touch in his hand would be thought of from time to time, and Sharon's attitude towards him, and the thought of seeing her look after she took off her makeup was lingering.
Chapter completed!