Lord of the Myriad Worlds

Chapter 423: Windbreath City

At this moment, Li Wei was led into a sealed room built of special materials. Magic Runes were carved all over this place, and a pillar stood in the center. An unfamiliar Rank 3 Caster was standing there.

"Viscount Li Wei, there is no need to be nervous. This kind of appraisal assists in your Resurrection after dying in battle, while also allowing us to evaluate your true strength. This is a mandatory procedure that no one can avoid. Now, please close your eyes and rein in your Perception, lest you injure yourself."

The other party looked over with a smile on his face. Li Wei was naturally very obedient.

The next moment, he felt a strange force field acting upon his body. It seemed to be Sequence 4 Magic?

The entire process lasted for about ten seconds before it ended.

"Four-Star Natal Farmer Card. Farmer Destiny 78."

"Four-Star Rare Hunter Card. Hunter Fate 58."

"Four-Star Rare Woodcutter Card. Woodcutter Fate 57."

"Four-Star Double-Rare Scout Card. Scout Destiny 45. One Truth Particle."

"Equipped with a Five-Star Enchanted Light Armor Set, base defense +65. Equipped with one Sequence 4 Magic Crest, one Sequence 3 Magic Crest.""Weapons are respectively: Five-Star Enchanted Resonance Strongbow, base damage 328. Equipped with 20 5-Star Anti-Magic Arrows, 100 Four-Star Enchanted Armor-Piercing Arrows."

"Melee weapons include: Four-Star Enchanted Heavy Sword, base damage 518; Five-Star Enchanted Spear, base damage 610; Five-Star Enchanted Dagger, base damage 399; Five-Star Enchanted Javelins ×10, base damage 715."

"Defensive weapon is a Five-Star Enchanted Refined Steel Tower Shield. Maximum single-hit defense 5000, can cumulatively defend 10 times."

"Hunting Pets include a nest of twelve Four-Star Crows. Eh, and a Five-Star Warhorse. Tsk tsk!"

"Current codename is George the Ranger, Enhanced Level 2."

"Current special Title is Flame Viscount, Enhanced Level 2."

"Current Slaughter Title is Wolf Traveling a Thousand Li, cannot be enhanced."

"Current specific attributes are: Life 680, Stamina 830, Strength 54, Agility 84, Defense 47+65+10, Spiritual Power 45, Perception 9.5."

"All Profession Cards as well as Weapons and Equipment registration and evaluation have been completed. Comprehensive combat power score is 1578.46. Ranked 476th in Weir City, and 1928th in the entire Locke Kingdom. Viscount Li Wei, I suggest you fight in the All-Heavens Arena when you have free time. This will help you increase your Mercenary fees while acting as a Mercenary."

"And based on your current comprehensive combat power score, as well as the difficulty of the target Mission World, the Mercenary fee you should receive each month is 24,371 Standard Gold Coins. After deducting evaluation fees and taxes, you are entitled to 22,000 Standard Gold Coins. The Windbreath City Territory is willing to hire you for three months. During this period, any enemies you independently kill, and all drop items, will belong entirely to you. But if it's during a group battle or a siege defense, you will need to surrender one-third of your drops."

"I hope you can understand these terms. If you have no objections, then please sign."

"I wish you good luck."

The moment Li Wei stepped out of this room again, a piercing white light suddenly flashed before his eyes. Following that, he was teleported away.

The next second, the white light vanished. He discovered that he had already arrived at the entrance of a clamorous, bustling Tavern.

This was very normal. After all, he was a Mercenary recruited from the Tavern. Although his other identity was a Viscount of Weir Province, that identity was overridden by his Mercenary status at this moment.

He was now George the Ranger.

Speaking of which, in the past, it was always him recruiting Mercenaries from the Tavern. Now that it was his turn to be recruited, this perspective was actually quite interesting.

"Your Excellency, Lord Viscount invites you."

A guard walked over and politely invited Li Wei.

There was nothing much to say about this. Taking someone's money and averting disaster for them, after all.

Following the guard out of the Tavern, Li Wei saw the Lord's Fortress behind a rather wide plaza. This fortress was built to be quite magnificent and palatial, truly making Li Wei's Territory Building feel ashamed by comparison.

Moreover, this Territory Main City had existed for at least two hundred years, so it was extremely prosperous in all aspects. But as of now, it seemed it still hadn't completed its dimension ascension.

Li Wei observed seemingly casually, while relevant information surfaced in his mind. His investigations over the past few months hadn't been useless.

Windbreath City, a Four-Star Territory. Its Lord was Windbreath Viscount; this was yet another ancient title.

Within the Territory was a Two-Star Mage Tower. There were a total of six Magic Power Mines, all of them Three-Star. Legal territory was 150 square kilometers, while illegal territory spanned 3500 square kilometers.

Outside, there were two more illegal cities, presided over by Windbreath Viscount's two powerful Barons. In addition, there were eight fortresses, one pass, three small towns, and twenty-seven villages. The Total Population was one hundred thousand. There were currently 1500 Professional Soldiers, and one Gale Knights order with twelve Gale Knights.

The background was that ten months ago, an ancient magic fragment shot over, shattering the peace and bringing a Radiation Storm. Windbreath Viscount personally led elites to snatch it. As a result, not only did he fail to snatch it, but the Neanderthals also took the opportunity to build a Bridgehead. Thus, the war commenced.

Now, four of this Windbreath Viscount's illegal fortresses had already been breached. Both sides had consecutively launched several great battles, temporarily presenting a state of stalemate.

But both sides were currently reinforcing their troops.

On Windbreath Viscount's side, Duke Kaidel had already dispatched a legion of five hundred men to garrison that critical pass. The Locke Royal Capital had also sent a legion of five hundred men to garrison an important barony. Adding to Windbreath Viscount's five hundred-man Main Legion, they formed a frontal battlefield standoff with the three Neanderthal legions.

At present, both sides were brewing the next large-scale campaign. The overall situation presented a quiet trend, but small-scale skirmishes numbered in the dozens every day.

The Scout professions of both sides were particularly active.

Therefore, it was only when Li Wei was recruited as a Tier 2 Ranger who was quite outstanding in all aspects that he received the treatment of being personally received by Windbreath Viscount.

Soon, Li Wei met that Windbreath Viscount in the side hall of that fortress. This Lord looked to be only forty or fifty years old, but was actually two hundred and fifty years old.

He was a true veteran Player, a veteran Class Holder.

According to the intelligence Li Wei bought in Oxhorn Alley, this Windbreath Viscount was currently a Five-Star Professional. All five of his Profession Cards had reached Five-Star, and the Fates for his five professions were said to have all reached 100+. He possessed All-Attribute Fourth-level Awakening and was a Fourth-Tier Warrior with extraordinary combat prowess.

Theoretically, he should have promoted to a Six-Star Professional a hundred years ago. However, in order to evade those extremely risky exploration missions, he had never promoted.

In short, this was an extremely steady guy whose accumulation of wealth was extraordinary.

"George the Ranger, I am very glad you can fight for me. An excellent Scout like yourself is exactly what I urgently need. Right now, I have an important mission to hand over to you. In recent days, there is a Neanderthal Scout squad that is extremely rampant. They can be considered to appear and disappear unpredictably like ghosts. At one point, they even penetrated deep into the vicinity of my Central City, burned down two villages, and murdered many innocent villagers. Such rampant behavior must be struck down. I hope you will take your courage, your bow and arrows, and go find them and finish them off."

"Of course, if you feel it's too difficult, I can arrange ten elite Mercenaries for you. Regardless, even if you can't extinguish their arrogant flames in the end, as long as you can delay them and interfere with them, thereby guaranteeing that the road between Windbreath City and Gale Fortress is unobstructed, that will be considered a great merit."

"Esteemed Lord Viscount, I am willing to serve you. However, as I am Newly Arrived, I am temporarily unable to lead troops. I need to first go and understand the movement trajectories of this Neanderthal Scout squad. Please give me at least three days so that I can make targeted deployments. I will report back to you at that time, My Lord."

How could Li Wei leave no room to maneuver in his words? A duel between Scouts wasn't a contest of courage, but of patience and meticulousness.

Fortunately, this Windbreath Viscount naturally understood this point. He immediately said with great satisfaction, "Not bad, George the Ranger, I think highly of you. However, you don't need to come back to me to report after three days. You only need to go to Gale Fortress and find my Grand Knight Teren. From now on, he will be your direct superior. You can receive missions from him and assist him in guarding Gale Fortress. You can ask my captain of the guard for the relevant maps."

"As you command!"

After the brief conversation, Li Wei took his leave. This was considered receiving the mission. At the same time, text information also formed a mission contract.

[As a Mercenary, you have accepted a Scout confrontation mission from Windbreath Viscount. The mission requires you to find and kill a Neanderthal Scout squad as best as you can. Of course, Windbreath Viscount also understands the difficulty of this matter, so he has not made it a mandatory requirement. He only hopes you can complete it as best as possible. Even if you only delay this Scout squad, thereby allowing the road between Windbreath City and Gale Fortress to restore unhindered passage, because it is suspected that Windbreath Viscount has a batch of important supplies that needs to be transported to Gale Fortress.]

[Mission Reward: Finding and, at the bare minimum, delaying the Neanderthal Scout squad. Bounty: ten thousand gold coins. Requirement: Starting from today, delay the other party for at least four days. Upon completion, you will simultaneously obtain 10 Heavens Mercenaries points. These points can be used universally within the Alliance of Heavenly Lords.]

[Mission Reward Two: Find and kill that Neanderthal Scout squad. Bounty: one hundred thousand gold coins. For every Neanderthal Scout killed, you can obtain 50 Heavens Mercenaries points, while simultaneously monopolizing all dropped items. However, taxes must be paid.]

[The above shall be impartially and fairly bound and supervised by the All-Heavens Mercenary Alliance.]

It looked pretty good.

Li Wei nodded, though he wasn't in a hurry to leave. Instead, he wandered around Windbreath City a few times.

Generally speaking, Windbreath City was more powerful than his Flame City. Just the Two-Star Mage Tower alone was incomparable.

But Windbreath City also had a large number of residents, approaching seventy thousand people. Many of them were likely refugees who had fled here because of the war.

Li Wei strolled down the streets one by one, unhurried. In less than half a day's time, at least fifty thousand people in this Windbreath City had been firmly memorized by him. At the same time, he also basically understood their identities, their approximate strength, their moods, what they were doing, what had happened recently, and so on.

In short, Li Wei could essentially walk down a street and even sense the flirting dogs and the staring cats on the street corners once over.

This was exactly where the advantage of Perception +9.5 lay.

Scout, Scout. Sometimes, it wasn't just about searching and understanding the external situation; one also had to clearly understand the internal situation.

(Wishing everyone a Happy New Year)