Chapter 112 Dark Mountains

"Master Sean, we only need to cross this mountain range to enter the border area of ​​the Lycian Alliance." In the evening camp, the leader of the mercenary group, Haishan, pointed to the dark mountains in the distance.

It has been a month since Sean and his team left Clark City.

Because they carried a batch of supplies and some non-combatants, the speed of travel was slower than when Sean was traveling alone.

Sean claimed to the leader of the mercenary group, Haishan, that he was an intermediate magic apprentice.

After showing the mercenary leader a hand in the fire wall technique, he was immediately recruited by Haishan to join the group.

Including Haishan's respect and enthusiasm for Sean at this time, it was also because the other party wanted to keep this powerful magician in the mercenary group for a long time.

In Clark City, all mercenary groups with magicians are large mercenary groups with a certain reputation.

This intermediate attendant, Haishan, is a bit ambitious. It is said that his ancestors were also nobles. The fighting skills taught by him in the mercenary group now seem to be passed down from his ancestors.

However, Sean was very calm from beginning to end in response to Haishan's intentional wooing.

Earning gold coins in the mercenary group, or even using his life to seek one or two noble titles in the future, is not what Sean pursues.

And he also found that the knight group is indeed very different from the magic apprentice.

In Peter City, the intermediate apprentice Frank discovered Sean's strength as a senior apprentice shortly after talking with him.

But Haishan in front of him obviously also has the strength of an intermediate knight attendant, but he didn't realize that Sean's strength is stronger. He just thought that Sean was just an intermediate apprentice as he introduced himself.

There is such a gap, Sean judged that it is mostly related to the mental gap between magic apprentices and knight attendants.

Magic apprentices with relatively high mental power can keenly judge the approximate mental strength of other apprentices and compare them with their own.

Of course, it does not mean that knights have no means to distinguish the strength of their opponents.

When knights grow to a certain height, their mental power will naturally transform to a certain strength.

Before this, some knight attendants with rich combat experience or who have experienced countless life and death trials can also judge the strength of their opponents by intuition and danger perception.

But obviously, our mercenary leader Haishan does not have this ability.

This is just a mid-level attendant who has a little momentum but acts cautiously.

If it is a real ruthless person, even if the opponent has only the strength of a low-level knight attendant, he dares to go to the battlefield hinterland of the Kingdom of West France and the Ok Empire to perform mercenary tasks.

Instead of just leading his own mercenary group to the Lycian Alliance to perform a material transportation mission like Haishan.

The dark mountains that Haishan refers to are the last hurdle for Sean to leave the dark region next.

Similarly, this is also the most dangerous area passed by on the way to the Lycian Alliance.

That dark mountain range is also known as the Magic Beast Mountain Range. It has been a natural barrier on the border of the Lycian Alliance for many years.

As powerful as the Oak Empire, it has never considered crossing that mountain range to attack the Lycian Alliance.

It is said that there are magic beasts with far greater power than ordinary people in the mountains, but no one has seen them.

However, the mercenary leader Hai Shan led his team to the Lycian Alliance several times. He said that there are indeed powerful magic beasts living in the mountains.

The strongest magic beast he has seen is a blue-eyed crystal monkey that has reached the level of a high-level magic beast.

As long as you cross the dark mountains, the danger of this mercenary mission will be reduced by about 70%.

After a night of rest, everyone in the mercenary group set off to cross the dark mountains.

At this time, there are about 30 people in the mercenary group. In addition to Sean and those mercenaries, there are nearly 10 people who are the employer and his private team.

The employer is an old man with two goatees. It is said that he has some connections in the Lycian Alliance, so he came to Clark City to trade food and ironware.

After selling them to the Lycian Alliance, it will be enough for him to make a fortune.

The employer, the old man, was quite capable. In his private team, there were only two mid-level attendants, four low-level attendants, and even a low-level magic apprentice as a consultant.

The strength shown by this old man was not inferior to that of Haishan's mercenary group.

As a senior apprentice and alchemist, Sean also found a trace of the unique elemental rhythm of low-level magic props on the old man.

"Master Sean, I will rely on you a lot when crossing the Dark Mountains this time." The old man with a goatee walked up to Sean and said respectfully before setting off.

With the low-level magic apprentice as a consultant, the old man also knew that Sean in front of him was not as simple as the mid-level apprentice he said.

In the face of the old man's compliment, Sean just said "um" and didn't respond much.

The Dark Mountains were indeed the most dangerous area on this trip to the Lycian Alliance. On the first day of entering the mountains alone, one person in the mercenary group was reduced.

This guy was not killed by a monster, but accidentally stepped on a special plant with barbs in the forest. He was poisoned to death because he found it too late.

"It's the white flower. Damn, I told them to be careful, but someone still got poisoned!" The mercenary leader Hai Shan couldn't help but cursed. It was his people who died.

Although he was an ordinary member who didn't master fighting spirit, after his death, according to convention and the contract signed before joining the group, Hai Shan had to compensate the family of the deceased with a pension.

Sean didn't pay much attention to the ordinary person who died. He only collected a few drops of translucent liquid from the blackened soles of the man's feet as specimens.

According to the width of the Dark Mountains and the speed of their group's progress, it would take at least five days to get out of here.

The first and last days are normally safer. Only the three days in the middle are dangerous at any time because they are in the belly of the Dark Mountains.

On the second day after entering the mountains, Sean released Owl Seven.

The appearance of Owl Seven made everyone in the mercenary group more awed by Sean.

Especially after feeling that this was a powerful monster, the mercenary leader Haishan no longer mentioned the idea of ​​recruiting Sean to join the group.

Their small mercenary group could not accommodate such a great god.

But in addition to regret, it was followed by joy.

Because the stronger Sean showed, it meant that the cost of crossing the Dark Mountains would be lower.

"How is it, Qi, have you found any powerful monsters living here?" Sean asked the owl hovering in the sky.

At this time, Qi's pair of brown eyes looked towards the west of the Dark Mountains, which was an area that Sean and others had never been through.

"There are monsters that are not weaker than me in the east and west, especially in the west, where there seem to be stronger monsters living." Qi replied.

Stronger than Qi, who is a quasi-level monster, it must be a level monster that can rival a formal magician and a formal knight.

I didn't expect that the Dark Mountains even have such powerful creatures.