I became the master of the alien world

Chapter 292 Unexpected Commission

"Yes, this trial is finally over." Seeing the target right in front of her, Ellie finally breathed a sigh of relief and slowly followed Sheeran towards Amethyst.

At this time, Sheeran was already very excited and rushed towards the skeleton-like thing where the crystal was placed, wanting to remove it from the top as soon as possible.

And Ellie suddenly felt a very uncomfortable atmosphere around her, and the thing with the amethyst placed there seemed familiar.

"Stop, Sheeran is in danger!"

(PS: After the assessment, magicians will receive different badges to represent their abilities.

1 star represents a magic apprentice, 2 stars represents a trainee magician, and 3 stars represents a magician.

4-stars are high-level magicians, 5-stars are magicians, 6-stars are high-level magicians, and 10-stars are great magicians.

Among them, those who can reach 6 stars are called magicians, but in fact, with this title, there is still a huge gap between them and the great magicians.)

In order to celebrate Ellie's successful passing of the magic trial, Edward took Merlin to a tavern in a nearby town to celebrate.

However, when the three of them entered the town, a group of mercenary-looking people immediately walked up.

They were led by a man with short blond hair who looked to be in his early 20s. Edward looked and recognized him as Toles, the deputy commander of the Thunder Mercenary Group, one of the four major mercenary groups in the Mercenary Kingdom.

"What's the matter? Torres. What kind of wind brings you here?"

"I was planning to discuss something with you two, what a coincidence. There is a commission above that you need to handle, so please ask me to send one to you." Toles said and handed a wax-sealed bucket to Edward.

"What happened must be so mysterious? Really..." Edward took the bucket and muttered while wiping off the sealing wax and taking out a letter of authorization from inside.

"Edward, who are they? What is that thing? What is its use?" Ellie asked curiously.

"Nothing. Just some friends from the mercenary group. This power of attorney..." Edward replied while looking at the power of attorney. Then he smiled and said to Merlin beside him, "Merlin, it seems we have something to do.

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"What commission is it?" Merlin glanced at Edward and said.

"Read it for yourself. It states that high-level warriors and magicians are required to participate in this commission." Edward said and gave the letter of commission to Merlin.

"Well, the people from Odu are really courageous. They actually offered this price for such a small thing." Merlin read the instructions on the power of attorney and returned it to Edward. "But it's a pity that I can't accompany you now."

you go."

"What, you can't go?" Edward showed a slightly surprised expression.

"Well, that's it. You also know that my teacher is not here, and now I and Teacher Hajia are taking care of the entire temple, so we have time to do any entrusted tasks.

Moreover, Teacher Hajia is currently investigating today’s trial, so it is even more impossible for me to go to the temple immediately during this period.”

After Merlin looked at Edward, he paused and said, "Well, I'll let Ellie accompany you. She has finally obtained the title of Senior Mage. Now it's time to practice more."

"Teacher, do you mean to let the disciple go?" Ellie on the side looked very surprised after hearing Merlin's words.

In fact, even if Merlin didn't say anything, she would still find a way to ask Edward to take her out.

After all, since Merlin started teaching her magic, she has been staying in the Silent Temple and has not been in contact with the outside world for a long time.

"Even if I don't tell you, you will tell me later that you can go." After Merlin looked at Ellie, he almost directly said what Ellie was thinking.

Seeing that her thoughts were seen through, Ellie had no choice but to lower her head and stick out her tongue.

"Okay, without further ado, Edward, I will leave it to you as my apprentice. If you come back and stop messing with your hair, look at me treating you like this!"

"That's fine. Don't worry, I won't let anyone hurt your apprentice." Edward said, turning to Toles and saying, "Please go back and tell the superiors that I will accept this commission."

"But the commission said that high-level magicians are required to participate. If you do this, I'm afraid..." Toles said after looking at Ellie.

"What are you afraid of? Ellie just obtained the magician qualification today, and she is a level 6 magician. She should meet the requirements of the commission." Edward said and raised his chin, looking confident.

"She, she has the qualifications of a level 6 magician?" Toles looked at the frail-looking girl next to Edward again, swallowed and continued, "It would be better if this were the case. But this time I heard that the commission

It has a lot of background, and the higher-ups take it very seriously, so I hope you won’t mess this up.”

"Don't worry, there is no word 'failure' in my dictionary.

Okay, if you have nothing else, let's have a drink together, I'm treating you today." Edward said, shaking the power of attorney in his hand, and then dragged everyone to the tavern in the town.

A few days later, on the road leading to the trade capital Auron, Ellie was happily playing in the water next to a small lake on the side.

"Edward, come and see, this lake is so beautiful." Ellie said to Edward while flicking the water with her hands.

This was the sixth time she had said similar words that day. To be precise, it had been since Edward took her away from the Silent Temple to Oron.

Ellie is extremely interested in almost everything outside.

I would often pull Edward to look here and there, so that it took 30 days of the original 15-day trip to get close to the destination.

For this Ellie who was extremely interested in everything, Edward could not make any other expression except a helpless smile.

If I had known that going out with girls would be so troublesome, I should have come alone.

The two of them walked and played, and finally managed to reach a small town before dark, thus avoiding the problem of spending the night in the wild.

But in those 20 days, there were definitely only a few people who spent the night in the wild...

After settling Ellie in the small town hotel, Edward returned to his room and opened his mercenary diary.

The experience of the past 20 days was clearly written on it, including the elimination of 2 bandit gangs, the destruction of 4 thieves gangs, the capture of 27 robbers, and the damage to 32 houses...

Originally, Edward had no intention of intervening in these matters, but the problem was that Ellie patronized her curiosity and her so-called sense of justice.

Instead of taking the main road, I had to go to those mountain roads that I didn't care about. I didn't have anything to do to provoke the bandits, so the town was always visited by thieves for a long time.

Once she saw a thief in a small town, but before she could react, Ellie went up to him and shouted to arrest him. In order to knock the thief down when he was escaping, Ellie actually used a magic rupture wave...

In the end, the thief was caught, but the problem was that the surrounding buildings were in bad luck. Three houses were destroyed to varying degrees, and more than 20 people were affected.

It is said that the thief went crazy afterward and said he would never steal anything again... Merlin, is the apprentice you accepted as a magic genius or a troublemaker genius?

Edward smiled bitterly and closed his diary.

The next day, the two finally arrived at the central trade capital - Aulon, where the power of attorney was located.

Auron is located in the center of the Sabian continent. It is one of the main hubs of commercial trade on the continent and is also the largest city on the continent.

Just after arriving in the city, Ellie's curiosity once again caused Edward to suffer in the busy and bustling market.

It originally took only an hour to get to the meeting hall, but it was not until late in the evening that Edward managed to drag Ellie to the destination.

The only good thing is that Ellie didn't cause any trouble this time.

I just saw that when two gangs were fighting, an explosive bomb blew up both sides half to death, and only injured more than 10 people...

After presenting the power of attorney, the two of them were immediately taken to a small study room.

A guard knocked on the door and reported the matter.

Soon, the voice of "Please come in" sounded from the door.

After Edward and Ellie entered, they saw a 50-year-old man reviewing something at the table. They immediately smiled when they saw the two people, and then waved for others to exit the room.

"Welcome to the two of you who have come from afar. I believe they are Edward Trendo and Ellie Subellius whom the Mercenary Kingdom replied to.

It was finally an eye-opener for me to see the quasi-sword master and the high-level magician. When I first came here, I helped resolve the fight between two troublesome gangs in our city. It's really a thank you to you two."

Finally, the man looked at the two of them with a smile, which made Edward break into cold sweat, "By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Duke Tam."

"No, no, no, it's just a simple effort. That's really a compliment, Lord Duke. Right, Ellie, hahaha." After hearing the other person's name, Edward was secretly surprised. The ordinary-looking man in front of him turned out to be the prime minister of Austria.

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And he seems to have a very clear understanding of the trouble Ellie got into this time.

After hearing this, Edward suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It would be okay if the trouble occurred in the Mercenary Kingdom. After all, he had the title of Golden Mercenary and no one could do anything to him.

But this time something happened in the capital of the Aldo Alliance, and if the investigation continued, I might not be able to afford it and walk away.

"Yes, it's all a matter of effort.

But there were a few who ran away. If I had known better, I wouldn't have needed explosive bombs. I could have used advanced freezing to freeze them all, or..." After hearing Ellie's words, Edward almost fainted.

"By the way, let's talk about the entrustment. Business is important, business is important." Seeing that Ellie didn't know her fault at all and kept making trouble, Edward immediately interrupted Ellie and began to change the subject.

"Oh, young people are indeed very motivated. If you have any questions about this commission, just ask. In addition to mobilizing the army, I can provide any assistance within the scope of my authority."

Seeing Edward's panic, Duke smiled strangely at Edward, which made Edward feel shuddering...

"First of all, the request says that we want us to help investigate the missing persons problem here, but in fact I'm afraid it's not that simple."

In order to put aside the problem of causing trouble in the city, Edward had to find something to say to divert the other party's attention.

"Oh, young man, tell me what you think."

"In any case, as far as the content of the commission is concerned, it is not worth spending such a high price.

If it's just a simple missing person, then just find a mercenary union to solve it.

What's more, with your power, you can let the people below investigate secretly, and you can do it without leaking anything.

But in fact, you did not do that, and you even lost face by entrusting our Mercenary Kingdom to help handle it with the highest entrustment, so that Aodu owes our Mercenary Kingdom a favor. This approach is absolutely unreasonable."

"Haha, it's really interesting. The successor of the Sword Saint Saladin really has something to say, and it's very well said." Duke smiled with satisfaction after hearing this.

"Let's do this. I'll explain everything to you. Of course, I believe you will also abide by your mercenary rules."

"Of course."

The old man nodded and began to speak slowly: "Actually, this matter was not a missing person at first, but a corpse."

"What?" After hearing the old man's words, Edward and Ellie almost shouted in unison.

"Yes, it's a corpse.

About three months ago, someone came and started reporting to me that there were grave robbers in the south cemetery of the city.

To be more precise, it is to steal the corpse. Because there is no lack of burial objects in the cemetery, but only the innocent corpse disappears.

So I sent people to investigate at that time, but unfortunately all the people I sent disappeared.

Then I mobilized the best experts I could call on to further investigate, and finally found that all the people I originally investigated had disappeared in the same place, near an abandoned castle in the south of the city.

So I sent someone there again, but the result..."

"What's the result?" Ellie couldn't help but ask when she saw that the old man suddenly stopped listening.

"Twenty people went there and only one body was found. And the body looked very scary, as if it had been sucked dry."

After listening to the old man's words, the three fell into silence again. After a long time, Ellie also expressed her opinion.

"Judging from the situations you mentioned, there is only one possibility. I once saw it in the teacher's collection of books."

"What is it? Ellie." Edward asked, but he suddenly thought of something, "Is it that..."

"Well, that should be right. Stealing corpses and people who were sucked dry.

There is only one possibility for this. Someone here is studying forbidden magic, that is, the art of immortality and rebirth."

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"Well, the knowledge of senior magicians is indeed extraordinary!" Duke nodded with satisfaction after hearing Ellie's words, "Yes, I doubt this as well.

But if the army is used to deal with this incident here, I am afraid it will have a great impact on the entire Auron, oh no, the entire continent.

You have to know that Auron is the trade center of the entire kingdom. If something happens here, it will not be a joke.

Therefore, His Royal Highness the King issued a secret order for me to secretly entrust the Mercenary Kingdom to handle it. I believe that with your mercenary principles and strength, you should be able to handle this entrustment well."

"I understand. If it is really related to forbidden magic, even if I don't care, Ellie is a magician, and their people should take action.

In this case, let's take our leave first." Edward nodded, and then planned to go to the room with Ellie immediately.

(End of chapter)