"I want me to say that you must compensate us for our losses!" The round-faced horse mercenary said angrily, holding the axe with a newly added gap in his hand, and the blood of the snow bandit dripped down the axe blade, "I think this axe is very suitable."

"If you want me to tell me, I should shoot an arrow on your stinky face full of beards!" Feiyu also shouted at the mercenary riding with anger, "Who needs trash like you to save me? We are almost over the battle before you come!"

"What did you say?! I have a way to say it again!" The mercenary riding a horse pointed at Feiyu with the battle axe in his hand. "If you idiots hadn't sent us Bai Rose to ask for help, I would have been drinking hot wine in the tavern in Lengshi Town!"

"Who would ask for help from a garbage like you? You are so embarrassed to say that you can save someone at your level?" Feiyu smiled disdainfully.

"It was my message of help." Alpine said in a stiff tone.

At this time, Belgord interrupted and stood up from the black long axe, "Although it is inappropriate to say this, the Alps sent the message to ask for help, and it has nothing to do with the rest of us. We paid such a heavy price to kill the boss. Now when we are scraping the spoils, you suddenly jump out and ask us to compensate?" As he said these words, Belgord had re-positioned to take the shield and the iron spear, and the flying fish would take off the bow and arrow on his back.

"What do you want to do?!" The mercenary riding a horse widened his eyes and looked at the two of them vigilantly. The companions next to him also raised their swords, "We are the White Rose people!" Several other mercenaries present also looked at them with dissatisfaction. Joel had heard before that mercenaries were "shoulder side by side in war and fought for life after the war". They would face each other because of uneven profit distribution, but seeing this with his own eyes still made him feel a little sad.

Jon took two steps back and wanted to withdraw from the mercenaries' disputes, but he happened to meet Xiao Qiao who was walking slowly and Aleya who was frozen. "Do you think it's stupid?" Xiao Qiao asked in disgust. Joel did not answer, but just nodded slightly to greet the two of them. Aleya was a little stunned when she saw him, with a little surprise in her blue eyes, but Joel didn't care.

"Stop!" The giant bear Olaf finally stopped the dispute. He said with a gloomy face, "Then give him this axe." Tiequan just put his hands on his chest and stood beside him with a calm face without saying a word.

Hearing Olaf say this, the mercenary riding on the horse showed a proud look. But Feiyu asked dissatisfiedly: "Why?" At this time, Bogaode looked at him and sighed.

"The power demand for this 'Black Robber Axe' is 28. Only two people in our team can demand it. Since both of them plan to give up the axe, the rest of us have no choice." Bogaud lowered the iron spear in his hand, "Let's go and search the battlefield." Then he took the lead and walked towards the church square where corpses were everywhere. Several other mercenaries followed him. Feiyu was the last move. He glared at the mercenary riding fiercely before moving.

"You boy have the will to leave your name!" After Feiyu turned around, the mercenary riding on the horse shouted arrogantly.

"Shut up! Get the things and get out of here!" Alps, who had been silent before, roared angrily, and frightened the mercenary on the horse. He stared at Alps with his eyes widened, as if he wanted to see his face behind his iron helmet, but in the end he just turned off the horse, then walked to the black long axe and picked it up. It seemed that he could not swing the heavy long axe, but his face was still full of a smug smile.

The Alps, Olaf and Iron Fist didn't say anything, but just looked at the mercenary coldly. The mercenary felt the atmosphere a little nervous, so he quickly turned over and carried the long black axe on his back, and hurried away with his surviving companion. Before he took it away, he seemed to want to say something, but he just opened his mouth and finally said nothing.

The snow was still falling, and Joel breathed a breath and found that Xiao Qiao and Eleya behind him were also watching the scene. When the horse-riding mercenaries and his companions left, the three Alps turned around and followed the other mercenaries before to plunder the battlefield. At this moment, the guards under Sir Via also went to clean the battlefield. They were responsible for counting the relics of the dead and the guards who were searching for the battle. The guards and mercenaries were far apart and did not get close to each other.

Another slightly bigger wind blew, bringing large snowflakes, some of which fell on the burning corpse of the snow robber leader, making a hissing sound and turned into a wisp of water vapor. Joel looked behind him, and Xiao Qiao and Aleya were standing behind them, "Aren't you going?" At this time, Joel discovered that Xiao Qiao's eyes were green, as if they were fluorescent. Xiao Qiao frowned and pouted, and her cheeks turned red due to the cold. "Just leave this kind of thing to those men."

The frozen Aleya had a long, platinum-blond hair, and her hair was flying with the falling snowflakes in the wind, and her dark eyes were blue. They were calm eyes, Joel thought to himself. But now these eyes were looking at him. "Miss?" Joel asked in surprise, and then he noticed the good luck rabbit feet tied with a red rope on the weird staff in Aleya's hand.

"Are you Joel from Lengxi Town?" Ailea, who was frozen, also showed a look of surprise, "I thought you were dead. When I came last time, Lengxi Town had turned into ruins. They said that most of the residents inside had already..."

At this time, a guard interrupted their conversation. He raised his armor and revealed his young face. His armor and age should be a relative of Sir Via and a little nobleman. "Is it the magician lady who saved us this time?" The boy in armor asked timidly. Among the three people standing together, Joel was the most embarrassed, dressed in a ragged black suit, covered in blood and mud, so that the boy didn't even look at him. Anyone could see the uniqueness of the frozen Aleya, her clothes, temperament, and the weird staff.

"Yes." After the boy in armor interrupted her, the surprise on her face dissipated like melting snow, and turned back to her expressionless face, staring at the boy with calm eyes. For some reason, Joel felt that the falling snowflakes now matched her temperament very well. This may be the reason why she is called "frozen". Her beautiful and young appearance did not make her look young, but instead had a calmness that was not suitable for her age. "Is there anything wrong?"

"Yes, yes, lady." The boy in armor said nervously, as if he was worried about his manners, or was overwhelmed in the face of the legendary "magic". "Sir Via invites you, he wants to thank you in person."

Hearing this, Joel saw Xiao Qiao's face bulging. She did not hide her dissatisfaction at all. Joel even felt that he could know what she wanted to say, "Although he was indeed saved by Eleya, we also tried our best to turn the situation around, right?" But she didn't say it after all, just let it go with a "hum" and left.

"I understand, you go there first. I will bring my friends to see Sir Via soon." Aleya replied politely. The boy in armor seemed to want to say something, but after looking at Aleya, he swallowed, covered his mask, and said nervously, "Then, then please, Sir Via is injured as soon as possible, and now he is a little impatient."

"Of course." Aleya nodded slightly, and the boy in armor quickly turned around and ran towards Sir Via not far away. The armor on his body sounded ping-pong. Except for the confidant who was holding Sir Via, there were only two strong guards in iron armor and holding the hilt of the sword at his waist with his hands. The one on Sir Via's right hand was also holding a flag with a spear-hunting emblem on it. The flag had a gap and was stained with blood, but it was still rushing in the wind mixed with heavy snow.

As soon as the boy in armor left, Xiao Qiao approached Aleya's side, "Who is Elya going to take to see that fat jazz?"

"Are you going?" Aleya blinked, and the indifference on her face towards the boy in armor suddenly disappeared. "If Xiao Qiao wants to go, I can take you there."

"Me? Forget it, I'm not good at dealing with NPCs." Xiao Qiao waved her hands repeatedly. Seeing the two of them, Joel couldn't help but wonder if they knew each other before. "You'd better take Olaf, he's an RP player. Every time we do a task, he will deal with NPCs." Suddenly she remembered something, and then pointed at Joel and said, "Joel is also an RP player, can you take him there?"

"Rp player?" Aleya looked at Joel for a moment, and surprise flashed in her calm eyes, "Is Joel...Rp player?"

Because Joel could not understand what they were saying at all, he did not say a word, and then turned his eyes to the mercenaries who were plundering the battlefield. This was once a clean and tidy church square, but now it is a battlefield where people fight. Blood and weapons are scattered on the ground. The holiness and peace of the past are gone, leaving only the smell of blood and another smell that Joel could not say. Maybe it was a taste of sadness? At the beginning of the battle, Joel was full of anger and hatred, and killed one snow bandit after another, but now the battle is over, he has no relief. Alu, Hemi...

"Joel? Joel?" Xiao Qiao's voice pulled Joel back to reality, and a snowflake fell on his nose. The cold touch made him tremble. "Joel? What are you thinking, so fascinated?" Xiao Qiao looked at him with a brow raised, "Are you okay? Your face is a little bad."

"No, I'm fine," Joel shook his head, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Areya wants to take you and Olaf to see that NPC. Are you going?" Xiao Qiao said as she signaled Sir Via not far away.

"Are you talking about Sir Via?" Joel thought for a moment, then nodded, "Okay." If there were some survivors of Lengxi Town, the one who knew best was Sir Via. The former mayor of Lengxi Town was Sir Via's wife's brother, and the relationship between Lengshi Town and Lengxi Town has always been intimate. Now the mayor of Lengxi Town is a dead body and ruins, and Joel thought gloomy. Maybe Elu and Hemi are in Lengshi Town now, and Joel prays secretly, blesses the gods.

"Okay, Olaf has come." As he said that, Xiao Qiao waved his hand, and Joel looked in the direction she looked. Olaf was walking over with a steady step and crossing one corpse after another. His mail had already had many gaps, and the cotton armor inside was cut open, and the blood polluted the whiteness of his body representing the priest, and his face looked gloomy. "Areya?" After Olaf approached, he looked directly at Aleya, who was wearing a white winter suit, "Thank you for helping me this time. What happened just now made me a little confused and I didn't have time to thank you."

The two shook hands. Compared with Olaf's palms wearing iron hand armor, Aleya's palms that only wore cold-proof gloves seemed much thinner. "Don't be so polite." Aleya exhaled a white breath as she spoke, "Then let's go see Sir Via first, let's wait for him for a long time." So Olaf didn't say much, just nodded.

When the three of them came to Sir Via, his face was already filled with an impatient look, but he was still polite. "Thank you for your desperate help, especially you, the young and beautiful lady." Sir Via politely kissed Aleya's back of his hand. Aleya stood in front, with tall Olaf and Joel in black standing on both sides behind her. "You are so polite, Lord Sir." Aleya also replied politely.

This was Joel's appearance that clearly saw Sir Via's face. The last time he saw him was at the spring celebration more than a year ago. He was fatter than that. His round belly and shoulders, and his coin-colored goat beard under his big nose was very finely maintained. There was a small mole on his double chin without a beard. The round eyes under his thick eyebrows were shining with shrewdness. There were many scars on the plate armor he was wearing, obviously left by the battle just now, and his helmet was held in the hands of the guard on his left hand. It was an equally thick but majestic helmet; his thigh seemed to be hit by the snow bandit's flying axe, so that he had to support him when he walked. The small beads of sweat on his forehead made his face calm and pride look a little reluctant.

"I originally wanted to expel the snow bandits, but I didn't expect that these freaks were ambushed in the ruins." Sir Via blushed, not only because of shame or anger. "Recently, these snow bandits have become more and more unscrupulous. I want to report to Lord Anduni of Black Widow Castle after returning to Lengshi Town, and summon soldiers to wipe out the snow bandits around Lengshi Town!" Sir Via became more and more angry as he spoke. The anger on his face moved Joel. I wonder what he was doing when Lengxi Town was in trouble a year ago?

Joel also noticed that Olaf was stunned when he heard Sir Via's words. Joel saw a bubble frame appearing behind Olaf's avatar on the left side of his vision. Although there was no sound, Joel saw the words inside clearly. "Sir Via is going to hold a map mission, and this Lengshi Town is probably going to be lively at that time." As soon as Olaf's words came out, the team immediately became noisy.

"Watching map missions at such borders? Will it not attract people from the Principality here?" Alps asked worriedly.

"Come and kill one!" Xiao Qiao said in a disdainful voice.

People began to discuss this so-called "map mission". Joel couldn't understand the content of the conversation. It was all about mercenaries related topics such as "reward", "team formation", "guild", etc. Although Joel could understand what it was in literally, these words seem to have other meanings in mercenaries.

"If there is anything to help Lord Jazz then, please don't be polite." Aleya's frozen attitude was neither arrogant nor humble. Sir Via nodded after hearing this, without much surprise. He looked at the tall priest, and then looked at Joel, and then he showed a look of surprise, "Isn't this... not a mercenary?"

Although I don’t know how he saw it, Joel still humbly replied, “Yes, sir.” It should be because I only wore black clothes. Joel thought that black in the north is very unlucky, and only dead people would wear black clothes. I was indeed a dead person, and Joel thought to himself.

After Joel replied, Sir Via's expression "Hmm? Listen to your accent, are you also from the North?" "Yes, sir." I am also a native of Lengxi Town, a person who has lived on your fiefdom for many years. Joel suppressed the urge to say this. He knew that if he said it, he would soon know that if he said it, he would soon know that he had died a year ago. Then Sir Via would take Joel back to Lengshi Town and burn him to death in the church square there. No one would indulge the people who have come back from the dead, which is blasphemy. Northerners are very pious, and Joel knows this very well.

"Why are you here?" Sir Via frowned and looked at him. "Is it so unlucky?" Just as Joel was thinking about how to answer, Sir Via waved his hand, "Forget it, now is not the time to say this." Then he looked at the tall giant bear Olaf, "Hey, big man, inform your men that after we clean the battlefield, we will rush back to Lengshi Town. Then I will pay you and invite you to attend to the celebration banquet tonight." Without waiting for Olaf to answer, he turned his eyes to the boy in armor, who had been waiting by the side, "Hey! Good boy! Go and get my horse back! Why are you standing here in a daze?"

"Yes, yes! Sir!" A panic sound came from the boy's mask, and then he turned around and left.

"By the way, tonight's dinner, lovely lady, please be sure to attend." Sir Via said to Aleya, and as he spoke, sweat fell on his forehead. Joel noticed that the wound on his leg seemed to be cracked, and dark red blood oozed out of the cloth for wrapping. "Of course, Lord Jazz." Aleya replied with a proper manner.

Then Sir Via nodded, and then his eyes stopped on the three of them, "Forgive me for being injured. Now go enjoy your spoils, and I will ask my subordinates to inform you when I set off." After that, Sir Via was supported by his confidant and walked towards the church, with two guards following behind. Joel and the other two looked at Sir Via without looking back.
Chapter completed!