Volume 1 Chapter 7 Part5 (1/2)

Last chapter recap: Aofeng learns Ba Erbo of the Flying Aspara Mercenary Company scheming against her and decides to pay him back the exact same way.

Chapter Five – A Huge Herd

Ba Erbo was extremely excited at the moment. Very very excited. Seeing the Fire Dragon Fruit that glowed on the cliff, and smelling its faint fragrance, he wanted to grow a pair of wings and fly over!

Because they had kept the information locked down, no one except the insiders knew the importance of this mission to Flying Aspara Mercenary Company.

Flying Aspara Mercenary Company was a B-ranked mercenary company. They had reached the required amount of missions. They only had to finish an rank mission or three suprB missions to become a ranked mercenary company and to develop further. However, if they chose to do three suprB-ranked missions, if one of the missions was a failure, the other two were for nothing. They had to start over.

The biggest factor that the Flying Aspara Mercenary Company’s influence fell behind Crimson Forge Mercenary Company and Wolfpack Mercenary Company was because the other two were rank while they were B-rank.

The benefits and payment that the Mercenary Union gave rank and B-rank were completely different. They believed if they had the benefits and resources of an rank mercenary company, they could quickly develop and rival the other two mercenary companies. As a result, Ba Tuke even had his spirit magister son come, and also sent another three-star spirit magister, the old man in the yellow robes, to make sure the mission was successful.

They hadn’t actually completed the ranked mission at Qin City. Radiance Magus Church had suffered great losses.. While they had paid the hiring fee, that mission had been judged a failure. Due to this, the Flying Aspra Mercenary Company could only put their sights on the Fire Dragon Fruit which was a suprB-rank mission.

After several years, they had completed two suprB-rank missions already. They only had one more to go. Could Ba Erbo not be happy?

“Elder Luo Xi, you were wrong this time! Look, those Crimson Forge mercenaries still haven’t followed us. This means they don’t have the ability to rival us and are retreating. This time, we will be the ones to finish the Fire Dragon Fruit mission. Then we will be an rank mercenary company!” Looking around and seeing not even the shadow of the Crimson Forge Mercenary Company, Ba Erbo couldn’t help but snort and smile proudly.

As he spoke, he was still slightly irritated. Just now, he had left immediately because that young boy had been showing off. They had gotten off easy. If he encountered them on the way back, he would definitely show that person his power! Not very old but that person had been cunning. You dare to make a fool of me, Ba Erbo, you dare to be even more arrogant?

“It’s better to be careful. The Soul Breaking Cliff is already close to Death Ridge which doesn’t lack for high rank magic beasts.” The yellow-robed old person frowned. He kept on feeling that something was not right. He had a bad feeling but he could not pinpoint where the problem was.

Ba Erbo snorted in laughter. “Elder, don’t worry. As long as that Rong Luo hasn’t come, that Fire Dragon Fruit is ours. With our strength, we do not have to worry about normal spirit beasts. It would be better if they came. We can get a few more spirit beast corpses and magic crystals.”

“That is true,” the yellow-robed old person said. He was very confident in his own strength and he suppressed that strange feeling of anxiousness.

They climbed up. The Fire Dragon Fruit was just ahead of them. The group from Flying Aspara Mercenary Company managed to ascend the cliff before all the other adventurers. They forced all the other small mercenary companies that were competing against them to the back. Those small mercenary companies were angry but didn’t dare to verbalize it.

“It’s ours!” Looking at the Fire Dragon Fruit, Ba Erbo was happily reaching to pluck it. But when he just took a step, a hard gust of wind suddenly shot for his head!

“Ah, it’s a high star spirit beast! Young Captain, careful!”

The yellow-robed old man’s expression changed. He hurriedly called for amorization. As the silver light flashed, he charged out and saved Ba Erbo from the claws of that eagle. Before he had the chance to take a breath, another golden condor pecked down!

“How come two high star spirit beasts attacked at once?” The yellow-robed old person inhaled in shock. He hurriedly grabbed Ba Erbo and then somersaulted to the side. He pa.s.sed over the enormous stone wall. From here, he could see the Soul Breaking Cliff and the mountains beyond it. The two looked towards that place. It would have been better if they hadn’t looked. When they did, their souls almost were scared out of their bodies.

“Heavens! They … … they are all spirit beasts?” Ba Erbo’s eyes almost popped out. His hairs stood up on end. He saw a large black patch of smoke. He made a rough estimate. There were at least a hundred spirit beasts!

“Motherf***er! A large group of spirit beasts are coming!”