Chapter 242: Yellowstone Pass (2/2)

”We are hiring mercenaries! The Scorching Trade Group is hiring for capable mercenaries!”

Someone inside the crowd of people asked: ”What is the task? What are the requirements for the task?”

”We want capable men and women to escort our carriages for a delivery inside the Desolate Scorching Wasteland! We are not going to delve too deep inside, but there are probably going to be some Profound Qi Realm beasts in our way. The requirements to join us, is the individual strength being at the Profound Qi initial-stage Realm at least.”

”Oh!”

”Qi Transformation?”

The crowd of people started to loudly discuss about the high requirements.

The man saw that the crowd was going wild and shouted: ”We are currently hiring thirty brave warriors and we will pay ten blue Skystones for each individual!”

”What?!”

”Ten blue Skystones?!”

”Why am I not at the Profound Qi Realm yet?!”

As Lan Xue and Seth were passing by, he noticed something was off with that man's speech. They were actually delivering supplies to someone inside the Desolate Scorching Wastelands? That was a bit off.

For a person to request for some supplies, there should at least be a base for him or her inside that dangerous area.

Another curious person loudly asked: ”How large is the caravan of supplies? How fast is it going to move?”

The man announcing the job quickly understood what was the real question that person had and replied: ”Don't worry my friend. This job is only going to take two days and our Scorching Trade Group can guarantee you the payment by giving half of it, on the end of the first day!”

”OH!!!”

The crowd went crazy and some people quickly left to call for the people they knew, that were apt for the job.

Seth saw that by the way the crowd was acting, the money offered for the amount of time they had to work, was something that was a bit high and it actually made him feel things were not right.

He suddenly stopped and decided to investigate the surroundings with his Soul Sense. Lan Xue noticed he stopped, but she didn't understand why he was acting like that when they didn't want to lose time on menial things.

She was about to ask him what he was doing, but he opened his mouth first.

”This is too strange. Let me quickly check something. I promise it won't take more than a single minute.”

After that, he activated his Soul Sense, capturing the information around him. The Scorching Trade Group had a peculiar flag with a burning item on it. With his Soul Sense, he was able to recognize a building that had the same flags on it. It seemed to be their headquarters, where most of their operations were currently happening.

Actually, the Scorching Trade Group was the second or third most renowned trading group present on the whole city. Their operations were very profitable and they didn't seem to do shady business, at least in the open. If someone had to say something strange about them, was the fact that they pretty much sent these caravans towards the Desolate Scorching Wastelands at least each month. However, no one was able to figure out what were the contents of their shipment, nor anyone tried to.

In this place, people respected merchants as they were their fathers, since it was because of them, that the entire city came to be, some three hundred years ago.

But what Seth was able to discover with his Soul Sense, incensed his will to participate on this side mission.

Inside the headquarters of the Scorching Trade Group, there was an underground passage, where there were some normal demons carrying the unconscious ”goods” to a large cage carriage, where there seemed to be a formation that didn't let any noise escape. Those ”goods” were actually normal people from both human and demon races.