Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 295: Mercenary Market

"Welcome to the Mercenary Market. Here, we will provide the best service for you. You can select qualified mercenaries through each Wisdom Brain Terminal for a fee. Wisdom Brain will sort them according to the mercenary's records to help you!"

"Come on, come on, this is the Dark Heart of the Wineson Family Hunting Group. Do you want to become famous overnight? Do you want to carry the beauty back? Join us, Dark Heart, and we'll give you a bright future!"

'"We are the Knights of Love and Roses! Yes, our core members are all hot beauties. We urgently need warriors with exceptional combat prowess and gentlemanly demeanor to join us. Is there anyone willing to fight to protect us?"

Alan and Lucy stood for a minute at the door of the hall filled with all kinds of voices. This is the Babylonian mercenary market, which is divided into five levels. The first to third floors were open to the public, while the fourth floor was open only to members of aristocratic families and above. As for the fifth floor, it was a special recruitment arena for top mercenaries. Usually, only the core members of the wealthy families were qualified to come into contact with these mercenaries.

With Alan's qualifications, he could only reach the fourth floor at most. However, right here on the first floor, he was dazzled. There were large and small private hunting groups, teams with family banners, and free mercenaries who were not subordinate to them. Almost all the venues on the first to third floors were like this. The hunting group and the mercenaries interacted in both directions. The hunting group valued the records of the mercenaries, while the mercenaries valued the hunting group, or the forces of the families behind them.

This was the first time Allen had come to the mercenary market. This high degree of freedom was incompatible with Babylon's ubiquitous class nature.

"Sir, may I ask what kind of service you need?"

A sound that had almost no cadence sounded out, and it was filled with an inorganic smell like an electronic synthesis sound. But when Alan turned around, he saw a girl with black hair and white skin. '"Vera, why are you here? And " Alan was surprised when the girl's misty black eyes vaguely reflected her figure.

Vera was clearly wearing a uniform set. When she saw that it was Alan, her expression changed a little. "I'm working here to earn some tuition. I'm not a child anymore. I can't spend my grandfather's money all the time. So, you're here to recruit mercenaries your hunting group has been set up?" She said, her eyes shining brightly, as if a puppet had been injected into her soul.

Allen nodded and said, "Pack of wolves, we just came down from the qualification examination yesterday. Come here today and see if we can recruit some suitable players."

"Oh bring it over." Vera spread out her hands.

"What?" Alan was confused.

"Contract. You should have an electronic contract with you, right?"

Ellen took out a tablet and said, "Mr. Helsing did put the contract into his brain yesterday, but he hasn't found a suitable candidate yet."

"Give me that." Vera pointed at his brain.

Alan was a little confused, but he still gave her his brain. Vera quickly pulled out the pack of wolves from her brain and signed her name.

"I told you before. If you form a team, I want to be one of them." Returning the brain to Alan, Vera said seriously.

"I haven't forgotten, Vera," said Alan helplessly. "But I always feel that I should inform Mr. Hughton about it first."

"It doesn't matter. Grandpa, I'll tell him. From today onwards, I'll be yours. Remember to notify me when the hunting team leaves." After Vera finished speaking, she bid farewell and left, walking like a mechanical doll towards another dumbfounded man standing at the door.

Lucy couldn't help but ask, "Who is she?"

"Vera, Mr. Hughton's granddaughter." "Her parents died in the foreign battlefield. Vera wanted to see where her parents died. She asked me to bring her along when I heard that I was going to set up a hunting party. I wanted to tell Mr. Hughton, but Vera filled in her name."

Contracts with members of hunting groups duly registered with the Authority will be subject to federal supervision. If either party violates the contract, the Federation will intervene to provide legal protection for both parties. Therefore, once a contract was signed, it could only be terminated at the end of the contract period.

The duration of a hunting party's contract is usually three years. Of course, the time is based on the speed of the earth.

"Let's go. Let's go find Leon."

The meeting place with Leon was on the fourth floor. After showing Beth Cord's authority ring, the waitress on the special staircase on the fourth floor received the two of them kindly. Coffee and pastries were even served while the elevator was on its way to the fourth floor. The fourth floor was much quieter, and the flow of people had also decreased significantly. Here, the Babylonian clans that were ranked high had their own venue on the fourth floor.

In the recruitment arena, there were specialized personnel to provide quick and convenient services to help recruiters select the most suitable mercenary candidates.

Walking out of the elevator, someone led Allen and the other two to Beth Cod's recruitment venue. However, Allen did not inform the market ahead of time to open today, so the monopoly was very quiet. Leon had arranged to meet him here. As expected, he passed through a deep corridor and saw the William Clan's young master when he entered the hall. Beside him was a man who was half an inch shorter.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Leon turned around. She smiled and nodded at Alan. Her gaze fell on Lucy, and a bright smile appeared on her face. "This must be Miss Twin Ponytails."

"Double ponytails?" Lucy pointed at herself.

"This is what Adele calls you." Leon smiled.

Alan gave them a brief introduction. Leon turned around and let the unfamiliar man come forward. "This is Mr. Koba. Mr. Koba is a famous mercenary broker. The mercenaries in his hands are all ruthless. They are experienced and definitely not the kind of people that can be found on the lower floors."

Corba was shorter than Leon, but he was very strong. Fang Zheng's body was wide and fat, and his eyes were deep and sharp. He put his hands behind his back and smiled. With a sweep of his gaze, Alan felt a faint stab in his face. It could be seen that this man was not simple, and his strength was not inferior to Colonel Gao Lei's.

"Mr. Koba will take you to his Mercenary Guild to pick a suitable candidate later, but before that, I have a few suggestions." Leon smiled and said, "Alan, you should know the process of opening up the foreign battlefield. Throughout the centuries since the start of the Advanced Wars, you can see that even the wealthy clans did not bring along an army to open up their own planets. Even after colonizing the entire planet, the armies guarding the planet were mostly made up of the planet's natives."

"At first, every pioneer would only start out as a hunting party. After arriving at the target planet, they would set up an advance base, occupy the initial territory, and recruit local soldiers. Build factories and enslave territories. Expansion, so round and round, gradually opened up the situation and finally completed the colonization. This process is usually not done in a few decades, of course, it's a low-dimensional asteroid. "

"In this process, the first step is still important. It determines whether you can stand firmly on Colonial Planet. This is not only the ability of the leader and core members, but also the ability of the other members. I advise you not to blindly choose mercenaries with high combat strength, but to incline towards comprehensive quality considerations. Especially when it comes to leading troops or nurturing soldiers, they are the right people for you. "

Leon's words gave Alan a new understanding of how to select mercenaries. Alan was now a member of the Bescort Family, but he lacked the vision and knowledge that Leon had nurtured after a long time of exposure. Moreover, Leon had already been to the Outer Realm once. His experience in this field was precisely what Alan lacked.

Seeing that Alan had already memorized it, he patted Koba's shoulder and said, "Then, I'll leave this brother to you. Mr. Koba, please take care of Alan for me."

"Of course, Young Master Leon." Koba said.

Leon said goodbye and left, while Koba led the two to the union pavilion on the fourth floor.

The Mercenary Union was a bridge for gathering outstanding mercenaries and interfacing with famed hunting groups or aristocratic families. These unions often had the best talent resources, and the mercenaries they had were not comparable to the freelance mercenaries on the lower three floors. Koba's Mercenary Guild, Misty Fire, was one of the famous big guilds. Their long-term partners were big guys like the Williams.

From excellent mercenaries to a thousand-man army, they could provide them. Along the way, Koba introduced the trade union's business, which opened Alan's eyes.

"We're here."

In the blink of an eye, they arrived at Misty Fire's pavilion. The projection curtain wall outside the pavilion repeatedly displayed some information about Misty Fire Mercenaries. These mercenaries were already much stronger than ordinary warriors, but in the mist and flames, they were only important goods. Those truly powerful people were usually concentrated in the hands of their agents.

Koba was just one of the brokers, and his office was much simpler than Alan had imagined. Moreover, it was very quiet. Apart from the two girls acting as assistants, Alan did not see any mercenaries. Seeing this, Koba laughed and said, "Those fellows in my hands won't stay in Babylon to choose from even if they don't have a mission or contract. They are wild beasts, and beasts naturally have places for wild beasts to go. For example, the surface of the earth is the ideal place for those fellows to spend their holidays."

"But don't worry, as long as you pick good people and pay a commission, no matter where these people are, even if they are in the belly of a deep sea berserk whale, I still have a way to make them appear before you within three days." Koba said confidently.

Alan nodded. "Then let me see what good candidates Mr. Koba has."

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