After Sharp signed the letter, he threw it back to Feng Chou and said, "We'll set off in about ten days by ship to the development base … Hey, I'll give you a piece of advice. Find a mercenary group to join, otherwise a mercenary like you will be useless in such a big development. In the end, you may have to pay a sum of money. The supplies for the development camp are not cheap."
Feng Chou took the mission letter and said, "Thank you very much for your advice."
After saying that, he stood up, took off his hat, and turned to leave the room.
Bishop quickly put the mercenary behind him and continued with his tedious job of investigation.
Feng Chou went down to the first floor, crossed the yard, and came to the door of the tavern on the north side of the hotel.
Just now, from the mercenaries who were waiting to be received together, Feng Chou knew that many of the mercenary groups participating in Benedict's development were waiting to depart here.
He pushed open the door of the tavern and walked in, and the familiar mixed smell suddenly hit him in the face.
The tavern was large and there were many people inside, but it did not seem noisy, which was a little strange for the lawless mercenaries.
The people in the tavern were in groups, clearly separated from each other and not mixed together.
These people looked either strong or vigorous, and most of them wore jackets and loose trousers. Some people, like Feng Chou, wore smart hunting clothes.
In the city, even mercenaries rarely wore armor and walked around ostentatiously. On the one hand, it would attract police questioning. On the other hand, there was a strong deterrence of the power of order in the big city. Even if there was a conflict, it was mostly just a brawl.
Feng Chou's arrival did not attract too much attention. He ordered a large glass of ale at the bar, went to the corner of the tavern, and sat down.
According to Qiankun Pagoda's scan, the average professional level of the mercenaries in this tavern was over level seven, and there were more than a dozen professionals whose total level was above level ten. Among them, there were four professionals whose total level had reached level eleven.
Of course, these four professionals were all part-time professionals, such as a level ten warrior who was a level four rogue, or a level ten rogue who was a level four warrior.
Although in theory, this kind of part-time professional level reached the standard of a senior professional, and their total attributes were not worse than that of a real senior professional, they were still not recognized as senior professionals. They were still intermediate professionals.
This was because no matter what profession, once one reached level eleven, there would be a qualitative change, not just the accumulation of levels and attributes.
Take a warrior, for example. A level eleven warrior would obtain two vital skills, one of which was "Greater Heideggar's Strength."
The 'Advanced Strength of Hydgar' was actually a sublimation of the 'Advanced Strength of Hydgar'. After the sublimation, the 'Advanced Strength of Hydgar' would greatly increase the strength of the warrior's skills. It would increase the power of all the skills of the warrior by 50%.
Just this alone was enough to make a level 11 Warrior much more powerful than a level 10 Warrior.
The other skill obtained by a level eleven warrior was called "Lesser Heideggar's Flames." The premise of this skill was to obtain the Greater Heideggar's Strength.
This skill could form an anti-magic zone around the warrior's body by burning the Greater Heideggar's Strength violently for a short period of time. In this area, any low-level magic and supernatural power would not be effective, and mid-level magic and supernatural power would be greatly weakened. It could also remove any spell effect formed by mid-level spells on the warrior. The disadvantage was that buff spells would also be removed.
"Lesser Heideggar's Flames" was ineffective against high-level spells above level six.
It was the emergence of these two skills that made the warriors of the post-arcane era shine with a second spring, eliminating close combat professions such as barbarians and becoming the most powerful close combat professions.
Such a subversive skill could not be replaced by a few low-level professions of other professions.
There were no real senior professionals in the tavern, which was normal. Any profession, once entered a senior, had a different status.
Even if it was a warrior with a lower status, once he entered a senior, any great aristocrat would not hesitate to exchange a knight's territory for the loyalty of such a strong person.
Therefore, very few senior professionals were willing to stay in the mercenaries and sell their blood.
Feng Chou sat in the tavern for the whole afternoon. Qiankun Pagoda collected all the information in the tavern, no matter how big or small.
In just one afternoon, Feng Chou had basically figured out the situation of the few mercenaries in the tavern.
There were more than a dozen mercenaries in the tavern, four of them were the more famous and powerful mercenary corps in Casaranca. The four level-eleven professionals detected by Qiankun Pagoda were members of these four mercenary corps.
In the end, Feng Chou locked on to a mercenary corps known as the Sword of Salma.
This was the most powerful mercenary corps in the tavern.
As for how to join this powerful mercenary corps, Feng Chou also thought of a good idea.
If he joined temporarily as an ordinary mercenary, he was afraid that the other party would not even look at him.
This was different from when he joined the Fierce Tigers of the Forest in Antalya. To the Fierce Tigers of the Forest, his strength and age were worthy of them lowering themselves to recruit him.
But to the Sword of Salma, Feng Chou's superficial strength was not enough at all.
Therefore, if Feng Chou wanted to join such a mercenary corps, he could only find another way.
He intended to join this mercenary corps as a financial backer.
Generally speaking, mercenary corps participated in the development of territory mostly to make money, not to acquire territory.
On the one hand, there were many mercenary corps, and the territory they earned was divided. Each of them only had a few acres of land, which was impossible to develop.
In addition, silver merit coins were exchanged for the right to develop land, not land that had already been developed. To develop a territory, a large amount of money was needed. Ordinary mercenary corps would not be able to fork out such a large amount of money. Therefore, for mercenaries, after the development was successful, selling their silver merit coins for arbitrage was their goal.
What Feng Chou wanted to do was to use the identity of an acquirer to buy all of the Sword of Salma's gains in advance.
With a decision in mind, Feng Chou put down his wine glass and walked towards the Sword of Salma's mercenary corps, which was sitting in the center of the tavern.
There were a total of seventeen or eighteen people in the Sword of Salma's mercenary corps. They occupied a large table and talked and laughed as if there was no one else around.
Through the information collected by Qiankun Pagoda in the morning, Feng Chou knew that the Sword of Salma's mercenary corps had a credit rating of level seven. According to the rules of the Mercenary Union, the higher the credit rating, the higher the upper limit of the number of people in a mercenary corps. A level seven mercenary corps had an upper limit of sixty people.
The people sitting in the tavern were actually the elites of this mercenary corps.