Just a week ago, the Benedict family ended the first stage of development. That was to say, the following development would no longer be paid in the form of silver coins of merit. Instead, they would invite the Mercenary Union to set up an office in Benedict Town, which was the town of the broken tower. They would issue new missions in the form of mercenary missions, and the reward would naturally be one crown.
Most of the following missions were patrol missions focused on protecting the development site and craftsmen.
In the letter, Shi Duhua invited Feng Chou to go to Benedict and complete the transaction of silver coins of merit according to the contract.
Looking at the letter, Feng Chou felt his heart bleeding. The Benedict family was able to invite a legendary mage because they had discovered the elemental furnace in the broken arcane tower.
Even during the time of the Arcane Empire, elemental furnaces were not common. Only legendary arcanists had the ability to install elemental furnaces in their own arcane towers. Once they had an elemental furnace, most arcanists would improve the arcane tower into a floating-space tower.
A non-floating-space tower with an elemental furnace was very rare. This was also the reason why the broken arcane tower had not been valued for a long time and no one had explored it. No one had thought that this broken mage tower would have an elemental furnace.
In the end, the Benedict family had picked up a big loophole.
In this big loophole, Feng Chou could only be regarded as secretly taking a sip of the soup at best.
Although depressed, Feng Chou still collected his mood and prepared to return to Casablanca.
In any case, the contract with the Sword of Salma must be fulfilled. It was not only the constraints of the contract. In fact, Feng Chou was the biggest beneficiary of this contract.
Due to the participation of Master Lei Zhe, the success of the development of Benedict Hill was already a foregone conclusion. Coupled with the superior environment of this territory, the price of silver coins of merit for this development had risen sharply. This also allowed Feng Chou, who had signed the contract in advance, to make a small profit.
After entrusting the territory to Chapman, Feng Chou returned to Casablanca in a carriage. After meeting up with more than twenty second-tier mercenaries from the Sword of Salma in Casablanca, they took a passenger ship to Modima City.
Although the first stage of Benedict's development had been completed, the rewards for the following tasks were still generous and not too difficult. Therefore, although Shi Duhua intended to withdraw the elite mercenaries, he intended to leave a group of second-tier mercenaries in Benedict to earn a generous commission.
This time, Feng Chou boarded the ship as Baron. Of course, he would not follow the mercenaries to the lower cabin. He directly booked the first-class cabin on the deck.
They didn't say anything along the way. At Modima City, they switched to a smaller passenger ship. Heading east, the passenger ship reached Benedict's Broken Tower Town.
Now, this place had changed greatly.
The docks had been renovated, and the outer walls of the town had been rebuilt. The interior of the town had been turned into a large construction site. Most of the mercenaries' tents were gathered at the foot of the hill where the arcane tower was.
The dense negative energy in the town had completely disappeared without a trace.
Feng Chou once again saw the mercenaries from the Sword of Salma in the mercenary camp. They had been invited out of the arcane tower a few months ago and moved to this camp.
Feng Chou keenly noticed that Natasha, who was seeing his true appearance for the first time, seemed to be staring at him with some doubt.
Natasha's fierce stare at Feng Chou, who had revealed his handsome face, made Phil's expression turn ugly.
In this development mission, the Sword of Salma mercenaries had obtained a total of 7,892 silver coins.
Feng Chou straightforwardly paid more than 140,000 crowns and received the silver coins.
Over the next few days, Feng Chou took the initiative to attack again and obtained more than 5,000 silver coins from the other mercenary groups in the camp at an average price of about 22 crowns.
This price made the faces of many members of the Sword of Salma very ugly.
Feng Chou proposed to Shi Duhua that he hire all the second-tier members of the Sword of Salma mercenaries at a rather generous price to protect the new territory that he was about to obtain. This made the mercenaries of the Sword of Salma feel a little better.
That night, Feng Chou found the deputy leader, Owen, and the two had a long talk.
The next day, just before the elite team of the Sword of Salma set off, Owen submitted an application to Shi Duhua to withdraw from the mercenary group. He said that he and Natasha had accepted Feng Chou's employment and would become annualized knights of Feng Chou's new territory in Feng Chou's new territory.
For Owen and Natasha, who were once knights and nobles, the hope that Feng Chou gave them to become knights again was something they could not refuse.
Hearing this news, Shi Duhua did not get angry. Instead, he sincerely gave Owen his blessings.
After giving his blessings to his old friend, Shi Duhua simply handed over all the second-tier members of the mercenary group that had been hired by Feng Chou to Owen to lead.
After that, Shi Duhua led the first-tier members to board the departing passenger ship without saying a word.
The bad luck of the Sword of Salma did not seem to have ended. When the passenger ship docked at Motima, the mercenaries stayed at an inn near the dock for the night and planned to change to a passenger ship to Casablanca the next morning.
But that night, Phil disappeared. He disappeared as if he had vanished from the face of the earth!
Because of Phil's disappearance, the Sword of Salma spent another three days in Motima before leaving exhausted.
The missing Phil had, of course, entered Feng Chou's Qiankun Pagoda and was decomposed from body to soul by Feng Chou into nutrients for the Qiankun Pagoda.
Feng Chou had never been a magnanimous person, especially when it came to someone who tried to kill him. He would definitely seek revenge for the smallest grievance.
Killing Phil did not waste Feng Chou's time. In fact, when Qiankun Pagoda had the ability to cast all the beginner spells, he could already leave Feng Chou and act alone.
After Shi Duhua left with the first-tier members, Owen led the second-tier members to the square outside the camp to train.
Mercenaries were the same as soldiers. They could not be idle. If there was a mission, they had to do it. If there was no mission, they had to keep training. Otherwise, their craftsmanship would be life-threatening. This was a lesson that the old mercenaries had learned through blood.
After Owen and the second-tier members left, the Sword of Salma's camp quieted down.
Feng Chou walked towards a small independent tent in the corner of the camp.
That was Natasha's tent. As a level-nine warrior of the Steel Soul Style, Natasha naturally could not train with the second-tier mercenaries whose average level was only level-six.
Perhaps she had heard Feng Chou's footsteps. As soon as Feng Chou walked to the door of the tent, Natasha lifted the curtain and walked out.
She clenched her right fist and placed it on her left chest. She bowed slightly and nodded, naturally and skillfully performing a simple knight's salute. "What can I do for you?
Your Excellency Baron. "
Feng Chou reached out and touched the light helmet on his head. Because he was in an area that was not so safe, Feng Chou was wearing armor and not a noble's formal attire. His action was a variation of the hat salute. Because it was too troublesome and unsafe to take off the helmet, when nobles wore armor, they would use this action instead of the hat salute.
In fact, as a Baron, when faced with his own knight's salute, he only needed to nod in acknowledgment. There was no need to take off the hat salute. This was the etiquette between nobles of equal status.
Feng Chou's action was equivalent to putting the other party in a position that was basically equal to himself. This was quite a great courtesy for a knight.