When the bearded mercenary mentioned the name Demon Joker, the old man’s body trembled violently. Obviously, just this name was enough to bring him sufficient fear.
The bearded mercenary then continued to introduce: “The Demon Joker first appeared more than thirty years ago. No one knows who summoned him. I heard that in that town to the north, there is secretly hidden an evil cult that worships the Joker. After they die, their souls will also turn into Joker evil spirits, incredibly terrifying. When the Demon Joker appeared back then, I was still a child, but I still remember the sensation caused by the Demon Joker. At that time, if a child in Ganglu City was crying, just saying the Joker is coming could make him stop crying. Later, the imperial capital even dispatched troops over, and only then was the Demon Joker and his evil worshippers completely eradicated. But who could have thought that now this terrible killer has appeared once again. President Ye Chui, I advise you not to meddle in this idle matter.”
The bearded mercenary explained the ins and outs of the Demon Joker in his mouth. When he reached the end, he seemed to suddenly think of something, looked at Debbie, and his expression was somewhat strange.
Ye Chui and Debbie, Green, Lesa, Jacob, Guni exchanged glances with each other. They all thought of that sailor at the same time. After the sailor died, he was summoned by Lesa as an undead, but that undead turned into a Joker evil spirit and attacked them.
The bearded mercenary’s gaze towards Debbie did not escape Ye Chui. Ye Chui frowned and asked: “Does that Demon Joker have any relation to the Anduin family?”
Debbie’s family emblem is the pattern of a Joker. The origin ancestor of their family was a Joker.
“President Ye Chui, you really have a pair of sharp eyes.” The bearded mercenary hurriedly said flatteringly. “You are right. This Demon Joker really has some relation to Miss Debbie.”
Hearing the bearded mercenary say this, the old man who had been trembling nonstop suddenly looked at Debbie with some surprise, and his body subconsciously retreated a few steps away.
Only to hear the bearded mercenary continue: “The town where the Demon Joker appeared is now called Joker Town, but it has another name.”
Debbie’s eyes narrowed. She suddenly thought of something: “The town near Ganglu City… Could it be…”
“Miss Debbie, you thought of it.” The other magic tutor spoke at this time. “You guessed correctly. It is Anduin Town.”
Ye Chui, Green, Lesa looked curiously at Debbie. Anduin Town?
“The starting place of the Anduin family. Back then, the ancestor of the Anduin family left from this town. When he established the huge Anduin family in the imperial capital, he bought this town and named it Anduin. I even went there when I was a child.” Debbie explained. Her eyes widened greatly. “But now how could this so-called Demon Joker appear… Could it also have some relation to my family?”
“You, you are from the Anduin family…” The old man shouted tremblingly at this time. He had heard the bearded magic tutor say before that Debbie was “the little princess of the Anduin family”, but at that time he did not know what that represented. Only now did he understand. “The Demon Joker is the ancestor of the Anduin family. His name is Saco Anduin!”
“Nonsense!” Debbie immediately denied with her hands on her hips. “Impossible!”
“Miss, this is absolutely true. The Demon Joker’s name is Saco Anduin. This is something that the people of the Anduin family have already admitted.” The bearded mercenary immediately replied.
Debbie was immediately dumbfounded. Ye Chui and the others were also somewhat surprised. Then they saw Debbie take out her summoning key, skillfully open a colourful summoning door. When the door opened, a comical-looking white-skinned, red-nosed Joker drilled out from inside.
He was very professional. As soon as he appeared, he started performing comical acts, pretending to fall accidentally, his body strangely making various movements. But this silent performance did not get the response it deserved. Now, quite a few people had gathered at the entrance of the Mercenary Guild. When they saw the Joker Spirit being summoned, they all stiffened up, subconsciously preparing for battle. Their pale faces proved they were in a state of extreme tension and fear.
The old man even turned to leave, but accidentally fell to the ground, shouting “wa wa” loudly. Joker, this image was not a good symbol near Ganglu City.
“My Joker Spirit is the ancestor of the Anduin family, Saco Anduin. He has always been my spirit, so it is impossible for him to be summoned to other places. The Demon Joker in Anduin Town is definitely not him.” Debbie said angrily to the bearded mercenary and the others. Although the little girl usually seemed not to care much about family honour and such, now she was obviously truly angry.
Ye Chui looked at the Joker who was performing energetically but receiving a cold reception. His brows furrowed slightly, but he thought of the Joker’s five states. Among the five states, he had seen the joyful, sad, angry, mad four states, but he had not seen the horror Joker. In fact, even Debbie herself had never summoned it. Could that Demon Joker be the horror Joker?
Although the five states of the Joker are actually different forms of one spirit, for spirits this kind of existence, who knows if some split could occur?
“Debbie, send him back first.” Ye Chui patted the little girl’s shoulder. “It seems we have to go to that town to take a look.”
On the ship, they were attacked by the sailor. The sailor’s undead turned into a Joker, similar to the Joker evil cult in the bearded mercenary’s mouth. And the target of that sailor undead turned Joker evil spirit was Debbie. There seemed to be some connection among this.
Debbie nodded, waved her hand, and summoned the joyful Joker back to the summoning door. Among the Joker’s several forms, the ones most controlled by Debbie were the joyful Joker and the sad Joker. As for the angry and mad, they were types easy to lose control.
Influenced by Debbie, the joyful Joker immediately bowed to the stiffened crowd around as a farewell gesture. Of course, because he bowed too forcefully, he almost fell headfirst to the ground accidentally. “Haha—” Guni couldn’t help laughing out, but unfortunately the sound was empty, no one echoed her super low laugh point.
The joyful Joker seemed somewhat frustrated, dawdling towards the summoning door. But when he reached the front of the summoning door, he suddenly turned his head to look towards the north direction. His eyes filled with black eyeshadow appeared somewhat heavy at this moment, and only then did he drill into the door.
The direction he looked at…
Ye Chui asked the old man who was still fearfully trembling: “May I ask if Joker Town is in that direction?” He pointed to the direction the Joker had just looked.
The old man nodded tremblingly.
Ye Chui turned his head to look at Debbie. This indeed had some issues.
The old man was preparing to leave here with his whole body shivering at this time, but Green gently supported him. He glanced at Ye Chui and Debbie. Having mixed with these two for so long, just from their expressions he already knew their decision. So he said to the old man: “Your village’s task, our Whatever Name Magic Guild accepts it!”
Hearing Green’s words, the old man was stunned, and the other onlookers around also showed shocked expressions one after another.
…
In the Mercenary Guild, they handled the registration, registering their Whatever Name Magic Guild’s emblem totem. Because the totem’s pattern was too weird and refreshingly unconventional, the serving girl in charge of registration drew it several times but could not draw the unique charm. So Ye Chui personally drew the funny face, husky, and alpaca on it, and then it was to accept the task.
The danger of the Demon Joker task was self-evident. According to the assessment, it could reach a five-star level task, same level as when Ye Chui and the others went to exterminate the evil believers. Of course, the star level of tasks could not be set casually. If so, wouldn’t any magic guild be able to brush star levels casually? Star-level tasks all have strict judgment standards. The Demon Joker caused a huge impact in Ganglu City. The Mercenary Guild here had already done the assessment long ago.
There was no restriction on the commission fee. Doing such star-level tasks had great benefits for the guild’s reputation enhancement and development. So some large magic guilds, mercenary groups were willing to accept tasks with very little reward. Letting the old man release the task with one hundred gold coins, and Ye Chui accepting it was enough.
However, just when that old man completed the task release registration, and Ye Chui prepared to claim the task, the director of this Mercenary Guild suddenly stood out.
“You cannot accept this task!”
Each city’s Mercenary Guild would have a dedicated director to handle affairs. The director of Ganglu City was a person with a meticulously neat face, wearing a decent long robe and a fluffy vest, looking about forty-something years old.
“Why?” Ye Chui was stunned.
The director snorted in his mouth and said: “Externally registered mercenary guilds cannot immediately accept five-star tasks. This is the rule of Ganglu City. So if you want to accept this task, you must at least do some other tasks first!”
“Where is such a rule?” Debbie shouted unhappily.
“The Mercenary Guild of Ganglu City is under my say. Of course, the rules are set by me.” The director said somewhat domineeringly. Then he lowered his voice a bit, said to Ye Chui, “President Ye Chui, I advise you not to meddle in idle matters. An external guild directly doing such a five-star task, you will make the swordsmen and magic tutors of Ganglu City lose all face.”
Hearing the director say this, Ye Chui immediately understood the reason why the director refused to let them do the task: The Demon Joker task is very dangerous. In the entire Ganglu City, even those four-star, five-star guilds, mercenary groups did not dare to accept it. Not accepting was not only because the town could not offer enough reward, after all, completing a five-star task was also very helpful for the guild, mercenary group’s reputation. No one accepted this task entirely because of their fear psychology towards the Demon Joker.
But them not accepting is their business. But now Ye Chui and his external guild want to accept this task. Isn’t this making the people of Ganglu City very lose face?
Understanding this, Ye Chui immediately sneered: “This task seems to have some relation to us, so we must accept it. You said we need to accept some other tasks first?”
Hearing Ye Chui’s words, the director’s face showed a trace of anger, gritted his teeth and said: “If you want to accept this task, then first do enough thirty basic tasks in Ganglu City!”
This was deliberately making things difficult. Basic tasks are also called non-star tasks, all are some finding people, finding things, mediating disputes and such tasks, without star level, the task difficulty is not great, just particularly time-consuming. They are tasks that those rookies aspiring to mercenary careers would accept.
Thirty basic tasks, doing them would probably take who knows how much time.
A dignified four-star guild doing basic tasks? No guild would lower their face to do so… Isn’t this being silly?
However…
Ye Chui immediately laughed: “Alright, thirty basic tasks? We will do them.”
“President, this is not good, right?” Jacob said somewhat surprised.
“Jacob, don’t have psychological pressure. Don’t forget the guild totem on your back.” Ye Chui said to Jacob with a smile.
“Guild totem?”
“The wolf head drawn by Debbie. This represents our guild’s husky spirit: Be silly to leave you speechless.” Ye Chui said nonsense with a grin. Anyway, the guild is his, whatever he says goes…
Of course, saying so, his main purpose was still to dislike the director, wanting to sincerely slap his face. Isn’t it just doing basic tasks?
What is his search engine for!
Thirty basic tasks, three or four hours would be enough!
