The Second Life Of The Mercenary
Chapter 25 Caught wet

Today the workers of the Rabbit Guild were so busy that even before sunrise they had already woken up and tidied up the guild, Isabella was to the point of being surprised to see the guild now was very different to the guild 6 months ago.

"Good morning sir. How are you?" allred asked as he entered the guild.

March smiles at the face he has not seen for a long time, the arrival of Isabella makes March feel very happy.

"I'm good. How's yours?" March asked back while patting Isabella on the shoulder.

"I'm good too. Long time no see, you don't even change at all. But your guild ... changed a lot, so a lot of boards here."

"Hahahaha, I applied the new rules in the guild since 2 months ago. Starting from the unconditional registration, you only need to fill out the identity paper and the identity card of the mercenary knight will be instantly given. Then these boards were where people placed their requests according to the level of mercenary knights they wanted, he said, you just need to take the request paper from the board and confirm it at the reception desk and then you can go straight to your mission. That way they don't have to ask for missions from the reception desk anymore, because the table is only for registration and retrieval of payments after the mission is completed."

"This is so incredible. But why did you suddenly apply new rules?"

"I'm with Martini to go to the Imperial Capital for a long time. The Barians declared war on our empire because his proposal was not accepted by the emperor. So I'm hiring my confidants as long as we're not here" March explained.

Isabella seemed to not believe if the current events are very different from the original storyline. The war that followed the rejection of the proposal was supposed to happen 1 year later, after the original Isabella returned to the duke's residence. 

Then the most important thing of the war was the death of Martini in the war. Losing a loved one leaves March devastated, not willing Martini to leave until he is mad on the battlefield. Seeing that March has been fighting outside the strategy, Duke Charlize Arsena is forced to arrest March and secure him. But in the end March lost his mind until he had to curl up in prison for the rest of his life, making the Rabbit Guild troops must be disbanded.

"ah! I just remembered, wait a minute." March goes to his room and he returns with a piece of paper and hands it to Isabella.

Isabella took the paper and asked, "What is this? why was it handed over to me?"

"A few days ago an elf came looking for you. We didn't know where your address was, so she left her lodging address so you could meet her there" replied March.

"Did something happen in the elf village? did the elf look panicked? what's name?"

"She just said she wanted to see you, not even panic at all. But I forgot what her name was, the important thing was that she was a very handsome elf."

"alright. I'll be there later" replied Isabella.

"I'll go to my residence first. You go see the mission you want, see you later, son." March scratched Isabella's head before she left.

Isabella stared at March's back, not wanting anything bad to happen in the war. But what he can do, at this time he must act selfishly and ignore it.

Isabella switched on gold-level demand board. There are so many requests for extraordinary pay, Isabella loves money so much that she is confused about which mission to take.

"Request escorts a potionist Luca Alfie at the auction for 3 days, the meeting location in the moonwood village of the proposed time of 15 days. Pay 15,000 gold pieces." Isabella read one of the papers.

Reading Luca Alfie's name, Isabella felt the name was not foreign to her. He thought about where he had heard that name or something.

"ah! that name was the name of the empire's greatest potion expert, he was one of the crown prince's loyal followers in the future. The one who earned the nickname the God of life, because he could heal anyone as long as that person was still breathing," inner Isabella.

He took the request and submitted it to the mission recipient, the worker at the desk was happy to give an official stamp as a sign that the request had become the responsibility of Isabella. 

Moonwood Village is indeed very far away, Isabella bought a horse to be used as a mount, she wants to get there faster because the trip takes 10 days.

While passing the address of the inn that the mysterious elf gave her, Isabella paused for a moment and then she spurred back her horse leaving the village.

"I'll meet that elf later if my mission is complete" Isabella said.

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"Hey …." Ainsley was racing her horse at medium speed behind Isabella, she would not have expected Isabella to be very skilled in horse riding. Ainsley is not good at riding horses. Therefore, if they are left behind in Isabella's footsteps, it will be difficult to find Isabella again.

"Don't protest much. Hold on well and keep your mouth shut so I can focus," Ainsley said.

"For what to hold if the speed of his horse is slower than a donkey," cried Fil.

"Why don't you help me with your little bit of wind power, huh? you're not helping at all like your rotten mouth is."

"That master is so great, if he senses the presence of power then our existence can be revealed. Do you want your sacrifice of sleeping in people's homes all this time in vain?"

"Whisper! Hiya." Aisnley increased the speed of his horse, this time really fast until Fil had to hug Ainsley.

"Slow down a little bit or we'll fly, fool." Fil shouted, but was ignored by Ainsley.

After a long journey, Isabella dropped by briefly to buy food supplies in a village.

"Please give me some fine bread, and 5 bags of water" Isabella told the seller's grandmother.

"All right, wait a minute. Anu .. can this old man ask?" ask the grandmother while filling the bread pieces into a shopping bag.

"of course. What'sthat?" 

"Are those two friends of yours?" the grandmother pointed towards Fil and Ainsley who were monitoring from a distance.

Isabella also turned to the direction intended by the grandmother, at a glance she saw Ainsley pull Fil to hide.

"What are they doing here?" inner Isabella. He approached their hiding place, and there he saw Ainsley, who was holding Phil's mouth.

"Hi Allred, long time no see." Ainsley smiled awkwardly after being caught off guard by Isabella.

"Follow me and explain what you're doing here. Just be careful if the explanation is not satisfactory," threatened Isabella.

They were sitting opposite in the shop that belonged to the grandmother. Ainsley explained everything from start to finish with nothing to cover from Isabella, and Isabella listened to him well.

"I'm sorry" said the two in unison. They feel guilty and afraid of Isabella.

"Thank God they didn't know my true identity, I survived this time. But they're really desperate, "inner Isabella.

"You go back to my village first, I'll meet you when my mission is over. Take it easy, March has given me the address of the inn. And don't forget to take a break before you go back, it's money for you." Isabella gave me a bag of money. "I think that's enough for you guys until I get back."

"Thank you, sir, you're very kind" Fil said.

"Huh? don't be happy, our problems aren't over. I'll make the calculations with you guys later" Isabella said, leaving them behind.

Isabella paid for their meal with the supplies she ordered to her grandmother, after which she said goodbye to Fil and Ainsley to continue her journey.

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