Chapter 24 The Hidden Task
Francis ordered the underlings to surround the rest of their enemies as if they were breeding pigs and sheep.
Let them walk around the encirclement.
Then Francis picked a skeleton soldier that looked nice.
He waved at him, indicating the skeleton soldier to go forward.
Unfortunately, the skeleton soldier didn't understand what Francis meant. He just stared at him blankly.
"Well, it's not good to be too stupid."
Francis was used to the cleverness of Garbage. It was very difficult for him to communicate with the normal skeleton soldiers all of a sudden. He wanted to drill into his brain and have a look.
Was there any brain tissue in it!
Seeing this, Garbage immediately stepped forward and pushed the skeleton soldier.
Then the latter walked towards Francis with uncertainty.
When they were three meters away, the skeleton soldier stopped and looked at Francis curiously.
Through his eyes, Augustine also looked at the skeleton in front of him.
He was different from any other skeleton soldier he had ever seen.
Although they were almost the same appearance with black crystals attached to their bodies, Augustine felt that something was wrong with the skeleton in front of him.
He couldn't tell exactly.
He had a vague feeling that the skeleton was unusual.
Francis put his hand on his chest. Wisps of black threads flew out from his fingertips and fell to the ground, winding forward.
Until it came to the skeleton soldier.
Following his bones, the black line climbed up a bit by bit.
Augustine suddenly felt a sharp pain in his consciousness, as if it was stabbed by a bone spur.
Then his eyes darkened.
Francis's face disappeared in front of him.
"Roar!"
Augustine roared after he realized what had happened.
His body trembled violently. How he wished he could rush to Francis and tear the bold skeleton warrior in half!
How dare he take Augustine's underlings away from him!
In the past, only the powerful skeleton leader had the qualifications and strength to take away the vassal of the weak skeleton leader, and only when he defeated the leader.
Francis didn't beat Augustine.
But he still took action and took away the ownership of the skeleton soldier in front of him!
It was a complete humiliation to Augustine!
No skeleton leader had ever dared to do this to him!
The ghost fire in Augustine's eyes blazed with anger, and the blue light slowly turned red.
He stood up and roared at Francis.
Francis took the three skeleton soldiers in front of him to make up for the loss of the three underlings in the previous battle.
"I wonder if this move will work."
It took Francis a lot of time and energy to come up with a plan to irritate Augustine.
After thinking about it for a while, he felt that nothing could be more exciting than taking away his underlings.
After all, he hadn't found out where Augustine was.
If he couldn't irritate him face to face, he could only choose this way to stimulate Augustine. He hoped that the feeling of losing underlings could be accurately transmitted to Augustine.
"Augustine's resentment towards host reached its peak. Activate the hidden task."
"After killing Augustine, you can refine his body into an orange weapon,"
"That's good!"
What Francis lacked most was weapons.
It was too slow for him to only rely on Elsa to provide weapons. Three days passed, she only gave three weapons to Garbage, Smart and Mouse.
The other underlings still relied on their leg bones to attack.
Although the injury of the leg bones was barely enough.
However, as the enemies they faced became stronger and stronger, weapons would be better for them.
Elsa was about to leave the classroom to catch ghosts after class. When she finished her commission, she was called by Francis.
"Give me three sets of equipment within three days."
"Master... I'm afraid I can't."
"What?"
Francis was puzzled and asked, "Why not? Last time, you had refused, and now this happened again. Isn't it possible for you to buy equipment directly in your world?"
"But master, I don't have money!"
Elsa said helplessly, "I'm just a poor student. How can I casually take out more than ten gold coins to buy equipment?"
This is not her fault.
Before she met Francis, she was an orphan. With part-time jobs and school help, she barely reached grade three.
Now that she had just been promoted to level 3, the fastest way to get money was to accept commissions.
But it would take a long time for commissions with a high price.
Elsa would try her best to complete commissions one by one and earn a gold coin.
This was her limit!
Then, Francis not only wasn't satisfied but also kept urging her, which made Elsa feel wronged and sobbed.
"So, it's about money..."
Francis thought.
He hadn't heard from Elsa that she was short of money.
So naturally, he thought that Elsa was from a rich family.
But on second thought, when he first met Elsa, she looked like a poor woman with ragged clothes and countless stitches.
Her face was waxy yellow and her hair was frizzed.
The only difference between her and the beggar was that she didn't put a bowl on her knees.
"Can the bones of skeleton soldiers be used as weapon materials?"
Francis suddenly asked, "Last time you said that mage could go to the magic forest to look for materials and hand them over to blacksmith to make a unique weapon."
"Then, can the bones of high-level skeleton soldiers be used as materials and sold to the blacksmith?"
"Ah... I don't know."
Elsa said in a daze.
"I'll ask Ghost to bring you a batch of high-level skeleton bones. You can go to a blacksmith shop and ask."
Francis picked up a few bones from the ground and asked Ghost to bring them to Elsa.
"Okay."
Elsa came to a quiet place and whispered the summoning spell.
Soon, a black vortex appeared on the ground. Ghost appeared in front of Elsa with a pile of bones in its arms.
"What level are these skeleton soldier bones?"
Asked Elsa.
"Level 20, or maybe more than level 10. You can sell it at will. Don't be too low!"
Francis also forgot which skeleton soldiers had died here.
"Level 20!"
Exclaimed Elsa.
The master could casually take out level-20 skeleton bones!
Did this mean that the master's strength was completely superior to the high-level skeletons, so he didn't take them seriously at all!
"Yes, if level 20 is not enough, I'll find you some level-30 skeleton bones."
Francis looked around and recalled the fight.
He wanted to find out where the high-level skeletons had died.
"Enough! Take out the level-30 skeleton soldier bones at once. The blacksmith will suspect me!"
Elsa hastily waved her hand.
She was only level 3, and it was already a shocking thing to take out level-20 skeleton soldier bones. Her master even wants to give her level-30 skeleton soldier bones!
Even the dean didn't reach level 30!
In the blacksmith shop, the girl put the package on the counter.
"Miss, what do you want to buy?"
The clerk stepped forward and asked enthusiastically.
She was wearing the school uniform of the mage academy. Those students were always generous and never haggled. They were the most welcome guests of the blacksmith shop!
"I'm here to sell materials..."
Elsa said timidly.
"Selling materials..." The clerk's face suddenly pulled down, and the towel in his hand wiped back and forth on the counter. He said impatiently, "We don't accept materials below level 3."
He had thought that he could take advantage of her. However.
She was actually here to sell materials?
What kind of good materials could a student have?
At most, she would go to the magic forest with the teachers to collect some wild bones and use them to try her luck in a blacksmith shop.
It was not the first time that he had seen such a thing!
"Don't worry. The material must above level 3." Elsa swore to God. When she was about to lift the cloth bag, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, do you accept the skeleton soldier bones?"
"Skeleton soldier bones?"
The clerk said arrogantly. He didn't like Elsa at all.
But when he heard the two words "Skeleton soldier", his eyes widened.
"Are you mage of the ghost department?"
"Yes..."
"Bad luck!"