"Skipping class?" Amy, who was playing with the Ugly Duckling with a small strip of cloth, turned to look at Mai Ge with some confusion.
"Yes, that's right. You're not going to class today. We're going out of city to catch a fighting chicken." Mai Ge nodded. In this life, he valued his life even more. Since the system said that as long as he brought Amy along, he would be 100% safe, this was naturally the best choice.
He didn't want to take even a one percent chance. He couldn't bear to leave Amy alone.
"So, can we have chicken tonight?" Amy's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this, and she asked expectantly.
"Yes." Mai Ge nodded.
"Great! Great! Let's go catch some chickens now!" Amy jumped off her chair, urging excitedly.
"Wait a moment, I'll write two leave slips first, one for Teacher Crassus and one for the guests." Mai Ge said with a smile, walking to the counter to take out papers and pen, and quickly writing two leave slips.
He gave Crassus a sick leave, and then it was even simpler for the guests.
"Can the Ugly Duckling come with us?" Amy asked, holding the Ugly Duckling, who looked at him pitifully.
"System, does bringing the Ugly Duckling affect the survival rate?" Mai Ge asked in his mind.
"Bringing it provides a certain positive boost." the system replied.
"Then take it with you." Mai Ge smiled at Amy, though he didn't know what the system meant by "positive boost," but it sounded like there would be benefits to taking this little one with them.
"Let's go, let's set off." Mai Ge carried a small bag containing a bottle of water, four Bai Ji Mo, and some small packets of seasoning. Since it was a wilderness survival mission, he naturally had to bring necessary supplies, otherwise the system would probably try to trick him again later.
Pushing his bicycle out the door, Mai Ge posted a leave notice on the door: "I'm going out to gather ingredients and will be taking a day off. I'll be making a new dish tomorrow, so stay tuned!"
It was only a little past six in the morning, and there were no customers waiting at the door. Then, Mai Ge rode his bicycle to the entrance of Chaos Academy and handed the leave slip directly to the gatekeeper, asking him to pass it on to Crassus.
"Goodbye, Grandpa Carrot and Uncle Red-haired Turtle." Amy waved to the two of them from the back seat.
"The little girl doesn't look sick at all, does she?" Antoine glanced at the sick leave slip in his hand, and he and Arnold exchanged a strange look.
"Daddy, shall we leave the city now? Amy has never left the city before! What's outside the city? Daphne said there are lots and lots of scary magical beasts outside the city. Her father is a very powerful mercenary. Every time he comes back, he brings back a lot of prey…" Amy sat in the back seat, chattering away, full of curiosity about the world outside the city walls.
"We need to go to the Chaos Guild first, we need to find out where we can catch Flaming Chicken." Mai Ge said with a smile, his mood improving. Although he had been tricked by the system early in the morning, but he could treat it as taking a day off to go on a picnic with Amy. Seeing how happy the little one was, it was all worth it.
Chaos Guild is the only mercenary guild in Chaos City. Every day, it receives countless bounty missions from all over the continent. The difficulty of the missions and the range of bounties are extremely wide, so it has gathered countless mercenary groups, adventurers and warriors. It is the largest mercenary guild in the Nolan Continent and has the largest number of registered mercenaries.
"Should we become mercenaries too?" Amy's eyes lit up.
"Yes, let's check if there are any missions to capture Flaming Chickens." Mai Ge nodded with a smile. If the system missions didn't require him to capture Flaming Chickens himself, Mai Ge would just issue a mercenary mission. But now there were only two options: one was to buy a map of where Flaming Chickens could be found, which was probably a bit expensive, the other was to accept a mission to capture Flaming Chickens, which should come with a map.
The Chaos Guild is located outside Aden Square, near the city wall. Aden Square is circular in shape, and the Chaos Guild is in one of the corners.
"Ugly Duckling, you can stay here and watch the bicycle." Mai Ge said as he stopped the bicycle and spoke to the Ugly Duckling, who was lying face up in the basket, feeling carsick.
"Meow~!" the Ugly Duckling cried out, its eyes still unable to focus, it was clearly a useless cat now...
Mai Ge looked up at the massive building in front of him, constructed of black boulders, and was somewhat awestruck. The main structure was a full twenty meters tall, and the rough surface of the black stones gave it a rugged and imposing appearance.
In front of the main hall stand eight white stone pillars, each as thick as three people could encircle, as tall as the stone hall itself, lined up in a row, majestic and magnificent.
It is said that these eight stone pillars represent the eight races that signed a truce agreement in the Chaos City. The originally smooth stone pillars have been weathered by wind and rain for decades, and their surfaces have become riddled with grooves, adding to their sense of vicissitude and age.
There were no words on the stone hall, only a circular badge in the very center above, containing a white dove carrying an olive branch.
This is the symbol of the Chaos City. It is said that after the peace agreement was signed, the representatives of all parties fought tooth and nail for the symbol of the Chaos City, each wanting to use their own race as the symbol of peace, which almost triggered a second racial war.
Just then, a white dove carrying an olive branch flew by the venue, and the elven representative suggested using this dove carrying an olive branch as a symbol. This suggestion was accepted by all parties and the symbol was thus established.
"Perhaps it's some kind of historical overlap?" Mai Ge smiled as he took Amy's hand and walked towards the guild gate. Behind the Chaos Guild were the Gray Temple and the City Lord's Mansion, so it also used the symbols of the Chaos City.
The gate, which was at least ten meters high, was wide open. Even the gates of the Chaos City were not that tall. A forest troll, seven or eight meters tall, covered in dark green and with ivy climbing all over his back, strode past Mai Ge and his companions. With each step he took, the ground trembled slightly.
"Hey, Big Guy, watch where you're going!" A small group of about thirty goblin mercenaries, armed with bows and magic wands, had just walked out of the hall and were about to run into the forest troll. The older goblin leading the group shouted at the forest troll in a high-pitched voice.
"Big Guy, Little Red Riding Hood…" Amy's eyes widened as she stared at the little red hats worn by the goblins.
Mai Ge watched this scene with some surprise. The goblins were only half a meter tall, just up to the ankles of the forest troll. One kick would have wiped them out. However, judging from their complete equipment, they were probably quite strong. Would there be a collision between the two?
"Captain, he didn't hear us, did he?" a young goblin in the goblin party said with some concern.
"Should we prepare for battle in advance?" A young goblin drew his sword, eager to fight.