Miracle Doctor, Wild Empress: Genius Summoner

Chapter 145 - Mercenary Acropolis

Translated by Luxican

Edited by Leighann

Yun Sheng's trip was to accompany the Phoenix Team, as a summoner.

Bringing Xiao Hei with her was also something Yun Sheng had long planned for.

Not to mention, Yun Sheng's main summoned beast Bobo was an extremely unreliable one.

Xiao He was much better in comparison. His battle skill "Swallowing the Sky" would hit enemies completely unprepared, and he could run away in case he was unable to defeat the enemy.

Yun Sheng let Xiao Hei out of the Exquisite Beast Tower.

Seeing Yun Sheng take Xiao Hei with her, the trio, who had seen the true face of Yun Sheng's 'Crying Summoned Beast', were obviously relieved.

One girl and one dog, along with the Phoenix team, left Yujing City.

"Yun Sheng, to join Phoenix, you must also become a mercenary first. Mercenaries are divided into six ranks; S, A, B, C, D and E. As long as you are either a warrior, magician or summoner, you can receive a Mercenary's Armband at your local Mercenary Union branch. You can present a Magician Badge or a Summoner Ring," Feng Kuo was the eldest of the four, and along the way, he carefully explained to Yun Sheng about the continent's Mercenary Union and the mercenary.

Yun Sheng was exposed to the entirely new world of mercenaries as a result.

In addition to the mercenary hierarchy, the mercenaries were divided into three forms, mercenary squads and mercenary guild, not to forget solo mercenaries, according to their numbers and the teams they belonged to.

The former two can directly accept various individual and team missions, while the latter could only accept individual missions.

So, in order to have easy access to different types of missions, most of the mercenaries on the continent would join some sort of fixed squad or guild.

Like mercenaries, guilds were divided into the same six levels; S, A, B, C, D and E. Each rank could only take on missions of the corresponding rank or below, and could not go beyond that.

The higher the rank of the mercenary team, the better the missions, and the higher the rewards and fame obtained.

In the past seven or eight years, under the lead of Feng Kuo, the strength of the three of them was very good, so, they had been able to advance from E-rank to C-rank, and were also a bit famous already in the world of mercenaries.

However, due to the rules of the Mercenary Union, the three of them could only stop at C-rank.

This time, after they found Yun Sheng, the whole squad was rejoicing.

Unlike solo mercenaries, who were promoted and only needed to be assessed at the Mercenary Unions of a city, Mercenary Squads had to travel to a specific few Mercenary Acropolises in order to rank-up.

On the continent, these Mercenary Acropolises were distributed in the border regions of each country.

The Inaba Mountain City that Yun Sheng and the others were about to arrive at was a Mercenary Acropolis.

The existence of Mercenary Acropolises had two meanings' one was to facilitate the assessment of mercenary squads, and the other was to enhance the strength of mercenaries.

When Feng Kuo spoke about this, both Wen Renhuo and Mu Nan Yan made a gesture of rubbing their fists, and Wen Renhuo said even more bitterly, "Finally, I can let loose and raise my head. This time, I will definitely beat up that group of people from that C-rank mercenary squad to the point where even their own mothers won't be able to recognize them."

Yun Sheng was still baffled, they were here for the rank-up assessment, so why did it sound like they were here to fight instead.

Soon, Yun Sheng understood the meaning of what Wen Renhuo had said.

Great Zhou Empire was vast, it was about the same size as Yun Sheng's modern homeland Z, and the geography was also very diverse.

After crossing a steep mountain range, an azure-colored oval stone building appeared in front of them.

When she saw that building, Yun Sheng realized that the so-called Mercenary Acropolis wasn't a real city, it was a huge coliseum-like building.

"Boss Feng, this is Inaba Mountain City? It looks like an arena," Yun Sheng was certain that this was just a fighting arena.

The arena was very similar to the previous life's ancient Roman coliseum, about half the size of Yujing City, larger than any modern stadium Yun Sheng had ever seen.

"Sheng girl's knowledge is good, this is an arena, one allowed by the Royal Family of the Great Zhou Empire. Inaba Mountain, is the name of this place," Feng Kuo bought a map at the entrance to the arena and handed it to Yun Sheng.

Like any orderly countries on the continent, life-and-death fights were forbidden within Great Zhou, especially for special people like magicians, warriors and summoners, whose fights were never allowed to affect civilians!

But still, fights were inevitable, and if the strongest people in a country lost the desire to fight, then the country's downfall was certain.

In order to avoid such a situation, the Five Great Powers came up with the idea of Mercenary Acropolises.

Most of the Mercenary Acropolises were chosen to be located in remote mountainous areas where there were many demon beasts, so that the overzealous mercenaries could compete in the area, which would, on one hand, clear up the local beast infestation and, on the other hand, ensure that the powerful magicians, summoners and warriors wouldn't hurt innocent civilians.

"The process of evaluating the mercenary squads is, in the end, competition. For example, to rank-up from C-rank to B-rank, a mercenary squad has to fight with squads of C-rank and obtain at least three victories before the final round of assessment can take place. The content of the final round of assessment was to defeat a B-rank mercenary squad," Feng Kuo and the others, did not explain it clearly to Yun Sheng.

They were worried that Yun Sheng would be in trouble if she got stage fright and would refuse to go.

"But, Sheng girl, you don't need to worry, we are also in the top five C-rank mercenary squads. When the time comes, you don't need to do anything, only sit on boss' shoulder," Wen Renhuo joked.

Inaba Mountain was very crowded, and someone with small arms and legs like Yun Sheng would be overwhelmed by those tall mercenaries if she wasn't careful.

In order to prevent Yun Sheng from getting lost, the two-meter tall Feng Kuo simply placed Yun Sheng on his shoulder again.

Yun Sheng herself was embarrassed, but she soon discovered that the phrase was correct; it was easy to sit (stand) on the shoulders of giants.

Feng Kuo's shoulders were wide and broad, just like a human cushion, and Yun Sheng had a clear view from there.

As Yun Sheng looked over the map in her hand, she checked the layout of the Mercenary Acropolis.

"Hey, Boss Feng, there's also a weapon room and a medical hall inside the Acropolis?" As if she had discovered a new continent, Yun Sheng found some shops on the Inaba Mountain City.

"Not only weapons and potions, but generally speaking, you can also find treasures that can't be bought anywhere else in the country in the Acropolis' marketplace, that is, even in Yujing City," Feng Kuo kindly explained.