Volume 2: Chapter 95 - Eagle's Nest

  After five days, a magnificent city finally came into view.

  This is where the castle of the Aslerex family was located.

  But now it has a new and more euphonic name ——

  Eagle's Nest

  This is where Middy, Feena and Alice jointly decided to set up the headquarters of the Falconia Corps after their discussion.

  Although the magic pulse array was completed, the infinite magic power of Qiugu City is indeed tempting, but that's not something to be publicly flaunted. On the contrary, it's a trump card that must be hidden. Qiugu City still remains as quiet and deserted as before, with only a few people knowing its true meaning, and even then, only high-level core members within the family know about it.

  The actual administrative center of the two earldoms, nominally still the family castle.

  On the surface, it's a core, in reality, it's a shield. For a team that has some experimental nature and is extremely eye-catching, it's an ideal place.

  But even with mental preparation, when Midee saw the "Eagle's Nest", he was still startled - the prosperity here had far exceeded his expectations!

  The Earl's castle, which has stood for over a hundred years in the inner city, remains solemn and quiet as ever. However, the outer city outside the moat has expanded by nearly twice its original size. Moreover, the surrounding land has begun to be excavated, and a large number of stones have been paved on the longitudinal axis, apparently preparing for further expansion.

  Everywhere are newly opened shops, weapon craftsmen, armor craftsmen, alchemists, enchanters, puppeteers and so on gathered here, even forming a complete commercial street. Next to it are various inns and taverns, as well as a large number of food stores, gathering food from all over the Kingdom of Bellmard.

  At first glance, Midie felt that the prosperity here was almost no less than that of Hertomar, the capital of the Kingdom of Bellmard.

  But there is one thing that is even more than Hutton Meral.

  That is an adventurer.

  Compared to ordinary cities, at this moment, on the streets of this "Eagle's Nest" city, most people are not ordinary citizens, but adventurers. Not only adventurers, but also more than 30 levels of high-level adventurers, accounting for a considerable proportion.

  Some were fully armed, some were proud and arrogant, some were dusty and exhausted, and some were in a hurry, but one thing was the same, their eyes were all filled with passion.

  Looking at the extraordinary scene in front of him, Midy couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion.

  In the previous life, Mide and Feina built a Falcon Team to survive in adversity. In this life, they aim to build a stronghold, occupy the high ground, create a shield to protect their home, and thus proposed the idea of the Falcon Team to break through the current stagnant situation in Bellmare.

  Although the composition of the Falcon Team will still be mainly adventurers, however, the environment, timing, strength, and goals to be achieved are completely different from the previous life. Therefore, its true form must also have a huge difference.

  In this life, what kind of "Falcon Team" will the elegant and refreshing bullet queen establish?

  Even Midei couldn't help but speculate in her heart.

  At this moment, a team of more than twenty people arrived at the Eagle's Nest from the other end.

  The adventurers in this team, each of whom is above level 35, and what's even more striking are the several large carts behind them. On each of the precision steel-made large carts, there are piles of monster corpses that are coiled up like small mountains.

  These monsters are all adult beetles!

  "Someone is actually hunting and killing the Wugong?" Kaelin pushed his glasses, with a look of surprise and confusion.

  To know, for adventurers, this monster is the most hateful. The average level of adult beetles is above 40, and the variation after the Gran Forest fire has pushed their strength to a peak of 45, which makes ordinary people look up to them. Even if it's an old adventurer who deals with them, they can easily lose their lives if they're not careful.

  Not only that, but their strong vitality and the nerve clusters distributed throughout their bodies make them almost invulnerable to instant kills. Even if you smash their brains, these bugs will still struggle for a good while, and may even enter a frenzied state, making them even harder to kill.

  What's most disgusting to adventurers is that even if they spend a lot of effort and cost to kill the Corpse Worm, they won't get any good spoils. With the current alchemy and decomposition methods, there are almost no usable parts on the worm's body, except for a few teeth.

  However, there are many alternative materials of the same grade, and no one would kill such a monster for those teeth, the cost-effectiveness is really too low.

  But now, there is actually a group of adventurers who are carrying out planned hunting, and from their expressions, they seem to be quite satisfied with this battle achievement.

  Kaiwen was at his wit's end.

  "I recognize the leader, he's Ironfist Hork of the White Rock Mercenaries!" Odell said from beside him.

  "Well, in that case, let's go take a look." Midei said with a smile, and was the first to walk over.

  The Night Blade Leopard Cavalry had already left ten miles away, this was Mide's core force, usually it would not be shown in front of everyone, and a general like Krasite who could stand alone, was too wasteful to use as a guard. So, they didn't follow all the way.

  Now the only ones entering the Eagle's Nest are Chen Xing and Shan Lang, along with Norton and other craftsmen. Mi Di is still that unassuming young man, and among the many adventurers, this team, although larger in scale, hasn't drawn much attention.

  They soon found themselves in front of those adventurers.

  "Isn't that the 'Sparkling Twin Guns' of Morning Star?! Are you guys here to join the Falcon Squad too?" Iron Shield Hork greeted from over there.

  "It's all right," Odette said vaguely, after all, from getting to know Middy to now, the whole story was too long, she was really lazy to explain more.

  "Are you hunting the Lurker Wasp?" Kelvin chimed in impatiently from beside him.

  Iron Shield Hork looked up and down at the scholar of demonology, then patted his head and chuckled: "Mountain wolf is here too! Hey, you guys are forming a strong alliance, aren't you? On one side, there's the clever and cunning scholar of demonology, on the other side, there's the beautiful half-elf lady. Are you trying to use this combination to move Asrelex's young master's heart?"

  "It's all the same, anyway we're in this together." Kelvin replied even more vaguely, then immediately shifted the topic back, "Tell me about these Corpse Wasp things."

  Iron Shield Hork stepped forward, heavily patting Kelvin's lean shoulders, and smiled: "No use, old brother, here in Eagle's Nest, the only way to get into the Falcon Team is to accumulate contribution points as much as possible! You asked about the Carnage Wasp, didn't you? They really don't have any value, nor can good materials be extracted from them. However, the Falcon Team has set high contribution point tasks for these monsters, so we go kill them! Here, everything is prioritized by contribution points!"

  Hulk said with a smile, proudly swinging the unremarkable black necklace in front of his chest, as if it held some kind of treasure.

  Contribution points?

  Audrey and Kelvin exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with confusion.

  On the side, Mi Di suddenly revealed a brilliant smile at this moment.

  Yes, contribute points.

  He didn't think that his casual conversations about his past views and feelings towards the mercenary group would be remembered by Feena, and eventually used in the establishment of the Falcon Team.

  It is said that the speaker has no intention, but the listener has a purpose. Now thinking about it, contributing points are indeed the most suitable model for the Falcon team.

  The biggest difference between the Hawk's Squad and a regular army squad is that this is an armed group consisting entirely of adventurers. It was so in the previous life, and it is still so in this life.

  What is it that adventurers desire most deeply?

  Get stronger!

  This is the most essential purpose of adventurers, so they will use all their savings to exchange for a good sword, a skill book or spellbook that suits them, so they will adventure in various ruins and relics full of mechanisms, so they will constantly challenge those powerful and terrible monsters.

  Everything is for getting stronger, constantly getting stronger!

  Getting stronger and stronger until the strongest!

  But how difficult it is to get stronger! Not only is it difficult, but all sorts of heartbreaking accidents often occur.

  For example, after killing many monsters with great difficulty, opening a treasure chest only to find that it had been looted decades ago. For instance, while collecting rare herbs, a giant spider appears, and after the arduous battle, the herbs are found to be trampled into mush. Or, finally excavating equipment from ancient ruins, only to discover it doesn't fit oneself, putting it on the black market to sell, only to encounter swindlers...

  There are too many hardships and setbacks in the adventure, like a blind man touching an elephant, a blind man lighting a lamp. These ordinary people with no privileges but only physical strength can only grope their way forward slowly, suffering all the way.

  However, it still cannot become stronger.

  But with the existence of contribution points and the "Hayabusa Corps" that publishes contribution standards, plus the guarantee of the Asurex family, which has two earl territories as its backing, it is equivalent to lighting a lamp for these adventurers.

  Midi could totally imagine that Feena had posted a lot of tasks, such as "30 goblin ears for 1 contribution point", "one wyrmwood worm for 100 contribution points", "submitting rare materials for equivalent contribution points" and so on.

  At the same time, she will also release a list that makes all adventurers excited, such as "1000 contribution points for a dragon-slaying sword", "10,000 points for a shadow moon sword", and "100,000 points for an invisible sword".

  In this way, adventurers can have a clear direction and no longer need to run around based on rumors, only to end up empty-handed. Instead, they can follow the task instructions, complete the relevant content, and get a guaranteed contribution point. If they're lucky, they might even gain extra rewards during the process of completing the task.

  Then these adventurers can use contribution points to exchange for their desired equipment, skills or magic, and become stronger.

  The existence of contribution points is a guarantee and guide, and Miti believes that if Alice participates, she can create some extremely rare items, making the exchange list more attractive.

  And when so many adventurers gathered here for contribution points, the establishment of the Falcon Team was a natural outcome.