NOVEL NEXT Chapter 32
Chapter 32 The Chamber of Commerce
Rod came to the destination of this trip, the Freelance Chamber of Commerce.
Unlike the thieves’ guild that Rhodes had visited before, the free trade guild has a very large internal scope. Except for a few main buildings used to handle various affairs, the rest of the locations are divided into business groups.
Of course, not all business associations can get a resident in the freelance chamber of commerce. Unless they have made a significant contribution to the freelance chamber of commerce, if a business group wants to obtain a resident, in addition to gold coins, it also depends on the rank strength of its members.
Rod had just entered the lobby of the freelance chamber of commerce, and the waiting maid greeted him and asked Rod about his intentions.
Rod said: “I want to go to the Sorrowful City, hoping to go with the merchant group.”
After listening, the maid asked: “Dear professional, do you have the identity certification of the freelance chamber of commerce?”
Rod understood the meaning of the maid. With the identity certification of the Chamber of Commerce, you can join the merchant group that goes with you and become the temporary guard of the Chamber of Commerce. When encountering a situation that requires fighting, the guard is responsible for protecting the safety of the trade group.
After arriving at the destination, the trade group will pay the escort a sum of money, but unless it is the permanent escort of the trade group, the payment of the temporary escort is usually not much.
For a person’s identity verification, the Freelance Chamber of Commerce has a special set of rating criteria. With the increase in the number of escort missions, coupled with the success rate of the escort, the rating will be higher and higher, from F level to S level. The higher the rating, the easier it is to be accepted by the business group, and the compensation that the business group needs to pay will increase.
Rod recalls that in his previous life, players all targeted the freelance chamber of commerce for S-level evaluation, but few of them were able to reach the S-level. To reach S-level, in addition to spending a lot of time on escorting the Chamber of Commerce, it also requires certain opportunities and its own strong strength.
Rod replied to the maid: “No, I just want to go as a tourist.”
Passengers are different from security guards. Security guards need to verify their own strength and the performance of previous security guards. Experienced business group leaders often only need to look at the identity certification to confirm whether the security guard is worth employing. If the guard’s mission fails, you will also be punished by the freelance chamber of commerce.
Passengers do not need identity verification. Passengers only need to pay gold coins and they can be taken to the destination by the trade group. When encountering a battle, passengers do not need to fight at all.
Passengers are just travelers who are led by a business group to another city. Therefore, the freelance chamber of commerce does not collect any commissions for passengers carried by the business group, nor does it have any management. It depends on the business group and the passengers to negotiate.
The reason why he chose to become a passenger and follow the caravan to Diya, instead of getting the map on his own, Rhodes has his own considerations.
Just like seeing the map drawn by Elotter before, even if he knew the current location of the city, Rhode could not directly move in one direction. Instead, he found a river as a reference and compared it with the map. Found this town.
Even with a detailed map, without the guidance of pathfinding, it is easy to get lost in the dense forest with repeated scenery.
What’s more, there may be other situations along the way. Whether it is a looter on the road, a hidden thieves, or a residence of various creatures, in order to avoid these, in addition to the wayfinding technique, high-level reconnaissance techniques are also essential.
Therefore, choosing to follow the business group to the target, although it takes a longer time, but it is more secure than traveling alone.
As a passenger, Lord only needs to wait in the carriage provided by the trade group. Rod can also use this time on the road to meditate several times. The only downside is that the gold coins needed as travelers are slightly more expensive.
After the maid listened, she led Rod to the side hall next to her. After some inquiries, the maid told Rhodes the situation:
“Respected professionals, not long ago, a large business group had already traveled to the City of Sorrow and delivered a large amount of goods to the City of Sorrow. As the urgently needed goods were made up for, not many business groups were willing to go to the City of Sorrow. At present, there is only one business group in the resident who chooses the City of Sorrow.”
After hearing this, Rod seemed to have thought of something. When a large business group wants to go to a place, it needs a lot of manpower and material resources in order to ensure that the journey is foolproof. In this massive situation, the movement of the large business group could not hide the thieves’ guild in the city.
Without much hesitation, Rod said to the maid: “Take me to the resident of this merchant group.”
Carrying passengers will bring all kinds of variables to the business group. Moreover, this approach is not necessarily safe for the passengers themselves.
Whether it is a business group extorting passengers on the road, or killing a lone traveler to obtain property in the wilderness, or a passenger colluding with thieves, it is common to kill a business group in the dead of night. The freelance chamber of commerce doesn’t care about this, it depends on the choice of the trade group and the travelers themselves.
Therefore, whether it is for business groups or passengers, they need to inspect each other before confirming. This is also the reason why passengers have to pay high fees if they want to join a business group.
After listening to Lord’s request, the maid led the way in front and led Lord to the merchant resident at the rear.
The maid brought Rod to the rear station and walked toward the depths. At this time, the sky was slowly darkening. When Luo Luo first entered the city, he could still see the surrounding scenery clearly by relying on the sky. At this time, he could only rely on the candlelight by the roadside to see things.
On the way, Rod asked the maid about the business group’s intelligence and got some information.
The name of this business group is the Yinzhiyin business group. The business group has six to eight core members, including business group managers, decision-makers, and professionals trained by the business group. The rest are some guards who are responsible for transporting goods and hired, and the total number of members is about 20.
The information provided by the maid seems to be extremely rich, telling Rodriguez about the entire Silver Seal Merchant Group, but in fact these are the most basic information, as long as Rodr enters the station and observes for a while, you can see it. Come out, there is no key information in it.
Seeing that he was about to come to the residence of the Silver Seal Merchant Group, Rod took out a gold coin from the space ring and called the maid in front of him.
“Tell me, really useful information.” Looking at the maid’s eyes, Rod said.
The maid took the gold coin and said with a smile:
“The Silver Seal Merchant Group, the leader of which is named Youser, is a senior warrior whose strength is close to high-level. The other core professionals also have senior strength. It is especially important to note that there is a mage in the team. unknown.”