After Gauss selected several commissions, he noticed a number of bronze-level adventurers around him.
Their eyes, like his earlier, were fixed on those goblin-related commissions.
"Boss, these seem to be on the way."
"So poor, these tasks."
"Normal tasks are like this."
"Not even enough money for a meal."
The bronze-level adventurers chatted flamboyantly without regard, and other bottom adventurers were envious but dared not step forward to compete for commissions.
They could only watch as these "bored professionals" picked and chose commissions aimed at their level.
Gauss watched them with a strange expression for a while.
Then he called a few team members to head to the counter for registration.
It always felt...
that taking normal commissions wouldn’t have to do with him, right?
But why?
He couldn’t understand.
Although he couldn’t comprehend it, he chose to respect it; everyone has the freedom to hunt goblins.
Gauss wasn’t the kind of person who meddles in others’ affairs driven by curiosity, so he let it be.
It had nothing to do with him anyway.
[Goblins again?]
When Gauss was handling procedures at the counter, a voice echoed again in Ying’s heart who was standing at the end of the queue.
[Almost all commissions taken are goblin related, your temporary team leader here is really a strange person. But it’s no wonder he could take on that commission from the Black Tooth Tribe.]
"Perhaps... it’s specifically for this commission, hence looking for goblin-related tasks to practice?" Ying conversed internally with Shaid of the shadows, giving a plausible guess.
"Or is there some special reason mandating the goblins’ deaths?"
Although she didn’t speak much, it didn’t mean she was indifferent towards the three temporary teammates.
Since meeting Gauss and the others yesterday, she had been quietly observing them.
She was most concerned about Gauss, who gave her a strangely familiar feeling at their first meeting.
Though until now, she was unclear about the source of that mystical feeling.
Her memory had large gaps, occasionally flashing bizarre, blurry images.
So oftentimes when facing abnormal situations in her mind, she wouldn’t over-focus on them.
After all, delving into them caused her mind intense stabbing pain, forcing her to abandon any effort to trace her memories.
And perhaps due to that instinctive feeling, she had some interest and curiosity about Gauss.
Perhaps from him, she could unravel the mystery of her tangled memory.
After some observation, she found that this team centered around Gauss; the other man and woman, once he confirmed something, would hardly voice any objections.
That’s why she took the initiative to say she would listen to commands yesterday.
She judged that even if she wanted to lead the team, even with Gauss’s agreement, the other two members would likely have opinions, so rationally, she chose to be an executor.
This also had to do with the good first impression Gauss gave her, otherwise, she wouldn’t have compromised so easily.
The commission was formally accepted.
Not wasting any time, Gauss and a few others made slight adjustments at the door. Except for Serdur, the rest mounted their steeds and set out toward the town’s entrance.
Ying’s steed was just an ordinary horse.
However, under her control, it seemed extraordinarily steady and swift.
Aaliyah’s gaze paused briefly on her mount, Gauss noticed her staring and inquired through a message.
"What’s wrong?"
"Nothing, just felt there’s something odd."
Upon hearing this, Gauss looked a few more times, only retracting his gaze when Ying noticed him.
Focus on the commission first.
...
The time of half a day passed in a blink.
Since the commissions taken were trivial ordinary ones, regardless of which member of the team, taken alone, could handle them easily, executing these commissions did not pose any difficulty to the team.
Just as Gauss mentioned at the start, the commissions were merely for the team to get acclimated and find their rhythm.
Take ordinary commissions as serious ones.
Travel, make camp, Ying would go gather intelligence, while the others were on alert.
After obtaining intelligence, the formal subjugation process began.
Serdur provided buffs and curses on enemies; Aaliyah offered control, driving animal companions to assist; Gauss played as the tank and main attacker; Ying, as the scout, provided long-range support.
After several short commissions, everyone became slightly more familiar with the process.
It was essentially about forming a working relationship between the former Gauss team and the temporary member, Ying.
Ying possessed superb archery skills, hitting bulls-eye no matter where you point.
During the subjugation of goblins, the arrows in her hands continuously harvested those green-skin lives like a storm of pear blossoms.
In terms of attack speed, she was even several points faster than Gauss.
Gauss paid slightly attention to this.
"Total monster kills: 3645"
Increased by 34.
He pondered for a moment, as it was just a temporary teammate from a commission, it wasn’t suitable for him to comment on others’ actions. So after scratching his head, he said nothing.
However, he discovered another thing.
Ying seemed to have hidden a very important ability. Although she seemed unintentionally revealing it, at one point, in a sudden and fleeting moment, Gauss detected an anomaly in the shadow beneath her.
In fact, the anomaly was extremely subtle, so subtle that ordinary people would fail to notice even if they stared with wide eyes.
But Gauss was no ordinary person, his senses extremely keen, and due to his high [Intellect] and [Perception], they combined into an even superior intuitive ability.