"Kill!!!"
"Destroy these bandits!"
"Leave the one with the thirty-thousand-Huanyu-Coin bounty to me!"
Deep in the southwestern part of Jinglang Province, two forces were engaged in a fierce battle.
One side was well equipped and full of energy, and each member wore a badge depicting two hands clasped together as if in prayer.
Whenever they looked at their enemies, their faces were filled with excitement, as though the people before them were piles of Huanyu Coins.
Their enemies, meanwhile, were a band of bandits who were almost all wounded, dressed in mismatched equipment, and sallow-faced.
However, judging from the bloodstained Golden Eagle badges that some of them had deliberately kept,
it could be guessed that both sides engaged in this battle were mercenary groups certified by the Four Great Associations.
The ones wearing the clasped-hands badges were Silent Prayer, a famous A-rank mercenary group in Jinglang Province.
Their enemies were the Golden Eagle Mercenary Group, once as famous as Silent Prayer, but later struck off the Four Great Associations' register and placed under a bounty.
After suffering successive attacks from the Shadow Moon Azure Wolf Legion and the garrison troops, the Golden Eagle Mercenary Group's main force had been reduced to only a few stragglers, and was no longer a threat.
The army had no interest in spending the effort to pursue scattered bandits through the vast, complicated Dusk Forest.
To prevent these bandits from harassing villages and transportation routes, the Four Great Associations had issued a mission to completely eliminate the Golden Eagle Mercenary Group, handing this tedious and somewhat dangerous work to the mercenary groups beneath them.
As the Golden Eagle Mercenary Group's sworn enemy, Silent Prayer naturally would not pass up the chance to add fuel to the fire.
The moment the mission was issued, they accepted