Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kendall City, Upper District.

In the backyard of a house with bright architectural style, in addition to the garden full of evergreen flowers and plants, there is also a semi-buried underground training ground.

This kind of solid building built layer by layer with hard bluestone is a strong training house specially prepared by the previous generation of Baron Kendall for the knights in the territory.

Because the strength of knight-level powerhouses who are too much stronger than ordinary people is even in training, the usual aftermath is very dangerous to ordinary people watching the excitement.

Earlier, Kendall City was only newly built, and the conditions were not good, so the only two county knights at that time had to train in the field. But even so, there are often onlookers who are beaten to death by occasional stones and the like.

Later, when the underground waterway of Kendall City was officially built, a number of knight villas and matching rock training grounds were specially built in the upper city.

The conditions are good, and in the next few years, there will be strong knights joining Kendall County.

At this time, in this solid rock training ground, there are waves of air roaring faintly.

An old man pushed open the heavy wooden door with swords and wolf heads, and walked into the building.

After entering the door, he was not directly facing the internal training ground, but a stone wall. This old man was dressed in an elegant senior butler uniform. Even though he was old, he was still straight and strong.

He walked through the passage beside the stone wall after entering the door, and walked around the curved passage that clearly fit the outline of the building to the end.

There is a small copper bell hanging here. The old man picked up the small hammer hanging beside the copper bell and rang the copper bell a few times.

The bell reverberated repeatedly in the sturdy passage, making the old man feel uncomfortable after all. But he pursed his lips tightly and stood still.

When the bell rang, in the training ground directly connected to the turning at the end of the passage, the roar quickly weakened and then disappeared. A lady with windproof goggles made of crystal walked out of the training ground with vigorous steps. .

She was carrying an exaggeratedly heavy metal epee in her hand, and with a flick of her hand, she threw the surprisingly heavy epee into the sandpit on the other side of the training ground.

There was a bang, and as the epee fell into the sand, the sand splashed to the surrounding ground, and the most powerful sand hit the walls of the training ground, making a fierce crackling sound.

"Uncle Sally, what's the matter?" The lady came over, took the silver water jug ​​handed over by the old man, did not directly drink from mouth to mouth like the men did, but then took the delicate water bottle that the old man handed over to her. Silver cup, sips sips, but drank all the water in the jug one cup after another.

Immediately afterwards, she took the dry cloth towel and wiped off the sweat on her head, face and neck.

After receiving the cloth towel, the old man bent down slightly and said, "The baron urgently invites you to discuss matters. The other knights who are in the city are also urgently recruited."

Frowning, the lady who was a knight of Kendall took off the glove on her arm and asked, "What happened? Need to call us urgently?"

The old man did not change his movements, still bent slightly and said: "At noon, people came from Yinyinlin Village, and they brought a huge piece of animal body tissue with them in a car. They claimed that people disappeared on the road outside their village recently. The mouth of the monster."

The lady was a little impatient: "Warcraft, monsters, monsters. There are them everywhere in the county. The baron hurriedly called us, indicating that he has confirmed that it is indeed the body of a monster. The question is, who left the mouth of this monster ? Not to mention those ignorant villagers, monsters cannot be fought against by ordinary people."

The lady walked in front, and the old man followed two steps behind. They walked along the arc-shaped passage to the outside of the training ground.

"According to the people from Gloomy Forest Village, it is a city warrior named Kiel." The old man said with certainty.

"In the city? I seem to have heard the name. Uncle Sally, do you know this person?" The lady hung the sturdy gloves she took off on the fixed position on the side of the passage wall, and then took off the gloves on her feet as she walked. The sturdy boots for training are also conveniently hung on the wall.

There are many kinds of training equipment hanging on the wall of this passage, but if you look closely, you can see that there are basically two types, one is men's old equipment, which is hung on a high place and is inconvenient to take place. The other is new gear for women, all placed near the ground for easy access.

"This person dealt with a large number of slime monsters in the swamp in the south of the city before. I heard that more than a thousand slime monsters were hunted and made into building envelopes." The old man said affirmatively after thinking about it.

The lady blinked her eyes and curled her mouth: "It turns out that slime monsters can still be used to make this thing. I remember that the envelope is a waterproof material for construction, right?"

The old man smiled: "You have a really good memory, that's right. In addition, I heard from the steward of the old knight's house that this young warrior named Kiel was fighting against the Goblin settlement in Dolarin Village some time ago. , also had some active performance.”

The old knight is the knight lord of Doral Forest Village, why everyone calls him the old knight, the reason is very simple, it is because he is really old.

He was already in his thirties when he established the Dolarin settlement. Over the past few decades, the only partners who had established the village together were the young ones left at that time, such as Duo Mu and nia. Of course, now you have to call Old Domo and Nia Shepherd.

In the city of Kendall, only the master stonemason among the craftsmen—Master Leanshud himself is older than the old knight. But Master Lian Xiude's body is really tough.

After hearing the old housekeeper's answer, the lady pushed open the wooden door of the training ground while putting on her comfortable slippers: "It's a talent, I have to receive this person into my hunter team in the future, the results of this year's crusade against wolves are definitely It will be bigger."

"Yes, after this young warrior returns to Kendall City, I will arrange someone to invite him to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce." The old man said with certainty.

"Foxtail Chamber of Commerce? Is this person related to Old Foxtail?" The lady stopped and asked while looking at her family's emblem on the wooden door of the training ground.

"There are rumors that it was rescued by a manager of the Chamber of Commerce on the road. It seems that he is not a local. He couldn't speak Imperial language at first, and it took half a year to learn how to speak."

The lady folded her chest curiously: "Can't speak the imperial language? So his identity is unusual. Could it be that he has a different life experience or a strange bloodline just like the legend of the hero story?" said Here, her eyes are shining.

The old man coughed twice, and turned the female knight brought up by him back to the original topic: "Master Knight, please hurry up, the lord is urgently recruiting, please don't keep them waiting."

Pouted, the female knight rolled her eyes, and walked towards the second floor of her house in slippers.

The old man followed a little farther behind, raised his right hand with a thin glove, and signaled to the maids waiting in the backyard garden, signaling them to follow their mistress and help her change clothes and go out.

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After the female knight walked into the hall of the baron's mansion, she immediately saw a huge puddle of Warcraft flesh tissue on the ground in the middle of the hall. Even without looking at it, she could feel from her own perception how powerful that big beach of dilapidated Warcraft body tissue used to be.

But this thing is too ugly, right?

The female knight is wearing a cavalry lady's light armor, and a thin sword for armor-piercing is hung on her waist.

It is the southern country dress that is popular in the kingdom.

This kind of attire made several male knights sitting on the chairs discussing with the baron frown, but it was hard to say anything, after all, this Lanisa was the one they had grown up with. In addition, because the knights are basically not afraid of the ordinary cold, heat, and cold, their dressing is basically irrelevant to the season.

After coming to the empty chair prepared for her and sitting down, the female knight curiously asked about the ins and outs of this monster's body tissue, as if she didn't know the relevant information before.

"That's it, that's the situation." Baron Kendall told Knight Lanisa in detail what he knew. "Then, which knight is willing to take such a trip. The Yilu Paqi family is the descendant of an earlier servant of my Kendall family. In terms of reason, there should be a knight who takes people there. Well, if not, it is also possible to expel it so that it will not dare to invade our human territory for decades." The baron himself is very powerful, so he is more casual when talking to several knights.

It was obvious that Gloomy Forest Village had its own knight lord, but no matter whether it was the baron himself or the few knights present, they didn't take the Knight Fickner who was supposed to come, but didn't come, and everyone was not surprised.

Everyone knows about Knight Fickner, but it's just because the baron himself thinks that every village in his Kendall County should have a knight lord. This aspect not only sounds good to others, but also because Baron Kendall wants to go further and increase his family's title. In addition to making contributions to the king or other nobles, he only has his own territory and population. The road of real strength improvement has gone.

There is a precedent for the noble council, and the **** of nobles will also promote the title of the lord with high strength in the territory as appropriate.

Back to the World of Warcraft thing.

Among the knights present, in addition to Knight Lanisa, the old knight, Knight Crowe, and a knight Rumi who doesn't come to Kendall City often are also there.

As long as one of the four knights brings a small number of people, they can defeat this weak monster that will be injured by ordinary people.

Several people looked at each other.

Knight Crowe opened his mouth first: "I can't go here anymore. The militiamen in all villages in the county have basically arrived, and the annual routine training is in progress. And, next year." Speaking of this, he glanced at the Baron The Baron himself nodded slightly.

Crow Knight, who was signaled, then said, "And next year we will use troops."

As soon as this remark came out, several other people were taken aback. There was no one else in the hall except them, so everyone asked directly: "Use troops next year? Who will you fight?"

Knight Lanisa was also taken aback, she hadn't participated in the war yet. When she was young, her father wanted to take her to the battlefield to see, but at that time she had no intention of accepting her father's knighthood, and only wanted to let her father have a younger brother, while she herself went to the big city to study. She was interested knowledge. Wouldn't it be good to become a city clerk after finishing school in a big city in the kingdom? It would be too boring to have to be a small land knight in the border area of ​​the kingdom.

It's a pity that her father passed away early, and she was the only direct blood in the family. Although she was reluctant, she finally took over her father's identity and responsibilities. The light charcoal and paintbrush were replaced by a tricky rapier and a hard-working epee, and the splendid skirts they used to wear had to be replaced by steel armor custom-made from a big city.

The exquisite carriage that he rides every day has also been replaced by a rebellious armored horse with a strange lineage left by his father.

As part of the violent machine's maintenance of rule, the female knight is actually ready to participate in the possibility of war. But when she heard that there would be a war next year, the news caught her by surprise.

"Ahem, don't attack other nobles in the kingdom, please rest assured. It is a disputed area in the southern part of the kingdom. Because a new large iron ore vein was discovered, the local lord came to ask for help. After consideration, the Baron decided to formally participate next year. Among them, it is not only to maintain the power and prestige of the kingdom, but more importantly, to obtain a lower agreed price of iron ore. If you fight bravely, you may even get the power to share the shares of the iron ore vein." Knight Crowe saw Seeing that all the people present here are reliable personnel, they just talked about it.

Of course, he briefly mentioned the cause of the war. After all, the cause of the war is not important to those who participated in the war.

The other knights who got the news were silent for a while. Then, the old knight said, "Since this is the case, the stable situation in the county must be maintained. Although the cultivation of my grandson on my side is not particularly ideal, I am willing to take a trip here."

The baron said: "Mr. Wenmes, your heir cultivation is the most important thing. You have a good idea for the sake of Kendall County at this time, but you can't go away. I also have the same situation as Little Wenmes. Understand, now is the critical moment, and you cannot stop teaching him."

Knight Rumi stood up. He looked at himself and Knight Lanisa, and said, "Then I'll go. Since the old knight can't leave here, I'll set off if I have nothing to do."

Knight Crowe and the baron looked at each other, and the baron said, "You have another mission. I called you from the territory this time because I have something urgent to do on my side."

Knight Rumi scratched his head, wondering if there was something he had to do, after all, he was average, and apart from having worked in the Knights of the Kingdom for a while, there was nothing special about him: "What is it? "

Knight Crowe took out a letter, and at the same time, the baron also took out a letter.

The two letters were a thick pile, and it was obvious that there were not only letters in it, but also other important documents.

"This is a contract and letter that responds to the request of the nobles on the southern border. I have already written all the content of supporting the war in it. You have to go there yourself and ride the traveling griffin of the Imperial Knights. If you get a response after passing, you have to come back soon." The baron explained the content of his letter.

Then Knight Crowe clicked on his letter: "Rumi, the relationship with the south is on my side. After arriving at the place, first go to the recipient of my letter. He will have connections and connections to contact the southern border. Nobility. Also.” Knight Crowe then took out a letter of recommendation: “This is a letter of recommendation from the knights riding the Griffin. I have some connections in the knights. After I go to the northern station of the knights, find them Knight Fultz, we are friends, just the previous matter, their Knights still owes favors, let them rely on this to repay, don't worry about them making things difficult for you."

Knight Rumi received the two letters and the letter of recommendation, nodded and said, "Then when shall I go?"

Everyone said in unison: "Let's go after dinner, I haven't seen you for a long time."

The female knight Lanisa patted the chest plate of her cavalry lady light armor: "What about me? I'm the only one left. In the end, I'm going to deal with the monster that came out."

The baron smiled: "This monster is not very powerful, it can just be used as a battle training before you crusade against the wolves."

Knight Crowe pointed to the outside: "It's just right to bring your team of hunters with you. Those people heard that they lost three people before. At this time, they must have the idea of ​​revenge in their hearts."

The old knight coughed twice: "Be careful, it's best to find the person who injured the monster and ask about the actual battle situation, so that you know what's going on."

The letters that Knight Rumi will receive are packed in a strong box, tied tightly with a rope, and tied to the belt around his waist: "Don't scratch your face in the forest, and pay attention to the upcoming winter snowfall. Look The situation is very recent. When you go to fight monsters in the forest, you must be prepared at night." He nodded his eyes: "We humans are not naturally suitable for fighting at night. Night lighting is very important. Bring more things that can shine at any time. If you have connections, you can go to the Church of the Sun God in the city and ask them to borrow a batch of shining amulets."

The others were also interested, and suggested ideas to Knight Lanisa one after another. They all have a wealth of experience in fighting monsters, among which the old knights have the most, and Knight Crowe has dealt with particularly powerful monsters in the army. The baron himself talked about his ancestors in their respective diaries Combat log, which contains many methods and comments against monsters.

Lanisa Knight had a stinky face, and kept writing down what everyone said in the notebook.

This group of elders is like this, arranging things for her without authorization, never listening to her thoughts and judgments, and always talking at length in some inexplicable places, just like her father.

Thinking of this, Knight Lanisa was in a trance. When her father was still there many years ago, did she have such a long chat with her uncles and uncles?

Seeing them happy ~www.readwn.com~ always reminds Lanisa of their usual serious side a little uncomfortable.

This is what they really look like, right? Usually, each of them pretended to be serious. Maybe it would be better to give them a big barrel of wine?

At this time, Knight Crowe slapped the table: "Get someone to get some wine, it happens that Rumi is going on a long journey, so I have to send him off without drinking."

The old knight coughed twice, straightened his body and said to the baron, "My lord, quickly take out the good wine that your father treasured back then! I know that when he was building Kendall City, he was still on the side of the passage under the water tower. I opened a secret wine storage room. It is full of good wine, and everyone drinks this today."

The baron pretended to be surprised: "I didn't expect my father to hide such a place. I didn't even know it. I remember I saw the engineering construction drawings. There is no secret room in the passage under the water tower?" Actually, when he was young, He discovered that place by himself and transformed it into his secret base.

Of course no one else can go in and have a look at this moment. After all, he hasn't changed the inside back in all these years, so it seems that he can only go there by himself.

He rang the bell to summon the servants, arranged for the chef to cook something good for the evening, and called the housekeeper to invite the patriarch of the Church of the Sun God in the city, hoping that the other party would temporarily lend a batch of flashing amulets for combat lighting.

After making the arrangements, he slipped away and ran to the original wine storage room first, and personally took out a small barrel of fine wine collected by his father.

Knight Lanisa subdued these guys, and hurriedly found the butler waiting outside the hall, and asked her Uncle Sally to bring over a bottle of the mild sparkling wine she brought from the big city for the ladies.

The spirits they drank were really not what she, a lady who had not 'completed' her knight training, should drink.