Mercenaries and Adventurers

"Keir! You're awake! Guys, look, Kiel is up. I mean, he didn't look like he was injured at the time. No, he just woke up after sleeping for half a day." A young hunter He was the first to spot Kiel who was walking over, and immediately yelled loudly.

Keel stroked his face and arms, but did not find any palpable wounds or burns.

"Sit here and let me see how you are doing now." An old hunter moved a bit to make way for a tree trunk that was placed close to the campfire. Everyone sat on these tree trunks in a circle, and at this time they all looked at Keel who was coming.

Keel ran through his blond hair, smiled and sat down.

"Which of you saw my armor, I didn't see them when I got up?" Keel stretched out his bare feet, warming them near the campfire.

A young hunter whose life was saved by Kiel pointed to the tent where Kiel came out from: "We found a box. After we rescued you from the body of the monster, all your things were put in it. By the way, That ax of yours is so wicked that no one but the knight can even hold it. It even jumps out of the grasping hand by itself."

Speaking of this matter, all the hunters looked curious. When they were checking on the unconscious Kiel, someone held the ax, and the ax suddenly broke free from the hunter's hand. The others were taken aback. After observing for a while, they found that the weapon did not hurt anyone, so they all tried it out boldly. As a result, only Knight Lanisa, who was astonishing in strength, could forcefully hold the ax tightly in his hand. Couldn't even hold it in my hand, let alone fight with that axe.

Kiel was also surprised when he heard that. He had never used that ax before, and the ax was very useful. When he was dealing with the evil goblin worshiping the stone statue, he relied on it to defeat the very strange stone statue.

Based on the story told by the blacksmith who gave him the weapon, he guessed that the ax was extraordinary, but he didn't expect it to have such a strange behavior when he was unconscious.

Smiling, Keir looked at the hunters who were looking at him, and talked about how he obtained this weapon and the extraordinary experience of the previous owner of this weapon while warming himself by the fire.

At some point, Knight Lanisa was also sitting by the campfire. She took off her steel helmet, untied the braids at the back of her head, and combed her hair with a small silver comb.

After Kiel finished telling the short story, Knight Lanisa stopped combing her hair and said, "You have good eloquence. Not only do you have great skills, you are also lucky, and you are even good at telling stories."

Kiel saluted with his hands on his chest, and acknowledged the knight's praise with a smile.

But when he lowered his head, he saw that on his right hand on his chest, one of the fingers was actually wearing an ordinary metal ring.

For a moment, his breathing and even his heartbeat stopped, but then he thought again, the story of the female elf he dreamed of after he was unconscious was still only when he was wearing this ring, or when he was sleeping. There is a ring to appear.

He remembered that he hid the ring and buried it under the soil of the camp outside the elf ruins, and the forest they were in was at least a hundred kilometers away from the ancient elf ruins.

How could it suddenly appear on his finger?

Could it be that.

Thinking of this, Keir stroked the skin on the back of his hand and arm. Everything was healthy, strong and elastic, and the severe pain caused by the erosion of the luminous mist seemed to have never happened before.

It seems that after he fell into a coma on the verge of death, it was this elven ring that somehow appeared and saved his life.

Keir thought, is it because he hasn't experienced all the experiences of the female elf in his dream? Before all the dreams are over, he can't die?

This outrageous reason suddenly popped up in Kiel's mind, and then occupied all his thoughts for a moment.

"Kiel. Kiel? Kiel!" Knight Lanisa called Kiel's name loudly.

It was only then that Kiel came to his senses. He raised his head and looked blankly at the knight across the campfire: "Master Knight, what's wrong?"

"Hey, I called your name and you didn't respond. It seems that your spirit is still not good. Let's take a rest later. The hard battle is over, and we have to return to Kendall City. Well, count the time, now It seems that it is almost time for the militiamen to set out to clear up the bandits.

In this way, we have to find a way to get back the corpse of the monster, but no matter how we look at it, we don’t have enough manpower. Afterwards, a few people and I will stay here. Knight Lau and the heir to the baron brought people over together, relying on the many militiamen to bring this big guy back to the city. This is a feat worthy of being recorded in the town records. The two rescued women half-kneeled behind the female knight, helping the female knight wipe her hair with clean snow, and then braided her long hair again.

The hunters arranged by Knight Lanisa should be, and Kiel nodded accordingly. They should all be. Such a huge monster has been successfully crusade, and no matter what, it has to be transported back to the city for display. No matter how you think about it, this All great achievements.

Knight Lanisa stood up and walked over. After getting close to Kiel, she looked at Kiel carefully, but the expression on her face was not relaxed.

Keir didn't know that in the eyes of him and others, he was the same as before, but in the eyes of Knight Lanisa, it was quite different.

There is nothing in Kiel's whole body in normal sight, but once he observes Kiel from the perspective of magic power, his whole body is slowly emitting a magical radiance invisible to the naked eye.

These magical powers are all gathered on the surface of Kiel's skin, forming small lumps, making Kiel look like the patterns on the body of a mountain leopard in the jungle.

Squinting her eyes, the female knight asked in a relaxed tone: "By the way, Keir, can you tell everyone what happened after you were imprisoned in your body by a monster?"

Speaking of this, the other hunters all coaxed into a laugh. They were told by the knight at the time that the monster gathered a lot of mana to do something, and most of it was self-destruct before dying.

So they all hid far away and lay on their stomachs. As a result, they and the knight couldn't come, and they couldn't come. After a while, the monster turned cold by itself.

They waited cautiously for a long time, and then boldly leaned over. Knight Lanisa smashed the hardened mucus in the abdomen of the monster. They found the unconscious Kiel in the center of the monster's huge body.

Keir scratched his head, and explained in detail what he did before he fell into a coma. He was indeed a little reckless before, thinking that he could enter the stomach of the monster like Monkey King and be able to hold the monster. Unexpectedly, it almost cost his own life.

After listening, Knight Lanisa pointed to a snowdrift specially piled up on the open soil not far away. Inside was the main magic organ of the monster, the one that fell from the blood vessel cut off by Kiel at the last moment: "It seems that you successfully prevented the last move of the monster, and only then managed to keep the precious thing."

She tapped Kiel on the shoulder with her fist: "Ha, I count you as a credit, and Baron Kendall will reward you when you return to the city."

After half a day, Keel sat by the campfire and ate and drank something to recover his fatigue and appetite, and then followed the hunters to collect all the items on the main battlefield.

Since they had to bring the rescued women back together, it was difficult for them to bring back a lot of robbery property, so they dug a hole next to the huge corpse of the monster and hid all kinds of things in it.

Kiel, together with three old hunters and three young hunters, pulled the previous cart, which carried food and the body of a young hunter who died, and three horses obtained from bandits, on which six horses were loaded. Together, they prepared to set off from the edge of the forest to bypass possible bandit gangs, walk out of the forest where bandits gathered for the winter, and look eastward for the militia.

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The spear that Kiel had borrowed by Knight Lanisa before was also found along the wound in the abdomen of the monster. Of course, up to now, Kiel doesn't care much about this single weapon anymore. All his thoughts are now on ending all this, and then take out a large number of metal weapons seized from bandits, find a workshop to smelt them into metal ingots, and start Forged his full metal armor.

Not only that, but Keir also felt more and more that he lacked the ability to transport in the wild. The trolleys that he relied on before seemed to be more and more difficult to use. If he wanted to transport the large amount of materials he obtained, there was no need for a horse-drawn cart or a donkey cart. Not at all.

So Kiel turned his attention to the three horses captured from the bandits. The three horses were considered healthy after being taken care of by the bandits. Just by looking at their usual active appearance, you can know how strong they are. And it is estimated that the horses of the bandits need to be used by multiple people in rotation. These captured horses will not resist whoever rides them.

Even for women who have never ridden a horse before, they carry them obediently, and are careful not to let the humans who ride them fall off.

It is a pity that many horses were either killed by the bandits or were killed by the monsters when the bandits meleeed before and after the monsters attacked the bandits. Either he fled into the forest by himself, or he was taken away by the bandits who finally escaped to heaven.

These are what Knight Lanisa said. They were either far away at the time, or they were deep in the white mist and couldn't see anything.

It's just a pity.

Horses are considered a valuable commodity in Kendall County, because most of the horses in the county are supplied to the Imperial Knights on the northern border, so the use of horses in Kendall County is very rare and rarely used .

Many use alternative donkeys instead of horses.

Keel felt that he might then be able to exchange the reward Knight Lanisa had mentioned for one or two docile horses, so that he would have greater mobility and transportation capabilities later on.

Whenever he thinks of this, he envies the space storage equipment that each protagonist has in the novels he read before. And in this world with magic and other magical powers, it seems that there are similar things in the stories heard, but none of them are things that Kiel can use now.

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The group of people they returned bypassed the forest all the way, and went all the way around the small piece of ground between the forest and the high mountains. How to get out, they have obtained the exact route by interrogating the captured scout bandits. Kiel even relied on pen and paper to draw a rough map of the surrounding area.

Two copies of the map were made, one was held by Knight Lanisa, and the other was handed over to the old hunter with the most experience in Kiel's team.

Keir knew that although he had made a very important contribution in the previous crusade against monsters, for Lanisa Knight, it was better to know the familiar old hunter to gain the other party's trust.

This is impossible.

As a newcomer, Kiel believes that through his actions, knights and hunters will trust him more.

After the group of them detoured out of the bandits' winter forest, they headed all the way to the mountains in the southeast direction. The terrain here is complicated, but fortunately, as the militia routinely clears up the bandits every year, no matter how bold the bandit gang is, At this time, they would all be huddled in their own hiding places, and they would not dare to come out to loot again.

So even though the terrain in the mountain forest area was complicated and difficult to walk, Kiel and the others did not encounter a single bandit who dared to block the way.

And the weather has been relatively good recently. Since the first heavy snowfall in the previous winter, there has been no cloud in the sky for the next few days. Keel knew that this was the weather phenomenon after the cold air mass came from the north.

But once the cold air mass goes south, or the strength is not enough, the warm and humid air mass from the south goes north again, and there will be a new complicated weather here.

Most likely it was a bigger snowfall.

The sunny weather also brought another problem, many people in the team had a lot of pain in the eyes, as did Keir. At first, he thought it was the aftereffect of taking red-eyed mushroom candy pills, but when he saw that the other females in the team were doing the same, he discovered that it was because the snow in the forest reflected a lot of sunlight, shining on the eyes for a long time, making people feel sick. Those of them who don't know how to protect their eyes after snow in winter suffer from snow blindness.

The hunters who hunt in the wild all the year round are much smarter. They find the autumn leaves that have not decayed in the snow, make a few small holes in them that can be seen through, and then hang them on their faces. up, covering the eyes.

Kiel immediately stuffed the same into his helmet as a precaution against snow blindness. And the others immediately learned this, so that those female people who are easily disturbed will no longer be frightened, fearing that it is a curse cast by a monster in the mountain forest or something.

On the way they walked together, Keel also noticed that they were walking in the territory of the robber gang near the pocket hole.

He immediately thought of the robbed people who had been rescued from the bandits' lair in Luobagdong. If they had been waiting in Bingxun Pass for this winter's militia clearance operation, then they would definitely lead a large number of militiamen to the bandits' lair at this time. Nest attack.

This was something that everyone had agreed upon before Keir left. At that time, Keir also said that he would also join in when the time came, and contribute to the settlement of the robbers in the pocket hole.

Thinking of this, Keir stopped the team and briefly explained what happened between him and the bandits at Bingyu Pass.

"You mean, we don't need to go directly to Bingxun Pass, but if we want to go northeast, we can find a large number of militia teams that are attacking the bandit's lair?" An old hunter in the team held a picture drawn by Kiel in his hand. said the map.

Kiel glanced at the people around him and nodded. He clicked on a location on the map in the old man's hand: "This is our current location, and a little further to the north and east is the location of the bandit's lair. I speculate that at this time, with the rescued people as guides, the militiamen will definitely focus on clearing up this bandit gang, and a small number of other people will cast a net to clear up the smaller bandit gangs. We just need to go directly there."

The old hunters got together to discuss, while the other young hunters in the team did not express their opinions. They with less experience rarely expressed their stupid opinions in the presence of the old hunters.

Keir is different. He has been acting alone before, and he does things very differently from the hunters, so he has a high level of autonomy. Facing possible situations, he likes to tell everyone his plans.

After discussion, the old hunters felt that although Keir's diversion plan was bold and dangerous, it was not impossible. After all, the danger came from the fact that the militia might not have rushed here to attack the bandit's lair at this time, and bandits were still patrolling around the bandit's lair.

Once discovered by these bandits, it is not easy for them to escape.

But the hunters thought it was nothing. Compared to the bandits who were familiar with the environment, these guys who lived in the forest all day~www.readwn.com~ were more at ease. They will definitely find other people, whether they are bandits or militiamen, before the bandits find them.

Therefore, Keel and the others decided to divert their route and head towards the lair of the bandits in Pocket Hole, trying to meet the large militia troops as soon as possible, meet the Crow Knight who led the militia, and ask the other party to send people to the deeper forest in the rear In the middle of the journey, transport the huge monsters that were successfully crusaded, and the bandits in the forest where the bandits spend the winter.

They didn't just go over with people and horses like this, but divided the already small team into two teams, with the young and strong Kiel and a young hunter as the leading scouting team, earlier than the other teams. A two-hour walk away from a person for an early detection.

Relying on the young hunter's excellent observation ability for finding prey and Kiel's strong close combat ability, they can guarantee that they will be foolproof while scouting.

Soon, within a day of choosing such an advance plan, Keir and a hunter named Pembertoto discovered a skirmish in a forest clearing ahead of them.

The two parties fighting were naturally the two most likely groups of people in the vicinity. One was a small group of patrol bandits in Luobagdong who had been operating in the local area for several years, and the other was a team of ten melee militiamen.

Keir and Pemberto were lying in the high snow not far away, and only dug two observation holes outside the snow to watch the battle below.

If the militiamen are not fighting well, they will help. If the militiamen had the upper hand, they would come out later. It was the time when the two sides were fighting, and if they appeared rashly, it was very likely that both sides would think that the two of them were the hands of the other side.

It would be bad if they both came to attack them both.