Mercenaries and Adventurers

A few days ago, Lonzos, who had returned to Bingxun Pass, paid a visit. The Church of the God of the Dead at Bingxun Pass found out that those reckless bandits were randomly throwing a large number of human corpses into pits in a remote mountain forest. And it went on for several years.

These priests rushed out, and soon, under the guidance of the militia, they found the corpse pit full of eerie and death.

As the management church that specializes in dealing with death in the human world, they certainly have a way to clean up this filthy place. The bandits didn't even know that if a large number of human dead bodies were put together without treatment, some very powerful and evil things would always be born.

Fortunately, the bandits in Luobagdong had only grown for a few years, and not too many people were killed by them. Before the situation got worse, this gang of bandits was wiped out by the militiamen.

The priests who came here first helped the militiamen who came with them to salvage the spoils that Kiel had dropped at that time, that is, the weapons and equipment used by the bandit leader.

After that, with the help of a pastor, several pastors, and other low-ranking priests, the priests stood in a circle around the corpse pit. The divine power of the God of God erased the entire corpse pit exuding the power of death.

After the ceremony, a semicircular pit larger than the original was left here.

Kiel chatted with the shepherd, and learned that the church was worried that the bandits that would breed here would use this place as a place to throw their bodies. So they planned to invite the priests of the **** of lakes and rivers, and ask them to attract water to turn this big pit into a small lake in the mountains and forests.

If possible, put some ferocious carnivorous fish in stock, so that even if bandits come to throw the corpse later, the corpse will be eaten by the fish, so you don't have to worry about causing other troubles.

Keel found it interesting how they responded, using carnivorous fish to deal with possible human corpses in the wild.

So Keel asked the shepherd curiously, would this kind of corpse pit also appear in the corpses of other animals besides humans in the wild.

The shepherd shook his head confidently, saying that only intelligent creatures would gather their dead companions, whether it was worship or throwing corpses.

Other natural animals will basically be swallowed by small scavengers after death, and there will be no such incidents as some moving dead deer or walking dead sheep or pigs.

Of course, that would happen if the herd animals died on a large scale for some reason, and the scavengers couldn't handle so many dead bodies.

Speaking of which, this pastor, please ask Keel, if you find similar situations in your future life, whether it is human or animal, you can provide the news to their church, and the church will deal with such difficult things, and Some coin rewards are also given.

Keir asked about the price of the reward and found that it was not a lot, so he gave up his plan to actively search for it. He probably would only run into it in future adventures.

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After leaving here, Zhao Ji drove the carriage back to Bingxun Pass along the dirt road walked by the transport team.

Interesting to say, he was stopped by the soldiers at the gate of the checkpoint because he was driving a carriage. He showed that most of the things on the cart were weapons discarded by the bandits after the militia defeated the bandits. He was exempted from collecting taxes.

Zhao Ji originally thought that these things would have to be taxed, but he keenly noticed that the soldiers at the checkpoint didn't seem to want to participate in the affairs of the militia, so he immediately expressed his identity and asked the soldiers who wanted to collect taxes to refuse.

He entered the checkpoint with a serious face, and then immediately came to the hotel room he rented.

After sorting out, Zhao Ji packed boxes of broken metal swords and axes into the carriage, and other previous things were locked in the house.

He paid the big piece of old and new animal skins obtained from the bandits to the hotel clerk, who asked them to find a few people to clean the animal skins. Dirty animal skins are difficult to sell at a price, but after washing, you can see that these skins are still good quality animal skins, whether they are used to make leather jackets to keep out the cold or make quilts, they are all good materials .

He also came to the Church of the God of the Dead, which looked like a cemetery. This place is still inside the checkpoint, but in a remote place, basically a corner of the checkpoint. Although the place is remote, the place where the church is located is quite luxurious, especially the tombstones in the cemetery and the small square sarcophagi where the remains of the ashes are placed. Freeze-resistant flowers and plants that bloom in winter.

Kiel found a priest who was entertaining the people in the temple of the church. After showing the letter of Knight Crow, he soon got the heavy double-edged ax and iron ring armor of the bandit leader Delan who had been beheaded by him at the beginning. .

"Pay attention to the warrior, there are still some traces of erosion by the dark force of death on it, you'd better melt them into molten iron before using them." The shepherd who gave him something specifically reminded.

Kiel nodded at the shepherd: "Of course, for this weight, I just need the metal material for it. This thing is not the weapon or equipment I need to use. I already have an axe."

After returning to the house, Keel violently dismantled the iron ring armor, and cleaned the rotten wood in the middle of the double-edged axe.

Afterwards, Kiel drove a large amount of metal materials to a blacksmith shop he had contacted before. It took two days and a lot of coins to fuse these different metal weapons and equipment into several pure metal weapons. metal ingots.

High-quality metal ingots are naturally used as the main material for making his armor, and the rest will not be wasted, and Kiel also has its own uses. Even if you sell it directly, you can make money.

After all, he earned these things through fighting.

After the processing was completed, Zhao Ji loaded the cleaned animal skins and metal ingots of various purity into the carriage, and drove back to Kendall City.

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The hunter team under Knight Lanisa has a small house in Kendall City as a stronghold. Zhao Ji, who returned to Kendall City, only knew the place, but hadn't visited it yet, let alone moved there.

He can move out of the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce at any time, but he has a lot of things, and he doesn't want to move some important things to the hunter's stronghold.

After entering the city, Kiel greeted the friends of the city gate guards, talked about the situation of Knight Crowe and the militiamen, and said that he joined Knight Lanisa.

Joining Lanisa Knight's men, it is naturally not easy for the guards who are guards of the city gate to teach him fighting skills in the hunter's stronghold. Kiel felt it was a pity, and several guards also felt it was a pity, but they said that this was a good thing for Kiel, anyway, at least he had a decent job, and it was no longer the same as before, relying on In the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, he works part-time or wanders out of the city all day long.

Although compared with the little monsters outside the city, the hunter team has to deal with more ferocious hordes of beasts, which are more dangerous, but they all believe that with the skills that Keel learned from them, and Nice outfit, should be able to handle it with ease.

Keel actually thinks so too. Those hunters had excellent long-range shooting abilities, but their melee combat skills were obviously limited. They needed a fighter like him who was good at attacking and defending in melee combat.

After thanking his friends for their praise and blessings, Keir drove the carriage to the armor shop in the artisan district.

The craftsman Ganna in the shop was clanging with his apprentices to forge a new armor that was simplified from the full-cover hard cowhide armor he had been wearing before.

After Kiel greeted him, he walked around the semi-finished armor. After observing, he found that after a period of honing his skills, the skills of Ganna craftsmen became better.

And compared to the version finalized by Kiel, the design of the full set of armor simplified by Ganner craftsmen is more concise, removing some unnecessary redundant protection, and only focusing on protecting the vital points of the body and the main attack areas.

No matter how you look at it, it seems to be more powerful.

"It's really good. It's here, here, and here. You have optimized it a lot, and it looks easier when you move like this." Kiel pointed to several different places on the armor and praised.

Craftsman Ganna accepted Kiel's praise with a smile, while his new apprentice was a little happier, saying that his master had tried many modification schemes before finally coming up with these better modifications.

After Kiel praised him, he pulled Ganna out and took off the best metal ingot from his carriage. "These are the high-quality steel raw materials that I managed to get, and I leave them to you. I must create the armor in the design!"

Knowing that the iron materials in Kendall City are limited recently, Ganna craftsman did not expect Keel to get so many steel ingots: "So much, how did you get it?"

"Do you know if the militia cleared up the bandits?" Kiel asked, pointing to the southwest direction of Kendall City.

"Who in the city doesn't know? So, these are your trophies? Are there too many of them? How many people have you defeated?" Ganna craftsman was obviously surprised by Kiel's ability.

Kiel rubbed his nose and said hesitantly: "It's not all the spoils from defeating the bandits, there are some raw materials I bought at Bingxun Pass with all the money I saved. Of course, There are some sources that are not so easy to talk about, anyway, you don’t care about them. The things are handed over to you, so hurry up and check them out, and make a list for me before we talk about it.”

"Okay, fine, it's up to you. Anyway, I just need to build it according to the blueprint you designed, right? In fact, you can join me with some more armor parts. There is still room for improvement after more changes." Gan Na called the apprentices, and together with Kiel, the three of them moved the heavy steel ingots into the workshop.

Kiel clapped his hands and knocked off the dust on his hands: "How should I put it, you should get new armor sooner, I need it very much here. The hard cowhide armor before, although the protection is not bad, but It can only deal with some small scenes. Have you heard that Knight Lanisa led people to defeat a monster."

"I've heard it, I've heard it. Everyone said that the monster was as big as a whole house and ate a lot of people, but in the end it was defeated by Lord Knight!" Ganner's apprentice said excitedly, and Ganner also He shrugged, indicating that he had heard that too.

"That's it. In fact, I was also in the team to deal with the monster. Not long ago, I joined the hunter team of Knight Lanisa, and followed them to deal with the monster." As soon as Keel finished speaking, the two were shocked. Pale, did not expect to hear this news.

Looking at the appearance of the two, Keir knew what they were going to ask: "Okay, okay, I don't have time today, tomorrow, tomorrow I will come back and tell you about the situation at that time, anyway, it's very dangerous."

Ganna nodded, took out a pen and paper and wrote down the amount of raw materials he received from Kiel on a piece of paper, indicating that they were used to make new metal armor for Kiel.

Ganner's apprentice wanted to ask again, Keel held his head with one hand, and took the list that Ganner had written with the other. Seeing that there was nothing wrong with it, Keir put it into his clothes and said goodbye to the two of them.

But he didn't go far, just pulled the horse to the weapons workshop next door.

The weapons workshop was in full swing, and the craftsmen and apprentices with thick arms were banging **** the hammers and iron felts in their hands, shaping the weapons clamped by the pliers on the iron felts.

When Kiel came to the gate of the workshop, he would naturally be received. After all, no workshop would think that there is too much work on hand, and the more work, the more income it can bring. Even if it is to pay taxes to the lord, it will still be taken by the Church of the God of Craftsman, but there will be a lot of income left in the workshop afterwards.

In the workshop, apprentices can get extra wages every month, but as long as they work with their respective masters, they can get extra wages from the masters, although it is not much.

The craftsmen distribute the income of the entire workshop according to the work completed by their respective teams. Whoever leads people to do more will naturally get more. If you are lazy or sick or injured, you will naturally get less quarterly.

Because there were still things on the carriage, Keir didn't go into the workshop. He handed two pieces of good iron to an apprentice who entertained him, explaining that he wanted to make a metal spear shaft. The length is naturally the same as the length of other gun barrels.

This sizable weapon forging apprentice looked at Kiel's arm. Although he didn't think Kiel could use this kind of weapon, he still accepted the raw materials, took out a wooden sign and handed it to Kiel, telling Kiel that because of the It's not complicated, it should come out tomorrow afternoon, and he can come and pick it up then.

After Kiel got the wooden sign, he stopped the apprentice and asked him to call his master. There is still one job for Kiel that requires a weapon forging craftsman to complete.

"Master! Someone here said that there is work for you to do." The apprentice yelled into the workshop, and had to shout loudly. The workshop was full of tinkling metal knocking sounds, and the sound was too small to be heard at all.

Hearing the apprentice's cry, a tall craftsman with thick arms put down the hammer in his hand, wiped his hands with a coarse cloth, and walked over.

"Young man, what's the matter with you?"

The master was called, and the apprentice walked into the workshop. Kiel explained the condition of his long sword to the weapon forging craftsman.

"I thought it was a big trouble. This is easy to handle. I used to receive damaged swords and weapons in this situation. It's not very troublesome to deal with. It's just."

Keir immediately asked, "Just what?"

The craftsman stretched out his hand and gestured twice: "It's just that after the weapon is corroded by those evil things, no matter how it is heated, it will still suffer a certain loss. Even if it is re-quenched, the corroded materials will also be reduced to ashes. .If your weapon is thicker, it’s okay, a little less is not bad. But if it is a thinner sword weapon, the re-quenched weapon will not only have less strength and toughness because of the lack of eroded materials. , and its weight balance will be shifted slightly."

Speaking of this, the craftsman looked at Kiel and said: "But you are so young, it seems that it should be nothing to feel a little short."

Kiel's face straightened: "It still has some influence, but my technique is not bad. You said so much, then you should have a solution, right? After all, you said it yourself, you used to deal with these damaged swords often."

The craftsman stroked his slightly scorched beard, and said in a somewhat smug tone: "Yes, my solution is, since the weapon is thin and affects its use, add some materials to it to make up for it. missing place."

"Then it's not just heating and re-quenching, it's basically re-forging to create a new sword!" Keel stared straight at the craftsman with widened eyes.

"Of course! Don't be too surprised. You don't think that weapons that can be corroded by evil forces are new weapons, right? Most of them have gone through many fights and severe tests before falling to the hands of evil forces. Even if it is not corroded by evil forces, as long as you cut off the sword and observe it, you can see many internal cracks and hidden wounds. Just like people, although they seem to be fine, all the trials and hardships they experienced when they were young , it will show up when you are old, and it will make you feel uncomfortable."

Kiel fell silent. He felt that what the craftsman said was reasonable. Although he didn't use the hunting sword for a long time, he faced many opponents. According to what the craftsman said, until this point in the battle, his hunting It is estimated that the long sword also accumulated a lot of hidden injuries. Now that it has been corroded by evil forces, it is better to follow what this person said, not to break, not to stand, not only to rely on high-heat flames to destroy those eroded evil forces, but also to add new materials, let the craftsmen forge it again, and drive out the sword body. cracks and dark wounds.

In addition, in fact, Kiel doesn't like to hunt those shallow dimples on the surface of the long sword very much. Although the surface is smooth and clean, it will reflect the reflection like fish scales, which is more beautiful, but once there is blood in the battle, it will be very troublesome to clean up. !

If it is a smooth surface, there is not so much to do.

Seeing Kiel's moved face, the tall and sturdy craftsman patted Kiel's shoulder, leaving a gray-black handprint: "Young man, it seems that you have already made a judgment, and you should deal with it as soon as possible. After you make up your mind, come to me. I'm free for a few days. However, there will be a lot more on the cost~www.readwn.com~Of course, the reforged weapon will feel better than the original , They are still the original ones, but reborn from the ashes, maybe they will be better than the original ones, at least those soldiers who came to me said so.”

Kiel was moved by his words, so he carefully asked the craftsman for some ideas and preparations, and then he said goodbye and left here.

Back to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, the folks at the Chamber of Commerce are very interested in Keel getting back a horse and a wagon. Kiel found Jamura and Old Foxtail, and talked about joining Lanisa Knight's hunter team.

Jamura patted Kiel on the head, congratulating Kiel for finally gaining a firm foothold in Kendall City. It took Keir less than a year to go from being a foreigner who was injured and amnesiac to being a warrior who became famous and joined the Cavaliers.

"Keil, work harder in the future, find a girl you like earlier, and borrow some money to buy a small house, so that you will become a real Kendal."

Looking forward to Jamura's encouragement, Keir looked embarrassed, so he gave him a perfunctory hug as a farewell later.

The old foxtail was sullen, muttering that he wanted Kildor to get him some monster heads as strange decorations to surprise some other friends.

Now, after Kiel joined the knights, it is estimated that he will rarely go to remote places to deal with those monsters who can only hide in the corners of uncultivated areas. His great collection has only started at the beginning, and he has to declare the middle.

Although it is possible to spend money to go to Bingxun Pass to find merchants who traveled far away to buy it, but for an old merchant like Old Huwei, how can those young merchants make a lot of money from him?