Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the evening, Keel told Todd in the Table Corner Tavern that he joined the hunter team under Knight Lanisa.

"So? After that, you won't accept those commissions again?" Todd's interest is not high. Of course, anyone who hears that the career he just started will end like this will certainly not be in high spirits.

Keir nodded. He took a sip of beer, smacked his mouth and said, "I guess it will be difficult. If there is a chance, I would certainly like to continue to accept commissions, but this is not a long-term job after all."

Todd made himself a glass of beer and drank it. It stands to reason that he should not drink as a bartender, but at this moment, he wanted to drink something.

"You're right, Keel. Forget it, I'll figure it out."

Keir thought about it and gave him an idea. Keel introduced to him a few skilled militiamen he knew in the militia team. Todd thought about it and felt that he could not quench his thirst. It's not that he doesn't know people who are similar to the militia.

So Todd told Gere about his plans.

Todd intends to borrow their family's tavern and make it a reliable location for commissioned tasks in Kendall City. To deal with the entrusted manpower, Todd can find some young people in the city who are not satisfied with the status quo, or he can find this year's outstanding militiamen as Keel said. Er briefly talked about the achievements of this year's militia, and Todd himself felt that compared with this year's militia, the so-called clearing up of bandits by the militia in previous years was nothing more than a formality.

Afterwards, Kiel drank heavily in the tavern, until finally he couldn't drink anymore, and then returned to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce to rest.

Keir was lying on a small bed, wrapped in a thick quilt, and outside the quilt was a wolf fur cloak to keep out the cold. Although the walls of the chamber of commerce are thick, they can't stop the cold winter outside. There is no interlayer for heat insulation in the walls, so after winter comes, it is still very cold.

In order to prevent fires, there are no fireplaces on the third floor of the chamber of commerce building. Only the restaurant on the first floor has a fireplace for heating, and the lobby on the second floor also has one, but it is impossible to run down and build a fire for warmth now. sleep.

Fortunately, Kiel has gotten used to sleeping in the wild recently. Compared with the colder and harsher outdoors outside, at least there is no wind blowing on him in the chamber of commerce. There are two temperatures in winter, whether there is wind or not. When there is no wind, no matter how cold it is, you can resist the severe cold by leaning on the fire or wrapping your clothes tightly. But once the wind blows at night, the fire may be blown out by the wind without paying attention, which is very dangerous, and it may freeze to death in the wild without knowing it.

At this time, it is very important to rotate the sentry. When they see the fire go out, they must light it immediately.

Instead of lighting a fire, you only rely on clothes and bedding to keep warm and spend the night in the wild. After encountering the wind, you have to be very careful. Except for the breathing mouth and nose, other places must not be in direct contact with the outside. Otherwise, when you get up the next day, you will find that a certain limb or exposed part of your body will be directly frozen or damaged by the cold wind.

No matter how you look at it, it is very dangerous.

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In the morning, Keel moved out today because he had made an agreement with Old Foxtail and Jamura yesterday. So he got up early in the morning and began to pack his things. The odds and ends were packed into burlap bags, and the big things were carried downstairs first, and placed in the wagon that hadn't been loaded with horses.

The guy in charge of taking care of the donkeys in the Chamber of Commerce fed Kiel's horses with hay, and kindly took out a large piece of linen clothing that could protect the horses and donkeys from the cold. After Kiel saw it, he was embarrassed to ask for care and things from others, and wanted to spend money to buy them.

"Keir, no need, this is what the old president told you yesterday. Although you are leaving, remember that if you meet guys from the chamber of commerce on the way, you must help a lot!" This person who is not much older than Kiel The Chamber of Commerce guy gave Kiel a hug and said.

"No problem, if we meet, I will help the caravan a lot." Kiel promised.

In fact, he didn't have much stuff, so after two round trips, he moved all his belongings to the truck.

After eating the last meal in the restaurant, Keel said goodbye to Chef Whitney and Aunt Dilu who had been taking care of him, and then went to the backyard, put the horses on the harness of the carriage, and carefully signaled the horses to let them Pull the car out of the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce.

Walking to Main Street in Kendall, Keel turned to look at the chamber of commerce. By the window on the second floor, Jamla and the old President Foxtail were looking at him. He waved his hand to bid them farewell, and they also waved their hands to bid farewell to Kiel, a passer-by in his life.

"Kiel is a good boy. It's a pity that he didn't join our chamber of commerce." The old foxtail president said regretfully, stroking his beard.

Beside, Jamura also felt very sorry, after all, as soon as he touched it, he could feel it. Compared with the fellows of other chambers of commerce, Keir is obviously a smart person who has undergone a long-term cultural education. Such a person is everywhere in Kendall. Can develop quickly. Unfortunately, it seems that Keir doesn't like to do anything honestly. He prefers to run outside the city. It seems that there are countless things that attract him in the vast and dangerous world.

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Kiel pulled the rein a little, and let the horses slowly pull the truck towards the stronghold of the hunter team he was optimistic about yesterday. It is said to be a stronghold, but it is actually just a two-story house with a front and back yard. The house is one of several houses located between the artisan area and the government office.

The place is not remote at all, but because it is blocked by craftsmen's workshops and government affairs with constant flow of people, it doesn't attract much attention.

Before knowing this place, Kiel even thought that these houses belonged to the craftsman district church.

After slightly giving way to the people coming and going in and out of the government affairs office, Kiel turned the carriage into a small path next to the wall of the government affairs office. The road is so narrow that only one carriage can enter and exit. Keir didn't know how to drive a carriage, so he had to let the horses pull it by themselves.

After letting the truck rub against the walls on both sides a few times, Keel finally came to the house inside along the road.

"One, two, three. That's the third house." Keel stopped outside the front yard of the third house.

He jumped off the driver's seat, walked to the door, and knocked on the wooden door: "I'm Keel! Is there anyone inside?"

Soon, a response came from inside: "Keir? Oh, come here, my old bones have sensitive ears, you don't have to knock on the door so loudly."

Hearing that the voice was one of the old hunters in the team, Kiel lowered and raised his fist in embarrassment: "Is it Uncle Tost? I moved here from the chamber of commerce according to Lanisa Knight's intention."

The wooden door of the house opened, and there was a sound of footsteps passing by the snow that had not yet melted, and then, the door of the stronghold opened. The two wooden gates opened inwards, and the old hunter Tost, dressed casually, beckoned Keel to bring the carriage in.

After two steps, Keir stopped climbing up to the driver's seat, and directly pulled the horse's rein, slowly leading the carriage into the front yard of the hunter's stronghold.

On the left and right sides of the gate of the front yard are sheds for raising large livestock such as horses and donkeys. Next to it is a characteristic Kendall well and sewage outlet. The two are placed on both sides of the yard, not next to each other.

A lot of firewood for heating and cooking is placed in the corner of the yard. In addition, there are some fruit trees planted along the side of the wall. By the looks of it, those fruit trees are not of the same type.

After closing the gate, the old hunter Tost helped Kiel unload some of the things on the truck, while the other metal ingots remained unchanged. After Kiel explained, he would take them to the artisan area to find artisans to process and make new ones. armor.

"Isn't your original armor very good? Why, you still feel dissatisfied with that armor?" Tost asked Keir into the room.

After Keir also walked in, he looked at the surrounding environment and found that it was probably because they were all hunters, so there were many prey heads and fur pendants in the hall on the first floor of the house, and various animals showed the hunters. Strong hunting ability. In a corner of the room, there is also a small prayer table, on which is hung an animal skin with a symbol of a god. I don't know which **** it is.

"I think it's still a little worse. Compared with hard cowhide, iron armor or steel armor is probably much stronger. I melted all the good steel I got from bandits to prepare the main material for making new armor. A little bit of iron material is used as part of the armor auxiliary material. The excess is sold, and it happens that the price of iron material in Kendall City is quite high recently, and it is all for nothing, and you can make a fortune by selling it.”

"Ha, you sound like merchants, but it's good, with the new armor, you can cooperate better in the team. After all, everyone needs you, a melee fighter who can fight and resist. " said the old hunter in Tost.

Immediately afterwards, he introduced the hunter stronghold to Kiel.

After entering from the gate, it is divided into three parts, namely the front yard, the house and the back yard. As Kiel saw in the front yard, it can accommodate animals such as horses. The house is divided into upper and lower floors. The first floor is the hall, kitchen, and storage room. The hall has a large space, and everyone usually communicates here. On the second floor, there are many small houses for the hunters to live in. There are a total of twelve small houses, and they are not full. Kiel can choose an empty house to live in first.

The backyard is relatively open, and it is a place for everyone to practice shooting. There are many wooden animal targets at one end, so that everyone can maintain the level of bow and arrow shooting in the stronghold.

Tost looked at Kiel and said: "Since you have joined us, how about practicing the use of bows and arrows as well? But the guy in your package is really not good. My apprentice didn't use it when he was ten years old. Soft bow and arrow."

Keir pointed to a hunting bow he seized from the bandit, and smiled: "I got it from the bandit, I just used it for fun, rarely practiced, you can basically think I have never touched a bow and arrow."

"That's it, then you should clean up the house and settle down first. I'll prepare a bow and arrow for you to learn, and you need to practice a little in the past few days."

Keel followed the old hunter up the wooden ladder to the second floor. The second floor was a space surrounded by small houses. The names of the hunters are hung on the doors of the houses that have been inhabited.

Open an unnamed empty room, which is about the same size as the room given to him by the Chamber of Commerce, except for a few more furniture. There are windows, wooden tables, wooden chairs, and solid wooden shelves and wood. The box even had a simple metal lock with a key on it.

"How about it? Although the place is a bit small, it has everything you need. You see, there is also a wooden box with a lock, and important things can be placed in it. These wooden shelves are used to store armor weapons and the like. Things are easy to get." The old hunter Tost explained to Kiel one by one.

"Very good, better than the house I used to live in. By the way, uncle, except for you in the stronghold, where are the others? I remember that everyone came back together with Knight Lanisa. Did everyone else leave? "Kill didn't see anyone other than Tost in the stronghold, so he asked this question.

The old hunter opened the wooden windows to ventilate the house and drive away the dusty smell in some vacant houses.

"Oh, the other old guys have houses and relatives in Kendall City, and they've all gone. The young guys went out to play early in the morning, and it seems that one of the guys got hooked on the woman he rescued before, and the rest of them have some I'm eager to try." Speaking of this, the old hunter Tost laughed.

Kiel knew that people in different worlds, especially civilians, didn't really care much about women's fidelity. Young girls could be with the person they liked every year during the holidays. It doesn't matter who they marry afterward. And the boys of the ordinary people don't care about it. After all, the lives of the people are difficult, and it is really difficult to pay attention to these similar moral things.

Moreover, most of the migrants in the New Kingdom migrated from the Empire. Most of them were oppressed by the Empire and could not survive. They had to set foot on the migratory army organized by the church and came to the newly established New Kingdom. Each immigrant family often goes through many trials and difficulties. Many families were forced to disperse on the road, and then they regrouped and formed new families in order to survive.

After a few minutes, the people who came to the new land didn't care about these things anymore. Moreover, the ethos of the empire is actually very open. A person is mostly measured by his property ability, and there are not many moral considerations.

Because those nobles, churches, merchants, and mages who oppress the people don't actually have much morality to praise.

Through the exchanges, learning, and knowledge these days, Keir knows the atmosphere here, and he is actually relieved that the women rescued from the bandits are not discriminated against by others.

They were oppressed and suffered in the hands of bandits. If they were discriminated against by the society for a longer period of time after being rescued, it might as well not rescue them at that time and let them be devoured by monsters. Maybe it is not a solution. Method.

In addition, there is one thing that Kiel has not yet understood, that is, in this different world, those powerful people in the upper class of society are not divided into men and women. Magicians or other similar magic power users are not distinguishable between men and women, but more of the differences between various schools.

As for male and female knights, although male knights are slightly higher in combat ability, the survival rate of female knights is actually higher than that of male knights.

Keel made the bed in his new house, then put some important things into a wooden box with a lock, and the key was hidden under the wooden chair. The weapons and equipment are all taken out and placed on the wooden shelf. Some treasured things are placed behind the wooden shelf, and the weapons that can be used at any time are placed in front.

Things like paper, pens and ink were placed on the small wooden table, and there were mostly maps and design drawings of armor and weapons he had walked on.

His small money box, Kiel filled it with silver coins and copper coins, put some copper coins and iron coins in his purse for daily use, put the gold coins in a small bag, and took the time to hide them outside the city after preparation In his treasure chest, it was filled with all the gold coins he had accumulated.

After everything was done, Keel closed the door and locked the lock, put the key in the purse, went downstairs to say hello to the old hunter Tost, said that he was going out to deal with those metal ingots, and left carefully with the carriage A relatively narrow hunter stronghold was established.

He first went to the tailor shop in the wild grape market and delivered the wolf fur cloak damaged in the previous battle to the other party for repair. He then handed over several large square animal skins to the leather shop, and asked the craftsmen to make these animal skins The hood of a truck, and the supporting wooden beams on the hood of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com can be made by an apprentice in a carpenter's workshop, and the price is not expensive.

After the two are finished, his truck will have an animal skin hood that can keep out the wind and rain. Of course, for later consideration, he also bought some burlap at the grocery store, and looking for someone to change it can also be used. Use as a canopy in the hot season.

By the way, Kiel disposed of the metal ingots in the car. The fine steel was handed over to Ganner yesterday, and today he handed over some iron ingots to Ganner, making these iron ingots a less important part of the armor. .

Kiel sold the rest of the surplus metal ingots to the weapon making workshop next door. He also got the barrel of a metal spear by the way. Kiel changed the barrel of the spear from wooden to metal, mainly because of different uses. After that, Kiel had to modify them, so that the metal gun barrel could be matched with a double-edged gun head. The original wooden gun shaft must be matched with a sharp spear point.

This gave him two polearms, the all-metal double-bladed gun for close combat, and the wooden spear-tipped lance for stabbing, for example on horseback.

After thinking about it, Kiel has three horses, one for pulling carts, one for riding and fighting, and one for carrying supplies when traveling far without using a wagon. The horses that pull the cart pull the cart together.

Regarding the protection of horses, Kiel has no good solution. After all, Kendall City has only begun to train craftsmen for human armor, let alone horses. The horse armor of Crow Knight and Lanessa Knight is either made by a specialized horse armor craftsman in the provincial capital, or made by the internal armor master of the army in the capital of the kingdom.

It's not something Keir can handle at this stage.