Mercenaries and Adventurers

Before their group approached the camp, the villagers in the camp found them. Beside the forest in winter, as long as there is no wind, the surroundings will be quiet. Whenever the snow on the treetops falls, there will be a small rustling sound.

Although the farmers and villagers of Wumi Lake Village boldly opened a small new camp outside the safe wooden sentry tower camp, there are still basic arrangements for guards.

Or, on the wooden sentry tower, there were people standing guard all the time, and they could see Lanisa Knight and her party walking out of the big forest from a distance.

"The lord is back! The lord is back!"

A villager with a loud voice yelled loudly, and his yelling woke up the quiet camp at once.

The villagers who were roasting jackrabbits, those who were sleeping in their clothes, and the villagers who were feeding horses in the sentry tower all woke up suddenly, and looked to the north following the shouts.

Over the thin, newly made wooden fence, they saw Lanissa's knight on a tall horse, and several hunters walking behind her.

Everyone put down what they were doing, rushed out of the camp, crossed the shallow unmelted snow outside the camp, and ran to the team to say hello.

"My lord! Your arm is hurt? Are you all right?"

Someone saw Knight Lanisa's arm hanging by an animal skin, obviously broken, and asked immediately.

The villagers knew that their lord, Knight Lanisa, went into the forest every year to fight against the wolves of the Northland for them and the village, so they respected Knight Lanisa quite a lot.

In the first few years when the northern wolves were rampant, the village lived in a state of panic all day long. Later, if Jenny Lanessa hadn't become a knight and stepped forward to fight the northern wolves, the situation in the village would not have changed to the same level. So safe now.

Back then, there were scattered northern land wolves wandering outside the village all day long, looking for opportunities to attack the villagers and businessmen who went out, which brought great trouble to the village. It's hard to keep going.

Knight Lanisa patted her broken arm, waved her hand and said, "It's okay, just go back to the city and find the priest to have a look." Half of his face was burned.

After stopping the horse, she waved to the noisy villagers around to quiet down.

"Everyone! Be quiet."

She waved her arms wildly, and then picked up the small leather bag containing her father's ashes. After a pause, she shouted in a voice containing complex emotions: "This time the crusade has succeeded!"

Huh, the villagers below had seen two tightly wrapped hunter corpses lying on the simple wooden raft behind the horses, and thought that this winter's battle would be the same as in previous years, but the words of the knight lord Lanisa made them unbelievable.

"My hunters and I successfully killed a large number of northern land wolves this time, and in the arduous battle, completely killed the source of the chaos, the wolf king of the northern land wolf population."

She took a deep breath, and then said: "This is the ashes that were burned after it was defeated. As for the other northern land wolves, there are too many, so there is no way to bring them back."

"Afterwards, I will arrange for manpower to bring back the dead northern land wolf before the end of winter."

"Everyone, don't worry, this time, An Ning will return to Wumi Lake, and the village will be completely safe. You no longer need to shrink within the walls of the village. You can open up fields and build your own houses as much as you want, Umi Hu Village will get rid of the unrest and crisis, and catch up with other villages and towns. New migrants will also come, and when fresh blood is injected, I hope that what you can show them will be a confident and enthusiastic Wumi Lake Village.”

While speaking, Knight Lanisa has been watching one of the villagers on the horse. She saw that the other person also had an arm hanging like her, as if he was injured.

After finishing speaking, she dismounted and let the old hunter lead her. Surrounded by everyone, she walked into the newly built camp outside the sentry tower, got close to the fire to keep warm, and asked the villagers to cook more delicious food. Both she and the hunters needed The best meal to relieve the fatigue of many days of crusade.

The villagers were elated, and while they were busy, they asked the hunters who came back together how the trip went. The length of the crusade operations in previous winters varies. If it is long, it will be like last year. It has been busy throughout the winter. There are also short ones. Most of them left the forest after a disastrous defeat.

But this year's crusade was not long or short, and it completely defeated the wolf king and killed a large number of northern land wolves. What happened in detail?

The young hunters in the team also held back for a long time, and then someone asked, and they danced and described their experiences in the past few days.

Everyone sat around the fire outside the sentry tower. The place here is relatively open, suitable for everyone to gather together.

Rock mountain camp, crusade against wolf dens, and fight northern wolves with special abilities.

Rocky mountain strongholds, building layers of positions, and going out for quick investigation.

The Knight's Griffon Rider, Kiel's sword, and his axe.

Hundreds of wolves, the huge wolf king, and the high-level people at the bottom of the mountain fought fiercely.

The battle between man and wolf in the passage, the wooden wall set on fire, and the trap set.

The chase between the knight and the wolf king in the forest, the deadly trap in the narrow passage, the two dead hunters.

The special retreat that Kiel found on the top of the mountain, the last persistence and retreat, and the fog below the mountain.

Hunters and knights meet, extra werewolves, wolf king in desperate situation.

The old hunters added some details along with the young man's words, while Keir talked about his plan to design the entire multi-layered resistance to killing the northern land wolf.

All the villagers were fascinated by what they heard, wishing they could join in that legendary battle. Even if they don't have much combat ability, but according to the method of little Keir, when building the defense line, they can do it with strength.

They all regretted that they were not able to participate in it at the time, even if they just carried a corpse, recovered arrows or something, or threw a stone, but these battles beyond their imagination, I am afraid that they will never have the chance to meet again in this life.

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'It turned out to be like this. It turns out that this is how you dealt with so many **** northern land wolves. Ah ha ha ha, old guy, you are not wronged. '

Among the villagers, a certain one was also very excited when he heard that, because the large number of northern land wolves he had been afraid of had been dealt with by these hunters in this way. He probably couldn't figure out the method to use in his whole life, and it was difficult to do it alone. However, those things that bothered him were dead, and he was completely at ease now.

Nothing would try to breach the village walls any more, break in just to kill him.

Hahahahaha, no more, all the worrying things these years have been completely gone, and he can finally hide here safely and incognito.

It's just a pity that after the northern wolves were defeated, he could no longer use the name of northern wolves to attack passers-by to attack merchants. The desire to kill will be hard to satisfy, and the extra income will be gone.

Ah, I'm still a little annoyed. It would be great if this kind of people and wolves entangled with each other for a longer time.

Thinking of this, he felt a little unhappy on his face.

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Lanisa Knight was not in the new camp outside, but returned to the wooden guard tower. She has a special room here, even if she is not here, no one will live here.

First, she treated the burns on her body with the ointment prepared by the sentry tower alone, and then she still wore armor, and called the young hunter who was left here alone due to injuries to the top of the sentry tower for questioning.

At this moment, no one was on guard here, and they were facing hunters, so Knight Lanisa didn't wear a helmet, revealing half of her face scalded by the wolf king's blood.

"My lord? Your face?"

The wound on the young hunter who was summoned was almost healed. Although he had to return to Kendall City to see the priests of the church for treatment if he wanted to be completely healed, but it didn't get any worse, and he could even recover a little bit.

Just now he thought that Knight Lanisa's broken arm was considered a serious injury, but now he saw that under the cover of the armor, the injury inside was so serious, far surpassing his injury.

"It's okay, it just looks serious, it doesn't affect anything."

Knight Lanisa waved her hand and asked about something else.

The young hunter listened to what the knight said, and although he didn't know why, he still told the situation.

"It's like this. A few days after you and the others set off, it was his turn to watch the rotation. But somehow, he fell over the edge of the window."

With that said, the young hunter pointed to the wooden windows on the third floor of the sentry tower. The size of these wooden windows is much larger than ordinary observation windows because hunters shoot arrows on them, but it is still a little bit reluctant for an adult to pass through.

But it's not impossible, and it's not impossible to drill through a window of that size.

Seeing Knight Lanisa nodding, the young hunter continued: "When you left in those two days, small-scale wolves appeared outside the sentry tower, and the villagers were a little scared, so I arranged for the three of them to be on duty together at night. But When he fell, the other two dozed off and fell asleep."

"After that, he yelled outside the sentry tower during the day, telling everyone to go out to save him, but a northern wolf rushed out of the woods, bit him and dragged him into the forest. Everyone was scared at the time. It’s broken, no one dared to open the sentry tower to rescue him. Although there were only three wolves at the time.”

Knight Lanisa narrowed her eyes and asked, "You were there at the time, right? And when was it?"

The young hunter nodded, and immediately replied: "I am also there. I was in command of the villagers at that time. He should have been in command of the villagers. After all, he still has some prestige in the village, but he fell down after all. Time , I remember it was already morning, and I could see the outside clearly, he fell in the early morning, probably fell from the third floor of the sentry tower and fell unconscious. Anyway, he was shouting outside the watchtower at dawn."

"snort."

Knight Lanisa snorted, and asked a key question: "Think about it. Are those wolves that were wandering outside the sentry tower and taking him away when he 'fallen' were northern land wolves? I have hunted and killed a lot of northern land wolves, so I should be able to distinguish the difference between northern land wolves and other wilderness wolves."

The young hunter frowned and thought about it carefully before slowly opening his mouth: "What you said is true. At that time, he kept yelling that the northern land wolf is coming, the northern land wolf is coming, help, etc., so the villagers also asked for help." They all talked nonsense about the northern land wolf. Thinking carefully, the wolf wandering outside at that time was indeed a bit small. When dragging him away, it was three wolves that bit his leg together. dragged into the woods."

He pointed to the wound on his hand: "For a hunter like me, the northern land wolf can drag it away on the snow. Well, it is indeed a bit suspicious. It should not be the northern land wolf."

Knight Lanisa fiddled with the hilt of the armor-piercing rapier at her waist, and said nothing.

"What happened after that? He was dragged away, how did he come back?"

"He said that after the northern land wolf dragged him into the woods, he tried every means to break free, then ran all the way in a random direction, and the wolves behind him chased him all the way until he lost his way in the forest. His wolves are missing for some reason."

Knight Lanisa sneered: "Do you believe it?"

No matter how stupid the young hunter was, he knew that this questioning was wrong: "Of course I didn't believe it. But the villagers who came with him all believed this kind of rhetoric, praising him for his life, being blessed by the gods and so on. And I was alone , these days you have to believe it or not.”

Raising her chin covered with mottled burns, Knight Lanisa let the hunter continue.

"After a while, he said that he lost his way in the forest, and he only had a small amount of supplies on his body. It was difficult to survive in the winter forest. After barely surviving, he walked in one direction and came to It’s on the edge of Wumi Lake. After that, it’s just a matter of finding the way and direction to return to our place along the shore of Wumi Lake.”

"What about the time? When did you come back?"

"A few days ago, about five or six days. I came back one night, and the villagers were frightened. Of course I was not frightened. After asking him carefully, I threw some firewood at him from the window of the sentry tower. And kindling, and a hunting fork for self-defense, that's why I opened the door to let him in during the day."

Knight Lanisa twitched the corners of her mouth, but didn't say much.

She tapped the hilt of her sword with her steel glove, thinking.

"Are you back that day? It's so fast." She muttered softly.

Then he turned around: "You know, what I mean by asking these questions. His identity is very problematic, but besides you, don't mention this to anyone else for the time being. I will properly arrange people to solve it later. , but at least not now."

The noisy sounds from the camp under the sentry tower came one after another. Someone took out the fruit wine that was secretly hidden on his body and was not willing to drink it, and dedicated this rare thing here to the hunters who fought bravely.

The villagers didn't make much fruit wine, and the hunters would run out after a sip, but at this moment, the joy of victory was accompanied by wine, which made Keel and the others elated.

Sure enough, victory should be accompanied by fine wine!

At the same time, a special vegetable soup was prepared at the request of the weary hunters. Seeing that the hunters did not want to eat the roasted jackrabbits, the cooking villagers specially stewed a few unroasted jackrabbits into the thick soup.

In any case, the heroic warriors returning from the battle can't eat and drink soup without meat. Such a arduous and dangerous battle, coupled with the cold winter climate, must drink some of the most filling and delicious boiling broth.

Knight Lanisa on the third floor of the sentry tower sniffed, and her stomach rumbled immediately, even though she was wearing a steel armor, she couldn't stop her hungry stomach from screaming.

She shook her hair and said nothing more, patted the young hunter on the shoulder and went downstairs: "Okay, I'm a little hungry too, go down and eat something. Remember, don't talk about these words with other people. "

"Don't worry, my lord, I understand."

The young hunter nodded quickly.

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Knight Lanisa who went downstairs did not cover half of her scalded face this time.

These gruesome injuries frightened some timid villagers, but everyone later respected and admired the young female lord even more. Knight Lanisa also explained how she got these injuries. But she only slightly took care of the burns on her body and half of her body.

Although it is an honor for a soldier to show off her wounds, she is still a woman after all. Even if the church's healing magic can restore the corresponding injuries, she still does not want too many people to know about the damage to her appearance.

Generally speaking, the subordinate hunters and villagers gathered here at the sentry tower camp are considered to be the most supportive of her leadership and rule. If it hadn't been for that incident, she would have trusted these people very much.

Unfortunately.

Knight Lanisa cast a glance at the man in the corner of his sight, and found that the other party was also hiding from her and her hunters intentionally or unintentionally. Cavalier Lanisa guessed in her heart that the other party was also afraid that she would show some lies in their eyes, but it was only now, and after a long time, everyone probably would not be so nervous.

Unfortunately, that person didn't know that her father had already told her the whole story before he died.

Taking a deep breath, the female knight tried not to let herself pay attention to that person intentionally, and kept telling herself in her heart that after returning to Kendall City, as soon as her injuries recovered~www.readwn.com~, she would end this enmity.

Picking up a large silver bowl dedicated to her, Knight Lanisa sipped the thick and delicious rabbit stewed vegetable soup.

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Keel took out a rabbit leg and sent the stewed rabbit leg into his mouth with big gulps. His stronger teeth chewed hard, biting off the rough muscle fiber of the long-eared rabbit leg, and using the molars to bite The gravy contained in the rotten shredded meat was squeezed out, mixed with it and swallowed into the throat.

Phew, it's been a few days since he had eaten boiling hot food like this.

The salty wolf meat is grilled every day, and he was quite satisfied at first, but after a long time, he felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart when he saw wolf meat.

There is no way, killing the northern land wolf constantly, he is often splashed with frozen blood, how can he still have the appetite to eat the meat of these guys?

Northern wolves in winter are quite thin, and often seldom have enough fat on their bodies, so the wolf meat roasted in this way is dry and hard. If the old hunter hadn't soaked the wolf meat in salty brine for a while before roasting them, the taste would have been even more unbearable.

Fortunately, these things have passed.

After so many days of brutal fighting, Kiel felt that he was far stronger than before. Although it is difficult to apply the method of dealing with beasts like the northern wolf to human enemies, whether it is strength or endurance, Kiel felt that he All stronger than before.

"Although the wolf meat is unpalatable, it's not useless."

Keel thought of Knight Crowe asking him to eat more meat in winter to keep his body healthy. Then the northern wolf meat he ate these days can be regarded as satisfying the requirements of Knight Crowe?

Kilmey was thinking about it, thinking about when he would be able to accept the knight-level training promised by Knight Crowe.