Mercenaries and Adventurers

After a day or so of repairing at the wooden sentry tower camp, everyone planned to go south and return to the town.

After all, Lanisa Knight and Hunter were both injured, and these injuries had to be healed by magic at the church in the town to recover quickly. The burns on the female knight were fatal to most people, let alone a long delay.

But Keir was thinking about the secrets he discovered in the rocky mountain, thinking in his heart that the rocky mountain in the middle of the forest was still too far away from Kendall City, even if he rode a horse back and forth later, it would be difficult to get back and forth quickly.

At this time, I went back with Knight Lanisa and the group, and when I came back, I didn't know when it would be. And in his heart, he really wanted to take the opportunity to explore the secrets behind the rocky mountain.

Therefore, when everyone gathered for dinner at night, he offered to bring people back to the rocky mountain in a carriage, and take away the supplies and a large number of metal clips left on the rocky mountain, and then they deal with the buried northern land wolf The skins were dug out and brought back together.

"These actions are risky, you know?"

Knight Lanisa asked while sitting on the wooden pier beside the firepit at the bottom of the sentry tower.

Kiel nodded: "I understand, but it doesn't take much time to take out the leftovers. Fast in and fast out. With the carrying capacity of the carriage, all the people are sitting on the carriage. Counting the time of coming and going, it can take up to four days I'm back."

Kiel's words struck a chord with the young hunter.

Knight Lanisa saw that someone was moving, so she didn't object: "But I have to bring people back. Well, let's do it, as you said, Keel. You take some people and go in a carriage, and I Take people away, first bring the people in the territory back to the village, and celebrate in the village for a day, and then we will return to the sentry tower, the time should be about the same as your return to the sentry tower."

"At that time, we will go south from here and return to Hekou Town together."

She thought it was okay, so she waved her hand and made a decision.

"You pick two people to go with you. Those things are neither too much nor too little. Just avoid dangers. Although there are no convenient roads in the forest, it is still flat. The ground is dry and hard in winter. The wheels of a wagon can go."

So Keel called two young hunters who were close to him, one was Fick who hunted the tenacious lizard with him, and the other was Daeron, the hunter died with Keel on the rocky mountain The companion carved a small stone carving with the meaning of blessing, and the two can be regarded as friends.

Although the other hunters have a good relationship with Kiel, but because Kiel is the youngest of all, although their strength is far inferior to Kiel, they always treat Kiel as a kid who needs to be taken care of.

These two are the only ones who can talk and laugh with Kiel on the road.

So when Kiel called, the two of them stood up and said they would act with Kiel.

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Early the next morning, Kiel and the others set off into the forest in a carriage pulled by two horses.

The carriage was packed last night, and the whole cart was empty, with only some food and firewood for heating, and nothing else. They took two of the three horses away in the cart, and left the remaining one for Lanisa and the knights to let the horse carry the body of the dead companion.

Regarding how to deal with the dead body of her companion, Knight Lanisa did not make a decision, but said that she would take it with her temporarily. After arriving at Wumi Lake Village, she would find a young priest from the Church of the Lord of Lakes and Rivers in the village to deal with it. After the corpse died, some bad changes occurred. After it arrived in Kendall, it was dealt with in accordance with the beliefs of the family members and the deceased.

There has been no snowfall recently, so Keel and the others can clearly see the traces of their previous walks on their frequent trips to and from the rocky mountain.

The traces of the carriage from many days ago can still be clearly identified.

Kiel drove the carriage quickly, because the terrain was flat, and he didn't need to do much. After sitting in the front seat of the carriage, let the two horses follow the obvious traces of traffic at will.

Two good young hunters were sitting in the carriage, using their pocket knives to trim some twigs and attach some extra metal arrowheads to them.

Although there were still some unused spare arrows in the sentry tower camp, and they re-entered the forest to replenish some, but the two of them were also idle, sitting in the carriage and busying themselves.

When they returned after fighting the wolf king a few days ago, they walked exhaustedly in the forest for four or five days before going through the forest and returning to the sentry tower camp.

But now, the horses that have been raised for many days are flying and passing through the forest at high speed. It only took Keel and the others a day, from the dawn of the morning to the darkness of the evening, they went directly to the icy mountain on the east side of the rock. At the pool.

Knight Lanisa mentioned that she saw many northern land wolves freezing to death in the rocky passages of the rocky mountain, so Keir didn't dare to take advantage of the night to rush there. After all, although he likes adventure and excitement, he is not stupid.

A large number of northern land wolves died strangely, and this power is not something he can handle now.

So here at the frozen pool, they settled down, barely surviving the night with the campfire they had left behind.

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Early the next morning, Keir asked his two companions to stay where they were, and planned to go over to investigate first.

If nothing strange happened like when Knight Lanisa went there before, he would take people there to take out the supplies. If he encounters strange and dangerous things that he can't handle, he plans to give up these supplies, and wait until Knight Lanisa comes to pick them up in person.

Even though he couldn't complete the task he asked for, it was better than dying out of nowhere.

Keel walked for a while and came to the forest outside the rocky mountain. It was already morning at this time, and the sky in front of me was overcast, and there was no good weather to see the sun at all.

The flat land around the rocky mountain was still shrouded in a thin layer of strange mist, and Keel felt that it would be difficult for him to find the landing point where they evacuated through the rope escape route if he walked in like this.

Therefore, he walked around the edge of the outer fog like this, and found the entrance to the rock passage of the rock mountain from a distance.

These strange fogs only covered two or three meters of the ground, and they couldn't block the tall mountains at all.

Keir saw the right direction, so he boldly stepped into the fog.

Holding the sword and shield, he was not only ready to resist the attack that he didn't know if there would be in the fog, but also prepared to counterattack.

The thick full-coverage armor on his body brought him enough sense of security, even if it was just not reliable enough.

The flat land around the rocky mountain was not very wide, so even if Kiel slowed down carefully, he quickly passed through the fog that blocked his sight.

But what immediately appeared in front of Kiel was not the entrance to the rock passage that he had expected before.

Instead, it is a gradually rising, tall rocky mountain.

This made Kiel get goosebumps all over his body, and he chanted the name of the church he heard locally, as well as a limited number of names of gods. Carefully inspected the mountain.

However, Keir quickly came back to the taste, remembering some knowledge about the difficulty of human beings to get out of a straight line that he knew in his previous life.

This made him calm down, think carefully, and then walked counterclockwise against the mountain.

After a few steps, he saw through the mist the rock passage reappearing in sight.

"Huh. Scared me to death. I really scare myself the most."

Touching his nose, Keel walked into the rocky passage, and strode up this familiar road that he could no longer be familiar with.

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After passing through the burning wreckage of the first wooden wall, Kiel found what Knight Lanisa had said was the frozen and dead boreal wolf.

He stopped to check a few corpses, and found that the entire northern land wolf was frozen hard, which was not at all like the situation where the ambient temperature should be frozen out.

Lanisa Knight did not say this, and it is estimated that she did not realize this at the time.

Keel tried to use a dagger to remove the skins of these frozen northern wolves, but found it very difficult. To remove the skins, the bodies had to be warmed up first.

It is easy to peel after thawing.

But Keir didn't want to stay in the local area at all, so he didn't have time to do this.

So he left these northern land wolf corpses and quickly walked up the passage.

Walk through the wreckage of the second wooden wall, the wreckage of the third wooden wall, and the wreckage of the fourth wooden wall where the original camp was located. Along the way, Keir also found the frozen corpses of at least dozens of northern land wolves, which made him feel even more uneasy.

But there was no unexpected dangerous situation around.

With the strange environment on the one hand and the peaceful action on the other, Keir felt a little uncomfortable.

In this way, he found the supplies that everyone hid.

These materials were hidden in a crevice on the high part of the rocky mountain, and they were slightly covered with stones. When the stones were removed, the contents inside were still the same as before.

Relieved, Keel didn't move them first, and instead walked towards the top of the rocky mountain.

He grinned, and the exciting adventure began. Because he was with everyone before, he didn't investigate the secrets he found.

Now he is the only one around, no one is watching what he is doing!

Coming to the top platform, the wind here is still very strong, but the field of vision is extremely wide, and the surrounding large forests can be seen at a glance.

Here he even saw a plume of smoke rising from the forest not far to the east, where it was obvious that his two companions were waiting for him.

Without wasting any more time, Keel found the ropes on the edge of the mountain top. He first pulled up the hanging ropes and carefully checked the condition of these ropes. It was found that the situation was fine, and there was no damage caused by long-term outdoor low temperature in winter.

So Keel re-knotted the rope and put it in the groove he had made earlier.

The embellishments felt very solid, so Kiel put away his sword and shield, carefully grabbed the rope and climbed down.

Sliding down the rope, as soon as Kiel landed, he took out a few torches he had prepared from the backpack on his back. Carefully take out the dry grass blades that ignite the fire from the sheltered place on this platform, and Keel ignites it with a flint and steel.

Carefully protecting the weak sparks on the blade of grass with his body and palms, he waited for the blade of grass to emit smoke, and then carefully blew on the blade of grass to ignite the flame. Immediately after that, the torch was moved over and lit.

The simple torch processed with a small amount of fat from the northern land wolf is very resistant to burning and is not easy to extinguish. Keel inserted the already lit torch into the crevice of the rock mass to provide enough lighting for the backlit mountain depression platform.

When he came to the place he had discovered before, Keel found loose stones on the rock wall and shook them from side to side to forcefully remove them from the rock wall. Then just throw the stone aside.

The first few rocks were solid, but as Keel worked them out, the rest of the rocks were easy to handle.

Soon, Keir pulled out a half-human tall passage.

There was a slight wind blowing inside, and it was pitch black.

But Keir was not afraid of the darkness inside, so he picked up the torch stuck aside, with a torch in one hand and a long sword in the other, and turned directly into this secret cave.

Considering that the volume of the entire rocky mountain top is not large, Keel also has a mental expectation of the size of this place near the top of the mountain.

As he expected, the place is not very big, especially the height is not high. After Kiel stood up straight, the helmet on top of his head just rubbed against the top.

Comparing the height, Keel knew that this was the place where the dwarves that the Griffin Rider didn't mention were built.

It is estimated that the entire rocky mountain was made by them, so even the passages for walking in the mountain are handled according to the dwarf figure. If the height of a dwarf is suitable, humans will feel a little short.

But it's okay.

Kiel swept the torch from side to side, and carefully inspected the passage, which was only three meters wide and only for one or two people to walk side by side.

There were some metal fragments on the ground. Kiel picked them up and checked and found that they were just fragments of broken weapons. But soon, he found some on the corpses by the wall of half of the passage.

This corpse only had a headless upper body, no armor or anything like that on its body, and only wore some fur clothing that had been broken long ago. The bones inside the clothing had long been nothing but dry bones.

Kiel, the broad, stubby skeleton, guessed at a glance that it was the dwarf's body, and he was not surprised.

After taking a few glances, he stopped paying attention to the dwarf's corpse, and was instead attracted by the few metal reflections in the corpse. He picked up the long sword and pushed aside the broken and dry bones. After a closer look, he found that it was a strange currency with a square shape.

I don't know what it is made of. It has been placed in such a ghost place for decades. It is obviously a currency thing or the surface is bright and shiny, and it has not changed in any way.

After a little inspection, Kiel took out a burlap bag from the backpack on his back and put the dwarf coins into it.

These coins are obviously not made of gold and silver, they are probably made of some unknown metal, and they reflect an orange-yellow luster as a whole. On one side of the coin is a quaint building that he has never seen or heard of, and on the other side is cast with fine characters and geometric patterns. They are all made of the same material, but it seems that the size is used to distinguish the face value.

The larger coins are much more detailed and even have some corners filled with loose bits of different minerals and cheap fine stones to look quite different. As for the smaller coins, they are basically produced in batches using molds.

Putting the coins away, Keel hung the bag on his waist again and continued on his way.

Afterwards, along the passage that was obviously sloping downwards and curved in one direction, Kiel discovered the corpses of several dwarves. It's a pity that these dwarves who were estimated to be killed in battle had all their equipment taken away. Kiel could only find some coins hidden next to their bodies and useless amulets or souvenirs.

Only some bits and pieces remained, and the rest were probably looted by the victorious knights at that time.

After feeling down about fifty meters or so, Keel came to the end of the spiral downward passage.

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At the end are two broken stone doors that collapsed on the ground. Walking through it, there is a space like a small hall.

The magic is that around the top of this hall, there are some luminous whole stones hanging.

These luminous stones are connected with the built hall, providing the hall with dim light that is not very bright, but enough to see things. Coupled with Kiel's torch lighting, the entire hall can be seen clearly.

There are some low stone benches arranged around the hall, which are obviously for people to sit and rest. They are very low, obviously for dwarves to sit and rest. In addition, there is only a downward spiral staircase in the middle of the hall.

However, to Kiel's surprise, the stairs that had been going down were submerged in the water that filled it, and now the water had already frozen, and I don't know if it was because of the low temperature in winter or something.

This answer is coming soon.

Keel found some fist-sized blue rock **** on the pure frozen ice ~www.readwn.com~ These things are embedded in the surface of the ice, and the surface of the stone material is covered with small unknown lines With the unknown words, faint orchid dark blue light is emitted.

Kiel touched it lightly with the long sword, and a white line immediately ran from the tip of the long sword to the body of the long sword, until it touched the white light of divine power flowing on the surface of the long sword, these extremely cold and icy auras fought and retreated.

This frightened Kiel to take the long sword away from the weird and dangerous thing. Obviously this thing is still working now, and judging by its power, ordinary people will die if they touch it.

This made Keir dare not think about those blue rock balls, even if they were placed on the ice and inlaid.

Keel walked around the frozen spiral staircase and found that there were a total of six blue rock **** laid out on it, freezing the entrance of the entire circular spiral staircase to death.

Kiel carefully lay on the edge of the stairs, raised the torch and approached, looked down through the pure ice, and was startled immediately.

Not far from the stairs, through five or six meters of pure ice, you can see that a whole group of dwarf warriors who seemed to be running up the stairs were frozen there.

"Phew." Breathing out a breath of white air, Keir guessed that this was the exit of the underground passage where the dwarves passed through, but it has been completely frozen by people using presumably magical props. Even the last dwarf soldiers who came to support failed to rush out of the stairs, and were frozen in place by the extremely cold ice water from the top to the bottom.

Thinking of this, he looked up and looked around, feeling a little strange.

Freezing such a deep passage, not to mention the ice, it is obvious that those few magic power items did it, but where did the frozen water come from?

He couldn't figure it out.