Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel's whole body froze for a moment, but he came back to his senses in an instant.

But fortunately, he himself was wearing thick armor, and no one noticed his small actions, and his complexion was not very good because he had been sleeping in the wild for the past two days. Others can't see anything either.

"Everyone is here, Mr. Worf, you all come here. This young warrior who just arrived in the village said that he was sent by our lord to complete the task. Is he a member of the hunter team under the lord?"

The son of the bearded old man went up to meet the villagers who had just rushed over and asked loudly.

The villagers have all seen Kiel, and they are very impressed with Kiel, a young man who can go in and out of the forest to kill wolves and help the village lord at his age.

So they said one after another: "I have seen him, he is indeed the lord's subordinate."

"I heard from the old hunters that he is still a seasoned monster hunter. Isn't that right Keel? Your name is Keel, right?"

Keir rubbed his nose in embarrassment: "Yes, you remember correctly. But I can't call you a so-called experienced monster hunter. I just cleaned up the slime monsters in the swamp south of Kendall City that affected farm work. That's all."

"Oh!" Hearing what Keir said, the surrounding militiamen and villagers all let out small exclamations.

The bearded old man came over and patted Kiel on the shoulder: "That's not bad. When it's hot in Wumi Lake, there are a lot of slime monsters in the reed wetland by the lake. Every time you go to harvest reeds You have to be careful, if you can, can you wait until next year to find a time to deal with it?"

"There is a chance, there is a chance." Kiel responded perfunctorily with a sneer.

At the same time, he was also inadvertently observing Worf who had been silent.

The fellow was finely dressed in muslin and a woolen waistcoat (clothes, not horse armor). Wearing a cold cotton hat on his head, he looked much better than most of the surrounding villagers who were dressed casually, at most wearing dog fur coats to prevent cold.

After this person came over, he kept looking at Kiel, but his expression was very relaxed.

Keir pondered, probably since the death of Knight Lanisa's father who changed into the wolf king, this man felt that he had no opponent to worry about. At the same time, Knight Lanisa did not say anything at the wooden watchtower by the edge of the forest. , It is estimated that he did not realize that his identity had been exposed.

If this person is really a werewolf, then the hand on his arm that is wrapped in a clean white cloth is probably just pretending to fool people.

Now is not the time, Keel thought, he first scouted the village.

play with him.

With a slight smile, Keir opened his hands and said to all the villagers present: "Everyone, since the villagers have confirmed my identity, then find a place for me to rest, and at the same time, ask Mr. Call the stewards here, Knight Lanisa sent me here for a mission, and I need the support of the village."

Worf, the bearded old man and the old man's son looked at each other and nodded in confirmation.

"I'll get the others. Daddy, you'll go with Mr. Wolfe, Keel, won't you? Take Keel to the lodge and let him settle down there. We'll just be at the lodge to see what Keel is up to." "The old man's son made simple arrangements, and then asked the militiamen who had surrounded him to return to the wall, and at the same time asked the villagers who had just been called to go home, and there was no one else's business here.

The militiamen watched Keir leave with the two curiously, while the villagers complained cursingly, calling them out of the house, just this thing?

Just find someone and it'll be over soon.

Mr. Worf appeased the villagers. He glanced at Keel, who was leading the horse, and explained to them, "Don't complain, it's probably a good thing."

Some villagers asked Worf to say what a good thing it was, but he just shook his head.

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As mentioned above, in order to deal with the fact that the villagers could not go out to cultivate the fields outside the village normally, under the arrangement of Knight Lanisa, Wumi Lake Village specially re-planned all the houses.

All the villagers' houses are next to each other along the village road. The two houses are not separated by a rural yard surrounded by wooden fences, but all wooden bungalows are next to each other.

At the same time, each house has no front yard, and the gate of the wooden house is directly facing the street.

From the looks of it, it doesn't look like a remote village, but rather like a slum with densely built urban buildings.

But there are benefits, of course. The bearded old man next to him talked to Kiel about how much money they had saved from the merchants all these years by relying on the small amount of land in the village.

The old man looked rude, but he also guessed that Kiel's arrival should also be related to Lanisa Knight's confession of the sunken fish in their lake before leaving.

The northern wolf was defeated, and the sunfish kept in Wumi Lake was naturally unnecessary.

Although those carnivorous fish introduced from the church were good at dragging the northern land wolf who tried to invade the village from the lake into the water and devoured them, but these were not enough to eat, and eating the big fish with long bodies all day long still affected them. Fish catches across Lake Umi.

And before the fishing boats were transformed into stable catamarans, they were also overturned many times by fishermen's fishing boats, causing many injuries and physical disabilities.

Wolf guided Kiel to the only inn in the village. Like other new settlements formed by migrants with a short history, most of the important functional buildings were built in the very center of the village.

However, there is a shortage of land within the village wall of Wumihu Village, so the small central square that is common in ordinary villages and towns is gone, replaced by various buildings densely built in the center of the village.

Lanisa Knight's local house, village house, grain storage barn, three-story open drying yard for drying fish, recreational tavern, general store selling common tools, and an out-of-fire blacksmith shop.

There was no building like a defense station for managing village soldiers or storing self-defense weapons, so Keel asked about it.

"Oh, we moved all the things you mentioned above the gate of the village. After all, the walls of the village are high and strong, and it is really easy to build a few houses on it. There are three gates in our village, and the houses for the militiamen That's more."

The old man with a beard familiarly pointed to the direction when he came, and then pointed to a road extending south and a street extending east.

Kiel touched his lips: "In this way, your village is divided into three halves by three roads leading directly to the three gates in the east, west, and south?"

Mr. Wolf interjected at this time, pointing in the direction of Wumi Lake: "It's not three halves, it's four halves. To the north of the village is the wharf and the church, and there is another road extending from here. Originally, there was a road in the distance to the south of the village. A small lumber mill, where the village's timber comes from. To the east there is a perennially windy hillside, on which we built several mills to process the grain."

"The village was developing very well, it's all because of those northern land wolves! They interrupted everything." Finally, he said viciously.

The bearded old man comforted Worf: "Don't worry about those things anymore, the northern land wolf was defeated by our young lord, right? You are still young, and there will be many good days in the village in the future, but I am already old. , In the past few years, I have been messed up by the matter of the northern land wolf."

The old man scratched his already messy beard irritably: "If it wasn't for the fact that my son has settled down here, I would have left the village to settle elsewhere when I was young. Why would I have to direct those young men to guard the village?"

"Fortunately, the county has summoned the militia for training in the past two years, or let me command those stupid boys who can't even hold their spears? Ouch, please spare me."

The hostel in Umi Lake Village is a tall wooden building with three and a half floors that occupies a small area. The streets here are only relatively wide on the main street, but Keel looked around the hostel, but he couldn't find the yard where the hostel kept the foster horses.

He looked at Worf and the old man.

"This hotel, oh, it's called Scattered Fish Scale. Doesn't Scattered Smashed Fish Scale have a backyard for storing horses and vehicles? How should merchants who transport goods stay?" Keel asked a little puzzled.

Worf smiled and pointed to the village house next to him and said, "The village house in the village has a fairly decent yard, where someone takes care of the horses and vehicles. Keel, you hand over the horses to me, and I'll help you store them for foster care. There The people who are here will definitely be able to take care of your horses and feed them well."

Keir also nodded with a smile, and then unloaded the two material bags carried by the horse, as well as the simple tent and other things, and then handed over the reins to Mr. Wolf.

"This horse is not picky and can eat anything, but it has been exhausted in the past two days. Please tell the groom to feed it more. This money should be enough for you."

Keel took twenty copper coins from his purse, and put a handful in the empty pocket next to the saddle.

Worf didn't shirk, and led Keir's horse to the nearby village house not far away to store the horses.

Keel and the bearded old man walked into the hostel called Scattered Fish Scale holding the traveling items on the ground. The hostel looks relatively small from the outside, but when you open the door and walk in, you find that the interior space is still very large.

The wood harvested from the southern forest allows this hostel to make the house tall, and the height of each floor is very good. According to Keel's visual inspection, it is at least three meters high.

On the first floor of the hostel, there were some wooden tables for travelers to eat, but he didn't smell the smell of wine here, and there was only some aroma of boiled food in the air.

"Amy, open the best house for this young man who came from the south alone. Besides, the other stewards of the village will come over later. Go and light up the lights in the hall. How does it look so dark here?"

As soon as the bearded old man came in, he yelled at a young woman who was cleaning.

The other party probably knew the old man very well, so he glanced at Keir curiously, and then took out a brass key from the wooden cabinet on the wall facing the hotel hall in the kitchen.

"Here. There is only one key. Please don't lose it. It is very troublesome to make a key." The woman named Amy handed the key to Keel, but Keel was holding the luggage in both hands and couldn't move his hands. .

She carefully stuffed the key into the gap of Kiel's armor, and took the opportunity to touch the surface of Kiel's armor.

"Isn't it very cold and hard? It's not like what other people said, the armor has nothing to do in winter."

Keir was a little confused, but the old man next to him squeezed Amy with the luggage he was holding in his hand: "Don't listen to those bad boys talking nonsense, this is cowhide armor, not metal armor, how can it be cold? Yes. Hurry up and lead the way."

"Oh." Amy suddenly touched the chest of Kiel's armor again, and then ran up the wooden stairs next to the hall in a hurry.

Her voice came from above the stairs: "The best room is on the third floor Oh, Grandpa Corydon, be aware that the stairs are steep, be careful when you go up. You are the same, by the way, my name is Amy, what is your name Name? Little brother in armor."

"Keele, Joe-Keele. My friends call me Kiel, but I'm not too young."

Keir complained, and followed the two of them up the somewhat steep stairs to the third floor.

The bearded old man Coryden walked in the middle and nodded: "It is indeed not young. As a soldier, you must be qualified, and even far surpassed most of the militiamen."

Arriving on the third floor, Amy was already waiting at one of the two wooden doors on the third floor. At this moment, she pulled out a gray linen rag from her waist in a hurry, and quickly wiped the dust on the edge of the wooden door .

Keir put down the salute and backpack in his hand, took out the key from the gap in the chest armor, and inserted the brass key into a brass lock of the same material hanging on the wooden door.

click.

After half a turn, the lock clicked open.

Pushing open the door and entering, Kiel first put the lock and the key inserted in it on the wooden table next to the door, looked it over, and found that the space here is still very spacious, but the window is not open, and the room is a bit dark.

Amy squeezed away Keel, who was in the way, and rushed to open the wooden window of the house. The cold wind blew in, and at the same time, the faint smell of vacancy in the house was blown away.

Taking advantage of the skylight outside the window, Amy took out the lamp base of a delicate reflective lampshade from the wooden cabinet next to the bed, and checked how much kerosene and hemp wick were in the lamp base. Then he took out an ingenious mechanism made of flint and steel from his body, and rubbed it in his hand. The dry animal hair on the mechanism was immediately ignited by sparks.

Amy quickly moved the little animal hair to the wick of the lamp holder and lit it.

The reflective lampshade of the silver-plated lamp base is a scallop shell shape, and when the wick is touched, it immediately illuminates the whole room.

Amy then closed the wooden window next to her, and then took out a set of animal skin bedding from the wooden cabinet, and laid them neatly on the bed in the middle of the room.

On the other hand, Kiel moved all the luggage into the house, put the unimportant things on the ground, and put the backpack on the wooden table by the door. "Mr. Corydon, please go downstairs and wait for the others in the lobby of the hostel. I will go downstairs immediately after packing up my things."

"Young man, hurry up, by the way, what do you want to eat later? Let Amy's parents make some for you." The bearded old man Corydon asked, patted his stomach.

Keel guessed that Amy's parents, who were so busy, might be the owners of this hostel. On the one hand, hostels and hotels of this size are owned by one family, as are most pubs. After all, the scale is small and there is no need to invite outsiders. Come and pay to work.

"Is there any meat? I am training my body recently, so I should eat more meat. Money is not a problem, I still have the money." Keel took off the cloak he was wearing, opened the wooden window again, and faced the wooden window. The window shook violently.

"Okay, I hope you like fish. We have the most fat and big fish in Wumi Lake Village." The old man called Amy and limped downstairs.

Amy's voice could be heard outside the door.

"Let's stew a fish, a whole fish, I want to eat it too."

Then came the old man's voice.

"Okay, how about eating fresh fish? Let your father go to the north to ask for a fresh fish, and say that I asked for it to entertain the lord's soldiers."

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Keel shook the cloak, shaking off the ashes and dead grass stalks. Then he closed the window, and the wooden door.

He took out a wooden brush from the luggage to brush the armor on his body, and swept away some debris in the gaps. Afterwards, Kiel took off his helmet and hung it on his right waist.

Hanging on the left back was the elf shield that the craftsman of Ganner had repaired the leather of the shield. Kiel took it off and put it aside, and then left all the things in the salute, including the wooden spear, in the house. Take out the documents that Knight Lanisa gave him to hunt down the sunfish.

As for other important documents, he rolled them up and hid them inside the chest of the armor.

He doesn't think it's safe to put it in other places where he can't see it, so it's better to carry it on his body.

After checking to make sure that all the luggage was put away, Keel blew out the wick in the lamp holder, went out and put the lock back on.

The key is placed in the purse at the waist.

By the time Kiel went downstairs to the hall, some village stewards or people who could talk had already arrived.

Kiel didn't keep the people who came first waiting any longer, and directly showed the letter from Knight Lanisa sending him to deal with the sunfish.

"It's a letter from the lord. It has her family's heraldry seal on it." A tall and stout middle-aged man checked the letter carefully, and then said.

"This is the original owner of the lumberyard in the south of the village. He and his fellows cut all the wood in the village with one axe." Corydon, the bearded old man, introduced the people who had arrived to Kiel.

After the man read the letter, he nodded at Kiel: "Young man, I am Braun, the head of the lumber camp. You can start working again! Everyone, the lord said before that she will lend me a sum of money to re-operate the logging camp, and everyone can order wood from me now."

Other people who could talk in the village who came one after another came to Browne's side and asked him directly when the work could start at the soonest.

The bearded old man Corydon curled his lips, and directly captured a little old man who was slightly younger than him, and with the other hand, he captured a middle-aged man~www.readwn.com~Lake diver Boss, His family has four fishing boats, and their help is indispensable in dealing with capsized fish. "Then let go of the little old man, patted the middle-aged man caught by him and said: "Will, the head of the fishermen, I asked him for today's fresh fish, and can also help you deal with those annoying sunfish. "

Kiel made a friendly gesture with the two, and both of them also got to know Kiel friendly.

At this time, a church priest in his twenties walked in. Judging from the simple robes on his body and the appearance of the gods and runes sewn on the robes, this man must be the Lord of the rivers and lakes believed by the local fishermen. The local priest.

As soon as he entered the hotel lobby, the others unconsciously lowered their voices. Obviously, although the other party was young, everyone respected him very much.

Keel did not need Corydon to signal, and immediately saluted him as a sign of respect.

After all, Knight Lanisa made it clear before she came that the other party is Kiel's final safety insurance for this trip. If he couldn't deal with the werewolf Rufu-Wolf, the priest of the natural **** would deal with him from the letter written by Knight Lanisa.

It has been a long time since Keir came to Kendall County. He knew from many local residents that although there are only a few priests in the county, the gods love them very much. Strength. With the power of the gods, changing the natural landscape is not a problem.

Moreover, he also heard people say that these priests of the gods of nature are all a family.

The one in front of him is the son of two pastors and pastors of the church in Kendall City.

Damn, they are all the second-generation rich, second-generation knights, this one is lucky, he was directly born as the second-generation high priest.

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