Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel was taken aback by the decisiveness and ruthlessness of Knight Crowe, but that was all. In his previous life, no matter where the official power was, he never negotiated terms with the enemy under such circumstances.

He could understand Knight Crowe's intentions, but he also knew that the knight was superb, and it would definitely be no problem to subdue or kill a few desperate thugs on the opposite side in an instant.

But he didn't.

Instead, with one sentence, the lives of those despicable people were ended, and the lives of several innocent girls were taken.

The crossbow arrows hit the body and the chest are basically fatal injuries, not to say that they cannot be treated, but obviously these people who fell to the ground cannot enjoy the priests' divine healing.

No property, no qualifications.

Not to mention the thugs of the Scar Chamber of Commerce, they are the poor girls who greet the guests with a smile in the red house. They heard that except for a few churches that are too kind, most churches will not treat people like them to heal their injuries and diseases.

It's really sad.

Kiel put down the idea of ​​releasing the white light of the sun god's supernatural power, and hunted with the long sword that had regained its gray blade. He went up and ignored the bleeding from the mouth and nose of the bandits who were lying in a pool of blood and begged for mercy, and touched their necks with his sword.

As for the few poor girls who were left lingering in their dying moments, Keel covered their eyes with blood-stained steel gloves, and pierced their hearts with a dagger.

Knight Crowe has been standing where he is. He watched Keir's actions coldly, without scolding or assisting, and did not express any opinions.

After seeing that Kiel finished off the fatally injured people, the knight waved his hand at his militiamen: "Go, drag all the corpses out, and then call the man who followed Kiel to clean up the shop, and continue."

"Yes, my lord."

Several militiamen with crossbows swallowed, whispered and walked out.

These people shook their hands, as if they always felt that their fingers were stained with the blood of those girls, but that was all. Killing, since they were young, they have heard stories from their elders about migrating from the empire. There is no good or bad in the stories, only the companions help each other and fight against anyone else who extends their hands to them.

In order to migrate and survive, the elders have done a lot of wrong things, and also done a lot of commendable good deeds.

They always say that the cheapest thing in the world, apart from the land and air under their feet, are their migrants who have left their homes.

In order to survive and fight for a value, they can do anything, let alone kill innocent people.

After all, they followed orders, they told themselves.

After his subordinates finished walking, Knight Crowe came over and grabbed Kiel, who was in a low mood.

"Okay, there are still many things to do tonight. Don't look like this, cheer up."

Kiel nodded, letting out a sulky breath.

He put away the long sword and dagger, regardless of the blood still dripping from it: "Everyone who is still in the house, come out, you have seen what happened just now, there is no result tonight with the Scar Chamber of Commerce, and we are not interested in people who are not related. This is a rope, tie your own wrists, go out and let Mr. Plant of the Gurov family identify it, and you can leave on the spot if you don’t have direct contact with the Scar Chamber of Commerce.”

With that said, Keir took out a roll of rope from behind and threw it directly to a clean place next to it, letting those who were still hiding in the house get it by themselves.

As soon as the voice fell, some people came out, not daring to look at Kiel and Knight Crowe, and not daring to look at the many corpses on the ground, and they scrambled for ropes to tie themselves up.

The other girls who lived in the red house threw themselves beside the dead girl, performing "pain and sorrow" with the most exquisite acting skills in their lives. Knight Crowe looked amused, asked where their manager was, as a vague reminder to Kiel, and then walked out on his own.

Although Kiel was the only 'outsider' in the hall before other militiamen came in to clean up the corpses, no one dared to think about anything else.

Someone on the second floor here saw the members of the Ska Chamber of Commerce who were killed by dozens of militias all over the street, so they naturally knew that there was no possibility of turning over at this time.

So the men in the hall all stood honestly aside with disheveled clothes and tied their hands, trying not to let their shoes step on the ominous blood on the ground.

And the girls were crying, and deliberately stained themselves with blood from the ground. They didn't want to tie their hands, because they were still worried that they were half members of the Scar Chamber of Commerce, and they didn't know how to deal with it later. they.

Kiel coughed lightly and said a few soothing words, which made these people tie each other's wrists indiscriminately.

Then the manpower came, took all these people out to squat, and then carried the corpses out and stacked them together.

Keir called someone, and quickly checked room by room to see if anyone was hiding here.

He naturally heard what Knight Crowe said just now, so he carefully checked the possible hiding places here. Sure enough, there was a hidden mezzanine room behind the room where the thugs rested on the second floor.

It was an exquisite room inside, and the aroma of the wine was completely different from the taste of the light ale that outside thugs often drank.

A nearly thirty-year-old woman and a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old young servant watched Kiel and the others vigilantly with daggers in their hands.

The young servant was very frightened, and the dagger in his hand could not be held steadily. On the contrary, the woman was like a female animal guarding her cubs, bared her teeth and waved the red dagger in her palm frequently, threateningly moving towards Kiel. The man yelled, "Don't come here, I'll kill you if you come here!"

Then he changed his face and pointed at the small wooden box on the wooden table in a corner of the room with a seductive tone. There were a lot of gold coins and precious gold and silver jewelry in the small wooden box that had not yet been closed: "There are many The money, you take it away, just pretend you haven’t seen the two of us. Okay? Let us go, and when things calm down, I still have money. It’s the man who was caught by you, where he hid his money. Know several! Let us go, I will tell you all!"

Keir turned his head and glanced at his companions behind him: "Don't listen to her nonsense, let's take the people out and the money. Don't think about anything else, the knight is just outside on the street."

The fellow militiamen laughed and said, "I know, no one thinks much about it."

"That's good." Kiel strode forward. Although he seemed calm, his attention was always focused on the strange dagger tightly held in the opponent's hand.

The red dagger is definitely not an ordinary thing, so be careful.

Seeing the terrified and terrified expression of the woman on the opposite side, as well as the tightly stretched arms that were tightly held, leaving no room for the weapon to swing, Kiel breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this person has no foundation in martial arts, even if It is the most basic dagger that cannot be used correctly in combat.

He strode forward, and the woman still yelled something to stop Kiel, but until Kiel slapped the dagger in the opponent's hand to the ground, the woman didn't do anything else.

"Let's surrender, let's go around us, go around my son, okay?"

The man begged and said.

Keir unloaded the dagger from the hand of a younger boy: "This is not our business."

As if she had a chance of life, she asked urgently, "How should I say it?"

Picking up the unusual dagger on the ground and looking at it, Keir said: "We just kill people and arrest people. What to do with the people who are caught after that is Mr. Plant's business."

"Plant? That coward?" The woman obviously knew Mr. Plant, and she was prejudiced against his senses.

"If it were me, I wouldn't speak ill of Mr. Plant again," Keel warned.

The woman immediately changed her expression, as if the disdain just now hadn't happened at all: "Of course, of course, Plant is the best in the Gurov family, far better than his other brothers and sisters."

Keir sneered: "Mr. Plant may like this sentence, it would be even better if it makes him not think of his eldest brother."

Then Kiel tied the two up, one of the militiamen picked up some heavy wooden boxes, and the others rummaged through the house for a while, finding some letters and documents and a wooden box that could hold a dagger, and of course More coins.

Keir guessed the woman's identity and took her out with her son.

All the found items were handed over to Knight Crowe, but Knight Crowe was only a little interested in the dagger. Other things, letters and the two found were handed over to Plant, and valuable jewelry and coins were brought in boxes. The bag is placed behind the knight's horse for temporary storage.

"The money looks like a lot, but it's actually far less than the cost of your equipment and training." The knight said, and then he personally asked the woman how to use the dagger.

The injured senior executive of the Scara Chamber of Commerce, who was also tied together, wanted to speak out first to please him, but he was injured and was a step behind.

"Master Knight, Sir, there is an instruction in the box of this thing, how to use it is written on it."

Keir handed the matching box of the dagger to Knight Crowe. The knight opened the wooden box and found the description of this thing on the back of the top cover of the wooden box.

The description written in the high-level imperial language was engraved on it. As for the text written in the translation of the common language of the empire in the box, Knight Crowe didn't even read it.

He has worked in the Royal Knights of the Kingdom and the Border Knights of the Empire for many years. Naturally, he can read and write the daily language used by the nobles of the empire.

"Heartfire, made by the magician Wade. Oh, when using it, touch the magic gemstone inlaid on the dagger with your fingertips, point the dagger at the enemy, and say: 'Hot' can release the high heat of ignited objects on the dagger; say Say: "Burst the enemy" can release a dagger-shaped flame phantom six meters away in front of you, incinerate enemies who cannot resist magic fire; open your mouth and read: "Burst flames" can make no difference between the enemy and me. Put the dagger as the center of a ten-meter circle Destroy with fire."

After Knight Crowe finished reading, he looked at Keir and asked, "How did you get this thing from them?"

Kiel broke out in a cold sweat immediately after the knight finished reading, as did the militiamen who followed him at the time, all of them looked scared.

"Just walk over and reach out and pat the ground."

Kiel said dryly.

Glancing at the man and woman who were arguing, Knight Crowe shrugged: "You are so lucky, otherwise someone else holds it, and I guess the whole house will be blown to the ground."

Next to her, the woman was hitting her man with the head like crazy, the senior member of the Scar Chamber of Commerce.

She still yelled indignantly: "Why did you just tell me that this **** thing can only be used in two ways? Ah? Ah? Ah? Otherwise, if you threaten them, my child and I can escape!"

The injured high-ranking man of the Chamber of Commerce was not to be outdone: "What's the use? What's the use? Did you dare to use it after I told you? Ah? It's not just taken away by someone! Besides, you idiot, do you think the bow How many meters can a crossbow shoot? What is a knight?"

"I don't care! It's all your fault! Ahhhh!"

The two fell to the ground, their hands were tied by themselves, so they flew up their legs, you kicked me, and I kicked you.

Very embarrassed.

But Mr. Plant watched with gusto from his horse.

Usually, his opponents with faces in the sky and his mistress's subordinates often show their faces to him, and when they meet in the town, he always goes up to say hello. Unexpectedly, they just invited the army of Linjun Baron who was related to his father's generation, and in just a few hours, they knocked down the pride and foundation of these arrogant guys.

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An hour later, Knight Crowe was leading Kiel and the son-in-law of the Gurov family on horseback in front of dozens of militia troops.

After they cleaned up the streets controlled by the Ska Chamber of Commerce, they handed over the rest to Mr. Plant and the more and more forces in the town who gathered around him and acted according to the wind. However, Knight Crowe still reminded Mr. Plant that as much power as possible should be eradicated from the Ska Chamber of Commerce, and high-level personnel should be detained as much as possible, and then the intelligence can be slowly interrogated. As for the thugs who surrendered under their hands, as the force support of the chamber of commerce, they must all be killed to warn other chambers of commerce in the town.

It is best to discuss what can be done and what to do.

Then everyone led the team, led by the son-in-law of the Gurov family, Mr. Hubirock, towards the village he was originally managing.

On the road, Mr. Huberock needs to keep looking carefully at the road signs standing there at the fork of the road to adjust the direction of the team.

"Okay, don't be nervous. The Scar Chamber of Commerce can't move so fast. It's more likely that they don't know what happened in the town tonight."

Knight Crowe comforted the very nervous Mr. Hubby Rock.

Some chubby Mr. Huberrock kept wiping the sweat from his forehead even in the cool night. It wasn't because he was afraid of the bad consequences of leading the wrong way, but simply because the blood on Kilna, who was riding like him, frightened him.

On weekdays, he also bullied and beat one or two servants who talked back to him or farmers in the village, but these "simple" experiences were far worse than those of a young man whose iron armor was stained with blood.

He couldn't imagine how fierce the battle would be and how many people would have to be killed before a person could be completely covered in blood. Moreover, the metal horns on Kiel's helmet on both sides of his forehead became even more terrifying after being stained with blood. .

Walking with such a person in the wilderness of night, he is already very courageous, otherwise he would have fled away screaming.

"You are right, Lord Knight. You are right. I am guarding the gate of the town. No one has been out just now. We are the first wave of people to come out."

Mr. Huberock's teeth were chattering, and he forcibly raised his head to respond to Knight Crowe's words.

"We're almost there, bypass the hill in front of us that is hidden in the night, and behind us is the village I managed before."

"introduce."

ordered the knight.

"Yes, my lord. The village is called Dead Leaf Village, because there is a tall dead leaf tree in the center of the village, so the migrants who came here earlier called it that. There is a small lake next to the hills in that village, no, a bigger pond There is always water in that pond, and I heard that the bottom is connected to a river in the distance, so people settled there.”

"Get to the point."

"Yes yes yes. Uh, the point, the point. That's right, the village is surrounded by a two-meter-high wooden fence, and there are at least six gates."

Keir was surprised: "So much?"

"Yes, generally speaking, there are a lot of them. However, there are no deadly beasts in our Pine Needle Town area, and there are many business travelers coming and going, so our defenses are a little lax. There are more doors in and out of the village, which is also convenient for the villagers to go to the fields. work."

"Continue." Knight Crowe said flatly.

"There are more than 300 people in Dead Leaf Village, at least there were so many people before I was kicked out by those rude guys. At that time, the Ska Chamber of Commerce brought at least 50 people to seize the village and spent money to buy all the land outside the village. I bought it. It was originally my land."

Seeing that the two people in the same group had not changed, Mr. Shubi Rock continued: "I heard later that they bought those villagers with lower land rent, and then built houses in the village to recruit those who are willing to go out to work with them. Young villagers."

"Then, guess what, how many people might be fighting with us in Dead Leaf Village, which is no longer yours?"

Mr. Shubi Rock counted with his fingers, and then said cautiously: "At least one hundred people. Many of them work for the Ska Chamber of Commerce in the village, and the family members work there. Naturally, wait a minute." They will fight with us. And once they do, those whose homes are in the village will definitely call their families. In this way, only men who can take up arms are considered, and they have less than fifty outside thugs , and at least fifty male villagers."

Crow Knight snorted: "Are you very clear?"

"Hey, my lord. I still keep people watching in the village. Plante usually reminds me of this, and it's not that I haven't thought about taking the village back."

"Well. Then do you know why the Scar Chamber of Commerce wants to occupy a village like this?"

Mr. Huberock nodded, turning around the nervousness before, and seemed to be talking about something he understood: "I am also the president of a medium-sized chamber of commerce, so I naturally know what the Ska chamber of commerce is doing."

"They're just trying to save money."

"Saving money?" Keel wondered in surprise.

Before, he thought that the Ska Chamber of Commerce would have some amazing plans~www.readwn.com~ It turned out that this was the reason?

"Yes, Kiel fighter. Just saving money."

Crow Knight also became interested: "Tell me carefully."

"Controlling a village that is completely under their control can save a lot of money in all aspects. First of all, although they have lowered the land rent of the village for the farmers, it is still limited, and they can harvest a lot of food in autumn every year. Moreover, the grain in this village is completely under their control, and transporting it to other places can affect the price of grain in one place. As long as you don't worry about trouble, you can harvest a certain amount of grain price every year."

He simply explained: "Find a place with loose control, artificially create events and atmosphere, inflate the price of some grains, and then take out your own grains in advance before other merchants react, using more expensive than usual Some prices are sold."

"Secondly, with a village, the source of raw materials for the shop of the Scar Chamber of Commerce in Pine Needle Town can be provided from the village. The food you eat and the cheap local drinks you drink can all be provided directly from the village. This saves a lot of money. .”

"Afterwards, they can also build warehouses and places for people to repair in the villages under their control. Provide safe and free warehouses for their chambers of commerce to store their own goods, and their own caravans don't have to go to Pine Needle Town. , which saves the excise tax on this piece.”

Mr. Huberock shrugged: "The tax inspector sent by the baron of our county in the town dare not go to Dead Leaf Village to seize the goods that have never paid taxes. Even if we all know that they have done many big things in that village. pen transactions. Even some chambers of commerce have joined in.”

Knight Crowe nodded, then pointed forward.

Ahead, beside the shadow of a relatively tall hill, is a village with lights.