Mercenaries and Adventurers

For the militiamen on the same side, the white light in front of them quickly disappeared. With the sound of Knight Crowe's voice, the slightly flustered crowd gathered together again.

The militiaman with a broken spear drew out the dagger at his waist, and in the voice of Kiel's greeting, they chased the fleeing thugs and young people from the village together.

These people had already run away for a certain distance from the overturned carriage blocking the road when Kiel fully released his long sword ability to blind him, but it was still useless. Except for places completely covered by houses, other places where the street can be seen as long as there is a gap, even if some people turned their backs to Kiel at the time, or did not look directly at Kiel, they were still blinded by the divine power in the white light.

These people stumbled and staggered on the empty street, crying and howling looking for a place to hide, while hearing the footsteps of militiamen killing them in groups through their ears in horror.

Needless to say, Keir and the militia with short swords went up and stabbed and hacked, killing those who had stood in their way in the street.

Behind them, the militiamen with spears in their hands were in groups of three or four, stabbing the thugs hiding at the root of the wall to death on the street one by one.

Then they and Keir changed positions under the arrangement of Crow Knight.

Keir and a few militiamen with short swords went to clear the small number of enemies hiding in the yards of farmers on both sides of the street. Many other militiamen first pushed away the carriages blocking the road, opened up the entire street, and then formed an army formation, rushing towards the center of the village with spears in front and crossbows behind.

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"It's over. It's over! That mercenary failed to block the enemy, what should we do?"

Next to the warehouse of the Scara Chamber of Commerce in the center of the village, the last few senior leaders of the Scara Chamber of Commerce located here are gathering here to discuss what to do.

Even if there are loyal and loyal merchant thugs who have been bought around, there are still no less than twenty young people from the village guarding them.

"I think the opponent is coming prepared. We don't even know who the opponent is. We are definitely not opponents. We should retreat as soon as possible!"

"Nonsense! There are so many goods in the warehouse, not only our chamber of commerce, but also a large number of goods stored here by other chambers of commerce! Let's run away, what about those things? Who will bear the loss?"

After finishing speaking, the senior executive of the Scar Chamber of Commerce shuddered, because he knew that once he lost or lost a large amount of goods from other chambers of commerce, those other chambers of commerce who usually flattered them would not only look so kind.

They are all chambers of commerce who come out to run business. Who doesn't have a few friends who are particularly capable of fighting, or are familiar with bandits in some places, or know some friends in the local noble army.

Once such a large amount of goods is lost, not to mention whether the chamber of commerce can still make money by running a business on the road, these old guys, it is estimated that within a year and a half, their heads will be carried and exchanged for money .

"Since you don't run, you can't run, then we will fight each other!"

"What are you going to fight with? The white light that illuminated most of the village just now, don't say you didn't see it. The opponent is not simple."

"Huh, huh. Isn't it magic? It's not like we don't have it. Didn't the guy in Pine Needle Town buy a particularly powerful magic weapon before? Ask someone to hurry over and borrow it."

"What's the use? To collect the corpses for us to avenge? It's too late. It takes three hours to go from the village to the town without talking. And that guy is not with us. Usually, the two sides have made so many stumbling blocks in private. , will he bring someone over to rescue him?"

"If you don't save him, you won't be able to stay here! Hey, yes, he's too late. What about the priest in the village? What did he say? So many farmers were killed by the other party, and there are also believers in the Saturnalia Church, What did he say? Won’t he avenge the believers in the village?”

The member of the Ska Chamber of Commerce pointed to a wooden and stone church beside the village center and asked urgently.

"What's the use of him alone? And with those soft **** from the Saturnalia Church, how can they be used in battle?"

Another member of the Scar Chamber of Commerce regretted his words as soon as he uttered it, because some young people in the surrounding villages immediately stared at them with fierce eyes.

"Shut up, talk less useless. Well, well, say something useful." The chamber of commerce executive looked at other chamber of commerce executives: "Should we surrender?"

The others seemed to be waiting for someone to say these words instead of themselves, and the scene fell silent for a while.

They looked at each other, but no one spoke.

But soon, on a street leading to the center of the village, well-dressed militiamen appeared.

Half of the militiamen immediately turned over and entered the yards and trees facing the center of the village, took out their bows and crossbows, and aimed at the area in the center of the village illuminated by a large number of torches and oil lamps.

The center of the village is relatively open, and the ground is paved with stones that have been knocked into loose stones. There are blacksmith shops, village houses, houses of the Ska Chamber of Commerce, taverns, shops, medical halls, and a large warehouse in the center.

These buildings are built here.

There are two church chapels and a small lush village cemetery nearby.

At this time, a lot of empty wooden boxes were piled up in the center of the village, and there were carriages and trucks blocking all the intersections towards Kiel's attack.

The torches are brightly lit, and it is impossible to bypass the other party's attention and turn in from other places.

There is an open space of more than ten meters in the middle, which should be the open space where the people of the village usually gather, but at this time, it has become the last resort for the people of the Ska Chamber of Commerce to resist the attack of the militia.

Some of the militiamen ran to the side and raised their crossbows, while the rest of the militiamen lifted the door panels that had been removed earlier, and placed them directly in the middle of the street, letting other militiamen hold their spears and hide behind.

Kiel stood in the middle of the road, waiting for Knight Crowe to lead Mr. Huberock over.

The scene fell silent for a while.

The thugs from the Chamber of Commerce gathered in the center of the village and the young people from the Ska Chamber of Commerce in the village looked at Kiel and the others cautiously and curiously. They looked at Kiel, who was covered in blood-red armor, standing in the middle of the road, and saw neatly dressed soldiers either hiding behind the door panels and holding spears several meters long, or scattered in the courtyards of residents on both sides of the street intersection , aiming at them with a bow and crossbow.

Knowledgeable thugs carefully huddled behind one by one bunkers, leaving only young people in the village holding farm tools in a daze, and gathered together, waiting for orders from the top of the Scara Chamber of Commerce.

Although these young people didn't know about the brutal battles that took place in the streets before, they were not afraid of fighting. They were all energetic and vigorous young people, and they didn't think it was a problem if there were casualties in the fighting.

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Several members of the Scar Chamber of Commerce carefully looked at the soldiers on the opposite side from the crowd guarding them. They are all knowledgeable businessmen, so they naturally know what the other party's uniform attire represents.

"Where's the army?"

One person asked the others in a low voice with a sad face.

"Could it be the local baron?"

"Impossible, how can the blood-sucking worm's subordinates be so elite, they are all just looking like they can only set up cards to collect taxes."

"That's not the army of the local baron lord. Where could it be? There can be no other large-scale organization on the old Gurov's territory. The largest number of people nearby is our chamber of commerce. Where are other people organizing it?" manpower?"

Several people were silent again.

"If they're not local, then they're outsiders? Are they attacking us to replace our chamber of commerce and seize power in the Gurov territory? A mercenary group? Or a large chamber of commerce?"

"I hope it's a mercenary group, so we can still talk. If it's a big chamber of commerce, then we'll have to be driven far away, if we can survive."

"It's better to surrender. If you surrender, the things in the warehouse will be handed over to the other party, and the goods from other chambers of commerce will naturally go to the other party. It has nothing to do with us. If the area of ​​Pine Needle Town can't be dealt with, we will take our people and go to other places."

"However, where is Pine Needle Town on the surrounding commercial roads where the management is so loose? It depends on the commercial roads, there must be enough population, and the local management is loose. How long did we choose, several years? Only then did we find this place Make such a good situation. Do you really want to give up?"

"What if you don't give up? You go up and kill the enemies for us? If you have this ability, you will be the master of the chamber of commerce in the future, and you will be the president. The current president will definitely agree."

"I, I'm just talking."

"It's all for this sake, are you still joking? Did you drink too much tonight? Are you still awake?"

"Don't say a few words! Where did I drink? You didn't do it, and I didn't do it. Don't blame me!"

"I don't blame you? Who usually pats their chests and says how powerful the mercenaries and strong fighters they brought in are, and what happened? Gerardo of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Corps, and the archer Lande of the Falcon. It seems The name is very famous, but what is the result? Let the two of them lead someone to stop them, each of them is so arrogant, clapping their chests and saying that they can catch them, the result? The result? Where are they now? Dead? Surrendered alive? Ah? Ah? ah?"

The older senior executive of the chamber of commerce became more and more annoyed as he spoke, pointing to another middle-aged executive of the chamber of commerce who was in charge of security protection and manpower organization to teach him an aggressive lesson.

The face of the middle-aged senior executive of the Chamber of Commerce on the opposite side was extremely ugly. He didn't think there was a problem with his perception of people. After all, those two people were well-known in the nearby area, and their skills were really not small, not mediocre.

The final result became like this. It can only be said that the enemy is very strong, but it cannot be said that he did not do well.

His face twitched slightly, and the middle-aged senior executive of the Chamber of Commerce suddenly pulled out the dagger inlaid with jewels hanging from his waist, and stabbed towards the old thing opposite without saying a word.

This frightened the senior officials of the chamber of commerce. No one could have imagined that while the powerful enemy was attacking, there would be another quarrel between the few of them here, and this kind of thing would happen.

Puff.

The sharp dagger was well maintained, and the slender and tough southern style dagger was very suitable for stabbing, and it was controlled and pierced into the old man's abdomen at once.

There is a special blood-letting groove in the middle of the hollow dagger blade, and a large amount of blood gushes out from the place that seems to have stabbed the liver.

The old man's face turned pale in an instant, and he stretched out his hand reluctantly to push away the mad colleague opposite, and then sat down on the ground.

"Catch him! Catch him!"

"What are you doing? Crazy! Crazy!"

The place became chaotic in an instant, and the thugs around instinctively wanted to obey the orders of the high-level chamber of commerce to arrest people, but soon followed the roar of the murderous middle-aged high-level chamber of commerce and froze in place.

"Stay where you are, and see who I am? Who usually sends you money? Stay where you are, it has nothing to do with you!"

As soon as he said this, the thugs around him retreated back, leaving only some young people from the village who came to watch curiously.

"You are crazy! You killed old Phaidon, the president will not let you go, we will never let you go again."

A high-ranking chamber of commerce at the beginning called the accompanying guards to come over and protect them.

Every senior member of the Ska Chamber of Commerce has at least two guards who can fight. The guards of the old Phaidon immediately fought with the guards of the middle-aged senior members of the Chamber of Commerce. Around the high-level chamber of commerce.

Seeing that there was no one around to protect him, the middle-aged senior executive of the Chamber of Commerce immediately panicked. The killing just now was out of anger, not his own will at all. Seeing that the situation was unclear, he immediately turned around and ran away.

"Go away! Get out of the way!"

He pushed the young people in the village who were watching, and those young people did not dare to get close to the murderer, and they all stepped aside one after another, letting this guy run away in a hurry.

"Chasing or not?"

Some high-level chamber of commerce asked other people.

"What are you chasing after? Now our situation is like this. Where can he run? How far can he run?"

Several people looked at each other silently, and then looked at the old Phaiton who was only breathing out but not breathing in. The other party's blood soon flowed all over the ground, and there was no possibility of life.

"Let's surrender."

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When Knight Crowe led Shubi Rock to the intersection of the street on horseback, the Ska Chamber of Commerce on the opposite side even sent someone to fly a white flag to surrender.

The knight pursed his lips a little bored, and whispered a few words to Mr. Huberock.

After getting the answer from the other party, he sighed.

"Have someone come over."

The knight ordered.

The guy who came to surrender was a personal guard of a high-level chamber of commerce, holding up a white cloth that he didn't know where to pull, and walked over tremblingly.

He didn't notice anything from a distance, but after he walked in, he realized that the soldiers on the opposite side had blood on their spears, and the ground deep in the street was full of corpses of thugs or male villagers.

What frightened him even more was that a warrior in scarlet armor followed closely beside him.

An iron armor that covered the whole body, and the whole body was stained red with blood.

Keir escorted the guy who came to surrender to Knight Crowe.

Kicked the opponent's legs twice, and the guy fell to his knees.

"My lord. We surrender. Please spare us."

The guard who surrendered raised the white sheet in his hand to show the attitude of the people behind him.

"Who do you represent?"

Knight Crowe asked.

"I, I represent the opinions of the senior executives of the Ska Chamber of Commerce. We surrendered, and we are intimidated by your soldiers. We are willing to dedicate everything in Withered Leaf Village to you. I only ask you to spare my master and their lives. And the lives of the members of the chamber of commerce."

"Is there no condition?"

"The masters have explained that there are a large number of goods stored by other chambers of commerce in the warehouse of the chamber of commerce. I request that you return the goods of other chambers of commerce to their original owners."

Knight Crowe chuckled: "Then my trip was in vain? Aren't you afraid that I'm a robber?"

The guard of the Chamber of Commerce kneeling on the ground smiled flatteringly: "My lord, your army looks like a regular army."

Mr. Shubi Rock next to him looked at the situation and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Knight Crowe.

"That's it, I hope you can get something from the Scar Chamber of Commerce."

Afterwards, Knight Crowe waved his hand and asked Kiel to release the man back.

Kiel kicked the man, and the guard of the Chamber of Commerce scrambled to his feet, and ran towards the center of the village step by step, bowing.

Keel saw that after the man passed by for a while, the thugs on the opposite side who were planning to resist all cheered for a while, as if they were not about to surrender, but the battle was won.

And some young people in the village who had gathered to prepare for the battle booed and dispersed from the other side of the center of the village in a dispirited manner, and ran away in a short while.

Knight Crow came over on horseback: "That's good, at least the population of the village won't decrease too much in the future. Of course, I don't care much about whether the people of the Gurov family manage this place well, but the unnecessary killing is actually not a problem. unnecessary."

"grown ups?"

Keel felt that Knight Crowe had something to say, so he asked.

"Remember, Keir. Although knights represent force and violence in the eyes of the people, this is only a small corner of the whole picture of force and violence. Anything that can kill an enemy can be force and violence. But it is just that in this world , There are too many of these things."

"So killing is not an end, but a means. Knights represent force, but they are only a part of the rulers' rule. Necessary but not all."

"I understand, my lord." Keir understood these contents very well.

"Very good, I can feel that you are full of killing intent at this moment~www.readwn.com~So, have you killed fifty people tonight?"

Kil was a little confused, counting with his fingers, there seemed to be more than forty, and then on the street, he let the melee militiamen who followed him kill the enemy.

Mainly when fighting the mercenary wielding a big sword, the shield on his left arm resisted the opponent's big sword more than once. The whole arm didn't feel it at that time, and it gradually swelled and hurt after killing the man.

Now it's hard to move, and it hurts to move.

Keir told Knight Crowe all about the situation.

"The arm is fine. Go back tomorrow morning and let the priests in the team heal you. Of course, for your own good, they can't treat you too much. The exhaustion and pain after the battle are also the source of a powerful fighter's strength. Hope You can understand. In addition, the remaining few people, I will give you a chance to make up later. "

Hearing what Knight Crowe said, Kiel's eyes widened.

"My lord, do you mean?"

"That's right, do you still remember what the Lord Baron and the Gurov Knight mean? People from the Ska Chamber of Commerce cannot stay. Not only must these people be paid, but also a warning must be given to other chambers of commerce that are watching."

Keir continued: "Warn them not to have such ideas and practices as the Scar Chamber of Commerce in the future. However."

"But what?"

The knight turned his head to look at Kiel, who was covered in blood, and asked.

"However, the Gurov family is not strong enough, so how useful is such a warning? It is impossible for the Chamber of Commerce in Pine Needle Town not to see this situation. Can anyone restrain their desire?"

"Then it's none of our business. Get ready. After a while, wait for the young people in the village to leave. Don't leave any of them behind."

"Yes, my lord."