Mercenaries and Adventurers

After eating the greasy breakfast prepared by Knight Crowe at the camp cook, he told the two guards of Knight Crowe, and then got into his carriage, He fell asleep soundly.

The other militiamen who had participated in the battle last night, under the arrangement of the logistics staff, each found their own goods in the carriages of the donkey carts, and simply lay down and fell asleep.

Soon, with the dawn, Baron Kendall, who spent the night at the Old Gurov Knight Manor last night, also returned to the camp with his people.

Knight Crowe, who did not fall asleep with him, brought the baron to the wealth harvested last night, and explained to the baron what happened last night in detail.

The baron took over the list given by the logistics staff to quickly count the boxed financial gains. He didn't pay much attention to these. After all, even if it is the wealth accumulated by a chamber of commerce for many years, for the baron who controls the land of the entire county, the value of these wealth is very important. The quantity is nothing more than that.

He only paid attention to the final total amount of wealth for a moment, then put away the list, and listened carefully to what happened last night to Knight Crowe.

So and so, so and so.

The baron sighed: "Claude, you are really good at selecting people. You can pick out young fighters like Keir from the crowd. How about it? Do you want to give him to me?"

Crow Knight stared, and immediately shook his head: "No. This young man has great potential, and I will develop his potential in the future. Maybe he can break through and become a knight by virtue of his own abilities."

The baron's eyes lit up, and he said, "Become a knight? I also have the ability here. Give him to me, and I will invest resources in him. Guaranteed to become a small and powerful knight soon."

Seeing that Knight Crowe still didn't allow it, the baron said to Knight Crowe in a low voice: "You know, I was bewitched by someone a few years ago, and I wanted to raise my title with all my heart, so I made a fat pig and took one of them." Seat. I've always known what people in the city say. You know that too, right? It's a chance for that young, fighting Keel to knock the fat pig's seat out, and no one will say much. People I can only clap my hands and celebrate, and I can also gain support from the citizens on my side."

"snort."

Knight Crowe snorted heavily: "Put away your thoughts. Let Keir accept your 'investment' and become a knight with no future. This can only satisfy your face that wants to fall. Just a chance to get it back. It just ruins him."

"And treating Kiel like this is just replacing that fat pig with a young knight with no potential. It's not good for anyone."

"how come?"

"Why not? At the beginning, that kid might be very excited, but one day he will hate you. If you want to replace that fat pig, why don't you take this opportunity to observe the battlefield more this time, looking for death smelling Wandering knights with a taste, or talk to some knights who are not happy in life, there will always be someone who agrees."

Baron Kendall hesitated after hearing what Knight Crowe said. He felt that what Crowe said made sense. Instead of cultivating and investing in a knight who would always resent him in the future, it would be better to find a wild knight, or a knight whose career was not going well. It felt okay.

Seeing that the Baron was persuaded, Knight Crowe went on to say: "You can even spend a lot of money to recruit one from the knights of neighboring countries, as long as someone is captured on the battlefield later. I believe that someone will always want to replace it." Work. After all, our Kendall is doing alright, isn't he?"

"Of course, its development has far surpassed the surrounding aristocratic territories, but the population has always been smaller. After all, our place is still a bit remote." The baron smiled proudly.

In the end, Knight Crowe took out the magic dagger, Xinhuo, which he seized last night.

Baron Kendall took the thing curiously, carefully looked at the style of the dagger, and then quickly read the instructions for using the dagger written in noble characters.

After he finished reading it, he just smiled slightly: "The work of a certain magician in the east of the kingdom, it seems that he is very cheap, and he should have made a lot of this kind of magic weapon at one time. Look here, Although it is not written in the description, inside the magic gemstone in the center of the dagger, the magician who made it left the date and number of production and his own mark inside the gemstone before the gemstone was completed and infused with magic power."

Knight Crowe didn't know much about these things. After all, he didn't specialize in using these expensive magic weapons. He couldn't compare with Baron Kendall, who was rich and powerful and had magic props all over his body.

He took the dagger handed over by the baron, and turned the dagger to an angle facing the sun according to the baron's command. Sure enough, he saw the information left by the maker inside the most important magic gem of the magic dagger.

"The 93rd year of the Kingdom of St. Halls, isn't that last year? The second batch of No. 12 Heartfire series self-defense daggers, made by the magician-deconstruction envoy Bardos."

The baron nodded and took the dagger from the knight: "This thing is still full of magic power, haven't you tried it before?"

Knight Crowe waved his hand: "Hey, you know, I'm not interested in these soft things. According to the description, it releases magical flames to selectively burn the enemy and its surroundings. How can I use this thing. The long sword is full of life energy , cut it out directly, wouldn’t everything be cut open.”

The baron rolled his eyes and played with this small weapon in his hand: "Find an opportunity these two days, call Rumi, let's find a place to release the magic power of this thing, unattended full of magic The weapon is still not safe, as far as what this broken box can do, let’s find a chance to release the magic power.”

Knight Crowe smiled and teased, "You just got a good thing for nothing, so you have to try it, right?"

"Just say whether to go or not."

"Go, why don't you go, after we leave the territory of Gurov Knight these two days, let's try to find a place in the wild."

-

At the same time, outside Pine Needle Town.

The mercenary Eldo Londeja in a black fur coat silently mixed in the crowd, and lined up towards the carefully inspected gate of Pine Needle Town.

The voices of the small businessmen who came to the town to do business around him came to his ears carefully.

"What's the matter today? The gate is so strictly checked?" A small businessman carrying a wooden box asked his local companion next to him.

The companion looked around and said in a low voice: "Did you hear that there was a big battle in the town last night! Many people died."

The little businessman opened his eyes wide: "How is it possible? How long has nothing happened in Pine Needle Town?"

"Can I still lie to you? I just heard from the foreign merchants at the gate of the town. They live in the open space outside the gate. Last night they saw the army enter the town and kill many people."

"Where did the army come from? Where is the army in Pine Needle Town?"

"I don't know, it's the army anyway. Those businessmen seem to know, but they are very strict, and they probably need money to say so."

Eldo frowned, feeling that things were troublesome.

Unexpectedly, it wasn't just the Scarlet Chamber of Commerce in Dead Leaf Village that was attacked by those people. It seemed that the other party should have visited Pine Needle Town before going to Dead Leaf Village.

And he did the same thing as Dead Leaf Village.

Thinking of what happened last night and what he secretly saw this morning, his hands trembled slightly.

Impossible not to shake, the opponent's attack was fierce, far exceeding his previous expectations.

'Where did the army come from? '

With such doubts in his arms, he slowly lined up and walked to the gate of the town. The other party was able to successfully enter Songzhen Town to start a fight last night. He must have got through with the powerful people in the town, or he himself was invited by those people.

He is still very clear about this judgment.

Now, have to go in and find the evidence. Although he himself is not a member of the Scar Chamber of Commerce, if he can figure out the ins and outs of this matter, whether it is to sell the information later, or to understand carefully to avoid future encounters, he will be able to make a profit.

The team slowly lined up to him.

Facing the gate guard who wanted to see his face clearly, he naturally raised his head.

After the two guards saw Eldo's face carefully, they muttered a few words, and then just about to speak, Eldo directly flicked a copper coin at the two guards.

The guard quickly caught the copper coin flying in the air, and then waved his hand in satisfaction, signaling him to leave voluntarily.

"snort."

Eldo knew these gatekeepers too well, they just wanted money just now. Taking advantage of the personnel of the Yanchaska Chamber of Commerce above, they looked for an opportunity to detain some outsiders, intimidate them, and ask for more money.

But if you satisfy the greedy desires of these guys in advance, they won't make more troubles, they will just let you go. If you stay here for a long time, they still think it's a waste of their time.

Eldor swaggered into Pine Needle Town.

This is a well-known place on the commercial road in the west of the kingdom. The main feature is that there is no strong local lord to manage it.

The weak family members of the old knight lord gave up a lot of power in the town, just to make more money in peace.

Therefore, everything here is mostly discussed by the various chambers of commerce that have settled down.

Naturally, this is also a mixed area where wandering mercenaries, thugs, thieves, and robbers gather.

Naturally, he often came here before. Although he didn't live here, he still knew about it.

Thinking about things in his mind, he looked around and walked around in circles to the street stronghold originally occupied by the Scar Chamber of Commerce.

He couldn't walk in a straight line. For a stranger like him, he would probably be stared at at the gate of the town.

Go away, don't go straight to the place where the incident happened last night, it's just his subconscious trick to avoid trouble.

He stroked the neatly trimmed thin beard on his chin, thinking that he hadn't been a thief for many years, but he didn't lose these skills.

Even saved his life in the battle last night.

The two guys who wanted to poach him were dead, and he was still alive. The way of thieves was not as bad as the partners in the group said.

There were a lot of people on the street, but most of them walked in a hurry, and from time to time they pointed in one direction of the town while talking to their friends in a low voice. When he deliberately bypassed, he heard some words like dead bodies, shops, and Scar Chamber of Commerce.

Sure enough, judging by the actions of the army, the Scar Chamber of Commerce in the town is probably finished.

Based on his memory, he walked through the two alleys in the town. This technique of getting rid of people's stalking was just his subconscious action.

Then he walked towards the street controlled by the Scar Chamber of Commerce.

New skills, before going to the local tavern to ask for information, be sure to see for yourself first. It is only after you have the basic facts that you can tell which tavern drinkers and drunkards are telling the truth, which are exaggerations, and which are just figments catalyzed by the drink.

He didn't foolishly go to the shop near that street to inquire. It would be fine if he was a local. His unfamiliar face would only bring suspicion and vigilance to the other party.

Even if he was just curious to ask.

This is a troublesome thing for a foreigner.

He rented a three-story penthouse with windows in a small hotel across the street formerly controlled by the Ska Chamber of Commerce.

Rejecting the hostel's wife's self-recommended pillow mat and boasting that she was cheap, Erdo closed the wooden door of the house tightly, and then opened the window facing the opposite street.

At the intersection of the street, there are thugs from the chamber of commerce with iron-clad wooden sticks standing guard, and everyone who passes by will be stared at by them with fierce eyes.

And the line of sight extended inward.

The streets were full of blood.

There are blood spilled during the battle, and there are small blood pools where the blood stagnates on the ground after falling to the ground.

However, no corpse was seen. There was only a carriage parked beside the road, and the side of the cargo box of the carriage was dripping with drops of blood.

And those thugs who looked arrogant didn't even look in that direction.

Sure enough, it should contain the people who died here last night.

I just don't know how many people were lost by the two sides fighting last night.

Beside the carriage, a priest in plain robes was kneeling and praying towards the carriage pulling the corpse. It seemed that the other party's prayer would take some time to finish.

Continuing to look up, Eldo noticed that many employees of the Chamber of Commerce were moving goods and goods out of some stores originally controlled by the Scar Chamber of Commerce.

Some chamber of commerce stewards who can count and read are calculating the value of those goods and counting them.

And some potbellied senior managers surrounded a middle-aged man, talking to him flatteringly.

Eldo stared at the man surrounded for a while, taking note of his appearance, and then he noticed that the carriage with the dead body was about to leave, so he immediately turned and walked out of the house, and told the innkeeper to go out for something to eat, Then walk out of the hostel quickly.

The priest of the God of the Dead called an extremely reluctant trade union employee and asked him to drive the carriage towards the church.

The thugs blocking the road hastily moved away, fearing that it would be unlucky for them to have anything to do with these unknown corpses.

unlucky.

And Eldo followed the carriage on foot from a distance, and soon followed to the backyard of the church of the Church of the God of the Dead.

It is located in a remote part of the town, and Erdo looked around for a while, and turned directly to the roof of a tall unoccupied house next to the backyard of the church.

His place is very close to the carriage in the backyard next to him, and the morning sun is not directly facing here, so he can see clearly from a high position.

As soon as the carriage arrived in the backyard, the trade clerk who was driving the carriage seemed to be on fire, threw off the rein and ran away, not even taking the few coins that the priest gave him, without looking back.

The priest shook his head helplessly and took back the money, then opened the back door of the carriage, and then a corpse fell from above and fell to the ground.

The priest plaited the sleeves of his robe, and dragged the corpse to the side of the ground with great effort. He laid the corpse flat, then fetched a basin of water from a well in the backyard, carefully wiped the blood on the corpse with a rag, and smoothed the horrified face and eyes of the corpse with a special technique.

Eldo looked at it for a while, and saw that the priest couldn't finish his work slowly, and he was also anxious. After thinking about it for a while, he came up with some excuses in his mind, then carefully jumped off the roof, tidied up his appearance, and walked towards the backyard of the church.

"My dear old priest, do you need help?"

-

After the sun rose into the sky for a while, Eldo took the dozens of copper coins that the priest gave him, smiled lightly and shook his head and walked back.

He inspected the corpses when they were moving and cleaning them up. Most of them were shot by crossbows. Just like in Dead Leaf Village, all elite soldiers equipped with crossbows.

In addition, those who were killed by spears and long swords were also the same weapons as those soldiers.

In addition, he found that there were no senior officials of the Scar Chamber of Commerce he knew in the town among the dead. Thinking about it this way, those people were probably not dead, and they must have been locked up.

He found a shop to eat something to fill his stomach, and then returned to the hostel to rest for a while, and changed into a new set of clothes that only local small businessmen would wear.

After dressing up briefly, he walked out of the hostel again.

The afternoon is not a good time for alcoholics to go to the tavern to drink, and it is too early to inquire about the news in the morning.

After all, when the real information is spoken from the mouths of relevant personnel and spread to the ears of friends and acquaintances, there must be a chance for breakfast or lunch.

He first found a shop and bought a small bottle of wine, opened it, sprinkled it on his body, and then took a sip, so that people could smell the wine in his mouth as soon as they met.

For details, UU Reading www.uukanshu. He always told his own team members that when going out to inquire about news, in addition to knowing the flow of information on a macro level, you must also pay special attention to the details of these clothes.

If you don't pay attention, although there will be no bad situation, the other party may not say the information you really want to know.

He left the other wine at the door of the shop by the side of the road, and he didn't care who was lucky enough to pick up a bottle of wine that he hadn't drunk much today.

Then, relying on his memory of Pine Needle Town, he found an unremarkable tavern that only locals would go to.

'Drunken Shrimp'

He silently walked into the small tavern, and as soon as he came in, he first asked the bartender who looked at his strange face for a glass of the biggest and biggest glass of ale.

And he also carefully counted the change iron coins that the bartender gave him.

Then he found an unmanned wine table as soon as he entered the door, and sat down at this place.

It seems that the seats here are a bit far from other regular customers, and it seems that he has no intention of listening to people, but in fact, as a "former" thief, Eldo's trained excellent hearing is his guy for dinner.

Even if he sat far away, every move in the whole tavern could not escape his ears.

Slowly sipping ale by himself, and even swearing at someone in a low voice from time to time, vividly and flexibly performing the image of a bad mood drinker.

The drinkers in the entire tavern came and went, and no one even had the slightest doubt about him sitting opposite the gate. No one doubted that he was not a regular customer of the tavern.

Except for the bartender.

But the bartender didn't talk too much, and he quickly became busy with the increasing number of drinkers. He had long forgotten about that strange drinker.