Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel came to his carriage and tent, and took off his sweat-soaked clothes and hard cowhide armor.

The temperature rises quickly in spring, and the night is cool, without making people feel chilly, so Kiel simply put on a linen singlet, wrapped it around his waist with a rabbit leather belt, and hung up the captured hand crossbow and dagger , walked out of the tent and turned to the Crow Knight camp next to him.

Nodding to the guard sitting on a small portable chair at the door, Keel waited at the door of the tent, waiting for Knight Crowe to tell him to go in after being reminded by the guard.

There are various rules in the camp, similar to when facing a big person, you must first notify and get permission from the other party before you can enter.

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"My lord, Kiel is here."

After the personal guard entered the tent, he whispered to Knight Crowe, who was wearing a light samurai uniform.

"Let him in."

"Yes."

The personal guard turned and lifted the cloth curtain of the tent, waved to Kiel who was standing outside, and signaled him to go in. Then the guard himself sat on the folding chair on the ground, humming the little tunes sung in the Kendall tavern, spending another boring night leisurely.

Keel walked in and said hello to Knight Crowe who was sitting upright.

"Sit down, sit down and talk."

The knight pointed to a chair beside him.

Keir moved over a chair, unfolded it and sat on it, honestly looking at the serious Knight Crowe, ready to enter the road of knighthood.

"It was agreed at noon. After you pass my test, I will officially lead you into the path of becoming a knight. Let me ask you again, are you ready?"

"Ready." Kiel replied affirmatively.

"Very well, then I will tell you how an ordinary person can become a knight."

Knight Crowe picked up a wooden doll from the side, and looked at the dagger and sawdust on the table. It was obvious that Knight Crowe had cut this thing out, and it was specially prepared as a teaching tool for General Kiel.

This wooden puppet was cut very delicately, and except for the faceless face, the body structure of the whole person was cut to look decent.

The knight placed the small wooden puppet on the ground between Kiel and him, then took out a clean branch, pointed at the puppet on the ground and spoke.

"First of all, you need to know that everyone has a different view on one thing."

"I see."

"It's good to understand. Don't feel that you will blame me for being wrong when you see what others say. Let me first tell you about the source of knights recorded in the army when I was in the kingdom's army."

Kiel quickly pricked up his ears and listened intently.

"As you may know, our Kingdom of St. Halls is basically a new kingdom formed by immigrants from the empire. Naturally, the army of the kingdom also comes from the army system of the empire. The backbone of the army, hundreds of knights , naturally developed from the knight system of the empire. Basically, there are not many changes, and it is even said that because the gods promised us humans from a foreign race, the land here is wild, and the number of monsters and warcraft is far more than that of the empire. "

"The knights of our kingdom have become more brutal and rough in the past few decades. There is no imperial knight inheriting the exquisite elegance when they first came to this land. So what I say now, most of them are passed down from the empire. here."

"The empire has been going for more than seven hundred years, and the knight system as a whole has not changed much. It is basically some of the most powerful and effective combat systems that survived the chaotic period before the establishment of the empire. Kiel, you You may be curious, the natural empire is not the creator of the knight combat system, so where did they come from?"

Keir nodded sharply, obviously Knight Crowe asked his doubts.

"That was created from farther back."

"The knight training method from the empire system said that the original knight was a training and transformation method developed by those magic emperors in the ancient magic empire period for the purpose of ruling."

"Ancient Magic Empire? Magic Emperor?"

Kiel was a little puzzled. He had never even seen the current empire with his own eyes, so he naturally didn't know what an ancient human empire that only existed in history was.

"Don't look at me, I don't know what it is. Anyway, it was a huge country made up of human beings a long time ago. It seems to have existed for a long time. Many lands today were fought with alien races at that time. This Clearly, due to the demands of war and dominion, those who rule need a high-level warrior who can consistently emerge from the common people."

"Today's knights are warriors specially researched by the rulers at that time for the needs of combat. The warriors who were not knights at the beginning were naturally just in their infancy. As far as I know, there were no warriors at that time. The beasts they ride are purely infantry. Of course, this is ten times or a hundred times more powerful than an army composed of ordinary people."

"During the long development process, those warriors rode various mounted beasts capable of long-distance raids, and differentiated their differences through various weapons, positioning them as knights for various battle needs. For example, some who are good at shooting are Bow knights, those with some skills and assets are even more powerful, and they are called magic bow knights."

"There are also some who are good at close combat with short weapons, some who are good at fighting with long weapons more than ten meters long, and some who fight with magic wands that can automatically release magic."

Speaking of this, Keir immediately thought of Baron Kendall who was not far away at the moment. Although the other party didn't know if he was a knight, but the other party did have a magic gem scepter inlaid with gems.

Seeing the sparkle in Kiel's eyes, Klau Knight guessed what he was thinking.

"Yes, Lord Baron, his weapons include daggers and magic wands that can release magic, and he himself has the most basic knight strength. Well, how should I put it, although he is not my opponent yet, he has far surpassed The strength of ordinary knights. In other words, he himself is far more difficult than this army."

Kiel was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect Knight Crowe to say that.

He walked around the tent, and although he looked at the surrounding decorations in the tent, it was obvious that he was looking at the sleeping militiamen around him. Unexpectedly, the hundreds of militiamen that Kiel has always thought are very powerful, actually think that they are not as difficult to deal with as the heavily armed Baron Kendall.

"Hehe, is it a little uncomfortable? Some can't accept it? Are there more problems?"

Keel nodded.

"Let's put these questions down first, and let's continue talking about the history of the Cavaliers."

"After many years and many generations of development, the knights have become like a huge flower, with various flowers blooming on the branches. But obviously, today, the vast majority of knights still use Melee weapons, and some long weapons that are not particularly long. Don’t ask, the reason is very simple, that is, this kind of knight is the least difficult to train, requires skills and training costs, and the cost of arming is the lowest.”

"Compared to the cost of an army armed by ordinary people, and the cost of training and arming knights, the resources used are fundamentally different."

"That goes on to the key points we should talk about today."

Keel perked up.

"Ordinary soldiers, what do they usually consume when they are trained?"

Seeing Knight Crowe's question, Keir immediately replied: "Food! Water! Leather pants, shoes, steel!"

Knight Crowe nodded: "Food, grain and meat. Water is indispensable for everyone. As for the things you mentioned, in the eyes of the ruler, they are wood and leather goods, iron and fuel. In addition, there are also There are cooks who cook, craftsmen who make weapons and equipment, and personnel who train."

"And Kiel, what does it take to train a knight?"

It is difficult for Keir to answer this question: "Uh, water! Everyone must drink water, right? There is also food, as you said, food and meat. Trained personnel! Yes, there must be This. Let me see, there must be beasts and steel."

"Gone?"

"That's all I know."

Knight Crowe shook his head and nodded again: "Then what do you think, what makes a knight change from an ordinary person to a strong man who completely surpasses ordinary people? What allows them to have monsters like farm cattle and ferocious beasts?" What's more strength, and physical strength far beyond the average person?"

"Um, it's the kind of energy that I've seen before you that can emanate from the body and then explode with a bang."

Gere imitated a movement of a light ball that the knight had released the second time he met Knight Crowe, on the farm outside Kendall. The light ball exploded, instantly killing the flies flying in the cowshed and stunned the quacking crows.

"That's right, but where did that thing come from?"

Keel shook his head.

Knight Crowe tapped the wooden doll on the ground with the branch in his hand.

"Is it the power that humans already have?"

"The wording is inaccurate, but it's not wrong. This power itself is human's own, but it's not innate. But as I said before, the ancient human rulers, in order to need more powerful fighters, started from ordinary It is something that is transformed and trained in people."

Knight Crowe lowered his eyes and said silently: "In order to obtain a wide range of fighters, the ancient rulers transformed all human beings. As long as some resources are invested and trained, they can appear in batches at the earliest. knight."

"When I was studying, the book and the training instructor said so. Every human being today has undergone some transformations long, long ago."

Kiel held his breath and listened quietly to Knight Crowe's words, and then said softly: "This is a good thing, isn't it?"

The corner of Knight Crowe's lips curled up: "It's a good thing for us, but it's not necessarily true for the people of long ago. I can imagine what it was like just by thinking about it."

"Speaking of which, what do you think makes the knights have such a convenient ability?" As he spoke, Knight Crowe spread out his palm, and a khaki-yellow light began to radiate from his palm, followed by a surging ball of life energy Floating on the open palm of Knight Crowe.

Keir looked at the ball of light, and he knew at a glance that he would die in an instant when that thing hit him. There is no other possibility.

Shaking his head, Keir doesn't know what is the reason that allows people to have this ability to go beyond the norm.

After all, most people can't lift another person with the same weight as themselves, and their strength is much inferior to that of many animals.

Due to the lack of food, many farmers generally have vision that cannot see far or clearly at night.

Knight Crowe slowly put away the life energy he released, and then said the answer: "It's a monster."

"Warcraft?" In an instant, Keir recalled a lot, especially after Lanisa Knight defeated the spider-shaped monster before, Knight Crowe sent someone to spend a long time transporting the defeated monster's body back to Kendall City. .

"Can the corpses of monsters be used to train knights?"

Knight Crowe smiled: "Of course. As creatures that are born with strange magical powers, after the body tissues of those monsters are eaten by humans, they can stimulate the human body to generate more life energy. And these life energies are That's why the knights are so powerful."

"Of course, production is not the same as utilization. If ordinary people only eat monster meat, at most they will be too healthy, but it will be harmful and will not live long. Only the knight's special method of controlling the use of life energy can release these life energy. Accumulate in the body and gradually transform our original body."

Knight Crowe made a movement to stretch his arm muscles.

"Then now?" Keir was extremely excited, and couldn't wait for Knight Crowe to start teaching him the ability to control the life energy in his body.

Seeing what Keir was thinking, Knight Crowe's face became serious: "However, this learning method is different. I only know the military method, which is rough and simple. You have to endure the danger and pain in the process. Do you understand?"

"clear!"

"Then let's get started. Today, let you personally experience what the life energy in your body is."

After finishing speaking, Knight Crowe stretched out a finger, and sporadic life energy gathered on the finger.

"Each person's life energies are different. They are highly individual and territorial. Simply put, my life energy is for me a source of strength that supports me, but for you it is a source of strength that attacks the body. Alien invaders."

"Using a metaphor, your body is like a territory that you decide on your own, and your life energy is like the people living in the territory. However, your place is too primitive and backward, and it is still as tribal as a savage. Neither you nor your subjects are aware of each other's existence."

Just as he said this, Knight Crowe tapped Kiel's forehead with his fingers, between the eyebrows.

boom!

Kiel felt as if a bomb had exploded in his entire consciousness, the hair all over his body exploded, and his eyes unconsciously looked towards the center of his eyebrows, forming a pair of corns.

His face turned pale in an instant, and then quickly turned rosy with the sound of his breathing gradually getting heavier.

These are just the obvious physical conditions of Keir, and what surprised him even more was the fresh experience he suddenly felt at this time.

From near the center of Kiel's forehead where Klaue knight pointed, Kiel clearly felt the breathing and contraction of the pores on the skin, the existence of subcutaneous blood vessels and the muscles of the head and face, and had the first sexual encounter with them. communicate'.

The skin and muscles near his forehead complained to him of the attacks and aggressions of outsiders. Kiel seemed to be able to feel that from the place where Knight Crowe's fingers touched, the extremely rare khaki light spots were moving from the point of contact to Kiel's skin and beyond. The underlying musculoskeletal movement penetrates.

Although those khaki rare life energies are not much, they are extremely powerful in combat. They can only let the opponent freely shuttle through the barrier of the skin, the barrier of the muscle layer, and swagger through the barrier of the skull, directly touching Kiel's brain.

This made Kiel's brain also perceive great danger. They yelled at Kiel's consciousness, accusing Kiel of not avoiding the attack, making his body like a public toilet, and the life energy of Knight Crowe Come when you want, leave when you want.

"Kill, can you hear me?"

Keir was about to nod, but as soon as the idea came up, Knight Crowe seemed to know it. He continued: "I see, you can hear me, that's fine. Let's move on."

Keel immediately focused his consciousness, regardless of the shouting of a part of his brain and skull muscles and skin to his consciousness.

"Feel it? Your body."

Keir thought, and he really felt that those guys are simply unreasonable. Obviously they failed to block the small amount of life energy output by Knight Crowe through contact, but they blamed him entirely. It's really unreasonable rationale.

"Never mind the information your body sends you. Your body is not supplemented by monster meat, and the thin life energy in your body can't block anything at all, and it's useless. Just feel them with your heart, especially To feel when my life energy breaks through the obstacles of your skin and other body tissues, what resists~www.readwn.com~ Haha, what resists is your savage 'leader', your life energy."

"Find them and get a feel for where they are."

"I'm doing it." Kiel still spoke.

"Very well, now I'll change places and extend your left hand."

Kiel stretched out his left hand, and Knight Crowe withdrew his finger on Kiel's forehead, and then tapped gently on the palm of Kiel's left hand.

It's still the same feeling, but not as clear as it was on the forehead, but Keel's expression and eyes are back to normal. He stared closely at his left hand, he could feel the feeling of being invaded by the life energy of Knight Crowe on his left hand, and there was still a small amount, a part of his own life energy, doing completely useless resistance.

It's like the expedition fleet of Western Europe during the great voyage, crossing the ocean and coming to the land of the backward tribal kingdom in America.

His life energy completely spontaneously gathered to resist the aggression of the extremely scarce life energy of Knight Crowe.

Flat out.

"You know, this time is actually very dangerous. If I slightly increase the output of my life energy, your body will be killed immediately. Because you look strong and young, but in fact, at the level of life energy, you Just like a newborn baby."

"Concentrate on controlling them. They are your subjects, tell them to disperse and don't make unnecessary sacrifices. After all, you know I won't hurt you, but they will only rely on instinct to resist outsiders who appear around them."

According to what Knight Crowe said, Kiel stared at his palm, and in the twitching of the palm muscles, he let his own life energy try to defend the territory to disperse over and over again, so as not to make unnecessary sacrifices.