Mercenaries and Adventurers

I don't know if his idea is really useful, anyway, he slowly felt that the life energy of his own family that was still resisting the 'invasion' of the life energy of Crow Knight on the palm of his left hand suddenly ran away as if fleeing from danger. , hiding deep in the bones of the palm.

Without the spontaneous resistance of his body, Kiel's entire left hand fell.

However, Knight Crowe didn't intend to hurt Kiel, so his left hand didn't change except for a slightly khaki-yellow light.

Knight Crowe told Kiel softly that Kiel's left hand is already very dangerous at this time. As long as he himself controls his life energy a little and exerts force, Kiel's entire left hand will explode.

"Therefore, knights use more weapons to directly destroy the opponent's body in battle, rather than this very dangerous method for both of them to compete whose life energy is stronger, fiercer and more flexible."

Kiel nodded, remembering what Knight Crowe said in his heart.

Then Knight Crowe changed his fingers a few more places, left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot, left leg, right leg. When Kiel's body was reached, what worried Kiel still happened.

"Where's your heart?"

Knight Crowe opened his eyes wide, staring at the center of Kiel's chest in disbelief.

As soon as his life energy passed away, after specifically avoiding Kiel's spontaneous life energy, when he was wandering in Kiel's chest, he found that there was no heart in the middle of Kiel's chest.

"How is it possible? Keel, where is your heart? Where did it go? What keeps you alive?"

Knight Crowe asked sternly, while staring into the eyes of Kiel on the opposite side. His brows were tightly wrinkled, and his other free hand directly grabbed his weapon.

He can draw out his weapon at any time and kill the heartless young man in front of him.

Is it really human?

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Kiel murmured, not knowing what to say.

Seemingly seeing that Kiel had something to hide, and that he didn't have the violent desire to have his secret information known, Knight Crowe's frown gradually loosened, and his hands were no longer on the handle of the weapon.

"Little Keel, tell me. What the **** is going on with you now?"

Knight Crowe asked again with soft but extremely firm words.

Keir trembled, because he heard from the other party's words, if there is no answer at this time, or an answer that Knight Crowe can approve.

He is about to die soon.

Seeing that Keir still didn't speak, Knight Crowe's face gradually calmed down, but his whole body quickly released surging life energy from his body.

A khaki-yellow light shone from his body, illuminating the entire interior of the camp in a khaki-yellow color.

Seeing that Knight Crowe was about to make a move, Kiel closed his eyes, opened his mouth and said slightly: "I say, I say."

The atmosphere stopped for a moment, but then Knight Crowe no longer increased his strength, but retracted the fingers that were poking Kiel's chest, put his fists on his waist, and then bumped his fists slightly, a ripple from both hands The place where the punches collided spreads out.

A semi-circular khaki halo enveloped him and Keir, and with the support of the life energy provided by Knight Crowe, it never dissipated.

"Go ahead. I want to hear the truth."

Kiel nodded, swallowing.

"Things are going to start from Doral Forest Village."

"Huh? Doral Forest Village, is there any problem? I remember that the old knight managed the place very well. He has a group of loyal partners, and his younger brother sits in the manor near the village."

"Yes, but I heard a piece of news before Kendall City. There is a very ancient ruin in the southwest of Dolarin Village."

"continue."

Hearing this, Knight Crowe's face flashed with doubts, but he seemed to remember something. He rubbed his neatly trimmed beard with his palm and listened quietly.

"Well. After I heard about this incident, I made a special trip to Doral Forest Village, which I had never been to before. It just so happened that while investigating the ruins, I also helped the village solve their recent troubled Goblin settlement. "

"I heard about it. Tell me about the ruins, what does it look like?"

"It's just that the outside is very ordinary. Aren't there many high and low hills there? Between two slightly longer hills, there is a small valley covered by the hills. There are several very large petrified tree stumps inside."

"The petrified stump, is it huge? How big is it?"

"Tens of meters wide, right? Anyway, the center of the stump is hollow, and it looks like several big houses can fit inside. Anyway, after I found it, I looked at it all. Only the news said that there was something different inside the stump, and the rest The stumps are very common."

"continue."

Knight Crowe calmed down, and at the same time, the life energy on his body was gradually weakening.

"Oh. I just managed to climb in. It's quite deep inside. There are many bats living in the gaps inside, and the hollow inner bottom of the entire petrified tree stump is filled with feces of those bats. But it doesn't smell bad. , It seems that it has been a long time, and those things have also turned to stone."

"After I went down, I found a hole attached to the interior near the bottom. It was a passage leading to the interior of the underground."

Knight Crowe folded his arms and listened to Keel.

"So, in that ruin, what took your heart?"

He guessed.

Who would have thought that Kiel waved his hand: "No, no. The ruins were safe at that time, and there were no defenses. I easily explored the entire ruins that went deep into the interior. The inside is very big, and the passage leads to a huge hole in the depths. , was completely artificially constructed.”

"Artificial?"

"No, no, I found out later that it was elves! Ancient elves, they lived here a long time ago. It has been abandoned for a long time."

"How did you know? Who told you? I don't think you know the elves' script. Few people in the whole kingdom probably understand it."

"Yes, I don't understand either, but when I was exploring the ruins, I picked up a ring."

"Ring? The thing on your chest that replaces your heart?"

Knight Crowe pointed to Kiel's chest with a strange expression. When his life energy was detected just now, he found that Kiel's heart function was completely replaced by a ring suspended in the chest cavity.

The blood gushing out of the broken blood vessel was directly controlled by the ring, pouring into another blood vessel where it should go, perfectly replacing the function of the human heart.

And he also sensed the magic power from above, and it was the magic power that maintained the use of the ring. But what is interesting is that the source of the magic is not the ring itself, but Kiel himself.

It seems that this young boy has many things behind him.

Keir then explained to Knight Crowe.

"Yes, I picked up a ring. I didn't take it seriously at first. Many things in the ruins have been reduced to ashes over time. Only some metal utensils and some odds and ends have not been reduced to ashes. That ring is one of a kind."

"But then that thing got to me."

"oh?"

Knight Crowe lifted his spirits, and he leaned forward a little: "You haven't heard of it in the tavern story, don't you pick up unknown things in unknown places? There are weird things in many places. Possessed objects Evil spirits, curses, strange lingering magic and such."

Kiel's face was a little red. He was fascinated by his big discovery at the time. How could he have thought of this? If it weren't for which relic was really evacuated and abandoned by the elves, he would have died long ago. I don't know what kind of relic defense in the system.

"Yeah, yeah. Anyhow the ring got weirdly wrapped around me no matter where I put it or how far away it was. It was on my finger or in my backpack the next day I went to bed. Anyway. On my body. And I also had some weird dreams. The dream is what the ruins used to be like, there are several elves working in it, and there are many animals and primitive humans.”

"Humans? Primitives? What are they doing?"

"I don't know. It was a long time ago. It seems that we humans were not yet civilized at that time. We were wrapped in animal skins and screamed like wild animals, only a little smarter."

"But it has nothing to do with that, the ring has been with me like this. I can't shake it off."

Keir was a little nervous, he concealed too many things that only he knew. And the whole thing is vague. But it seemed that Knight Crowe didn't care about this, he just kept rubbing his beard, chanting the words elves and relics.

"Anyway, the relics are there, and I can't move them away. After you finished the war this year, you will find out soon after you have a look. But be careful, for some reason, there is a water leak in it now, and many weird growths have grown. Mushroom man."

"Mushroom man? Is it dangerous?"

Knight Crowe asked seriously.

"I don't know, it's quite weak. It should look delicious, but I haven't tasted it." Keel waved his hands, denying that he had eaten the Mushroom Man.

In particular, he vaguely remembered that he had only dreamed of mushroom men in a dream not long ago, as if he had been rescued by those strong mushroom men.

"Okay, let's continue to talk about something useful. How did that ring get into your chest and replace your heart? Make it clear, otherwise I won't let you walk out of here today."

Knight Crowe seemed to be speaking very seriously, but in fact his tone of speech was not as serious as before.

Keel breathed a sigh of relief, and continued:

"It's a werewolf."

"A werewolf?"

"Yes, a werewolf defeated me, then dug out my heart and swallowed it." Speaking of this, Keir trembled excitedly.

The trembling came from the heart, after all, it was the most dangerous moment after he came to another world.

"Keir, calm down, and tell me the cause and effect, Kendall County, when did there have a werewolf?"

Knight Crowe raised his eyebrows.

Keir pursed his lips: "I promised someone before that I would not tell this matter."

"But if you don't say it, you have to stay here today. I'm serious. Say it quickly and be honest."

Knight Crowe then scolded.

Keir knew that if he didn't make it clear today, it might not be good.

"Okay, but you have to swear first, I will tell you this matter, and you can't tell anyone else. Especially Baron Kendall and Knight Rumi."

"I will judge this matter myself, it is not up to you."

Keir had no choice but to hesitate for a while, and then whispered about werewolves, northern land wolves, and Knight Jenny-Lanessa.

Although he didn't know anything in detail, he just guessed briefly and knew what happened many years ago, and what he experienced after he personally joined the hunter team to hunt down the northern wolf.

After finishing speaking, Knight Crowe sat on the chair with a serious face, without saying a word for a long time.

"grown ups?"

"I'm listening. Hey, I didn't expect, I didn't expect, he would be like this. Who would have thought of that!"

Knight Crowe sighed heavily, and the khaki semicircular barrier around him trembled with his mood changes.

After being silent for a while, Knight Crowe nodded at Kiel: "When Jenny's father disappeared, many of our good knights went to look for him. I didn't expect that he would become a wolf because he accepted the power of the werewolf. The Northern Wolf King."

Having said this, Knight Crowe suddenly blushed, as if he had thought of something, and smiled awkwardly.

"The old stuff is really strange. It seems to be quite powerful."

"So, when the werewolf defeated you and dug out your heart, that ring saved your life?"

Kiel touched his chest: "Yes, not only that, he also healed the wounds I received at that time, and while the werewolf was distracted for a while, I ran away quickly. The two of them pursued all the way and ran to the ruins of the elves. I lured it in and killed it with a mechanism inside."

"organ?"

"A stone sword, very big. It was pillared on a stone statue at the bottom of the ruins. The huge stone sword that collapsed killed the werewolf. By the way, when I went there again, there was water leaking inside the ruins, and it was full of people who didn't know where they came from. Where did the mushroom people come out, relying on those stupid mushroom people, I have a chance to kill that werewolf."

Knight Crowe was not interested in the killing of the werewolf, but focused on asking about the mushroom man. After all, the ruins are located in the southwest of Dorallin Village, and the straight line is not very far from Kendall City.

You really have to ask about the mushroom people.

But after learning from Kiel that those mushroom people are soft-legged shrimps, he was relieved.

"So, your heart was replaced by such a weird ancient ring, and you didn't have some strange abilities? Whether it's a good change or a bad change?"

Kiel touched his chest, but couldn't feel the beating, and shook his head.

The two were silent for a while, and Knight Claw shook his head: "It's not your fault, your luck is not bad. Things like exploring the ruins have always been a profession with the highest death rate. And it doesn't distinguish between exploration and exploration." the strength of the

"Even if it is a knight or a magician, there are often news that they died in which ruins. However, for the treasures lost in the ruins, there have always been people who are not afraid of death to take risks."

After speaking, Knight Crowe opened his arms, and all the life energy around him was absorbed back into his body by him.

"Let's stop here today, Keir. Regarding your situation, uh, I don't know if it's a good thing. After all, our own fleshy heart is still very important to the way of knights. And your situation."

Kiel suddenly became impatient: "My lord, does it mean that I can't become a knight because of this?"

He couldn't help but be in a hurry, he provided the seemingly important pure elemental crystals, and he also told his secret, and the result was this?

"Don't worry, don't worry. Let me study it. Don't worry, becoming a knight is not a quick thing. I just used my life energy to invade your body, so that you can intuitively feel your own energy in your body. Life energy, but it doesn't come without a price."

"Because everyone basically relies on that life energy to survive, and during the inspection just now, part of the life energy in your body has been destroyed by my life energy. So after a while, you will probably be very Fatigue and fatigue, it will be like that for a day or two."

"In two days, you have to come back to accept such a set of procedures. Originally, there were some strange magic props in the army to replace my rough methods, but after all, the current situation is like this, and you have to suffer. This is one of the reasons why I asked you to exercise your body to the best condition."

"One?" Keel asked.

There are other reasons for being stumped.

"Of course." Speaking of this, Knight Crowe was a little excited.

"Most knights today are too weak. Not only are they far from meeting the requirements I think spiritually, but even their bodies, that is, everyone's body, mostly rely on potions made from the body tissues of monsters. Ascension. Be quick and steady."

"Hey, I simply lost the courage and opportunity to go further."

Kiel blinked with a curious look on his face.

"Look at your appearance, let me tell you something. Hmph, the current kingdom, no, it should not be called the kingdom, but the entire knight system, has gradually become alienated. Except for the army, most of the knights have become knights. Most of them have become the children of various noble families. They have lost their aggressiveness. In other words, becoming a knight is already the highest requirement in their life. After all, they are not like you. Becoming a knight is not a goal, but a means."

"This has become a means, a tool, for them to enter the aristocratic class. It has become a useful tool for them to maintain the power of the aristocracy. To maintain the rule, oh, useless things. Few people understand, or they understand, but pretend to see No, because they don't have that courage and bravery."

"Powerful violence is naturally the right to rule."

Knight Crowe shook his head, feeling that many people are too pity, not only has he lost the aggressiveness to become stronger, but also occupied most of the resources, preventing others from having this opportunity.

"Keir, you go back first. Take a good rest, you will be very tired. Get up tomorrow, eat more food~www.readwn.com~ and sleep more, your body will gradually recover."

"And I have to study your situation."

After speaking, Knight Crowe tapped the wooden doll on the ground with his hand, and in an instant, a khaki-yellow gleam appeared on the doll. Obviously, Knight Crowe injected part of his life energy into it.

"Take this puppet away, carefully experience the life energy on it, and then look for that part of yourself in your own body. Remember, communicate with them, they are part of your life and your natural 'leadership' People', will spontaneously protect you and defend you, even if you commit heinous crimes, the only ones you can rely on in the end are those who will never betray you."

"Keep in mind."

Kiel nodded solemnly, and picked up the wooden doll on the ground.

As soon as his fingers touched the puppet, he felt like it was sticking out tiny needles to **** him. After a closer look, Kiel discovered that it was the glimmer of life energy released from the surface of the puppet that was attacking him. He does very little damage on contact.

The damage was negligible, but it clearly made Kiel feel the powerful and dangerous life energy of Knight Crowe.

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After bidding farewell to Knight Crowe, Keir walked out of the tent, but before he reached his own tent, a feeling of weakness suddenly struck.

The knight came so soon.

Keir staggered into his tent, put the doll aside, and lay down in the quilt without covering it, and fell completely powerlessly on the dog-skin quilt.

The place where the knight touched with his hand before couldn't lift the strength, and it was aching.

The eyelids near his forehead felt even heavier, even though he wasn't sleepy.

After staying up for a while, Keir fell asleep.