Mercenaries and Adventurers

The face of the young Ika knight was already swollen, but after regaining consciousness, his thinking was relatively clear.

"This is me? Lost?"

He coughed, and then asked the question he was most concerned about now with an uncomfortable voice.

Mr. Podris was not interested in other things, so he didn't answer, but kept asking about the physical condition of Ika Knight at this time.

Knight Ika felt his physical condition silently, and showed an embarrassing expression on his swollen face: "I thought I could do it, but I didn't expect it. I lost consciousness without knowing what happened."

"Don't talk about that, just put aside the competition and so on, and take a good rest first."

After Mr. Podolis finished speaking, he immediately asked his checkpoint soldiers to lift the Ika Knight to a wooden door, and then four soldiers lifted it up together, and carried the Ika Knight towards the checkpoint.

When the processing here was finished, Baron Kendall walked over with a smile on the part of Knight Rumi.

"The three rounds of the competition have been decided. Please sign and seal this tax clearance document."

The baron took the newly rolled document from the attendant beside him, on which he wrote what happened today on the document, and stated that he was angry at Nanguan and exempted from customs duties for the military caravan.

After Mr. Podris took it, he checked it carefully and found nothing wrong, so he took out the ink pen from his waist, dipped it in the ink, wrote on the bottom of the document that he agreed to affirm the content of the document, and then signed his name.

Then he dabbed some ink on a ring between his fingers, which was embossed with the decoration of the Ika knight family.

The ring was printed on the back, and a seal with the family crest was left next to Mr. Podris's name.

"My lord, please take it well."

The baron took the document and handed it to his subordinates, and then asked friendlyly if the injuries on the knight of Ika needed to be healed by the priests accompanying the army.

But Mr. Podolis refused: "Thank you for your kindness, and thank you for the great gods those priests believe in, but we have our own priests, so you don't need to bother."

Seeing that Mr. Podris was anxious to see the injury of the Ika knight, the baron didn't bother him anymore.

When Mr. Podris left, the surrounding people and merchants gradually dispersed, and Knight Rumi began to lead people to collect the countless crossbow arrows on the ground where the two knights were standing just now.

The baron came to Knight Crowe and asked about Knight Crowe's injuries.

"It's no big deal." Knight Crowe was sitting on a protruding rock in the clearing, and with the help of Kiel and the guards, he was taking off all the armor on his body.

One side of his armor is full of tiny friction and bump marks, which are left by the crossbow arrows.

The other side was intact, and even the paint and anti-rust oil on the armor surface did not fall off.

Knight Crowe, who had taken off his armor, was obviously fine, but his whole body seemed to be wet from the rain, with sweat soaking through his clothes all over his body.

"Keil, bring me some water. Huh, I'm sweating all over, and I'll go wash in the Angry River later."

Knight Crowe didn't feel embarrassed either. He threw off his drenched clothes in front of everyone, and soon only a pair of cloth shorts remained. After drinking all the water, he took a cloth towel from the personal guard and strode towards the bank of the angry river with his sword in hand.

The knight went to take a bath, so naturally there was nothing to guard or watch. Keel and one of the guards of the knights of Klaus transported the clothes and armor of the knights back to the carriage of the knights of Klaus in the logistics vehicle, and then Keel and the guards found them The knight often wears a samurai uniform, and rides to the bank of the river on horseback.

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Just now the militiamen shot arrows very well, but it took ten times longer to pick up arrows.

The Rumi Knights required each militia team to fill up the quiver they sent out. Today, they could not leave the Angry Nanguan Pass, so today they rested in the open space outside the checkpoint, next to the place where they had just competed.

At dinner tonight, there was a cattle that died during the first competition, so Knight Rumi said that whichever team failed to hand in enough arrows tonight, the team would not be able to eat beef.

No soup at all.

In fact, some militia teams will not be able to eat beef, because the crossbow is a consumable after all, if it just misses the two knights and lands on the soft grass on the river bank, then it can be taken back without damage and then continued use.

But once the crossbow arrows hit the two knights, the metal arrows of the crossbow arrows collided fiercely with the steel armor of the knights, which would naturally cause damage.

It mainly depends on where the crossbow arrow hits, whether it passes through the armor, or hits the steel armor straight and vertically. Of course, the former is only slightly worn at the edge, and the blacksmith accompanying the army only needs to sharpen it with a pedal-powered runner on the logistics carriage. In the case of the latter, the metal arrowheads of the crossbow arrows had to be removed, gathered together and re-melted to build them.

The environment for marching is not as good as that of Kendall City. Without the convenient tools for large-scale casting, cutting and polishing in the weapons workshop, blacksmiths have to process some in small batches when camping at night, and then sit on the vehicle to process the arrowheads made last night when marching during the day. .

In fact, this is how blacksmiths deal with the wear and tear of weapons and armor of various soldiers in the army these days.

The most troublesome thing is to disassemble the sole of the leather boots with broken soles for the militiamen, and then replace them with a new boot sole. Many militiamen walked irregularly and often wore out the soles of their shoes, so they had to be repaired by the army blacksmiths.

Having said that, waiting for the militiamen who picked up the crossbow arrows, there must be someone who can only hold the broken crossbow arrows, so poor that they will not be able to eat the beef for the night.

Kiel was riding on the horse, watching with a smile as the militiamen struggled to dig out the crossbow bolts nailed into the rock. He knew that some people could not eat beef, so he laughed and laughed when passing by.

Anyway, I will definitely be able to eat beef. At worst, I can go to the store opened in the level to buy some food to comfort my body.

It was like this along the way, as long as he camped close to towns and villages, he, a knight servant who could not be controlled by the patrolling militia, could have a little bit of power to go out.

When he came to the steep river bank, Keel jumped off his horse. Following the smug laughter of Knight Crowe, he quickly found Knight Crowe who was washing his body with a cloth towel on the edge of the river below the river bank.

"My lord, here are your new clothes!"

Kiel lay on the edge of the cliff and shouted towards the bottom of the river bank more than ten meters deep.

"Okay, wait until I'm done washing. What?"

As he said that, Knight Crowe let out a strange cry, and then punched hard into the water.

With a bang, a large spray burst out from the surface of the water, and several carnivorous fish with thick armor and body were broken into several sections and were blasted to the river bank by the knight's fist.

Knight Crowe flicked the cloth towel, then wrapped it around his waist, and walked up to the river bank.

Keel saw it all up there, but couldn't do anything except yell, "Be careful."

After all, the river bank is more than ten meters high and low. In the previous life, it was almost as high as five or six floors. Unless you go down the stairs dug directly under the stone bridge of the North-South Pass, there is no other safe way to get down.

"My lord, are you all right? What is that?"

Kiel yelled from above.

The knight looked at the fish he had killed for a while, but he could see nothing except that it was a ferocious carnivorous fish. Apart from being edible, there is nothing else to see.

"Keel, then, this big fish looks edible. You take this back to the army cook and eat them at night."

After finishing speaking, Knight Crowe first took the clothes dropped by Kiel, and then threw the dead carnivorous fish that had been broken into several knots onto the grass on the river bank.

Kiel quickly tied the fish pieces half as big as him with a rope one by one, then greeted the knight, and led the horse to the camp that was being built.

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Most of the militiamen on the side of the road knew Kiel, the young man who beat all the soldiers invincible in the daily marching camp, so they picked up the crossbow arrows and saw that Kiel's horse was carrying a lot of fish pieces that were tied firmly with ropes. Immediately curious to ask where this delicious-looking thing came from.

"Haha, it was brought up from the river by the knight who was washing by the river. In the evening, there is not only beef, but also fish soup!"

Kiel said with a smile, and the militiamen who heard his words also licked their lips, and couldn't wait for the night to come.

But it was still afternoon, so they could only honestly come over to pick up the crossbow arrows they just shot.

The camp was quickly established with the help of some militiamen who had not been able to shoot as many crossbow bolts as before. In fact, at the beginning, setting up the camp every day was still a hassle, but soon, the two knights shared their experience in the army, and most of the logistics carriages carried some scattered wooden pillars and planks.

As long as the camp is set up, a large number of carriages form a half-moon shape, and then the militiamen can use shovels to dig deep pits with equal intervals outside the carriages, and then the wooden pillars on the carriages are removed and inserted directly into the In the deep pit, bury it with soil and step on it.

Then, there are openings on these wooden pillars, and the wooden boards matching them also have a suitable structure. You only need to put the wooden boards together for a click, and the two can be firmly connected together.

It doesn't take long to put together a camp fence around a wagon.

Then some militiamen were arranged to guard the gate of the camp and some higher carriages in rotation, and the whole camp was completed.

The tents of soldiers and baron knights are all in the middle of the camp, so that even if they are attacked at night, the carriages close to the outside of the camp can provide a good defense and obstructive position.

In the middle of the camp there were fires one after another. After cutting down a few trees and throwing some grass, the chefs quickly raised the campfire for cooking.

The lighting of the center of the camp at night also relies on these multifunctional campfires, while other places use specially made torches that can burn for a long time to provide lighting.

Those torches, made of rough thatch fibers mixed with fat, provided light for a long time before the fat on them burned away.

Of course there are also windproof lanterns.

But after all, it is made from something that consumes lamp oil, which is not cheap, and only the gate of the camp has this kind of thing to provide effective lighting every day.

This kind of windproof portable lamp is ingenious and effective in Keel's opinion. The base is a metal tank that can be filled with lamp oil, and the upper layer is a cylindrical metal tank with a sixty-degree opening on one side. The inside is luxuriously coated Thin silver so bright light can be reflected from the opening.

At the same time, the top is a heat-insulating and heat-resistant pottery piece, and above it is a metal and wood ceiling and hook. There is also a wooden handle on the opposite side of the opening of the lantern, which is convenient for people to hold it when walking around, or use it with the above. Where is the hook.

Keel walks into the fast-building camp center and is immediately greeted warmly by the cooks.

For the cooks, not only the militiamen can enjoy a delicious fish soup tonight, but because they are the producers, they can enjoy the things they made by themselves first.

Of course, the food for the two knights and the baron had to be prepared separately, not because of anything else, but simply because the baron had the highest status, and the two knights were especially edible.

The best meat from the belly of the fish should be reserved for the baron. If the baron can't eat it or doesn't want to eat it, the baron's attendants and personal guards will continue to eat it.

The large amount of fish meat in the middle of the fish body is mostly reserved for the two knights. No doubt, no one doubts, no matter how much food is eaten, the food sent over will always be eaten by the two knights.

Of course, they often finish one meal and don't eat for two or three days.

"These were all taken from the Angry River by Knight Crowe while he was taking a bath by the river."

Keir briefly explained the source of the food, and then he didn't want the rope binding the fish pieces, so he borrowed a clean cloth and quickly wiped his horse's back.

The blood and mucus from the dead fish made his horse stinky, and Keel had to borrow a bucket of water from the residence next to the checkpoint to simply scrub his horse.

After giving someone an iron coin, Kiel hurriedly rode his horse back to Knight Crowe.

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He thought that after such a long time, why did the Lord Knight wash by the river, but he didn't expect that when he walked over and looked down, he found that Knight Crowe was angry with someone who didn't know what was in the river. Stuff fights.

"Sir, do you want me to call for help?" Keel called down.

Knight Crowe didn't look over when he heard Kiel's shout, but just shook his hand to signal that there was no need.

At this time, the knight was wearing a cloth scarf around his waist, holding a shining long sword in his right hand, but with his left hand he picked up a dark pebble the size of a pineapple from the river.

He stood firmly in the center of the river that should have overflowed the waist and chest of an ordinary person, but the raging angry river was completely unable to overwhelm this human being.

The knight's enemy is a humanoid monster, about three meters tall, with hard scales and slime all over his body. There are webbed things connected between the sharp palms and five claws. At the same time, there is a big mouth that can open and close to the chest, which is full of sharp teeth, and a tongue as long as a meat whip.

The two multi-layered film-covered eyes are shining, and the top of the head is a skull armored with bone armor. Looking at the spikes and luster on it, you can tell that it is very strong.

This thing obviously couldn't beat Knight Crowe head-on. Although the opponent was taller and bigger, the sharp claws as the main attack method were not at all the opponent of the long sword in Knight Crowe's hand.

It's just that this monster is very cunning. Although it is tall and powerful, its movements are very flexible. It often falls into the river more than one meter deep and disappears completely. The body is hidden.

It would attack from the water, but Knight Crowe just stomped his feet vigorously in the water, and a large amount of water sprayed up on the entire river surface, and a large number of pebbles exploded from the water, hitting the monster with a bang.

However, the thick and slippery mucus on the monster's body was of little use.

Although the whole monster had a terrifyingly large mouth and so many sharp teeth, it didn't seem to be able to shout. It didn't make any sound not only when it launched an attack, but also when it was repelled by Knight Crow.

Only the long tongue in the mouth sticks out and flicks around, which is very disgusting.

"My lord, what kind of monster is that?"

Kiel looked nervous: "Should I call Knight Rumi, Lord Baron? Or Knight Bota from Guanbei for help? Well, it's fine for Knight Ika, he still can't get down on the ground."

But what Kiel didn't expect was that the voice of the Crowe knight was very excited: "Silly boy, what are you calling them for? Don't you look at what this is? A water ghost in a river! Although they are monsters, they have nothing to do with monsters. Almost, if you kill it, you are lucky, the thing that provides nourishment to the body is here, isn't it?"

While speaking, Knight Crowe swung his long sword in the river, using the magic blade swung from the long sword to force the so-called 'water ghost' to the river bank without water.

Kiel's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he jumped on his horse and ran towards the Angry Nanguan regardless of Knight Crowe's refusal to let him go down.

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Although he was excited, Keir also remained calm. That thing didn't look terrible, at least it was obviously worse than the Northern Wolf King. Sure enough, monsters are monsters, and they can't compare with World of Warcraft.

He gallops on the river bank outside ~www.readwn.com~ but slows down inside the level. Looking around, I saw fishing nets and ropes in a shop selling necessities for merchants.

He took out a few silver coins and copper coins from his pocket, and slapped them on the counter of the store: "Boss, I want the rope and the net. Hurry up. Don't look for it!"

He said he was the owner of the shop, but he was actually just a young man watching the shop. The shop owner had some weight in the checkpoint. He had already gone to the place where the Ika Knight lived in the checkpoint to express his condolences.

"Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute."

Unexpectedly, as soon as Keil turned around and took a large roll of rope off the shelf, he was pulled by the shop assistant: "What's the matter? Rope and net, don't you have enough money?"

"Not enough, not enough, the net is the kind specially used to catch the big fish that migrate up the Angry River in autumn, and it is very expensive!"

"Expensive? Why is it expensive? Is it made of gold or silver?"

The store clerk looked speechless: "It is made of a very tough aquatic vine in the swamp area. The technique is very complicated, and it is soaked in a magical potion that can increase the toughness. You have to add another twenty silver coins. Only copper coins can be taken away. As for the rope, it will be given to you.”

Keir was annoyed, so he immediately took out a silver coin from his pocket, and found out a silver coin just by the feeling of his fingertips, then grabbed a handful of copper and iron coins, and stuffed them into the opponent's hand Then hurry to get this so-called very tough fishing net.

The shop clerk hurriedly counted the large and small coins in his hand carefully, and when he finished counting and opened his mouth to return the extra copper and iron coins to Kiel, Kiel had long since disappeared.

"Uh, there are too many? What about people? Forget it, the extra ones are mine. Anyway, they don't want them, so it's none of my business."