Mercenaries and Adventurers

The army from Kendall County in the Northwest Province stayed outside the Angry Nanguan overnight, and they packed up and set off at dawn the next day.

In addition to some caravans that originally accompanied the army, some small caravans that passed through the Nui River pass also took the initiative to follow this well-equipped army with the mentality of taking advantage.

Those caravans traveling north and south must have seen that this elite but immature army is still bound by the laws of the kingdom. At this time, it has not yet become a violent group that uses violence at will to obtain benefits without punishment, so they boldly follow The army continued to walk south along the trade road together.

The topography and landforms of the western provinces are quite different from those of the northwestern provinces. There are no random towering mountains and deep mountains covered with dense forests, but vast lakes, plains and grasslands. Sometimes a small piece of low trees can be seen by the side of the trade road, relying on some stone pillars that suddenly appear on the vast grasslands. Instead of the trees that ordinary people think will always appear around the water source.

This is because there are always groups of animals around the various lakes in the western provinces, and it is difficult for any trees to withstand the animals' self-feeding behavior, which means that the fast-growing weeds can grow repeatedly.

Because the roads in the western provinces are surrounded by vast grasslands, in order to mark the accurate commercial route, the people here will use fired hard clay bricks to erect conspicuous signs a few meters high every tens of meters on both sides of the commercial road. Masonry pillars, each masonry pillar is topped with a polished reflective stone ball on top.

Whenever the sun appears from the horizon and the sun shines on the stone balls, the smooth stone **** at the top of these masonry pillars will reflect the bright and dazzling reflection of the sun, guiding business travelers not to take the wrong route.

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Kiel has been riding his horse to patrol around the marching army for the past two days. According to the information he inquired, unlike the sparsely populated Northwest Province, the population of the Western Province is still relatively large, but most of the population is Distributed on several main roads throughout the province.

Deep in the grassland, the sea of ​​grass, which is taller than a man riding a horse, is full of murderous threats, and few people live there.

For example, the trade route they are taking now basically follows the speed of ordinary caravans, and there are simple villages and towns where they settle every day.

As long as you don't get robbed by bandits on horses when you walk during the day, you won't have any problems walking here, and you don't need to often camp in the wild.

This is quite different from the Northwest Province.

Because there was a horse to ride, Kiel was arranged by Knight Crowe to take a few baron guards who also rode horses to the village where he settled that night to explain the situation one step ahead of time.

It is necessary to explain the situation. After all, it is an army that is going to pass by. In order not to cause excessive panic in the villages and towns where they settled down, Kiel and the others have to inform the local lord or steward in advance, so that the other party can make various preparations for the reception. Water supplement only.

According to Keir’s experience during these days, the following situations generally occur:

When they arrived at the place where the sunset was set half a day earlier, they would be alerted by the defense force of the village and town because they were all riding horses and well-equipped. Carefully let them in.

Then, under the vigilance and hostility of the other party, Tian asked someone to inquire about the local leader who spoke and took care of things.

This step has to be handed over to Kiel himself. The baron's personal guards are not willing to use their hot faces to stick the cold butts of the locals, and Kiel has to scratch his head to do these tasks.

Fortunately, he is young, and his smiling face looks extraordinarily safe. Although the murderous aura of killing too many people is not weak, most people can't feel it. They only feel that the aura of this young man is a bit fierce.

And when you find the local leader or steward, tell him that a few people are just an outpost of an army of hundreds of people and an accompanying caravan of two or three hundred people.

At this time, the people who dealt with them quickly changed their expressions and became polite to them.

Every time this happens, Keel finds it funny. Of course, he wouldn't actually laugh, that would get him in trouble.

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Two or three days after leaving the Angry South Pass and marching south.

That night, their armies and caravans were stationed outside an unknown little place called Weed Rat Town.

If they didn't enter the town, they wouldn't really let so many people in. At most, they would be some businessmen or guards who couldn't bear the loneliness, with money in their pockets, going to the town to have some fun. Often these small towns that rely on trade routes will kill them severely.

The army still camped in the open space beside the road as usual.

The caravans that followed along the way and the caravans that joined temporarily set up a gathering point at random on the opposite side of the trade road where the military camp was located to camp and rest.

The people of each caravan will be clearly separated from other caravans, which leads to a caravan camp with less manpower than an army, but it looks bigger and more lively than a military camp.

Caravan buddies carrying musical instruments often sit by the fire, accompanied by a fire raised with green grass, and try their own musical instrument performance scattered here and there. The "cultural person" who still remembered a few lines of poetry sang stories of popular poetry with a hoarse voice.

With the tasteless clear water, the merchants sat around singing and dancing, and had a good time.

At this time, Keir was carrying out a new step of knight training in the tent of Knight Crowe.

Different from general martial arts training, the training of the knight itself is a matter of control.

Since eating only the strange food made from the water ghost's body for the first two days, Keel has been feeling hot but full of strength. Even if he didn't do anything, his whole body was sweating non-stop, which made him have to drink water frequently to ensure that his body was well hydrated.

Occasionally, he even took out the bag of salt from his carriage, and purposely licked a mouthful of the yellow-white salt grains to supplement the salt that his body lacked, otherwise he would have no strength at all.

Although he only eats a little bit of water ghost's body tissue every meal, but that little bit of meat makes Kiel feel full and feels that he has eaten enough. If it weren't for the appearance and taste, which is hard to describe, Kiel would even feel that this thing is really delicious. Very good portable food.

It is small in size, full enough, and strong in energy. Eat a little and you will be full of energy all day long.

"Boy, this is not a good thing."

Knight Crowe sat on a chair in the tent, playing with the strangely colored water ghost claws left from the water ghost's fingertips.

"Not everyone can eat the meat of monsters and monsters. Not to mention some of them are poisonous, even if they are not poisonous, we humans will have terrible consequences after eating them."

Kiel's eyes widened. Although he was surprised, he knew that the knight hadn't finished speaking.

"Generally speaking, after eating a small amount of monster meat, ordinary people will have sufficient physical strength for a period of time, but they are prone to suffer from fatal hidden diseases that do not appear. Generally speaking, they will die of illness within ten years."

Stretching out his hand, he gestured for length, and the words of Knight Crowe made Kiel swallow a mouthful of spit in fright.

"I don't know the specific reason, but probably the meat of the monster will cause various diseases in the body of normal people."

Isn't this cancer?

Keel thought to himself.

"And this is just a monster. The body structure of a monster is more powerful, because it contains more messy and deadly magic power. Ordinary people will not only get sick after eating it, but also produce some bad and terrible changes. Basically, it's not that many have no skin. A hand, that is, a certain leg shrinks to the size of a finger. Some people will spontaneously combust for no reason, and even explode their limbs directly."

Hearing what Knight Crowe said became more and more outrageous, Keel stretched out his hands to cover his stomach and belly, and even imagined whether he would grow a talking tumor.

"Haha." Seeing Kiel's actions, Knight Crowe smiled: "When I was assigned to be a knight because of my good performance in the army, my behavior was exactly the same as yours now."

"Don't worry, those are things that happen to ordinary people. The knight training I taught you is the means and tool to conquer and control these situations."

Stretching out his hand to gesture towards himself, the knight continued: "In terms of the knight's experience and senses, eating the body tissues of monsters and monsters will allow the human body to digest the parts that can be digested, and the life energy of the whole person will be greatly increased in a short time. Intensive refilling. Seems like a good thing, but it’s like filling a water glass after it’s full. Not only does that excess water go away, but that excess water sometimes knocks over the water glass.”

Keir nodded, he understood, what Knight Crowe said was very clear.

"I said a premise earlier - the part that the human body can digest! No need to guess, there must be too many unknown substances in the body tissues of monsters and Warcraft that humans cannot touch. Some of those things can even be refined into precious potions. Simply put Said that those things are harmful to the human body and will corrode and affect the human body. Together with the extra water above, these two things are the reason why ordinary people will die after eating the body tissues of monsters and monsters."

"But knights are different. In other words, this is a necessary step for trainers who want to become knights."

"Kiel, it's been two days since eating the water ghost's meat and body tissue. How does it feel?"

Keir wiped his sweat with his hands. Although the weather was not hot in the spring night, he still sweated a lot: "I'm sweating non-stop, and I haven't slept for two days. Not only is my spirit very good, but my body feels Full of energy!"

Knight Crowe nodded: "This is what I said before. After the monster's meat is absorbed and digested, it is adding water to your body's water cup."

"My lord, just tell me what to do now! I'll listen to you."

Sitting cross-legged on the ground in the middle of the camp, Keir stared at Knight Crowe with burning eyes, eager to try.

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"Remember the puppet I gave you? A few days ago, I let you be stimulated by that thing, try to control a small amount of life energy in your body to avoid its attack."

Seeing Knight Crowe talking about this, Keel quickly took out the wooden doll given by Knight Crowe from the thick leather pouch on his waist.

It has been several days since this thing was handed over to him, and the life energy of the Crow Knight on it still lingers, holding it in his hand as if he was receiving an electric shock. When Keir didn't resist the opponent's attack, Kiel's hand was numb.

He knew that the place where the palms touched was being weakly attacked by the life energy of Knight Crowe.

Seeing that Kiel took out the doll, the knight stretched out his hand to take the doll away, played with it in his hand, and then a khaki light flashed in his hand, recharging the doll with full life energy.

The whole puppet couldn't help emitting a khaki-yellow radiance, just staring at it, Keel felt as if his eyes had been stung by a tiny needle.

"Next! Take it in your hand and show it to me: how well you can resist its offensive methods and control your life energy."

As he spoke, the knight threw the recharged doll to Kiel, and Kiel took it carefully, but when he held the doll, his palm still couldn't help twitching.

Seeing the knight staring at him, Kiel had to raise his spirits, and began to use his control over the life energy in his palm with full concentration.

Once he was concentrated, he could feel that every place that touched the puppet in his hand was being stimulated like needles by the reactivated life energy.

Kiel first controlled the accumulation of his own life energy on the palm, which was much more abundant than the previous few days, and then shrunk into the bones of the palm, so as not to let the loose life energy of his own be defeated by the much stronger knight's life energy in vain.

Then Kiel stretched out the gathered life energy in small strands, extending like tentacles towards the skin of the palm that was in contact with the puppet.

Although his own life energy that he had gathered was not yet a match for the knights, but the scattered life energy of some knights met the gathered life energy of his own, and they were gradually wiped out in the "big crowd".

Basically, it can be said that killing one enemy will damage one hundred.

However, because the whole body is now full of life energy, through Kiel's control, the life energy from all parts of the body is continuously flowing through the arms to support the 'front line' of the palm.

After a while, through Kiel's concentrated control, most of his body's life energy gathered in his hands, and firmly resisted the knight's life force attack at the place where the palms were in contact with the wooden puppet.

What he didn't know was that at this moment, he was no longer sweating, and a layer of life force that was similar in color to his palms was slightly radiating on the skin.

Knight Crowe sat on a chair with his hands folded over his chest, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

He looked at Keir's situation at this time, shook his head, and didn't know what he was muttering and sighing.

"Great boy, I found a treasure."

Keir didn't know, but in less than twenty days, he had mastered things that ordinary people couldn't do in half a year. It's not that this is very powerful, it's not as good as some children who have been exposed to this aspect since childhood, but after all, Keir has no experience before, which also shows that he is not only serious in practice, but also has some talent.

slap.

Knight Crowe slapped twice, waking up Kiel, who was concentrating on controlling his life energy.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Kiel's eyes were a little dazed, and after a moment of stupefaction, he realized that the Cavaliers were reminding him to pause. He hurriedly put the wooden puppet in his hand on the ground, and then let the life energy in his palm return to the original place of his body naturally.

"Nice, Keel. Really good."

A simple word of encouragement to Kiel, Knight Crowe then gave Kiel a new task.

"I've seen your performance just now, and I think you can move on to the next step. This just matches your current physical condition."

The knight then made a gesture: "When a water glass is full and water is still being filled into the water glass, the water in the water glass needs to be squeezed at this time. Of course, this is a metaphor, and the reality is that water is not easy to compress. , It often requires a lot of strength and ability. Life energy is different from water, it can be gathered together and compressed under your active control."

"I think you felt this when you manipulated them before."

Kiel nodded, indicating that he felt it.

"A new task is entrusted to you. I want you to control and compress the life energy in your body as much as possible when you are free, and use the powerful replenishment conditions after eating monster meat. Of course, this is also for your own good, after all, I said before Now, after eating monster meat, ordinary people can't live for ten years, it's like a curse, if you want to survive, you have to become a knight!"

"The reason here is very simple. When you become a knight, your body can naturally resist and absorb those monster meat. And like me, I can eat monster meat. In fact, a talented young man like you , it is better to eat monster meat. The more powerful effect of monster meat matches with your progress, and the effect is better."

After a pause, Knight Crowe continued: "The second item is to use the wooden doll I gave you to practice control. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com After all, you are new to training, and you must rely on external forces to stimulate your body consciousness. The life energy in the body. When you can clearly perceive and control the life energy in the body without these external stimuli, this second training is completed."

"Try not to gather the compressed life energy in the internal organs. Although they are all part of oneself, ordinary people's bodies can't stand the high-density life energy. It can start from the bones, then the muscles of the limbs, and finally use the blood Flow, and slowly enter the life energy into the internal organs and some sensitive body organs. Remember, the head is the last! The brain is too fragile. Be careful, when your body is filled with long-term intensive life energy, they will This in turn strengthens your body."

"At this time, you can break through the physical limit of ordinary people and become like us. When your body is strengthened to a certain level, then you will initially become a qualified knight!"

Hitting his chest with his fist, Crow Knight encouraged Keel.

And Kiel also knocked **** his chest, but the sound of the chest knocking was a bit hollow, which made him panic all of a sudden: "My lord, it can be said that life energy strengthens the body, but I don't have a heart?"

Knight Crowe scratched his head: "Yeah, how did I forget this? Let me think of a way. After all, the strength and quality of the heart are very important for the growth of the knight's physical strength."

The two of them just sat in the tent and thought hard. Keel didn't know what the Knight Crowe was thinking of. But he felt that it was necessary to find the owner of the ring that replaced his heart, the mysterious lady.

The other party asked him to improve his strength, and the other party should have a solution to the heart problem of the strength improvement link.