Mercenaries and Adventurers

The thief was silent and listened to the story told by the young man opposite.

The remote northwestern province, the remote border area, the Kendall people with sufficient strength, the request for help from the southern border, the burning flames of war, the march all the way, and the sudden death of merchants accompanying the army.

Hearing this, the thief boldly faced the young man and closed his eyes. In silence, he sighed.

"Hey, although Gerbo has some talents in some things, he still has some problems with his personality. He is cowardly but crazy. His talent makes him proud, but his experience as a teenager makes him always go too far." He sorted it out roughly. The ins and outs of the matter did not ask how the thief apprentice named Gerbo was doing now.

The fact that young soldiers who are fully armed and have a lot of blood on their weapons can come here already shows that Gerbo's consequences are probably not good.

Keir stared at the bandit leader who had become silent again in front of him, vaguely feeling that the atmosphere had changed.

With the accumulation of combat experience, he can already gradually feel what this means.

The enemy on the opposite side had the idea of ​​fighting in their hearts, and it was getting more and more enthusiastic. He himself carefully took out a wrapped sugar pill from the bag on his waist, gently rubbed off the paper wrapped on the surface of the sugar pill with his hands, then lifted his mask and swallowed the thing.

"It seems that everything that happened today has nothing to do with you people."

The thief said so.

But Keir boldly retorted: "On the contrary, everything that happened today is, in the final analysis, the result of all the illegal and harmful actions of your gang in Grass Rat Town. We are just a proper flame."

Kiel pointed to everything around him: "These, these, these. Are they not cheap? Where did you get the wealth to buy and plunder them? It's not from the merchants in Grass Rat Town and the surrounding area. Their resentment and Losses are the haystacks that start a great fire."

"Hmph." Keel spat on the expensive carpet next to him disdainfully, and then closed his visor: "Don't try to find other reasons for your failure. As the leader of this gang organization, you should Have a clear understanding of all this?"

After a moment of silence, the thief suddenly laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha, you're right, you're right, it's the truth. My subordinates and I are gangsters and thieves. The lords and soldiers who are in charge of law and order in a place will naturally attack us. Generally speaking, this is the case everywhere. reason."

But the thief with his head up and laughing lowered his head and stared at the young man with squinted eyes: "But, we are thieves, and the means of making a living is to steal and plunder, this is a bounden duty, and it is the same everywhere. "

Afterwards, the thief cursed in a low voice: "This **** world."

After cursing, he got up and got up from the chair. At the same time, Keir also stood up abruptly. While staring at the other party's movements, he pushed the chair behind him away with his feet.

"Interesting young man, can you step aside and act as if you didn't see someone like me?"

"What are you going to do?"

Kyle asked cautiously.

"Nothing to do with you."

But Kiel was ready to fight. He took a few steps back, took off the full backpack on his back, and threw it into the corner.

The armor in the backpack rattled and rattled, but it caught the thief's attention.

The thief had been assembling the scale armor intermittently for more than half a year, so he was naturally familiar with the sound when the armor pieces collided.

"It seems that there is no need to run any longer, the things will come forward by themselves." Hissing, he drew out the steel short sword from his left waist, and the thief held the weapon with his only remaining hand.

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The battle was on the verge of breaking out, and Kiel cautiously used his shield to protect the front of his body, while the long sword in his right hand rested on his shoulder.

Facing the young man's approach, the thief didn't say a word, faced Kiel, and then turned to the right. His steps were steady and confident, and he obviously felt that he was sure of Keel, a young man.

"Ha!" Kiel shouted abruptly, and when the distance was right, he took two quick steps ahead, swiping the long sword obliquely from the upper right to the lower right.

The thief's arm was fast and powerful. Although his right arm was cut off and lost a lot of blood, it was still full of strength.

Clang—

Facing Kiel's slash, the thief took a step back instantly, and at the same time swung his left hand like a whip, as if counting on Kiel's movement, the tip of the swung short sword directly hit the side of the hunting blade of the long sword.

That is to say, click again.

The opponent was so powerful that Kiel was so shocked by the horizontal blow that he almost couldn't hold the hilt of his sword.

This situation made him immediately cautious. It seemed that the opponent's swordsmanship skills surpassed his by a lot. With just a tentative attack, Keir felt that the opponent's level was higher than his.

But fortunately, the shield on the left arm was tightly guarded, which greatly restricted the thief's further actions.

Pursing his lips, the thief Yi Si also felt a little troublesome after trying a trick.

The young man on the opposite side walked steadily. The shield on his left arm was at a suitable distance from his torso. He was obviously very proficient in shield defense, as if he had experienced a lot of battles.

At the same time, the weight of the opponent's long sword was also beyond his expectation. It seemed to be a tentative move just now, but it was the highest level of thieves' swordsmanship. It predicted the timing of the opponent's attack direction, and then attacked the weapon first. Weakness in movement, the technique of making the opponent's one-handed weapon go away, he learned it specially from the swordsmanship master in the thieves guild.

Originally, this trick was his special method to directly suppress the pursuer after being discovered during the theft.

But the weapon of the young man in front of him was extremely heavy, and the strength he used on the ordinary steel long sword was somewhat insufficient at this moment.

Difficult.

Guessing in his heart that the young man's weapon might be a special magic material weapon, he glanced at the direction where the other party dropped the backpack.

Can't take down the opponent in a short time, maybe he can only get his unfinished scale armor, and then slip away?

Turning this thought, the thief made up his mind.

On Kiel's side, the opponent almost dropped his weapon with a sword, which made Kiel cautious. The red-eyed mushroom candy has been chewed and swallowed. There is still a period of time before the effect of the medicine takes effect. time.

But delaying time also depends on the method, the more delaying time, the more difficult it is for the other party to see his intention of delaying time.

So Keir charged forward and launched another attack.

This time he put the long sword close to the side of the shield, using the shield he is familiar with as the main attack method, using the long sword to sneak attack and stab as a deadly trick.

He moved forward in small steps, with the shield pointing straight at the front of the thief, and the thief immediately lowered his body, turned his short sword sideways so that his palms rested on the ground, and kicked Kiel's calf and ankle with one leg close to the ground.

The opponent's movements were fast, and Keir only had time to drag his right leg back half a step, lower his body, and improve his stability to deal with it.

The thieves kicked Kiel on the calf, but obviously Keel felt a heavy hit on the leg, but there was no sound of the two legs hitting each other.

Before he could pay attention to this point, the long sword in Kiel's right hand jumped out from the side of the shield immediately, and the tip of the sword bit the thief's outstretched leg.

The thief Yi Silue was surprised that the young man's body was stable, and he didn't even wobble when he kicked up. But he still has back moves, but he also noticed the dangerous sword point that the young man struck from the side of the shield.

The thief supported his body with his left leg, and with his free left hand, he swung the short sword forward instantly, and quickly raised Kiel's weapon.

At the same time, he kicked and hooked the instep of Kiel's right leg, directly hooked Kiel's calf, and then pulled towards him.

Facing his legs being pulled forward, the shield in Kiel's left hand fell down along with his body being pulled forward.

The bottom of the standard shield-style elven metal shield is a relatively sharp inverted triangle. Although there is no sharp edge, the metal edge is still powerful, but the light weight makes it not powerful enough. Keel rarely did this before. .

But this time he did.

Sure enough, facing Keir's action of smashing the shield to his right leg, the thief didn't dare to use his right leg to catch it hard. He took the initiative to let go of the action of hooking Kiel's calf with his right foot, then quickly retracted his right leg, and kicked on Kiel's shield that hit the floor for leverage, allowing the two to distance themselves.

"Not bad boy, you have some strength."

Such words came from under the thief's mask.

Kiel stood up from the ground, assumed a fighting stance again, and did not answer.

Thieves Isi's deep and sinister laughter came from under the mask, and amidst Kiel's strangeness, he slowly backed away.

Although it seemed that he was retreating towards Kiel, Kiel could feel that the opponent had not given up the fight.

After the thief retreated slightly into the shadows of the surrounding complex furniture, suddenly, a dagger reflecting light was projected from the shadows. Kiel immediately lowered his figure and raised his shield to cover most of the front of his body.

However, the dagger did not shoot towards Kiel, but passed over his shoulder, knocking over the oil lamp on the wooden table not far away.

The oil lamp was well designed, and no lamp oil was spilled after being knocked over by the dagger, but the originally burning wick was quickly extinguished due to collision and falling to the ground.

The entire small underground training ground was instantly plunged into darkness. Along with the darkness, the thieves moved swiftly without making a single sound.

Kiel, on the other hand, retreated quickly to the side and back without saying a word, until his back leaned against the solid wooden wall, and Kiel stopped motionless, as if he was planning to rely on the sound to distinguish the enemy's movements.

With a slight sneer, the thief came to the oil lamp lightly as if walking under the sun, and picked up the steel dagger that knocked over the oil lamp.

The thieves felt a bit dull, it was always like this, and the average fighters couldn't do anything in the face of this situation, they could only be defeated by him in despair.

Not knowing what to think of, the thief tapped the wooden table beside him with the dagger blade, making a bang.

Sure enough, as he expected, in the darkness, the young soldier quickly turned to the place where the sound came from, taking precautions.

The thief took two steps forward without a sound, and then hit an exhibition shelf next to him with his dagger again, making a bang.

'It's getting closer. ’ He thought to himself: ‘What kind of reaction will there be? '

To his slight disappointment, the young soldier who was trapped in the darkness did not move. He just moved back against the wall by half a foot distance. Although he was guarding against the sound and getting closer, but overall There was no panic or anything.

This made the thief feel bored, so he took two more steps and got closer to the young warrior. This time he struck the dagger on the wooden wall, which was the same as the wall Kiel was leaning on at this time, and the distance was even closer.

But Keir still didn't move. Except for the obvious sound of breathing, this place is located in the quiet underground training ground, and it was silent and dark.

The thief Yisi no longer provoked the opponent, holding a dagger in his left hand, ready to know the life of this person and avenge his apprentice and career. Of course, it was just a small revenge, and he knew that the local knight lords were the main targets for destroying his cause.

'It's not about money. ’ He silently recited what the members of the Thieves Guild often said when they killed.

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But at this moment, the thief Isi, who was looking for a good angle to kill Kiel from the joint between the neck armor and the helmet, suddenly saw a large white light in front of him. For his long-term training, he stubbornly refrained from closing his eyes stimulated by the strong light.

He kept his eyes open, although his movements were interrupted, he still took a step forward, and at the same time he straightened his left arm violently, intending to send the tip of the sword into the young warrior's head.

As for Keir, he used his intuition to light up the long sword at the moment before the danger approached, illuminating half of the underground training ground, and naturally found the thieves who were killing him at a very close distance in front of him. Iss.

The eyes under his helmet visor were red, relying on his vision and brain that had been accelerated, he pushed his body vigorously, and raised his left arm as much as possible to resist the fatal blow.

At the same time, he also swung the luminous long sword in his right hand, fiercely slashing at the bold enemy in front of him.

Clang—squeak—

The shield barely caught up, and the edge of the upper part rubbed against the attacking steel dagger to create a cluster of sparks, and then pushed the opponent's weapon and stabbed upwards. The dagger then hit Kiel's iron helmet covered with hard cowhide on the front of the forehead, scratched a dent and staggered away.

"Huh?" The thief was extremely surprised. Not only was he surprised by the opponent's weapon, but he was also surprised that the dagger pierced straight for less than half a second. How did the opponent react?

But there was not much time left for him to wonder, and Kiel's counterattack also came.

The long sword hunting went against the usual slashing and slashing. Instead, under Kiel's control, he stopped charging and slashed directly at the opponent.

But the thief's reaction was still very fast. He raised his left leg in an instant, and used the calf of his left leg to block Kiel's sword.

When he hit the cut, Keir was excited for a while, but then he realized from the feel of the opponent's calf and under his underwear that there were protective means. Although the place where the cut was made was not the thick and hard leather armor like Kiel, nor the harder iron greaves, it was a kind of protective material that was not thick but extremely tough.

Kiel's long sword slashed at the opponent's calf, and a part of the blade also sank into it slightly, but it didn't break through the opponent's protection.

"What!" Kiel was surprised, and wanted to slash again with his sword, but the thief who retracted his left hand and lowered his left leg immediately moved away from Kiel, but when his left leg touched the ground, his movements were slightly deformed.

Although Kiel's urgent sword was blocked, it must still be very painful.

"Hmph." Looking at the glowing long sword beside Kiel, the thief snorted coldly with disdain: "Bless the weapon, huh."

As if getting to know Kiel again, the thief scanned Kiel for another round, and he was slightly relieved when he didn't find that Kiel was equipped with more blessed weapons.

But Kiel immediately fought back, and with the light from the weapon in his hand, Kiel rushed forward quickly and slashed a few times, forcing the thieves to retreat. It wasn't until the thief Yisi's eyes got used to the stronger white light that the thief and Kiel continued to fight.

when! when! when!

when! Clang—

After a few confrontations, the thief Yisi felt a huge shock in his palms and wrists, and a dull pain in his joints and bones. He didn't expect this young man to be so strong. With a flick of the steel dagger, he immediately found that the blade of the dagger had a curling edge that had been produced after the fight just now.

Flipping the glowing opponent's weapon, the longsword was unscathed, at least he didn't notice it.

The thief changed his emotional behavior just now, and no longer confronted the young soldier head-on. Instead, he took advantage of his flexibility and familiarity with the surrounding environment to attack Kiel back and forth, left and right.

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Pa, a clay pot full of coins was kicked over by the thieves, and Kiel hurriedly raised his shield to block it.

Jinglingling's coins were scattered all over the floor. Kiel glanced at them and found that they were all ordinary iron coins, and there were no copper coins of any value.

Later, when Kiel stepped forward on the reflective iron coins all over the floor, the thief kicked a small chair, and Kiel kicked back in an instant, directly kicking the wooden chair to pieces.

Kiel put his mind on the long sword in his hand, preparing for an attack that could blind the enemy ~www.readwn.com~ without releasing too much divine power contained in the long sword. There is no additional lighting here, it is underground, and there is no natural light, so it is impossible to release all the divine power at once as before, or he will be blinded.

It seemed that he had a premonition that Kiel was suffocating, so the thief's figure was erratic, and he no longer stood straight in front of Kiel.

The thief either threw tools and items in the training ground with his left hand, or kicked some smaller gadgets directly at Kiel.

When the thieves retreated to the other side of the training ground and found a throwing knife fixed on the leather, the attacks became more frequent.

This time, the thief tied the leather with the throwing knife on his belt, then took out the throwing knife from it, and shot at Kiel after a short aim. Whoosh—the sharp and light flying knife reflected white light, crossed a silver line, and struck straight.

But to the disappointment of the thief Yi Si, several throwing knives passed by, but they were all blocked by the opponent's shield.

"Good eyesight." He had to praise, which was something he couldn't even do himself. It's not that he can't resist the throwing knives, but that dexterous thieves rely on seeing the opponent's movements in advance to predict the direction of the flying knives in advance, and they can't start after the throwing knives have already shot, like Kiel at this time. withstand.

After all, there is not much space in the underground training ground. Although the two retreated and chased, the distance between the two was not more than a few meters. At this distance, once the throwing knife is shot, it will come in the blink of an eye, and it is difficult to react.

And just when the thief retreated to a corner around the training ground again, Kiel saw that there was no way out behind the opponent, so he stretched out his long sword and silently released the blinding white light.

Swish—

As for the thief who was staring closely at Kiel's movements, a white light flashed in front of his eyes, and then his eyes were all white, unable to see.