Mercenaries and Adventurers

The sky was getting darker, as if it had a premonition, and even the strong wind that often blows in the local area became weaker at this time.

Because of the strong wind and the harpies, not only the Thor village in front of him, but even other local villages and towns had no sentinels.

Because if you keep watch outside the building at night, in the morning, the place where there should be people is often empty.

Those daring harpies will naturally not let go of the delicious humans who don't hide in the middle of the night.

They rarely care about it during the day, let alone at night.

Most of the villagers' guards would only let out a short howl when they were attacked by the harpies, and then they would be taken captive to the sky and disappeared.

Over time, the locals will not keep watch outside the building, whether it is day or night.

Instead, the village guards are placed at the semi-underground entrance of the already built wall, or inside the gates of various low and large buildings in the village.

In short, when the foreign caravans all saw that the Kendal people from the north had bad intentions, the villagers of Thor Village didn't know anything about it.

The guards were just counting the number of caravans that visited this time, and calculating how much the village could harvest tonight.

Little did they know, the punishment for refusing was coming.

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The two knights rode side by side at the end of the caravan entering the village.

But when they were about to go down the road to the semi-underground gate of the village, they stopped their horses and stopped.

Looking at the several-meter-high earthen wall surrounding the village, which was artificially built in front of him, the Rumi knight jokingly said, "Hmph, I don't know how these useless things give those people confidence?"

Knight Crowe shook his head: "It's just ignorant fools. Although there are stories and poems about heroic knights everywhere, it is difficult for people to maintain awe of things they have not seen with their own eyes. It is not that there are no knights and nobles in the local area. Let them lose Just out of awe."

"Come on, I'll destroy a part of the village's wall later, so that the army can enter the village. By the way, I'll destroy this gate that looks like a rat's hole. Your lord baron won't go through such a majestic 'rat's hole'."

After finishing speaking, Knight Crowe pointed to the location of the gate passage to Knight Rumi, signaling Rumi to deal with it. But he himself turned his horse's head and rode towards the village wall facing the army on one side.

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Under the distant gaze of the soldiers, Knight Crowe headed straight for the village wall.

To be honest, he really didn't know what those villagers were thinking. He really thought that this was a wall that could only resist ordinary beasts. Who could it stop?

I'm afraid that even ordinary bandits can't stop them?

It is also because there are no bandits in the local area that these villagers lose their awe and comparison.

The knight shook his head. If it weren't for the caravans coming and going to rely on the villages along these trade routes for overnight repairs, some large caravans would have bloodbathed the village.

There was no other action, Knight Crowe galloped his horse, and when he was close to the village wall, he lifted the reins sharply and slammed his legs on the horse's belly at the same time. The warhorse, who had been familiar with him for a long time, immediately knew his master's intentions. He jumped up in a vertical leap while galloping, and the horse and man jumped up with a weight of one ton.

The horse didn't use its full strength, but it was enough to jump onto the three-meter-high dirt wall.

There was a bang.

The entire wall trembled when the horse landed on the ground, and the fixed flowers planted on the wall were shaken and scattered one after another.

At the same time, the caravans that have passed through the lower gate passage have all entered the village wall, except for a small number of rough-minded caravans who are untiing and washing the horses on the carriages as usual, and the men enter the low underground building of the village. , the other caravans came out to deal with the villagers in their own village who led them to pretend to be false, and talk about him from left to right.

They are not idiots. I heard that the local village refused the army to enter the village overnight to avoid the monsters at night, and I saw the Kendal people outside the village waiting in full force.

Most of these merchants guessed something bad was going to happen.

So although they came in first according to the intention of the Kendal people, they didn't plan to spend the night with big hearts, but they were all waiting.

wait for what?

With a bang, a knight among the Kendalls jumped onto the wall of the village on horseback. The merchants trembled when they heard the dull landing, and then turned their heads to look over.

The villagers in the village who recommended the village's services also heard the noise and looked over, their faces full of surprise.

Although I don't know what this person is going to do, it is obviously not a good thing.

The villagers clenched their fists and left the foreign businessmen around them one after another. Some ran towards the Crowe Knight on the fence, and some turned back into the low building beside them, and took out a long knife and short gun from the guard room at the entrance of the building, exasperated. Cursing in his mouth, he ran towards the knight on the wall.

Seeing this, the merchants had strange expressions on their faces, and they all kept their men away from the wall, stretched their necks to watch the excitement.

The merchants basically traveled all over the world and learned a lot. They were very surprised to see that these villagers dared to hold weapons and secretly surrounded the knights on the wall.

"Don't die?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't know what to say."

"Sure enough, he is an ignorant person, even when the thunder is approaching, he has no knowledge."

Knight Crowe on the fence saw the local villagers who were gradually encircling from below, snorted disdainfully, ignored the noise and questioning of those people, and directly mobilized the life energy transformed by the elements, and then extended to the fence under the horseshoe , and then rushed.

Puff—

The earthen wall, which was obviously reinforced with a flower seed with an exceptionally developed root system, suddenly looked like the wooden beams were eaten away by wood-eating ants. In the fence of meters, it spewed out horizontally to both sides of the fence.

It's like an old rotten wood being hammered with a heavy hammer. The village wall, which was built not many years ago, is like an ancient wall that has not been repaired a hundred years ago, with creaking and rustling inside. Bad sound.

Then, under the watchful eyes of countless people, a whole section of the village wall gradually collapsed to both sides.

Knight Crowe didn't even move, allowing the wall under the horse to collapse, and the horse even used the horse's mouth to fiddle with the flowers on the collapsing wall.

It's a pity that the horse has a chewing head on its mouth, so it can't eat normally, otherwise it would have to gnaw on these flowers.

"Ahhhhh, the village wall!"

"How did this happen! How did it collapse! How!"

"This knight must have done it! He did it!"

Knight Crowe turned his head to look at the shocked villagers inside the wall, and said bluntly, "Yes, I broke this thing." In the words, it seemed that he had done an ordinary thing.

This remark annoyed some young villagers, and they were very angry. After all, this fence is an important protection for the village against wild animals on the grassland, and it was built and maintained by them since childhood.

Several meters high, the earthen wall surrounding the entire village was built by the elders by leveling a small mound next to the village, and the reinforced flower seeds on the wall were planted bit by bit by all the young people in the village. Cultivated by watering.

Today, the fence that has been built and maintained for many years has been destroyed by this knight with unknown means.

Their chests were full of anger, but neither men nor women dared to approach them.

Because of the strange collapse of the wall in front of him, the tall armored horse under the knight's crotch, and the heavy steel armor on the knight himself.

These things make the angry villagers hesitate, but still maintain a vigilant rationality.

So, after the wall collapsed, it sank to the ground in the eyes of everyone. There was a faint vibration from the ground, and the collapsed walls were squeezed into the ground in the vibration.

A notch more than ten meters long on the wall of the village appeared in front of everyone in this short moment.

The people inside the wall saw the uniform army soldiers not far from the wall through the notch, and everyone shuddered.

The Kendall militiamen outside the wall proudly used the spears in their hands to stamp down on their feet, making loud noises ranging from chaotic to uniform.

Boom, boom.

Boom, boom.

Boom, boom.

Boom, boom.

The uniform sound frightened the villagers inside the wall. Most of the villagers didn't know that there was an army outside the village, and they were at a loss at this moment.

The timid villagers immediately hid in the caravan crowd.

Most of the young villagers were at a loss, so they could only stand there in embarrassment, and carefully put the thing in their hands on the ground first, showing that they were not threatening.

Fortunately, many elderly villagers quickly walked out of the low buildings in the village. Their faces were ugly, and they did not hold long weapons in their hands. Most of them were empty-handed, supporting several people in the village. The elder, walked towards the collapsed wall.

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At the same time, when Knight Crowe used his own power to collapse the wall, Knight Rumi also acted according to the agreement.

He jumped off the horse, held the hilt of the long sword in the scabbard at his waist, and strode along the downhill passage to the half-underground village gate.

Seeing the village's so-called crude gate with wooden railings, he sneered disdainfully, and he didn't need to shout for someone to open the gate. He reached out and grabbed the wooden railing on the surface of the gate directly under the gaze of the people inside the gate.

"What are you doing!"

"Who are you! Come on."

The two village guards guarding the inside of the wooden gate saw the armor on Knight Rumi, so naturally they didn't dare to yell at him, so these two warnings and questions were not addressed to Knight Rumi, but turned around after seeing the situation. He shouted at his own people in the underground warning room inside the gate.

Sure enough, following the yelling, the other guards who were more vigilant and had just finished their work because of a large number of outsiders coming to the village to spend the night today, all took self-made simple weapons by the wall and shot from the ground on both sides. ran out of the house.

But as soon as they came out, they saw Knight Rumi ignoring the reinforced wooden spikes on the wooden gate, grabbing the railing with both hands, and then pulling back forcefully.

Before he came, he had heard from Keir that the gate was closed inwards against the top of the passage.

So instead of pushing the door open, he pulled the door back, with the purpose of destroying this thing.

crunch, crunch—

As the Rumi knight grabbed the wooden gate and stepped back, the entire gate made a worrying cracking sound, and with the sound, the entire gate was deforming greatly and would shatter at any moment.

Some of the wooden thorns fixed on the wooden fence gate to resist wild beasts in the prairie are also disintegrating as the gate deforms.

These spikes hardened by the fire bounced around, and the Rumi knight was wearing armor all over. The wooden spikes left only a little charcoal black scratches, and they jingled.

But the wooden thorns that collapsed to the inside of the gate caused several village guards to hide inward screaming.

They had just retreated a few steps when there was a loud bang, and the entire wooden gate could no longer withstand the knight's forceful drag, and the entire gate shattered into three or four pieces.

As soon as the knight loosened his grip, he snorted coldly and threw the fragment of the broken wooden railing on the ground casually.

"what have you been doing?"

"You man! This is something from our village. If it is damaged, you have to pay for it!"

"Compensation? Grab it! Hang it up!"

Seeing the destruction of important property in the village, several young people rushed forward, shouting.

But the other two middle-aged people lived and lived in the empire when they were young, and they could only guess that this person was a knight from the thick steel armor they wore.

The two middle-aged men held simple hand axes with horizontal spikes and iron hoops, and they were stunned and at a loss.

Emotionally, they should rush over with the young man to teach the enemy a lesson, but rationally told them that this is useless, and it will also annoy Lord Knight.

By the way, my lord knight.

Thinking of this, the two of them immediately dropped the things in their hands, and knelt down on the ground with their crotches, and even their whole bodies were lying on the ground, regardless of whether the ground had just been trampled by the caravan's people, it was dirty and dirty at this time. chaos.

However, several young people were full of enthusiasm, brandishing weapons in their hands and smashing at the enemy who destroyed the gate of their village.

It was agreed before that the villagers here could not be killed, so at this moment, Knight Rumi just opened his palm wrapped in steel armor, and slapped a young man in front of him lightly with a slap.

Snapped!

An exceptionally loud slap, even if Knight Rumi tried his best to lighten his slap, it was almost like a gentle stroking. But his thick palms and the heavy armor on his hands still caused great damage by virtue of their weight.

A young man in front of him fell sideways on the ground after being slapped, his head was shaking and his mouth was speechless. When he opened his mouth, a few molars on one side spat out mixed with saliva and blood.

Not only that, but where the side of his face was in contact with the metal of his palm, his skin was torn apart.

It was only a 'light' touch, but his face was almost as if someone had hit him with a metal shield.

The other two young men were startled immediately, but their movements did not stop.

There were two bangs, but the sparks didn't come out, and the body of Rumi Knight was hit twice without shaking.

The knight then stretched out his left and right hands to grab the chest of one person, grabbed the person and hit them in the middle.

Boom.

The two young men passed out as soon as their heads hit.

"Hmph, it's boring." Knight Rumi complained, carried the two young people forward, and when passing two villagers lying on the ground, he raised his feet and ordered: "Take the one on the ground with you, Come with me!"

"Yes Yes Yes Yes."

"Do as you say, and do as you command, my lord knight."

The two middle-aged men scrambled and lifted the young man whose face had been slapped half way, and carried the unconscious young man to follow behind the knight.

Although they didn't know where they were going or what they were doing, the two of them had already lost their ability to think because of the gap between fear and force.

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Knight Rumi looked at the rooms on the left and right sides of the underground passage, and found that there was only one earthen bed for people to lie on in the small room. other things and people.

So he didn't care about this place anymore, and led the people through the short underground passage to the inside of the village wall.

Walking up the inner slope, he saw that it was a little far away from the underground passage behind him, so he threw the two unconscious young men in his hands to the ground, and then waved for the three people behind him to come over.

"Stand here and wait."

After finishing speaking, he stopped caring about other things and turned to look carefully at Knight Crowe on the fence.

Sure enough, Knight Crowe then used the magical power he had seen before, knocking down the entire wall made of soil, and then even more miraculously squeezed the entire collapsed ruins to the ground.

Knight Rumi was rather eager, his eyes under the helmet visor watched Crowe Knight's movements without blinking, and at the same time he felt the changes there with his knight-level perception.

"It's too far away. Hey."

He sighed softly, knowing that his level is still not enough. Although the two are about the same age, their life experience is too different.

This leads to a greater gap in strength.

He only joined the Royal Army two years later than Knight Crow, but when he practiced the martial arts of ordinary soldiers in the barracks as a soldier, the opponent had already become an elite cavalry under the knight because he had killed bandits many times.

Not long afterward, when he went into battle to kill the enemy for the first time, Crowe had already received knight training and disappeared from the ordinary army.

I found out later that I joined the Knights of the Kingdom Guards.

And although he made great contributions in the next few years and successfully became a knight, the Knights of the Kingdom's Guards were already full at that time, and there was no need to find elites from the army to fill them up.

In this way, the life trajectories of the two have deviated.

Although Crowe is always reluctant to talk about his experience in the Knights, he always reveals a little bit in the daily chat.

When he was engaged in small-scale battles on the border with neighboring countries, Crowe fought with other noble knights in the kingdom who were also knights, and often participated in various battles against powerful monsters.

Just like just now, the difference in combat ability of knights when facing ordinary people is too great. Although it is safe, the possibility of improvement is too rare. Even if he usually trains hard, but at the level of a knight, the general training method is only to ensure that his martial arts will not decline.

Everyone's life energy has an upper limit. After he became a knight himself, he reached his limit within a few years.

Knight Rumi opened his palm, looked at the little blood stains on his hand when he slapped someone, and shook it.

Sighed.

When he was unable to progress, Crowe was fighting on the front line against powerful monsters. I heard that Crowe had participated in the monster disaster in the central province many years ago.

Even though the many knights and troops who participated in the battle suffered heavy losses, none of the knights who survived was a famous and strong man today.

While he was in the army, Crowe joined the Empire's Border Knights. This further widened the gap between the two. Although the vast majority of the people in the kingdom are composed of immigrants from the empire~www.readwn.com~, most of the people and noble knights who came to the kingdom are guys with limited skills and low strength.

The Imperial Frontier Knights are all elites in the empire.

Thinking of this, Knight Rumi sighed again.

Seeing that Knight Crowe destroyed a large section of the village wall not only deterred the impudent and arrogant village, but also created a dignified entrance for the army.

He reached out and waved towards Knight Crowe.

Knight Crowe looked over, and he pointed to the original entrance of the village.

Next, destroy this entrance as well.

This was discussed with the Baron and the three of them before.

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When the villagers of Thor Village came out of the low houses built underground, they saw the knight who had destroyed the wall in the discussion came to the top of the gate passage of his village from above the wall.

Obviously, the other party wanted to destroy all the underground passages that the village spent so much effort to build.

Can't be made to do this!

Thinking of this, the young villagers in the village rushed forward one after another, trying to stop it.

But another knight in thick steel armor stood in front of everyone.

The other party didn't speak, but pointed to the foot, and then stepped on it hard, pushing the solid ground out of the depression.

The meaning is self-evident.

But the young villagers didn't care so much, they rushed over one after another. The elderly villagers were a little timid and did not dare to go forward. Most of these people grew up in the empire when they were young. The rules of the empire are strict, and the majesty and strength of the knights have always been imprinted in their hearts.

Even though many years have passed, and they have come to this place where life is difficult but there are no knights or nobles to manage them, this imprint from their youth is still deeply engraved deep in their bodies.