Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir received the order from Baron Kendall, and immediately called people around to follow him.

The attendants and clerks who were hiding in the carriage before, these logistics personnel were basically not affected by the hearing of the carriage. Now that the battle was over, they carefully opened the car windows to peek out, and then they got out of the carriage, anxiously helping the busy people around them.

Assistance without a clear goal actually brings very limited help. After the baron saw it, he directly assigned these people to people he trusted at the moment.

Including the young man Keir.

The previous battles fell on everyone's eyes. Whoever fought bravely and who was at a loss, he also saw it in the gap between releasing magic.

Keir summoned a dozen support staff, and called the baron's personal guard, Lubis, whom he had dealt with before, and asked him to find a few people to come over to assist.

Going out to collect scattered precious coin fragments naturally cannot work empty-handed, so Keel asked the logistics staff to find the cash box that contained the money before, and asked Rubis to get some horses, and it would be best to free up a carriage. come out.

As they prepared, Kiel came to where the giant harpy leader had died before. At this time, Knight Crowe was leading people to deal with the most precious of all monster trophies.

Seeing Kiel approaching, the knight immediately pointed to an ax on the monster's corpse with a cold face: "You just came and took that thing away. A guy as greedy as this weapon is really rare."

Kiel looked over and found that his two-handed ax was lying in the huge gap in the monster's chest. The town guards under Knight Crowe tried to move it away, but they couldn't move it at all.

It's not that Knight Crowe can't get rid of it, but since it's the main weapon of his servants, and it also played a role in the previous battle, this respect can still be given.

Kiel laughed twice, quickly climbed onto the corpse of the huge monster, and pulled out the two-handed ax stuck in the wound of the corpse from the flesh and blood.

He heard a faint chewing sound, and the spirit on the ax seemed displeased that Kiel had moved it away.

Kiel swung the ax with a shock, and scattered all the monster's flesh and blood on the ax on the ground.

Putting away the ax and snapping it on the back of the armor, Kiel waved at the knight and left.

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When he returned to his carriage, Bloodgaster had already woken up, leaning against the inner roof of the carriage, still looking weak.

"How's the situation outside? A lot of strange things happened before."

Blood Fang asked weakly.

Kiel waved his hand: "A large group of harpies came, and we fought a **** battle."

Although these words were expected by Xueyasite, they still shocked the other party: "What happened? What happened in the end?"

Kiel snorted: "Listen outside, there are only human voices, no strange screams from monsters. You should have guessed it in the end, right?"

"It's okay, it's okay, at least we won, but we can't stay in place for long, those monsters are very revengeful, and the large groups of monsters are led by leaders. The general army is no match. I told you before that the local knights led Soldiers conscript them, right?"

But before Bloodtooth could finish speaking, Kiel interrupted him: "Don't worry about it, the leader of the monster is also dead, a large group, at least dozens of harpies are dead, There will be no more monsters to harass us. Well, at least not in the near future, after all, after they get the news of their defeat, it is impossible to gather monsters from other places so quickly."

As he spoke, Keel found some dry cloths and wiped off the monster blood and unknown tissues that had been stained by the armor on his body.

He hung the two-handed ax on the edge of the shed in the carriage, replenished some dry food and fresh water that had been prepared, and then went out from the back of the carriage.

The moment he opened the curtain and went out, in the same place in the carriage that Xueyaster couldn't see, Kiel disappeared directly. When he reappeared, his armor had been carefully wiped, not only his long sword Hunting and wearing a belt made him feel much better.

No one knew that he had just gone to a mysterious place with a different speed of time, and he had been repaired there.

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When they came to the place agreed with the other people who had completed the Baron's order together, Kiel saw that all the people were there, so he led everyone to set off.

He first explained the baron's order to the nearly twenty people accompanying him, asking them to collect as much as possible of the precious coins lost in the previous battle of the mimetic warriors.

Those precious coins were scattered in many places on the battlefield, because it was a battle that everyone was watching, so not only Kiel knew where some of the coins might fall, but others also knew some.

They also asked for information on surrounding militia squads that were being reorganized. Because these militiamen on the front line of the battlefield can't hear their ears, Kiel took out the broken coins he picked up, and even said and gestured to let the militiamen understand the meaning.

The honest militiamen immediately handed over the valuable coins they had picked up, and looked relieved. Kiel was really surprised by these simple peasant children and their simple hearts.

And there were still some people's dodging eyes and clenched fists, and Kiel pretended not to see them for the time being.

Forget about the broken coins picked up by the soldiers, but pick up the coins scattered on the battlefield before the army leaves here.

After asking about some places they hadn't noticed before, Keir immediately arranged for everyone to disperse when they came to the place where the broken coins appeared.

He walked out of the queue: "Everyone, let me make it clear in advance that I don't care about your own coins, but if you pick up precious coins that are scratched, deformed, broken, and broken, you will have to hand them over as soon as you find them. This is the Baron My lord's property is an important asset to maintain our army. Not just anyone can swallow it. After picking up the scattered coins, I will arrange for everyone to search each other. All damaged coins will be handed over, and the ones in my pocket will be intact I don't care about coins."

"In addition, please supervise each other when you pick it up. No one has a bag. If you find that other people are hiding valuable broken coins, I asked the senior clerk of the logistics here and will reward the whistleblower. The guy who made a mistake, will be punished. Act."

After finishing speaking, everyone lined up, and the attendants, logistics personnel, clerks, and the baron's personal guards were all mixed together and lined up next to each other, making sure that neither the left nor the right were familiar people.

As for Kiel, he stood on the carriage not far away to supervise everyone.

According to what Kiel said, the baron's personal guards really got a half-empty carriage. This cart was used to transport the crossbow arrows used by the soldiers. The entire cart of crossbow arrows was already half empty at this moment.

Perfect for keeping valuable damaged coins collected.

Everyone moved very quickly. After the start, they bowed their heads and walked forward. Everyone held a handful of tools in their hands, so that they could push the grass to check the possible shiny places on the ground.

People kept bending down to pick up things, and then put them into the newly opened pockets at their waists.

Kiel couldn't help but nodded. After the battle just now, it is estimated that no one is in the mood to mess around at the moment.

Seeing that things were normal, Keir turned his head and looked elsewhere.

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Knight Crowe here.

He shattered the solid earth gun shaft on his sword, and took the sword in his hand again.

This sword is good for everything, but limited by the long sword itself, it cannot be used in wide and highly maneuverable battles, such as the previous air battles, and cannot fight in a large area.

The actual combat is too close to get the upper hand in a fight with the harpies.

In fact, this is not a big disadvantage. After all, his sword has a magic blade that can be projected. This thing can be kept on the weapon, or it can be projected directly while waving. The power is amazing.

However, the cost of mana replenishment, which was too expensive, made him quite entangled in large-scale long-distance battles.

Every time the magic blade is swung, it is swaying and splashing gold coins.

Even though his income is actually quite a lot, Baron Kendall paid him a lot of salary and taxes from the territory, but the price of a magic sword blade is still equal to the price of a gold coin each time.

At least that's the price for a mage in Organ Castle in the Northwest Province.

He doesn't go to the organ castle much, but he asks the high-level magicians there to replenish his magic power at the Imperial Border Knights' residence in the north of Kendall County every year.

This is all done by asking a friend to help. Even if it is because of the face of his previous service, he was given a 30% discount, which is not a small amount of money.

Knight Crowe counted how many magic swords he had swung in the battle just now, and carefully checked how much the magic radiance scattered by the magic gem had dimmed on the magic gem long sword.

According to his calculations, he played well just now, and he swung at least 130 magical sword blades back, and the magic power in the magic gem was less than a quarter of what it was before.

The knight scratched his head, thinking that after everything was settled tonight, he had to talk to the baron about mana replenishment.

At least the money can't count on him, right?

He didn't take much money when he went out to fight this time. His wife brought him a bag full of gold coins, which must have exceeded a hundred gold coins, but it was impossible to use all the money for this.

Putting the troubles aside, Knight Crowe saw his guards coming to a carriage. The carriage had already been vacated, and the supplies inside had been moved to nowhere, but now the carriage had to be loaded with the corpse of the monster.

It's all money.

It's a lot of money wherever you put it. I only hope that the baron can sell these things for a good price.

The guards, in groups of several, hoisted up the disassembled body of the leader of the giant harpies with ropes, and dragged them into the truck compartment. Knight Crowe then went in and used the ice ring lent by the baron to freeze the monster corpse inside.

Although the weather in spring is getting hotter, the flesh and blood of monsters are not easy to rot, especially those of Warcraft. These flesh and blood are filled with some special energy, and it is difficult to deal with the things that generally rot the flesh.

But freezing is also necessary. If you want to sell a good price, you have to be the freshest. Moreover, the flesh and blood of monsters has a strong smell after all. If it is not frozen, the smell of such a few cars of flesh and blood in the convoy will probably be very unpleasant.

will affect morale.

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Knight Rumi here.

He was leading a group of people on horseback and approached the local caravan that was fleeing.

After the battle on their side was over, Knight Rumi noticed that the local caravans in the distance were showing signs of evacuation, but the vast grassland, where could they go?

It is not necessary to follow the predetermined route along the commercial road and settle in a nearby village.

Tonight was just a matter of front and back.

If this group of people were really allowed to retreat like this, Lord Baron would definitely not be able to spare these people by then.

Knight Rumi was full of thoughts, and he didn't want any bad things to happen again. He knew that if they wanted to quickly cross the Strange Wind Grassland in the next few days, they would have to get the full assistance of the locals.

Even if this group of people hid far away when the battle happened just now. And many monsters were attracted by these people with sheep.

He didn't want to judge whether it was right or wrong here, he just hoped to solve the matter safely, and then slowly solved his own problems.

The consequences of killing one's own people gradually emerged.

At this moment, part of the divine power possessed by the Warrior of Faith is like an opponent in his body. Not only does he no longer obey his control, but even a part of his own life energy is affected and becomes difficult to control.

And this situation is still gradually expanding, no matter what, his life energy will no longer be under his control in half a year or a year.

At that time, although he still has the strength of many knights, as long as he needs to actively control his life energy to activate the knight skills, he will not be able to use them all.

Thinking of this, Knight Rumi had a bitter taste in his mouth.

Obviously, I had good intentions and chose the best result in the previous dilemma, but I still violated the vow I made. Where does this make him reason?

When they came to the local caravan, these local businessmen were very nervous and guarded. They seemed to be more afraid and hostile to the Kendals than the harpies.

"Everyone."

He opened his mouth and said that the surrounding strong wind had stopped, and the green and wide grassland was quiet and peaceful, and there was no sign of the fierce battle that had taken place before.

"Everyone, please don't be vigilant and hostile. The previous actions of everyone are justified. After all, the Baron accepted the coins to protect the caravans. It is normal for everyone to protect themselves before the battle. Reasonable. Correct of."

Rumi Knight racked his brains to come up with some good words to use in his words.

He talked for a while, and finally made the people in the local caravans not nervous. At least the stewards in each caravan knew that he, the knight, was not here to ask questions.

"You stay, I'll go in and tell them."

Knight Rumi asked the men who followed him to wait outside the team on horseback.

"My lord, your safety? These people can't be trusted. They compromised with inhuman monsters." A baron's personal guard who was close to him whispered.

"It's okay, believe it or not, they can't hurt me. And compromise with the monster? Hey, if compromising with the monster can bring you wealth, let alone them, how about you? Do you compromise? Besides, these people are from the western province Locals, people from the Northwest Province should not get involved in the affairs of their province, and we have no position in judging."

After explaining a few sentences, Knight Rumi walked into the caravan.

He met the stewards of various caravans in the center of the caravan guards.

Faced with their inquiries about their intentions, Knight Rumi first moved out the simple protection contract for the baron's coins.

To be honest, this thing is not as good as a **** wipe, but at this time, it can become an important reason for local businessmen to defend their actions. Moreover, Knight Rumi raised it on his own initiative, but it was also a superficial attitude, letting them know that the Kendal people he represented also recognized the role of this contract.

When the other party offered coins before, Baron Kendall promised to protect them and provide them with shelter. And now the Kendalls have done it.

And in accordance with the contract, he expressed his understanding and support for the local caravan's behavior of not saving them.

"It should be so." Knight Rumi said so, even if he was angry in his heart. But what about anger and emotions? The troubles they are facing are not small. This is the time when they need help, and the local caravan who is close at hand forgives them and can earn the help of the local caravan.

This is far better than punishing them and making the relationship between the two parties stiff, isn't it better?

Of course, Knight Rumi knew in his heart that if he ran out of good words, if the other party didn't give them face and didn't provide them with the help they needed, they would really be asking for trouble.

At that time, he might have to bring someone over again.

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Fortunately, even if some young caravan stewards in the local caravan couldn't figure out the situation, they really took what Knight Rumi said seriously, and felt that they did the right thing to protect themselves and avoid it, but some old merchants around understood The real situation at this time.

"My lord knight, please speak up as much as possible. Your army can wipe out the monster settlements on the evil side. This is what the merchants in our western provinces want to see most. If you need anything, please speak up as much as possible, and we will definitely provide help."

A middle-aged caravan steward made a promise to Knight Rumi on behalf of all of them~www.readwn.com~ A few young businessmen who wanted to say something were tightly covered by their companions, preventing them from speaking. He was not a fool, the young businessman had come to his senses, so he no longer struggled, but complained softly about the weirdness of the matter and the hypocrisy of both parties after he let go.

Hypocrisy is necessary, even if it is riddled with holes and tattered.

But with this thing hanging on, the two parties who have conflicts can abandon some conflicts and carry out things that are beneficial to both parties where they can cooperate.

"Thank you. Thank you all. Our soldiers have fought and now need various supplies for treatment, and there are also several trucks for people to rest. If there are people among you who can heal, please go to help our soldiers, Many of them had their ears damaged by the harpies' screams and could not hear without treatment."

Knight Rumi was also polite, and directly asked for the most important help at this time.

"In addition, we have also freed up a lot of supplies on the carriage. We hope to hire some of your spare capacity to carry them at a reasonable price and move forward together."

"Here, let's discuss it."

The middle-aged caravan manager who took the lead was a little embarrassed and apologized.

Rumi Knight reminded: "Please discuss as soon as possible. If nothing else, we have to reach the village where we spend the night before dark. No one would want to fight those monsters flying in the sky in the dark, right?"

"You are right, please wait a moment."

So the merchants gathered together, approached and discussed in a low voice. But in fact, it is only the small-scale caravan stewards in the caravan who are discussing, and several large caravans have directly acquiesced in this matter. Compared with some worse possibilities, the help and assistance at this moment really makes them relax. tone.