Mercenaries and Adventurers

"The last guy? Wasn't he defeated and killed by you? What's there to say?"

Big Bird tilted his head, with great doubts in his shiny black eyes, he just stared at Kiel and asked.

Kiel froze, he didn't expect the other party to be so direct, but it made him feel embarrassed.

"What I mean is, Mr. Budolibdorabuyika, the strange archer I defeated before, did his ability come from the great you?"

Big Bird nodded naturally: "That's right, that young man is my believer, and he completed my hunting and gained some special abilities! What, do you want it? These abilities will enhance your Hunting ability, so that you can get more powerful prey! Tell me what ability you want, and I will arrange corresponding hunting tasks, and use the hunting prey to sacrifice to me!"

Keir grinned. He didn't expect this self-absorbed person to say everything he wanted to ask in one go. Instead, he didn't need to ask any more questions.

So, do you want to agree with the other party?

The priest of the Saturnal God said that he could agree to come down to gain strength. Although this bird-shaped **** didn't look too smart, he was surprisingly straightforward. He didn't say anything to make a fuss, and told him some mysterious and mysterious religions. Belief.

Or, this **** of divination no longer has the power to choose?

Keir looked at the surrounding environment, although it looked scary, but when he calmed down and looked carefully, he felt a crude feeling.

Monotonous and simple, compared with Ms. Apolfina's dream, this place is like a simple graffiti drawn by a child with crayons.

Simple and monotonous, revealing a primitive sense of horror.

But after being unaffected by the sense of terror, one can discover the simplicity behind this sense of terror.

Do you want to gain this power?

Kiel remembered the details of fighting that archer some time ago.

At that time, the archer not only had good eyesight, but he was able to suppress a large number of militia crossbow shots by himself in the mottled night. At that time, he thought it was the opponent's superb skills. Now that he thinks about it, that person probably has the ability to see things brightly at night. ?

Militiamen need to shoot carefully, or with luck, but the archer can take precise aim.

At the same time, the Blinding Blessing ability of the Sun God released by Kiel hunting with the long sword, the archer was not affected.

No, thinking about it carefully, it should be affected, but the blinding effect is very short, and it can almost be regarded as unaffected.

This is also the power bestowed by this god.

At the same time, Keir also remembered that he was suspended in the air by a special strange force, unable to move, and could only be attacked in vain. This special and weird ability seems to be the power of this god.

Keel thought about it, sitting on the ground.

The big bird standing on the stick also squatted quietly on the top of the stick, looking at Kiel who was thinking about something, but didn't say anything.

When not talking, this half-human-tall bird doesn't look so scary, but looks like an exquisitely crafted sculpture.

Standing quietly, the whole body reveals a feeling and smell from a long time ago.

-

Keir raised his head, stretched out one hand and raised three fingers: "Three questions!"

Big Bird tilted his head and looked at Kiel curiously, without opening his mouth, motioning for Kiel to ask the so-called three questions.

"First, there is no need to know the details of your last follower, the archer I defeated, including but not limited to everything you know about him, and all the transactions he made with you, or Say, hunting missions and sacrifices."

Bird looked unhappy, as if Keel's request was very rude.

But He didn't open his mouth to refuse.

"Secondly, will this ability you bestow affect or interfere with the life energy of the knight and the divine power of other gods? I am not a young man with nothing. The future of the knight's road is smooth, and I I was involved with the Church of the God of Saturn before, and I have a lot of divine power of the God of Saturn in my body to support me. What do you say about this?"

Kiel's second question seemed to stump the **** in front of him, but it didn't look like it. Anyway, Big Bird looked at Kiel weirdly, just like Kiel looked at him.

Quite strange.

"The third one, do you know Ms. Apolfina, right? Can you tell me about this god? I want to know."

But as soon as the third question was uttered, the big bird standing on the stick opposite immediately laughed.

"Quack quack quack! It's funny, it's so funny, quack quack. The mortal apostle of the drunken dreamer doesn't even know who he is bound and loyal to? Quack quack."

The big bird was in full bloom, its wings kept flapping, casting a large shadow like a bird's feather.

These shadows fell on the ground, but they pulled the shadow-like stones and plants around them, assimilated them as if they were eating, and then crawled up the standing wooden sticks, returning to the claws of the big bird.

Keir's expression was not good, but he really didn't know about Ms. Apolfina, although through some special reasons of the elf ring, he entered into the memory of the lady a long time ago and learned about her deeds.

But at first he couldn't understand Elvish, nor Elvish script, and he couldn't see anything about the past, only that the lady was in Kendal County long ago, and there she was with other people. Elven scholars have conducted some secret research together.

The time is so ancient that the human beings at that time were still primitive people who could only know how to hum.

At that time, the elves already had an extremely advanced social scale and civilization. Strangely, by now, not only the influence seemed to have declined, but even the territory that once extended to Kendall County had also quietly declined.

As for the elves, although they have always been an indispensable member of human hero legends, most of them are mainly roles that provide technical power to change the direction of the story.

Important, but alienated from human society.

With these questions in mind, Keir asked displeasedly: "Then do you know? Didn't you say that you are very powerful and great? And you have obviously heard of this lady's name and deeds. Tell me to see .”

The big bird quacked and laughed a few more words. Although they were all quacks, Keel could easily tell from the other party's calls whether they were happy or angry.

Obviously happy now.

"Mortal Keir. Quack, the drunken dreamer is not a god! Ignorant boy, impolite boy, where do you think that today's elves still need gods like us? Quack, they have already crossed over That step. What a nasty elf, poor elf god!"

Seeing that Kiel was getting more and more confused, the big bird screamed strangely, with a look of gloating: "I won't tell this information for nothing, if you want to know, just offer me a sacrifice! I want you to give me ten dollars for this information!" The loudest crows in exchange! Sacrifice ten crows to me, and I'll tell you."

When Keir heard this, he curled his lips, what kind of sacrificial mission is this, ten crows, what did he think it was going to do, and this is the end result?

"Ten crows? That's it?"

Keel scoffed.

Big Bird was not happy: "You underestimate me, right? Are you underestimating me? Damn mortal, rude mortal, think it's easy? I'm just testing you! Ga-ga-"

Hey, is it okay to just say this about the test?

Keel sighed in relief and shrugged.

"God, about the other two questions?"

Although Big Bird was not happy, he still opened his mouth and briefly told Kiel about the situation of the archer he and Kiel defeated.

-

More than ten years ago, in a remote mountain and forested village in the Northwest Province close to the Central Province, a local teenager named Langde went through a series of adventures and stole a treasure from a hunting **** temple in the village. An ancient wooden sculpture that was shelved.

This wood carving seems to be sealed in a series of objects. Compared with other seemingly valuable things, Lang De dared to steal it because he was afraid of stealing other more valuable things. It will be punished by the local Church of the Hunting God, which has great power.

Originally, he wanted to secretly find someone to sell this thing in a big town, but on the night when the boy was on his way to the town, the boy who was only in his teens was pulled closer to this place just like Kiel. In a forest full of dark shadows.

The young man was terrified, and under the repeated intimidation and deceit of the bird god, he quickly agreed to serve the 'great existence' in the shadows.

For this reason, the boy was branded with a bird's head mark on his chest.

In the days that followed, while growing up alone, the boy tried his best to hunt some rare and strange animals, mostly birds with wings, according to the requirements of the gods in the shadows.

He does what the gods tell him to do. Although he spends a lot of time doing many things that ordinary people seem to be weird, this one is not without benefits.

After the sacrifices again and again, the young Rondo became tall and strong, with sharp eyes, and at the same time mastered excellent shooting skills by himself.

Coupled with the special abilities given to him by the gods, he gradually became famous.

The young man who acted alone travels north and south and encounters many setbacks, but he overcomes them one by one by his special ability.

Until, in Dead Leaf Village in Pine Needle Town, he was beheaded by the fledgling Kiel in the inn in the village.

"It doesn't matter if you defeated and wiped out my men, but you have to be the next one to serve me. This is not negotiable! Ga!" Big Bird said here, and yelled loudly without any doubt.

"Why were you imprisoned in the Temple of the God of Hunting at the very beginning? Did you offend the God of Hunting?"

Kiel had seen the tokens of his fellow hunters who believed in the God of Hunting before, as well as the emblem of the God of Hunting on the tapestry of the house where everyone lived.

This shows that although this deity is not as good as the big churches such as the God of Saturn, the God of the Sun, and the God of Wealth, he is still a very famous deity among the group of hunters who live by hunting.

But this, Keel looked at the big bird, who was also looking at him.

No one knows this one.

"Idiot! Do you understand the alternation of gods? The new **** will take over, and the old **** will retire!"

"So, have you been defeated and sealed?"

"Nonsense! Ga! I'm retiring! There's no such thing as a seal or a silent death!" Big Bird said, his voice changed from intense to weak.

Something like recovering the sealed and sleeping body, giving the **** of hunting a good look, etc., Big Bird pawed and pawed for a while in a low voice.

Keir shrugged, he didn't care about this: "Let's not talk about this, what about my second question?"

The bird-headed **** raised his head and glanced at Kiel, and asked strangely, "You still care about this? You mortal, don't you know all the troubles you are in?"

"Um?"

Kiel was stunned, looked down at his body, lifted his clothes to reveal his abdominal muscles, and rolled up his sleeves to check his arms. Kiel's expression became weird.

Only then did he understand why he was smelly and sticky when he first came here.

It turned out that under the cloudy sky at this time, Keel, who had slightly better lighting conditions, saw the changes in his body.

There are tiny red blood stains with a stench, crawling and wriggling on the surface of his body, and in contrast, some tiny mushroom heads that are visible to the naked eye grow from the surface of his skin, driving away those red blood stains as they grow and die. .

These tiny, tiny mushrooms growing from his own body made his skin itchy slightly.

But that's not all. On his skin, before careful inspection, he hadn't discovered that the surface of his body was covered with tattoos composed of tiny characters.

No, not tattoos, because these things are still moving slowly against the surface of the body, sometimes fast, sometimes slowly, moving slowly with his breathing, but always sticking to the surface of his body.

It's like it just grew out of him naturally.

Kiel slumped on the ground in a daze.

He never thought that his seemingly healthy body would become such a situation.

"What's going on? What's going on here? Ah? Where did it come from? Where did it come from?"

Keir was a little emotional, and tried to rub the red blood stains on the surface of his body with his hands, but he couldn't get them off.

The tiny mushrooms growing on the body are fine, but when Kiel rubbed them down with his hands and threw them far away, those red blood stains with suspicious smells could not stop them. They immediately regained the lost ground and expanded the territory, allowing Kiel to gradually It smells bad.

"Quack, quack—a fool is a fool, quack."

The big bird in the shadow was gloating at the side, Keel glared at him, and threatened fiercely: "What's the name of the monster! If you know what's going on, tell me, or I'll get close to you and stain you all over! What? Like? Do you want to come?"

Big Bird was very angry: "Irreverent mortal! You disgusting guy! No matter what I say, I am still a god! Even now, I am still an elder who has lived in the world for a long time. You should respect me!"

"A former god? You said it yourself. The gods alternate. Who else knows your name now? Is there a little bit?"

Kiel said unceremoniously, and at the same time stretched out his hand to make a small gesture with his index finger and thumb. The **** were very close together, which made the big bird angry enough.

"Irreverent boy! Irreverent boy! I'm angry! Go away!"

The big bird was obviously angry this time, flapping its wings, it instantly became huge, covering the sky and the earth, shrouding everything in dark shadows.

Kiel's feet were empty, and then he seemed to fall into the abyss, but he didn't wait for him to cry out in terror.

The next moment, Keel rolled over from his dog-skin sleeping bag and sat up.

-

"Huh, huh, huh, huh. Is it a nightmare? Or is it?"

There was only a faint light from the oil lamp on the wall coming in through the tent. Except for Keel's urgent breathing, the surrounding area was still very quiet.

Keir touched the dog-skin sleeping bag at hand, which was not on his shoulders, but he immediately lifted off the clothes on his arm, carefully touched the skin of his arm with his fingers, and groped repeatedly.

But there are no sticky and smelly blood stains found before, and there are tiny mushrooms growing from the body.

He breathed slowly, then reached out and groped to find the two spiritual weapons placed beside him.

As if feeling Kiel's panic, the longsword Hunter pulled out a section from the scabbard, emitting a glistening white light. As for the hanging Yueshui head two-handed axe, the blue ax metal emits a brighter blue light.

The small one-person tent immediately brightened up, even a little too brightly.

Keir didn't think it was bad. These two weapons were like his pets. One was loyal, but he was younger and smaller, so he didn't have much use for it. On the other end is the bulldog that was taken over from another hand. It is not very obedient to cause trouble all day long, but when encountering bad guys, it will still protect him as the owner.

In the brightened tent, Keel rolled up his loose sackcloth sleeves and carefully examined his body.

Different from just coming to another world last year, this body at this time is strong and thick, and the palms are opened and closed, and the power and energy contained inside can be felt.

With a movement in his heart, life energy gradually gathered in the palm of his hand under the control of his will and spirit.

Although it is still impossible to express it physically, but when Kiel opened and closed his palms again, his strength had already multiplied several times.

He deftly picked up the iron armor helmet next to the sleeping bag with one finger, and he easily picked up this all-metal helmet weighing several kilograms with one finger.

"Is there anything wrong? Is it a hallucination? A bluffing illusion?"

But even if he was talking to himself, his soldier's intuition told him that maybe it wasn't an illusion.

My body must be undergoing some changes that I don't know whether it is good or bad.

With bitterness in his mouth, Keel directly took off his shirt and checked his chest and abdomen. But except for the part of the skin that turned blue from the heavy blow of the armor, the other parts are strong and reliable.

Footsteps came not far away, and just by the sound, Kiel knew that it was the cowhide boots worn by the town guards.

The person who came was a member of the Crow Knight's personal guard who was not sleeping and was on guard.

"Keil? Keel?"

A low voice called from outside the tent ~www.readwn.com~ I am awake. "

The voice breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, I saw your tent light up, and thought something happened."

Keel got out of the sleeping bag and untied the tight rope inside the tent, revealing the entrance and exit.

The strong white light came out, causing the curious knight guards outside the tent to squint their eyes: "Oh, it's really bright, it's amazing."

He covered it with his hands, and then looked curiously inside the tent. The two shiny weapons made this man quite envious: "It's really amazing. If I have a weapon like yours, I will definitely pass it on to my son and let him Also pass this weapon down as a family heirloom."

Kiel snorted and laughed: "That would be sad for this weapon, because their natural vocation is not to be shelved, as an ornamental. They have to be fed with blood and flesh, so that they will obey Use their fighters."

The two weapons flashed, as if to agree with Kiel's words.

The knight's personal guard couldn't say anything, so he could only smile awkwardly.

"By the way, what's the matter with you so late? Can't sleep? That's right, I can't sleep even during the fierce battle during the day. My lord is still writing something."

"Knight Crowe didn't sleep? Is that so?"

Keir's eyes lit up, perhaps he could ask his knight training teacher to answer his troubled questions. After all, Knight Crowe traveled all over the world, and he was a truly insightful person.

He said to the knight guard, "Then please inform your lord, I have something to ask him."

"Okay, you put on clothes, I'll go over and let you know."