Mercenaries and Adventurers

Therefore, for Baron Kendall, it is a risky but worthwhile thing to send his men to steal the magic ballista.

After Knight Claw explained the matter clearly to Kiel, he waited for Kiel to digest the food for a while, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, he led Kiel out of the baron's tent.

Listening to the two walking away, Knight Rumi looked at Baron Kendall who was sitting on the chair and didn't know what to think. After hesitating for a while, he still said, "Crow seems very excited? Is it about the magic ballista or this item?" the thing itself?"

Baron Kendall came back to his senses, and chuckled: "Can't you see? Crowe is not a person who follows the rules. Ever since I learned that he won the competitive competition of the Imperial Border Knights, I can see that he actually Shang is a person who loves adventure and wants to do something that breaks the tradition."

He shook his head: "But this society is like this. Whichever position you are in, you have to make the posture and image of that position. He chose Kiel, a kid who was born by fighting monsters, maybe he had some ideas. .”

Knight Rumi took over the rest of the words and said: "What I can't do, let my apprentices do it instead of me. Is it?"

The baron didn't say anything more, not just Knight Crowe, who isn't?

He himself doesn't like government affairs and military affairs, and he has to spend his precious time on these things instead of tinkering with more interesting and effective family engineering techniques.

There is also Lanisa Knight's father, his good friend, who looks like a warrior, but actually has the sentimentality from his hometown, not only has the good voice of Wumi Lake Village, but also can sing moving and heroic battle songs , and can impress every woman who yearns for love with poems containing emotions.

But as a knight, you still have to spend more energy on martial arts, which eventually led to that tragedy.

The baron remembered what Crowe had whispered to him and the news he had heard from Kiel, and fell silent for a long time.

What you want in life is often inconsistent with what you use. Although this brings regret and distress, this is life.

It's not impossible to resist and break free, but most of the final results will not be very good.

He, Crowe, and the old Lanisa knight all understood this.

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Knight Crowe held the detailed map that the baron had just drawn, and led Kiel to the door of his camp.

"Kiel, go change your clothes first, you can't wear armor for scouting. Move faster, come to me after changing."

Knight Crowe whispered to Kiel, and Kiel responded in a low voice, and then walked to his carriage.

His own clothes were items for daily use, and they were not of high value, so they were not transported to the dream stronghold for storage by him, but were packed in the cargo box in his carriage.

Blood Yaster hadn't rested yet. Although he was healed by magic, he lost a lot of blood after all, and his whole body was a little weak. At this moment, he took a brush and carefully brushed Kiel's two horses.

The two horses swayed their long ears cheerfully, obviously very comfortable.

"Keil, I still recommend that you buy some prairie horses from Cavin. They are stronger and can assist you in fighting." Seeing that Kiel came back, Blood Fang patted Kiel's horse and recommended it to him. native horse breeds.

Fortunately, Keir's two horses couldn't understand human language, otherwise they would not look comfortable at this moment, but were furious.

"Although they are also very young, they have strength and energy. But after all, they are not particularly outstanding horse breeds. They can pull carts and ride well, but they can't do enough to fight."

Keir nodded, and he also felt that what Xuefang said made sense.

They will soon enter the southern province, and they will have to fight at that time, and the protection of the horses is very important. And the three horses he got from the bandits were already a bit struggling in terms of carrying capacity.

Wearing metal armor and holding a heavy weapon, he already made his horses unable to run fast, not to mention the leather horse armor. With the weight behind him, it is estimated that his two horses would not be able to run.

I can only walk in small steps, even if I run, I guess I will run for a while and rest for a while.

Not good for combat use.

"After crossing the Strange Wind Grassland and arriving at Kawenling, I will buy an extra prairie horse in the western provinces you mentioned. Well, it will be my main battle horse. At that time, you local, old caravan guard , you have to choose a good horse from the horse farms for sale!"

Blood Yaster smiled on his weak face: "Of course, I will pick the best one for you."

Kiel, who was planning to go to the carriage to change his clothes, stopped for a moment: "By the way, have you heard of giving horses to make them stronger and stronger?"

I didn't expect Xuefangsite to have heard of it.

"You mean the kind of powerful war horses that the knights ride? Of course I have heard that in the western provinces, a good horse is far superior to other armaments."

But he changed his tone: "But the war horses are all in the hands of the nobles, and they have not spread among the people at all. I have heard people say that this seems to be the result of combining two methods."

"Tell me."

"It's just what I heard, don't take it seriously. First of all, the horses of the knights are horses with excellent bloodlines. They are not horses that can be bought in the market. They are only circulated in the circle of nobles. No, only knights who are loyal to the nobles can get this powerful horse. The second thing is to make the horse stronger. Not many people know about this. It is just rumored that there is a mysterious technology, which may be related to magic. It can make ordinary horses strong, regardless of their height, stamina, aggressiveness, and obedience.”

After finishing speaking, Bloodfang Shrugged, saying that this was all the reliable news he had heard.

After thinking about it for a while, Keir figured out what the reward that Knight Lanisa gave him was. It was obviously the latter enhancement technique that Bloodfangs had guessed and heard about.

Find that person with the token, and the horse will be strengthened for convenience.

Obviously, what he needs now is a horse with a strong bloodline.

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When he came to the carriage, Keel opened a neatly placed wooden box, which was full of his clothes for more than a year.

Even the body he had when he first woke up was in it.

It's just that he didn't wear this tattered piece of clothing after he washed it.

It is a commemoration.

Other clothes include the clothes given to him by the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce's guild buddies, short-sleeved clothes for heavy physical work that he asked for when he worked part-time in the artisan area, and ordinary ready-made clothes that he bought himself with a little money later.

Most of them are the high-end clothing and decorative accessories bought after the pockets gradually become more abundant.

Fur hats and animal fur hats, including the white rabbit fur hat that he loved last year. Gloves, leggings, and linen foot covers on the feet. These things are similar to socks, but the material is cheaper linen, which is a bit rough on the feet, so rich people seldom wear them, and they are mostly used by civilians who need to wear boots. .

The rich used more animal skins to make sewn foot covers, while the powerful used soft cloth foot covers made of cotton cloth circulated in other parts of the kingdom.

But he had seen it himself, and Baron Kendall even wore a kind of silk anklet, soft and shiny.

Male nobles in this era spend far more money than women on clothing.

Kiel didn't know that this was the fashion of the human regions in the north, while in the warmer regions of the south, women's clothing was complicated and gorgeous, which was another extreme.

Interestingly, the men in the Northern Empire region of the human race dress gorgeously, while the women's dresses are more simple and simple.

Men in the Southern Kingdoms, on the other hand, preferred simple, monochromatic clothing, while women wore more ornate clothes.

Kiel took off his armor and weapons, and picked them out. Considering that he needed to conduct a scouting carefully, although he didn't know how to wear them, ordinary clothes were fine.

So he chose a set of clothes commonly worn by commoners, and put on a sheepskin waistcoat to resist the wind and cold in spring nights. His hair no longer needs to be **** and needs to be put in the helmet, but directly loosened.

On the head is a round leather hat that can cover the ears.

For shoes, I chose a flat linen shoe, which was tied to the ankle with a thin hemp rope after wearing it.

Take a heavy pat on the body to remove the smell of some clothes that have been stored for a long time.

Then he picked up the hard cowhide armor and long sword and other weapons in the armor box, and disappeared into the carriage in an instant.

Then reappeared in an instant, with a fur belt around Kiel's waist, and two short swords hanging from it. He didn't know when the two weapons were collected. It seemed that they were obtained from the exterminated gang a few days ago.

After the gang was wiped out, many of the weapons used by the opponent were taken away by him as trophies. The knight lord didn't say anything about it. After all, the trophies were captured by Kiel himself or his men. Compared with all the property acquired by the entire gang, It's just a drop in the bucket.

At the same time, there was an unfinished upper body scale armor in the sheepskin vest on Keir's body.

The dark and non-reflective armor is very unattractive, and it is covered by the sheepskin vest. At this night, it is impossible to see that he is still wearing this thing.

The soft flat shoes stepped on the adobe floor without making any obvious sound. At least the blood tooth who was brushing the horse not far away didn't notice the movement of Kiel.

Keir nodded, it seemed that the shoes were right.

He tiptoed away and came to the knight's camp.

The two guards of the knight were on guard at this time. When they saw Kiel in ordinary clothes, if they didn't know Kiel's face, they would have almost yelled that people should stop.

"Keil, why don't you wear the armor you never take off?"

"It's really weird, you are like this, and your lord is also like this?"

Smiling, Keir nodded and walked into the tent without saying anything. The two guards did not stop him. The knight had explained that he let them in when they saw Kiel.

Kiel's eyes lit up when he saw Knight Crowe in the tent.

He thought Knight Crowe would take him to investigate, and of course he wouldn't wear the knight's heavy steel armor to show his identity and status, but he would more likely wear the high-level samurai uniform that Knight Crowe often wore.

But he guessed wrong.

Knight Crowe wore the hunting clothes of a young noble family and a rich man.

This kind of hunting outfit is not the 'real' hunting outfit worn by Kiel's previous hunter companions. After all, it is too rough and professional. Although it is suitable for wild hunting, it does not meet the dressing taste of rich and powerful young people.

Knight Crowe wears a pair of tall cowhide soft boots. The boots are high up to the calf, but they are not made of cooked thick cowhide. The leather is softer. Only the bottom is made of thick and hard cowhide, and the rest is soft and comfortable.

The legs are a pair of tight leather pants, and the bottom is put in the boots, which is very capable and convenient.

At the same time, the top was a thick cloth garment with the hem reaching to the bottom of the thighs, with several practical pockets sewn on it, and the belt was a cooked thick leather belt, the metal belt buckle was polished and did not shine.

The belt is fastened, and there are several leather pockets hanging on it, which contain things, and a roll of rope is also hung on the belt through the buckle.

Unlike Kiel, Knight Claw is unarmed and unarmed. That's right, Knight Crowe can cause casualties without using weapons at all.

There was also a dark hood hanging loosely over the clothes. As for the head, Knight Crowe is wearing a hunting cap with feathers, and a square cloth scarf is knotted and hung around the knight's neck. It can be lifted at any time to cover the mouth, nose and face.

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Knight Crowe nodded when he saw Kiel coming in, and noticed that Kiel was carrying two daggers. He fumbled around his waist, and then stretched out his hand: "Keir, give me a dagger."

Keir was a little bit reluctant, and Knight Crowe shook his palm up and down: "I don't want yours, it's just a decoration."

Only then did he remove a sheathed dagger from his belt and hand it to the knight.

The knight fastened the buckle on the dagger scabbard to his belt, then returned to his camp bed, and took out a square cloth towel of the same dark color from the box under the bed.

"Come on, wear it around your neck, tie it in a knot, and be careful not to let others see your face."

Kiel took it and tied it around his neck like a knight.

"Keil, come and look at the map."

Spread out the map drawn by the Baron on the wooden table, and after Kiel walked in, Knight Crowe pointed to a building in the center of the map and said, "Look, this 20-meter-high tower is equipped with a magic crossbow. The anti-aircraft tower of the gun. The buildings connected to it underneath are either other buildings, or the places where the security militias organized spontaneously by the four towns in the town are located."

"But it doesn't matter, the population here is not large, and there are generally no locals in the town, so there are not many security militiamen, and even the local low buildings where the towers are located are not enough, so more than half of them are rented out to other people. .”

The knight pointed to another part of the map, which was the details of the building where the tower was located.

"Here, here, and here, occupying three-quarters of the building area, are all three chambers of commerce jointly established by locals and foreigners. One is a chamber of commerce that deals with wool, and the other is smaller, making clothes and accessories for business trips The small chamber of commerce, the other one is very interesting, nothing can be seen outside the house, I quietly pried open a window and found that it is full of glowing plants?"

Kiel smiled: "I know, my lord. The local buildings are densely packed and the lighting is not good, so every household will buy some luminous plants to illuminate their homes, so as to save some lighting costs."

Klaue Knight suddenly realized, nodded, and thought for a while: "Let's pass here in a while. There are very few people in this chamber of commerce that grows luminescent plants. I noticed that the local place is lively at night and people rest during the day. The other two chambers of commerce There are people working, only this plant-growing chamber of commerce has only arranged an old man to guard the gate, and there are no other redundant people inside the building."

"When it was dark before, I took a look. After some shop assistants took away some luminous plants, they all left after working in it for a while."

"As for the security militia, they are short-staffed, so don't worry about it. The plan to steal the magic ballista will be discussed after this close-range investigation. Let's go."

"Yes, my lord."

Keir responded immediately.

But Knight Crowe shook his head after hearing Keel's answer: "You can't call me that. Well, then, Keel, you can call me Uncle Doddle. And I will call you Joe."

"Okay, uh, Uncle Doddle."

Crow Knight nodded: "Let's go, Joe."

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When the two walked out of the tent, the guards at the door saluted, and the knight waved away. The two knew that the man in the hunting suit was Knight Crow, so they paid extra attention.

The two of them bypassed the place where the soldiers were resting, and walked around the inner edge of the building towards the gate.

On the road, they met patrolling town guards and militiamen. At first they wondered how Keel's clothes got mixed in, but when the torches were shining and they found that it was Crow Knight and Kiel, they saluted immediately.

"My lord, I didn't notice that it was you." The guard immediately moved the torch away and used the torch to shine on the nobleman's face.

"Okay, I'll go around the town. Patrol well, rest well tonight, don't chat too late, tomorrow will still speed up the march like today. You don't want to fight those harpies again, do you? "

The guards and militiamen touched their ears, apparently deafened by the monster's screams, and it was still a vivid experience in their memory.

"Yes my lord."

After leaving the patrol team, the two of them were stopped by the militiamen and guards standing guard at the gate. After recognizing them, Knight Crowe took out his previous rhetoric.

Even exactly the same.

The reaction of the militiamen was similar, which amused Kiel.

Walking out of the low-slung building where he was stationed, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com saw the expression on Keel's face and explained: "Oh, Keel, I didn't expect that, I would say the same thing .Actually, this is normal. What do you think we will say all day? We can only repeat and repeat some annoying things to the soldiers. But we have to say it.”

After a pause, Knight Crowe said in dissatisfaction: "But if you repeat it like this, the soldiers will still make mistakes or even screw up what you have explained. This is how organization and management are. Your subordinates will never do things exactly as you want. Yes. If you can have seven or eight portraits, you are already very good soldiers. If you have five or six portraits, you are elite soldiers. If you have three or four portraits, you can also use them for a battle, and even the armies in the hands of nobles everywhere Most of them are at this level."

Speaking of this, he shook his head and said to himself: "No, I overestimated them. They are already an 'elite' army if they can fulfill the orders given by the commander. Because in many places, they Not even Kendall County's annual call-up of the militia for training."

Keir interjected: "Because training every year costs a lot of money!"

Knight Crowe was happy: "You are right. Many nobles are stingy with their own money and spend it here. They would rather spend money to hire some reputable mercenaries, because it is an expense."

"My lord, no, Uncle Doddell, what about the one or two soldiers?"

Knight Crowe smiled disdainfully: "Attack in one fell swoop, the power of one blow, and scatter in one blow, a crushing defeat."

The knight cited several consecutive words, vividly describing how such an army fought.

Kiel felt that even the goblin army might be more powerful than the army described in this way. At least the ordinary goblins would not be defeated quickly until the superior goblin warriors died.