Mercenaries and Adventurers

"Hey hey! Let me down! Let me down!"

A young militiaman screamed strangely and was held up by Kiel, as if showing off his prey. Kiel raised the thin militiaman's hands above his head, laughed and threw it towards the booing crowd not far away.

The young militiaman who was thrown into the air yelled for someone to catch him, but the soldiers who watched the excitement were as slippery as oil, and retreated after seeing this, so the young militiaman had to fall on the soft grass with a big horse , the wailing was mixed with curses against these guys.

With his waist in his hand, Keir asked the people around him unceremoniously: "Is the guy you agreed with not here yet? Could it be because you're afraid?"

The baron's personal guard looked embarrassed and looked towards the direction of the baron's tent, hoping that his companion would come over as soon as possible. Don't really shrink back. Then they, the old people around the baron, would be arrogant in front of the town guards under Knight Crowe I can't get up.

At this time, the crowd of onlookers was squeezed away, and a baron's personal guard that Kiel was familiar with came out: "They may be delayed by something, Kiel, before they came, what would happen if I asked you to come with me?"

Kiel looked over, and it turned out to be Lubis who fought side by side with him in Weed Rat Town.

"Okay, how to play? Everyone has seen it, fighting with bare hands. I believe that I have no opponents in the barracks except for two knights. How about finding two sticks to play with?"

Keir was bare-chested and wore the leather trousers that western provincials often wear, giving him a tough look.

At this time, they had successfully joined Kendall's army two days ago on the unmanned wild business road, and the robbery operation of Knight Crowe came to a successful conclusion. in hand.

Others who acted together had a lot of coin rewards, and Kiel also dropped a sum of money, but he still looked forward to other rewards.

Inquired from Knight Crowe, it seems to be a weapon made of monster material?

At this time, the Kendals have successfully left the territory of the Strange Wind Grassland and entered the Cavan Territory in the southern part of the Western Province. Most of the local area is ruled by the Cavan Viscount family, with a large population and good economic development.

The most important thing for those who walked the southward commercial road was that they finally didn't have to worry about being attacked by the harpies that came with the strong wind.

It's strange to say that those harpies are very powerful, and they can all fly. They never go out of the strange wind grassland, and they don't invade and harass the wealthy Cavin collar at all.

No one knows why, and over time, no one cares. People just enjoy the "safety" in the wild and don't have to live in semi-underground buildings to rest like mice.

Of course, the law and order in Cavin collar will not be really that good. The local specialty horse bandits are still frequent, and they are specially plundering various caravans that have relaxed their vigilance after crossing the strange wind grassland.

But all of this had nothing to do with the Kendalls. No horse bandits would come to find trouble with the army, and even the caravan stationed near the army barracks was spared the harassment of bandits and horse bandits all the way.

Now that they have come to a safe wild environment, the night fighting competition has been suspended for many days, and it started again under the instigation of Keir.

His fists are itchy, he can't do anything if he doesn't move.

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"Okay! It just so happens that I don't have the confidence that I can rely on unarmed combat for a long time in your hands."

As Lubis said, he also took off the leather armor he was wearing, revealing his lean upper body. There are many scars on his body, and one can tell that Rubis has experienced many thrilling fights in his life.

Gere was much cleaner, except for a laceration on his forearm that looked like a beast had bitten him.

However, when compared with the crowd, Lubis' figure was more wild, with the appearance of a weather-beaten warrior.

Someone threw over two wooden gun shafts with the heads of the spears removed.

Kiel and Rubis took it one by one.

Huhuhu, Rubis waved it a few times, then held it with both hands, and stood on the spot in a standard offensive posture with guns.

And Keir broke the barrel of the gun in his hand, tried the strength and flexibility of the thing, and then held it with his hands one after the other, his body sank, his legs were separated left and right on the grass, and his boots never left the ground. Pull the turf to separate the distance.

"bring it on!"

As soon as the words fell, Rubis strode forward, and the spear barrel in his hand was like a spear head, and he stabbed towards Kiel's torso in advance.

Keir immediately swung his club to open this jab, and then his own pole was next to the opponent's pole and went up along the pole, picking Rubis' palm off.

But Rubis just stepped back twice, defeating Kiel's intentions, but Kiel rushed forward through the offensive, Rubis took a step back, and he took a step forward.

The barrels of the guns in the hands of the two kept colliding, and the surrounding militiamen did not dare to blink their eyes for fear of missing any moment.

Rubis's guns are mostly jabs, while Gere's is more open and closed, especially not routine.

So when Rubis was forced to retreat and counterattack again, he reached out and grabbed the end of Rubis' gun in his hand.

Rubis pulled the barrel back with both hands, but Keel just held it with one hand, and the barrel didn't budge. Lubis fell backwards with the weapon in his hand, trying to rely on his body weight to increase the pulling power, but Kiel, who lowered his figure, did not move, only his boots were pressed against the ground and was slightly pulled forward.

After the two stalemate like this for a while, Rubis let go of the gun and surrendered.

"You are too strong, you can't compare, you can't compare. I admit defeat, and Kiel won this competition!"

Hearing what Lubis said, Kiel smiled and threw the two gun barrels back to the person who sent them over, and then patted Lubis on the shoulder: "Oh, I'm still far behind. It's different from fighting with bare hands. This kind of competition I can only defend against two guys at a time."

Lubis knocked off Keir's hand: "Okay, stop yelling, look over there, people are coming."

Kiel looked over, and sure enough, the baron's personal guards who had made an appointment to fight when they stayed overnight in Weifeng Town finally came.

"Sorry everyone, just came over after the shift, Keel, are you ready?"

Several groups of the baron's personal guards were very confident. When they came, they saw how Kiel and Rubis were fighting with guns from a distance. They realized that if they tried this with Kiel, wouldn't Kiel be very good? ?

With a snort, Kiel waved his fist and came to the middle of the open space, and said to the baron's guards who were taking off their armor: "It's been a long time ago, I've been waiting for you, I thought I couldn't be timid, tell me How do you compare? I won’t stay behind when I wait. You won’t stop punching just because you are the baron’s personal guards, you will fight when you should.”

Several people also looked at each other, and then asked the leader to nod and say: "That's three rounds. One round is empty-handed, one round is armed like you just now, and the last round is armor-piercing, but no weapons are used. Just like the front It's the same as it was some days ago."

Kiel raised his eyebrows: "Are you sure you want to fight through armor? No, I'm in iron armor and you are in leather armor. It's not fair."

"Cut the bullshit, we're big, it's fair. Come on."

Keel shrugged.

"Okay, you guys choose. Bloodyaster! Remember to buy me to win! I won all three games!"

Blood Yaster, who was in the crowd of onlookers, was touched by the people around him and touched his nose in embarrassment, but he still had the courage to buy him with money from Kiel and won all three games.

Because Keir always wins in fighting competitions, his odds are very low, but the opponent has many people and strong strength, and it is not easy to win one game, let alone win three games in a row under different competition methods.

Therefore, the merchant accompanying the army who opened the market had to confirm repeatedly before accepting the several gold coins pressed by Blood Fangste.

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At the entrance of the baron's camp, two knights sat around the fire and ate roasted sheep. The fat sheep bought just in case were still useless, so they could only slaughter and eat them slowly at this time.

The knights ate meat, but the others could drink it with some broth.

Baron Kendall is in a good mood these past two days, and he is always messing around in his own tent. Outsiders don’t know, but the knights know it. Not to mention the magic ballista with a high level of magic, in fact, Baron Kendall has They have been trying to figure out how to import the magic power in the base of the golden magic circle inlaid with magic gems into their own magic props.

Power up magic items that have their own mana drain.

It seems that it can only be handled by magicians, but Baron Kendall has made some progress in the past two days.

This made the baron himself very excited.

After all, there are many magicians whose recharging services are charged by the number of times, and they are all recharged. The recharge price of some small and odd magic items is similar to the cost of large battle magic items.

The baron had always thought that he had suffered a lot in this regard, but there was no better way to deal with it.

Until he got such a magic prop full of magic power from Knight Crowe. He had some ideas.

While eating the meat, Knight Rumi looked at the active figure of Kiel in the distance: "So, Kiel's progress is very fast. It's only been about a month, and he can go from the first learning to the present."

He picked up a lamb rib that had been eaten clean and pointed to the Kiel thrown by the other person: "It's much better than me anyway."

Crow Knight was noncommittal: "It's still reasonable, and those who can control the rhythm in the battle will lose."

In the distance, Keir threw the person out, but only out of the prescribed circle, and the opponent was not injured. Compared with the beginning of the fighting competition, it is no longer easy for Kiel to interrupt the hands and feet of his enemies, and he has to trouble the priests waiting to heal him.

This is not to say that Kiel's level of fighting has declined, on the contrary, it is a sign that his strength has improved significantly.

Knight Rumi put down his food and carefully looked at the fighting scene on Kiel's side: "Uh, there are still fights? Those boys are pretty good."

Knight Crowe looked up at Knight Rumi: "Don't believe me? Let's guess, who will be knocked down next? When?"

Knight Rumi made some calculations: "This group of people has become more cautious. There are not many chances of being careless like before."

But Knight Crowe disagreed, he applauded fiercely: "Now, the strongest one!"

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Looking at the orderly battle combination, Keir became excited. His right foot suddenly lifted and fell, and there was a dull tremor that shook the ground with a thud.

The people around took a step back silently, and there was more room for fighting.

"Ha!!" It was not Kiel who launched the attack first, but the tallest and strongest of the opponents, roaring empty-handed and pounced under the guards on the left and right.

If it was any other time, Kiel wouldn't have wrestled with the opponent head-on like this, which is obviously a disadvantage.

But after he became excited at this time, he was extremely powerful, and he rushed forward without fear. When the opponent's burly body rushed towards him, he also rushed forward.

The four hands collided together in palms, and then twisted their fingers to exert strength, but the tall and strong opponent was like a chariot that stopped suddenly after colliding with Kiel. The companions on both sides rushed over, and he himself was forced by Kiel. To stop in place.

"Ha! Start—"

With a sharp snort, Kiel twisted his right hand downwards, directly breaking the opponent's wrist, and then forcibly supported the opponent's abdomen.

Pull the left hand back and down, and lift the opponent's arm and abdomen with the right hand, Huo!

The tall opponent weighing hundreds of kilograms was lifted up by him.

Then he twisted and threw it, just hitting the other two who rushed behind Kiel punching and kicking.

boom!

The three smashed into a ball, so embarrassed.

This time, there is only one person left to fight Kiel.

That was the baron's bodyguard who was arguing with Kiel about a fight.

The corner of the opponent's mouth twitched, obviously he didn't expect that there would be such a big gap between people in hand-to-hand combat. Some time ago, although Keir was able to fight with about ten militiamen and win.

But what martial arts can those militiamen have? It's all just village tricks.

But these days, when will Kiel be able to deal with their elite guards like militiamen?

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"Haha, what did I say? Just wait for the next game."

Knight Crowe smiled, and then told Knight Rumi about other disturbing forces that emerged during the operation of Strange Wind Town.

The two analyzed it for a while, and felt that it was more likely that the local thieves gang had discovered Knight Crow's actions, so they wanted to "evil and eat black", and in the end they let them, outsiders, take the blame and swallow the things themselves.

"But snakes eat elephants? It's not a monster or a monster. It's just the most ordinary little beast. How can it have such an appetite. Really."

Knight Crowe shook his head and complained like this. Even so, he still felt a little guilty.

However, this point did not let Rumi Knight see it.

"In short, Crowe, you have contributed a lot this time. It would be great if we could secretly bring that thing back to Kendall City in the end."

Rumi Knights used this thing in the northern border army before. It is extremely powerful, mainly because it has a long range and great power, and the loss of weapon power is very small in the effective range.

From a distance of thousands of meters, a line of soldiers can easily be pierced and killed, and armor-piercing knights can't resist it, unless they notice that the target is themselves before launching.

Especially the priests and magicians of various churches who are surrounded by the army.

This thing can pass through the protection of the army, and these important forces that can affect the battle situation will be withdrawn for safety in advance.

"The existence of this thing will directly affect the battlefield environment when we fight the opponent head-on. It is really important. Hey, I hope that before the end of this war, the Earl of the Western Province will not pursue this matter. on us."

Knight Rumi whispered the last sentence.

Knight Crowe stroked his beard: "It's hard to say, it's hard to say. If we're lucky, we might not be able to find out about us, and those guys who want to blackmail the black people will find us for us." The target is guided to another place. If we are unlucky, the other party will have no way to ask us to hand over this thing before we take it out on the battlefield."

He smiled: "We can deny it. It's just that it will annoy each other."

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That night, Keir tried his best and finally completely defeated the few guys who had an appointment with him.

So the next day, the army gave Kiel a new nickname: "The Streak Winner".

And according to yesterday's record, he is simply called a three-game winning streak.

Afterwards, the Kendalls went deeper into the wealthy Cavin Territory along the bustling trade route. This large Viscount territory is a half-animal husbandry and half-planting area. The planting has enough animal power to support it, so it is intensively cultivated and the grain output is high. On the other hand, Kawenling has many rivers and pastures, which are rich in high-quality pastures, so each village has large and small pastures, which raise more livestock than people.

It is said that the horses and cattle of the lesser half of the kingdom are all produced here.

But what caught Kiel's eyes here was not all the rich and prosperous words in Bloodfang's mouth.

Because outside the neat village on the side of the trade road, there are not only cultivated land and pastures, but also contiguous refugee shacks that are not even as good as goblin settlements.

"This is the wealthy Cavin collar that everyone praises? That's it?"

This time, Kiel brought Bloodtooth out to purchase new horses. He had reported to the knights, and during the rest of the march during the day, the two rode away from the army and went to the village beside the trade road to purchase.

Keir was riding on the horse, looking at the fleeing farmers who were staring at him with dull eyes, his expression was not very good.

These people have haggard faces and chapped lips. It is obvious that not only have they not eaten for a long time, but even drinking water is a problem.

Because there are many grasslands in Kawenling, there are also many horses, cattle and sheep raised. Outside these pastures and rivers close to the village, the water downstream cannot be directly drunk. Most of the excrement of animals in the pasture is poured into the river for disposal.

Therefore, among the rivers close to the village~www.readwn.com~, only the river upstream of the village can be used for drinking. The downstream water is not undrinkable, but it is easy to have diarrhea from drinking the river water containing too much animal waste.

Once or twice is fine, as long as the drinker doesn't feel sick.

But once the number of times is too high, even the young man with a steel stomach can't stand it, and others dare not waste their lives in such a place for no reason.

The same goes for refugees.

However, the villages and towns in Cavinland allowed them to settle outside the village, which was already a friendly gesture of accepting them, and it was even more impossible for the refugees to freely use the clear water from the upper reaches of the river.

Because the flow of the river is limited, not only for people to drink, but also for the daily drinking and washing of the animals raised in the village, a lot of clean water has to be consumed.

And these limited clean river water is enough for their own use, but with the addition of these refugees, there will be some troubles.

Xueyaster, who was riding a horse with Kiel, silently explained, "It wasn't like this before. I heard that these refugees outside the village came from the southern provinces. They had it last year." , Fortunately, the villagers supported a lot of warm leather materials in winter, so I haven’t heard of any refugees who freeze to death on a large scale. It’s already very good.”

Bloodfang Shrugged: "As long as this year's battle is won, they will definitely be able to go back. Isn't that why you are here?"

A man lying on the ground by the road overheard Keel's conversation.

He looked at the two of them riding on horseback, they didn't look like merchants on the business road, and they didn't look like locals, so he couldn't help but interrupted.

"Maybe, but no one can expect the army of the nobles on the border to win. Heh, heh. Only our Earl has the strength to drive out those chestnut faces in the south."