Mercenaries and Adventurers

The Barracks is a military facility attached to the city of Montoka.

It was built directly next to the main commercial road in the northwest direction of Cavin. It is square and surrounded by a large area of ​​farmland. In the farmland, the military camp made of large rocks looks very similar to a castle.

It's just that there are no towering castle towers or main buildings where nobles live in the barracks. A square circle of stone walls is four or five meters high, with wooden sheds on top, and dense rows of two-story rock and earth brick houses inside.

If you can climb to the wall of the barracks and look inward, you can see a large area of ​​red tiles, giving people a feeling of fiery restlessness.

But it is roughly the same feeling as the soldiers in the barracks.

The military camp has no name, and the locals call it the military camp outside the city. Rows of buildings can easily accommodate thousands of soldiers to live together here.

When the three of Keir and the others walked along the trade road to the gate of the barracks, they could smell a strong smell of firewood burning and cooking food from the air.

It was still afternoon, and the sun was still slanting in the sky, but the kitchen in the barracks was already busy. Because not only more than 300 local soldiers were stationed in the original barracks, but yesterday evening, the Kendall army from afar was also stationed here.

As for the small six hundred people, this barracks outside the city hasn't been this lively for a long time.

Of course, the meals for hundreds of people could not be handled by the cooks in the original barracks, but it didn’t matter, the Kendalls themselves also brought cooks and town militiamen who were in charge of cooking to join in.

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At the entrance of the barracks, there are many hawkers who set up stalls crowded on the street. These people are doing business with the soldiers in the barracks. Although the soldiers are very poor, there is one advantage. Soldiers in Montoka City never default on their salaries. The barracks itself is responsible for the food and lodging of the soldiers in the barracks, so the vendors on the street are doing business with the spare money in the hands of these soldiers.

And this business can continue.

And when the Kendall army of hundreds of people came yesterday, these vendors quickly set up more stalls today.

One by one, all kinds of gadgets from the family shop were taken out, just to catch up with the business of the Kendal people.

The management of the soldiers of the Kendal people is stricter, but it is not impossible to give the soldiers opportunities for rest and entertainment.

The Rumi knight sitting in the barracks allowed his militia teams to go out of the barracks five squads each time under the leadership of the militia captain.

The time is about two hours or so.

When the time is up, you have to return to the barracks and change to another batch of five small militia teams to go out for a walk.

Of course, you can’t bring weapons and equipment when you go out for entertainment. Only the principal and deputy militia squad leaders can go out with melee weapons such as long swords and shields. Other militiamen can only carry self-defense daggers, and armor is not allowed to go out in plain clothes.

Kiel is different. His status is higher than that of ordinary militiamen, so he can carry weapons and equipment to go out at will, and there is no time limit. Knight Rumi doesn't care much about where Kiel goes and what he does. After all, Kiel is the attendant and apprentice of Knight Crowe .

Management rests with Crow Knight.

Today, Knight Crowe accompanied Baron Kendall to Montoka City to pay a visit to the owner of Montoka City, the Viscount Montoka.

This viscount has the same title as the Viscount Cavan of the Cavan Territory. Although the population of the Cavan Territory is larger, the city of Montorka is not bad, and because it is located in a key place, the Viscount of Montoka The army needs more.

The main defense is at the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint to the east of Montoka City, as a key point to block and southern provinces.

Because between the southern part of the western province and the western part of the southern province, there is only a north-south mountain range at the Baishi city wall checkpoint, and there happens to be a natural gap that can be used as a checkpoint.

Most of the Western Province and the Northwest Province are separated by the Wrathful River. There is only one artificially built Wrathy North and South Passes. The city of Montoka was already an important checkpoint when the dwarves still ruled here.

Kiel heard from Xueyaster that the white stone city wall was not originally built by humans, but directly inherited an important military facility of the dwarves when the country was founded.

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There were a dozen or so local soldiers guarding the gate of the barracks. When Kiel and others entered the gate, they just asked casually, and when Kiel answered that they were from Kendall, they let them in.

The role of these people is very interesting, because no one has ever dared to ask for trouble in the barracks, so the main role of these gatekeepers is to prevent small merchants who set up stalls outside the barracks from running into the barracks to sell things.

In addition, the local soldiers inside are not allowed to go out at will. If they want to go out, they have to take the exit certificate issued by the soldier captain.

As for the out-of-town Kendalls who just temporarily settled here last night, these soldiers didn't care much and meddle in their own business.

The clothes of the Kendal people and the local soldiers are very different, but there is no need to worry about any trouble.

"I've never been to a place like a barracks."

Priest Batar's expression was very strange, it seemed that he was both curious and disgusted.

Regarding this point, Kiel already understood that it was a large group of local rebels who were defeated on the battlefield last year that destroyed Changmai Village and the villagers.

After those people were defeated and lost their alliance, they didn't want to fight with the neighboring army again, so they hid in the wilderness forest for a whole winter, and only came out again after this spring.

The so-called activity is to loot villages like Changmai Village.

Priest Batar was quite annoyed and regretful, because since the defeat of the local army last year, the situation in the entire southern province has not been very good, and their Changmai Village often hears from the merchants with more guards. Some village was kidnapped and enslaved by large bandits, or some town was ransacked overnight by a small group of defeated troops, causing tragedies.

The people in their village were panicked, but their guards were stepped up last winter.

The gate of the village is closed directly, and the gate of the village is only opened to the caravans of the most familiar old faces. At the same time, the hunters in the village were asked to patrol around to inquire about the news, as early warning information.

At that time, as one of the main managers of the village, Batar priest also organized religious believers, regardless of gender, to patrol day and night.

But there were no problems throughout the winter, and after a long time, they slacked off.

If possible, Priest Batar would never make a decision to relax the security when the village managers gathered for discussion in early spring.

The hunters are called back and feel free to keep them busy with spring hunting. The gate of the village was also opened, just to facilitate the villagers to go out and work in the fields. The organized patrol teams were also withdrawn. Everyone went back to their respective homes and looked for their respective mothers. Everyone relaxed their vigilance.

But now let Priest Batar see that their village was targeted by the defeated army as early as last year, but the situation of their village's security prevented the other party from attacking, but waited patiently for the whole winter, so In the spring, after the people of Changmai Village relaxed their vigilance, they moved their hands and took down their village at night.

Now, priest Batar stepped into the barracks outside the city of Montorca, looking at the soldiers around him who were practicing martial arts or cooking, with uncertain expressions on their faces.

"Relax, our Kendall army is here to support the war in the southern province. As long as the war with neighboring countries ends, the defeated soldiers hiding in the mountains and the bandits who took advantage of the chaos will soon be back. Wiped out by nobles everywhere."

Kiel patted Priest Batar on the arm, trying to comfort the Saturnian priest with words.

Who told the other party to recognize him as the 'comer'?

Kiel still didn't know that the situation in the southern province was far more complicated than he had imagined. It was like a bottomless abyss that was gradually devouring everyone.

"Go, find a place to sit and wait for the adults to come back."

Kiel pointed to the eating place next to him. There were long tables and chairs there, just enough to sit and wait for people, and the eating and cooking places were close to the gate of the barracks, so the sight was not obstructed. After Baron Kendall and Knight Crowe came back, can be seen directly.

Priest Batar nodded, and the three of them walked over and sat down.

Interestingly, there were quite a few Kendall cooks among the cooks. When they saw Keir coming over, some of the cooks picked up a rattan basket from the side and put it on the table in front of Keir.

"Soldier Kiel, haha, these are the inedible mushrooms you want. Don't believe me, these mushrooms were found by our boys in this military camp. There is quite a lot of rain here in spring, and there are many mushrooms in every corner. There are some strange mushrooms growing."

Keir had a strange expression on his face. He didn't expect that these guys could get this basket of mushrooms in other people's barracks. He scratched his head and thanked the cook who came with the basket.

Priest Batar didn't speak. After putting down the huge backpack behind him, he watched Kiel and Bloodfang busy identifying and sorting mushrooms.

The mushrooms in these baskets are inedible. Of course, the common mushrooms in places where humans live are not very edible. The chefs and the town militiamen who help them cook are just picking up mushrooms these days. When wandering around in the barracks, they all picked up some mushrooms for Kiel.

Keir and the others simply classified the mushrooms, putting the ones with gray canopies together, the ones with brown canopies and thin stems together, and the few with colorful patterned canopies separately.

After watching for a while, Priest Batar finally couldn't help it: "These mushrooms are not edible. What are you collecting and sorting them for? Sorry, I just asked out of curiosity."

Kiel shrugged: "It's nothing, actually I want to make these poisonous and inedible mushrooms into dry powder, and try to see if I can make them into poisonous powder that can be sprinkled during the battle to assist in the battle."

Priest Batar laughed dryly, and ordered one of the mushrooms with a gray canopy: "Warrior Kiel, this mushroom is useless. Although it cannot be eaten, at most it will only produce a feeling of nausea and excitement after eating or taking it." .”

Kiel's eyes lit up: "Oh, do you know these mushrooms?"

"I know more or less. After all, I have received systematic training from Saturnalia priests, and I still remember a lot about the identification of mushrooms. Because edible wild crops are also a common course in the Saturnalia Church. Of course, I What I am best at is rural agricultural planning and construction. I also know a little about the construction of common rural buildings.”

"You seem to be a man of great knowledge. You know so much."

Priest Batar waved his hand: "Hey, what's the use of knowing this, it's useless at critical times."

Keir changed the topic, so as not to let Priest Batar fall into the previous failure again: "Then look at the brown umbrellas, what are they for?"

Priest Batar picked up a mushroom with a brown canopy and looked at it for a moment: "This is a poisonous mushroom with rotten roots. It is highly poisonous. After eating or taking it, people will have blood in their stools, because the fragile intestines are poisoned by it. According to the dose, one mushroom can make a normal farmer die from eating this thing. To cure, you must pour a lot of water as soon as possible, and food that can cause diarrhea. But this thing is poisonous when cooked It will be more than half weaker, which will make people miserable, but not fatal."

Bloodtooth wondered: "Cure the same poisonous mushrooms with poisonous food?"

Priest Batar nodded: "That's what it means. After all, compared with a painful death, low-toxicity is nothing. The treatment in rural areas is usually like this, and it can't compare with the big ones in Montoka City. In cities, a large number of priests of various churches can be found casually, and they can use powerful healing magic to cure various ailments."

"When I was in the village, I could only use various methods to turn serious ailments into less serious problems, and then use divine magic to heal believers or other villagers."

Keir nodded: "This is also something that can't be helped, right?"

Priest Batar clasped his hands together, and said in a low voice, "The church is still short of manpower. It is not easy for a village to ensure that a priest is stationed in the village. For this reason, the big shots in many places do not like the development of churches in the villages. "

At this time, a voice came in: "Hehe, they prefer to put uncontrolled forces where they can see and reach them. Unless it is an established fact that the church is scattered or it can bring greater benefits .”

Kiel looked up, and it turned out that among their Kendall priests, the young Saturn priest who gave him a lot of Saturn's power came over.

This man walked over from the side and sat down, and everyone around him bowed their heads slightly to salute, and the local soldiers and cooks who watched were stunned.

The locals don't know that most of the Kendall militiamen are the children of farmers called from the countryside of Kendall County. Naturally, they respect the priests of Saturn, especially the priests of Saturn in Kendall County.

Not to mention that several priests played an important role in the fight against monsters.

Compared with the methods of the Church of the Sun God and the Church of the God of Wealth, the magic of the battlefield released by the priests of the Church of the God of Saturn actually fell on soldiers like them. Everyone had the first-hand feeling of being helped by the magic in battle.

Therefore, the Saturn priest is more respected.

"Hello, Priest Corral."

"Hi Priest Corral."

Kiel and Bloodfang immediately stood up and saluted.

Priest Batal nodded briefly to the young Saturnalian priest Coral in Kendall. Although they are both priests of the Saturnalia Church, one of them is a city priest in Kendall County in the Northwest Province, and the other is in the Southern Province. The rural priests in the west area can't be said to be familiar, or they can be said to be irrelevant.

"Get to know me, I'm Tosto Corral, from Kendall."

Priest Coral introduced himself with a smile.

"Lothar-Batar, a native of the southern province, from the Oro parish in the southern province, was originally the resident priest and pastor of Changmai Village, and now accepts the will of the great God of Saturn, seeking revenge and redemption. "

Priest Coral smiled mysteriously, glanced at Kiel, and said softly: "I know, I know, I know."

Three times I know, it seemed very strange, Kiel and the others didn't pay much attention, but Priest Batar opened his eyes wide, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't say it.

Priest Coral stretched out his hand and pressed down, stopping all the other party's words: "You want Kiel to help you move, right? Maybe I can talk to Knight Crowe and Baron Kendall for you later. But be careful, Keir is the right-hand man of Knight Crowe, I am afraid that Knight Crowe will not let him go."

Kiel rolled his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Anyway, if you don't use it to death, use it to your death, right? Anyway, if you have something to charge, I will be the first to charge, and if you have nothing to do, feed me unpalatable monster meat."

Having said that, Keir is not a person who lives at leisure. Every time no one urges him, he will charge forward during the battle, which guides the atmosphere and morale at the beginning of the battle very well.

Why did the Kendall militiamen support Kiel so politely? Didn’t Kiel follow the two knights to fight on the front line every time they fought?

The two priests were separated from each other when they met just now, but for some reason, they suddenly became acquainted. As soon as Priest Batar changed his expression of displeasure to see everyone, he chatted with Priest Coral quickly.

The two started from their respective trainee priests, and talked about their different life journeys after becoming pastors.

One went directly to the Saturnalia Church in Kendall City to study and work, and the other came to the remote Changmai Village full of ambition.

At the beginning, Priest Batal was a little disgusted that Priest Coral only dared to work in the church in the city, but with the other party’s explanation and Kiel’s intervention, Priest Batar quickly understood that Kendall City and other places the difference.

Kendall City is somewhat similar to Montoka City where they are now. There are large tracts of good fields around the city. Therefore, the churches in the city are not all idle priests with high-spirited words, but long-term needs to go deep into farmers, believers and Field frontline.

Keir also took the initiative to talk about last year's Harvest Festival. In order to save the agricultural harvest affected by the autumn rain, the Kendall Saturnalia Church also held a grand magical ceremony to successfully save the large area of ​​rain-lodged wheat fields outside the city. Things got spoken.

Priest Coral smiled reservedly, but subconsciously shaved his short beard with his fingers.

Hearing the powerful divine ritual described by Kiel, Batar's priests were dumbfounded. He had never participated in a divine ritual of this scale, nor had he even seen one.

It's not that the Saturnalia Church in the southern provinces is not strong enough, but that the southern provinces are not like Kendall County, where one religion is dominant, and they can organize grand magic rituals with the acquiescence of Baron Kendall.

This point is quite suspicious and rejected by the nobles and lords everywhere ~www.readwn.com~ because no matter which church launches a grand divine magic ceremony, especially a magical ritual with practical effects, it will greatly affect ordinary people. people's thoughts and ideas.

After all, no matter who has seen the powerful magical rituals released by the church on behalf of the gods, which can change the natural environment or the fate of many people, they will be extremely awed.

Be in awe of its power and greatness.

Subconsciously, you will want to join the church that can perform this magical ritual.

"Here, does your lord not care?"

"Heh, Kendall County is a bit different. There are two high-ranking priest couples who are very popular with the Lord of Rivers and Lakes. From a long time ago, the people there have been used to seeing the mighty power of the gods. "

Priest Coral smiled wryly.

Keir slapped his forehead, and realized where the root cause was, why Baron Kendall didn't care much about the churches in the county, but only relied on the checks and balances among the churches to balance power.

Because from the very beginning, the power of the church in Kendal County was unbalanced.

The couple of the high priests of the two masters of rivers and lakes were there, and everyone gave up the idea of ​​stealing the limelight or restricting them.

No matter how well the Saturnalia Church develops in Kendall County, it is far behind those two who cast infinitely powerful divine spells every spring.

Those two can rely on divine magic to protect the entire town and country farms around Kendall City, including Kendall City, and survive the rolling floods every spring.

On the other hand, those two naturally have the strength to easily use the flood to destroy all human settlements in the entire plain area of ​​Kendall County.

People don't do that, not because they can't, but because they don't want to.