Mercenaries and Adventurers

When the priest here went to a new hidden room to get the priest's weapons and equipment, the priest Batar rubbed his hands nervously and said to Kiel: "Actually, I have practiced martial arts with long sticks and short sticks in the church before. Although it is not outstanding."

Keir was curious about this, so he replied: "Oh, how do you fight with a long staff and a short staff? Tell me about it. I have come into contact with Saturn priests before, but I don't know much about this kind of staff weapon. "

"It's like this. Generally speaking, powerful local churches will prepare their own weapons and equipment for the priests, but well, priests like me in villages generally don't distribute weapons and equipment by the church, but ourselves Get ready. The previous set will be taken back."

He then made a simple gesture, seeing that the other priests around him didn't pay much attention to him, so he said to Kiel: "There are usually some useful blessings attached to the rod. Just like what the Minggu priest said before, these blessings are all made by weapons. The priest master prepares it according to his own needs. Generally speaking, a good long staff needs to be prepared for several years, and then it will be gradually strengthened in the following days, and it will be used for a lifetime."

Kiel flicked the tip of his nose lightly with his fingers: "So, the long staff and short staff will not be used as weapons, but use the blessings on them to fight?"

But Batar still waved his hand: "No, I will still fight with weapons directly, but only young priests like me do this. After all, you know that when you are old, some heavy long staffs cannot be swung anyway. got up."

The Minggu priest who had been standing beside him with his eyes closed all the time said bluntly at this time: "I can't swing a fart. Priest Batar, if we have time, can you and I find a place to practice with a wooden stick? Hmph, ordinary priests When I am old, I may be unable to use the weapons I used when I was young, and I have to change to a wooden cane. But I am different, do you want to try it?"

The specific difference, the Minggu priest did not say.

"Don't dare, the companions of the Kiel warriors are waiting for us outside the city. We have to set off after we get our things, so we should have passed through the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint at night and entered the southern province for the night. "

"Well, that's it, I'll forgive you. But after arriving in the southern province, be careful when you spend the night in the wild. Be careful that the law and order there has become worse recently. Even if you spend the night in towns and villages, be careful."

Kiel poked his head over: "Master Ming, has the situation in the southern provinces become like this? What do we need to be careful about?"

The priest didn't say much, just said: "Be careful in everything."

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Another priest who was going to fetch weapons and equipment came over pushing a wooden frame with items on wheels.

There are several long staffs of priests hanging on the top of the wooden frame, and several short staffs of priests hanging on the bottom. Several small one-handed round shields of different materials were hung on the side of the wooden frame, and in the middle of the wooden frame were several sets of shoulder leather light armor with heart guards.

"Please choose yourself." This middle-aged priest was not as enthusiastic as the previous one.

Priest Batar stepped forward and carefully observed what he needed. Keir also went over curiously. He pointed to one of the long sticks with a wooden body, the top and bottom of which were made of green metal and asked, "Is there anything special about this one?"

Hearing Kiel's inquiry, the middle-aged priest next to him said: "The main body of the iron wood, and the two ends of the snake green steel. The snake green steel can spontaneously disperse mosquitoes, so it is more suitable to go out for adventure. At the same time, there are two kinds of blessing magic inside the iron wood , one can drive a wild beast that is not strong enough to resist, and the other can turn vegetation, trees, branches and vines into poisonous snakes under the influence of divine magic, and attack the enemy under control."

"Um?"

Kiel's eyes widened: "Is the poisonous snake that turned into really poisonous?"

The middle-aged priest rolled his eyes: "Of course it's poisonous, but it's just to scare people? Isn't that just a trick by a liar?"

Kiel hecked twice and looked to the side. Priest Batar was touching each long staff with his hands. It is estimated that many things the middle-aged priest said could be known by touching them as a priest.

So Kiel pointed to the short staff: "I have a long staff, why do I need a short staff?"

"Not every priest has good strength and stamina. The short staff is lighter. Although it can't be used for direct combat, the blessing magic inside it is not bad at all. At the same time, you can use it with one hand, and you can also hold a lighter one. Shields are used for defense. Of course, holding a protective statue will also work."

Keel noticed that although the materials of the one-handed bucklers hanging next to them were different, they didn't look very heavy.

He poked it curiously with his finger, and found that one of the metal-looking shields was not as light as his elven metal shield, but it was not too heavy.

"What kind of material is this? It's very light!"

The middle-aged priest smiled and said: "This is made of a magic material. It is said that it is a heavy mucus secreted by a special tree species in the swamps of the central province. After collecting and processing, a very light metal powder can be produced from it. After smelting again, it will be this kind of magic material. It can generate strong buoyancy in the water. If you hold this shield-sized magic material metal, you don't have to worry about drowning after falling into the water, and you won't even sink. "

Kiel's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked what the name of this magic metal was.

This is not confidential news, the middle-aged priest said: "I heard that it is called buoyant light steel. It is not easy to buy locally in Montoka City, but it is finally sold in small quantities."

The middle-aged priest looked at Kiel, and knew that Kiel, who was in iron armor, liked the effect of this thing: "I recommend that you go to the capital of the central province to buy it if you have time. There will be more of them.”

"Thank you, buoyant light steel. If I have time in the future, I will go to the Central Province."

During the discussion, Priest Batar chose the long staff he needed. After all, he was a young male priest, so the long staff could still be used.

He chose a long, slender staff made of metal, with only a ball-shaped cage at the top, which was wrapped with a ball-shaped amber.

The amber shimmered orange-yellow, and inside it was wrapped in ancient resin, but there were several leaves of ancient plants and several small bugs.

"Is there anything special about this?"

Kiel asked Batar, Batar nodded and said: "The treated amber gemstone on the staff has an ability, which can make the environment around the staff spontaneously guarantee the survival of human beings. It’s warmer, and when it’s hot, it’s cooler around it. When it rains, the light rain won’t fall around the stick, the heavy rain won’t make people feel particularly wet, and the fog will dissipate around.”

"Very useful, do you have any more?"

"In addition, there are priests who made it so that it can use divine power to temporarily freeze a person, but the strength should not be too strong, so that I can use it to assist you in fighting."

"A good idea, so that fewer enemies can end the battle faster."

Snapped! Keel clapped his palms together, making a metallic clang.

"You can pick the others too!"

Keir stopped bothering Batar and let him concentrate on choosing weapons.

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Because the long staff was chosen, the short staff and shield could not be selected according to the rules of the church. So next, Batar can choose another life-saving light shoulder armor with a heart guard.

This is the equipment worn inside the cloak, and its function is mainly to protect the priest himself during solo or small number of adventures.

Unlike the priests who participated in the war without weapons and equipment, the enemies of the priests in the adventure will not discipline the identity of the priests, so the protection will be good.

In a war, if there is no dispute for religious reasons, the two sides of the war will not harm the priests of the church, because most of the churches and gods behind the priests often straddle the territory of the country and the nobility. A small number of gods and churches have even crossed species, and there are both sides of power between different races.

Even if it participates in a war, it will not be attacked.

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For the shoulder armor and the breastplate, Batar chose a lighter armor with a skeleton made of leather and metal strips. The leather of an unknown animal was in a mess of colors, and the emblem of the God of Saturn appeared faintly on it.

When Kiel asked, he realized that this shoulder armor can provide users with a lot of physical and strength enhancement in addition to the basic protection of divine power.

It works as soon as you put it on, which is very convenient.

And this matching heart mirror has a powerful protective magic blessing. According to the middle-aged priest next to him, even if a knight is riding a horse and stabbing with a heavy lance, the protective magic on this heart mirror can Block one or two to give the priest a chance to escape and evacuate.

"Aren't you going to fight back?"

The middle-aged priest gave Kiel a blank look, and said unhappily: "The church does not recommend capable priests to challenge knights in battle."

Keel didn't ask why, he wasn't that clueless yet.

After choosing all the items, Batar directly put on the shoulder armor and the breastplate. This thing is easy to wear, just put the shoulder armor on the left and right shoulders, and the breastplate is fixed on the shoulder armor with a belt.

Same as the previous process, when Batar used these equipments, he also had to go through document registration, and he also had to leave his divine power mark.

There is no need to worry about things being cheated. Priest Batar will not return the things. The local diocese can seek Saturn to locate Priest Batar.

All priests can communicate with the gods, not only the priests can contact the gods upwards, but the gods can also know the location of the priests downwards and communicate with them to obtain information.

Priests can do this, but believers can't do it at all, so there were Saturn believers among the villagers in Changmai Village, but even Saturn couldn't know where the villagers including believers were taken.

The gods know a lot, they have been around for a long time, and they know the truth that countless mortals cannot seek in their lifetime, but they are not omniscient.

The gods are powerful, they have infinite divine power, and they command countless mortals to fight under their control, but they are not omnipotent.

The God of the Sea cannot peek into the depths of the land, the Mother of the Earth cannot manipulate the creatures of the ocean, the Lord of the Sky cannot know the splendor of the underground world, and the Lord of Lava cannot touch the brightest stars.

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After the two of them walked out of the stone room at the top of the underground storage hall, they formally bid farewell to the Minggu priest who led the way. The old priest just nodded and walked slowly with his hands in his sleeves.

Batar paused for a moment on the metal staff in his hand, and looked at the round amber in the metal mesh on the top of the staff with satisfaction: "Warrior Kiel, shall we set off now?"

Kiel, who slammed some auxiliary props into his waist pocket, was holding two plant concealment cloaks in his left hand at this time. Hearing Priest Batar's words, he looked up at the sun.

It was almost noon, and it was time to return to the city gate.

Nodding his head, Kiel walked towards the gate of the Saturnalia Church under the lead of Priest Batar.

When passing by the central ceremony field located in the center of the church, Kiel saw many priests who had never been here before gathered here curiously. Some people sat cross-legged in the illusory wheat field of divine power generated by the ceremony, as if they were experiencing something.

And some people were honestly listening to His Excellency the vice-principal's explanation of the ritual blessing at the feet of the **** of agriculture.

"It would be great if our southern province had a priest with the strength of His Excellency the vice-principal."

Batar watched the young priests receiving wisdom with envy.

"Maybe there was, but you didn't see it then? Or didn't you care?"

Kiel's guess made Priest Batar quite embarrassed, so he had to walk away quickly.

At the gate of the church, the two led the horse back. Kiel's blood licks seemed to particularly like the grass where the horses were tethered in the Church of the Saturnalia. Kiel saw that the grass had been gnawed clean wherever his horse's mouth could get it.

But when they saw Kiel and Batal, who had returned, they were obviously very different at this time. Priest Morrell, who guarded the church gate, sent them blessings for those who traveled far away: "May you overcome the enemy and win, and be safe." come back."

"Thank you for your blessing."

Kiel led the horse and stepped out of the gate of the Saturnalia Church, while Priest Batar turned to look at the place where he had lived for a while.

Before yesterday, he still felt that this place was gloomy and indifferent, but in just two days, when he looked at it again, he had a different feeling. Under the command of the great Saturn, he and other priests he knew and did not know may not be family members, but the help he provided was far better than family members.

From arranging a quiet room for him, so that he can regain his mood in the past few days.

To prepare him a potion to stabilize his emotions, so that he can go to the tavern to wait for the visitor every day as the gods told him, so that he won't really miss it.

In addition, there is the patience of every local priest who saw him with his cold face and bad temper, as well as the encouragement and reprimand of the vice-principal who is in a high position.

Of course, there was also the plant by the bed, the little plant that had listened to his countless complaints day and night.

Thinking of this, Priest Batar shook his head, hoping that the plant would forgive the potion he poured on it.

"Keel, wait for me."

Priest Batar quickly grabbed the borrowed prairie horse and followed quickly.

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Passing through the city, when they left the city this time, the inspecting city gate soldiers saw the attire of the Batar priest, but consciously moved away the refusal horse blocking the way, and took the initiative to let the two of them ride out of the city on horseback.

Outside the city gate of Montorka City was also extremely lively.

Although this place is right under the noses of those tax officials, locals and foreigners dare not do business here blatantly. But without direct transactions, other things can be done in this empty and safe place.

Next to the city gate, no one really dared to use violence, so many small businessmen and outsiders gathered at the gate of the city to discuss transactions~www.readwn.com~ They do not conduct transactions directly, they often take their own Samples of the main commodities that you want to trade, or call out, or hold up a sign to indicate the name and information of the goods.

It seems that there is no transaction, but in fact most of the transaction process has been completed.

When meeting people, first look up to see what is in the other person's hand or on the sign. If you are interested, then ask. First of all, there are pleasant words of blessing, such as wishing you ten times and hundreds of opening times that day, wishing the weather today is fine, blessings from the God of Wealth, and so on.

Why wish the weather is fine?

Because as long as it rains, there are not many small merchants who are willing to carry out the pre-transaction process outside the city gate.

Most people would rather sleep in a hotel outside the city, or go to a familiar tavern to inquire about the hottest commodities on the market or news from various places.

Of course, there are also stingy guys simply because they don't want their samples of goods to be wet by the rain. They would rather get wet themselves than lose the value of the goods if they get wet.

It's just too stingy, and I don't think about the value of time lost after illness, treatment cost, and virtual income that is lost if you don't earn it. It must be far more than the value of a sample.

Having said that, when Kiel and Priest Batar left the city, facing the bustling crowd of small businessmen talking about deals, they suddenly encountered difficulties. They didn't know where Bloodyaster had parked his carriage.

The gate of the city must be dead, there are people everywhere, the carriage parked here is obviously hindering the transactions of these people, probably because he was afraid of causing trouble, Xueyasite parked the carriage far away.

"Look for it!" Keel shrugged.