Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel waited on the commercial road outside the woods below the mountain, waiting left and right, but the bandits who were aggressively trying to show him and his team backed down.

Oh, they didn't flinch, these people were shouting in the dense woods to cheer up their own people.

"Haha, I'm laughing so hard, but still making money, looting, and arresting people? Slogans are shouting loudly, but people are huddling in the woods like turtles, not showing their heads."

Kiel shook his head with a grin, and drove his horse around the woods again. After confirming that the bandits had retreated a long distance to the mountain, he rode his horse back.

He first returned to the place where he rode his horse into people, let the blood licking grass trample to death some bandits who were unconscious or seriously injured, and then came to the place where the bandits threw throwing axes.

There were quite a few flying axes, scattered scattered over a large area. Although some of them shone brightly reflecting the sun in the sky, after all, it would be troublesome for one person to pick up dozens of weapons one by one.

Kiel rode his horse around to confirm the approximate landing point of the throwing axes, and then rode to the refugee team.

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"Master Knight has returned victorious!"

"Master Knight is back! You played beautifully!"

"Wow, the blood licking grass is really powerful. With this armor for horses, it will no longer be afraid of those bandits, right? My lord?"

After Kiel approached the team on horseback, groups of armed people shouted excitedly. Although the distance was far away, everyone could not see clearly, but the Kiel knight beat up the bandits who blocked the road, and everyone saw it .

The sharp-eyed guy even realized that Kiel didn't do it himself, and just relied on the collision and trampling of the horses to disperse the group of bandits with a large number of people.

Kiel raised his visor, patted the blood licking grass's neck and horse's head vigorously with both hands, and responded loudly: "Of course! Those bandits are nothing special. If you are fierce and dare to fight, they are like bats in the daytime. %% hide The woods and the holes are gone. So, guys fight bravely and these people won't be a problem anymore."

Having said that, fighting is not only about bravery, but every time I say this, the armed people in the team must be more powerful.

After congratulating the Kiel knights on their victory, Kiel immediately notified the Batar priest who commanded the team to let the whole team slowly advance along the trade route. It is impossible for them to wipe out the bandits when they really meet them, and they still have to drive.

"Come with another small team and come with me to collect the equipment of the bandits. Take all the firewood in the team with you. The corpses of those bandits will also have to be burned and dealt with."

Keel ordered.

Some people are not willing to collect and dispose of the corpses of the bandits who troubled them. They think it is best to leave them in the wild and let the beasts eat them. The belly of the beasts is the ultimate destination of the bandits.

"You can't think like that."

Kiel shook his head. He pointed to the seemingly endless trade road under everyone's feet and said, "This trade road is one of the main roads in the southern province after all. Although most of the corpses of those dead people will enter the carrion beasts stomach, but if you haven’t dealt with all of them, you don’t know, the dead will get back up again, and will always be wandering on the commercial road, embarrassing people in the future.”

"Besides, the bandits probably won't take care of those wandering corpses. After a long time, this road will be impossible. After all, no one knows how long it will take for this area to return to normal. So, die Let's burn them all."

After Kiel said that, the people were no longer dissatisfied. Soon, almost all the firewood collected by the loggers on the road was brought over. Hundreds of people in the team camped overnight. After getting together, each of the armed squad of more than 20 people had to carry a huge bundle on their backs.

However, most of the armed people were young people from peasant families before. This kind of simple labor is not difficult.

"Let's go, I'll take someone to deal with the corpse of the bandit, Batar, you and Ste let the team move forward slowly, pay attention to the surrounding situation, and the alarms sent by the alien fur at any time."

After Kiel loudly informed the priest and his companions, he led them to set off first, and walked to the place where the corpses of the bandits fell. And after a moment of confusion, the entire team arranged into a tighter formation, gathered into a long and crowded team, and continued to move forward along the unmanned business road.

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"That's right here. There are a lot of throwing axes thrown by bandits on the ground near here. Ha, this is a good thing. Whether you use it or I use it myself, it is a powerful weapon that can almost kill you in one blow."

After Kiel led the people to the place where the bandit corpses were densely packed, he first asked the small group of people to put down the large amount of firewood they were carrying, and then came to look for the large number of throwing axes that fell on the ground.

Push aside the dense grass in the field, and you can find the shiny throwing axes stuck in the soil and plant stems underneath.

These weapons were well kept by the bandits, and the surface was polished smooth and reflective. Naturally, the blade of the ax was also very sharp. However, because this thing has a short wooden handle that allows people to grab and throw it, it is enough to find this thing and mention it.

Throwing axes are not heavy, and ordinary people can carry several with one hand. Seeing this excellent weapon, the members of the armed squad were very excited. After all, according to Knight Kiel, they can also use this kind of good weapon.

Although the number of these collected throwing axes does not seem to be very large, there are only about 50, which is not enough for more than 100 of their teams to share. It is estimated that only those who can fight can get them.

However, the people in the armed squad are still very excited. They are reluctant to let go of these good weapons, but they don’t have the leather bags that the bandits specially use to store the sharp throwing axes. To myself, very tangled.

Keir looked cheerful, and he could barely understand everyone's reluctance to put down their newly acquired weapons, but we can't all delay here, right?

"What are you struggling with? Find a place to put it down first, there is still a lot of work to do, collect the loot, carry the robber's corpse, set fire to the corpse, time waits for no one, move, move!"

After Kiel urged, the armed people asked the deputy captain of the team to guard these weapons, and of course the various trophies on the bandits.

While his subordinates were disposing of the corpses, Keel also rode blood licks around and drove away some jackals and carrion hawks that were flying over to devour human corpses. The unwilling bandits sneaking in the woods once again frightened the depths of the woods.

"Come out and fight! Come out!"

Kiel didn't even have a weapon, so he just took the reins of the blood licking grass and galloped on the grass outside the woods.

"Braves who have no guts, even the most cowardly fox is braver than you. You guys are like pig bladders filled with air. It looks very bulky and powerful when you look at it, but as long as you open the mouth , Let the air inside run out, haha, it deflates immediately!"

Keir let go of his voice and yelled and cursed into the woods. Although his cursing was not unpleasant, it was quite appropriate to the situation at this time.

The armed people who disposed of the corpse not far away didn't think much of it, but the bandits in the forest were furious!

"Boss! That guy has humiliated us too much! Go out and fight him! I don't believe that so many of us rushed up, and he can handle it?"

A seasoned bandit leader gritted his teeth, gripped his long sword tightly, and shouted at the fat bandit leader.

The bandit leader was also angry. After taking advantage of the chaos and leaving the mountain, how had he ever been humiliated like this? However, as the leader, reason still has the upper hand, not like his subordinates, who were all angry and wanted to rush out regardless of their care.

Where did you fight?

"Sit down, sit down, have you forgotten the plan we discussed just now? Avoid this knight and deal with the opponent's large team! This knight has a horse and four legs! Did your mother give you two extra legs or What? Do you think you can outrun a war horse with your legs in your crotch?"

The bandit leader slapped his thigh heavily: "You%%% can't even catch up! So, sit down, listen to the other party's insults, accumulate the resentment in your heart, and then wait for the refugee team to approach, and vent your anger all at once to those people."

In this way, many bandits with some skills sat on the roots of big trees in the woods, or on the ground full of dead leaves, and their weapons were thrust into the ground beside them, as if the ground was the nasty knight. .

After seeing them calm down a bit, the bandit leader glanced at the newly joined young bandits around him, but frowned. These guys heard the insults from the knights outside the woods, but few of them got angry. Are you scared?

This is not acceptable.

The leader of the bandits summoned one of his subordinates and asked him to go to the young bandits and ask them to see what they were thinking at this time.

After a while, through the cover of the trees, the bandits saw the wasteland outside the forest. The knights had disposed of the bodies of the dead bandits. The stripped bandits were piled up with a large amount of firewood. It became a hill.

"Is this disposing of corpses? It's really sick."

The bandit leader spat, those guys who licked blood on their knives never cared much about the preaching and threats issued by the priests of the God of the Dead, isn't it just a few dead people, they caught, played with, and chopped up the living, Are you afraid that after those people die, they will not be able to retaliate?

Besides, if the corpses in the wild are left alone, most of them will be eaten by wild animals. He himself has never seen a few moving corpses. The few times he has seen them before, they all happened a few days after the tragic looting. The Chamber of Commerce guys got up again from the grass, wanting to eat people.

But what power do a few dead people have? It just looks scary, cut off the limbs with a machete, and burn them with a torch.

In fact, Keir doesn't know what's so terrible about these living corpses except that they can use the dead energy to corrode weapons. It's just that the Church of the God of the Dead has always said so. He has also seen many poor people wandering around as living corpses after death, so he encountered wild dead bodies, burn them as much as possible.

This seems like nothing, it’s not too troublesome, and it can be favored by the Church of the God of the Dead, why not do it?

And unlike most of the local people who have little knowledge, after Zhao Ji came to the different world, he didn't think that the ferocious and terrifying wave of undead in various stories sung by bards was fake, but was made up by the church and bards. Myths and legends that come out to scare the people.

After all, he only met a female Griffon rider on Rocky Mountain last year. The other party is said to be from the southern part of the empire. Because his hometown was occupied by the undead, he summoned knights from all walks of life. Counterattack back.

The other party got acquainted with Knight Lanisa's father because of this, and agreed to exterminate the undead in the future.

As a result, Lanisa Knight's father lost control of the blood power from his own hometown, and thus became an evil monster wolf king. He fought to the last moment of his life with his own daughter who inherited the family inheritance and became a knight.

Although it is still far away, the story and words of the female Griffin Rider have always been remembered by Kiel in his heart. At that time, he didn't have the power he has now, and he felt that traveling thousands of miles to the south of the empire to fight against the undead was a legend that had nothing to do with his life.

But at this time he already had the basic strength of a knight, and this kind of thing was quietly remembered in his heart.

No, in the mind, Kiel has no heart, and that must not be forgotten.

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The firewood on the corpse was ignited by the weeds that ignited the fire. The bandits saw the knight riding around the pile of corpses a few times, and after confirming that the flames were indeed burning, they took the men away with the 'trophies'.

"Shit! The black smoke from the fire! Once it burns like this, won't the other two robbers know? Boss, we can't take these people alone, can we?"

A trusted bandit approached the bandit leader and reminded him worriedly.

The bandit leader gave the man a sideways look, and said angrily, "I know, I know. I'm not blind and my brain is not bad. I was attacked by the knight before and drove back to the woods, so I knew we couldn't handle this wave alone." Yep. Well, just right, the refugee team is like crabs in the river, the knights are the shells of the crabs, and the refugees are the meat in the pincers. As long as the timing is right, it should not be difficult for the other two to bite the hard crab shells. Let's eat meat."

The bandits around were all interested when they heard this, and they came over, intending to hear how the leader made them eat meat instead of hard shells.

But at this time, the bandit leader who had inquired about the news before came back, and this person leaned close to the leader's ear and mumbled a few words in a low voice, which made the leader unhappy.

"What? When those guys saw more powerful people, they felt that there was no future in being a bandit? Pooh, you don't want to be a bandit because you think your hands are clean, right? It's not that easy. Come on!"

The bandit leader shouted, and although the surrounding boss subordinates didn't know what happened to make the leader so angry, they immediately responded: "Boss, what's wrong?"

"What's the matter? Boss."

The bandit leader didn't go into details, he ordered a ruthless subordinate, and ordered: "Take a few people with you, go back to the village, find any villagers you have captured, no, take those few under my command Bring the workers here, I have something to do."

The bandit leader's dog leg figured out what his boss was going to do, he trembled in fright, and quietly retreated to the side, he didn't want to get involved in such a bad thing. Although he is also a bandit himself, and has been doing it for several years, he still has a few lives in his hands. But this **** has never done anything to innocent people. They are all caravan buddies and guards with weapons in their hands.

He himself believed in the goddess of luck. Although he was usually a bandit, he would go to a nearby town to donate property to the church of the goddess of luck when he had the opportunity, in order to ask for the blessing of the goddess.

According to the teachings of the church, those who do such evil things will not be blessed by the goddess.

The leader didn't know what the bandit leader was going to do, but he didn't ask much, and he waved his hand and led his familiar companions to the village on the mountain.

The fat bandit leader's eyes were deep, and his eyes were on the knight outside the woods, as well as the newcomers and young bandits who had no energy around him. He swayed from the leader who led the way and muttered in a low voice: "Join the bandit business!" , You can’t quit if you want to quit. Go home and farm? Ha, this life can only be done in a dream. Immediately let you do something that you will never forget in your life.”

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Keel felt that someone was watching him. In fact, someone was watching him from the woods all the time, and occasionally he could hear the curse of the bandit. But there was malice in that look, and while it wasn't directed at Kiel—he could feel it, it was still uncomfortable.

Thinking of this, Keir jumped off his horse and came to the pile of corpses that were gradually burning. The woodcutter grabbed a burning firewood with his hands, and the flame and temperature on the firewood did not reach his hand so quickly. , After all, there is steel gauntlet protection.

Carrying the burning firewood, Keir rode his horse and galloped out of the woods, and threw the burning firewood into the place where there might be many bandits.

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With the huge strength and whirring wind, the flames on the blown firewood were extinguished in an instant.

But when the firewood fell on the trees and fallen leaves in the forest, the flame that seemed to be extinguished suddenly burned again, igniting the dead branches and leaves around the place where it fell. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

Hearing the yelling of the bandits in the woods and the sound of panic extinguishing the fire, Keir laughed and gestured a few insulting gestures towards the woods before he was about to leave and escorted to the side of the team.

There are bandits with hunting bows, shooting arrows at Kiel from the woods, but the hunting bows used by these ordinary people are fine for hunting small beasts with only fur. Facing armored knights and armored war horses like Kiel, except Except for the arrows stuck in the bushes that missed the ground, the arrows that hit him only made a few clear and crisp impact sounds.

To come and not to be indecent, Keir took off the hunting bow on the horseback weapon rack with his backhand, put on the arrow and pulled the bowstring to the full, and then returned the color with his backhand.

However, his archery skills are very good. Although he has talent in this area, he has not practiced it very well. It is okay to shoot a fixed target while standing on the ground. After a few arrows, he returned without success.

But the bandits didn't do anything to him, and the two sides barely drew a tie.

"Hey, I'm back."

Kiel put away his hunting bow and rode resentfully towards the refugee team. The bandits in the woods, however, breathed a sigh of relief. A bandit carrying two bags of homemade bows let go of his hand covering his companion's mouth, and then the bandit holding a hunting bow let out a suppressed wail from his mouth. Voice.

Looking down, it turned out that an arrow hit the scapula of his right shoulder. The arrow was so powerful that it directly pierced his shoulder, even breaking the bones in the shoulder.

Needless to say, this bandit will never be able to draw a bow and shoot arrows again in his life.

Seeing this scene, the bandit leader frowned even tighter: "This group of knights really %￥%￥ won't give ordinary people a chance to survive."