Mercenaries and Adventurers

While Keir was interrogating the captured 'hanged ghost' weirdo, the loggers who thought they should start working quickly ran to the left and right sides to start logging.

Duo, duo, duo's sound of swinging the ax made Kiel chuckle, and let go of the nose that twisted the weird face on the left chest of the weirdo.

"Answer me, what do you call yourself internally? And who are you? Why do you want to scare my people? And get these stinky flesh and blood, specially mixed with blood to paste on the tree trunk?"

"We have plenty of time, answer me one by one slowly, okay?"

Kiel raised his right hand again as a gesture, making a gesture of twisting his nose in the air. Although his movements looked funny, the weirdo who had just been repaired in this way didn't want to try it, because it was too painful, and the face and nose on the left side of his chest had been scrapped because of this movement.

So he nodded quickly, looking more honest.

Keel let go of the man's neck and jaw, and took a step back so he could speak.

"The village...the village...is now...managed by the Prophet. He led...everyone to establish, huh, establish...the sect."

The man spoke intermittently, as if he hadn't spoken seriously for a long time, but Keel suspected that the man's language ability had been forcibly degraded due to physical changes.

"Prophet? Order? Interesting, does this order not have a name?"

The strange man raised his head, and said with some pride: "Yes, our sect...is called... [Flesh and Blood Painers]."

Kiel rolled his eyes behind the visor and asked, "Answer me first, what is your size? How many people?"

Hearing this question, the weirdo was a little embarrassed, and responded in a low tone: "Three... thirty-two people, but this scale... is already very large, right?"

As he spoke, the weirdo looked at the loggers around him, and stopped talking, as if he realized that their so-called religious group was actually a very small organization. After all, there are more than 20 people around Kiel who are busy logging. In contrast, it is hard to say how powerful a small mysterious religious organization occupying a village with only 32 people can have. .

After all, he was rewarded by the leader of the sect before, and he turned into a 'powerful' weird appearance that looks terrifying and doesn't hurt all over his body, but it doesn't seem to have any effect? The strong young man in armor in front of him subdued him in just one blow.

"Hmph, the southern province is really a magical land. When the noble knights and lords from all over the place led their troops away, all kinds of strange things grew rapidly like the vegetation in spring."

Kiel snorted coldly, feeling that there were so many things going on in the southern province. Not only were there endless bandits everywhere, but there were also more strange people and organizations. However, he looked left and right at the empty commercial roads and the dark forests all over the place, and felt that such a situation was normal in the southern province where the entire land was divided by various forests.

"What's your name?" He continued the previous question.

"My...name? Uh, name, name..."

This old-fashioned weirdo seemed to have a confused expression, as if he couldn't find or remember his name.

Kiel narrowed his eyes and asked another question: "Then you should know the name of your so-called 'prophet', huh, title, right? Otherwise, how do you usually call each other?"

"The Prophet? The Great Prophet...uh, his name, uh, ho, ho, ho, how? I... I can't remember."

The more the man spoke, the more confused he became, his muscles twitched non-stop throughout his **** face.

At the same time, his hands and feet seemed to have been electrocuted, and they kept shaking and twitching in disorder.

Seeing this, Kiel quickly took a few steps back, quickly took out the elven metal shield hanging on his left back, and blocked it in front of him. At the same time, he yelled to the nearby loggers to avoid him.

But the guy whose hands, feet, and skin twitched more and more violently did not explode as Kiel expected. On the contrary, a lot of purple liquid flowed out of his ears and mouth, and something precious like blood flowed out. The guy stopped shaking and died directly.

"Huh?" Keir was a little surprised. He thought the vitality of this thing was very tenacious, but it was over? Or is it because you want to say something that cannot be said, which directly triggers some fatal means of termination arranged on the body?

Just when Keir was suspicious, the four special human faces on the front of the torso of this person did not know where they were broken, and they were directly separated from the body of the dead strange man, as if they had been forcibly glued together Seeing the water, it looked like it couldn't stick anymore, and the four faces, together with some flesh and blood structures behind the faces, slid to the ground in the forest.

Kiel didn't rush forward, he opened his hand, and found that the long sword that fixed the monster's body on the tree trunk trembled, and he didn't let the weapon return directly. After waiting for a while and confirming that the corpse would not explode suddenly or spontaneously ignite, Kiel approached the strange man's corpse in small steps.

He looked down, only to find that behind the four human faces separated from the strange man's body, there was something like a plant root, thin and dense brown tree roots, which seemed to have been directly inserted into the parasite. On the torso of the man's body.

And when he looked up again, he found a few places where the faces had fallen off. His eyes passed through the palm-sized hollow. The important internal organs of human beings inside were almost invisible, and only a small part was still there.

"Hey~ It seems that the so-called prophet is not a good thing. People in my organization are doing this, either because they have no skills, or this person is just a consumable used for security and investigation."

Kiel checked the dead faces on the ground, as well as the corpse of the strange monster whose torso was full of holes, and finally found that the biggest reason for the purple liquid flowing out before was that his long sword hunted directly through the middle of the opponent's chest. That weird face made the other party die as if he had lost too much blood inside his body, so he just died like that.

Pulling out the long sword to hunt, Kiel grabbed some leaves from the tree at hand and wiped the blade. It was strange to say that it was a purple blood-like juice that flowed from a broken and weird corpse, but the liquid smelled very good , similar to the fragrance of green apples.

Picking up a fallen human face with roots that looked dead on the ground, Keel pulled out his dagger and cut it open, but as soon as the magic dagger touched the face of this thing, the thing suddenly let out a strange cry, scaring him Keel jumped.

If it wasn't for the warrior's instinct that made him subconsciously clenched the weapon in his hand, his heartfire magic dagger would have been thrown out in fright.

"What's the strange name! What's the strange name! I know you're not dead yet, die for me!"

With one hand, Kiel held down the thing like plant roots swinging wildly behind the face, and with the other hand, he held the dagger neatly and slashed open the entire face of the face.

As expected, it just looks like a human face, so lifelike, even Kire just thought that the face on the weird man was fused into the human body in some strange way.

It turned out that the thing under the face was not like that at all. Compared with flesh and blood, it was more like a plant with a strong stress response, and it forcibly parasitized on the human body through the roots behind the face.

On the one hand, it cuts off the human perception of pain, making the parasite feel that he has become great and can fight. On the other hand, the many fine roots behind the human face will 'eat' all the internal organs of the parasite.

Keel doesn't know if the poor guy just now feels that he has eaten less recently. If this guy knows that most of the intestines and stomach for digestion are gone in his body, there is only one section leading to the roots all over the place. The esophagus is hanging in the air, does this guy still think that the prophet is good to him?

The lumberjacks around did not dare to approach, so after a while, they felt that there was nothing unexpected about Kiel Knights, and they continued to log.

Keel stood up, and wanted to leave here to help everyone cut down trees, and go back to the camp early for dinner.

But when he had just taken two steps, he strode over to the corpse of the strange man again, took out an empty leather bag from his back waist, picked up three other motionless human faces with roots on the ground, and stuffed them into it.

After sealing the mouth of the bag, Keel hung the things on his belt, then turned over the corpse of the dead weirdo, and drew his sword to slash at the top of the man's head.

With a pop, the head of the strange man's corpse was chopped off with eyebrows. Although the human skull is very strong, the long sword is also extremely powerful in hunting, and Kiel's strength is also particularly strong.

When Kiel saw the inside of the strange man's head, he finally let out a breath, and while wiping the long sword again, he complained: "I knew that if I was parasitized by this strange thing, people would be hopeless."

On the strange man's body, in the severed head, there is no gray brain of a normal person. What he has is just a shrunken brain whose back half of the brain is occupied by plant roots.

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"Master Knight, what about these big trees that have been smeared with foul-smelling flesh and blood?"

The logging operation was almost finished, and some loggers came to Keir to ask. Although these guys were scared to death of these strange trees before, once they found out that the monsters who frightened them before were easily defeated by the knights, these people looked at the big tree covered in flesh and blood with different eyes.

"How do you decide? How do you want to deal with it?"

At this moment, Keir was pulling a piece of log with its branches and leaves removed, easily dragging it on the ground, and asked back while working.

"Hehe, some people say to ignore these ghost things, and some say to cut them all. So as not to scare other people in the future."

The lumberjack scratched his head and laughed.

Kiel knew everyone's opinion as soon as he heard it, so he waved his hand: "These big fleshy trees nearby are unknown, brothers all obey me and cut them down. As for the wood, the few logs at hand are enough now. go a head."

After receiving the knight's opinion and order, the lumberjack quickly passed the word to the other lumberjacks, and everyone gathered around, waiting to cut down the big trees that frightened them and made them feel ashamed. Because the tree was simply cut down, there was no need to remove the branches and trim the trunk of the log, so it only took a short while for everyone to clear all the trees in the vicinity with loud shouts of "the tree fell! Be careful!" All the big trees stained with unknown flesh and internal organs were felled to the ground.

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Keel left the thick log trunk that he carried back alone on the ground aside, and then untied the rope on a log trunk dragged by the blood licking grass. Pat the horse's ass, and let the blood licking grass go to the grooms who take care of the horses in the camp.

Waiting for the blood licking grass, there will be a comfortable brushing, and a pot of late-night beans that other horses will envy.

"Where is Priest Batar?"

Kiel randomly grabbed a member of the public who had just had their fill of dinner, and asked the priest where he was at this time.

"My lord, my lord priest, he seems to be taking care of the wounded. As soon as I saw him finish eating with everyone, I immediately rushed over to rescue them. If I had the skills of a priest, I would definitely follow him and help Let's save lives together."

The one who spoke was a teenager who was younger than Kiel, who was very excited and nervous when he was questioned by Kiel.

Patting his head lightly, Kiel went to find the priest and said, "If you want to have that kind of ability, don't run around after eating. Do you believe in the God of Saturn? If you are free, go to the religious people." Let's pray together. Maybe one day the gods will see you pious and choose to bless you."

But as soon as this kid heard that he was going to join the group of religious believers, he immediately hesitated. Kiel knew that before intercepting the bandit attack, the brave religious believers rushed up to fight, and then all died in the battle. This incident was quite a blow to confidence.

But there is no way, these refugees did not have much combat skills before, and some of them were absorbed by Kiel into the hands of the armed squad. The quarrels and fights among the farmers in the village, as well as the cursing and tearing of the peasant women, did not improve even a little bit of fighting ability.

After all, the bandit swiped his knife, and then pointed at the bandit and cursed, except for making the other party slash more powerfully, it had no practical effect. And the skills of random brawls among the villagers are mostly one-on-one empty-handed punches.

There does not appear to be any local mention of militia training in Kendall.

In real life-saving battles, sharp metal weapons are mostly used, and few people use fists to beat people with bare hands.

Even if Kiel punches people, he still wears heavy and strong steel gauntlets, so that even if he catches the enemy's dagger or short knife empty-handed, there is no problem, and it has a certain practical effect in combat.

In the tent where the wounded and sick gathered in the camp, Kiel found Priest Batar, who had just finished treating a civilian who had been slashed on the back.

The priest who had just completed part of the treatment consumed his already severely depleted divine power reserve, so after the treatment was completed, he knelt down in the open space next to the injured person, placed the statue of the God of Saturn directly in front of him, and clasped his fists together. Pray to the idol.

When the priest prayed to the statue of the amulet, the palm-sized wooden statue became gleaming, and the praying power of the slightly gathered believers was put into the priest's body in a flash, turning into a 'processed' rough saturnalia,

When Kiel walked over, the Saturn's divine power in his body still felt a little ready to move. Kiel didn't like this very much. With a muffled snort, he mobilized his own life force in his body, and tightened the ready-to-movement Saturn's divine power. Let them have any additional changes.

Just boosting his stamina and energy, Keel doesn't need them for much more.

"Priest, I'm Kiel. I'll tell you something that just happened to the loggers."

Many wounded patients who had been treated with divine magic fell into a coma, so Kiel didn't speak loudly, it was enough for the priest to hear him.

Don't look at the priest kneeling on the ground with a do-not-disturb look, Kiel himself doesn't care whether to disturb his companions, because his business is not small.

Priest Batar, who had just undergone the transformation of divine power, had to give up the recovery of divine power, and after whispering an apologetic prayer to the great Saturn, he picked up the protective statue and put it in the bag at his waist.

Then the priest nodded apologetically to the next injured citizen who was waiting behind and looked at him eagerly, apologized, and then stood up weakly.

Kiel grabbed the priest's arm, which was swaying slightly after he got up, and whispered after the priest stood still: "Look, you are tired, everyone's injuries should be treated until they start to improve, eat and drink enough, our body I'll take care of myself."

Priest Batar lowered his head and silently followed Kiel out of the tent full of wounded. After a certain distance from the tent, he whispered: "It's all because of my side that they have suffered so many injuries. And there are more people who lost their lives. I am very sorry. If not Because of what happened to me and my village, so many people would not have died and injured so many on the road."

Keir said indifferently: "You can't think like this. Although it's a bit dangerous to follow us, at least everyone has enough to eat, right? Besides, won't these people die if they stay at the Whitestone City Wall Checkpoint? You forgot The scene at that time? As for us, taking these hundreds of people out of the checkpoint actually saved the lives of hundreds of them. Hmph, and it’s not just their lives, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com and theirs here The lives of elders, wives and children who stay in the checkpoint from time to time."

"There is some truth in what you said, but..."

The priest wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Keir: "Okay, okay, don't be this but that, look at this, I just knocked down the strange thing I got."

Keel lifted the cloak on the right and removed the three human-faced root parasites tied with ropes.

At this time, the expressions on the faces of the three people were extremely calm, and the roots behind their faces did not move. If it hadn't been for knowing that they were alive and had the ability to parasitize human flesh and blood, Keel would have thought that this strange thing was someone who killed someone so crazy. The lost bandits made a surreal post-modern, grotesque 'work of art' full of humanistic thinking.

Priest Batar didn't pay attention at first, thinking about what Kiel said just now.

But when he was attracted by Kiel's playful whistle, he looked up and saw the thing the Kiel warrior was holding in his hand.

The whole person was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously matched the things in front of him with the knowledge he had learned in the church before, and then he wanted to say something loudly, but he was forced to suppress it by himself, gritting his teeth The voice asked in a low voice: "Isn't this a parasitic species of the cult 'Flesh Demon'? You **** reckless guy, why are you just holding it in your hand like this?"

But then he saw that Kiel was wearing a thick armor, and the hands of the so-called parasites tied with ropes were also protected by thick steel gauntlets, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "No, what you just said , did you just get this? Where did you 'get' this thing?"

Seeing the priest so close to the enemy, Kiel took another look at the immobile face root parasite, swallowed, and immediately explained what happened just now.