Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir was fetching water for a shower at the well in the middle of the village when he was interrupted by people running towards him.

"What's wrong? I don't even have time to take a shower."

Despite complaining, Kil casually wiped his wet body with a piece of dry cloth, and then walked out of the shower partition made of a wooden box with wet hair.

He threw the dry cloth in his hand to Xueyaste next to him. From Xueyaste's words, he learned what happened at the entrance of the village.

While holding up his pants, Kil complained: "Those parasitic monsters interrupted my shower, they are going to be in trouble."

"Ha, then maybe they should come here in the middle of the night?" Bloody Fangster shrugged. After knowing that Keir was out, he took off his clothes. He planned to take the opportunity to take a shower.

"Didn't you come here in the middle of the night to disturb my rest? I also need to deal with it severely!"

Kil spat, and quickly put on the entire set of armor that was thrown on the ground. After barely putting it on from the waist down, he held the other armor parts in his hands and put them on as he walked.

After wearing the tight-fitting clothing as the armor's inner armor, it is much simpler to put the armor on. Outsiders may not understand the order of the locks and belt buckles that connect the inner armor to the armor. As the basic idea of ​​the armor designer, Well, I understand it too well.

With his eyes closed, he could put on the armor with just one hand. At this time, he strode through the nervous crowd, comforting the people around him as he walked: "Just do whatever you need to do. It's not a big deal, it's just a few days." They're just little monsters in the daytime, don't worry, I'll kill them right now."

Seeing the confident and relaxed look of Knight Kiel, the people were relieved. Knowing how powerful Knight Kiel was, they also relaxed and continued what they were doing before.

While eating and chatting, the energetic young men gathered in pairs by the fire in the center of the village to wrestle and fight, while the girls gathered together by the bright campfire to take out their 'weapons' - thick needles. Thick thread, repair the clothes and damaged shoes of everyone in the team.

There were also girls who came to the well, soaked the clothes that the people needed to change in the basin, formed a circle, and beat them with sticks. During the repeated beating, the dust and dirt on the clothes were melted into the cold water through impact and vibration.

Lanu, a native of Yemei Town, had begged for food from the cook before and was very full. He was originally sitting by the campfire in the center of the village watching other young people wrestling and fighting to consume energy, but at this time he was unable to join other teams. Like the people, they felt relieved just by being comforted by Kiir's words.

He quickly caught up with the young knight who was putting armbands on his arms. He had something to say, but he hesitated to speak.

"What? Just say what you have to say."

Keir glanced at the local man, then put the gauntlet of his left hand into his palm and moved it so that the palm and the cowhide glove inside the gauntlet fit together properly without hindering the movement.

Ranu plucked up the courage and asked: "Sir Knight, is there a monster attack at the entrance of the village?"

Keir nodded: "The person who reported the news just shouted so loudly, as long as you are not deaf, I think you should have heard it."

"However, since the monster has launched an attack, you should immediately alert everyone. If nothing else, at least those who can fight should gather together and prepare to fight outside the village!"

Ranu said these words in one breath.

Kil blinked and smiled: "Don't worry, there are not many monsters coming to attack, only five. I can't make everyone nervous just because of this. Everyone is still resting. Don’t want to rest? You know, everyone has walked a long way during the day, so you must have a good rest to recover.”

"But…"

Before Lanu finished speaking, he was interrupted by Kil: "I know what you mean, the monsters are very powerful, very powerful, right? You were bullied miserably by these guys, so you gathered people from all the villages to the town. superior?"

"That's not the case, sir. These monsters only became active after everyone arrived in the town. I heard that they started, no, they still pretend to be some bandit group, launch attacks, and attack merchants in the town. Caravan."

Kil began to put on the arm armor on his right arm: "So you are scared. The caravan never came back, and even attacked the town, making you, you, scared. There are only five monsters, and you think I have to gather everyone To deal with it.”

"Am I right?"

Ranu, a local who is as young as Kiel, was speechless.

He finally squeezed out some words from his mouth: "At least, be more vigilant..."

Kil smiled a few times and patted the thin young man with his gauntleted right hand. The corner of the young man's mouth twitched and he made a hissing sound.

"I have more than a hundred armed people, and they are not unable to fight against those parasitic monsters alone. In addition, I also have some 'little guys' with special identities and abilities, and they will help every night. alert."

Finally, Kiel threw the cloak to a citizen looking over by the roadside: "Help me put the cloak to my carriage."

"It's an honor, sir." The people on the side of the road were looking at the entrance of the village. After being spotted by Keir, they ran towards the center of the village with their gorgeous and expensive cloaks in their arms.

Without the obstruction of the cloak, the back of Kil's armor was clearly visible. A small bag hung just on his back, and there were also hooks for weapons on the back of the armor, with an ax that emitted a faint blue light hanging on it.

Kil hung the scabbard of the long hunting sword on the left side of the metal belt, and the magic dagger on the right side. On the metal belt, there were also some square leather pockets for holding things.

"In addition." Kil finally said to Ranu: "You have ignored my strength, oh, and the one in front of me, the Saturn Priest in our team, Priest Lothar Batal, he is also very powerful."

As Kil reached his finger, Priest Batal, who had arrived at the entrance of the village early, turned around and raised the long amber metal staff in his hand towards Kil.

"Kiel Warrior, why did you come here?"

Kil shrugged: "I was taking a bath just now, and these blind monsters came to disturb me at this time. I will make them look good right away!"

After Kil and Ranu approached, Priest Batar pointed to the dirt road outside the village entrance: "Then you have no chance. The alien orcs you hired have already defeated all the parasitic monsters that just attacked and escaped. .”

The priest looked at the high-spirited group of armed people beside him: "Of course, it happened after the members of the armed team repelled and killed two monsters."

The members of the armed squad who heard the priest's praise next to them raised their torches, swords and shields and cheered in unison: "Victory! Victory! Victory!"

Kil hugged his helmet and smiled. He looked at the surprised local Lanu next to him and said proudly: "How is it? What did I say, those monsters are not our opponents, this land belongs to humans. , will also belong to us humans. You overestimated those monsters and underestimated the fighting ability of humans."

Ranu didn't know what to say, but he couldn't believe it when he saw five corpses of monsters parasitic humans with mutilated bodies and a suspiciously fresh aroma on the dirt road outside the village entrance.

Whether it was when he was in the town or when he and Joey escaped from the town together, these monsters parasitic on human bodies made him feel scared and invincible.

But he didn't expect that today, he would find that these monsters, which he thought were very powerful, could also be defeated by armed people.

This left him wondering what to do.

-

Kil ignored the surprised locals who didn't know what to say. He and Priest Batar came to the monster's corpse and listened to the captain guarding the village entrance about the previous battle.

The monsters approached at night and pretended to be local businessmen who were attacked by monsters. They approached step by step, and the warnings from the alien orcs in the messy farmland, the attack of the alien orc leader, the impact of the monsters whose identities were revealed, and the team members' concerted counterattack, The two monsters were knocked down and cut into sections, the remaining monsters retreated, and the small alien orcs hunted in the night.

Beside Kil, Courage Mao Mao kept jumping up and down excitedly as the team leader reported, with his tail supporting his body so that his eyes were level with Kil's.

It shouted excitedly: "Maomao, meritorious service! Maomao, defeated three monsters! Meritorious service! Reward! Metal! Give me metal!"

Priest Batal looked at the three monster parasitic corpses with dagger holes in their torsos in surprise, and said, "I didn't expect these aliens to be quite useful."

"Ha, they have always been very useful. You have to know that I have actually entrusted them with guarding the outside of the team at night. And if you think about it, since they joined us in Dorne Town, the team has never been attacked on a large scale at night. Pass?"

Keir gave the answer: "There are some bad guys on the road who want to sneak into the team's overnight camp at night, but most of those people were discovered and driven away by these furries. Some guys who were particularly unwilling to give up were driven away by these guys. The Maomaos turned into corpses, ha, and then at dawn they turned into props for the Maomaos to ask me for metal rewards.”

Kil gently patted Courage Maomao's head and responded to the other party: "Well done! In addition to the pocket armed belt and three monsters mentioned before, I will reward you with an additional thirty copper coins."

It seemed that he was confused by the number of thirty copper coins. After hearing this, Courage Maomao kept counting on his fingers how many human iron coins thirty copper coins were. Its own fingers and toes were not enough, so it called its companions to count the number of iron coins with their fingers and toes.

It's really embarrassing for these aliens. They only have three fingers on their hands and feet, and their calculations are based on the unique hexadecimal system. Every six is ​​entered into one, which is very different from the naturally convenient decimal system of humans.

-

That night, no other parasitic monsters came to attack the small village of Blue Well where Kiel's team spent the night. It seemed that the five corpses of their companions stacked up at the entrance of the village frightened those guys, so that most of the wandering parasitic monster team, which consisted of about five people, was not confident that they could defeat this group of foreign human teams.

Those monsters are not afraid of Kiel and the others. After all, these guys can gather to attack the town, and they succeeded. If the elite soldiers under the local noble lord had not repelled these guys, Ye Mei Town would have probably been destroyed a few days ago. They were defeated by the monsters overnight.

However, it is difficult to say that based on what Kier saw and fought with his own eyes and what he heard from other people, it is difficult to say that the parasitic monsters attacked Yemei Town a few days ago and did not achieve their goals.

Obviously, those monsters need to be parasitic on living creatures in order to move. Not to mention the mountains and forests near Yemei Town, where the monsters attacked that night, no one can tell how many people were missing.

From the news that Kil heard from Ranu, he judged that there were at least hundreds of parasitic monsters that formed a wandering team in the deserted villages and farmlands outside Yemei Town, and there were at least a dozen parasitic monsters that were responsible for transformation and acted alone. monster.

And the number of these monsters shouldn't be so small.

He felt that most of the power of these monsters should be gathered somewhere else, and he didn't know what they were doing. It is very likely that he is working next to the so-called 'prophet' of the parasitic monsters.

-

At dawn the next day, the team packed up early and prepared to set off.

Ranu was currently with his companion Joey, eating free, begged thick wheat porridge and discussing in a low voice the whereabouts of the two of them.

"What should I do? I asked these people. They will walk to the town today. I heard that they will rest there for two days and then head southeast."

Ranu whispered: "I don't know what these people are going to do. There is nothing in that direction except a few remote villages. And they are going to the town, and they plan to take the two of us with them."

Joey snorted and raised the borrowed wooden bowl. He ignored the boiling heat of the wheat porridge and took big gulps of the fragrant wheat porridge down his throat. He waved the small wooden spoon in his hand quickly and put some of the thick wheat porridge stuck to the wall of the bowl into his mouth.

"Huh, hiccup—"

After eating quickly, the young man dropped the clean wooden bowl and let out a big burp.

Joey licked the wooden spoon one last time, then turned to his companion and said, "I don't know what you are worried about. I thought about this clearly last night."

He tapped the empty wooden bowl with a wooden spoon: "The last time I had such a full meal was the day my brother came of age. In order to celebrate the coming of age of my third brother, my mother cooked a big pot of wheat at home and added more than ten dozen of it. Get boiled eggs in advance."

Ranu seemed to have guessed what his companion meant, and he did not interrupt his companion's words.

"Because I was young, I shared an egg with each of my two sisters. In addition, the wheat porridge in the big pot was mixed with various beans that could be found at home. Let us eat as we wanted. That meal made I was deeply impressed because the whole family was fed with all the wheat porridge cooked in the big pot at home.”

Joey smiled: "That was one of the few times when I was so full. Even when my eldest brother got married, the family only brought a bag of wheat and a bag of potatoes as gifts."

"So?" Ranu asked tentatively.

"So you don't know how surprised I was when I had an all-you-can-eat dinner in the wounded camp last night. I secretly asked the guy next to me who was injured by a bow and arrow. Most of the food in the team came from The God-given food given by the young Saturn priest. Infinite! They don’t need to work at all, they have more wheat grains to eat.￥￥￥%￥, they are all wheat grains with the husks removed, every It’s almost as big as my little finger! Can you imagine? Nuzi!”

Only then did Ranu suddenly think of this level. Last night, he was only surprised at the combat effectiveness of this team, but he didn't expect this level.

At this time, he looked at the wheat porridge in the wooden bowl he borrowed. The plump wheat grains were so big that he could put them in his mouth and chew them repeatedly. He was so surprised that he didn't know what to say.

"And ah." Joey suppressed his excited voice and said quietly: "And they came all the way from the west, and they didn't pay any taxes at all on the way. What about transit tax, customs duty, head tax, transaction tax, goods transit tax? The pot tax is nothing, there is no one to collect it.”

Ranu replied: "No one is collecting these at this time, right? After spring, the lords in the town no longer collect taxes?"

"That's right. The land is all deserted and no one is farming. Naturally, there is no harvest. But before I was arrested for that matter, I heard my parents complain that the family's small property seemed to be decreasing rapidly. The family's You even have to sell your farm tools to make a living.”

Ranu didn't know these situations either. After complaining for a while, the topic changed back: "So, do you want to follow this team? Do you know where they are going? What are they going to do? You just follow them?"

Joey looked like he was broken: "My family doesn't recognize me anyway, so it doesn't matter where I go. Since so many people in this team are going together, UU Reading www.uukaｎshu.com I think I can do it too, as long as they can give me a bite to eat. At least it’s better than the two of us hiding from monsters here every day."

Ranu sighed: "Yes, those monsters that we think are very powerful are no match for these people at all, not to mention that this team is led by knights and church priests. No matter where they go, they are stronger than the two of us." .”

"So?" Joey looked at his companion.

Ranu shrugged: "So we can just stay here, if people don't dislike us."

"I definitely don't mind. I've asked, and these people are not all from the same place. Although I heard that they all set out from a place called Baishi Pass, most of the people here are from other places. You don't You know, one tent means they are from one village, and so many tents means they are from many villages."

"Tell me, will they give us a big tent just for the two of us? After all, we are all from Yemei Town, so we are not from the same group as the others."

"You're overthinking, there's no such thing as a good thing." Ranu curled his lips.

"Haha, I think so, but if we share a tent with others, will the others gang up and beat us both?"

"Hope not," Ranu said at last.

After a while, the two of them were assigned work and supplies by a middle-aged businessman, who seemed to be the 'official' in charge of management in the team. The things were a bit heavy, but the two young people still had some strength after eating. Being assigned work also made the two young people feel at ease. At least, they had some role in this team.

Although it's just some supplies on my back.