Mercenaries and Adventurers

When Keir said this, everyone on the carriage believed it.

Believe it or not, on a speeding carriage, only a fool would jump out of the carriage at this time. Everyone could see that the monsters that appeared on the left and right and behind them could not catch up with their group. Only a small number of monsters in front can rush up and fight.

In this way, everyone watched as Knight Kiel urged his strong prairie horse to rush forward to fight the monsters at a much faster speed than the convoy.

Boom boom, boom boom—

The iron hooves of the blood-licking grass quickly trampled the dirt road that had not been traveled by horses for a while, crushing the short grass sprouts that had grown on the road. Kil whispered the nonsense words that inspired him before the battle, and with one hand He pulled the reins, held the clamped spear in one hand, adjusted the direction of the horse's running, stared at the lame parasitic monster closest to him, and pointed the tip of the spear at the opponent.

The monster's legs and feet were handicapped and seemed to have been injured in previous attacks on humans. The guy with a withered face was wearing tattered clothes and shouting loudly. Although it was a bit blurry, it was still a common language.

"Offer humanity to the great prophet! The hanged devil will win—"

Before the victory was announced, Kil rode his horse past the monster in human skin, passed the opponent's torso with his spear, stabbed the head and body of the spear, and threw the monster into the sky.

When it was thrown away, the monster was cut into two pieces by the gun blade that penetrated the torso and chest.

Everyone in the front row of the carriage saw the monster's upper body falling into the grassy farmland nearby. Many plant roots sprouted from the body's fractures, but after being stirred for a while, it lost its vitality.

When his lower body was thrown to the side of the dirt road, even though he fell, he was still trying to swing his legs to stand up.

But horse-drawn carriages and donkey-carts passed by the road one after another, and everyone pointed at the half-body of the monster that was trying to stand up, and kept laughing. It seems that he realizes that only the lower body of a human being cannot stand up and fight.

So from the broken human abdomen where the monster was parasitizing, a cone-like thing quickly crawled out. The flat bottom was a human face, and the cone behind it was covered with tiny plant roots. After this thing crawled out of the severed human body, it crawled around in place for a few times. Amidst the low curses on the human face, it slowly stopped moving and became hardened.

It's like a sprouted potato, but it's not dead, it's just dormant.

After that, other companions can retrieve it by following the smell and hand it over to other companions responsible for the parasitic transformation.

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After killing a monster, Kilma kept running, changing direction while running, and rushed towards another parasitic monster he wanted to intercept.

Seemingly seeing the miserable condition of his companion in front of him, this guy very cunningly lay down far away on the ground, only waiting for the carriage to come and climb up. But Kil had a strange look on his face. He wanted to laugh but was too embarrassed to actually laugh out loud.

He rode directly towards the monster, and before the opponent could get up from lying down, he used the blood-licking grass to trample over the monster.

The crunching sound of human limbs being broken was very scary, but luckily it was drowned out by the rumble of the horses running.

Kil didn't even look to see if the monster was dead. Anyway, many limbs of the parasitized human body were trampled off. Even if the core of the parasite was not trampled to pieces, the monster lost its ability to make trouble.

The team advanced some distance to the west, and another group of parasitic monsters appeared in front of them, blocking the road. There were five in a group. These monsters were dressed in neat human clothes and ran out of a village next to the dirt road.

Unlike other parasitic monsters, they even held a sharpened wooden stick in their hands, just blocking the middle of the dirt road.

If it weren't for the fact that these parasitic monsters were yelling about how humans deserve to die and be dedicated to the prophet, Kil would not be able to tell the difference between them and humans for a while.

"Monsters, die!"

At this time, Keir was already quite a distance ahead of the carriage team, so he had some time to contend with the monsters blocking the way.

Facing a row of parasitic monsters holding spiked wooden sticks, Kil did not stupidly let the blood-licking grass charge hard, although the blood-licking grass with a horse armor was not very afraid of the child's wrist. spiked sticks blocking the road.

When he was still some distance away from the monster blocking the road, he rushed straight towards the monster. Therefore, these monsters really thought that Kiel would rush forward and fight to the death. However, when the distance was less than twenty meters, with The blood-licking grass was running at a high speed, and the distance was fleeting. Kil directly pulled the reins of his left hand slightly, and at the critical moment, the blood-licking grass moved slightly to the left.

Therefore, when the two sides crossed each other, the spear in Kil's right hand swiped the guy on the edge of the monsters blocking the road.

The steel spear directly cut off the spiked wooden stick in the opponent's hand, and then like the sharpest broadsword, it slashed across the parasitic monster's body and trunk.

The sharp spear blade passed through a strip of light reflecting sunlight, slashing and pulling the parasitic monster diagonally into two parts.

The severed hand and the broken spiked wooden stick flew into the sky, and then landed on the side of the road. The flying half of the body rolled to the ground one after another. It seemed that good luck had come. Kil's blow just now directly hit the ground. Destroyed the core of the human face of the parasitic monster.

Five to one, the other four roared in surprise.

Then they all turned around.

But standing in a row, they suddenly turned around, and the spiked wooden sticks in their hands knocked their companions to the ground.

After Gill rushed over and turned his horse's head, he saw the funny scene of these monsters.

"Hahahaha, what a bunch of idiots!"

I don’t know whether Keir was scolding these monsters or the local ordinary people who were attacked, killed and captured by these monsters.

He shook his head, slowed down, turned his horse around, and accelerated towards the monsters again.

This was repeated three times, and the last helpless parasitic monster was left standing on the narrow dirt road. It was surrounded by parasitic monsters whose arms and legs were broken after being repeatedly charged and stabbed by Keel. There were also parasitic monsters who were lucky enough to survive. Thick plant vine tentacles were gathered together in a pattern. Like a real inhuman monster, it picked up the original human hands and feet of its companions and used them as its own weapons to block the road.

Kil switched the spear to his left hand, and took out the water-crossing head and two-handed ax from his back with his right hand. Regardless of the last humanoid parasitic monster, he leaned forward on horseback and struck at the vine monster that was balled up on the road ahead.

The monster threw the human hands and feet controlled by the twisted vines at Kil in advance. Kil was unable to block it and allowed these things to hit him head-on. Then it hit him and the blood-licking grass and fell.

The blue ax blade of the ax fell heavily, and with the speed of its swing and the force of the impact of the war horse, it hit the ground and split the monster in half!

The last humanoid parasitic monster next to him saw the opportunity and pushed the spiked wooden stick in his hand to Kil's side. However, this slender wooden stick was not a very tough and heavy wood, and it was unknown where these parasitic monsters came from in the nearby village. What he did was, after hitting Kil's body, he only let out a muffled groan, and then his right arm broke off the wooden stick that was impaled like an iron pillar.

After rushing over, Kil slowed down, turned his horse's head, and charged towards the monsters.

The spiked stick in the hand of the parasitic monster that was as tall as a person was broken in half by Kil's arm, and now all that was left was a short stick less than one meter long. He didn't know what to do with this parasitic monster in his hand, so he could only throw it towards the oncoming human on horseback.

Without even looking at it, Kil let the short wooden stick hit the blood-licking grass on the head, and then it was bounced away. The spear in his left hand stabbed the chest of the monster that was passing by, and picked it up completely.

While riding the horse and slowing down, he held the ax in his right hand with one hand and raised it directly to cut off the parasitic monster's neck.

The head of the unlucky human being controlled by the parasitic monster fell on the barren farmland nearby. Immediately afterwards, a large number of plant roots and vine tentacles emerged from the neck of the monster's parasitic human.

But Kil snorted, raised the ax in his right hand and struck again, and the vine tentacles that had just popped up were chopped away, and some fragrant smell immediately emerged from the break, and purple juice splashed out, falling on On Kiel's spear.

Then the plant vine tentacles stopped sprouting from the neck of this headless parasitic monster.

"Dare you fight back? If you don't die, fight back! See how I deal with you!"

Kil cursed, then raised his axe, making an inverted U-shape on the monster's parasitic human arms, and directly cut off the opponent's arms. Sure enough, after the monster struggled, plant vines sprouted from the broken parts of its arms.

There was no need for an axe. Kil put the Overwater Head on the weapon rack behind him and took action himself. He used his right hand to grab the vine that sprouted from the monster's left arm, crushed it hard, and then pulled it.

Then pinch the vines on the opponent's right arm and directly tear off the plant vines that emerge.

The monster lost a lot of controlled vines and blood, and soon became obedient.

But Kil held the handle of the spear in his left hand, closing the distance between the monster and his right hand tore off the clothes on the torso of the human body controlled by the opponent, directly revealing the core of a parasitic human face full of fear on his left ribs.

Their eyes met, and the core of the human face roared and screamed. He was obviously a murderous monster, but instead, there was a weak wail coming from his mouth.

Keir's right hand directly grasped the core of the human face, and the tip of the steel-armored gauntlet stabbed into the human body next to the face. With a dig and pull, Keel took out most of the parasitic core of the face.

However, after receiving such a heavy blow, the thing died immediately.

Before he died, Keir's eyes stared directly at the palm-sized face until the thing in his hand stopped responding.

Crushing the thing with his right hand, Kil raised his head and looked forward. Not far ahead, he could already see the gradually rising terrain and the vast forest in front of the mountains in the distance.

And a very conspicuous lumberyard on the edge of the forest.

The lumberyard is like a greedy child, chewing up large tracts of forest on the edge of the rolling and wide forest.

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Kil slowed down the blood-licking grass and merged with the convoy behind him that had been moving at a constant speed.

As soon as they reunited, he received cheers from everyone in the carriage.

Keir waved his hand, indicating that everyone should not get too excited: "It's all trivial! It's just trivial!"

He said it lightly, but everyone couldn't take it as really light and easy. After all, just now the Kiel Knight intercepted and killed those monsters in front of the team. They all saw clearly that he could kill a parasitic monster with just one sprint.

In the end, the parasitic monster was killed, which made everyone feel relieved. After all, many people already know that the people in Yemei Town have been tortured by monsters these days, and Knight Keir has given us humans a little breath of relief.

"Be careful. Needless to say, there are definitely monsters in the lumberyard ahead."

Kiel raised his spear and pointed at the lumberyard one kilometer ahead, which consisted of several large wooden houses and a large number of logs stacked and scattered.

From a long distance away, he used magic to enhance his eyesight and saw clearly that among several houses in the lumber camp, one was painted red with flesh and blood by the monsters. The rest of the house looked normal, but there was something strange there. .

If it was before, when he saw the red flesh outside the house, he must have been too scared to approach it, wary of encountering an opponent that was difficult or even impossible to defeat. But now he has understood that it is just a place used by monsters to breed.

It looks scary, but it's actually not as good as other places. According to the information obtained, there should be only one parasitic monster responsible for 'breeding' parasitism in that place.

Just like the first time I met the parasitic monster.

It's just a little different here. There are no tall trees around the lumberyard, so the parasitic monsters have no choice but to use rough houses made of fine wood as big trees to 'parasitize and reproduce' their companions.

Kiel led the team close to the lumberyard and patrolled for a week. He found that the parasitic monsters he had chased behind the team had disappeared. I wonder if he was frightened by Kiel's defeat of the monsters blocking the road, or because he knew he was outmatched and retreated on his own initiative?

Anyway, no matter what, there was no lingering shadow around at this time.

"Everyone get out of the car, hurry up, hurry up! No more picking and choosing, let's just use this pile of logs, and try to chop out firewood to fill all the vehicles before dark! Act quickly!"

Kil didn't have much choice, he pointed to the pile of logs closest to everyone and said.

The loggers jumped out of each vehicle and quickly moved their bodies to warm up. Then the young man with nimble hands and feet climbed onto the pile of logs and used his hands and feet to push down a thick log. Then everyone swarmed up, each selected a position, and waved with all his strength. With the ax in his hand, he first chopped a whole log into two-meter-long sections, and then separated the team to avoid crowding together. Then he formed a group of several people and chopped a large log into arm-length pieces. Large pieces of firewood.

The forests here in Saskatchewan are all virgin forests, and every log in the lumberyard is cut from a large tree with a thickness of one meter.

Therefore, even if there are many people on Kiel's side and everyone moves quickly, the work is not that fast.

A whole log of more than ten meters long, chopped into firewood of suitable size, is enough to carry several carriages here in Kiel.

As the loggers gradually shouted their trumpets, Keir jumped off his horse, and then jumped onto the pile of logs nearby, alerting him to the surrounding situation.

Among the several houses in the center of the lumber camp, there seemed to be some movement inside the wooden house painted flesh-red by the parasitic monster. But it seems that compared to humans who are afraid of monsters, a single monster is also somewhat afraid of many skilled humans.

At least when Keir stared at the house, he could see a very cautious figure in the wooden house.

Kil reached out and tapped the other person, who quickly closed the wooden window of the wooden house tightly, not daring to peep at the humans outside.

Time flies so fast. It was already afternoon when Kiel and the others set off. Although the journey here didn’t take long, and everyone was working very fast at this moment. The carts, horse-drawn carriages, and donkey carts were all loaded with heavy loads. , a few logs came down, and all the vehicles in the convoy were filled with firewood.

At this time, the sun was only halfway down.

Someone in the team suggested that since it was still early, they should wait before leaving. They just happened to cut more firewood that they would need tomorrow.

But Kil looked at the town of Yemei on the plain to the east and rejected this proposal.

"We must return to Ye Mei Town before dark! This is not a large team with sufficient defensive power. Although I am confident that I can be active here at night, I cannot protect so many of us."

Keir said decisively.

"But Knight Kil, isn't it still early?" someone asked loudly.

Another woodcutter said: "Yes, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com It only took us such a short time on the way here, and we can go back in time when the sun is about to set!"

But Kil rolled his eyes: "Use your brains. When we came here, the carriages that everyone sat in were very fast. But now look at those carriages. They are all loaded with firewood and cannot accommodate anyone. On the way back, everyone, except those driving cars, has to walk back!"

After saying this, many people realized that if they came by car, they would have to walk back on their legs. Although the logging camp is not very far from Yemei Town, that is the speed for a carriage. It would take two or three hours to walk.

At this time, the sun was halfway down in the sky. Although it was still early before dark, there were only a few hours left.

"Assemble! Assemble! Count the number of people and take everyone to eat. If someone's ax falls, don't think I won't give you a few whips when you get back!"

Kiel asked the loggers to count the number of people and their respective logging tools, and then asked the loggers to guard the fully loaded horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts, pushing the carts and guarding the vehicles, and began to return.

Compared with when we arrived, the speed at this time was much slower. The vehicles creaked when they were fully loaded. The animals pulling the carts had enough strength to pull the vehicles forward. The packhorses bought in Dorne town were breathing heavily. The donkeys remained silent, even though the belts on their bodies strangled them painfully.

But fortunately, the distance from the inside of the logging camp to the dirt road is not easy to walk. Once the convoy got on the dirt road, the flat ground made it no longer difficult to pull the four-wheeled carriage. The animals only needed to provide forward pulling force. , a fully loaded vehicle can move forward by itself.

Kil rode the blood-licking grass and kept circling around the entire team, ready to give a good look to some guys who blocked the road.