Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1182 1164. Shipwreck in the River

The local knight and his followers watched everyone board the boat, and no mercenary ran away.

The inland barge untied the fixed rope tied to the wooden stakes at the ferry and began to move forward in the river. Only then did they breathe a sigh of relief, as they had completely completed their work.

The knight, whose leather straps on his armor were almost unable to hold, pulled his horse's head and turned to leave, looking reluctantly at Sachia standing on the bow and looking into the distance.

This boat should also be booked by Heward. A group of mercenaries and warriors with clanking armor and fierce looks came up, and the captain who was driving the boat didn't even raise his eyelids.

After sailing on the Pontar River for an entire year, he had seen a lot of things in the world, so of course these people couldn't scare him.

Several mercenaries wanted to chat with the captain to see if they could find out some extra information.

But the captain was just focused on driving the boat, chewing a dried fish fillet in his mouth, as if he didn't see anyone around him at all.

So the mercenaries who couldn't ask anything were angry, but they couldn't do anything to the captain on the ship, so they could only spit and curse and walk away.

The Ember Knights were different from the casual mercenaries. All ten of them held long swords in their hands and stood around their war horses and their own baggage.

They were significantly different from the mercenaries next to them. The mercenaries seemed to feel this incompatible atmosphere, so most of them walked around the Ember Knights.

Qilin didn't want to be crowded with a group of horses, so when he was at the ferry, he ran away.

The Qilin who ran away on his own, and the flannel ball that jumped off the Qilin and ran to Lan En, all startled the group of people.

But it was just a shock.

There are so many strange things and species that have never been seen in this world. It is said that in Sidaris, people have discovered a mermaid kingdom that built a palace on the seabed in the offshore area.

A knight in Sidaris even married a mermaid who had lost her fish tail there.

The pragmatic mercenaries and warriors accepted these things very quickly, just like Geralt and Berengar. Or the romantic Dandelion also accepted them very quickly.

Most of those who wanted to get to the bottom of it were scholars or professors.

"I have to say," the fluff ball stood beside Lan, and the two kitten paws spread out helplessly, "They look really unfriendly, meow."

"I obviously took the initiative to greet them, meow~"

In fact, when the kitten just jumped out of the unicorn's mane and ran to Lan, it greeted the others enthusiastically.

But most people were just surprised when they saw a big calico cat wearing armor and a long sword, and could talk.

Then they didn't respond, but just frowned and moved away from the deck area where Lan and the fluff ball were.

Showing an attitude of not intending to get involved.

This was a bit of a blow to the fluff ball who greeted them enthusiastically.

The triangular ears on the kitten's head drooped down.

"They are here to make money or fame." Lan En lowered his head to explain to the fluff ball, "They have clear goals, and in the process they will try to avoid getting entangled with uncertain factors."

I don't know if the fluff ball doesn't care, or Lan En's explanation is accepted by it, anyway, its mood soon improved again.

"So we have to take a boat all the way to the valley, meow?"

The fluff ball jumped onto the bow fence of the barge, squatted with its tail drooping, and looked forward.

It asked, but its little head did not look at Lan En behind it.

Instead, it looked at the side, the only one of the mercenaries who did not show resistance.

Sakia was standing at the bow, holding the railing and looking forward.

The fluff ball's sudden jump to her side did not scare her, but made her turn her head to look at the cat, showing a slightly surprised expression.

It seems that her acceptance of new things is higher than that of the mercenaries.

"That's true." Sachia said in an equal manner to an obviously non-human race, "I think the Duke of Hiward should have set up camp near the ferry outside the valley."

"We are the people he is waiting for now. Once we have enough people, we should go in and solve the problem."

She seems to like the flannel ball very much.

The dark golden-haired female warrior stretched out her arms in front of the barge: "Our boat has been sailing for two hours, and the next ferry is not far ahead. But I don't think we will stop like ordinary barges."

On the right side of the river bank in front, there was a small wooden sentry box and a layer of wooden boards on the wet river beach. There were scattered groups of people walking around.

"If we don't stop all the way," Sachia thought for a while, "I remember Knight Samaresh said that we can arrive before dinner."

Hearing this, the flannel ball's tail hanging down from the railing shook a little more happily.

The brave kitten is always eager for adventure.

But Lan En also walked onto the bow of the barge at this time. He stood on the other side of the fluff ball, stretched his tall body and looked forward.

"But it's hard to say now, fluff ball, Sakia."

"Hmm?"

"Meow?"

The man and the cat looked at Lan En in confusion at the same time.

The demon hunter said calmly: "It seems that something happened at the ferry ahead."

Lan En's observation was correct.

As their barge got closer and closer, the situation at the ferry not far ahead became increasingly clear.

When they got nearby, the people on their boat discovered that the people walking around on the wooden planks laid out at the ferry were not civilian merchants carrying goods.

It was a sergeant with the emblem of the Principality of Elland printed on his clothes.

"Don't pass by! Slow down! You have to slow down and stop the boat!"

A sergeant on horseback ran out of the ferry and came close to the barge and shouted to the ship.

The mercenaries immediately frowned, and some of the sensitive ones picked up their weapons.

But matters on the river and on the boat still require the captain's intervention.

The captain, holding a piece of dried fish in his mouth, frowned and walked away from the rudder, walked to the side of the ship and shouted back to the sergeant on the shore.

"Hey! What's going on? Didn't you get the notice? This is the ship that Duke Seeward approved with a note! It doesn't stop all the way!"

The wind and waves on the river were noisy, so the captain also developed the habit of howling loudly.

Before he shouted, he took off the dried fish and held it in his hand to prevent it from being sprayed out while speaking.

The reasons given by the mounted sergeant on the shore were quite reasonable and convincing.

The captain, who had the note personally approved by Duke Seeward, began to slow down without saying a word.

He only shouted one sentence.

"There is a sunken ship in the river ahead! Have you always wanted to feed the fish?"

Finally, under the captain's frantic emergency braking, the river barge stopped in front of the ferry.

A small boat was drawn out in the direction of the ferry and came to the barge in the center of the Pontal River.

The captain lowered a rope ladder and picked the man up.

That was also a sergeant.

But Lan En looked at his panting and bandaged body and confirmed that the man was not injured in the shipwreck.

This wound can only come from combat.

The first thing he did after boarding the ship was to ask for help from the captain.

"We know this is the ship chartered by the Duke, all the way. We were notified, but phew~"

He took a breath and continued.

"But if you want to get there quickly, you have to have manpower to help us clean up the river. The more manpower we have, the faster we can clean up. Is that the truth?"

The captain who pulled the man up and the mercenaries on the ship all looked ugly.

If they can't arrive at the agreed place as scheduled, they can't even think of getting full compensation. There may even be no pay, and the journey is in vain.

"Bah." The captain tilted his head and spit out the dried fish residue in his mouth, "Cleaning up sunken ships in the river, this project will take two days, right?"

"Hey, our contract is over."

The captain lamented, but the sergeant's tone was not so optimistic.

"It won't take two days. The ship just sank and it's not big. Let's work together and we can clear it out soon."

But as soon as the sergeant finished speaking, Lan En came over from the direction of the ship's bow and asked.

"It just sank, so it's not big yet?"

The tall figure approached, causing others to move away unconsciously.

"Then why did this kind of boat sink at the ferry? The hydrological environment here is very stable, right?"

"Wait. Who are you? Meritelli! What is this cat in armor?"

The sergeant's eyes widened with surprise.

But the captain impatiently asked: "Don't worry about those unimportant things. It's just a cat in armor. I've also seen a mermaid! Let me ask you a question! What's going on at the ferry? This concerns dozens of us. remuneration!"

The sergeant scratched his head, looked at the mercenaries and captains who were surrounding him fiercely, and then looked at the velvet ball beside Lan En's legs that raised his little paw to greet him.

"Well, the more important thing is the Scoia'tael. They rushed out of the forest and attacked the ferry. The boat was sank by man-made sabotage. Fortunately, there was only such a small boat parked on the ferry at that time, otherwise it would have been a real jam. Living."

After speaking, he looked around.

"Do you want someone to help? You are the ones who should be worried about this matter the most."

The sergeant is right, it is indeed the truth.

So in order to catch up with this mission from the Duke and get the reward.

After a few of the mercenaries cursed the Scoia'tael in low voices and angrily, they boarded the sergeant's boat and were taken to the shore to help clean up the river.

This boat went back and forth several times and took many people aboard.

Lan En and the others also arrived on the shore together.

"In my opinion, the Scoia'tael here are too rampant. They're almost like Kaedwen!"

After landing, the mercenaries were chatting in low voices on the way to the ferry.

"But Temeria is actually pretty good to those non-human bastards, isn't it?"

"What's the use of saying this? Non-humans are a bunch of white-eyed wolves that cannot be trusted. This is just another proof. They should have been killed long ago."