Mercenaries and Adventurers

The next morning, after Zhao Ji had breakfast in the restaurant of the chamber of commerce, he went to the backyard to practice swordsmanship for a while. The sword and shield that matched the shield did not fall down, and they practiced together for a while. The staff of the chamber of commerce and the donkeys who were feeding the donkeys were all fascinated. The donkeys all stared at Zhao Jimeng, looking very curious about what this human being was doing. The Chamber of Commerce clerk curiously came over after feeding the donkey and said that he also wanted to experience the feeling of beating each other with a wooden sword.

Zhao Ji shrugged, "It doesn't matter, it's boring to practice alone, so here comes a partner for free. Helped the chamber of commerce to put on the wooden equipment for training. In order to make it simpler and more interesting, Zhao Ji equipped the other party with a sword and shield, while he himself only used a single sword.

As soon as the combat training started, Zhao Ji launched an attack, smashing, snapping, snapping at the opponent's shield with the wooden sword in his hand. Although the guy from the chamber of commerce didn't know how to use the shield, he knew that the shield stood firmly in front of his body to defend against Kiel's onslaught.

When Zhao Ji's offensive paused, the clerk of the Chamber of Commerce exclaimed excitedly: "It's my turn!" and slashed at Zhao Ji with his wooden sword.

How could it be possible to be hit by his slow movement and many flaws. Zhao Ji retreated a few steps in small steps, dodged the opponent's attack, and then took advantage of the opponent's heavy slash, rushed forward in front of the clerk of the chamber of commerce, hooked his leg, pushed his arm, and threw the opponent to the ground. A somersault.

The trade guild guy who didn't know how he fell was pulled up by Kiel. This time he stood the shield in front of him, and the wooden sword in his right hand swung back and forth beside the shield.

Zhao Ji walked around him half a circle with a smile, and turned his body on the other side, turning the shield towards Kiel, and swung the wooden sword in his right hand even harder, laughing and mocking Kiel for having nothing to do with him.

Zhao Ji also laughed, and the speed around the other party gradually increased. He jumped sideways slightly, throwing off the speed of the other party's rotation, and went around the back of the trade clerk, and knocked on the wooden helmet with the wooden sword in his hand.

"Hey, what's going on!" The baffled member of the chamber of commerce wanted to find Kiel who was attacking him, but no matter how hard he turned around to look for him, he couldn't find him.

Zhao Ji stood not far behind him, watching the opponent's body turning, and also moved in the direction of the opponent's turning, so that he could not find himself.

The donkeys in the fence next to it were very happy to see them, and they all neighed loudly with "uh-uh-uh-uh~" and laughed at a trade guild guy who was feeding them water.

The trade union guy who often took care of the donkey couldn't understand what the donkey's bray meant, and knew which animals were laughing at him. With the swing of the wooden sword, it rotated.

Seeing such a funny move by the opponent, Zhao Jile stopped in his tracks, no longer tried to get behind the opponent, but used the wooden sword in his hand to draw on the opponent's spinning wooden sword, following the opponent's spinning movement to give He added strength.

After turning around more than ten times, the staff of the Chamber of Commerce, who kept spinning, fell to the ground and fainted.

The donkeys brayed and laughed even more happily.

Zhao Ji helped him up and moved him to the steps of the chamber of commerce, letting him take a rest. I had enough playing with myself, so I fetched a bucket of clean water to wash off the sweat from my body.

"Keir, were you playing with me just now?" The trade clerk who came over asked Zhao Ji in a low voice.

Zhao Ji answered him while wiping his arms: "Haha, no way! Isn't your last movement just now very good, you fainted by yourself, and I didn't attack you in the end. It's not that I didn't want to attack, but I can't do it."

The clerk of the Chamber of Commerce touched his head suspiciously: "Really? It seems that I am quite talented."

"Yes, yes, you are a talented player. A sudden inspiration is better than the one who has practiced hard for hundreds of days. Alright, I'm done practicing. If you still want to play against the dummy yourself,

After playing for a while, just put the training things in the dining room, or put them directly at the door of my house, and I will put them away when I come back. You can play first, but you have to teach those donkeys a lesson first, you see they are still laughing at you! Zhao Ji put on his clothes, carried his training helmet and wooden sword and left.

And the clerk of the chamber of commerce looked at the donkeys on the opposite side, and the donkeys all looked at him, and let out bursts of eh~uh~hmm~uh~, baring their big teeth in laughter.

Putting things back in the house, Zhao Ji went to the artisan area. He is going to get his full set of leather armor now, which should have been done earlier, but the past two days were either in a farm outside the city, or drinking water in the city, or going out of the city to hunt a batch of slime monsters, or Investigate a homicide.

These two days are quite busy, Zhao Ji thought as he walked, he had to decide on his recent work, otherwise, he seemed to be very busy, but he didn't know what he was busy with.

Looking at the increasingly bustling streets, Zhao Ji decided to spend the Harvest Festival first. This is the first big festival in the world, and it must be lively no matter what.

As for the work, he had to arrange the order well. As he was thinking, he passed the leather shop. Many local apprentices in the leather shop had already gone home for the holidays. Only the Punica craftsman and a few apprentices from far away were still working. I said that I insisted on working, but in fact, I didn't have much to do. I just helped some amateur theater actors deal with all kinds of costumes with leather for their upcoming performances.

Seeing Kiel passing by, the Punica artisan stopped him. While pulling Kiel into the shop, he asked when Kiel would get some slime monsters back.

Seeing that the Punica craftsmen were so enthusiastic about it, Zhao Ji replied immediately: "I plan to focus on this after the Harvest Festival is over."

The Punica craftsman nodded: "Then you have to hurry up. When the weather cools down, there will be less slime monsters in the swamp. It's best to get them out before this winter, so that when the flood comes next spring, there will be no slime monsters." After that, the slime monsters in the fields will definitely decrease a lot.”

"No problem, I've already cleared the southeast of the swamp. If you do the math, I'll spend another three nights concentrating on killing the slime monsters with all my strength, and I'll be able to take care of the entire swamp. And I can call the Saturn Church Let a shepherd come to help together, and ask him to call some farmers who are idle after the festival to help together. The speed must be faster."

"Hey, that's good news, then I'll be waiting for your slime monster."

"good!"

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After bidding farewell to the craftsmen in Punika, Zhao Ji went directly through the back door of the leather shop and came to the interior of the craftsman area.

Many shops and workshops related to agricultural planting and breeding are idle at this time, while some remote workshops are full of people buying things at this time.

Many apprentices rushed back and forth with a lot of things, and some decorative items were the things that Zhao Ji saw the most. It seems that the residents of every household are trying their best to decorate their houses and celebrate a harvest festival beautifully.

Zhao Ji also bought two decorations. One is a necklace made of butterfly wings in different colors, and the other is a white rabbit hat made of white rabbits.

The former is a transparent necklace formed by putting butterfly wings in gum to cool. The necklace uses a small iron ring to connect each oval gum group, and each segment of gum group contains a butterfly's wings, which is very popular with Kendall. Men, women and children welcome. It's a pity that there are very few good-looking butterfly wings, and most of them are ordinary single-color butterfly wings. The colorful butterfly wings are sold at high prices in shops in rich areas, according to the people next to them.

Moreover, Zhao Ji carefully discovered that the necklace he bought not only contained the wings of ordinary butterflies, but he was unlucky and didn't choose carefully. There were also some ugly wings of fluttering moths mixed into this necklace.

Zhao Ji is embarrassed to change another good-looking one. After all, before buying it, the apprentices in the workshop have already publicized it loudly: once it is sold, it will not be returned or exchanged.

Zhao Ji likes another white rabbit's flip-up leather hat so much that he put it on his head directly. When he bought it, he specifically picked out the whitest rabbit fur hat.

This fur hat is made by peeling the skin of a whole rabbit, the outside is rabbit skin, and the inside is a frame made of a very light weight wood. The rabbit's head filled with a kind of fragrant wild grass is at the front of the hat, and the four long rabbit feet are made of light wood strips as the skeleton, which are placed horizontally on the four corners of Zhao Ji's head and stick out. The soft fluff of the rabbit's abdomen provided unexpected warmth to Zhao Ji's head. It seems that wearing this thing in winter must be very comfortable and warm.

Zhao Ji pulled the four rabbit feet on his head. The wood inside was very elastic. As Zhao Ji moved the rabbit feet, the rabbit feet would quickly bounce back to their original shape. He had a great time playing.

Zhao Ji then moved the two rabbit ears on the rabbit's head. Unfortunately, although the rabbit ears have been treated with antiseptic, they are too thin after all. After the rabbit died, they would not be able to stand up, and would only be soft and trampled. Step on the rabbit's head.

When we came to the armor workshop, the craftsman Ganna was repairing the leather armor of a guard, and the whole set of armor that Zhao Ji ordered was worn on the dummy behind Ganna as a display.

When Ganner saw Keir coming, he hurried over and guided him to remove the entire set of armor on the dummy, saying that it would allow him to put on and take off the armor skillfully.

"You're here. I fixed it for you early in the morning, but I haven't been able to wait for you." Ganna complained.

Zhao Ji scratched his head, but bumped into the white rabbit fur hat: "There were too many things in the past two days, no, if I have free time today, I will come here to pick it up. I want to put on this armor as soon as possible. You Trust me."

"This is indeed correct. After all, you designed it yourself and you want to use it yourself. You must want to put it on earlier." Ganna nodded and helped Kiel remove the armor from the dummy.

Ganner pulled out a half-sized wooden box from the side: "This is the box where you store your armor. Usually when you don't use it, just wipe it and put it in the box. Take it out occasionally and wipe it carefully with oil." One side is fine. Take good care of it and it will last for decades.”

Zhao Ji put the armor parts into a wooden box: "What if it takes hundreds of years? I heard that many knight families have armor and swords that have been passed down from their families hundreds of years ago."

Ganna smiled: "Then you have to use the magic armor that my master said, or even magic armor. Let me tell you a secret."

Zhao Ji stopped what he was doing: "Say it."

Ganna said quietly: "Divine armor or something can't be stored for hundreds of years before being used again."

"Why? It doesn't make sense."

Ganna said in a softer voice: "My master said that he also heard about it from his master. It is said that after a long period of storage, if it is not used, the gods have forgotten the existence of that piece of armor or weapon. What about that magical armor? Yes, it won't work."

Zhao Ji raised his eyebrows: "Good guy, let's not say that you heard from your master, your master also heard from other masters, and your master's master heard from other people. Is this news credible? Brother , you pat yourself on the chest, can you promise me brother that what you say will be counted.”

Ganna smiled awkwardly: "I can't guarantee this. Once I say it, you will hear it. If you may come into contact with this kind of magical armor in the future, remember to ask if this statement is true. of."

Zhao Ji winked and smiled: "If the gods forget it, the divine power armor will be useless. Well, it sounds reasonable. But the gods have existed for tens of thousands of years. I guess, It shouldn’t be impossible for more than a hundred years to do nothing.”

"I guess, it should be related to the amount of divine power on the divine power armor. When I participated in the blessing activity of the Saturnalia Church some time ago, I saw with my own eyes that the priests of the church have different sizes of divine power. Think about it, since The priests have different levels of divine power due to their different positions, so the divine power equipment should also be blessed with different divine powers to produce different effects."

Ganna nodded: "The storage time of those with more divine power will be stronger and longer, and the storage time of those with less divine power will be shorter. It's possible, it's possible, I think this idea is much more accurate."

"I also think it's more likely. Okay, then I'm leaving, Ganna, you have to hone your skills, I might get a suit of iron armor and wear it through at any time." Zhao Ji put the wooden The lid of the box was closed, and there was a clasp on the wooden box, which could be used to hang a small lock. Zhao Ji thought it was useless, so he used a wooden strip to clamp the clasp.

"Let's go, the iron armor is not light, you have to train your body first, or else you can't run a few steps in the iron armor and you will be tired."

"Okay, okay, I'll pay attention, let's go, Ganna craftsman. By the way, how about my hat?" Zhao Ji walked out of the armor craftsman Ganna's armor workshop with a heavy wooden box in his arms.

"Haha, it's just right to wear during the festival."