Mercenaries and Adventurers

The villagers gathered around Kiel, beating the armor on Kiel with their hands. After playing for a while, Zhao Ji opened the visor, took off the helmet and said to the villagers: "Who wants to wear my armor? Of course, it must be about the same height and shape as me."

Hearing that the Kiel warrior said that the villagers could try on his armor, many villagers spontaneously recommended him, and even some old men grinned and thought that their figure was not bad.

Zhao Ji picked and picked a young villager who was about the same size as him, took off one piece of armor from his body, and put another piece on the villager's body.

The young man's tense body was quite stiff, so old Domo had no choice but to help Kiel play with this nervous young man who didn't know how to move his body, and helped him put the armor on.

Seeing that everyone was attracted by this young man, Zhao Ji told old Domu and asked him to help watch the situation. He, Kiel, was going to take the weapon to the blacksmith's shop for repairs.

Old Domo nodded, and waved his hand to reassure Kiel. He watched here, and he couldn't lose his armor.

Zhao Ji picked up his long sword and spear, walked around the villagers who opened the door, and walked towards the blacksmith shop.

The blacksmith shop is already open, and Bodell blacksmith is fiddling with the charcoal fire to be used in his small stove. He skillfully ignites many large pieces of wood that are not so flammable with some flammable materials. Zhao Ji can see that the other party is After making charcoal, he went up to say hello to Blacksmith Bodell, who then took the weapon from Zhao Ji.

"The elders in the village have already told me that you can report to the village house if you come to me to repair weapons during the time of hunting goblins." Pulling out his long sword, Bodell Blacksmith talked to Kiel , Let him know about it, while checking the edge of the long sword.

Bodell blacksmith also touched the edge of the long sword with his finger, shook his head and said to Kiel: "Did you hit the stone with your sword?"

Scratching his head, Zhao Ji replied vaguely: "Well, it's quite a hard stone. Anyway, fighting with goblins is quite fierce."

Nodding his head, Blacksmith Bodell put down his long sword and picked up his spear again.

After picking up the spear, he twisted his fingers suspiciously, then put his head on the barrel of the gun and sniffed it: "The barrel of your gun is soaked in blood, good guy. I heard from my friends that when you came back, you brought Dozens of goblin heads came back, looking at the condition of the spear, you used this ordinary spear to kill so many goblins, right?"

Zhao Ji did not expect that Bodell Blacksmith is so powerful, and it can be seen which weapon he mainly used to kill the goblin: "That's right! You guessed right, it is indeed this spear. What's so good about goblins?" If you don’t have any defensive equipment, just use a long spear to stab them, and every stab is accurate.”

Bodell blacksmith smiled: "Likes are everywhere, but people who dare to look for goblins alone and kill them are not often seen."

"Thank you for the compliment, haha." Zhao Ji was quite happy to hear the compliment.

Putting the Kiel warrior's spear on the wooden table, Bodell blacksmith thought about it, and seemed to have made a decision. He told the Kiel warrior to wait a while, and then returned to his home behind the blacksmith shop.

Soon, he came back out. When he went, his hands were empty. When he came back, he held a wooden tray in his hand. There seemed to be some heavy objects on the tray.

"Come and take a look, Warrior Kiel." Blacksmith Bodell called Zhao Ji to take a look.

"What is it? It's so mysterious. Let me have a look." Zhao Ji walked over and took a look, and found that it was the head of an ax, a metal ax head without a handle.

The surface of the ax is semicircular, looking like a first quarter moon. Of course, the color of the surface of this ax is silvery white with a bluish tinge, which is different from the colors of the three moons in the sky.

Zhao Ji saw that the marks on the surface of the ax seemed to be very new.

Rubbing it with his finger, he could tell it had been recently cleaned and polished. Two short sentences were engraved on the wide metal surface of the axe. Zhao Ji looked at it carefully and read out the above words: "Wood spirits, water monsters, dark beasts, all will be killed by my axe."

"There's something on the other side, look it over." Blacksmith Bodell motioned Kiel to turn the ax over to have a look.

After probably understanding what the other party meant, Zhao Ji was a little excited, and he couldn't wait to turn the heavy metal ax over.

Slap.

On the other side of the ax face, three small brass monster head carvings were inlaid on the blue metal ax face. Zhao Ji didn't even know what the three kinds of monsters were, but from the short sentence before, he could guess that the three brass monster head sculptures should be the wood spirit, the water monster and the dark beast.

"Is this ax a gift for me? Blacksmith Bodell?" Zhao Ji touched the edge of the ax and found that it should have been polished, so the edge of the ax is quite sharp.

"Of course, it was agreed that as long as you can hunt a hundred goblins, I will give you a weapon from my ancestors. Yesterday when I heard that you came back, you killed nearly forty goblins and brought back Their heads. I will prepare it immediately and give it to you when you come to repair the weapon. In fact, I turned it out of the box a few days ago, polished it, and packed it. Of course, it is still a little bit worse now. Hold the wood, and I will go to the lumberyard north of the village to find a suitable wood for you in two days."

Zhao Ji scratched his head and laughed, counting in his mind how many goblins he had killed since he came to Doral Forest Village, and how many goblin heads he had brought back.

He did some calculations and realized that the number of goblin heads was less than a hundred. Thinking of this, he immediately told Blacksmith Bodell about it.

After Bodell blacksmith's eloquence was interrupted by Keel, the high-speed Kiel warrior was puzzled. He calculated this one by one in the security station yesterday. There must be no mistake. It must be the Kiel warrior himself. Yes, I guess I misremembered.

Zhao Ji was speechless, how could he have misremembered. It is likely that when Blacksmith Bodur counted, he counted the heads of goblins. It is estimated that this is the reason.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji inquired about the story of the ax used by his ancestors with Blacksmith Bodell. Blacksmith Bodell excitedly told Zhao Ji the story about his ancestors defending their hometown, but his ancestors’ hometown was not Dolarin Village. Their family came here decades ago. It turned out that their family was in Those living in the empire came to the kingdom because they avoided the war.

As a thing of honor of the family, this ax face was also brought over. It's just that Doral Forest Village is quite peaceful. After their family came here, they haven't seen any other monsters except goblin harassment. The ax head has been pressed at the bottom of the box.

It wasn't until a few days ago that Kiel came to their village and was going to hunt down the goblins, that Bodell blacksmith remembered the ax inherited from their family.

As a result, he opened the wooden box containing the old objects, and he discovered that it was estimated that water had entered the wooden box during the migration, and no one cared about the contents. After so many years, the ax that was pressed at the bottom of the wooden box , The wooden handle that was originally fitted has been soaked in water and rotted, and the surface of the ax head has also been corroded by water and other things.

It was with great difficulty that he refurbished the surface of the ax into what it is today.

Zhao Ji stroked the metal ax face, feeling the cold feeling from his fingers: "This is something inherited from your family, do you really want to give it to me?"

The Bodell blacksmith crossed his arms and said boldly: "I am a blacksmith, and I will create excellent weapons in the future. I have written the stories of my ancestors in books, and I don't need a real object to commemorate the past. If it can I think the ancestor will be more pleased to help you, after all, the ancestor back then was a warrior who defended his hometown."

"Can the weapons of the warriors of the past be worthy of the warriors of today?"

"Of course. You are a brave warrior. I can feel it at the first sight. Even if I close my eyes, everyone can hear your bravery and courage from your voice, let alone you use each brother Brin's head proved yourself. When I give it a handle, it will be your weapon. I hope you can use it to kill more monsters, so that this ax can drink more monster blood."

"Okay, I promise you. Make it drink the monster's blood."

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While waiting for Bodell blacksmith to repair his weapon, Zhao Ji first returned to the police station.

The security station has become quiet, and the villagers who used to watch the fun have left one by one, leaving only a group of idle sentinels still discussing something around the armor parts on the table.

Seeing Kiel's return, Old Domo commanded the sentry to bring all the armor parts to Kiel for counting. How could this be the case, Zhao Ji glanced and knew that there were not too many armor parts missing, so he put them into the wooden box and bid farewell to the sentries who were still discussing. Whether the armor can enhance the strength of the Sentinels.

Some people think that if they have money to buy armor, it is better to buy more iron spear heads. The most important thing is to give each sentry a long spear with an iron spear head.

Some sentries think that armor is more important. After having a few pairs of armor, they can use the armor in rotation. Whoever goes on a mission will wear the armor. This can greatly enhance their strength. The sentries no longer need to be surrounded by goblins , I was too scared to come down from the sentry tower to drive away the goblins.

Old Duo Mu was very concerned about the two discussed plans, but the public security station didn't have much money, which left him with nothing to do. He could only pull his beard and listen to the arguments of the sentries.

Zhao Ji returned to the blacksmith's shop with the armor box in his arms, and he wanted to use the equipment of the blacksmith's shop to repair his armor.

The armor was exposed to rain. Although his armor was made of hard leather, it still had many metal parts. These metal parts would easily rust after being exposed to rain.

The main reason is that the metal parts are not like his previous life, the metal surface has been coated with anti-rust. I don't know if there is a corresponding anti-rust technology in this world. Zhao Ji thinks there should be. After all, in a world where all kinds of supernatural powers exist, it shouldn't be easy to solve the anti-rust problem.

Thinking of these, Zhao Ji immediately thought of those metal materials that are not bad for thousands of years in the ancient elf ruins. Thinking of those excellent metal materials, Zhao Ji coveted, but he can't use those things yet, after all, he went out to hunt goblins, so how could he get back some metal materials that obviously have superb skills.

After he returns to Kendall City, he can take the time to take out the magical metal materials in the ruins and find a way to get some.

Under the occasional guidance of Bodell blacksmith, Zhao Ji polished some rusted metal parts on the armor and applied some grease, which could barely prevent rust. There were still a few dents on the front chest of the armor that had been hit by the bone gun. After Zhao Ji hit it with a mallet, those dents recovered to their original shape.

Those goblins were still bad weapons, they weren't sharp enough and tough enough to do enough damage to his armor.

After talking about the ax with Blacksmith Bodell, Zhao Ji returned to the hotel with his things in his arms.

He had seen a few small iron spearheads in the blacksmith shop, and he found out after asking that they were made by the blacksmith Bodell for the village. The elders in the village house estimated that there were more goblins, so they A batch of small iron gun heads were specially ordered here to defend against possible attacks by goblins.

But with the arrival of the Kiel warriors, so many goblins were killed in a few attacks, these things will definitely not be used, so they have been placed in the corner of the blacksmith shop.

Zhao Ji originally wanted to catch a leak and use these things to build a batch of short-throwing guns, which would become a powerful long-range weapon in his hands. But he thought about it again, these throwing spears were thrown on the goblins, but it gave those goblins a weapon that could damage and break his armor, which was not good.

Only then did Zhao Ji give up his thoughts. He asked Bodell blacksmith what to do with these iron gun heads, and Bodell blacksmith thought that it could be used to make a batch of iron candlestick bases, and it should be feasible to entrust the caravan to sell to other villages. He didn't dare to sell his works to Kendall City. After all, the scale of craftsmen in Kendall City is so large, and there are too many people with better skills than him.

Speaking of this, Zhao Ji told him carefully about the forging competition at the Harvest Festival in Kendall City a few days ago.

The wonderful forging competition made Bodell blacksmith very excited. After Zhao Ji’s weapon was repaired, he lost the idea of ​​blacksmithing work. He kept drawing the appearance of each contestant’s work and technology used.

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After resting for a day, Zhao Ji asked the elders of the village to ask for a cart of supplies again, and set off with the village's hopes for him.

Knowing the actual situation in the village, it is difficult for Zhao Ji to express his opinion on this. The goblins were raging around the village before, not because Dorallin Village had no way to deal with them. On the contrary, for Old Domu and the others, they only needed to mobilize the village's militia to clean up those goblins. But this is exactly what they don't want to do. For ordinary villagers, they let the villagers passively defend, and don't encourage the villagers to directly confront the goblins. The fear is that the confrontation with the goblins will affect the The knight lord of the village teaches his successors.

Once the old lord knight of the village dies due to old age, and his heirs do not have knight-level abilities, they will not be able to inherit the territory of Doral Forest Village. Knights are only the entry stones of the noble class, and their territories cannot be directly transferred to The next generation, unless the next generation is also a knight.

But old Duomu's entire family is in the village, and they started their business with the knight lord of the village, and changing to a knight they don't know is a completely uncertain future for them.

Therefore, with regard to the succession of the territory, the old Domu and the others supported their lord, and they could not help to teach the successor, but they could still do it by not looking for things and troubles in the territory as indirect help.