Mercenaries and Adventurers

The armor on Kiel's body couldn't resist the ax of the bandit opposite. After all, it was just an armor made of hard cowhide. It still had some defensive ability against cutting and cutting with swords, and it was helpless against the heavy and sharp axe.

But his shield was just perfect for the axe. He only needs to tilt the shield a little when facing the ax falling, and he can resist the opponent's attack without receiving the full impact of the axe.

The bandit's skill in using the ax was not subtle enough, it was just superficial and he had a little experience in using this weapon for a long time.

Kiel swung his sword and intersected the two swords of another bandit. When the two weapons were stuck together, he kicked out and knocked the bandit to the ground.

The opportunity to break the cooperation of the two bandits was very short, and Kiel immediately took the initiative to catch the blow of the ax with his shield, and then the shield directly forced the ax back, preventing the opponent from having a chance to attack. Then the long sword stabbed the bandit straight, but the bandit backed away and dodged it. There was a cold snort from Kiel's helmet, and the long sword that pierced the air hit the wooden handle of the opponent's ax fiercely.

This blow greatly exceeded the opponent's expectations. Although the bandit quickly separated his hands when Kiel's long sword hit the wooden handle of the axe, he avoided the possibility that Kiel's long sword might hit his hand. .

But Keir knew that the opponent was guarding against this, so he slammed on the handle of the opponent's ax hard, making the bandit's hands numb from the strong vibration.

At the same time, his left arm pushed the shield forward quickly in conjunction with his footsteps, and the metal shield surface exposed by multiple defenses on the front of the shield violently hit the surface of the opponent's axe.

The bandit's numb hands couldn't use any strength, so the ax hit by the shield fell out of his hand, flying down more than two meters, and landed in the snow.

The bandit, whose face was full of horror and disbelief, lifted his eyes from his numb hands, and the last thing he saw was the splintered sword light passing before his eyes.

With all his strength, Kiel slashed across the bandit's face with his sword, cutting off most of the bandit's face and head.

Due to the amazing strength, after the sword was struck, there was no extra splatter of blood, only a little bit of blood and suspicious red and white things stuck to his long sword.

Keir didn't look at it at all. He didn't believe that anyone could survive such a fatal injury. A large amount of brain tissue was severed, and human consciousness probably disappeared in an instant.

He turned and strode to catch up with another bandit who was trying to escape.

The man must have been scared out of his wits, and threw the long sword in his hand towards Kiel at once.

He raised his shield to meet the long sword thrown over him. After the shield made a crisp metal collision sound, he could see the long sword whirling and flew to nowhere.

The bandit lay on his back, took out a dagger from his pocket, and threw it at Kiel. Kiel just moved the shield up to cover his face.

The dagger missed the shield, collided with Kiel's helmet and disappeared.

Keir put down his shield, sank and jumped, and then used the shield to strike forward, jumping into the bandits who were trying to get up and escape. Kiel directly knocked him to the ground, and pierced the man's shoulder blade with a sword, all the way to the bandit's chest and heart, disrupting the bandit's vitality.

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When Kiel got up to observe, he found that the battle situation at the other people's place had basically been won. Multiple hunters joined the battle, surrounded the bandits with more or less, and then launched attacks from different directions at the same time.

The bandits who had not received decent combat training looked at one thing and lost another, and were quickly defeated and lost their lives.

Everyone was together again, and the hunters put away their own melee weapons and took up the bandits' weapons instead. They also realized that the weapons they brought were not very useful. As for the bows and arrows on the young hunters,

All of them were handed over to the old hunters who were not physically strong enough.

Although these old people are physically strong, they are still weaker than the bandits who are all young people. It is better for them to use bows and arrows to support others.

Panting for a while, everyone didn't speak, only a few young people including Keir were in front, and a few old hunters were behind. The bandits who watched the theater during the battle forced them to go.

These bandits obviously had no intention of resisting. They gathered together and retreated slowly.

While retreating, a bandit with an ax in the lead shouted to them: "Front! No matter who you are! We have no intention of fighting you. You can take the things and women in the camp behind. We only ask Live!"

While shouting, these people turned an angle when they retreated, letting Kiel and the others go straight to the bandit camp.

"There's everything in the camp! Food! Drink! Play! It's all yours! Let us live!" The shouts started again.

Seeing that the bandits didn't speak when the leader shouted, they probably meant the same thing. In battle and life, they chose life. They felt that no matter where the group of Kiel came from, everything in their camp was It must be very tempting, and it can also avoid a meaningless battle, why not choose it? Small gangs of these gangs just want to survive.

On Kiel's side, he thinks it's best to wipe out all the bandits. Now that the effect of the red-eyed mushroom is gradually strengthening, he feels that if he doesn't limit the time, he can defeat all the bandits by himself.

But he is not the only one here, he just joined the team of female knights, so he still doesn't speak out and express his opinions. Everything depends on how other hunters around you decide.

Somewhat beyond Keir's expectations, the few young hunters standing with him basically didn't express their opinions, and turned to look at the four old hunters in the back row. It seems that these old people can represent their opinions.

Keel guessed that these old and young people were either related by kinship or mainly by master-student relationship. The experience and skills of the hunters are not something that young hunters with no knowledge and culture can know by patting their heads. It is estimated that they are passed down from generation to generation, and the inheritance of masters and apprentices can naturally include kinship.

The two do not conflict.

Several old hunters discussed in low voices, one of them didn't show emotion on his face, but his voice was obviously full of anger and strength: "Baps was killed by these damn rats, I have to avenge him! "

The three old hunters exchanged glances. They asked in low voices about the physical strength of the young man in the front row, and got an answer that the physical strength was not bad, and Kiel's answer was even more conspicuous: "I have a shield, that dangerous guy with an ax , leave it to me."

"Since there is no problem, let's do as Sir Knight wants, kill them, burn their bodies as soon as possible, and then go to support Sir."

After speaking, everyone spread out a little and entered a suitable distance for fighting.

After the young people in the front row dispersed, the old hunters in the back row also pulled out their bows and arrows and put them on the bowstring, ready to shoot the bandits who might flee in all directions, or to support the boys in close combat.

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As soon as Kiel and the others showed their fighting posture and spread out to approach, the bandits on the opposite side immediately realized that they had to fight a life-and-death battle, and their small gang of less than ten bandits had a very high defeat rate.

Immediately there was noise and various curses, and someone pushed the bandit who took the lead in the front row from behind. The bandit also gritted his teeth, with a look of despair on his face. Immediately, he ignored the other people around him, shouted directly, took out the shield of the bandit leader that was behind his back, and rushed towards Kiel and the others with it on it. Come.

The old hunters were going to shoot the man's legs and feet, but Keel yelled, "I'll do it!" and rushed up with the shield.

The bandits had seen Kiel in battle before, and knew that Kiel was very skilled, and his weapons and equipment were much better than theirs. So when they saw that these two were about to fight alone, the other bandits wanted to sneak away while the young hunter on the other side was attracting their attention.

But the four old hunters were staring at them. Seeing that someone had taken the opportunity to slip away, they immediately shot a volley of four, shooting a bandit who escaped alone with two rounds of arrows, and shot him to death in the snow.

Now the remaining bandits had no choice but to use the dead bodies on the ground as 'shields' to resist the bows and arrows from the opposite side.

The hunters bypassed the fighting Kiel and the ax-wielding bandit, and approached the last remaining bandits directly. Once in battle, these bandits can no longer hold up the corpse to block the sight of the hunters.

The hunters did not rush forward to fight recklessly. After all, although they had the upper hand in the scene, their numbers were not much larger than the opposing bandits. So they went around in a circle, got behind the bandits that had gathered in a bunch, and then closed in again, forcing the men back, back towards Kiel.

On Kiel's side, after he got close to the bandit, he tried it with his shield. The bandit on the opposite side was tall, and he probably ate well, so his body was bulging with the animal skins he was wearing. Whether it was an ax or a large wooden shield, it didn't take much effort to carry it in his hand. The armor and metal shield on Kiel's side all show that his weapons and equipment are far stronger than the opponent's, except that he is not very tall because of his age.

Kiel put the long sword on his right shoulder, and kept moving, circling around the bandit standing opposite him.

The current scene reminded him of the scene when he first received guard training a few months ago. Both sides had shields, but the difference was that the opponent did not use a flexible long sword, but a two-handed axe.

Kiel's red eyes looked through the helmet and looked at the two-handed ax held by the bandit in his right hand, and found that the ax was hanging on the ground because the opponent had to fight with an ax that could only be used with both hands. Through the trampled snow, one could see that the opponent's ax had the blade facing outwards, and it seemed that he still had the experience of using an ax with both hands.

Hehe, this person made a small mistake, and this mistake will give him an advantage in the battle.

The person on the other side is obviously not an ordinary person who has been a bandit for a year or two. It is estimated that he has either been a bandit for many years, or he has received certain combat training before becoming a bandit.

Not thinking about solving the opponent in twos and threes, Kiel decided to use the high-speed vision and thinking ability brought by the red-eyed mushroom to gain an advantage in fighting skills and win.

Kiel stepped forward quickly, and the opposite side immediately raised the shield vigilantly, using the wide shield of the large wooden shield to hide most of his body behind the shield, and the bandit's right hand was holding the tail of the ax handle tightly, ready to attack at any time. Remember the attack from the bottom up, trying to knock Kiel's metal shield away, or hang Kiel's whole body, including the shield and the person, backwards and down on the ground.

Approaching the bandit's body, Keir did not attack directly, but quickly switched steps, circling around the left side of the bandit's body, trying to seize the position on the left rear side of the bandit.

But the bandit also used the eyes exposed on the upper edge of the wooden shield to stare at all of Kiel's movements, and turned to the left himself.

But this was all in Kiel's expectation, he took another step closer, and at the same time exerted a slight force on the long sword on his right shoulder, he deliberately slowed down the whole set of movements to let the other party see.

Sure enough, after seeing Kiel's action, the bandit immediately felt that Kiel was going to attack based on experience, so he immediately launched a counterattack.

but.

The nervous bandit did not expect that his left hand was holding the defensive shield, while the ax on his right hand was not swinging the weapon with both hands as usual, so the weapon in his right hand could not launch the attack as he expected.

Because he is not strong enough! When using a two-handed weapon, the force of the force is shared by both arms, but it is also a two-handed weapon. Now he only uses one hand, so the strength remains the same as before.

Kiel immediately reversed his footsteps, circled the smallest arc, and attacked the bandit's right side in the opposite direction. At the same time, the sword thrown from the right shoulder did not cut the left side and front of the body, which were well protected by the shield, but the bandit's right arm.

It was obviously a second move, but Kiel's long sword slashed at the bandit's right arm first. However, the bandit's ax has not been lifted much, obviously not strong enough and fast enough.

Kiel's sword cut directly across the opponent's arm, until after cutting off a large amount of the opponent's muscles, it hit the opponent's strong bones. Perhaps the thick animal fur on the opponent's body brought some defense, and Kiel's sword failed to cut off the opponent's right arm.

"Ah! Damn it! My arm!" The bandit yelled out in pain, stepping back non-stop, and at the same time the shield moved, blocking all directions of Kiel's next sword.

But Keir immediately chased after him, trying to maximize the results of the battle, not to hit other places, but to hit the bandit's badly injured right arm.

The bandit on the opposite side immediately fell into a predicament. If he didn't give up the shield on his left hand, he could still withstand Kiel's offensive for a while, but his injured right arm was completely unable to use a two-handed axe, so he could only defend up.

If there are companions around, that's okay, just take the initiative to defend. But the lives of the few bandits who had a good relationship with him were in danger at the moment, and they couldn't care about him at all.

So, is there just another desperate way?

Thinking of this, the bandit struggled for a while, and still felt that he had to fight hard. Even if he died next, he died in a frontal battle, which was considered heroic.

He didn't want to see his ancestors after death, and he was asked why he died with a shield in his hand when he was using an axe.

Thinking of this, the bandit threw the big wooden shield in his left hand at Kiel on the opposite side.

Kiel dodged the shield thrown by the opponent, did not give the opponent a chance to change hands, and directly smashed the shield quickly, hitting the bandit in front of him, and then chased him with his footsteps, not allowing the bandit to retreat and distance himself from him.

And the long sword on the right arm, after the shield hit, slashed directly at the man's neck. Weapons, or death, you choose one!

The robber roared half a sentence, then stopped abruptly.

He chose the weapon, so death came on his face.

With Kiel's sword, most of the bandit's neck was cut off, and more than half of the front of the opponent's chest was cut open, revealing the sternum covered by animal fur and skin, muscle and fat.

Through the wound, the bandit's heart can be seen beating in the tissue below the breastbone.

Keir immediately added a straight thrust, piercing the opponent's heart, following the wound opened by the previous blow.

In fact, the wound on the neck was already a fatal wound, because the fresh blood pumped by the other party's heart failed to reach the head, so it gushed out from the cut in the neck, and the pump sprayed to the snow-white snow beside him superior.

In the end, the man still held his ax tightly with both hands, and when he fell on his back, he seemed to be still saying something, but his neck, whose trachea had been severed, could not make a sound at all, only the sound remained. The collision and quivering of lips in the last few seconds of life.

Kiel didn't pay attention to the man's last few seconds, as soon as he stabbed his opponent's heart, he turned and rushed towards the last bandits who were cornered on him.

He was just a little strange in his heart, why this person would choose a weapon in the choice of weapons and life, it is impossible for him to win. If he had stretched out his long sword with his left arm to resist him, he should have been able to walk with him for a round or two. The bandit companion who was close to that person might still have a chance to come back.

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Keel took advantage of the receding bandits' attention to his fellow hunters, and charged directly behind the bandits. These bandits didn't expect that their skilled companions would be killed in just a few tens of seconds, and Kiel's entry made their plans to resist suddenly disappear.

Immediately after being stabbed to death by a bandit by Kiel, he fled in all directions.

But they were few in number, and they were immediately targeted by the hunter and Kiel one by one. At the same time, due to their escape, the corpses they had been holding onto fell to the ground. They were immediately spotted by the old hunters who had been waiting with the door wide open. The four experienced people all aimed at the same target.

The one that runs the fastest.

Four bowstrings resounded, and the bandit was hit on the head, body, legs and feet. After falling to the ground, he twitched and couldn't get up again.

Immediately afterwards, the four hunters showed Keel their decades of hunting and shooting experience.

The young hunters were like driving animals. They surrounded the escaped bandits in a large circle in the open space of the bandit camp, and asked several old hunters to shoot at the same target several times, knocking down the panicked bandits. .

Then they ran over and used the weapons of the bandits, raised their knives and dropped them, hacking to death the bandits who were hit by multiple bows and arrows.

"Victory! Ahhh!" A young bandit shouted excitedly, but was immediately stopped by the old hunters: "What are you shouting! Sir Knight is still fighting the devil, quickly pull the corpses of these bandits over! ! Keel!"

"I'm here." Kiel lifted the visor of his helmet and answered loudly.

"Go to the wooden house in the bandit camp and vacate a house. Just like before, let's stuff all the corpses into a house, and then set fire to the house. Work hard, guys! Hurry up." Several old hunters put away their weapons , Pulled out the dagger, grabbed the corpse of a bandit at random, and separated the clothes on the bandit's body in twos and threes, just like removing the fur of animals they are familiar with.

After Keir responded, he put away his weapon and strode towards the nearest bandit cabin.