Mercenaries and Adventurers

"Kiel! You're awake! Guys, look, Kil is up. I said, he didn't look like he was hurt at that time. No, he only woke up after sleeping for a long time." A young hunter The first person who spotted Kil walking over immediately started shouting loudly.

Kil touched his face and arms and found no tangible wounds or burns.

"Sit here and let me see your current situation." An old hunter moved and made room for a tree trunk that was placed close to the campfire. Everyone was sitting on these tree trunks in a circle, and they were all looking at Keir who was walking over.

Kil scratched his golden brown hair, smiled and came over to sit down.

"Which of you has seen my armor and didn't see it when I got up?" Kil stretched out his bare feet and warmed them by the campfire.

A young hunter whose life had been saved by Kil before pointed to the tent next to where Kil came out: "We found a box. After rescuing you from the body of the monster, all your things were put in it. By the way, That ax of yours is so evil that no one except the Lord Knight can even hold it. It will even jump out of the clenched hand."

When talking about this matter, all the hunters looked curious. When they were checking the condition of the unconscious Kil, someone held an ax, and the ax suddenly broke free from the hunter's hand. The others were shocked. After observing for a while, they found that the weapon did not hurt anyone, so they all boldly tried it. As a result, only the amazing Knight Lanissa could hold the ax tightly in her hand, and the others You can't even hold it in your hand, let alone fight with that axe.

Kil was also surprised when he heard this. He had never used that ax in such a situation before, and the ax was very easy to use. When he had to deal with the evil goblins who revered the stone statues before, he relied on it to defeat the very strange stone statues.

Based on the story told by the blacksmith who gave him the weapon, he guessed that the ax was extraordinary, but he did not expect that it would behave in such a strange way when he was in a coma.

Smiling, Kil looked at the hunters who were looking at him, and while warming himself by the fire, he talked about how he obtained this weapon, and the extraordinary experiences of the previous owner of this weapon.

I don't know when Knight Lanissa also sat by the campfire. She took off her steel helmet, untied the braid on the back of her head, and combed her hair with a small silver comb.

After Kil finished telling the short story, Knight Lanisa stopped combing her hair and said, "You are very eloquent. Not only do you have great skills, but you are also very lucky. You are also good at telling stories."

Gil put his hand on his chest and saluted, smiling as he acknowledged the knight's praise.

But when he lowered his head, he saw that on his right hand placed on his chest, one of the fingers was actually wearing an ordinary metal ring.

For a moment, his breathing and even his heartbeat stopped, but then he thought about it. The previous stories of the female elf he dreamed about after comatose were still only when she was wearing this ring, or near it while sleeping. It will only appear if there is a ring.

He remembered that he hid the ring under the soil of the camp outside the elven ruins, and the forest they were in now was at least a hundred kilometers away from the ancient elven ruins.

How could it suddenly appear on his finger?

Could it be that.

Thinking of this, Kil touched the skin on the back of his hands and arms. Everything is healthy, strong and elastic, and the severe pain caused by being eroded by the glowing mist seems to have never happened before.

It seems that this elf ring appeared out of nowhere and saved his life after he was near death and fell into coma.

Kil thought, was it because he had not experienced all the experiences of the female elf in his dream? He can't die before all the dreams are over?

This outrageous reason suddenly popped up in Keer's mind, and then occupied his entire mind in an instant.

"Kiel. Kil? Kil!" Knight Lanisa shouted Kil's name loudly.

Only then did Kil react. He raised his head and looked blankly at the knight on the other side of the campfire: "Sir Knight, what's wrong?"

"Hey, you didn't respond when I called your name. It seems that your energy is still not good. You should rest more after that. The hard battle is over. We have to return to Kendall City later. Well, count the time, now It seemed that it was almost time for the militiamen to set off to clear out the bandits.

In this way, we must find a way to get the body of the monster back, but we don't have enough manpower anyway. After that, a few people and I will stay here. The rest of you will go out directly from here and go to Bingxun Pass to look for the militiamen. Please lead the team. Knight Lao and the heir to the baron brought people over and relied on the large number of militiamen to get this big guy back to the city. This was an achievement worthy of being recorded in the town records. "The two rescued women half-knelt behind the female knight, helping the female knight wipe her hair with clean snow, and then braided her long hair again.

Hunters who were arranged by Knight Lanisa should be like this, and Kil nodded. It was all right. Such a huge monster was successfully defeated, and it had to be transported back to the city for display no matter what. No matter how you think about it, this All are great achievements.

Knight Lanisa stood up and walked over. After approaching Kil, she looked at him carefully, but the expression on her face was not relaxed.

Kil didn't know that in the eyes of him and others, he was the same as before, but in the eyes of Lanissa Knight, he was completely different.

There is nothing in Kiel's whole body in normal sight, but once he observes Kiel from the perspective of magic power, his whole body is slowly emitting magic power that is invisible to the naked eye.

These magic powers are gathered on the surface of Kil's skin, forming small lumps, making Kil look like the patterns on the body of a mountain leopard in the jungle.

Squinting her eyes, the female knight asked in a relaxed tone: "By the way, Kil, can you tell us what happened after you were imprisoned in the body by a monster before?"

When talking about this, the other hunters burst into laughter. They were told by the knight that the Warcraft had gathered a lot of magic power to do something, most likely to self-destruct before dying.

So they all hid far away and lay down. As a result, they and the knight couldn't wait to come, and after a while, the monster actually became cold.

They waited cautiously for a long time, and then boldly moved forward. Knight Lanissa shattered the hardened mucus in the monster's abdominal pouch. They found the unconscious Kil in the center of the monster's huge body.

Kil scratched his head and told in detail what he had done before he fell unconscious. He was indeed a little reckless before, thinking that like Sun Wukong, he could get into the monster's belly and control the monster. Unexpectedly, it almost killed him.

After hearing this, Knight Lanisa pointed to a snowdrift specially piled on the empty soil not far away. Inside was the main magic organ of Warcraft, the one whose blood vessels were cut off by Kil at the last moment and fell off: "It seems that you successfully prevented the last action of the monster at that time, and then successfully saved the precious thing."

She knocked Kil's shoulder with her fist: "Ha, count your contribution. Baron Kendall will reward you when you return to the city."

For the next half day, Kil ate and drank something by the campfire to regain his fatigue and appetite, and then followed the hunters to collect all the items on the battlefield.

Since they had to return with the rescued female people, it was difficult to take back many of the bandit belongings they had obtained, so they dug a pit next to the huge corpse of the monster and put all kinds of things in it.

Kilta, three old hunters, and three young hunters pulled the cart together. The cart carried food and the body of a dead young hunter, and three horses obtained from the bandits. The horses carried six The two female people were preparing to set off from the edge of the forest to bypass possible bandit gangs, walk out of the forest where bandits gathered for the winter, and look eastward for the militia team.

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The spear that Kil had been borrowed by Knight Lanisha was also found in the monster's abdomen following the wound. Of course, now, Kil doesn't care much about this single weapon. All his thoughts are now on ending it all, then taking out a large number of metal weapons captured from the bandits, finding a workshop to smelt them into metal ingots, and starting Forged his full metal armor.

Not only that, Kiel also felt more and more that his transportation ability in the wild was insufficient. The carts he relied on to be pushed by people before seemed to be getting harder and harder to use now. If he wanted to transport the large amount of supplies he had obtained, it would be impossible without a horse-drawn carriage or a donkey cart. It just doesn’t work anymore.

So Kiel set his sights on the three horses captured from the bandits. These three horses were relatively healthy under the care of the bandits. Just looking at their usual active appearance, you can tell how strong they are. And it is estimated that the horses of the bandits need to be used by multiple people in rotation. These captured horses will not resist whoever rides them.

Even women who have never ridden horses before, they all carry them honestly and are careful not to let the humans riding them fall off.

Unfortunately, during the melee between the bandits and the subsequent attack by the monsters on the bandits, many horses were either killed by the bandits or by the monsters. Either he escaped into the forest, or he was taken away by the bandits who finally escaped and ascended to heaven.

These are what Knight Lanisa said. They were either far away at the time, or they were deep in the white mist and couldn't see anything.

It's just a pity.

Horses are considered a very valuable commodity in Kendall County, because most of the horses in the county are supplied to the Imperial Knights on the northern border. Therefore, the use of horses is very rare and rarely used by Kendall County people. .

Most often substitute donkeys are used in place of horses.

Kil felt that he might be able to exchange the reward Knight Lanisa mentioned for one or two docile horses in the future, so that he would have higher mobility and transportation capabilities.

Whenever he thought about this, he envied the spatial storage equipment that each protagonist in the novels he had read had. In this world with magic and other magical powers, it seems that there are similar things in the stories, but they are not things that Kil can use now.

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The group of people they returned circumvented the forest all the way, and went all the way around the small piece of ground between the forest and the mountains. As to how to get out, they had already obtained the exact route by interrogating the captured detective bandits. Kiel even drew a rough map of the surrounding area using pen and paper.

Two copies of the map were made, one was held by Knight Lanisha, and the other was given to the veteran hunter with the most experience in Kiel's team.

Kil knew that although he had made a very important contribution in the previous campaign against Warcraft, for Lanissa Knight, it was more trustworthy to know a familiar old hunter.

There's nothing we can do about it.

When he first arrived, Kil believed that through his actions, knights and hunters would trust him more.

After the group of them detoured out of the bandits' winter forest, they headed all the way to the mountains in the southeast. The terrain here was complicated, but luckily, as the militiamen routinely cleared out bandits every year, no matter how bold the bandit group was, At this time, they will all huddle in their hiding spots, and they will not dare to come out to rob or plunder again.

Therefore, even though the terrain in the mountainous forest area was complicated and difficult to navigate, Kiel and the others did not encounter a bandit who dared to block their way.

Moreover, the weather has been relatively good recently. After the first heavy snowfall in the previous winter, there was not a single cloud in the sky in the next few days. Keir knew that this was a weather phenomenon caused by the arrival of cold air masses from the north.

But once this cold air mass moves south, or is not strong enough, the warm and humid air mass from the south moves north again, and there will be a new complex weather here.

Most likely it will be a bigger snow.

The sunny weather also brought another trouble. Many people in the team suffered from a lot of eye pain, including Kiel. At first, he thought it was a side effect of taking red-eyed mushroom sugar pills, but when he saw that other women in the team were doing the same thing, he discovered that it was because the snow in the forest reflected a large amount of sunlight, shining on his eyes for a long time, causing Those of them who do not know how to protect their eyes after snow accumulation in winter suffer from snow blindness.

Hunters who hunt in the wild all year round in winter are much smarter. They find the fallen autumn leaves that have not yet decayed in the snow, poke a few small holes in them through which they can see through, and then hang them on their faces. on, covering both eyes.

Keel immediately stuffed the same stuff into his helmet as a precaution against snow blindness. And other people immediately learned this, so that the easily disturbed female people would no longer be afraid of the curse cast by monsters in the mountains and forests.

As the group of them walked, Keir also noticed that they were walking close to the territory of the Luo Pocket Hole bandit gang.

He immediately thought of the robbed people who had been rescued from the bandit's lair in Luokhangdong. If they had been waiting in Bingxunguan for the militia clearance operation this winter, then they would definitely lead a large number of militiamen to the bandit's lair at this time. Lair attack.

This was something everyone agreed upon before Keir left. At that time, Keir also said that he would also join in and contribute to the elimination of the Luo Pocket Hole bandits.

Thinking of this, Kil stopped the team and briefly explained what happened between him and the bandits at Bingxun Pass.

"You mean, we don't need to go directly to Bingxun Pass, but if we go northeast, we can find a large number of militia teams attacking the bandit's lair?" An old hunter in the team held up a hand drawn by Keir. Map said.

Kil glanced at the people around him and nodded. He clicked on a location on the map in the old man's hand: "This is our current location. A little further north and east is the location of the bandit's lair. According to I speculate that at this time, with the leadership of the rescued people as guides, the militiamen will definitely focus on clearing out this bandit gang, and a small number of other people will cast a net to clear out smaller bandit gangs. We just need to go directly."

The old hunters gathered together to discuss, but the other young hunters in the team did not express their opinions. With less experience, they rarely expressed their stupid opinions in the presence of the old hunters.

Kil is different. He has always acted alone before, and his actions are very different from those of the hunters. Therefore, he is very independent. When faced with possible situations, he likes to tell everyone his plans.

After discussion, the old hunters felt that although Kiel's diversion plan was bold and dangerous, it was not impossible. After all, the danger came from the possibility that the militiamen had not arrived yet to attack the bandit's lair, and bandits were still patrolling around the bandit's lair.

Once discovered by these bandits, it is not easy for them to escape.

But the hunters thought it was nothing. Compared to the bandits who were familiar with the environment, these guys who spent their days crawling around in the forest were even more at home. Others, whether bandits or militiamen, will definitely be discovered before the bandits discover them.

Therefore, Kiel and others decided to change their route and head towards the lair of the Luo Pocket Cave bandits, hoping to encounter the large force of the militia as soon as possible, meet the Crow Knight leading the militia, and ask the other party to send people deeper into the mountains and forests behind. During the transportation, the huge monster that was successfully defeated, and the bandits in the bandit winter forest were transported.

They didn't just rush over with men and horses like this, but divided the already small team into two teams, with the young and strong Kiel and a young hunter as the leading scout team, earlier than the others. A two-hour walk away for advance reconnaissance.

Relying on the young hunter's excellent observation skills for finding prey and Kiel's strong close combat ability, they can ensure that they are foolproof while conducting reconnaissance.

Soon, within a day after choosing this forward plan, Kiel and a hunter named Pembu Toto discovered a small-scale battle in the forest clearing in front of them.

The two warring parties are naturally the two groups most likely to appear nearby. One side is a small group of patrolling bandits in Luodao Cave that has been operating locally for several years, and the other side is a team of ten-member close combat militiamen.

Keir and Pembuto were crouched in the snow at a high place not far away, digging only two observation holes outside the snow to watch the battle below.

If the militiamen were having trouble fighting, they would help. If the militiamen gain the upper hand, they will come out later. This is the time when the two sides are fighting. If they appear rashly, both sides will most likely think that they are the other side's men.

It wouldn't be good if both of them were attacked.