Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the front lobby of the luxury hotel, seven or eight pretty young women were shouting for the militia leader who lived in a separate building of the luxury hotel to come out, loudly preaching that the guy always gave up or that there was an ice flood. Off, but don't come looking for them and other nonsense.

Behind these young women, there were three or two tall and strong thugs standing. The thugs were scanning the crowd from left to right.

In the hall, many businessmen and officials who were coming and going gathered around curiously to watch the fun. Not that anyone thought this was bad, but the thugs made these people afraid to get too close, and it was difficult to get involved.

A businessman who was always looking for fun saw a woman he knew inside, and asked with a smile: "Little Putao, I didn't realize that you have served that adult. Is he okay?"

When the young woman named Xiao Putuohua heard the question, she saw that it was a middle-aged businessman who often came to see her. Her face was full of embarrassment. She only paid a sum of money to come and cause trouble, and did not know that they were making trouble. Who the target is can’t answer the other party’s question at all.

Fortunately, the thugs standing behind the girls collected more money. After collecting the money, they had to do something. One of the thugs pointed at the businessman who asked the question and growled: "What the hell do you care about, just shut up and get out of here." !”

The businessman's face turned red after being yelled at, but as soon as he saw the sturdy thug, he raised his fist in demonstration and walked over. He immediately retreated into the crowd and disappeared with his short body.

Naturally, a luxury hotel with a strong background cannot allow these people to cause trouble at will. The hotel guards responsible for security immediately came over, led by an imposing and strong man.

Seeing these people appear, the shouting young woman and the thugs immediately put out their fires. Before these people could make contact, the young robber who was holding a wiping cloth and pretending to wipe the luxurious furniture hurried over.

He was dressed as a waiter in this luxurious hotel, so he leaned next to the strong man leading the guard.

"What's wrong?" The strong man leading the team asked when he saw his waiter coming to stop him.

The young robber immediately smiled and whispered in a flattering voice: "Hello, sir, hello. I think this matter is unusual. It would be better for our hotel not to get involved."

The strong man glared at the young bandit with wide eyes, and stretched out his hand to push him away: "You know what the hell, no matter what, he can't cause trouble here!"

The young robber rolled his eyes and said quickly: "If they find that person with such a high status, what should we do if our hotel gets involved and causes trouble?"

The guard leader of the luxury hotel, who knew the true identity of the militia leader who rented a separate building in the hotel, paused and felt that he really shouldn't get involved in the trouble caused by the nobles. A quick glance at the young women in front and the thugs standing behind him revealed that they were well-known girls from several famous houses in the level. With a quick thought, he could think of multiple possible situations.

For example, when an aristocratic son went to play in a red house and his identity was revealed, these young women began to think of secretly trying to give birth to children with aristocratic blood without taking any contraceptive measures.

Or, when the aristocratic son went to play in the red house, he acted violently and killed someone. The red house could not directly seek compensation from the other party, so it could only use this method to find trouble for that person in a roundabout way.

When he thought of these troubles, the strong man didn't want to get involved. If he didn't do it well, he would offend people on both sides. Even if the forces behind these troublemakers don't want to cause trouble and give them face, future contact with local forces will be hindered in many ways. And the noble prince probably wouldn't take it as a credit for him to resolve the troublesome matter.

After thinking about this, the strong man waved his hand and asked his guards wearing iron-clad clubs to just surround the troublemakers, but not to expel them.

The strong man asked one of his men to inform the protagonist of the incident. As for the trouble, it would be better for him to solve it himself. He stood up and briefly explained his position to the businessmen and officials watching the excitement around him, and explained that he had already gone to invite the Excellency.

The young robber noticed the title of the head of the hotel guard, Your Excellency.

Only people with a distinguished status, different from common people like them, can be called Your Excellency. It is mostly used to refer to the direct relatives of nobles who do not have a clear noble title, the powerful businessmen or the close officials of the nobles.

His heart skipped a beat, and the young bandit felt that he might have caused a big trouble, or that he might have found a new target for their bandit gang.

Soon, Ronthos-Kendall came over with two of his militiamen. Although the other militiamen under him were told not to come over to watch the fun and to go about their own business, those young militiamen who were very skilled and practiced martial arts at home all year round still came over curiously to see what their captain was up to. What kind of scandal.

When Longsos heard the news before, he also felt puzzled. In previous years, when he followed his father and family between Kendall City and the provincial capital, he would indeed spend a day repairing at Bingxun Pass. At that time, he would occasionally Accompanied by family guards, go to the entertainment street in Bingxunguanli to relax and relieve the fatigue of many days of travel. After all, compared to Bingxunguan, the atmosphere in Kendall City is much more conservative, and everyone there knows him, so he can't let go at all, for fear of being said to affect the family's reputation.

But in Bingxunguan, he often only tasted it briefly and would not leave any traces of his hands and feet. His identity was well protected.

Therefore, when he was talking to other businessmen who kept coming over in the small building, when he heard the news, he just asked his subordinates to handle their own affairs, and he would not go out to show his face.

After all, compared to these trivial matters, setting off immediately after packing up the supplies in the afternoon was the most important thing to him.

He had always wanted to show off his talents, whether it was the precious knowledge and technology inherited from his family, or his ability as a lord and noble to lead troops in war, he wanted to show it to his father and the brave knights of Kendall County.

For this reason, he has practiced martial arts for many years, not only practicing the ceremonial armor-piercing rapier commonly used by nobles, but also practicing the cavalry lance when riding a horse. Although he was told that it was difficult and not easy to learn to become a knight-level warrior. But he is also secretly learning to become a knight beyond ordinary people.

He wants to surpass his father and show this transcendence to everyone.

As a result, the hotel still sent someone to invite him, and his militiamen also went over to see the excitement and told him the situation in the front hall.

"Sorry, it seems I have to deal with this matter." Longsos pursed his lips.

Several businessmen waved their hands and each laughed heartily: "Your Excellency, please go quickly. We have all been here since we were young. We know that this kind of thing is inevitable, especially for an outstanding young man like Mr. Longsos. .”

After walking out of the small building, passing through the courtyard, cloister, restaurant passage, ballroom, and front hall garden, Longzos led two militiamen to the main entrance hall of the luxury hotel.

There were many people in the lobby. Many people saw the excitement when entering and leaving the hotel, so they briefly inquired and joined the crowd to watch.

As soon as Longsos came in, some people who knew his identity started shouting. When he saw so many spectators gathered in the hall, he knew they wouldn't be able to leave in the afternoon.

"Do you think we can leave in this afternoon?" Longsos asked the militiamen beside him in a low voice.

Seeing so many well-dressed men and women gathered in the hall, the two militiamen thought it was impossible, so they shook their heads together.

"Hey." Longsos sighed and puffed out his chest. He checked his clothes and found that there was no big problem. He loudly signaled to the crowd of onlookers to give him a way to enter.

Among the onlookers, some knew him and some did not, but seeing that a young and outstanding young man like Longsos was the protagonist of the incident, they were convinced.

Many knowledgeable people saw the metal crown on the head of Longsos and the square sapphire on the crown, and knew that this was a child of a nobleman, and a direct nobleman.

After scanning the women who stopped shouting after seeing him, Longsos had some doubts on his face. These women looked a little unfamiliar. It seemed that he had never seen them before?

But he couldn't remember it clearly. After all, every time he went to and from Bingxunguan, he always went out at night. In order to enhance the atmosphere, the lighting in those red houses was not very good. For a while, Longsos couldn't remember whether he had ever had anything happen to these seemingly unfamiliar women.

However, you still have to ask. He coughed slightly and looked at the thugs behind the women and said: "Everyone, I don't know what happened, and you want to talk to me in detail. And use such a method that damages everyone's dignity."

No one from the goon or the woman's side responded.

After Longsos came forward and saw the other party's noble attire, they knew that this matter was unusual. However, just seeing that the other party did not flatly refuse to deny anything when they came up, they knew that this matter was not over immediately.

The seven or eight young women were somewhat silent after meeting the rightful owner. They just secretly looked at the young man in front of them. They welcomed so many people and could tell a person's financial resources and identity just by looking at their clothes. Speaking of other things, the man in front of him could probably buy half the street where their red house was located just for the square sapphire on his head.

The thugs hesitated, saying intermittently that Longsos had bullied a girl they knew, and other nonsense.

The onlookers are not fools. On the contrary, most of the smartest people in Bingxunguan are probably gathered here at this time. They knew as soon as they heard that these thugs were talking nonsense, and they probably came here just to extort a sum of money.

However, the identity of the other party in the confrontation is extraordinary. If the trouble is like this, how will these troublemakers end? Even if the blackmail is really successful, they will probably get the money but not spend it.

Longzos shook his head at the thugs' claims and denied them all, saying that the thugs had produced evidence.

One of the thugs pulled up the sleeve of a girl's clothes, revealing the bruises and scars on her delicate arms under the sleeves: "This is what you caused. No matter what, you have to pay compensation or work out a plan."

"Hmph." Longsos snorted coldly and said, "Sorry, I'm afraid what you said is not correct. Everyone, take a closer look. The scars on this girl's arms are indeed injuries from being beaten. But this kind of beating Injuries, anyone with experience should know that this must be a recent wound."

His words made the thugs uneasy.

"And I have local customs officials who can prove that I came to Bingxun Pass with others just a few days ago. And the waiters at the hotel can also prove that since I came here, I have rented a small building at the back. Building, but I haven’t gone out in the past few days.”

One of the thugs immediately said: "You didn't go out, she came to your place."

Regarding this false accusation, Longsos immediately denied: "The hotel guard can prove that the people who have been looking for me recently are all men, and no women have come."

The thugs' arguments didn't work anymore. At this time, one of the women rolled her eyes again and again, feeling that the situation at this time was a very dangerous, but particularly strange opportunity.

She had her heart in mind.

The woman's eyes were red, tears were streaming down her face, and she started to cry. This immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Just as the thugs' excuse was broken, they let the girl do what she wanted. They shouted loudly to make the girl express her sorrow, especially Longsos, who had an unusual identity.

The woman cried and said that she was pregnant recently, but because she was bullied, she could not keep the child, and the father of that child was Longsos who was currently confronting her.

After the woman finished speaking, she fell to the ground crying. The other women next to her immediately either criticized Longsos or comforted the girl who fell to the ground crying.

When the people around him heard these words and the girl's pitiful look, they all started talking in low voices.

Longsos swallowed and became nervous. After all, he couldn't tell clearly whether this really happened. He had heard of such things before, and similar things to the current situation had happened to relatives in his family.

But it’s not something that so many people gathered around to watch.

One of his uncles fell in love with a farmer's daughter when he went to a rural village in the county to measure the newly cultivated land of farmers. After his uncle finished his work and returned to Kendall City, he was busy with things and forgot about it.

After a while, the farmer's daughter brought her pregnant family to Kendall City to find an explanation. Not to mention how embarrassing the situation was at that time.

Longsos originally thought that nothing so embarrassing would happen to him in his life, but he didn't expect that at such a critical moment, such a troublesome thing would happen.

The young bandit who was hiding aside to watch the excitement covered his mouth and almost died of laughter. I didn't expect that just spending a small amount of money could really make these big shots so embarrassed.

It's a pity that he himself couldn't get the money from before, so he had to put together the money of their companions and the money carried by the leader, and then spent a lot of money to buy these troublemakers.

He thought that if he had money in the future, he would use similar methods to deal with the land tax officials who bullied his family in his hometown.

He would rather spend the money to punish those people than pay another penny to those hateful guys. Moreover, maybe after he grows up in the pocket hole, he can become a leader or a bandit leader, and then he can personally commit suicide and return to his hometown to kill the tax collectors who bully his family and friends in the same village.

The people around listened to the woman's pitiful cries, and their voices gradually became louder.

Longsos became nervous, thinking about the woman's face in his mind, hoping to determine whether she was someone he knew. But how could he remember such a thing? He had already forgotten it.

As a last resort, he touched the square sapphire on the metal crown on his forehead with his fingers.

The sapphire and tiara is a precious magic ornament that is not very common in the kingdom and has many abilities. In kingdoms where the Church of Gods is powerful, generally only nobles with the relevant connections and strong financial resources can purchase such rare magical ornaments.

One of the many magical abilities of this artifact is to provide the wearer with the ability to think clearly.

Touching the gem with his finger, Longsos silently recited an activation command: "Wind of the Blue Ice Ocean."

The square sapphire flashed with light, and then the light flowed from the stone, passed through the metal crown, and then was released into Longsus' head.

In an instant, Longsos raised his head and his nervous expression disappeared.

He stretched out his left hand and pointed directly at the onlookers.

The onlookers didn't know what Longsos meant, but they all immediately became cautiously silent.

The atmosphere on the field changed suddenly. Neither the thugs nor the women knew what was happening. They looked at Longsos, but were startled by the look in his eyes. His apparently normal eyes looked into each other's eyes for a moment, as if he had been blown by a strong cold wind from the far north. His whole body shivered, and all the pores on his body exploded. Aroused goosebumps.

Ronthos looked at all the spectators around him and immediately found the person he was looking for.

"Hello, priest. Can you please come out? I need your help here." Longsos looked at a priest of the God of Wealth in the crowd and immediately invited him to come out for help.

As a priest of the God of Wealth, this priest did not wear the valuable robes that ordinary people saw that seemed to represent wealth. His clothes are very simple, and the hidden parts of his simple clothes are embroidered with subtle and subtle teachings of the gods.

When everyone wants something, you should not shrink back.

The priest immediately walked out of the crowd and came to the center. Bingxun Pass is the main stronghold of the Church of the God of Wealth in the nearby area, so there are many church priests in the pass.

It's just that the priests don't often come out to take action. After all, it costs a lot of money to invite priests from the Church of the God of Wealth. In Bingxun Pass, wealthy businessmen could often see these priests.

Few people around him knew this priest, but not none.

"Ah, it's the Pusya Shepherd. Good afternoon, Shepherd." A businessman said hello to the priest.

"Good afternoon, Makate."

"Everyone, it's getting dark, so there's no need for good afternoon." Pusiya Shepherd said in return. Then he turned to Longsus and asked: "Your Excellency, do you need any help?"

Longsos had a very good status, so he did not salute the shepherd. He also knew that these priests did not care about this. Priests who can hold high positions generally only care about the belief in gods and do not care much about their personal status.

"I will explain directly. Please check whether the woman who claimed to be pregnant and had a miscarriage is telling the truth." As soon as Longsos finished speaking, the surrounding onlookers immediately started talking. Everyone just blindly believed the unilateral argument here. Sure enough, a neutral third party still needs to check whether there is anything she claimed.

This is a simple matter, but it is not easy for ordinary priests. After all, it is very ordinary for them to get the attention and favor from the gods. But at the level of priests like Pusya Shepherd, all common troubles can be used. The solution is solved by the divine power given by the Almighty God.

Whether it's killing enemies and protecting yourself, or healing general knowledge, whether it's day and night, or doing reconnaissance and detection.

As long as the priest has enough divine power, he can solve it.

It's just that church priests in general only focus on a part of their god's influence. Especially the human concept of gods, although they seem to be omnipotent in small things, precisely because the stalls are so large, if they want to accomplish something that can be called a miracle, they have to rely on all the priests of a local church. Just hold the ceremony together.

As for some nature gods, although they only have two or three kittens under their command, those few priests often have astonishing powers and can change the world.

Of course, at this time, Pusya Shepherd was willing to have a good relationship with Longsos, the eldest son of Baron Kendall, so he directly nodded and agreed to Longsos' request.

The thugs were sweating profusely and nervous. Although they were later considered to be liars who were just here to cause trouble, it probably wouldn't be a big deal. After all, they just didn't hang out in Bingxunguan. But when things got to this point, It still made them nervous.

For fear of angering Longsos, the opponent, who was obviously of high status, called the soldiers from Bingxun Pass and put them in prison.

At that time, if you want to get out of prison, you will have to pay bribes. But they only collected a lot of money for doing things, and if they went to jail, wouldn't they lose money?