Mercenaries and Adventurers

The militiamen cursed the bandit leader for his cowardice, interspersed with two complaints that Kiel was also crazy. They surrounded the remaining bandits and could not move easily to destroy the V-shaped encirclement formation, but they very much wanted to watch the final showdown between Kiel and the bandit leader.

So after Kiel and Delang went around to the left and right sides of the corpse pit respectively, they immediately raised their crossbows and approached to aim at the bandits who were already planning to capture them.

Seeing the militiamen approaching with their crossbows tightly raised, the bandits were afraid that one of the militiamen would shake their hands, so they fired the crossbow arrows, and then others followed suit. So these bandits quietly begged for mercy to the militiamen who walked in, indicating that they had no intention of resisting.

"Shut up and get down on the floor!"

"Get down on the ground and don't move!"

Half of the militiamen stopped moving when they were three meters away from the bandits. They just aimed one-on-one at the bandits lying on the ground. The other half put down their crossbows, drew out their respective melee weapons, and carefully approached the bandits who had climbed down. , then took out the animal skin belt from the bandit's waist, and tied up the bandit's arms several times. By the way, he took off all the self-defense weapons carried by the bandits and hung them on his waist.

As for the bandits' women and children, they sent two militiamen to guard them, and sent another person back to drive back those who had been left behind.

After that, they carefully approached the edge of the corpse pit. After feeling an uncomfortable feeling coming from the ground that was different from the cold temperature, they saw the final battle between Keir and the bandit leader.

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Delang, the beheaded man, went first, so he reached one end of the corpse pit first. And Keir quickly walked to the other end of the corpse pit.

An indescribable discomfort rushed over his face, even though Kil was wearing a strong mask that could prevent attacks.

"What is this? This uncomfortable feeling." Kil's eyesight was very good. He saw the robber on the other side who had a bad expression on his face. Now, as he approached the edge of the corpse pit, his expression became even worse.

Bang bang!

Kil struck the shield with his long sword, indicating to the opponent that he was ready.

Opposite, Delang's face turned pale, he came back to his senses, and looked at the young man opposite who was wearing thick armor. He didn't say a word, but held the double-edged ax high in his right hand.

As if they felt that both of them were ready to fight, the crows on the surrounding trees began to quack without knowing who started it.

Kil shook his head and looked at the crows chirping around him, feeling a feeling coming from the bottom of his heart.

Some beings in this mountain forest are watching their duel through these ominous birds.

The strength of both sides in this duel is unfair. After the previous fight, the bandit Delang on the opposite side was slightly exhausted, and his left forearm was severely injured, losing a lot of blood. Moreover, he had led his men to trek all the way from the bandits' lair, eating only a small amount of food and never resting.

Kil, on the other hand, has full physical strength and the power of the god of agriculture in his body. The previous trek and ambush battle only left him a little mentally exhausted. At this time, he had swallowed a red-eyed mushroom candy pill. It was when the mushroom contained in a candy pill was most effective. Everything around him seemed to slow down slightly, and his mind was active.

At this moment, the crows crowed in unison, noisily announcing that the final battle had begun.

Kiel and Delang on the opposite side jumped into the corpse pit together.

Delang struck the ax down in the air, and as he fell, a corpse gathered at the edge of the corpse pit on his side was split into two pieces.

The corpses have long since died, and there are no normal biological activities in their bodies, so in this cold winter, their bodies are solidly frozen.

But even though the body was frozen solid, it was still split open from head to toe by Delang's heavy double-edged axe.

Boom!

Delang's ax blade and half-bent legs and feet landed on the ground. Under the thick snow at the bottom of the corpse pit, there were layers of human corpses discarded here.

Delang's smashing down made the corpses that had been living in peace even more trembled and moved.

It's just that the corpses are pressing against the corpses. The corpses below are pressed firmly and cannot move, while the corpses on the upper layer are waving all their moving limbs randomly.

Seeing the snow under his feet shaking constantly, Delang looked ugly. He used his left arm to assist his right hand, raised and lowered the ax, raised and lowered it, and smashed it around a few times. Finally, the ground stopped moving.

As for Kiel.

When he fell, he spread his legs directly and stepped on the shoulders of a staggering corpse in the air.

The frail and staggering corpse was unable to withstand the powerful impact of Kil's jump from the edge of the pit. His shoulders were shattered and he was trampled straight to the ground by Kil.

Kil kept his balance and did not fall down. After landing, he lowered his head and looked at it, then raised his feet and landed. The hard cowhide boots inlaid with iron armor directly trampled the dead body under his feet, which was swinging its head and trying to bite Kil's ankles. head.

Click.

There was no splattered brain in the broken head, only dry, flat, blackened unknown tissue, and a faint puff of black smoke.

Kil swept the blurry-looking black smoke skull with his long sword. The black smoke skull was scattered in two strokes, and black smoke adhered to the long sword.

Kil frowned, used his shield to push away a staggering corpse, and then looked at the blade of his long sword.

Originally, the countless shallow pits on the sword were filled with crimson blood stains. Now, after being dispersed by the black smoke, the crimson blood stains seemed to have become much darker.

Kil clamped the hilt of the sword in his left hand, then used his right glove to twist the shallow grooves and found that some of them seemed to be indelible.

It felt a little bad, but Kil didn't have time to care about it. He slashed the neck of a corpse that approached with his sword and was pushed away with his shield, and then skillfully kicked the corpse's head away with his legs.

The target happened to be the bandit leader Delang opposite the bottom of the corpse pit.

Delang kept paying attention to Kiel's side and saw Kiel actually kicking the head of a corpse over. He waved his hand in disgust. His strong arms would have been able to slap the weak head away.

But Delang didn't see clearly. The dead body with only one head left was flying in the air and still opening and closing its mouth. The terrible mouth was rotten and frozen hard. The teeth inside were white and strong, but slightly missing. indivual.

After Delang waved his arm, the pain he felt caused him to notice that the dirty thing had bitten his left arm. I waved my hand, but couldn't shake it off.

After being bitten, a feeling different from blood loss came from his arm, as if a piece of ice had been inserted into his flesh and blood, making it cold and numb.

He turned around and hit the left arm that was biting on the corpse's head against the edge of the corpse pit.

Sure enough, the rotten and fragile head couldn't bear the force at all, and the teeth in his mouth were bent directly, making it unable to bite Delang's arm.

Only then did Delang swing his arm and throw the corpse's head away.

With an angry kick, Delang no longer struggled with the corpses slowly gathering around him. He swung his ax, knocked down and pushed aside the approaching corpses, and strode directly towards Kiel.

Kil withdrew the tip of the long sword from the face of a corpse, and the corpse that was still shaking immediately fell to the ground stiffly.

He saw more black things attached to the long sword, but now was not the time to think about that. Kil glanced ahead, then moved his steps and hit a dead corpse that was approaching with his shield, knocking the corpse towards Germany. Lang.

Delang turned his waist, and then slashed horizontally with the ax, cutting off the corpse that Kiel had bumped into.

Ignoring the still moving corpse, he turned the ax again and swept towards Kil, who was holding up his shield.

Kil stared at the approaching ax and had no intention of resisting. He retreated diagonally, pushing an approaching corpse to face Delang's double-edged axe.

Boom.

Still splitting the dead body with one blow.

But Kil took advantage of the slowdown of Delang's ax and caught up with his long sword, slashing at the connection between the double-edged axe's face and handle. He had risked several blows here before, and this time he was hit with a sword by Kir.

Delang cursed loudly. He saw Kil's plan and knew that the other party actually wanted to destroy his weapon. So at this moment, he changed his aggressive attack, and instead held the middle part of the ax handle with his right hand and swung the ax in a small motion.

Even though he was only swinging the ax slightly, because this double-edged ax was quite heavy, the force on the ax blade was not small. If it hit it, it would cause injury and death.

Kil flexibly opened the distance between him and Delang, and kept moving behind the dead body that was unable to move flexibly, and moved towards Delang while holding the dead body.

Sometimes there would be a sudden feeling of being caught in his footsteps. After a moment of panic, Kil calmed down, raised his foot a little, and then dropped it heavily, crushing the limbs of an unknown buried corpse. If he was still holding on to his ankles, he would use his long sword to slash down against his legs and feet, cutting off the limbs of the dead body under the snow.

Delang was very irritated when dealing with the dead body pushed by Kiel. He threw away the dead body with one shoulder chopped off, and directly raised the ax and hit Kiel straight.

Kier boldly saw that Delang was exhausted and could not change his movements. He squatted down to avoid Delang's collision, and then he pushed up sharply. The shield rose up against Delang's chest, and the long sword in his right hand kept slashing at Delang's chest.

However, the long sword did not perform any merit, and fragments of sparks burst out from the slash. Only then did he realize that this opponent was no ordinary bandit. He was wearing a strange armor with half a thick iron ring.

The long sword slashed at the iron ring, leaving slash marks, and the friction caused flying sparks.

He was hit hard in the back. Without looking, Kil knew that the opponent had hit his back with an axe. Fortunately, his armor helped him withstand most of the blows, and because of the suddenness, Delang could not muster enough strength.

Kil flipped the shield to the left, knocking Delang to the ground, and then suddenly used the shield to knock away an ax thrown by Delang.

Seeing the opponent fall to the ground and the door open, Kilburn wanted to pounce on him and hit the vital point with his sword. But Delang swung the ax crazily to prevent Kiel from getting close.

Kiel immediately changed his target, retreated a little, and cut off one of Delang's ankles with a sword.

"Ah!" One foot fell to the ground. Although Delang didn't feel much pain, he still yelled unwillingly.

"You are defeated, die!" Kil turned around and cut off the neck of an approaching corpse with his sword, then deliberately grabbed the head that was still moving and biting, and directly stuffed the corpse's open mouth into Delang's severed foot. .

Once the corpse's head was bitten, it would not let go. Miraculously, the blood that flowed from Delang's broken leg did not flow out from the broken neck after entering the mouth of the corpse's head. It was unknown where it went.

Delang raised his foot and swung the ax, splitting the head into pieces.

Kiel pushed over two more dead bodies and turned the dead bodies on top of Delang.

Delang was cursing, but Kil saw the opportunity, suddenly approached and used his shield to hold the axe. The long sword in his right hand was turned upside down and inserted into the ground. With his free right hand, he grabbed the handle of Delang's ax and used his strength to grab it with Delang. weapons.

However, the man in desperate situation was very powerful. Kiel used all his strength but could not catch Delang, so he had to draw his sword again. Seeing the opportunity, when Delang swept away the dead body biting him, he cut off Delang several times with his sword. Lang's double-edged ax handle.

The heavy double-edged ax fell to the ground and sank into the messy snow. Delang, who only had a hardwood stick left in his hand, seemed to have lost all his strength in an instant.

Unwilling to do so, he mechanically hit the head of the dead corpse that was biting him with a wooden stick, while staring at the victorious Kil with hateful eyes.

Not a word.

And Keir calmly continued to push the dead bodies approaching, pushing these things to the side of De Lang who fell to the ground.

After those dead bodies were pushed down, they no longer stood up, but crawled closer to the fallen human beings. Once they bit the human body, they would not let go.

Kiel even took the upper body of the corpse that had been cut into two pieces by DeLang, and dragged the corpse's stiff arms to DeLang's side.

After a while, Delang's body was covered with corpses that had died and moved again. They bit on Delang's body, constantly absorbing human vitality while infecting the dying human bandits with all their negative energy.

Seeing that Delang had stopped moving, Kil stopped moving the dead bodies over and turned around to start cleaning up the dead bodies that were getting up around him.

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Seeing Kiel's victory, the militiamen above the corpse pit roared excitedly. The bandits who were tied up on one side realized that their ferocious and brave leader failed and was killed. The bandits fell silent and stopped talking.

Seeing Kiel trying to kill the dead body that wanted to attack him, the captain of the Mountain Leopard militia shouted to Kiel: "Kil, leave them alone! Come up first! Then we will set a fire and burn them." Got it!"

Kil thought the same thing. Since these dead bodies couldn't escape anyway, it was better to get a lot of firewood and kerosene into the pit and then burn it on fire.

Kil agreed, carefully approached Delang's body, then pushed aside the dead body in the way, and cut off Delang's head with a sword. Then the militiamen above lowered a spear. Kiel reached out and grabbed the joint of the spear tip. The militiamen above used their strength to pull him up.

When Kil came up, he turned to look at the dead bandit leader, thinking that he hadn't even taken the metal ring half-armor and double-edged ax on him yet.

However, thinking that he would have to come here later, he temporarily suppressed this plan. After the place was burned down for a while, it would not be too late for him to come back to pick up the loot. Anyway, those dead bodies would not need metal weapons and armor.

The first thing now is to clean up the battlefield where they were ambushed before, and then escort the women and children who surrendered to the bandits and bandits back to see what Knight Crow will do with them. After all, they don't have much supplies on them, and it is impossible not to ensure food for everyone.

Just as Kiel and the others returned, a large group of crows on the trees around the corpse pit flew up together, flapping their wings and flew away without making a single cry.

It's like someone finished watching a TV show and couldn't wait to change the channel.

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After spending a night on the road, at noon the next day, Kiir, several of his militiamen and the Mountain Leopard Team escorted the bandits and their relatives back to the militia camp.

In the camp, Keel smelled the burnt smell of a lot of ash and smoke. After asking someone, I found out that last night, Knight Crow had arranged for people to enter the bandit's lair that no longer lit fires and smoke.

There was no one alive inside.

Bodies of bandits and other people who had been suffocated to death were everywhere.

There were men, women, and children. Some militiamen didn't feel comfortable with this, but Knight Crow didn't care about it.

He also followed in and found many corpses hiding deep in the cave.

As he expected, many bandits did not know much cultural knowledge. I don’t know that when there is no air intake passage inside the cave and there are only burning materials, the air needed for human survival inside will be consumed by part of the gas needed for life.

The robbers and others who were not hiding deeply were choked to death by the thick smoke. The men led by the two bandit leaders hiding deep in the cave all died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen.

After extinguishing the flames that afternoon, it was not until evening that Knight Crow led some close combat militiamen into the bandits' lair and took out the bodies that had been dead for a long time.

The heads of adult men were chopped off as proof of the performance of all militiamen, while the bodies of other women and children were all burned.

The few militiamen responsible for burning the corpses were too busy, and the knights asked two more spear militia teams to help them with their work. Until Kiel returned, the smoke from the burning corpses behind the camp continued.

"You are back, what is the result of the battle?" Knight Crow stood in the middle of the camp, commanding various militia teams. Next to him, stood a young man in rich clothes.

With just one look, Kil could guess the identity of the other person from the gemstone crown on his head - the eldest son of Baron Kendall.

Kiel and the captain of the Mountain Leopard Team quickly told the results of their victory, and then pushed out the surrendered bandits and the bandits' relatives who had followed them.

For the captured bandits, Knight Crow waved his hand, and after recording his military exploits, he had these guys put into large wooden cages. As for the other women and children, Knight Crow was in trouble.

Longsos, who was standing with the knight, whispered an idea: "Perhaps we can send someone to escort them to Bingxun Pass first. After all, the militiamen still have tasks to do, and it is not easy to take those women, especially the militiamen." It’s a young guy.”

"Yes, I'll do as you say." Then, Knight Crow asked some injured militiamen to escort these people back to Bingxun Pass, along with the heads of the bandits and various valuable materials found in the bandits' lair. .

Kil took the opportunity to tell the knight about the corpse pit, and the knight said that it needed the priests of the God of the Dead in Bingxeng Pass to solve it, and it couldn't just be burned.

Especially these corpse pits with many corpses piled up, there are unknown evil things gestating underneath.

However, the Church of the God of the Dead is very clever about this. It only needs to send someone to invite them later. They will not let a corpse pit of this size exist near Bingxun Pass for a long time.

Seeing that someone else would be involved in the disposal of the corpse pit, Kil immediately mentioned that the weapons and armor on the bandit leader were his trophies.

"Haha! You are so brave, you actually dared to duel with the bandit leader at the bottom of the corpse pit out of a sudden thought. It's so reckless." Knight Crow shook his head with a smile, criticizing Kil for being reckless.

Longsos on the side looked at this so-called warrior who was slightly famous in Kendall City, frowning and not liking this reckless warrior.