Mercenaries and Adventurers

A few days ago, Longsos, who had returned to Bingxun Pass, paid a visit. The Church of the God of the Dead in Bingxun Pass learned that the wanton bandits were randomly throwing a large number of human corpses into pits in remote mountains and forests. And it lasted for several years.

The priests rushed out in full force, and soon, under the guidance of the militiamen, they found a corpse pit full of gloomy life.

As a management church that specializes in dealing with death matters in the human world, they certainly have the means to clean up this filthy place. The bandits simply don't know that putting a large number of human corpses together without processing will always produce some very powerful evil things.

Fortunately, the Luo Pocket Hole bandits only grew up a few years ago, and not many people were killed by them. Before the situation got worse, the bandit gang was wiped out by the militiamen.

The priests who came here first helped the militiamen who came with them salvage the trophies that Kiel had left at that time, namely the weapons and equipment used by the bandit leader.

After that, the priests, with the help of a priest, several pastors, and other low-level priests, stood in a circle around the corpse pit. After a long period of prayer guidance, they started a ceremony to use the dead to pray. The divine power of the god wiped away the entire corpse pit exuding the power of death.

After the ceremony, a semicircular pit that was even larger than the original was left.

Kil chatted with the shepherd and learned that the church was worried that the bandits that would breed here would use this place as a place to dump corpses. So they planned to invite a priest from the God of Lakes and Rivers to divert water and turn this big pit into a small lake in the mountains and forests.

If possible, stock some ferocious carnivorous fish, so that even if bandits come to dump the body again, the body will be eaten by the fish, and there is no need to worry about causing other troubles.

Keir found their response method quite interesting, using carnivorous fish to deal with possible human corpses in the wild.

So Kil curiously asked the herdsman if there would be such corpse pits for the corpses of other animals besides humans in the wild.

The shepherd shook his head confidently, saying that only intelligent creatures would gather their dead companions, whether it was to worship or dump their bodies.

Other natural animals will basically be eaten by small scavengers after death. There will not be some moving dead deer or walking dead sheep or pigs.

Of course, that would happen if the animals living in groups died on a large scale for some reason, and the scavenging animals could not handle so many dead bodies.

Having said this, the shepherd asked Kiel that if a similar situation is found in the future, whether it is human or animal, he can provide the news to their church, and the church will deal with such difficult matters, and Some coin rewards can also be given.

Kil asked about the price of the reward and found that it was not a lot, so he gave up his plan to actively search for it. He probably would only run around if he encountered it in future adventures.

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After leaving here, Zhao Ji drove the carriage back to Bingxunguan along the dirt road taken by the transport team.

Interestingly, because he was driving a carriage, he was stopped by the soldiers at the city gate. Most of the things in the carriage were displayed as weapons discarded by the bandits after the militia team defeated them. He was then exempted from tax.

Zhao Ji originally thought that these things would have to be taxed, but he keenly discovered that the checkpoint soldiers did not seem to want to participate in the affairs of the militia team, so he immediately expressed his identity and asked the soldiers who wanted to collect taxes to refuse on their own.

He pretended to be serious and entered the checkpoint, and then immediately came to the hotel room he rented.

After sorting it out, Zhao Ji loaded the boxes of broken metal swords and axes into the carriage, and locked the other items in the house.

He paid for the large pieces of old and new animal skins he got from the bandits and gave them to the hotel clerk, who asked him to find a few people to clean the skins. It is difficult to sell dirty animal skins at a price, but after cleaning them, you can see that these skins are still of good quality. Whether they are used to make fur jackets to keep out the cold or to make bedding, they are all good materials. .

He also came to the Church of the God of the Dead, which looked like a cemetery. This place is still within the level, but it is in a remote place, basically in the corner of the level. Although the place is remote, the place where the church is located is quite luxurious, especially the tombstones in the cemetery and the small square sarcophagi containing the ashes and remains are all very beautifully made, mostly inlaid with colored stones, and there are also some plants Frost-resistant flowers that bloom in winter.

Kiel found a priest who was entertaining the people in the church temple. After showing the letter from Knight Crow, he soon obtained the heavy double-edged ax and iron ring armor of the bandit leader Delang who was killed by him. .

"Attention warrior, there are still some traces eroded by the dark power of death. You'd better melt them into molten iron before using them." The shepherd who gave him the thing specifically reminded him.

Kil nodded to the shepherd: "Of course, with this weight, I just need its metal raw materials. This thing is not a weapon or equipment that I need to use. I already have an axe."

After returning to the house, Kil violently dismantled the iron ring armor, and also cleaned out the rotten wood in the middle with the double-edged axe.

After that, a large amount of metal materials were driven by Kil in a carriage to a blacksmith shop that he had contacted before. It took two days and a lot of coins to melt these different metal weapons and equipment into several pure ones. Metal ingot.

The best metal ingots are naturally the main materials used to make his armor, and the rest will not be wasted. Kil also has his own uses. Even if you sell it directly, you can make a profit.

After all, these things were obtained by fighting.

After the processing was completed, Zhao Ji loaded the cleaned animal skins and metal ingots of various purity into the carriage and rushed back to Kendall City.

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The hunter team under Lanisa Knight has a small house as a base in Kendall City. Zhao Ji, who returned to Kendall City, only knows the location, but has not gone to see it, let alone move there.

He can move out of Foxtail Merchant Guild at any time, but he has a lot of various things, and he doesn't want to move some important things to the hunter stronghold.

After entering the city, Kil greeted his friends who were guarding the city gate, chatted about the situation of Knight Crow and the militia, and told him about joining Knight Lanissa.

After joining Knight Lanisa, it was naturally not easy for the guards who were the city gate guards to teach him fighting skills in the hunter's stronghold. Kil felt it was a pity, and several guards also felt it was a pity, but they said that this was a good thing for Kil. In any case, at least he had a serious position to work, and he was no longer the same as before. In the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, people work part-time or wander around the city all day long.

Although compared to the little monsters outside the city, the hunter team has to deal with more ferocious hordes of beasts and the danger is much higher, but they all believe that with the skills that Kil learned from them, and A nice outfit, should be able to handle it easily.

Keir actually thinks so too. Those hunters have excellent long-range shooting capabilities, but their close combat skills are obviously limited. They need a warrior like him who can attack and defend well in close combat.

After thanking his friends for their praise and blessings, Kil drove the carriage to the armor shop in the craftsman area.

In the shop, the Ganna craftsman and his apprentice were working on a new armor that was simplified from the full-covered hard cowhide armor he had been wearing before.

After Kil said hello, he circled around the half-finished armor. After observation, he found that after a period of skill training, the skills of the Ganna craftsmen were better.

Moreover, compared with the version finalized by Kiel, the design of the full set of armor that has been simplified by Ganna craftsmen is more concise, removing some unnecessary and redundant protection, and only focusing on protecting the vital points of the body and the main attack areas.

No matter how you look at it, it seems to be more powerful.

"It's really good. It's here, here, and here. You've optimized it a lot. When you move like this, it looks easier." Kil pointed to several different places on the armor and praised it.

Craftsman Ganna accepted Kiel's praise with a smile, while his new apprentice was even happier, saying that his master tried many modification plans before finally coming up with these better modifications.

After Kil praised him, he pulled Ganner out and took off an ingot of the best metal from his carriage. "These are all high-quality steel materials that I finally obtained. I leave them to you. You must create the armor you designed!"

Knowing that iron materials in Kendall City have been restricted recently, Artisan Ganner did not expect that Kiel could get so many steel ingots: "How did you get so many steel ingots?"

"Does the militia know how to clear out the bandits?" Kil asked, pointing to the southwest of Kendall City.

"Who doesn't know in the city? So, these are your trophies? Are these too many? How many people have you defeated?" Artisan Ganna was obviously surprised by Kil's ability.

Kil touched his nose and said hesitantly: "Not all of them are trophies obtained from defeating the bandits. Some of them are raw materials that I spent all the money I saved to buy from Bingxun Pass. Of course, there are also There are some sources that are not easy to tell, so don’t worry about it anyway. I’ve handed the things over to you, so quickly count them and make a list for me.”

"Okay, okay, it's up to you. Anyway, I just need to build it according to the drawings you designed, right? In fact, you can combine some more armor parts with me. If you make more changes, there is still room for improvement." Gan Na called an apprentice, and together with Kiel, the three of them moved these heavy steel ingots into the workshop.

Kil clapped his hands and knocked the dust off his hands: "What should I say? You'd better get new armor as soon as possible. I need it very much. Although the previous hard cowhide armor has good protection, We can only deal with some small scenes. Have you heard? Knight Lanisa led her people to defeat a monster."

"I heard, I heard. Everyone said that the monster was as big as a whole house and ate many people, but in the end it was defeated by the knight!" Ganner's apprentice said excitedly, and Ganner also He shrugged, indicating that he had heard it too.

"That's it. In fact, I was also in the team that dealt with the Warcraft at the time. Not long ago, I joined the hunter team of Lanissa Knight and followed them to deal with the Warcraft." As soon as Kil finished speaking, both of them were shocked. I was stunned, I didn't expect to hear this news.

Looking at the looks of the two of them, Kil knew what they were going to ask: "Okay, okay, I don't have time today. I'll come over tomorrow and tell you about the situation at that time. It's very dangerous anyway."

Ganner nodded, took out a pen and paper and wrote down the amount of raw materials he received from Kiel on a piece of paper, indicating the materials used to build new metal armor for Kiel.

Ganner's apprentice wanted to ask again, but Kil held his head with one hand and took the list written by Ganner with the other. After checking that there was nothing wrong with it, Kil put it into his clothes and said goodbye to the two of them.

But he didn't go far, he just pulled the horse to the weapons workshop next door.

The weapons workshop was in full swing. The craftsmen and apprentices with thick arms were all banging the hammers and iron felts in their hands, shaping the weapons clamped by the pliers on the iron felts.

When Keir comes to the door of the workshop, he will naturally be received. After all, no workshop will disdain that there is too much work on hand. The more work, the more income it can bring. Even if you have to pay taxes to the lord and take a commission from the Church of the God of Craftsmen, the income left in the workshop will be quite a lot afterwards.

In the workshop, apprentices can get extra wages every month, but as long as they work with their respective masters, they can get additional wages from the masters, although it is not much.

The craftsmen allocate the income of the entire workshop according to the work completed by their respective teams. Whoever leads more people will naturally get more. If you are lazy or sick or injured, you will naturally get less every quarter.

Because there were still things on the carriage, Kiel did not go into the workshop. He handed two pieces of good iron to an apprentice who entertained him, and explained that he wanted to make a metal spear shaft. The length is naturally the same as the length of other gun barrels.

The large weapons forging apprentice looked at Kil's arm. Although he didn't think Kil could use this kind of weapon, he still accepted the raw materials, took out a wooden sign and gave it to Kil, telling Kil that because of the thing It's not complicated. It should be out tomorrow afternoon. He can come and pick it up then.

After Kiel handed over the wooden sign, he stopped the apprentice and asked him to call his master. There was still a job in Kiel that required a weapon forging craftsman to complete.

"Master! Someone here said that there is a job for you to do." The apprentice shouted into the workshop. He had to shout loudly. The workshop was filled with the sound of clanking metal, and it was impossible to hear it even if the sound was low.

Hearing the apprentice's cry, a tall craftsman with thick arms put down the hammer in his hand, wiped his hands with a coarse cloth and walked over.

"Young man, what do you want?"

After calling the master, the apprentice walked into the workshop. Kil explained the situation of his long sword to the weapon forger.

"I thought it was such a big trouble. This is easy to handle. I have often received damaged swords and weapons in this situation before. It is not very troublesome to deal with. It's just."

Keir immediately asked: "Just what?"

The craftsman stretched out his hand and made two gestures: "It's just that after the weapon is corroded by those evil things, no matter how it is heated, it will still suffer a certain amount of damage. Even if it is re-quenched, the previously corroded materials will be reduced to ashes. . If your weapon is relatively thick, it’s okay. A little less is not bad. But if it is a relatively thin sword-like weapon, the re-quenched weapon will not only lose strength and toughness because there is less eroded material. , and its weight balance will be slightly shifted."

Having said this, the craftsman looked at Kiel and said, "But since you are so young, it seems that it shouldn't be a big deal if you are a little inferior in touch."

Kil's face straightened: "It still has some influence. In fact, my skills are not bad. You said so much, then you should have something to do, right? After all, you said it yourself, you used to deal with these damaged swords a lot."

The craftsman touched the slightly burnt edges of his beard and said in a somewhat proud tone: "Yes, my approach is, since the weapon is thin and affects its use, then add some materials to it to make up for it. What’s missing.”

"Then this is not just heating and re-quenching, it is basically re-forging to create a new sword!" Kil stared at the craftsman.

"Of course! Don't be too surprised. You don't think that weapons that can be corroded by evil forces will be newly acquired weapons, right? Most of them have gone through many fights and severe tests before finally falling to evil forces. In the hand. Even if it is not eroded by evil forces, as long as you cut off the sword and observe it, you can see many internal cracks and hidden wounds. Just like people, although they seem to be fine, all the trials and hardships they have experienced in their youth have , it will show up when you get old and make it difficult for you."

Kil fell silent. He felt that what the craftsman said still made some sense. Although he had not used the hunting sword for a long time, he had faced many opponents. According to what the craftsman said, after fighting until this point, his hunting sword The long sword probably also accumulated a lot of hidden damage and was sharpened. Now that it has been eroded by evil forces, it is better to follow what this person said, neither destroy nor establish. Not only rely on high-heat flames to destroy the eroding evil forces, but also add new materials and let the craftsmen forge them again to expel the thorns in the sword body. The cracks are hidden damage.

In addition, Kil actually doesn't like the shallow dents on the surface of the hunting sword. Although the surface is smooth, it will reflect light like fish scales, which is more beautiful, but once blood is seen in battle, it will be very troublesome to clean up. !

If it is a smooth surface, there won't be so many things.

Seeing the impressed look on Kil's face, the tall and stout craftsman patted Kil's shoulder and left a gray-black handprint: "Young man, it seems that you have already made a judgment. If you want to deal with it, you should deal with it as soon as possible. After you make up your mind, come to me. I'm free these days. However, the cost will be increased a lot. Of course, the reforged weapons will feel better than the original ones, and they will still be the same. , but reborn from the ashes, it might be better than before, at least that’s what the soldiers who came to me said.”

Kil was moved by his words, so he carefully asked the craftsman some ideas and preparations needed, then said goodbye and left here.

Returning to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce, the guys at the Chamber of Commerce were very interested in Keir getting back a horse and a truck. Kil found Jamra and Old Foxtail and talked about joining Lanissa Knight's hunter team.

Jamra patted Kil's head and congratulated Kil for finally establishing a foothold in Kendall City. It took Kiel less than a year to go from an injured outsider with amnesia to a well-known warrior who joined the Cavaliers. To be precise, it only took him half a year after deducting the time for recuperation.

"Kiel, you have to work harder in the future. Find a girl you like as soon as possible and borrow some money to buy a small house. Then you will become a real Kendall."

Kiel looked embarrassed at Jamra's encouragement and expectation, so he could only give him a perfunctory hug as a farewell.

Old Foxtail, on the other hand, was gloomy and muttered that he originally wanted Gildo to get him some monster heads as unique and unique decorations, which surprised some of his other friends.

Well, now that Kil has joined the Knights, he will probably rarely go to remote places to deal with monsters that can only hide in the corners of uncultivated areas. His great collection career has only just begun, and it has to be announced that it is halfway through.

Although you can spend money to find merchants who have traveled far away from Bingxung Pass to buy it, but for an old merchant like Old Huwei, how can he let those young merchants make a lot of money from him?