Mercenaries and Adventurers

He swung the torch from side to side, and the bright firelight illuminated the surrounding area clearly and without any obstruction.

But Kil even searched every corner of the fallen boulder, but couldn't find the weapon he was looking for. Kil scratched his head and thought it was impossible. Knight Lanisa asked him to come over and look for it, which meant that the weapon must have been here at that time.

Unwilling to give up, Kil searched nearby again, and even went to the burned remains of the first wooden wall to see if any fallen weapons had slid down the sloping rock passage.

As a result, he did not find the one-handed heavy sword of Knight Lanissa on the remains of the wooden wall that were still smoldering with embers.

But I saw a few northern wolves squatting on guard opposite the remains of the wooden wall.

The two looked at each other, their eyes full of murderous intent and ferocity. However, neither of them had the intention to fight at this time, so Kil just looked at them and faced the Northern Wolf head-on, while slowly retreating.

The most important thing when facing wild animals is not to turn your back on them. Because even if they don't mean to attack you, once they turn their backs to wild beasts, the hunting instinct in their blood will be aroused. They will instinctively attack animals and humans who turn their backs.

Keir naturally knew this, so he looked at these northern wolves head on, but moved his legs and feet backwards.

Since the rock passage was sloping upward, in Keir's sight, he could clearly see the Northern Wolf staring at him, its head gradually raised, and its bright beast eyes locked tightly motionless. he.

Suddenly, an inspiration flashed through Keir's mind.

The raised wolf head, the missing knight's weapon.

The jingle bell sounded like a bell, and Kil suddenly looked up at the rock walls high up in the rock passage on his left and right sides.

The rock wall was pitch black, but after careful observation, he still saw a faint red light surging somewhere in the darkness.

The red light was weak, and Kil raised the torch in his hand high, letting the steady light produced by the torch shine toward the top of the rock wall.

The thing hidden in the darkness finally showed its shape. It turned out to be the empty Wolf King wolf skin that had been used in the previous battles by the Wolf King. It could fly in the air and assist it in fighting. It was filled with red light and was very powerful.

At this time, the thing was leaning on the rock wall. It was illuminated by Keir's torch and kept twisting. The strange thing was that although it struggled and twisted weakly, it stayed in place and did not leave.

Kil felt strange and handed the torch to his left hand to hold, while he pulled out the hunting sword and held it in his right hand. He opened his eyes wide, looked at the things above carefully, and took a few steps back diagonally. Only then did he see why the empty wolf skin stayed here and did not leave with the Wolf King.

It turned out that it was not because the Wolf King left it here for reconnaissance or for some other reason, it was simply because a dark-colored one-handed heavy sword penetrated it and nailed it to the high rock wall.

"Phew, I finally found it." Kil was relieved. As their main combat weapon, the Lanisha Knight's main combat weapon could be recovered, which would greatly affect the outcome of the subsequent battle. Although Lanisa Knight is now seriously injured no matter how you look at it, Lanisa Knight herself never paid much attention to the injuries she suffered before.

Having found the location of the weapon, all that was left for Keir was to get it off.

He returned to the second wooden wall and reported the situation to Knight Lanissa who was taking off her armor, clothing and skin and burning them together.

Knight Lanessa, who occasionally screamed in pain, moved dexterously. She used a hunter's skinning dagger to loosen the armor of the other severely burned arm bit by bit, and cut and peeled off the burned areas. .

The movement of the part where the armor was removed was flexible. Although a large amount of skin was burned on the inside of the armor along with the clothes, just by looking at Lanissa Knight clenching her fists that lacked skin, one could tell that this had little impact on her fighting ability.

"Fortunately, it's winter now, so you don't have to worry about pus leaking from the surface of the body. Kil, find a rope and take it off. Remember, be careful of the Wolf King's fur!" While taking off the armor on his arm, he pulled Knight Nissa explained to Kil.

Kil's scalp was numb as he watched all this. He couldn't imagine how the female knight could peel off the things that stuck her skin, clothes, and armor together while calmly explaining to him the key points of the mission. It can even alert him to danger.

Even though the effect of the red-eyed mushroom sugar pills was still there, Kil felt that the female knight in front of him was more terrifying. Compared with the monsters he had fought before, the human knight in front of him looked more like a monster.

The old hunter next to him found a long rope, which was originally used to tie arrows to ignite the high lighting fire and retrieve the arrows. The old hunter untied it and coiled the rope. He handed it to Keir a few times.

Kil took it, and then watched the old hunter pick up the dagger and carefully clean the inside of the armor that Knight Lanisha had peeled off from the skin with her own hands.

Since he was not a craftsman who specialized in maintaining the knight's armor, the old hunter just used the tip of a slender dagger to scrape off the burnt stuff inside his gloves and wrist guards, and then wrapped a cloth strip around the top of the stick. Reach in and wipe.

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Kil took the rope and left the knight in a panic. In fact, other young hunters like him didn't dare to look at the inside of the armor that Knight Lanisha peeled off and burned into a ball. It was too scary. If Knight Lanisa screamed in pain, everyone might still have some sorrowful emotions such as sadness or sympathy, but their Lord Knight had no extra expression on his half-burned face, just the occasional whisper of pain. With a hum, he quickly peeled off the burned part of her armor.

It was as if she was the one who was burned.

After climbing over the wooden wall, Kil quickly came to the place where he found the one-handed heavy sword and the empty wolf skin. He took out the rope, tied a slip knot on one end, and then, like an American cowboy in his previous life, tied the slip knot of the rope to the one-handed sword sheath nailed to the rock wall.

After two or three failed attempts, Keel caught something on the fourth try. When he pulled, the slipknot tightened, and he grasped something tightly.

Keir pulled on the rope and found that the slipknot was tighter and more secure, and then began to pull downwards with force underneath.

At first he didn't dare to exert force, just pulled gently. Later, when he felt that the top was a little loose, he fixed his arms and ropes, took two steps back, and used the strength of his body to pull hard to pull the top thing off.

Contrary to his expectations, there was a clanking sound, and after Knight Lanissa's one-handed heavy sword fell from the rock wall, it bounced directly on the ground, and then plunged into the rock passage on the ground with the tip of the sword pointing downwards. Standing on the ground.

However, Keir's rope was still stretching high in the air, and the thing caught in the rope slipknot was still on top and had not come down.

Kil was dumbfounded, his eyes widened, and then with the illumination of the torch, he could see clearly what he had caught with the rope. The slipknot of the rope was directly tied to the big white tail of the empty wolf king's wolf skin that was previously nailed to the rock wall.

The big white tail emitting red light was tied by a rope, making the freed empty wolf skin float in the air and unable to fly far, swaying like a kite.

Although he was surprised, under the mask, Kil found it interesting, and his whole mouth was filled with joy.

He found that the force of the empty wolf skin flying in the air was not very strong, and the red light covering the entire wolf skin was also dark, no longer as bright as during the previous battle, and looked weak.

Keir pulled the rope, and the floating wolf skin was pulled closer. He loosened part of the rope, and the wolf skin flying in the air flew higher in the air and farther away.

He was so bold that he immediately tied the other end of the rope to his belt, fearing that if he missed it, the wolfskin would run away with their rope.

Looking at the floating wolf skin seven or eight meters above his head, Kil took two steps on the rockfall and found that as he walked, the wolf skin on it also passively followed him, and if he stood still, the whole He could feel the empty wolf skin trying to fly in the direction of the Wolf King.

Keir realized this and immediately thought of the great use of this thing.

He quickly tied the rope on his belt tighter to prevent the knot from loosening and letting the thing escape.

After taking care of the 'Kite', Gil came to the one-handed heavy sword standing on the rocky ground. Using the light of the torch, he took a close look at the weapon Lanissa Knight had always cherished for the first time.

This one-handed heavy sword is not long, not even as long as his long hunting sword. It has a hilt that can be held with one hand. The length of the entire sword is no more than one meter. In short, it is not long among one-handed swords. Yes.

At the same time, the blade of this sword is not very wide, which makes the whole sword appear short and thin, but it is not as thin as a thin sword. From the overall aspect ratio, it still maintains the classic one-handed look. The length-to-width ratio of the sword's blade.

The shape of the entire sword is different from the common one-handed swords in Kiel. It has a more alien style. I don't know if the craftsman who forged it did it intentionally, or if the craftsman himself is not human.

The blade of the long sword was dull in color, and there was a sentence etched on the surface of the straight and smooth blade, but Kil did not recognize the words on it, so he did not understand its meaning.

Interestingly, the hilt of this one-handed sword is not wrapped with any leather or rope strips to increase friction. It is a metal hilt forged from the same material as the sword body. There are only some diamond-shaped staggered patterns on it to barely increase friction.

On the weighted metal disc at the end of the sword hilt is the coat of arms of the Lanissa knight family - weapons and wolves.

Kil knew that this weapon was very heavy, so he held the hilt with both hands and then lifted it.

Not mentioned.

The entire sword seemed to have been poured into the ground with metallic liquid. When he pulled it out just now, he only felt that the sword was lifted slightly upwards.

Kil looked at the one-handed heavy sword, took a deep breath, steady his steps, and drew it again with both hands.

This time, I finally pulled out the short, thin one-handed sword from the rocky ground with all my strength.

Clang.

Kil's arms were trembling, and his whole face was red from holding back.

He had to pull out the sword and put it back again.

"It's so heavy. Unbelievable, it's almost as heavy as me?" Kil compared the strength he had exerted just now and felt that excluding the weight of the armor and weapons on his body, this sword was almost as heavy as his weight, maybe even slightly heavier. a little.

Looking at the weapon again, Kil touched the surface of the sword body and tapped it with his fingers. The glove made a solid impact sound when it came into contact with the surface of the sword body. Just from the sound, Kil could tell that the material of Knight Lanissa's sword was very unusual. It was estimated that the entire sword was forged from some kind of magic material.

Needless to say, this kind of magic material is very heavy in weight, probably far more than the black iron used in his hunting sword. At the same time, the sword should also be very strong, which can be seen from the fact that the sword has no flexibility at all.

If it is an ordinary weapon, losing its flexibility will cause the entire weapon to become too brittle and break during use. But what if a weapon was incredibly strong?

So after this weapon has gained extraordinary hardness, has its usability and practicality returned?

Keir shook his head, this was not something he understood anymore. But judging from this weapon, it is indeed possible. After all, when he dealt with Warcraft before, he saw Knight Lanissa use this weapon to fight head-on again and again. This clearly represents her understanding of this weapon. A level of trust in solidity.

It can't be lifted up, but it's not like it can't be dragged around.

Kil pushed a long sword that was standing on the spot and let it fall to the ground. He grabbed the handle of the sword with his hand, and then dragged the small one-handed heavy sword back to the second wooden wall backwards.

If you drag this weapon, a large part of its weight will be released from the point where the sword tip touches the ground. Kil only needs to keep the hilt of the long sword slightly raised at a slight angle to lift it step by step. Drag it back.

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The hunters quickly took back the Boreal Wolf-sized corpses that had been killed in the previous battle. At the same time, some of the metal clips that were damaged by stones were also placed on both sides of the passage out of the way, while the intact metal clips were reopened. , arranged in the middle of the passage.

All the corpses of the northern wolves were piled in the space under the wooden wall. When the wooden wall is abandoned later, the burning of these corpses will also increase the burning time of the wooden wall, and at the same time, it will not give the northern wolves the slightest possibility. Opportunity to replenish food.

Again, if it takes longer, it will be more beneficial to them.

Because each position will not weaken the defensive advantage over the hunters due to the passage of time, but for the attacking Northern wolves, the hungrier they are, the more difficult it will be for them to organize and launch an attack.

Not only did the attacking Northern wolves lose their physical strength due to hunger, but also, in order to barely maintain the food supply for the wolves, the longer the time went by, the Northern wolves had to send out a larger proportion of adult Northern wolves to hunt. Because young wolves that have not yet grown up have very limited hunting experience, it is difficult to gain an advantage over other equally cunning animals in the ice and snow.

When Kiel slowly approached the wooden wall, the hunters standing on guard on the wooden wall first spotted Kiel and the empty fur of the Wolf King floating in the air seven or eight meters above Kiel's head.

They were very nervous: "Kiel! On your head! Run!"

But what made these hunters dumbfounded was that Kil put down what he had been dragging, straightened up and waved to them, then pulled something on his waist, and then the empty wolf skin on his head followed Kir's pull made it sway up and down.

The scene is weird and ridiculous.

Only then did the hunters notice that there was a rope connecting Kiel to the empty wolf skin in the air. The empty wolf skin above seemed to have been trying to float away, but was tied up by the rope and could only dangle. Floating leisurely above Keir's head.

Although the thing didn't look dangerous, it was, after all, a huge thing not much smaller than the Wolf King. This thing had a faint red light wrapped around its head and tail, making it look both dangerous and ominous.

The young hunters were still brave. They came down from the wooden wall and cautiously approached Kil. They saw that Kil was fine and was struggling to drag Knight Lanissa's weapon.

Several young hunters were relieved. While helping Kil carry the weapons of Knight Lanissa, they looked up at the huge floating wolf king's fur above their heads.

"There is another weapon at the corner of the passage over there. Please help me get it." Kil asked a young hunter who couldn't get involved.

The hunter looked up at the floating wolf king's fur and ran over. Soon he was carrying and dragging Kil's metal spear back with a huff.

Using the simple wooden ladder, they all returned behind the wooden wall. Afterwards, the simple wooden ladder was withdrawn, and everyone focused on the wolf king's fur in the air.

When Knight Lanissa first saw this thing, she even held the armor-piercing rapier in her hand.

But when she took a closer look, she found that this thing was tied to a rope by Kiel and hung on his belt, but she couldn't help it anymore and burst out laughing.

For her who had been fighting the Wolf King of the North, this scene was too ridiculous.

Taking over her one-handed heavy sword and the metal spear borrowed from Kil, Knight Lanissa carefully looked at the empty fur of the Wolf King, who wanted to run but could not, and was covered in red light.

"So Kil, if you don't destroy it directly, and just bring it back like this, you won't just let everyone have fun, right?" The place where Knight Lanissa had peeled off the burned armor had been covered with gold from Ken. It was wrapped in a clean muslin brought by Del City, and a layer of ointment was applied to one side of the muslin.

Different from the ointment Jamura used for Kil when he first came to the other world, this ointment is lighter in color and thinner. It is not dark green and sticky like Jamura's ointment.

Another old hunter boiled water by the fire, passed the muslin cloth through the boiling water, then cooled it, and then applied light green ointment on one side of the muslin cloth that had not frozen in the snow in winter. The small brush applied a little bit, and then wrapped around the palm of Lanisha Knight's arm where the skin was burnt and cracked.

"Of course not. Look, Lord Knight." Kil grabbed the rope and swung it a few times, causing the Wolf King's fur floating on it to spin a few times. Then he walked a few steps behind the wooden wall.

The hunters were confused, but Knight Lanissa saw the key at a glance.

"It's trying to fly back to the Wolf King?" Although she could see it, Lanisa Knight was still a little cautious in her words.

Kil nodded, pointed to the direction above his head where the Wolf King's fur had been trying to float slightly, and said: "After the Wolf King retreated, the location was right there, in the forest directly opposite the entrance of the rock passage. Cross over from us. The rock wall, isn’t the direction of this thing exactly where the Wolf King should be?”

Knight Lanissa narrowed her eyes and looked up at the floating thing.

Soon, a smile appeared on her half-burned face: "That's good. It seems that this winter will really be the time to get to know it."