Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil heard the words of the werewolf who didn't know whether he was dead or not, and immediately realized that the other party was calling Lanissa Knight's name.

He turned to look at Knight Lanisa, only to find that the female knight was stunned for a moment, and then immediately slashed downwards with the one-handed heavy sword in her hand.

Keir's hand twitched, but ultimately made no move.

However, the sword of the female knight did not kill the werewolf who called her name. She just slashed hard on the side of the werewolf's neck and inserted most of the heavy sword deeply into the cold and hard soil.

Knight Lanissa tightly grasped the hilt of the sword with her remaining hand, stretched out her hand to push the hilt forward, and brought the blade diagonally close to the werewolf's neck.

"who are you?"

She looked into the werewolf's eyes and paused before speaking out the brief question.

The werewolf ignored the deadly sword at the side of his neck, grinned his wolf-shaped face as if to show a smile, and then rolled his eyes again, his whole body twitching and changing.

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When the giant wolf-like wolf king transformed into a tall and strong werewolf, the changes on his body were very drastic and strange. But the new changes that are following now are also very big changes.

The thick and long body hair all over the werewolf's body quickly disappeared, or broke from the roots and fell to the ground, or completely shrank into the pores of the skin. At the same time, the werewolf's three-meter-tall body quickly shrank and became smaller, but within two breaths, it became the height of a normal person.

The animal-like structure of the werewolf's legs and feet also changed into the form of human knees with two loud crunching sounds. But the arm that was broken before did not grow back. It was just that some parts of the body that were not fatal injuries quickly disappeared as the body changed.

After the werewolf completely transformed into a naked middle-aged man, there were only three wounds left on his body. One was in the middle of the forehead, where there was a narrow but deep crack in the brain. The second wound was on the arm. The arm that was broken at shoulder level was still slowly oozing bright red blood from the wound.

The last wound was the one on the chest. On the side of the chest with messy chest hair, there is a huge wound that goes straight to the heart in the middle of the chest. The double-edged metal spear that was originally inserted on it has fallen to the ground because the Wolf King has gradually shrunk in size. Tiny traces of the magical blood-burning blow.

Neither Kil nor Lanessa Knight made any move when the werewolf's shape changed further, they just looked at everything in surprise. Keir felt that all these changes were natural, but he was still a little surprised.

But Knight Lanisa who was half-kneeling on the ground next to her was completely different.

She gritted her teeth and tried several times to press her palm down and use the blade to decapitate the transforming werewolf, but she couldn't. Because the appearance of the werewolf beast in front of her was rapidly changing into a face that was extremely familiar to her.

When the change in the middle-aged man in front of her completely ended, Lanissa Knight could no longer hold the weapon in her hand. She placed the one-handed epee aside on the ground, and then touched the cheek of the middle-aged man on the ground in front of her with her palm wearing a thick steel glove.

The beard on the man's chin looked like it had been carefully trimmed and taken care of, not like a long-lost man who had just transformed from a giant beast.

Kil felt strange and a little wary, but Knight Lanissa burst into tears from her eyes.

It was a beard style that her father had always liked and maintained.

The last time she went home to see her father, he still had this beard style. Among the portraits hanging in the study room at home, there is a portrait her mother commissioned from an artist to use as a posthumous photo.

The white eyes of the middle-aged man on the ground gradually stopped twitching and gradually became normal. Soon, eyes with the same eye color as Lanisa Knight focused and looked at Lanisa Knight.

The twitching of his body also stopped, he raised his arm with difficulty, and slowly extended his hand to Knight Lanisa's cheek.

When Kil saw the other person reaching out, he didn't know whether he should stop him, but he still cautiously held the sword tightly. If the other person dared to attack while the knight was in a daze, he would immediately cut off the other person's arm with his sword.

But Keir still thought wrong.

The hand slowly covered Knight Lanisa's cheek, which was stained with a lot of blood, and carefully wiped away the tears shed by Knight Lanisa.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Jenny. I have shamed my family and my family." Intermittent soft voices came out of the man's mouth.

After just saying a word, blood flowed out from the corners of his mouth, and several serious wounds on his body seemed to suddenly realize that they were fatal wounds, and blood gradually flowed out from them.

But this blood is healthy red blood.

"Father."

Lanissa Knight could not say anything else, she just kept repeating it.

"What you did was very good. I'm not as good as you."

The eyes that had regained their vitality just now seemed to be blurred again due to the injury.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was you. Father, father."

Lanissa Knight couldn't control it anymore and burst into tears.

The dying man on the ground just used his trembling palms to gently caress the family emblem on Lanissa's knight's helmet.

"I don't blame you. In fact, it's all my fault. I was greedy for the power of my hometown. I forgot, forgot the wise man's warning in the story."

After saying that, he pulled Knight Lanisa's helmet, and Knight Lanisa immediately stretched her head out following the opponent's strength.

The helmet was close to the man's mouth.

Kil noticed a detail. Knight Lanissa's intact arm gently rested on the one-handed heavy sword placed aside.

However, the middle-aged man who was dying on the ground only spoke softly to Lanissa Knight.

Just after saying a few words, Knight Lanisa turned to Kil and said, "Kil, please stay away."

"Ah, I understand. I'll step back now." Kil slapped his head and realized that he really shouldn't be here at this time. If the dying man was just pretending and wanted to sneak attack Lanisa Knight, Lanisa Knight was obviously wary of what he had just done and would not be fooled.

And if the other party just wants to explain something that has not been explained before before death, obviously, as far as Keir is thinking, it must be inseparable from the means and methods that the other party can transform into a giant wolf king and a werewolf. Or maybe it was about secret things related to their family, which he shouldn't listen to.

In this way, Kil put away his sword and hunted, striding back to the edge of the snowy mist where the horses were running.

He just looked in the direction of Lanissa Knight from a distance.

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Not long after the dying man spoke, the blood on his body, which he didn't know where to get, began to gush out from the wound. Lanisha Knight tried to block it with her palm, but it was of no avail.

The dying man just held Lanisa Knight's hand to prevent her from doing these useless things again. He shook his head and said his final goodbyes to his daughter.

"Give me a decent burial, burn it, and take the ashes home to your mother, but don't put them in the family grave. I have brought shame on the family, woo, woo."

"Also, avenge me. He's not very powerful, but don't let him get away."

"Huh, uh, uh. Finally, Jenny, I'm sorry for delaying your life."

Knight Lanisa was speechless, she just put her head gently on the man's chest, letting the blood gushing from the man's chest dye her helmet red.

"Hey, hey. Knight, knight is actually not bad, right? Daughter."

These were the man's last words.

As soon as he finished speaking, the blood that came out of nowhere on his body stopped surging and flowed back toward the wound contrary to common sense.

Knight Lanisa raised her head at this time, raised her arm that was still broken, and pointed straight to the sky.

He clenched his fist and waved it toward the sky, as if he wanted to catch something.

But this was a futile move.

In the distance, where the hunters were cautiously confronting each other, there was a taunting wolf howl.

Upon hearing this, Lanissa Knight slammed her fist on the ground aside.

Boom!

Kil's legs felt the ground shake. Where Knight Lanissa landed her fist, the soil on the ground flew up and down nearly half a meter high.

She was about to stand up with her sword in hand, but when she saw the dead man on the ground in front of her, she put away her thoughts of fighting.

"Kiel, please ask everyone to come over. Don't worry about the damn werewolf. The werewolf will leave here on its own." After saying that, she whistled.

The war horses that had been running in circles slowed down their hooves when they heard the whistle, and then gradually came over.

Kil agreed to Knight Lanisa and quickly ran towards the hunters.

Knight Lanisa stood up and took out a simple camping tarpaulin from the small luggage bag on the back of the war horse, carefully wrapped her father's body and covered his face.

She knew that there must be speculation in Little Kil's mind, but she didn't care much. At first, Kil had never seen her knight father. Her father had 'disappeared' in the forest several years ago. Secondly, Kiel is a foreigner. Although he seems to want to take root in the local area and start a career, he is not a local after all. He will need her support in the future to establish a foothold in the local area.

All it takes is a warning that the brave young man will not say much.

As for the other hunters, this matter needs to be covered up.

The Wolf King is dead, there is no doubt about it.

Who this dead man was was irrelevant.

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Afterwards, as Knight Lanissa expected, the werewolf in the distance howled excitedly for a while and then left the place on its own. Although Kiel and the others were tired and hungry, they still had many things on their hands.

The hunters dragged back all the northern wolves that had been killed around them. After simply removing their skins, they piled dozens of northern wolf carcasses together. There happened to be a fallen tree next to it. Keir used his own He chopped down many branches and wood with his long sword, gathered around the body of the Northland Wolf, lit a fire and burned the body.

The extra human corpse was lit on a separate fire and burned.

The hunters wondered how the Wolf King turned into a human in the end, but Lanissa Knight used the weird magic that the Wolf King had to cover it up. After all, everyone knows that this wolf king has many magical and strange abilities. It is not surprising that he can turn into a human or something. After all, in the strange stories told by bards, he can transform into humans and lure humans to kill each other, or There are a lot of monsters walking into the devil's cave.

Having done their duty of eradicating evil, everyone lit a fire and burned the wolf king's transformed human body.

When Kil was about to say something, he was stared at by Knight Lanissa. He immediately shut up and agreed to the old hunters' random speculations.

Privately, Lanissa Knight told him to keep the last thing he saw and heard in his mind, and not to tell any third person about it without her permission.

Accordingly, Lanisha Knight will give Kil some help in the future to help him settle in the local area and become a true Kendallite.

But Kil scratched his nose and told him an agreement with Knight Crow.

Knight Crow will ask Kil to go out to participate in a war with him next spring. Kil will receive training from Knight Crow during the journey and be qualified to become a knight-level warrior.

Lanissa Knight squinted her eyes and looked at Kil: "I didn't expect Uncle Crow to think so highly of you. But yes, you are very talented and an excellent seed. But my conditions are not bad either. I will make you a A true Kendallite. A house to raise a family and a reliable job are all good things. Keele, you are really good at what you do and as long as you keep it up, we will definitely have another one in Kendall County. A new knight. Hmm! Better replace that so-called Fichner 'Pig Knight'."

Kil had heard about Fickner, who somehow had the most basic abilities of a knight-level warrior. When Baron Kendall needed manpower, he accepted a territory. Hey, it's Gloomy Forest Village.

It's just that the other party only stays in Kendall City and never goes out. He doesn't go to his own territory at all, so naturally he has nothing to contribute. Everyone in Kendall knew about this, but the other party obviously didn't care. They just used the knight's salary provided by Baron Kendall every year to eat and drink in their own knight's villa and ignore things.

Hearing such words from Knight Lanisa, it seems that the knights in other counties also despise the 'pig knight'.

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The wolf skins that the hunters pulled off were difficult to take away, so they had to bury them underground. Since it was cold in winter, there was no need to worry about the rough wolf skins being eaten by insects. So, everyone safely spent a day recuperating on the battlefield, and then headed towards the rocky mountain under the leadership of Knight Lanisa.

Knight Lanissa brought her father's burned ashes with her. She told the hunters that she would take the ashes back to the city and check them with the church to prevent the dead Wolf King from causing trouble again.

But Kil saw that Lanissa Knight personally carried her father's ashes, which contained more sad emotions.

Knight Lanisa rarely spoke while riding on the horse, but from time to time she would touch the small leather bag containing the ashes with her hand. Obviously she was not as calm as she seemed on the surface.

Everyone had completely solved the problem of the Wolf King in the North, so they didn't walk quickly on the return trip. It took them two days to see the rocky mountain.

Knight Lanisa heard what the hunters said about what happened when they finally evacuated the rocky mountain. She had no explanation for the strange light mist. She could only judge based on the previous situation that there must be something behind it.

Taking into account the previous warning from the Griffin Knights of the Imperial Frontier Knights, Knight Lanessa did not let anyone get closer. She asked the hunters to stay at the previously agreed waterhole. She rode her war horse and ran in from the entrance to the rocky mountain. .

There was nothing strange about the strange fog outside the rocky mountain, and nothing happened when Knight Lanissa passed through it. However, as soon as she walked into the rock passage where there was no fog, she found a large number of frozen northern wolf corpses.

There were no wounds, just corpses frozen to death in the passage. This frightened her so much that she had to let her horse carry her quickly through the passage full of corpses to the top where Kiel and the others hid their supplies.

She brought the hunters' personal belongings with them, and didn't care about other things like food tents. As for the large number of damaged and undamaged metal clips in the passage, she couldn't care less. No one was here anyway. She could just bring someone back to pick them up after the winter and before the spring rains.

She took everyone's important luggage, including her own, and quickly went down the mountain, where everyone met at the frozen water pool on the east side of the rocky mountain.

The hunters cut down a tree and made a simple snowmobile from the branches of suitable thickness. The bodies of the two dead companions were placed on it and let Knight Lanisa's horse pull them away. Each of them carried their luggage. .

They headed south and spent five days getting out of this big forest. The old hunter turned to look at the vast sea of ​​forest trees, shook his head and said that after defeating the Wolf King, he would never enter this forest again in his life.

They killed too many northern wolves this time. Although they did their duty as hunters, they still killed too many people, and everyone felt a little uncomfortable.

The young people are doing better, including Kil, who are planning how many rewards Knight Lanisa will give each of them when she returns to the city. Although the old hunters also like money, they mostly discuss how their respective religions view the fact that they killed so many creatures in this crusade against the Northern Wolf.

But since the few old hunters are not believers, they all just believe in gods in general, so they can't discuss anything. Let the three of them hunt wild animals with their hands, but they are uneducated and discuss their faith and church. The gods are in trouble for the three old people.

Kil heard it funny and felt that these three old hunters were the mainstay during the battle, but they still had no education and couldn't say anything, even the young hunters couldn't.

While talking and laughing, everyone saw the wooden sentry tower camp built outside the forest.

Smoke curled up from the tall sentry tower. Contrary to everyone's expectations, the farmers of Wumihu Village boldly built a more open small camp outside the sentry tower.

At this moment, looking from a distance, many skewers of jackrabbits were being roasted in the small camp gathered outside the main gate of the sentry tower.

But everyone is not very happy. They are tired of eating barbecue these days. What they need most now is a hot pot of thick soup made from root plants, and some warm thick bread to soak in. ,It would be great.