Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil's whole body froze for a moment, but he came back to his senses in an instant.

Fortunately, he was wearing thick armor, and no one noticed his tiny movements. His complexion was not very good because he had been sleeping in the wild for the past two days. Others can't see anything.

"Everyone is here, Mr. Wolf, you all come here. This young warrior who has just arrived in the village said that he was sent by our lord to complete the mission. Is he a member of the lord's hunter team?"

The son of the bearded old man walked up to the villagers who had just arrived and asked loudly.

The villagers have all met Kiel, and they are very impressed with Kiel, a young man who can go in and out of the forest to kill wolves and can help the village lord at his age.

So they all said: "I have seen him, he is indeed the lord's subordinate."

"I heard from the old hunters that he is still an experienced monster hunter. Is that right, Kil? Your name is Kil, right?"

Kil rubbed his nose in embarrassment: "Yes, you remembered correctly. But I can't be called a so-called experienced monster hunter. I just cleaned up the slime monsters that affected the farm work in the swamp south of Kendall City. That’s all.”

"Oh!" After hearing what Kier said, the surrounding militiamen and villagers all let out small exclamations.

The bearded old man came over and patted Kil on the shoulder: "That's not bad. When it's hot in our Wumi Lake, there are a lot of slime monsters in the reed wetland beside the lake. Every time we go to harvest the reeds, You have to be careful. If you can, can you wait until next year to find a time to deal with it?"

"There is a chance, there is a chance." Kil responded perfunctorily with a sneer.

At the same time, he was also inadvertently observing Wolf, who had been silent.

This guy was wearing fine muslin clothing and a shearling sleeveless vest (clothing, not horse armor). Wearing a cold-proof cotton hat on his head, he looked much better than most of the villagers around him who were dressed casually and at most were wearing dog-skin cold-proof coats.

After this man came over, he kept looking at Keir, but his expression was very relaxed.

Kil speculated that since the death of Knight Lanisha's father, the Wolf King, this man felt that he had no opponent to worry about. At the same time, Knight Lanisha did not show any signs at the wooden sentry tower on the edge of the big forest. , he probably didn’t realize that his identity had been exposed.

If this man is really a werewolf, then the hands wrapped in clean white cloth on his arms at the moment are probably just pretending to fool people.

Now is not the time, Kil thought, so he did some reconnaissance in the village first.

Play with him.

With a slight smile, Kil opened his hand and said to all the villagers present: "Everyone, since the villagers have confirmed my identity. Then find a place for me to rest. At the same time, please ask Mr. Wolf to move the village Call the stewards, Knight Lanissa sent me here on a mission, and I need the support of the village."

Wolf, the bearded old man and the old man's son looked at each other and nodded in confirmation.

"I'm going to call the others. Dad, you and Mr. Wolf will take Kiel to the hotel, right? Send Kiel to the hotel and let him settle down there. We'll just be at the hotel to see what's going on with Kiel. ." The old man's son made a simple arrangement, and then asked the surrounding militiamen to return to the wall, and at the same time asked the villagers who had just been called to go home. There was no one else's business here.

The militiamen watched curiously as Keir followed the two of them away, while the villagers cursed and complained and called them out of their homes. Is this all?

Just find someone and it will be over soon.

Mr. Wolf comforted the villagers, glanced at Keir who was holding the horse, and explained to them: "Don't complain, it's probably a good thing."

Some villagers asked Wolf to tell him what the good thing was, but he just shook his head.

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As mentioned before, in order to cope with the fact that the villagers were unable to go out to farm the fields outside the village, Wumihu Village specially re-planned and arranged everyone's houses under the arrangement of Lanisha Knight.

All the village houses are located next to each other along the village road. The two houses are not separated by rural yards surrounded by wooden fences, but all the wooden bungalows are next to each other.

At the same time, each house has no front yard, and the door of the wooden house faces the street.

Looking at it, it doesn't look like a remote village, but more like a slum with dense urban buildings.

But there are certainly benefits. The bearded old man beside him kept talking to Keir about how much money they had saved from the merchants over the years by relying on the small amount of land in the village.

The old man looked rude, but he also guessed that Kil's arrival should be related to the sunken fish in the lake that Knight Lanissa told them about before leaving.

With the Northland Wolf defeated, the sunken fish kept in Lake Wumi are no longer necessary.

Although the carnivorous fish introduced from the church did a good job of dragging the northern wolves into the water that tried to invade the village from the lake, they were not enough to eat. They also had an impact on the big fish that had grown long bodies all day long. The number of fish caught in the entire Lake Umi.

And before the fishing boats were transformed into stable catamarans, they were overturned many times by fishermen, causing many people to be injured and physically disabled.

Wolf guided Keir to the only hotel in the village. Like other new settlements formed by immigrants with a short history, most of the important functional buildings were built in the center of the village.

However, there is a shortage of land within the walls of Wumihu Village, so the small central square that is common in villages and towns is gone and replaced by various buildings densely built in the center of the village.

Lanissa Knight's local house, village house, grain storage barn, three-story open drying yard for drying fish, a tavern for recreation, a general store selling commonly used tools, and a blacksmith shop that was out of flames.

There was no building like a defense station to manage village soldiers and store self-defense weapons, so Keir asked about it.

"Oh, we have moved the things you mentioned above the village gate. After all, the village wall is high and strong, so it is really simple to build a few houses on it. We have three gates in the village, and the houses for the militiamen live in It’s more.”

The bearded old man pointed familiarly in the direction he came from, and then pointed to a road extending to the south and a street extending to the east.

Keir touched his lips: "In this way, your village will be divided into three halves by three roads leading directly to the east, west, south and south gates?"

Mr. Wolf interrupted at this time and pointed in the direction of Lake Umi: "It's not three and a half, it's four and a half. To the north of the village is the pier and the church, and there is a road extending from here. Originally there was a far south of the village. A small lumberyard, where the village’s wood comes from. And to the east there’s a hillside that’s windward all year round, and we built several mills on it to process the grain.”

"The village was developing very well, but it's all because of those northern wolves! It interrupted everything." Finally, he said viciously.

The bearded old man comforted Wolf: "Don't worry about those things anymore. The Northern Wolf was defeated by our young lord, wasn't it? You are still young, and there will be many good days in the village in the future, but I am already old. , I have been really troubled by the Northern Wolf incident in the past few years."

The old man scratched his messy beard irritably: "If it weren't for the fact that my son has already settled here, when I was young, I would have left the village and settled elsewhere. Where would I have to command those young men to guard the village?"

"Fortunately, the county has summoned militiamen for training in the past two years. Otherwise, you want me to command those stupid boys who can't even hold a spear? Oops, please spare me."

The hostel in Umihu Village is a tall wooden building with a small area but three and a half floors. The streets here are only relatively spacious on the main street, but Kiel looked around the hotel and couldn't find the yard where the horses were kept.

He looked at Wolf and the old man.

"This hotel, oh, it's called Sanchiyulin. Doesn't this Sanchiyulin have a backyard to store horses and vehicles? How should the merchants who transport goods stay?" Kil asked with some confusion.

Wolf smiled and pointed to the village house next to him and said: "The village house in the village has a pretty good yard, and there are people taking care of the horses and vehicles there. Kiel, give the horses to me, and I will help you store them and take care of them. There. Someone like you can definitely take care of your horses cleanly and feed them well."

Kil also smiled and nodded, then unloaded the two supply bags carried by the horse, as well as simple tents and other things, and then handed the reins to Mr. Wolf.

"This horse is not picky about food and can eat anything. But it has been exhausted in the past two days. Please tell the groom to feed it more. I will give you this money, which should be enough."

Keir took out twenty copper coins from his purse and placed them in an empty pocket next to the saddle.

Wolf didn't refuse, so he led Keir's horse to the nearby village house to store the horses.

Keir and the bearded old man walked into this hotel called Scattered Fish Scales with their belongings on the ground. The hostel looks small from the outside, but when you open the door and walk in, you find that the interior space is quite large.

The wood harvested from the southern forest allows this hotel to be made taller. The height of each floor is very good. Kiel visually estimated that it is at least three meters high.

There were some wooden tables on the first floor of the hotel for tourists to eat, but he didn't smell the smell of alcohol. There was only the aroma of some cooking food in the air.

"Amy, get the best room for this young man who came from the south alone. In addition, other village stewards will be coming over soon. Go and light up the lights in the hall. What does it look like when it's so dark here?"

As soon as the bearded old man came in, he yelled at a young woman who was cleaning the house.

The other party was probably very familiar with the old man, so he glanced at Keir curiously and took out a brass key from the wooden cabinet on the wall facing the hotel hall from the kitchen.

"Here you go. There's only one key. Please don't lose it. Making a key is very troublesome." A woman named Amy handed the key to Kiel, but Kiel was holding luggage in both hands and couldn't free his hands. .

She carefully inserted the key into the gap in Kil's armor, and took the opportunity to touch the surface of Kil's armor.

"Isn't it very cold and hard? It's not like what others have said, and the armor must be wet in winter."

Kil was a little confused, but the old man next to him squeezed Amy with the Kil luggage in his hand: "Don't listen to those bad boys, this is cowhide armor, not metal armor, how can it be cold and cold?" Yes. Hurry up and lead the way."

"Oh." Amy suddenly touched the chest of Kil's armor again, and then ran up the wooden stairs next to the hall quickly.

Her voice came from the top of the stairs: "The best room is on the third floor. Grandpa Corydon, please note that the stairs are steep. Be careful when you go up. The same goes for you. By the way, my name is Amy. What's your name?" Name? Little brother in armor."

"Keir, Joe Keel. My friends call me little Keel, but I'm not young anymore."

Kil complained as he followed the two of them down the steep stairs to the third floor.

The bearded old man Coryden walked in the middle and nodded: "You are indeed not young. As a soldier, you must be qualified, even far beyond most militiamen."

Arriving on the third floor, Amy was already waiting at one of the two wooden doors on the third floor. At this time, she was too busy to pull out a gray linen rag from her waist and quickly wiped away the slight dust on the edge of the wooden door. .

Kil put down the salute and backpack he was carrying, took out the key from the gap in the armor on his chest, and inserted the brass key into a brass lock of the same material hanging on the wooden door.

Click.

After half a turn, the lock clicked and opened.

After pushing the door open and going in, Kil first placed the lock and the key inserted on the wooden table at hand when he entered the door. After looking at it, he found that the space was quite spacious, but the windows were not open and the room was a little dark.

Amy pushed through Keir who was blocking the way, rushed over and opened the wooden window of the house. The cold wind suddenly blew in, and at the same time, it also blew away the faint smell of vacancy in the house.

Taking advantage of the skylight outside the window, Amy took out the lamp holder of a delicate reflective lampshade from the wooden cabinet beside the bed, and checked how much lamp oil was in the lamp holder and the condition of the hemp wick. Then he took out an ingenious mechanism made of flint and steel from his body, took the thing in his hand and rubbed it. The dry animal hair on the mechanism was immediately ignited by sparks.

Amy quickly brought the small piece of animal hair to the wick of the lamp holder and lit it.

The silver-plated lamp base and reflective lampshade are in the shape of a scallop shell. When the wick is lit, it immediately illuminates the entire room.

Amy then closed the wooden window next to her, then took out a set of animal skin bedding from the wooden cabinet, and spread it neatly on the bed in the middle of the room.

Keir, on the other hand, moved all the luggage into the house, placed the unimportant things on the floor, and placed the backpack on the wooden table next to the door. "Mr. Corydon, please go downstairs and wait for the others in the hotel lobby. I will pack my things and go downstairs immediately."

"Young man, please hurry up. By the way, what do you want to eat later? Let Amy's parents make some for you." The bearded old man Coryden asked, patting his stomach.

Keir guessed that Amy's busy parents might be the owners of this hotel. On the other hand, hotels and inns of this size are owned by one family, and so are most pubs. After all, they are not large in scale and there is no need to hire outsiders. Come and spend money to work.

"Is there any meat? I have been training my body recently, so I need to eat more meat. Money is not a problem, I still have the money." Kil took off the cloak he was wearing, opened the wooden window again, and faced the wooden window. The window shook vigorously.

"Okay, I hope you like eating fish. We have the most fat fish here in Wumihu Village." The old man called Amy and limped downstairs.

Amy's voice could be heard outside the door.

"Let's make a fish stew, a whole fish, I want to eat it too."

Then came the old man's voice.

"Okay, how about eating fresh fish? Ask your father to go to the north and ask for a fresh fish. Just say that it was my request to entertain the lord's soldiers."

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Keir shook his cloak and shook off the ashes and dead grass. Then he closed the window and the wooden door.

He took out a wooden brush from his luggage and brushed the armor on his body, sweeping away some debris from the gaps. Then Kil took off his helmet and hung it on his right waist.

On the back of his left hand was an elf shield that had been repaired by Ganna craftsmen. Kil took it off and put it aside. He then left all the items in the salute, including wooden poles and spears, in the house. He only removed the wooden box from his backpack. He took out the document proving that Knight Lanissa gave him the crusade against Sunfish.

As for other important documents, he rolled them up and hid them inside the chest of his armor.

He felt it was unsafe to put it somewhere else out of sight, so it was more appropriate to carry it with him.

After checking to make sure that all the luggage was put away, Kiel blew out the wick in the lamp holder and went out to hang up the lock again.

The key is placed in the purse at the waist.

By the time Keir went downstairs and reached the hall, some village stewards or people who could speak well had already arrived.

Kil did not let the first comers wait any longer, and directly showed the letter from Knight Lanisa sending him to deal with the sunken fish.

"It's a letter from the lord. It has her family's heraldry seal on it." A tall and stout middle-aged man carefully checked the letter and then said.

"This is the original owner of the lumberyard in the south of the village. All the wood in the village was cut by him and his men with axe." The bearded old man Coryden introduced the people who had already arrived to Keel.

After reading the letter, the man nodded to Keir: "Young man, I am Brown, the leader of the lumber camp. Thanks to you hunters for assisting the lord in defeating the wolves, hoo, starting from next spring, my lumber camp will Work can start again! Everyone, the lord said before that she will lend me a sum of money to re-operate the lumberyard, and everyone can order wood from me now."

Other people who could speak in the village came one after another and approached Brown and asked him directly when the work could start at the earliest.

The bearded old man Coryden curled his lips and directly captured a little old man who was slightly smaller than him, and then captured a middle-aged man with the other hand.

"'Bos the Lake Diver', his family has four fishing boats, and their help is indispensable in dealing with capsized fish." Then he let go of the little old man, patted the middle-aged man he was holding and said, "Will, The head of the fishermen, I asked him for today’s fresh fish, and he can also help you deal with those pesky capsized fish.”

Kiel made friendly gestures to the two of them, and both of them got to know Kiel in a friendly way.

At this time, a church priest in his twenties walked in. Judging from his simple robe and the large-scale divine symbols sewn on his robe, this man must be the Lord of rivers and lakes believed by local fishermen. A local priest.

As soon as he entered the hotel lobby, everyone else unconsciously lowered their voices. It was obvious that although he was young, everyone respected him.

Keir didn't need Coryden's signal and immediately saluted him to show respect.

After all, Knight Lanisa made it clear before she came that the other party was Kiel's last safety insurance for this trip. If he cannot deal with the werewolf Ruf-Wolf, this priest of the natural god will deal with him from the letter written by Knight Lanissa.

Keel has been in Kendal County for a long time. He learned from many local residents that although there are only a few priests of the Lord of Rivers and Lakes in the county, the gods are very fond of them, and each one has a very powerful power. Strength. With the power of gods, changing the natural landscape is not a problem.

And he also heard people say that these priests of nature gods are all one family.

The man in front of him was the son of two male and female church pastors in Kendall City.

Oh my god, everyone is the second generation of rich people, the second generation of knights, but this one is better, he was directly born into the second generation of high-ranking priests.

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