Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil raised his legs and kicked open the narrow door. The passage behind the door was extremely narrow, and even though he was wearing armor, he had to turn sideways to move normally in the passage. Kil originally thought of starting from the mechanism room under the house and clearing out the entire house. The gang thugs who resisted stubbornly would be killed directly, and those who were easy to take down would be uniformed and tied up.

But he didn't expect that starting from the ground of this back door house, the Yisi Blade Head Gang would dig a large underground structure under their lair.

The narrow passage took a few steps to reach the end, and there was a corner. At this corner, there was a thick wooden door with an iron ring.

Keir originally thought that he would need a key to open the door, but when he reached out and pushed it, he discovered that the thick wooden door was not locked or closed.

As he pushed the door open, Kil prepared for a fight, but it turned out that no one was inside. He raised the oil lamp in his left hand and examined it carefully, only to realize that this place seemed to be an equipment warehouse. There was a row of wooden poles leaning against the wall. The open wooden box contained many iron gun heads, and there was a large wooden table on which There were machetes and daggers, and even facing the door, there was a wooden dummy with a set of black leather armor composed of detailed armor pieces.

Keir was attracted by this equipment and walked over curiously.

After going over and shining a light with an oil lamp, I discovered that the exquisite-looking leather armor turned out to be a semi-finished product. A small wooden box was placed aside, which contained many pieces of unknown animal scale armor that had already been made.

Keir picked up an observation piece. As soon as he got his hands on it, he felt that the armor piece, which was made from the scales of an unknown animal, was very light. He put it in his hand and broke it off. He found that it was not very hard, but the overall elasticity and elasticity. Toughness, protective effect is estimated to be good.

After thinking about it, Kil took off the backpack behind him, checked the contents, took out the water bottle and a box of food, and then put all the small armor pieces into the backpack. At the same time, he put the unmade parts on the dummy. His scale armor was untied, rolled up into a ball, and stuffed into his backpack.

The backpack, which was not big in itself, was filled to the brim and looked a little weird when carried behind his back, but Kil felt that this trip had been somewhat fruitful.

Then he left here. In order to prevent the weapons inside from being obtained by others, Kiel closed the thick wooden door, inserted a dagger in the crack of the door, and then used the side of the long sword in his hand to knock the dagger handle hard, and the entire The dagger was firmly stuck in the crack of the wooden door.

He pushed it and found that it was not easy to open the door. Then he nodded with satisfaction and continued to move forward through the narrow passage.

Originally, Kiel's sense of space was pretty good and he was not easily lost in the difficult-to-discern forest. However, under the gang's lair controlled by thieves, he quickly lost his way in the narrow and difficult-to-discern passage.

It's not that the road is complicated, it's just that Kil broke through the wall and entered the mechanism room from the passage connected by the trap. He didn't know the direction. After passing through the passage here, he soon didn't know what he was going to do next. Where to go.

Having lost his direction, Kil didn't care and walked directly to wherever he was. He followed the narrow passage that turned left and right and passed by the underground lounge. It was full of double-decker wooden beds, which looked like they could sleep at least two people. Ten people; he also passed by an underground tavern, but there were only two people inside who didn't know how to fight. Kil rushed up and knocked them down, and after tying them up, he realized that these two people were in the tavern where the gang's thugs rested and drank. Bartender.

Everyone else had gone out to fight urgently, so the two of them had to stay here and wait.

After knocking the two of them unconscious, Kil licked his lips when he saw the small barrels of wine. In the end, he couldn't hold back his thirst, so he found a clean wine glass, took a glass of ale and drank it.

After taking a few sips, Kil resisted the idea of ​​​​drinking a few more drinks, walked out of the underground tavern, and continued to move along the passage.

Then, around a corner, he discovered a small training ground in the basement. It was really exaggerated. The training ground of several hundred square meters was extremely complicated. There were several imitation residential window sills erected on one side. They were exactly the same style as common windows. structure.

With only one glance, Kil guessed that this thing was a training method used to train new thieves to enter the house from outside the residents through the windows.

In addition, there is a replica of the living room environment of a wealthy family on the other side. When Keir glanced at it, he didn't guess what it was for. It wasn't until he curiously opened up a painting on the false wall that he discovered that behind the painting was a storage box mounted on the false wall. The storage box is still locked and it doesn't look easy to open.

Keir found it interesting and lifted up the luxurious-looking carpet on the ground.

As expected, the false floor under the carpet also has a mechanism, and when opened, it is also a locked storage box.

"Interesting, this place is actually a place for training theft? How amazing!" Kil had to marvel, who would have thought that there is such a place underground in the seemingly inconspicuous gang lair.

In addition, there are obstacle wooden walls nearby for practicing wall climbing, and a throwing target for practicing throwing weapons. Overall, this small underground training ground is small, but it has all the internal organs.

Keir knew at a glance that the training of a novice thief could be completed here.

"It's amazing." Although Kil was eager to take over this underground lair, he couldn't help but marvel at all the facilities here. After all, things like secret bases in the previous life were only seen by children on TV shows or games. Seeing it in person, Kier found it particularly interesting.

But another voice suddenly appeared, which startled Kil.

"It's very powerful. I have put a lot of thought into this place. My disciples and I have been training here day and night and living here." A cold voice sounded in the darkness.

The voice was somewhat angry: "But now, all these hard work will be destroyed. Because of what?"

Kil placed the oil lamp in his hand on the table beside him, took off his shield from behind, and prepared for battle. He tentatively replied: "Because you have offended the local knight lord?"

The voice moved around the training ground in several places where light was not available, rising and falling: "I am very careful in what I do."

Suddenly left and right: "Never exposed to the eyes or ears of that stupid bear."

Erratic: "How did he know all this about me? How could he make such a determination?"

The voice became confused: "His soldiers must have lost a lot of people this time. Isn't it good for both parties to live in peace and harmony?"

Kil's helmet visor kept rotating in response to the movement of the sound, but the limited lighting and the complex surrounding environment meant that he could not see the speaker at all.

Keir had no intention of answering the other party's question. After all, everything started from his own side. He was afraid that speaking out would trigger a crazy attack from the other party. Judging from the content of the other party's words, Kil had already guessed the other party's identity - the leader of the Yisi Bladehead Gang, the thief Yisi.

Keir had no idea how skilled the opponent was, but he guessed that the dark smoke that obscured his vision outside must have been caused by this person. The opponent's methods are unknown, and Keir doesn't want to fight to the death with the opponent here.

The environment was too unfavorable for him. The numerous obstacles and the opponent's ability to hide were really dangerous.

After the previous question was asked, both of them were silent for a while.

Thief Yisi waited for Kil to answer something, but Kil had no intention of answering.

After a moment, a long sound of inhalation sounded from behind Kil. Kil immediately turned around. In his sight, a tall figure wearing a black leather coat was sitting on a luxurious wooden chair covered with fur that imitated the living room of a wealthy family.

With the limited lighting, Kil squinted his eyes.

The thief's right arm disappeared, and the broken sleeve of the leather jacket showed that the man's right arm was obviously severed by a weapon.

But after someone chopped off an arm, the face of this thief of unknown age is still cold. No, it is still different. The other person's lips are tightly pressed together, showing that this person's mood is not as cold as his face. calm.

Looking at Kil, who was cautious and ready to slash with a sword, the thief leader pointed to a gold-wired wooden chair opposite him and motioned for Kil to sit down.

"Young man, I am very curious, why did you and your people participate in today's killing that should not have happened?"

After the thief reached out to signal, he took out a gold coin from somewhere and put it in his hand to play with.

What's interesting is that although the opponent's finger movements are clearly invisible, the gold coins are jumping on the fingertips of the thief's remaining hand, which is both lively and shows superb skills.

Kil was silent for a moment, and after getting a little closer to the other party, he pulled the wooden chair pointed by the other party back a few meters, and then sat on it carefully.

The sword and shield did not leave his hand. Kil just sat awkwardly on the expensive gold-wired wooden chair, carefully observing the thief opposite him without making eye contact.

He hesitated for a moment, but now that the atmosphere was here, he couldn't help but speak.

"So, do you know that an army from the north has passed through the border in the past two days?"

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A moment ago, when Keir pushed the underground mechanism.

In the courtyard of the gang's lair, the black smoke that completely blocked the view slowly rolled upwards, swallowing everyone present into its belly, creating obstacles and troubles for humans.

But as the old saying goes, light does not shine for everyone, and neither does darkness.

It seems that the vision of all humans in the black smoke is affected, but for those who are prepared, darkness is like day.

Knight Anvina stood in the courtyard, his heavy breathing could no longer be suppressed. It was not for anything else, but simply because he was already angry with the thief who was fighting with him at this time.

Just now, the dishonorless thief threw the restrained soldier at him. The knight did not check for a moment during the battle, and actually split the soldier in two with an axe.

Just a moment later, that guy did it again!

Phew, a figure broke through the air and hit the Anvina Knight heavily.

This time, the knight did not dare to kill the soldier who was thrown at him with an axe. He threw away the ax in his left hand, opened his left hand as big as a leaf fan, listened to the scraping sound, and directly caught the thrown soldier with his left hand. Soldier.

But as soon as he caught the person, the knight felt something was wrong because something was missing.

The sound of the knight's steel gloves clashing with the leather jackets worn by his soldiers.

This sound did not come out. He obviously opened his left hand to catch the person, but at this time when he could not see anything, there was no sound. It was as if he was catching a phantom.

The problem is, the weight in my hand is obviously the weight of a person?

Just when the knight was thinking about these things in his mind at this moment, there was a light touch on his left hand, and then someone pushed his left arm with his hand and a murderous intention struck the Anvina Knight's neck.

The knight hadn't realized anything yet, but his body, which he had cultivated through years of fighting monsters, reacted in advance.

The opponent had one hand on his left arm, so the knight directly raised his left arm high, lifting the entire body of the enemy who was clinging to his arm.

The attack that was bound to hit the steel neck guard on the neck, but because of his elevated position, instead caused scratches on the knight's helmet.

The knight's hair suddenly exploded from the roots, because a biting cold feeling passed through the outside of the helmet. Fortunately, the helmet blocked the expansion of the hair, otherwise the knight's image at this time would be quite bad.

"Damn thing!"

Cursing, the giant ax in Knight Anvina's right hand immediately swept over his left shoulder, but he felt a pressure on the top of his head, and then the ax hit the air.

The knight opened his left hand and made a move. The giant ax that landed on the ground immediately flew up into the air and was controlled by the knight's left hand. The giant ax in his right hand then swept towards the top of his head.

But the magical thing is, as if the other party can see it at this time, the pressure on the knight's head is released, and the thief jumps lightly on the spot, and actually jumps onto the right arm of the knight Anvina.

The ax hanging above the head was empty again. The two parties were fighting for a few times, but neither could do anything to the other.

The thief couldn't withstand any of the knight's axes, but his dexterous movements and ability to ignore the surrounding black smoke that blocked his vision blinded the Anvina knight who couldn't see anything.

It was obvious that the opponent was running around, but after a few moves, he was completely unable to do anything to the opponent, as if his movements were completely seen through.

"Really." The knight waved his right hand and said, "It seems you can see around you!"

The thief used his hands and feet to move dexterously on the tall, fat knight wearing steel armor, while repeatedly trying to attack the knight with the undead bone dagger in his hand.

But every time this time, the opponent would seem to predict his movements one step in advance and make his attacks fail first.

"Hey, crisis awareness?" A cold voice came from under the thief's mask.

The sound was very close, and the Knight of Anvena danced his giant ax close to his body, but the opponent always found a flaw and could not even touch a hair on the opponent's body.

"Ang, you're such a sinister guy, come and challenge me head-on!" Knight Anvina yelled.

A cold voice came from under the crotch: "Hey, if you break your arms, I will challenge you head-on. How about that?"

Knight Anvina felt a sense of humiliation. For many years, no one dared to speak provocatively to him like this. When he heard that the other party was under his crotch, the knight sat down directly. The steel crotch protection was no weaker than other places and was heavy. The body is far more deadly than a heavy hammer.

But the thief jumped out from behind the knight with his hands and feet, stepped on the knight's steel belt, and climbed up the opponent's back. The fingers of his left hand grabbed the steel neck guard on the back of the neck, and his right hand held it as if it was corroding the soul. The undead bone dagger stabbed the knight hard in the back of the head.

boom!

The knight took the first step and sat down heavily on the ground. The ground trembled, and the small stones laid in the inner courtyard were once again knocked away by the huge impact, scattering and collapsing around.

The thief also swayed due to the shock, and the fatal blow in his hand also swayed from side to side and lost its accuracy, hitting the knight's shoulder heavily.

The thick shoulder armor directly collided with the undead bone dagger, but the result made Thief Yisi feel unbelievable.

In his eyes, the evil undead weapon was already too powerful. After it hit the thick steel shoulder armor, it did not penetrate directly and consistently as he expected, and stabbed in like a broken bamboo.

Steel is unexpectedly tough, even if it is a powerful evil weapon, it still only penetrates a centimeter deep, and is corroded by the evil force at the tip of the bone dagger. Even if he grabs the handle of the dagger and stabs inward with all his strength, he moves forward. The speed was still not satisfactory to him.

Knight Anvina did not sit still and let the enemies attack him do whatever they wanted. The cold feeling on his shoulders kept coming. Even if the tip of the evil weapon had not broken through the protection of the steel armor, the evil power had already penetrated and launched towards his body. attacked.

However, a fatal force attack on an ordinary person is not a problem for a knight who is full of life force.

Knight Anvina held the giant ax in one hand and swung it behind him, trying to force the opponent back. The other hand was on the ground to help him stand up.

After forcing back the honorless thief, the knight's counterattack followed.

He charged up and crouched, and then after confirming that the thief was on his armor, he jumped directly into the sky.

Don't forget, the knights have jumping power that far exceeds that of ordinary people, even if the Anvina knights are tall and fat and wear overweight steel full-body armor. His jumping power is still far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Hoo-ho-ho

The knight jumped straight into the air on the spot, reaching a height of more than ten meters, far higher than the height of the black smoke that obstructed the view floating in the air.

"Hahaha, as I expected, go to hell, you piece of trash!"

As soon as his eyes could see again, Knight Anvina laughed and saw the thief hooking his arm with his foot.

This time, the knight swung the giant ax much faster than before when he couldn't see anything. Unable to see the situation around him in the black smoke, the knight even had to be careful whether his weapons would hurt him. Therefore, there is a very short hesitation and judgment for each axe. This slight difference in speed is completely taken advantage of by the thieves.

This is why we frequently fail to deal with the enemy.

But this time, when the Anvina Knight saw the annoying guy for the first time, he swung his arm and slashed at him.

"What!"

Thief Yi Si was also stunned for a moment. He also did not expect that a being with the strength of the knight could jump so high, which was far beyond his expectation.

It is not that he has never seen knights' jousting before. In some southern countries, knight's jousting is quite popular. However, those young boys wearing bright and conspicuous clothes have many methods, but no one can jump to such a high place.

Especially since the target was a guy weighing hundreds of kilograms, wearing a suit of heavy armor that also weighed several hundred kilograms, and holding a knight with a giant ax weapon weighing at least one hundred kilograms.

Although he was a little surprised that the knight led him straight up and jumped out of the black smoke, but he was surprised because the thief Yi Si did not stop moving.

He let go of the knight's arm with one kick, and kicked the opponent's arm in the opposite direction with the other kick. With a silent kick, the thief in the air floated away far away.

Knight Anvina missed with his axe, but was not upset because the next attack was fatal.

"Suffer death!"

He shouted, rounded his other hand and threw the giant ax at the thief.

As soon as the giant ax flew out of his hand, it showed its power and swept towards the thief with wide eyes with a strong wind.

The thief Yisi stopped breathing for a moment when faced with the deadly giant ax that rolled towards him. He knew that when facing the serious knight, he must not leave the range of the black smoke, but he did not expect that the attack would be so fast and so deadly.

At that moment, his mind was spinning, and his flexible brain came up with several ideas, but they were all rejected by himself in an instant. Somehow, at this moment, he suddenly remembered things from his childhood.

The family fell into decline, he rose up and was beaten down by others, he was rescued by the Thieves Guild in despair, he studied hard but lost his identity, silently assisted the rest of the family in their resurrection, and accepted the arrangement of the guild after being satisfied. Come here to open up new territory and build a gang with promising apprentices.

And the battle just now.

By some strange combination of circumstances, facing the incoming rotating axe, he grasped his right hand that was already numb and cold with his left hand, and raised the undead bone dagger to face what might be his last scene.

boom!

The moment the tip of the bone dagger came into contact with the rotating air wave of the giant axe, his eyes widened in disbelief, because the evil thing in his hand actually exploded with power that he had not expected.

This thing seems to be spiritual and doesn't want to die.

Therefore, the forearm-long bone dagger burst out with extremely strong evil power at this moment. The dark blue and pale light visible to the naked eye burst out from the bone dagger, forming a small vortex of energy that collided with the heavy and powerful one-handed giant ax of the knight.

However, after all, the giant ax is a weapon that the knight has handy, and the undead bone dagger is not the weapon of the thief Yisi. The burst of power at this time is simply the protection of the weapon itself, which is unintentional and unconscious.

After the two forces stirred for a moment, the thief holding the bone dagger in both hands was forcibly pushed away by the giant axe.

The giant ax whirred past the thief, and the thief, who was only a hair away from death, broke into a cold sweat.

He exhaled half a breath, opened his arms and looked at the knight opposite, with a pair of mocking eyes on his mask.

Although he didn't speak a word, his meaning was obvious.

——You can’t do anything to me——

However, although the Anvina Knight who had passed the highest point of the jump gradually fell downwards, he only twitched his outstretched fingers twice in the air, which was really strange.

There was no reason for the danger. When the thief Yisi realized something was wrong and wanted to turn his head and look behind him, the rotating giant ax that flew back from the sky had already sliced ​​through the thief's body.

The arm that had been eroded by the evil force was quite numb, which made Yi Si feel okay, because at this moment, the giant ax rolled over his right shoulder, lightly cutting off his arm, and then landed straight on the In the hands of the Knight of Anvina with his open hand.

"How? Haha."

These were the words of the Anvina knight who fell into the dark smoke again.