Mercenaries and Adventurers

When Kil was trying to stop the bleeding of Bloodfangster, the harpy monster leading the team set its target on Knight Rumi's horse. But after several provocations and being kicked by the war horse, it no longer dared to target the war horse.

Because he got kicked.

It was because it was careless, and then the horse's shoe with the huge horseshoe came roaring, and suddenly kicked its body and chest. If it hadn't been flying in the air and could release its force by flying upside down, it would have been killed by just this one blow. Most of his life.

So the monster adjusted its target and placed its attack target on the tin-skinned human who had just knocked down its companion.

"呷-"

Even if it doesn't work, the long-term practice of hunting skills still makes it scream loudly before every pounce.

Knight Rumi seemed to be immune to the attack, but he actually didn't feel comfortable with it. He pursed his lips tightly and frowned, relying on the life energy throughout his body and his own willpower to resist this sound attack.

A drop of blood leaked from the ear hole, and it was clear that Rumi Knight's hearing was also damaged.

The knight stood on the ground, fighting with his bare hands against the strong monsters that kept attacking him.

With every attack, this cunning monster placed its claws on the knight's helmet. Because even monsters without much intelligence know that compared to the metal armor worn by knights, the helmet has the weakest protection because it needs to be flexibly twisted.

Well, relatively weak.

In fact, it is a solid thing that does not deform even when hit with a hammer.

Although Knight Rumi didn't know whether his helmet could withstand the monster's dagger-like claws, he didn't want to take risks on this point.

Knights with rich combat experience are not as reckless as they seem. The fearlessness they usually show is that they only rush to fight bravely after repeatedly relying on experience to judge that the enemy cannot break their own defenses.

When fighting an unknown enemy, the knights would usually deal with the enemy for a while, carefully measuring the enemy's strength, and then launch a fatal attack like thunder crashing and the mountain top collapsing.

Facing the Harpy monster's repeated attacks, Knight Rumi would either use his legs and feet to dodge the attack instantly when the opponent attacked him, or he would directly use the thick steel on his forearm to dodge the attack. The armor structure actively faced the monster's claws.

When the two are connected, they often make an extremely harsh metal collision sound.

It is obvious that the monster's claws are very powerful and not inferior to steel in terms of hardness.

"It's a bit difficult to deal with. It becomes difficult to deal with when there are more of them." The knight muttered to himself, then pursed his lips and blew an extremely loud whistle.

The strong wind around could not stop the whistle.

The knight's horse that was jogging in circles not far away heard the call, turned around and rushed towards its owner.

An excellent war horse will not do more unnecessary actions before receiving the order, but will only obey the order.

Rumble, rumble, rumble, the war horse ran quickly, its huge hooves digging out the weeds on the ground. Wherever it accelerated, the ground was in a mess.

Within a few seconds, the war horse came to the knight's side without slowing down. Knight Rumi punched the monster and pushed it back slightly. Then, facing the oncoming horse, he jumped more than two meters, jumped over the horse's head and fell on the saddle.

First, he sat back, and then he held the front of the saddle with one hand, pushing himself up and turning around. At the same time, the other hand grabbed the other cavalry spears carried on the war horse, grabbed one, and waved the spear head directly with his hand, leaving a narrow strip of more than 20 centimeters long on the harpy monster that could not dodge. Wound.

The monster's blood flowed out from the long wound, and the overturned flesh twitched. It even retracted during the twitching, covering the wound again, and there was no more bleeding.

"Difficult guy." Knight Rumi cursed.

Seeing the tin humans and the hard-to-kill tin horses mixed together, the leading harpy screamed in dissatisfaction towards the sky.

"Gah! Ga——"

In the sky where the strong wind blew randomly, there was also a response: "Yah!"

There was a hint of guilt in his voice.

It turned out that it was the harpy monster that had just escaped towards the sky responding. Facing the boss's question, it didn't dare not respond, so it had no choice but to agree to fight.

The harpy flying high in the sky folded its wings and crashed straight down. While falling, it also used its wings to slightly adjust its body posture and aiming point.

The target is none other than the knight Rumi on horseback.

However, Knight Rumi did not understand what the monsters were communicating, so naturally he had no way of knowing that the leader monster decided to use himself to entangle the knight's movement and attention, thereby providing his men with a chance to kill with one blow.

After all, although a harpy monster is light in bones and light in flesh, given its height and wingspan, it weighs at least a hundred kilograms. Coupled with its strong and sharp claws and falling speed, smaller rocks can be smashed into pieces.

While Knight Rumi was entangled with the harpy monster, he felt something was wrong. Before he could think of anything, two shouts came over him that overwhelmed the roar of the strong wind.

His slightly injured ears heard the reminders one after another clearly.

"Rumi! Up there!"

"Lord Knight Rumi, get out of the way!"

The previous voice was cold and short, and the familiar timbre made it clear that it was the tip given to him by that guy Crow.

For knights of their level, there is no need to remind them any more.

Then a young and irritable voice came from the front, and it was the reminder from Little Kil, who was galloping towards him.

Let him get out of the way, there is obviously something trying to sneak up from above.

He glanced at the monster in front of him and raised the corners of his mouth slightly. It was obvious that humans could not understand the monster's cry, but the monster could not understand the human words either.

Good opportunity, he thought.

So Knight Rumi muttered words quickly in a low voice:

"My Lord, the God of War, I am a warrior."

“Although it’s not a tough fight, it’s still difficult.”

"Monsters are raging, so we should fight bravely."

"Give me divine power to conquer the enemy."

These are the words of prayer in the warrior hall. I don’t know when Knight Rumi turned from a simple knight to a church knight of the church.

He didn't tell anyone about his faith. Fortunately, the owner of the Warrior Hall allowed the blessed person to hide his faith.

In other words, some powerful knights and warriors can secretly believe in the Lord of the Warrior Hall and become a secret member of the Warrior Hall Church.

In the distance, Knight Crow felt something, but he couldn't distinguish anything. He only felt that Rumi had a burst of power, but thought it was the knight's combat skill developed by Rumi himself.

I saw Knight Rumi pulling the reins before the monster that fell from his head approached, and gave the horse a fierce knock on the belly. The horse jumped forward directly on the spot, boom!

Just before the war horse jumped up, a harpy fell directly from the sky, its claws were lowered, and the whole thing was stuck on the grass.

The moment it landed, the entire nearby turf was lifted up, and most of the monster's body was plunged into the soil.

Although the attack was empty, the monster's body is like this. If they land with their claws, even if the attack is empty, the impact force will not cause any harm to them. But if the movements are not standard, they will be easily injured or even killed, even if their bodies are far tougher and stronger than humans.

After Knight Rumi avoided the fatal blow on horseback, his counterattack followed.

The man immediately jumped over, but unexpectedly jumped back to where he was just now.

The target is naturally the harpy monster with half of his body stuck on the ground.

As the leader, the harpy monster's vision was split, and he suddenly realized that the situation was extremely dangerous. If he were an ordinary person, he would not be an opponent against the landed harpy monster on the ground, but at this moment, his opponent was not an ordinary person.

But a human knight wearing steel armor.

The leader of the harpies flapped its wings fiercely, insisting on rescuing his companion who fell on the ground. The wings flapped, and a huge force pushed it forward and hit the human knight in mid-air.

The claws of both legs were raised, pressing against the front of the body like the collision horns of a battleship. He screamed in a sharp and rapid manner, but it did not have the lethality of the previous screams, but it revealed that the monster was at this time. Emotions of urgency.

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Kil rode towards the battlefield, his eyes looking far away in the direction of the Rumi knight who was anxious about the battle. When he noticed that after the monster screamed repeatedly, the one in the sky was attacking downwards like a falling rock, Kil immediately shouted a warning. , even if he couldn't hear what he was shouting at this time, could the loudness of his shout be able to break through the surrounding strong wind and reach the dangerous Rumi Knight?

But he was too worried, and Knight Crow also reminded him at the same time. As usual, I don’t know what method Knight Crow used. In such a loud wind, his voice was still clearly audible, just like someone else’s. Just sit in front of me and talk.

Kir heaved as the horses ran, his eyes fixed on the figure of Knight Rumi fighting.

Surprisingly, just when the sneak attack monster was about to succeed, Knight Rumi seemed to be stunned on the spot for a moment, then dangerously and dangerously let his war horse jump up on the spot, and at the last moment he dodged the sneak attack of the falling monster.

Boom - rumble.

The monster landed with great force, and half of its body was directly inserted into the soil on the ground.

And Knight Rumi immediately made a wonderful move. He jumped directly from the horse in reverse direction and returned to the place where he was just now, where the monster was now trapped.

People are in the air, cavalry spears are stretched out.

But the situation changed very quickly in just a few moments. The larger and stronger harpy seemed to be desperate and directly hit the Rumi Knight in mid-air at close range.

What happened next stunned Kil. He didn't expect to be able to fight like this.

The knight jumped up in the air, seemingly aiming to stab the sneak attack monster trapped on the ground with one shot. However, at that moment, he seemed to understand the situation of other things around him, and when the leader monster was attacking him, he twisted in mid-air. The body was turned around with the half-pierced spear.

Pass the right hand to the left hand, swing the arm quickly around the body, and then hand it to the right arm to hold behind the back.

The spear accelerated in a circle, and his right arm pushed forward violently, but the target was the leader monster that bumped into him behind him.

As time passed slowly, the knight took off his spear and sent it out. When the tail of the spear trembled and tried to move away from him, the knight raised his foot and kicked it again, adding another force to this ordinary weapon.

The tail of the gun was kicked, and the force was added to it, and the head of the gun changed from a small and stable tremor to a large tremor.

Under the knight's glaring gaze, a divine power changed from supporting the knight's flexible movements to projecting it, and instantly injected into the spear as the knight looked at it.

With the injection of divine power, the original situation of the sharp trembling of the spear head has been greatly improved. The trembling force is restrained by the divine power within the body of the spear, increasing the power of the entire spear.

Having said so much, in fact, in Kil's eyes, it was just Knight Rumi twisting in mid-air, and the spear instantly turned into a meteor, directly hitting the leader monster that was attacking him, and then the spear flashed with silver light, from Flying downwards towards the sky.

In just an instant, the spear disappeared from sight.

As for the monster that was hit, the spear had just hit the chest. There was a small hole in the chest as big as a gun barrel, but behind the monster, a hole as big as a human head was exposed.

The harpy monster is strange to say, although it has wings instead of human arms, claws instead of human feet, and has fine feathers all over its body, and its mouth is also bloody.

But their bodies as a whole are quite human-like, so it's not wrong to call them humanoid.

Therefore, the heart is located in the center of the chest, and behind the heart is the spine that manages the body. They are the most important life organs.

But at this time, most of the harpy's heart was crushed, and the rest of the lungs and some of its lungs flew to an unknown location through the hole in its back along with a spine.

The leader monster froze in mid-air for a moment, seemingly in disbelief, but instantly fell to the ground. His body twitched a few times, then it opened its sharp-toothed mouth and stared at its huge, bright eyes.

All the blood in the body gushed out along with the wound in the heart, leaving most of the monster's blood clean in a short time.

And after Knight Rumi used such a powerful shot, it also fell on the harpy monster trapped in the mud.

The monster opened its mouth fiercely and bit it, and Knight Rumi gave it a fist to eat.

"Ooooooooooooo-"

Only after the monster bit the entire human fist did it realize what it had eaten in its mouth. The cold taste of steel filled its stinky mouth, and its tongue was grabbed. However, the sharp teeth that used to bite the prey could only Sparks can be heard crunching on the steel-clad wrist.

Knight Rumi sneered and was about to punch the monster to death, but he did not expect that the harpy monster was not only cunning, but also extremely ferocious. It was not only cruel to the enemy's prey, but also to themselves.

The knight grabbed the monster's tongue, but as the monster flapped its wings and pulled itself upwards from the ground, the tongue immediately straightened, causing the entire monster's face to become deformed.

But the ferocious monster's eyes turned red. Only two of their five-headed harpies were still alive at this time. Especially when the leader died, it became crazy and didn't want to live any longer.

The wings flapped vigorously, pulling the entire body into the air. Knight Rumi, who was wearing heavy knightly steel armor, was lifted off the ground by this guy.

At the same time, the monster's big mouth and chin changed shape as it pulled out its tongue. With a pop, the bright red tongue of the monster with thick human wrists was still torn off, along with its entire jaw, and blood flowed.

The monster wailed, shook its body, and quickly flew up with its wings flapping.

Knight Rumi was about to call for his war horse, and took another cavalry lance from the horse's back to shoot down the monster.

But time seems to be running out.

At this moment, a blue light flashed from the ground not far away and flew in one direction close to the ground. But it was Kil who was riding on horseback and stretched out his hand, calling for his spiritual weapon - the water-crossing head.

"Come on!"

Keel shouted.

"Come on!"

As soon as Kil finished his second sentence, his arm shook, and the blue ax fell into his palm with a bang.

Even though the weapon came to him in an instant, it was very fast, but it actually slowed down before it came into contact with Kil's hand, otherwise Kil's wrist would be broken by this time.

‘Weapons must not harm their owners. ’

This is what a stylish weapon should do.

With the ax in both hands, Kil stared closely at the harpy that flew up quickly. In this battle, he also wanted to show off.

The battlefield is a stage, and the soldiers on the field are the actors in this dance.

Although Knight Rumi plays the main role here, he also wants to be a dancer with a dazzling performance and give a wonderful dance to all the audiences watching here from far and near.

The weapon was handed over from his left hand to his right hand, and Kil patted the bag containing the wooden doll with his left hand. His whole body was excited. Kil felt that all the life energy in his body was cheering and he was in urgent need of his leadership.

"Then come on!" he thought.

At the same time, he conveyed his thoughts to the ax held in his right hand with an indescribable feeling.

The blue light on the ax shook, and a small light that was not dazzling quickly jumped out from the axe. The screams of the souls of several monsters could be faintly heard, but in an instant, they were suppressed by the largest spider-shaped monster.

The soul of the spider-shaped monster seems to be very interested in tasting the soul of the flying monster.

"Just go and get it yourself if you're interested!"

After Kil said to himself, he made a circle with his right arm and threw the entire heavy ax from bottom to top.

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If it were anyone else who threw his weapon out like this, Knight Rumi would definitely criticize him heavily.

After all, where are weapons used like this?

Weapons like two-handed axes are not meant to be thrown. Generally, throwing axes weigh no more than one kilogram and are slightly larger than the palm of your hand. When thrown like this, not only is it powerful enough to easily cut through most leather armor, but it is also powerful enough to easily cut through most leather armor. A small amount of thin iron armor is also required to cause fatal wounds.

Even in terms of weapon carrying capacity, seven or eight throwing axes can be inserted into the belt.

Moreover, the size and weight of the throwing ax are stipulated because a slight change will directly change the trajectory of the throw and the required force. A warrior who relies on this for a living can only master such a deadly strike method after years of practice. .

But there is no one like Kiel who throws a two-handed ax weighing more than ten kilograms.

Unless Kil is a formal knight, ordinary people's arms have limited strength. Even with the bonus of riding, it is difficult to say whether the attack distance of an ax of such a weight is 20 meters.

But Knight Rumi knew from his two companions, Knight Crow and Knight Lanessa, that the weapon Kil was using at the moment was not an ordinary weapon.

That is a rare spiritual weapon.

And not only that, although spiritual weapons are rare, most of the commonly used weapons in the hands of warriors who fight all year round are spiritual weapons, but some people like this and some people don't.

Most warriors with lower skill levels prefer spiritual weapons that can perform at a higher level at critical moments, but most warriors with a certain level of skill just want weapons to be weapons, without the need for them to have personalities or thoughts.

But Kiel's one was extraordinary. After all, no one expected that a blacksmith in Dorallin Village, whose deceased elder had some courage, used an unknown magic material to create an ordinary ax in the empire. . In the days that followed, he used it to kill many powerful monsters, including the Dark Beast, a rare monster that most people had only heard of but never seen.

According to Lanissa Knight, not only that, the ax also gave her some extra dangerous and familiar feelings.

The spider-shaped monster that Lanissa defeated seemed not to be completely dead, but was captured by this axe. While the monster was allowed to survive, it also gave the ax greater power.

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Knight Rumi stood there, raising his head and letting his eyes follow the weapon that flew up and rotated in an abnormal straight line.

A flash of blue light rose from the ground, and it looked very similar to the move he had used so much effort before.

At least in the eyes of ordinary people.

Blue meteors rose from the ground, catching up with the fleeing harpies first. The howling and changeable strong wind seems unable to change the flight path of the weapon, and the monsters dodging left and right cannot escape the tracking ability of the weapon.

In the distance, Knight Crow squinted his eyes and watched all this.

But he did not focus on the harpy monster flying higher and higher in the sky as it dodged, nor did he focus on the spinning ax with blue light.

Instead, he looked at the space between the ax and Kil, as if there was something really there.

The earth-yellow light shrouded Knight Crow's eyes, and the visual perception of elements after the qualitative change of life energy allowed him to really see something.

It was a thin, straight dotted line, one end connected to the blue axe, and the other end connected to the young man on horseback.

The blue axe's light seemed to have a vague spider-like shadow, but Knight Crow seemed to feel that the source of this power was not the axe, but Kil's body.