Mercenaries and Adventurers

Knight Crow muttered, then became even more interested.

To be honest, the harpy monster is quite difficult to deal with, but it cannot cause any danger to his life. Whether it is close combat or long-range attack, these monsters cannot benefit, and the thick armor on his body can only be attacked by the monsters. If you throw him from the sky, you can rely on falling damage to hurt him.

But he is no match for melee combat, and these monsters can't do anything to him.

But others can't. Rumi Knight can still deal with a small number of harpy monsters, but if there are more, he will definitely be in a hurry. Once the monster takes him to the sky, it will be really dangerous.

As for Kil and other warriors who are not knights, they are most afraid of being attacked by monsters throwing heavy objects. If they are not handled properly, there is a danger of the monsters defeating the organization.

Knowing that the war was at its climax, Knight Crow immediately released his life energy that changed the nature of the elements. Before, I had always relied on ordinary knightly methods to fight, but now I had to go all out.

The knight kept pulling the war horse, making the unusually strong war horse leap forward on the spot, constantly passing through the slightly chaotic militia team, and quickly approaching the center of the army.

Every time his war horse lands, the huge impact and tremor can knock the militiamen in a circle around the horse to the ground.

Facing such a powerful Knight Crow, the soldiers did not dare to say anything or even complain.

Several monsters that were thrown away by the knight also chased after them, screaming and flapping their wings. They not only wanted to stop Crow, the iron-clad human in their eyes, but also went to support the big monster trapped in the air by the flashing 'monster' in the middle of the army. leader.

As several leaps approached the group of carriages, a surging earth-yellow halo gradually rose up on Knight Crow's body, and the surrounding ground continued to tremble slightly as he moved. These tremors on the ground were not necessarily uniform. It was the shock caused by the knight's heavy horse falling to the ground.

"Ha! Make a way for me! Earth! Make a way for me!"

Knight Crow shouted.

As he shouted, the ground vibrations suddenly increased in several open spaces on the route in front of him, and a square piece of ground with a side of two meters rose up from the soft grassland soil in an instant.

The ground lifted up one after another, all the way up at a speed that seemed slow but was actually fast.

The raised earth platform closest to Knight Crow only rose to a height of three meters before it trembled to a stop, and continued to condense and strengthen itself.

The next dirt platform a little further away continued to rise after rising to three meters, and stopped at a height of six meters.

The one further away, the earth platform that had risen in the gap among the carriages, was even higher, rising to a height of twelve meters. The last earth platform rose to a height of forty meters in one breath. It became a towering pillar of earth.

This scene shocked everyone around them. Not only was the constant shaking of the ground causing human beings to naturally fear, but it was also the fact that such a powerful ability appeared in front of them.

To be honest, although the two previous magical arts are also very magnificent, they are a bit empty after all, and the magical arts have a natural sense of emptiness.

Even if the militiamen have little knowledge, they can instinctively feel that no matter how magnificent these magical arts are, they are supported by the constant consumption of power. Once the power is exhausted, they will definitely dissipate.

But what Knight Crow drives is not false power. He himself - everyone has seen Knight Crow's performance in the Angry River before - controls and drives real materials, soil, and the earth.

The towering square pillar of earth that rises in one breath brings a shock to human beings that far exceeds the shock brought by divine magic.

Even Baron Kendall gasped and took a deep breath to relieve the rapid rise of square pillars of earth facing the center of the army. Several priests next to him also looked at each other and frowned.

They feel that today's limelight has been stolen by Crow, a powerful knight. Will their missionary work be hindered?

The baron glanced at the expressions of the priests, and the beard at the corners of his mouth was raised a little, but he quickly hid the smile. Doesn't he know what the priests are planning? Although it was impossible to see what methods they used to increase their influence in the hearts of the soldiers, the knowledgeable baron was sure that the priests had tampered with it.

The Padres have been waiting for today's opportunity, haven't they?

This is something you know and I know.

This has been a tacit understanding between the two parties since he asked the church in Kendall to select men to go with the army.

I need your help to give you the opportunity to increase your military influence.

The militiamen, who originally mostly believed in the god of agriculture, will also change from one dominant one to three vying for supremacy in terms of religious influence due to the performance and competition of several churches.

Unfortunately, there are other forces in Kendal County. The Baron had originally considered sending people to bring them along to confuse the beliefs of the entire county. Only after confounding the beliefs of the entire county would the power of his actual noble lord be established. All parties are in balance and continue to grow and develop.

For example, the previous situation where the Church of Saturn was dominated by one family was actually very dangerous. In villages and settlements everywhere, no power can compete with the Church of Saturn for faith, not even the city of Kendall.

It wasn't until the Baron's father, the old Baron, relied on the family's knowledge and influence to support other churches such as the Church of the God of Forging, that the situation in Kendall City was completely in the hands of the Baron family.

Even the Church of Saturn's aggressiveness and desire for control are not strong among the churches.

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Knight Crow once again let his war horse leap forward and drew an arc. His war horse accurately landed on the top of the three-meter-high earth square pillar platform.

"Again! Again!"

Sensing the horse's hesitation, the knight encouraged it.

Then the strong war horse once again leaped forward on the same spot. Without the acceleration of running, such a leap on the spot is very dangerous. Ordinary horses are simply unable to make such an action, and they are also unable to cross such a distance in one breath.

It is only because these knights' horses have been modified and their blood is mixed with the blood of other powerful monsters that they can achieve such good performance. In addition, every powerful knight of the knight level will rely on the mysterious magic contract to use the life energy that originally belonged only to the knight himself to help strengthen and improve their mounts in battle.

Perform impossible combat performances.

Of course, these are abilities that ordinary family inheritance knights do not have.

Generally, it comes from the Kingdom Army. Only the Kingdom Army has mastered the complicated methods of breeding beasts and handed them over to the knights who came from the Kingdom Army.

This skill can no longer be taught to others, because he once made an oath to the gods in the army, and those who violate it will be severely punished, and no one dares to break it.

An additional digression here is that the kingdom's army is not the king or the regent's own army, but the main military organization of the kingdom funded by the Noble Council formed by various nobles in the kingdom and the Church of the God of Nobles. They will fight for the interests of the nobles of the kingdom, not for the king or regent's own family. They obey the orders of the noble council. The king and regent themselves are only the leaders of the noble council, not the owners.

Boom, the war horse jumped up again and landed on another earth square pillar platform six meters above the ground.

The height of the next landing point is already about 12 meters. If the war horse is running and accelerating, it can jump so high in one breath. But at this time, the platform is only about two meters long on a side. The huge and strong war horse is standing here. , I have to hit the front and back hooves to keep from falling, and I have no ability to move forward at all.

"That's it, my friend. Protect yourself."

Knight Crow told his horse, then turned over and stood next to the horse.

He first stepped heavily on the square pillar of earth under his feet. After feeling that the thing he had controlled and created was very strong, he immediately squatted down heavily, and then jumped forward on the spot.

With one vertical leap, he jumped from this six-meter-high platform to a twelve-meter-high platform ten meters away.

He kept up his efforts and made another big jump, jumping from this twelve-meter-high platform to the last platform that was nearly forty meters high.

Knight Crow pulled out the magic gem sword that he had just put away, squatted on the ground with his left hand and pulled out a wrist-thick clay stick directly from the clay platform.

The knight quickly placed the hilt of the sword on the top of the clay stick, and then focused his eyes, controlling the khaki life energy to flow into the clay stick, causing the top of the stick to deform and wrap around the hilt of the sword.

Then he held the clay stick in both hands, poured a large amount of his life energy into it, and used his own life energy to strengthen the clay stick in his hand.

This thing kept changing. In just two or three seconds, it shrank several times. After the original earthy material came into contact with Knight Crow's steel gauntlet, the sound it made became crisper.

Obviously the strength of this thing has become almost like steel due to the life energy.

Knight Crow breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand, and the temporary 'spear' in his hand kept being pulled out. It was not until it was pulled out that the full length of the spear was revealed. It was actually seven meters long, and the top end was The blade of a sword that is over one meter long is used as the head of a spear, and it looks very powerful.

Knight Crow picked up the temporary spear and then looked up to a higher place in the sky.

More than ten meters above the head is the place where the coin monster and the big harpy monster are entangled. After the delay just now, the size of the coin monster has been reduced by more than one circle, and it is almost the same size as an ordinary harpy monster. size.

If it weren't for its heavy weight, it would have been unable to hold back the monster leader who was frantically trying to escape.

Knight Crow knew that he had only one chance to jump onto the coin monster. If he failed to catch both of them, let alone whether he would be killed or injured if he accidentally fell and fell. There was no more chance for the coin monster to entangle the monster leader. It's time for him to do it again.

"Whirring whirring--"

The knight took two deep breaths and squatted down without taking a run-up before jumping back to the spot.

Boom!

The surface of the earth square pillar, which was reinforced by life energy, was stepped into two deep foot holes by the force of Knight Crow's leap.

The knight himself jumped up in an instant and approached the two who were entangled.

However, contrary to the expectations of everyone on the ground who was paying attention to the situation at this time, Knight Crow did not reach out to catch the coin monster while trying to keep his body stable. Even though Priest Rosari of the Church of the God of Wealth received the baron’s prompt and controlled the coin The monster's body was placed as smoothly as possible, just so that Knight Crow could easily catch it and climb up to fight.

Knight Crow boldly swung the seven-meter spear in his hand and plunged the sword blade of the spear into the body of the big harpy leader.

"Yah!!!"

The leader of the painful monster couldn't see it, but depending on the direction of the attack, he flapped his wings and hit it directly.

"Hmph." The knight snorted coldly, and controlled the magic blade on his sword through the air with the gun barrel full of life energy in his hand to activate it.

Buzz-buzz-buzz.

The sword as the head of the gun emits magical blue light, and a one-meter-long magical blade is emitted directly from the tip of the sword, penetrating the entire monster's body fiercely and abruptly.

Even though this big leader of the harpy monster is four and a half meters tall, and his body is extremely strong and thick, the two-meter-long attack length of the front and rear magic sword blades and the sword body still stabbed it directly through.

The blue-white magic sword even penetrated from the other end and sprayed out a large number of magic sparks that came into contact with the blood in the monster's body.

These extremely corrosive and destructive magic sparks burned and tore apart the body of the harpy monster, causing it great pain.

"Gah! Gah! Gah!"

I don’t know what this sharp cry said, but all the harpies in the surrounding area that were originally driven away by coin weapons, and other harpies on the battlefield in a wider range, heard it.

Some of them were blinded by magic, some were not blinded, and all of them turned their feathered heads in the direction of the injured leader.

Then they put down everything around their paws, flapped their wings eagerly and flew upwards to support their leader.

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"Now, two priests, use your magic!"

The baron gave a heavy order, and at the same time he raised the magic gem short staff in his hand, aiming at all the harpies that were gathering in the air.

"Yes, sir." The two Saturn priests, one old and one young, responded in unison.

The two of them are different from the other two priests from other churches who came alone with the army. The two of them can do much more than one person alone in terms of battlefield magic that requires more people to perform together.

At least two people can control many more things together than one person.

This is generally the case for normal human beings. Other things like double-mindedness, polycephaly, megalencephaly, conjoined people, and other things that can be related to magicians are beyond the scope of ordinary people's imagination.

The two Saturnine priests faced each other two meters apart, one at one end of the carriage and the other at the other end of the carriage. They both raised their arms and opened their palms to face each other.

Immediately, the older priests began to pray: "Evil is established, and it is difficult to make a living."

The young priest then followed up: "It's not easy to travel far away, and the soil left behind will be left behind."

Then the two of them alternately prayed loudly: "He bullied me, you bullied me."

"Who knows, farmer Zhaofan."

“High-five and swear an oath to ask God for battle.”

"The God of Agriculture bowed his head in pity."

"Send my men to wait and arrive today."

"You wait for the battle, and I wait for the rescue."

"There will be no end of blood and no end of life."

"Just because of the power, it's in the earth."

“Plow the soil and cultivate the fields.”

“The power lies within your own heart and mine.”

“The power lies within your and my heart!”

The two of them sang one last line with great enthusiasm, and the divine power of the God of Agriculture surged out of their bodies and converged towards the space between them.

The old priest has a lot of divine power, but the young priest has much less, because he has already provided a lot of support to Kiel before.

The two actually had slight differences on this matter. The old priest wanted to use more divine magic on the army to consolidate and strengthen the influence of the Saturnian faith in the militia, at least not to allow the other two to take over too much.

However, the young priest received a revelation from the god of agriculture along the way, suggesting that he should try his best to send the divine power into the body of the young man Kiel during the rest of the journey.

Help the seeds of the God of Agriculture in Kil’s body to germinate, further allowing the God of Agriculture’s power to help the young man Kil.

The young priest was confused about the god's intention at first, but later he felt that maybe the god of agriculture intended to make Kiel, a guy who quickly rose to become a knight-level warrior, fall to the church of the god of agriculture due to the influence of his power.

To be honest, the Church of the God of Agriculture has the largest number of believers, and of course the stalls are also large. But as the brother of God, the church cannot distance itself from other churches in terms of strength.

Just last year, the Sun God seemed to have reached the top in one fell swoop, surpassing many human gods and sitting on the throne in heaven that could only be occupied by other powerful gods.

Since last year, a divine celestial body of the human sun god has gradually been revealed in the sky, with the sun god's divine emblem hanging on it at any time.

At this point, believers of the Sun God no longer need to go to holy places to pray and worship every day. They can just pray directly to the emblem of the god in the sky.

Because God is already there.

You can see it just by looking up.

You look at Him.

He is watching you too.

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As the prayers were finished, the divine power flowing out of the two people was concentrated in the sphere of divine power facing each other between the palms of the two people.

After the divine power was provided, the work of the two priests was not finished. At this time, their spirits were already connected with the divine power sphere, and they were constantly active in the divine power sphere, organizing the chaotic and disordered divine power according to the teachings of the church. .

The center of the sphere was naturally the god's emblem of the God of Agriculture, and since it was spring, they built a second god's emblem - the goddess of spring - Joy, around the god's emblem of the God of Agriculture.

Although there are other auxiliary gods under the God of Agriculture, because the God of Agriculture is an extremely powerful god, he does not need to do anything more.

The help they needed just now has been integrated into the prayers. After hearing the divine power and divine emblems of the prayers, they will automatically control the surrounding divine power according to the prayer needs to form the required battlefield healing magic.

Sure enough, in just a few seconds, the originally round ball of divine power quickly transformed into a huge seed radiating green light.

The image of this seed is semi-transparent and semi-illusory. It looks like a certain kind of seed, but when you look at it again, it seems to look like another kind of seed.

In any case, it looks like the grain seeds that farmers often deal with.

Inside the translucent seed, there are two heart-like emblems of gods moving around. Various light filaments are rapidly exchanged between the two emblems of gods, and they are also constantly swinging in the translucent seed.

Then, the seed expanded and pumped like a heart, and dozens of cyan light spots exploded from its surface.

After these light spots were blown out, they did not fall to the ground in disorder, but directly penetrated into everyone around them.

If you can observe these light spots carefully, you will find that each small cyan light spot is a smaller translucent seed image.

In every smaller seed, there is still a god of agriculture, a divine emblem of the goddess of spring.

Of course, the tiny green seeds that were thrown at the two other church priests around them did not successfully touch these two priests. Directly on the surface of the body, it aroused the divine reaction of other gods, and all of a sudden the tiny, harmless and healing seeds were flicked to the ground aside.

The tiny green seeds that fell to the ground suddenly burrowed into the soil and turned into a plant in an instant, growing rapidly. Even the plants that look like crops are translucent and are not real crops.

And other people who didn't react that big, like Baron Kendall. A nearly transparent magic shield suddenly appeared on the Baron's body, trapping the tiny cyan seeds that wanted to get close to him in the middle of the magic shield.

Neither popping it out nor letting it in, just trapped like this, letting the seeds dissipate on their own.

Other seeds that exploded flew up and touched everyone around them, blending into their skin and bodies, blooming, sprouting and growing in the human body instantly. And in this process, a healing ability that is strong or weak is generated through divine power.

The soldiers whose ears were injured and deafened by the monster's screams felt itchy at the moment, and a surge of vigorous physical strength emerged from their bodies. All the physical energy consumed by marching, panic and fighting seemed to have returned. The fatigue before was more like an illusion, and only the abundant physical strength at this moment was real.

Seeing this, the baron directly opened his mouth and let the magic amplify his voice and shouted: "All soldiers, all obey the order and gather in the carriage. Repeat, all the soldiers obey the order and gather in the carriage. Get closer quickly."

The huge translucent seeds between the two priests are constantly releasing dozens of tiny green light seeds outward every second. These seeds spread rapidly outward, not affected by gravity or the surrounding grassland. Affected by strong winds.

Continuously enter the bodies of the surrounding Kendall militiamen, quickly heal them, and provide them with abundant physical strength powered by divine power.

The militiamen whose ears healed quickly were delighted that they could hear the noisy sounds around them again, but before they could say a few words excitedly, they were immediately silenced by the huge baron's command.

After hearing the order, most of the soldiers moved towards the center of the army. Some soldiers who wanted to pick up broken coins on the ground were dragged away by their companions.

"Let me pick up another one, just one!"

"I've picked up so many, when will it be all over? First follow the orders and defeat the monsters."

"Idiot, after defeating the monster, where is the chance to pick up these coin fragments?"

"You are the fool. If you pick it up, can it still be yours? It's not all noble men's money. Do you really think that if you pick it up, it's yours?"

So the money-hungry militiamen were dragged away dejectedly.