Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kil took a deep breath of the blood-smelling forest air and exhaled it with satisfaction.

"The robbers deserved their fate."

He plunged the double-edged metal spear into the ground, then groped for the body of the bandit leader.

The first is the metal cane that the opponent was still holding tightly in his hand when he died.

Kil broke his fingers and spread them open. He carefully held the mysterious weapon that almost killed him twice and looked at it with his fingers.

It is a short metal staff with a length of thirty centimeters. It is different from the short magic gem staff used by Baron Kendall that Keir has seen before. This metal staff is made of silver-white metal with a tapered bottom. It seems that it can be used for stabbing and self-defense, but the top is a metal round head that can be held in one's hand.

On the round ball at the top was a wailing man's face, with a strange and sad expression. His movements were like those of the women in famous paintings that Kiel had seen in his previous life, with his hands on his chin and his mouth wide open as he let out a silent wail.

Keir's senses were sharp. He carefully brought the top of the metal cane close to his ear, and then showed an unsurprised expression.

He heard the faint whine of a man coming from the ball at the top of the cane.

It was as if the wails of pain were really coming from the carvings on the cane.

After swallowing, Kil secretly cheered himself up and muttered in a low voice that there was a ghost in another world. It was a very normal phenomenon and there was no need to panic.

Kil didn't know how to use this cane, so he put it away carefully.

Then he pulled three rings off the fingers of the bandit leader, a middle-aged man named Nobby Fisbiru.

As soon as he looked at the two, he recognized them from the magic gems on the ring. These might be the two magic props owned by the other party.

Thinking of this, he got up and quickly looked behind the trunk of a big tree across from the clearing. Sure enough, he found a belt decoration pendant with a buckle here.

This thing is also a magic prop, but the difference is that its function is just simple lighting.

Keir looked at it for a moment, then pinned the luminous pendant to his metal belt. Then he turned over and inspected the enemy's body.

He found a medium-sized magic bell on the opponent's leather belt embroidered with gold and silver threads, and found a hot metal medal in another small leather bag with a burning smell.

This metal round plate is made of gold, with other metals on the surface. The outermost surface is made of magic gems to form a small wind scroll. There are many words under the round plate, but Kiel doesn't recognize any of them.

He probably guessed that this was the language of high aristocrats, a language that only nobles could learn to show their identity and keep it secret from the common people.

They all came from the empire.

The magic gem on the surface of this round card is radiating some heat, causing the entire metal round card to be very hot. If it weren't for the steel gloves on Kil's hands, he wouldn't be able to hold this thing at this moment.

Not only that, some magic gems also have small magic sparks connecting each other from time to time. This thing has high energy, and Kil dare not touch it.

Carefully digging a hole in the middle of the clearing, Kil threw the metal medal into it and then buried it with soil.

This thing seemed to have been forcibly broken, causing some damage, so Kil buried it first and let it release the remaining magic power inside. Wait until dawn tomorrow and he will come back to have a look.

Gere continued to examine the body of Nobby Fisbiru, and found a small shield emblem with the family crest as a token in another waist pocket.

Also, one of the rings I found before was a ring with a noble crest.

These things have no effect on Kil, but they can be collected as souvenirs or rewards.

Finally, Keir also found a small bag of gold coins, a bunch of keys and an exquisitely crafted hollow ball.

The first two are nothing, they are just money and the key to the lock of the other party's lair or box. It was just the last thing that Keel found interesting.

This exquisitely crafted hollow ball is made of countless hexagonal mesh metal, and contains a large, languid golden moth.

This fluttering moth folded its wings and curled up inside the hollow metal ball. When Keer looked at it, it also looked at Keer's face feebly.

The tentacles on the top of the head moved, and then stopped moving with a weak look.

Keir didn't think that the important thing placed in the opponent's left breast pocket was something insignificant.

He had some guesses about the use of this thing, but he couldn't prove anything at this time, so he ignored it for now, put it away, and talked about it later.

-

Keir called his horse, put Noby Fisbiru's body on the horse's back, and then led the horse in the direction he came from.

On the way, he also found the prairie horse that the enemy was riding. Although it was shot by Kiel, the horse's vitality was far greater than that of humans. Even an arrow in the butt did not affect the movement and life of the prairie horse. .

The blood had long stopped flowing where the arrow had hit it. Although as the horse moved, it could be seen that being hit by an arrow slightly affected its movement, but the impact was not significant.

The prairie horse saw the body of its owner on the back of the blood-licking grass, so it took the initiative to come over. It bumped Nobby Fisbyru's leg with its head, and when it found that its owner didn't move at all, it stopped silently.

Keir grabbed the reins of the prairie horse and led it away on the blood-licking grass, but it didn't resist.

-

When Keir quickly returned to where he could see the clearing, he found the refugees now confronting the blinded bandits.

The bandits were blinded, but although they had not been able to intervene in the battle between Kil and Nobby Fisbiru before, they were not stupid. They had already shouted to each other and gathered together without being able to see anything. together.

Although the young refugees who fought with Kiel could see things, they had no way to deal with the bandits who had gathered together.

Even more passive.

Because the bandits had short bows in their hands, after they repeatedly confirmed that all the people who were still alive were gathered together, anything that could make a sound became their target of attack.

While riding on horseback, Kil saw a few young refugees with weapons scattered around the bandits who formed a circle on the wasteland.

They may want to make a sneak attack when they see the bandits are blinded, or launch an attack. But because the sound missed his whereabouts, he was shot to death by more than a dozen arrows.

Every brave young man is surrounded by arrows shot by the other party. The bandits, who probably can't see anything, will continue to shoot at the young man who fell to the ground after being hit by arrows until the other party is completely dead. No more noise.

Kil's breathing became heavy. He rode out of the woods and waved to his fellow refugees to let them notice that he was the one with the light-emitting device on his waist.

Then he shouted: "Everyone stand back and watch me kill them all!"

Kil jumped off his horse and tied Nobby Fisbiru's horse to the trunk of a nearby tree. Then he picked up the double-edged metal spear and strode towards the thirty or forty bandits who had gathered together.

Dong-dong-dong-dong, Kiel started running in big strides, and then his movements became more powerful. He gradually jumped up with each step, and with one step, he was two or three meters away.

When he was almost close to the bandits, he jumped up with all his strength.

Crash into groups of enemies from the air.

The bandits were not deaf. They first heard Kil's cry, and then realized that in the battle between the noble leader and the young knight, their noble master had lost.

They panicked, but then they were scolded by a middle-aged man who looked like a butler in the middle of the crowd: "Even so, as soldiers of the King of White Walls, we need to avenge our master! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot at that knight!" Even if I bite him with my teeth, I will bite him to death!"

When the man said this, some staunch diehards in the team immediately fired their bows and arrows towards the sound of the striding steps.

They were all bandit soldiers who were skilled in bows and arrows. They could accurately judge Kiel's position and speed just by the thumping sound of Kiel's boots on the ground as he accelerated towards him.

Then the bows and arrows shot out continuously.

Some people launched an attack, and others who wanted to slip away had no choice but to shoot arrows amidst the sound of bowstrings vibrating around them.

-

Kil held a double-edged metal spear in his right hand, and his left arm stood in front of his head and face, using the armor on his forearm to block the incoming bow and arrows.

Although there were many people on the other side and the bows and arrows were fired intensively, after all, it was a 'blind shooting' after being blinded by the power of the Sun God. I had no confidence, lacked strength and determination, and most of the arrows could only land on Ben. Coming behind Kil, only some of the arrows luckily hit him.

However, the combined weight of Kil's equipment and body weight weighed at least 1,780 kilograms, and his running power was not something that a few arrows could stop.

In the last leap before approaching, Kil held the double-edged metal spear in mid-air, and then slammed it down into the crowd in front.

boom!

Puff, squeak——

After jumping to the ground, Kil directly trampled the bodies and heads of the two bandits under his feet with his feet, and the spear he smashed in his hand smashed the heads and shoulders of the people in front of him into pieces of flesh and blood.

The splashing body tissue knocked down the bandits next to them, causing them to scream in fright.

After landing, Keir took a deep breath and used all the power in his body. The life energy replaced by the power of the god of agriculture was perfectly replaced and consumed. Kil's strength was not reduced by half, waving the spear in his hand and sweeping the heads of the bandits around him.

Some people subconsciously raised their arms to resist amid the splattering flesh and blood, but the result was nothing more than a smashed head mixed with broken arms.

The sharp blades of the spears sliced ​​off every human flesh they touched. When Kil turned around, at least four or five people died under its blades.

"ha!"

Everyone in the surrounding circle was dead. Kil raised his hand and stabbed directly through the chest of a bandit. He picked it up and threw it out, then ignored the enemy who was bound to die.

On the left, a bandit was wading over the broken limbs and flesh to kill him, but Kiel's spear was turned upside down, and the tail of the gun was thrust directly into the opponent's roaring mouth and out of the back of the head.

The spear was stretched forward and swung left and right, and the double blades of the spear head cut the necks of a series of robbers left and right.

With a gentle brush, most of the thieves' necks were cut open, and even flesh and bones could not stop the energetic Kiel.

"Ha ha ha ha."

While 'fighting', Kil laughed loudly and heartily, and matched with the green fluorescence emitted from his upper armor. Even the young refugees on the other side of the creek were so scared that they huddled together.

Some people thought of what it was like during the day and thought it was crazy that many young people from the same village or other villages dared to contradict or ignore such a knight.

-

"Ahhhhhh!!"

Kiel's side was killing with ease, and then from the center of the chaotic crowd of bandits, several people who were not wearing animal skins and carrying short bows and quivers were shot out.

These people were wearing exquisite clothes, carrying long steel swords or short rapiers, and they were killing him with desperate actions.

Kil stepped on the corpse and rushed forward for two steps. Then he turned his spear and the tip of the spear passed through the legs of the fastest person. The person fell to the ground with his legs broken, but after falling, he didn't care. With his severed legs, he grabbed the body in front of him with his hands and used the strength to crawl towards the laughing young knight in front.

But after getting close, before he could strike with his sword, Kil raised his leg and stamped down, crushing the man's head on the ground.

The metal spear flipped over, just like a snowman made from breaking loose snow, and killed the brave men in front of it.

He took a deep breath of the air that smelled of various human bodily fluids, looked around, and found that dozens of bandits had been defeated by him, killing more than twenty people directly, and the remaining ten people were rolling and crawling toward him. Scattered around and fled.

"Shh-"

Blow the whistle, and the blood-licking grass will rush in response.

It was a little disgusted by the dead bodies everywhere, so it only wandered outside the pile of dead bodies. Kil had to come out, get on his horse, and chase down the bandits running around.

He first shouted to the young refugees on the other side of the creek: "Don't worry about this place. Go and support Priest Batal first. Leave these people to me. You can go to the other side of the clearing to support. Go quickly!"

As soon as Keir shouted, the young men turned around and ran away, trembling, as if Keir was far more terrifying than the dozens of bandits before them.

The flesh and blood stained on his combat boots were knocked off by the running horses. Kil put away his spear, turned around first, picked up his hunting bow, and aimed his arrow at several bandits who were running towards the woods to the southeast of the clearing.

"breathe."

Kil forced to hold his breath, then took aim and fired the arrow, whoosh——

A bandit who was rolling and crawling towards the woods fell down at the sound and was hit by an arrow in the back.

The man still wanted to get up, but he vomited blood in his mouth and lost strength in his body quickly. Especially the severe pain made the bandit get up three or four times, but failed. I could only sit on the grass with my hands propped up, listening to the sound of several arrows passing by, and the screams of pain from my companions falling down.

Finally, accompanied by the sound of rushing horses' hooves and the roar of heavy objects breaking through the air, the bandit finally lost consciousness.

-

Kil flicked the spear with his right hand, shaking off the flesh and blood of the remaining limbs stained by the gun tip, and then chased the bandits in other directions.

The bandits fled in all directions, so Kiel first chased several bandits who fled to the woods to the southeast, and then chased them south. On the gentle slope of the wasteland that gradually rose, he shot these bandits from a long distance with arrows, and then rushed towards them. Go up and stab them one by one with your spear.

He then turned southwest of the clearing, the direction he had emerged from the woods.

Perhaps the neighing sound of the arrowed prairie horse attracted the attention of the bandits who fled here after being blinded. Several of them focused on the horse that the original leader was riding.

The guy who ran over first had his belt grabbed by his companion who ran after him before he even got on his horse.

"If you want to walk together, pull me up!"

Facing the threat from his companion, the bandit who got on the horse first kicked his left leg hard towards his companion's head: "Let go! Let go! That devil is coming after me, please let go!"

But while the two were fighting, someone else came over. Together with the person in front, they grabbed the animal skin pants of the person on the horse and forcibly pulled them off: "We have to run together, otherwise no one will be able to run! Anyway, we have to run together." I am the only one in my family. My father died in a fight with the checkpoint soldiers, and my mother fell ill and died. Today I just want to drag someone into the water! Die with me."

"You're sick, don't hold me back. There are trees here. You can definitely survive if you run into the woods!"

But the rebuttal immediately came out: "Then why are you still riding a horse? I'll ride a horse, and you go into the forest!"

As three or four men struggled for control of the horses, Gere rode up.

He subdued these people, and the horse's reins were still firmly tied to the trunk of the bush. It was impossible for the person who rode on to run away.

He rushed over on horseback, and these fools tried to escape into the woods, but they were shot dead at close range by Kiel's arrows one by one. Then he used a long spear to finish the attack to ensure that the enemy was completely killed.

Finally, Kil rode towards the creek and had a good 'communication' with the bandits who had gone the wrong way.

-

Keir spared the life of one of the bandits by the creek, while the others jumped off their horses and killed them with swords.

After tying up the last single seedling of the bandits, Kil took a breath, felt the strength and energy in his body, mounted his horse again, crossed the shallow stream, and ran towards the clearing.

Before leaving, he turned around and looked at the corpses of bandits scattered on the wasteland behind him, and finally fixed his gaze on the magic lion that was also looking towards him.

After no one controlled the magical creation, it didn't move at all. It was just that it couldn't move, but the huge lion's head kept looking at Keir.

Kil didn't know which of the magic props seized from Nobby Fisbiru was related to controlling this guy, so he had to put it aside first, ignore it, and wait for the other party's use time to end. Naturally, Restore the appearance of the original toy lion.

-

The battle on Kiel's side ended with the final unilateral suppression of the battle, but on the side of Priest Batal, things did not go so smoothly.

Let's go forward in time, just when Wild Snake and his people rushed towards the first batch of refugees in the clearing, to the north of the clearing, close to the trade road.

Priest Batal, who arrived here, directed his young men to throw the wood in the fire forward.

But under the flickering light of the firewood, the ferocious and strong bandits were discovered one by one.

These people stopped pretending and stood up from the bushes and flowers they had been hiding in before. They all raised their sharp reflective swords with grins and slowly approached.

There were only a dozen bandits, but they overwhelmed the hundreds of young refugees who dared to fight.

"Ha!" Some bandits raised their hands, each holding a weapon, and shouted intimidatingly.

"Hoo!" A bandit used a sharp knife to cut his neck, causing the young refugees' legs to tremble in fear.

"Hmph, these people are no different from the cattle plowing the fields." The sturdy middle-aged bandit leader touched his nose and blew out a breath of disdain.

He whispered to the bandits who were slowly approaching the refugees: "Act as planned."