Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the middle of the night, after finishing bragging with his friends, Kil had just entered his new camp to rest. He didn't know if he would be haunted by the ghosts of the bandits he killed tonight.

But not long after he lay down, while he was still preparing for sleep, he heard panicked footsteps approaching from a distance.

"Stop! This is the Lord Knight's camp, don't come near it!" A warning voice came out to block incoming people.

These are the armed people closest to Kiel himself. As Kiel's temporary direct descendants, they will guard Kiel's tent every night, taking turns to guard Kiel's safety and his own wealth day and night (mainly It is a carriage and horses loaded with various supplies).

The advantage of being direct lineage is that these people are never assigned extra work by Kiel, which gradually creates a gap between them and the rest of the team these days. But these people don't care. After all, they are from multiple villages and are not familiar with each other. There are many benefits to following the Kiel Knights, but there are barriers.

"It's me, it's me, the team leader behind the clearing! I have something to ask the Lord Knight, so don't block the way!"

Judging from the sound, the person who came to visit in the middle of the night was in a panic, but it was the captain of the armed civilian team who had been arranged by Kiel to secure the fence at the back of the open space.

But Kiel had always explained, so the people who helped Kiel's night guard patrols didn't care who came. The long swords at their waists were slightly out, and they didn't give way.

But he still said: "Wait here for a while, let's go call the Lord Knight. If it's not something important, you'd better be careful!"

The speaker looked at each other for a while with the captain of the armed civilian team who came to find Kiel. Then he came to the door of Kiel's tent in person and greeted Kiel in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Sir Knight, someone is here to see you."

Keir hadn't slept, so of course he heard the movement outside just now. He responded and asked the guard to let the visitor in.

He simply put on the newly bought cloak and lit an oil lamp in the camp.

The curtain of the camp was opened, and a young man wearing a simple leather armor captured from the bandits and carrying two machetes at his waist walked in quickly. After seeing that Knight Kiel had stood up, he told the matter directly.

"Knight Kiel, since just now, we have been patrolling the rear fence of the open space and have discovered some unusual signs."

There was some cold sweat on the squad leader's face, and his expression was a little nervous. At least Kiel saw that his nervous lips were a little lighter in color.

Kil patted him on the shoulder and asked him to relax: "Don't be nervous, tell me, you found any unusual signs."

After taking a deep breath, the team leader explained: "When my people were patrolling tonight, they heard someone whispering outside in the dark field near our open field fence!"

Keir put his hands on his waist and thought: "It may be the people in the town who are monitoring the test, or it may be some organizations and forces who are curious about us. Don't be nervous, maybe they are the debtors who take care of the field. They can't sleep in the middle of the night. Come out for a walk."

The team leader forced a smile and continued: "More than that, after being reminded by my subordinates, I personally participated in the patrol, but I saw with my own eyes a pair of light spots hanging in mid-air not far outside the fence."

When he said this, he became nervous again: "It's like a ghost! Are the dead people peeking at us?"

To be honest, the attacks and battles that night were not only such a bloody and chaotic night for Kiel, after all, he had killed so many people with his own hands, even if those people deserved to die. The experience of that night was a terrifying memory that they would never forget for the young men under Kiel who were ordinary farmers and hunters in the village.

Fortunately, they won in the end. The victory in the battle and the seizure of materials looted by the bandits greatly relieved the pressure of many people, which made everyone feel more stable these days.

But that's just an appearance.

Tonight's unusual signs made this young squad leader, who usually spoke loudly and aggressively, move in a hectic and panicky manner. When facing Kiel alone, he finally revealed the nervousness and fear that he would not show to his subordinates.

Knight Kiel was the only existence he could find that could bring him a sense of security.

Not to mention the Priest of the God of Agriculture in the army, although he also believed in religion, that was just because he was born in a peasant family and his faith was naturally influenced by his family. Ever since his family fled from his hometown, he no longer cared about his previous beliefs.

After all, it had been a long time since he prayed devoutly to the God of Agriculture in the fields he worked personally, even though he was still eating the abundant seeds given by the God of Agriculture and Priests every day.

Because he knew very well that after his experience since the escape, he realized that the God of Agriculture could not help the poor people who were fleeing much in these terrible things.

Even the religious people in the team said that the god of agriculture sent the Knight of Kiel to them.

These things are all empty words. He now only believes in the real power and strength that can be seen with the naked eye. The Kir knight who could defeat hundreds of bandits almost single-handedly was the strength and strength he now believed in.

Kil actually felt a little embarrassed when he heard what he said, but he couldn't show it in front of this person. So he smiled confidently: "Don't worry, I'll put on my armor right now and go over to take a look. You, pass my order and tell the other teams to get up and patrol, put more torches in your hands, and surround them with The fence is illuminated.”

"No matter what it is, as long as it is illuminated by fire, it will not cause trouble. If someone wants to attack us, we will do it to them, just like last time, we will beat the opponent severely!"

Kiel patted the opponent's shoulder heavily, and pointed to the two machetes on the opponent's waist: "And this time everyone is different from last time. Believe me, and believe that each of you has a guy in your hand. If someone is chopped, it will be the same." They will die. The same goes for monsters, and the same goes for undead zombies. If they are really ghosts or something, I will burn them with magic flames to ensure that they are all destroyed."

"Yes! Lord Knight!"

Inspired by this, the young team leader, who was several years older than Kiel, suddenly became enthusiastic and seemed more confident than Kiel. After responding loudly, he ran out and went. Convey Knight Kil's orders to other squad leaders.

Keir looked at this man's movements, smiled bitterly, and disappeared in an instant.

The next moment, he appeared at the original place fully armed.

He is wearing a thick metal full-coverage armor with minor damage. The newly purchased cloak - [Night Ambition] - is also draped on the shoulder armor of the metal armor, and is closed and buckled at the front of the neck armor.

Behind him was a blue-lighting head and two-handed axe. After reappearing at this time, he waved to the side of the tent, and the long sword Hunting leaning on one end of the sleeping bag automatically jumped up from the ground, jumped into his hand, and was then hung on the left waist.

After opening the curtain of the camp tent, Kiel's heavily armed appearance shocked the patrol guards outside. They did not expect that not long after the captain of the armed civilian team came out, Kiel's knight came out like this.

Does the Lord Knight sleep wearing armor?

So strange.

"Someone may be spying on us outside. You should all brace yourself and guard this place. If there is a fight, the people who approach will be placed around my camp."

"Yes, my lord. Shall we all be called up?"

asked a tall young man.

Kil put down his steel visor: "Call out, but just ask everyone to pay attention and prepare for a possible battle. As for what's going on and whether there will be a battle, follow my orders later."

"Yes, Lord Knight."

The guards replied.

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Kil found his own horse, and the guard already had the person in charge of the horse, who loaded the saddle and other items of the blood-licking grass on it. Kil lifted the weapon rack and installed it behind the saddle, and then lifted the all-metal double-barrel weighing 20 to 30 kilograms. He wielded a long sword and easily mounted his horse.

Knocking the horse's belly and pulling the reins, Bloodlicker followed Keir's instructions and trotted towards the back of the clearing, bypassing the campfire and large tents.

The open space was not big, and Kiel's horses were fast. In just a few strokes, before the team leader responsible for patrolling the fence at the back of the open space returned, Kiel had already arrived.

"The Lord Knight is here!"

There were not many people on horseback in the team. The only one who rode a tall blood-licking grass and was fully armored was Kil. Therefore, as soon as he came over, he was surrounded by a patrol team that was anxiously spinning around.

"Knight Kiel, there were a lot of suspended light spots outside just now!"

"And there are voices!"

"Not only that, but there are also monsters grunting and moving! I heard them all, in the darkness outside the fence!"

Kil held the spear in his left hand and waved his right hand: "Don't be nervous, listen to me, light up the torches, every two people light a torch. Then call up all the people in your team who are resting, and everyone is ready to fight. preparation."

"Don't be nervous or anxious, I'm here myself."

Kiel shouted in a slightly louder voice, fearing to cause panic among the people in the tents where ordinary people lived behind him. His voice was not very loud, and it was enough for the armed people patrolling beside the fence to hear it.

After listening to Kil's words, everyone got busy. The simple torches distributed to the team were lit one after another. Small combat teams of several people were called up one after another. Everyone wore animal skin clothes with certain protective capabilities and picked up their respective weapons. Sword, axe, shield, be armed.

"Don't gather around me, form a group of five and spread out."

After speaking, Kil took the torch from a man's hand, rode on the horse, rounded his arms, and threw the torch in his hand toward the dark field outside the fence in front.

Whoosh, whoosh, he threw the torch in a parabola that approximated a low trajectory, and was thrown far away.

After the torchlight briefly illuminated the road, Keel did see something moving in the field.

But that thing is not very tall, and it is not too tall compared to the crops in the field. Moreover, the markings on the body are easily mixed with the crops, resulting in unclear visibility. If it weren't for the opponent's eyes reflecting light in the firelight, Keir wouldn't be able to find them.

"what?"

Keir felt strange and vaguely familiar, so he said to the people around him: "Stay where you are, I'll go over and take a look."

After saying that, he inserted a new torch into the weapon rack behind him to provide lighting, and then knocked the horse's belly hard, causing the blood-licking grass to burst out suddenly. When they came to the edge of the wooden fence, the brave blood-licking grass sped up and jumped directly over the one-meter-high wooden fence and came to the field outside the open space fence.

The ground was very soft and neatly planted with crops. Keir didn't care about trampling on these crops with his horse. After landing, he drove his horse to chase the place where he had just seen something.

"Lulu Lu——"

The blood-licking grass seemed to have discovered something. It followed the thing escaping in the darkness in front of it without being directed by Kil.

But Kil's ears have become very good since he started training as a knight. Not only did he hear the sounds of people escaping in front of him, but he also heard the sounds of footsteps trampling crops around him.

‘Surrounded? ’

As soon as I thought this, there were waves of meows and urgent whining sounds all around me.

Keir was stunned, the voice seemed familiar.

Of course, this meow is not the cute cat in the team who helps everyone guard the food every day to prevent the food supplies from being eaten by jerboas, voles, and house mice. This meow is louder and more powerful.

It was obvious that the creature that made the noise was much larger than the cats that Kiel and the others raised.

Cat? Cat!

An idea flashed through Kil's mind, and he remembered where he last heard this sound and what it was that made it.

"A long-haired lynx orc?"

Keir shouted loudly and asked around.

At the same time, he stopped nudging the horse's belly to speed up, and pulled the reins with his right hand to slow down the blood-licking grass.

"Ouch!"

But these little guys who were frightened quickly approached Kil from all around, and at the same time there was the sound of waving tails, and what flew over was not a dangerous dagger or blade.

Kil waved his right hand a few times, blocking the incoming objects with the back of his hand and forearm armor. When he found that the objects hit him, they scattered. When he smelled them, they were just dirt and garbage that could be seen everywhere in the farmland.

He was also hit a few times. Kil ignored these small clods of dirt that had no power at all. Instead, he reversed the spear in his left hand and hit a long-haired lynx orc who jumped up from the ground and tried to pounce on him. Use the end of the spear to hang it, and then swing it upward.

The confused long-haired lynx orc warrior rolled helplessly in the dark air. Finally, he turned around based on instinct, put his limbs under his body, and prepared to accept the impact of the ground when he landed.

But before it hit the ground in mid-air, it was caught by Keir's right hand.

"stop!!!"

Kil roared angrily, and at the same time moved his right hand up and down, causing the captured long-haired lynx orc warrior to let out a whine.

The other long-haired lynx orcs around them who were not much higher than the crops immediately stopped their 'offensive' and let out demonstrative grunts.

With the light of the torch behind him, Kil finally saw clearly. They were indeed the long-haired lynx orcs he had seen before. This made him a little strange. These aliens were snooping around his camp tonight. Is it their own behavior? Or was he ordered to do so?

If it is their own behavior, why do they do this?

Instigated by others, then by whom? Is it the old businessman from Bontorissa? Or his subordinate, the fat steward in charge of the gambling arena?

Or did you hear that after you were driven away, you were instigated by others?

But after thinking so much, the person caught in Kil's hands was not restless. He seemed to be angry that Kil was defeated all at once. This long-haired lynx orc warrior responsible for close combat did not stop at this moment.

No, stop.

No, it was using its hands and feet, and its sharp claws scratched Kil's palms and arms hard when Kil's body was caught. The sharp teeth in his mouth were not idle, he yelled, and then bit down on Keir's finger.

At the same time, a long tail kept swinging, lashing Kil's neck and head.

For a moment, he looked extremely fierce.

"Don't make trouble..." Kil was quite speechless. This little thing looked fierce, but the actual damage was zero. Although the claws and claws flew up to scratch, apart from making some noise, they couldn't even scratch the metal gauntlet of Keir.

At the same time, it bit fiercely, followed by a soft click in its mouth. Instead, the long-haired lynx orc let out a wail and relaxed its mouth, no longer daring to bite anyone with its teeth.

The tail lash looks very powerful, but there are metal spikes on Kil's shoulders. After lashing the tail a few more times, it scraped against the metal thorn, causing the injury to bleed.

Soon, in just a few breaths, this guy stared at Kil with an angry face, and cursed Kil in his own language in a blaring voice.

Kil didn't quite understand what he was saying, but he knew it wasn't a good word without having to guess, so he shook his arms vigorously up and down, causing the long-haired lynx orc to scream. His meowing screams frightened the other long-haired lynx orcs around him. He stretched his tail straight up.

"Stop, arms! Dapple-fur becomes, a warrior, no, a toy!"

At this time, the long-haired lynx orc that had been chased by Kil on horseback quickly moved his short legs, pushed aside the crops as high as it, appeared in Kil's field of vision, and said at the same time The passage above.

"Huh? What?"

Because the other person spoke awkwardly, as if he had just arrived in another world to learn the common language of mankind, Kil had to ask the other person to repeat his words before he understood what he said.

"Stop? Dapple is a warrior, not a toy? Is that what you mean?"

Although Kil said this in doubt, he still stopped shaking his hand in advance, allowing the dizzy-eyed long-haired lynx orc to pat his head and feel a little better.

"Affirmative. Stop fighting. I, many of me, no, become prey to powerful humans. No, prey!"

This guy, who was slightly shorter than the other long-haired lynx orcs, took the initiative to move forward, wanting to get closer to Kil and his tall horse.

"Not prey? Not an enemy, right? Is that what you want to say?"

"Sure, sure."

The other party nodded hurriedly, and at the same time opened his arms towards Kil, exposing his chest and abdomen: "Fight, lair, no, participate, many of me! Maomao, participate, powerful, human!"

Keir looked confused. As the conversation progressed, he couldn't understand what the other party meant.

Seeing that the powerful human had no reaction or response, the long-haired lynx orc was quite anxious, as were the other aliens present. But it still opened its mouth to appease the other aliens with unintelligible words, and then solemnly said to Kil again: "Maomao, participate, powerful, human! Many of me, fight! Many of me, fight!"

Kil racked his brains, thinking about what the other party meant: "Maomao? Is that what you call yourself?"

Seeing the little alien who could barely reach the belly of the blood-licking grass nodded with his arms stretched out, Kil exhaled and said, "You want to join my team? Fight with me?"

The long-haired lynx orcs present nodded hurriedly. It seemed that they could understand some common human languages, but this was the only one who could speak them.

"Maomao, fight, strong! Humans, strong, many me, fight, strong."

This time, Keir finally understood what the other party meant and wanted to take refuge with him. It turns out that was the case, so he peeped and whispered quietly outside the fence, which frightened his people and thought they had seen the ghost of the dead bandit.

After thinking about it for a moment, especially since these long-haired lynx orcs came from the mountains and forests, they might be useful in finding and rescuing the villagers of Changmai Village later. So Kil nodded, released his right hand, and removed the dizzy alien warrior. , put it down.

"Okay, I promise you."

As soon as Kil agreed, these aliens swung their tails behind them and cheered.

But Kiel continued: "But, I have to examine you for a while first."

However, his next words seemed to be actively ignored by these fluffy aliens. Except for the guy whom he let go, the other aliens jumped up and down happily.

"Connect, once, Maomao, get, human, work. Woohoo, please reward the metal!"

"Huh? What?"

Guilmon, what is a reward metal?