Mercenaries and Adventurers

After listening to the other party's explanation of his noble family's coat of arms, Keir put his feet together and hit his left chest with his right fist, making a dull sound of heavy metal collision.

Although the armor he wore was designed by himself, and the knight's ability to increase after training was not considered too much during the design, it used a lot of materials after all. Not to mention the overall protective power, it was at least exquisitely designed and manufactured. , protecting his whole body.

At this time, the steel on the fist collided with the steel-iron mixed structure on the left chest. Just hearing the sound made the armored soldiers of the Baron family on the stairs in front of the hall frown.

Without looking at the difference in armor between the two with the naked eye, a discerning person would know just by listening to the sound that the thickness and weight of Kiel's armor were far greater than the entire set of armor worn by these soldiers.

"Joe Kil, a trainee knight from Kendall County in the Northwest Province, studied under Knight Dodel Crow. When he passed through the city of Montauca with the army, he received the order of Baron Kendall who led the troops southward, and assisted the Luo of the Church of Saturn. Priest Sa-Batar, go to Changmai Village, where Priest Lothar-Batar is stationed, to rescue the religious people and other people in Changmai Village who were kidnapped by the deserters and the defeated army."

As soon as Keir came up, he fully stated his mission.

He has considered this. He could hide his mission and put the refugee team's affairs first, but the matter may be big or small. For him, the refugees' affairs are not very important. Now he has organized several armed groups. For the small refugee team, the previously dangerous bandits were no longer a match for the refugee team.

He could find any remote place on the map and take his team there to put down roots, and he could fulfill the vow he made at the White Stone City Wall level.

It's a small thing. The big thing is the Church of the God of Agriculture.

To be honest, these days, his energy and journey along the way have been too involved by these refugees. Until now, he and Priest Batal have not even reached Changmai Village where the accident happened!

It's like putting the cart before the horse.

Of course, things cannot be viewed separately, but can also be viewed together. The rescue of the villagers in Changmai Village and the leadership and management of the refugee team can be completely mixed together.

Because in the final analysis, what happened in Changmai Village is a religious matter for the Church of the God of Agriculture in a religious village arranged in a remote area, and the refugee team has an increasing number of believers of the God of God of God in the past few days. This is also an important force of faith. affairs.

Based on some experiences and knowledge from his previous life, Keir gradually figured out the reasons behind some things these days.

For the Church of Saturn and Saturn, the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are actually flesh.

Here in Changmai Village, as time goes by, no matter what their current situation is, the number of people who were captured will definitely decrease and their faith will disappear. This is a high probability thing. After all, those broken and defeated troops who captured the people couldn't possibly have captured the people and treated them like gentlemen, right?

As for the refugee team, first of all, most of the refugees are villagers from various regions who do not have enough strength to defend their villages in the chaotic situation. Most of them have a shallow belief in the God of Agriculture. For farmers in the vast number of villages, even if they do not believe in the God of Agriculture, their lives and work cannot be separated from the widespread influence of the God of Agriculture and the Church of the God of Agriculture.

They are all pan-believers, this is the premise.

After all the young and strong people who fled were gathered under Kiel's men, these people these days are eating the "god-given food" created by Priest Batal's ability. When they are injured, they can get what they used to spend a lot of money to enjoy. You can receive magical treatment, and you can also hear the religious activities held by the priests of Saturn once a day in the morning and evening. how to say?

Judging from Kiel's observations along the way, the number of people in his team who sincerely believe in the God of Agriculture is actually growing. It's just that due to face and threshold, many people failed to declare their religious identity at the beginning. Later on, they believed in the God of Agriculture, but they did not dare to join the religious activities of Priest Batal.

So here comes the question. At this point, is it more important for some religious villagers who are still alive in Changmai Village, or is it more important for this group of young refugees who are more numerous and have their own armed forces?

Of course, only children take the multiple-choice questions, while adults take all the questions. The best solution for the Church of the God of Agriculture is naturally to save the people in Changmai Village, and to control the newly developed religious refugees in the refugee team.

For Priest Batal, after losing all the people of Changmai Village in the last failure, the religious people in the team during this period seemed to have become a new pillar of his own soul and the power of the God of Agriculture.

If I had to choose between the two, it would probably be difficult, and the final choice would be very painful.

But what does all of the above have to do with Kiel? Although he clearly understood some of the things behind this, what did it have to do with him? He is just the result of the deal between Baron Kendall and the Church of Saturn. He has not forgotten that he is not a chivalrous ranger or a loyal dog of the Church of Saturn. His actual identity and power basically come from To Baron Kendall.

In other words, from Crow Knight, with his own hard work and struggle.

His mission from beginning to end has been to work with Priest Batal to rescue the villagers of Changmai Village and defeat all obstacles and obstacles along the way.

Of course, if he does a good job on the refugee team, not only will he be very satisfied and happy, but the Church of God of Agriculture will not forget his contribution, right?

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Having said so much, it actually happened in a moment. Of course, Keir knew from Priest Batal that Changmai Village is an autonomous village under Saas County. Therefore, at this moment, he was facing the heir of the Saas family in Saas County. , the temporary manager of Ye Mei Town, he directly stated his mission.

As soon as Kil's words came out, the expressions of the three close relatives of the baron who had the authority to manage territorial affairs in front of him changed.

The expressions and reactions of the three people were different.

The current male young man, the eldest son of the Baron, twitched his mouth and murmured: "Apprentice knight..."

The second housekeeper beside him showed no reaction.

A gray-haired old man who came next was wearing traditional noble clothes. He rolled his eyes and subconsciously stroked his beard: "Changmai Village? This name, um, is a village on the territory."

Another middle-aged lady raised her slender eyebrows, and unfolded a small fan she had taken out at some point in her hand, covering her face and fanning it slightly: "The Church of the God of Agriculture really has enough manpower. , we can dispatch a force of this magnitude at this time.”

Then his eyes narrowed, not knowing what he was thinking.

The atmosphere was dull for a moment, and then the baron heir raised his chin slightly and said, "Although you are said to be a trainee knight, I heard from my sentries that there seems to be a team of hundreds of people with you, and the armed strength is small. It is said that there are one or two hundred people. Is this true? Can you explain it?"

Kil shrugged and said nonchalantly: "The lords from all over the country have led their troops to the provincial capital. These days, bandits from all over the country are doing evil everywhere, business routes are cut off, and remote villages that cannot protect themselves are repeatedly attacked or the villagers flee spontaneously. Give up, the situation is not good. The people I lead are actually refugees fleeing from various places. The scale was originally larger, but these days while walking on the trade road, they were attacked by bandits from various places, and they also lost a lot. "

The young man glanced at the northwest direction of the town: "Including our home county of Sars? Those 'bandits'?"

Seeing that the young master was still expressing his secret expression, the second housekeeper beside the young man coughed lightly and whispered something in the young man's ear.

The young man's eyes widened after hearing this: "You killed at least a dozen of those monsters on the way here?"

Kil smiled slightly: "Easy, easy. I was able to get started at the beginning. Last night I handed it over directly to my subordinates. Those parasitic monsters are not that powerful."

"Hmph, everyone can tell lies. How can I not know whether those monsters are powerful or not?"

Kil chuckled and glanced up and down at the young man who was a few years older than him: "So how many of them have you killed? When you crushed their core faces with your own hands, did these guys ask for mercy from you? What?"

Kiel's words immediately stopped the baron heir. This man has been protected in the mansion. Even when the parasitic monster invaded the south side of the town a few days ago, he only sent out his elite soldiers to support and did not fight in person. That kind of monster that I heard was scary.

Even though he saw the corpses of those monsters afterwards, as well as the broken bodies of the parasitic human bodies that had been split open, revealing the roots of the plants inside.

"You! Humph——"

With an unhappy snort, the young man stopped talking. He turned around and invited Kil, the trainee knight, to follow him to the building hall of the mansion.

Everyone walked into the bright white hall. Half of the elite soldiers serving as guards were guarding outside the hall, and a suitable number of half were guarding the walls inside the hall. None of them spoke. They were very professional and only focused on the foreign knights. on the body.

If there was anything wrong with Kiel, these loyal soldiers would inevitably pull out the heavy weapons behind them and hit Kiel hard.

The hall is relatively empty, except for the baron's chair in the center, and there are three other chairs, two on the right side of the chair and one on the left. In addition, there is a huge cowhide map placed on the ground in the middle.

Kil looked at it, then walked to the place where he was alone. His fingers fiddled with the buckle of the cloak on the chest outside the armor, and he neatly took off the gorgeous black and red cloak he had been wearing, and simply folded it. Placed on the backrest behind the wooden chair.

The middle-aged lady looked at Kiel's cloak curiously, then shook the fan in her hand and talked softly with Kiel about the cloak.

"Ah, I bought this from a clothing store in Dorne town. This cloak has a name, it's called [Night Ambition], and it's the work of a well-known craftsman, madam."

When Kil saw someone talking about the cloak that he also liked very much, he spoke proudly.

The young man sitting on the baron's chair was also curious about this cloak. Of course he was not ignorant. Of course he had many cloaks, and they were all relatively expensive, but they were not as beautiful as Kiel's.

The middle-aged lady seemed to smile, and the chuckle came out, but the smile was hidden behind the fan in her hand: "It's a good name. Can you tell me the name of the craftsman? After this year's war is over, I will I will also order two pieces for my husband and son."

Of course, Kil couldn't remember what happened some time ago, so he looked at the name on the lock of the cloak, and then said the name of the craftsman.

The middle-aged woman's smile faltered when she heard it: "It's the work of this master. This is really difficult to deal with."

"You don't have to worry about this. The clothing store in Dorne Town is not small. I heard from the clerk that it circulates through the Chamber of Commerce in Dorne Town, and the products there will be sold to many places nearby. If you like this kind of cloak, you can wait until the war begins. After that, go to the town of Dorne and have a look, I’m sure you can buy all kinds of things you like. There are powerful chambers of commerce there, and you’ll find all kinds of good things!”

"Thanks to Knight Kiel for the generous information, I will go and have a look."

The middle-aged lady smiled.

After the lady interrupted and controlled the atmosphere, the conversation became better again, and the little dispute between the two young people was eliminated.

So soon, the old man sitting opposite Kiel said: "Knight, I just heard you talking about Changmai Village. M... this name." He lowered his head forward and looked towards Peek at the map in the middle of the hall.

"This name seems to be a certain village in our Sars County?"

Facing the old man's doubts, Kil nodded frankly and stood up. As soon as he stood up from the chair, at least ten elite soldiers on the walls around the hall took half a step forward.

Hearing the sound of neat steps coming from around him, Kil didn't care. He walked two more steps and came to the spread out cowhide map. He glanced around and quickly found Changmai Village.

He pointed and said: "It's this village, Changmai Village, a remote village on the edge of the mountains in southern Saskatchewan. There's still such a long way to go."

Keir stretched out his hand and pointed, and several others stood up and walked over, looking there.

The baron heir frowned and asked, "What's going on there? You, a knight from the Northwest Province, want to go there on behalf of the Church of Saturn?"

Kil blinked: "Didn't I make it clear? This village, um, about more than a month ago, probably on this day, was moved from um, you see, this direction, it should be this direction."

Gere pointed to the southeast of the county, where the southern province competes with neighboring countries and has a series of mountains on the southern border with large mineral veins, and said: "The small group of deserters who came from this direction and were defeated last year were directly defeated."

As soon as Kil said this, the baron heir snorted: "Impossible! You know from other places that I have been staying in Yemei Town these days. How come you don't know about this?"

The young people didn't believe it, but the old man who started the topic did. The old man walked around in a small circle impatiently: "Bell, this Changmai Village is one of a series of remote autonomous villages in the southern part of the territory. Except for the territory's tax collector who visits it every autumn, it rarely visits our place. Contact occurs.”

The old man didn't finish what he said, but the hidden meaning was that regardless of whether what this foreign Kiel knight said was right or not, at least our side definitely didn't know about it.

"Moreover." He added: "This location, well, across two bordering mountains, is another baronial territory occupied by the enemy. However, how is it possible? There are so many monsters and Warcraft in the mountains, it is impossible for anyone to pass through These are mountains that no one has ever walked on.”

The corner of Kiel's mouth curled up: "It's impossible to tell. Those small broken armies who fled on the battlefield last year, who knows what strange experiences they encountered. They were able to cross the mountains that no one had ever crossed before."

"Is the news true and reliable?"

the old man asked.

Kil shrugged: "I came here with Priest Lothar Batal. This Priest Batal is the resident priest of the Church of Saturn in Changmai Village."

The baron heir snorted: "Why didn't he come to Yemei Town? More than a month ago, I would have sent a team of elite armored soldiers to lead the town guards to defeat the cowards who fled the battlefield and regain the lost territory of our family! "

The old man glanced at the heir to the title of his grandson and said nothing. The middle-aged lady next to him didn't speak to her nephew, and just kept fanning the fan in her hand.

Kier said: "After the incident, Priest Batar said that he received guidance and inspiration from the God of Agriculture. After settling some of the villagers' children who were rescued by him, he went to Mongolia in the Western Province alone. Toca City, haha, I didn’t expect to see you waiting for me.”

He shrugged: "I was arranged by Baron Kendall to return here all the way with Priest Batal. But the road here is really difficult. He is alone and is a church priest, so it is easier to walk. , I took a lot of refugees and chopped down waves of bandits before I got here."

Having said this, the old man ordered the second housekeeper in the hall to send someone to invite the Batar priest.

"By the way, Priest Batal should have followed him into the town. He should be at the Church of the God of Saturn in the town."

The second housekeeper leaned down and walked out of the hall to explain the matter without saying anything.

Then everyone sat back on their chairs and talked about the security situation in various places outside of Saskatchewan.

Kiel laughed a few times when he talked about this, and briefly talked about the security issues in other noble territories. Then the conversation changed and he talked about the several waves of bandits on the business road in Sars County.

"Your place is also very lively. This small trade road has three waves of bandit gangs just because there are several villages and settlements in the mountains next to the trade road!"

"What!!!"

"Impossible! Where did the bandits come from!"

"How is it possible? My husband leads troops to patrol the surrounding areas every year to drive away and kill those bandit gangs."

The three people had different reactions, but they were all surprised.

So Kil told them in detail the information he had tortured from the captured bandits.

After talking for a while, the young man sitting on the baron's seat angrily slapped the metal armrest of the chair, making it crackle. Kil glanced at him and found that the strength he used when he was angry exceeded that of a normal person, so he knew in his heart that the heir of this noble family had obviously also been trained as a knight.

I just don’t know what the strength is?

Before meeting the other party, I heard him look down upon when he said that he was a trainee knight. I guess he has some strength?

Keir guessed.