Mercenaries and Adventurers

The long convoy quickly drove into the lumberyard in the west of the town. Kil explained to the baron heir what happened last time he came here. Therefore, when the convoy just lined up and stopped next to the piles of logs piled into a hill, Bell- Sasse took half of his men to the big house in the lumber camp.

The convoy and the loggers who felled the logs were completely handed over to Kiel. Anyway, Kiel was also in charge of this yesterday, and he did a good job.

Kiel called to his lumberjacks, asked them to get out of the car, move their bodies quickly, and then began to process the firewood. The drivers of each carriage were arranged by Keir to climb to the top of a nearby pile of logs and be responsible for watching from a distance.

Anyway, these drivers are sitting idle in the carriage, so they might as well do some vigilance work.

As the mobile force of the team, Kil himself did not dismount and was ready to drive and kill approaching monsters at any time.

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Bel-Sass, who led the people away, saw that the foreign knights were doing well, so he no longer cared about that, and directly led the people to surround the big house in the lumberyard, looking at the outer walls of the building that had been smeared with crimson flesh by the monsters. He and his men looked disgusted at the evil building.

The four church priests in the team frowned and looked at the 'new gadget' tinkered with by the flesh demon. As educated church priests, they had probably heard of flesh demons, but none of the ten priests present had ever personally come into contact with this kind of alien disaster that harmed human society and civilization.

"What an evil thing! This house must be destroyed!" Several Saturnine priests gathered together and whispered, and two of the younger Saturnine priests couldn't help but avoid looking, their faces turning pale. Nausea makes me want to vomit.

The flesh demon smeared the house with the flesh and blood of living creatures, which not only brought visual impact and pollution that were difficult for normal people to accept, but also made people smell a strong smell of rotting corpses when they got close.

The strange thing is that the weather is warm now. Logically speaking, in a semi-wild environment like a lumberyard, mosquitoes, flies, insects and other small animals that like rotting flesh should crawl all over the house. But when the priests took a closer look, they discovered that otherwise Speaking of scavenging insects, there wasn't even a fly flying outside the big house covered in flesh and blood.

"Be careful, this thing doesn't look right!"

The two prominent priests from the Church of the God of the Dead cautiously issued a warning.

Following the priest's warning, several sounds of tables and chairs overturning and heavy objects falling suddenly sounded in the flesh-and-blood house. and an indistinct shouting and chanting sound.

Bel-Sas carefully asked his soldiers to surround the big house in pairs. He himself stood in front of the main entrance of the big house, listening to the movement inside the house, and put the hand that was originally on the noble's ceremonial sword to his head again. It was transferred to the handle of a heavy ax specially prepared behind him.

The noises coming from inside the big house covered with flesh and blood increased again. At the same time, following the sound of flesh and blood tearing and exploding, the shouts and chants that came from the house disappeared and were replaced by several voices that gradually became thicker. gasping sound.

Like a huge hungry beast.

"If you can't wait any longer, open the door to the house!" Bel-Sass immediately ordered.

As soon as he finished speaking, a priest of the God of Wealth used his thumb to pop out a special coin of the Church of the God of Wealth that emitted golden light. The coin collapsed in an approximately straight line. After passing through a golden light, it looked like a piece of metal thrown by a strong man. Like a heavy hammer, it directly smashed open the thick wooden door of the lumberyard house.

With a loud bang, the church's special coins and the entire wooden door exploded into the house, followed closely by a priest from the Sun God Church who had not taken action. The priest stretched out his finger, and along with the short slogan of the church's faith, a light point composed of the power of the Sun God flew out from his finger. Following the route of the previous special coin of the God of Wealth Church, a bright white light was thrown into the unknown environment. Inside the door of the big house of flesh and blood.

The situation inside the house that had been hidden from view before was now clearly visible to everyone not far from the door.

"Damn it! Get ready to fight! Get ready to fight!" Bell Sass had the best eyesight at the scene. He immediately followed the light spot to see clearly what was going on inside the flesh and blood house.

For some unknown reason, there were many human corpses hanging inside the big house. This was not the key. The key was that in the middle of the hall, a human body with only the lower half of its body was sitting on its knees, surrounded by five or six movable figures kneeling and busy with their heads down.

The heir to the baron saw at a glance that these busy figures were holding pieces of exploding flesh and devouring them. These flesh and blood swallowed by the figures are not serious pieces of flesh and blood. On the texture of the broken bones, there are also many tiny plant roots that are twisting like parasites.

Subconsciously, Bel-Sass understood what had happened in the house.

A parasitic monster that had been hiding in a certain house exploded, and its scattered body fragments became the 'ration' for other parasitic monsters around it. Needless to say, this wave must be one of the means by which the evil flesh demon monster strengthens other parasitic monsters.

It's a pity that he couldn't lead someone to break into this disgusting and terrifying-looking house of flesh and blood just now, and interrupt the self-destruction enhancement method of the self-destructor in advance.

Following the shouts of the Baron's heir, other elite soldiers surrounding the Flesh and Flesh House quickly gathered together, but before the humans could attack, the five or six parasitic monsters in the house that had devoured the remains of the self-destructors immediately opened their mouths and roared.

Halfway through the roar, the roar was cut off, and the roar was replaced by large strands emerging from their mouths, such as vine roots half a meter thick and as long as their wrists. Not only that, the eyes and ears of these monsters exploded one after another, and many thinner plant roots of different lengths were squeezed out from inside. What's even more disgusting is that these guys, who don't look like humans or monsters, have a lot of plant roots squeezed out of the navel, vagina, and buttocks of their lower bodies.

This makes these staggering monsters seem to have extra hands and feet.

Immediately, these monsters with roots sprouting from their bodies rushed out from the hall in the house using strange movement methods after adapting to the changes in their bodies.

The other dead human corpses hanging in the big house of flesh and blood were considered to be in the way by these monsters, so they directly tore off the ropes hanging around their necks and threw them out of the house first. Several shield-bearing soldiers in the front row immediately leaned against their shields and shouldered them. By leaning on his shoulder, he blocked the thrown human corpse.

But they were still knocked back several steps by a human body weighing dozens of kilograms.

Following the thrown dead bodies, several strange parasitic monsters rushed out.

The appearance of these monsters is simply too terrifying. Even the elite soldiers who have killed bandits before have seen such terrifying monsters for the first time in their lives. These elite soldiers had not fought against the parasitic monsters that broke into Yemei Town a few days ago, but to be honest, those parasitic monsters that broke into the town that night were simply too human compared to these real monsters that were neither humans nor monsters. .

The thick vine roots protruding from the mouth of the human body were whipped out by the monster like a stick while swinging its head.

Phew-pong!

With full strength, the two soldiers took the initiative to step forward with their shields, and then blocked the thing that was swung at them. Immediately, the soldiers on the left and right came roaring and waving axes. One person slashed the face of the current monster with an ax, and the other was shorter and attacked the base of the monster's left leg from the side.

The ax that was swung at the monster's face was blocked by the plant vines protruding from the monster's mouth, and its force was reduced. Then it was blocked by the entanglement of plant roots bursting out of the monster's eyes. Although the ax chopped the monster into pieces. The monster's nose, but to be honest, whether a monster like this needs to breathe is a matter of discussion.

There are no extra plant roots sticking out of the nose, maybe because the other roots are sticking out from the mouth that is connected to the nose?

Or maybe the ears?

This ax was blocked, and the other ax that hit the base of the monster's left leg was also blocked. The two plant roots at the front and back emerging from the monster's vagina and butt are like the monster's two extra legs and two extra arms. They move forward actively, blocking the chop at the cost of being chopped open. Ax to the leg.

Immediately, the monster's original human hands waved back and forth, and the huge inhuman power drove away the elite soldiers around him. Then the monster jumped to the side, making way for the main entrance of the flesh and blood house, and another completely changed one emerged from behind. Parasitic monster.

The second parasitic monster that rushed out was more cunning. Instead of standing upright and charging head-on, it chose to lie low and use the many plant roots spreading out from its body as its legs. It rushed out while lying on its stomach and sticking to the ground.

This guy crawled close to the ground very fast and with great strength. When he rushed out, he rushed directly towards the legs and feet of the soldiers. He grabbed the legs and feet of a soldier with his left and right hands, squeezed them tightly, and then dragged and pulled them. The soldiers who were still fighting were dragged down and thrown to the ground indiscriminately, disrupting the formation of the soldiers outside the door of the big wooden house.

The third monster also rushed out. This guy grabbed a hanged human corpse in each hand and used it as a weapon to swing out. The human body weighing dozens of kilograms was simply a heavy weapon, although it was not very lethal. , but it looks very scary, and soldiers with shields will be repulsed.

"Don't think about being arrogant!" the priests shouted in unison. A group of people from one church directly chased the monster that rushed out of the house and killed it.

The formation of the soldiers was scattered, some were still fighting, some were chasing the running monsters, and some fell to the ground and were stepped on several times by unknown people or monsters, and were struggling to get up.

Looking at all this, as well as the two strange-looking parasitic monsters that finally squeezed out of the house, Bel-Sath took a deep breath and took out the metal heavy ax he had prepared from behind.

This ax was made by the family blacksmith in the mansion after confirming the information about the flesh demon parasitic monster these days. The aristocratic swordsmanship and knight's lance skills that he is good at are easy to use on people, but not on parasitic monsters that appear to be human but are actually plants and vines.

Therefore, when he ordered the elite soldiers of the family to be equipped with shields and sharp axes, he also obtained a heavy metal ax that was convenient for chopping.

"Soldiers, retreat and fight in groups of four!"

As soon as he finished shouting the words, the heir to the baron rushed forward quickly, his boots touching the ground, kicking away the stones on the ground. His whole body was like a huge stone bullet fired by a trebuchet, and he slashed forward with an ax with a loud bang.

Just as the last parasitic monster targeted by Bell rushed out of the house, the figure of another monster in front of him just dodged away, and he was faced with a heavy metal ax that fell down in an instant.

The monster tried its best to raise the roots of various plants and vines that sprouted from its head, but the next moment, these vine roots and the human body parasitized by the monster, with blood, flesh and juice splashing, were chopped apart, no, they were smashed into two pieces on the left and right by a heavy axe. Half!

The metal heavy ax weighing dozens of kilograms smashed the parasitic monster into two halves like dry wood, and then smashed it on the ground. With a bang, most of the ax head hit the ground, causing dust and gravel to fly.

"Ha! How about it!"

Bell shouted excitedly, then stood firm on his feet, used his arms to pull out the entire heavy ax head embedded in the ground.

The monster that was split in half was not dead for a while. The half of the body where the core face was twitched and threw out a few thin and long vine roots, which wrapped around Bell's right leg, but then he was lifted up. With one kick, the half of the monster's body that was still alive was thrown to a group of elite soldiers who had reorganized to fight.

These soldiers who had recovered their breath raised their axes very unceremoniously, and viciously slashed their weapons as if out of anger. Even if half of the body of the parasitic monster had been strengthened, facing the desperate situation of the axes being chopped down randomly. , there is still no way. After the axes were swung one after another, half of the monster's body on the ground was left with only a pile of scattered flesh and blood and broken plant roots entangled with each other.

The parasitic human face as the core was chopped into pieces by an unknown axe, and died completely.

Outside the gate, at another place where soldiers were fighting with the parasitic monster, four elite soldiers used their shields to resist the vines swung by the monster, and were careful not to let the shield in their hands be ripped away by the monster.

One person stands in front and catches a wave of attacks. Soldiers will rush out from the left and right, wielding sharp axes to cut off a section of plant roots in the monster's mouth. After the soldier in the front row gritted his teeth and risked blocking an attack, another soldier behind him took over the front row's defense, allowing the soldier to take a few steps back and gasp for breath to regain his strength.

Especially in battle, if the shield in the hands of the defensive soldier in the front row is grabbed by a monster, then the soldier resting in the back row will reach out and grab the former's waist, using the combined weight of the two to prevent the front row from grabbing it. Soldiers with shields had their shields torn away, and even their whole bodies were torn away.

The parasitic monster looks very strong, but after all, it only weighs as much as a person. No matter how strong it is, if its own weight is not enough, it will not have much advantage in pulling. It would even be pulled back by two soldiers, pulling the vine roots in its mouth and dragging it away.

At this time, the other two soldiers who were guerrillas on the left and right would see the right moment, rush out from the left and right, and swing their axes to strike hard.

When Bell's side eliminated the parasitic monster that finally rushed out of the flesh and blood house, the group of four elite soldiers next to him also used only the above-mentioned few rounds to eliminate the parasitic monster they were fighting.

"Gather here! Let us support the priests!"

The heir to the baron shouted, and immediately led a team of seven soldiers to support the place where the priests were fighting. Of course, he didn't forget to leave a soldier with good legs and feet standing guard at the door of the Flesh and Flesh House.

Beware of unexpected changes in the battle.

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Four Saturnine priests chased a strengthened parasitic monster to the outskirts of the lumberyard. There were stacked logs as high as hills on both sides. The monster used its hands and feet, and even other newly sprouted 'limbs' on its body also helped move it. , and soon climbed to the top of a pile of logs.

It raised its body and held its head high. The half-meter-long vine roots protruding from the mouth pointed straight to the sky. The top twitched, and then the top of the vine exploded from the inside, and several blood-red buds suddenly grew out.

These flower buds were dripping with fragrant plant juice. They shook them violently, and then quickly opened the tightly closed flower buds in the direction of the wind.

When the flowers open, they look like small blood-red eyes. The stamens tremble like small snakes, emitting a large amount of pheromones that humans cannot distinguish and a rich floral fragrance that humans can smell.

Seeing this scene, the four Saturn priests felt a little uncomfortable, and they all took off the one-handed wood-cutting axes they carried from their waists.

Then several priests used their strong bodies that ordinary farmers did not have to throw the one-handed logging ax in their hands. Although the priests have not practiced much, their accuracy is almost non-existent. But after all, the distance is not far, and the target parasitic monster is also easy to hit.

Of the four thrown axes, two still hit the monsters high up.

Even if the parasitic monster tried its best to use the vine roots on its body to grab the log under its feet, the same principle still applies. The monster itself weighs only a person. It was hit by two axes in front and back, and it immediately fell from the height.

By the time the monster recovered from the dizziness caused by rolling down from a high pile of logs, four priests holding metal staffs had already arrived at its side, muttering words of praise to the gods, and holding hands tightly with their thick and powerful arms. The long metal staff aimed at the monster's body and torso, beating it down hard.

Crack, crackle, crackle, a good beating.

Afraid that they would not be able to kill this strange-looking parasitic monster, the four Saturnine priests used all their strength to swing their sticks, no, they were priests' long metal staffs, and kept beating the monster.

After a while, the vine roots sprouting from the monster were interrupted. The priest of Saturn was panting. He left the oldest priest and half-knelt on the ground to pray. Soon, after the short prayer ended, this The priest scattered wheat seeds and beans toward his companions and himself.

The power of the God of Agriculture flashed across the four priests. Their originally heavy breathing quickly became steady, and their physical strength quickly returned to their bodies during their breathing.

As a result, the four priests were like wielding four iron hoes used by farmers, constantly beating the inhuman parasitic monster with their metal priest staffs.

Until the monster is beaten into a puddle of minced meat.

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The two priests of the God of the Dead soon returned to the House of Flesh after dealing with a parasitic monster.

They saw two dead parasitic monsters outside the big house, as well as a soldier who was on alert. They greeted the soldier in a friendly manner, then frowned, and under the gaze of the soldier, cautiously walked into the full house. It is a large room of flesh and blood of human corpses that were hung alive.

The doors and windows in the house had been destroyed early by parasitic monsters and blocked with original human living utensils. Therefore, except for the light coming from the door, the only thing left in the house was the white light emitted by the divine power of the priest of the Church of the Sun. .

The two priests first came to the hall of the house and looked at the remains of the monster that self-destructed and strengthened other parasitic monsters.

Unfortunately, there was nothing worth mentioning about the remains of the corpse, which only had two legs and half a pelvis left. All valuable things were eaten by other parasitic monsters present at the time.

Therefore, after the two priests discussed quietly for a while, they didn't know why they didn't speak loudly, as if they were afraid of disturbing something around them. After discussing in low voices, they decided to give the dead around them a decent treatment right where they were.

They found a dagger from somewhere in the house. It might have belonged to a dead body. The two of them worked together to gently lower the hanging human corpses, while untying the ropes around their necks. The two of them muttered prayers in a low voice, half threats and half blessings, to let certain invisible things in the room go where they should go.

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The two priests of the God of Wealth encountered a tough battle, and the parasitic monster they dealt with was quite difficult.

There were scattered log fragments and leafless branches everywhere in the lumberyard. The monster did not know that he had certain martial arts skills during his lifetime. During the battle, not only did he pick up a branch of suitable length with both hands and use it to fight, he also used his mouth and crotch to fight. Several other vine roots underneath, like arms, pick up things on the ground to assist in the fight.

The two priests not only had to wield axes and staffs to chop down the branches of the other party's hands, but they also had to be wary of a stone or piece of wood that was suddenly thrown by the guy.

The parasitic monster is very powerful, so the size of the so-called "branches" it swings randomly is naturally not very small, and the stones it picks up are at least the size of a fist. If it hits you, it will kill you!

Fortunately, Bel-Sas led his seven elite soldiers, followed the battle cries, and found two priests of the God of Wealth who were locked in a bitter fight among the piles of towering logs.

"Master Sasse, you know that wealth always needs a place to live in order to exert its power."

The two priests made excuses, but the baron heir nodded, without saying anything more, and did not dare to say anything more. With a wave of his hand, the soldiers behind him swarmed forward, and with the blessing of the prayer magic performed by the two priests, they were in chaos. The ax chops any capable parasitic monster into pieces.

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The two priests of the Sun God Church chased after the wailing and shouting of the two soldiers who were dragged away by their legs by the parasitic monster.

The two of them tried to send out small shining light balls to hit the parasitic monster, but apart from making the two captured soldiers blind and the wailing sound getting louder, there was no other effect. .

It cannot be said that it was ineffective. As the two priests of the Sun God Church continued to bombard it with white light balls, the roots of the plant vines that the parasitic monster stretched out of its body even suddenly sprouted leaves and buds.

This made the two priests look at each other.

"Perhaps it's enjoyable?" a priest complained.

The other person tightened the long stick in his hand, frowned and said, "If it doesn't work, just use the long stick to break its vines!"

The complaining priest glanced at the sky and suddenly said: "There are no clouds in the sky, and you can look directly at my God, otherwise..."

The words were immediately interrupted by his companion: "It's not the time, it's not the time yet. Everything is still brewing, the dawn has not yet risen, we still need to wait, waiting for the newborn sun and the newborn god."

After the discussion, the two men clenched the long staffs in their hands and chased after them. However, while they were talking, the direction they were looking at did not seem to be the real sun above their heads.

But a bright spot on the horizon.

It was not a star, but it was a star.

The astrologers of the empire call it [The Reckless Newborn Star - The Destroying Pedestal of the Sun God], also known as [The Divine Kingdom of the Human Sun God].