Mercenaries and Adventurers

The [Lion Potion] in the brass vial was not viscous. Instead, it felt extra frivolous. The capacity was not large. As soon as it was poured into his mouth, Keir drank it in two sips.

This stuff had a strong smell, and it naturally gave off a very strange feeling after drinking it. Kil could clearly feel the stuff flowing from his throat to his stomach, and then being held in his stomach.

He returned the empty bottle to Bell, and he felt some magic touching the stomach of the armor with his hand: "It's so magical! I can clearly feel the way this medicine is in my body."

Bell tightened the empty bottle and put it away, handed it to the close butler who had been waiting on the side, and then responded: "There is something even more magical. When you drink it and then sleep, the most magical part of this potion will be revealed. Ha, I have never drunk it myself, but a knight who has drunk it described to me that when you sleep, you will turn into a lion! Those troublesome guys who disturbed your sleep in the past will be turned into you. For the lion to solve it."

He warned: "But Kil, you have to pay attention, the potion has a time limit. Don't turn into a lion in your dream and just play with novelties. Don't forget to use the claws of the lion to solve the broken things that disturb you." Resentful soul. Otherwise, when the time comes, you will lose the opportunity in your dream, and this potion will be in vain."

Kil looked surprised when he heard this: "Does the effect of this potion only take effect after falling asleep? And it turns into a lion? How did this happen? Is it too early for me to drink it now?"

At this time, Bell called the butler and asked the butler to call in a few male and female attendants who were in charge of washing. At this time, while changing his knight armor, he used warm water to scrub his head, face, neck and other places. He also temporarily changed into a gorgeous aristocratic service. This was not over yet. The butler also held a variety of colorful bird tail feathers in a transparent glass wooden box for Bell to choose.

Bell chose a fiery red colored bird's tail feathers, and then the colored bird's tail feathers were immediately clipped to the side of a slender silver crown and put on by Bell. The attendant also brought the perfume in a small crystal bottle for Bell to choose. All this seemed exaggerated to Keir.

"Is this an exaggeration? Where is this?"

Bell chose a perfume that smelled of minerals, and then a waiter sprinkled some perfume on the exquisite aristocratic men's silk scarf. Then the silk scarf was folded by hand and placed everywhere on Bell's dress.

The main reason why perfume is not smeared on him is because Bell has been trained as a knight and his sense of smell is much more sensitive than ordinary people. If it is applied to his body, it will feel too strong and cause discomfort. It would be much more suitable to put it on the noble men's silk scarf that you carry with you. It can not only bring you the fragrance of perfume, but also prevent you from feeling that the smell is too strong.

"When I was in the capital of the province, sometimes I had to attend several banquets a day. I was not tired, but the servants who served me were often too tired to stand it, haha." Bell joked, watching the waiters at their work. The second housekeeper also smiled and nodded repeatedly.

He continued: "This time I led the team to the lumberyard to get firewood. Although it was not a big deal, the symbolic meaning was very important."

Bell raised his arms and asked a maid to tie a long silk belt around his waist: "Some time ago, although my family issued an order for everyone in the town and surrounding villages and settlements to come to the night We took refuge in Charming Town. But many chambers of commerce obviously did not give up external communication."

"They have been sending people out. Haha, you know what the final result will be of those people. But no matter what the result is, these actions undermine the authority of the family's rule. After all, the order prohibits people from going out."

"After a long time, no one returned to the town to announce that they had successfully connected to the outside world. They became afraid and fearful, and spread fear of the outside world in the town all day long."

"Until I came to them and expressed that I wanted to break their fear and show the family's force and authority. Then I succeeded. Of course, Kil, your help is indispensable."

Kil scratched his face, not knowing what to say. He was not very interested in these, and he had even guessed what Bell was going to say next.

really.

"Let's go out together later and meet them. Although they are just some branches of the Chamber of Commerce in Yemei Town, their strength is not small. Knowing them will also be very helpful for your future development."

Keir wanted to refuse. He only cared about tonight's sleep and the things in his dreams, but after all, he had just used the potion provided by the other party, and it was not easy to refute and disagree at this time.

So after Bell was fully dressed, Kil was like a follower, wearing a mottled full-cover armor, and followed Bell, who was dressed as an aristocratic man, to the hall of the Sasse family, which he had visited before.

The place is brightly lit, with magic lamps and honey candles everywhere, making this hall bright and detailed.

And many powerful people in the town and even the entire county gathered in the hall. People of all kinds crowded around the baron heir, complimenting, flattering, and promoting Bel-Sass's courage and wisdom, as well as his outstanding achievements. leadership.

Before Bell could tell everyone about today's battle, someone had already started boasting.

Kil rolled his eyes and stood blankly with his hands on his hips, watching everyone's performance.

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After a while, Kil finally left Yemei Town, came out of the southwest gate of the town, and rode back to the refugee camp.

It was already midnight.

"It's so embarrassing, dear Ma. You weren't there. You can't believe how many disgusting and shocking compliments everyone will say when trying to flatter someone. Haha."

Blood Licker snorted indifferently. It was just a war horse. It didn't understand the content and didn't need to understand it.

After returning to the camp, Kil called several people in charge of management in the team.

Priest Batal, Bloodfangster, Mr. Bafoot, as well as the old businessman and the swordsman Will who has been protecting the old businessman.

"We will continue setting off at dawn tomorrow. How is the situation of the team?"

Keel asked as he sat by the campfire.

While he was away, Priest Batal was the leader of the team, so Priest Batal replied at this time: "There is no problem with the team. Many people even saw the situation of the people outside the town and suggested leaving here as soon as possible. But Kiel, there is one A lot of people want to join us.”

When he said this, Priest Batal was a little embarrassed.

Obviously those who wanted to join most of them found the priest himself, or they joined because of the priest himself.

"How many people? What's their origin?"

Kiel had expected this. After all, as long as he was not blind, the local people on both sides of the refugee camp could see how well fed and clothed they were. Comparing the two, in order to live or survive, It is normal to want to join the refugee ranks.

It's just that Kiir had previously given orders to the patrolling armed squad to drive away all outsiders who wanted to get close to the refugee team. This was not to refuse outsiders to join, but mainly to prevent those people from rushing in to rob the refugee team of supplies and food.

It's hard to get in, and it's hard to get close. Most people who want to join can only go to Priest Batal who has been treating injuries nearby for the past two days.

"I haven't counted carefully, but there are several waves of people who have come here. There are more than 20 people who have been treated by me, as well as their families. Most of these people participated in the previous troubles, and now they don't want to stay here anymore. . There are also about fifty people who are too hungry to live. Their little property has been used up during this period. In addition, there are another thirty wealthy religious people in the town who are willing to Come with me, they have tried to communicate with their companions from the Church of Saturn in the town, and the other priests want me to accept them and take them away from Yemei Town."

Kil shaved the stubby beard on his chin with his hand and asked: "I just went with the priests of the Church of Saturn in Yemei Town today. They seemed very excited about taking care of the monsters. I didn't expect that they would agree." Let some religious people leave Yemei Town."

Xueyaster reminded: "Who knows what the future will be like. Letting some religious people follow us to leave may be a reason to reduce risks. However, are the people in Yemei Town willing for us to just take people away like this? Will it offend others?"

"this……"

Priest Batal was in a bit of a dilemma. He knew that the local situation was not very good, but he had been living in Sars County in recent years and he really didn't want to offend the local lord family.

"It's okay. I have a good relationship with the actual manager of the town at this time, the heir of the Sass family, so it won't be a problem. In this way, if the supplies in the team are sufficient, we will bring those people we found, but Because of their condition, some heavy physical labor in the future will have to be done by them. As for the religious and wealthy people, we cannot take them away directly and let them wait for our team to set off during the day tomorrow and then catch up with them. This will at least appear superficial. It has nothing to do with us."

Kil looked at Priest Batal: "Leave the religious people under your management, the priest. Let them take care of their own property and don't mix with other people in the team."

"Okay, I'll do as you say. Warrior."

The priest nodded in agreement.

Then Kil looked at Bloody Fangster: "What about you? Is there anything going on in the camp?"

Bloody Fangster shrugged: "It's nothing serious. I just caught two local young people when I spent the night in a village outside the town. Do you still remember?"

Kil nodded: "Two clever boys. They are capable of operating under the eyes of parasitic monsters."

"Yes, they have returned to their home outside the town in the past two days and brought some young men with them and said they want to go with us. How about it? They are all teenagers who can eat and fight. They are not afraid of farming and fighting. They are good players."

Keir waved his hand: "Of course we will accept them. Where are the people? Where are they now?"

Bloody Fangster smiled: "I know you will definitely agree, so everyone has been arranged to join the team and found a tent for them to rest. How about breaking them up and joining the armed team tomorrow?"

"Yes, let armed civilians with combat experience train them and try to integrate them into the refugee ranks as quickly as possible."

"Easy." Xueyaster waved his hand.

Then Keir looked at Mr. Barfoot: "How is the exchange of supplies with the town going?"

The fat Mr. Barfoot shook his head with some regret: "The people here are a bit stingy, and they seem to regard us as ordinary people outside the town who are harvested by them. But I tried my best to follow your instructions and spend as much money as possible to buy a place to settle down. Nails and other materials used in building houses.”

"In this case, there is nothing to look forward to. We will continue on the road tomorrow. Please try your best to load and unload some materials tonight. Our horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts are all back. Try to move some materials that take time to load and unload now. . As soon as it gets light tomorrow, we’ll set off as early as possible after dinner.”

Keir instructed.

Mr. Barfoot said there was no problem: "The team is already skilled. Don't worry, we can set off soon after dinner tomorrow morning."

Finally, Kil looked at the old businessman and swordsman Will: "How are your injuries?"

The old businessman coughed: "I am already old. Although I am fine now, I don't know how long I can live. I can only wait and see when the God of Wealth chooses me and takes me away."

Will touched the injured area on his body and replied with a normal expression: "I'm fine now, just a minor injury. The priest's treatment is very effective and the food is sufficient. I now have 80% of my previous combat effectiveness. "

"Eighty percent?"

Keir smiled: "So confident?"

"You can come and try. It's 80% percentile. I'm confident that no one in the team is my opponent except you."

Will spoke sarcastically, and then came more sarcastic words: "As for you, Knight Kiel, ignore your armor and weapons. It's not like I can't fight you now."

Kil laughed loudly: "That's not possible. Fighting is not a competition. There are no fair rules. In other words, the only rule is that the winner lives and the loser dies. If I want to fight, armor, weapons and even horses must be included. , I won’t engage in any fair competition with you.”

"Then I'm not as good as you."

Will responded dissatisfied.

"But your swordsmanship is still quite good. When we have time, the two of us can practice with wooden swords. Don't look at me. I haven't gone to any swordsman school. Most of my martial arts are through fighting with beasts, monsters and bandits. It’s practiced.”

"You can see it, a very aggressive fighting style."

Kil smiled and gave the old businessman and Will some work: "Old man, just help some talented young people in the team to read and tell them some of your life's business experience. "

"It's easy, ahem, it just depends on my physical condition."

"As for Will, you will first serve as Ste's deputy and follow him to get familiar with the team. Then you will be responsible for protecting him and helping the armed team deal with some troubles that they cannot handle. How about that?"

Bloody Fangster pointed at Will's handsome young face: "There's no need to look familiar. Who in our team doesn't recognize his face? Just go to work."

Will touched his face in embarrassment and blushed, obviously remembering the days when he was detained by the female people in the team.

He couldn't help but blush when thinking about the experience of those days.

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After arranging the work, Kil couldn't wait to get into his tent, lay down on his sleeping bag excitedly, and fell asleep wearing most of his armor with a face filled with anticipation.

It's good to be young, just fall asleep.

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In the dream, Keir woke up in confusion.

A familiar dark and empty dreamland, still surrounded by some campfires and various corpses lying beside the campfires.

Kil looked at his situation, which was similar to before. His hands were empty, and his body was far less strong and capable than the outside world. And in the dark edge of the dream around him, as he woke up, corpses with miserable deaths were gradually stumbling out.

In other words, broken dead souls and resentful souls.

"It's not working? It shouldn't be. I can obviously feel the signs of the medicine in my body?"

While Kil was puzzled, in the real world outside the nightmare, the [Lion Potion] that had been in Kil's digestive tract before fell asleep, quickly entered the intestines and was absorbed, and then the potion was invisible to the naked eye. The force is sent to the brain and skin surface through blood vessels.

Kil was trotting between the campfires in annoyance, avoiding more and more resentful spirits surrounding him, when he suddenly felt something.

"Coming, coming." This feeling came out of nowhere, but Kil knew that something had changed at this time.

Sure enough, as a lion's roar sounded from somewhere in the nightmare, the image of Kil in the dream began to change. He felt that he had grown much taller quickly. When he looked down, he realized that his legs had turned into strong legs and feet of a wild beast, and his hands had turned into huge strong and powerful lion claws.

"Ouch-ouch-"

As soon as he opened his mouth, what he wanted to say suddenly turned into a majestic lion's roar. Although it was only the young lion's first roar, it already had the feeling of the king of beasts.

Kil was still standing, and then he realized that he had turned into a lion in his dream at this moment.

‘How strange? The potion of reality can actually turn me into a lion in my dream! Moreover, this change can also be used to deal with entangled resentful souls that could not be dealt with before. ’

Thinking about these contents, Kil suddenly remembered Bell's previous reminder, and then realized that this transformation has a time limit, and the sense of time in the dream is not obvious. It may be that he feels that it has not been long, but in fact, a couple of days have passed in reality. hours.

Therefore, in order not to miss the opportunity, Kil immediately rushed towards the entangled resentful souls around him who were frightened by the roar like a lion standing tall.

With one palm strike, without using the sharp claws on the palm, the huge force alone smashed the two frightened resentful souls in front of him into pieces.

"Ouch-ouch!"

'happy! ’

Kil roared, and immediately opened his bow left and right, using a series of slaps to get rid of the entangled ghosts around him that had been chasing him and disturbing his sleep.

After beating him in a circle, he felt that it was a bit slow, so he started running, rushed forward, opened his big mouth, and bit off half of the body of the resentful soul in one bite. He was not idle at all, waving continuously.

Kil's efficiency is not low, but he has killed more humans during this period, and he can't kill them all no matter how hard he kills them. Gradually, Kil's realized that this would not be enough to deal with his problems before the potion expired.

By calculation, he can deal with about seventy or eighty resentful souls in dreams before the changes on his body disappear.

This is far from enough. Although Kiel did not count how many people he killed during this period, there were at least more than 100 or 200 people. As a result, I became anxious and impatient. I stopped walking on two feet and started running at full speed on all fours. I no longer used my claws to deal with them one by one. When I saw the resentful ghost in the dream, I ran towards it and pulled it away. If the opponent's body is destroyed, it will continue to move.

Finally, when he suddenly turned into a human again, there were broken corpses everywhere around him, and only twenty or thirty of the lingering ghosts who were still standing were left.

And these guys were so scared that they didn't dare to get close. They actually retreated into the dark depths of the surrounding dreamland and ran away cowardly?

"Is it done?"

In his dream, Kil was so tired that he lay on the ground, with a smell of blood in his mouth.

Drowsily, he fell asleep again in his dream.

But this time, what he dreamed about was not a nightmare of resentful souls seeking revenge, but a beautiful dream. He returned to the grasslands of the Western Province, driving the blood-licking grass, galloping in the desert with only countless grasslands. of vast grasslands.

He ran from day to night, enjoying the gentle wind blowing on his face, admiring the clear black sky of the grassland at night, counting the countless stars in the sky, and identifying the symbols of gods on the celestial bodies flying in the sky. What a great god.

But unfortunately, after a long time of identification, Kil only recognized the only one, the Sun God among human gods.

The other gods are either some ancient gods, or gods of other races, belonging to humans, and only that one hangs in the sky now.