Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keel carried the rope and the rolled up strong fishing net, pulled up the horse tied to the door of the shop, and walked away.

Next to the store is the Angry South Gate, so Keel dismounted after two steps on the horse, and first tied his horse to the wooden hitching post in front of the checkpoint crowded with other horses.

"Look, I'll be back in a while."

Keir wanted to run after he finished speaking, but was suddenly pulled back by a young soldier next to the hitching post.

"I'm here to see Lord Ika, right? There are too many people here, do you want to come again tomorrow? Look, there are too many horses here to tie up!"

The soldier pointed to the hitching post full of horses, and motioned Kiel to leave in a friendly tone.

Kiel blinked, but he didn't expect that there were quite a few people rushing over to comfort the Ika knight, but he didn't come to see this young knight he didn't know, so he took out a copper coin from his pocket: "Brother, I'm not For those who came to see the Ika Knights, tie up your horse here and come back later. Watch it for me, and I will give you a copper coin when you come back later. Thank you."

After finishing speaking, he sent the coin into the other party's hand. The other party hesitated for a moment, but still accepted it.

Keel turned and walked towards the place where Angry Nanguan might descend through the stairs to the river bank.

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The level is built around the angry stone bridge, and the whole body is built with tall and tough tree poles and earth and stones. There are large checkpoint buildings on both sides of the gate connected by the main stone bridge, where soldiers and knights, as well as administrative clerks and tax collectors live together.

The checkpoint building on the west side is where the knights and literate officials live, and the other side is where the messier soldiers live.

Just now Kiel saw on the river bank that the place where the stairs go down along the river bank is on the side where the soldiers live, so he strode towards here.

As he expected, the rooms where the soldiers live here are locked and tightly closed. There are not many people in the building on the second floor. At this time, they all ran to the other side of the checkpoint where the knights lived to take care of the knights. The order of the people who came over.

A middle-aged soldier with a beard and a broken leg was sitting in the yard where the soldiers at the checkpoint lived, barely sawing a piece of wood with a hand saw.

"What are you doing? Who are you here for?"

Seeing that Kiel was carrying a large roll of rope and a fishing net on his shoulder, the disabled soldier asked curiously.

"I'm going down the stairs to the river bank. Do you know where I'm going from here?"

Someone answered him, and Keel asked the way directly and bluntly.

"Over there." The disabled veteran pointed to a passage by the wall, where some sundries were piled up, blocking a good passage.

"Thanks." After finishing speaking, Kiel walked over directly, pushed away the sundries that blocked the way, and prepared to go down.

But the disabled veteran put down his carpentry work and limped over with his wooden legs: "Seeing that you are holding a fishing net, do you want to go fishing? I advise you not to go, because there are many carnivores in the river." Fish, look, my leg was bitten off by those big fish that swim up the river every year."

But his good-hearted Keir didn't care, just smiled at them, and then continued to move the wooden boxes and sundries that blocked the way, so as to make a way to pass through.

"My lord knight didn't advise people to go down there two years ago. Those fish were very ferocious. Many children just went into the water to play and died in the river, and they were fed to the monsters in the river. Hey, and whoever fishes now goes down to catch the fish himself? It is to pull the rope on both sides of the river bank and directly lower the net in the air."

The man said a few words, but he was indifferent to the strange face of Keel, so he ignored it after a few words of persuasion: "Anyway, you don't look too small, remember to catch the fish and don't go into the river, just catch the fish on the bank. Yes Now, don't stay too far away from the stone bridge, those monsters in the water are very afraid of our bridge."

Keel walked through the aisle he vacated and came to the end of the place, where a black mesh iron gate stood in front of him.

Fortunately, this thing is not locked, but a wooden pin is used for opening and closing control. Removing the wooden pin pushes the seemingly indestructible metal mesh gate.

crunch—

The harsh sound of the door bolt sounded, and behind it was a downward spiral staircase, half of which was exposed and half of which was dug into the rock on the river bank.

The stairs were full of dirt and weeds and had obviously not been cleaned for two or three years.

"Boy, if you go down, remember not to stay too far away from the stone bridge. We are not the opposite checkpoint. There are ferocious monster swamp frogs. Be careful in the water."

Standing outside the passage full of sundries, the disabled middle-aged soldier reminded him again. Seeing that Kiel walked down the stairs without paying attention, he shook his head and went back to work.

Not long after the stone bridge was built, soldiers in the checkpoint often used this staircase to go down to fish and eat meat, and it was also a favorite place for people living near the checkpoint.

But every now and then, people were washed away by the river, or they were attacked by monsters in the river, or they were eaten by those carnivorous fish during the seasonal fishing every year.

Gradually, the people did not let their children come to play, and then the people did not go there. Anyway, everyone is not a real fisherman, so it is not good to rely on checkpoints and business routes to earn money for business trips.

And the soldiers also stopped living by the river after being killed and injured many times on the angry river. They all understand that even though humans have built such a large bridge across the Angry River, they still have not been able to conquer this river that has not been in contact with it for a long time.

The Beiguan people on the opposite side relied on the huge monster frogs they got from the swamps in the lower reaches of the river to make money by sailing on the Angry River and doing some business that went downstream quickly.

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Kiel walked down the slightly dark revolving stone staircase. He was wearing ordinary casual clothes when he entered the stone staircase, but when he reached the bottom of the stone staircase, he had already changed into a full-body iron armor with a Hunting with a long sword, and holding a blue two-handed ax in both hands.

He even took the opportunity to take a rest in the dream, relieving his body that was weakened by the exercise of life energy.

There was nothing at the bottom of the stone steps, just some sand and pebbles left by the rising river, and Keel strode out of the stone steps to the river bank under the bridge.

Looking up from the bottom here, the stone bridge, which I didn't think was so powerful before, looked extraordinarily huge and gloomy, like a part of the body of a giant snake protruding from the rocks on the river bank, exposed above the Angry River, and then burrowed into the rocks on the opposite bank Same as in the river bank.

Just when Kiel looked up at the stone bridge, he suddenly followed the afternoon sun and found something carved at the bottom of the stone bridge, which looked like stone murals carved at the bottom of the bridge.

Because it was too high, a lot of green moss grew on the carved murals, and it was hard to see clearly, so Kiel gave up observing.

He judged the direction of the river, and then strode downstream.

Not far away, during this time, Knight Crowe had already driven the three-meter-high water ghost to the river bank.

The crisp sound of Kiel's metal boots colliding with large and small pebbles on the ground immediately attracted the attention of Knight Crowe and the water ghost.

"Kiel? You didn't carry it on top, why did you come down after being armed?"

Knight Crowe took two steps away from the water ghost, and then asked Kiel. While speaking, he swung his long sword at the cunning water ghost to prevent the water ghost from sneaking into the river.

The water ghost also waved his injured arms to force Knight Crowe away, while twisting his head violently, staring at the blue ax with two hands in Kiel's palm.

A metal head on the ax that was more similar to the water ghost shone brightly, causing the whole ax to vibrate slightly.

Keel felt the change of the ax in his hand, and when he walked towards the two, he answered Knight Crowe's words: "My lord, I'll come down to help you. I'm busy with my affairs, I can't be indifferent, I have to do something."

Knight Crowe did not refute what he said, and obviously agreed with Kiel's statement, and was quite satisfied with it.

"Okay then, hold him back for a moment, and I'll finish him off. Its claws are poisonous but not very sharp. Go up and grab it and hold it back!"

From Knight Crowe's point of view, Keir was wearing armor at this time, and he just took advantage of the high defense and weight of the armor to rush up and hug the water ghost, creating a chance for him to kill.

But Keir turned his head in his hands and hadn't used meat for a while, thinking that letting the weapon try on its own might have some miraculous effects.

Thinking of this, Keir quickly explained to Knight Crowe: "My lord, there is a metal head of a water ghost inlaid on my weapon. I heard that it was the monster that the original owner of this ax killed first."

Knight Crowe raised his eyebrows, glanced at the weapon in Kiel's hand, and saw the shining water ghost's head.

"This weapon is about to move, and it seems to want to show it, and get close to one of its sources of experience."

Knight Crowe snorted and laughed. Obviously, Keir's humorous statement had some meaning: "Then let them touch each other. I'm also curious about how strong the water ghost's head is."

"But remember, you are the master of the weapon, not the slave of the weapon. A knight is a strong man who uses weapons to exert force, and will not be controlled by his own weapons."

After admonishing Kiel, Knight Crowe took two steps back again, came to the river, blocked the water ghost's chance to approach the river, and then let Kiel play a role.

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Seeing Knight Crowe get out of the fighting position, Keel gasped excitedly, took a deep breath, lowered his visor, and quickly rushed towards the water ghost who was much higher than him.

A heavy ax weighing more than ten kilograms rested on the shoulder of the armor, while Kiel's hands held the new ax handle one after the other.

The water ghost was not stupid either. It was cunning and cunning, and it immediately saw that the naked Crow Knight moved away, and sent it to fight the new humans.

It is not afraid of fighting. As one of the monsters transformed from human corpses after death, this monster is full of hatred for human beings. It does not need to be driven by the angry river master today. It usually attacks every human being near the river.

It's just that the recent human beings all take boats, and they also raised many difficult giant swamp frogs to pull the boats, so that they haven't devoured fresh human flesh for several years.

I was lucky enough to meet two humans today. Although it seems difficult to deal with, it is full of fighting spirit.

The water ghost opened its mouth wide, flicked its long tongue back and forth in a demonstrative manner, and then suddenly opened its arms and grabbed at Kiel.

The ten carrot-like fingers had long sharp claws, and they looked more like beasts than humans. There is also an unidentified feces-yellow substance like ointment on the sharp claws, which looks very unhygienic.

Keir didn't defend himself. Facing the sharp claws grabbed from the left and right, he directly stood on his front feet and supported his back feet. Then, using the inertia of his body to rush forward, he swung his arms and swung the ax, and slashed at the center of the water ghost's torso. .

call.

The ax made a frightening whistling sound in an instant, and Kiel, who had seen the opportunity, took a step forward and slashed at the body of the water ghost.

The careless water ghost overestimated the defense power of his body, and underestimated the special weapon in Kiel's hand.

It didn't know how powerful and dangerous this metal thing that attracted it was, and thought that the slippery mucus and scales on its chest could block the blow.

But it turned out to be regrettable.

Chick, the slippery slime didn't do anything. These things have good protection against lighter weapons, and it's easy for those lightweight things to spin and slide away.

At the same time, the water ghost's confident scales failed to block the sharp edge of the ax from cutting in. The moment the ax touched the scales, the ax flashed blue light, and the scales instantly lost their hardness and became soft, allowing the strong and heavy ax to cut into the water ghost's body.

There was a chopping sound, and a huge wound from the water ghost's stomach to the bottom of the abdomen appeared on the surprised water ghost's face.

It's hard for the water ghost, whose mouth occupies half of its face, to still be able to make an expression, but it's astonishment. The monster's life is extraordinarily tenacious. Although it didn't expect the consequences of this blow to be so serious, it used a pair of sharp edges even more fiercely. The claws came to Keel.

Clang—squeak, sparks splashed, ten dagger-like claws pulled out sparks on the front of Kiel's body, a shallow scratch was drawn on the steel surface, and the softer armor part was half a finger thick scratches.

But even so, Kiel was still not injured, but because of the great force after being caught, he dragged the ax in his hand and was knocked back a full meter.

The metal boots under Kiel's feet knocked away several pebbles that blocked the road during the retreat, and two drag marks left by the soles of the feet were pulled directly on the river bank.

Barely maintaining his balance after being injured, Kiel looked at the viscous translucent liquid on the axe, and immediately discovered that the water ghost's blood turned out to be transparent, just like river water, and could even reflect light.

Next to him, Knight Crowe also took advantage of the water ghost and Kiel's duel, and made a small jump without making a sound, directly jumping directly to the water ghost's back legs. He squinted his eyes to control the shape of the magic blade on the long sword, swiped the jagged and vibrating magic blade at the water ghost's heel tendons, and then pulled the long sword behind the opponent's knees and legs.

Like a whirling leaf falling from a tree, Knight Crowe swung his long sword across the water ghost's legs at this instant.

This kind of place is not blocked by strong scales because of the need for force. The slippery slime is a little troublesome, but the extra blade formed solely by the magic power released by the long sword cannot be blocked by the slime substance.

Four bouncing, bouncing sounds of tendons snapping, causing the tall water ghost who had just been injured on the front of his body to fall to the ground in an instant.

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"Pfft." Keel let out a breath, then raised his breath and reluctantly raised his two-handed axe, and slashed down on the arm of the strong water ghost that fell in front of him.

The ugly water ghost felt that it was in danger, and immediately raised its head, opened its huge mouth with sharp teeth that could swallow a whole child in one go, and spit out a large mouthful of milky-yellow unknown mucus towards Kiel.

The stuff was slippery, and it sprayed Keel all over with a suspicious smell.

However, Kiel's subsequent ax did not change. After raising it high, he gathered all his strength and slashed down fiercely.

After the water ghost hastily propped himself up with one hand, he raised it with the other hand, blocking the falling path of Kiel's axe.

puff! Crackling, scratching, and the sound of flesh tearing and bone breaking sounded from the water ghost's left arm.

The blue ax slashed down along the raised arm of the water ghost like a broken bamboo, directly from the middle of the opponent's palm along the bones of the palm, and ruthlessly tore open the entire arm of the water ghost from the strongest place.

"It's a bit powerful." Knight Crowe praised.

Then he turned his long sword, inserted the long sword full of precious stones upside down through the water ghost's thigh, and stuck it on the ground of the river bank. The khaki-yellow brilliance flashed and nailed the water ghost to the ground.

Kiel was panting heavily, smelling a stench, and immediately held his breath, lifted the ax from the water ghost's tattered arm again, took a step back, and then raised the ax high, ready to chop off the water ghost's head with one axe.

"etc!"

Knight Crowe quickly stopped Kiel's movements: "Don't forget what you are dealing with this water ghost!" He saw the ropes and fishing nets tied on Kiel's armor belt.

Pointing to these two things: "Tie it up and bring it back to the barracks. Only if it is alive can it have a better effect. Of course it is the same as being dead, but it is best to be alive."

Kiel put down the ax in his hand while enduring the stench on his body.

But he and Knight Crowe didn't expect that when the ax landed backwards and fell out of Kiel's palm, the blue light of the whole ax was brightened, and then he jumped on the ground, spun around in the air, and hit the water ghost's head in the middle.

The solid bone tumor skull and spikes on the water ghost's head looked like fakes. They were split open by the axe, and then the heavy ax smashed the water ghost's head from the middle, and the remaining strength blasted into the water ghost's brain, knocking the water ghost His brains exploded from the water ghost's ears and mouth.

"Hey! Hey, forget it." Knight Crowe didn't even have time to stop it, so he and Kiel saw this spiritual weapon and executed the defeated water ghost monster by themselves.

Knight Crowe shaved the short beard on his chin with his fingers~www.readwn.com~ and exhaled: "As I said, this weapon is really not obedient."

Keir was also stunned. He was not afraid, but he really didn't expect this result. He also wanted to capture a living water ghost monster as Knight Crowe said.

But @#￥#, this weapon actually killed the captured water ghost on its own?

Vaguely, Kiel could hear a lot of chewing sounds coming from the axe. It seemed that Knight Crowe didn't hear it. Kiel was so angry that these guys, these monsters bound in the axe , I even ate it at this time!

How unreasonable!

He immediately bent down and pulled the handle of the axe, trying to pull the ax out.

But under Knight Crowe's playful eyes, no matter how Kiel pulled, he couldn't tear the ax off the water ghost's head.

"Disobedient?"

Keir was too embarrassed to answer, but shrugged his shoulders.

"Hmph, I knew it. Don't worry about it. While it's still fresh, you tie up the water ghost with a rope and then cover it with a net. I'll go and put on my clothes, and I'll sneak this thing back to the camp in a while. You go back the same way. Remember not to say it, we will take this thing back secretly. Let the people who are angry at Nanbeiguan know, and the division of interests is inevitable. Do you understand? No one should say anything."

"I'll go back and borrow a magic weapon from the baron, and freeze this thing, and I'll deal with it for you after the road, so that you can eat it."

The last sentence really stunned Keir, what, he wants to eat this disgusting thing?

"Can you not eat this thing? Oh vomit." After Kiel finished speaking, he quickly disliked the mask and turned around and vomited it out.

Knight Crowe snorted: "Young man, it's late!"