Mercenaries and Adventurers

Moments before the black smoke that could cover everything rose, Keel led Zambirus to the door of the house at the back door, and directly worked together with the tall guards, using his shoulders as impact weapons, towards the tight-knit The closed wooden door slammed into it.

Fortunately, the Yisi knife head gang did not repair the wooden door as strong as the outward back door. The two of them just bumped into each other with a click, broke the wooden pin at the door, and broke into the house directly.

However, the situation inside made Keir unable to understand. The inside of the wooden door should be the entrance of a house or an open hall, but it appeared in front of him and Zambirus, but it was a dead end.

The description of the dead end is not accurate. In fact, although at first glance, there is an empty room no more than three meters in size behind the gate, but Kiel just scanned the traces on the ground and found that the wall facing the front should not be here.

There were messy footprints on the ground, as well as overturned decorations that fell to the ground under tension.

These things were abruptly separated by the wall in front of them.

"What the **** is this?" Zambirus scratched his helmet and looked around suspiciously, indicating that he couldn't figure out how this happened after entering the door.

He thought that as soon as he came in, he would fight the gang thugs who were entrenched here and confronted from the back door, but it turned out that it was a dead end when he entered the door?

Kiel bumped Zambirus lightly with the elbow of his right arm, raised his hand and pointed at the messy marks on the front ground with the tip of his sword.

Zambirus understood immediately, when the two of them were about to take two steps forward to check the wooden wall that should not have appeared in the front.

Suddenly, a wooden board on the front of the wooden wall was lifted, and under the light from the door behind Kiel, a crossbow appeared behind the opened wooden board.

Danger! Keir didn't have time to remind his companions, the moment the master of the hand crossbow launched an attack, he took a step forward and put his shield in front of him.

Ding, Ding.

One click and two rings.

The hand crossbow was loaded with two bolts at once, but fortunately, they were all blocked by Kiel's shield at that moment.

Seemingly seeing that the sudden attack had no effect, the planks were suddenly lowered and closed.

But Kiel's long sword slashed forward with heavy chops.

Boom—crack, swinging the long sword, managed to chop off a lot of wood, but the other party was obviously willing to spend money on the materials of this thing. Originally, the wood in the western provinces was a bit expensive because there was no big forest. The wood here unexpectedly Made of more valuable and stronger wood.

Seeing that Kiel blocked the enemy's sneak attack and attacked the wooden wall in front of him, Zambirus also swung the sword in his hand and smashed at the wooden wall with traps in front of him.

However, traps do not only exist on the front side. The landscape paintings on the walls of the house on both sides of Keel and the others were suddenly knocked off, and then several long guns protruded abruptly from behind. The sound of excited breathing attacked the two of them together.

Keel and the two of them naturally woke up extra since the wooden boards on the front could be flipped up to attack them, so when the hanging paintings on both sides of the room fell, the two of them immediately went back to back, one left and one right to meet them. Several long guns followed the attack.

"How cunning!"

Kiel yelled, and used his shield to meet and defend, while the long sword in his right hand was charged, ready to counterattack.

"They were already prepared!"

Zambirus answered, and in response to his words came the grinning grin of the extraordinarily excited thugs from behind the wall.

"Die, you skin-clothed fellows."

Although the leather armor worn by Zambirus is not the uniform worn by the soldiers of the local Grass Rat Town, but the ignorant gang thugs don't care so much, and directly pour all the anger they have received from the soldiers in charge of law and order over the years. On the long spear that was stabbed in the hand.

The final result was not the same. Even if several of the long spears that Kiel faced were poked at his chest together, they couldn't penetrate Kiel's light and strong shield made of elf metal. His left arm and the shield hit Kiel's chest.

But Zambirus is not good. Although the leather shield can also block the spears that do not have enough power to poke, the thick leather on the surface of the leather shield can only block the sword and chop, and the solid wood inside as the main body can barely block it. The iron tip of the spear, but the barbed spear tip pierced half of the leather shield, and the barb at the top firmly fixed Zambirus' shield.

"Oops."

As soon as Zambirus realized that something was wrong, the thugs who were hiding behind the wall in front of him pulled the spear vigorously according to the method given to them by the previous leader, and dragged Zambirus uncontrollably forward and fell down.

On Kiel's side, the shield blocked several spears poking from the front with slight damage, and then Kiel swung his charged arm heavily, and the long sword in his right hand slashed diagonally towards the barrel of the spear.

Crackling, even though the gun barrel itself is made of strong and resilient wood, it is relatively thin after all, different from the wooden wall used as a mechanism before. Kiel's long sword fell down, and the barrels of the two long spears were broken with one sword.

Without giving the opponent a chance, Kiel continued to slash, cutting off the barrels of the five spears one step ahead of the opponent retracting the poked spears.

Seeing that their weapons were destroyed, the thugs hiding in the narrow room on the other side of the wall panicked for a moment, not knowing what to do next.

Kiel's long sword poked a few times into the hole where the painting was originally hung, but it didn't work much. The thugs all backed away and beat Kiel's long sword with the gun barrels in their hands indiscriminately.

Seeing this, Kiel withdrew his long sword and picked up a small hand crossbow hanging from his belt.

This thing is a weapon he seized in a battle some time ago. It is small and does not get in the way when it is hung on the belt, and it is also full of power.

Unfold the arm of the crossbow, and the light click sound indicated that the arm of the crossbow had been fixed, then Kiel took out a small crossbow bolt pinned behind his back from the bag behind his waist, pulled the string manually, and then put the crossbow Putting the arrow on the track, Kiel sent the hand crossbow to the hole in front of him, aimed a little, and pulled the trigger amidst the wailing of several thugs in the room.

Whoosh.

With a slight movement, a short and thick crossbow bolt pierced straight into the abdomen of a thug.

The thug leaned back against the wall in pain, covering the wound on his abdomen with his hands, but the design of the blood groove on the crossbow shaft made the blood keep pouring out from the crossbow, no matter how it could be blocked, it couldn't be blocked.

The other thugs were terrified, and the three of them immediately slammed **** a wooden wall in the narrow space. After a few knocks, a narrow gap was opened for one person to enter and exit sideways.

The three thugs slipped away from here in an instant. But there was another person who estimated that he was a good brother with the injured thug on the ground, insisted on not leaving, and wanted to help his companion to leave here.

But then the crossbow string was stretched again, and another crossbow bolt shot in, directly hitting the head of this somewhat affectionate thug.

"Woo." With a muffled grunt, the thug fell to the ground as soon as he lowered his hand, without moving. The thug who was wounded in the abdomen froze for a moment, then picked up the spear barrel on the ground, moved it a little, and stubbornly poked the barrel towards Kiel outside the hole in the wall.

But the gun barrel without the metal tip was nothing more than a stick, poking at Kiel's armored body, it couldn't even push Kiel back.

Glancing at the situation at Zambirus, Kiel calmly stringed the small hand crossbow, filled in another crossbow bolt, and then raised his hand to aim.

As if knowing that his death was approaching, the thug on the other side of the thick wooden wall dropped the gun barrel in his hand, cursed Kiel, and then was shot in the eye by an arrow, and the crossbow pierced his brain, and he died directly.

"Hey, Keel, help, help!"

On Zambirus' side, the leather shield in his hand was poked and hooked by the opponent's spears. At this time, he was blocking the edge of the wall in a panic, the shield in his hand was pressed against the wall, and was fighting with several Thugs fight for control of the weapon.

For a moment, he didn't know whether the opponents controlled his shield or whether he used the shield to control the opponent's spears.

However, both parties were very angry, with obscenities in their mouths, the people inside scolded Kiel and others outside, and Zambirus on the outside cursed that he would cut off the heads of the thugs inside later.

"Come here if you have the ability! Cut off our heads! If you can't do it, die! Hahahaha!"

The thugs inside were quite rampant, probably because they took advantage of the battle with the local soldiers just now.

"Wait a minute, the two of you will be like other dog soldiers, all the hard skins on your bodies will be peeled off, and you will taste the taste of the brothers' daggers."

Keir turned around, observed the situation on Zambirus' side, and found it difficult to deal with, because the two sides could damage each other's weapon access, that is, the small hole on the wall behind the landscape painting, is now Blocked by Zambirus' leather shield.

The two sides are entangled, you can't hurt me, and I can't hurt you.

Difficult.

In this regard, Keir did not speak, but pointed to the leather shield on Zambirus' left arm, shook his head, and then pointed to the small hand crossbow that had been wound up in his hand.

Zambirus understood what Kiel meant, and felt a little embarrassed, because he felt that once he stopped exerting force, it would be difficult to keep his leather shield under the strength of the five opponents.

Because the shield has been pierced through half of the five spears, and the barbs of the spears and the damage to the shield caused by the wrestling between the two parties, once he let go, the shield is likely to fall apart soon.

But Zambirus only hesitated for a moment before making a decision.

He stuck the long sword in his right hand on the ground, then took out the dagger and cut it on the fixed belt behind the shield on his left arm. With a bang, the already tight belt snapped instantly, and he cut another one. Soon, his arm out of the shield.

As expected by Zambirus, the leather shield lost its balance in an instant, and was torn into pieces by the force of several people inside.

Suddenly the force was released, and the thugs behind the wall fell to the ground in an instant. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zambirus ruthlessly threw the dagger in his hand towards the hole in the wall.

"ah!"

The dagger was stuck in one person's body.

Kiel took a step forward, aimed the small hand crossbow at the head of a person inside, and shot an arrow directly. Because of the opponent's disturbance, the arrow hit the opponent's neck, directly penetrated the neck and nailed the person to the wall.

"what happened?"

The few people inside immediately panicked. Just as Kiel was stringing the hand crossbow, they felt a vibration in the soles of their feet. The ground at the main entrance of the house, where the main entrance used to be, suddenly raised a knot. ground.

Accompanied by the shouts from the underground gang thugs in the house, and the tremor of the mechanism, the mechanism at the door gradually rose, apparently to lock Keir and the others inside.

"Not good! Get out."

Keir yelled, and immediately pushed Zambirus back towards the gate, but the rising section of the ground at the gate blocked it. The ground had already risen one meter above the two-meter-high gate.

There was not enough time for the two of them to go out. Without hesitation, Keir grabbed Zambirus, who was far taller and stronger than him, and pushed him out of the remaining gap.

When Zambirus was lifted up, he hesitated for a moment, but he quickly figured it out, no longer resisted, followed Keel's push, turned over the raised mechanism, and landed outside the gate of the house.

Boom.

The mechanism was finally closed, and a section of wooden wall raised from the ground hit the top of the gate fiercely, locking Kiel in the house.

Fortunately, the mechanism is not perfectly seamless, and the two can still see each other through the gap.

"Keel, you wait here, I'm going to call someone over here. This **** wood, find an ax and chop it!" Zambirus knocked on the place where the wooden door used to be with his fist, but there was a hand-thick mechanism , It's like a wall, and there's not even a sound when you hit it with your fist.

But Keir stopped Zambirus: "No, there is something weird here. This house has more than one passage. Go back and tell others not to attack here for the time being. First, go to other places in the opponent's lair, and finally let the Anvina Knight Broke here from the outside."

Zambirus glanced back at the knight who was confronting a dexterous figure, and felt that what Keir said was right. The thick wooden wall they couldn't deal with, in the eyes of the giant ax in the hands of the Anvina knight, probably only one or two next thing.

"Okay, I'll inform the others right now, take care."

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Keel turned around and looked at the small darkened room.

Since the door at the back was cut off by a thick wooden wall raised from the ground, the light here instantly dimmed.

Only the left and right sides of the hole that attacked him still had light.

The cave on the left is extremely quiet. The people inside are either dead or have escaped by using the passageway in and out. On the right side of the hole, there are still bandits cursing.

Keir thought about it, and knew that the front wall was obviously raised from the ground, and there were opening and closing mechanisms on it, and there was obviously someone behind him who was thinking of attacking him.

The small hand crossbow was wound up, came to the hole on the right, raised his hand and shot an arrow, which directly overturned a thug inside who was treating his companions.

This sudden attack frightened everyone inside. They immediately knocked on a wooden wall. After a gap was opened in the wooden wall, those who could still walk slipped in.

The last bandit, who was stabbed in the thigh by the dagger thrown by Zambirus, moved too slowly. Kiel reloaded the weapon first, and shot an arrow in the head, killing the opponent.

Kiel glanced inside. The thug he shot on the neck before was still fixed there. He wasn't dead, but he couldn't live either. His teeth were chattering and he was waiting to die.

A thug who was attacked by him just now was shot directly in the back in the heart and died. But the thug who was just shot to death by him happened to be stuck in the gap in the wall of the mechanism that was opened.

Kiel's eyes lit up, and he gestured to the size of the hole in front of him.

To be honest, the hole that can provide five spears with a stabbing hole is not small, but after all, it is only used for weapons, and adults cannot climb through it. The width of this hole is much smaller than the width of an adult male's chest.

But it doesn't matter, Keel can manually open its eyes.

Just hunt and chop with a long sword.

He did it when he thought of it, but just after Kiel cut two swords, there was a burst of shouting from outside the house. It was a sound that people would make when they were extremely frightened. deal with.

Stopping what he was doing first, Keel turned around and came to the gate blocked by the raised mechanism.

There are gaps between the door mechanism and the wall, and a small part of the outside situation can be seen, and a small amount of light in the room also shines in through these gaps.

But Keel poked his eyes over, but found that he couldn't see anything, it was pitch black.

He was a little puzzled, and took another look.

It was still pitch black, as if it had come from morning to night.

But it's obviously morning.

Could it be that there is also a natural astronomical phenomenon such as a solar eclipse here? Today is the time of the solar eclipse.

Keel was puzzled.

He moved his head back a little, and suddenly found a puff of black smoke drifting into the room he was in from the gap in the door.

Keir's eyes were wide open, he hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, and immediately took a few steps back, watching the black smoke squeezed in from the gap.

The smoke is tangible and intangible, wherever it floats, it will swallow the sight there.

Very weird.

Keel felt that the hairs all over his body stood on end, and the ring on his chest, where the heart used to be, also accelerated the blood circulation.

"It's not so unlucky."

Just when Keir was so nervous that he didn't dare to approach the black mist, he heard someone talking in the yard outside.

The opponent's voice was relatively clear amidst the loud noise caused by the knight's random attacks~www.readwn.com~ left and right.

"The juice from the swamp's luminescent grass roots is mixed with the blood of the dark beast. After a simple adjustment, as long as it comes into contact with the air, a large amount of deposited smoke will burst out for a long time."

The voice spoke slowly and teasingly with information that explained the situation.

After hearing that, Keir breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that the other party, a high-level thief from the Thieves Guild, would have something that could destroy everything. At this time, the situation is unfavorable, and they will be released if they are not sure, causing great casualties and confusion.

But fortunately, the things in the opponent's hands can cause great confusion, but they don't seem to be lethal. Just by listening to the sound, it is known that the opponent and the knight himself are fighting in the yard.

And the same goes for some gang thugs who surrendered on the ground on the other side of the yard. Although the wails of terror sounded scary, the yells of the thugs let everyone know that this weird thing was harmless.

But the confusion caused by this unknown thing is real.

After Kiel was no longer afraid of being hurt by this thing, he stuck to the crack of the gate, paying attention to the situation of his companions outside.

Lubis and Zambirus shouted one after another, judging from the content, it seemed that they had occupied the house they had already controlled. Even if no one can see things.

Mr. Pawei and the others also calmed down from the panic, and they were already clamoring for a way to get down on the roof of the residential house.

Unable to see things, naturally there is no need to stay on the roof and fight remotely.

Just as Kiel breathed a sigh of relief, the sound of the mechanism suddenly sounded from under his feet.

"What's going on? Come again?"

He wailed helplessly.