Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the middle of the night, after bragging with his friends, Keir had just entered his new tent to rest. He didn't know if he would be entangled by the ghosts of the bandits he killed tonight.

But not long after he lay down, when he was still trying to fall asleep, he heard a panicked footstep approaching from a distance.

"Stop! This is Lord Knight's camp, don't get close!" A warning yelled to prevent the coming people from blocking it.

These are some of the armed people closest to Kiel himself. As Kiir’s temporary direct descendants, they will guard his camp every night, taking turns to guard Kiel’s safety and his own wealth day and night (mainly It is a carriage and horses loaded with various supplies).

As a benefit of direct descendants, these people have never been assigned redundant work by Kiel, which has gradually separated them from other people in the team these days. But these people don't care. After all, everyone comes from multiple villages, and they are not familiar with each other. There are many benefits to following Knight Kiel, and there is a gap between them.

"It's me, it's me, the team leader behind the clearing! I have something to ask Sir Knight, don't get in the way!"

Hearing the sound, the person who came to visit in the middle of the night in a hurry was the leader of the armed people's team who had been arranged by Kiel to secure the fence at the back of the open space.

But Kiel has also explained it in normal times, so these people who help Kiel guard and patrol at night don't care who is coming.

But he still said: "Wait here for a while, let's call Lord Knight, if it's not important, you'd better be careful!"

The person who spoke looked at each other for a while with the leader of the armed people who came to look for Kiel, and then he came to the door of Kiel's camp in person, and first greeted Kiel in a low voice: "Master Knight, Lord Knight, someone is looking for you."

Keir stayed up all the time, of course he heard the movement outside just now, he responded and asked the guard to let the visitor in.

I simply put on the newly bought cloak and light an oil lamp in the tent.

The curtain of the tent was lifted, and a young man wearing a simple leather armor seized from bandits and with two machetes at his waist walked in quickly. Seeing that Knight Kiel had gotten up, he directly said the matter.

"Knight Kiel, since just now, we have patrolled and guarded the back fence of the open space, and found some unusual signs."

There was cold sweat on the squad leader's face, and his expression was a little nervous. At least Kiel saw that his nervous lips were a little pale.

Keir patted him on the shoulder and told him to relax: "Don't be nervous, tell me, what unusual signs were found."

Taking a deep breath, the team leader explained: "When my people were patrolling tonight, I heard someone whispering outside in the dark field near the fence of our open space!"

Kiel put his hands on his waist, thinking: "It may be the people in the town who are monitoring and tempting, or it may be some organizations and forces who are curious about us, don't be nervous, maybe they are debtors who take care of that field, they can't sleep in the middle of the night, Come out and walk around."

The team leader forced a smile, and continued: "Not only that, after I was reminded by my subordinates, I also personally participated in the patrol, but I saw with my own eyes a pair of light spots hanging in mid-air not far from the fence."

When he said this, he became nervous again: "It's like a ghost! Are those dead people spying on us?"

To be honest, the attack and battle that night before was not only such a **** and chaotic night for Kiel, after all, he killed so many people with his own hands, even if those people deserved to die. The experience of that night, for these young people under Kiel who were ordinary farmers and hunted in the village before, is a terrifying memory that they will never forget for a lifetime.

Fortunately, they won in the end. The victory from the battle and the seizure of the materials looted by the bandits greatly relieved the pressure of many people, which made everyone's spirits relatively stable these days.

But that's just an appearance.

The unusual signs tonight made this young squad leader who usually speaks loudly and aggressively, with sloppy footsteps and panic, and when facing Kiel alone, he finally showed the tension and fear that he would not show to his subordinates.

Kiel Knight is the only existence he can find that can bring a sense of security.

Not to mention the priest of the **** of agriculture in the team, although he also believed in religion, but he was born in a farming family, and he was naturally influenced by his family to believe in it. Since his family fled from their hometown, he has long since ignored his previous beliefs.

After all, it has been a long time since he prayed devoutly to the God of Saturn in the field he worked in himself, even though he still eats the full grain seeds given by the priests of the God of Saturn every day.

Because he knew very well that after this experience since the escape, he realized that the God of Saturn couldn't help the poor fleeing people too much in these terrible things.

Even the religious believers in the team said that it was the **** of agriculture who sent the Kiel knight to them.

These things are all empty rhetoric, and now he only believes in the real power and strength visible to the naked eye. The Kiel knight, who can almost defeat hundreds of bandits by himself, is the power and strength he believes in now.

Keir actually felt a little embarrassed when he heard what he said, but he couldn't show it in front of this person. So he smiled confidently: "Don't worry, I'll put on my armor and go over to have a look. You, pass my order and tell the other teams to get up and patrol, put more torches on your hands, and light up the surrounding area. Light up the fence."

"No matter what it is, if it is illuminated by the fire, it will not make trouble. If someone wants to attack us, we will do it with them. Just like last time, we will beat each other hard!"

Kiel patted the opponent's shoulder heavily, and pointed to the two machetes on the opponent's waist: "And this time everyone is different from last time, believe me, and also believe in the guy in each of you. Will die. Same thing with monsters, same thing with undead corpses. If they are really ghosts or something, I'll burn them with magical flames and make sure they're all wiped out."

"Yes! Sir Knight!"

Encouraged by this, the young squad leader, who was a few years older than Keir, suddenly became enthusiastic and seemed more confident than Kiel. After answering loudly, he strode out to go Pass the Kiel Knight's order to the other squad leaders.

Kiel watched the man's movements, smiled wryly, and disappeared in place in an instant.

The next moment, he appeared in the original place fully armed.

He was wearing a thick metal full-coverage armor covered with minor damage, and the newly bought cloak—[Night Ambition]—was also draped on the shoulder armor of the metal armor, and was closed and snapped on the front of the neck armor.

Behind him was already a two-handed ax with blue light on his back. After reappearing at this time, he waved to the side of the tent, and the long sword hunting that was leaning on the end of the sleeping bag also automatically jumped up from the ground, jumped into his hand, and was then hung on his left waist.

Lifting the curtain of the camp tent, Kiel's fully armed appearance surprised the patrolling guards outside. They didn't expect that the armed civilian leader came out not long before the Kiel knight came out like this.

Did the Knight sleep in his armor?

so strange.

"Someone might be spying on us outside. You all muster up your spirits and guard this place. If there is a battle, the people who come closer will be placed around my camp."

"Yes, my lord. Shall we all be called up?"

asked a tall young man.

Kiel put down the steel visor: "Scream up, but just let everyone pay attention and prepare for a possible battle. As for what's going on, whether there will be a battle, listen to my order later."

"Yes, Lord Knight."

The guards replied.

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Kiel found his own horse, and the guards already had people in charge of the horses, and put the blood licking saddle and other items on it. Kiel lifted the weapon rack and put it behind the saddle, and then lifted the all-metal bi-fold weighing 20 to 30 kilograms. With a long-bladed spear, he lightly turned on his horse.

Knocking the horse's belly and pulling the reins again, the Bloodlicker followed Keel's instructions, bypassing the campfire and the large tents all over the place, and trotting towards the back of the clearing.

The open space was not big, and Keir's horse was fast, so it didn't take a few strokes. Before the team leader who was in charge of patrolling the security of the fence at the back of the open space came back, Keir had already arrived here.

"Master Knight is here!"

There were not many people riding horses in the team, and only Kiel was riding a tall blood licking grass with full body armor, so he was surrounded by anxious patrols as soon as he came over.

"Knight Kiel, there were a lot of floating light spots outside just now!"

"There are still voices!"

"Not only that, but also the grunting and walking of monsters! I can hear them all, right outside the fence in the darkness!"

Keir held the spear in his left hand, and waved his right hand: "Don't be nervous, listen to me, the torches are all fired, and every two people light a torch. Then wake up the rest of your team, and everyone is ready to fight. preparation."

"Don't worry, I'm here myself."

Kiel yelled in a slightly louder voice, so as not to cause panic among the people living in the camps of ordinary people behind him. His voice was not very loud, and the armed people patrolling by the fence could hear it.

After hearing Kiel's words, everyone got busy. The simple torches distributed to the teams were lit one after another, and small combat teams of several people were called up one after another. Everyone put on animal skin clothes with a certain protective ability, picked up their own Armed with sword, ax and shield.

"Don't gather around me, a group of five, spread out."

After finishing speaking, Keir took the torch from a man, swung his arms round on the horse, and threw the torch in his hand towards the dark field outside the fence in front of him.

Hurrah, he threw the torch into a parabola that approximated a low-throw ballistic trajectory, and was thrown far away.

Keel did see something moving in the field, briefly illuminated by torchlight along the way.

But that thing is not tall, and it is not too tall to the crops in the field. Moreover, the markings on the body are easily mixed with crops, making it difficult to see clearly. If the opponent's eyes hadn't reflected light in the firelight, Keel would not have found them.

"what?"

Keir found it strange and vaguely familiar, so he said to the people around him, "Stay where you are, I'll go and have a look."

After speaking, he inserted a new torch into the weapon rack behind him to provide illumination, and then slammed the horse's belly, causing the blood licking grass to burst out. When it came to the edge of the wooden fence, the brave blood licking grass sped up a vertical leap, directly jumped over the one-meter-high wooden fence, and came to the field outside the open fence.

The ground was very soft, and the crops were neatly planted, and Kiel didn't care about trampling these crops on his horse. After landing, he drove the horse to chase the thing he saw just now.

"Lu Lulu—"

The blood licking grass seemed to have discovered something, and without Kiel's command, it followed the thing that was fleeing in the darkness ahead and chased after it.

But Keir's ears are also very good after knight training. He not only heard the sound of fleeing in front of him, but also heard the sound of footsteps trampling on the crops around him.

'Surrounded? '

As soon as he thought this way, there were bursts of meowing and urgent whining around him.

Kiel froze for a moment, the voice was somewhat familiar.

Of course, this meowing is not the cute cat in the team who helps everyone guard the food every day and prevent the food supplies from being yelled at by the jerboas and voles. This voice is louder and more powerful.

Obviously, the screaming creature is much larger than the cats Keel and the others raise.

cat? cat!

Keel had a flash of inspiration, remembering where and what was the last time he heard this sound.

"A long-haired lynx orc?"

Keel shouted and asked around.

At the same time, he stopped knocking the horse's belly to accelerate, and pulled the reins with his right hand to slow down the blood licking grass.

"Aw!"

But these frightened little guys quickly approached Kiel from around, and at the same time there was a sound of tail waving and whipping, and what flew over was not a dangerous dagger or blade.

Kiel swung his right hand a few times, and used the back of his hand and forearm armor to block the attacking things, and found that these things scattered on his body. When he smelled it, it was just dirt that could be seen everywhere in the farmland.

His body was also hit a few times. Keir didn't care about these little clods with no power at all. Instead, the spear in his left hand was turned upside down, and a long-haired bobcat orc who jumped up from the ground and wanted to pounce on him was given to him. Hang it with the end of the long gun, and then swing it up.

The bewildered long-haired lynx orc warrior rolled helplessly in the dark air, and finally turned around instinctively, putting his limbs under his body, ready to accept the impact of the ground when he landed.

But before it landed in mid-air, it was grabbed by Kiel's protruding right hand.

"stop!!"

Kiel roared angrily, and at the same time swung his right hand up and down wildly, causing a long-haired lynx orc warrior who was caught to wail.

The other long-haired lynx orcs around who were not much higher than the crops stopped their 'offensive' in fear, and let out demonstrative purrs and growls.

With the help of the torchlight behind him, Keir finally saw clearly that it was indeed the long-haired lynx orcs he had seen before, which made him a little strange. These alien races were spying around his camp tonight. Is it their own behavior? Or was he instigated?

If it is their own behavior, why do they do this?

Instigated by others, then by whom? Is it the old businessman from Puntorissa? Or his subordinate, the fat steward in charge of the gambling arena?

Or was he instigated by others after hearing that he was driven away?

But after thinking so much, the one captured by Kiel was restless. It seemed that he was annoyed by Kiel's sudden defeat. The long-haired lynx orc warrior who was in charge of close combat didn't stop at the moment.

No, stop.

That's not right, it used all its hands and feet, and its sharp claws scratched Kiel's palm and arm vigorously while being caught by Kiel. His sharp teeth were not idle, he yelled, and then he bit Kiel's finger fiercely.

At the same time, a long tail was constantly flicking, whipping Kiel's neck and head.

For a moment, it looked extremely fierce.

"Don't make trouble..." Keir was quite speechless. This little thing looks fierce, but the actual damage is zero. Although the claws and claws flew up, apart from making some noise, they couldn't even scratch the scars on Kiel's metal gauntlet.

At the same time, it bit fiercely, followed by a soft click in its mouth, and the long-haired bobcat orc let out a wailing sound, and dared not bite anyone again.

The swipe of the tail looks powerful, but Kiel has metal spikes on his shoulders. After twitching the tail a few more times, it scraped against the metal thorn and bled from the injury.

Soon, in just a few breaths, this guy stared at Kiel angrily, cursing Kiel vigorously in their own language.

Kiel didn't quite understand it, but he didn't need to guess to know that it was not a good word, so he shook his arm vigorously up and down, screaming at the long-haired bobcat orc, and the screams scared the other long-haired bobcat orcs around him. He straightened his tail upright.

"Stop, arm! Brindle Fluffy becomes, warrior, no, toy!"

At this time, the long-haired lynx orc who was chased by Kiel before galloped his horse, and then quickly stepped on his short legs, pushed aside the crops as tall as it, appeared in Kiel's field of vision, and said at the same time The above passage.

"Huh? What?"

Since the other party seems to have just arrived in a different world to learn the lingua franca of mankind, Kiel had to repeat it again before he understood what the other party said.

"Stop? Striped Momo is a warrior, not a toy? Is that what you mean?"

Although Keir said this suspiciously, he still stopped shaking his hands ahead of time, and let the long-haired bobcat orc with dizzy eyes pat his head, making him feel a little better.

"Sure. Stop, fight. Me, many of me, no, become prey, mighty, of man. No, prey!"

This guy, who was slightly shorter than the other long-haired lynx orcs, took the initiative to move forward, trying to get close to Kiel and his tall horse.

"Not a prey? Not an enemy, right? Is that what you mean?"

"Sure, sure."

The other party nodded hastily, and opened his arms towards Kiel at the same time, exposing his chest and abdomen: "Fight, lair, no, participate, many me! Maomao, participate, powerful, human!"

Keir looked confused, and as the conversation deepened, he couldn't understand what the other party meant.

Seeing that the powerful humans did not react or respond, the long-haired bobcat orc was quite anxious, as were the other alien races present. But it still opened its mouth to appease other alien races with words it didn’t understand~www.readwn.com~ Then it solemnly said to Kiel again: “Maomao, participate, powerful, human! Many me, fight! Many me, fight! "

Keir racked his brains, thinking about what the other party meant: "Maomao? Is that what you call yourself?"

Seeing that the little foreigner who could barely reach the blood licking grass's stomach by straightening his arms nodded, Kiel breathed out and said, "You want to join my team? Fight with me?"

The long-haired lynx orcs present all nodded hurriedly. It seemed that they could understand some human lingua franca, but this one was the only one who could speak it.

"Maomao, fight, be strong! Human beings, be strong, many me, fight, be strong."

Kiel finally understood what the other party meant this time, and wanted to take refuge in him. That's why he peeked and whispered outside the fence, scaring his people into thinking they saw the ghosts of dead bandits.

Think about it a little bit, especially since these long-haired lynx orcs come from the mountains, they may be useful to find and rescue the villagers of Changmai Village later, so Kiel nodded, let go of his right hand, and put the dizzy foreign warrior , put it down.

"Okay, I promise you."

As soon as Kiel agreed, the aliens swung their tails behind them and cheered.

But Keir went on to say: "However, I have to inspect you for a while first."

But what he said next seemed to be actively ignored by these fluffy aliens. Except for the guy he let go, the other aliens jumped up happily.

"Connect, once, maomao, get, human, work. Woohoo, reward metal please!"

"Huh? What?"

Gilmon, what is reward metal?