Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 64 The Troubled Bard
Miles is a bard from the Kingdom of Fish, and there are very few bards in the Kingdom of Nord, so no matter which tavern he goes to, he is very popular.

Spring came, and he left the Ebony City where he had spent the whole winter. The weather was getting warmer and warmer, so he decided to go all the way north to see the customs and customs of northern Nord.

He walked on the abandoned King's Road with a lute on his back. Although this road is called the King's Road, it was built by the ancient Nord kings thousands of years ago. With the passage of time, this road has been abandoned, and few people Walk.

Ordinary caravans and passers-by would not take the ancient muddy road with wild beasts infested near this road, but chose the new road paved with bluestone decades ago by the Foss family.

Miles was carrying a lute and put his hand on the dagger at his waist. He was tricked by a group of adventurers to this abandoned ancient road, otherwise he would definitely choose Foss, who is busy on the road. avenue.

He still remembered that when he asked the adventurers in the tavern for directions, they all smiled and told him to go north along the king's road.

If I hadn't been drunk at the time, I wouldn't have been teased by those stupid adventurers, Miles thought to himself.

As he walked, he noticed that many trees on one side of the road had been broken from the middle, and there was still scorched earth left by the flames on the ground.

He stopped, he felt that he had a sudden inspiration, and in his mind he had imagined a battle between mages and trolls.

A beautiful noble lady went out to play and was attacked by a forest troll. A handsome young mage happened to pass by. He fought a battle with the troll. Demon, fell in love with a noble lady...

No, this story is too plain. The noble lady has been engaged to a knight. For love, a mage who loved the lady since childhood had a duel with the knight. Finally...

Just as the young troubadour was staring at a pile of burnt ashes in a daze, a scorched hand stretched out from the pile of ashes, and he almost screamed out in fright.

Miles took a closer look at the hand, and felt that it seemed to be of a human being. He stepped forward to remove the ashes, and found a skinny bald man inside.

He put his fingers in the bald man's nostrils, found that he was still breathing, and Miles lifted him out of the ashes.

Looking at the bald man, Miles was in a bit of a dilemma, not knowing what to do. He met such a dying man in the wild, and he pretended he didn't see him if he wanted to, but felt that it made him a little bit uneasy.

But if managing him would cause a lot of trouble, then maybe he couldn't come back from the north of Nord before winter.

After hesitating for a while, Miles decided that he should not just let him die like this, at least he should take him back to the city. Although he didn’t believe in God, he still didn’t do anything, and his conscience couldn’t bear it.

He took out the water bag and poured a few sips of water into the mouth of the skinny bald man, and the man drank it all.He hung the lute on his back on his chest, carried the man on his back, turned around and walked towards Ebony City, he found that this man was much lighter than he thought before, but his body was terribly hot, for someone like him who hadn't exercised much It was still difficult for the bard to walk back to Ebony City.

When Miles carried the skinny man into the city, he was stopped by the guards at the city gate.

"What's the matter with this man?" asked the guard.

Miles knew the guard, and he paid for a song at the time.

He thought for a while and felt that there was nothing to hide, and told the guards truthfully, "I found him in the wild, and he was dying. I wanted to bring him into the city, maybe he could be saved."

"Don't waste time and money, you bring him into the city, and he will be sent to the Hall of the Dead in a short time." The guard kindly persuaded him.

Miles was a little shaken, and he didn't have much money with him. After the guard told him this, he began to hesitate again.

In the end, he shook his head, "I think I should give it a try. I'm afraid that one day I will fall in the wild and no one will save me, and finally die in despair."

The guards stopped him from stopping him and let him enter the city directly.

After entering the city, Miles went to the tavern. He had no money to hire a real doctor, so he pinned his hopes on an adventurer who knew everything. He remembered that he met an adventurer who claimed to be very good at healing. It seems to be called "Sewing House" or something.

After he walked into the tavern, a bald Nord man with a huge ax on his back kept staring at him, making his scalp tingle. It was not like he had never seen such a strong adventurer, but the bald head made him feel totally different.

The bald adventurer put down the wine glass in his hand and rushed towards him. On the way, he knocked down a few benches and the adventurers sitting on them. Those adventurers wanted to lose their temper, but they all fell silent when they saw that it was him who hit them. keep silent.

Miles took a few steps back, startled by him, and wondered if something happened to him and his wife.When the bald adventurer came over, he didn't hit him with his fist as he thought, but stared at the dying skinny bald man on his back.

"Is he still alive?" the adventurer with the giant ax asked in a trembling voice.

Miles nodded, and replied, "I'm still alive for the time being, but I won't know later."

The adventurer with the giant ax gently lifted the person on his back and put him on the bench.

Another burly adventurer with a warhammer came over and said, "Hurry up and send him to the castle. I know Lord Foss very well. He must be treated by the best doctor under his command."

After hearing what he said, the adventurer with the giant ax held the skinny man on the bench against his chest and ran towards the castle.

The adventurer with the hammer on his back and another short adventurer with a dagger on his waist followed suit.

"You go with us." The short man with the dagger on his waist said back to Miles.

Miles hesitated for a while and followed.

The adventurer with the hammer on his back wanted to go in but was stopped by the guards. The captain of the guards came to see him and smiled at him and said a few words of greeting to let them enter the castle.

This is the first time Miles has entered the castle of the nobles of the Nord Kingdom. He has visited the castles of the nobles of other countries before and played songs for the nobles inside.

He looked around along the way, carefully observing the differences between the castles of the Nord Kingdom and those of other countries.

Miles felt that this Nord's castle didn't look much different from them except that it was older and taller than the castles he had been to before.

I don't know whether Winterfell was affected by the proximity of the Roman Empire or what, but Miles felt that the decoration inside was very similar to a castle of the Roman Empire that he had been to before.

He followed the three adventurers carefully through the velvet carpet, fearing that the footprints left by his dirty feet would be blamed by the people in the castle.

And the servants didn't care.

It's really extravagant, to actually use velvet as a carpet, and it doesn't feel bad if it gets dirty.Miles sighed inwardly.

The adventurer with the hammer on his back took them to the stairs of the castle with ease, and after going up the stairs, he turned his head and said, "I'll go and say hello to the Marquis of Foss, you take them directly to the third floor and turn left to the third room , where the best doctor in Ebony City lives."

The man with the giant axe nodded, and ran to the third floor with the person Miles found before...

　I'm very sorry, there is only one update today, now I owe two updates and I will make up for it in January.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)