Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 73 The Beginning of the Suppression of Bandits

It took most of the night for everyone to carry out all the corpses in the hotel and bury them.

The hotel was like a slaughterhouse, with blood, brains everywhere, and broken intestines in many places.

In the end, they endured the disgusting environment around them and stuffed Weber's food into their stomachs.

When the black knight killed people, it happened to be meal time. Everyone was on the first floor, and no one stayed in the room on the second floor, so there were no corpses on the second floor.

As soon as Rhodes closed his eyes, what appeared in front of his eyes was the lovely daughter of the innkeeper whom he saw a few days ago. She was younger than him. When he saw her again, her entire beautiful face was sunken. , with blood and brains all over his face, looking at him with big beautiful eyes.

The rest of the dead looked pretty much the same.

This made everyone more determined to clear up this place.

Hammer said that if he gave him ten hoplites with shields, he would definitely kill the black knight.

As long as the soldiers trained their shields into one piece and raised them to surround him tightly, he stabbed the black-hearted knight trapped inside with a spear to death.

They left the inn early the next day, and continued on to Winterfell.

The rest of the road was safe, and nothing happened, and they re-arrived at Winterfell on the third day.

Weber gave each of the women some gold coins and asked them to leave and find work.

After that, Hammer went alone to a tower in Winterfell Keep, before Hammer said he was going to find his uncle to let him be an officer.

The uncle he was talking about was Lord Randall Smith's younger brother, Lord Mikken Smith.

The Earl of Mikan is one of the senior commanders of Winterfell Fortress, and now the supreme commander of Winterfell Fortress is Claude Smith, Duke of Winterfell Province.

Rhodes and the others were sitting in the tavern talking while listening to the people next to them discuss what happened recently.

"Have you heard? It is said that the emperor of the Roman Empire began to hire knights to help him fight. This year, the knights will join the frontal battle."

"Of course I've heard of it, what kind of Morning Knights?"

"It's the Knights of the Dawn."

"Oh, that's right, that's the one. Do you know that we in Nord also have a regular knight order?"

"Winter Howling Knights?"

"It seems to be called that name."

"Don't talk nonsense if you two don't know, don't you know that besides them in the northernmost part of Nord, there is also the oldest knight order on the mainland?"

"The Twilight Knights? The knights riding a deer? Didn't they disband a long time ago because they couldn't recruit people?"

"Don't tell me if you three don't understand, are they called the Twilight Knights? Others have always called them the Twilight Guards, the last guards before the long night."

"As long as you know a lot, let me ask you what is a long night?"

"No one knows except them. If you want to know, go to the north and ask them."

……

Rhodes just sat in the tavern for the whole afternoon. The tavern is really an interesting place. The conversations of the people inside can range from the battle of human life and death in ancient times to the Roman Empire's plan to conquer the entire territory of the Fish Kingdom next year, and from the Roman Empire's The emperor talked about the silly boy at Tom's next door.

However, the tavern is also a good place to learn about recent events on the mainland. He couldn't help but think of someone who controlled many inns and Goulan houses after crossing, and thus controlled the direction of public opinion.

Hammer, who was carrying the warhammer, returned to the tavern, walked to Rhodes' table and sat down.

"What's the matter?" Baron asked.

Hammer shook his head and said, "He can make me an officer, but he doesn't allow me to lead troops to wipe out the bandits in that area. He said that we will start a large-scale battle with the Roman Empire soon, and the soldiers cannot be sacrificed in vain. In that position."

"Then the four of us, as long as we don't run into that black-hearted knight or something, there shouldn't be any danger," Weber said.

"It doesn't matter if I run into him. The last time I seriously injured the dragonman, I used too much force and haven't recovered. I think if I meet him today, I will definitely be able to defeat him." Baron put down the wine glass in his hand and said.

"That's the best, when shall we go?" Weber asked.

"Tomorrow."

……

Rhodes and the others bought a horse for Hammer in the market, and went on the road again the next day. All the money they found from the robbers before was given to those poor women. Those weapons were too heavy to be used. I didn't bring them back, and piled them all up in that cave, maybe they will be used magically in the future.

"When will the Roman Empire usually go to war with us?" Rhodes asked.

"Usually in August and September, wars will be started after finishing the work in the fields. It's still early in May." Baron replied.

Every time the Roman Empire launched a war, it would not only mobilize various nobles and their soldiers, but also recruit ordinary peasants everywhere. If they did not respond, they would be deprived of their land and become serfs under the nobles.

"How is our route arranged?" Rhodes asked.

"Uh... why don't we go all the way south from Winterfell Keep to Red Eagle Fort, which is now occupied by us, then go northeast, and finally go all the way west to Dawn Province?" Baron replied after thinking for a while.

Weber nodded and said, "I think it's ok. In this way, we will pass through most of the places, and then we will wipe out the bandits we encountered and give them a trial."

"I think it's okay too." Hammer said, Rhodes didn't care about these.

For Rhodes, exterminating the bandits was just enough to complete his mission. After dealing with the group of robbers, his mission progress became 13/100, and he had to punish 87 bad guys he thought to complete the mission.

However, there are some problems with this kind of mission. The black-hearted knight also belongs to the category of bad guys in his opinion. If he is killed, the progress of the mission will only increase a little. The difficulty is much higher than that of fighting ordinary thieves.

In addition, those nobles who exploit the people too much can also be regarded as bad guys by Rhodes. Will the system give this kind of task because the difficulty of punishing people is different, and the final rewards are also different?
At night, they came to the roadside hotel for the third time. After hesitating for a while, they stepped into the hotel again. The corpses on the first floor were cleaned up by them before, but they didn't clean up the blood.

The smell of blood was much weaker than before, and Rhodes and the others became irritable after seeing the hotel again.

After Rhodes and the others sat down and Weber entered the kitchen to cook, a group of mercenaries walked into the hotel. .

"Give us something to eat for each of the five, and prepare a room for each of us." A mercenary shouted before he could clearly see the situation on the first floor, "Why are you all staring at me? "

"Everyone here is dead, you have to cook what you want to eat," Baron said.

"Then you go and help us cook now, or I'll let you eat with knives." The mercenary pulled out a scimitar from his waist.

After returning to this hotel again, he was not in a good mood. After hearing his words, Rhodes smiled...

(End of this chapter)