Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 74 Conflict
"Boy, why are you smirking?" a mercenary said to the smiling Rhodes.

There were five mercenaries in that team. They seemed to be from the Royal Court of Anu, and all of them were holding scimitars commonly used by the grassland people.

The mercenaries of the Royal Court of Anu are very aggressive, they only have women and fighting in their lives, and they are all very defiant, even they feel that the personal bravery of any man in the Royal Court of Anu is much stronger than that of other countries on the mainland .

Even though Rhodes has two strong men, Hammer and Baron, they think that any one of them can at least tie with anyone on the opposite side, and they have five more people than Rhodes, so they are very happy. Arrogant.

"It's nothing, I just think you are cute." Rhodes replied.

"Don't you want your tongue?" One of the mercenaries pointed at Rhodes with a scimitar.

"Yes, why not." Rhodes said with a smile, he was already a little irritable, and wanted to vent it after meeting this group of high-spirited mercenaries.

"If you want to, shut your stinky mouth and cook for us." The mercenary said, drooling.

"Then wait, I'll go to the toilet to make some fresh ones for you now. I ate your favorite mutton for lunch. I think you will like it." Rhodes replied.

"I think you don't want to live anymore." After hearing Rhode's words, a mercenary rushed forward with a scimitar.

Rhodes, who was wearing dragon scale armor, was not afraid, and raised his fist wearing dragon scale gloves to meet one of the scimitars.

The knives and fists intersected, and Rhodes' fist shattered the elbow.

Rhodes punched the lower abdomen of the mercenary who stayed in place in surprise.

The mercenary crouched on the ground clutching his stomach, his face pale.

Seeing this, several other mercenaries also rushed up. Hammer blocked the scimitar of one of the mercenaries with his hard gauntlet, and kicked him to the ground.

Baron deftly dodged several mercenary attacks in a row, then stretched out his big hand to snatch the scimitars of the two mercenaries, and collided with the scimitars. One by one, he knocked them to the ground with a heavy blow.

The remaining mercenary was punched in the ribs by Rhodes with all his strength, lying on the ground, clutching his chest and howling, not knowing if he had broken bones.

"Take your things and get out of here, don't dangle in front of me." Hammer said to the mercenaries lying on the ground.

After hearing this, several mercenaries stood up and helped each other to leave the hotel with the scimitar and scimitar fragments on the ground, and closed the door for him.

After letting them out, the three of them felt better, and sat on the bench again to wait for Weber to cook.

"Why are they so weak?" Rhodes asked. The black-hearted knight he met before had hit his self-confidence, and he thought that there were not many people as strong as him.

"Of course, they are obviously mercenaries who have just left their hometown. They think they are very good in their village and think that they are also a task when they go outside. Experienced mercenaries will not have trouble with others when they have nothing to gain. Conflict." Baron explained.

"But what they said doesn't sound like an accent," Rhodes said again.

"It is estimated that they are grassland people who live near the center of the mainland. If the mercenaries of King Anu's court who live deep in the grassland speak to them, you will not understand them." Hammer explained to Rhodes.

This reminded Rhodes of the silent Anu Royal Court mercenary whom Aya met in the inn in Shuanglin Town before, and he was indeed much more powerful than these people.

"It's time to eat." Weber came out with the prepared food.

He made a pot of mashed potatoes, a pot of onion and chicken soup, and a few fried eggs.

"There's still a lot of food in the kitchen here, and we can take some more when we leave," Weber said.

"We can't eat the food they left for nothing. I swear that within ten years, I will help them get justice." Baron said with a spoonful of mashed potatoes in his mouth.

Hammer nodded and said, "I thought about it. To deal with a freak like him, we'd better get a better crossbow. I don't believe he can survive the armor-piercing arrow."

"The Fish Kingdom has the most of these things, and the Roman Empire also has some. In fact, we might as well find an archer who can draw a mammoth bow. It's a pity that Sam died too early." Weber sighed.

The mammoth bow is a bow specially used by Nord hunters to hunt mammoths. It is very powerful. To pull it off, you must have a very strong arm. However, having a strong arm is only a necessary condition, and you need a professional archer.

Neither Hamer nor Baron knew how to play bow and arrow. Although Weber could, his arm strength was relatively small and he couldn't draw a heavier bow.

Rhodes still remembers Sam, one of his first adventure partners after crossing, he died under the siege of ghouls.

"Let's consider the issue of destroying the bandits and roadblocks on this land first. It's not too urgent to seek revenge on him. Besides, there are still knights chasing him now, maybe they will kill him directly." Rhodes said.

"makes sense……"

Before Baron finished speaking, a group of people pushed the door open.

It was the group of mercenaries from before, and behind them were a few ferocious mercenaries who were dressed similarly to them.

"Why are you back again?" Hamer asked.

"Of course I came back to find a place." The mercenary who was squatting on the ground after being hit by Rhodes before said, "This is my cousin. He and his brothers have participated in more than a dozen battles, big and small. , It's easy to deal with you scumbags."

The fierce-faced mercenaries next to him saw the appearance of the person sitting there, and the leader said, "Sorry, sorry, my little cousin is not sensible, please don't mind, I'll go out and teach him a lesson now." Ton, I'm really disturbed."

After speaking, the man took them out.

"What's wrong with my cousin?" The mercenary who was about to come back asked suspiciously.

The mercenary with a fierce face slapped him on the head, "Idiot, don't you know who they are?"

"Who is it?" the mercenary asked innocently, not only the other four mercenaries before him also looked at him curiously

"That's 'Savior of Ebony City' 'Fire Axe' Baron and 'Dragon Slayer' Rhodes, did they throw you out with ease just now?" asked the vicious mercenary.

The mercenary froze for a moment, then nodded.

"Then you still want us to help you avenge?" The vicious mercenary slapped him again, "Be more brainy in the future."

He was angrily preparing to take his teammates out of here.

"Wait." Baron said.

"What's wrong?" asked the vicious mercenary.

"Have you ever killed innocent civilians?" Baron asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"No, no, why should I kill them? No one will give us a penny. We have always used money to do things, helping those lords fight wars. If we win, we will take the money and leave or continue to fight. Run away with the deposit." The vicious mercenary replied tremblingly.

"Okay, let's go."

……

After a short episode, the four of Rhodes and the others began to focus on the food on the table again.

"Rod, weren't you good at cooking before?" Hamer remembered something.

"Yeah, once you mentioned it, I kind of miss Rhodes' delicious food." Baron looked at Rhodes and said, "You can cook next time."

"I can help you," Weber added.

Rhodes could only nod helplessly...

(End of this chapter)