Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir scratched his head: "Did you get killed by wild beasts?"

The wilderness of this different world is actually quite dangerous. There are more people, but if there are fewer people, all kinds of things will come to the door and take people's lives.

The drinker shook his head: "It's all about the arrival of the beast, so it has nothing to do with Todd. After all, this kind of entrusted matter is what you like and I want. The money to complete the entrustment is quite a lot, and the corresponding risks will naturally be borne by yourself." .”

Kiel nodded. What the other party said is correct. Rights are equal to obligations. There is no risk in farming at home, and the corresponding value of the grain harvested each year is also fixed. Going out to complete dangerous commissions, although the client gives a lot of money, but the risk conceited.

"How many people died? How did they die? You are always going around." Seeing that the drinker on the opposite side kept wandering the topic at key points, and never talked about the specific situation, Keel couldn't help it now. Pull back the plate with the roasted peanuts a notch.

The drinker on the opposite side immediately answered: "Not many died, how dare so many die. There is a young man who fell into an abandoned canal and froze to death."

"ah?"

This was something Keel hadn't expected.

"But what does it have to do with Todd? I accidentally slipped into the ditch and froze to death. This is also the responsibility of the other two alive." Keel made a direct judgment.

"Hoohoo." The drinker on the opposite side glanced at Todd, and seeing that Todd had stopped moving, he said with a smile: "But if the client specifically said to be careful when entrusting the commission, pay attention to it many years ago. The abandoned dangerous water canal, and Todd didn't tell them about it when he explained it to his men?"

Keir immediately looked at Todd. Todd had already covered his face with his hands at the moment. Obviously, what the drinker said was fine.

"what happened?"

Keel narrowed his eyes and asked, "What's going on?"

Todd's voice faltered from under the palm of his hand: "When the client said, I, I forgot to write it down on paper. I didn't think about telling them afterwards, hey."

The drinker next to him gloated and continued: "Afterwards, when the people came back with the corpse, they clamored to question Todd and the client. This incident attracted Mr. Fu Lun, the clerk who was in charge of the town's security. The owner of the farm, together with the onlookers who heard the entrustment at the time, confirmed that Todd failed to inform the people who were going out of this dangerous and important situation. This led to the accident.”

"I heard that the abandoned canal was planned and prepared when Kendall City was built decades ago. But later, because there were not so many people to deal with the large fields in the north of the city, the canal was abandoned. After waiting, the population increased. After that, it will be used separately. The owner of that farm came up with the idea of ​​this aqueduct after hearing about it from the elders in the family.”

"Although the northwest of Kendall City is not as fertile as the river in the north, the terrain is relatively flat. If there are canals to supply water, it will definitely be a good land. But what happened, ah." Speaking of this, the drinker can't help but No more words, just sipping his own beer with Keel's roasted peanuts.

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Keel bumped into the speechless Todd: "So, how did things go after that?"

Todd flattened his mouth and said awkwardly: "The client explained the danger, but I didn't explain it to them, causing them to pay attention to the danger when walking on the snow-covered wilderness. The main responsibility lies with me."

"I have to compensate them."

Keir was a little surprised: "Don't go to jail? Or get a few whips?"

Todd punched Kiel, but Kiel didn't take it.

He rubbed his fists: "After all, it's a dangerous entrustment, and the risk is at your own risk. Moreover, one person fell into the ditch, and the other two people who were traveling with him didn't find help immediately. Mr. Fullen said that they were also responsible, so we don't have to be tortured, but the dead It is necessary for people to lose money.”

Seeing what Keir wanted to ask, Todd said it first: "They are five silver coins each, and I am mainly responsible. I have to pay at least two gold coins, plus all the funeral expenses."

Keir blinked his eyes, didn't know what to say, and finally just complained softly: "Hey, human life is so cheap."

A young laborer was only worth three gold coins, which left him speechless.

-

After drinking, Keel hinted that if Todd didn't have enough money, he could ask him to borrow it, but Todd said that he had savings, and Keel's previous entrustment still brought him some extra income.

Walking out of the tavern, Kiel went all the way down to the small stone castle of the city guard at the gate of the city.

I asked the guards at the gate and confirmed that Knight Crowe was inside at this time, training the guards and some of the best militiamen. He told the gatekeeper to tell the knight to come and find him.

Soon, the guard came out and motioned for Kiel to follow him into the stone castle.

Keel has been to this place once, and it looks low and low from the outside, but in fact most of the area is hidden underground.

All the way down with the guards leading the way, Keel guessed that not far from the underground stone castle should be the drain of the city's underground waterway. Thinking about it this way, the construction of the entire Kendall City is still very complicated. Some key places seem to be placed in the underground area. If the rumors he heard in the tavern are correct, then there should be complex terrain under the upper city of Kendall.

On the training ground below the ground, Knight Crowe is training the guards to fight in teams with the selected elite militia. He was wearing a set of khaki scale armor, with a bright thick silk scarf around his neck. He did not wear a helmet, but hung the helmet that matched the armor on his right waist.

Holding a thick and long wooden stick in his hand, he was using the wooden stick to dial the figure of a militiaman who was out of position.

"Closer! When fighting in such a narrow place, raise your shields and put them close together." He said loudly, and at the same time waved his hand, so that the militiamen in the second row could withstand the militiamen in the front row. back.

"The people in the front row hold the shield well, and let the people behind push you away. Remember, hold the shield with both hands to save energy!"

The militiamen were driven together by his wooden pole and walked back and forth around the underground training ground.

Noticing that Keir came down with a guard guarding the door, he waved his hand to let his deputy take his place.

Knight Crowe glanced at Kiel, nodded in satisfaction and said, "Physical training is okay, come to Kiel with me. Talk here." Then he asked the guards to go up to check the door, and he opened a wooden door on the side of the training ground and walked out. go in.

There were some paperworkers working inside. Keel looked over and felt a little familiar. He was led by Knight Crowe and walked up to someone. Knight Crowe pushed Keir up and said, "This is Joe Keel, you've seen him in the camp, right?"

The person who was asked hurriedly stood up, adjusted his appearance, glanced at Kiel, and said, "Yes, my lord, I saw this brave militiaman in the camp. Uh, young man." The person seemed to remember after finishing speaking. Keir is not a local, and certainly not a member of this winter's militia.

But despite this, Keir is obviously a Kendall, and has made some contributions in the process of hunting down bandits in the mountains.

"Very good, he hasn't claimed the rewards from the previous crusade against the bandits, so let's take them from you now." Knight Crowe patted Kiel on the shoulder: "Follow the other party, and take the rewards for your previous achievements in fighting the bandits , I will direct the training outside. After the money is taken, come out to find me.”

Kiel nodded quickly: "Yes, Sir Knight."

The knight walked out of the room, and the staff in front of him also sat down, and asked Keir to sit opposite him. Afterwards, this man rummaged through it and found a newly made thick book. He flipped through many pages before stopping on one page.

Keir looked over and found that some of his information was recorded on it, as well as his various achievements in participating in this year's militia crusade against bandits.

Convenience began to ask about each specific battle that Kiel participated in, as well as the results of the battle. Kiel answered honestly. Every time he confirmed one, it was convenient for him to make a mark with an ink pen on the back of Kiel's achievements.

Some of the things recorded above not only include battles, but also include reconnaissance and drawing maps, which Keel did not expect. After confirming the last item and beheading one of the leaders of the bandits, the staff on the opposite side were a little surprised to calculate all the achievements and the money converted from the achievements for Kiel.

After the calculation, the other party told Kiel a number.

"So many? I didn't expect that drawing maps would have so many merits." Kiel didn't expect that the most important contribution was to kill the bandit leader, and the second place was to draw a battle instruction map for the battle.

Other sporadic killings of ordinary bandits are of little value.

Compared with the previous two.

Afterwards, after the staff confirmed Kiel's bounty, they asked Kiel to sign the page for confirmation, and pressed a finger print with clay.

Kiel did exactly that.

Then it was convenient to take out a metal sign, write a money amount on a wooden piece fixed on it with a kind of silver ink, and then dry the metal sign near the candle next to it, and then handed it to Keir.

"Look for the metal window in front of the wall at the back, give the things to the people inside, and they will give you the money."

After finishing speaking, the staff member motioned for Keir to go over.

After thanking the other party, Keel walked to the back wall and tapped on the closed metal window.

Boom.

The window opened, and a hand stretched out from the small metal window the size of a human head, motioning for Keel to put things on it. Kiel honestly put the metal sign in the opponent's hand.

Then the other party retracted his hand and pulled a mechanism, and the metal window was quickly closed again.

Keir looked back and found that the previous staff member waved him to wait.

Soon, the metal window opened again, and a woman's voice came from inside asking: "Did you bring your own purse?"

Keir quickly realized: "Yes."

"Okay, I'll give you some money."

Afterwards, eight gold coins were first piled up in a pile and pushed out by the woman inside. Kiel took it and clicked it, and it was correct.

Then another six silver coins were pushed out, and Kiel took them and counted them correctly. Finally, there was a small tray with dozens of copper coins and a few iron coins on it and pushed them out together.

"Give me back the tray after ordering."

This time, Keir opened his purse without looking at it, and dumped the coins on the tray into it. The gold and silver coins were received in the money bag inside the clothes.

There was a chuckle from inside the metal window, making Keel a little embarrassed.

After returning the wooden pallet to the family, the metal window was quickly closed.

Turning around, Kiel took out a silver coin from his pocket, and quickly threw it on the desk of the staff member just now as he walked across the room.

There was a laugh behind him, and Kiel turned his head to look, and the other party nodded at him, without saying anything, and quickly put away the coins with his hands.

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Walking out of the house, he walked into the lively training ground from the quiet room just now.

At this time, the guards and the militia were colliding with each other as two training teams. Both sides were wearing wooden armor for training and holding large thick wooden shields in their hands. People were crowded and pushed together.

"Strength, charge!" The guard quickly gained a foothold after the impact, and then pushed forward as a whole under the command of a guard behind.

With this blow, the uncooperative militia team was defeated, and dozens of people on the other side were pushed all the way back to the wall of the training ground.

Seeing this, Knight Crowe, who had been following the two sides, shouted, "Stop!"

"Okay, you guys lost again this time, do you know what the problem is?"

Facing the knight's question, a young man who was in command of the militia nodded: "We are not working as a whole."

"That's right, although you are trying to control everyone in the team, you forgot that at the critical moment of the battle, you don't need your extra command. Shout out and ask everyone to come up, it's better than letting someone So-and-so is more important. Although the team is small, it is impossible to command, and there is no need to command everyone. Each team has its own captain, and those who are crowded in the front row know who needs assistance, and there is no need for you to leapfrog behind command."

"do you understand?"

"Understood!" The loud answer.

Afterwards, Knight Crowe turned his head and saw Kiel coming out, and waved to everyone: "It's getting late today, so I'll stop here. Go down and eat more and exercise more. In low-level battles, every soldier's It weighs more than your talkative command. That's it, let's go."

When the guards heard that they were leaving, they immediately dispersed in twos and threes. This level of training, no, it was a training partner, and they were already bored.

The militiamen argued with each other aggrievedly. Although they all heard what the Knights of Crow and the militia commanded just now, it was the consideration of the people above. They, the people in the team, evaluated each other's responsibilities since everyone was so-and-so just now. insufficient.

Seeing these militiamen accusing each other, Knight Crowe shook his cloak angrily, ignored the militiamen, and walked directly towards Kiel.

"Follow me." He said angrily, obviously accumulating a lot of anger in the process of training the elite militiamen to become a new batch of town guards.

Knight Crowe's office is also within the outer circle of the training ground, and there is an attendant at the door. After entering, Kiel took out the wrapped elemental crystal from his pocket.

Knight Crowe didn't talk nonsense, took the things and put them in a small leather pouch hanging around his neck. Then he asked about Kiel's previous crusade against the northern wolf.

It has been repeated twice today, and the third time Keir condensed the story. He knew that Knight Crowe did not pay attention to the battles of ordinary people like them, so he only talked about the battle between the Wolf King and Knight Lanisa.

He still didn't talk about the final situation of the wolf king, only said that when he threw the ax at the last time, the ax hit the wolf king's forehead in the middle by itself, and took the wolf king's life.

Knight Crowe did not sit down, leaning against the stone wall and commented to Kiel: "Your 'Water Head' is a typical spiritual weapon, but it is a bit too active. But this is not a problem, as long as you Find out the character of your weapon and just follow it."

"Follow it?" Keel was a little embarrassed.

"We still have to figure out its character?"

Knight Crowe snorted twice: "Hehe, that's why this kind of spiritual weapon is generally unpopular in the army. A weapon is a weapon. It only needs to be swung with the soldier's arm, and there is no need to decide who to attack!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the several sabers he had in the house.

The most conspicuous thing in Knight Crowe's room are several display swords hanging on the wall. These swords are mostly different in length, width, material, shape, decoration, pattern, weight, color, etc., are all different.

"When I hold them, I alone decide who to kill, not the sword in my hand decides who to kill! Keel, do you understand?"

Knight Crowe asked, staring into Kiel's eyes.

Stared at by those murderous eyes, Kiel swallowed hard and nodded to show his understanding.

He could not speak.

After learning about Kiel's recent battle situation, Knight Crowe was not interested in other things. Then let Keir leave by himself, and he went out to communicate with the new militiamen.

"Gather me! We're all a team, how can we shirk responsibility from each other, duty companions? This is just training. If in a real battle, do you plan to do the same after the battle?" Knight Crowe's loud voice rang again stand up.

Kiel shrugged his shoulders when he heard the voice behind him, and slipped away.

-

After he walked out of the small stone castle, he chatted with the city gate guard next to him for a while. During the chat, the guards told Kiel apologetically that they have been strengthening their training recently and have no time to train Kiel in combat skills.

Although they don't know what the nobles above are going to do, they all feel that something may happen in the coming year, so they will step up the training of the guards in winter.

Keir has been hinted by Knight Crowe that Baron Kendall will participate in a battle in the next spring, and Knight Crowe will also accompany him in the battle. Kiel wants to learn from Knight Crowe to become a knight warrior. Then we have to go out together.

It is not only because he has time to train him along the way, but also because Knight Crowe's method belongs to the army's method, so naturally he has to learn it in the war, so that the effect will be the best.

Kiel bid farewell to the guards, looked at the time, and then turned into the artisan area.

It's not too late yet, so the artisan area is still clanging. Walking to the armor workshop, Ganna craftsman is making new guard armor with his new apprentices.

"Keir, you're here, wait a minute. Let me finish the work at hand." Ganatten didn't move his hands, so he let Kiel sit freely in the workshop.

As soon as Keel came in, he saw his design, a new metal armor set made by Ganner craftsmen, worn on a dummy displayed in the workshop.

This new armor, also fully covered, was largely in the same style as the hard cowhide armor he wore today. But similar on the outside doesn't mean the same on the inside.

On the contrary, due to the all-metal material of the new armor, the load-bearing structure in contact with the body is very different. Keel uses the design of the inner and outer armor, the inner armor is close to the body and tough~www.readwn.com~ and the outer armor is connected with the inner armor through a buckle. The outer armor is also connected with buckles, which will greatly retain the flexibility after wearing thick armor.

The armor designed by Kiel not only pays attention to protection, but also ensures the agility of the wearer's movements.

At least some of the traditional armor that restricted the fighter's movement was removed with the new design.

The more Keir looked at it, the more satisfied he was, and he couldn't wait to put it on.

But he knows that although the armor has been made, if you want to put on the new armor, you have to wait, because it has to go through the actual wearing experience before making changes.

Some unexpected places in the design can only be known after wearing.

In fact, there are armors that don't have to be so troublesome.

It is similar to the armor worn by Kendall guards. It is said to be armor, but there is no main connection between the various armor parts. The helmet is the helmet, the breastplate is the breastplate, and the skirt armor is the skirt armor. These parts seem to be worn in between One person, but in fact the various parts are not connected.

This kind of armor does not require complicated designs, but there are gaps between the connected parts of this kind of armor.

Generally speaking, within the thick outer armor, wear a chain armor made of small chains, or another set of close-fitting precision scale armor, and the inside and outside match into one.

I don't know if it's because of the production cost or a technical problem, but the local lord didn't equip the guards with chain mail. Instead, thickened hard cowhide armor was prepared for the guards.

However, I heard that in the southern region, soldiers like to wear chain mail and then wear cloth armor made of strong cloth.

After wearing it in this way, the stabbing and cutting of ordinary swords can hardly hurt the warrior himself, and it is not heavy in weight and has high flexibility.