Mercenaries and Adventurers

At the same time that Knight Crowe jumped towards the Angry River amidst the exclamation of many onlookers.

At the bottom of the turbulent river of the Angry River, a small piece of ground suddenly vibrated on the quiet river bottom that was not affected by the current. As a force from Knight Crow projected along the ground to the sandy soil at the bottom of the river, a small part of the controlled river bottom suddenly surged up rapidly.

When Knight Crowe and his steed started to fall in the middle of this seemingly failed jump, a large splash of water suddenly burst out on the surface of the angry river, and a large river made of river mud rose straight up from the splash. Sand pebbles are loose columns of rocky soil.

This 'column' rises rapidly, accompanied by the sound of roaring and trembling, it immediately rises from the river surface that was originally more than ten meters lower than the river bank, and then directly stretches upwards from the river surface in less than half a second. It stopped after reaching a height of twenty meters.

This height is even a little higher than the river bank where Kiel and the others are standing at this time.

The column was splashed with water, fish and mussels that rose from the river, and the pebble plane at the top was just extended to the hooves of the Claude knight's horse that was about to fall.

"impossible!"

The loudest screamer at the scene was naturally the Ika knight who had just performed in front of the public. While he was shouting, he was holding the rein tightly with both hands, and he didn't even notice that the rein was broken.

Of course, the people on both sides of the river did not expect that, who would have thought that this knight who seemed to be reckless and stupid, wearing heavy armor and riding a horse towards the river, would have a mud pillar protruding from the river to bring him an unexpected shock? support point.

Knight Rumi muttered in his mouth, how did he do it, just watched Knight Crowe land on the dirt pillar that was just supported, and then immediately jumped forward on the spot with the momentum, still following Just like before, he jumped towards the opposite side of the river.

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The people on the north bank of the Angry River were even more excited. They saw that every time the knight made a vertical leap, a mud pillar would rise from the river, supporting him to jump towards the north bank of the river.

However, after being used once, the dirt pillars used by Knight Crowe's horses seemed to have lost their strength, and they collapsed directly with a bang, piled up in the center of the river, and then were washed away by the fast-flowing Angry River.

The more the Crow Knight's horse jumped, the shorter the distance of each jump, so the corresponding mud pillars supported by the horse's hooves appeared more frequently. Rise up until the Crow Knight is finally sent to the north bank of the Wrath River.

At this moment, cheers and shouts resounded from the people on the north and south banks separated by the river. People were excited because they had just witnessed such a miraculous scene. Many people were incoherent and didn't know what to say, so they had to shout Only by shouting can they vent their excitement at this time.

The businessmen from Kendall cheered together excitedly, and prepared to cheer together according to the timing of each jump of Knight Crowe when Knight Crowe returned from the north shore.

Those are the knights of their county. See, they are no worse than the young men in the western provinces, even stronger and more amazing.

After all, there are really many things flying in the sky, not to mention all kinds of raptors that are bigger than people often fly on the mountains in the distance, and can be seen with the naked eye when the weather is good. It is the merchants of Kendal, as long as they have a little time, most of them travel through the entire Kendal County, to the Imperial Border Knights station in the north of the county, and watch the huge lions rise and fall on the stone tower where the tall griffins live. vulture.

That kind of griffin is much bigger than a carriage, and it is far more than twice the size of the Ika knight and his war horse with artificial wooden flying wings inserted.

On the north bank, when Knight Crowe came to the river bank with the deafening roar of the vibration of the ground and the rubbing of earth and rocks, some onlookers even knelt down excitedly towards Knight Crowe, who was glowing with khaki all over his body. .

Knight Crowe gasped and scratched his head, wondering if he had acted too much.

But facing the excited people who were waving their arms at him and trying to get closer, he waved his hand in a friendly way, and faintly activated the newly mastered power, causing the ground to vibrate, preventing the people from getting too close.

It's not good to get close to being accidentally knocked over by his steed.

Feeling the slight tremor of the ground, people subconsciously sat down on the ground to keep their balance, and naturally no one could get close to Knight Crowe.

While waving his hands, the knight shouted to the people not to rush to the open space marked by the flags on both sides.

He didn't stop, and rushed forward for a certain distance, giving his horse time to breathe and recover. The continuous strenuous leap just now, his war horse also took a breath to do it.

Although unlike his tiredness of concentrating on manipulative abilities, his steed was not easy either.

At the end of the sprint distance marked by the flag, he slowed down and turned his horse's head, and then looked at the crowd cheering and shouting at him. Knight Crowe was in high spirits, and the many days of marching made him feel bored. He hadn't been this lively for a long time. Maybe he can make this place more lively.

Turning his mind, the knight mobilized more powerful power this time, not only his own power, but also a little power crystallized from the pure elements hanging in the small leather pouch on his chest. His changing life energy mixed with the dissipated power of elemental crystallization, poured towards the ground under his feet.

At the same time as it caused a bigger shock on the ground, he shouted: "Everyone is watching!"

After finishing speaking, regardless of the surprise and shock of the surrounding people, he galloped towards the south bank of the river.

Accompanied by the vibration of the ground and the loud noise caused by the violent contact of the horse's hooves, all the people on the north bank stared closely at this strange knight in heavy steel armor.

The sturdy war horse galloped at high speed, flying all four hooves, and the vibration of the ground had no effect on it at all. It even knew that it was the master's ability, but it was panting heavily and was too energetic.

Facing the approaching river bank, Knight Crowe shouted loudly: "Brave! My friend, be brave! Don't jump up, sprint! Go all the way to the river bank!"

With the master's command and trust, Knight Crowe's horse no longer gathered energy to jump like before, but sped up again and ran straight towards the place where the angry river bank hung in the air.

The people on the north and south banks of the river were all staring at Knight Crowe. Seeing that he was still not going to jump after approaching the river bank at this moment, but continued to charge forward, they all involuntarily let out exclamations from their mouths.

But then something unimaginable happened.

Right on the river bank in front of Knight Crowe, in the place that was suspended in the air, large rocks and pebbles at the bottom of the river bank washed by the current suddenly flew into the air as if they had been pushed by someone, and they all flew up as if they had lost gravity.

These extremely heavy guys flew from the river bank and the bottom of the river to a place at the same height as the river bank in less than a second. And in the loud noise of the collision, they were tightly stuck together, and in the sound of the boom, the large rocks were broken and shattered into smaller scattered stones, and then spliced ​​together with other surrounding earth and rocks. .

In an instant, a narrow earth-stone bridge was formed in an instant following the galloping horses of Claude's knights.

The hooves of the war horses galloped on the narrow earth-stone bridge that had just been formed, making a crisp sound. Obviously, the earth-stone bridge formed at this moment was far more solid than people seemed to see.

When the knight used his ability to build an earth-stone bridge from the river bank and galloped more than ten meters above the river, another object similar to the earth-stone pillar rose straight up in the river. These things protrude from the river and are firmly connected to the earth-stone bridge extending from the feet of the knight's war horse.

Then the earth-stone bridge on the river bank collapsed directly after moving away from Knight Crowe.

However, the collapsed earth and stone materials did not fall to the bottom of the river bank and river water, but floated in the air and rubbed against each other at a faster speed, running along the earth-stone bridge to the feet of Crow Knight's horse.

As a new material to help the knight continue to 'volley' forward.

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"This is wrong! Is it cheating? Foul?" The Ika knight on the south bank of the river muttered incredulously on his horse, but no one answered his question at this time.

Because even Mr. Podris, an elder who is related to him by blood, is also staring intently at the strange scene of stepping into the bridge as if by divine help.

Baron Kendall also waved his arms wildly at this time, cheering for Knight Crowe, completely forgetting the etiquette of the nobles in the territory.

With Knight Crow galloping so majesticly over the earth-stone bridge built in the air and approaching this way, the people in Nanguan could feel the ground trembling under their feet.

But this time they no longer thought it was Mother Earth who was angry, on the contrary, it was proof that the knight was especially favored by Mother Earth.

Those who can control the earth must be loved by the earth.

When Knight Crowe approached the river bank on the south bank, a large number of broken stones flew up from the steep river bank here, and they couldn't wait to connect with the earth-stone bridge extending under the feet of Knight Crowe's war horse.

When the two are connected together, it means that Knight Crowe has nothing to stop him from returning on horseback.

Compared with jumping vigorously just now, although Knight Crowe came back on horseback at this time looked ordinary, he was even more cheered and loved by all the people present.

The horseshoe stepped on the soft grass again, and everyone cheered to greet Knight Crowe. Not only were the people on the south bank annoyed, but even the people on the north bank, who had been staring at the knight's back, cheered.

The sound of the collapse of the earth-stone bridge without the support of Crow Knight's strength could not drown out the cheers of the people, and no matter how the angry and angry river slapped the river bank with water, it could not drown out the cheers of the people.

Knight Crowe raised his hands to signal to the surrounding people, and at the same time lowered his palms to caress the ears of the horse exposed on the visor of the war horse, thanking the animal companion for his bravery and trust.

The knight raised his chin slightly, raised his head towards the Ika knight who was standing on the spot, and asked, "How? Who will win this competition?"

Hearing Knight Crowe's question, before Knight Ika could say anything, the surrounding people cheered together: "Of course it's you! The knight loved by Mother Earth! Our human knight! Ohhhhhh!! "

Knight Crowe laughed out loud. Although he didn't know why people associated his ability with the Mother of the Earth, he liked the title, and even more the cheering atmosphere of these enthusiastic people.

He bent down, stretched his palms down, and touched the palms of the people who wanted to touch his palms.

He also took a child raised by a woman towards him, and put the child on the neck of the horse.

This is terrible, every child wants to ride on the same big horse with the knight, and stretches out his hand to call out to Knight Crowe. The knight had to keep changing the children on the horse's neck one by one, so that the children who were angry at Nanguan had a good time.

The married and unmarried women looked at those children angrily, because they also wanted to ride a horse with such a strong and brave middle-aged knight, even if it was only for a short moment.

As for the Ika knight they were cheering for just now, only a few girls who didn't like the uncle's wave still surrounded the Ika knight.

They looked at the young knight expectantly, and also hoped to ride with him on the same horse.

It would be even better if the knights could take them to fly in the sky alone.

However, Knight Ika frowned and let out a sigh of relief, and had to admit that he lost this round of competition. But it doesn't matter, there will be a third competition later, and now we will see what competition items the other party will propose in the third competition.

He had a bad feeling that these Kendalls from the north might not be bad at skills. Wait a moment, it is estimated that the competition items will be very good at the other party, as if the items he proposed are all areas where he thinks he can definitely win and has an advantage.

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After the crowd dispersed a little, Baron Kendall and the two knights gathered with the Ika Knights again to decide on the key third knight competition.

"What is it, tell me."

Knight Ika said unhappily, obviously he was still upset that his popularity was overwhelmed by Knight Crow just now. Knight Crowe didn't care, and looked at Knight Ika with folded arms, waiting for the other party's expression after the baron said the third competition item.

The baron took a cup of cool honey flower tea from the attendant next to him, and after sipping it, he pointed at the hundreds of militiamen who were still resting in the open space in front of the checkpoint with the cup.

"The third test is that."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Rumi knight came forward with a simple crossbow carried by a militiaman. In front of the angry Nanguan people, he filled a crossbow bolt into the groove where the crossbow bolt was placed, and then raised the crossbow casually Shoot towards a rock not far away.

Whoosh-ding.

The metal arrowhead of the crossbow made a sound of impact and sparks on the surface of the stone, and then the whole crossbow was stuck on it.

Knight Ika frowned and looked at the crossbow in Knight Rumi's hand: "Competition with this? It's too simple, isn't it? I stopped playing with this thing when I was eight years old."

The baron smiled slightly, and at the same time, Knight Crowe and Knight Rumi also laughed.

"Of course not. After all, with the skill of the knights, nothing compares to this. But."

The baron paused for a moment, took another sip of the honey flower tea in his hand, and then drew a virtual circle with the other hand: "But what if it's not shooting arrows, but being shot by arrows?"

"Arrowed?"

Knight Ika frowned, and suddenly noticed what he was wearing and what Knight Crowe was wearing.

The baron nodded: "Not only that, but he was shot by a whole team of soldiers at once. This round of competition is about the courage and defense of the knights!"

He went on to say: "My army consists of ten men. Start with one team. You two stand together at the same time and receive arrows at the same time. Then each wave is stronger than the last. I will add another team each time until All my soldiers shoot at the same time. Whoever can't bear it, whoever is frightened, flees from the place of attack first, loses. How?"

After the Ika Knight heard this, not only did he frown, but his entire face was slightly distorted.

"Are you crazy? You even came up with this kind of competition method! And it's not fair." He was looking at the Crowe knight with his finger on his face: "The knight armor on him is so thick, it is obvious that he has an advantage in this competition." Advantage!"

But Baron Kendall just put down his teacup and applauded lightly: "That's right, but how fair are the first two competitions? This is not a knightly competition, and there are fair and just competitions. Simple but interesting quick competitions, Naturally, this is the result. Didn’t we raise any objections to the first two items?”

After finishing speaking, the baron sat on the chair brought by the attendant, drinking tea quietly, waiting for Knight Ika's statement~www.readwn.com~Mr. Podris looked serious, and whispered to Knight Ika: " Is it dangerous? This competition."

Ika Knight pursed his lips and let out a sigh of relief: "It's not bad. But the opponent has a lot of advantages."

But Mr. Podolis rolled his eyes: "Calm down, crossbow arrows are flying weapons, is it possible?"

He didn't speak clearly, but the Ika knight reacted with his eyes lit up.

He frowned, raised his head again, and said to Baron Kendall: "My lord, we have no objection here. I agree. Please prepare your subordinates. However, this competition should be the same as the previous two competitions." Similarly, the knight's ability should be part of the content."

"Of course, you flying across the Angry River, or Claw building bridges are all part of your own abilities. This is the wonderful part of the knight competition, you have to taste it." The baron shook his head and said, let the waiter The Rumi knight on the side went down to prepare.

On the checkpoint side, Ika Knight also arranged for Mr. Podris to go down and prepare.

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The third competition item was worn out quickly, and immediately attracted the curiosity of the people who were looking forward to the level.

This time, not only the people who were angry at the South Gate and the passing businessmen went to watch, but even the people who were angry at the North Gate and the businessmen who were temporarily staying on the other side of the bridge rushed over one after another, gathered on the open grass outside the checkpoint, waiting for a rare opportunity. See the climax of the Knight Tournament.

Even Knight Bota, the garrison knight at Beiguan, hurried over on his giant foot bird.

This guy was very ostentatious as he tossed the luminous gem that Baron Kendall gave him with his hands, quite embarrassing.

The baron hurriedly asked his attendant to open the umbrella to block the eyes of the rogue knight who was holding him.