Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel flicked his right hand to relax the discomfort caused by the sudden forceful fist just now.

To be honest, Kiel can already feel the discomfort in many places of the metal full-coverage armor that this craftsman friend built with him. His strength has grown rapidly. Originally, when he was slightly stronger than ordinary people, the specially made self-defense combat metal armor had restrictions and restrictions not only on movement, but also on offense and activities.

Instead of further enhancing his combat effectiveness.

"Hey, I haven't worn it for a long time." He said to himself.

The armor was forged in winter, and he wore it when he set out with the army in early spring. Now, it has only been more than a month, and there are already many damages on the armor, and it is no longer suitable for his own strength.

But he can't help it. For the time being, he can only wear it first, take a step to look at it, and then talk.

The sword-wielding enemy who fell to the ground and had his arm broken by a punch seemed to have lost his fighting power not only because of the pain. Kiel walked over and took a look, only to find that this person did have mental problems. However, the words with obvious accents were still used in the mouth, muttering something indiscriminately.

He patted the man's face, and then tugged at the young man's drooling mouth. The other party didn't respond, but just said some names of men and women from a family.

After thinking for a while, Keir took the rope and tied the hands and feet carefully, then lifted it and left it on the ground.

The opponent's broken arm seemed to have an extra joint, and when it was tied up, it could be folded into a strange angle.

Kiel picked up the long sword that he dropped in a hurry to hunt, and walked to several bandits who were severely burned by the flame of the magic dagger.

Some of these people covered their upper bodies under the floating soil, emitting smoke. It seemed nothing, but their lower bodies were ignited by flames. The hem of the animal skin clothing worn by the bandit, the animal skin boots on the calf, and the thigh covered with long hair were all scorched and blackened by the flames.

I kicked the man, but the man didn't move. Curious whether the man was dead or passed out, Keel pulled his upper body out from the floating dirt.

As a result, the magic light looked up and saw that the face of this person was purple, and it didn't look like it was pretending. But he died without knowing what happened.

"Strange, the fire on this man's head and face has been extinguished."

Keel grumbled, then checked the person next to him who was burned by the magic flame.

After checking it, I found out how dangerous it is for the magic flame to directly touch the vital parts of the body. In the area of ​​the bandit's head and face swept by the high-temperature magic flames, many vital body skin surfaces were turned into coke, and the important blood vessels of the body closely attached underneath, of course, had a big problem.

Kiel poked the neck of the bandit who was inspecting with the tip of the sword, and found that the blood vessels under the skin of the neck were also finished. With a flick of the metal sword tip, the blood vessels fell off and broke.

At this time, only fresh blood was squeezed out from the bottom of the fracture near the body, and the blood vessels on the tip of Kiel's sword seemed to be cooked even with the blood inside.

The blood coagulation blocked the blood vessels, so it took the life of the fallen bandit in a short time.

"Damn it, you must never let the high-temperature magic flame spray touch the neck."

After Kiel sighed, he realized that these robbers were all hopeless. He approached the open space, the low cave entrance where the bandits rushed out before, looked inside, and listened to the sounds and movements inside. After finding nothing, he chased after the bandit leader whose left leg had been cut off by him.

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Even if it was a familiar place, Barney the mountain wolf still couldn't run very far with a broken leg and no lighting support.

Keel easily found the guy who had climbed fifty meters away and hid behind the trunk of a big tree by following the wound and blood on the ground.

"￥%#￥!" The stubborn bandit leader threw his own left calf towards Kiel.

Kiel chuckled: "Why, who do you think this thing can hurt? I don't want your stinky feet."

Swinging the long sword and hitting the broken leg, Kiel cautiously followed the opponent's crawling and fleeing route, and gradually approached the bandit leader who had to resist tenaciously at the end.

Holding a long sword, the bandit with a broken leg stubbornly stood up through the tree trunk, then hopped on one leg, fiercely killing the young knight. If it was an ordinary young man, he would probably be startled by this guy's crazy appearance, and then killed by him in surprise, but what about Keel?

There were two jingling sounds, and the two long swords collided twice, and then Kiel twisted his long sword and disarmed the opponent.

The shield is followed by an intimate contact, even if it is light in weight, it can give the enemy a painful 'close kiss'.

Putting the sword back into its sheath, Kiel grabbed the opponent's only remaining leg, picked up the opponent's dropped weapon, and dragged it back.

"You ￥% guy, what are you going to do? Just kill me, ha, want my treasure? Go to hell, I won't tell you in my dreams."

"It's not up to you."

Keel forcibly pulled one of the guy's legs, dragged out the obvious trails of leaves on the ground, and returned to the previous open space.

Binding this guy tightly, Kiel also used a piece of scorched animal skin torn from a nearby corpse, and stuffed it directly into the mouth of the bandit leader, blocking the man's random shouting.

"Be honest, you have done a lot of bad things, hum, you have to suffer."

Keel broke off a few branches from the nearby woods and broke them into small pieces. He borrowed some fire from the corpses of the robbers who were still burning nearby, and set up a lighting fire that could indicate the direction in the woods at night in this open space. I am afraid that I will not find this place that I missed before.

Afterwards, he followed the route he followed all the way down from the top of the hill, and walked quickly in the opposite direction to the top of the hill to join his men.

"Master Knight, is that you?"

Facing the young refugees standing back to back on the top of the hill with weapons on guard, Keir nodded and said, "Of course it's me, what can the rest of the bandits do? Come on, follow me down to search the bandit's lair. It’s everyone’s favorite post-war event.”

Kiel was very excited, but these young men were a little disappointed. They picked up the body of their companion who had been dead for a long time among the crowd, and followed the young knight who led the way down the mountain step by step.

Soon they were back at the entrance to the bandits' cave.

The charred and fallen corpse did not surprise the young people, but the two bandits who were **** made them overjoyed.

"My lord, which of these is the enemy who killed us? We have to give him a good look!"

Some young people carefully looked at the several bandits who were either killed or captured on the ground. When the accident happened just now, the enemy moved so fast that no one could see what was going on, so the enemy and the knight chased after each other.

Keir waved his hand and said casually: "Okay, it's that guy who looks like a man. But this man is crazy, and he lost his mind after hitting him. Well, as soon as he met this man, he said Talking nonsense, I reckon this guy has lost his mind a long time ago."

Barney, the mountain wolf who was gagged and unable to speak, struggled twice, and made a whining sound from his mouth.

But no one paid him any attention.

Before tonight, this guy was still a very powerful bandit gang leader, but now, he is just a bad guy with an unknown ending who was captured after being injured and broke his leg.

Hearing that the knight said that the enemy who killed them was crazy, the remaining five young people looked around curiously, and found that the guy who was not gagged was muttering that he had never heard of it. some names. At the same time, his face was contorted, and he kept making all kinds of intense facial expressions. Most of his eyes were closed, but occasionally they would open. Under the eyelids were not clear eyes, but the whites of the eyes, the pupils of the eyes. It also keeps spinning randomly throughout the eye sockets.

It looked like he was really crazy at home.

The young men didn't kill the man, they actually kicked and beat him a few times to relieve their anger. They were even more creative in using the palm of their dead companion to slap back and forth on the mad bandit's face vigorously.

They were perplexed, and when they heard the knight say that another injured and captured bandit was the leader of the bandits, they got even more excited. Bullying a lunatic is so boring, so they directly slapped the bandit leader in the face with the palms of their companions.

The mountain wolf Barney's staring expression of wanting to kill and eat meat made even Keel laugh.

"When the big bear is weak, he can only eat fox feces. Haha, you mountain wolf, I think the same."

After letting them play around, Kiel arranged for two people to guard the captives and sort out the corpses in the open space and the weapons of the bandits.

"These heavy hammers and felling axes are good. They are good tools and can be used in a big way. Add some fuel to the fire, so it will burn better!"

"Yes my lord."

Afterwards, Keir took the lead to climb into the low bandit cave with a short body, and the other three followed behind.

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The entrance to the cave was very low, and Kiel, who was wearing armor, had to lie on the ground to move. It was much easier for the young refugees. They were dressed in simple and damaged bandit skin clothes, and they could barely move by bending down.

But fortunately, this winding and deep passageway is getting bigger and wider. Otherwise, Keir had to stay outside and let his men come in to check.

There was wind flowing in the passage, but the air was not turbid, but had a dirty smell unique to bandits. The smell was caused by not washing frequently, and then dozens of people gathered together for a long time.

After turning the last corner, a spacious cave interior appeared in front of him.

The top floor of the cave here is higher, and there are brazier torches for lighting in three places around it to provide lighting, so that people who come in can see everything here at a glance.

But Keir just glanced at it and thought it was bad.

"###, cheated!"

It's not because of anything else, but when he looked inside the cave, apart from the rough wooden beds and hammocks hanging randomly, there were no caravan goods that he expected to be plundered by bandit gangs.

After all, it is impossible for all the goods of the caravan to be sold by these people at a low price. There is no such good thing.

If you think about it this way, you can understand that he was deceived.

Depending on the situation, it is impossible for this gang of bandits to have only one stronghold lair. This bandit lair built not far from the woods on the north side of the trade road is very likely to be just a place where bandit gangs waited for the caravan and waited before the robbery started.

The real lair of these guys, no need to guess, must be deeper in the woods, and further into a safe place in the mountains on the north side.

Maybe it's also like this place, a hidden cave with traps around and a covered entrance?

While Kiel was annoyed at being cheated, the other three young men who followed him in were already carrying weapons and cautiously searched the side.

They have done this kind of thing twice before, so the movements are already proficient at this time.

They even created a division of labor, with one person carrying the torch stuck in the entrance and providing light at all times. One person was holding a weapon and guarding the surroundings, while the other was carrying a bag on his back, and kept searching the robbers' beds.

The whole bed was raised, and all the coins hidden by the robbers in the gap of the wooden window underneath were pried out. The sackcloth quilt filled with hay and soft leaves was torn apart, and the hand reached in and stirred it vigorously, and the hidden small money bag could be found from the place where it was often disassembled and repaired.

Without looking carefully, all these were thrown into the big bag.

Straw pillows or wooden pillows are the most important thing to search. Let your companions hack these things with a machete vigorously, and you can get something from them more or less.

Not coins of all kinds, but little shiny jewels.

Throw them all into your pockets.

Keir didn't care what they did, he simply glanced around, and found a place to make a fire for cooking and store food on the left hand after entering the cave.

Lifting the lid of the wooden barrel that was often opened, apart from a few jerboas that were disturbed and jumped out, there were pieces of dry hard bread the size of a human head.

These grains were found, but Kiel was very concerned and fancy.

In the current situation in the southern provinces, it is really difficult to say how much the value of coins and valuables is. After all, normal commercial trade and transactions have been destroyed, and you can't buy things with money. You can only guess with your heels, and you can guess that it must be a common occurrence.

And these grains or food are even more important.

"It's a pity that we couldn't find the real lair of the bandit in one go. Well, we have to interrogate and pry that guy's mouth open."

Suddenly there was a cat meowing next to it, and Keel turned his head to look, and found a gray cat jumping off a wooden bed, chasing the jerboa just now.

The little cat held down the biggest jerboa at once, opened its mouth and killed it, and then came to Kiel with its mouth in its mouth.

Kiel looked down at the little fur ball, but the kitten opened its mouth and spit out the killed jerboa, pulled it in front of Kiel with two paws, and then sat up proudly.

The corners of his mouth curled up, and Keel put the lid on the bread bucket, and this time it was tightly closed, so that the jerboa would not be able to sneak in.

Then he squatted down, stretched out a finger and carefully rubbed the gray cat's forehead. The little thing is not afraid of people, after a soft cry, he strode proudly and ran to catch other jerboas that had nowhere to go after being driven out.

While the cat was not paying attention, Keel pinched the jerboa's slender tail with his fingers, and then threw the thing into the illuminated brazier not far away.

With a sizzling sound, a burst of scorched smoke rose from the brazier and flowed away along the gap at the top of the cave.

Just when Keir was about to check what survival supplies he could harvest as much as possible, the young people not far away uttered a little surprised, but not flustered shout: "Wow! This, this, this!"

"What's wrong?"

Kiel asked loudly, and at the same time walked quickly.

But the voice that answered him had a different meaning: "Master Knight, it's a woman, hehehe, and she doesn't wear clothes—"

Kiel snorted and walked over to have a look. Sure enough, in the corner of the cave, where the wooden bed was loosely covered by bedding, two naked women covered in bruises were **** inside.

"Don't let anyone let go, you two, we are not bad people, this nest of bandits has been defeated, and you have been rescued."

The rope was quickly untied, and at the same time the cloth stuffed in their mouths was also removed. The two rescued women did not appear surprised to be rescued. Instead, they wrapped themselves in quilts and carefully looked at Kiel and the others. .

"Who are you guys?"

Keir shrugged: "I am a knight from Kendall County in the north. I originally had a mission with the priests of the Saturnalia Church, but when I passed the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint, these farmers who had taken refuge in villages in the southern province were passed by the local checkpoint. Stop it, I took the young people from the farmer with me, and prepared to find a way out by myself. It just so happens that they can also help the mission."

"You missed the point!"

"Isn't it that bandits banded together to rob us, but after a night of fighting, several gangs of bandits were defeated, and I'm leading people to search, no, it's the lair of the bandits~www.readwn. com~ As a result, one of the two women said directly: "Then you are disappointed, there is nothing here, Barney never puts things together. "

Keir was a little far away before, but now he walked in and said to the two, "Oh, Barney? Are you familiar with this bandit leader?"

Maybe it was a slip of the tongue, or maybe it was frightened by the glowing eyes under Kiel's visor. Not only did the two women not answer Kiel's question, they even shrank their heads directly, and the whole person shrank into the beast. Among the leather bedding.

"What does this mean? It's hard to answer, or what?"

Keir was a little puzzled, but a young man next to him smiled and said, "Master Knight, they must have been frightened by your aura."

Looking at the armor on his body, Kiel sniffed it. Apart from the smell of blood, the bloodstains from previous battles on the armor had not been scrubbed. And he scrubbed his armor twice tonight, is that intimidating?

He frowned and nodded to the two women in the quilt: "Let them get dressed and go out with us later, you three, find someone to keep an eye on the two of them. The remaining two go to search. ￥#￥'s, There aren't many things in here. I hope the real lair of this gang of robbers is not far away."

Just as Keir was about to walk away, a voice came from the animal skin blanket: "It's far away."

"What?" he asked over his shoulder.

The voice came out again: "I have to walk along a dry river for a whole day, towards the direction of the mountains."

Keir joked: "It's very clear, have you been there? Or?"

There was no response, Keir shrugged and walked to the most conspicuous place opposite the cave.

There was an open place, and a tall wooden chair was placed near the cave wall, which seemed to be the place where the bandit leader gave orders.