Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keir asked two young men to drag the bandit who had his feet pierced directly to the ground.

Afterwards, everyone gathered together as much as possible. They no longer walked as fast as when they came before. Little by little, step by step, they moved slightly out of this area of ​​​​traps that could not be seen everywhere.

To be honest, during this process, Kil wanted to give the bandits who were dragged on the ground a few hard blows, because he hadn't paid attention when they came. It turned out that they walked in an S-shaped arc when they entered the trap. , going back and forth between several big trees, there is only one correct way to enter and exit.

Next to this only safe road are densely arranged pit traps.

It's easy to get in and be led away, but it's not so easy to get out.

Especially knowing that there are traps all around, the fear and fear make everyone slow down, even if the road is safe.

Especially at this time in the middle of the night, in the dark woods, only the luminous magic pendant on Kil's body provided illumination, so they had to be even more cautious when going back.

The injured bandits tried hard to identify the traces on the ground, as well as the marks on the tree trunks and several roots on the ground when they came. They figured out how they got here and how they got out.

Finally, after a while, the bandits on the ground looked around carefully to confirm that they had indeed walked out of the trap area.

He showed an expression of relief, and then licked his face to ask for credit from the young knight: "Sir, look, we got out like this! Like I said, nothing happened!"

But Kil snorted coldly. Although he said nothing, his disdain was clearly conveyed.

The young man under Kiel was not used to this man's nonsense. He immediately put his hand away, covered the man's mouth with his hand, and gave him a few hard blows on the head.

After giving this guy a simple lesson, Kil kicked the bandit who was grunting on the ground: "Point me to the correct direction of the lair. If you dare to lead the wrong way again, I will twist your head off."

The robber rubbed his face and replaced the pretended pain. He looked carefully at the familiar faces around him and pointed his hand: "Come this way, we'll be there soon."

Kil directly lifted it in his hand. The male bandit weighing dozens of kilograms did not look any heavier than a hare being lifted in his hand.

"I'm walking in front. There are still traps and dangers. I'll throw you out first. Do you understand?" Keir did not forget to explain to the robbers leading the way the consequences of making another 'mistake', and the robbers who were caught continued to do so. Nod to show understanding.

"Follow up."

Kil greeted, and several young people followed closely behind Kil. With what happened before, they didn't even step on the ground that Kiel hadn't stepped on, and carefully used the soles of their feet to walk through the pits that Kiel's boots had stepped on.

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They took two turns in the dark woods where the direction and signs were completely unclear, and finally the ground quickly turned steep from gentle fallen leaves.

Needless to say, Keir knew that the mountain wolf gang's lair was just ahead.

Because the guy in hand said that their lair was built on a steep and abrupt hill in the woods.

"Is this here?"

Facing Kiel's inquiry, the bandit who was still on the ground stood up with his hands and replied: "Yes, yes, it's right in front. Just leave me here, right? If the leader sees me surrendering, they won't I will be spared.”

"As if you still think they can survive or defeat me?"

Keir was a little confused.

"No, no. Of course no one can defeat the knights, but they have legs and can run."

After saying that, the bandit climbed on the ground a few times, lay down at the roots of a big tree, and then used his hands to pull the fallen leaves around him and cover himself.

Seeing that this guy was trying to hide himself, Keir stopped caring about him. After warning him, he signaled to his men to prepare for battle. Then everyone held weapons, Keir was at the front, and the others Scattered followed behind, killing towards the high ground ahead.

This time they no longer walked as tiptoeing as before. There were no other sounds in the quiet woods except for the occasional chirping of nocturnal birds.

At this moment, the rustling of fallen leaves on the ground being lifted up and pushed away continued to sound, accompanied by the collision of metal objects and the rapid breathing of young people. These sounds were mixed together, plus the magic cold light source that continued to swing in the dark woods. .

It's hard not to be discovered.

But to Kil's expectation, they rushed forward and backward, but did not encounter any vigilant bandits asking questions or raising the alarm, which made him feel strange.

Until Kiel and the others subconsciously climbed to the top of the hill on a path that bandits had trodden all year round, there were no bandits here except for a few big trees.

"Sir, have we been deceived by that guy again? Damn it! I'll go back and kill him!"

As soon as someone among the young people said this, Keir grabbed this person's shoulder: "Wait a minute. Look at this."

Keir pointed the long sword in his hand at a big tree in the middle of the top of the hill. On the trunk of the big tree, you can clearly see a climbing pit specially dug in the trunk to make it easier to climb up.

As soon as I saw this thing, I knew that there must be people frequently moving around here, and the top of the big tree was obviously a natural watchtower.

"The place is right, but the hill is round. We may have missed it when we came up. Be careful, the bandits' lair is nearby."

Gil moved a little to get out of the way, and shined the light from his waist onto the upper part of the big tree on the top of the hill.

He saw the hollows on the tree trunk going all the way up, along the branches of the big tree as a platform for resting and pausing, and at the highest point that people could climb, about two-thirds of the height of the big tree, there were a few wooden boards. Spelled out observation platform.

However, at this time, there was no one on the observation platform built against the trees. This made him more sure that the bandit's lair was nearby.

"Everyone, please pay attention. If you look at the footprints on the ground, you should be able to find the traces left by the bandits."

As soon as Kil finished speaking, a cold light flashed out from behind the tree trunk not far away, and a sword cut off the neck of the young man closest to the big tree.

"Paya!"

Keir remembered this young man's name. After all, during a chat on the road not long ago, this young man who was older than him reported his own name and the village where he used to live. But I didn't expect that within just one meal, this young man would be hopeless.

Blood spattered forward along the wound, but the robber who attacked and killed the man leaned down and let the blood spurt out.

At the last moment of consciousness, the young man named Paya waved the machete in his hand, but the weapon was easily pushed aside when the opponent's sword touched it.

The young man fell down in the end, and he was unable to even hurt the enemy.

When the enemy saw Kiel rushing towards him, he immediately jumped a few times, turned around and dodged behind the big tree.

"He is a powerful character. Everyone, stay where you are and don't move around!"

After briefly arranging his men, Kil strode towards the enemy who had killed others.

The enemy didn't just dodge and retreat. When he saw Kiel chasing after him, he quickly walked around from the other side of the trunk of the big tree and stabbed Kiel's neck with his sword.

But Kiel didn't dodge, and instead slashed at the opponent's arm with his right hand.

The enemy gave up the offensive and touched the long sword that Kiel had cut. He groaned and used the strength of Kiel's sword swing to jump up and retreat several meters away.

"Knight? Damn it."

The enemy cursed, seemingly surprised by Kil's strength and identity.

"Otherwise? Who are you? Barney the Mountain Wolf? Or are you called Will?"

After hearing Kiel's words, the enemy on the opposite side stopped moving. After standing still, he raised his sword and pointed it at Kiel. A trace of doubt appeared on his young face: "Do you know me? Where did you hear it?"

Kil was about to speak, but the other party frowned, and then said viciously: "Needless to say, huh, it must be the people sent by those guys to hunt me down, right? Huh, I knew it, as long as I was still in contact with people , Even the bandits who plunder in the mountains and forests cannot hide the existence and news of a person."

The opponent shook the standard long sword in his hand and shook off the remaining blood beads. Then he stood the long sword in front of his chest and performed a swordsman's pre-battle etiquette. Before Kil could respond, He kicked on the spot and stabbed towards Keir quickly with a low body.

"Um?"

Kil didn't know what was going on with this man. First he was talking to himself, then he saluted and then took action. His whole person revealed contradictory feelings.

But the opponent moved very quickly, giving Kiel no extra time to react, so Kiel had no choice but to respond quickly.

The long sword hunt swept forward and downward, blocking the opponent's sudden thrust, and then the enemy dodged sideways into the tree trunk aside. Kil took the opportunity to take off the shield and hang it on his left hand.

"Come! If you kill my people, you will die too."

The response was a bah, and a taunt: "A warrior should be honest, both with people and with swords."

Hey, Kil was very angry. This soldier named Will, who was hanging out with the bandits, had the nerve to say that he, Kil, was a clean and good man.

Go out and ask, among the hundreds of young refugees, who wouldn’t say he is a good person?

Who dares not to say that he is a good person?

Kiel stood with his shield in front of him and rushed forward on the sloping ground. The opponent used the tree trunk to entangle with him for a while. There was a sudden chirping of birds not far away. When the man heard this, he retreated. , fight and retreat to a place below the hill.

Kil was focused on fighting and didn't notice this.

It has to be said that although the enemy's strength and defense are not as much as his, their movements are flexible, and Kiel's long sword can't always catch up. Even if he uses his movement to create a favorable situation, he has to let the opponent fight with him, but this enemy's His martial arts skills far surpassed those of Keir.

Although the enemy's long sword is less than 10% or 20% of the weight of Hunting, when it comes to fighting, the opponent cleverly uses the tip of the sword to fight with the base of Kiel's long sword, often making Kiel unable to use his strength. When it was a third of the way out, the long sword was awkwardly unable to be swung, and it could only be twisted left and right randomly to deal with the enemy's tricky long sword attack.

Fortunately, Kiel's shield technology is relatively skilled.

Every time the opponent's long sword broke through the blocking range of Kiel's weapon, it was firmly blocked in front of him, so that the opponent could only draw scratches with sparks flying on the surface of the elf metal shield, and returned in vain.

"Disgusting sword and shield!"

This guy has room to complain during a fight.

"You shameless bandit!"

Not to be outdone, Kil was behind the shield and chased the opponent to retaliate.

"A robber is better than a killer!"

The enemy jumped on the spot, stepping on the rough tree trunks to get out of the way of Kiel's shield swing.

The opponent is very afraid of swinging and hitting the shield, because the weight of the shield is generally far greater than that of the weapon, which is not a force that he can resist with his long sword.

But the other party didn't know that Kiel's shield was very light, not much heavier than an iron dagger. Therefore, the seemingly menacing swing was not actually that powerful.

"What nonsense are you talking about? You are the killer!"

Keir didn't know why this man was crazy, whether he had been hanging out with bandits for a long time, and his brain was damaged.

This enemy is obviously wearing a loose long-sleeved fine cloth, leather pants and leather boots with a studded leather skirt, leather wristbands on his wrists, and short cowhide fingerless gloves on his hands. He looks very different from the rough bandits. Qian Yousheng looks like a young man practicing martial arts.

The enemy quickly retreated a few steps and came to a small clearing on a hill.

This place is not big, just the size of an ordinary house. The ground seems to have been specially cleaned. There is only loose soil on the ground and no thick leaves. Under the magical light, when Kil's eyes swept across, he also saw crude wooden chairs made of wooden piles around the open space.

Keir judged that this was the lair of the bandits that they had not discovered or even missed when they went up the mountain. But upon closer inspection, it didn't look like it, because this place was just a small flat open space, surrounded by big trees. There are only lush wild grass and shrubs facing the top of the hill.

But Keir thinks so, but the reality is not like this.

Will, who was wielding the sword, jumped backwards across the open space. When Kil was chasing after him and reached the middle of the open space, someone suddenly lifted up a fine net specially hung with grass and trees in the place where he thought it was weeds and shrubs.

Then six or seven armed bandits rushed out of it.

Kil was about to break out, but was stopped by Will who was wielding a sword.

The next moment, he was surrounded by bandits.

Kil calmed down, lowered his body and faced Will, who was the greatest threat, leaving the rest of his body to the surrounding bandits.

At this moment, after the fine net was lifted, a strong middle-aged man with arms folded came out.

"Well done Will. Without you, we would have had to abandon this nest today."

Barney, the mountain wolf who was undoubtedly the leader of the bandits, spoke.

But Will just nodded with a cold face: "This person should be here for me. It will also help me if we can deal with this found killer together. It's not about whether we did it well or not. Barney, be careful." , this man is a knight, and he is also wearing metal armor."

The bandit leader Shan Lang burst out laughing: "I know that we all suffered heavy losses before because we didn't realize that the White Wall King's gang was so useless. And they didn't bring any heavy weapons that could break armor. Now, Young knight, look around you, open your eyes, and take a good look."

Keir's helmet turned cautiously, followed by a clear cold snort.

Although the six bandits who surrounded him were still better protected by animal skins and clothing, this time the weapons in their hands were no longer long swords, machetes, and one-handed axes that could do no harm to him.

Instead, it is a heavy hammer with a wooden handle held by both hands, or a two-handed wood-cutting ax that can only be used properly by the strong.

However, none of these things look like serious professional weapons. They seem to have more tool properties than combat uses.

But Kil had no doubt that the heavy metal hammer hitting him could dent his armor, causing severe fractures or internal injuries. The equally heavy two-handed wood-cutting ax blade could easily break through the armor protection and seriously injure his body if it hit the weak spot of his armor.

But that's about it.

The corners of Kil's mouth under his mask turned up at some point, showing an excited expression.

A low hum of laughter came from under the cold, dry steel visor. This sound that could easily convey excitement made Will break out in cold sweat on his forehead, and his palms, which were covered with hard calluses, also Subconsciously, he clenched the hilt of the long sword that he had made by wrapping silk on his own.

Barney, the mountain wolf who is not mediocre, also feels bad. Although he doesn't know where the bad news comes from, after all, he has the upper hand at this time, doesn't he?

"You know the descendant of a down-and-out noble who calls himself the King of White Walls, right?"

The atmosphere was tense, but except for the sound of gradually heavier breathing, no one around him dared to move.

"Then do you know how many people and how many long-prepared methods he has prepared to deal with the knights before he dares to say that he can defeat a single knight? And the above are all deceptions to confuse people."

The young knight's words made Barney the mountain wolf frown.

Why, the King of White Walls can deal with the young knight, and his reputation and wisdom are not inferior to that man - Barney the Mountain Wolf, can't he deal with the knight?

The bandit leader stared angrily, gritted his teeth, and the flesh on his face trembled with the angry expression on his face: "You want to say! We! Can't deal with you?"

But a young voice came from under the visor.

"Ha, you're 100% sure of winning, why are you talking nonsense to me here? But, I'm talking nonsense to you, but I just find it interesting."

The bandit leader couldn't stand the young knight's arrogant words, and shouted directly to everyone present: "Do it! Kill him!!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding bandits all took action.

"ha!"

"Suffer death!"

"Avenge my brother!"

"Death to the killer!"

But the next moment, all kinds of weapons attacking from the front, back, left and right were all knocked into the air.

Because the young knight jumped up on the spot before the weapon came.

This sudden jump is far beyond the imagination of normal humans. After all, people who don't know much about knights would find it difficult to believe that humans can jump several meters high on the spot, so high that they need to raise their heads to keep up with the movement of their bodies.

Previously, Gill and Will, who wielded the sword, were constantly moving and fighting, but they were just happy to see Hunter and wanted to fight for a while longer. He didn't use his true skills just now.