"Is this a dog hole? No, this is no longer a dog." Estelle took Ryan to the corner of the village wall. There were already several mercenaries standing at this position. The deputy of the Blood Ax Mercenary Group
The leader of the group, Wilt, was also there, as well as Banda, who still had his arms hanging on his chest. When they saw Ryan coming here, they both nodded. Wilt did it because of Ryan's strong strength, and Banda did it because of Ryan's life-saving efforts.
Grace.
Mercenaries tend to be in the chaotic camp, and they pay more attention to friendship than rules.
In the corner of the wall, a large hole was opened from beneath the foundation of the wall. The bricks and soil were dug out by some kind of creature, leaving a hole large enough for two people to crawl through.
"We can't find enough material to fill it, and if this thing can bite through the foundation, it's useless to fill it with anything." Wilt said with worry.
"And, we discovered this." Estelle led a few people around the wall and found a pile of putrid smell not far outside the wall.
"Some kind of large creature?" Ryan asked curiously.
"It should be. Judging from the shape of the feces, this should be a quite large creature." Wilt made his own judgment. The great swordsman had been a mercenary for many years and had rich experience.
"Let's arrange two people to watch here at night!" Ryan felt that there was no other way. The forest in the distance stretched to the mountainside. Arranging people to go into the forest to search for traces of this ferocious beast was tantamount to giving them something fresh.
of meat.
"Also, I just saw a flash of fire inside the forest about five hundred meters away from here. I suspect there are bandits on the mountain!" Estelle walked to Ryan and whispered in his ear.
"Are you sure?" Ryan was alert now. According to the previous guard chief Lauritz, there were indeed bandits and robbers near Hordaland Mountain.
There is no problem with the half-elf's dark vision ability. If he said he saw fire, then there must be.
"I'll do it myself!" Ryan nodded. There is only one reason to be a thief for a thousand days, but not to guard against thieves for a thousand days. Since there are bandits, the best solution is to kill them.
In the cold winter, it gets dark very early in Nord. They arrived at the abandoned village at 4:30. It was not even 6 o'clock yet. Ryan returned to the big house in the center of the village and happened to see Rost commanding his men to continue to reinforce it.
Referring to the facilities of the big house: "You guys, plug this gap. Yes, bring those wooden boards, nail them, and then tie them up with canvas!"
Seeing Lane coming over, Rost smiled boldly and said: "Mr. Lane came early. We are still setting up the stove to boil water. We have to wait a long time for dinner. If there is nothing else, Mr. Lane can just stroll around or chat with us."
Let's talk to Mr. Oliver and the others. The boys will naturally do the rough work. Also, Mr. Birger is back, and you are more willing to hear about his gains."
"I'm going to leave for a while, go out to investigate the environment, and I'll be back soon." Ryan said casually, and when he turned around, he found the sorceress standing behind him: "What's the matter, Theresa, it's cold outside, you stay in the house
Bar."
"I'm not a pampered loser, Ryan. Are you going to go out to investigate alone? Have you forgotten that we are teammates? Or are you saying that we can't be partners and you don't even want to be teammates anymore?" Teresa's silver eyes
It was filled with an aura of danger, and Ryan believed that as long as he gave a bad answer, the sorceress might really give him a look.
"Let's go take a look at the seats we assigned first." Seeing that many people wanted to watch the show, Ryan spread his hands to express that he had no intention of doing so.
As the two most powerful and distinguished people in the team, Ryan and Teresa were assigned to a single-family cabin, which was only a dozen steps away from the big house in the center. The cabin had a layout of one bedroom and one living room.
The sorceress chose to live in the room inside, and the living room was left to Ryan to rest.
"Hmm~ This hole is not too big, and the air leakage at night should not be too severe, hahahaha~ You think so?" Ryan found that although the roof of this small house did not leak, the wall in the living room was still damaged, and it looked like it was nailed
With the messy wooden boards and canvas wrapped around it, he felt that it was quite okay to have such an environment at night.
"What happened just now? What happened? Can't we just leave the investigation to the mercenaries? Why do we need you to go out?" Teresa opened the door to her room. She had already laid out carpets and carpets in the room.
Camel hair quilt.
"I took the initiative to go out for a walk to see if there was any game." Ryan explained briefly: "It's such a cold weather and I want to move around more and get some meat on the way."
"Are all men so restless? My father..." Theresa crossed her arms and spoke impatiently, but she immediately realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said, so she changed her words: "Okay, you
Go ahead, I'll wait for you to come back here, and I won't participate in the dinner party outside."
About ten minutes later, the knight of the kingdom was walking alone in the dark black forest. The snow had just stopped, and the sky was still covered with thick clouds. Most of the trunks of the trees were more than one person could hug. The heavy white snow bent the branches from time to time and fell to the ground, covering them up.
Ryan's footsteps.
Ryan moved forward carefully while thinking about the sorceress's words.
Theresa has a father. This is for sure. There is no daughter country in this world, and there is no mother-child river that can directly guarantee pregnancy. The sorceress must have a father, and as far as Ryan knows, Theresa’s mother Ou
Ruola turned out to be the daughter of an imperial noble. She eloped with her husband and gave up her title. Finally, relying on her strong strength, she joined the Gloria Council and settled in the Sky Castle.
Then this is very strange, because Ryan has met Ms. Aurora several times. She is an outstanding woman full of wisdom and talent. So the man who can abduct her must not be a good-mouthed loser or a hooligan.
Rogues, the reality is not online novels, there are not so many good-for-nothing protagonists who can easily win the heart of a noble girl who has received an orthodox medieval aristocratic education, so Teresa's father is at least a man with certain abilities.
Combined with the fact that the sorceress is twenty-seven years old this year, Aurora has been a powerful witch on the continent since fifty years ago. So why does Teresa rarely mention her father? Looking at her expression, she doesn’t.
Like there is hatred or shame?
I don't understand, it doesn't look like Ms. Aurora has been abandoned.
"Forget it, when did I become curious about her?" I couldn't think clearly. There was too little information at hand so far. Ryan decided not to think about it at all. The man marched along the road in the forest, carefully walking between the trees.
He was not one of those wood elves, so he had no way of moving secretly in the forest, so he had to be as careful as possible.
There was once a joke, "A knight is not afraid of dying gloriously, but rather of dying dishonorably."
What weapon killed the most knights?
Not swords, arrows and magic.
It's a dung fork.
This weapon commonly used by farmers has amazing lethality. Many glorious knights spent half their lives in the army, but died in shame under this weapon, especially since feces is often stuck on it, and wound infection is even more fatal. Since ancient times,
So far, I don’t know how many powerful knights have died of hatred under the dung fork.
Ryan has an extraordinary physique, and it is difficult for ordinary weapons to harm him. However, as mentioned above, the legendary level is not invincible and invincible against those ordinary and elite level enemies. You must be careful in everything.
The kingdom knight carefully touched the direction pointed by Estelle. In fact, this matter should have been solved by the half-elf himself. It was not Ryan's turn to take action. Ryan just wanted to try his luck and see if he could do anything.
reward.
Fortunately, he quickly discovered the bandits' traces.
Under a big tree about eighty steps away from the kingdom knights, there was a group of people holding torches. Their clothes were ragged and full of patches, most of their armors did not fit, and their weapons were all kinds of. They only had messy hair and unkempt beards.
Exactly the same.
"Boss! It's a tough idea. There are too many people in this convoy. There are only about twenty brothers. I'm afraid we can't defeat them." said a bandit with pigtails.
"Yes, boss, I also saw several fully armed knights!" Some of his subordinates also added.
"Damn it, but if we don't go out, we won't have any decent harvest recently. The mountains will be closed by heavy snow soon. If we can't do something big before then, how will we celebrate the Winter Curtain Festival?"
A scimitar, he immersed himself in thinking for a moment, and then ordered: "In this way, Noah, you take a few people to stay here, wait until midnight to find an opportunity for them to relax, and let them smoke as a sign, I will take them directly
People rushed in from the secret passage, caught them off guard, grabbed things and ran away."
"I know, boss!" A small leader nodded. The bandit leader looked at the camp at the foot of the mountain unwillingly. If the number of people in this convoy was smaller, he would have led others to rush down.
Winter Veil is approaching, so you have to do a lot to enjoy this festival, right?
"Damn, it's all these vampires, a bunch of bastards from the Empire and Marienburg. They stole our wealth and robbed our things. Everything in Nord belongs to Nord! Remember, man
You guys, we are not blocking the road and robbing, we are acting on behalf of heaven! We must not sit back and watch these bastards take away our wealth!" The bandit leader cursed and said: "I'll fuck these businessmen and bastards, they do it every day
Can you make a lot of money by doing nothing? These things should belong to us! Kill all these vampires, long live Nord!"
"That's what the boss said!"
"We have long been disgusted by these bastards!"
"I just wonder if there are any girls who can bring down fire for the guys?"
"There is some, there will definitely be some! There will be bread, and there will be milk."
"Do something big and go home for the Winter Veil Festival!"
The bandits shouted, and most of the bandits quickly followed the leader and left under the big tree. They seemed to have a special path in the forest, and they made no sound when walking.
Only the little boss named Noah and the four bandits were left squatting under the big tree. From Ryan's point of view, there was a watchtower-like facility on the branches of the big tree, which could monitor the actions of the abandoned village below the mountain.
One move.
Rethinking what the bandit leader said, Ryan had an answer in his mind. It seemed that there were secret passages dug by bandits inside the abandoned village. The entire resting point was a trap for bandits, luring the fragrant prey into the trap. If the prey was too powerful,
, they will pretend that nothing happened. If the prey is weak, they will swarm up, kill passers-by, rob their money, take their lives, and then euphemistically call it: "Fight to protect the wealth of the Kingdom of Nord"
.”
What a real acting talent.
How to do it?
Ryan thought about it and found it!
Noah and others were warming up around a small fire under the big tree: "Damn it, who didn't light the fire properly before? Who accidentally lit the firewood? Stand up for me!"
"It's not me, it's not me!" Several bandits quickly shook their heads.
"Grandpa, please be careful. What if we are discovered? Oh my god, there are several knights down there. If I had known we would encounter..."
"What did you meet? A knight?" A ghostly voice appeared from behind several people. A man with a huge two-handed war hammer and a suit of chain armor suddenly appeared from the shadows: "I am the Knight of the White Wolf of Nord."
'Sledgehammer' Ryan! Son of Norman, Lord of Auternay, what are you doing here?!"
The person who came was tall, the knight's badge on his chest flashed in the firelight, and the white wolf head gave people strong pressure.
"Who are you!" The little boss subconsciously raised the sword in his hand and said with an inward look: "Put...put down the weapon and take out the valuables!"
"Hmph!" Ryan reached out and grabbed the blade and snatched it away. Under the strong brute force, the blade was twisted into a ball of iron and was thrown to the ground: "The valuable things are here, come and get them?
!”
Several bandits were so frightened that their courage and courage disappeared. Noah took the lead and knelt down: "No, no! Sir Knight, we didn't mean to offend you. We are just villagers who went into the mountains to hunt!"
"Lie!" Ryan punched out with his right hand, and the trunk of the big tree next to the Kingdom Knight was directly penetrated. Splashing sawdust and snowflakes fell in the forest, causing a noise. Several bandits were scared to death by the powerful force.
, kowtowed desperately: "We were wrong! Sir! We are just villagers who can't survive, and we came out to block the road out of desperation! These are the boss's ideas, not ours! Not ours!"
Sure enough, Ryan looked at the frightened bandit and thought that his guess was correct.
These bandits are probably just villagers who have no choice but to turn into bandits. They are cruel and vicious when facing merchants and travelers, but they have a natural fear of knights like Ryan.
This kind of fear is engraved in their bones and will not disappear if they say a few harsh words or have a weapon in their hands. If Ryan shows his strength a little, their fighting spirit will instantly collapse.