In the dark and noisy tavern, Zhu Peng's eyes slowly scanned the drunken people around the fire:

Merchants, prostitutes, hooligans, drunkards, but glancing around, there was no one in the tavern who seemed to be really holding a sword, except for the eight mercenaries behind him. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Little white face, what are you looking at?"

People will be slow to react because they are drunk, but some emotions will become more sensitive because of drunkenness, a man with a red face and drunk smoky stood up, he seemed to be stimulated by Zhu Peng's bright gaze in the past, shaking his body and pointing at Zhu Peng and scolding, this man has a long sword around his waist, quite bluffing.

"Didn't you help me solve him?" Zhu Peng frowned slightly, looking back at the eight mercenaries behind him.

"No, boss, our contract will only be executed tomorrow, at least for tonight, we are all guests of this tavern. The mercenary leader, who was smiling proudly because he had just received a large sum of money, raised his glass to the white-faced young man in the black robe, and he looked like he wanted to watch a good show.

He did see a good show.

The drunk man saw his opponent turn back, thinking that he had a chance to punch over, but Zhu Peng's body was like a shadow moving with the wind, as his fist moved back without ups and downs, and finally the drunkard's fist was exhausted, his fist was only a paper-like distance from the tip of Zhu Peng's nose, and the skin on the fist could almost feel the air flow brought by the opponent's gentle breathing.

Zhu Peng's arm lifted up and dragged the opponent's arm along the opponent's strength, and at the same time stepped on the opponent's instep, the drunk man who was already floating suddenly fell, and his head hit the edge and corner of the triangular wall with great accuracy, and after a muffled bang, the whole person fell to the ground and fell unconscious.

When the main material world, Zhu Peng practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his strength was infinite, and after he was promoted to the fairyland of Dandao people, he could kill people with a single blow, and he used more striking skills to fight with people, attacking and killing with fists and feet, slashing with knives, killing people is as easy as eating and drinking, and when he doesn't want to kill, he can knock people out with one punch, and it is also very beautiful.

However, that was his state of martial arts success, and he could fight as much as he wanted.

In fact, at the beginning of martial arts fighting, wrestling, grappling, and hugging were the most simple and easy-to-use techniques.

If your skills are not deep and your fist power is insufficient, then you have to use sprints, runs, and fight with the enemy in close combat, how can you give you the opportunity to sprint and run?

Now, with Rod Custer's body, unless he uses a knife, his lethality is seriously insufficient.

Zhu Peng turned back to the trap for the drunk to lure the enemy, flashed back when the opponent punched, and stuck the opponent with a precise sense of space distance, and then used the wrestling technique of dragging the arm and stepping on the instep, using the edges and corners of the wall behind him to easily defeat the opponent with the opponent's strength.

Although the strength of a martial arts body is no longer on his body, the mood and will of the Dan Dao Immortal Realm is not affected, even if he only uses a fraction of the opponent's strength, he can easily play with the opponent between applause, life and death.

Snatching the long sword and a bag of money from the unconscious drunken man, Zhu Peng turned around and was about to leave. However, at this moment, a silver-haired old man who was lying on the wooden table, looking dazed, suddenly pounced.

"Wait, you wait......"

Zhu Peng's footwork and figure turned like eyes on the back of his head, and let go of the old man's hug, which was also a drunken old man, who rotated three hundred and sixty degrees in place before finding his target again.

"You look like a man with a sword, my ...... Uh, my salute has been snatched by pirates outside the city, can you help me get it back?"

Zhu Peng just began to frown, and suddenly a pale light flashed in front of his eyes, and rows of subtitles appeared:

"Triggering the Fierce Elite Hero 'Bronze Spirit Engineer' Artiman Mission, there are only four percent of essentia energy left, does it consume two percent of the energy reserves?"

“...... Be. ”

Leaving the tavern, even Zhu Peng's arrears for the old man Arteman.

There are only two points of essentia energy left, and after a while, he will have to participate in another ghost light meeting to obtain information, in other words, this Arteman mission is almost the only task that Zhu Peng can receive in a short period of time, if he can't get enough from this mission, Zhu Peng will hardly have a chance to find other extra money.

"You said there are thirty pirate groups outside the castle?" Zhu Peng asked, handing a bowl of decanting decoction to Arteman, who was still red-cheeked and drunk.

"Yes, I was going to build an arrow tower for Lord Margali on the day of the Wacha, but I was outflanked by a group of pirates on my way, and if I hadn't given up my pack horse and luggage at once, I would have been taken as a slave by them. After taking a sip of the decanting soup handed over by Zhu Peng, Artiman with silver gray hair and wearing a scholar's uniform took a sip, then he looked around the stone hall in the castle and continued:

"Are you the lord here?well, you can become a lord at such a young age, no wonder the security situation in the territory is so bad. ”

“.........”

I don't know if Artiman is naturally upright or if he drank too much, anyway, Zhu Peng now understands why he is full of talent but mixed up as a construction worker in the wandering continent.

"I am not the lord of Derborburg, my father, Viscount William Custer, but I do have some authority here, and I am willing to take back my own baggage for Mr. Artiman, and I would like to ask Mr. Artiman to be the guest of my family, and I am willing to pay you a good salary in return. At this moment, Butler John, who was obviously dragged from the bed, came to Zhu Peng's side with red eyes.

"Young master, do you have something to look for me?"

"Mobilize ......" pondered slightly, and then Zhu Peng continued to order:

"Gather eighty elite warriors, and I will personally recapture his salute for Mr. Arteman. At the same time, it is also necessary to rectify the law and order situation within the territory. Old John hesitated for a moment at Zhu Peng's order, but he glanced at Artiman and bowed his head in agreement, turned and walked out.

"Well, I'm grateful for your attention, Master Custer, but I've been invited to Rivache to build a defensive tower for Lord Magali, and I'm used to wandering alone, and I don't want to stay somewhere for long. Arteman was very skillful in pushing and procrastinating, and Zhu Peng also understood that this was the euphemistic refusal of the scholar in front of him, he still wanted to mix a noble title with his full stomach of knowledge, instead of being hired under a certain small lord. In fact, if it weren't for that, with Arteman's knowledge, it would not be difficult to get a well-paid position anywhere on the mainland.

"Well, since you've made up your mind, it's hard for me to force it to stay...... After all, you would not be able to reach the Iva Chaze without horses and luggage, and it would not be a violation of your promise to Count Magali to build me two towers first. ”

Zhu Peng's mind has relevant information about the "Bronze Spirit Engineering Master" Yatiman in the Calradia Continent, which is one of the parts of the future that he peeked into during the reincarnation process when the power of the "Destiny Trajectory" was all spread.

Among the many futures of this Arteman, there is a real possibility of becoming a great nobleman.

His excellent bronze spirit engineering ability, and even once hot, can be said to be a typical person similar to Jiang Ziya and Tokugawa Ieyasu who are late bloomers.

With the few cards he is currently holding in his hand, Zhu Peng does not feel that he can drag the other party into his own flag with a slight foresight advantage.

But asking for a price and paying back the money on the ground, Artiman will always be embarrassed to refuse his requests continuously, and as long as the other party's psychological defense line is loose, he will have a chance.

Sure enough, Artiman had a request at this time, and it was not good to behave too bluntly, and finally nodded and agreed to Zhu Peng's second request, but the cunning old man reminded Zhu Peng that his copper spirit engineering technique was different from ordinary construction projects, and the cost of copper coins was very huge, at least more than twice the cost of normal construction projects.

The old man seemed to want to discourage the young nobleman in front of him with a huge amount of money, but he underestimated Zhu Peng's determination at this moment...... If you can't keep the castle of Jerpo, the little deposit of the Karst family will still have to be cheap after all, and now Zhu Peng is burning money to buy his life, he is not a lord yet, and spending so much without the consent of the viscount is actually a bit overstepping, but the old John, who knows the grim situation at this time, gritted his teeth and agreed, and the entire inner library of Fort Jerber opened the door to Zhu Peng.

In fact, it is only more than 10,000 dinars of reserve funds.

Viscount William Custer had a short fortune, and he had to stock up on weapons to recruit troops, even if he sat on the coastal trade routes, he actually didn't have much savings, and now it would cost Attiman seven or eight thousand copper coins to build two arrow towers with bronze spirits...... This is still because the level of the Artiman project is high enough, and the funds are calculated as small, so that there is such an amount.

...... The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the day is murderous and arson......

If you take over Artiman's task, it will be a shame if you can't complete it.

Zhu Peng rode a black and gray horse to lead the elite of the whole castle to attack, and he refused the old engineer's request to accompany the army, because he didn't want this person to really find out his family background.

Why do you have to pull out a team of eighty people to fight thirty pirates, because there are fewer troops, and it is really possible that they can't be defeated.

Thirty privates of the third class, fifty of the second class of Vigia light infantry.

These are all the elites in Zhu Peng's hands, and now the remaining fifty people are the young soldiers who are placed in the castle to defend the city, so the city defense can be said to be extremely dangerous.

"Why is the young master so polite to that old man, he is going to Riwa to build an arrow tower for Magali, should we ......" As he spoke, Old John made a throat-cutting motion, as long as this action is human civilization, it is really common to the heavens.

"Leading our soldiers and letting them really see blood can be regarded as an experience. What's the use of killing Arteman, do you plan to lead your troops to fight the Riwacheze?" At this moment, Zhu Peng and Old John are wearing leather armor, but the weapons Zhu Peng is equipped with a left shield and a right knife, as well as a crossbow machine and a yazao.

The weapon chosen by Old John beside him was a two-handed axe and three bags of flying throwing axes, and the crazy and fierce old style can be vaguely seen from the weapon configuration of this thin old man.

Zhu Peng and Old John rode their horses as scouts, and according to the information provided by Artiman, the two of them did find a group of strong men wearing chain mail in the shade of a small forest not far from Djerbo Fort.

Nine out of ten pirates were promoted by Nord farmers, and the thriving coastal trade could feed and feed enough fallen warriors, and the pirates' armament was arguably the most high-end of the entire Calradian bandit system, with thick chain mail, sharp axes, and heavy shields...... Regular purging of pirates is also one of the main economic incomes of many coastal nobles, pirates rob merchants, nobles rob pirates, and an ecological model of big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimp.

It was so late, and the group of pirates did not sleep, they seemed to be holding weapons around some kind of noise for fun, it should not be the women who had been robbed, and the strong Nord pirates were not so timid as to hand-grab weapons when dealing with women.

"The archers occupy the high ground, the first platoon of veteran Viggia soldiers, the second platoon of light infantry, listen to my command...... The whole army attacked. ”

The Nord pirates obviously focused too much attention on the circle, so when a rain of arrows from the Vigians fell from the height behind them, they were directly beaten a little confused, and with Zhu Peng's order, the infantry with the senior soldiers of Viggia armed with axes also rushed forward after being suppressed by two waves of arrow rain in succession.

To tell the truth, the third-level senior soldiers of Virgia are single-handed, and they may not be able to fight the strong and strong Nord pirates, not to mention that the third-level soldiers are only ten people, and there are more second-level Vigia light infantry behind them...... However, when the number is too large, it is easy to produce qualitative changes, and when they endure two waves of arrows and are surrounded by sixty Vigian infantry, the fate of these thirty or so pirates is also decided.

Although they were very fierce and brave, and they bravely wanted to break through the siege at least kill a few people to cover themselves under the absolute disadvantage, but under Zhu Peng's command, they could not even achieve such a will.

Zhu Peng's defensive talent and defensive specialties were superimposed, and the defense power of the soldiers under his command was increased by ten percent out of thin air.

After ordering the infantry to charge, Zhu Peng had no command task.

He rode his horse and shot his crossbow from a safe distance, and old John rode his horse to protect him, and the old butler, perhaps wishing to show himself in front of his future master, slew five of the most ferocious pirates from afar with his flying axe in both hands. And he also understood the meaning of his young master's training, but when the lives of the soldiers were in danger, he shot with one hand and threw the axe fiercely, showing his profound skills.

When the battle developed to one side, Zhu Peng rode a horse and held a crossbow but stopped shooting, and he watched as the warriors under his command overthrew the strong and fierce pirates with more victories.

From the perspective of the Spy Wizard essentia, it can be clearly seen that several Vigia light infantry in the chaotic battle have become stronger and more fierce after killing people, and when they return to the castle and change into the corresponding equipment of third-level soldiers, they are out of the status of low-level soldiers and have reached a useful level.

"Uncle John, don't you think it's weird, when we kill someone, we get stronger......"

"What's so strange about this, either spend time in the barracks to work hard to improve your level, or go to the battlefield to lick the blood between life and death to get the most real experience, these are the two ways to train and strengthen the army since ancient times, young master, what do you think is strange?" Regarding Zhu Peng's words, Old John asked in surprise, but Zhu Peng was speechless.

“...... No, you have a point, I'm completely speechless. ”

(The weakening and depletion of the origin has distorted many of the common sense concepts in this world, the bronze spirit engineering, the killing and promotion method like a bloody battle between demons and demons, these abnormal things have evolved over hundreds of years, and they have become completely accustomed to them, but some concepts in our cognition seem inexplicable to them...... While Zhu Peng was thinking, a veteran Virgian soldier ran over and reported his discovery to the young lord to whom he was loyal.

"Your Excellency...... There was a black-red hole with the faint roar of a huge beast coming from inside. ”

"Really, take me to see it. Uncle John, please take charge here. ”

After instructing Old John, Zhu Peng rode his horse to the black and red cave in the soldier's mouth.

A strong smell of sulfur made Zhu Peng frown slightly, looking at the direction here, it seemed to be the place surrounded by the group of pirates just now.

"Stand away, and I'll take a look. ”

Looking at the footprints of beasts that were almost the size of a baby's head around the cave, Zhu Peng dispersed the soldiers around him for protection, he held a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand and slowly walked towards the cave with his body low*** The smell of sulfur in his nose became heavier and heavier, and the entrance of the cave was filled with black-red smoke, like an abyss or the entrance to purgatory.

(If it's really the entrance to the abyss...... That's where it gets interesting. ）

When this thought flashed in his heart, a huge shadow like a calf rushed over with a blazing foehn wind, and Zhu Peng was already low in the best defensive posture, and the two sides collided together.

With Rod Caster's pitiful physical strength, even if Zama Huali and other actions were as classic as a textbook, Zhu Peng still seemed to have been hit by a train, and his body rolled backwards like a ball more than ten meters away, and when he stood up again in embarrassment, he was already surrounded by the soldiers on his side.

At this time, more than a dozen giant dogs with black and red bodies, full of terrible cracks, and eyes like burning coals, ran out of the cave one after another, their huge sharp teeth, their strong bodies were scattered with high temperatures, and white smoke was faintly emitting from their mouths of saliva, and their images were extremely terrifying!

Seeing that the warriors of Vegia were about to fight with these giant dogs, a violent shout from the lord suddenly came from the siege: "No one is allowed to move...... Back off. ”

Giving a stupid order at this moment, at this moment, the scene can be called stupid, the Vigia soldiers looked at each other, but the Custer family had just won a great victory over the Elbuck family, and this time it was another great victory to defeat the thirty-man pirate group almost undamaged, and the morale of the troops was at its peak, and Zhu Peng's order had the effect of ordering and prohibiting.

The soldiers surrounded but slowly retreated, and the giant red dogs roared but did not attack, because the man who exuded a dark aura similar to himself once again walked out of the crowd. Holding a dented iron shield and a sharp short sword, he walked towards the crimson giant dog that had just knocked him straight into the air.

The giant dog was noticeably larger, crimson, and stronger than its peers around it, but at this moment it had hot blood flowing from its forehead.

Just at the moment when it hit Zhu Peng, Zhu Peng was so insidious that he latched the blade of his right hand on the iron shield of his left hand, but the huge force of its collision caused the sharp short sword to smear a deep blood mark on his skull, and he failed to bite Zhu Peng because of this pain.

"You shouldn't have a low IQ, right? You have built a nest in my territory, and now you are attacking my lord, and the most important thing is ...... You're not as strong as us, and we've killed all the pirates who just cornered you, do you think you can handle us?"

As he spoke, Zhu Peng approached the group of red giant dogs with his back to his soldiers, and a blood-like red appeared in his eyes.

Zhu Peng's demonic bloodline does not come from the bloodline of the body, but from the abyss demon card in the depths of his own sea of consciousness, with the advent of his will, he was reincarnated into the body of Rod Custer, which is also the will and gift from the endless abyss: it wants Zhu Peng, from generation to generation, for thousands of years, forever as a demon!

However, this huge magic power was solidified into an abyss demon card that flipped back and forth, but it didn't even anticipate the Endless Abyss, or it didn't care, its will was already chaotic and chaotic, and it was never fixed.

............

At this moment, the blood-colored eyes looked at each other, and the first crimson giant dog let out a dull threatening sound of "woo", but Zhu Peng still approached slowly step by step, and the muscles of the crimson giant dog swelled up, and it had already made a posture that would attack at any time, even the blood-colored giant dogs around it, if they attacked together, Zhu Peng would be able to return to the siege of the soldiers completely.

"Surrender or death, there is no place where you can live in my place without paying rent, bow your head, and I will give you regular meat in your lair in the future, but you can no longer harm my people, and you will have to serve in the military......" Zhu Peng actually didn't know if the other party could understand or not, he whispered twice in Calradian lingua franca and abyssal language, but the posture of the group of giant dogs on the opposite side remained unchanged.

In the end, Zhu Peng was stuck on both sides but three or five steps away and couldn't get closer, he could feel that if he stepped out again, he would definitely be attacked by the other party, but Zhu Peng refused to retreat easily, this giant dog lair can either be used for himself, or it will be completely wiped out, with the continuous invasion of fantasy and necromantic forces, there will be more and more things like this, and the sooner the rules are established, the better the effect.

When the two sides were at a stalemate, the soldiers and the old butler John also surrounded them.

Because they couldn't hear Zhu Peng's whispering from a distance, but from the situation in front of them, they could still see the stalemate between each other, under John's order, the archer troops quietly towered the arrows on the bowstring, once the two sides started a war, the archery troops must pour enough firepower to protect the lord back.

Old John's order was originally well-intentioned, but he overestimated the execution ability of his subordinates, after all, it was just a group of third-level guerrilla archers, as time went by, the situation became more and more tense, an archer who put the arrow tower on the string, his hand trembled for a while, and the sharp arrow suddenly came out of the string and shot in front of the crimson giant dog in front of Zhu Peng...... In an instant, the atmosphere of the audience was almost frozen.

"Obey or die!!"

The roar like thunder was roared out by Zhu Peng, and the crimson giant dog, which was already about to pounce, was squirted by the man in front of him, and was startled, and it stepped back, with a confused face.

At this moment, it can be seen that these red giant dogs have humanoid intelligence, except for the leader giant dog, in this case, the giant dogs around did not pounce out at the first time, but moved their eyes to the leader giant dog, showing the general discipline of the army.

A moment later, the largest crimson giant dog slowly lay down in front of Zhu Peng's swollen face and hideous expression, its iron whip-like tail behind its ass waved from side to side, and after a while, it lay on its back again, shining its relatively soft but still full of tendon flesh to Zhu Peng.