Chapter 09: Martial Arts Contest (3)
"What did he say?"
"Nothing. Irene replied casually, sat back in her seat, and looked blankly at the "giant" roaring in the middle of the field in front of her.
Abby Robles glanced at Gray from afar.
......
"Pass, it's your turn!" Hallse roared.
Path, who was sitting in the chair, sighed, slowly got up, began to move his muscles, and muttered, "Sure enough." β
Gray looked at him questioningly.
Glancing at Gray, Paz whispered, "I knew I was next as soon as Mike came on the field." Obviously, what Mike is good at is foot combat. Halls wants to use Mike to force the opponent to send someone who is good at foot combat. In this way, they will choose foot combat, and the people of our mercenary group are basically only good at foot combat, just enough to send us to the field, and the other party must send more people who are good at foot combat to play. He wants us to be cannon fodder first...... Hahahaha. In the end, even if they are on the same side, nobles are still nobles, and commoners are still commoners. β
"Do you think she'll keep her promise if I did?"
"Probably will, if you can do it. β
With that, Paz climbed over the fence, drew two scimitars, and walked towards the middle of the field.
Paz is only about 1.7 meters tall, much shorter than Mike, and he looks like a little bit in front of the "giant".
There were already boos from Casper's camp, but the audience unexpectedly chose to support Paz.
"Pas, Pas, Pas, Pas!" cheers rang out one after another, making Paz a little embarrassed and having to wave to the audience.
Many of these people are his "patrons".
"Who is this?" asked the butler beside him, Count Caspar, quietly looking up.
"The leader of the Red Scorpion Mercenary Band, Path. Keller. The butler replied in a whisper.
Casper nodded silently and pursed his lips.
Race 7 began, and Paz sprinted towards "The Giant".
Sledgehammer sweeps.
Paz jumped high above the giant's head, and the scimitar left a wound on the giant's shoulder. And then it landed steadily. The movement was so coherent that it could only be described as superb.
The audience burst into earth-shattering cheers.
Gray couldn't even close his mouth.
"This mercenary leader is quite powerful, can you do it?" asked the black cat who was hiding in the helmet and peeking in a low voice.
Gray shook his head, "No. I can bless the four-layer Wind Surge, faster than him. But the landing may not be stable, and it will fall apart directly. β
"So what are you going to do when you get there?"
"I wanted to make it simpler. β
"Oh. The black cat was speechless and pandered.
Turning, Gray squeezed his way out of the crowd towards the main fort, looking left and right, as if looking for something.
In the center of the field, the fierce battle between Paz and the "giant" has entered the white-hot stage.
The "giant" was stabbed six times, and the helmet and chain mail with neck guards had been knocked away by Paz, and there was blood all over his body, but his combat power was still there.
Paz was solidly slammed with a hammer, vomiting blood, and was already out of breath due to the severe physical attrition of the battle.
"It seems that these mercenaries you hired are not very good. However, it's also worth the money. Hahahaha. Casper looked at Irene and sneered.
Irene was still expressionless, just quietly watching the battle.
The "giant" rushed towards Paz again with a sledgehammer. Just when everyone thought that Paz was dead, he dodged a blow with a slight dodge. Taking advantage of the fact that the "giant" did not have time to retract the giant hammer, he stepped on the giant hammer and jumped up lightly and slipped behind the "giant".
Hand up and knife down.
The "giant's" head spun and flew into the sky, and his expression was full of horror and unwillingness. The body fell to the ground with a thud, and the spurt of blood soaked the sand.
The square erupted in earth-shattering cheers again, and every audience member applauded. The members of the mercenary group shouted hysterically.
Caspar slammed his fist on the armrest, and he was speechless in anger.
Irene breathed a sigh of relief.
"Next!"
Hardly giving Paz a respite, and immediately, the eighth game began.
Appearing is a burly knight with heavy armor, a large shield and a short sword, and a helmet with blue feathers.
Normally, with Paz's strength, it should be more than enough to defeat this knight. However, he was already wounded and had consumed too much physical strength in the battle with the "giant". That's going to be hard.
The eighth game is more stalemate than the seventh. Paz finally defeated the opponent, and he also received a solid knife in the thigh and shoulder. I was almost unable to stand still.
Scene 9. When the opponent stood in the center of the field, Paz didn't even look at the opponent, and directly threw away the double knife in his hand.
"What are you doing?"
"I surrender. β
"Surrender before you can fight?"
"Can't you surrender yet?"
The audience erupted in cheers again.
Paz waved his hand, like a triumphant warrior, and left the center of the field under the stunned gaze of the master of ceremonies.
"What do you mean, surrender before you can fight?" Before he could cross the fence, Hall was already angrily running over and questioning.
"What do you mean you haven't fought yet? If you win two games, don't you count?" Paz climbed over the fence, wiped the blood on his face with the towel handed over by his hand, and said with a smile: "What's more, there are still the most powerful people in the opponent's foot combat in the two games, cough cough...... I promise, they won't be able to come up with another one that is so strong. β
"What about your chivalry?" Hales hated.
"Are we knights?" said Paz, wincing his eyebrows, "we're just mercenaries you've paid for. I can only guarantee that you pay us a high price, it is definitely worth the money. β
In desperation, Hall had no choice but to turn around and leave angrily.
"Where's Gray?" Halls looked around and saw that Gray was gone.
"I don't know, I was still here. One of his men replied casually.
......
The joust attracted almost the attention of the entire city, including Count Casper's men.
Gray wandered through the corridors of Count Caspar's castle, not even half of a figure in sight. In normal times, this is unthinkable.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm looking for a weapon. I'm sure I can't beat them with a sword, so I'll have to find other weapons. β
"Are you really sure you're going to fight?"
"Or else?"
"Uh...... Can you let me out first? I see that they are scary in the martial arts competition, and I don't feel safe hiding in the armor. Don't worry, I promise not to run away!"
Turning on the mask, Gray pulled the black cat out of his armor.
After a good rest and some food, the black cat's health was noticeably better, although it still looked weak.
Gray drew a circle and dotted it on the black cat's forehead.
"What are you doing?"
"The soul imprint, the kind that Brutus gave me. As long as you live in this world, I can find you. β
"Oh, looks like you really don't trust me. β
......
The contest was going on one after the other.
Most of the eleven knights who followed her on Irene's side were elite, and the fourteen knights were relatively mediocre, but there were also outstanding ones. As for the people of the mercenary group, they themselves live a life of licking blood from the knife edge.
Relatively speaking, except for a few elites on Casper's side, the others are probably because the peaceful days have been too long, and the single combat power is really not enough.
Overall, Irene's side won more and lost less. It's a pity that there are not many people on the other side.
Fighting requires physical strength, especially in this kind of desperate fighting, the loss of physical strength is extremely serious. After two victories, anyone, both speed and power, will drop a notch.
In this way, by the hundredth game, Irene's side had lost four people, seriously wounded seven, five unconscious, and eighteen surrendered. Those who have not yet been eliminated, including Halls, are only six people left.
Of course, there must have been no mercenary group among the four people who died.
On the other side, Count Casper had sixty-one men under his command.
"Six against sixty-one...... Everyone can win ten games, and the other side has one more person. Halls pinched his sweat and smiled wryly.
"Actually, there are seven of us left. Paz, who had already bandaged and came back to watch the game, whispered.
"Seven?" Halls looked around him, and there were only six of them.
"There's also Gray, but he doesn't know where to go. I think I'll be back. β
"Is that the one who wears a white knight's helmet and asks the young lady for the knighthood?"
"Yes. β
Halls sneered and ignored Gray directly.
The afterglow of the setting sun has spread all over the land, and the people in the square are still enthusiastic. Hawkers with a keen sense of smell have begun to peddle all kinds of food. Count Casper's maid had already brought a simple dinner to the contestants on both sides.
In the one hundred and first game, Ireen won.
In the one hundred and second game, Count Casper won.
In the one hundred and third game, Count Casper won in a row.
In the one hundred and fourth game, Ireen won.
In the one hundred and fifth game, Ireen won in a row.
In the one hundred and sixth game, Ireen won two in a row.
......
The night has come completely, and the torches have been lit.
By the time of the one hundred and sixteenth game, Count Casper still had fifty men left, and on Irene's side, only Hall was left.
"Hahahaha, this last one, there's no need to compare again. Count Casper smiled and said to Irene: "A one-on-fifty wheel battle, even if I believe it, I'm afraid you don't believe it." β
Irene sat quietly, not saying a word. The hand tugging at the skirt tightened and tightened.
Glancing at Irene from afar, Hall stepped forward and was about to climb over the fence when a voice suddenly came.
"Wait a minuteββ!"
Gray suddenly came out of nowhere, and without looking at Halls, he began to count on the other side.
"One, two, three, four, five, six......"
Everyone was looking at this inexplicable knight, and even Irene craned her neck.
Caspar touched his bald head with a puzzled expression.
"Forty-nine!?Oops, I'm late!
"There's another ...... on the field," just as Gray was annoyed, Paz on the side whispered a reminder.
"There's another one on the field?" Gray looked over to the center of the field and saw that the knight from Count Casper's side, who had just won the last game, was looking at him, twisting his neck and making a "crackling" sound.
"Great, exactly fifty!" The boulder in his heart was finally put down, and Gray hurriedly looked at Halles, who was looking at him in confusion, "Can you let me go? If you do, I'm afraid I won't be able to count enough." β
"You ......"
"If you don't speak, I'll say yes!"
With everyone's eyes watching, Gray climbed over the fence and walked briskly to the knight in the middle of the field.
"Excuse me, is it a foot fight or a horse fight?"
The other party looked Gray up and down, probably finding that he was wearing a full set of horse armor, and immediately said, "Foot combat." β
"Okay, I'll go get ready right away. β
"Ready?"
The audience craned their necks. They watched as Gray suddenly appeared out of nowhere, hurried to the field, and somehow ran back again.
Just when everyone thought that the knight had something wrong with his brain, something terrible happened.
A huge door panel was erected at the back of the crowd. It is an 8-meter-high, 30-centimeter-thick iron gate!
All of a sudden, the people in the whole square were in an uproar.
Irene was so shocked that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.
Count Caspar's eyes were about to fall, for he recognized at a glance that this was the door panel of his castle gate!
Gray, carrying this huge iron, appeared in front of everyone, and a string of large iron chains the thickness of an arm were tied to his body. It was the iron rope of the Count Caspar Moat Drawbridge......
In an exclamation, Gray staggered towards the middle of the field with the door on his shoulder.
The black cat lying on the city wall watching from a distance was shocked and fell down.