Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Black Knight
Leon was still stunned, and William's big hand was on his shoulder again.
"Why are you still stunned, it's time to touch the corpse. ”
William showed a familiar smile on his face and said, "According to the convention, everyone should share it equally, but you contribute the most, so you two, me and Inelli each one, how about it?"
Inelli said, "I have no opinion. ”
"What is touching a corpse?"
Li Ang was stunned and didn't react.
William was a little embarrassed and said: "It's just cleaning the battlefield, and the commission fee for the grass trial is very small, and most of the time it can't make ends meet, so you always have to save some." ”
The head-on collision with Hellfire just now made his enchanted kite shield almost scrap, which made him feel distressed.
At a witch gathering, a mid-sequence witch is asked to enchant his shield, and at least ten gold florins are required.
Li Ang smiled: "I don't need it, you guys can go." The villagers certainly don't have much savings, but the pile of Hellobsidian should still be able to sell for some money. ”
Innelly refused: "How can this work, this time you have contributed the most, you should take the most share." ”
William smiled and quipped: "I used to count you every time I grabbed it, and I wanted to take it all by myself, why did you know to shirk it this time?"
Innelly's eyebrows were upside down, and her small mouth touched honey: "It's your business!"
"I really don't have to, I'm not short of money. ”
Leon pointed to the scale armor on his body, although it looked black, it was made of the scales of the high-ranking Dreadlord, and it was worth a lot at a glance.
The armor of this era can be passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom.
William smiled: "By the way, Leon, I heard that you used to be a knight's squire, you can't be the illegitimate son of a big nobleman, right?"
Leon was about to answer, when he suddenly remembered what Dante had said - "Will nobles be friends with witchers?"
So he shook his head decisively and said: "Of course not, my parents are both Italian merchants, and they donated money to a knight to be a squire for three years, and then I couldn't see any hope of becoming a regular person, so I became a witcher." ”
William was surprised: "Why can't you think about it so much, since you have money, what kind of demon hunter should you be?"
Leon smiled and didn't respond.
William and Innelli only thought he had a problem, and they didn't ask any more questions, in fact, this product was purely too lazy to make it up.
After cleaning up the battlefield, they cleared a fence to avoid a forest fire, and then threw torches into the hut and burned the corpses with them.
Perhaps because he lost part of his humanity, in this process, Li Ang's heart did not make many waves.
Although if the shriveled corpse had been left in the past, he would have been unable to sleep for several days.
Leaving the village, and climbing another hill forward, they stopped to rest.
In the darkness, they cleared a clearing without fallen leaves, lit a bonfire, and placed their bags beside them as makeshift beds.
The firelight reflected the faces of the three people, warm, and the fatigue on their bodies gradually dissipated.
The world was silent, except for the occasional crackling of the campfire and the tireless chirping of insects.
Li Ang rested on his bag and looked up at the starry sky.
Emotions such as homesickness have faded, he was originally an emotional person, but after coming to this world, his thoughts are much simpler.
He suddenly said, "Do you have any ideals?"
As the words fell, the room was still quiet, as if William and Inelle had fallen asleep.
After a long time, a self-deprecating laugh sounded.
"People like us are like hyenas picking up carrion on the grassland, living a precarious life, and it's ridiculous to talk about ideals or something, right?"
Innelli clasped her hands on her knees and rested her head on her knees: "Even if you live, it's already very hard, so the ideal should be to live well." ”
William smiled and said, "If I had to say that I had an ideal, I actually had it - that is, to earn enough money and return to the tribe." I hope that my people can live more comfortably, so that many people will not die every winter. ”
The smile on William's face is very simple, a little longing, what an easy person to satisfy.
Innelli looked at Leon and asked softly, "Don't just ask us, what is your ideal?"
Leon pondered for a moment and found that he was no longer the same as when he first came to this world, just thinking about simply living.
So he smiled and said, "Of course it would be better to be a witcher as strong as Mr. Dante, and if you can be stronger than him." ”
William sighed, "That's really lofty...... But I always think you can do it!"
He then tapped his head and said with some distress, "If another hunter had told me that, I would have thought he was about to lose control and become a demon." ”
Inelle said suddenly: "Leon, there is no future as a wild hunter, after this grass trial, follow me back to the wolf school, your talent is werewolf transformation, which is very suitable for us, I will ask the mentor to accept you." ”
William smiled: "I always feel that Leon is not really a wild hunter, how can a wild hunter be as perverted as him?"
Innelli didn't answer the question, she stared at Leon, in the dark, her eyes were shining, with a little expectation.
Leon shook his head slightly.
"I have a teacher. ”
"Hmph. ”
Inelle squeezed out a coquettish snort from her nose: "When I am rare to you, our wolf school is not just for anyone to enter. ”
Li Ang smiled: "Rest early, I have to hurry tomorrow morning." ”
William said: "The target of the next stop seems to be a black knight, this monster is much more treacherous and cunning than ordinary demons, and it must be recuperated." ”
The Black Knight is a knight who believes in demons.
They are often wandering knights who have lost their territory, full of resentment, and are tempted by demons to degenerate into their minions, often traveling far and wide to spread their faith, or as messengers, signing contracts with humans to develop new demon believers.
They wield the power to transform humans into demons, and it is said that most of the werewolf disasters have been orchestrated by them.
Innelli stopped talking, she let out a well-proportioned breath and seemed to be asleep.
Leon and William made a goodnight gesture and went to sleep.
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Lucerne is a small hill town that belongs to the House of Zeringen, the fief of the Count of Louis, and the destination of the three Leons.
Switzerland is quite poor due to its mountainous terrain, poor soil, and poor commerce, and most of the adult men are mercenaries, who are known for their courage and devotion to their employers.
Even in later generations, when people think of mercenaries in the Middle Ages, Switzerland is still the first thing that comes to mind.
On this day, outside the Bethel Abbey in Lucerne, Leon and Inelle, William stopped.
Leon looked around and said, "Is this the place where the intelligence claims that there are black knights?"
William was a little distressed and said, "What do the clergy of this monastery do? ”
Inelle scoffed, "Do you expect those clergy who are full of fat brains and can only make money to mate with nuns that can clear our targets in advance?"
William shook his head and said, "I just hope that they can find out the crux of the problem in advance and then offer us a higher honorarium." ”
The monastery is small in size, and the mosaic puzzles on the walls have fallen off a lot with the wind and sun.
Weathered cat corpses were nailed to its exterior walls – and like witches, cats were devastated, as the source of the Black Death.
In practice, however, cats can control rodent populations and play a very important role in suppressing the spread of plague.