Chapter 001: Discover the Pirates

Characters in this chapter: Freelancer - Rogge, Knight Squire - White. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoKing of the Marauders - Nabal.

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In a pirate-infested fishing village off the coast of Nord, a group of freelancers and a team of bounty hunters searched around the village, but found no trace of pirates......

Looking at the village, there are no superfluous buildings, wooden huts that have been demolished in the attack, a few small huts on the edge have been burned to the ground, the few fishing boats have been damaged by weapons, and there are a few large fishing nets on the nearby beach.

Whipped by the twilight breeze, the freelancers peered out into the distance until White approached him.

"Sir Rogge, what do we do now, do we move forward or ......" White was confused about the location of the Pirate King, and asked the freelancers for advice.

"I suppose that after the Great Purge, most of the pirates will still operate along the coast, but the pirate king ......" Delacro pointed to the distant sea and continued, "He should have attacked the coastal villages more often than the sea, and this fishing village is the answer......"

White looked around, and seeing that the bounty hunters who were traveling with them were all eager to try, he asked, "So we need to go to other coastal villages and wait for their plunder?"

"No, I think they'll be back," Rog analyzed to his attendants. "Look at what has been left here, except for the villagers who have been taken captive, everything else that is beneficial to the pirates is well preserved here, and it seems that they are planning to build this place into a dock. ”

As he passed through the shipwreck, Rog picked up a short axe from the fishing boat and explained, "I know very well the armament of the Nords, this is the short axe equipped by the Nord recruits, and it should be a relic of the village guards. ”

White on the side thought about it, but still couldn't find an answer, and said: "This doesn't mean anything, there are still no survivors nearby." ”

Rogge picked up another kitchen knife on the ground and explained, "This is the weapon used by the residents when they resisted, and it has one thing in common with the short axe just now, that is, there is not the slightest trace of blood. ”

Immediately afterward, he pointed to the fishing nets on the ground: "The pirates have a common tactic, which is to set up a large number of fishing net barriers in the coastal waters of the base area, and dock the big ships outside the fishing net line, and when they are forced to evacuate the stronghold, the fishing nets will trip the army that comes to clear them. ”

"Understood," Whitemouth snapped. "The pirates took all the resistance and the villagers of the village, and when the sea calmed down, they used them as labor to convert the place into a dock where the pirates landed. ”

"Suffice it to say, it's not just pirates who have this kind of vision. Rogge emphasized. "So I concluded that the attack on this fishing village was our target. ”

After the discussion, the freelancer Rog had already devised a plan to order his bounty hunters to dispose of all the horseshoe prints in the vicinity, and then tell them to hide in the caves used by the villagers to store salt.

When everything was ready, he looked at the cleaned up fishing village and nodded, handing over the final orders to White.

"The attack hasn't leaked yet, and the pirates should be back here tonight," Rogge said. "You go find a vantage point, and use your archery skills to help me while I'm dealing with the pirates. ”

White agreed, and climbed to the roof of the hut, which was not too high, but could snipe at anyone on the beach at night.

Once ready, he signaled to the freelancers on the beach in the distance, and the ambush was officially ready.

White was not only a knightly squire on the Freepachants' side, but also the best archer under Rogge.

When everything was ready, time passed minute by minute, and every second and minute became longer.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the last rays of the setting sun also sank into the sea, and the night had fallen on the earth, and the only source of light was the moon in the night sky.

Just as Rogge had expected, a few fires appeared on the sea level in the distance, and several large sailing ships sailed over......

In less than a quarter of an hour, several sailboats at the end of Rog's field of vision dropped anchor offshore, and in an instant they lowered six or seven sampans and sailed towards the beach where Rogge was.

When the dinghy was on the shore, several pirates armed with axes descended from the boat and drove a dozen villagers down to the village, only to crash into the long-awaited freelancers in the middle of the beach.

The sword in Rog's hand and the dark village behind him seemed to add a dark cloak to him, like a white-haired demon coming to harvest his soul.

The frightened pirates took out their weapons one after another, and approached one step at a time.

"I know you're pirates of the Tomahawks!" Rogge retorted. "I'll tell you, this place is surrounded, and now I need to see your leader!"

The pirates in the front row instinctively took a few steps back, and a few daring ones rushed towards Rog, trying to prove that they were not the ones to be intimidated by the bandits.

"Look for death!" The moment a blood-red cross phantage appeared, the pirates who rushed forward died under Rogge's sword, and because the opponent's martial arts were too terrifying, the pirates had to hold the villagers hostage and threaten the freedom knights on the opposite side.

At this moment, several throwing axes flew out of the sea and hit the shoulders of the pirates, and a figure emerged from the bottom of the water, and the figure looked particularly tall in the moonlight.

"Coward, I can't even win a noble kid who has never seen the world, so step down for me!"

The man roared from afar, causing all the pirates to step aside and let go of the threatened villagers.

Rog motioned for the villagers to flee while he continued to stand in front of the pirates, who had attracted him to what they had said, and decided to stay and find out.

It seems that the one who spoke just now should be their leader. "I'm the Free Knights, the 'First Knight' Rogge, and I'm here to arrest you on the warrant of Count Araciss, the lord of Chanda City!"

The freelancers paid no attention to the pirate warriors on either side, and raised their swords to the person who had just spoken, deciding that he was their target.

As Rogge's words reached the man's ears, the other party quickly strode in front of Rogge.

Judging by his size, the man was a strong man in his thirties, wearing a horned helmet and nearly two meters tall, just like the one painted on the wanted notices posted throughout Hokuriku.

His sturdy upper body was not armored, revealing a body of white muscles, and his lower body was wearing a pair of sharkskin trousers, a pair of sharkskin boots, a well-honed short knife hanging from the buckle of his belt, and two pairs of sharp throwing axes, and the most conspicuous thing was a golden step axe on his shoulder, which made the whole person look extremely powerful.