Chapter Forty-Three: Sunset Town-Wood-Rock
"My lord, the Rock Squad is willing to serve you!"
Although Kyrreth spoke softly, the keen Jon could still distinguish the voice of the mid-level mage, and then suppressed the whispers of the team members behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that the wooden town gate had opened, and the mid-level mage walked out with the Shadowman, followed by a guy in inferior leather armor.
"I thought you weren't coming!"
Kyrreth glanced at the mercenary captain calmly, and then glanced past the other party and glanced at the team members behind him, who seemed to have some more fresh faces.
"My lord, we've been on the side of the East Wall all these days. I had just returned to Stratholme the day before yesterday and rushed over as soon as I received the news. Hearing the slight dissatisfaction in the mid-level mage's words, Jon quickly explained.
In fact, he went to the east wall to recruit team members while doing tasks, because it is close to Zumashal, which is also a gathering point for mercenaries in the northern region of the human kingdom, not only is there no shortage of tasks, but also gathers a lot of lone rangers or newcomers who have just debuted, especially some of the advanced ones in the latter, who are the objects of invitation from most mercenary teams.
Nodding slightly, Kyris said to the team behind Jon.
"Is there still a Tirius in the team?"
"And three—" replied the mercenary captain with a bowed head.
"Come with me!" Hearing this, he frowned slightly, the rock squad of only three old men remained, almost a new mercenary team, how much combat power was left in it, and how much role it could play, all of which needed to be reestimated, but now, the forces he could recruit were too few, and there were not many options.
Kelreth said to the mercenary captain, turned and walked into the door, Kiel behind him kept staring at Jon coldly, and finally snorted coldly and turned to follow the mid-level mage.
The strong man beside Jon had already noticed Kiel, who had been looking at them coldly, and when he heard his cold snort, he immediately opened his mouth and wanted to scold, but then Jon, who found out about the situation, glared at him, grinning and whispering not knowing what to say.
Shaking his head, Jon was also helpless, if he changed the original team members, as long as he looked at him, he would be obedient, but now most of these new team members only joined the Rock Squad because of the strength of his mid-level warriors, not only in terms of cooperation, but also in terms of prestige, he also needs time to build.
Straightening his body, Jon waved his hand at the team behind him, and under the watchful eye of the Wooden Tower militia, he led them to follow Kyrreth and his party.
The town wall that looks very wide from the path, and when you enter, you will find that the town wall of Sunset Town is actually only the outer row, but this row of town walls finally arcs towards the oak forest. So only half of Sunset Town is actually walled, and the other half is blended in with oak forests.
The whole town is actually very backward, but to a certain extent, it is laid out according to the uniform specifications of human cities. In the center is the tallest three-story building in the town, and it is the only building in the town that is more than five meters long.
Due to the close proximity to the oak forest, almost all of the houses were made of rough oak logs, many of which could be classified as dangerous houses in the eyes of mid-level mages.
With a large group of mercenaries, Kyris swept through the three-story building in the center of town, which is actually his current residence, known to the outside world as the old mansion of the Baron...
Walking towards the other side of Sunset, he chatted with Jon, who had come over at the right time.
Through the mercenary captain's self-report, Kyris also has a relatively full understanding of the current Rock Squad.
Originally, when he was in Lordaeron, the entire Rock Squad was full of twenty-three people, except for the mercenary captain Jon, who was a fourth-order berserk battle, the lowest of the others were second-order warriors, including six third-order warriors and three third-order shadowmen, this kind of strength was actually barely able to keep up with the echelons of those top mercenary teams that he encountered in Kurdaron.
But today's Rock Squad, except for Jon, who is still a fourth-order berserk battle, only the three Tirisfa team members who have always followed him are all third-order, a shadow man, a defensive warrior, a berserker, and the other newly recruited team members are all first- and second-order newcomers, and most of them are first-order, and there are even a few pure rookies who have not yet entered the rank, but Jon felt that there was some potential before he was accepted, even so, the original large-scale mercenary team of twenty-three people, now plus Jon is only seventeen people.
This situation is actually normal, after all, as a very regional profession, there are very few mercenaries who are willing to cross so many regions to redevelop in unfamiliar regions, in fact, Jon, who can take away three third-order mercenary captains, is already a relatively authoritative mercenary captain, and it is generally after losing all that the mercenaries will have the idea and courage to start anew.
Nodding noncommittally, Kelreis stopped, there was already a dense oak forest in front of him, I don't know if it was because of the tree species or because this land was special, even if it was winter now, this oak tree was still as green and lush as the pine forest opposite, and there was no trace of winter at all.
The group arrived at the northeast corner of the town, where the small houses of the townspeople were scattered, especially the section closest to the oak forest, only a lonely one-story wooden house, surrounded by piles of logs, and a row of low fences enclosed the wooden house, and extended to the back of the wooden house, forming a quadrangular fence circle, which seemed to be used for some kind of livestock, but now it was empty.
"Uther! Uther!" Quinn, who had been following Kyrryth in front of the cabin, walked over and shouted loudly into the house.
"Quinn, why are you here again, didn't I say it, I didn't see anything!" An emaciated young man came out of the cabin, looked at the militia captain, frowned, but then spotted Kelreth and immediately walked over respectfully.
"Your Excellency!"
"Yes, Uther, take us there, you shouldn't have touched those things!" Nodding his head at the other, Kyrreth turned to look at the oak grove again.
"This—" The emaciated young man hesitated.
"Didn't the Lord tell you to stop touching those things? Are you itching?"
It may have been beaten by Kun En before, Uther was obviously very afraid of him, took a few steps back, and shook before speaking.
"My lord, I dare to touch those things, but when I went to see them last night, they were gone!"
Glancing back at Uther, Kelreth led the way to the oak grove without saying a word, followed closely by the others.
After entering the forest, he walked along a path that was obviously stepped out by man for about ten minutes, and the direction of the middle-level mage suddenly turned, turned into the forest on the left side of the path, and then led everyone to a clearing without pause.
It was obviously a clearing of artificially cleared land, and there were even brand new tree stumps left on the ground, and the incision was extremely rough, as if it had been broken by brute force, and the center of the clearing was very clean, and there were no weeds at all, but there were obvious signs of something crushing on the flat earth.
"My lord, what was originally here?"
Jon, who had been silent since entering the woods, came to the clearing, and his face grew solemn, and he approached Kelrith and asked softly.
"A, no, it's a stone-like primordial totem!"