"Huh."

"Chase!"

"Hit!"

After walking for a long time, the crowd fired fifteen arrows and captured several large meat rats and a pangolin with stubby limbs.

At noon, they chose a relatively open place and lit a fire in the same place, and for the first time Bran had eaten this kind of meat, which tasted very much like pork.

Since it was caught by Iron Mountain, Iron Mountain almost wiped out most of them after Bran said he didn't need them.

This was not enough, half of the pheasant was also eaten by Tie Shan, and the cartilage that bit was bitten by Tie Shan's hard teeth was crushed by Tie Shan's hard teeth, and even the soft pulp was eaten and bitten.

Iron Mountain has a deep fascination with food, and the more he eats, the more secure he feels.

He was born in the city of Putome, separated from Florence by two cities, and was a member of the blacksmith family.

The blacksmith was a high-income commoner, but a fire damaged the storefront, and his parents had to owe the merchant usury, and after losing all his possessions, he overworked and eventually died of poverty and illness, but the debt never stopped!

If Iron Mountain doesn't want to die, he will face the crisis of being in debt, and he will work for this businessman for the rest of his life until the day of old age and decay.

Tieshan was more decisive than his parents, he pretended to sell his body, worked hard for the merchant, and only decided to act when he was twelve to fifteen years old, when his strength grew to the point where he felt that he could take revenge.

The canon of the Church says, "Whoever slays with the sword will perish by the sword." ”

The merchant is, "He who is stingy with money will be harmed by money." ”

The merchant even treated his own family as a worker, so no one except the servant was willing to stay with him and endure his stinking temper.

After the merchant let his guard down against Iron Mountain, Iron Mountain entered his room one night, knocked the merchant unconscious with a stone, and then hanged him with a rope, as did Iron Mountain's parents.

After the killing, it was a flight, the fifteen-year-old Iron Mountain could not ride a horse, he kept walking on his feet, and the money bag on the merchant's body allowed him to bribe the Florentine guards successfully.

On the tenth day of entering the city, he found a job as a porter, and saw a portrait that looked a little similar to himself, which was nakedly posted next to the tavern.

This painting reminds Tie Shan of the past.

Before the age of six, Tie Shan's memory was already very vague, but there was something that seemed to happen yesterday, and the memory was clear.

When he was five years old, Iron Mountain and his father once went to a knight's house to help repair iron tools.

At that time, I saw a painter painting a knight in full armor.

Tie Shan marveled at the artist's skillful hands, stained with bright red paint, and completely copied the vivid face on paper with a few strokes.

"I want to be painted too."

Iron Mountain approached stupidly, but was kicked by the bald man beside the knight.

Hu Cong said from the greasy fat face, "Wild children in the countryside, nobles are qualified to be painted." ”

……

"Only the aristocracy is qualified to be painted." The fleeing Iron Mountain muttered to himself, and then when there was no one in the night, he appeared outside the tavern, took down a portrait, folded it and wrapped it in a cloth ball, hid it in his arms, and fled again.

Florence was a commercial republic, de facto independent, but nominally under the protection of the Papal States, and the "Standard-bearer of Justice" at that time (another name for the supreme consul of the Republic) had a dispute with the Holy See over tariffs, and declared a quasi-war state and strict interrogation.

And because the arrest announcement has been sent to Florence, at this time can only flee to the mountains.

Iron Mountain narrowly escaped the pursuit of the forest guards and fled to the deepest part of the valley, where the beasts gathered.

There are a lot of wild fruits on the mountain, and this alone can satisfy his hunger for a while, and on the days when he doesn't have to pay taxes to the lord, Tieshan sleeps when he is full, and eats when he sleeps when he is full, and he understands the way of survival in the valley bit by bit, and brings the sickle on the mountain, from bright to rusty, and helps him tide over several difficulties.

After recovering from the bite, he knew whether the snake was poisonous or not, and the sound of the birds, and the size of the mud marks on the ground allowed him to know in advance what was passing in this area.

The experience of the blacksmith made Tieshan more able to amplify the functions of stones and wooden branches, and turned them into bamboo guns and stone knives, which were used to capture and cut small animal carcasses.

Three years have passed, Tie Shan is eighteen, and his original figure of one meter and sixty-four has been forced out by a large amount of animal meat and "survival faith" to fully release his potential.

Reaching a height of 1.86 meters, his muscles bulging and full of explosive power, his beard and face are all over his face, and he is like a wild man, freely shuttling anywhere in the valley, he has an excellent hunter's physique.

One day, he dug a trap to catch a ferocious "wild boar".

But the sound of the wild boar's cry appeared on the other side, and when Tie Shan rushed over, the fangs of the wild boar were facing a clean middle-aged man.

Out of the emotions of fellow humans, Iron Mountain's wooden spear took a quick step and shot at the wild boar, although it could not penetrate the thick flesh, but it was enough time for the man's escort (Carol) to successfully rescue.

Then a sharp arrow shot Iron Mountain in the arm, and when he tried to escape, three hounds with glowing eyes had already surrounded Iron Mountain.

"Finally caught you poaching wildling!"

The forester stepped forward with a short sword to surround the Iron Mountain, which was also a beast in the eyes of the forester, and even more terrifying.

"Stop."

Howard, who was rescued, secretly cursed bad luck, and accidentally wandered into the valley when he came here to hunt for the first time in the past few years.

Then Howard looked at the wild man, slowly approached, he did not bend down, he compared to the ground, and one of the guards took the cloth ball that the wild man had dropped, and after opening it, Howard saw the wanted picture, which was well preserved, and then said to the forest guard.

"Give him to me."

Even if there is no fief, the aristocratic majesty cultivated by the grand duke of a country for decades and the friendship between his own master cannot be rejected by the forest guards.

When the forester left in a huff.

"What did you do?"

Spreading out the canvas, Howard refers to the murderous text annotation on the portrait.

Tie Shan didn't know how to read, but he also guessed the meaning of the question, he stared at Howard in the eyes, and did not flinch, "He deserves it, after the merchant borrowed the money, changed the terms to make the interest triple and take it away...... My family's blacksmith and house caused my parents to hang themselves to death, and a younger brother ...... Sold to the stonemason's guild to work as child labor, and was crushed to death while digging stones. ”

Don't communicate with people, this paragraph, Tie Shan stammered for three minutes.

"Carol (what do you see)?"

"This kid has a wolf in his eyes, but I'll try (maybe I can train to be a loyal dog)."

"Get down on your knees."

Howard swung his body very straight, as straight as a tree.

Then, he took out the long sword beside the guard and approached the iron mountain, and with each step, his body moved horizontally without offset, which was not something that could be done simply, only people who had received professional aristocratic etiquette could easily do it, and it was used in various award ceremonies.

Tie Shan was afraid and wanted to escape, but was deterred by Carol's momentum, and the cruel eyes of the hundreds of people who had killed hundreds of people in his military career were the difference between a strong man and a child in Tie Shan.

Tie Shan was forced to kneel by the guards, waiting for the verdict to be announced.

The sword did not fall from the neck, but was struck on the left and right shoulders of the Iron Mountain, which symbolized equality and impartiality, and the third stroke was pointed at the heart and then turned on the top of the head, indicating the chivalry of defending the lord with wisdom and blood.

A simplified version of the knightly medal.

"Your name?"

These three words are the special words borrowed with "you" in the canonization ceremony.

After Carol explained, Iron Mountain reacted and said, "Hammer, my parents gave me that name. ”

"Hammer" means "thief" and "lord" in Italian, and neither is it suitable for him.

Howard thought for a few seconds.

"I grant you the sword, and I defend the glory of the Lord,

"I bestow your life, loyal to the Lord I,

"I give you the name, knight Iron Mountain.