"Hiccup...... Let me pass! ”

The leading drunkard, though obviously not very sober, was not stupid either, and he stood in the middle of the bridge and looked at both ends, burping and shouting for his men to give way.

The drunkards on the bridge deck were also obedient, and they got out of the way one by one.

The lord simply stood directly at the bridge: "You are their leader?" Come and talk, you won't be able to cross the bridge anyway. ”

The big man looked at the lord and slowly moved the chain forward two steps.

This is a burly and bearded strong man, and the smell of alcohol all over his body can spicy his eyes from more than ten meters.

There were still some blood stains on the rusty armor, and the loose orange-yellow burqa on the outside made him look even larger.

"I'm Alaric! You've probably heard my name...... Man, do you have any alcohol on you? We're out of wine. You know, how can you march to war without ale? ”

The drunkard didn't seem to be too sober, but he seemed to be able to communicate.

Leon had indeed heard the name, both in his previous life in the game and in his days when he first arrived at Fieldsway.

"Noisemaker" Alaric.

Some people say that he was forced to leave the battlefield after great achievements, a victim of the power of the nobles;

Some people say that he is just a drunkard who is good at bragging, an old rascal who loves to play drunk;

Others say that he is the son of prophecy, the hero of legends, the savior of the people - this is said by several drunkards.

But in any case, all the rumors about him, the beginning and the end are basically the same.

All rumors say that he brought out a group of drunken drunks from the taverns of Roaring Bay a year ago, and then proclaimed himself the 'new king of Pande', and launched a 'holy war' against the soldiers of the city to 'conquer the continent'......

It stands to reason that this is just a group of drunks, and this kind of beginning usually ends the next morning with a hangover of a group of people and countless curses.

But for some reason, Alaric's 'holy war' is not over.

They set out from Roaring Bay and made a noisy journey east, launching an 'epic crusade' - this is what the drunkards say.

These drunkards raid villages and farms during the day and drink and revelry at night, starting their never-ending "Flowing Ale Festival" like locusts.

The fame of the 'drunkard group' soon spread throughout the western part of the continent, and even strangely formed a fanaticism that bordered on religious beliefs.

Many rabbles left their original stations with weapons and armor and joined in the noisy farce.

Soon, there were hundreds of drunks in Alaric's army, and new ones were being added to it.

The drunken 'crusade' continued, the alcoholism never stopped, and Alaric's 'prestige' grew.

It is said that the entire village of Short Howl was swallowed up and demolished by this army, not even the wooden planks on the roof.

Strangely, however, the lords of Fields and the Lion Kingdom are turning a blind eye to this growing threat – and perhaps helplessly, of course.

And at the end of all the rumors, it is also the end of the unity - the last lord to try to defeat Alaric is the leader of Bjorn the "Far Traveler" from Fieldsway. At the end of the battle, the leader of Bjorn was helplessly holding half of his shield and was overwhelmed by the mass of drunkards.

It is said that Alaric at that time, with a mace in one hand and a blood-stained fan shield in the other, had crazy eyes.

But since then, it seems that no one has seen Alaric the "Noisy" and his group of drunkards again.

Lord Lord didn't expect to meet him in Kwen Village, after all, according to rumors, the last place where this drunkard army appeared was only in Short Howl Village, on the western border of the Lion Kingdom. (Note)

And now it seems that this guy's eyes are not crazy, only drunk.

"Lord Alaric, I'm Leon Griffin, can we talk?"

The lord still wants to settle it as peacefully as possible, after all, the current situation, even if he guards the bridge until the sky is old, he probably won't be able to get any loot.

"Ha, a nobleman...... Look at this guy's flag, it's a baron...... The Baron actually said he wanted to talk to me...... Hahaha! ”

Alaric smirked sarcastically, ignoring Leon and instead turning back to shouting at his troops.

The drunkards on the other side laughed again.

It seems that this "noisy person" probably has a little class contradiction with some nobles......

"Alaric, when you raised the bull flag, I was just a civilian in the Fogcage City Arena."

Leon jumped off his horse, hung his rifle on the hook of the saddle, clapped his hands to show that there was no malice, and intended to close the class distance......

Alaric turned his head to look at the lord, then at the griffin banner, and smiled weirdly.

"Baron Leon...... Are you the lord here? ”

Alaric asked, patting his head, as if thinking something.

"I'm really just a passerby, but I've heard about what your troops have done to other villages...... So don't even think about coming. ”

The lord shook his head, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword, and he saw danger in Alaric's eyes—his eyes were becoming blank and his gaze had drifted away.

"You can't stop us!"

Alaric suddenly shouted and rushed over, although his steps on the bridge were a little shaky, his attitude became very firm: "I'm going to kill you!" ”

This guy is obviously not in his right mind, and it seems that it is unlikely that he will be able to solve it completely peacefully.

Li Angfei got on his horse, drove his horse out of the bridge, and then took off his riding gun, causing Alice to speed up her turn.

Turning around and picking up his speed, Alaric also ran to the bridge, and the lord met him with a charge and stab.

And Alaric also stood on the bank of the river, and after tilting his shield a little, he actually came up with the cavalry spear!

"Boom!"

Sawdust flew and the spear shattered across Alaric's shield, and the drunken man took several steps back to the side from the blow, but he staggered to his feet on the edge of the cliff.

This heavy shot was completely caught by Araric!

Yes, a human, standing on the ground and unsteady, was able to catch the lance thrust of a knight charging at full speed with a fan shield, and he didn't even fall!

The tilt of the shield can slide the forward force of the lance to the side, but against the lance charging with all its might, this is not something that can be held steady with one hand!

The shield was also shattered, and was tossed by Alaric at the cavalry at the front behind Leon.

The cavalry used their shields to block the flying remnants, but the spears in their hands failed to hit Alaric, and he rolled over and escaped from the edge of the cliff.

Then, the guy tightened his grip on the thick mace in his hand and headed straight for Leon, his heavy footsteps bringing up a cloud of smoke and dust, and running as fast as he could.

This power is indeed terrifying, you know, the armor under the bull robe on his body should be a double layer of plate chain mail, which is very heavy.

But this guy can still run as if he is wearing nothing.

"You seal the bridge, this guy will give it to me!"

Seeing that the enemy on the other side was about to rush across the bridge again, the lord shouted, and then faced Araric.

This is probably the strongest enemy the Lord has faced since he came to this continent.

That's not to say that Alaric is so skilled in martial arts - in fact, he may not be as skilled as Klose.

However, this guy's strength is too terrifying.

Alaric wielded a mace, whining with each swing, and the thick macehead was almost the size of its head, and it looked like it was at least thirty pounds!

What is the concept of a thirty-pound warhammer - the two-handed greatsword of the Metenheim is already a two-handed weapon of considerable size, but it weighs less than ten pounds.

Weapons that exceed ten pounds can only be used for fitness in most cases, because the average person will be exhausted by a few strokes.

Even a Hercules, like Klose, only used a sword of just over eight pounds.

And the thirty-pound hammer is basically smashed wherever it is broken, no matter what shield or armor you can't stop it.

This heavy weapon is usually used to smash walls or knock on city gates......

Alaric, on the other hand, was more frantically fighting—he kept wielding the huge mace-head mallet, and chased after the lord, as if intending to smash it with men and horses.

The lord must not be hard-wired.

However, in fact, there is no need to hard-connect at all, and it is actually very easy to deal with this kind of Mengnan who does not carry long-range weapons in foot combat.

If he wasn't sure how to deal with him, how could the lord let him cross the bridge......

Leon took off the eagle strike bow from his back, drove his horse forward a few steps, and turned back with an arrow.

The arrow was aimed at Alaric's arm, which was covered in heavy plate armor all over his body, with only his arm being a single layer of chain mail.

But the wind on the cliff on the river bank was too strong for the lord to train his cavalry and archery skills well, and even at a distance of only thirty meters, the arrow still deviated from its intended trajectory - it hit Alaric's chest.

The bull's armor looked quite defensive, and the arrow was missing from it, but it didn't affect his movements in the slightest.

Looks like it's a lot of hard work......

Leon drew another arrow.

And the moment he saw the lord draw his bow, Alaric had been speeding up the chase, he probably wasn't very clear-headed, anyway, ordinary people wouldn't chase a horse like this......

He wasn't much slower than a horse.

And this guy's strength and endurance are so good, Lord Lord even feels that this thing is not human, how can a human run so fast with a weight of hundreds of pounds?

The chase lasted for several minutes, and Leon kept turning back to fly the kite, shooting a dozen arrows, and finally one arrow pierced Alaric's right arm.

Alaric is actually pierced like a hedgehog......

The guy finally stopped, looked at the arrow on his arm, dropped the hammer in his hand, wiped the blood that flowed, and sat on the ground.

"I'm actually fighting? Am I not on the bridge...... Do you have any wine, man, give me a sip! ”

Well, it seems that after being hit by an arrow, he finally sobered up, and there was even some begging in his tone.

The lord looked at Alaric and pulled out a jar of wine from his saddle bag—a gift from the countess.

"If you're just looking for a drink, then wait by the bridge, and you'll have a drink soon. But if you want to enter the village, then I'm sorry. ”

With that, Leon threw the jar of wine over.

Alaric grabbed the jar and couldn't wait to bite out the cork and sniff it deeply.

"Ha, this wine is really good!"

Then he looked up and drained half of the jar in one gulp, and the wine and saliva trickled down his neck and into his armor.

"Your name is Baron Leon, right...... There are only a few dozen of you, why are you still standing in our way?"

Presumably because the high sugar content does soothe people's emotions, and after drinking the wine, Alaric's attitude seems to be much kinder.

"Everyone knows what your troops have done in Howl Village...... I can't just watch you plague the villagers. ”

The lord said it very directly, he didn't feel like this guy was a scheming person, but he didn't seem to be sober most of the time.

"Looks like you're a good lord...... You just said that you can have wine as long as you wait here, didn't you lie to me? As long as there is wine, I will leave here with them. ”

Alaric hammered his head again and looked at the jar of wine, but didn't drink it anymore.

"Go and ask the Countess to bring a few carts of wine...... But you can't drink for nothing, you have to pay for it. ”

Leon commanded in front of Alaric, and a cavalryman took the order.

"Guys! All go back! Go back and wait! ”

Seeing that Leon had a drink delivered, Alaric took a few steps to the bridge, shouting loudly for his troops to retreat to the other side.

Then he turned his head, and seeing that the lord really had no intention of making a move, he sat down against the large wooden stake that connected the iron chain at the head of the bridge.

With their backs to his troops.

"I just want to drink now, and I don't want to harm the village...... It was an accident...... I don't want to. But now, there is nothing but alcohol that can control me...... In the same way, only wine can control them. ”

The guy's voice became very soft, as if he didn't want the troops on the other side of the bridge to hear it.

This was unexpected, Lord Lord, I didn't expect this guy's personality to change greatly after his mind cleared up.

"Then what did you make such a big move for?"

Leon was a little curious about him.

"I once helped the Lion Kingdom fight against the army of the Dexia people...... But after repelling the Dexia, my hometown was destroyed by a group of nobles...... My wife, my children, all are gone! ”

"Oh, I helped the nobles defeat their feared enemies and protect their homeland, but they destroyed my home!"

"Then I went to Fieldsway, and at that time the Lion Kingdom and Fields were at war......"

"I helped Fieldsway win the war, and I also took the opportunity to kill a few of the noble scum...... But unexpectedly, after the war, Fieldway and the Lion Kingdom formed an alliance! ”

"I was betrayed to the nobles of the Lion Kingdom by the leader of Björn the Far Wanderer - he was supported by the nobles of the Lion Realm, and I was imprisoned."

"I lost everything...... But the cell couldn't trap people like me, so I escaped and went to Roaring Bay. ”

"I originally wanted to kill that bastard Bjorn, but when I went, I realized that he had become a big lord with hundreds of soldiers, and with his own castle, he was no longer in Roaring Bay......"

"I am disheartened and pray that the gods will give me the strength to kill my enemies, or the devil will!"

"But I didn't expect that I really got a gift from the gods! It's in the tavern...... I met a mysterious person. ”

"I don't know if it's a god or a devil, but I got my strength from him anyway, real power - I think you just saw it?"

"I was probably drunk, and I just remember saying that Pander needed a new king to lead the people out of misery...... The next day, I found myself with a force of hundreds of men behind me! ”

"I took them all the way east in search of the enemies who killed my wife...... But unexpectedly, from then on, they called me the new king of Pande, and said that I was the son of prophecy...... My team is getting bigger and bigger......"

"Hahaha...... I ended up killing Björn the Far Traveler...... However, without the enemy, I feel that my life has no meaning......"

"I just want to drink, and only by drinking more can I see my wife and children......"

"You are a good lord, and few nobles care about the villagers...... In fact, my troops will only deal with the noble manors now, and I don't want to harm the commoners......"

Alaric sniffed the jar of wine again and put it to his lips, but instead of drinking it, he put it back on.

"I haven't been so awake in a long time......"

The lord can generally understand his state of mind, Alaric has lost his purpose in life, and he only wants to miss the good old days in the hallucination of drunkenness.

But looking at his appearance, I'm afraid there aren't many times when he can be so sober.

Looking at Araric, the lord suddenly remembered another person—King Ulrik's father, the mad king that Lady Filina had spoken of.

The same alcoholism, the same madness, the same lack of soberness most of the time, the same scourge with a bunch of drunks.

It's just that the two have different identities and powers, and the consequences are relatively different - one has harmed the country, and the other has harmed the village.

"Alaric, you say there are gods and demons who have given you power? What's going on here? ”

Taking advantage of the fact that this guy is now sober, Leon decided to ask for clarification.

"It was a mysterious man I met in a tavern...... I can't remember what he looked like, and he gave me a bottle of medicine...... Ha, that bottle of medicine has given me unrivaled power! ”

Alaric looked at the jar he was holding, but gritted his teeth at the mention of power.

Li Ang was a little puzzled: "With such power, why do you still look unwilling?" ”

"Because, since I drank that pill, I rarely got awake, and I didn't even know what I was doing...... And all the time headaches, headaches...... There was always a crazy sound in my head telling me to kill......"

Alaric knocked his head again: "Although I like to drink, I rarely got drunk before. But now, if I don't get drunk, I'm afraid I'm going to do a lot of terrible things......"

Lord Lord sighed: "The power that is so easy to get will naturally have side effects......"

Alaric smiled wryly: "That man said I drank the elixir...... But now that I think about it, I'm afraid it was demonic blood! If I'm not drunk, it's hard for me to control myself......"

"I'm going to kill like crazy...... Only when I'm drunk will I not hurt more people! ”