Chapter 21: Kirly
After pacifying the civilians and restraining the captives, the three of Ed gathered together to discuss.
According to the information obtained from the previous inquiry, the villages in this vicinity were looted by the Ingill army, and a large number of civilians were captured as slaves, and the mercenaries accepted the contract provided by the Ingirs to help escort the slaves.
But no one can tell why they encountered an ambush by a killer on the way, and in the past two days, the other party has killed many mercenaries one after another without revealing their identities, and now this has become a problem for the three of them.
"We have to deal with him, or the enemy will be in the dark, and even if we leave here, we may be constantly attacked like these mercenaries, and we will have even fewer people to guard against it!" Ed said.
"And how to deal with this group of mercenaries is also a problem, you can't kill them all!" Andre asked a new question, he had some ideas in his heart, but he wanted to hear the opinions of his companions first.
Delia didn't have a good idea either, and she silently prayed in her heart, hoping that the gods would guide her.
The girl half-knelt down, her hands clinging to her shepherd's cane, and a white light enveloped her, and the captives and civilians on one side looked at it in amazement and talked about it.
Ed and Andre were vigilant on the sidelines, the killers in the woods and the captive mercenaries were uncertain factors, even the civilians who were eating would cause a lot of trouble if they didn't handle it well, but they all believed in Delia and waited for her to make her own decision.
After a few moments, the maiden finished her prayer, her worries seemed to be swept away, and her confidence made her look beautiful.
"The gods tell me that the woods are friends and enemies, and that those who have gone astray and the lost lambs need to be saved!"
Ed and Andre looked at each other, waiting for Delia's next explanation.
"Ed, please unload your weapons and go to the woods to invite our guests to meet me here, Andre, I believe you have a way to get those mercenaries in check, maybe they can make amends for the sins they have committed. ”
Andre was slightly taken aback when he heard this, he was thinking about how to take them as his subordinates when he collected these captives before, after all, to fulfill Di Liya's wishes, the three of them are still too thin, and expanding the strength and strengthening the people is the right way, how do you know that Di Liya sent herself to do this before she said it, could it be that there is really a god to guide her?
Ed nodded indifferently, even if he didn't bring a weapon, as long as he consumed the psionic group and used some means, he was not afraid that the killers in the woods could hurt him, he had gained a lot in the battle just now, not only did his swordsmanship be exercised, but he also captured a lot of psionic regiments.
"The host currently has 24 copies of the Ordinary Unpurified Psionic Regiment in stock. ”
The three of them went their own way, Delia went to the civilians to continue to pacify them, André was ready to coerce and lure the confidence to take the remaining forty or so mercenary captives for his own use, Ed went to the edge of the woods, untied the sword Germo and the spear of the rose in public, stuck it in the dirt, and walked into the woods alone.
The previous rain of arrows came from all directions, and Ed couldn't figure out where the other party was, and if they hadn't known in advance, no one would have believed that it was caused by a person.
"Delia said that she is a new companion, what kind of guy will she be, I hope it will be more interesting than Andre!"
Ed held his breath and walked quietly on the thick layer of fallen leaves, the feeling of being peeped at became stronger and stronger after entering the woods, and with the rapid transfer of strong mobility, the other party came to Ed's vicinity after a while.
"You shouldn't have walked so close, no one within a hundred steps can escape the bow and arrow in my hand, and the venom of vengeance can take your life in a breath!" A voice that could not distinguish between men and women sounded nearby, and it was impossible to find out where to go.
Ed knew that he underestimated the other party's ability in the jungle, and some small tricks effectively protected the other party's safety, but he was still confident.
"Sue me, for whom is the arrow in your hand avenging?"
"For the sake of every innocent life you killed, are you ready to deny the crime of killing you have committed?"
"In this case, we should be friends rather than enemies, every soul I kill with my sword is not innocent, if your goal is to save the civilians outside, then please come with me, if you also covet the blood money of the slave trade, then you will be the next person I kill. ”
Ed is a little tired of playing dumb riddles with each other, and since Delia says it's a friend, let's just spread it out.
"How do you prove your purpose?" replied after a moment of silence.
At this time, Ed had run out of patience, and the other party's words were too much, with the help of the mark, after some analysis, he had roughly guessed the direction of the other party.
A psionic group was consumed, Ed activated his psionic energy, and turned on the ability of panoramic insight, sure enough, a petite figure hid in a big tree not far behind his side and was waiting for his answer, perhaps too confident in his camouflage ability, the bow in the other party's hand did not open to aim at himself.
Ed's psionic energy was instantly released, strengthening his speed and strength, and he quickly took a few steps backwards, leaping into the air one by one, and when he raised his hand to grab the tree trunk to fix his body, he was already face to face with the attacker.
The other party used the sap to change his complexion, but he could see a pointed chin, a pair of bright big eyes, and a loli face in his previous life.
Ed grinned, and the other party's eyes widened in surprise, and his mouth opened slightly, which was really funny.
Lori was surprised and subconsciously stabbed the arrow in her hand at Ed, the speed was extremely fast, if it wasn't for Ed turning on the spiritual blessing at this time, maybe he wouldn't be able to dodge, I saw that his wrist had grabbed the opponent's elbow, but he immediately let go, and then kicked the trunk with both feet, and a backflip landed steadily on the woodland.
"You see, we've already shaken hands, we should be friends!" Ed said as he maintained his ability to see the panorama just in case.
But it seems that his ability to reveal is indeed very convincing, the other party was quiet for a while and did not launch an attack, Ed stood on the ground and looked up, the dense foliage covered her figure, but the scene of the feedback of the skill through the guò skill, the little Lori patted her chest cutely, and seemed to be in shock.
Ed waited for a while, the other party jumped down from the tree quickly, the speed was almost not lost to him, seeing that Lori had already put the bow behind him, Ed stretched out his hand, smiled and greeted: "Hello, my name is Edwin, but my friends call me Eddard." ”
Lori turned a blind eye to his outstretched hand, stared at him and pretended to be vicious and said, "My name is Qili, didn't you just say that you shook hands, why do you still want to take advantage!"
Ed withdrew his hand in embarrassment, pointed out of the woods and said, "That, Kirly, let's go out and talk, my companion is waiting!" Little Lori's words are not as cute as her appearance, so let Delia and Andre deal with her.
"Humph!" a nasal voice sounded, and Kiri walked out of the woods, a pair of ponytails flicking defiantly in the air, Ed following closely behind, and after a while came out to retrieve the two weapons that had been placed outside at the edge.
In this meeting, Di Liya has established a high prestige among the crowd, not only saving everyone's lives, but also having a powerful psionic knight to protect her, and even casting several healing magic spells, so that the civilians completely regarded her as a saint, and many people knelt on the ground to get her blessing.
Ed introduces Kiri to Delia, and Lori doesn't seem to be so hostile to the same sex, and the two quickly get acquainted.
The boy took the time to look at Andre on the other side, and seemed to be quite improving, and the mercenaries were attracted by his words and were listening intently.
Ed was bored, he had no interest in taming the captives, these guys would not have any loyalty even if they could be driven, it was still for profit, it was not as reliable as the sword in his hand, and Delia glared at him as soon as he leaned over, and seemed to blame him for scaring her in the woods.
Ed had no choice but to set up camp for the suffering civilians and dispose of the dead bodies, most of whom died by his sword.
While Ed gathered these incomplete corpse pieces and buried them, he relied on the imprint in his heart to review the battle just now, and the mental imprint always recorded the things around Ed, and it was easy to build an illusion, and the young man would focus his general mind on it, figuring out the gains and losses of each move.
In this world, the psionic energy has created the extraordinary skills of the knights, ordinary martial arts are not developed, and the few battles Ed encountered rely on ingenuity, and the speed is a point, and the strength is a little stronger to achieve victory, but the engraving contains a lot of fighting materials, from which Ed is very inspired.
In the evening, several people got together for dinner, and the group of three added an extra member, Qili seemed to have become Delia's friend, she introduced herself to Andre very friendly, and she still ignored Ed, the young man shrugged helplessly, and was very speechless about the girl being so able to hold grudges.
Delia did her job of reassuring the rescued civilians and promised to protect them and leave, but she also learned from some people that there were many civilians in the vicinity who had been looted, and that some of these women and children were in the hands of another group of mercenaries, and they begged Delia to rescue them.
Andrei's work was almost done, and most of the mercenaries expressed their willingness to follow the three of them to contribute to the cause of peace, and in the face of Ed's question of loyalty, Andrei was noncommittal, but at least for a short time, they had some available strength at hand.
According to the confession of these mercenaries, their boss received only a small job, these women, children, old and young as slaves could not be sold at a high price, more strong men were taken away by the big mercenary group, these people were sold to Ingier for a large price, I heard that the star crystal mine over there is in short supply, so the supply of mine slaves is in short supply.
Qili also said that she was from the Church of Vengeance, a name that was unfamiliar to even Andre, the most knowledgeable of the three, but she didn't elaborate, so the three of Ed only regarded it as a hidden organization and didn't ask much.
During her travels, she passed by the neighborhood and found out about the mercenary group capturing slaves and chased them alone, and then met Delia and them, but fortunately the two sides did not fight.
"And then I'm being slighted by this guy!" Little Lori suddenly said in surprise, Ed met the gaze of his companion with a little bit of a look, and regretted that his actions in the woods seemed to be a little frivolous, and this girl was too good at holding grudges.