Early spring in the city of Gardinanras was not cold, but it was drizzling.

It's been going on for three days, and there's no sign of stopping.

After hearing Aunt Hera say that this kind of drizzle lasted for more than ten days, Chris and Theon no longer had the idea of waiting for the rain to stop, and continued to embark on the journey south.

It's definitely a bad mood to be in a hurry in this weather.

It's the same with Chris.

It's just that his mood is depressed, not from the drizzle or the mud of the road, but from what old Charlie said that day when he was working in the iron shop.

But it was said that in the blacksmith that day, old Charles mixed some unknown powder with grass juice, evenly applied it to the weapon, and then repeatedly calcined it in the furnace and quenched it in horse urine, and it took less than half an hour to turn Sion's mace from bright silver to dark green and covered with potholes, and Chris's long knife also became gray, which made people think at a glance that it was worthless ordinary goods.

But after doing all this, old Charlie poured cold water on Chris's heart.

"Pretty face red-haired boy, your long knife is only half-finished and good for nothing but toughness enough. If you have the opportunity to go to the Dwarven realm, it is best to ask the Dwarven Master to complete the rest of the work. By the way, remember to have enough gold, those dwarves are notoriously greedy. ”

Chris was stunned for a long time.

Until today, I went out of the city, and I still couldn't let go of my heart.

His long knife was a fifteenth birthday gift prepared in advance by his late mother.

It is also the most valuable of all gifts.

His father, Kafka, told him that his mother, Avril, had sold her jewelry to raise more than 1,000 gold coins, and asked his grandfather Raphael to come forward in the name of the Einske family.

How could such a long knife that was so valuable and painstakingly built be a semi-finished product!?

Chris couldn't believe it.

But looking back on the use of long knives over the years, I found that I couldn't refute Old Charlie's words.

In addition to being tough enough, this long knife seems to have no characteristics, and even the sharpness is average.......

Perhaps, it was the dwarven master who felt that there were too few gold coins, so he was reluctant to finish all the processes. After all, old Charlie also said that those dwarves are very greedy.

That's all Chris can do to comfort himself.

It's that every time I see the mace on Thorn's back, I always feel a little uncomfortable.

Sien's mace was also made by dwarven craftsmen and cost more than five hundred gold coins, and was Raphael Einsk's reward for asking Avril to follow Avril to the north.

"Chris, what's on your mind?"

Just as Chris's mind fluctuated with the horse's back, Theon suddenly asked, with a hint of surprise on his face.

"Nothing."

Interrupted by his thoughts, Chris replied softly.

Immediately, he quickly glanced back and lowered his voice, "Sien, have you noticed that someone seems to be following us behind?" ”

"Well, there are seven of them."

Sien didn't look back, looking at Chris's gaze with a slight approval, "It's the guy with a carriage in the procession, they've been following us since we got out of town in the morning." ”

"You've already found out!?"

Chris was surprised and a little frustrated, he thought he had found out first.

"Hehe, Chris, I'm about the same age as your father, and I'm definitely more experienced than you."

Sien smiled heartily and said very understandingly, "Well, don't be discouraged, when you wander outside for a long time, your vigilance will increase." When you reach my age, you'll be better than me! ”

"Okay, I'll try."

Nodding slightly, Chris continued to ask, "They must be robbers who rob passers-by, right?" Sien, when do you think they'll do it? ”

"Yes, they're robbers."

Theon's face was a little gloomy, "However, they don't just rob, they kill us." See the grove ahead? The road where there is access is narrow, and they should be able to do it over there. And if nothing else, there are still their people in ambush in the grove. ”

Belch?

Chris was stunned.

And Sien didn't wait for him to speak, so he asked rhetorically, "Chris, do you think they are just asking for money, and they won't kill people until they have to?" ”

"Hmm."

Chris nodded.

"In order not to leave a future trouble! Chris, if you are one of these robbers, will you give us a chance to find someone to come back and take revenge, or will you just kill us to prevent future trouble? ”

Chris stopped talking.

The horses trotting slowly walked slowly, but they kept advancing, and the grove was already in front of them.

The two men dismounted outside the grove and patted their horses gently on the thighs to drive them away, for the woods were not suitable for horseback fighting on a rainy day.

"After following me for so long, aren't you tired?"

Theon leaned his back against Chris, holding his mace in both hands and laughing loudly, "Come out of the woods!" ”

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen people poured out of the grove and the seven people who had been following them, blocking their front and back roads.

Chris silently counted, nineteen people in all.

But to his surprise, there was Jack the broker in the group. However, when the robbers came together, he turned around and ran straight into the woods.

"Weapons, horses, and money are left, and you will be spared!"

The leader of the bandits was not the one who had been following them, but a bald man with a steel double-edged axe with a fleshy face who had come out of the grove.

"Chris, kill them all if you don't want to die!"

Sien whispered a serious remonstrance to Chris, "Don't forget that your grandfather and father are still waiting for you to come home!" And don't live up to your mother's expectations! ”

"Hmm!"

Chris replied heavily.

"Be careful."

Hearing this, Sien put the hammer on his shoulder with his backhand, stretched out his finger and hooked it at the bald head, "If you want Lao Tzu's things, come and get it!" ”

"Son of a bitch!"

In the face of this provocation, the bald head cursed, stopped talking nonsense, and rushed over directly with an axe, shouting, "Brothers, chop them up and feed them to the wild dogs, tonight we will go into the city to drink and find a dancing girl!" ”

"Whew~"

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the other robbers turned red with excitement and rushed over with strange screams.

A rabble!

Seeing this scene, Chris sighed with disdain in his heart, and the original nervousness disappeared.

He had been training with the Eaton Territory Guardians every year, and was familiar with techniques such as arrays and multi-player strikes, so he could see that the bandits' sieges were out of order.

It's just that when he made the first cut, he realized that he was also a rookie.

When a robber with a sword slashed at him, he quickly turned sideways, and when he dodged the blade of the sword, he also slashed the long knife into the opponent's armpit, but because of the excessive force, the long knife was stuck in the human body.

In the past, when hunting wild beasts, he also had such a mistake, and he would kick the beast at the first time to draw a long knife, or quickly pull out the dagger tied to the outside of his thigh, and hit the prey's head with a fatal blow.

But now, his surging blood spurted all over his body, and when he listened to the other party's painful wail and saw the other party staring at him with complaining eyes, he was stunned for a moment!

Alas, forgive him, this is the first time he has stabbed his kind.

Thankfully, Theon kept an eye on him.

Hurriedly pushed him, so that he narrowly avoided a bright knife.

"What a daze!"

Theon yelled, "Do you want to die here? ”

Chris certainly didn't want to die.

So I immediately came back to my senses, and in my heart I regarded the people in front of me as beasts, and slashed them one by one.

When the last person was picked up by Sien in the process of escaping and threw a knife directly to the ground, he was still holding the knife with both hands and looking for the next one, quite a kind of "who else" momentum.

Well, he was good, killed seven.

Every corpse he killed was horrible, and some were even cut in two from the waist.

"It's over, Chris."

Theon came over with a mace stained with minced flesh and blood, and whispered softly, "Relax, exhale, these robbers are dead." ”

Call~~

Chris exhaled deeply.

Turning his head and smiling at Sien, he was about to say something, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a pile under his feet, so he turned his head sharply, and then .......

Vomit~~~

Spit up!

"It's like this the first time, and slowly I got used to it. Look over there! ”

Theon thoughtfully patted him on the back, "I just smashed someone's head and splashed it all over the place, but I don't feel disgusting at all. ”

"Gross..."

Well, I don't know how to look at Chris, and I vomited even more violently.

"Hahaha~~"

I don't know if it's the triumph of success or the joy after a killing, Sien's laughter is very unbridled.

Kick Click...

Kick Click... Kick Click...

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard, and it became clearer and clearer in my ears.

There is still an ambush in this gang of robbers?

Theon laughed and hurriedly picked up his hammer on guard.

And Chris, who didn't have time to rinse his mouth, also wiped his mouth with his sleeve at will, and his eyes were full of knives.

It turned out to be a group of Imperial cavalry, about thirty people, not the Griffin Legion.

They drove their horses to the reins of their horses before they reached about ten paces before the two of them touched the horses, and a scarred face who seemed to be the leader of the team came out of the crowd and spoke very ruffianly, "Yo, it's over so soon?" It seems that you two are good! ”

This..... Didn't you come out to exterminate the robbers?

Chris was stunned.

Theon, on the other hand, stepped forward and asked, "What do you want?" ”

"It's simple."

Scarface beckoned back, and after letting the four or five cavalrymen pick up the crossbow, he said triumphantly, "Did you see the crossbow?" I'm sure you don't want to have a few more holes in your body, right? So, you go your way, and as for the dead people, we'll work hard for you! Hahaha~~"

Chris suddenly realized.

It turned out that these cavalrymen had taken a fancy to the dead man's belongings and horses and weapons.

Combined with Scarface's phrase "it's over so soon", Chris could even guess that these cavalrymen had been hanging behind the robbers, sharing the spoils or looting the robbers' belongings for the sake of the witnesses.

Moreover, this is certainly not the first time they have done this kind of thing.

"Those two horses are ours!"

Theon whistled with his forefinger in his mouth and beckoned two horses in the distance to return.

"Don't worry, we all know the rules!"

Scarface laughed and jumped off his horse with all the cavalry, "Hehe, brothers, search carefully, there is wine, meat and dancing girls tonight!" Share! ”

"Wow~~"

The cavalry squad rushed up, almost identical to the group of robbers just now.

Is this the case with the elite stationed in the Empire's major towns?

Chris led the horse and Theon into the grove, unable to tell what it was like.

After walking for about a hundred meters, Theon suddenly stopped and stuffed the horse's reins into Chris's hand, "Chris, wait for me here." ”

Well, what are you going to do?

Chris, who took the reins of the horse, was a little surprised, and followed Theon's back.

Then he saw that Jack, the broker who had been with the robbers, was smiling and waving at Sien, and the smile on his face was even brighter than that of his old friend who had been reunited after a long absence. And Sien didn't ask for the guilt when he walked over, but directly took out the money bag and counted nine gold coins to him.

It's nine, yes.

Theon was given to Jack one by one.

And after they did all this, they said goodbye to each other with a hug very cordially.

Sien didn't say anything when he returned, just stepped on his horse and beckoned Chris to continue on his way.

Chris watched Jack leave happily, and remembered the elite of the empire who had just carefully looted the robbers' belongings in laughter, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Sien, you asked Jack to find those robbers?" ”

"Yes, Chris."

Theon nodded immediately.

With such a refreshing answer, Chris couldn't help but continue to ask, "Why?" Is it because they are heinous? ”

"It's not."

This time, Sien looked sideways, staring at the blood stains left on Chris's cloak and said in a faint voice, "Each of these robbers has human lives on their hands, and they will be hanged in Eton territory." But we are just passing by and have no grudges with them, so heinous is not the reason to get rid of them. I let Jack deliberately let out the wind and lure them to rob us, and I want to teach you one last lesson. After this experience, when you fight for life and death with others in the future, you will not be stunned just now. ”

It turned out that it was to make me adapt to the ...... of killing

Chris stopped talking, just silently drove forward.

If he saw the scene of the elite bandits of the empire guarding the important towns in the southwest, he could comfort himself by saying that there was no shortage of black sheep anywhere, but Sien's approach made him feel a little difficult to accept. In his opinion, a nobleman or knight can have minor problems such as unkempt and vulgar speech, but he must not lose an upright heart.

Even those robbers deserve to die!

Even if Sien's intentions are for his good!

But he couldn't agree.

At least, it's hard for him to agree with it now.

"Chris, do you think I'm doing something wrong?"

Seeing that Chris kept his head down and silent, Sien couldn't help but ask.

"Nope."

Chris looked up and gave him a smile, "Let's speed up, the rain seems to be getting heavier." ”

He was in no mood to continue talking.

Because I suddenly found myself missing the cold wind of the Alps.

Although the cold wind in the north blows like a knife in the face, if you cover the cloak tightly, you will not be afraid of its attack; Unlike the continuous rain here, even if you don't get through your clothes, you can give people a pervasive dampness and make people feel like rotten wood is about to mold.

It's just that he is tired of the rain in the city of Gardinanras, the hub of the north and south, and if he goes to the south, where the rain is more frequent, will he be able to get used to it?

Chris had no answer in his mind.