Chapter 1. The End of Winter in Kendall County Is Not Peaceful.

Kendall City, with its tall wooden walls on the outside.

Keir came with the crowd to this place where people are not usually allowed to come.

Normally this is not possible, but today it is open to people who want to see the floods. Keir also came over wearing ordinary clothes. Since he came to Kendall City, he has been reminded of this by his friends more than once.

They all said that when they come to Kendall City, they have to see the big flood every spring.

Since they all said that, then Keir had to go and see it, otherwise it would feel a bit uninteresting.

Since the outer city of Kendall is very large, the wall surrounding the outer city is naturally very long, more than enough to accommodate some people who want to see the raging floods.

Although it was open to the public for viewing, the higher authorities said it was open, but there were still people below who were involved in the matter and withdrew the money. At the gates and special passages of the upper outer city wall, the town guards and their city security militia charged five copper coins for everyone who wanted to go up.

This fee is not much, but it is not a sum of money that the most ordinary people can squander at will. Especially for locals, who have not experienced the huge floods that can be seen every year when they were growing up.

So those who came up with Keir at this time were either rich families with plenty of money and a boring life, or foreign business travelers who came to Kendall City to do business.

But this year is different, there is an extra group of people.

Those were militiamen gathered from other parts of the county.

Kendall City is going to war. This is the order that came from the Baronial Palace of Kendall City in the middle of winter. A portion of the adult militia was elected from each settlement in the county to be called upon to serve.

Most of these militiamen were the older adult young people from each farm family. Although they were drafted to participate in the war, without them, there would be other young people from each family working on the fields, which would not cause much labor to the farming in Kendall County. Influence.

But it is said that this still made the Church of Saturn very unhappy.

These trained militiamen from different batches from the previous militia training came to Kendall City one after another at the end of winter and before the rivers froze in spring. While receiving simple training outside the city, they lived in the underground stone of the city guardhouse inside the city gate. Inside the fort.

As the upper reaches of the Kendall River froze, the river swelled. Before the inevitable flood every year, the militiamen who were determined to participate in the war had stopped training and returned to the city and were not allowed to go out.

Not only them, but also everyone was not allowed to go out during this period, and the entire city gate was sealed, for fear that some desperate people would not take the flood seriously and die outside.

At this time, some militiamen from remote areas of Kendall County had no training and took this opportunity to sneak onto the city wall without spending any money. The guards on guard turned a blind eye.

It was raining lightly in the sky, but no one cared about these things at this time. Some guys who had witnessed the great flood and the Kendall people's response to the flood were showing off and talking about the scene where the crowd gathered.

Keir didn't care about that. He had already heard it said more than once by other friends in the pub.

Scratching his ears, he remembered what happened some time ago.

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After he killed the werewolf, Kil lit a fire in the camp outside the ruins. He picked up his energy and shot some small animals in the woods not far outside, roasted them and ate them.

Then he dug out the remaining elf metal shelves buried in the camp from the ground, and returned to the lady's dream with them full.

He left these elven lightweight metals under the roots of the trees by the pond, and then returned to the present world.

As a result, he was exhausted.

Only then did he realize that he could not frequently enter and leave the dreamland. His spirit was fine, but the magic power sealed in his body seemed to be unable to keep up with the replenishment. The supply of magic power in the seal is limited, and the excess consumption is replenished by his physical strength.

Fortunately, he only entered the dreamland again that day after some training. At that time, the magic power provided by the seal was already a lot, and even if he used his physical strength to replenish the remaining insufficient magic power, he could barely hold on.

However, Kil did not understand the conversion ratio between magic power and physical strength in the human body. He had entered dreams too few times, and he had not mastered some subtle skills on this matter.

Of course, Kil did not dare to risk his own life in the days to come. Since there was a consumption limit for entering and exiting the dreamland, he would honestly abide by this limit at this time and did not dare to exceed it.

He then returned to the boulder where he was 'killed' before, and retrieved the hunting sword and the two-handed axe of the Overwater Skull that were stagnated in place.

He then went back to Duolaerlin Village. After a day of repairs, he brought new road supplies and headed north from the village through the forest. It took him two days to return to Wumihu Village.

In the middle, he will die in the forest, and the remains of the horses that have been eaten clean by wild beasts will be buried in the ground.

It was a brave horse, and he felt sorry for that.

When he was repairing in Doral Forest Village, he briefly explained to a few familiar friends in the village that he encountered a 'moving tree' in the forest to the north, which was what Ms. Apolifina called a battle guard tree.

He warned the villagers to try not to go deep into that forest in the future to avoid encountering the bad-tempered moving tree from ancient times. That thing is not something ordinary people can deal with, and even the knights feel a little reluctant. Not to mention that the knight lord of Doral Forest Village is already old and it is difficult to deal with that thing. Even when the younger knights appear later, it will be difficult to be the opponent of that guy.

However, when Kil passed through the forest this time, he did not find the big tree. Judging from the messy traces, the guy seemed to be moving deeper into the forest.

This was a good thing, and it made Keir feel relieved.

On the one hand, he did not want humans to get in conflict with the moving tree and suffer damage. On the other hand, Ms. Apolifina, who was kind to him, seemed to be related to the moving tree. After all, it was a rare creation left by the elves in ancient times. I hope to find an opportunity to return that thing to the lady in the future.

When Kil spent a few days returning to Wumihu Village, his appearance immediately aroused the surprise of the village stewards.

The fishermen who returned early successfully returned to the village with a large number of giant wild boar remains, but they brought disturbing news. At that time, some stewards in the village were suspicious of the missing Ruf Wolf.

The village chief, Coryden, was even more grumpy. What Keel secretly told him before setting off made him think that there was something wrong with Ruf Wolf, so he led the village militia directly into the empty Wolf house.

The search found nothing at first, but coincidentally, a slovenly man who temporarily lived in the large shack outside Wolf's house reported that there must be something wrong with the other house, because he often smelled the smell of fresh meat with the smell of blood coming from Wolf's house.

You must know that the Wolf family does not raise poultry or livestock. He is a single man and does not cook much at home. Where can there be fresh meat that the villagers in the village are reluctant to eat?

The old village chief Coryden asked the sloppy man to help, and after some twists and turns, he found something disturbing in the hidden cellar of Wolf's bedroom.

Coryden, who had been an imperial soldier when he was young, immediately recognized the frozen 'meat' in the cellar. It was all human flesh.

At this moment, the entire Wumihu Village was in an uproar. After all, you can't expect too much from the confidentiality awareness of the village militiamen who followed the search.

Everyone linked the death of Martin, the mill keeper who died innocently, to the missing Ruf Wolf. It's just that they don't understand how the Wolf family has so many different body parts.

Some people say that Wolf stole the bodies of outsiders killed by the Northern Wolf and hid them in his own home. Some people think that Wolf himself is very problematic, because he said that he has a higher status in the village, but he has refused to marry young women from Wumihu Village for many years, preferring to be single rather than start a family. Some people initially thought that the other party was a migrant after all, and that he might have encountered some terrible accidents on the road to migration, but no one expected that this would be the final result.

This matter caused turmoil in the village for several days, and even the matter of dealing with the sunken fish was delayed. After all, as the main force behind the matter, the life and death of the lord's hunter Kil was unknown. Everyone in the village believed that Kiel had the evidence of Wolf's murder, so they were suddenly attacked by the other party in the wild.

However, the villagers did not understand what it meant to be able to catch up with the team that arrived a day earlier from the village that night. This mobility, which was much higher than that of ordinary people, represented. The villagers didn't understand, but Corydon, who had lived a lifetime, understood it well.

But fortunately, Keir came back at this time.

Keir first had a brief exchange with the village chief Coryden and learned about what happened here during the few days he was away from the village. Kil then followed the villagers' speculation and admitted that it was indeed Ruf Wolf who attacked them in the wilderness.

But what about the body?

Kil quietly showed the werewolf head to Coryden and asked him to keep the matter secret. At the same time, Kil also told him about the bones and remains on the village mill.

Only then did Coryden know why Martin died.

Finally, with the assurances of Kiel and the village chief Coryden, the murderer Ruf Wolf had been killed by Kiel in the wilderness. This was recognized by the village chief, and the matter finally passed.

With Kil's return, the village's real big deal - dealing with the sunken fish - continues to move forward.

The blacksmith stuffed the huge wild boar carcass with the deadly spikes he forged, and then Kiel once again rushed the fishermen to set off. This time, they dispatched two boats. One boat was still a team of two people, Kiel and 'Lake Diver' Bowes. The other team was led by Wick and another fisherman under his command, driving another fishing boat together. Two ships loaded with dangerous meat bait set out one day to spread deadly traps.

After they set off, they discovered a huge sunken fish that was unable to move on the ice on the west side of the wide Wumi Lake. This guy wasn't dead yet, but the blood that was flowing out intermittently from under his abdomen had already dyed a large area of ​​ice red.

To be honest, Kil was also shocked. He didn't expect that the sunken fish swimming out of the lake would be so big, as big as a small house.

It has a flat head, a big mouth, a wide belly, thick scales and hard armor, and a long tail.

It is estimated that there are few animals in the water that can compete with it.

Of course, this is also a rare occurrence for Kil, and as future adventures continue, he will no longer think so.

Their two boats split into two routes, one to the south and one to the north, avoiding areas where sunken fish often hang out. After the boat caught up with the chasing sunfish, Kiel and the others put down deadly meat bait for the carnivorous sunfish to break through the ice and devour it.

A stupid big fish is a stupid big fish and has no wisdom at all to identify the traps set by humans. After confirming that the remaining three sunfishes had swallowed the deadly meat bait, Kiel and the others carefully lured the sunfish to follow them towards the village pier.

The sunken fish must die near a village that is easy to salvage. Otherwise, just like the first sunken fish, it will be difficult for them to drag such a huge monster to the village.

We can only wait for the lake to thaw and find a solution.

Kiel and the others safely returned to the village dock with the remaining sunken fish. After they landed safely, the entire village gathered in the north of the village, looking at the monsters that once guarded the safety of their waters on the ice. The fishes, the final miserable rolling and pain.

The young shepherd of the Lord of Rivers and Lakes also came. He led the religious fishermen to sing a new prayer, which was not only to thank God for the sunken fish that had been sent to protect them, but also to avenge kindness. Killing these sunken fish is an act of atonement to the gods.

While many fishermen were kneeling and singing facing Wumi Lake, only the seemingly crazy "Lake Diver" Boss danced and jumped happily.

He was unhappy that he had not been able to see with his own eyes how the sunken fish suffered and died. This time he not only took revenge with his own hands, but also slowly appreciated the death of the sunken fish. He was extremely happy.

Kilburn wanted to persuade the old guy to pay attention to the influence, but after seeing that the young priest didn't say a word, he shrugged and stopped trying.

It seemed that the young priest also understood that in order for the fishermen to all become devout believers, he had to pretend not to see this disrespect.

After dealing with this situation, Keel followed the village chief Coryden and a dozen militiamen to the mill on the east side of the village. Under Keel's guidance, everyone found and cleaned up the numerous remains on the top of the mill.

During the whole process, Coryden kept looking ugly. When Keir boldly asked, he found out that these people were all foreign business travelers after identifying them through the remaining clothes. They, including the chamber of commerce behind the business trip, thought that these missing people were attacked and eaten by northern wolves, but now looking at it, they were all killed by Ruf Wolf alone.

Coryden secretly explained before passing through Kil that he knew Wolf was a werewolf. Although he didn't know how Ruf Wolf turned into a werewolf, the fact that the other party killed so many members of the business trip was still a very troublesome thing for Wumihu Village.

The middle-aged militiamen who came with him were all big talkers, and you couldn't expect them to keep any secrets for more than a glass of wine, so for the rest of the day, the old village chief was worried about how to handle this matter.

Finally, after four or five days of suffering, the three sunken fish died on the lake outside the village pier. They were all lying on the thick ice of the tank, and their bodies were slightly dry and flat. That was because all the blood in their bodies had flowed out of their excretion openings.

Until their death, these stupid fish didn't understand why they were in so much pain even though they were devouring wild beasts just like before.

After these big fish monsters were completely dead, while the young priest knelt on the ice to pray for the sunken fish, the fishermen called all their families. Hundreds of people, men, women, old and young, pulled the thick ropes to remove the sunken fish of unknown weight. It was pulled from the lake to the village's stone pier.

The middle-aged man who ran a small lumberyard in the village had already led a group of people to cut down more than a dozen large trees, pushing and pulling them from the south gate of the village to the north. These loggers used their eating tools to cut the big trees into suitable firewood, and piled them on the pier next to three huge sunken fish.

Afterwards, the young priest actually waved his hand and used magic to remove several of the strongest scales of the sunken fish, as well as the strong tumors on their heads. Because of his bravery, Keir was given a fish scale and tumor. Several other fishermen, including Bowes, were presented with a capsized fish scale.

These things are incredibly strong. It's not like Kiel and the others haven't had the idea of ​​making these things before, but first of all, the young priest has been guarding the dock for the past two days, so they have no chance. Secondly, the scales on the capsized fish are as if they are riveted to the fish. Not to mention trying to get fish scales with bare hands, even if you hit them with metal tools, you can't get even half of the fish scales off.

No wonder many years ago, when Bose used a sharp harpoon to hit a capsized fish in order to take revenge, it had no effect at all.

After dealing with the sunken fish matter, he returned to Kendall City.

The female knight's physical condition is better than before. Although the burning wounds on her body were still wrapped in white cloth, she was still in good spirits.

After receiving the complete story of Kil's trip, which omitted the elven ruins, Lanissa Knight nodded to confirm.

She first thanked Kil for the strange lizard he had sent before. The vitality contained in that thing was very beneficial to her wound healing. But later, Knight Lanissa seemed unsurprised that he had brought the head of Worf, and she rewarded Kil.

"The capital of the province - Organ Castle, in Tuning Street underground in the outer city. The transformation master I mentioned before is there. His name is Pottrullu, and he is a fugitive whose identity cannot be revealed."

Kil had some questions, but was interrupted by the female knight: "Don't ask any more questions. Take my letter of recommendation. He owes me a favor and will help you transform the blood of the horse."

Kil received the letter of recommendation and thanked the female knight. After all, the horse he had been riding before was dead, and now he really needed a brave and reliable riding beast to assist him in the battle.

Afterwards, Kil explained to Knight Lanissa his agreement with Knight Crow, and he had to accompany the other party to participate in the war call that had spread throughout Kendall City.

Knight Lanisa looked at Kil for a while, and finally terminated her agreement with Kil. After all, the purpose of the hunter team absorbing Kiel was to have some effect in fighting against the Wolf King. Now, Kiel's role has indeed been achieved, and the Wolf King has also been 'annihilated'.

Although it is unknown how her hunter team will be reorganized in the future, Kil, a guy who joined halfway, is indeed a useful and capable warrior.

Until the militia team is assembled in the spring and before the team sets off after the annual flood, Kiel can temporarily stay in the city stronghold of the hunter team. And will provide Kiel with food and a daily training environment.

It’s just that the hunters’ salaries will no longer be paid.

But Kiel didn't get much daily salary in total. As soon as he joined the hunter team, there were constant battles. This winter, he was really exhausted.

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Keir was lying on the wooden wall, staring at the falling spring drizzle above his head, and his thoughts returned to what happened a few days ago.

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He still remembers the gaze that Knight Lanisa stared at behind him when he walked out of Lanisa Knight's study that day. The feeling was inexplicable, and it aroused goosebumps all over his body.

At that time, he remembered what the werewolf Wolf said to him. At that time, he thought that fighting side by side with the female knight would not lead to death, right? But at that time, he was really worried about what the other party would do.

Fortunately, the other party didn't take action.

But when he walked to the door, Lanisa Knight behind him still warned him.

Keir's answer was the same as last time, and he would not mention this matter to anyone else.

It wasn't until a few days later that he learned something while chatting with several gate guard friends at the city gate.

Just a few days before he returned to Kendall City, Knight Lanissa returned to the city easily. The timing of the female knight leaving the city made Kiel shudder. It was on the third morning after Kiel accepted the mission and went to Wumihu Village.

He invited his fellow guardsmen to each have a bowl of broth made from the bodies of strange lizards, and together they ate all the rare broth that had cost a lot of money to make.

And please don't tell anyone else that he asked about it.