Chapter 28, The Surrendered Ska Chamber of Commerce

The white light in front of the militiamen who belonged to the same side quickly disappeared. As Knight Crowe's voice sounded, the slightly panicked crowd gathered together again.

The militiamen with broken spears drew out the daggers from their waists, and with Kiel's greeting, they chased the other thugs and village youths who were fleeing.

These people had already run a certain distance away from the carriage that rolled over and blocked the road when Kil used all his strength to blind him with his long sword, but this was still of no use. Except for places that were completely blocked by houses, as long as there was a gap to see the street, some people were still blinded by the divine power in the white light, even if some people turned their backs to Kiel or did not look directly at Kiel.

These people were stumbling around in the empty streets, crying and looking for a place to hide. They were horrified to hear the footsteps of militiamen coming towards them in droves.

Needless to say, Kiir and the militiamen wielding short swords went up and stabbed and hacked, killing all those who had previously stood in their way on the streets.

Behind them, the militiamen with intact spears formed a group of three or four and stabbed the thugs hiding at the base of the wall to death on the street one by one.

Then they and Kil changed their fighting positions under the arrangement of Knight Crow.

Kiel and several militiamen wielding short swords went to clear out a small number of enemies hiding in the yards of farmers on both sides of the street. Numerous other militiamen first pushed away the carriages blocking the road and opened up the entire street. Then they formed a military formation and rushed towards the center of the village with spears in front and crossbows in back.

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"It's over. It's over! That mercenary failed to stop the enemy. What should we do?"

Next to the Ska Chamber of Commerce warehouse in the center of the village, the last few senior executives of the Ska Chamber of Commerce located here are gathering here to discuss what to do.

Even though there were loyal Chamber of Commerce thugs who had been bribed around, there were still no less than twenty young people from the village guarding them.

"I think the other side came prepared. We don't even know who the other side is, so they are definitely not our opponents. We should retreat as soon as possible!"

"Nonsense! There are so many goods in the warehouse, and there are not only things from our chamber of commerce, but also large quantities of goods from other chambers of commerce! If we run away, what will happen to those things? Who will bear the loss?"

After saying that, the senior member of the Ska Chamber of Commerce shuddered, because he knew that once he lost the goods of other chambers of commerce or lost a large number of goods, those other chambers of commerce that usually fawned over them would not just look so kind.

They are all business guilds. Who doesn't have a few friends who are particularly good at fighting, or are familiar with bandits in some places, or have some friends in the local noble army.

Once such a large amount of goods is lost, let alone whether the chamber of commerce can still make money by running businesses on the trade road, it is estimated that in less than a year and a half, the heads of these old guys will be carried and exchanged for money. .

"Since we don't run and we can't run, then let's fight each other!"

"What are you trying to fight for? Don't say you didn't see the white light that illuminated most of the village just now. The opponent is not simple."

"Hoo, hoo. Isn't it just magic? It's not like we don't have it. Didn't that guy from Pine Needle Town buy a particularly powerful magic weapon before? Have someone hurry over and borrow it."

"What's the use? Collect the corpses for us to avenge us? It's too late. It takes three hours to get from the village to the town. And that guy is not the same as us. Usually the two sides create so many obstacles in private. , will he bring someone here to rescue?"

"He can't stay here if we don't save him! Oh, yes, he's too late. What about the priest in the village? What did he say? So many farmers were killed by the other party, and there were also believers of the Church of Saturn among them. What did he say? Won’t he avenge the believers in the village?”

The man from the Ska Chamber of Commerce asked urgently, pointing to a wooden and stone church next to the center of the village.

"What's the use of him alone? And what use can those weaklings from the Church of Saturn have in battle?"

Another member of the Ska Chamber of Commerce regretted what he said as soon as he said it, because some young people from the surrounding villages immediately stared at them with fierce eyes.

"Shut up and stop talking useless things. Well, okay, say something useful." The senior executive of the chamber of commerce looked at the other senior executives of the chamber of commerce: "How about we surrender?"

Everyone else seemed to be waiting for someone to say these words on their behalf, and the scene became quiet for a while.

They looked at each other, but no one spoke.

But soon, neatly dressed militiamen appeared on a street leading to the center of the village.

Half of the militiamen immediately turned over and entered the courtyards and trees of the houses facing the center of the village. They took out their crossbows and aimed at the area in the center of the village that was illuminated by a large number of torches and oil lamps.

The center of the village is relatively open. The ground is paved with gravel that has been knocked into loose gravel. There is a blacksmith shop, a village house, the house of the Ska Chamber of Commerce, a tavern, shops, a medical center, and a large warehouse in the center.

These buildings are built here.

There are two small churches and a small lush village cemetery nearby.

At this time, there were many empty wooden boxes piled up in the center of the village, and there were horse-drawn carriages and trucks blocking all intersections heading towards Kiel and his companions.

The torch illuminates the bright hall, and it is impossible to avoid the other party's attention and turn in from other places.

There is an open space of more than ten meters in the middle, which should be the open space where the villagers usually gather. At this time, it has become the last resort for the people of the Ska Chamber of Commerce to resist the militia attack.

Some militiamen ran to the side and raised their crossbows, while the remaining militiamen carried over the previously removed door panels and set them up directly in the middle of the street, allowing other militiamen to hide behind them with their spears.

Kil stood thornily in the middle of the road, waiting for Knight Crow to lead Mr. Huberock.

The scene fell silent for a while.

The thugs from the Chamber of Commerce who gathered in the center of the village and the young people from the Village Tendency and Ska Chamber of Commerce all looked at Keir and the others cautiously and curiously. They looked at Kiel, who was covered in blood-red armor, standing in the middle of the road, and saw neatly dressed soldiers hiding behind door panels holding spears several meters long, or scattered in the courtyards of residents on both sides of the street intersection. , aiming at them with a crossbow.

The knowledgeable thugs carefully huddled behind each bunker, leaving only the unsophisticated young people in the village holding farm tools stupidly, gathering together, waiting for orders from the top of the Ska Chamber of Commerce.

Although these young people did not know about the brutal fighting that took place in the streets before, they were not afraid of fighting. They were all energetic young people and did not think it was a problem if there were casualties in the fighting.

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Several members of the Ska Chamber of Commerce carefully looked at the soldiers on the opposite side from the crowd guarding them. They are all knowledgeable businessmen, so they naturally know what the other party's uniform dress represents.

"Where's the army?"

One person asked the others in a low voice with a sad face.

"Could it be a local baron?"

"Impossible. How can that vampire's men be so elite? They are just scumbags who can only set up cards to collect taxes."

"If that's not the army of the local baron lord, where could it be from? There can't be any other large-scale organizations on old Gulov's territory. The one with the largest number of people nearby is our Chamber of Commerce. How can there be other organizations? manpower?"

Several people were silent again.

"If they are not local, then they are outsiders? Are they attacking us to seize the local power in Gurov Territory on behalf of our chamber of commerce? A mercenary group? Or some big chamber of commerce?"

"I hope it's a mercenary group, so we can still talk. If it's a big chamber of commerce, then we'll have to be driven away far away, if we can survive."

"It's better to surrender. If you surrender, the things in the warehouse will be handed over to the other party. The other chambers of commerce will naturally ask for the goods from the other party. It has nothing to do with us. If we can't deal with this place in Pine Needle Town, we will take our manpower and go to other places."

"But where else on the surrounding trade routes is there such a loose management of Pine Needle Town? It needs to rely on trade routes, has a sufficient population, and needs loose local management. How long did it take us to choose, several years, right? We found this place. You have created such a good situation. Do you really want to give up?"

"What if you don't give up? Go up and kill all the enemies for us? If you have this ability, you will make the decision in the future of the Chamber of Commerce. If you become the president, he will definitely agree to it."

"I, I'm just talking."

"After all this, are you still joking? Did you drink too much tonight? Are you still awake?"

"Stop talking! Where did I drink? You didn't do it, and I didn't do it either. Stop blaming me!"

"I don't blame you? Who usually pats his chest and says how powerful the mercenaries and strongmen he found are so powerful, but what happened? Gerardo, the 'house-killer' of the Gray Wolf mercenary group, and Ronde, the archer of the 'Falcon'. It looks like The name is very resounding, but what is the result? Let the two of them lead people to stop them. Each of them is so arrogant, patting his chest and saying that he will be captured. What is the result? What is the result? Where are they now? Dead? Surrendered alive? Ah? Ah? ah?"

The old chamber of commerce executive became angrier as he spoke. He pointed at another middle-aged chamber of commerce executive opposite who was responsible for safety protection and manpower organization and aggressively lectured him.

The middle-aged senior executive of the Chamber of Commerce opposite had an extremely ugly look on his face. He didn't think he had a problem with judging people. After all, those two people were very famous in the nearby area, and their abilities were really quite good, and they were not just fake.

The final result turned out to be like this. We can only say that the enemy is very strong, but we cannot say that he did not do well.

With a slight twitch in his face, the middle-aged Chamber of Commerce executive suddenly pulled out the jewel-encrusted dagger hanging from his waist and stabbed the old man opposite him without saying a word.

This frightened several senior executives of the chamber of commerce. No one could have imagined that something like this would happen when a few of them had another quarrel while the powerful enemy was attacking.

Phew.

The sharp dagger was well-maintained. The slender and tough southern-style dagger was very suitable for thrusting. It was controlled and stabbed into the old man's abdomen at once.

The hollow dagger has a special bleeding groove in the middle of the blade, and a large amount of blood gushes out from where it seems to have been stabbed in the liver.

The old man's face turned pale in an instant. He reluctantly reached out and pushed away the frantic colleague opposite him, and then sat down on the ground.

"Catch him! Catch him!"

"What are you doing? Crazy! Crazy!"

The place became chaotic in an instant. The thugs around them wanted to follow the orders of the Chamber of Commerce executives to arrest people, but they soon froze in place when the murderous middle-aged Chamber of Commerce executives roared.

"Stay where you are, look who I am? Who usually gives you money? Stay where you are, it has nothing to do with you!"

As soon as he said these words, the thugs around him retreated, leaving only some young people from the village curiously gathered around to watch.

"You're crazy! You killed old Feiton. The president will not let you go. We can't let you go again."

A senior member of the chamber of commerce at the head called the accompanying guards to come over and protect them.

Every senior member of the Ska Chamber of Commerce has at least two chamber of commerce guards who can fight. Old Feiton’s guard immediately fought with the middle-aged senior guard of the chamber of commerce. The other people’s guards squeezed in and guarded the others tightly. Around the Chamber of Commerce executives.

Seeing that there was no one around to protect him, the middle-aged Chamber of Commerce executive immediately panicked. The killing just now was just out of anger, not his own will at all. Now that he saw that the situation was unclear, he immediately turned around and ran away.

"Go away, go away! Get out of the way!"

He pushed the young people in the village who were watching. Those young people did not dare to approach the murderer, so they all got out of the way, allowing the guy to run away quickly.

"Should we chase or not?"

A senior chamber of commerce executive asked others.

"What are you chasing? Our situation is like this now. If he runs away, where can he run? How far can he run?"

Several people looked at each other in silence, and then looked at Old Fiton who was only breathing out but not taking in air on the ground. The other person's blood quickly flowed all over the ground, and there was no possibility of survival.

"Let's surrender."

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When Knight Crowe led Hubirok on horseback to the intersection of the street, the Ska Chamber of Commerce on the opposite side actually sent someone to surrender with a white flag.

The knight pursed his lips somewhat boredly and whispered a few words to Mr. Huberock.

After getting the answer from the other party, he sighed.

"Have someone come over here."

The knight ordered.

The guy who came to surrender was a personal guard of a high-level member of the Chamber of Commerce. He held up a white cloth that he didn't know where he came from and walked over cautiously.

He didn't notice anything from a distance. When the man walked in, he saw that the spear tips of the soldiers on the opposite side were covered with blood, and the corpses of thugs or male villagers were all on the ground deep in the street.

What frightened him even more was that a warrior wearing blood-colored armor followed closely beside him.

He was wearing iron armor that covered his whole body, and his whole body was stained red with blood.

Kil escorted the guy who came to surrender to Knight Crow.

After kicking the opponent's legs twice, the guy fell to his knees.

"My lord, sir. We surrender. Please spare us."

The surrendered guard raised the white sheet in his hand high to express the attitude of the person behind him.

"Who do you represent?"

Knight Crow asked.

"I, I represent the opinions of the senior managers of the Ska Chamber of Commerce. We surrendered, intimidated by your soldiers, and are willing to dedicate everything in Dry Leaf Village to you. I only ask that you spare my master and their lives. And the lives of people at the top of the chamber of commerce.”

"No conditions?"

"The owners have told me that there are a large amount of goods stored by other chambers of commerce in the warehouse of the chamber of commerce. I request you to return the goods of other chambers of commerce to their original owners."

Knight Crow chuckled lightly: "Then my trip was not in vain? Are you not afraid that I am a robber?"

The Chamber of Commerce guard kneeling on the ground smiled flatteringly: "Sir, your army looks like a regular army."

Mr. Hubi Rock next to him looked at this situation and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Knight Crow.

"That's it. I hope your Ska Chamber of Commerce can have something."

Then, Knight Crow waved his hand and asked Keir to release the man back.

Kil kicked the man, and the Chamber of Commerce guard jumped up and ran towards the center of the village with a bow.

Kiel saw that after a while after the man passed by, the thugs on the opposite side who had originally planned to resist cheered for a while, as if they were not about to surrender, but that they had won the battle.

Some of the young people in the village who had gathered to prepare for the battle burst into boos and dispersed from the other side of the center of the village in extremely low spirits. They ran away in a short time.

Knight Crow came over on horseback: "That's good. At least the population of the village will not decrease too much in the future. Of course, I don't care much whether the Gurov family manages this place well, but senseless killings are actually nothing." unnecessary."

"grown ups?"

Kil felt that there was something in Knight Crow's words, so he asked.

"Remember, Kil. Although knights represent force and violence in the eyes of the people, this is just a small part of the whole picture of force and violence. Anything that can kill the enemy can be force and violence. But in this world, , there are too many of these things.”

"So killing is not the purpose, but the means. Knights represent force, but they are only a part of the rulers' rule. Necessary but not everything."

"I understand, sir." Kil understood these contents very well.

"Very good, I can feel that you are full of killing intent at this moment. So, have you killed enough fifty people tonight?"

Kil was a little confused. He counted on his fingers and found that there seemed to be more than forty. Later, he let the close combat militiamen who followed him kill the enemies on the streets.

Mainly when fighting the mercenary who wielded the big sword, the shield on his left arm blocked the opponent's big sword more than once. The whole arm could not feel at that time. After killing the man, it gradually became swollen and painful.

It's hard to move now, and it hurts every time I move.

Kil told Knight Crow the situation.

"The arm is fine. Just go back early tomorrow morning and ask the priests in the team to treat you. Of course, for your own good, they can't treat you more. The fatigue and pain after the battle are also the source of a strong warrior's strength. I hope. You can understand. In addition, the remaining few people will be given a chance to make up for you later."

Listening to Knight Crow's words, Kil's eyes widened.

"Sir, can you tell me?"

"That's right. Do you still remember, what do Lord Baron and Knight Gurov mean? People from the Ska Chamber of Commerce cannot stay. Not only must these people be taken away, but also a warning must be given to other chambers of commerce that are watching."

Kil continued: "Warn them not to have such thoughts and practices as the Ska Chamber of Commerce in the future. However."

"But what?"

The knight turned to look at Kil, who was covered in blood and asked.

"However, the Gulov family is not strong enough. How useful is such a warning? It is impossible that the Chamber of Commerce in Pine Needle Town cannot see this situation. Will anyone be able to restrain their desires?"

"Then it's none of our business. Get ready. After a while, wait for the young people in the village to finish leaving. Don't leave any of those people behind."

"Yes, my lord."