Chapter 38, Bull-Blasting Competition-Ika Knight’s Warhammer

Baron Kendall and the others were a little surprised when the young and proud knight of Ika came over holding the angry paper about the amount of customs duties that should be collected from the caravan accompanying the army at Nanguan.

It's not that he was surprised that the other party still wanted to collect the tax after seeing so many soldiers around him, but that the other party didn't force it and instead decided to collect the tax through competition.

The reason for passing customs and paying taxes is on the checkpoint side, but the baron doesn't want to give it.

It is not impossible to use strong methods to get rid of this part of the tax, but this will only bring some bad concerns in the subsequent march.

So when Knight Ika offered to compete with knights, the baron himself welcomed it.

It seems that the other party is also worried about how to solve the matter in a clever way without direct conflict. This made the baron look at the young man with admiration.

Although he seems stubborn and proud, his family's education seems to be very successful at this time.

"I agree. Kendal people are not afraid of competition." The baron looked at his two knights and answered the other's proposal affirmatively.

The news spread quickly, and after a brief discussion, it was finally decided to compete three times. The Ika Knights, as local hosts, chose two competition methods, while the Kendal people, as guests, chose one competition method.

It was just past noon, and the warm spring sunshine was just right for daylight. After hearing the news, people in Nuanganguan walked out of their shops and hotels and came to the open space at the entrance of Nuangnanguan.

Kendall's militiamen sat on the ground, and the logistics carriages also gathered in a group. The carriages following the military caravan cleared enough space in this place.

The news of the competition is not only attractive to the angry Nanguan merchants, who are mostly outsiders, but also to the people of Kendall.

After hearing the news, the caravan accompanying the army was not only happy that Baron Kendall kept his word, but was also very curious about the competition that would determine whether they would have transportation tariffs.

Not only were they curious, some businessmen became restless and immediately went out to inquire about the news, and immediately spread the gambling plates around the open space. Attracting angry Nanguan residents and businessmen to also place bets.

It was not that there were no local shop owners who wanted to start a gambling game of their own, but the businessman from Kendall just pointed to the hundreds of elite soldiers sitting on the ground with a smile on his face. Without saying anything, the local gambling game broke up immediately.

Everyone knows that no matter how the competition goes, if the Kendall people really refuse to recognize it today, then everything they said before will be useless, especially the bet set by these businessmen themselves.

If this is the case, it is better to join the Kendal people's own gambling game. After all, you can't break the plate you built yourself, right?

The three knights and the baron were sitting in the center of the open space in the south of the level, discussing the upcoming competition.

Soon, the first contest proposed by the Ika Knight was announced. After the businessmen approaching announced it, everyone nearby could clearly hear what it was about.

The test event-Booming Bull.

This is a variant of the knight that was born out of a common competition event in the central grassland area of ​​the western province.

To put it simply, the local grassland area has a large-scale livestock foundation. It is very shocking when a large group of beef cattle is driven. It is difficult for local herdsmen who have not been trained since childhood to use ropes and stone whips to drive the cattle to move correctly.

When it comes to the knight competition, driving the cattle simply becomes how to kill a strong beef cow in one attack.

After all, knights are not herdsmen. The first requirement for knights is that they must have lethality far beyond ordinary people.

After the Knight of Ika proposed this competition event, Portoris immediately began to make preparations for the competition.

In fact, there is nothing to prepare for. This competition project is simple and straightforward. However, in the two competitions, two beef cattle will inevitably be lost. It's just two cows, and they can still afford this amount of money.

Moreover, beef cattle always have to be killed to eat meat. If they can be killed by knights in a competition, merchants will surely rush to get the dead beef, right?

Of course.

Not only that, Baron Kendall also directly proposed that after the two beef cattle were killed by the knights in a competition, the remaining bodies would be purchased by him directly and given to his soldiers today to enjoy, in order to increase their bravery.

Knight Ika's eyes were shining. He felt that he had learned a trick, and he might be able to put this trick to use later when he had his own army.

Kendall's militiamen became excited. Most of the militiamen, who were farmers, had never eaten beef since they were young.

Because for most of them, any family with a cattle is considered a wealthy family. There is a lot of land in Kendall. There are only fields abandoned because of insufficient manpower, and there are no cattle that are useless.

Therefore, for the militiamen, they would never kill their family's farm cattle unless they died of a serious illness that could not be cured by the priests of the Church of Saturn, or died of an accident, or died of old age.

Of course, if a businessman comes to spend money to buy old cattle for slaughter, they would be willing to sell the cattle and use the money from selling the cattle to buy a new calf from the farmer where the cow gave birth to a calf to raise.

Although they rarely or have never eaten beef, they have all heard the heroic stories of bards. In the stories, those mighty heroes either eat the powerful enemy monsters they hunted with their own hands, or they will be killed in the stories. Eat the most delicious beef with big mouthfuls.

It doesn’t matter whether those beefs appear at any time in the story and are consistent with common sense.

Who cares about those things, heroes just want to eat the best food.

Regarding the competition proposed by the Knights of Ika, the two knights of Kendall said that it did not matter. It was not that they looked down on the young knights from their families, but that as killing machines trained by the kingdom's army, they did not think that they would be able to compete in this kind of killing competition. lose.

Baron Kendall was more cautious. He whispered to his two knights: "Be careful. This young man has a unique ability. He proposed the competition project, so he is naturally very confident in this matter. "

The two knights looked at each other, and Knight Crow nodded and said: "As we both know, it seems that his hammer weapon has a special advantage in this competition. I guess this weapon is blessed with energy. The ability to blast the target to pieces. I just don’t know if it’s a blessing from divine power or magic.”

As a user of magic equipment, Baron Kendall has a far better understanding of magic equipment and props than the two knights: "It's not like magic weapons. Most of the magic melee weapons follow the weapon release zone, the magic effect zone, and the magic channel and There are four parts to the source of magic. Although his war hammer is huge and powerful, the surface of the hammer is smooth and the whole is solid and powerful. It does not look like a weapon whose main power is magic."

Knight Crow nodded: "Is that a blessed weapon based on magic materials? Unfortunately, I don't know his faith."

Kil was riding on the horse behind Knight Crow and interjected: "Could it be a spiritual weapon?"

Knight Rumi smiled: "Kiel, you may think that spiritual weapons are easy to use, but in fact, for most knights, a weapon with its own ideas is not easy to use."

Most of the three of them knew that Kil's two-handed ax was a spiritual weapon that could attack independently. After all, Knight Lanissa will definitely report in detail to Baron Kendall and other knights what happened in the previous crusade against the Northern Wolf.

The blue ax that shines brightly among them is the cross-water head and two-handed ax, which is a link that cannot be bypassed no matter what.

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Preparations for the first competition were quickly completed.

In the open space in front of the checkpoint, two strong cattle that were supposed to be sold were pulled over.

The two cattle have black fur and two pairs of powerfully spread thick horns on their heads. At first glance, they look like healthy and powerful cattle. If you are young, if you buy it as a family, it will last you nearly a full generation.

The main roads and open spaces on the level are paved with fine pebbles washed out by the Nui River. Therefore, even if the ground is crowded with people, just scraping the ground evenly with an iron fence every day will make it smooth. It's good to tidy up the floor.

The two cows were very frightened when they saw that they were surrounded by humans, especially when many humans pointed at them with their hooves and made sounds in their mouths that confused the cows.

In a place in the center of the open space, off the street, a plowing cow was tied to a wooden stake that had just been nailed to the ground.

It stood docilely in place, because there were too many humans around it, and they were all looking at it, so it closed its eyes and chewed the spring grass regurgitated from its stomach as usual.

Knight Ika proudly held his warhammer in his hand, raised his head and asked the Kendall: "Who comes first?"

Baron Kendall waved his hand: "We are passers-by, so naturally you go first, please. Let me see how strong the knights of the Ika family are."

“You’ll see, it’s guaranteed to blow your mind!”

Speaking proudly, Knight Ika raised the metal warhammer in his hand and showed himself to the soldiers, businessmen, and residents watching around him.

Everyone cheered immediately when they saw him riding a tall and strong war horse and wearing shiny and thick knight's armor.

Especially because of the competition, Knight Ika did not wear a helmet. His long brown hair was flying, and his young and handsome face was particularly popular with the women among the residents in front of the level.

Some boldly dressed dancers stood on the second-floor balcony of the shop, throwing letters with their own names stuck on their hair to the Ika Knight. While boldly shouting the name of Knight Ika and wooing him.

The rules of the competition are simple. The target's cattle are tied at the connection between the open space and the street. The knight needs to start from one end of the street on horseback and then rush towards the target along the street. Kill the tethered cattle at a given opportunity.

Show your destructive power to everyone.

Obviously, whoever can completely kill the cattle in one attack will win.

Everyone watching is not blind. They can tell who is strong and who is weak at a glance.

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The Ika knight holds the reins in one hand and holds a one-and-a-half-meter-long metal war hammer high in the other hand.

Not only is the head of the entire metal war hammer made of a dull, black hard metal, but its one-meter-long hammer handle is also made of a bright silver metal.

In order to increase friction, the bright silver metal hammer handle is filled with two spiral patterns, both positive and negative, that fill the entire long hammer handle.

At the end of the hammer handle, a hexagonal crystal is inlaid. The crystal radiates light outward slightly, making it look very extraordinary.

He first walked along the street to the end of the street. At this time, the entire street was vacated. People knew that the Ika knight would speed up the horse on the street later, so in order not to be accidentally hit by the horse, they all stayed there honestly. Watch from the street.

After waiting for a moment, everyone became quiet, and all eyes were focused on the Ika knight standing quietly on horseback at the end of the street.

The young knight raised his head and looked at the sky around him. The sun was just right today, and there was a slight breeze blowing in the air. The sweet fragrance of the flowers in the wild, not even the smell of feces in the animal pen, could cover it.

He took a deep breath and raised the hammer again.

Then the reins were pulled hard to make the strong horse stand upright. After the front hoof of the horse landed, the whole horse started to run forward.

Goo-roon, coo-roon, coo-roon, coo-roon.

Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves, the war horse gradually accelerated. Every time the horse's hooves landed heavily on the street, the fine stones were squeezed and jumped around.

The Ika knight shouted the name of a god, and his whole body shone slightly, especially the air on the head of his war hammer that seemed to be twisted, forming a twisted ball with the hammer head as the center.

His palm firmly grasped the end of the metal hammer handle, and he quickly approached the restless cattle.

At the moment when they passed each other, the raised war hammer instantly hammered down counterclockwise. After hitting the cow's head hard with one blow, the entire war hammer moved upwards, driving the cow's head that was smashed by the war hammer into the air. Lift slightly.

But at the moment when the Ika knight rushed over the cattle and pulled the reins to slow down, the twisted air ball that was originally on the head of the war hammer still stayed in place where the cattle was hit on the head by the war hammer.

After the knight rushed over, the twisted air ball exploded instantly.

It expanded in an instant, forming a twisted air vortex from bottom to top, and hundreds of kilograms of cattle were blown directly into the sky in a swirl.

Not only that, these powerful airflows that can blow a whole cow into the sky are even more dangerous. There are powerful slender high-speed airflows hidden in them that are like air knives.

The body of the farm cow that was swept up into the sky was torn apart and exploded into a large mass of flesh and blood before falling to the ground.

Flesh and blood covered the specially vacated space, and large and small pieces of beef mixed with cow blood fell onto the gravel floor in lumps.

Knight Ika, half of his body stained red by the flesh and blood tissue of the bull's head, showed a rather ferocious smile: "That's just right. The butcher won't have to cut the meat into pieces later."

Only a few people were amused by his inappropriate joke, and the vast majority of the onlookers, soldiers and civilian merchants, were frightened by this tragic and terrifying blow.

The women who had cheered Knight Ika's name just now screamed. The timid ones fainted and fell to the ground. The bold ones opened their eyes wide and stared at the young Knight Ika without blinking.

There was even a hint of red on his face.

Driven by instinct and reality, they especially want to get close to the young and powerful Ika Knight at this moment.

After waiting for a long time, the people and businessmen who had recovered from the shock shouted loudly, waiting for words of praise, saying loudly what they didn't know.

Someone immediately wanted to buy more Ika Knights in the gambling game, but was immediately pushed away.

“You can’t put any more money into the plate after you start!”

The businessman from Kendall County looked serious and refused to invest any more money from the angry Nanguan.

But there were also a few businessmen who had great trust in Knight Crow. After careful consideration, they accepted the coins from those who wanted to invest more money.

"But the plate must end after the adults have competed three times. We do not limit betting time or money, but we must stop betting before the last competition begins."

The words were spoken here first, but the local people, whose confidence was stimulated by the Ika Knight's beautiful strike, did not pay attention.

On the other side, Baron Kendall praised Knight Ika's performance just now. Turning his head, he asked his attendants to invite several priests who were accompanying the army.

"We must find out the specific information about this young man, especially the church and god he has turned to."

Then they have to make a decision on who to send out later.

Rumi Knight or Crow Knight.

But the two knights looked at each other, and Knight Crow shrugged, indicating who else it could be. Then he waved people to clear the area and bring another cattle up.

The fresh beef was immediately picked up by the chefs accompanying the army, and the bones and internal organs were not spared, but some suspicious and unknown tissues were still piled aside.

Several buckets of clean water were carried over by Portoris's men and poured onto the bloody place. Although the blood could not be directly taken away by the water, it could at least make it a little cleaner.

This is not very beneficial to the Crow knight who takes action second. After all, the shock brought by making a clean place into a bloody mess is far more shocking than making it worse in a bloody place. Feel.

After telling Kil to watch carefully, Knight Crow drew out the sword from his waist and rode up to the open space.

He raised his sword and greeted the soldiers, merchants, and people around him.

The militiamen from Kendall were trained under the Crow Knights. Everyone had spoken to the Crow Knights, and they had always recognized this middle-aged knight who was known as the first knight of Kendall County.

Even though the Ika Knight had performed exceptionally well just now, these militiamen all spontaneously felt that the Crow Knight must be stronger.

So they cheered, clapped their hands on the ground, lifted and lowered the ends of their spears placed on the ground, and the wood struck the ground with a neat banging sound.

"Must win!"

someone shouted.

"Ho ho, we will win!"

everyone shouted.

The merchants accompanying Kendall's army expressed their respect for the Crow Knights in their own way. They placed the gold coin with the largest denomination in their purse on their right thumb, and then flicked the gold coin straight towards Knight Crow with a flick of their thumb.

After the gold coin bounced away, what was left behind was a thumbs up pointing towards Knight Crow.

Gold coins streaked through the air with shining and eye-catching golden lines, and then landed on the armored war horse ridden by Knight Crow, making a crisp and eye-catching sound.

"Roar." The angry Nanguan people had never seen such a "wonderful and high-priced" praise.

Compared with this, when the Ika Knight set off just now, it seemed too ordinary.

The young Ika knight's face twisted in anger.

It's not that he is narrow-minded, but he just feels that how can a knight with no honor like Knight Crow get such praise and encouragement from people.

Isn't it hard for everyone not to feel bad about him voluntarily leaving the Kingdom Guards Knights?

He knew that the vast majority of the people had only heard the name of the Knights of the Kingdom Guards. They had no idea where the Knights were stationed or where the gates opened. How could they have any more ideas about it.

They only think that the name of this knighthood is resounding, and they don't care about anything else.

And what’s funny is that although Knight Ika is aggrieved by this, he has never seen an active member of the Kingdom’s Guards Knights, and he doesn’t know where the station is, let alone where the gate opens.