Chapter 117, Kamsi Village - Unclear and Slight Punishment

Kiir's task was completed very quickly, but no matter how fast it was, it could not be completed before the army could move out again. As a last resort, he had to let the militiamen who had been inspected move out as a whole, and the militiamen who had not been inspected were placed in another group, and everyone Move around, searching as you go.

The scene looked a little ridiculous. The inspectors were holding the stinking and bloody militia clothes and equipment while walking around and groping for the damaged coins hidden in these items.

Next to them were naked young militiamen eating bread, frowning as others searched their luggage.

Kiel sent a few people to follow the uninspected militia team. He was afraid that some people who didn't want to be discovered picking up things and didn't want to return them to the Baron might secretly pick them up while marching. Broken coins picked up and thrown on the road.

The group of people following the crowd had to keep an eye on the grass where the militiamen walked to see if there were any small shiny things in it.

Some empty carriages sent by local merchants greatly alleviated their lack of carriage capacity.

Many of the seriously wounded militiamen had to lie down in their carriages to catch up with the rest of the march.

Everyone knew that it was not safe to stay where they were, and they had to get to the local underground village along the trade road before sunset.

Although the local businessmen sent people to assist Kendall's army, they still cautiously kept a certain distance from the army, not far or close, like a long-eared rabbit that had suffered countless losses. If there is any trouble, you have to crawl into the cave where you think you are safe.

Hurrying and hurrying, even though everyone had experienced an exciting day and were physically and mentally exhausted, the group of them still arrived at their second day's stop on the Strange Wind Grassland before dark.

There is another semi-underground village called Kamsi Village.

Compared with the previous village, this Kamsi village occupies a larger area. A circle of several meters high earth wall surrounds the entire hill.

From a distance, Kiel took advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun to see that on the seemingly ordinary hill, smoke from fires was rising from hidden earth pillars everywhere.

Making a simple guess, he felt that the people in this village should all live underground in this hilly area.

As long as an entire hill was dug through, they would save themselves the trouble of building a house. Want a house? Just go to the passage and dig one out with your own hands.

Moreover, the excavated soil can also be used to build walls around the village to protect against some large and small carnivorous beasts.

When the local caravan entered the Kamsi village, the Kendall army from the north encountered trouble again.

They heard from the local caravan that the Kendal people had a large-scale battle with the harpies today. The human army suffered slight losses, but the monsters were completely wiped out.

This shocking fact left the villagers at a loss as to what to do, so they had no choice but to avoid discussions within the village and let the Kendal army wait by the village wall.

But how is this possible?

Before today's events happened yesterday, Baron Kendall asked two knights to destroy the wall and underground passage gate of Thor Village before breaking in.

Today, the army was exhausted and it was about to get dark. How could he let everyone wait outside the village for a long time.

The baron sat on his horse and raised his chin slightly: "Although we shouldn't show violence, it seems that we Kendal people are some rude guys. But it seems that many people still don't understand clearly and don't really let the other party know. They don't have an intuitive awareness of what the power is."

Knight Rumi did not answer. He was a little worried, so he just shut up and remained silent.

Knight Crow took over the words: "That's the reason. They should have lost their awe and fear of the army and nobles because of the vacuum of aristocratic power here. They thought that in this remote place, no one could survive except them. , there are only business trips going back and forth. It’s as if no one else exists in the world.”

"What to do? Sir."

Knight Crow asked.

The baron thought for a while, lowered his head and asked Knight Crow quietly, and Knight Crow also whispered something to the baron.

"That's it, Rumi will destroy the gate of the village, and Crow, you will go to the top of the hill where the village is located, haha, shake their homes. Let them wake up."

"Yes, sir." The two knights accepted the order and rode away.

-

While the army waited outside the village, Kiir continued what he was doing.

It was impossible for him to let the unchecked militiamen into the village where they were waiting to spend the night, but it was also impossible for him to wait outside after dark for the unchecked militiamen to slowly check.

It's not good for the top to face the bottom, and he will be the one caught in the middle.

So Kiel asked the senior clerk in the carriage team to bring in more idle personnel, all of whom participated in the task of checking the militia.

Similarly, more cooks brought enough fluffy bread for everyone to satisfy their hunger and distributed it to the militiamen to appease their emotions.

Guys who have something to eat have no intention of looking for trouble.

After all, their hands are holding bread, and their mouths are occupied by bread when they talk.

With more people assisting him, Kil's men relaxed and looked at the two knights who ran out of the army.

-

Knight Rumi rode on horseback to the gate of the village from the dirt road marked by passers-by.

This gate was not built underground like the previous Tor Village, but was built on the ground like other places.

The only difference is that the building at the gate of this village is quite thick, built up layer by layer with thick mud bricks. Only half of the face-sized observation holes are exposed on the buildings on both sides, and the rest of the building is completely clear. In one body, it is covered with flowers and plants with thorns and spikes to protect it from climbing beasts and flying harpies.

Knight Rumi shook his head. He thought that these humans who settled on the strange wind grassland really had some special abilities. But now it seems that they are just passively resisting the invasion and harassment of monsters and can only survive by relying on trade routes.

Although these villages seemed quite affluent due to the caravans passing by, he could tell at a glance that they were very fragile.

As long as no caravan passes through here for ten days and a half, these villages that rely on trade routes to survive will soon disappear.

Many years later, it is estimated that only the architectural remains of the village where they once lived will remain, but on the grassland where monsters are rampant, no one will take risks here.

So these settled humans could only disappear silently.

After retracting his thoughts, Knight Rumi rode his tall war horse to the village gate. After looking at the thick wooden gates embedded in the buildings on both sides for a while, he then said to the dark and narrow observation openings on both sides: "Sit tight. I will destroy the gates of your village.”

The sound of rapid breathing came from the observation hole next to it, but no one spoke.

I don’t know whether I recognized him as a knight and therefore couldn’t stop him, or I didn’t recognize him and felt that I didn’t need to stop him because I thought he was just talking big words.

No matter what other people thought, after Knight Rumi finished speaking, he jumped off his horse and walked with a heavy step to the gate of the tightly closed village.

He could tell as soon as he got on the horse that the door was not the type that opened and closed by turning back and forth, but a rare heavy wooden door that pulled left and right.

The wooden door structure that moves left and right will extend into the interior of the building on both sides of the door, and the gap opened in the middle can be easily entered by a spacious horse-drawn wagon.

So the way to destroy it is also very simple. Since the door can only be opened and closed left and right, then he can just push it inwards and force it open. The door will naturally be scrapped, and he can also use it playfully to open the door without knowing how. Reasons to stall the people in this village.

It doesn't matter whether they believe it or not.

Anyway, Kendall's army only took this route once and would not take it again when they returned home.

Boom!

A pair of big steel-covered hands firmly covered the surface of the solid and heavy wooden door.

Knight Rumi slightly scratched the surface of the wooden door with his fingers, and found that the wooden door had been built for no more than ten years. It had been exposed to wind and sun, and the anti-moth paint on the wood surface had not fallen off in a short period of time.

"It's a pity, it probably won't be cheap."

Of course, wooden doors of this thickness and size are not cheap anywhere.

The knight stepped firmly on the dirt road with treated foundation at the gate, first exerting force on his legs.

Creaking, creaking friction sounds were heard, and the high-density soil ground could not withstand the force of the competition, and two deep dents were made.

Then came the bent waist.

Creak, creak——

Once, the thick wooden door made a suspicious sound that could not bear the force of the push.

Where the surface of the wooden door came into contact with the steel palm, the paint wrinkled and cracked, then spread out and fell to the ground with slight deformation. The originally flat front of the gate was slightly dented due to Knight Rumi's forceful push. Such a large and thick wooden board that could be used as a city gate was groaning on the edge of collapse.

Finally, there are the arms that have not yet exerted their strength.

Creak, creak -

The entire wooden door trembled slightly, and the joint between the two doors was deformed, revealing a gap half the width of a hand. This is the maximum deformation this piece of wood can achieve without breaking.

In the building made of mud bricks on both sides of the wooden door, the village youth on guard inside were frightened.

They never imagined that the slightly trembling walls and ground around them, as well as the village gate that kept wailing, were all done by a human being.

These local villagers are simply not as knowledgeable as their parents. They don't know that other places call such humans knights.

He is a powerful warrior who can fight one against a hundred, or even one against a thousand.

"How to do how to do?"

"Is there something wrong with the gate? We have to find a way out quickly!"

"Help! This place is going to collapse! It's definitely going to collapse!"

"Get out! Run."

"Don't run away! Come back!"

But everything was still in chaos.

Just after Knight Rumi exerted all his strength, he took another deep breath, and then mobilized all the life energy in his body, even if part of the life energy had been difficult to control due to the violated oath.

All life energy is further strengthened with the movement of the body.

The muscles are bulging, the bones are tough, and the joints and fascia are more protected. Naturally, more strength can be exerted.

"Hey! Open it for me!"

With a roar, Knight Rumi stepped on the ground to create several depressions, and then pushed his whole body forward.

Accompanied by a loud bang, the heavy wooden door cracked and shattered in the middle of the left and right doors.

The shattered wood fragments exploded towards the gate with greater force than a crossbow arrow, and immediately knocked away a young man who ran out of the building next to him. His whole body was covered with large and small wooden thorns, and he was painful. The man was tossing and turning on the ground.

But the more he turned it over, the deeper the wooden thorns all over his body would pierce into his body.

At the same time, Knight Rumi also rushed forward a few steps. The huge wooden door was pulled out from the gaps on both sides beside him, and then fell to the open space.

He exhaled and left the large amount of broken wood fragments in his left and right hands on the ground. He blew a whistle and summoned his horse, without even looking at the people around him who were glaring at him. The young man turned around and returned to the army.

On the way back, he silently judged the various effects on the life energy in his body, as well as the extent and time of the decline.

"In a year at most, it will be all out of control, hey."

He didn't take what he did just now to heart, he was just thinking about his own affairs silently.

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After Knight Crowe and Knight Rumi parted ways, Shi Shiran pulled his horse and jumped over from the several-meter-high dirt wall.

A fence of this height is already the height and width that ordinary people think can resist most dangers.

But the thick wall that is regarded as a security line of defense is still too low in the eyes of knights like Crow Knight.

It's so low that you can 'cross' it by letting your horse leap easily. There is no need to even speed up the horse to get it running.

Except for the hills in the center, the interior of Kamsi Village near the wall is similar to the Tol Village we have seen before. The spacious areas are used to park carriages of traveling caravans.

The local caravans who came in before them were still busy parking the carriages together, and then tied them together with ropes to resist the stronger wind at night.

Most of the people in the caravan walked excitedly towards the hills where the doors opened to welcome travelers.

Where the terrain begins to undulate between the hills and the wall, there is a building opening that looks like the entrance to a mine, or a masonry building that looks like the entrance to a deep tomb.

This building is quite tall and smooth. It is tall enough that a carriage can be driven in at the entrance. The smoothness means that its appearance is like a tortoise's shell. It is a semicircle without any protrusions, which is not suitable for eagles flying in the sky. The monsters grab anything and everything they can.

When the local caravan members who were talking and laughing saw Knight Crow jumping in on horseback, many of them showed scared expressions and hurriedly entered the building and hid in the village.

Anyway, judging from the situation, they weren’t looking for trouble. They were probably just like Tor Village yesterday. They didn’t have the experience to deal with a marching army, so they would have to suffer a bit.

Others were curiously hanging around outside the hilly village, looking curiously at Knight Crow who was riding up the hill, more like watching the excitement than watching the situation.

These people are actually some older caravan stewards. They have a lot of experience. At this moment, they do not take the impending misfortune of Kamsi Village as a serious matter. Instead, they use this to start a large bet.

They were betting on how long it would take for the people of this village to apologize to these capable Kendal people.

Several people were laughing and joking, one person guessed the time, and the bet was the money bag he carried, and they were all still on the grass in front of them.

Whoever wins and whoever guesses correctly can take away all the change that the caravan stewards carry.

It looked like pocket change, but because there were stewards from several large chambers of commerce, there must be a lot of valuable gold coins in the purse. It's not a small bet by any means.

These laughing businessmen are using this method to vent their stress and uneasiness today.