Chapter 205: At Most, It Won’t Take More than One Minute (Two Chapters in One)

In the carriage compartment, Ren was chatting with Veronica about horse breeds with great interest.

For Renn, this is new knowledge.

Just listen to Veronica's introduction: "'Jenny Horse' is medium in size, flexible in running, and has good endurance. It is a horse used by general squires for hunting or light cavalry fighting. At the same time, it is also the most common horse breed in the empire."

"Many noble ladies will generally choose this kind of horse if they want to ride, because the 'Jenny Horse' has a relatively docile temperament and can run lightly."

Renn thought back to the horse he saw at John's horse farm in Goldshire.

Indeed, judging from the body shape, they all seem to be horses of this type.

It seems that as Veronica said, the so-called 'Jenny Horse' should be the most common horse breed in the empire.

"However, Sir Ren, your dark horse, although you can barely see traces of a 'Jenny horse' from its body shape, an ordinary person would definitely think that you are a 'Rock horse'."

Before Ren could ask any questions, Veronica took the initiative to introduce 'Rockmar'.

"'Rock Horses' were bred by the Empire in Rock County. They are specially used for heavy cavalry or fully armed knights to use when charging. They have strong load-bearing capacity and fast sprint speed, but their flexibility is relatively poor. ”

"In addition, even if it is expensive to buy, it is rarely circulated outside. It is generally used by big nobles, formal knights or heavy cavalry."

"'Rock Horse's height and muscular strength are similar to your dark horse."

Ren nodded, indicating that he understood.

No wonder if I was fully armed at that time, I could obviously feel the unmutated 'black pearl' under my crotch being very strenuous, and I would be out of breath after even a slight sprint.

It wasn't until the 'Black Pearl' mutated that it became much better.

At this time, a small emerald-green bird suddenly landed outside the carriage carriage, walked into the carriage, and jumped and chirped a few times in front of Veronica.

Immediately, Veronica frowned and said, "Sir Ren, there seems to be an enemy ambush ahead."

Hearing this, Ren frowned, then relaxed his brows and said, "I didn't expect that I was almost at Fishing Port Town, but I encountered someone blocking my way."

Ren noticed it carefully, and sure enough, not far ahead, there seemed to be many shadowy figures.

but

The strength should not be strong.

The danger perception at the lv3 level only conveyed to him vague warning signs.

Although an enemy of this strength can be dealt with by this elite team of the Navy.

However, Ren thought about it and decided to go down and have a look.

For no other reason than that, he planned to use Kadar Boxing to deal with the enemy, and he should also be rewarded with a small amount of experience points.

‘No matter how small a mosquito’s legs are, they are still meat’.

If during this trip to Fishing Port Town, Kadar's boxing skills can be improved to lv6, he can spend less skill points.

Seeing Ren holding the door handle and planning to get off the carriage, Major Malika couldn't help but said in surprise: "Sir Ren, is the enemy in front so strong? Do you need to take action personally?"

You know, the twelve cavalry she brought here this time are really not ordinary cavalry.

Among them, two are formal knights, and the remaining ten are well-trained and cooperative quasi-knights. They can be regarded as a standard elite navy team.

Generally, for a bandit group of thirty or forty people, they can almost resolve the battle without any injuries.

"That's not true. I just sat there for a long time and wanted to move around a bit." Ren said, shaking the plate gauntlet in his hand.

Um?

These words made the two women look at each other, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.

Looking at Ren's back as he opened the carriage door and walked out, Veronica touched Marika with her elbow and said, "Has Mr. Ren been like this before? He feels like a fighting maniac."

Marika looked a little confused, thought for a moment, and shook her head slightly.

"Before? In my impression, it doesn't seem to be the case."

"Come on, let's go down and have a look. You've talked so much about this Baron Wren before and how powerful he is in combat. We just want to take a look."

Obviously, Veronica is somewhat skeptical about what Mary said before about Ren's strong fighting ability. After all, as a third-level wizard apprentice, the concept of strong fighting ability is completely different from Marika's.

When she heard that she could observe it live this time, Veronica was slightly excited and pulled Marika out of the carriage.

Just after receiving Veronica's signal, the cavalry stopped and began to be on guard.

Just as the two leading knights were preparing for the battle, they did not expect that the carriage compartment suddenly opened, and Baron Wren, carrying a sword and hammer on his back, actually stepped out.

The two formal knights belonging to the navy looked at each other and were about to say something to Ren.

With a 'whoosh' sound, Renn's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

This made the two of them look a little dull for a moment, not knowing whether to be alert or step forward to help fight.

And when Ren got off the carriage, in the woods on both sides of the road not far away, Iron Hook was blaming the lean man who was responsible for the investigation.

"Why is there an extra knight?" Tie Gou glanced at the other party dissatisfied and said.

"I don't know about this, Iron Hook. With our strength, it wouldn't be a problem to eat one more official knight, right?"

"The problem is that there is nothing wrong, it's just that some brothers may be injured." Tie Gou glanced at Ren and replied firmly.

The basis for his judgment is that this is most likely a knight of noble descent, that is, he was spoiled since childhood and lacked actual combat. In the end, with the help of his family, he was lucky enough to become a formal knight, but his combat effectiveness is worrying.

Because liking to ride in a carriage is one of the typical characteristics of a knight of noble descent.

Which knight who has experienced blood and fire would ride in a carriage like a lady!

"Hey, why is that knight gone?" The thin man who was observing Ryan said in surprise.

"Gone?" Tie Gou looked puzzled and looked up along the original line of sight.

Indeed, the person disappeared!

Tie Gou looked around and saw no one.

Suddenly, he heard screams from the left side of his team, followed by the sound of multiple trees breaking and the sound of dense bone fractures.

Tie Gou and the thin man immediately turned their heads and looked, and immediately had an expression as if they had seen a ghost.

I saw that the bright silver figure that was supposed to be standing in front of the carriage, at this moment, somehow came to the back of their team.

Moreover, the opponent was carrying a weapon and did not take it off. He dealt with most of the people with his hands.

Tie Gou was stunned, and then his face changed drastically. The enemy's strength was very different from what he expected. The opponent was probably not a peak knight, and was not the noble knight he had thought of before.

He immediately started to run to the forest on one side, while the thin man ran in another direction.

But two seconds later, a bright silver figure blocked his way.

This made Tie Gou feel a chill from the bottom of his heart. He turned his head and saw that the thin man was lying in the bushes, twitching, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Damn, this is going to kill him!

When Tie Gou was just accumulating power to attack, the next second, Ryan's figure disappeared in front of him.

"Bang Bang Bang!"

Tie Gou immediately held his abdomen with both hands and twitched on the ground, like a shrimp that kept jumping on the shore.

Ryan did not choose to kill the opponent.

This area is very close to the fishing port town.

The appearance of this group of people here is probably some kind of planned overall action.

Moreover, he could smell the fishy smell of the other party, which was marinated after years of drifting on the sea. This is almost one of the iconic characteristics of pirates.

Therefore, keeping two people alive may be able to get the latest information.

When Ryan returned to the carriage, the two women had just got off the carriage for less than half a minute.

Veronica looked around, but did not find Ryan's figure. She turned around and asked the knight who was on guard.

"Where is Lord Ryan?"

"This." The knight was about to say that Lord Ryan might have gone to the front to investigate.

Suddenly, he saw a bright silver figure appear in front, so he quickly pointed and said, "It's there."

"Huh?" Veronica and Marika turned their heads and saw Ryan walking out of the forest slowly but quickly.

After just a few steps, he came in front of them.

"Sir Ryan, you..." Veronica suddenly thought of a possibility, and couldn't help but raise her white finger, pointing in the direction of the forest and asked.

"The enemy has been dealt with!" Ryan nodded, confirming Veronica's guess.

Suddenly, everyone was a little stunned, and couldn't help but focus their attention on Ryan.

Ryan's bright silver armor was still shiny as new, and they couldn't see any blood, even the two weapons on his back, there was no blood.

This.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment!

"By the way, who of you is better at interrogation?"

"The other party should be pirates. Perhaps, we can get some of the latest news about nearby pirates or even the Poseidon Cult from their mouths." Ryan looked at Marika, then at the cavalrymen on the side, and asked.

"Pirates?"

Marika's eyes shone, and she turned to look at a young knight beside her, saying, "Frado, interrogation should be your strong point. You should be able to pry out the information we need from them, right?"

"Of course, Major Marika, leave it to me."

Although the young knight named Frado was skeptical about Ryan's ability to resolve the battle so quickly, he quickly led five cavalrymen into the forest.

As soon as they entered, they were stunned!

In a large area in front of them, trees were broken one after another, like a hurricane passing through, and a large pit appeared on the ground from time to time. They didn't know how this pit was caused.

In addition, what was even more strange was that there were no obvious scars on the bodies of the pirates lying on the ground, but it was obvious that most of the pirates were dead.

The only one who was still alive and groaning was a bearded man with an iron hook on his left hand and a thin man.

However, when several cavalrymen were cleaning up the pirates' bodies, they soon discovered something unusual. Most of these dead pirates had broken sternums, or the right side of their chests were sunken under the chain mail, as if their ribs were broken and pierced into their hearts.

There is only one possibility for this situation.

That is, they were hit hard by heavy weapons, such as heavy hammers.

But during the interrogation, they were horrified!

From the two remaining pirate leaders, it turned out that Ryan did not use any weapons, but only relied on a pair of iron fists to achieve such an effect!

The whole battle seemed to be resolved in less than a minute. You know, there are two pirate leaders at the official knight level here, plus more than twenty elite pirates!

It seems that Major Malika's previous description of Baron Wren was a bit implicit.

Renn, who was beside the carriage, glanced at the system prompt:

[Your skill Tokadar Boxing has been improved, experience value +109]

[You have experienced a battle, knight (extraordinary) experience value +36]

Seeing that Kadar's boxing skills reached level 5 (204/2000) and the progress reached one-tenth, Renn nodded slightly in his heart.

Sure enough, mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are.

If there were another few groups of pirates, the progress would probably reach a quarter or even a third.

It's just a pity that such short-sighted people are still in the minority after all.

Thinking of this, Renn couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Five minutes later, the interrogation ended, and a young knight named Frodo came to report.

However, the way he looked at Renn frequently was obviously different from before. It was a look of admiration mixed with admiration.

Just listen to his report: "Major Malika, Baron Wren, Miss Veronica, the interrogation has just ended."

"The other party is a small elite group belonging to the Black Sail Pirates. They are responsible for plundering caravans on both sides of the road west of Fishing Port Town, depending on the situation."

"According to the description of the leader named Iron Hook, their Black Sail Pirates Group and two other small pirate groups had previously allocated spheres of influence at several other access roads in Fishing Port Town, and sent people to each to carry out plunder."

"The person in charge of this matter is their deputy leader Phil Kratz."

"Phil Kratz?" Marika's face froze.

"Yes, Major Malika." The young knight nodded, with the same solemn expression.

Seeing Ren's slightly confused look, Marika introduced:

"Phil Kratz, the deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates, is a senior knight, good at archery, his age is unknown, he is a rare marksman among pirates, and he is nicknamed the 'Bloody Shooter'."

Ren was stunned when he heard this.

It seems that Marika did a good job in the preparations before coming to Meister County, and she actually knows the Black Sails Pirates so well. It can be said that she knows everything about them.

"It seems we caught the tail of a big fish." Veronica said slightly excitedly.

"That's right! Originally, I planned to start with a small pirate group - the spies installed in the Roger Pirate Group, and slowly try to find the strongholds of several large pirate groups and the Poseidon Cult."

"Unexpectedly, now we have caught the tail of a large pirate group - Black Sail." Marika also expressed joy.

After hearing this, Ren thought for a while and asked a question. In fact, he had wanted to ask this question before:

"Major Marika, why doesn't the Navy directly place spies in those large pirate groups? Wouldn't it be more convenient?"

Marika shook her head and said, "It's not that I don't want to, but that I can't."

"Basically, in large pirate groups, there are usually one or two mysterious professions, and they practice witchcraft such as mind-deception. When new pirates join, they will be screened, and spies can be easily identified."

"Although we also have means to interfere, there are still certain risks."

"But there are no such people in small pirate groups. It will be much safer if spies sneak in."

"That's it." Ren nodded, indicating that he understood.

Judging from the previous Blood Sail Pirates, this should indeed be the case.

When he was on the canonization mission, the fortune teller and captain of the Shipwreck, Marla Nasr, whom he killed, was a senior knight and second-level wizard apprentice who mastered the "Waterweed Divination Technique".

But soon, Marika showed hesitation.

"Huh? Major Marika, isn't this a good thing? Are you having difficulty?" Ren asked.

"Well, this Phil is good at long-range attacks. If we want to deal with him, Veronica's witchcraft may not be the advantage. Besides, I think your weapons are the same." Marika glanced at the man behind Ren's back. Two heavy weapons, said.

Ren was stunned.

Generally speaking, when faced with a senior knight like Phil who is good at archery, the most reliable way to deal with the opponent is naturally a knight holding a sword, shield or hammer shield. The shield can effectively resist the opponent's sharp arrow attacks.

But what he was carrying on his back was either a two-handed warhammer or a two-handed sword, which naturally aroused Marika's worry.

As for Veronica, if the opponent is a relatively single-specialized bird transformation, Renn guessed that this should be restrained by this 'bloody shooter'.

After all, as long as the opponent's shooting speed is fast enough and powerful enough, no matter how many modified birds are, they are just moving targets.

However, Veronica obviously did not agree with Marika's judgment. Her twin ponytails jumped and she said: "Major Marika, you underestimate me. I am just a senior knight. Even if the opponent is a marksman, , and will never be my opponent.”

"Even my Baymax, he can't defeat him!"

"Babai?" Renn looked confused.

"It's a white-feathered owl I bred, with a wingspan of four meters." Veronica spread her hands and gestured with the size.

"But its combat power is only comparable to that of a senior knight. If you encounter such a sharpshooter, even if you add defensive witchcraft to Baymax, it won't be able to last long."

Marika did not hesitate to point out that what Veronica said was just her assumption.

"Who said that!!!" Veronica's face turned red and she looked at Marika angrily.

"Okay, Veronica, if you act like a child again, I will tell Master Anius when you get back."

"You" heard that Marika was going to file a complaint, which immediately made Veronica very discouraged. She lowered her head slightly in embarrassment, fiddled with the hem of her robe, and stopped saying anything.

But Vinolica was not angry with Marika, she knew that Marika was telling the truth, and this was Marika's concern for her.

It would be really risky to let Dabai go.

Unlike those white seagulls, if Baymax dies, as an important contracted creature, it will cause considerable damage to his mental power.

At this time, Renn, who had been listening for a while, spoke.

"Major Marika, if the opponent is just a senior knight, I think there should be no problem if you leave it to me to deal with it."

Marika glanced at Renn and saw that his expression was calm, without any reluctance or worry. She knew that Renn had strong confidence in his own strength.

She nodded, but still reminded Ren: "Baron Ren, although the opponent is only a senior knight, he has a record of killing peak knights, so are you sure you are sure?"

"Yes, Major Malika."

"If Baron Ren is in charge of the battle, then leave the reconnaissance mission to me!"

Veronica didn't see Ren's battle just now, and she was quite disappointed.

Now I heard that Ren wanted to kill the deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates, Phil, nicknamed the "Bloody Shooter", so he wiped away his previous unhappiness and said slightly excitedly.

"Of course, Veronica, this still requires the help of your witchcraft." Marika said with a smile.

"Well, Major Malika, let me take another look at the map."

The two cavalrymen immediately unfolded a map of the fishing port town in front of several people.

"One, two, three, four, plus the location of the deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates, there are five locations in total." The Frodo knight in charge of the interrogation pointed out the approximate locations one by one.

Veronica nodded to show she understood.

She was heard reciting an unknown spell, and a few seconds later, more than ten white seagulls flew from the sky. After hovering for a few seconds, they began to land one after another.

It seemed that they flew to her side to receive some kind of order. Then, these white seagulls flapped their wings vigorously, and one after another they soared into the sky and flew to different directions in the fishing port town.

Ren looked at the scene in front of him with slight envy.

If he had this kind of witchcraft, he should be able to use it more efficiently than Veronica.

Because he has the core skill of the beast tamer, ‘Eye of the Beast’.

[Core Skill: Eye of the Beast (Active)]

Eye of the Beast (Active) Effect: Control the beast under your command and use its vision to observe the surrounding environment.

In other words, he does not need to wait for the return of the white seagull like Veronica to know the enemy's situation, but can observe and understand the enemy's situation in near real-time.

The next time is spent waiting.

Worried that entering Fishing Port Town would alert others, but staying where they were would be too conspicuous, the group mounted their horses and continued to move slowly toward Fishing Port Town, but deliberately slowed down, waiting for the results of the bird investigation on Veronica's side.

About ten minutes later.

The white seagulls began to return one after another.

"Chichi! Cuckoo!" The white seagulls flapped their wings and came to Veronica's eyes one by one. They looked at her for a few seconds, then flapped their wings and left again.

After all the white seagulls have finished reporting.

Veronica thought for a moment and said: "We have investigated five places, and in four of them, as the pirate leader said, there is a group of elite pirates near the location."

"However, 'Bloody Shooter' Phil doesn't seem to be at that location. I don't know if it's due to cover or other reasons. The feedback from the white seagull said that there are no signs of human activity down there."

Um?

This made Marika hesitate for a moment.

After all, in her previous plan, she captured the thief first and found the 'Bloody Shooter' Phil. The team rushed there directly. With the cooperation of Ren and Veronica, she believed that this 'Bloody Shooter' Phil It can't stir up any waves.

But now.

Ren thought for a while and suggested: "How about starting from these four points and clearing them all out. Perhaps, we can get some new information from their mouths."

"Would this alert others? After all, our team is quite conspicuous when we act." Marika didn't seem to agree.

"I can do it alone. Normally, at the speed of the Black Pearl, one hour should be enough."

"Your Excellency Ren, did you underestimate the time to kill the enemy?" Veronica couldn't help but asked with a little doubt.

"Forget it, three minutes and one point should be enough."

"Does it only take three minutes to kill a group of elite pirates? This is really an exaggeration." Veronica's beautiful eyes widened and she said.

"No, it normally only takes half a minute to kill. At most, it will not exceed one minute. The remaining two minutes are used for torture." Renn thought for a while and answered seriously.

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