Light Spirit Epic Chapter 2255: The King of Puppets (6)

Chapter 2255 The King of Puppets (6)

One hour later.

"Hmm ------" Verne tilted his head with his arms crossed, looking at Arthur who was getting ready with a puzzled look on his face.

"I can't believe the Duke would agree to your request. Are you a wizard or something? What spell did you put on the Duke?" he asked.

"Nonsense." Arthur rolled his eyes at Verne, and put the sorted things into his suitcase one by one: "Don't guess about adults' affairs, children. Duke Sirnante will agree to let you There must be a reason for him to be my adjutant. Just obey."

Duke Sirnant certainly had his reasons, Arthur just deliberately didn't break everything in front of this kid. Verne is the illegitimate son of Duke Sirnante, so he has never received formal knight training since he was a child, lest this child become powerful in the future, and accumulate merits, and will have the capital to compete with the children of the main family for the title. Still, the duke probably thought it would be good for the kid to follow Arthur out to get some combat experience. Otherwise, the duke's illegitimate son has been kept in the castle as an idler. This kid will become a **** when he grows up in the future, and will be criticized, and there will be no place for him in the castle. Also very bad.

The Duke has his own ideas, and of course Arthur has them too. Although the other knights the Duke arranged for Arthur might be better, those people were the Duke's subordinates after all, and they were placed beside Arthur to monitor him. On the other hand, this little brat, Verne, although he is the illegitimate son of the duke, doesn't have the ingenuity of adults, and I'm afraid he can't do things like "spy on" Arthur. With this kid as an adjutant, Arthur will be much freer in his actions.

He dropped a light breastplate and hair on the table, along with a quiver with dozens of crossbow bolts. These were specially tailored for Verne's figure.

"At least put on the breastplate. Otherwise, the enemy will kill you with one arrow, and I will not take this responsibility." Arthur said.

"It's heavy." Verne stuck out his tongue. But he also knew that this was not a joke, and he still put the breastplate on his body honestly. Even with the tightest straps on his armor, he still looked a little loose when he put it on, and he looked ridiculous.

The breastplate is a combination of light metal and leather that is similar to plate armor, but it is of course far from the real knight's plate armor and can only prevent the most basic arrow damage. In order to be lightweight, the metal plate on its chest and abdomen is actually very thin, and a stronger arrow may even shoot through the armor. On the contrary, the armor on the chest near the heart has been reinforced by a thicker metal plate, which acts like a heart guard, which can effectively prevent the wearer from being pierced by an arrow. This design is quite reasonable. If the chest and abdomen are hit by arrows, even if the armor cannot completely block the arrows, it will inevitably weaken the power of the arrows by half, and the damage received by the wearer will be much less----- -And those places, even if hit by arrows, are at least less deadly. The heart must be closely guarded. However, no matter how ingeniously designed this armor is, it can only protect against long-range attacks. If it is cut twice by the opponent at close range, it will still kill people.

"By the way, don't you use that newly invented heavy crossbow?" Arthur asked by the way when Verne picked up the light weapon. He has also heard that the heavy crossbow invented in England in modern times is very powerful. When Britain and France were at war in the past, it was this heavy crossbow that made the French suffer so much, which led to the consecutive victories of England's invasion of France.

But that was before Joan of Arc came along.

"Heavy crossbow? That thing is so heavy that an untrained regular knight can't handle it. It's useless to move it. Holding the * without crossbow bolts installed, aiming at left and right and trying to feel the hand, he said in his mouth: "If I have to put arrows on the back of the big wolf dog, this is the only crossbow that can be moved."

"Really. Whatever you want." Arthur didn't bother to argue with Verne, so he did it according to the child's own preferences. He was secretly surprised, Verne knew that he was going to follow Arthur to suppress the bandits, but he seemed very calm, not afraid at all? Is it because the nerves of this kid are so big, or is it because he has absolute confidence in his own strength and is not afraid that he might die in battle?

Anyway, since Verne is not afraid, he will save Arthur a lot of words and help.

"Then," Arthur saw that everything was basically ready, he got up with his luggage and said: "Let's go. Next is to go to the Mercenary Union to hire a few mercenaries. Duke Sirnante said he would give I introduced a few good mercenaries, and I hope the people he introduced really work."

"Are mercenaries... they're all guys who see money." Verne also picked up his luggage and followed behind Arthur: "Wow, that's heavy... "

"Just get used to it." Arthur replied casually. He didn't wear heavy armor himself, but also put on a light armor and a commoner, and at most he would wear highly lightweight arm armor. In fact, the arm armor doesn't even need to be worn, but Arthur is going to rush ahead and cut each other with swords. No matter how agile his movement is, if his arm is scratched by the opponent, it will affect his ability to continue fighting, so he still wears it reluctantly. A little protection. The Seraph holy sword in Arthur's hand only has the maximum attack power when it is unsheathed (in the form of a lightsaber), and it is usually just a silver sword without a front. This weapon is an excellent weapon for demons and monsters, but it is more than enough to slash people, and it has to be replaced with other weapons. Therefore, in the "war against people", Arthur was not half as reliable as in the "war against the demons". He himself knew this matter, and he was not very at ease. The insufficiency of the human battle part, in addition to relying on Verne's long-range bow and crossbow support firepower, depends on the mercenaries.

Two teenagers and a wolf walked around the city after leaving Fort Hernant, attracting a lot of strange eyes along the way (most of them were paying attention to Bedivere, after all, such a big white wolf walking down the street), and soon to the mercenary guild.

"Little devil, you are here——" The guard at the entrance of the union was about to say something when Arthur had already handed over a letter of introduction from Duke Sirnante. The guard glanced at the duke's exclusive lacquer seal on the letter, choked back what he had just said, and said with a smile: "Understood, let's go in. The head of the trade union is waiting for you."

Arthur nodded in greeting, then led the entourage and the wolf into the lobby of the union. Before they came here, the Duke should have sent people from the mercenary union to connect, so Arthur and his party went all the way unimpeded, as expected.

He thought it was quite new. From the lobby alone, he could see that the scale of the mercenary union was larger than he had imagined. The service office at the end of the lobby had a total of ten service windows. The staff is dealing with the hiring of mercenaries and the registration of the mercenaries returning from their missions. On both sides of the lobby are neatly arranged dozens of rows of billboards, which are covered with various notices, which should be tasks that free mercenaries can pick up at any time.

"Master Aslan?" Of course, everything in the lobby has nothing to do with Arthur. As soon as he stepped into the lobby, a well-dressed union leader was waiting in the center of the lobby. "He came to talk about hiring mercenaries. Come with me. There are already several groups of suitable candidates, you can choose your own."

Not only did someone choose, but there are several groups, let Arthur choose. The King of Knights couldn't help but feel a fire in his heart, Duke Sirnante's influence is really not small. Moreover, he had informed the union beforehand, which really gave Arthur a lot of face.

No, it gave Verne a lot of face. The mercenaries prepared for Arthur this time were on the surface to help Arthur, but in fact they were to protect the child of Verne. After all, this kid is the illegitimate son of Duke Sirnante.

Arthur and his party were led to a VIP room-like place in the union. This room was luxuriously decorated and had a very comfortable sofa to sit on. Then the person in charge of the trade union brought several stacks of heavy documents, which should be the information of each group of mercenaries.

Arthur took a brief glance at the materials and his head started to hurt. Their technology in this era is very backward, of course there is no camera; since there is no camera, of course there is no way to have pictures of the mercenaries. As a result, the so-called information is all kinds of dense text descriptions, and the content such as tables is still drawn by hand. It can be seen that the information of the mercenaries has been organized as short as possible, but they are still very heavy. It is a brilliant mercenary group, and of course the information is thicker.

To read all these purely handwritten and textually described materials, it is estimated that it will be dark. Arthur scratched his head irritably, and asked casually, "First of all, I want to know one thing: Are these mercenaries working in teams??"

"There are many excellent mercenaries in the trade union who like to work alone, and some mercenaries do not have a fixed team, so they can temporarily team up with other mercenaries. But if you want to talk about excellent mercenary groups, you have to count [Crescent Mercenaries] Corps], [Bloodstain Mercenary Corps], [Vilgard Mercenary Corps] and so on. Because they always act in fixed teams, they have a better tacit understanding with each other, so the number and degree of completion of their tasks are different. Much more and taller than other solo mercenaries."

"Oh~IndoMTL.com~Arthur nodded perfunctorily.

"I have already removed the information on the mercenary groups that already have missions. The information in front of you are all mercenary groups that have not received missions for the time being and can act with you. The price has also been After negotiating, it is the level that you can afford. Is there any mercenary group that you particularly like, Lord Aslan?"

"Um..." Arthur looked back and forth among several documents, unable to make up his mind for a while, but he accidentally caught a glimpse of the name on a document, and suddenly realized it. Hum said: "I found it, this is it. Um, [New Moon Mercenary Group]?"

"[Crescent Moon]?..." The expression of the person in charge changed subtly in an instant: "Understood, Lord Aslan, I will arrange it now. But please pay attention, [Crescent Moon] He is the top three trump card in the trade union, and they also have the right to choose an employer. I will arrange it. It is better for the two of you to meet in person this afternoon, so that the head of the group over there can also get to know you. If the other party rejects your entrustment , please don't be angry, okay?"

"Of course." Arthur replied dispassionately, "That's fair enough."

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