When the young and proud Ika knight walked over with the paper that was annoyed at the amount of customs duties that should be collected by the caravan at the South Pass, Baron Kendall and the others were a little surprised.
It wasn't that the other party was surprised that they still insisted on collecting this tax after seeing so many soldiers around them, but that the other party didn't force it, and instead used a competition to determine the collection of this tax.
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 means to get rid of this part of the tax, but this will only bring some bad concerns in the next march.
So when the Ika knight offered to use the knight to compete, the baron himself welcomed it.
It seems that the other party is also worrying about how to solve the matter in a clever way before directly conflicting. This made the baron look at the young man with admiration.
Although seemingly stubborn and proud, his family's education for him seems to be very successful at this time.
"I agree. The Kendalls are not afraid of competition." The baron looked at his two knights and answered the other party's proposal in the affirmative.
The news spread quickly, and after a brief discussion, it was finally decided to try three times. The Ika Knight, as the local host, selected two methods of competition, while the Kendall, as a guest, chose one method of competition.
It was just past noon at this time, and the temperature and sunlight of the warm spring sun were just right. People who were angry at Nanguan heard the news and walked out of the shops and hostels to the open space at the gate of Angry Nanguan.
Kendall's militiamen sat on the ground, and the logistics carriages also gathered together, and the carriages following the military caravan cleared enough space for this place.
The news of the competition is not only attractive to the angry South Pass businessmen who are mostly outsiders, but even the Kendall people.
After the military caravan heard the news, they were not only happy with Baron Kendall's promise, but also very curious about waiting for their traffic tariff competition.
Not only were they curious, some businessmen became agitated, and immediately went out to inquire about the news, and immediately spread the gambling plate around the open space. Residents and businessmen who attracted anger at Nanguan also followed suit.
It's not that there are no local store owners who want to start their own gambling game, 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 was immediately disbanded.
Everyone knows that no matter how the competition is, if the Kendalls really deny it today, then what they said before will be useless, especially the bets these businessmen made themselves.
If that's the case, it's better to join the Kendall people's own game. After all, you can't break the plate you built yourself, right?
The three knights and the baron lived in the center of the open space in the south of the checkpoint, discussing the upcoming competition.
Soon, the first contest proposed by the Ika Knights was announced, and after the preaching by the nearby merchants, everyone nearby could clearly hear what it was about.
Competition project - Booming Cow.
This is a knightly variant of a common competition in the steppe regions of the central western provinces.
To put it simply, the local grassland area has a large-scale animal husbandry foundation. When a large herd of beef cattle is driven up, it is very shocking. It is difficult for local herdsmen who have not been trained since childhood to drive the cattle to move correctly with a rope and a rock-throwing whip.
After switching to the knight competition, driving the cattle is directly and simply how to blast and kill a strong beef cattle in place in one attack.
After all, knights are not herdsmen. The first requirement for knights is that they have far more lethality than ordinary people.
After the Ika Knight proposed this competition project, Podris immediately began to arrange preparations for the competition.
In fact, there is no preparation. This competition is simple and straightforward, but in the two competitions, two beef cattle will inevitably be lost. But it's just two cows, and they can still afford this amount of money.
And beef cattle always have to be killed to eat meat, and if they can be killed by knights in a competition, the merchants will rush to buy the dead meat and 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, he would directly buy the rest of the body and give it to his soldiers today to increase their bravery.
Knight Ika's eyes sparkled, and he felt that he had learned a trick, and he might be able to use this trick when he has his own army in the future.
The militiamen in Kendall were all excited. Most of the militiamen who were farmers had never eaten beef since they were young.
Because for the vast majority of them, whoever owns a farm ox is considered a wealthy family. Kendall has a lot of land, only abandoned fields due to insufficient manpower, and no farm cattle that are not useful.
Therefore, for the militiamen, unless the cattle that were cherished by the family were seriously ill or died of an accident that the priests of the Saturnalia Church could not cure, or died of old age, they never killed their own cattle.
Of course, if a businessman came to spend money to buy old farm 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 whose cow gave birth to a calf to raise.
Although they seldom or have never eaten beef, they have all heard the hero stories of bards. In the stories, those mighty and majestic heroes either ate the powerful enemy monsters they hunted with their own hands, or they would eat beef in the stories. Eat the most delicious beef with big mouthfuls.
It doesn't matter whether those beef appear at any time in the story, whether it is in line with common sense.
Who cares about those things, heroes eat the best.
Regarding the competition proposed by the Ika knights, the two knights in Kendall said that it doesn't matter. It's not that they look down on the young knights from the family, but because they are killing machines trained by the kingdom's army. They don't think they will kill in this kind of competition. lose.
Baron Kendall was more cautious. He whispered to the two knights under him: "Be careful that this young man has unique abilities. He proposed the competition project, so he is naturally very confident in this matter. "
The two knights looked at each other, Knight Crowe nodded and said: "The two of us know, presumably his hammer weapon has a special advantage in this competition. I guess, this weapon should be blessed The ability to smash the target. I just don't know if it is a blessing of divine power or magic."
As a user of magic equipment, Baron Kendall knows more about magic equipment and props than the two knights: "It's not like magic weapons. Magic melee weapons mostly follow the weapon release area, the magic effect area, and the magic channel and There are four parts to the source of magic power. Although his warhammer is huge and mighty, its surface is smooth and the hammer is solid and powerful as a whole, unlike a weapon with magic as its main power."
Knight Crowe nodded: "That is a blessed weapon based on magic materials? Unfortunately, I don't know about his beliefs."
Keir rode on the horse behind Knight Crowe, and interjected, "Could it be a spiritual weapon?"
Knight Rumi smiled: "Kiel, you may think spiritual weapons are easy to use, but in fact, for most knights, a weapon with its own thoughts is not easy to use."
Most of the three of them knew that Kiel's two-handed ax was a spiritual weapon that could attack autonomously. After all, Knight Lanisa will definitely report to Baron Kendall and the other knights in detail about the previous crusade against the northern land wolf.
And the blue ax that shines brightly in it, the two-handed ax, is a link that can't be bypassed.
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The preparations for the first competition were soon completed.
In the open space in front of the checkpoint, two strong farm cattle that were supposed to be sold were pulled over.
The coat color of the two farm cattle is black, and there are two pairs of mighty horns on their heads. It looks like a healthy and powerful farm cattle. If you are younger, the family can buy it back and use it for nearly a generation.
The main roads and open spaces on the checkpoint are paved with fine pebbles washed out by the Angry River. Therefore, even if the ground is crowded with people, you only need to scrape the ground evenly with an iron fence every day, and you will be able to clean it quickly. Ok clean up the ground.
The two cows were very panicked when they saw that there were many humans around them, especially when many humans pointed their hooves at them and made noises in their mouths that confused the cows.
In a place near the street in the center of the clearing, a farm ox was tied to a stake that had just been nailed to the ground.
It stood docilely on the spot, because there were too many humans around, and they were all looking at it, so it closed its eyes and chewed the spring grass regurgitated from its stomach as usual.
The Ika knight proudly held his warhammer in his hand, raised his head and asked the Kendall, "Who will come 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, guaranteed to surprise you!"
Speaking proudly, the Ika knight raised the metal warhammer in his hand, and showed himself to the soldiers, merchants, and residents who were watching around.
Everyone cheered immediately when they saw him riding a tall and strong horse and wearing shiny and thick knight armor.
Especially because of the competition, the Ika Knight did not wear a helmet. His long brown hair fluttered, and his young and handsome face was particularly popular among the women among the former residents of the checkpoint.
Some boldly dressed dancers stood on the second-floor balcony of the store, throwing letters with their own hair and their names written on them to the Ika Knight. While boldly calling out the name of the Ika knight, and courting him.
The rules of the competition are very simple. The target's cattle are tied at the junction of the open space and the street. The knight needs to ride a horse from the street, and then rush to the target along the street. In a staggered opportunity, blast and kill the tied cattle.
Obviously, whoever can completely kill the cattle in one attack will win.
Everyone watching is not blind, who is strong and who is weak can be seen at a glance.
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The Ika knight held the reins in one hand, and raised a metal warhammer one and a half meters long in the other.
The entire metal warhammer is not only made of dull and blackened hard metal, but even its handle, which is more than one meter long, is even made of a bright silver metal.
In order to increase friction, the bright silver metal hammer handle is filled with two spiral patterns, the front and back, which fill the entire long hammer handle.
And at the end of the hammer handle, there is even a hexagonal crystal inlaid. The crystal radiates light slightly, which looks very extraordinary.
He first walked along the street to the end of the street. At this time, the whole street was vacated. People knew that the Ika knight would speed up his horses on the street later, so in order not to be accidentally hit by the horses, he stayed honestly. Watch from the side of the street.
After waiting for a while, everyone quieted down, and all their eyes were on the Ika knight standing quietly at the end of the street on horseback.
The young knight raised his head and looked at the surrounding sky. The sun was just right today, and there was a slight breeze blowing in the sky. Even the sweet smell of flowers in the wild could not be blocked by the smell of feces in the animal pen.
He took a deep breath and raised his hammer again.
Then he pulled the reins vigorously, causing the strong horse man to stand up, and when the front hooves of the horse hit the ground, the whole horse ran forward vigorously.
Grunt, Grunt, Grunt, Grunt.
Accompanied by the sound of the horseshoes, the war horse gradually accelerated. Every time the horseshoes fell heavily on the street, the fine stones were squeezed and jumped towards the surroundings.
The Ika Knight shouted the name of a god, and his whole body shone slightly, especially the air on the head of his warhammer seemed to be distorted, forming a twisted ball with the hammer head as the center.
He firmly grasped the end of the metal hammer handle with his palm, and quickly approached the restless cattle.
Just at the moment of staggering, the high-held war hammer hammered down counterclockwise in an instant. After hitting the bull's head with a heavy blow, the whole war hammer moved upwards, driving the head of the cattle smashed by the war hammer into the air. Lift up slightly.
But at the moment when the Ika knight pulled the reins hard to slow down after rushing past the ox, at the place where the ox was hit on the head by the war hammer just now, the distorted air ball that was originally on the head of the war hammer still stayed in place.
After the knight rushed over, the twisted ball of air burst out instantly.
It inflated in an instant, forming a twisted air vortex from bottom to top, and hundreds of kilograms of cattle were directly blown into the sky by swirling.
Not only that, these powerful airflows that can blow the entire cattle into the sky are extremely dangerous, and hidden in them are powerful, slender, high-speed airflows like air knives.
The cattle that were rolled up into the sky were torn apart and exploded into a mass of flesh and blood before falling to the ground.
Flesh and flesh poured the specially vacated space all over the ground, large and small beef mixed with blood fell on the gravel ground in lumps.
The Ika knight, half of his body was stained red with the flesh and blood of the bull's head, showed a rather ferocious smile: "That's just right, I don't need a butcher to cut up the meat later."
Only a few people were amused by his untimely jokes, and most of the onlookers, soldiers and merchants were frightened by this tragic and terrifying blow.
The women who were cheering the name of the Ika Knight just now screamed, and the timid ones passed out directly, while the bold ones opened their eyes wide, staring at the young Ika Knight without blinking.
There was even a tinge of red on his face.
Driven by instinct and reality, they want to get closer to the young and powerful Ika knight at this moment.
After waiting for a long time, the merchants, who recovered from the fright, shouted loudly, waiting for compliments, and said loudly what they didn't know what to say.
Someone immediately wanted to buy more Ika Knights in the game, but was immediately pushed away.
"After the start, you can no longer put money on the plate!"
The businessman from Kendall County solemnly refused to invest any more money from those who were angry at Nanguan.
However, there were also a few businessmen who trusted Crow Knight, and after consideration, they accepted the coins from those who wanted to invest more money.
"However, when the plate is over, it must be done after the adults have three matches. We do not limit the betting time and money, but we must stop betting before the last match begins."
The words are here first, but the local people whose confidence was stimulated by the beautiful blow of the Ika knight did not pay attention.
On the other side, Baron Kendall spoke a few words of praise for Knight Ika's performance just now. Turning his head, he asked his attendants to invite the priests who accompanied the army over.
"It is necessary to find out the specific information about this young man, especially the church and gods he falls for."
Then they had to make a decision about who to send later.
Rumi Knight or Crowe Knight.
However, the two knights looked at each other, and Knight Crowe shrugged, indicating who else it could be. Then waved someone to clean up the field, and brought another cattle up.
The fresh beef was immediately picked up by the cooks accompanying the army, and the bones and internal organs were not spared, but some suspicious unknown tissues were still piled up on the side.
Several buckets of clean water were brought over by Podris's men and poured on the **** place. Although the blood couldn't be taken away by the water, at least it could be a little bit cleaner.
This is not very beneficial to the Crow Knight who made the second shot. After all, the shock of making a clean field **** and **** is far greater than the shock of making it worse in a **** place. Feel.
After explaining to Kiel to watch carefully, Knight Crowe drew out the long sword at his waist and rode his horse to the open space.
He raised his long sword and greeted the surrounding soldiers, merchants, and people.
The militiamen from Kendal were all trained under Knight Crowe. Everyone had spoken to Knight Crowe. They had always recognized this middle-aged knight who was known as the first knight in Kendal County.
Even though the Ika Knights performed exceptionally well just now, these militiamen spontaneously felt that the Crowe Knights must be stronger.
So they cheered, slapped the ground with their hands, and raised and lowered it with the end of the spear placed on the ground~www.mtlnovel.com~ The wood beat on the ground to make a neat bang bang sound.
"Must win!"
Someone shouted.
"Ho Ho, we must win!"
Everyone shouted.
The merchants accompanying Kendall expressed their respect for Knight Crowe in their own way. They put the largest gold coin in their wallets on their right thumbs, and then flicked their thumbs, and the gold coins flew straight towards Knight Crowe.
After the gold coin flicked away, what was left was a thumbs up towards Knight Crowe.
Gold coins streaked across the air in shining and eye-catching golden lines, and then fell on the armored horse riding by Knight Crowe, making a crisp and attention-grabbing sound.
"Roar." The people who were angry at Nanguan had never seen such a "beautiful and high price" 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 wasn't that he was narrow-minded, but that he just felt that how could a knight without honor like Knight Crowe get such praise and encouragement from people.
Is it difficult for everyone to feel bad about him voluntarily leaving the Knights of the Kingdom Guards?
How did he know that the vast majority of the people had only heard the name of the Knights of the Kingdom's Guards. They didn't know where the knights were stationed or where the gate opened, so how could they have more thoughts.
They only think that the name of this knight order is famous, and they don't care about anything else.
And what's funny is that although the Ika knight was aggrieved by this, he had never seen any active members of the Kingdom Guards Knights, and he didn't know where the station was, let alone where the gate opened.