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Entering June in the Thoradin region, the average daytime temperature can already reach over 40 degrees.
The cotton armor lining used with the plate armor could not help but be soaked with sweat all day and night in such temperatures. Although the version used by the two men already had the hem and sleeves cut, in order to cushion the attack, it was enough. Wearing thick cotton and linen fabrics that are two to three centimeters thick in this temperature is also a sinful act.
Fortunately, there were horses. Because the cotton pads on their bodies smelled sour and unbearable, Henry and Mira removed them, washed them in a nearby stream, and then put them on the horses' backs to dry.
Plate armor fixed with belts looks very loose when worn without cotton armor lining. In addition, without the cushioning lining, they can only block scratches from sharp sword blades and cannot be removed, which will cause The impact of breaking bones caused the two of them to not even wear this and enjoy the joy of wearing light clothes.
They were now heading east.
The road that runs from the city-state of the Kingdom of Coriconrad in the Thoradin Highlands all the way down to the coast. If it is flattened and calculated, its length actually exceeds the depth of the top of the Thoradin Highlands. .
The wide road opened in the middle of the rain forest can accommodate two or three carriages walking side by side without any problem. This road is filled with large and small hotels and supply stations, as well as various vendors and even craftsmen, although it can't be said to be a town. Not even a village was established, but it was more or less a companion along the way.
Henry and Mira finally decided to go with Joshua and Emmanica.
The destination of these two people is to go to the port to see the sea. To achieve this goal, the cost along the way is quite a lot. Fortunately, the long road and the complexity of the process also provide the mercenaries with important foundations. exist conditions.
There are good people somewhere. There are bad people; wherever there are people who work hard to make money, there will be people who want to get something for nothing and take away their hard-earned wealth.
The long road is surrounded by lush vegetation on both sides. Although there are mercenaries passing by all year round, there are also many robbery gangs lurking nearby. They form cliques. Many of them even have some collusion with lower-level mercenaries. In addition to supplying mercenaries for overseas expeditions, ports also play a role in trade. Therefore, when some caravans who hired lower-level mercenaries in order to save money came, they had already set up an ambush. location.
They were rightly betrayed by these guards.
Dark things exist in every country. A hundred people may be able to work together, but when this number becomes a thousand people, they will have differences; when it becomes ten thousand people, the differences will become It may become divided; one hundred thousand people, one million people, when the population reaches a very high level. It is doomed that there will be many troubles.
Corey Conrad, this mercenary country naturally has its own army. Because most of the adult men in this country are engaged in war-related professions, not counting the number of equipment and soldiers, but simply looking at the quality of individual soldiers, Corey Conrad actually has a large number of soldiers in the Thoradin region and even the entire southern part of the west coast of Mobigas. It can be regarded as one of the top military powers.
Of course, it is not a big country. Even if its individual soldiers are relatively high-quality, many people have experience fighting as mercenaries. When facing a regular army that is several times better equipped than one's own. You will still be at a disadvantage.
This is also the reason why this country has always conducted overseas expeditions and never provoked its neighbors. It can obtain money without causing its own destruction. If the country returns to its original position, Corey Conrad's army is composed of an old soldier. Composed of senior mercenaries. However, even these veterans do not have enough ability to completely eliminate the bandits nearby.
It is difficult to guard against domestic thieves. He has low-level mercenaries who are greedy for money as his informants. Once Corey Conrad's soldiers are dispatched, the bandits will get the news and flee early. Although as a mercenary country, Corey Conrad has naturally issued a mission to encircle and suppress these guys. However, as mentioned before, they will always get wind of it.
Unable to actively encircle and suppress. Even if they are all killed, there will still be people who are greedy for money and become bandits in the future, so all they can do is probably passively help protect them.
Down:. : The origins of level mercenaries are unknown. Except for businessmen who want to try their luck and save costs, most people will still choose the blue card or above, or even the mercenaries who are already famous.
Of course, this does not mean that these people will never betray for money, but the probability of betrayal is lower in comparison, because they look down on the small share given by the thieves.
Hiding the secrets of your goods so that the other party cannot judge the value to avoid taking advantage of the money is also one of the vigilant methods. The world is always complicated, and only by considering multiple aspects can you achieve complete self-protection.
Back to the topic at hand, as we said before, both sides of this avenue are also dotted with various shops and hotels. Although they still have the defensive advantage of residences compared to caravans that require full escort, but in In some cases, it can be quite dangerous if you are besieged.
The storm season is coming.
Although this is the end of the southern border and close to the inland, the vast inland sea of Morbigas can still bring violent wind and rain.
The city-state of Corikonrad, which is located in the Thoradin Highlands, does not need to worry about all this, but the hotels and chambers of commerce dotted on this long slope are unavoidable from the heavy downpours and strong winds that can uproot trees.
After the storm, everything is ready to be revived.
In such weather conditions, it is impossible for the kingdom's patrols to arrive. Even the mercenaries will choose to stay in the hotel and wait for the storm to pass. This is where the danger lies.
In a closed environment, people with different thoughts, and in the stormy season, there are many bad people who take advantage of this opportunity to make money. For these shop owners, the biggest problem is that they do not know that they are ordinary mercenaries and tourists. , and the fact that those are bad people with evil intentions.
If you want to do business, you can’t turn people away. In addition, there is no main screening method, so they are naturally in a mercenary country. So he chose to send a request to the mercenary guild for a garrison commission.
The four of them took on such a mission this time.
The reward for the mission is not quite high, but this is not the only mission on this long passage.
The long southern coastline. Even after crossing the low Lidela Wetland area, the terrain is slightly higher on this side, and various large reptiles and dangerous predators of staggering sizes are still present.
With the arrival of summer, they are entering a period of considerable activity, so human settlements near the forest have issued commissions to expel these guys.
In addition, there are many more things, such as helping to reinforce structures, protecting people, or assisting in arrests. All in all, as mercenaries of this level, the four of them had no worries about finding jobs.
The rain began to fall.
This was the first rain the two encountered after arriving at Thoradin Highlands.
They were temporarily stationed in a forest clearing next to this long and gentle slope. It was a good thing for Henry and the others to have horses. They had traveled all the way from town to country. Joshua, they didn't know much about what was needed to rest in the wild, even until they set up camp together. , the sage and the white-haired Luoan girl discovered that they didn't even carry a tent.
Joshua and Emmanica paid very few tributes. Apart from rain-proof cloaks, they only had some spare clothes, towels, ropes, food, tableware, and soft leather kettles for drinking water.
They didn't even have a tent. The Luoan girl asked a little, but the two of them didn't know how to set up a temporary camp.
They know how to make fire and cook, and they also have ample experience in ordinary life. The two of them even spent the night in the wild several times on the way here. However, the past was the past and the present is now. In June, the west coast may experience violent storms at any time. If an effective camp is not established, then all the clothes, food and even books will inevitably become a mess.
Mira sighed. Joshua is quite good at swordsmanship, at least she has known Henry for so long. He is the only one who is on par with Henry in terms of technique and reaction speed. He was able to challenge people on an equal footing, but in the end he lost to him due to lack of physical strength.
:. :;However, although he is excellent in one aspect, he is very poor in another aspect, probably because he is too focused on the study of sword skills. Joshua knew nothing about survival skills in the wild, and he was quite clumsy at it. Although the inability to see clearly without strong light is also a certain reason, it is more due to the lack of experience.
Mira looked at him as if she saw her old self.
Some time later, she had known Henry for a full year.
The white-haired girl with pure Luoan blood is only twelve years old and already almost 1.68 meters tall. Although her figure is still slender, she can be considered slim compared to before.
The long-term training and travel and the experience in this period of time have gradually faded the childishness and timidity on the girl's face. This confident temperament coupled with the increasingly refined facial features, if she returns to the person when they met again, If it were a border town, people there probably wouldn't have anything to identify the original Mira except her white hair.
But more than the changes in appearance, perhaps the changes in her heart are more significant.
Before meeting Joshua, and before witnessing the fight between this young swordsman, who was probably only ten years older than Mira, and Henry, to be honest, she felt a little uneasy in her heart. .
In Mira's eyes, Henry represents an omniscient being. Although she is not sure whether he is omnipotent, at least at the level of swordsmanship, she has never seen anyone who can be on par with this man.
Therefore, as his student, even though I have just started, after realizing that the knowledge I have learned is quite sparse, I will inevitably start to feel that I am a small role.
She has not lost these qualities of humility and continuous hard work, but she is still a child after all. In Mira's mind, if she cannot compare with Henry, then there will definitely be no such person in the world. And she holds such an idea. , was defeated just yesterday.
Life-long learning.
I am still just a novice, and there are too many facts that I have just confirmed, but they will soon be overturned by others.
There are quite a variety of choices that people make at this time. Usually, most people choose to try to belittle the other person to regain their confidence. But our Luoan girl is different. She just feels that her vision is out of reach again. Being opened up, it only took a moment for me to return to my original state of mind, and further, I began to think about how to become stronger.
In many cases, losers will find reasons to defend themselves: It's because my conditions are not as good as others, it's my luck that's not good enough, it's the weather, it's the temperature, it's this, it's that. They are always good at finding 10 million reasons for not working hard, and even choose to retreat before starting to take action. Little do they know that those successful people who think they are out of reach have thrown away all these from the beginning. Something, wholeheartedly, just moving forward.
In fact, there is no difference between many losers and winners in the environment and material conditions they encountered at the beginning. What determines their success is just their attitude towards it. If they wait passively for a little setback and stay depressed for a long time, Then it is natural that you cannot succeed.
Mira is a worry-free child. For this reason, the tarp Henry and she brought to set up the tent did not have enough space to accommodate four people plus a stove, but it was like As we have been saying, when there are wise men, no problem is really a problem.
The solution was so simple and clear that anyone could implement it after hearing it once. Henry picked up a small stone from the ground, then untied the fixed belt in front of the waterproof cloak, wrapped the stone with one corner of it, and rolled it up to form After a fixed point, the corner was circled with the hemp rope that I carried with me, and then stretched and fixed on a nearby tree trunk, and then several other treatments were completed in sequence.
Although the semi-slope is gentle, it also has some sloping terrain. Tie the other ends of the hemp ropes at two corners into a trap, then find some branches nearby and put them on, then insert them into the soil at an inward angle to form a trap. Sagging windshield.
All the materials needed for this are available everywhere, and it doesn't take much time to do it. Mira looked at it carefully and thought about it. To be continued. ,.
