Chapter 14, Invitation From Pine Needle Town and Armor Change in Dreamland

In the end, after several exchanges of blows, this man was tripped to the ground by Kiel, and then knocked unconscious with a few punches.

Everyone shouted, waved their fists and celebrated with Kiel for another victory over his opponent.

Originally, Knight Crow wanted to add another person to Kil, but the priests responsible for treatment not far away gave up.

A young priest strode angrily and pushed away the onlookers. After approaching, he yelled something and pushed with both hands, suddenly using an invisible wave of air to knock Kil off his feet.

At this time, everyone onlookers were dumbfounded.

Knight Crow had to stand up to comfort the young priest and announce to the people around him that tonight's activities were over. The priest's move does not count as defeating Kiel with his fist, so the gold coin reward will be reserved for the next event to continue to accumulate as a prize pool.

Knight Crow pulled Kil up and motioned for Kil to pick up the weapons and equipment he had put aside and go back to sleep.

"By the way, how could you let the church priests be overthrown just now?"

Knight Crow pushed Kil towards the camp.

Kiel looked at the dissatisfied face of Knight Crowe, rubbed his teeth and said, "I thought he had something to say to me, but who knew that as soon as he walked in, he raised his hand and somehow gave me Overturned."

Keir's face was full of disgrace, feeling that he was really careless.

Knight Crow nodded, thought for a while and then said: "That's right. You should have never played against these professions. Well, I will find opportunities for you to increase your experience."

"Really? How is that possible?"

Kiel looked unconvinced. After all, priests were not ordinary soldiers. Those guys were basically only below the knight level in the army, but they were far superior to other people in the army.

"There will be opportunities, there will be opportunities." Knight Crow murmured.

-

Early the next morning, the team packed up and continued to move south along the road.

After exiting Bingxun Pass, we followed the commercial road all the way south. Both sides of the road gradually opened up and entered a relatively vast wilderness plain.

Although it is said to be a wilderness, the population density has actually increased. More small roads have been extended on both sides of the commercial roads that are often traveled by caravans, and villages of various sizes have been built in the flat areas of the wilderness.

Soon, their army passed by a town built at the intersection of the trade road and the lower Kendall River.

This town is adjacent to a pine forest on the other side of the river, so this town was naturally called Pine Needles Town by the first batch of immigrants.

Naturally, an army of hundreds of people cannot enter the town. Even if Baron Kendall, who passes by here twice a year, is familiar enough with the town and has a good relationship with the town's lord knight, he cannot let the army get closer than one kilometer of the town.

The other knight's lord politely sent people to prepare a suitable place for Kendall's army to be stationed next to his manor outside the town, and he himself personally invited Baron Kendall to spend the night in his manor with the two knights.

The caravans following the army in the past two days greeted the baron and crossed the army in advance to repair at the foreign merchant brigade station in Pine Needle Town.

These merchants will take this opportunity to simply exchange the urgently prepared goods in their respective teams, and also make some purchases in Pine Needle Town.

The merchants are all shrewd guys. Although Baron Kendall's hitchhiking is unexpected, if they make good use of it, most of them will open up more trading points on their original mature trade routes.

They originally only did business in the northwest of the kingdom, but this time they might take advantage of the military's protection to directly extend their trade routes to the southwest of the kingdom.

Even if they are busy in vain, these people can at least personally understand the features, human geography, commodity supply, local specialties, etc. of a region they have never been to before.

The big businessmen met to exchange their own goods and goods, preparing not to leave behind any familiar opponents and partners.

After all, we are in a different place, and these former opponents have become familiar and reliable business partners.

The small merchants took the opportunity to try their best to get some local goods from Pine Needle Town, or buy some goods that the big merchants didn't want. These people have limited abilities and may not be able to follow Baron Kendall's army throughout the entire journey and risk running to the southern border of the kingdom. Most of them just wanted to hitch a ride and reduce the cost of escorts that would have been consumed along the way.

It saves the cost of hiring mercenary groups or thugs, and streamlines the team. Each carriage and donkey can carry more goods instead of supplies for the caravan.

These people figured it out that night. Even if they just followed the caravan to the southern part of the province, they would make much more money than they would normally make if they traveled with a full load.

If they were bolder and transported some valuable things to another province in the south, even if they only transported grain, they would make twice as much money as usual in terms of profit.

"Let us raise this glass to Lord Kendall."

At the meeting of businessmen, someone suggested.

Everyone else present had smiles on their faces, and shouted happily: "To Lord Kendall, may wealth surround him, and may he remain wealthy and peaceful forever!!"

-

As for the army, after night fell, Knight Crowe and Knight Rumi arranged for everyone in the army to rest, and then called Kil: "Don't you have a new armor?"

Keir nodded.

"Put it on! The lord knight of Pine Needle Town invites us to spend the night at his place tonight. There will be a party tonight. You put on your new armor and follow me there."

Knight Crow pointed at the gradually becoming lively manor not far from the camp and said to Keir.

Knowing that the Cavaliers intended to cultivate him, Kiel did not shirk. Moreover, he had nothing to do in the camp. It would be nice to go over and have some delicious food and have fun.

After dinner in the camp at night, the soldiers are no longer allowed to move around as they please. Unless you go to relieve yourself, you will be punished if you encounter a patrol team and are caught.

Punishments ranged from a meal ban to a whipping, in order of severity. After all, we are still far away from a war zone where fighting is possible, unless a certain militiaman does not want to join the war and wants to run home. Otherwise, the punishment and punishment for the team at this time would still be very small.

Everyone came out to fight voluntarily. Ordinary militiamen have many brothers and sisters. If they can earn a chance to go out and take risks, even if there is a risk of death, it is better than fighting with brothers and sisters at home for the thin family property.

Although Baron Kendall did not pay much salary to everyone who participated in the battle, the various things captured in the battle, in addition to the valuables turned in, can bring a lot of benefits.

At least that's a lot for ordinary militiamen. With this money, they can marry a girl from the same village decently and hire someone to build a house after they return home. Fields are everywhere in the wild. Once you have your own house and a family, you can naturally work hard to open up a new field and use it as your family's property. You don't have to obey your elders and follow your brothers and sisters at home as before. They compete for resources that are scarce.

As for the wealthy militiamen who have some assets at home, they mostly earn a way up the ladder for themselves and their families during the war. Killing enemies bravely or establishing good relationships with big shots can allow them to directly obtain a position in the Kendall City Town Guard. You can go to Kendall City alone or move your whole family to Kendall City.

It’s all a safe route upward.

Keir pretended to take out a box from his carriage, and then returned to the tent he had just set up.

After carefully closing the opening of the tent and fastening the wooden buttons on it, Kil took off the fully covered hard cowhide armor that had been with him for some time in the small tent.

After putting these armor parts neatly into the wooden box, Kil wore a thin single suit and placed his hand slightly in the middle of his chest where he could not feel the shock.

He silently recited the elf lady's name in his mind: 'Apolifina, Apolifina, Apolifina. ’

Then Kil's body disappeared in an instant.

Also missing was the armor box he placed under his palm.

-

In the dark and boundless dream forest.

Next to the colorful river, on the moist moss, Keir and a wooden box suddenly appeared here.

Exhaling a breath of white mist, the air here is still a bit cold.

After standing there for a while to adapt to the lower temperature than where he came from, Kil moved his body, picked up the wooden box containing the armor, and walked towards the upper reaches of the colorful creek.

It seems that every time I come here, this is the place that appears.

A little far away from the Pond of Memories.

Keir walked along the path that he had trodden many times before, climbing over the low and thick tree roots that blocked the road, and lowered his body to get through the abrupt and slender tree roots.

He slowly walked towards the brighter and brighter place.

He wasn't worried about what would happen if he dilly-dallyed here. After his experiments, it turned out that it was exactly what the lady who created this place said. The time inside and outside time and space were fundamentally different.

When he is not here, the time in this dream coincides with the outside world. But when he entered here, time still passed here, but the outside world was suspended directly.

No, it cannot be said to be a pause. It can only be said that the speed of time passing in the outside world has become extremely slow.

To this end, he conducted many experiments.

For example, before entering, throw a stone into the sky, then enter the dreamland, eat a fruit, and then come out.

At this time, the stone in the air has not yet hit the ground.

But if he slept for a while in the dream, when he came out again, the stone had fallen to the ground at some point.

Therefore, when he is in the dream, time will change greatly.

The only thing that remains unchanged is his own sense of time.

Keir thought deeply about this.

You can prepare, repair, and avoid danger in dreams. But you can't stay here for too long. Food is one thing. The key is that it is quiet and deserted. Although I don't know if this is what the elves like, but as a human, Kil is very tolerant.

In addition, if he stays here for a long time, his life span will actually become shorter to outsiders.

Even though he didn't feel it himself, the trance change of time and space still brought him a very different feeling.

He couldn't say anything, but because he had never seen Ms. Apolifina, and it was difficult to actively look for her, he didn't know what the special feeling was when time and space changed.

The temperature beside the colorful pond is more suitable. Breathing here will not bring white mist. At the same time, it also has a spacious place that was rarely seen in the dense forest before.

Even if you look up here, you won't be able to see the slightest bit of light penetrating through the upper ends of the trees.

The light here is basically emitted by the colorful water of memories surging from the pond. Some moss will also bloom with luminous flowers. Of course, there are also the rarely seen luminous mushrooms.

Apart from that, the only other luminous object left here is the little goblin who likes to sleep soundly on the pond stones where the lady sat.

Every time that guy comes over, he will see him sleeping freely in various positions. But when Kil makes a little noise on the edge of the pond, it will wake up immediately, and then there will be little movements of the goblin.

He picked some leaves from somewhere and flew them in the air towards Kil. While Kil was resting here, he secretly pulled out some small luminous flowers that the moss had worked so hard to bloom and put them in Kil's hair. It would also do tricks. Get some suspicious glowing mushrooms and secretly replace the contents of Keel's pocket with these.

Regardless of the fact that when Keel was out of his dream, the mushroom in his pocket could not bring out the lady's dream.

This prank didn't happen until Keel touched his money bag while shopping and found that his money bag was empty.

After entering dreamland again the next day, Kil found the missing coins in his box.

Of course, that abominable goblin doesn't like human coins. It only has a special liking for elf coins. It either sits on the elf coins floating in the air and flies around, or uses those things as weapons to attack while Kil is sitting. When he is in a daze by the pond, throw small elf coins at him.

This time too, when Keir came to the pond, the guy was indeed sprawled out, lying on his back on the rocks in the pond, sleeping soundly.

In the quiet pond, except for the sound of the water of memories flowing downstream, the only sound left is its breathing.

Not wanting to wake up the little thing, Kil walked over gently and put the wooden box down as silently as possible. Then he came to the wooden shelf in the open space by the pond and touched all the items on the shelf with satisfaction. Covered in metal armor.

Without anyone watching, Kil took off his clothes, leaving only a piece of close-fitting clothing and pants, and then put on the close-fitting inner armor made for this suit of armor.

Maybe it was the sound of Kiel's dressing that woke up the little goblin. Even though Kiel had tried his best to be as gentle as possible, the annoying little guy woke up after a while, smacking his lips, and then smiled mischievously. Then, it flew over in a swaying manner.

It wanted to help Kil get a glove, but as it was no bigger than a hand, it couldn't pick up a metal glove with the entire back of the palm covered with steel armor.

"Useless guy." Kil was not polite and directly laughed at it.

He knew that although this little thing couldn't speak, he could fully understand the common language of the empire.

The beard of the little goblin stood up in anger as he was laughed at.

Although its body strength is very small, not much bigger than a stronger mouse, this guy's magic power is bottomless. It flew up with a cry, and then searched in the vest pocket, but couldn't find anything suitable.

Then it whistled, "Whoops!" and a large, glowing snail shell flew over in a circle.

Keir has seen this thing before. It seems to be a goblin's mount or it comes with a house.

The little fairy crashed into the snail shell, kicked and rummaged around inside for a while, and then emerged from the snail shell again.

This time it held a 'wooden stick' the size of a toothpick.

The little goblin felt proud for a while, then waved his staff neatly, jumped up on his feet and pointed the staff.

Wow!

The gloves that Kil was about to put on stood up in the air.

The long staff swung again, and then the metal glove flew up and hit Kil directly in the face.

"Hey!" Kil screamed, and immediately raised his arm to block the 'attack' of this thing. He caught the metal glove flying in the air with one hand, and then neatly put it on his hand, covering the wrist and forearm of the glove. Hook the metal buckle and close it tightly.

The little thing stared at Keir angrily.

Kil shrugged and tentatively reached for the neck armor.

Sure enough, as expected, the metal neck armor placed at the other end of the wooden shelf did not require him to go over and pick it up. It directly followed the goblin's 'long staff' and whirled towards him.

It looked like it was going to cover Kil's face directly.

How could he make it happen? Kil opened his palms and used his metal gloves to block the flying neck armor.

It's still a little dangerous if you take it empty-handed. After all, his flesh and blood can't compete with metal.

Unlike Knight Crow, who can easily defeat a bull with his bare hands, metal in general is no different than noodles in his hands.

Holding the neck armor tightly, Kil shook it at the goblin and said thank you.

This completely pissed off the little goblin who wanted to cause trouble.

The angrier it gets, the less it can see that Kil is using it as a tool.

So, when it angrily pushed its treasured 'wooden staff' to the ground and turned away from Kiel, it only took one-third of the usual time to put on this complicated outfit. The full-coverage metal armor is officially worn on the body.

Saying goodbye to the goblin who ignored him, Kil disappeared here in the blink of an eye.

After the little goblin was sulking alone for a while, he rolled his eyes and placed his curiosity on a wooden box that Kiel had just moved.

It has played with all of Kiel’s things here, and this new thing will definitely be able to play with for a while.

-

Kiel lay on his back in the narrow tent, his whole body motionless on the ground.

The originally silent environment was suddenly replaced by a noisy night camp.

The militiamen who chatted and spanked, the guards who practiced martial arts at night, the Knight Crow guards who hummed songs and did nothing, and the boring guys who were envious and curious about what the knight's manor was like.

All of this, accompanied by the crackling sound of firewood lighting the brazier, poured into Kil's ears.

Not only that, the air that was originally cold but filled with moss and flowers was suddenly replaced by the smell of dog skin bedding with a sour smell.

Keir even wanted to cough twice for a moment.

My nose is still a little uncomfortable with this change.

‘It would be better if it was outdoors. 'Kiel thought so.

In addition, there were other uncomfortable feelings, but he couldn't describe them. Some are similar to the air pressure suddenly felt by the skin, or the mysterious and mysterious operation of various divine powers in the body.

These feelings have appeared since the sixth-level protection badge of the Saturn that could heal him was destroyed by the werewolf Wolf.

He had some guesses about this. After all, without discussing the big difference between dreams and reality, let's just say that the environments in the two places are also different.

The weather is getting hotter now, but the environment in the dream seems to have remained unchanged.

What it was like before, what it is like now.

"It is indeed a special space created by humans. Well, it feels really special and ordinary at the same time."

He was talking to himself like this.

Then he swung his arms randomly in the tent, causing the tent to sway. After waiting for a while, he put the weapons and cloak on the armor, then opened the buttons of the tent, and slowly moved the armor he was wearing all over. come out.

The two guards who were sitting idle at the door of Knight Crow's tent suddenly opened their eyes wide. They stared at the metallic iron-gray metal armor on Kil's body.

"Kiel! Is this the armor you are talking about? It's awesome!"

"Really, it's really good. Of course, it's still a little worse than adults. But it also looks very strong! Come and let me touch it."

It was said that they were touching, but in fact, the two of them hit various parts of the armor with their fists, making a crisp sound.

"This armor is so thick. You are really willing to spend money to find a craftsman to make it."

"Yes, it must have cost a lot of money, right? If I had this armor, I could give it as a heirloom to my family!"

Keir was beaming as he listened to the compliments of these two guys.

He raised his head and said excitedly in a pretentious tone: "Ahem, you two, Mr. Crow is still waiting for me. Please give way, please give way."

"Shit! You must wear it for me tomorrow and feel good!"

"That's right, otherwise we will hold you back and not let you go!"

Kil couldn't stand it anymore: "Hahaha, we'll talk about it tomorrow, we'll talk about it tomorrow. It's all just trivial. Let me go over and join the Lord Knight first!"

Hearing what Kil said, the two of them let go of their hands in envy and hatred, and let Kil strode out.