Chapter 205: No more than one minute (two chapters in one)
In the carriage, Ryan was talking to Veronica about horse breeds with great interest.
For Ryan, this was new knowledge.
Veronica introduced: "'Jenny Horse' is of medium size, flexible in running, and has good endurance. It is the horse used by ordinary gentry for hunting or light cavalry combat. 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 'Jenny Horse' is more docile and runs lightly."
Ryan recalled the horses he saw at John's horse farm in Shining Gold Town.
Indeed, judging from the body shape, they all seemed to be this type of horse.
It seems that as Veronica said, the so-called 'Jenny Horse' should be the most common horse breed in the empire.
"But Sir Ryan, although your black horse can still barely show traces of 'Jenny Horse' from its body shape, if an ordinary person talks about it, they will definitely think it is 'Lock Horse'."
Without waiting for Ryan to ask, Veronica took the initiative to introduce 'Lock Horse'.
"'Lock Horse' was bred by the Empire in Rock County, and is specially used for heavy cavalry or fully armed knights to charge. It has strong load-bearing capacity and fast sprinting speed, but its flexibility is relatively poor."
"In addition, it is expensive to buy, and it is rarely circulated outside. It is generally used by nobles, formal knights or heavy cavalry."
"'Lock Horse' is about the same height and muscularity as your black horse."
Ryan nodded, indicating that he understood.
No wonder when he was fully armed at the time, he clearly felt that the 'Black Pearl' under his crotch, which had not yet mutated, was very strenuous, and he was out of breath after a slight sprint.
It was not until the 'Black Pearl' mutated that it was much better.
At this time, a small emerald green bird suddenly landed outside the carriage, walked into the carriage, and jumped in front of Veronica, chirping a few times.
Veronica frowned and said, "Sir Ryan, there seems to be an enemy ambush ahead."
Hearing this, Ryan frowned, and then relaxed his brows and said, "I didn't expect that I would encounter a roadblock when I was almost at the fishing port town."
Ryan concentrated his senses and saw that there seemed to be a lot of people not far ahead.
However ,
their strength should not be strong.
The lv3 level of danger perception only gave him a vague warning.
Although this kind of enemy can be completely handed over to this team of elite navy to deal with.
However, Ryan thought about it and decided to go down and take a look. If
nothing else, he planned to use Kadar boxing to fight the enemy, and there should be a small amount of experience points reward.
"No matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is still meat."
If Kadar's boxing skills can be upgraded to level 6 during this trip to the fishing port, he can spend less skill points.
Seeing Ryan holding the door handle and preparing to get off the carriage, Major Marika couldn't help but say in surprise: "Sir Ryan, are the enemies ahead so strong? Do you need to take action yourself?"
You know, the twelve cavalrymen she brought this time are really not ordinary cavalrymen.
Among them, two are formal knights, and the remaining ten are well-trained and well-coordinated quasi-knights, which can be regarded as a standard naval elite team.
Generally, a bandit group of thirty or forty people can almost solve the battle without injury.
"That's not the case, I just sat for a long time and wanted to move a little." Ryan shook the plate armor gauntlet in his hand and said.
Hmm?
This made the two women look at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while.
Watching Ryan open the door and walk down, Veronica nudged Marica with her elbow and said, "Is Lord Ryan like this before? He seems like a battle maniac."
Marica's eyes were a little confused. After thinking for a while, she shook her head slightly.
"Before? I don't think so."
"Let's go down and take a look. You've said so much about Baron Ryan before, how strong his fighting power is, and so on. It's a good opportunity to take a look."
Obviously, Veronica was a little skeptical about what Mary had said before, that Ryan was very strong in fighting. After all, as a third-level wizard apprentice, the concept of being very strong in fighting was completely different from Marica's.
This time, when she heard that she could watch it live, Veronica was slightly excited and pulled Marica down the carriage.
After receiving Veronica's signal, the cavalry stopped and began to be on guard.
Just as the two leading knights were preparing to fight, they didn't expect the carriage to suddenly open, and Baron Ryan carrying a sword and hammer actually walked down.
The two official knights of the navy looked at each other and were about to say something to Ryan.
With a whoosh, Ryan's figure flashed and disappeared.
This made the two of them look a little dull for a while, not knowing whether to be alert or to help in the battle.
When Ryan got off the carriage, in the woods on both sides of the road not far away, Tie Gou was blaming the thin man who was in charge of reconnaissance.
"Why is there an extra knight?" Tie Gou looked at him dissatisfied and said.
"This... I don't know either, Tie Gou, with our strength, it won't be a problem to take on one more official knight, right?"
"The problem is that there is no problem, but some brothers may get hurt." Tie Gou glanced at Ryan and answered confidently.
His judgment was based on the fact that this was most likely a knight of a noble family, 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 was worrying.
Because liking to ride in a carriage is one of the typical characteristics of a knight of aristocratic family.
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 at it, and immediately had an expression as if they had seen a ghost.
The bright silver figure that was supposed to be standing in front of the carriage came to the back of their team for some reason.
Moreover, the other party was carrying a weapon on his back, but he did not take it off. He dealt with most of the people with just his hands.
Tie Gou was stunned, and then his face changed drastically. The enemy's strength was very different from what he expected. The other party was probably not a peak knight, and was not the noble knight he had thought of before.
He immediately started running 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 in his heart. He looked sideways and found 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!
Just as Tie Gou was preparing to attack, Ryan's figure disappeared in front of him the next second.
"Bang Bang Bang!"
Tie Gou immediately held his abdomen with both hands and twitched on the ground, like a prawn that kept jumping on the shore.
Ryan did not choose to kill him.
This area is very close to the fishing port town.
The appearance of this group of people on the other side 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 help to get the latest information.
When Ryan returned to the carriage, the two women had just gotten off the carriage for less than half a minute.
Veronica looked around but didn't see Ryan. She turned around and asked the knight who was on alert.
"Where is Lord Ryan?"
"Here." 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 of him, so he pointed and said, "It's right 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 to them.
"Lord 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.
The bright silver armor on Ryan's body was still shiny and new. They couldn't see any blood, and even the two weapons on his back didn't have any blood.
This.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment!
"By the way, who is better at interrogation?"
"The other party should be a pirate. 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 looked at the cavalrymen beside him, and asked.
"Pirates?"
Marika's eyes were stern, and she turned to look at a young knight beside her, and said, "Frado, interrogation should be your strong point. You should be able to pry out the information we need from their mouths, right?"
"Of course, Major Marika, leave it to me."
The young knight named Frado, although he was puzzled 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 would appear 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 ones who were still alive and moaning were a bearded man with a broken left hand and an iron hook, and a thin man.
However, when several cavalrymen were cleaning up the pirates' bodies, they soon discovered something unusual. Most of the 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 was only one possibility for this situation.
That was being hit hard by heavy weapons, such as sledgehammers.
But during the interrogation, they were horrified!
From the mouths of 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 level of formal knights, plus more than 20 elite pirates!
It seems that Major Marika's previous description of Baron Ryan was still a bit implicit.
Ryan, who was next to 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 Boxing has reached level 5 (204/2000), the progress has reached one-tenth, Ryan nodded slightly in his heart.
Sure enough, no matter how small the mosquito leg is, it is still meat.
If there are a few more pirates, the progress is estimated to reach a quarter, or even a third.
It's just a pity that such blind people are still a minority after all.
Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
Five minutes later, the interrogation was over, and the young knight named Frodo came to report.
However, the look he frequently gave to Ryan was obviously different from before. It was a look of admiration and worship.
He just reported: "Major Marika, Baron Ryan, Miss Veronica, the interrogation has just ended."
"The other party is a small elite group of the Black Sail Pirates, responsible for robbing caravans on both sides of the road west of the fishing port town."
"According to the description of the leader named Iron Hook, their Black Sail Pirates and two other small pirate groups have previously divided their spheres of influence on several other roads in and out of the fishing port town, and each of them has sent people to rob."
"And the person in charge of this matter is their deputy leader Phil Kraz."
"Phil Kraz?" Marika's face condensed.
"Yes, Major Marika." The young knight nodded, also looking solemn.
Seeing Ryan's slightly puzzled look, Marika introduced:
"Phil Kratz, deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates, a senior knight, good at archery, unknown age, a rare sharpshooter among pirates, nicknamed 'Bloody Shooter'."
Ryan was stunned.
It seems that Marika did a good job of preparation before coming to Meister County. She actually knows so much about the Black Sail Pirates. It can be said that she knows everything about it.
"It seems that we have caught the tail of a big fish." Veronica said excitedly.
"That's right! Originally, I was going to start with a spy planted in a small pirate group, Roger's Pirates, and slowly try to find several large pirate groups and the strongholds of the Poseidon Cult."
"Unexpectedly, now we have directly caught the tail of the large pirate group, the Black Sail." Marika also looked happy.
Hearing this, Ryan thought for a moment and asked a question. In fact, he had wanted to ask this question before:
"Major Marika, why doesn't the Navy plant spies directly in those large pirate groups? Wouldn't it be more convenient in this way?"
Marika shook her head and said, "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't."
"Basically, large pirate groups usually have one or two mysterious professions and practice witchcraft such as mind-confusion. When new pirates join, they will be screened and can easily identify spies."
"Although we have the means to interfere, there are still certain risks."
"But small pirate groups don't have such people. If spies sneak in, it will be much safer."
"I see." Ryan nodded to show that he understood.
According to the previous Bloodsail Pirates, it should be true.
When he was carrying out the canonization mission, the fortune teller and captain of the "Shipwreck", Mara Nasr, was killed. He was a senior knight and a second-level wizard apprentice who mastered the "waterweed divination technique."
But soon, Marika showed hesitation.
"Hmm? Major Marika, isn't this a good thing? Is there any difficulty?" Ryan asked.
"Well, this Phil is good at long-range attacks. If you want to deal with him, Veronica's witchcraft may not have an advantage. And, I see your weapons are also..." Marika looked at the two heavy weapons on Ryan's back and said.
Ryan suddenly realized.
Generally speaking, facing a senior knight like Phil who is good at archery, the safest way to deal with the opponent is naturally a knight holding a sword shield or a hammer shield, who can use the shield to effectively resist the opponent's sharp arrow attack.
But what he carried behind him was either a two-handed warhammer or a two-handed greatsword, which naturally caused Marika's concern.
As for Veronica, if the opponent is a relatively single-minded expert in bird transformation, Ryan guessed that this should be restrained by this "bloody archer".
After all, as long as the opponent's shooting speed is fast enough and the power is strong enough, no matter how many transformed birds there are, they are just moving targets.
However, Veronica obviously did not agree with Marika's judgment. Her ponytails jumped and she said, "Major Marika, you underestimate me too much. I am just a senior knight. Even if the opponent is a sharpshooter,
he will never be my opponent." "Even my Big White can't beat him!"
"Big White?" Ryan looked puzzled.
"It is a white-feathered owl that I bred. The wingspan is four meters." Veronica spread her hands and gestured the size.
"But its combat power is only comparable to that of a senior knight. When it encounters such a sharpshooter, even if you add defensive witchcraft to Big White, it will not last long."
Marika pointed out without hesitation that what Veronica said was just her assumption.
"Who said that!!!" Veronica blushed and looked at Marika angrily.
"Okay, Veronica, if you act like a child again, I will tell Master Enius when I go back."
"You" Hearing that Marika was going to complain, Veronica was immediately discouraged. She lowered her head in a slightly embarrassed manner, fiddling with the hem of her outer robe, and stopped talking.
But Veronica was not angry with Marika. She knew that Marika was telling the truth, and it was Marika's concern for her.
If Dabai were to go, it would be very risky.
Unlike those white seagulls, if Dabai died, as an important contracted creature, it would cause considerable damage to his mental power.
At this time, Ryan, who had been listening for a while, spoke up.
"Major Marika, if the other party is just a senior knight, I think it should be no problem to let me deal with it."
Marika glanced at Ryan and saw that he had a calm expression, without any reluctance or worry. She knew that Ryan had strong confidence in his own strength.
She nodded, but still reminded Ryan: "Baron Ryan, although the opponent is only a senior knight, he has a record of killing top knights, so are you sure you can do it?"
"Yes, Major Marika."
"If Baron Ryan is responsible for the battle, then the reconnaissance task will be left to me!"
Veronica didn't see Ryan's battle just now, and was quite disappointed.
Now hearing that Ryan wanted to kill Phil, the deputy leader of the Black Sail Pirates, nicknamed "Bloody Shooter", she swept away her previous unhappiness and said with a little excitement.
"Of course, Veronica, this still requires the help of your witchcraft." Marika said with a smile.
"Well, Major Marika, 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 a total of five places." The knight Frodo who was in charge of the interrogation pointed out the approximate locations one by one.
Veronica nodded, indicating that she understood.
She only heard her chant an unknown spell, and a few seconds later, more than a dozen white seagulls flew in the sky. After circling 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, one after another, and flew straight into the sky, flying to different directions of the fishing port town.
Ryan looked at the scene in front of him with a little 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 trainer, "Eye of the Beast".
[Core Skill: Eye of the Beast (Active)]
Eye of the Beast (Active) Effect: Control the beasts under your command and observe the surrounding environment with its vision.
In other words, he does not need to wait for the return of the white seagulls like Veronica to know the enemy situation, but can observe and understand the enemy situation in almost real time.
The next time was spent in waiting.
Because they were worried that entering the fishing port town would alert the enemy, but staying there would also be too conspicuous, the group mounted their horses and continued to slowly move towards the fishing port town, but deliberately slowed down their speed, waiting for the results of Veronica's bird reconnaissance .
About ten minutes later.
The white seagulls began to return one after another.
"Chiji! Gugu!" The white seagulls flapped their wings and came to Veronica one by one. They looked at her for a few seconds and then flapped their wings again and left.
After the white seagulls finished their reports.
Veronica thought for a while and said, "We have scouted five places, and four of them are as the pirate leader said, there is an elite pirate near the location."
"However, Phil, the 'bloody shooter', does not seem to be at that location. I don't know if it is covered or for other reasons. The feedback from the white seagulls said that there is no sign of human activity below."
Hmm?
This made Marika hesitate for a while.
After all, her previous plan was to capture the leader first. When she found the Bloody Shooter Phil, the team went there directly. With the cooperation of Ryan and Veronica, she believed that the Bloody Shooter Phil would not make any waves.
But now.
Ryan thought about it and suggested: "Why don't we start from these four points and clean them all up. Maybe we can get some new information from them."
"Will this alert the enemy? After all, our team is quite conspicuous when we take action." Marika didn't seem to agree.
"I can do it alone. Normally, according to the speed of the Black Pearl, one hour should be enough to go around like this."
"Sir Ryan, did you underestimate the time it takes to kill the enemy?" Veronica asked with a little doubt.
"Forget it, three minutes per point should be enough."
"It only takes three minutes to kill a group of elite pirates? This is really a bit exaggerated." Veronica's beautiful eyes widened and she was amazed.
"No, it normally only takes half a minute to kill, at most, no more than a minute. The remaining two minutes are for interrogation." Ryan thought for a moment and answered seriously.
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