Knight and Wand

Chapter 38 Jedi Rescue
In a cottage hidden in the corner of the alley, the three of them looked out the window at the big house behind the open space in the village market.

A noble knight wearing plate armor and holding a halberd and an axe, along with two servants wearing chain mail, were guarding the door.

Not long ago, a group of Kantardars came out of the big house, led by a nobleman wearing very eye-catching armor and robes. No one knows where the nobleman and his soldiers have gone now.

Not long after they left, several people saw two soldiers carefully carrying the old blacksmith's body and bringing him into the big house.

It looks like Olivia is still in the big house.

After all, to hear Azerien relay the conversation between the pockmarked cavalrymen, these guys were threatening Olivia to surrender by using the old blacksmith's life.

If the girl had met with an accident, they would definitely not let the old blacksmith live.

Leon and others felt relieved after guessing that Olivia was not in danger of life for the time being.

But the question is, how are they supposed to get in now?
Looking at the majestic heavily-armored knight with halberd at the door, and the equally fully-armored cavalry attendants beside him, Leon was in a dilemma.

A large tin can and two small tin cans.

If they were ordinary Kantardar soldiers wearing iron-covered chain mail, they might be able to go up and fight.

But the tall knight like an iron tower at the door seemed really difficult to deal with.

The knight holding the halberd was covered in heavy armor all over his body. When the fight really started, Leon didn't know where to cut.

The long sword and bow in his hand could not cause any damage to the knight's thick plate armor.

Besides, who knows if there are other guards in the big house guarding the girl? What if the fight disturbs the soldiers that may be inside and forces them to directly hurt Olivia? Wouldn't it be a waste of risk?

"Do you have any good ideas to lure away those guards?"

Leon turned back to discuss countermeasures with his partners.

"How about I pretend to report to them that the Orland army has arrived outside the village? Trick them into gathering at the village entrance," Azerien suggested.

Leon crossed his arms and thought about the possibility of success of this plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but still shook his head.

"I think the Kantadar noble who left earlier is the leader. Since the knight at the door was left behind to guard Olivia, he probably won't leave his post on his own initiative. If he asks you to report military intelligence to that noble, we will be exposed."

"How about we go around to the back of the big house and secretly set a fire?" Lockhart suggested.

The boy remembered that in the heroic stories of the bards, the protagonists always rescued their friends from prison in this way.

Azerien immediately rejected Lohak's plan: "Let's not talk about whether we can set the house on fire. Even if we can, these Kantardars will not bother to put out the fire. Even if the whole village is on fire, the worst they can do is take Miss Olivia and leave the village."

Leon nodded, indeed.

Moreover, if the noise gets out of hand and more soldiers come from all directions to check the situation, then there will be no chance at all.

The three of them talked and came up with several ways to deceive the guards, but after discussion they still felt that none of them were reliable.

As he was talking, Leon, who was at a loss, suddenly felt a slight rumbling of hunger in his stomach.

He had not eaten for almost ten hours from yesterday evening until now. Coupled with the intense exercise when he killed the Kantadar soldiers before, it was normal for him to feel hungry now.

Leon looked around and saw that the village house had been ransacked and turned into a mess. Even the breakfast on the table, which the original owner and his family had not had time to enjoy, was turned upside down by the invading Kantadar soldiers.

There were teeth marks on a few slices of brown rye bread, and it was unclear whether they were left by the missing original owner or by the thugs.

Just as he was about to ask his companions to fill their stomachs with the food on the table, Leon suddenly had an idea.

"I got it!" He thought of a plan that might be able to get away with it.

At the entrance of the village house.

The knight holding the halberd at the door lifted the belt at the bottom edge of the breastplate, stretched his heavy feet, and his neck felt a little sore.

(Uriah) "Master, there is a box in the corner. Can you sit down for a while if I move it over?" the servant beside him asked attentively.

"Yeah." The knight nodded slightly. He was indeed a little tired.

I had been running all the way since my defeat on the battlefield, and I didn’t sleep well outside the village last night.

After conquering this broken village, he originally wanted to find a bed to have a good rest, but now he had to cheer up and guard the blonde girl in the house for the feudal lord until the other knights had rested and came to take over.

To be honest, he really didn't understand the lord's temperament.

The girl was very pretty, but the Baron was not short of beautiful women. Besides, when he escaped back to Kantadar, he would have all the toys he wanted.

What situation have you found yourself in now? You are trapped in the enemy country and don’t know where to go, yet you still want to play with women?
Especially such a dangerous girl.

He has heard that there were unlucky guys in the army who had their penises bitten off when they were raping women. Isn't Lord Duosen afraid that the girl will take the opportunity to castrate him in bed?

Even the weakest girl can crush a man's fragile handle, let alone a female swordsman who can defeat a powerful knight with a real sword handle.

Mamer is still lying in bed, and I don't know if his leg can be saved. I hope those guys in Atias robes can cure him when we go back. I really don't know what to say.

With unexpressible complaints and grumbles in his heart, the knight with the halberd walked to the wooden box brought by the servant and sat down. He leaned against the doorpost and felt a little more comfortable.

"Mercenaries, stop!"

The servant in front of the house stopped the three hired cavalrymen who were approaching with a contemptuous attitude.

"Huh?" The halberd-wielding knight looked over and saw several mercenaries coming to the door of the big house.

One person was holding a plate with a rich feast of eggs, bread, and cheese on it.

There were two people next to them, one carrying a kettle and the other carrying a small wine barrel.

"What are you doing here?" The knight asked the three mercenaries with his head held high and a proud voice without standing up.

".The Baron was worried that the girl was hungry, so he asked us to bring some food and drink over."

Azerien, who was holding the plate, tried to relax his tone and lowered his body respectfully. Fortunately, the helmet and mask concealed the nervousness of the noble boy at the moment.

The knight holding the halberd sighed, thinking that the lord really cared about the girl and sent her food and drink with such concern. He himself was loyal and worked hard to kill the enemies but was not blessed with such care.

The servant at the door looked at his knight master for instructions.

The halberd-wielding knight waved to the attendant and said jokingly, "Open the door. Don't let that little beauty get hungry and become skinny~."

The two servants received the master's sarcastic order and pushed open the door while holding back their laughter.

Leon glanced secretly into the house from behind the mask.

What disappointed him was that he didn't see Olivia. There were corners on both sides of the village house, and the girl might be further behind.

The three men were about to walk into the big house, but were immediately stopped by the knight with the shaft of his halberd.

Leon, who was following behind Azerien, froze in his joyful mood.

"Sir?" Azerien asked carefully.

"Okay, we don't need you here, just give the things to my servants and let's go." The halberd-wielding knight drove them away lazily. Although Leon didn't understand what the Kantadar knight said to the leader Azerien, it was obvious that the other party's attitude of stopping them was very clear.

This impromptu plan seemed to go as planned.

After hearing the words of the halberd-wielding knight, Azerien's expression twitched slightly behind his helmet mask.

He knew very well that Leon's reason for sending food was the most appropriate excuse he could find.

If they just handed the food to the servant to pass on, the three of them would have no more reasonable reason to approach here.

It is said that people are forced to do things. Azerien suddenly came up with an idea.

He handed the food in his hand to Leon who was holding the kettle, then snatched the small wine barrel from Lohak's hand, and humbly saluted the knight with the halberd with both hands.

"Sir, I poured some beer from this village to try earlier. It tastes really good. You may as well accept it."

The knight couldn't help but raise an eyebrow: "What do you mean?"

"Actually, the three of us volunteered to help deliver food and drinks. We heard that the girl had killed several of our brothers, so we wanted to come over and see what kind of person that girl is."

Azerien said this, fearing that the other party would misunderstand his disguised identity as a mercenary and was obsessed with sex, so he quickly waved his hand.

"I really don't have any other ideas. We definitely won't touch her. We just want to see what she looks like. My brother and I made a bet that she must look like a witch with eight eyes and four legs."

The knight holding the halberd weighed the wine barrel. Although he would definitely look down on such inferior wine under normal circumstances, he was still on the run and it was good enough to have something to drink.

Looking at the mercenary in front of him with his shoulders raised and his head shrunk, even though he hadn't taken off his helmet and his appearance couldn't be seen, he felt that he liked him a lot better.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. If she really had eight eyes and four legs, the Baron would have killed her long ago. Why would he keep her here until now? Go in, but don't stay too long. As for touching her? If you are brave and not afraid of death, you can give it a try."

The knight with the halberd laughed secretly. If these three useless mercenaries had the strength to touch the girl, the Baron would have promoted them all to knights of the inner court and recruited them as his colleagues.

Azerien thought the other party was just threatening or warning him, and nodded quickly, tilting his head back and motioning for Leon and Lohak to follow.

Leon listened to the chattering between his companion and the knight. When he saw the other party finally raised his halberd and let him go, his tense heart relaxed again.

Carrying food and a kettle into the big house, Leon walked around the corner, looked around, and finally saw Olivia in the corner.

To be honest, although he felt very sorry for the girl, he had actually prepared himself mentally for the worst-case scenario, perhaps to see some very bad scenes.

It's not his fault that he has such a stupid mind. After all, given the low morals of the Kantadar army, there's no way they would let go of a beautiful girl like Olivia.

But the truth surprised him greatly.

The girl's clothes were neatly arranged at this moment. Apart from her rather depressed expression, her hands and feet were not even tied up.

Even in her hand, she was holding a bloodstained two-handed sword.

Even the weapons were not removed!

How did this girl negotiate with those brutal Kantardars in such a way and with such an attitude that she received such preferential treatment?

Seeing this scene, he even wondered for a moment whether the other party really needed him to save him.

It was not until he saw old Brian the blacksmith lying on a sack mat in the corner, dying, that he was sure again that the girl was indeed trapped there.

Obviously, no matter how powerful her swordsmanship and negotiation skills were, it would be impossible for her to escape with her seriously injured and unconscious old father.

The blonde girl looked with indifferent eyes at the three "Kantadar soldiers" who suddenly came in.

"Get out. I told you I need some time alone."

Olivia warned in a voice as cold as ice.

She completely ignored the food in the other person's hand. The girl thought she was not stupid enough to accept the food sent by the villain. Who knows if there was something mixed in it.

Bending down to put down the food and water in his hands, Leon raised his head and whispered the other person's name.

"It's me, Olivia."

As he spoke, he turned a corner away from the sight of the Kantardars outside the house and lifted the mask that was covering his face.

"! Lai."

"Shh~" Leon quickly raised his finger to signal her to be quiet.

The girl quickly closed her lips, her eyes flashing with disbelief.

She tried hard to swallow the sound in her throat, and then looked at the two people beside Leon who raised their masks one after another. As expected, they were the other two friends from other places.

Leon glanced at the old blacksmith lying on the sack, and with a serious face, he stepped forward and leaned close to the other person's ear, whispering to the girl as quickly as possible:
"Listen, Olivia, we don't have much time, so I'll just make it short. We have three horses hidden not far from the village house. We can take you and your father away with us. The problem is that the three of us can't defeat the guards outside.

You must tell me honestly, if you force your way in, can you beat that tin can? If you can, what are your chances of winning? How long will it take? We can help you hold back the other two servants."

The girl's ears felt a little hot from the warm breeze blowing from Leon's rapid words.

But she shook her head as if awakened, and quickly shook off the strange mood and distracting thoughts, and answered solemnly in a low voice:

"If that man's martial arts skills are similar to the knight I defeated before, then I have a 60 to 70 percent chance of defeating him. However, it is difficult to predict the time of victory or defeat. He has already been prepared for my martial arts skills, and the long halberd also makes it difficult for me to get close to him and perform half-sword skills.

Unless I can get a mace with a properly long handle, I really can't finish the fight any time soon."

At this point, the girl looked directly at Leon, her green eyes revealing a guilty look: “I’m sorry.”

The girl, feeling powerless, felt extremely guilty towards the three friends who risked their lives to rescue her.

She has lost too many familiar folks in the village today. No matter what, the girl doesn't want these three friends who came for justice to die because of her.

After understanding the current situation, Olivia quickly made a proposal to Leon with a higher chance of success.

"How about I help you block the guards at the door and attract their attention, and you can take my father out directly."

After saying that, the girl gave a forced smile: "Don't worry about me, that noble Kantadar didn't want to kill me, that's why I'm still alive today. Anyway, as long as you and my father can leave safely..."

"Okay, stop talking and think of other ways."

Leon frowned and helplessly interrupted the girl's plan.

There were some things he really couldn't say at the moment, both because of the reality and because they might hurt the girl's feelings.

After all, these three people are not righteous supermen.

Whether it was himself, Lohak, or Azerien, everyone was willing to sneak in at the risk of death, and the person they wanted to save from the beginning to the end was the kind-hearted girl in front of them. They recognized that the friend who was worth their efforts was Olivia, not her father.

If she cannot be rescued, the purpose of this operation will be completely reversed.

With his mind racing, Leon suddenly looked up and asked politely and bluntly:
".You just said that the nobleman was very interested in you, right?"

He seemed to have another idea.

(End of this chapter)