Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1182 1164. Shipwreck in river

The local knight and his followers watched everyone get on the boat, and not a single mercenary escaped.

And the river barge untied the fixed ropes tied to the ferry's wooden piles and began to move forward in the river. Only then did it breathe a sigh of relief, and it was considered that it had completely completed its work.

The knight, whose leather straps on his armor could barely stretch, pulled his horse's head and turned to leave, looking rather reluctantly at Sakia, who was standing on the bow of the ship and looking into the distance.

This ship must have been chartered by Siward. A group of mercenaries and warriors with clanking armor and fierce looks came up. The captain who was driving the ship didn't even raise his eyelids.

As an adult, he ran a boat on the Pontar River and saw a lot of things in the world. This certainly did not surprise him.

Several mercenaries wanted to chat with the captain to see if they could find out some extra information.

But the captain only focused on sailing the boat, chewing a dried fish fillet in his mouth, as if he didn't see anyone around him at all.

So the mercenaries who couldn't ask anything were unhappy, but they couldn't do anything to the captain on the ship. They could only spit at the side and walk away cursing.

The Ember Knights were different from the scattered mercenaries. All ten of them stood around their horses and their own baggage, holding long swords in their hands.

There was a significant difference from the mercenaries next to them. The mercenaries seemed to feel this incompatible atmosphere, so most of them walked around the Ember Knights.

Qilin didn't want to be crowded with a group of horses, so he ran away at the ferry.

The group of people were startled by the Qilin who ran away on his own, and the flannel ball that jumped off the Qilin and ran to Lan En's side.

But it was just a shock.

There are so many strange things and unseen species in this world. I heard that in Sidaris, people also discovered a mermaid kingdom that built a palace on the seabed in the offshore area.

A knight from Sidaris even married a mermaid there who had lost her tail.

Pragmatic mercenaries and warriors accept these things quickly, just like Geralt and Berengar. Or perhaps the romantic Dandelion accepted it quickly.

Those who want to get to the bottom of things are mostly scholars or professors.

"I have to say," Linbuqiu stood next to Lan En, and the two kittens spread their paws helplessly, "They look really unfriendly, meow."

"I obviously took the initiative to say hello to them, meow~"

In fact, as soon as the kitten jumped out of Qilin's mane and ran to Lan En, he greeted the others warmly.

But most people were just startled when they saw a large calico cat wearing armor and a long sword, and could talk.

Then he didn't respond, he just frowned and stayed away from the deck area where Lan En and Fluffy Ball were.

Show an attitude of not intending to get involved.

This was a bit of a shock to the flannel ball who greeted them enthusiastically.

The triangular ears on the kitten's head drooped.

"They are here to make money or fame." Lan En lowered his head and explained to the flannel ball, "They have clear goals and will try to avoid getting entangled with uncertain factors in the process."

I don't know if it was because the flannel ball didn't care, or because it accepted Lan En's explanation, but its mood quickly improved again.

"So we have to take a boat all the way to the river valley?"

The flannel ball jumped onto the bow railing of the barge, with its tail hanging down, and sat crouching, looking ahead.

It asked, but its little head did not look at Lan En behind it.

Instead, he looked to the side, the only mercenary who showed no resistance.

Sakia was standing at the bow of the boat, holding on to the railing and looking forward.

The flannel ball's sudden movement next to her did not scare her. Instead, she turned to look at El Cat with a slightly surprised expression.

It seems that she is more receptive to new things than the mercenaries.

"That's true." Facing an obviously inhuman race, Sakia said naturally and with an equal attitude, "I think Duke Siward should have camped near the ferry outside the river valley. ”

"We are the manpower he is waiting for now. Once we have the manpower gathered, it is time to go in and solve the problem."

She seems to like flannel balls.

The female warrior with dark blond hair stretched her arms and pointed at the front of the barge: "Our boat has been traveling for two hours, and the next ferry is not far ahead. But I think we won't stop like an ordinary barge."

On the right side of the river bank in front, there was a ferry covered with a small wooden sentry box and a layer of wooden boards laid on the wet river beach. I saw a scattered group of people walking around.

"If we don't stop all the way," Sakia thought for a moment, "I remember Knight Samaresh said that we can arrive before dinner."

Hearing this, Velvet Ball's tail hanging down from the railing swung a little more cheerfully.

The brave kitten is always eager for adventure.

But Lan En also stepped onto the bow of the barge at this time. He stood on the other side of the flannel ball, his tall body stretching his head and looking ahead.

"But it's hard to say now, fluff ball, Saskia."

"Um?"

"Meow?"

One person and one cat looked at Lan En in confusion at the same time.

The demon hunter said calmly: "There seems to be something wrong at the ferry in front."

Lane's observation was correct.

As their barge got closer and closer, the situation at the ferry not far ahead became increasingly clear.

When they got nearby, the people on their boat discovered that the people walking around on the wooden planks laid at the ferry were not civilian merchants carrying goods.

It was a sergeant with the emblem of the Principality of Elland printed on his clothes. "Don't pass by! Slow down! You have to slow down and stop the boat!"

A sergeant on horseback ran out of the ferry and came close to the barge and shouted to the ship.

The mercenaries immediately frowned, and some of the sensitive ones picked up their weapons.

But matters on the river and on the boat still require the captain's intervention.

The captain, holding a piece of dried fish in his mouth, frowned and walked away from the rudder, walked to the side of the ship and shouted back to the sergeant on the shore.

"Hey! What's going on? Didn't you get the notice? This is the ship that Duke Seeward approved with a note! It doesn't stop all the way!"

The wind and waves on the river were noisy, so the captain also developed the habit of howling loudly.

Before he shouted, he took off the dried fish and held it in his hand to prevent it from being sprayed out while speaking.

The reasons given by the mounted sergeant on the shore were quite reasonable and convincing.

The captain, who had the note personally approved by Duke Seeward, began to slow down without saying a word.

He only shouted one sentence.

"There is a sunken ship in the river ahead! Have you always wanted to feed the fish?"

Finally, under the captain's frantic emergency braking, the river barge stopped in front of the ferry.

A small boat was drawn out in the direction of the ferry and came to the barge in the center of the Pontal River.

The captain lowered a rope ladder and picked the man up.

That was also a sergeant.

But Lan En looked at his panting and bandaged body and confirmed that the man was not injured in the shipwreck.

This wound can only come from combat.

The first thing he did after boarding the ship was to ask for help from the captain.

"We know this is the ship chartered by the Duke, all the way. We were notified, but phew~"

He took a breath and continued.

"But if you want to get there quickly, you have to have manpower to help us clean up the river. The more manpower we have, the faster we can clean up. Is that the truth?"

The captain who pulled the man up and the mercenaries on the ship all looked ugly.

If they can't arrive at the agreed place as scheduled, they can't even think of getting full compensation. There may even be no pay, and the journey is in vain.

"Bah." The captain tilted his head and spat out a mouthful of dried fish residue. "It will take two days to clean up the sunken ships in the river, right?"

"Hey, our contract is over."

The captain lamented, but the sergeant's tone was not so optimistic.

"It won't take two days. The ship just sank and it's not big. Let's work together and we can clear it out soon."

But as soon as the sergeant finished speaking, Lan En came over from the bow of the ship and asked.

"It just sank, so it's not big yet?"

The tall figure approached, causing others to move away unconsciously.

"Then why did this kind of boat sink at the ferry? The hydrological environment here is very stable, right?"

"Wait. Who are you? Meritelli! What is this cat in armor?"

The sergeant's eyes widened with surprise.

But the captain asked impatiently: "Don't worry about those unimportant things. It's just a cat in armor. I've also seen a mermaid! Let me ask you a question! What is the situation at the ferry? This concerns dozens of us. remuneration!"

The sergeant scratched his head, looked at the mercenaries and captains who were surrounding him fiercely, and then looked at the velvet ball beside Lan En's legs that raised his little paw to greet him.

"Okay, the main thing is the Scoia'tael. They rushed out of the forest and attacked the ferry. The boat was sabotaged by man-made sabotage. Fortunately, there was only such a small boat parked on the ferry at that time, otherwise it would have been a real jam. Living."

After speaking, he looked around.

"Do you want someone to help? You are the ones who should be worried about this matter the most."

The sergeant was right, it was indeed the truth.

So in order to catch up with this mission from the Duke and get the reward.

After a few of the mercenaries cursed the Scoia'tael in low voices and angrily, they boarded the sergeant's boat and were taken to the shore to help clean up the river.

This boat went back and forth several times, taking many people aboard.

Lan En and the others also arrived on the shore together.

"In my opinion, the Scoia'tael here are too rampant. They are almost like Kaedwen!"

After landing, the mercenaries were chatting in low voices on the way to the ferry.

"But Temeria is actually pretty good to those non-human bastards, isn't it?"

"What's the use of saying this? Non-humans are a bunch of white-eyed wolves that cannot be trusted. This is just another proof. They should have been killed long ago."

(End of chapter)