Volume 3: The Vortex of Strife Chapter 180: Peace of Mind (II)
With the assistance of Big Nose Fan, Avi obtained information about Yoan from the "cat's nest" the next day, of course, as the information that the "cat" worked hard to find, Avi also paid ten gold coins, and now Avi has spent all his savings, and the money can't be said to be unimportant to Avi, but this time about Joan's affairs, he wants to take care of it to the end.
"Now that you know they're on a farm outside the city, what are you going to do? Are you going to persuade him to come back to class?"
"Didn't you say he needed more than a thousand gold coins? I can't think of any reason why he needed so many gold coins. In his room, Avi looked at the love note he had brought back from the "cat's den", which stated that John and his father were now living on a farm outside the city.
Fan, who had made a bunch of dolls, lay on the bed, he closed his eyes and said casually: "One gold coin is enough for ordinary people to eat and drink for several days, and twenty gold coins is the reward for a mercenary to complete a difficult task, and what your classmates need is a thousand gold coins!
Avi couldn't think of any reason, as a poor student of the Kestrel Academy, Joan had been running a bakery with the baker's father, so why did he need so many gold coins? With this question in mind, Avi left the city of Mallote alone and walked to a stream in the south of the city, where there were some cattle farms.
There weren't any Kingdom guards on this side, and Avi and the surroundings were in the dark, and there seemed to be some figures in the plains in the distance, but when Avi looked over there, he didn't see anything special.
When Avi approached a farm, the owner of the farm was patrolling around his farm with a dog.
"Boy, is there anything wrong with coming here so late?" the owner of the farm, who was holding up the oil lamp, looked at Avi.
"I've come to find someone, and I've heard that a young man named John and his father are living here temporarily. โ
"Joan... I seem to have heard of this name, it seems that I have just rented a wooden house, and I have only lived there for less than three days..."The owner of the farm pointed to the wooden houses in the distance, this farm has about a dozen or so wooden houses that seem to be raising livestock, "Why don't you look for it yourself, if you have something to do with it, come to me here." โ
Beside the owner of the farm, Avi walked in the direction he had indicated, and saw that most of the huts were warehouses, stacked with fodder or bales of hay. Even if you sell the bakery, you won't be able to live in this kind of place, Avi thought to herself.
Just as Avi was approaching the faint glow of the wooden house, Joan's figure appeared beside the stream. And when John saw Avi, Avi also saw John and a large bag of things on his back.
"Why are you here!?" Joan dropped the things on his back on the ground, then walked up quickly, grabbing the collar of Avi's clothes, "You're following me!?"
Avi didn't break free of the other party's hand, and said in a calm tone: "It was the head of the academy Dugol who asked me to come to you, and he said that if you don't return to the Kestrel Academy within a week to explain the situation to him, your degree will be expelled!"
There was a hint of hesitation in Ioann's fierce eyes, but he quickly tightened Avi's collar a little more, "I don't have time to pay attention to the Kestrel Academy right now! You tell the dean to go back to him, and tell him to postpone the deadline a little bit, and I'll go back when I'm done with my own business!"
Avi saw a hint of helplessness in Joan's eyes, the other party did not want to give up the degree of Kestrel Academy, and Joan obviously had something unspeakable.
Hearing the sound outside, Joan's father also walked out of the cabin, but Joan made a gesture so that his father did not have to come closer.
"Did you hear me!" Ioann whispered another warning to Avi, but this time Avi pushed Ioann's hand away without waiting for Ioann to finish speaking, as he saw three figures approaching in the distance behind Ioann.
Without saying a word, Avi pulled out the white lion sword that the eldest prince had given him, because with Avi's intuition, those three people approached him with hostility, and it was definitely not as simple as passing by by by chance!
Joan also reacted five seconds later, as a young military academy freshman, he also sensed that the comer was not good, "It's for you?" he immediately whispered to Avi, who was waiting for him.
"I don't know. Avi looked at the man on the far right, for the man's weapon had been revealed, it was a short axe, and the man with the axe was approaching faster than the other two.
John immediately shouted at his father, "Quick, come into the house!" But as soon as John finished speaking, a pitch-black iron crossbow arrow grazed through John's ear and shot directly at John's father's heart!
Joan's father covered his heart with his hand and slowly collapsed in front of the door of the cabin. Joan rushed at his father, but by this time the honest baker had already died.
"Get out of here! these people are killers!" Avi saw that the man who had pulled out the crossbow machine had stopped where he was, restocking his bolts.
The man in the middle kept a certain distance from Avi, and said in a loud voice: "Avi of Golden Hoof City! On behalf of the Captain of the Farrell Branch of the Knights of the Auguna Empire, we greet you, today is the day you accept the punishment!"
Farrell!Avi's mind flashed to Farrell, who regarded him as a mortal enemy, and at the same time he raised the white lion sword to block the first blow of the axe-wielding man! The swing of the short axe was so powerful that the white lion sword in Avi's hand was almost shaken off!
"Avi of Golden Hoof City, you've finally come out of Mallot, we've been waiting a long time... This is a greeting from Lord Talon. A familiar voice rang out, and at the same time Avi's ears was the sound of a crossbow bolt slicing through the air! An iron crossbow arrow flew past the head of an axe-wielding foe, striking Avi in the left shoulder!
The bolt didn't go into his shoulder, but grazed through the outer layer of flesh and fell to the ground, and the blood from Avi's shoulder quickly flowed to his arm. The axe-wielding man didn't give Avi any respite, and the mercenary-looking guy just scolded the guy behind him for a few words, and continued to attack Avi.
The sharp pain in his shoulder immediately reminded Avi of the owner of the voiceโthe Wood who had been his comrade in the Special Forces! The inquisitor who had thought he had died in the Battle of Doret! It was Wood who told him that Farrell already knew that Avi was still alive!
Avi clenched his teeth and waved his long sword with one hand, trying to find a way to escape while resisting the crazy attack of the axe-wielding man! But the current situation did not give Avi a chance to escape at all! One of the three people on the other side did not move at all, and Wood stood not far away with a light crossbow staring at him!
Suddenly, a bundle of hay flew from the cabin and smashed into the axe-wielding man's face, and at the moment when the axe-wielding man split the hay, Avi's long sword also stabbed the axe-wielding man's waist!
"Unforgivable!" Joan pulled out a thick stick from the cabin, and he also held an old rectangular wooden shield to block a crossbow bolt fired by Wood.
The axe-wielding man took a few steps back after being hit by Avi, but Avi clearly saw that the axe-wielding man was wearing a piece of chain mail under his coat, and his sword just now only pierced a little flesh of the opponent! If it was a black blade in his hand, Avi would definitely be able to pierce the opponent's stomach with the blow just now.
"Are the mercenaries really unreliable? we still have to let our knights play in person..."The man standing in the middle pulled out a knight's sword that was slightly shorter than the white lion sword from his waist and walked over to the two side by side.
Joan blocked Avi with a wooden shield, "If it weren't for you, my father wouldn't have been killed by these unknown people!"
"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Avi immediately tore off part of his robe and tied it around his shoulder, "They're here to kill me!"
"Nonsense! I'm going to make these killers pay for it with blood!"
Avi knew that Yoan was an excellent student among the new students of the Kestrel Academy, but the competition in the skills class was completely different from the real deathmatch. As a person who has experienced many battles of life and death, Avi is not sure that he will be able to defeat the axe-wielding man one-on-one, let alone Joan, who is just a student of the academy!
But just as Avi was about to analyze the situation, Joan was already rushing towards the axe-wielding man with his stick! Joan jumped to his feet and rammed him with a half-human-high wooden shield. I saw that Joan used a wooden shield to press both the axe-wielding man and the other party's axe under the wooden shield, and Joan immediately pressed his body against the back of the wooden shield and pressed the other party to the grass.
"What are you waiting for!I'll deal with this guy!I'll take care of the sword-wielding one!Beware of the killer with cold arrows!" Joan pressed against the wooden shield, and the shield-wielding man under him tried to push Joan away, but Joan pressed the wooden shield against the thick wooden stick, like a baker pressing flat flour with a rolling pin!
With his sword in both hands, Avi quickly shifted his position, keeping himself in a straight line with the sword-wielding knight and Wood in the distance.
"Wood, you don't have to make a move, I don't want to be hurt by you, I'll take care of this little ghost," the sword-wielding knight waved his hand, and the inquisitor who was still holding a light crossbow put down the crossbow machine, "You just want to kill Avi, the murderer of Farrell, right?"
"I didn't kill anyone!"
"Oh... All the evidence suggests that you are a murderer, and that if you hadn't killed you, you shouldn't have run away! What a shame it is for your conscientious mother that you are just a pariah who is jealous of the knight's squire, and who chooses to escape by trickery after accepting the 'verdict of justice'. "The sword-wielding knight was dressed in silver-white plate armor and wore a covered helmet on his head, and he was a formal knight of the Oguna Empire.
"My mother!"
"That's right, it's Lady Joni, the horse trainer of Golden Hoof City. โ
"What did you do to her!" Avi's attention suddenly distracted.
The Imperial Knight raised his sword in one hand and pointed it at Avi, "After I send you down, you can ask her personally." โ