enchanting blacksmith

Feng Tie tidied up his clothes, coughed twice, and was about to stride into the circle surrounded by the crowd and stage a good show of a hero saving the beauty.

But before Feng Tie took the first step with his left foot, a burst of force struck Feng Tie, and Feng Tie felt himself flying out like a kite with a broken string, and smashed heavily into the crowd of spectators.

"Oh my god, who is so blind?" Feng Tie frantically tried to get up from the unlucky ghosts he knocked down, "Is it wrong for me to ask a hero to save the beauty? Did I fly?"

Feng Tie is very depressed. The recent bad luck has caused him to be beaten twice for no reason. The last time he flew into the sky was Amu who had to do it to save himself. What is it for this time? When it comes to retribution, Feng Tie asked the sky speechlessly, two lines of hot tears flowed down his cheeks slowly.

Xiong Da quickly ran over to help Feng Tie, and quietly pointed to a burly man in the arena and reported to Feng Tie in a low voice: "Master, I saw that he pushed you away with his hands."

Feng Tie looked into the arena, and saw a humanoid tank resembling a future soldier standing proudly in the middle of the confrontation, glaring at the astonished young man in fancy clothes and his henchmen.

Feng Tie stayed in Dema City for two days. Taking advantage of the opportunity of this mercenary grand meeting and the just-concluded recruitment activity, he did see many tall, muscular and powerful fighters in the mercenaries, but before Comparing the fighters I've seen with the one in front of me, they are all like a group of children who are still playing house games.

The big man is more than a head taller than the monster Amu. He is like an undeveloped orangutan. His exposed skin is covered with thick hairs. He has a square nose and wide mouth, and his eyes are as big as copper bells. , the big man was wearing a black solid suit that is very popular in the mercenary circle and is easy to move. On the skirt is embroidered a flying phoenix. The phoenix is ​​full of blazing flames. Chang Ge.

"Master, he is a member of Iron Flamingo, what should we do now?" Xiong Da asked Feng Tie with a troubled expression.

Feng Tie was also stunned.

It has been quite a while since Feng Tie traveled to this world. Except for this mission, he spent all his time in the imperial capital of the Fire Horse Kingdom. Even if he had no common sense, he would not even know the name of Iron Flamingo.

Iron Flamingo is one of the most famous mercenary groups in the Fire Horse Kingdom.Although the Iron Flamingo is only a small mercenary group with less than a hundred members, compared with other large mercenary groups in terms of size and strength, this does not affect its reputation in the industry or even in the entire kingdom. The popularity of the corps, the corps' strict and honest attitude towards accepting employment, and its strong fighting style also have a place in all mercenary groups in the Green Sea Continent.

The internal members of the Iron Flamingo are all powerful fighters. The Corps never accepts any assassinations, surprise attacks, and other missions that are indistinguishable from right to wrong. For the country that fought back after provocation, most of the tasks they accepted were neutral tasks such as escorting valuable goods, guarding homes, protecting employers from assassins, or helping nobles find rare and hard-to-find luxury goods. This also made the Iron Flamingo Gentleman Corps' reputation known to everyone. When mentioning these open-minded men, no matter who they were, they would give a thumbs up and praise them for their good work.

Speaking of the theoretical founder of Iron Flamingo, Baggio, also has a deep connection with Fengtie's blacksmith family.

Those were the grandfathers of the great-grandfather in Fengtie. The head of the Odyssey family is the best blacksmith in the Fire Horse Kingdom. He is an out-and-out lunatic blacksmith. Smelting one piece of fine iron after another, trying to create a magic weapon that can surpass all swords in the world.

The head of the family learned from the kingdom's history books that the Tongtian Inferno is a divine object left over from ancient times. Once the temperature in the inferno reaches a specific ignition point, it will ignite the flames from hell, and hammer a piece of fine iron into a real one. Peerless Divine Soldier.This legend became the spiritual pillar of the Patriarch, so his temper became more and more irritable and his personality became more and more withdrawn. He never went home once for more than ten years in a row. Apart from scolding the soldiers and slaves for working hard, his He didn't even communicate with other people, just silently repeatedly beating iron weapons of various shapes one after another, living a boring life day after day.

Among the slaves working in Tongtian Hell at that time was a black man named Logut, Baggio. Baggio was a prisoner of the enemy country captured by the Fire Horse Kingdom in a foreign war. Because the small country refused to pay the Fire Horse Kingdom The huge amount of tribute aroused the anger of the ruling king at that time. After obtaining the consent of the elders, the Fire Horse Kingdom brazenly launched a large-scale war against that small country, because the name of the country that no one can remember now The territory of the kingdom is too small and sparsely populated. Almost overnight, it was trampled into wasteland by the large cavalry of the Fire Horse Kingdom. Baggio was one of the senior generals of the enemy army in that war, so the elders killed them The king and some hard-line nobles, in the spirit of humanitarianism, the elders finally agreed to exile the ordinary soldiers and civilians of the small kingdom to a barren land to fend for themselves, and directly put Baggio and several others in the battle The commanders who performed well were stuffed into the weapon workshop of the owner of the Odyssey and used as coolies with heavy labor.

The crazy blacksmith of the Odyssey family, that is, the grandfather of Grandpa Feng Tie, has always been obsessed with the continuous improvement in weapon manufacturing, and directly ignored the routine management of the weapon workshop. More than a thousand soldiers and tens of thousands of soldiers were stationed in the weapon workshop. Slaves, because of the loopholes in the management system, there are many contradictions in the workshop.

Some officers and managers in the workshops began to deduct the soldiers' salaries and the living expenses allocated by the kingdom's treasury for daily expenses. The soldiers had to collude with each other to steal the iron ore and coke in the workshops and sell them in the outer market secretly. Because of the impetuosity of the army, guard soldiers beat, abused or even killed slaves. The slaves had to do the most heavy physical labor every day, but the rations distributed were decreasing day by day.

In order to be able to fill their stomachs, the slaves divided into several gangs, and bloody conflicts continued under the command of their respective leaders, just for the purpose of snatching a piece of poor-quality bread mixed with a large amount of ground bark .

Baggio was the leader of one of the slave gangs. With the help of several former comrades-in-arms, he united hundreds of slaves who were responsible for filling coke into the Tongtian Hell. These slaves were all tall, and the long-term hard labor made these slaves They have all cultivated a steel-like body, but the scarce food and the heavy and cold shackles on their hands and feet make them live a purgatory-like life in this scorching space year after year.

Baggio led these hundreds of strong men and almost gained the supremacy among the slaves. They snatched a lot of food from other slaves, which made their bodies stronger day by day.After gaining enough strength, they were no longer afraid of the soldiers' almost abusive urging and beating, and armed resistance happened from time to time. As the leader, Baggio gradually came into the sight of the upper-level officers, which aroused the officers' attention. Strong dissatisfaction.

On a hot summer afternoon, the high temperature outside mixed with the tongues of flames spewed out from the Heavenly Inferno Hell from time to time, making the air in the workshop as hot as lava from a volcano. A drunken officer led a team of thirty ten men to rush After entering the workshop, after supervising the slaves’ two hours of work without any pause, the officer still thought that the slaves were working too slowly and were suspected of being lazy, especially the black slave Baggio, who always He was provoking the authority of the officer with disdainful eyes and quick steps, so the officer "in a fit of anger" ordered a group of soldiers to drag Baggio out and beat him with a hundred army sticks.

At this moment, Baggio had realized that this was a planned conspiracy against him by the officers of the upper ranks. They had noticed his influence among the many slaves, and had to get rid of him in order to prevent the slaves from changing, even though they were physically strong. , I am afraid it will be difficult to survive the one hundred army sticks.

So Baggio decided to resist.

Baggio guessed right, this is indeed a well-planned conspiracy, almost none of the slaves working beside the Hell are his subordinates, all of them are some strange faces and slaves who have been robbed of food by him However, no one was willing to help him, so Baggio was conquered by the iron bars in the hands of the soldiers and the shackles on his hands and feet after he tried his best to kill a few soldiers.

"Boys, throw this nigger who killed your Paz brothers into the furnace and burn him alive!" the officer kept yelling.

The soldiers whose comrades were killed were also fired. Under the command of the officer, they chanted and raised Baggio high above their heads. Regardless of Baggio's desperate struggle and hissing and roaring, they violently smashed Baggio's flesh and blood. His body was thrown into the blazing furnace mouth of Tongtian Huo Hell.

In the Tongtian Inferno, there is a perennially hot furnace burning. The high-speed Tongtian furnace is continuously thrown in by slaves day and night. Coke is always piled up in the furnace, which is as high as a mountain. Due to the high temperature of thousands of degrees, even if the hardest iron is thrown into it, it will turn into hot iron in an instant. It is precisely such a terrifying furnace that can continuously output almost astronomical numbers of weapons and armor to the huge army of the kingdom. Therefore, once a flesh and blood body enters the furnace, there is only one end, which is to be completely wiped out.

The officer looked up to the sky and laughed, but the rest of the soldiers did not show any joy, because they had just lost five comrades who supported each other on the battlefield, like brothers who lived and died together.

The officer laughed and prepared to order the soldiers to retreat so that they could go back and report the success of the operation to their superiors. At this moment, an unbelievable scene happened before everyone's eyes, and some timid soldiers even screamed in fright.

A tall humanoid monster covered in raging flames jumped out from the mouth of the furnace that was constantly spewing out flames. As soon as the monster landed, it let out a long and shrill howl. The flames on his body were extinguished in a huge water tank.

There was a constant buzzing sound in the water tank, just like the tooth-piercing sound when a red semi-finished iron that had just been hammered was inserted into the water, and a thick white steam rose suddenly above the water tank.

All eyes in the workshop were drawn to the big tank. The soldiers and slaves even held their breath unknowingly. The officer stared at the steaming water tank in a daze, not daring to have the slightest thought. act recklessly.

After a moment of silence, the steam gradually dissipated, and the monster suddenly jumped out of the water tank and stood straight in front of everyone.

Everyone looked in horror at this monster that could no longer be called a "human". The skin on his body became brittle due to the sudden cold and heat, and many small cracks burst out, and these cracks expanded rapidly. His skin was split into small pieces of irregular shapes. In the sound of beeping, some of these pieces of skin continued to fall off from his body, revealing bright red muscles and blood vessels, and some It even hung there and kept shaking, shocking the visual nerves of everyone present.

The scene was chaotic, some soldiers knelt on the ground and twitched and vomited non-stop, some slaves ran outside crying and crowding each other, the officer managed to calm down and commanded some battle-hardened veterans to control the scene in front of them.

"Roar!"

The monster who came out of Tongtian Hell let out a loud roar, he bent down and picked up a broken long dagger from the ground, as he bent down, blood continued to shoot out from his muscles and blood vessels, But without realizing it, he stood up straight again, holding the long dagger in his hand and pointing at the officers and soldiers whose faces were pale with fright.

The scene fell silent, and someone had barely recognized the monster from the skin that hadn't peeled off from its face. It was Logut, Baggio, the tough and unyielding black subjugated slave who had just been thrown into the furnace.

Baggio didn't fight, he opened his mouth slowly, the skin on his face peeled off with his hoarse voice: "Why, why did you treat me like this."

Baggio's eyes were full of resentment and resentment: "You have destroyed my kingdom, killed my family and friends, and treated me like a livestock. I just want to eat, I just want to be free, I I just want to take another look at the forest and hills outside, I just want to put a bright iris flower on the grave of my parents, wife and children, but you **** robbers have deprived me of my last hope, I am not reconciled... ...I hate..."

After all, this man whose body and nerves were harder than steel could not overcome the fire poison of the Tongtian Hell. His fingers that were holding Chang Ge tightly loosened gradually, and his tower-like body slowly fell backwards. Baggio finally remained forever. Closing his eyes, his humble desire and longing for freedom went to another world along with his stopped breathing.

The officer stared blankly at what happened in front of him until Baggio died.

The officer solemnly paid a military salute to Baggio's body, and then knelt down straight.

Everyone behind the officer, including the soldiers and slaves, knelt down slowly with the officer. The soldiers made atonement for depriving themselves of a respectable life, and the slaves worshiped their long-lost soul.

After a long time, the officer wiped away the hot tears on his face, stood up and took off his military uniform with the totem of the flame unicorn on it. After folding it, he carefully handed it to the soldiers around him. In the end, he was not punished for leaving the army privately. After learning the whole story, the high-level military officials acquiesced in the officer's departure, and the officer spent endless regret and sorrow. All his life, he relied on alcohol anesthesia to fall asleep all day long. On his 60th birthday, he was suffocated by his own vomit due to excessive drinking.

The military of the Fire Horse Kingdom protested to the Council of Elders after this incident. They believed that these foreign prisoners of war should not be allowed to suffer such abuse that humiliated the personality of every soldier on the mainland. After many negotiations, the little The defeated generals of the Kingdom were pardoned and released from slavery, and became free citizens of the Fire Horse Kingdom.

On the day when several generals were released, the military of the Fire Horse Kingdom held a grand funeral for Baggio. The specifications of the funeral were the same as those of the martyrs who died in the civil war in the kingdom, and even more grand. By coincidence, I attended the funeral of this man.

Several generals who were released had lost their own kingdoms and families. After discussions, they decided to stay in the imperial capital of the Fire Horse Kingdom. The Lord's mercenary regiment, the emblem of the mercenary regiment is a phoenix that has risen from the fire, with a broken spear in its mouth.

On the first page of the mercenary group's journal, someone scrawled the name of the founder of the mercenary group with tears and blood donations: Logut, Baggio.

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