The city of Hesmaka to the west of the kingdom is linked to the barren land on the west side of the continent. In that barren land there are countless beasts, who kill each other for food.

In the harsh environment, these beasts also undergo changes. They have larger bodies, greater power, and even more intelligent minds than ordinary beasts. They can make some simple thoughts, and therefore they are even more bloodthirsty and cruel. They do whatever they want to survive.

Autumn every year is the season for human harvest, but it is also the most desolate time for the barren land. At this time, the barren land has ended for nearly a year of fighting. The remaining beasts are the most fierce individuals in the community. The fighting between communities can no longer satisfy them. At this time, they will make a decision together to go out of the wasteland to hunt humans.

This hunting will last until the end of autumn and winter comes, and the beasts will return to the wasteland to recuperate. When the spring of the new year is born, they will bite each other again, forming a cycle.

Only the most ferocious beasts can survive in a barren land, and almost every beast that can become an adult is covered with scars.

Every year, the attacks of beast groups are also called beast tides.

In the 126th year of the Kingdom, the beast tide this year is larger than in any previous year, and the beasts in the beast tide are also more ferocious than in any previous year.

Even if the kingdom had a prescient way of sending additional troops in Hiskama, a defensive battle of beast tide was extremely difficult.

On the city walls with cold wind, the sound of wars was chaotic.

Soldiers in kingdom armor stood at the top of the city with a spear and shield against the beasts climbing up the city wall.

The archer pulled the bow and set the arrow to aim at the giant eagle flying through the sky, with cold sweat on his forehead.

The blood of humans or beasts was flowing on the city walls, and some had dried up, with a layer of reddish-brown color attached to the stone slabs on the city walls.

"Ah!!" A scream sounded, and a soldier was grabbed by a giant ape that jumped onto the city wall, left behind the city wall, fell into the group of beasts under the city, flooded by the waves of beasts, and soon there was no trace again.

"Kill it!!" The soldiers following behind rushed to the giant ape with their spears and shields.

The sharp spear pierced into the giant ape's body, and the unstoppable black and red blood flowed along the spear and into the soldiers' hands.

"S!" The giant ape opened its mouth full of fangs and roared to the sky, but in the end it still had no strength to resist and fell from the city wall.

Similar scenes were happening everywhere on the city walls, and people and beasts were dying all the time.

Finally, after this battle lasted for a long time, a roar came from the group of beasts, and the group of beasts retreated, leaving behind corpses all over the ground.

On the walls of the city of Heskama, the soldiers stood in pools of blood, gasping, trembling, holding spears, and watching the beasts leave. Until they could no longer see them, the exhausted soldiers did not even have the strength to be glad that they survived and collapsed on the ground.

This is not the whole of the beast group. Everyone understands that this is just a small wave of beast group attack, but just this makes it a little difficult for them to support.

"when."

A sword was standing on the ground, and a burly man in thick armor was gasping for breath and sitting next to the bloody city wall.

"Sir, I can't hold on when will autumn end?" A soldier sat beside the man, with blood on his face unwiped, and asked weakly.

In the distance, there was a blood-colored setting sun, the city was ruined, and scattered people were tidying up the battlefield.

You can see this scene almost every day here.

"Can't retreat." The man, known as the soldier, pressed his eyes down and said in a deep voice, even his chest was heaving and undulating.

"Fight against those wild***, and once you retreat, they will become more fierce."

"The support of the kingdom will come soon, and autumn will pass soon, and we must guard it, which is our oath to the kingdom."

After saying that, the man held his long sword, closed his eyes and rested.

"Ha." The soldier smiled bitterly and raised his neck: "Opin."

It's really helpless.

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Recently, many merchants came to Shismaka. They brought food, water, clothes and cotton. They sold these goods to the army, and the army would buy them almost all because it was remote and the kingdom had very limited supplies for the army.

However, in addition to the army, there were other people near Xismaka who were starving and frozen. They were the original residents of this nearby. The attack of the beasts made their originally poor living even more difficult, and they could not buy any goods with merchants.

The reason is also very simple. Merchants want to make a profit. The goods they transported from far away places are very expensive, whether it is food, water and clothes.

The sound of the carriage wheels running over sounded on the road. During this period, residents near Xismaka have become accustomed to this sound. Perhaps a businessman has come again.

Chu rushed to the carriage and looked at the houses on both sides. This was a small village. They rushed for a month. Mann said that this was already the jurisdiction of Hesmaca City, and that it should be possible to reach the front line after walking forward for a day or two.

"First, let's have a rest here today." Mann poked out of the carriage.

These days he could always hear the roar of wild beasts, which made him feel a little afraid to live in the wild. Living with the group would make people feel more secure.

"Yeah." Chu nodded, stopped the carriage, jumped off the carriage, and tied the horse's reins to a fence on the side of the road.

Mann also jumped out of the carriage and yawned against the carriage's carriage box.

He looked at the village and thought about finding a place to eat. As for living, they would stay in the carriage at night, after all, they had to watch the goods.

At this time, Mann saw a small figure walking towards the carriage. When the figure approached, he saw the other person clearly in the sunshine that had not yet fallen.

That was a little girl, much younger than him, probably only four or five years old.

In the cold late autumn, she was only wearing a thin cloth dress and looked very thin, looking like she had been hungry for several days.

"That." The little girl looked timid, holding something tightly in her hand, and whispered in front of Mann.

"Are you here to sell food?"

"Yeah..." Mann frowned slightly and responded.

He was very keen and had vaguely guessed what the girl was going to say.

She probably came to buy food, and she probably couldn't afford it.

To be honest, he is a businessman and doesn't like to encounter such things.

"So, how much can I sell some to me?"

The girl saw Mann frowning, pursing her lips, her eyes slightly moist. She might have guessed the result, but she still whispered hard.

"Just one."

Mann leaned on the carriage with his hands in his arms, glanced at the girl's tight hand, and sighed for a while.

"One copper coin, take it and leave, don't be seen by others."

He is very sensitive to money, and this is undeniable. Just after taking a look at his hand, he already guessed how much money the girl had.

Mann turned around and found a larger pot of earthy potato in the carriage box and threw it to the girl.

The girl caught the Tucao in a little at a loss. No matter what kind of businessman it was, the cheapest food cost six copper coins, which her family couldn't afford.

The girl held the local potato in her hand and stayed for a while. Mann took the money in her hand like a robbery, then pushed her aside roughly, saying as if she had rejected her.

"Let's go."

He can't let others see him selling his goods to the girl with a copper coin, otherwise everyone will buy it, and he will lose to death.

The girl stood blankly on the side of the road. After a while, she whimpered, suppressed her tears and said, bowing deeply to Mann.

"Thank you, thank you."

Mann said nothing to the girl until the girl said thanks and left. He rubbed his eyebrows and looked at the village.

It seems that I can only eat dry food today, and the village doesn’t look like there is any food.

On the other hand, when Chu got back from tying the horse, he happened to see Mann selling the rusty potatoes to the girl.

"Mann, when we purchased the goods, we had four copper coins......"

"Ahh, I know!" Mann interrupted Chu's words loudly with a red face, then turned his eyes helplessly and looked to the side, muttering.
Chapter completed!