A killing was taking place in the manor in Hoyle's territory on the western outskirts of Helensa City.
Taylor, the leader of the Blood Red Bandit Group, stood outside the gate of Hoyle Manor and kicked open the shaky black iron gate. The cast iron emblem of the Hoyle family on the iron gate railing was stepped into the mud by Taylor. Behind him,
He was carrying two short javelins and only wore a set of basilisk lizard hard leather armor. His chest was open, revealing strong muscles like steel. His eyes were cold and disgusting, and he said coldly to the twenty men around him: "
Fight in"
More than twenty brutal robbers stepped over the corpses of eight knights' retinues and rushed into the manor carrying bloody scimitars.
Suddenly the whole manor let out a miserable wail.
Humble calls for help, desperate cries, hoarse curses, and hysterical screams made this originally peaceful and cool summer night become as terrifying as a flaming hell.
Baron Hoyle had a poison crossbow stuck in his left leg. His trouser legs were stained red with blood. His red and swollen thighs could not be bent. He seemed to be dragging a tree stump down the steps of the castle. He held a handful of silver in his hand.
The sword was stained with blood. The bodies of four robbers were lying on the steps. The hand holding the sword was trembling slightly. He was now at the end of his crossbow.
The bandit leader standing at the bottom of the steps was holding a punishment hammer and climbing up the bloody white marble steps step by step. There was a hideous scar on his face, extending from his forehead to his chest, and finally ending on the right side.
The abdomen was deep into the groin. If he hadn't opened his hard leather jacket, it would probably be difficult to see the complete scar.
Baron Hoyle slashed at the bandit leader Taylor with his sword, but the sword was blocked by the hammer of punishment. Baron Hoyle stared at the bandit leader coldly and asked: "Who are you?"
Taylor did not answer, with a sinister smile on his face. When he locked the silver sword tightly with the barb of the Punishment Hammer, he knocked Baron Hoyle to the ground with a fist.
As Baron Hoyle's body fell heavily to the ground, Taylor stepped on Baron Hoyle's back, grabbed his hair, and forced his head up.
A robber brought a portrait to Hoyle and asked viciously: "If you want to die quickly, tell the boss quickly where you hid this woman."
Baron Hoyle didn't even look at the portrait and muttered: "I don't know!"
This group of robbers didn't even give Baron Hoyle any chance to change his story, and chopped it down with a scimitar.
"puff"
Baron Hoyle's head was missing and he fell in a pool of blood. The eyes on his head were open and looking at the deep night sky.
A group of servants and maids who were tied up in the square below the steps of the castle suddenly let out a scream of terror. The servants in the manor were kneeling on the ground and shivering in the night wind. A robber pulled out a man wearing a uniform from the crowd.
The butler in uniform pulled him into a pool of blood where Baron Hoyle fell, holding a portrait and asked the butler:
"Have you seen this woman?"
The robber's blood-red eyes had a playful look, as if he was looking forward to how he would resist next. The scimitar in his hand was still dripping blood. At this time, he couldn't help but put the scimitar on Baron Hoyle's hand.
He wiped it on the corpse, but unfortunately the blood stains on the blade could not be wiped clean.
Unfortunately, the butler was not as strong-willed as the robber thought. The moment the butler saw Baron Hoyle's head, his whole body was like a puddle of mud and lay limp on the ground. A smell of urine emanated from under his crotch, diluted with urine.
blood on the ground
The butler's face was twisted, and he knelt in the bloody water very devoutly, as if the person standing in front of him was a god.
His eyes were full of prayer, and he said to the bandit leader: "I know her. She was Miss Hoyle's maid. We all called her Selina."
Taylor did not expect such an answer. He regretted killing Baron Hoyle so hastily. He originally thought it would be the same as attacking other manors, and he would not get any answers. After all, it was a portrait from a few years ago.
It was the image of that person in his memory. The artist's depiction must have been greatly deviated. Looking for someone with the portrait, if it weren't for the weird methods of those old stubborns, Taylor would have wanted to tear up the portrait and loot a few casually.
Just take care of it for a manor.
But I didn't expect that while ransacking the manors around the city of Helensa, I actually happened to meet this old housekeeper who actually knew the woman in the portrait.
Taylor felt that it must be the blessing of the goddess Celine. His eyes were as wide as copper bells. He grabbed the butler's collar with his hand, picked him up from the pool of blood, and asked the butler fiercely: "Where is she now?"
The housekeeper looked confused, trying to remember, and said intermittently: "A few years ago, when she was 25 years old, Baron Hoyle chose a husband for her according to imperial law, and she got married. At that time, she was still Hoyle.
The wedding was officiated by Baron Er, and Hoyle's right to the first night was exercised."
The veins on the bandit leader Taylor's forehead bulged slightly, but he let go of the butler's hand, let him stand up straight, and asked: "Then who did she marry?"
The door in the housekeeper's memory seemed to be pushed away at once. After thinking for a moment, he said: "A gardener here married Selena, and the couple returned to their hometown not long after."
After he finished speaking, he secretly glanced into the crowd.
"Are you kidding me?" Taylor said angrily.
The butler finally calmed down his breathing and stood in front of Taylor and tried to weave his own words:
"I swear I'm not lying. The reason why they went home was probably because Baron Hoyle exercised the right of first night, which made the little gardener very dissatisfied, so they left overnight. The little gardener didn't even receive half a year's wages. Baron Hoyle
I seemed to have looked for them afterwards, but for some reason, the matter ended in nothing."
At this time, a robber passed through the hall from the back of the castle, ran up to Taylor, and whispered something to him in a low voice.
The robber leader Taylor's eyes lit up and he ordered the robber: "Go and invite Miss Hoyle over."
When the housekeeper and the two ladies kneeling in the crowd heard what Taylor said, they all raised their heads in despair and looked at the robbers.
Before the Hoyle Manor was captured, the Baron ordered the two most reliable knights around him to take his daughter and son to flee to Hellanza City through the path behind the manor, and asked them to deliver a message to the guard camp of Hellanza City.
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The bandit leader said this, and it was obvious that the knight's retinue who secretly ran to deliver the message was also caught by these bandits.
Not long after, Miss Hoyle, whose dress was torn to pieces, was escorted up by the robbers. Her face was pale and bloodless, with a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth, and the exposed white skin was covered in bruises and bruises.
I don’t know what kind of humiliation she has experienced. At this time, she was brought to the gate of the castle and saw Baron Hoyle’s head missing. She also saw a group of family members and servants lying on the ground. Miss Hoyle was heartbroken.
All the last bits of hope were dashed.
The defense in his heart collapsed, and he suddenly threw himself on the body of Baron Hoyle and cried loudly.