The southeast monsoon from the Endless Sea has finally brought some moist air.
Since the morning, it has started to rain lightly in Helensa City.
The continuous drizzle makes the mountain city look brand new. The street trees on the street are washed by the rain and reveal a new green. The lavender lilac trees are blooming on the streets. There is a faint smell of lilac flowers in the drizzle.
A magician wearing magic robes quickly walked through the corridor and boarded the magic caravan in front of the steps beside the fountain.
The magic caravan slowly drove out from the manor, drove out of Maple Leaf Avenue in the wealthy area, and merged directly into the traffic on Central Avenue in Helensa City.
When passing through the city gate, the magic caravan was stopped by the city gate guard. The driver jumped down from the charioteer's seat and chatted with the city gate guard.
The black carriage door was pushed open from the inside. A mage wearing a black magic long-distance running body leaned out of the carriage and glanced at the city gate guard. The city gate guard immediately stood up straight and faced the magician.
A salute was made.
Then the magic caravan quickly passed through the city gate, followed the winding mountain road to the northwest, and drove into Oak Ridge.
A knight wearing gray hard leather armor stood on the mountain. There was a black horse standing next to him. The hard leather armor was inlaid with a piece of armor in some important places. He touched the sword on his waist with his hand.
, through the oak forest with sparse branches and leaves, looking anxiously towards the direction of Helensa City.
A small group of knights was waiting in the woods. These knights set up tents in the forest clearing covered with thick leaves. The horses beside them were covered with a layer of waterproof felt. Several knights lay in the tents to rest.
A magic caravan appeared on the mountain road opposite. In the drizzle, the knight on the top of the mountain saw the wolf-head flag on the magic caravan.
He quickly called to the knights who were resting in the tent behind him and took the time to pack up the tent.
Not long after, a team of five knights rushed down the hillside and caught up with the magic caravan among the mountains.
Braving the drizzle, the five knights followed the magic caravan and continued to move forward along the mountain road.
Later, some knights walked out of the woods in Oak Ridge from time to time. They followed the magic caravan obediently, and soon they formed a cavalry squadron of fifty people.
This group of knights did not wear any family emblems or knight's badges on their chests. The armor on their bodies looked patchwork. Many broken places were patched up with some hard armor pieces. The hard leather armor was surrounded by a gray linen cloak.
, looks more like a group of travelers.
The magician opened the window and asked a knight commander who was approaching the carriage: "How many people will your leader send this time?"
The knight commander immediately replied: "A total of three cavalry squadrons have been dispatched, and currently only one cavalry squadron has arrived in Helensa City as scheduled."
The magician nodded and said to the knight commander: "No matter whether we can find clues this time, we must make a quick decision. Then you will pass through the deserted land and enter Paglos Mountain to stand by."
"Yes! Lord Gordon." The knight commander agreed.
Magician Gerden glanced at the knight commander and asked, "Have you ever found out who stole that thing?"
The knight captain replied: "We haven't determined who it is yet, but the two of them are still very suspicious. Since they were not found on them, it is very likely that they were lost or the knights of the security team obtained them.
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Magician Gerden waved his hand impatiently and said to the knight commander: "I'll ask the villagers along the way later how far away Wall Village is..."
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This is the first rain since June in the barren land.
Despite the rain, there are still many poor villagers who go to Oak Ridge to dig wild vegetables. They not only dig wild vegetables, but also catch small animals in the forest, pick dried red fruits on the trees, some fresh sweet grass roots in the soil, etc.
A big, skinny hand struggled to reach a horizontal branch from under the tree, and the other hand tremblingly pulled off the dried fruit from the top of the tree, and couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth. The red fruit was dry and hard and difficult to chew.
, it must be held in the mouth and eaten slowly. The man stood on the branch of the tree and climbed higher to the top of the tree. He wanted to pick a few dried red fruits hanging on the treetop.
The drizzle made the tree branches slippery, and the rain wet his linen clothes, making him feel a little cold.
A heavy knight's spear stretched out from under the tree branch and was placed on the villager's shoulder. The cold blade scared him so much that he almost fell off the tree. The villager tried to move his body to the left from where the knight's spear was pointing.
Suddenly, the knight under the tree unceremoniously stabbed him down from the tree with a spear.
The villager fell from a tree more than two meters high and fell firmly to the ground. The knight in hard leather armor had a straight face and clamped the war horse between his legs. The horse took two steps forward. The knight
Hanging the spear next to the saddle, he leaned over and reached out to pick up the villager from the ground, put him on the horse's back, and rode the horse towards the mountain road.
The knight brought the villagers to the front of the magic caravan and fell to the ground in front of the magic caravan with a thud.
The villagers sat on the muddy ground, which was made very muddy by the rain. They hugged their injured shoulders and looked at the magic caravan in panic.
The door of the magic caravan was pushed open, and the magician named Gerden poked his head out, looked at the villager with disgust, and asked: "How far is it from Wall Village?"
The villager trembled and replied: "It's not too far. Over the Paglos Pass is the village of Wall."
Magician Gordon frowned slightly and looked up at the mountain pass not far away.
"I heard that there is a security team in the village? Do you know?" Magician Gerden's cold eyes like a falcon fell on the villagers.
The villager felt that his whole body was penetrated by some kind of force. He must have sat in the muddy water unmoved and replied:
"Lord Magician, are you asking Lord Knight Surdak?"
Magician Gelden nodded and said:
"It turns out his name is Suldak, yes! I just want to find him!"
He glanced at the mountain pass in the distance and said to the knight commander beside him: "Let's go!"
The knight captain quickly waved the long sword in his hand to the knights behind him. The knight who captured the villagers asked:
"Lord Gordon, what should he do?"
In the drizzle, the magic caravan rolled forward slowly, and a cold and ruthless voice floated from the carriage:
"Now that you have seen my face, kill me!"
In the drizzle, the muddy mountain road was covered with blood, and the body of a skinny villager slowly stiffened in the cold rain...
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on the mountains
Samira gave the fresh meat cut from the black panther to the villagers who were watching curiously.
This group of villagers in the deserted land were digging wild vegetables in the mountains and happened to see her hunting a black panther. While Samira was peeling the skin, several brave villagers gathered around and looked at Samira with great envy.
pull.
Many villagers in other villages know this taciturn Samira, but few have seen her face, and no one knows that she is a half-blood half-elf.
Samira hid her face deeply under her hood, and all the rainwater that fell on her body hit her and rolled down along the cloak.
As a half-elf, she didn't like the flesh and blood of beasts, so after collecting the black panther's skin and fangs, she cut the black panther's body open, divided it into several pieces, and distributed them to the villagers nearby.
The villagers did not expect to get a piece of fresh leopard meat, and they were overjoyed and thanked them one after another.
Samira remained silent as always. After putting away the leopard skin, she prepared to return to Wall Village.
She had been in the mountains for five days in order to hunt this black panther.
Just as she was about to walk down the mountain, she saw a villager in tattered clothes running in the woods. The villager ran to Samira in one breath. Without waiting for his breath to catch his breath, he shouted to Samira.
: "Lord Samira, there is a group of knights over there who killed people. They are not the knights of the Halanza Guard Camp..."
Samira's body tensed up instantly, and like a cheetah, she quickly ran through the oak forest in the direction pointed by the villagers.
When she stood on the mountain ridge next to the mountain road, she happened to see the group of knights crossing the Moon Paglos Pass. Sure enough, as the villagers said, those knights did not have standard armor on them. They were wearing linen cloaks.
It can be seen from the posture of the horse that each of them is a warrior who has experienced hundreds of battles.
In the drizzle, Samira vaguely saw a magic caravan.
On the mountain road at the foot of the mountain, a villager was lying in a pool of blood.
A bad premonition welled up in Samira's heart, and she ran quickly along the mountains towards Wall Village.
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When crossing the Paglos Pass, the rebel knight commander looked at the wooden cross at the top of the mountain in the drizzle and thought for a moment.
The village of Wall in the mountain valley is extremely eye-catching even in the rain. The rich green in the valley is the strongest color in this desolate land.
Fifty knights lined up from the mountain pass, like a big net, surrounding the village of Wall.
Magician Gerden opened the car window and looked at the village of Wall in the rain from a distance. At first glance, the reservoir in the upper reaches of the valley looked like a mountain city standing in the rain, which made the magician's eyes show a trace of surprise.
, he never expected that in this barren land, there would be such a rich village.
Fifty knights on horseback approached the village of Wall as if facing a powerful enemy.
The barren land received the first rain in June, and many villagers who had gone to the mountains to dig wild vegetables rushed back. They did not want to miss the opportunity to sow seeds after the rain.
The rainy season has finally arrived.
It won't be long before many places in the deserted land will turn green. Although it won't be able to fill the stomachs of the villagers for the time being, this rain will make the villagers no longer need to dig wild vegetables over the mountains and ridges.
Sea buckthorn and thirsty grass will appear quickly.
These villagers never expected that the group of knights coming up from behind would actually harvest human lives like the nightmare knights in the underworld.
They caught up from behind with knight's lances in their hands, and the knight's lance in their hands was suddenly raised. An unsuspecting villager was stabbed in the back by the knight's lance, and the whole person was picked up by the knight behind him.
'ah……'
Amid the screams, his body fell heavily onto the gravel-covered ground.
It was this scream that made other villagers in the rain look here. Before they could see the situation in the rain clearly, they felt a sharp pain in their bodies, and their bodies flew up uncontrollably. They couldn't breathe, violently.
When he coughed, blood spurted out from his throat, and then he fell heavily in the rain.
Fifty knights continued to attack Wall Village.
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Selina looked up at the leaking reed sheds, and her heart was full of resentment towards Suldak. This guy had never considered the rain at all.
Drops of rainwater continued to drip through the reed mats of the shed overhead. The children in the shed gathered together and hid in a dry place under the care of several women in the village. But as the drizzle continued to fall, the children in the shed were
There are fewer and fewer dry places.
The simple wooden door of the children's home was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and the old village chief Bright walked in with a group of villagers.
He looked up at the simple shed that was constantly dripping with rainwater, and said to Selina: "This simple shed is not protected from the rain. We have to organize people to move the children to the carpenter's workshop in the village."
He turned to a villager behind him and ordered: "Go and notify Old El in the carpenter's workshop and ask him to move all the wood tools and lumber in the workshop outside and free up the house for me."
"I know, Uncle Bright!" the young villager agreed, and immediately turned around and got into the rain.
The villagers in Wall Village have already gone to the children's home and are taking their children home one after another.
The old village chief Bright picked up a child from another village in each hand, hid them under his cloak, and said to the villagers brought behind him: "Everyone, follow me. Let's send these children to the carpenter's workshop first."
Take shelter from the rain."
The villager behind reminded: "But...Uncle Bright, what should I do with the volcanic ash stored next to the canal and river embankment?"
The old village chief frowned, gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter if you're a little late, just do as I say."
"yes!"
Mayor Bright had great authority in Wall Village, and the villagers did not question him at all. They picked up the children in the children's courtyard and walked quickly towards the village's woodwork workshop.
Selena stayed at the back, carefully counting the number of children, for fear of forgetting any.
Hidden in her skirt, Xigna looked in the direction of Yamaguchi, with a hint of worry in her eyes.
Not long after the old village chief Bright led a group of villagers out of the children's home, a group of knights slowly emerged from the rain at the entrance of the village.
At this time, the kobold slaves in the slave camp felt the murderous intention in the rain first. They stood up from the work shed in panic and looked out through the work shed uneasily.
The two village supervisors guarding the entrance of the slave camp saw the kobold slaves acting strangely. They quickly threatened the kobold slaves with leather whips and warned them to be more honest. Before the two village supervisors could finish their words, they
The two also heard a series of rapid rumbles of horse hooves...
The village overseer followed the panicked gaze of the kobold slave and saw a group of knights galloping in the rain, their horse hooves crushing countless water splashes on the ground.
The two village supervisors couldn't understand why they were still holding heavy knight spears in their hands...