This improvised flag made from the head and robes of a flame ax gave the desperate thieves a fatal blow.
An important reason why they were able to charge despite various threats before was because they believed that their Flame Ax boss could lead the elites to attack from behind the defenders and turn things in their favor.
But now, their last hope has been shattered. The head of the flaming ax hanging on the top of a spear and the long-distance running have already shown one thing, that is, the elite team they had high hopes for before has been completely wiped out.
After Saphire erected the first flag, the non-combatant servants in the camp immediately erected several other temporary flags made from the clothes and heads of the bandit commandos they had just killed.
The appearance of these flags representing blood and death further damaged the morale of the thieves group.
Therefore, when Lawrence and the others rushed out of their position to launch a counterattack, the attack organized by the thieves group was completely finished.
So when Lawrence and his men began to charge towards the pile of ruins blocking the entrance of the valley, those people were either so frightened that they dropped their weapons and lay on the roadside with their heads in their hands, or they were killed by Lawrence and the others from behind.
"Come back, all come back -" Finally, the swordsman in yellow waved his weapon in vain to try to regroup the scattered thieves and launch the attack again according to his own will.
But no one here listens to him, and every thief is frantically trying to escape.
Even if he wielded the long sword in his hand and chopped down several thieves who were very close to him while escaping, the only effect was to make others avoid him when escaping.
When Lawrence passed the obstacle formed by the pile of ruins, the important leader of the band of thieves still wanted to resist.
As a result, in just one round, Lauren and the others rushed directly to the street under a joint attack. Then, like the guys who were killed before, their heads were cut off, their coats were stripped off, and they were hung on the pole.
In this era, most people, including Lawrence, actually had some kind of heartfelt rejection of this seemingly bloody and disgusting method.
At the same time, the traditional method of recording merit by first level has also been habitually replaced by more civilized methods. Only in some areas on the edge of civilization this type of custom is still retained sporadically.
There is only one reason why Lawrence is adopting this method now, and that is that they are now pursuing a large enemy force with a small number of people.
In this case, if you cannot do everything possible to completely destroy the opponent's morale, once the opponent reacts and launches a counterattack, it will inevitably cause some additional losses.
Although Lawrence and his support force are now dominated by extraordinary beings, even if they encounter those who turn back to fight back, they can still protect themselves without losing anything.
But compared to the current leisurely pursuit, Lawrence felt that there was no need for them to create all kinds of trouble for themselves because of hypocrisy.
Half an hour later, the pursuit was completely over, with less than 20 thieves fleeing the battlefield along the mountain road.
However, considering that when they fled, they not only discarded all their weapons and most supplies in order to reduce weight, but also fled in different directions. Therefore, their threat can be said to have been completely eliminated.
Most of the remaining thieves were killed by Lawrence and the others in the battle, but there were still seventy or eighty guys who chose to surrender when they saw the situation was unfavorable and survived and became prisoners.
Through the interrogation of these surrenderers, Lawrence and the others finally figured out what the attack was about.
The whole thing starts with their leader, Flame Ax. This guy was just an ordinary adventurer at first, but he became a wanted criminal after killing his companions for treasure during an adventure.
It may be that this person is more suitable to be an outlaw, so he became more famous after becoming a wanted criminal than when he was an adventurer. The bandit name of Flame Ax also spread throughout the Great Lakes region of the Federation.
So now when Lawrence and the others were interrogating the prisoners, they found that the gangsters did not know his real name just like themselves.
The reason why this notorious gangster planned this kidnapping case that would likely shock the entire New World if successful is also very simple, that is, his extraordinary level has reached the peak of the professional level.
According to the relatively rough classification method in ancient times, this is equivalent to leaping from bronze to silver, which is a qualitative transformation for extraordinary people.
For a guy like Flame Ax, who starts with an ax and relies on grabbing all his equipment, it is much more difficult to complete this leap than others, because he currently cannot obtain various materials to help him break through through normal channels.
and knowledge.
Of course, this does not mean that he cannot upgrade his extraordinary power. After all, there are not only formal channels in this world that can obtain all this, or as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome.
But for Flame Ax, it is true that all roads lead to Rome, but the cost of buying the road through informal channels is too expensive.
In addition, the more money he makes as a thief, the more he usually spends, so he naturally does not have enough wealth to obtain everything he wants from other channels.
At the beginning, Flame Ax hoped to get everything he wanted by searching for ruins or robbing. Because for a thief, this should be considered a very suitable method for his identity.
But later, Flame Ax discovered that this method can only be used by the protagonists in knight novels, because extraordinary people of different professions need different things, so the trophies obtained by exploring the ruins may not be what they need.
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To give the simplest example, the ruins inside the valley that are now used as traps were actually discovered and explored by Flame Hand before. However, he only discovered the ruins after he teamed up with 1/3 of the thieves group members and several important assistants.
It can be said that there is nothing in it, only a inheritance of Holy Knights of the Church of the Dawn who can practice to the silver level.
For those churches of the Good God, this kind of intermediate and low-level inheritance of Paladins is often spread widely outside.
Because the core of the Paladins' extraordinary power is their belief in gods, they consciously place this inheritance in various regions to recruit potential new believers for their gods.
But the problem is that this inheritance is of little use to Flame Ax and the gangsters under his command. After all, the Lord of the Morning is a god of the orderly and good camp. Naturally, these evil gangsters with bloody hands cannot become the holy knights of this god.
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For Flame Ax, let alone the fact that what he found during this adventure did not meet their requirements at all, the overall situation was almost the same as not being found. The loss of personnel and materials alone gave him a huge headache.
What's worse is that although the believers of the Lord of the Morning do not require every clergy to be as simple as possible like the Passion Church, they usually behave as if everyone is an ascetic monk who endures hardships and endures hardships.
But compared to the gleaming-looking group of clergymen of the Goddess of Wealth, his paladins can be said to be extremely hard-working and simple.
This also led to the fact that there was not much wealth in the ruins left by this paladin, so Flame Ax had to use his own money to distribute money to his subordinates to unite people's hearts.
After realizing that there was no way to go, Flame Ax found that the only way left for him was to obtain a large amount of wealth through a method that he had previously thought was extremely risky.
So he used part of his already small wealth to set up a trap in this ruins. He hoped to make a lot of money by attracting wealthy people into the trap and kidnapping them for extortion.
Of course, Yan Ax also knew that after doing this, he would soon become a public enemy, so he planned to leave the already mature lake area after finishing this vote, and then go to the chaotic Star Sea to wash his hands and go ashore.