MTL - Bloodline Lord of War-Chapter 152 The Horn Tragedy
Chapter 152 The Horn Town Tragedy
Saru broke into the banquet suddenly, which made Martha very dissatisfied. She frowned and reprimanded: "Saru, I am entertaining Baron Robin. Is there anything you can't talk about later?"
Saru looked serious: "I think Ma'am, you should know about this as soon as possible."
Martha looked at Robin and saw that Robin didn't show dissatisfaction, so she said, "Okay then, what do you want to report to me?"
"A group of refugees from Horn Town came outside the town. There were about a hundred people. The town of Horn was attacked by an indigenous army the night before yesterday. The whole town was slaughtered, and Baron Muhenxin was also killed." Saru Sermons in a heavy tone.
Clarion Town is another developed territory, slightly larger than Hongshi Town, starting from Hongshi Town and walking eastward for about a day. The ruler of Horn Town, Baron Muhenxin, and Martha are also old friends, and there are frequent trade exchanges between the two territories.
After Saru finished speaking, Martha immediately showed a shocked expression, and she asked in disbelief: "The whole town was slaughtered overnight?"
"Among the refugees are soldiers from Bugle Town. They told me that not even one tenth of them escaped." Saru said slowly with a gloomy face.
The atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly cooled down, and Martha sat back on the chair. The distance between Red Stone Town and Horn Town is too close. If Horn Town is attacked, Red Stone Town will also be unsafe. Moreover, the military strength of Bugle Town is slightly stronger than that of Hongshi Town.
"Saru, I remember you told me that there are no large-scale aboriginal tribes nearby, so how could Horn Town be attacked by aboriginals?" Robin asked suddenly.
Bugle Town is not too far from Raging Waves City, but only two or three days away, so Raging Waves City is also likely to be attacked by this unknown native. Robin must ask for the necessary information, and then make a plan early, and try to take the initiative to attack and destroy them. Aboriginal.
Saru turned his head to look at Robin, also showing a puzzled expression: "I don't know about this yet, maybe it's... the aborigines who have recently moved nearby."
"What kind of native is the other party? Hobgoblin? Bear goblin? Gnoll? Or something else?" Robin continued to ask calmly.
"The deserters in Bugle Town said that there are several races among the aborigines, including the ones you just mentioned." Saru replied.
The wasteland natives seldom act together, but if there is a strong leader, it is not impossible to blend these miscellaneous races together. Smaug, the dragon vein goblin, is a vivid example. His army includes hobgoblins and jackals people.
"So, another powerful indigenous tribe has appeared on the wasteland. How many troops does the other party have?"
"The deserter couldn't tell. It was too dark at that time, and the opponent came out of the darkness suddenly. By the time they realized it, the wall of the town had already been breached." Saru said.
Robin let out a dissatisfied "tsk": "I don't even know how many enemies there are, what a bunch of idiots. If this is my soldier, I must hang him."
"The deserter also mentioned another situation, which I find very strange." Saru thought for a while, and said to Robin with a serious expression. "He said that those natives were very difficult to kill, and they could only be killed by cutting off their heads."
Robin's expression changed, and his heart suddenly "thumped". Hard to kill? Is it a mutant native? Robin had been worried before that if an army composed of mutant natives appeared, it would be a huge threat to Rage City.
Now that he has no time to hold a banquet, Robin stood up with a very serious expression: "I'm going to Bugle Town to take a look."
For the safety of Raging Waves City, Robin must find out the details of this native army. How many troops does the opponent have? How is the weaponry? Where is the lair? This information is very important, and the information will not be sent to your door, you have to dig it yourself.
The banquet ended hastily. After Robin dealt with it indiscriminately, he and Saru set off for Horn Town.
The two of them had two horses each, and they kept changing horses along the way. After running for more than half a day on the vast wasteland, they finally arrived at Bugle Town before dark.
Robin was standing on a mound on horseback, looking into the distance. About 500 meters away in front of him, Bugle Town was quietly located in an open land.
The two of them wandered around Bugle Town for a few laps, making sure that there were no traces of enemies in or near the town, and then they continued to move closer to Bugle Town.
Walking, Robin suddenly found a dead body in the grass, which should be a resident of Bugle Town. And as the two approached Bugle Town, there were more and more corpses on the side of the road.
Walking to the gate of Bugle Town, it seems that there has been a tragic massacre here, and the number of corpses has soared. Corpses piled on top of each other, there wasn't even a place to step down.
The blood from the corpse had already dried up, dyeing the ground below black and red. It has been nearly two days, but the strong smell of blood in the air has not dissipated.
Flocks of carrion crows hovered over Bugle Town, like a black cloud, some landed on the pile of corpses and were eating, some seemed to be full, and quietly landed on the wall, with a pair of dark eyes that were not friendly. stared at Robin and Saru.
The two of them rode over and disturbed the group of crows who were enjoying their food. Immediately, a large group of crows "hula-la" started up in the pile of corpses. They made an angry "quack" sound, venting their dissatisfaction to Robin and the other two.
Crows are regarded as ominous symbols by the imperial people, because where there are crows, there is death.
Although Saru was the knight commander of Redstone Town, he had never seen such a **** scene before, and suddenly he felt his stomach tumbling, and his face became extremely ugly.
Robin looked indifferent, pulled the rein, and continued to walk into the town on the horse.
Entering the town, the streets are also full of corpses, including soldiers and civilians, old people and children. The aborigines have launched an all-round massacre against Horn Town. They seem to have no intention of keeping alive, regardless of men, women and children.
Looking at the horrific scene in front of him, Saru couldn't help but clenched the rein in his hand, and cursed angrily: "This group of beasts!"
Soon, the two of them walked along the main road of Bugle Town to a small square in the center of the town. A thick wooden stake was erected on the square, and a middle-aged man was nailed to the wooden stake naked. Around the stake, there are still many dead bodies from Horn Town.
Saru recognized the corpse on the stake at a glance, and he exclaimed, "That's Baron Muhenxin!"
Robin then noticed that there was a row of blood engraved on Baron Muhenxin's chest. He immediately rode over and dismounted in front of Baron Muhenxin.
He was a little surprised that the baron's body was engraved with very standard imperial characters, and even the words used were a bit archaic.
【Slayer, Duke of Blood. 】
Robin turned to look at Saru, and asked, "Duke of Blood, have you heard?"
Saru was also full of doubts and shook his head: "I've never heard of it."
"This group of natives is not simple." Robin frowned deeply, and began to speculate in his heart:
Not only can they use the imperial script, but they also call themselves the Duke of Blood. The leader of this group of aboriginals is obviously an intelligent creature with a high IQ. Hobgoblins, bear goblins, and gnolls do not meet this point. Could it be that they are awakened aborigines like Smaug? ?
There are two young corpses lying on the left and right of Baron Muhanxin, a man and a woman. The man looks to be in his twenties, and the woman looks to be only five or six years old, just a child.
They are the sons and daughters of Baron Muhenxin.
Saru had a distressed expression on his face: "Baron Muhenxin is a good man, he shouldn't be treated like this."
After that, Robin and Saru searched the town again, but they found nothing except the dead, not even a single corpse of an aborigine.
Robin finds it strange that the natives don't have a strong sense of comrade-in-arms, they die when their companions die, and they don't deliberately bring their corpses back to their lair.
"My lord, come and see this side!" Saru stood at the other end of the central square and shouted to Robin.
Robin trotted over, and Saru said to him: "My lord, I checked several corpses around, and found that the blood in these corpses is gone."
"It's gone? Isn't it coagulated?" Robin frowned suspiciously. It stands to reason that the body has been dead for so long, and the blood should have coagulated in the body long ago.
"Look, my lord, there are bite marks on their necks, as if blood has been sucked by a blood demon."
Saru squatted down and lifted the head of a male corpse. Sure enough, there was a fairly obvious bite mark on his neck, as if he had been bitten by a hunting dog, and almost half of his neck was about to be bitten off.
Robin suddenly recalled that the mutant hobgoblin that attacked Raging Wave City had also sucked the blood of the same kind.
Then, Robin and Saru checked more than a dozen corpses in a row. Without exception, the blood in their bodies was sucked dry.
"This group of natives attacked Bugle Town to **** blood." Robin muttered to himself in astonishment. Although he felt it was absurd, the situation in front of him was only possible.
Saru squatted aside and said suspiciously: "That's not right. The deserter from Bugle Town told me that there are hobgoblins, goblin bears, and gnolls in the indigenous army. These races don't **** blood, only gorefiends do. But , how could there be so many gorefiends in the wasteland?"
The number of Gorefiends has always been very rare, and it is almost impossible for a second Gorefiend to appear in an area. Robin has already killed one, so theoretically speaking, there should be no Gorefiends in the vicinity in the short term.
Robin couldn't help but think of the blood race. It is said that when the blood kingdom was at its peak, such a horrible scene happened after the blood race army crossed the border. Human towns were wiped out, and all the dead were sucked out of blood.
Could it be that a blood awakener appeared on the wasteland? That's a big deal.
After ascertaining the situation in Horn Town, Robin and Saru returned to Redstone Town.
It was already the afternoon of the second day when the two of them arrived in Redstone Town. After hearing Saru's report, Martha was very frightened. She immediately started to adjust the city defense of Redstone Town.
Robin returned to Redstone Town mainly to pick up Janna. Because of the Horn Town incident, he was worried about letting Janna bring the caravan back to Rage City alone, so he asked Janna to wait for him in Redstone Town.
In this tense moment, Martha certainly hoped that Robin would stay, but Robin had his own Raging Waves City to protect. After he and Martha bid farewell, he and Janna returned to Raging Waves City with the caravan.
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Two days later, Robin and his party hurried on and finally returned to Raging Waves City.
The long caravan formed a long snake on the wasteland. Robin and Janna rode at the head of the caravan, and they saw the outer wall of Raging Waves City from a distance.
After the overtime work of the natives of Raging Waves City, the outer walls of Raging Waves City are finally almost completed. For this reason, Smaug puts all his effort into it. It is said that he even broke a few of the whips he used to whip the natives.
The city wall is roughly an irregular circle, enclosing the entire Raging Waves City. The average height of the city wall is more than four meters high, and the top can accommodate two people walking side by side.
Compared with the nearly ten-meter-long city wall of Silver Frost City, the circle around Raging Wave City is simply an earthen wall. But in the barren wasteland, it is not easy to build such a circle of city walls.
Moreover, the construction of the city wall didn't take long, so it was rushed out. At least Robin is quite satisfied at the moment, and he will gradually increase the height and width of the city wall later.
Robin has always believed in a principle in doing things, first solve whether there is any problem, and then solve whether it is good or not.
After the caravan returned to Raging Waves City, Robin immediately convened a high-level meeting to convey the matter of Bugle Town, and began to strengthen the city defense and patrol area.
Half-elf Luke also participated in this meeting. He just returned to Raging City this morning. It's a pity that he didn't bring good news to Robin, he never saw Master Negan at all.
"When I arrived in Silver Frost City, Master Negan had already left. Miss Helen said that Master Negan had gone to the Snowy Plateau."
In the lobby of the Lord's Mansion, everyone sat in a circle around the long table. The half-elf Luke stood up and reported his situation to Robin.
"I failed to complete the task, please punish me, my lord."
Robin sat at the head of the long table, pressed his hand to Luke, and motioned for Luke to sit down: "Forget it, sit down. I don't blame you for this. I didn't expect Master Negan's mobility to be so powerful." So strong, let’s go.”
Robin knew that Master Negan must have gone to find the second half of the Titan literature.
"However, Miss Helen gave me a lot of ancient books, and she said that they might be helpful to you, my lord." Luke said, and brought up a large backpack nearly half the height of a person from under the long table, which contained a full bag. ancient books.
"Miss Helen said that in these ancient books, you may be able to find records about the red spar."
Robin nodded, then turned his head and told Aisha who was sitting next to him: "Find someone to look through these ancient books, maybe there will be clues inside."
Aisha replied: "Yes, my lord."
Then, Robin said to Luke again: "What happened in Bugle Town, you send someone to inform the Snow Eagle family. I don't think this matter is that simple. It is necessary to let them know."
Luke nodded: "I see."
In the next few days, the surrounding area of Raging Waves City was calm, and it seemed that the matter in Bugle Town was about to be slowly forgotten. Then one afternoon, the sentry on the city wall suddenly noticed a figure walking on the wasteland in the distance.
(end of this chapter)
