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Yellow sand permeated the city, and a tattered red cloak dragged along the sand slowly swept over the Iron Fist Fortress. Not far from the ruined walls, a giant desert worm was happily 'swimming'. Thick smoke was everywhere in the city, and the noise of robbers and gnolls snatching and smashing things sounded from all directions. The blood on the corpses of the soldiers had not yet dried up, and the land had begun to be trampled.

The brown fluffy gnolls stood in the very center of the Iron Fist Square, looking up at the statue that symbolized strength and peace, and his eyes were full of disdain, as if it were the representative of power. At this moment, a gnoll man came up and said to it

"Exactly, it's been added."

The brown gnoll man frowned at this, and shouted with a hideous face

"Chakhu! The compass must be in this city! I'll find them all again! ”

When the jackal saw that his head was angry, he was so frightened that he could not stand on his feet, and hurriedly agreed and ran down······

In an old house in the west of the city, the wooden door opened gently, and an alert eye was probing the surrounding situation from the inside out, and only slowly opened the door after making sure that there was no one around. Immediately two men walked out, bright red swept by, these two people were actually soldiers of the Shajiaban.

"What to do? The city was full of gnolls and robbers. ”

One of the soldiers said, holding the handle of the knife in his hand tighter, and the panic on his face was very obvious,

"Could it be that the Iron Fist Fortress has been breached? We were just sent to inspect the surrounding villages, but we didn't expect it to be in such a short period of time..."

The other soldier obviously didn't believe the facts in front of them, and besides, they didn't find any trace of the city lord.

"Damn! We fought with them! ”

The soldier drew his knife as he spoke, and shook it in front of the other man.

"Hmmm! It's a bit risky, but we have to defend the city and not disgrace Shajiaban! ”

"That's right! We...

"Here are two!!"

Suddenly, a shout came from behind the two, interrupting their words, and before the two could turn around, a cold light slashed at them with a hint of fierceness. The two quickly turned around, only to see a robber with a knight's helmet and a large sword rushing towards them. The soldiers were not idle, and they were angry that they had already set fire to the bodies of their companions before entering the city, and ran up left and right, leaving only the two reds to cover the camera······

Meanwhile, in an unknown grove,

"You can't go back!"

Chubby Sheen shouted at Elric, the black spots perfectly obscuring his eyes around them. And Elric, on the other side, looked at the strange panda in front of him with distrust with his exposed eyes. It was surprisingly quiet, the sunlight only shone through the gaps in the leaves, and the birds did not dare to make a sound at this time.

"That's my city! My brother is still fighting there! ”

Elric yelled, then turned to leave, his right hand on his side gradually exerted force without Xin noticing, and the few grains of sand on the ground began to slowly rise, gathering here from all sides.

"Wait! Give me back! ”

Xin was a little angry, if it weren't for the phantom's insistence on helping, he would have left a long time ago, so he stretched out his hand and prepared to pull him back,

"Huh! （chua）”

Erric flung his right hand back without looking back, and a wall of sand rose from the ground! Impressively kept his hand out of the sand wall. Erric didn't make any extra moves, and continued to walk forward. But in the next second, the phantom was already in front of Elric, much to Elric's surprise, and the breeze from where the phantom passed gently blew a corner of his red cloak.

"Don't go."

The Phantom's wide, watery eyes looked at Elric, exuding a hint of concern, and his hair moving up and down with his breathing.

"Get out of the way, please."

Elric lowered his tone and said, but there was still no room for rejection in his tone, and his eyes met the phantom's eyes, and he unconsciously moved away.

"No! This is the last request of your brothers, and if you go back, not only will you not save the city, but it will also be a blasphemy against their loyalty! ”

“······”

Elric didn't say anything, tilted his head to the side, but the fists clenched in his left hand kept shaking, and the phantom pursed his lips and said softly

"Let's go back to the Imperial City first, we're trying to figure out a way to get there."

“··· Well. ”

Inside the city

"Ahh

The two soldiers of Shajiaban were covered in blood and were still fighting the torrent of gnolls and robbers. The blood had fused with the cloak, and the scars on the armor were all over the body. The hand holding the knife was already cramping, and the eyes were covered with grains of sand. But they didn't give up, and the faith in their hearts is still burning!

"Go!"

A soldier plunged a knife into a robber's body and kicked him in the air.

"Go to Iron Fist Square and take the guide compass with you! Go, I'll cover you! ”

"Good!"

The division of labor between the two was clear in an instant, and one of the soldiers immediately headed towards the square. Leaving that soldier of the Shajiaban alone with a low-grade menacing enemy.

"Hahu~Hahu~"

The soldier kept running, but in a short time he reached the Iron Fist Square, but a patch of yellow sand swept by, and the empty square was deserted, and the statue, which had been destroyed, lay quietly in the center of the square. A hole was broken under the base, and rubble was scattered all over the ground. The soldier quickly ran to the statue and crouched down in front of the cave, carefully searching for something, sweating profusely from his forehead and evaporating in the sand.

"Kucha, are you looking for this?"|

A strong voice came, and the soldier looked back in a daze, only to see the brown gnoll holding a bronze compass in his hand, on which were carved druid's words, and shimmered with a faint purple light. A group of robbers and gnolls also came up from all sides, and then a red figure flashed. The soldier's pupils retracted—his companion had been caught.

"Humph!"

"Ahh

The brown gnoll swung his broadsword and slashed hard at the soldier's back, and the soldier fell forward in pain.

"Big brother!"

"Brother! Remember, don't disgrace Shajiaban..."

As he spoke, he buried his head in the sand and never lifted it again.

"Humph! A bunch of losers. ”

The gnoll said, ordering the minions behind him to get on.

"Haha~!"

The soldier looked at the enemy who was getting closer and closer, his eyes became sharp, his right hand clenched his weapon strongly, and he rushed forward with a shout!

"Dang!"

He held his knife in front of him, and then swung it so hard that he cut off the heads of the robbers in front of him, but a cold light appeared on his side

"I'm hungry."

He was stabbed on the right side of his waist, and his body unconsciously tilted to the right, and then he used all his strength to slash to the right to repel the attacking bandits. Without stopping, the gnoll behind him swung his mace down vigorously. He didn't know where he got the strength, he turned around and stabbed the knife into the gnoll's body, and looked at him viciously, the gnoll struggled in pain, the mace was thrown aside, and his hands were holding the knife stuck in his chest, leaving blood at the corner of his mouth, dripping on the soil made of yellow sand, spreading to his feet. The other gnolls and robbers seized the opportunity and threw their weapons at the soldier. Metal against metal, steel smashed steel, but the red cloak fluttered alone in the noisy world, and the frenzied group of enemies, tired of the fight, stepped aside and gasped for breath, looking at the man. In its original position, the soldier stuck the knife in the ground, grasped the hilt with both hands, and pressed his whole body against it to support himself, the pungent taste in his mouth filled his brain, and the armor on his body was shattered.

The brown gnolls in the distance looked at it impatiently, their teeth grinding and making noises, but they didn't order the little ones to finish him, as if they wanted to see what he wanted to do. The soldier laboriously drew his right hand, grabbed his cloak behind his back, grabbed it for a long time, and then slowly pulled it in front of him, opened his mouth slightly, and kissed it with the last of his strength with the most sincere heart. Said hoarsely,

"Castle Lord..."

"I didn't embarrass our Sha family, right?"

As he spoke, he couldn't support it anymore, and fell on the corpses of jackals and robbers, his eyes became more and more hollow, and his mouth was still practicing words,

"We didn't embarrass Sha Jiaban, right... There's no shame on you..."

The yellow sand is wanton, and perhaps no one will remember the names of these soldiers. But their blood stained the land they loved so much, and those red cloaks continued to surge, and they were heroes! The closest civilian hero to us!

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