From this, a temporary plan was drawn up......

Blood-red eyeballs instead of the moon hanging, casting the gaze and the tears of fire that fall into the city at night.

Intermittent earthquakes occur in the flames of Twilight. The citizens of the city locked the doors and windows of their houses, and the lucky ones huddled in their homes and shivered, trying to wait for the catastrophe to pass, but the unfortunate ones were killed on the spot by a fire meteor wrapped in demons, or escaped from the crumbling houses under the threat of fire, and then ran into a vicious abyss demon in the chaotic streets.

This city of adventurers founded on the eastern plains of Okazawa has no traditional noble lords, nor does it have a private army of nobles. Adventurers and guards are the main fighting force in the city, some of whom have done their best to protect themselves in this scourge, while others have chosen to help these unarmed "burdens".

It was a strange feeling, as if it was a mission beyond responsibility, even though the feeling of this mission was not actually chosen by everyone.

Like Eddie Horford, the captain of the guard. At this moment, he walked in the makeshift team of the Thorn Squad, the Orichalcum Gate, and the remnants of the Shaving Blade Adventure Band, holding the halberd that had followed him through many battles to maintain order in the refugee team.

These innocent people are indeed pitiful, but if you don't pay attention to them, they will be a mess, cowardly and cowardly people will run out of control, and despicable selfish people may harm their fellow citizens in order to survive. Weak but numerous flocks need to be cared for by shepherd dogs, let alone intelligent humans?

With this in mind, Urs deliberately placed the refugees in the middle of the group, with the Thorn Squad led by him in front of him to explore the way, the shaved adventure group led by Sawyer Boots was responsible for the delay, and the few remaining members of the Orichalcum Gate and the patrol guards and scattered adventurers who were picked up by everyone along the way were assigned to Eddie and Rundell to command.

The Pastor Associate Head of the Ashram lacks leadership qualities, but is an excellent deputy. He was a follower of Ode, the god of order, like the orc monk Stonefist, and was now orderly guiding the adventurers and guards beside him to watch out for every possible omission in the refugee squad.

Eddie walked beside him, watched quietly, and suddenly accosted him, "Your god has a spokesman who is pious enough to put his teachings on order into practice. ”

"Oude taught his pastors the importance of order, and his pastors spread this valuable idea." Rondell lifted the flail in his hand and glanced at the captain of the guard, "What about you, Captain Eddie?" Who is your faith, Vaughans? ”

"God of War." Eddie blinked and chatted casually with him, "Wall is not only the god of war, but also the god of battle, encouraging his followers to hone their fighting skills. The mercenaries of the Kasha Desert generally believe in Wall. ”

"You're a Kasha?" Rundell paid attention to the other person's skin.

"Half of the bloodline, from my mother." Eddie smiled, "So some people say that the bridge of my nose is Holm, but my skin color is like wheat." ”

With that, he raised his left hand and scratched his hair unconsciously.

This reminded Randall of the rings on his hand, on his ring finger, with a small orb set in it that was glowing red by the surrounding firelight.

The deputy head of the Orichal Bronze Gate was stunned for half a second, and asked curiously, "Are you married?" ”

Eddie's eyes froze for a moment, he lowered his hand, looked at him again, and hesitated for a while: "Father of two children...... But don't worry about their safety, because the desert is in the east, far from here. ”

"I thought you had settled down from your career as a mercenary." Rundle shrugged, "If you don't mind, can you tell me why your family isn't with you?" ”

"Is this a curiosity that every Pastor Oude has?"

"I don't mean to be offended, I just wanted to see if I could give you a little advice, after all, family is also part of order. It's a very important part for everyone. ”

“…… Well, you can listen to my story, if you wish. Eddie sighed, heavy and meaningful, "My story...... Let's start with the desert. The Kasha Desert is my hometown, where my father, a wandering mercenary from the Emerald Bay, went on a mission to meet my mother, and eventually settled there, and then there was me. My childhood, my memories, my childhood friends, my Fania ......"

"She's your wife?"

"Yes, dear Fanya, my dear, a beautiful Kasha girl, prettier than my mother." The captain of the guard raised his eyebrows, and spoke faster, as if to show off.

But the next second, the conversation changed -

"But those good days were messed up by my father."

"What happened to your father? Did he get into any bad habits? Rundell guessed.

"Bad hobbies? No, he just took up an interest in business in his later years, with the mind of an old mercenary. Eddie's hand gripping the halberd tightened unconsciously, and his teeth gritted lightly, "The results speak for themselves, the merchants in the desert are all mosquitoes bred in the oasis, and wherever there are gold coins, they will drill wherever they have them." They go out of their way to squeeze out your blood, have nothing to do with morality, just need a prima facie legitimate. ”

"My father was defrauded by those profiteers, lost his family property, was drowsy with several contracts full of traps, and owed an astronomical amount of debt."

"That old coward...... Thinking that he had nothing to do, he hid in the arms of death and ran away from everything, never to return. My mother quickly went crazy because of that incident, and I was just a blacksmith at the time, and Vanya and I were married for less than five years, and we have two children and a mentally disturbed old woman to take care of, and we have to work hard every day, taking a lot of money out of our wallets to pay off the debts......"

"Those damned profiteers, they ended up crushing my Vanya." Speaking of this, the captain of the guard choked in his throat, looked up at the sky, two sour crystals soaking out of the corners of his eyes, and at the same time revealed a knife-like murderous aura on his side, "But I'm not as weak as my father. I don't know the wisdom of a merchant, but I know that the hammer I use to strike iron is harder than the head of any Kasha merchant! ”

"So you killed those people?" Rundle understood something.

Eddie glanced over his head and raised his hand to wipe his eyes.

"Of course!" Then he bared his teeth and replied, as if the evil spirit of many years ago had come out of his mouth again, "Those demons in the world have taken everything from me!" One night, they got together to discuss a business, and I spent the last of my savings to pretend to be a guard. Wall protects his fighters, hatred can drive a man crazy, and that commercial feast ends up turning into a lake of blood at the hands of the man who lost everything! ”

"And you're still alive now proves that you managed to escape at that time." The pastor took a deep breath, "But what about your child?" According to your description, they shouldn't have been very ...... at the time."

"That's why I put them in a monastery beforehand." The captain of the guard breathed a sigh of relief, and then recounted, "They have been orphaned ever since, but life in the convent may be better than what their parents have provided, and I have since fled all the way to the western coast to begin my career as a mercenary. ”

"But I didn't expect it to be decades."

"Who would have thought it would be so far?" Eddie spread his hands helplessly, "Otherwise, everyone will be a prophet." ”

"So when this disaster is over, go back and see how your children are?" Rundle thought for a moment and suggested to him, "You owe those two children a father's love, even though they should be grown up now. ”

"I had such a plan, and I had saved a lot of money over the years, but I just couldn't make up my mind to go back and face them." Eddie shook his head, "At the end of the day, my heart wasn't ready at all...... I've left them out in the cold for so many years, how can I be embarrassed to go back and face them again? ”

"But it should all come to an end." Rundle sighed and looked the man in the eye, "It's your responsibility, friend, a father's responsibility. ”

"It should all come to an end......," the captain of the guard muttered in a daze, "there seems to be some truth in your assertion, priest...... Maybe you're right. ”

Then, he picked up the halberd in his hand, and kept up with the speed of the middle of the whole team, and pondered it in his mind for a while.

Randall watched the order of the refugees while quietly waiting for his answer.

Half a minute later—

"Then wait for this disaster to pass." Eddie's eyes became firm, as if he had finally made up his mind, and looked back at the priest and deputy head of the gable, "When this tough battle is over, I will go back to my hometown to see the child...... I hope they will recognize my incompetent father. ”

After speaking, he finally smiled again, as if he had untied a knot in his heart under the guidance of the other party.

……

About half an hour later, the procession of refugees, guards, and adventurers continued through the burned streets.

Led by Urs, the Thorn Squad acts as the vanguard in the front row, clearing the way for the refugees in the middle of the team, and accepting more survivors along the way.

The young man's rage today was only the last time, and he had to carefully save his killer weapon, but fortunately, the increase in manpower and combat power, coupled with the fact that the luck was not too bad, the demonic monsters encountered by everyone along the way were not too strong, and the most tricky situation was the discovery of the existence of three disemboweling demons, and four small meteors wrapped in the quasai demon fell from the sky and smashed at the end of the team, almost causing casualties to the shaving blade adventure group.

The Kwasai Demon is a small demon the size of a baby, with bat wings, and a cunning nature, but not very strong in combat, and is soon dealt with by the throwing dagger of Sawyer Boots.

The halfling thief leader of the Shaved Blade Adventure Group is really good at it, and he deserves to be called the master dagger by the adventurers of Twilight City.

And the perspective of the picture returns to the side of the young people. Urs didn't know how long he had been in the city, he didn't count the time, all he did was put his energy into the battle that could break out at any moment.

Thea followed him with the emblem bracelet of the sun and the scales, her amber eyes glancing ahead of her vision, and the look in her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Urs, look ahead—"

She seemed to have discovered something, and the two wolf ears in her silver hair suddenly stood up in surprise.