Mr. Jaime wondered how he had escaped from the city.

In short, when he came back to his senses, he had already fallen outside the city in embarrassment, and could only watch his hometown turn into a sea of fire.

Even the most heroic Duchy warriors are no match for that kind of monster, the heavy metal armor is easily torn apart, the sharp weapons are not much more solid than wheat straw for those monsters, the walls and the ground are like nothing for those monsters, and the ranks of the human organization are crushed with the slightest touch of those monsters.

While fleeing, he also heard from the priest who fled with him that those who were devoured by those monsters would be sucked up with their souls as their bodies died, and they would be tortured endlessly.

The priest's words crushed the minds of many who were planning to die, and made them take up arms again to resist—though the outcome was still the same.

Later, the priest was stabbed to death by a Duchy officer who had also fled on charges of disturbing the people.

It is said that the officer wanted to hang him, but he didn't have that spare when the monster chased him.

"It's all over...... My home, my tavern...... My mother-in-law and three-year-old son...... It's over, it's all over! ”

Next to Mr. Jaime, a middle-aged man who looked as thin as a hemp pole sat on the ground and cried, and the two mustaches that used to be shiny and shiny were now like weeds in the bleak autumn wind, lifeless, giving people the feeling that they would fall at any moment.

His cry resonated with many of the people who fled together, and suddenly the whole mountain cried loudly.

"Shut up!"

The officer who stabbed the priest to death angrily brandished his sword and shouted: "Shut up and hear!" Do you want to lure those monsters over? ”

The refugees, who were extremely sensitive to the word monster, immediately fell silent. Even if some of them couldn't stop all of a sudden, they desperately covered their mouths and sobbed silently.

"Sir, what are we going to do now?" Mr. James, who had finally regained his breath, looked at the middle-aged hemp pole beside him who was wiping tears from his eyes, and asked the grumpy officer with the usual flattering smile on his face.

"To Orres, where there is the most powerful army of Iriel, and it is said that even dragons can hunt! These monsters are certainly no match for them either! ”

The officer gritted his teeth and said to the refugees, "You'd better be obedient to me, or I won't mind throwing you as bait on the road to slow down the monsters!" ”

Everyone was silent, for fear that they would become bait for those monsters. A handful of young men were also afraid of the officers' swords, which were clearly magically attached. Dare to be angry but dare not speak.

At that moment, there was a sudden rustling sound in the grass next to them. This made the nervous refugees nervous all at once, for fear that a monster would pop up there.

Fortunately, it wasn't monsters that came out, but people.

"I'm from Refania, which is also overrun by monsters. And the monsters there are spreading to this side. ”

The face is already covered in sludge. I can't see what it is. The refugee, who could barely tell that the other party was a young man, asked Mr. Jaime for a steamed bun, and while desperately stuffing it into his mouth as if he hadn't eaten in a long time, he said, "The whole of Irel is surrounded by invisible walls. We couldn't break through to the east, and now we're about to head west, when a strange magician is said to have made a hole in the invisible wall so that people can escape from this damn place, where there should be the only way to live. ”

"I'm not going west! We're heading east! Travel to Orres! As citizens of the Principality, believe in the glory of the Principality! The officer frowned at the man who seemed to be choking and roared loudly.

"That's your business, sir. At least at the time of the fall of Refania, the glory of the principality did not save my wife and daughter. ”

After hammering his chest to keep himself from choking so badly, the refugee took a few companions like him, who had barely filled their stomachs with steamed buns, and planned to continue to set off.

The refugees who fled the city with the officer were faced with a difficult choice: to believe the words of the young man, who was also a refugee, and to go with the 'strange magicians' of the West, or to trust the officer and go to Orrez and believe in the Principality's invincible spears and heavy shields.

It turned out that most of the refugees who had lived under the patronage of the empire all their lives chose to follow the officers – the words of the refugees who almost starved to death seemed less credible than the principality officers who were armed and carried food and water.

Of course, there are exceptions.

"Can you tell me more about the strange magician?" Mr. James's chubby body leaned over and asked the refugee.

"There's no time, we need to get there as soon as possible." The refugee youth shook his head, and then continued westward with his companions.

Just as Mr. Jaime hesitated, an eerie and terrifying hiss began to be heard from down the mountain.

Everyone present knew the sound, the chirping that it was one of the few things that those monsters with different appearances had in common.

So Mr. James gritted his teeth, and ignored the officer's somewhat flustered shouts, and followed the footsteps of the refugee youth.

As one of the first to discover monsters, he always felt that those monsters were terrifying, perhaps even more terrifying than the legendary dragons. So instead of pinning your hopes on spears and heavy shields, it's better to find a way to escape.

After he had run a few steps, he noticed that the middle-aged man with a hemp pole had also followed.

"Hey, Jonathan, why did you follow along?" Mr. James asked curiously.

"That's because you're here, of course." The middle-aged man's eyes were still a little red, and he looked at Mr. James's fat body, and said softly, "Although you have been against me all your life since I married Joanna, you have done almost nothing wrong over the years...... It's the first time you've opened a tavern, but it's more popular than my family's old tavern aromatherapy herbs, almost all of the wines you fancy can sell well, and the chefs you hire are often well received, and you almost ruined my aromatherapy herbs...... I hate you, but I have to admire your vision. ”

"Hmph, I didn't expect your head to be confused." Mr. James straightened his beer belly and said with some smugness, "It's just a little timid." ”

"I'll avenge Joanna, but not now!" Ma Zhu blushed and retorted.

Two days later, another wave of refugees they met told them that Orrez had fallen.

Now their only hope is the strange magician who is rumored. (To be continued......)