Chapter 324: Holy Light Blessing
Despite the harsh wording, de Jong was actually for Robin's good - His Majesty's temper was short-tempered, and the whole court knew that Robin's appearance was like this, and it was normal for His Majesty to order him to be cut down. So it's better to give Robin a step down in advance, as long as he is willing to admit his mistake...... In extraordinary times, His Majesty the King will certainly pardon him.
"What are you going to do?" King Solas turned around, and to De Jong's surprise, His Majesty the King did not get angry, but asked Robin very calmly, "The orcs will have to run for a while to get to the city, what do you want to do?" Tell me about it. ”
In fact, King Solas was really angry when he heard the noise caused by Robin, but after turning around, he noticed Robin's injured leg, and Soras's anger disappeared - his rich military experience told him that this man had been wounded on the battlefield, so he should be a veteran who had been discharged from the army due to injuries, and he deserved his respect—and the tears in the corners of Robin's eyes were in stark contrast to his fierce expression, which made King Solas wonder a little in his heart - what made this iron-clad man cry?
"Let go of me, it's too late!" Robin ignored King Solas's questioning and just roared wildly. Seeing that His Majesty the King frowned, De Jong hurriedly replied for Robin: "Your Majesty, his ...... His lover was outside the city and didn't come in......"
After thinking about it, De Jong didn't know how to describe the relationship between Robin and Tess; He knew Robin's bitter history, but he didn't know how Tess "came back from the dead" and ran away to Riptide Castle. After some consideration, he still refers to Tess as Robin's "lover".
"Oh." King Solas answered, but did not speak—what could he do? Even the supreme monarch. It's also beyond the reach of power, otherwise, wouldn't he have become "Solas the Great" a long time ago? Now that the city gates have been sealed, even if the orcs did not approach Riptide Castle, there was no way to send people to notify the residents outside the city to take refuge in the city; And the troops in the city are not enough, so naturally there is no way to send troops out of the city to protect these residents, and they will fend for themselves. It's their only home.
"Let me go and let me out, since you won't go. I'm out alone! Please, De Jong, just give me a rope! Robin was still shouting frantically, and even began to plead with De Jong.
"Rope?" De Jong couldn't help but exclaim. "Are you crazy? I don't know there are tens of thousands of orcs outside. Even if you go out, what can you do? You're sending people to death, not saving people! ”
Robin bit his lip fiercely, his eyes widened, and his sockets felt like they were about to burst - of course he knew that he was going to die, and it was a bit difficult for him to fight a human at the moment, let alone an orc who was stronger than a human? But...... But Tess and the others are still on the farm outside. If...... If you can avoid the orcs' sight and enter the farmstead. If the orcs hadn't spotted Tess, they might have been able to take them away from here and flee deeper into the Arathi Heights, perhaps with a chance of survival; And the more time I spend here, the less time I'll have for Tess! Robin's teeth bit through his lips, and a few drops of crimson fell on the bluestone bricks at his feet, splashing into small red flowers; The smell of iron spread in Robin's mouth, and he didn't even notice it.
"Let him go......" King Solas sighed suddenly. Several palace guards let go of their hands when they heard this, and Robin rushed to the side of the city wall with the momentum of his body, and kept muttering: "Rope, rope ......"
"Give up, it's too late." King Solas suddenly felt a little more emotion in his heart at this moment, and patted Robin's shoulder, which was vastly different from his identity, and comforted him.
"Late...... Robin's eyes widened suddenly, and his big broad hand clasped the edge of the battlement, along the gap between the battlements, Robin suddenly saw that outside the castle of Riptide, a long "fire dragon" was squirming towards the side of Riptide Castle quickly, and on the side of this "fire dragon", a few thin "fire snakes" suddenly branched out, like encountering prey, and pounced on the scattered farms outside Riptide Castle.
The "fire dragon" was exactly what the orc army looked like when it marched with torches; And those "fiery serpents", Robin understood, apparently the orcs had discovered the scattered farmsteads and sent a small force to clean up the human dwellings.
When Tess's family is asleep when they encounter a small group of orcs...... Even if it was only a small team, the Tess family, who only had old and weak women, could not get all out of the hands of these orcs, and Robin himself ...... Even if he had the speed of a griffon now, he wouldn't have been able to get to Tess's farm before the orcs and save them.
The back of Robin's hand was bruised, and his fingers were clasped tightly at the bluestone on the battlement, and even his nails burst out, and blood stained his fingertips. Suddenly, Robin's healthy leg bowed hard, and he was about to roll over and climb up the wall.
"Stop, are you crazy? If you go now, you're going to die! De Jong was quick-eyed and knew what his comrade was trying to do, so he stopped Robin and pushed him back to the inside of the wall.
"Let go of me!" Robin stared at De Jong with resentment, his eyes full of resentment and grief, "Even if I die, I will die with them." Robin's heart was full of remorse - why was he so inferior before? Why couldn't I have proposed to Tess earlier? If Tess had promised herself, she would have lived in the city with her by now; Even if she went to help her with the farm outside the city, at least at this time she would be by her side, not like now...... Damn, why is fate so tricky? At a glance more than ten years ago, the boy's spring/dream was disturbed by the robbery of the bandits; The reunion after more than ten years, the Yiren are still the same, but they are about to usher in life and death?
"Wake up, Robin! You jump now, there is no point in sending you to death in vain! What if Tess lived? I don't know what's going on, but last time we thought she was dead, didn't you see her again? In case she escapes from there and you die outside the city again, where will she find you then? De Jong barely found a reason to convince Robin.
"Yes, that's right...... Tess will be fine, maybe she was lucky enough to escape again......" Although Robin was very dissatisfied with De Jong, De Jong's words were exactly what he wanted to hear at this moment. Just as Robin had calmed down a little, and was about to force himself to think of more reasons for Tess's possible escape, the sporadic barking and terrible screams of dogs in the distance outside the city made his heart pound again—the orc squad had begun to clean up the farmsteads? Light bless, may Tess escape once again...... (To be continued......)