Chapter 63 The Bloodstained Village
Little Paul stood aside in fear.
Isenas has always given little Paul the impression of calmness and wisdom, although he has been with Leo for a long time, sometimes it is inevitable that he will have some poisonous tongues, but he will never make such a bloody scene in front of him.
"I, Isenas?" asked little Paul in a trembling voice.
Sitting in a chair, Esenas glanced back at little Paul, "What's wrong?"
Isennas's expression was as calm as water, and there were no symptoms of the soldiers Paul had seen with red eyes, which made Paul Jr. relax a little.
"Are you okay. Little Paul's voice was full of concern.
"Of course, with a few unruly guys, what can I do. Isenus stood up, the stone chair under his ass reduced to a cloud of debris.
"I'm not talking about that. Little Paul struggled to pick the right words and cautiously asked, "I mean, why did you just kill them all like that?"
"Didn't I say that I want to show you the oppressive power of the Sanctuary to ordinary people? “
Demonstrate the power of suppression: It is equivalent to stabbing everyone with iron thorns into a dozen blood holes.
Little Paul was speechless for a moment, and stammered: "I, I didn't mean that..."
"Don't worry, I know what you mean. With a stroke of his right hand, a piece of steel fell off the leader's armor, turned into a blade, cut off the leader's head, and held it up to Isenas's hand. "I just happened to see a fanatic believer in the gods, and I didn't stop for a while. ”
"These people are loyal followers of the gods, and they do everything for the sake of the gods' tasks, without regard for the lives of others, and do not care about their own lives, and even their gods will be amazed at the despicability of their methods. The more they die, the more stable the world becomes. ”
Paul Jr. followed after Isenas and asked, "Have you been in contact with fanatics before?"
"Not only have I been in contact with them, but I also had a lot of conflicts with them. Isenas grabbed the skull by the hair, pulled a knot and grabbed it casually in his hand.
"Let's go, go back and ask the caravan steward to see if you can recognize this guy. ”
Isenas deliberately avoided the topic, and Paul Jr. kept his mouth shut.
Leo was unable to experiment with his newfound spatial abilities in the caravan, so he had to practice perspective perception, so he discovered the traces of Esenus and Paul Jr. from afar.
"Hey, you two came back pretty quickly, what's in your hand?"
Isenus walked over and threw the head in front of Leo with a "snap".
"A band of fanatics of the gods of the sky, this is the head of their leader, do you know?"
"How could I possibly recognize such an unpopular thing. Leo pouted. "Call the leader of the caravan and take a look. ”
Seeing that Leo and Esenas didn't mean to raise their legs, little Paul said helplessly: "So I have to do this job, right?"
"Who are you going to go? Neither of us is suitable, go quickly. Leo flicked a finger and struck little Paul on the instep.
After a while, the middle-aged man came in a hurry.
Although they are employers, these Sanctuaries are all masters.
As soon as the middle-aged man came, he saw the head that had been thrown on the ground at random, and the facial features of the head happened to be facing him.
"Brisco!" the middle-aged man screamed with his eyes wide open.
"You know him? Esenus walked over to the skull, tugging at its hair and picking it up. "This person brought a group of fanatics of the god of the sky, hid in the mountains and forests and didn't know what to do, and hunted a lot of large demonic beasts, in order to avoid trouble, I killed him easily. ”
Kill it.
The middle-aged man shuddered.
Leo noticed the strangeness of the middle-aged man, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Hey, don't just stand stupidly, tell me about the situation." ”
The middle-aged man looked at Brisco, who was in the hands of Isenas in mid-air, and Brisco's pupils were filled with panic, fright, and fear.
After sorting out his emotions, the middle-aged man slowly spoke: "Briscoe, he is the number one supporter under the Sky God, but he is not a master on the battlefield, nor is he a good ruler of the territory, he is the most hidden and sharpest knife in the hands of the Sky God, and all unsightly things will be handed over to him to deal with, including but not limited to dealing with traitors and chasing and killing blasphemers." Every church has a similar secret organization, but only the gods of the sky, the gods of trickery, and the gods of light are the most notorious, and they rely on the favor of the gods behind them to complete the oracles in a cruel way, and in the past thirty years, the number of people who have died directly and indirectly at their hands is in the tens of thousands, and this number is not much less than the number of people who have died in the wars they have waged. The name Brisco has been equated with the king in recent years. To tell you the truth, our merchant group had a conflict with them before, when I was a hairy boy in my twenties, trying to challenge them without knowing the sky, but as you can see, I am now 40 years old, and I still have to run a small caravan outside. ”
The middle-aged man spread his hands self-deprecatingly.
"They are so arrogant, and you didn't unite to sanction them?" said Paul Jr.
The middle-aged man shook his head helplessly, and said: "Child, you may not have any concept of these three gods, the divine power of the god of light covers the entire kingdom of faith, all gods have to recite his true name, the god of the sky and the god of conspiracy and trickery are his right-hand men, one is his eyes in the sky, the other is his mouthpiece in the world, under the union of the three true gods, any union with a trace of dissent is a leek that they pick, and the two joint organizations in history have been avenged by them with interest." Therefore, even relying on the protection of the free country, trying to challenge them is tantamount to suicide. ”
"Ten years ago, however, a group of adventurers broke through the pursuit of the god of the sky and the god of trickery, and they relented a lot. It's a pity that in recent years, with Brisco's ascension, the subordinates of the god of the sky have returned to their previous ferocity. ”
I don't know why, when talking about this group of adventurers, little Paul subconsciously thought of Isenas.
Leo smacked his lips and said, "In this way, this guy's head is worth a lot, right?"
"Gah?"
The middle-aged man came back to his senses and said with a wry smile: "Valuable is valuable, but this money is probably not so easy to get, once you go to the bounty to exchange this bounty, the Sky God Church will definitely spare no effort to hunt you down, otherwise how could this guy be free for so long." ”
Leo let out an "oh" and said, "Isn't their most difficult person already here, what else is there to worry about?" ”
"The hardest part is here, but the strongest ones are still in the temple. The middle-aged man admonished tactfully.
And the crux of the problem is not here at all, the bitter smile on the corner of the middle-aged man's mouth can't be stopped at all, if this group of people is determined to exchange for this bounty, then their caravan has to run to the depths of the free country, once the executors of these churches find out that they have been in contact with these murderers, the revenge of the three hooligans of the kingdom of God is not something they can afford.
The middle-aged man made up his mind that he would never covet this kind of small bargain in the future, and it was safe for these masters to escort him, but once they had any thoughts, they could only bear it.
After sending the middle-aged man away, Isenas turned his head sideways and asked Leo, "Are you really going to exchange this guy's head for money?"
"Will you let tens of thousands of gold coins evaporate from your eyes?" asked Leo rhetorically.
"Of course not. Esenas replied as a matter of course.
"That's not the end of it. Leo rolled his eyes and continued: "Don't worry, I know what you're worried about, I'll take care of the identity issue, after all, if the enemy tracks down our whereabouts along this caravan, we are also very passive." ”
After assuring Isenas, Leo shouted into the carriage again.
"Old Mo!"
"What's wrong?" Omoni poked his head out of the carriage. "Oh my God, what are you doing with such a big head in your hands. ”
"Of course, it was exchanged for money, and the driver collected it. ”
Leo threw the head over, and Omoni quickly used his magic to hover it in the air to prevent blood from getting on his clothes.
"Changing heads, what do you say?" Omoni looked back and forth at the head.
Isenas didn't bother to repeat Omony's question, so little Paul did it for him.
After listening carefully, Omoni's face was solemn, and he asked, "Do you remember what are the corpses of the demonic beasts on the ground?"
Little Paul thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "Spotted leopard, vulture, water snake, deer, and maybe a wolf." ”
"Do you know what they're going to do?" asked Izenus as he heard Omoni's overtones.
Omoni nodded, frowned, and said: "This is a kind of dark creature summoning ritual, the ritual takes away the agility and claws of the leopard, the ferocity and eyes of the vulture, the insidiousness and belly of the water snake, the cunning and mind of the wolf, and supplemented by the simple mind of the deer for easy control, what is summoned is a brutal, bloodthirsty, obedient to the summoner, and will never be able to eat enough." ”
Little Paul asked, "What are they summoning this for?"
Omoni didn't answer, but Isenus had an answer in his heart, and said slowly: "Eighty percent is used to cause damage in this vicinity and cut off the grain route, and then this elite team can surround the point and send reinforcements, knocking out the elites who came to support, which can greatly relieve the pressure on the front line." ”
Leo raised his eyebrows and said, "In this way, the team on the Sky God Front is not very easy. ”
"That's not the point. Isenus also frowned and said, "Judging from the sacrificial demonic beasts, although the strength of this monster summoned cannot reach the level of the Holy Domain, with its physique, its combat power far exceeds that of a level 17 warrior. According to the characteristics described by Lao Mo, if he can't be stopped in time, all creatures within a radius of hundreds of kilometers will be exterminated by him. ”
Little Paul gasped and asked, "The gods would do such things?"
Isenus looked at little Paul, shook his head and said, "The gods don't do it, but his followers don't. ”
At this moment, the words of the middle-aged man of the caravan leader echoed in little Paul's mind again.
"They completed the oracle in a brutal way. ”
This is how they accomplish the task of the gods?
The four fell silent for a long time.
Thankfully, the captain's voice interrupted them.
"Up ahead is the village of Little Pag, where we'll rest tonight!"
Esenus shrugged his shoulders and ordered, "Little Paul, go and scout the village to see if there is anything suspicious." ”
This was the usual thing, and little Paul had nothing to excuse himself, so he took his bow and arrows and ran away from the group.
The closer he got to the village, the more strange Paul felt.
It's so quiet.
The occasional rooster and cow crow in the village are completely inaudible
Not even the evening smoke was to be seen.
If this were the case, Paul Jr. would have thought that the people of this village had fled the war, after all, he had seen many homeless people along the way.
But a wisp of pungent stench rushed into little Paul's nostrils, a familiar and unfamiliar smell, as if it were blood, but with a strong stench.
Little Paul endured his discomfort and slipped into the village from the side.
Little Paul's face turned pale for a moment, and he immediately knelt on the ground and vomited.
After a while, Leo, Isennas, Ent, and Omoni stood next to little Paul with grim faces.
The village was full of blood, countless flies surrounded the village, and hundreds of corpses were piled up in the village, men, women, old people, but there were no children.
That's where the foul smell Paul gets comes from.
With a gloomy face, Isenus looked at the corpses as he walked a finger thick of half-congealed blood.
After looking through a dozen corpses in a row, Isenas said, "There are only three weapon wounds, but each weapon has different marks, and different people have killed them with the same weapon. ”
"Are you the fanatics of the Sky Gods?" Leo asked with the same composure.
"That's right, they're using all three weapons. ”
Omoni also stepped into the village, and before he was in the mood to unleash a flotation spell on himself, he began to search for the body.
"There were no children, all the children were killed and taken away, and there were a lot of blood stains on the ground. Omoni affirmed.
"What are they doing with the kids? Esenas asked coldly.
"There's a circle for amplifying the Dark Sacrifice, which requires the soul of a child. As he said this, Omoni looked disgusted, as if he had seen something dirty.
"The greater the mental stimulation a child receives before he dies, the better the effect of the circle. Omoni's addition made Isenas look even more ugly.
This means that these children may have witnessed the death of their loved ones and then brutally murdered by these fanatics.
"Isennas, you killed those fanatics too easily!" Leo reprimanded with a hung face.
Isenas turned a deaf ear to this, calmly faced, turned to little Paul, who was leaning against the tree and was about to vomit, and said:
"What do you think of my approach now?"