79. Flowering
The miners who had been around Derek gave way to the soldiers in an instant.
The miners all ran to the corner, only Derek stood alone in the middle of the house, and even the little worm who had wanted to leave with Derek before saw the two murderous soldiers and hid in the corner.
"Derek, I didn't expect you to come back."
An old man in a black robe walked into the room, and Derek knew him, the butler of the Busri Navot family, one of the four major families of Scarre, who could also be translated as the Black Flame Crystal family.
This family is the nominal miner and owner of the black flamestone mine.
The invasion of the Blood Crystal Beast Plague caused a major reshuffle of Scarley's aristocratic forces, and the Hubert family, the first family of Scarley, was almost completely wiped out, and among the remaining three families, only the Black Flame Crystal and the Saw Sword family were well preserved.
The other Yuandun family declined in the Blood Crystal Beast Plague because they were also nobles who controlled military power, like the Hubert family.
The Hubert family is the only one left in the entire family, General Hubert, and the Yuandun family has at least a few descendants.
"It has nothing to do with you whether I come back or not."
Derek suppressed the fear in his heart, he was actually afraid when he came back here, but the fighting spirit in his heart far exceeded the fear.
"Nothing to do with me? You're our commodity! ”
The old man's voice was tinged with anger, he didn't like Derek, a slave, to confront him.
The gladiatorial arena where Derek used to be was opened by the Black Flame Crystal family, but now Derek is no longer obsessed with being a gladiator in the past.
He now had new goals and ideals, one of which was to be a soldier, but not to be a soldier of Scalley, who was nothing more than a lackey of the nobility, and he wanted to be like the soldiers in the camp, who were really fighting with honor, in the true sense of protecting their people.
It's just that in this country, his goals and ideals are not allowed, and these nobles will never allow him to have such thoughts.
So Derek had to find a way to change the country, and although it seemed impossible, he had to try.
First of all, escape from this nobleman!
Derek threw the empty backpack at the soldier on the nobleman's side, and the moment the other man's head was covered by the backpack, Derek rushed to the soldier standing on the other side.
This soldier was obviously a recruit who had just been promoted, and when he saw the menacing Derek, he panicked instantly, and Derek took advantage of the moment when the opponent drew his sword, directly grabbed the opponent's head and pulled it down, and his knee also kicked upwards suddenly.
The moment the forehead collided with the knee, blood spilled from the bridge of the poor soldier's nose.
When Derek wanted to attack the old man next, the magic power in the old man's hand suddenly gathered, and a wave of impact spread out from the old man's hand.
This impact caused Derek to lose his balance and instantly took a few steps back, while another soldier took advantage of this moment to tear off the backpack that Derek threw over, and slammed Derek's back with the hilt of his sword.
The blow to the hilt of the sword sent Derek to the ground, and when he tried to get up again, the soldier kicked Derek directly in the body.
Derek's body rolled to the other side of the room, and the miners hid in fear for a moment, leaving Derek clutching his abdomen and trying to stand up.
But the next second, the soldier punched Derek in the cheek again, this time with spikes attached to his gauntlets, and blood spilled from his mouth.
"You forgot the lesson, I can help you remember it once! It's far more painful than fighting in the gladiatorial arena! The old man walked up to Derek and said angrily.
Derek didn't say a word, still trying to get up again, but the soldier next to him slammed the hilt of his sword into Derek's back, and he fell to the ground again... But he still braces his body and wants to get back up.
The soldier once again stomped on Derek's back, pinning him to the ground.
"I think this thing will help you remember."
Another soldier brought the old man a long black whip, and when the old man was about to swing the long whip and whip it at Derek's back, a stone came out of nowhere and smashed directly on the old man's head.
The old man covered his forehead, and he looked at his palm, blood was already spilling from his forehead.
This made him almost uncontrollable with anger, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and the expression on his face was like a monster that only eats people.
"Who is it?" The old man angrily shouted at the surrounding miners, "Who threw the stone!" ”
No one responds to the old man, like Derek did before... The miners chose to remain silent.
The old man angrily waved the long whip in his hand and struck the miner standing on the outermost, and a painful wail came from the miner's mouth.
"Stand up for me now! Otherwise, no one can escape the criminal law today! ”
The old man shouted angrily, but at this time, the soldier next to him was knocked directly to the ground by Derek.
"What are you afraid of?"
Derek shouted loudly at the silent miners, but at this moment the soldier regained the initiative, and at the same time, he was completely enraged by Derek, and directly grabbed him by the neck and pushed him to the ground.
The feeling of suffocation flooded into Derek's consciousness, and Derek still did not give up his resistance, swinging his fist and slamming it into the soldier's cheek.
And at this moment, another stone slammed down on the old man's head, and the old man turned angrily to look behind him, and he soon found the person who threw the stone, which was the worm hiding in the crowd.
"Damn it!" The old man was completely enraged, and he took the whip to try to catch the worms out of the crowd, but the silent miners suddenly turned into a wall before they knew it.
"Get out of the way! Hear me! If you don't want to be punished, get out of the way! The old man shouted.
But there was still no one to answer him, and the old man suddenly realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the house, and the miners picked up the pickaxes they had used to dig the mines.
"What do you want to do? Whoever takes one step further will be put to death! You, and you! Soldier! Take them away! "The old man commanded the slaves as a master.
Unlike in the past... The old man kept retreating, but the miners with pickaxes in their hands kept moving forward.
Eventually, the area they had vacated out of fear began to get smaller and smaller, and the old man finally found that there was no way to escape, and he was surrounded by people on all sides.
"All of them are put to death! You slaves! The inscription on the old man's hand suddenly lit up, and when he was about to cast his magic, another stone fell on his head and interrupted his spell casting.
At this moment, the surrounding miners instantly surrounded him, picked up a pickaxe and completely 'drowned' him.