Chapter 15: The Raid on Santoniri
Hera was surprised that Hippolyta was still alive, but she had a hunch that something was wrong when Charon told him the story of the Amazons.
Under Celeia's explanation, Hera knew the purpose of Nessus's invasion of the Amazon, the reason is very simple, this person is naturally lustful, Hippolyta is very beautiful, and is naturally aggressive, and the main purpose of Nessus to rob the Amazon is to force Hippolyta to be his wife, so the reason why she can survive is very simple, that is, Nessus didn't want her life at all.
During the battle with Nessus, Hippolyta was mortally wounded by Apollo's bow and her belt was taken away, forcing Hippolyta to return to the city, while Nessus took advantage of the Amazon.
In order to keep Hippolyta alive, she had a subordinate Ania who looked like her and pretended to be captured, so that Hippolyta and Penthesileaa could escape.
It is useless to kill Nessus with these weapons alone, Silea said, Nessos's armor is invulnerable, ordinary weapons can't reach her at all, the material of their armor is said to be made of the skin of the god Hyperion, the armor resistance of the dragon skin is clear, invulnerable, and has a reliable defense against explosions and elemental attacks, and the same is true for the armor under Nessus, which Hera knows very well, but their armor is not pure, so it was still cut by Hera.
Invulnerability, and resistance to explosions and elemental attacks, was a taboo in the Cold Weapon Age, but Hippolyta's research revealed a way to restrain the armor, which was to kill the strange bird of Lake Tinfaros and use its beak to make arrows.
The three of them arrived at Lake Tinfaros overnight, and easily killed the strange bird and obtained its beak, but it was only Hephaestus, a craftsman from Santoniri, who wanted to make this beak into a bow and arrow.
Santonili is a thriving and lively place, but Hera, Hippolyta, and Celea are not yet familiar with it. The silk market, the bell tower, the Quarte Tower, the Palace of the Government of Catalonia – these magnificent buildings compete with each other and show off their prosperity to travelers, after all, it is one of the most important trading ports. 、
The streets are filled with locals and outsiders, and people from all over the world mingle in a smorgasbord of languages.
The ship on which the Poseidon and Hera were on happened to be docked together, and the captains of both ships were also friends.
"Hello, Neptune!"
"Hello, Pruto!"
"Didn't go well all the way?" Pruto asked. The captain of the Poseidon was a short, stocky man in his thirties. Standing on the aft deck, he was directing the crew to load all kinds of goods into the hold and prepare for the return voyage.
"Pretty damn."
"Look at your boat. But next week there will be good weather and the sea will be calm, so I'm going to go back quickly. ”
"I can't help it. When did you arrive? ”
"The day before yesterday." Neptune said.
Hera stepped forward and asked, "You should know Hephaestus, right?" ”
"Of course." Pruto replied.
"What about others?"
Pruto took a sip, "It doesn't look good, but the cost of the weapon is good." ”
"Is anyone else here?"
"He's not in town very often." "You have to find his apprentice before you can make a weapon for him, he's a famous craftsman here, and a lot of people trouble him to make weapons," Neptune said, "but he only knows the best materials, and you don't have to go to him for ordinary materials." ”
"Hephaestus is exactly as she says," said Syrea in a whisper, "and he made the armor on our body, and he would have been reluctant to do it if it hadn't been for the Flying Stones." ”
Hera didn't pay any attention to Sileia's words and continued to ask, "Then do you know where he lives?" ”
"He doesn't have a fixed place to live," Neptune said, gesturing to the large palace building in front of him, "and you can inquire there." ”
They disembarked and headed straight for an inn called Silver Fox, followed by Pluto, who showed them the way, his face not quite right. "This is not the place where girls should be."
"What do you mean by that?" Hippolyta asked rhetorically.
Pruto shrugged helplessly.
Hera looked around at the busy docks, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw three or four sneaky guys staring at them, and she touched the saber at her waist with her hand, Hera slung the bag over her shoulders, and prepared to draw her sword and dagger with her hands free.
Seeing Hera in a battle pose, Hippolyta also got ready, and Silea looked nervously left and right, and walked into the city together, even if they couldn't see the suspicious person just now, they remained vigilant.
"Let's go to the hotel and ask how he's doing?" Hera suggested, "This is the easiest way to find his whereabouts." ”
The inn is located deep in a narrow alley between high-rise buildings, twisting away from the main road. The inn itself is a dark, low-rise building that doesn't fit in with the high-rise buildings of the neighborhood and the city. Behind the black wooden gate, there was also a dark scene. Hera led the way, and Syrea reluctantly followed.
The hallway was so dark that you could barely see your fingers, and even the furniture and long tables on the floor were hard to see. As they reached the middle of the porch, the door behind them slammed shut.
Ten men who had been in ambush for a long time rushed forward with a roar, and seeing this, Hera and Hippolyta quickly threw away their backpacks, and Hippolyta drew her sword and dagger and fought the first attacker to rush forward. The reflection of the weapon is quite striking in the semi-dark room. It's wide enough to toss and turn, which helps on both sides.
"Syrea!" Hera shouted, "Take this and hide behind the table!" ”
Hera threw the sword to Sileah. Since Syrea likes to use heavy weapons like meteor hammers, she clumsily reaches out for the sword, but drops the sword to the ground, and she quickly picks it up. Not noticing an enemy rushing towards her, Hera quickly drew her dagger. She struck the enemy in the flank with a sideways blow, piercing his belly. He fell, crushing his stomach, but blood kept pouring out between his fingers.
At this moment Hippolyta strode forward, raising her sword. A lightning-fast assault! His opponent's throat was pierced directly. At the same time, the dagger of the other hand slashed at the base of the other person's thigh. He screamed in pain and curled up to hold the wound, but it was too late. Hippolyta looked condescendingly at his enemies and kicked them out without mercy. His enemies will never cry out again.
The attackers retreated a little in surprise, not only surprised that their sneak attack had not worked at all, but also surprised that the two men who were supposed to be their swords were completely satisfied. After a pause, they redoubled their ferocity. Hippolyta was slashed in the right arm and exclaimed.
At that moment, Sirea jumped to his feet, clenched his fist and slammed it into the attacker's head, and then, while the opponent was dizzy, a hand knife struck the opponent in the neck, Hera clearly heard a "click", and the attacker fell to the ground.
Suddenly, a large man smelling of alcohol sneaked up on Hera's back, and she strangled her neck with a noose. In a suffocating struggle, Hera threw the dagger to the ground and reached for the tightening noose.
Hippolyta jumped up to the big man and stabbed him with a sword, and the man screamed in pain, grabbed him in all directions, and pushed Hippolyta aside. Taking advantage of the momentary release of his hand, Hera immediately struggled out of the rope noose. It was difficult to recognize the black-cloaked attackers in the dim light, but a single failure seemed to have greatly eroded their morale.
"Go!" A rather ugly and indistinct voice shouted, "We're still five against three!" As she spoke, a man rushed out, and Hera quickly kicked the dagger on the ground, stabbing it heavily into the chest of the attacker, and disemboweling him like chicken, when another attacker shouted, "No, there are only four of them!" Let's withdraw! ”
"No way!" The voice commanded, "Give it to me!" ”
The person who spoke was the big guy who wanted to strangle Hera just now, this guy exuded the smell of alcohol, who was this guy?
After a short while, the gate to the street was slammed open and slammed shut again. The man fled, and Hera hurried after him, and under the street lamp he could see the boar badge on the other man's cloak, which was one of Ermantos.
Hera pursued him, but was blocked by a surviving attacker. He held a scimitar in his hand and waited for Hera to crash into him. Hera was too close to him to wield his weapon, so Hera grabbed him and threw him straight to the wall.
The man rolled and rushed over again with his scimitar. This time, he used ten percent of his strength, counting on a single knife to cut down Hera. But this time it didn't hit anyone, and Hera dodged sideways, and the blade slashed into his own crotch by inertia. He screamed and fell to the ground, dropped his knife and grabbed his life, rolling on the ground in agony.
The remaining two were scrambling through a door. One managed to run over, and the other, who had been injured before, was tripped by Hippolyta, and Celea quickly jumped on him and pressed him. After making sure he couldn't escape, Syrea got up and asked Hera to crouch down and turn him over, Hera holding a short knife into his nostrils.
Hera said, "Tell me who instructed you to do this, and I will spare your life." ”
"Kill me!" This man is very hard-mouthed.
Hera stretched the blade in, and the razor-sharp blade slowly sliced the man's nose.
"Tell me!"
"Uhhhhh Okay, I say! The man said, "I say! It's the Boar King! ”
"What did he tell you to do to me?"
"He's going to stop you from getting the arrows of the strange birds." The man said.
Hera pushed the knife again.
"Spare your life! Spare your life! I'm telling the truth! But you can't win us, they're going to kill the remnants of the Amazon and then take the power of the country into their hands. ”
"Where's Ermantos?" Hera said fiercely.
"You'd better kill me," the man said.
Hera gritted her teeth, but just then, a blade suddenly slipped out of the man's hand and stabbed Hera into the heart. As soon as Syrea pushed Hera away, the blade stabbed into her breastplate, and Hera was surprised to find that the blade began to break the moment it touched the breastplate, and finally shattered the slag and fell to the ground weakly.
"Long live the royal family of Nessus!" The man finally shouted.
"Peace be upon you all your life." With that, Syreah punched the man in the head, and his brain exploded.
"It's time for us to go." Celea said, tilting his head.
Hera stood up and followed the two of them towards the Silver Fox Inn.