Chapter 31: Hunt and Kill

The battle in front of Baylor Cathedral shook the entire continent of Westeros, and knights, mercenaries, assassins, and speculators from the Seven Kingdoms frantically poured onto King's Road.

All because a few days ago, in King's Landing's Silent Sisters' Street, at the gates of the majestic cathedral, under the watchful eyes of the Seven Gods, a knight named Sauron Melko charged the new king Joffrey in order to save his lord.

After killing dozens of guards and four Kingsguards, the knight took the girl Sansa in full view of the crowd and escaped the capture of the Capital Guards, who were now on their way down King's Road towards Winterfell.

This news was witnessed by countless people in the square at the time, and its authenticity is beyond doubt.

The bards of various countries went crazy about this, and they wrote all kinds of poems for the first time, which have been widely circulated in country towns and taverns in major cities at an astonishing speed, and they all called the Knight of Sauron Melko the strongest knight of mankind ever, and added a new title after his "Free Knight" and "Champion Knight" - "The Chosen Sword God".

The knights of the Seven Kingdoms regard defeating him as the highest goal in their lives, and publicly recommend him as the first knight of the continent.

And the most direct consequence of this battle was that the Lannister family offered a huge bounty of 100,000 gold dragon coins to buy his head, and the two princesses of the Stark family who followed him also offered a high bounty of 20,000 gold dragon coins.

Driven by this huge profit and fame, groups of knights left the castle with their attendants and servants in an attempt to challenge the continent's number one knight. Mercenaries, assassins, and speculators also set up ambushes under King's Road, patiently waiting for his arrival.

Behind them, an elite force of two hundred cavalry was searching along the road.

It had been days since Sauron, Arya, and Sansa had left King's Landing.

Because the two girls are not good at riding horses, the three of them ride together, the two girls are in the front, and Zhang Xinyi lives in the back row to protect. For this reason, Zhang Xinyi took off his armor and went into battle lightly, and the weight of the two girls together was less than a pair of armor, so that the movement speed of the three of them was not affected much, and many trackers were thrown off.

They rose at dawn and drove through forests, orchards and well-groomed farmland, through small villages, crowded towns, and well-built estates, until dusk. After dark, they set up camp and rested by the campfire.

There was never a vigil at night, and Arya had seen it several times, and sometimes the teacher would suddenly roll over and grab the ice from the ground, slashing the sneakers in the shadows with a quick slash.

"He's invincible." The girl told herself in her heart that she had never seen him tired, and always had such an indifferent look, as if nothing could defeat him, like a towering tree blocking the wind and rain for her.

On the twelfth day, they encountered the first battle, a group of thirty or forty mercenaries, who repeatedly swung their weapons at the girls sitting in front of the horses, trying to force the knight to take care of the girl's safety, but they did not succeed once, and the knight's sword was faster than lightning, and every time they struck off, they cut off their arms, without exception.

After killing more than two dozen mercenary masters, the group of mercenaries dispersed as birds. For these people, the knight did not chase them, but stepped up his journey.

But after this time, because their route had been exposed, more pursuers stopped their path again and again.

Among them, there are many knights with knightly titles waiting on the side of the road to compete with the first knight of the continent, and for knights who have no malicious intentions, Sauron is mostly point-to-point, and will not kill the killer.

The defeated knights will escort them with great honor and grace, and at the same time clear the way for them.

But more of them are scheming guys, most of them are knights of the Lannisters, leading their squires and men to try to intercept the three of them, but most of them end up with a single sword.

The mercenaries came in groups, they were as few as ten or so, as many as fifty or sixty people, they would lay ambushes in advance and set traps, and some mercenaries had good archery skills, but compared to the knights, they were more shameless and unscrupulous. However, as if a prophet of the future, the Sauron Knight repeatedly dodged various hidden arrows from the shadows.

After a long time, these mercenaries simply changed their attack plan and attacked from the front, in this regard, the response plan of the Sauron knights was to dismount and fight if there were few people, and to ride their horses in a roundabout way if there were many people, with excellent horse control skills and excellent riding and archery skills, each time the pursuers were disgraced.

In fact, Sauron didn't have the skills of riding and archery, and even before that, he had only touched the bow a handful of times, but he couldn't bear to have a cheating artifact, and under the correction of the system, shooting was just a more realistic game experience.

But it was this kind of game experience that made the pursuers scattered, and every time he heard a string sound, he saw an accomplice next to him being carried from his horse by an arrow, and he swallowed his breath before he could land.

The pressure of not knowing when it will be his turn is even more terrifying than confronting him, and it is said that his archery skills are like a crow that beckons death, and each arrow feather can take away a living life. came and went, and Zhang Xinyi's title of "Dead Crow Shooter" was widely spread in the mercenary community.

Compared to the above two types, the Assassins preferred to attack at night, ** being their strongest weapon, and twilight being their best disguise. But all of this didn't work in front of Knight Zoro, who was always one step ahead of him to tell what was edible and what was poisonous. It was even more impossible to sneak up on them at night, because it was a big man with two little girls, and the three of them didn't even have a vigil, but every time the Assassins didn't get close to their tent ten meters away, Sauron broke his neck and hung it on a tree to warn those who came after him.

He is powerful, erudite, highly skilled, energetic and impeccable.

However, they soon encountered their greatest crisis, and it came from the pursuers of King's Landing.

It was a rain-pouring early morning, and the trio were met by an unexpected encounter with one of the teams, consisting of a hundred cavalrymen, who charged as soon as they spotted them.

The power of the group charge launched by a hundred heavily armed cavalry was so powerful that the earth trembled, and even with the attributes of the Sauron Knight, he did not want to fight with it, so he chose to avoid it for the time being.

A thunderous sound of "boom rumble...... sounded through the trees, and galloping horses splattered mud into the air, and the crowd engaged in a fierce chase along the path.

The trees are lush and full of branches, and there are roots extending from time to time along the way, like a long snake winding to block the footsteps of outsiders, and if you are not careful, it will cause people to turn over on their backs. It is in such a complex environment that the most important test is the rider's skill and psychological quality, from time to time there is a war horse neighing and falling to the ground, and at the same time throwing the rider on its body several meters, broken tendons and fractures, and blood flowing.

A few people fell out, even if the injuries of good luck were not serious, but because the knights behind had no time to avoid them, they were trampled to death.

It didn't take long for dozens of cavalrymen to fall from their horses and die, and they didn't even touch the back of the enemy, and watched as the strong enemy ran farther and farther.

"Damn!" One of the bearded sirs who took the lead shouted angrily and ordered the cavalry to halt the pursuit.

"Charles, Doge, you two lead the team to outflank from both sides, and once you find the other party, you will immediately launch an attack, and this time he will not be allowed to escape from under our noses!"

"Yes! Sir! ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

The team split into threes and pursued their enemies from three directions at once, while Lord Bearded sent scouts to inform the other teams that they had discovered the target of the trip.

The icy cold wind accompanied by the pouring rain poured directly into the neckline, soaking the whole body, making the two girls on the horse shiver with cold.

Sauron sighed and reached out to untie the cloak from his body, wrapping it tightly around the two women in front of him, although the cloak was half soaked and could not stop the torrential rain, it surprisingly made Sansa and Arya feel an inexplicable warmth.

The sound of horses' hooves intensified around them, and it was clear that the trackers were not far away.

"They're coming after you?" Arya said cautiously with a small face in her cloak.

"It's the Lannisters, they're taking me back." There was a hint of trepidation and horror in Sansa's tone, and she would never forget the cruel scene.

"It's a pity that not enough of them came." Zoro moved his ears, and suddenly sneered, and as soon as he lifted the reins with both arms, he stopped the galloping war horse, turned over and dismounted, and hid the two girls under a big tree next to him, and said, "Wait for me here for a while, and I'll meet them." ”

"Nope! Don't go! There are a lot of them. Hearing that he was leaving, Sansa looked pleading.

"You'll be back soon, won't you?" Unlike her sister, Arya looked at her teacher stubbornly with her eyes and asked in a calm tone.

"Of course!" Sauron rubbed the hair of the two girls, mounted the ice with him, and headed in the direction he had come.

It didn't take long for the faint sound of shouts of killing, the sound of metallic clanging, and the terrible howls of human beings before they died, and the sound changed from high-pitched at the beginning to gradually low, until it disappeared completely.

Only the thunderous torrential rain in the sky continued to knock on the earth, and no one knew who would be victorious until the answer was revealed.

He ...... Did he win? Sansa curled up, feeling cold and frightened, and after a long time she didn't see anyone appearing, and finally couldn't help but ask her sister for help.

Arya glanced at the other party and said in an old-fashioned manner, "You have to have some confidence in my teacher, he is the first knight of the Seven Kingdoms who rescued you from the Lannisters. ”

Sansa blushed slightly and said, "Yes, yes, but there are so many of them. ”

Arya glanced at the other party suspiciously, always feeling that this sister, who had been jealous and hated since childhood, was a little weird, and replied sullenly: "He is invincible." ”

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves became clearer, and then a familiar figure burst into their sights.

"Teacher!" Arya threw herself into the comer's arms.

Sansa stood reservedly and smiled sheepishly at the man.

After a fierce battle, the knight's coat was stained with blood, but he didn't know if it was the enemy's or his own.

Zoro gently hugged Arya, who pounced on her, and smiled at the girls, "They won't be chasing them for the time being, there's an inn in front of us, we just go there to rest for a while......"