Chapter 228: A Doomed Defeat

I'm very sorry, but my friends came to play at home today, and I barely managed to do so much until this time. The next day, Crane appeared in the dock. He insisted that he had attacked the lord of Andrarui not for sabotage the negotiations, but simply because he had misunderstood the other party.

"Why is there such a misunderstanding?"

When Kassandra asked about it, Crane stared straight at Chriss, who was sitting in the audience. The beautiful sister had the same ears as he remembered, and the hair cut short in order to dress up as a boy should have been used to it. But when he saw Chrissy again after a gap of more than ten days, Crane felt that her short hair was a little dazzling...... The only thing that comforted Crane was that Chrissy, who was sitting with Hiro, was looking at him with a worried expression.

"Many teams of adventurers would work in the capture and sale of slaves at certain times, and his phrase of 'taking care' at the time reminded me of something bad......"

Crane knew very well that he proposed that he would lose control of his emotions at this time mainly because the box was disguised and deliberately used to mislead his ears, and even if he could not find strong evidence, it was very likely to be accepted by the court or win some sympathy for himself. But he didn't mention the "ear" in court, naturally because he had already reached an agreement with Kassandra as prosecutor.

"Did your team of adventurers do the same?" the snake demon prosecutor asked with a blank expression.

"No!, Your Excellency, the question raised by the prosecution has nothing to do with this case!" Arrett complained to the succubus with blood-colored thorns on his head sitting in the chair of the court.

However, Crane did not shy away from this delicate question, for he felt that the answer he was about to give was originally with a clear conscience: "Although I have not led such a 'business', I have been involved in such work more than once as an ordinary adventurer in my youth. ”

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Finally, Kassandra didn't get too caught up in what Crand had done as an adventurer, and the Andrari court sentenced the young adventurer leader to five years' imprisonment.

It wasn't until the sentence was determined, he was transferred to a formal cell full of Hiro's former companions, and watched these friendly fellow inmates introduce him to the facilities he could use, that Crane finally let go of his doubts - as Hiro said, Andrari's laws and punishments looked similar to those of the human city-state, but in fact they were far from them. At this time, Crane was confident enough to confirm that it was not he who was finally sentenced because of calculation, but the thousands of adventurers on the banks of the Emerald River.

This farce caused by rumors has been doomed from the beginning, and Andrarui must make these guys blinded by greed suffer unforgettable pain for the sake of future stability!

And his second request is that he hopes that the spies he has arranged in advance in Andrarui will enable his subordinates who have been following him to withdraw from this battle that Andrarui is determined to win but is meaningless to the adventurers.

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The guy who can be sent as a spy is naturally the one who is trusted by the boss and is clever enough. But when the two guys were taken to the river by Arret and arranged for a small fishing boat, they began to become overwhelmed.

The rangers who followed behind Arret silently drew their bows and arrows and fired at the fishing boat at close range...... Until there are a lot of messy arrows stuck in it. Then the young ranger stabbed the two adventurers mercilessly with an arrow in his hand, and when they thought that there was some conspiracy in them, they were about to be betrayed as victims. The Ranger took out a small jar of ointment and bandages from the ship and began to bandage the wounds of the two men.

"You don't think you're going to be suspicious if you run back like that, do you?" and the rangers around them began to scoop water from the river and pour water on the two men, "Remember that you escaped Andrari in the evening when you were hiding on a cargo ship and going out of the city, and were spotted by the guards because of the noise you made while diving...... Finally escaped from the sight of the guards, but was found again when stealing a boat by the river, and finally escaped despite the rain of arrows. ”

After the rangers had drenched the two of them, Arret began to urge them to get on board: "Have you remembered everything that Lord Livia and your leader have explained?

"But it's so dark, and we can't sail......" Looking at the dark night on the river, the two humans were a little worried.

"Don't worry, your lord has already arranged for two Van Jia Hai clans, and they will escort you all the way until you reach the other side safely......" Two wet heads emerged from the river, like the legendary demon lurking in the water to take people's lives.

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Early in the morning of the third day, more than a thousand adventurers gathered on the banks of the Emerald River and left along the Emerald River in the direction of the forest outlet downstream. As for those who stayed, they naturally wouldn't listen to the words of the two spies who escaped Andrarui. The people who were captured in the negotiation were all cut off one of their ears because they hurt the lord on the other side, and hundreds of people who were captured were trapped on the isolated island, where they were used by the evil demons to create curses and plagues...... In comparison, the seemingly reliable story that the demons were supported by reinforcements sent by the Elven Kingdom has become difficult to distinguish between true and false. What's more, even if the enemy does have reinforcements, the adventurers gathered from the wasteland have never stopped, although they have begun to slow down. Since the last defeat in the enemy's camp, the adventurers have once again gathered a new force of nearly 1,000 people from the wasteland.

On the fourth day, when Andrarius's army swept through the human armies with an irresistible force, those who stubbornly believed that they had the upper hand, who wavered because of profit or lack of opinion, and who had just arrived on the banks of the Emerald River and had not yet figured out the situation, experienced a whole day like purgatory.

The severed limbs, the blood, the screams, and the roars of the enemy all combine to make up a scene that will last a lifetime for all who have experienced it...... Heavy, unbreakable armor, sharp, unprotected blades, and solid formations that no one can shake, all of these make for a sense of utter despair.

What is the source of the enemy's incomprehensible strength?

No one can answer for them.

All they knew was that by the time they began to regret not leaving with the men they had done the day before...... Whether they gather a few hundred or thousands of men again, they will not be able to avoid a one-touch battle when they encounter the enemy again. In the end, the rout of human troops could be seen everywhere within a few dozen miles of the lower reaches of the Emerald River.