Chapter 24: Betrayal
The blood-soaked soldier had been helped out, and Wells IV led the crowd in a hurrying towards the eastern part of the royal quarter.
Before reaching a magnificent church in the East End, Wells IV stopped. The church, called the Pilgrimage Cathedral, was the largest church in Cutland, the one that Wells IV decided to use to imprison the bloodline of Emperor Nozese.
Thick blood flowed through the crack in the door, crouching like a snake on the long steps. The fan bed of the church was extremely twisted by the violent impact. The patrol soldiers in different places, the weapons scattered on the ground, all seem to silently tell the nightmare of not long ago.
Regardless of everyone's resistance, Wells IV stepped straight onto the blood-colored steps. The blood on the ground had coagulated, but when you stepped on it, it still made a small sound that shook your heart.
"Squeak-" I don't know if it's the lubrication of the blood, or if the constant impact has caused the door to loosen. The thick door that usually required two people to push open was easily pushed open by Wells IV.
This, this is!!!
I saw hundreds of corpses nailed to the walls of the church, blood spilled on the crumbling chandeliers, and the floor was trampled in many places except for the broken benches. The smell of blood was thick in the air. A few pitch-black crows perched against the twisted metal window railings, tilting their heads and quietly watching everything inside the house.
"Meow~" A half-red, half-white cat overcame many obstacles and escaped from Wells IV's side. It appears to be the only survivor of this massacre.
Wells IV walked forward in a pool of blood, the dimly lit cathedral was gone, and it was more like a cemetery, and this "cemetery" was built by his own decision.
"It wasn't my intention... Please forgive me... Forgive me... Forgive me!" Wells IV crouched down with his head in his hands, sobbing echoing through the empty hall for a long time, and he went mad with red eyes as if he was going to rush out of the door, "Damn the knight chief!
"You've ordered him to guard the remaining idols at Valhalla. Leriol leaned closer and whispered.
"Where's the officer! Damn the officer, get out of here!" Wells IV picked up a blood-stained sword on the ground, and slammed the tip of the sword against the ground with a piercing "clang."
"Your Majesty's anger! Your Majesty's anger!" Slipper, the military officer, emerged from the crowd in embarrassment, his legs weakened, and he collapsed directly to the ground.
"Find me the murderer before the sun rises, or I'll cut off your head myself!" Wells IV slashed Slick's neck with the back of his sword, causing him to shiver and break out in a cold sweat.
"Yes! Yes, please rest assured, Your Majesty!" the hapless Slipper kowtowed, and retreated, fleeing as he returned to the crowd.
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"I think I see Arigon...", Evan scratched his head and continued walking. The man in the alley in the distance looked a bit like Arigon, but the exposed skin on his right arm was a little blackened, as if it was burnt, and he was still walking in a hurry, as if he was deliberately avoiding encountering others.
"Yes, where?" Leah looked around, surrounded by a noisy crowd of soldiers and soldiers, "Let's hurry up, we've already told the owner of the old inn where we're going, and if Alex gets back there, he should know where to find us." ”
"He told me the night before he left that he could meet him in Silver Shield City if I had the chance...", Evan thought for a moment.
"Yo, isn't this Kridolanf, when did you get to Krentland, and you didn't say hello when you came, really. I saw a middle-aged man wearing a gray sweater, gold teeth, and a toothpick in his mouth, dressed strangely. He had a bundle of fishing nets tied around his waist and a few strings of gold coins beside him, but he couldn't hear the clanging sound as he walked.
"Whew... Well... Baird, I have some business with these two gentlemen, and I'll visit you next time I pass by. Kridolanf looked a little uncomfortable, and he could tell that he was declining the man's invitation.
"You and these two little ones," Baird tossed the toothpick from his mouth aside, "it can't be that you want to get out of the city... Hehe, it seems that I guessed correctly, but I suggest you come and sit in our guild first, the president of the Nozee National Bounty Guild actually knew that you were coming, and he sent me here to meet you. ”
"Bounty Guild, are you a bounty hunter?" Evan and Leah looked at Kridolanff and took a step back alertly. Not long ago, they had already been caught by a man in a trench coat and a coffee dog, "kidnapped" once, to be exact.
"I'm a bounty hunter, yes... But I swear, I really don't mean anything..."Kerrydoranff raised his hands in surrender, still holding his smoking gun, with a look of innocence and helplessness.
The trust that you have hard-earned has collapsed in the blink of an eye, and the feeling of having lost all your efforts is like the tarot cards you have been piling up for a long time and suddenly starting to crumble in the middle.
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Night fell on Gilberg. It was a night with no wind and no clouds. On the city walls, Puo and Joryton patrolled back and forth with several groups of soldiers, and everything was as calm as ever.
"What is this, is it a fire?" Puo stopped, and he saw a little fire coming from the forest not far away.
There were more than three or four people there, and there were a lot of them! Puou took a few steps closer, and the gate under his feet suddenly made a "click" sound for no apparent reason. The gates of the city have been pulled up without permission!
"How did the gates open!!Shut them with me!" Joryton also sensed that something was wrong, and ordered the soldiers beside him.
"Ahh
"Puo!" Joryton had barely turned when the soldier behind him stabbed him in the heart with a sword.
"You..." blood kept spilling from his mouth, and Joriton's vision became more and more blurred...
Jill... Wide... Case...
The last sight that caught Jorleton's eye was the sneering of the soldiers and the pale moonlight in the sky...