Chapter 501: An Accidental Arsonist
The silence of the night was thus broken, and countless soldiers rushed out of the forest and launched an attack on the granary camp.
"How, what's going on...... Enemy attack?"
The people in the camp were taken aback, and many of them hid in their houses, not daring to look out. The guards drew their weapons in amazement and gathered towards the camp gate.
However, just looking at it, they almost shuddered.
Countless soldiers rushed out of the darkness, like horses on the steppe, and the light of the camp's fire reflected their hideous faces. The darkness added an aura to the soldiers, and the defenders couldn't see the number clearly, but ...... Just the momentum that rushed to the face, as if there were tens of thousands of people.
The defenders look at the people on their side, only a few hundred, it is like an ant falling into a pond, it is not worth mentioning.
What the hell is going on, and why would anyone attack them?
They were not unaware of the news of the invasion of foreign enemies, but they were far away from Ikor! Even if Ikor wanted to fight, it would not be possible for him to fight here, right? There were troops stationed in this area, and the law and order were good, and there were no bandits and robbers. In their opinion, this granary is simply the safest place in the world.
They apparently did not anticipate that the attack was on the army that had protected them in the pastβand the church did not seem to have had time to warn them of this.
Because of this, vigilance here is actually very poor.
In the blink of an eye, the soldiers rushed in front of them. They had to wave the swords in their hands and meet them in a daze. After a brief hand-to-hand encounter, the numerical superiority of the king's side quickly became apparent - they were like endless man-eating ants, directly drowning the guards of the granary.
The sound of metal clashing, the muffled sound of flesh tearing, and screams one after another...... One by one, the guards fell to the accompaniment of chaotic sounds, and the rest of the men gradually lost their fighting spirit.
The general was keenly aware of this momentum.
"We have come to recover the granary by order of His Majesty! The King of Groriary is an impostor, you don't have to obey him! The obedient will be left behind, and those who resist will die!"
He didn't rush to the front, and pulled the soldiers around him who hadn't killed the red-eyed ones to shout with him. Therefore, in the midst of the noisy shouts of killing, their voices were heard, to the camp, to the ears of the defenders.
Suddenly, the defenders' fighting spirit faded faster.
"No! don't kill me...... I, I surrender!"
"Really, is it really His Majesty's will......"
If someone yells at them like this in normal times, they will definitely not believe anything. But at this moment, in the middle of a battle with little chance of victory, the words shouted by the general were like a beam of light in the darkness, allowing them to find a reason to give up.
Anyway...... Anyway, it's Your Majesty's will, and it's nothing good for them to surrender, right......
It has to be said that the long period of comfort has deprived these people of the qualities that a soldier should have.
After another fight, more guards fell, and the red-eyed soldiers in front of them gradually came to their senses. More than half of the guards of the entire granary were killed by them, and the remaining half threw away their weapons, held their heads in their hands, squatted on the ground, and had already surrendered to them.
The earth-shattering noise gradually calmed down.
They won.
Among the soldiers, the king came out in a somewhat distracted manner. He was stained with a lot of blood, and apparently he was also armed with a weapon, and he fought with people in it for a while. However, Benjamin has been secretly protecting him, so he is not injured either.
He came back to his senses, glanced at the soldiers who had surrendered, and suddenly frowned.
"This ...... Is this a win?"
The whole battle actually lasted no more than ten minutes, and soon the guards surrendered. As a result, he also had a sense of unreality because it was too smooth.
"That's how it should be. Benjamin shook his head helplessly, and said to him, "I said it all, it's just a granary, and it won't take much work, and you still have to call me." β
When the king heard this, he was silent for a moment, and finally wiped the blood from his face, and said, "...... All right. β
He turned his head and looked at the crowd around him. The soldiers were watching him when the battle was over, and the surrendered guards crouched on the ground and secretly raised their eyes to look at the bloodied king.
Everyone was looking at him, as if waiting for him to say something.
Therefore, he took a deep breath, regained his composure, and stepped forward......
"Wait! Someone wants to burn down the granary!"
At this moment, Benjamin's face suddenly changed. The water vapor rolled up and flew straight out of the crowd and towards the camp.
Everyone else present was also stunned.
"Put ...... Burn down the granary?"
The king silently read the words in his heart, and then he reacted.
Oops......
What are you kidding, they are here for food and grass. The guards said to surrender, but they wanted to burn all the food inside, wouldn't they be busy in vain?
At that moment, the king and all those present looked into the camp with stunned eyes.
I saw that in the camp, a man dressed as a grain officer was holding a torch and was rushing towards the granary.
"Stop him!" cried out the king.
Obviously, needless to say, Benjamin in the sky has condensed a lot of ice arrows above his head. At a blistering speed, he approached the man from mid-air, ready to take the other man down in one fell swoop.
However, the man suddenly turned his head and looked at Benjamin with a sneer.
"You want food, you dream!"
Suddenly, he took a few crosses out of his pocket and threw them into the air.
At that moment, the king immediately understood, it was the people of the church!
Finished.
Realizing this, the king's mood suddenly sank to the bottom. If it was an ordinary person, he knew Benjamin's ability, and he would definitely be able to stop the other party from setting fire to the warehouse. But if it's a priest......
The torches were about to touch the edge of the granary, could he really stop it?
And everything was just as the king thought, and after the priest cast that cross, he formed a barrier of holy light in the sky. The barrier was frighteningly thick in front of Benjamin, and Benjamin had no way to get past it, so he could only release the ice arrow first to break through the barrier in front of him.
However, the barrier has bought time for the priest.
At the same time that Benjamin broke through the barrier, the torch in the priest's hand had quickly approached......
Boom!
An unexpected muffled sound came from the camp.
Everyone was stunned.
What happened again?
The situation became so fast that the king felt like he was running out of breath. I saw that the granary was still fine and did not burn down. As for the priest with the torch, he had fallen to the ground at this moment. The torch rolled to the side and came to a slow halt without causing any incident.
Behind the priest, at this moment, an old man dressed in the costume of a grain officer, holding a wooden stick, trembling and trembling.
Looking at the posture of him holding the stick, it was as if the muffled sound just now was the sound of him hitting the priest on the back of the head with a wooden root.
The king was a little confused.
This is...... What's going on?
At this moment, Benjamin in the sky also broke the barrier. He looked at the fallen priest and the old man with the stick, but he didn't show too much surprise, but frowned.
"I've told you everything, trick this priest's cross out and someone will help you out. The system said triumphantly in his head.
β...... Oh. β
Benjamin ignored the system and instead turned his gaze to the old man.
To be honest, he didn't know what was going on with this old man. From the priest preparing to set the fire to being knocked unconscious by accident, everything was sudden, he was just trying his best to stop it, and the appearance of the old man was completely unexpected for him.
The old man is the grain official here, why should he help them?
In this camp...... And allies?
Just as he was puzzled, the old man threw down the stick in his hand, and suddenly showed an excited expression, and walked tremblingly towards the king.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... I've finally waited for you!"