At the same time that Bill was turning his head to the side, the short stick in Kersmurd's right hand had been thrown out by him with great force. The next moment the stick was thrown, Ksmerd, who jumped out of his body, flew in front of Bruce like a cheetah that had been lurking in the shadows for a long time.

Throwing is a Nord's mastery, and Kosmerd is certainly good at it. His throwing skills, while not as good as his hand-to-hand combat skills, are not ordinary. Whether it was hand-to-hand combat or armed combat, Marit taught him in detail. In addition to teaching her on the use of several hand-to-hand combat weapons, Marit also taught Sensed how to throw. From the summer of his age of fourteen to the winter of his fifteenth year, more than a year of continuous training, Kosmod spent more than a month training on his throwing skills.

I saw that the short stick that was thrown by Kersmed was straight towards Bill, who was about to call someone over. He had barely opened his mouth, and before he could make a sound, he was smashed on his brain by one end of the short stick, which made him lose consciousness immediately after feeling a sharp shock in his head. He didn't expect Kosmod to come at all, and he was really caught off guard, although he had already sensed a shadow coming at him out of the corner of his eye, but the speed of the short stick was too fast for him to react, and he had to honestly take the blow.

While Bill was stunned by Ekmerd's short stick, Kersmer had already fought Bruce with his bare hands.

Bruce was distracted when he saw Kersmund throw his baton, and then he was even more terrified when he heard the sound of his companion Bill falling to the ground after being knocked unconscious. He was so good that he could barely dodge when he was attacked by Ksmord, and he counterattacked with the short knife in his hand, trying to slash at Ksmerd, but before he could swing the knife, he felt a numbness in his right hand, and he could no longer hold the short knife. It turned out that Kosmerd had struck him in the right hand and snatched his dagger away.

Close to the body, shot, grabbing the knife, it took less than five seconds for Xmerd to complete this series of actions, which is enough for an average person to complete a breath under normal circumstances, which is as fast as lightning.

As Bruce was desperate to scream, Sensed slammed his palm into the neck, knocking him unconscious.

After knocking all three men unconscious, Eksmerd first ran alertly to the hatch, then pressed his head against the hatch, listened intently for a while, and after making sure that there was no movement outside, he went to the open box, and by the light of the candle, began to pat a peasant on the shoulder, and whispered to him to wake him from his dormant state. It took several seconds for Kersmed to pat and call for seconds before the farmer opened his sleepy eyes.

The farmer woke up from his sleep, saw Ksmerd for the first time, and couldn't help but let out an exclamation, but fortunately Ksmed stopped it in time.

After a few brief explanations to him, Kersmund helped him climb out of the box. When the peasant had crawled out, Kersmund used a short knife to cut the rope that bound the farmer's hands, and then went with him to wake up the other two men in the box.

After rescuing the two peasants and a peasant woman, Kersmed opened the other box and rescued the three captives inside, following the same technique he had remembered when he watched Bill open the box. In this way, the boxes were opened one by one, and the captives were rescued one by one. During this time, Kerder, Bill, and Bruce tied the hands and feet of Calder, Bill, and Bruce with the rope that had bound the captives, cut some fabric from their clothes, crumpled them into balls, gagged them in mouths, and then laid them down in a row.

A total of twenty-one boxes were opened, and each chest contained three captives, for a total of sixty-three captives, cramping the otherwise spacious cabin. As can be seen from their clothing, most of them are peasant women, a small part are caravan guards, and there are a few temporarily unknown people who are brightly dressed. As can be seen from their appearances, the vast majority of them are young men and women, and there are more men than women, nearly forty of them. But both men and women, they looked haggard, languid, and extremely poor at this time, and it was no wonder that they had been dormant for at least several days without eating or drinking.

In the ensuing conversation, Kersmund learned from their complaints that they were almost always captured by pirates and taken prisoner when they were away from the group. Most of them are from Wocheze and several nearby villages, and a few are from the border area around Elbuk Castle, east of Wocheze.

Fort Elbuk is one of the military towns of the Nord Kingdom, and the relationship between this castle and the Woche and even the entire Woche Peninsula is like a lip and tooth dependent, and the lips are dead, and the teeth are cold. For the nest, Fort Elbuk is like a shield, providing it with indispensable vigilance and protection. A short distance east from the castle is the border between the kingdoms of Nord and Vegia.

Starting from the snow-capped mountains in the northeast of the Calradia continent, the Virgian Snow Field continues to cover the southwest, and its gradually narrow tip extends to the west, like a sharp blade, pointing directly at the capital of the Nord Kingdom, Sagoth. The Kingdom of Vegia, which occupies the entire snowfield, uses the special terrain created by the snowfield to form a restriction on the Nord Kingdom, but the target of this restriction is of course not the Sargos pointed to by the tip of the snowfield, but the northern region of the Nord Kingdom, including the Wocchaze Peninsula.

The tip of the Snowfield Kingdom extending to the west, together with the large bay between Wocheze and Sagos, almost split the southern and northern parts of the Nord Kingdom. In peacetime, however, if war breaks out between the Nord and Vigia kingdoms, the Wokchaze Peninsula and the area adjacent to Vigia to the east will immediately be separated from the Nord kingdom by the Vigia kingdom and surrounded by the Vigia kingdom.

Therefore, when a war breaks out between the Kingdom of Vegia and the Kingdom of Nord, the northern part of the Kingdom of Nord is often the first to bear the brunt of the surprise attack by the Kingdom of Vegia. If the Nord Kingdom did not prepare for the battle, or did not provide rescue in time, then the northern part of the Nord Kingdom would often have to fight against the siege of the entire army of the Kingdom of Vigia with the strength of the city of Wocheze and Fort Elbuk......

Not all of the sixty-odd captives were Nords - the caravan guards claimed to be from Suno and were attacked by a group of pirates as they were about to reach Wocheze. When Ksmerd heard about the town of Suno, he had long seen that the caravan guards were not Nords, but he didn't expect them to be Swadiaans. It was the first time in his life that he had seen a Svadian, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances at the caravan guards. Later, he was horrified by what the caravan guards had said.

According to the caravan guards, there were twenty or thirty men in their caravan, far more than just them, and the rest of their companions were also taken prisoner and not killed. Before they were drugged unconscious, they were still with the other two dozen or so companions, but when they woke up now, they found that only a few of them were here, and their other companions were not on the ship. Other captives reported similar separations from their companions. It is conceivable that there must be more than one group of captives to be sold, perhaps, many other captives are now also loaded on other ships and are on the way to be sold, and it is difficult to say whether they can be so lucky to meet a savior like Usmound.

Kersmund listened silently to the whispers of the captives, his brow furrowed and his expression solemn. These captives were innocent peasants, blacksmiths, caravan guards and other low-level laborers, all diligent commoners, none of them nobles. On weekdays, some of them toiled in the fields outside the village, some in the workshops in the towns, and some were constantly traveling from place to place to deliver goods...... Then, they had to save money in order to pay their fees and taxes, and to continue their poor days, which often did not have a second meal. Their fate was tragic enough, but the pirates and slave traders still wanted to take them as captives and sell them to foreign lands. Some of the female captives also cried out about the rape and ravage of the pirates and some slave traders like wild beasts.

Grim listened silently to the captives' complaints, his hands clenched into fists, and he hated the heinous pirates and slave traders.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion among the captives.

; Germund hurriedly whispered to the captives to prevent them from making a louder noise.

"Food! this is food!" a farmer whispered excitedly to Kersmound, gesturing to an open bag in his hand.

It turned out that the flax bags piled up in this gloomy cabin were all Nord-style cheese bread, meat pies, and other foods that were considered Nord specialties, apparently also transported from the nest to the Živa with the captives.

The captives, who had been hungry for an unknown number of days, devoured the food in desperation. Of course, Kersmed didn't stop them, and he couldn't stop them at all, but he could only remind them to be quiet while they gobbled up, or to share the deliciousness of the food with them.

In addition, by the light of the candles, the captives discovered a dozen barrels piled up in the corner opposite the hatch, which were undoubtedly filled with the wine that the sailor had tried to steal. The wine then became a free drink for the captives.

At that time, after entering the cabin in the dark, Kersmund moved directly to the side, of course, not realizing that there were so many barrels of wine piled up in the corner opposite the hatch. And when Ksmerd slept in the most secluded corner of the cabin, there were more than one time when people came in from outside the cabin to get wine and food, but those people went straight through the hatch, and after taking the wine and food, they would not stay in this dark cabin for long, and went straight out again, plus there were many large boxes to cover it, so that those people would not find that there was anyone else in this cabin. At the same time, the men seemed to be afraid of waking up the sleeping captives, and they came softly and went quietly, without alarming the sleeping Ksmerd.

After eating half a piece of cheese bread and taking a large sip of ale, Kersmund took one of the candlesticks and came to the three men lying in a row. The three guys had already woken up, but they had no choice but to have their hands and feet tied, and their mouths were stuffed with cloth, so they could only lie down honestly and quietly. Upon discovering that Kersmer had come to their side, the three guys all looked at Kersmer with frightened eyes.

After putting the candlestick in his hand aside, Kersmoud put the short knife in his right hand on Bruce's neck, then removed the cloth from his mouth with his left hand, and said in a low voice: "You are the last of the three to be stunned by me, and I think you should know me better than the two of them, so I believe that the next few questions I ask you, you will also answer more truthfully and truthfully than they do, don't you?"

"Yes...... Yes!" Bruce swallowed quickly, then replied with a trembling voice, "If you have any questions, just ask, I'll ...... If I knew, I would have answered truthfully, word for word!"

"How long have we been at sea?" asked Kersmound.

"Counting today, it's eight days and nine nights!" Bruce replied after thinking for a moment.

"What did you give them to sleep for so long?"

"It's Mr. Bartlet's Eternal Dreamland, which will make these captives as quiet as if they were dead, and won't make any noise or cause any trouble during our escorts, and will save us a lot of money on food!"

"Hmph! It looks like you're going to be disappointed this time! Not only have they eaten up your food, but they're going to cause you a big problem in a minute! Who are you? How dare you collude with the pirates so lawlessly and trade innocent civilians as slaves. Aren't you afraid that your sins will be discovered by the lords and they will kill you all?" said Kirsmud angrily.

"I ...... I'm just a minor player with the lowest status, only responsible for escorting prisoners and earning my share of the dinar, and I don't know anything else, let alone care, like a small soldier in the other six countries of Calradia who is at the disposal of his superiors. ”

When Minder heard the second half of Bruce's words, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and asked, "The other six countries of Calradia? Aren't there only six countries on the continent of Calradia? ”

"Yes, I'm a Nord, but I'm just a civilian in Nord on the surface, and in reality, I don't belong to the Nord Kingdom, I belong to the Stygian Slavers of the Eternal Night. Our Eternal Night Alliance is the seventh nation on the Calradia Path, but we are still hiding in the dark and waiting for the right time, and we are not in the public eye like the other six nations, but our Eternal Night Alliance is strong enough to compete with any of the other six nations on Calradia. ”

Bruce paused, then continued: "Our leader is the Uncrowned King, who has temporarily hidden his strength under the hypocritical and corrupt light of the world, and soon, he will be able to lead our Eternal Night to unite and attack with all our might, sweep through the Six Kingdoms, end this chaotic era, unify the continent of Calradia, and destroy all the old order, and build our paradise on your graves or ruins!" The more Bruce spoke, the more agitated and mysterious he became, and the latter seemed to be repeating some long-known manifesto, while his eyes, which spewed a feverish light, were trying to open wide, and his face, which had taken on an excited and strange expression, had been distorted and hideous.

When Mindmort heard Bruce's words, saw his eyes and expression, and couldn't help but think of the person who had made a great impression on him in his childhood.

The man was a nun named Rena, who had been in a convent with Ksmeer, who was young and beautiful at the time, and who had been an angelic being in Ksmead's heart, but one day when Ksmeer was ten years old, the nun, who was only sixteen years old at the time, suddenly went mad, as if possessed by a demon, and ran around the monastery and made a great noise, causing a great commotion.

At that time, although he was only ten years old, he was already very bold, and Marit often told him all kinds of terrible things like demons, ghosts, and monsters, but she never frightened him. For he firmly believed that even if those demons and monsters did exist, they were far away from him, and that living in this monastery was directly protected by God, and that demons and monsters would not be able to appear beside him.

However, when Minded saw the mad nun, he felt frightened, and an inexplicable sense of fear arose in his heart. He involuntarily hid behind Marit's back, as if he was terrified that Rena would suddenly attack him. The morning before, when Minded had gone to church, he had met Rena who had just come out of the church. Rena nodded and smiled at him, as gentle and kind as ever, really like an angel, making Kersmod feel warm and beautiful.

However, only one day later, this angelic nun suddenly became like this, her face was hideously distorted, her eyes were fanatical, and her mouth was like chanting a spell and constantly cursing God in all kinds of vicious language—the being she had always believed in and worshipped, and even chanted the name of Satan the Devil, as if she had adopted Satan as her new faith, and uttered many crazy words. One of them struck Kersmod and still remembers it - Satan, Satan, please bring destruction on this world and rebuild our homeland, when I will follow you for eternity and have my new life.

The young Sensed believed that it was Satan the Devil, the culprit, who had caused Rena, who had always been an angel in his mind, to fall into such a crazy depravity, which made Sensed feel incredulous and terrified. Marit noticed his uneasiness, and comforted him, saying, "Do not be afraid, child, she is not the devil, nor is the devil who made her what she is, but that her own faith is not strong enough to withstand wavering, or that the original intention of her faith is wrong, and it was wrong from the beginning! Alas, she is also a poor child!"

However, at that time, Marit was still a nagging old nun in the eyes of Mindmer, and he had always almost taken her words as wind in his ears, and the sudden madness of Rena hit Minder was so great that some of his ideas almost collapsed, and made him immersed in fear and anxiety for a long time, so Martit's comfort to him at that time did not work at all.

After Rena was taken away by several soldiers, Kersmund never saw her again. Later, after overhearing the gossip of several nuns, Korsmod finally learns the reason why Rena is crazy.

It turned out that Rena was diagnosed with leprosy when she was fourteen years old, and this disease was a terminal disease in Calradia at this time, and there was no cure, and even if it could be cured, it would have to pay a high price, and Rena, who came from a poor family, could never afford such an expense.

Rena was sent to a convent by her family and became a nun, and Rena, who had already understood her fate, pinned her last hope in God for this life, sincerely believed in and worshiped God, and hoped that he would be able to rid herself of diseases. However, after two years of peace, Rena's leprosy finally began to flare up one night - she found that the skin on her face began to fester, which caused him to break down in an instant.

She finally understood that God could not save him at all, and no matter how devout she believed and worshipped God, no matter how much she prayed, it was useless. And so overnight, Rena's faith changed so dramatically that she completely lost her mind and fell into a mad depravity......

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