Volume I, Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Shadow of Death

"My lord, I'm afraid it's not proper, all the guests living here are His Royal Highness's distinguished guests, if we hear it wrong......"

There was a brief silence outside the room, and Ilona and the mysterious man hugged each other tightly, and each could hear each other's hearts beating fast.

"My lord, the city guards at the gate are gathering more and more, and the brothers are afraid that they will suddenly attack, so I would like you to come and have a look. ”

Another voice appeared outside the door, startling a whisper of discussion. The guy they called an adult finally stopped hesitating, and snorted coldly: "Go to the front and see what those rabbit cubs want to do, go!"

Hearing the clutter of footsteps fade away, Ilona let out a long sigh of relief, only to notice that she was hugging the mysterious man in a very ambiguous position.

Ilona's cheeks turned crimson, and she struggled to break free from his embrace and crawl out from under the bed. The man came to his senses, sniffed the lingering scent on his hand, chuckled, and crawled out of bed with Ilona.

"Who are you?" asked Ilona coldly.

"My name is Haske, and I used to be a private soldier of a nobleman, but I killed an officer on the night of the blood in the imperial capital, and unfortunately, that guy seems to have a lot of background, and in an instant everyone wants to kill me, so I am now homeless. The man said with a smile, his tone as relaxed as if he were talking about something completely irrelevant.

The faint light from the window shone right on his face, and Ilona finally saw the guy for the first time.

He was very young, he didn't look even twenty years old, his red cheeks were still a little childish, and when he smiled, the two little tiger teeth were very cute.

Who would have thought that such a good-looking child would be a murderer without blinking?

Thinking of the scene where he had just killed someone, Ilona had no way to connect this face with that shadow.

"Why did you save me?" asked Ilona.

"Do you need a reason to do good? If you have to say a reason, it may be because I was born with a sense of justice. ”

Ilona sneered and shook her head: "You just said that you are cornered, right? I guess you must have seen the sign on my carriage and knew that I was a member of the church, so you fantasized that if you saved me, you would be protected by the church, right?"

Husk's face changed, and he smiled again and said, "Okay, you're really a smart girl, but I'm not trying to lie to you, it's just that the superior people like you are relatively naΓ―ve, and they don't understand how hard it is for those of us who are struggling at the bottom." ”

"Innocent?" Ilona thought of the two guards who had laid down their weapons but were killed by Berta, and her heart suddenly became very heavy, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Maybe I was really naΓ―ve before, but I won't be in the future." ”

Husk smiled, noncommittal.

Ilona looked Huska up and down a few times and asked, "How many levels of strength do you have?"

Huskar seemed to see through her thoughts, and said calmly: "I'm a fifth-level crossbowman, but even a sixth-level warrior may not be able to survive if he encounters me." ”

"The strength is not bad" Ilona nodded: "Then, let's make a deal, as long as you can send me back to the Hagia Sophino safely, I will guarantee that no one will dare to come to you for trouble from now on." ”

"Hah!" Haske clapped his hands happily, "I'm here for you, my lady." So shall we go now, or will we rest for a while before leaving?"

"You're not going anywhere!"

At this moment, a sneer suddenly came from outside the room, and the voice was the "Adult!" who had come before, and the two of them were shocked.

However, before they could react, the walls of the room suddenly collapsed with a thud, and a stout man walked in with a sinister smile.

"Oh no, you go!" Hasker saw this, and pushed Ilona out of the window, then took out a half-human-tall sniper crossbow from the spatial ring, and pulled the trigger on the man's cheek.

The nearly one-meter-long crossbow arrow let out a terrifying scream and flew into the man's face in an instant.

However, what he didn't expect was that the invincible crossbow arrow did not shoot through the man's head, but instead sparked a string of sparks in his face, breaking into two sections.

"What?" Hasker's pupils shrank suddenly, and he wanted to turn and run away.

But the man sneered and threw a lightning punch, and the wall on the other side of the room was smashed to pieces like a plaster cast, and Hasker was covered in blood and buried in the ruins of the wall.

The man didn't look at him again, but casually walked to the big hole that had been blasted out and looked out. At this time, Ilona, who had been pushed out of the window by Husk, was gone.

"It's actually a fourth-level priest, it's interesting......" The corner of the man's mouth hung on a playful smile, and he jumped out of the room with a slight leap.

Outside, a bewitching woman hurried down the stairs and saw a red-haired man leaning against the broken wall, and asked in surprise, "Why are you the only one, the Iron Demon?"

The red-haired man shook his head: "The old problem has been done again, he hasn't played with the church girl yet, where can Annai live?"

The woman snorted coldly and said, "This guy, don't look at what time it is, the city guards have already assembled more than two squadrons, and they may attack Black Rose at any time." ”

The red-haired man waved his hand: "Forget it, let's go over and have a look first, when he plays that girl to death, he will naturally come to us." He's a fast gunner, and it doesn't take much time, you probably know that best. ”

"Hmph!" the woman snorted heavily, gave the red-haired man a fierce white look, and turned to walk downstairs.

In front of the ornate gate of the Black Rose Annex, the brightly clad city guards formed an attack formation, ready to rush towards the Black Rose at any moment. The Duke of Calus's private soldiers on the opposite side were all like great enemies, vigilantly watching their every move, and a great battle seemed to be about to break out.

Hundreds of meters behind the city guards, Berta looked gloomily at Black Rose, and roared at the middle-aged man beside her: "Why don't you do it yet, what are you still hesitating about? Do you know that in less than a second, we will be in more danger!"

The man was none other than the knight who had removed his visor, and he closed his eyes in contemplation with a blank face, not until he was thinking of something, and ignored Bertha's roar.

Berta gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "Old fox, aren't you just afraid that I will put you along? To tell you the truth, the Knights of the Holy Cross of the Church will be coming soon, and your city guards have absolutely strong backup, hurry up, otherwise it will be too late!"

The middle-aged man suddenly opened his eyes, and the doubt in his eyes had dissipated most of them.

At this moment, there was a sudden loud bang from the Black Rose Annex, and the wall of a room on the fifth floor shattered, and then a stout man jumped out of it.

"Quick! they've spotted the woman, and they're not going to let them catch her first!" Berta screamed in terror.

The man finally completely dispelled his doubts, and shouted: "The city guards obeyed the order, there is a rebel night attack on the Black Rose Annex, go and arrest them, no matter who they are, they will be killed!"

"Kill, kill!" the city guards let out a neat roar and rushed murderously towards the Black Rose Annex, officially kicking off the Great Melee of Maltis.