The bandit base, which has been turned into a ruined base, is full of corpses, red entrails, white brains, and the distorted faces of the deceased, all indicating the situation at this time - a killing is underway.

"You ...... Who the hell is it?!"

In the chaos of the battlefield, the bandit leader Duru yelled at Carlyle, his voice filled with indescribable wavering and fear.

It's too strong! These people who suddenly came out are so strong! So strong that they don't have any power to fight back!

Durou's strength is considered to be first-class, and he has been proud of it more than once. In his opinion, below the legend, there are few humanoid creatures in the entire Western Continent that can surpass him head-on.

However, when facing the wolf orc with a spear in front of him, he realized his mistake.

Without wearing armor, magic, or support, he was able to defeat all forty bandits, including himself, without being injured - the demeanor of the first person in martial arts under the legend, maybe that's it, right?

Not only that, but the female knight riding the red dragon didn't seem to have participated in the battle at all, but just kept flying around the sky, killing those who fled.

He could feel that if the female knight also joined, he was afraid that his side would be defeated in an instant.

Go on like this...... There is only one dead end!

However, Duru didn't want to die yet, he wanted to have more fun, gold, wine, women...... There are so many obsessive things in this world, how could he want to die!

So, he tried to make a final deal with Carlyle.

"I think there must be some misunderstanding between us! Stop, if there is anything to say......

"That's all there is to it?"

The cold words meant that the negotiations were rejected mercilessly, and Carlyle swept away the last two enemies in his way with a single shot, and slowly paced to the bandit leader with a desperate face, his cold gaze as if he were looking at a dead man.

"Well, goodbye. ”

Raising the gun, the blade reflected the seeping cold light, and rolled up the wind blade with a swing, tearing the air and stabbing into the heart of the bandit leader.

"Damn! I'm fighting with you!"

After despair, the bloody nature of Duruna's desperate fight was stimulated, and in the end, it was the man who licked the blood on the knife edge, and he did not intend to be caught, but picked up the war knife and pounced on it with the momentum of the same death.

However, in the face of absolute power, the struggle of the weak is meaningless.

"Bell ——!"

The moment the weapons clashed, the sword was instantly flicked off, and the spear pierced the heart of the bandit leader without hindrance.

He only had time to spit out a mouthful of blood before Carlyle kicked him away and slammed it into the stone pillar, shattering the bones in his body and dying in agony.

After taking out the bandit leader, Carlyle shook off the blood from the blade of his gun and turned his head—not far away, the battle between his companions was over.

"Hey, you're the slowest this time!"

Rhodes walked over with a villainous look on his face, and waved his staff ostentatiously, "Will will be the first to finish, and you are still the chief." ”

"So you're the second-to-last?"

Carlyle replied with a familiar salute, and then was satisfied to see the goblin sorcerer's face turn from green to red.

"You, you...... I didn't hear anything!" After gritting his teeth and staring at the wolf orc for a long time, Rhodes dropped a sentence and walked away, after all, he couldn't beat it, and he couldn't say it, and he was also helpless.

"Alright, it's all over, right?"

Carlyle looked around, and could no longer feel any breath of a living person. However, out of an abundance of caution, he asked Noyce anyway.

"Well, a hundred and fifty-nine people in all, all confirmed dead. ”

On the other side, Heda, who was directing the landing of Red Flame, was talking to Will.

"It really made my seniors laugh, I don't seem to be able to control myself a little as soon as I fight, hahaha......"

Will, who put away his weapon, regained his hearty and sunny youth, he scratched his head embarrassedly, and tried to shake hands with Hedda but found that his body was already covered in blood, and he couldn't help but retract his hand again.

"It doesn't matter, Hongyan said you have a big appetite for him. The red-clothed female knight didn't mind much and patted him on the shoulder, "Although it's surprising that she behaved so fiercely in the first actual battle, it's good that she doesn't have the timidity of most newcomers." ”

"I just hope that Hongyan's appetite is not really literal. ”

Will made a joke, and he had already learned from the past year that Hedda didn't like to express her praise for others directly, so she often borrowed the name of Hongyan - but there was no obstacle to her communication with Hongyan.

After a short rest, Hedda rode back to the royal capital on Hongyan first, contacting the garrison to deal with the rest of the matter, while the other four entered the deep layers of the bandit base, where the prison is located.

Pushing open the prison door and walking through the dark underground passages, Carlyle and the others finally found the women who had been captured by the bandits in the depths of the information.

However, the situation of these women is not very ...... Optimism. To be precise, it is not too much to describe it as "bad".

Most of them were disheveled, and there were bruises and purple marks on their bodies, which were the marks left by the beatings and violence, and you can imagine what cruel things had happened to them.

Their eyes were very hollow, like walking dead, and even if Carlyle and the others walked in front of them, they didn't provoke much reaction.

After the most important family members were killed, they were subjected to endless physical humiliation and torture, which caused great physical and mental damage to them.

Although they are all alive now, their hearts have long been destroyed, and they are not much different from dead.

"It's a ......"

Will covered his mouth, a furious fire in his eyes.

He had always hated such beastly acts that defied the wishes of women, and he even regretted that he had let the bandits die so happily.

Rhodes rarely did not speak, and his originally slightly relaxed mood became extremely heavy after witnessing this cruel scene.

A hint of pity flashed in Noyce and Carlyle's eyes, but it quickly faded.

As a retired veteran, Noyce has experienced too many wars and seen much more cruel scenes, and he will no longer show the grief in his heart.

Carlyle was more rational, or rather aloof.

The plight of these women is indeed miserable, and although it deserves sympathy, it is very normal for these things to happen.

From a very young age, he knew that this world was the law of the jungle, either preying or being eaten, and that was everything!

The weak are destined to be rootless duckweed, they can only rely on the strong to survive, and the fight between the strong is to implement the law of the weak and the strong to the extreme.

They are too weak, and the people they are attached to are too weak, so it is natural that they will be treated as such.

It was the same with the bandits, because they were too weak to be annihilated by Carlyle and the others.

This world is so simple and crude, the strong survive, and the weak die.

The rules that people make are based on this, and no one can break them.

And this is the real reason why he chose to follow Iroh in the first place.

In a way, Carlyle and Karamank came to an agreement: as they grew stronger, they became more aware of Iroh's unfathomable depths.

That's right, even now, Carlyle is not sure that he will be able to defeat Iroh when he recalls the moment he met him at the beginning!

A few hours later.

"There seems to be some excitement over there in the lower city," the gray-clad boy played with the golden pendant on his chest, looking down from the window, and there was a hint of playfulness in his dark eyes. "I haven't seen you for four years, and Barrington has changed a little bit. ”

Behind the young man, Princess Bella, who was wearing a long white dress, was elegantly sipping black tea, and seemed to not mind the other party's almost rude behavior at all: "Count Ailo has also changed a little bit. Would you like a little snack? It's not over tea time yet. ”

"My pleasure. ”

Iroh replied softly, but his gaze remained on Downtown.

The place where Bella lives is the top of the royal castle, the tallest building in the entire royal capital, with a height of more than 100 meters, giving an unobstructed view of the entire city.

Of course, even in this highest place, it is impossible for ordinary people to see what is happening so far away in the lower city, but Iroh's eyesight is a little too good even among the dragons.

"If you're not mistaken, it should be the royal capital special security force that has returned. ”

In the past four years, Princess Bella, who was once a little young, has also completed the transformation from a young girl to a mature woman, like a lotus flower that emerges from the mud and is not stained, swaying in the wind. At this moment, she looked at Iroh with a smile, if it was replaced by another nobleman, I am afraid that at this moment she would already think of a better way to express her good upbringing, in order to leave a good impression in the princess's heart.

However, Iroh had no interest in this - in his opinion, even the most beautiful woman was even worse than a pile of bread.

At least bread can be used to satisfy hunger, but beautiful women are generally not so easy to control......

"Your Excellency Elo is here to see the special security forces, right?"

Bella took a sip of black tea, and the smile on her face seemed to be blame and helplessness.

Because the young man in front of him had jumped in through the window ten minutes ago—in Iroh's words, he had to do a lot of etiquette before going through the front door than the window, and he wasn't used to human behavior.

Perhaps Iroh didn't expect that what seemed natural to him would be a good reminder to Bella, that what stood in front of her was not a gentle and polite aristocratic teenager, but a fierce dragon who had killed her friend four years earlier!

But even if Iroh knew, he probably wouldn't care.