Chapter 305: The Rising Sun
By the time the morning sun rose, the rebellious mercenaries were already at the end of their crossbows. Without effective command, the rout of the www.biquge.info was expected under the counterattack of the effectively organized garrison of Osent. They had the upper hand for most of the night, but their captain, Otto, lost contact by midnight. So later, under the command of the pre-selected captain of the garrison, they tasted the bitter fruit of defeat.
This is also the reason why Elias was able to stay in front of the castle and wait for Rose and the others to arrive, and he used almost all the talent candidates, allowing them to use what they had learned all this time in the few real combat opportunities. Whether it was dividing or encircling, or confusing the sight, they were very successful, thanks to the training of the various garrison captains and Elias.
The rebellion was quelled, leaving behind a town that seemed to have been sacked by pirates. Although it is easy for Osent to return to its prosperous appearance of the day before, it does not even take much time. But what happened here may not be forgotten by the people who lived here for a long time, and some people may remember it for a lifetime.
The guards hadn't allowed the civilians to come and go as they pleased, so they stayed inside, waiting for the moment when it would be over for them to be truly there. The bustling square of the inner city was already in shambles, and Sebastian leaned against the fountain and watched Hartmann's body cut in two, breathing a sigh of relief. Eliminating the rebels who had broken into the inner city had consumed almost all the soldiers who had set up their defenses in the inner city square, and the survivors among them were holding each other and trying to put the bodies of their companions together.
"Are you going to help them?" Khloe gasped, he looked terrible now, enemy blood soaking almost every part of his body.
"As someone who has lived here for more than ten years, I'm tired, but I still want to do the last thing I do here. Sebastian stood up with his scimitar.
"Are you repentant?" asked Kohler.
"No, what do I have to repentance of?" Sebastian tossed his scimitar aside.
"Then why do you say that?"
"It's just a rhetoric, Kohler, a rhetoric. Sebastian muttered as he stepped forward to join the group carrying the body.
Kohler stared at his back, looking tired, pulling a crumpled cigarette from his pocket. By the time a person is able to smell a corpse being roasted into meat without any reaction, he has long been numb to these bloody and brutal scenes. Kohler even lit a cigarette with the corpse next to him, which was still sparkling, before speaking. "Sorry man, just borrowing a fire, I hope you don't care. Of course, there was no way for the dead man to answer his words.
"How's it going, Fry?" asked Elias as he saw Maffeo emerge from the castle. He still hadn't fully recovered yet, so Anna was still holding him up. And she herself was almost bandaged as a living mummy, only because there were too many wounds on her body.
"What to say, Elias, Rose is dead. Maffeo was a little hard to say, he couldn't explain what he had experienced, even though he knew it wasn't a place of value anymore.
"Did you kill him?"
No, Margarita killed him, and she got what she wanted, which was the Ring. It was actually a badge, a badge that allowed the followers of Osiris to choose their own path. Maffeo tried to be as simple and clear as he could, for if he thought about it a little, he would be caught in a circle of incomparably complicated things.
Elias hung his head, looking a little frustrated. "My father told me everything yesterday and he told me that there is a forbidden place here. They discovered its existence when they first came here to establish Aucent, and then they tried to explore it, but almost everyone who stepped into it disappeared for no apparent reason. It was only later that he learned from the aborigines of Ruava that it was the place of faith of the Osiris faithful. He should have told me long ago so that I knew what to do when Margarita first left a trail in Aucent. ”
"Indeed, Margarita told me the same thing. Maffeo nodded.
"Isn't she surprised by your reappearance? She didn't attack you again?"
In fact, her purpose has always been the "ring", so she and Rose are just a partnership. She wouldn't attack anyone who didn't get in her way, because that didn't make sense to her. ”
"It's hard to believe......" Elias said and stopped, but now that Ross was dead and the rebellion had been quelled, he could breathe a sigh of relief. So he turned to face Osente and smiled heartily for the first time in a long time.
Schultz slipped down the side of the street back to the alley of his own, and the door of the back door of the tavern that he had slashed open with his swordsmanship was still lying quietly in the middle of the alley. He was upset and uneasy, for he had not been able to see anyone he knew all night, except for the mercenaries who had been chasing him like wolves. "Where are you, Sister Anna, Elias?" he yelled at the sky, his echo echoing through the air, no reply sounded, and he walked into the tavern in disappointment.
When he looked up, he found that the tavern was in shambles, apparently looted. Whether it was mercenaries or guards, wine was their favorite thing, and what surprised Schultz the most was not that the tavern was ransacked, but that in the midst of such turmoil, there were still people who wanted to steal some wine from it. In addition to this, some of the food was scattered behind the counter, and it was clear that the looters were not that interested in the food. "Hell, Sister Anna has lost a lot of money this time...... Schultz checked the wine cabinet and storage bins, counting how much she had lost.
"This is bad, I think Sister Anna must be very upset......" Schultz sat on the floor weakly, almost all the money in the storage box was looted, and all the liquor here was taken by the guys who patronized the place, except for a few bottles of beer that were not too high. "Maybe it's the right thing for me to stay in the tavern, I'll at least be taught a lesson, I'll be taught a lesson......" Schultz muttered to himself, thinking about the "fate" he was about to face.
"What are you doing, Frederick?" the voice he wanted to hear the most, but the last thing he wanted to hear, sounded behind him. Schultz's hairs stood on end, and he didn't dare to look back, but stammered. "Uh...... It's nothing...... I...... I was careless...... Got a bit of sabotage......" By the end his voice was almost in his throat.
Anna crossed the threshold and walked into the tavern, speaking calmly. "It's a bit bad......"
"I've tried to stop those guys, but ......," Schultz said stiffly.
"If I were you, I wouldn't lie. Anna's hand was placed on Schultz's shoulder, which also shocked him. He smiled stiffly and slowly turned his head. Then he suddenly cried out, "Damn!" and he fell backwards, his hands on the ground, and looked at Anna in horror as if she were a mummy.
Anna smiled with satisfaction, "I didn't expect you to be so scared of mummies, but I got your handle, Frederick." ”
"Oh my God, what's wrong with you, Sister Anna?" Schultz reacted to the fact that what was in front of him was not some mummy who wanted to kill him, but Anna, who had been injured in the battle.
"A little surprise. Anna crouched down. "But I want to know, you must be running around, right?"
Schultz knew that it was impossible to hide it, so he bowed his head and admitted his mistake. "I was wrong, Sister Anna, but I'm worried about you. ”
"You have to learn to endure the impatience of patience. Anna smiled and touched Schultz's head.
"I want to, too, but I just can't do it. ”
"You have to go through some things to grow. ”
"Sister Anna?"
"I know, you don't want to spend your whole life in this place, you want to go out and take risks. Anna clicked Schultz's thoughts.
Schultz looked up, and within two seconds he hung his head again. "I don't know, I haven't decided yet. ”
"I'll give you plenty of time to think about it, I'll wait for you. Anna got up and began to clean up the messy tavern. Schultz stared at her busy back, struggling to figure out what she meant to herself.