Chapter 009: Rescue Plan

Characters in this chapter: Alleyne, Mocha, Wiggins, Manid, Jamila, and Strong. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

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It seems that many of these mercenaries have been in the gladiatorial arena, at least they don't have to worry too much about their combat skills.

Even though there were still two hills separating the valley from here, Alleyne motioned for the crowd to be quiet, he didn't want to attract their attention.

Aren then arranged for the men to be guarded, ordered the other mercenaries to rest, walked up to the captured black-robed man, put a dagger to his throat, took out the strip of cloth that was stuffed in his mouth, and asked, "What is your name?"

The black-robed man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded: "Yes, my lord, I ...... We are all pilgrims, and the priests say. ”

"What are they doing with piles of lumber on the riverbank?" asked Alleyne.

"That should be preparing the flame. After Shears finished speaking, he looked at the other party's unrelaxed eyes and continued to add: "We...... They light a sacred fire on the darkest night of each month, in which Protestants take the vow to become pilgrims and heretics are thrown into the flame...... Purify, and then everyone listens to the hymns and teachings of the priests, and then they ...... That's it. ”

"What kind of religion are you, and if you don't join, you're going to burn people to death, right?" said Alleyne glaringly.

Hills hurriedly explained, "It's none of my business, my lord! They're called the Drugia Order, and I'm just a little boss!" I was originally a small village chief in the Nord Kingdom, but Virginia's army came and burned the village, so I wandered around with the villagers to avoid the rebel army and bandits, and was later taken in by the missionary Sakula Sacrifice, who said that now the continent of Calradia is shrouded in darkness, and those lords and nobles are the embodiment of the greedy devil, so they fight each other to torture the good people, and we can only return to the light by investing in the Order, and the high priest will lead the thousands of armies of the gods at the right time to eradicate evil and reforge a new order, so we joined the religion。 Who knows...... Who knew that they would also plunder the villagers and caravans, and then force them to join the Order, and if they did not join, they would be called heretics, and then thrown into the fire and burned alive!

"What do you mean by the thousands of armies of the gods?" Arenn couldn't help but tense. "Where are the Drugian Order's troops, and how many of you are there?"

According to Mo Cha's scouting, most of the pilgrims in the valley were untrained, so even though there were about 200 men, he dared to plan a surprise attack, but if it was an army, it would be completely different.

Hills hurriedly shook his head and said, "I really don't know, my lord! I've never been to this valley, I've heard the Sakula Sacrifice speak, but I've only seen a few other groups of pilgrims, I've never seen a formal army, the Sakula Sacrifice said that there will be legendary heroes who will appear and lead thousands of ironclad lions, but I haven't seen any of them, only wanderers, slaves, refugees, and people with crossbows and tattered weapons and armor picked up on the battlefield like us. Poor, I doubted the vision that the sacrifice had promised us, but I ...... There's no choice!"

Alleyne nodded, shoved the ball back into his mouth, retracted the dagger and tied him up again, and patted him on the shoulder: "If what you said is true, we will let you go when we get back." ”

Hills let out a rapid whimper as Alleyne pulled the ball out again.

"What if...... My lord, I said in case ......" Hills had not finished speaking, and Alleyne stuffed him back again, "No case, I will definitely come back, or let you go, or kill you." ”

Alleyne and his mercenaries took advantage of the darkness to reach the sentry in the forest above the valley, Wiggins slashed the throat of a pilgrim sentry from behind with a short sword, and Stunger cooked another with a throwing axe.

Manid, Jamila, and three other mercenaries then lurked above the valley as crossbowmen, waiting for the signal to attack.

Stunger led five men north to clear the post, and Alleyne and Wiggins led three men to the south post.

Jager's eyes widened when Aren's arrow pierced the throats of the two pilgrim sentry posts at the entrance fifty paces away almost simultaneously, "Boss, I thought you were just a hired knight, but I didn't expect you to have the skills of a Vegia archer!"

Expressionless, Alleyn walked over and pulled an arrow from the corpse to wipe away the blood.

"There's a fire in there!" a mercenary whispered.

The light of the fire shone through the canyon at the entrance, and Heelum and the mercenaries crept in, and in the distance they saw the holy fire burning on the river beach, and many people were singing around it, mixed with some weeping.

Aren didn't know if this was the beginning or the end of the ceremony, after all, they didn't start moving until it got dark, and it had taken more than an hour to get here.

If Jamila's relatives were burned as infidels, it would be meaningless.

"Boss," Jager admired Alleyne after seeing him, "There is no signal on Steng's side, what should I do?"

Alleyne's nose suddenly smelled a strange smell, a bit like barbecue, but also a little not, it was his nose very uncomfortable, and he wanted to sneeze.

He poked Manid, who was walking in front, "Hey, do you smell a strange smell?"

Manid sniffed solemnly into the air, then took another deep breath before he said in surprise, "Boss, it seems to be true, there is a strange smell in the air. ”

Even Wiggins could smell it: "What does this smell like, why is it a little disgusting to ask?" ”

Mo Cha, who was walking in the front, lowered his voice, and while staring ahead with his eyes, he whispered: "Look, I've seen the world, it's just a taste of barbecue, maybe they're preparing lunch, I'm hungry......"

Wiggins grabbed his foot and slammed his head on the waist, knocking him to the ground and nearly falling to the ground.

An enemy sentry in front of them immediately walked alertly towards their hiding place, ebony staff raised in his hand.

Wiggins immediately made a kneeling motion, and the back of the brush fell to the ground, staring nervously ahead.

Fortunately, the sentry had not walked a few steps before he was called away by his companions. He gave him one last suspicious look at the grass, then turned back to his companion.

Wiggins let out a sigh: "What about tea, are you trying to scare people to death, you ......" Before he finished speaking, he froze in place, and even his eyes didn't move.

Alleyne pushed him aside, and then froze in place.