Chapter 267: The Night of the Long Knife (4)
At the beginning of the explosion at the Grand Vishur Museum, Quest sent a message through a spell to get the two brothers "One-Eye" and "Crooked Mouth" who were waiting to guard the car outside the lagoon district to immediately rush to the terminal of Beit City.
The subsequent "hijacking"** made the young blue dragon even more convinced that something big was going to happen in the capital of Medici - with the intelligence of the Worm Tyrant, he must know that if he wanted to seek revenge on himself, he would have to find a way to descend on the world of ashes for a short time.
And even if he descended to the material world in the form of a clone, the demon lord would have to pay a lot of price, and with the current situation of the Acid Mist Canyon plane, he really might not be able to take it. Therefore, it is necessary to seek some help to alleviate the consumption required for the arrival.
The life, flesh, and soul of the innocent...... It was an excellent sacrifice for the demon leader.
In this way, Quest's logic becomes clear. Byth, the city with the largest population in Medici, will most likely be attacked by the Demon Lord tonight. The target is the air transport industry that is very likely to be related to the young blue dragon.
"The use of blunt weapons is a special request of Lord Pasha," One-Eye quickly explained, looking at the puzzled guards, "The reason why I don't use weapons with blades is because I fear that those who die will fuel the enemy's plots." He pointed to the mob coming in the distance, "Besides, it's no more difficult to knock out all of them than to kill them all against such a rabble......
"Archers prepare, concentrate fire, three scales upwards, rocket salvo!" the captain of the guard, who probably understood the meaning of One-Eye's words, immediately ordered.
These guards, made up of warriors of the Dragonlord Clan and elite mercenaries recruited from all over the country, were all well-trained and were particularly decisive and quick in carrying out orders.
They first inserted the arrows into the oil cylinders hanging on their sides, stirred them slightly, and let the black oil mixed with resin powder fully soak the arrows, then bent their bows and arrows, ignited the arrows, and shot them in one volley according to the captain's command.
The sharp sound of arrows breaking through the air rang out one after another, and at this time, even the fiercest storm could not suppress their sound. The rain of death poured down, but it did not fall on the enemy.
The first blade landed on the ground, and some of the others missed, but they also hit the target. The flames soon spread in all directions, erecting a wall of fire between the mob and the terminal.
Surprisingly, the city-dwellers, whose brains were flooded with violent emotions, seemed to be fearless. Ignoring the warnings, they began to extinguish the flames with the whipping of their clothes, and some even forced their way through the wall of fire in the pain of a moment's burning.
"Second and third teams...... Forward, attack!"
With the order of the captain of the guard, the terminal guards who had been prepared for a long time lined up. They formed groups of three, armed with spears and swords wrapped in linen, and knocked out each mob that crossed the wall of fire one by one.
Other guards took out ropes and were responsible for binding the stunned people and dragging them aside to concentrate on them. Thankfully, there were a lot of ropes in the terminal to secure the floating beasts, otherwise there would be no way to effectively guard so many captives.
One-Eye walked over to a mob with his limbs tied behind him and lifted him up with a single arm. He reached out and lifted the other's eyelids, only to see that his pupils were dilated, and his white eyes were many and there were few black eyeballs—except for slight concussion marks, he was also a little unconscious.
This former leader of the sand bandits, and now the illusion mage under the command of the dragon Pasha is also well-informed, but his only remaining one-eyed "dripping" for a long time, but still has not come up with any good way to relieve this "rage symptom".
"Sure enough, as Lord Pasha said," he laid down his captive and cast a magic spell that doubled the number of guards in the eyes of the mob, "the riots in Beit City were somehow brought about by the servants of the demons. ”
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Unlike the orderly resistance and rapid control of the situation in the terminal, the violent riots that began on Kaniwo Street soon spread to the entire southwestern district of Beit City, and even to other central districts and the adjacent southeastern district.
It's just that the central city is guarded by the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard, and the southeast district is a gathering area for nobles and wealthy merchants, and the guards who are in charge of guarding the homes also have some means, and when the mob wave influxes, they also form a breakwater.
Concealing her form, the Tiefling Spy uses the half-finished acid mist worms that have hatched to spread the honey obtained from the nests of demonic bee colonies, a specialty brought from the bottomless abyss, and refines it to form an extract.
Demon bees are insect-like creatures with tusks and horns, about the size of dogs, and are accustomed to flapping their translucent red wings towards their prey, grinning to reveal a wolf-like fang, and extending unsettling clawed humanoid claws.
They exist in swarms, divided into squire bees and queens, first discovered in the bottomless abyss, and now spread across the lower planes. Because of their aggressive and murderous members, the Demon Swarm threatens all creatures they come across.
Some mages who have studied the creature have speculated that if the demon swarm were allowed to continue migrating with its unrepressed rage, it was possible for them to spread across all planes.
Except for the queen bee, which can produce antagonistic factors, other waiter bees can secrete "honey", but they are completely unable to consume this substance, which is full of violent essence. Because that's going to make them suffer as well and make them even crazier.
One can imagine how terrible demon honey is. It is not surprising that the extracts extracted from it, once spilled, caused such a great uproar in Beit City.
"Stop, anyone who instigates a riot...... Kill or kill!"
Looking at the swarming mob of the city, the Praetorian Guard commander did not hesitate to give his own orders. They had received an order not long ago, and at this time they were ordered to stand on the outskirts of the central city and be responsible for protecting the central institutions of the Medici Empire from attack.
In order to increase their might, a line of knights on the back of six-legged horses stepped forward and stood in front of the Draped Warriors. The sharp tips of their spears pointed diagonally at the ground, as if ready to charge at any moment to give blood.
Of course, the Praetorian Guards made a stride of interest to deter rather than genuinely intend to carry out the massacre.
After all, this is the city of Beit, the most glorious capital of Medici, the city that these people swear to protect.