Chapter 114: An Unexpected Encounter
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The day after arriving at Anjitan, Leander led Shilinya through the various escape routes hidden in the castle, one of which was located in Shilinya's former room, but this one was no longer usable - it was a ruined passage.
The hall of light and shadow was now empty, and when everyone entered the hall one after another, there was only the dust in the air doing irregular Brownian motion under the warm sunlight, and there were no other moving objects.
Messy items are stacked on top of each other, and all sorts of related or unrelated things are mixed together in a chaotic manner. It was as if it had been ransacked, and there was still a trace of blood left on the silver utensils on the tabletop, and a large amount of bright red liquid was scattered on the smooth ground, puddle after puddle, comparable to the red dye that had been spilled on the ground.
The soldiers, all with their swords, cautiously escorted the three women and one girl in the middle through this eerie hall. Although they wanted to speed up, no one dared to rush forward.
A soldier picked up a silver candlestick on the table, the silver-white candlestick was stained with a large amount of splattered blood, and the red plums on the white snow irritated the soldier's eyeballs.
"There was a riot here. The candlesticks were put back in their place, and the soldiers watched warily to find out who was in the middle of the judgment.
Unlike the hall of the past, it was a place to eat, but now it has become a garbage dump with broken and expensive tableware and a slaughterhouse full of blood, some human parts can be seen in some remote corners, and there is a blood blanket dragged out in the center of the hall leading to another door in the hall.
"About half an hour ago, the servants suddenly became irritable, and like evil spirits, they kept killing their companions. Anne explained to the unaware soldiers what had happened here, "I was washing Shilinya's clothes at that time, and they suddenly attacked me, they were good people. ”
The scenes in the hall reminded the maid of those strange and terrible things, and she picked up the long sword in her hand and trembled in her little hand.
"Where did it start?" Shirinya frowned at the sudden turn of events, and if it was a riotous servant or soldier waiting for her ahead, then she would have to replan what was going on.
"I don't know. I was in the laundry room and they came at me. Looking around, Anne was afraid that the servants who had become strangers would suddenly say, "Let's get out of here quickly." ”
The castle's forces had all been drained by Turis, and now the castle's defense force was almost zero, and in the face of the riot, no one thought that their nine men had any chance of winning.
After exchanging glances, the soldiers immediately changed their original way of moving forward, one soldier forward, observing if there was any danger waiting for him, and one soldier stepping back, alerting the rear to see if something dangerous was approaching.
The soldier who stepped forward took his long sword, bowed and slowly approached the wooden door that blocked everyone's advance, and the long sword in his hand was ready to put the enemy to death at any time.
The soldier's hand pressed against the cold wooden door, and when he got closer, the soldier realized that there was a pale blood-colored handprint where he was pressing, and the handprint brought several indistinguishable hand marks downward.
Pushing the gate hard, the soldier was going to open a path for his companions who were watching him from behind.
Through his arms, the strength of his body was exerted on the wooden door, and the door had opened a small gap, and the soldier became nervous, very afraid that there was something terrible waiting for him on the other side of the door.
In the small gap, the soldier saw an abnormal reflection, which was not the reflection caused by the light hitting the ground, but the luster of the metallic substance!
"Danger!" the soldier shouted loudly, warning his comrades in the rear, and at the same time immediately approached the team behind him to avoid falling into the enemy's encirclement.
The gate was violently pushed open, and the enemy outside seemed to be annoyed by the failure of their sneak attack.
"Stop" the voices of the two sides of the wooden door came from both sides, stopping the two sides that were about to clash.
Passing through two uncertain doors that swayed by the reaction force, Shilinya saw who was in front of her—four heavily armored axe-wielding northern soldiers, and Karin, who was protected by the soldiers and carried a thin sword in the middle.
"Not an enemy, don't be impulsive. Karin whispered to the sturdy northern soldiers beside her, fearing that these uncontrolled killing machines would cause some unnecessary misunderstandings.
Karin tucked the sword into the small scabbard at her waist, reducing the hostility of the soldiers in front of her, and after a few eye contacts, she stepped out of the protective range of the four strong soldiers and walked towards Shirinya.
Shilinya put Kayla in her arms into Dale Field's hands, and the unconscious Kayla looked like a body deprived of her soul, with only some physical reactions and no life features.
"May I ask Princess Karin what the hell is going on here?" Keeping her on high alert, Shilinya didn't relax in any way because of the other party's identity and any thoughts she had about her.
Rebellious citizens, mad servants, Shilinya had to mention that the five people in front of her could be hallucinations or some unknown impersonation.
"The servants in the castle have gone berserk, and this happened about half an hour ago, shortly after the castle guards were dispatched. Like Shirinya, Karin did not let her guard down against the crowd in front of her, placing her right hand on her right waist, ready to pull the thin sword from her waist again.
"From what I understand, it seems that some of the servants have been used with illusion magic, or hallucinogenic potions. Looking at the girl in front of her with subtle changes in detail, Karin was not sure that this was the eldest lady who often did some inexplicable things.
Shirinya has now become suspicious and wary of everything around her.
"Really?" Glancing at everything around him slightly, he tilted his head slightly, and saw that behind Her Majesty the Princess, there were scattered corpses of some servants, the corpses of these servants had been dismantled into a pile of parts, and a large number of graffiti were carved on the floor and walls, and the messy graffiti did not know what it was expressing.
Sensing the gaze of the young lady in front of her, Karin knew that she needed to explain these things clearly, otherwise it would cause some unnecessary misunderstandings.
"The mad servants seemed to be performing some evil ritual after slaughtering their own kind. Karin moved her body to the side so that Shilinya could see what was really going on behind her.
"And one of the guards protecting me is a berserker, so ......" Karin didn't explain too much, so Shirinya understood what was going on with the pile of body parts that were handled like a torn chicken.
A specialty of Berserkers, soldiers of the North and pirates of Favonius, this is a terrifying killing machine that will slaughter everything around it once it reaches the battlefield, and will use any part of its body to kill when it is gone. Berserkers have been documented biting enemy shields to pieces with their teeth.
The legend of the Berserker is a horror story that can stop a child from crying, and when I saw it today, everyone was scared from the bottom of their hearts.
Shilinya shifted her gaze from the mosaic to a special guard defending Karin, who, like the other northern soldiers, was dressed in a mix of chain mail and sweater armor, and wore the usual horned helmet, like tentacles tied together, and on top of these tentacles there was a large amount of flesh foam and clotted blood.
Bloodshot eyes glared back at the Anjitan soldiers who were observing him, like an angry wild bear, trying to tear these impudent people to pieces.
"Ahem!" Karin coughed lightly, pulling the two sides back into reality and avoiding some discord between the two sides.
"I wonder where Miss Shilinya wants to go?" Karin asked curiously, as an outsider who was not familiar with the local situation, it would be better for her to cooperate with this local.
After repeatedly confirming that the five people in front of her were not enemies, Shilinya told the other party all about her plan. Not only did Karin want to find an ally, but Shilinya also tried her best to gather all the forces that could cooperate, and now Karin was undoubtedly a very suitable person.
The Soldier of the North has always been synonymous with a good warrior, and the other party still has a Berserker. Although this berserker is an uncertain danger, Shilinya believes that the other party has a way to use this dangerous time bomb well.
Shilinya's plan deliberately concealed Kayla's current situation to prevent the other party from having any thoughts about this matter. He simply told the other party that he and his group were going to go out through the secret passage and take refuge at the location of the Church of Leverdeon.
"I don't approve of Miss Shilinya's plan. Karin spoke directly against Shilinya's plan, as it seemed to her to be very suspicious and dangerous.
"The current civil revolt is caused by Miss Kayla, but Miss Kayla's problem can also be extended to the problem of the Church of Leverdeon, so the citizens outside will definitely not be as simple as just surrounding the castle, and I believe that the Church of Lady Dyon will not be spared, especially now that their armed order is not there. Karin pointed out the loopholes in Shilinya's plan, which was full of holes, the biggest of which was undoubtedly ignoring the current security problems of the Church of Raffedion.
"Moreover, the castle has become unsafe now, and we don't know when we will be attacked by those enemies in the shadows or servants in the light, and the best way for us now is to fight Sir Leander and the others, so that we can be safe under the protection of many soldiers. Karin didn't know what kind of mess this eldest lady was thinking, so she had to go far away.
Karin observed the people behind Shilinya and found that they were also very helpless, as if such a plan was the intention of this eldest lady.
"We ......" Shilinya wants to organize the language to patch up her flawed plan, but there doesn't seem to be any room for it, because the plan isn't about keeping everyone safe, it's about keeping Kayla safe!
Shirinya, who was about to speak, made Karin feel suspicious, and the other party seemed to be hiding something from her, and these things were the reason why the other party proposed this brainless plan.
Thinking a little of the slogans and demands of the citizens outside, and seeing Kayla in the middle of the team being embraced by Delfield, Karin seemed to understand what the other party was hiding from her.