Chapter 12: He Must Die

For several nights in a row, the young Imperial Condor led the dog and carried the lamp through the withered yellow forest, searching everywhere for imaginary enemies. The soldiers of the www.biquge.info Empire took the trouble to show the solemnity of the law to the refugees again and again. Arcanis could deduce that it all had something to do with the corpse in her extradimensional pouch.

She closed her eyes, curled up in a hidden place, and dreamed of the story after the white-haired thief.

Kim didn't survive, he was still dead, even though his black wound was smeared with white powder and scarred. But the blockade was far away, and when Arcanis heard that the daughter of a certain nobleman had died in the barracks, and that it was the duke's daughter, the rumors became more and more absurd that the children in the blockade had lived long enough and enough. Arcanis was sure that the father of the daughter who died could be turned into a dragon, or even a god nine heavens away.

He thought it was funny and told Kim the joke. But the latter did not echo him, and Arcanis touched him, and he remained motionless like a dead dog. The white-haired thief shed a tear for him, because Kim was his good partner and had done it together a year ago, mainly by digging people's wallets. Kim is in charge of distracting the fat sheep, and Arcanis is in charge of pulling out his wallet, which is the aftermath of being hit with a stick when he is inconvenienced by his fingers.

Regardless of whether the girl in the white dress that Arcarnes killed was the adopted daughter of a dragon or not. There is no doubt that the lockdown is getting longer. Many gangs began to crumble, including the small group led by Arcanis. There were many more corpses of children hanging in the harbor, half of whom had been testified by their own companions and had sneaked into the barracks on that sad night.

No one reported Arcanis, because everyone who knew about it was dead, except for the little bugs who had been loyal to him.

"If only I were Arcanis..."

Arcarnes, who had been chewing the carrion of innocents with the little bugs all day, suddenly said, and the little bugs stopped chewing and looked at him.

After a long time, he sighed and said, "My name is the name of the king of shadow thieves in the mouth of the bard. ”

The little bug didn't understand the boss's leaping thinking, so he nodded there.

"But I have neither a beautiful woman nor a good wine, nor a boiled beef. "It's terrible." ”

The little bug nodded, Arcanis, the king of shadow thieves from a humble background, was the common idol of the children in the slums of Berwick City.

"If I were Arcanis, Kim wouldn't be dead. ”

"He's going to die. The little bug said.

The girl with the broken arm suddenly woke up to find that Dawn had opened the night with her rose-colored fingers, and it was already dawn. She straightened up and moved her muscles,

He's going to die. The words of the little bug lingered in her ears, as if some kind of foreshadowing, telling her that the steel wheel of fate was rolling in, and she could not do anything about it.

She grabbed the snooze cat and threw it in her hood, and she didn't try to leave for the past few days, but stayed with the other refugee groups. She wasn't stupid enough to go out into the wilderness to test the vultures' "prophetic magic" for herself. And there is another reason, she is still not worried about little Ramon. So she deliberately left some traces, and the result was that several refugees were hung on dead trees near her.

Today she should continue her march towards the west, she has heard that many groups of refugees have reached the end of the line, have been assigned to designated areas, and are happily becoming farmers. Moreover, the vultures have begun to give up on looking for traces of the murderer, because a murderer who killed a soldier should not have been worth their dispatch.

"They were well fed, and after glorifying the empire, they were pulled by caravans into the woods of the few people to reclaim the land. ”

Arcanis had heard this phrase more than once in the refugee group, they were all refugees who had reached the "Great End", and the Empire gave them food to wait for distribution. But she was still not at ease, and after finding out the end of the latest refugee group through various means, she headed straight in that direction.

At this time, little Ramon, who was full of anticipation, was held by his father and walked out of the small and dirty collective dormitory. He smiled as he reminisced about the aroma of the roast lamb last night (though he was a little strange, how the taste and shape were a little different from what he remembered).

"Daddy, Daddy. He pointed to the long line, which was filled with laughter, "Are we all going to receive the award?" ”

"Oh, no, no. Little Ramon. Ramon shook his head and said with a taste of regret, "Many people are as cunning as foxes, and the most cunning of them won the Fire Wand, and we only have last night's consolation prize." I'm going to quit the game and go to our new home. ”

"Lost?ah~~"

Little Ramon opened his mouth wide in sadness and shook his father's sleeve, "I want a fire wand, can we still participate in this game?"

Ramon shook his head again and dragged little Ramon to the back of the crowd.

"It's a pity, I guess there won't be any more. ”

"Where's Sister Kanis? He looked around, trying to find a woman with a cat, "It's game over, she shouldn't have won if she wasn't found." ”

"She should have gotten the Fire Wand. "So they're different from where we receive the award." ”

"Ah~~. ”

The cute child sighed again, I don't know if it was because she couldn't touch Melly's fur anymore, or because she couldn't see Sister Kanis's pockmarked face anymore.

The crowd, "protected" by heavily armed soldiers, walked out of the collective quarters in the mountains and towards a more remote valley. The cavalrymen of the First Empire approached the long line of refugees.

"Daddy, Daddy. You lied to me! You lied to me! We won the prize!"

Little Ramon tugged at his father's cuffs with delight, and he jumped excitedly, pointing at the cavalrymen who were speeding by, each with a dozen flaming wands tied to their waists.

Without waiting for his father to speak, little Ramon took out the fake wand that his father had given him and waved it at the cavalry.

"Wow, I'm going to get a real wand!"

Riding on horseback, Gaius was distraught with a crucial mission, after all, it was his first time on such an important mission. Whether or not he can rank among the nobles and completely change his origin. He had to give a satisfactory answer.

The wind was blowing in his face, and he heard the voices of children coming from the refugees. Cavalry Captain Gaius turned his head in surprise and saw little Ramon wielding a fake wand.

Is he cheering for us?

Gaius couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, and guilt followed, and he immediately turned his head, the metal helmet hiding the complicated expression on his face.

A quarter of an hour later, he presented his assignment to the officer in charge of dealing with the refugees, a middle-aged man with a full belly. When he saw the exquisite patterns and signatures on the mission book, the civil servant had a habitual smile on his face.

"Dear Mr. Knight. His voice had a habitually flattering tone, "You've come so well, and we're still worried about the lack of manpower." ”

The civil servant stood up happily, and Gaius looked coldly at his chubby belly, not knowing how much of the "essential oil" was credited to it.

After a moment of friendly discussion, they went out the door, and the civil servant claimed to have arranged an easy job for him. Outside, the four thousand refugees were divided equally into eight parts, and the one in Gaius's area had six hundred. He sneered in his heart, and led his squad, holding the assigned fire wand, and led the refugees towards the designated position with the soldiers who maintained order.

"Daddy, Daddy.........."

Gaius heard the familiar child's voice again, and he held back from turning his head to prevent his faith from wavering. As we got closer to our destination, a valley with burn marks and a reassuring caravan not far away. The mules pulling the carts were blindfolded.

The refugees obediently walked into the valley, where there were several stone platforms, and Gaius stepped up to the platform and loudly announced the glory of the empire to the refugees.

"Daddy, are they going to issue a fire wand?"

Ramon Jr. asked expectantly.

Suddenly, someone grabbed his hand, and little Ramon turned his head and shouted in surprise, "Sister Kanis." ”

At this moment, Gaius finished speaking, and the child's voice echoed throughout the valley.

"Shhhh Arcanis quickly motioned for him to be quiet, and Ramon asked her suspiciously, "Why are you here?" ”

"Run. Arcanis whispered, "I don't think it's right..."

"Daddy, Daddy! Look at the Fire Wand. ”

Little Ramon pointed to the soldiers on the stone platform, and Arcanis looked up sharply as if a viper had pierced her spine, and saw the soldiers around her draw their wands of fire in unison, aiming them at the refugees.

"I'm sorry. ”

Gaius whispered, shooting a fireball at what he thought was a family of three, the greatest mercy he could be. Orange fireballs buzzed like bees towards the refugees, and the eight valleys erupted in flames.......