Chapter 2: Knightly Code --- Sacrifice
"Don't cry, you're crying and you're dying. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Avril is worthy of being the wife of the demon captain, but also a strong and calm woman, the pain of the sudden loss of her husband did not break her, at this time, in the crisis moment of the attack of the beasts, she needs to stand up.
"Look," Avril said, gesturing her hand, and the eyes of the group looked over the hill, where the orcs ran down and pounced on the village, which consisted only of old men, women and children, and children.
"There is no time, everyone immediately follow me to Xiluo Village for refuge, leave now, hurry up. Avril shouted.
In the village, chickens, ducks and geese are running around, dogs are barking, and the villagers are panicking, crutches, carrying forks, leading cattle, dragging donkeys, and driving pigs.......
"I can't care about that, it's too late to leave, what do I want them to do when my life is gone?" Avril yelled.
"Otta, why are you going?"
"Mom, you go first, I'll follow right away. Orta shouted as he ran, the dagger in his hand dangling as he ran.
"Woo......" roared the tied kobold on the old tree.
"Die!"
Orta's eyes widened, the anger in his eyes filled with a fierce murderous aura, and with a wave of his arm, a bright light swept across its neck.
"Snort"
A stinky stream of blood flew out with the light of the knife and sprayed on Ota's face and chest, and his originally handsome face was hideous at this time.
"Hiss," the roar made a strange sound in the violently struggling and airy throat, and the cloudy blood in his eyes faded.
"Snort"
Orta made another stab and stuck it in its heart, her white fingers trembling slightly, her father's death, the first time she killed an orc, anger and nervousness were intertwined. Even the joints turned blue under the force, and he gritted his teeth, and the dagger in his hand slowly twisted, which was enough to make it die thoroughly.
"Ota, Ota!" Avril's voice sounded outside the entrance of the village, and in front of her, the villagers ran as hard as they could, leaving her alone waving anxiously and calling Ota.
Orta pulled out his dagger and ran over, and on the mountain, the roar of those orcs seemed to ring in his ears, and he could see clearly with the rusty long knife on his shoulder.
"Mom, let's go. Ota ran to the entrance of the village and dragged her mother's hand and ran.
The earth trembled slightly, the dust behind him was flying, the roars and horns were getting closer and closer, and Ota even saw the unarmed orcs, now running on all fours, their speed was extremely fast, their mouths were hot, and their strange and ugly faces, in their jagged rusty teeth, the black tongues that stuck out were dripping with disgusting slime.
"Mom, will my uncle send someone to save us?" asked Ota panting as he ran.
"Yes, your uncle has arranged a mobile post, and he will definitely know about the movement here. "Avril is from Xiluo Village, and her younger brother Aina is the captain of the demon in Xiluo Village, and speaking of which, her younger brother Aina is still her matchmaker.
The younger brother and Ota's father were both servants of the lord of Xia Rui, both of them were alternate knights, and they followed the quasi-knight of Xia Rui Lord to fight for many years, and they made outstanding achievements, and later Xia Rui knight returned to his hometown and was named a lord in the territory by the baron, so Ota's father and younger brother Aina also because of their military exploits, from the lord's territory to a village of their own, and recruited retired soldiers to set up their own demon team, they have been free since then, they can marry wives and have children without worrying about being conscripted into the army to serve.
It is precisely because of this relationship that under the introduction and prodding of her younger brother Aina, Avril fell in love with this rough and gentle man.....
"Iron man, run, everyone speed up, Xiluo Village is not far away. Orta shouted loudly, picking up an old man who had fallen.
Avril woke up from her trance and supported him with Otta, and her speed dropped a lot for a while.
"Whoosh"
Behind him sounded the buzzing sound of feather arrows swinging in the air, and then, there was a "snort" sound behind Otta, and then several feather arrow nails were shot on the ground and still swinging their tails, and beside Ota , the old man fell again with an "ah" sound, and a white bone arrow was stuck in his back.
At this time, there were still a few miserable screams, and several old people on the dirt road fell in pools of blood, their bodies were full of feather arrows, and some were still struggling, crawling one by one, desperately shouting "Help me, help me." ”
"No!" Otta's eyes were bloodshot, and she shouted angrily and turned to help, but was pulled by her mother Avril.
"The third article of the knight's code, sacrifice, they are villagers, they are the people I want to protect with my life, my mother let me go, I am willing to sacrifice myself to protect them. Orta struggled and shouted loudly.
"You're not a knight yet, and besides, are there any knights who are as impulsive as you? Your father died at the hands of an orc, and you have to avenge him, and if you give up your life so easily, how can you avenge him? How can you become a qualified knight? How can you become a great demon slayer? Even your father will be ashamed of you in heaven. ”
Avril also roared loudly, overwhelming Orta in momentum, and also calmed him down instantly.
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A feathered arrow grazed Otta's trouser leg and struck at Avril's feet, buzzing.
"Quick," Avril said with a quick look around, pulling up Orta and running to the cornfield by the roadside.
Although the cornfield is not conducive to running, the corn stalks that are taller than humans can block the view, and the archer in the orcs can only see the dangling corn stalks, but can no longer see the target.
"Everyone scattered and ran, and Iron Man fasted into the cornfield. In a hurry, Ota yelled, and was dragged in by his mother.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
Orta and Avril ran frantically, the thick leaves whipped on their faces without realizing anything, and their faces, necks, and arms were cut with blood marks, oozing fine beads of blood.
The feather arrows did not come, but the sound of "smack, smack" behind them became louder and louder, and about fifty meters behind them, the corn stalks fell down in pieces, and dozens of brown and yellow figures could be seen running around.
Behind him, a scream sounded from time to time, and another villager was caught up and killed, and behind Outa, four or five figures were already very close, only sixteen or seventeen meters away.
"Mom, this way, let's go down to the river. Orta shouted anxiously, the speed and physical strength of the Terrans were already weaker than the orcs, and they couldn't run fast in this kind of field, and the only way at this time was to cross the river that did not dry up.
More than three meters away from the cornfield, there is a large river nearly 100 meters wide, this river is more than 20 meters deep, the water is very turbulent and undercurrent, and it does not dry up all year round. Later, my father and uncle shared five years to build a suspension bridge on both sides of the river, so that the two villages could be directly passed, whereas in the past, it would have taken a day to walk around once.
Out of the cornfield, there is a steep slope that slopes downward, with thick trees growing, and the deep river is tumbling with white spray, and countless droplets of water are jumping.
"Mom. Orta stretched out his hand to help Avril jump down the slope and run to the shore, on the opposite side of the river, the original dense trees have been sawn off, and the river beach can be seen in an unobstructed view, only a wooden fence full of dense thistles terrestris, more than two meters high.
"Woohoo"
A stout kobold suddenly sprang out of the cornfield, and when he was in mid-air, Orta could clearly see that in its dark red eyes, in addition to ferocity was greed for food, bloody mucus was dripping from its bloody mouth, and its black nails on its limbs glistened in the sun.
At this moment, the calm Avril was also frightened, and watched it leap into the air in a daze.
At this time, an Orta, who had been training for six years, was the first to react, reaching out and pushing, pushing his mother into the river, and then being short, he skillfully used the techniques taught by his father, and retracted his arm quickly as he dodged.
"Whew"
The kobold pounced, and when he landed, he screamed miserably, and saw a dagger on its left side of the abdomen.
It was about his mother's safety, and in this case, Ota had no time to react, let alone think about the training that had spare strength, so this knife could be described as full of power, and when he pulled his hand, he didn't pull it out.
"Woohoo, woohoo......"
"Ota jumps. Just as a dozen more kobolds jumped out of the cornfield, Avril came to the surface and shouted.
"Puff"
Orta reacted quickly, and before the dagger could be drawn, he reflexively ran towards the river, and then leaped into the river with a cluster of splashes.
"Puff, puff......."
More than a dozen kobolds jumped into the river one after another, but as soon as they left the shore less than two meters, they fluttered one after another, splashing white and white.
"Woo... Woo... Woo"
The kobold roared lowly, up and down in the water, and then dozens of orcs stepped into the water, and when they heard their low roar, they all shrank back in panic and wandered on the shore.
At this moment a large piece of corn brush fell on the riverbank, and then two stout orcs came out, one carrying a pair of short-handled wheel axes in both hands, the other holding a longbow, and a quiver behind his shoulder.
As soon as the two of them appeared, the orc with the short axe roared, and the orc on the riverbank immediately fell silent, and then saw the axe in its hand, and ran to the ground with a brush, and burrowed into the cornfield again.
"Oh"
When the kobold with the dagger in his belly passed by, the orc with the longbow screamed, and the kobold immediately ran over obediently.
"Snort"
The dagger was pulled out by the orc, and then put it in his mouth and bit it twice, "Oh oh", he called a few times with satisfaction and looked down, and then raised his hand and inserted the dagger into his thigh.
"Whew... Mom!"
A head came out of the river, and it was Otta.
"Otta, I'm here. Avril swam desperately as she shouted.
Finally swimming to her mother's side, Ota had time to look back at the shore.
"That's... Uncle Iron Man's short-handled wheel axe, and my dagger...... How is it on it?" called out Orta in surprise as she raised her hand.
On the shore, the two orcs looked at each other, and the orc with a dagger in his thigh immediately took out an arrow and aimed it at the mother and son of Ota.
"Bang"
The bowstring fluttered, and a feathered arrow fluttered slightly in the air with its tail wing.