Chapter 20: It's time to go to the high ground
Led by the captain of the soldiers, Sauron made it to the foot of the Iron Barrel Mountain, where Valpo Castle is located.
Due to the sheer sheer size of the barrel, the 90-degree vertical cliff is difficult to climb, so the castle in Valpo requires a ropeway that connects the top of the hill to the ground.
Knocking the Soldier Captain aside, Sauron prepared to board the ropeway's cable car.
But as soon as he climbed to a height of about 20 meters, he found that there was a white slide clinging to the cliff of Iron Bucket Mountain, extending from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and from time to time he could see something sliding down the slide.
"Looks like Mr. 3 and they're already on the move, and I'm going to have to speed up."
Zoro glanced at the castle looming on the top of the mountain, directly gave up the slowly rising cable car, jumped out directly and stepped on the white ropeway and began to run, letting the mountain wind blow the lonely ropeway swaying, but every step he took was still accurate and stable.
"Step, stomp!"
The ropeway, which is thousands of meters long, takes at least tens of minutes to climb at the speed of an ordinary cable car, but it only takes a few minutes to conquer it under the strong foot power of Sauron.
When he was about to reach the top of the mountain, the soldier in charge of guarding the ropeway spotted Sauron, an uninvited guest, and without hesitation, he directly took a bow and prepared to shoot Sauron down.
In the face of this soldier who started without saying a word, Zoro said that he admired it very much, and he took off directly into the air, crossed the distance of more than ten meters, dodged the powerful feathered arrow with a spin in the air, and then flew straight down through the soldiers and landed on the ground.
"Uhh......h
Before the soldiers guarding the ropeway could turn to face Sauron, they lost consciousness in front of them.
"Whew, it's cold, it's cold." Putting the three generations of Oni Toru back on his waist, Zoro hurriedly peeled off a hat from the head of the soldier who had fallen to the ground and buckled it on his head, and then rubbed his hands vigorously on his unconscious face, which was almost blown by the cold wind.
Feeling a little warmer, Sauron was about to walk towards Valpo's castle, but after thinking about it, he took out the black cloth he had brought with him and covered his face.
There's no way, Zoro has a little lack of experience in pretending to be someone else to set up a blame, after all, he used to do it directly without saying a word, so how can he pay attention to the impact like now.
But it's okay, as the so-called chopping down everything that sees you, it's a perfect stealth that no one notices.
Conscious of his preparation, Sauron packed up and walked straight towards Valpo's castle gate.
But Zoro's look made people feel that the comer's poor dress directly made the soldiers guarding the door vigilant.
"Stop, who are you?"
"Isn't my dress obvious enough?" Zoro was also a little surprised to see that the soldiers guarding the gate did not attack at the first time, could it be that they used the black cloth they used to cover their faces as a mask to protect them from the cold?
"Have you ever seen a guy who came to assassinate the king walk through the gate?" Windblade complained.
"......" Zoro remembered, it seemed that every time the Straw Hat Pirates went to do something, they were directly facing it, whether it was attacking Justice Island or defeating King Doflamingo of Dressrosa, they didn't think about making a detour or doing some damage first.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter." Sauron chose to give up thinking, and he said to the soldiers guarding the door in front of him, "I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry, can I trouble you to open the door?" ”
Seeing that Sauron had avoided their question and looked ready to storm the castle, the soldiers immediately picked up their swords, muskets, bows and arrows and aimed at Sauron: "Immediately lay down your weapons and raise your hands to surrender, otherwise don't blame us for being rude." ”
"Don't talk nonsense with him, subdue him first."
"Up!"
The soldiers decided to kill the castle first, and the defenders of the castle attacked the castle wall.
The soldiers on the walls of the city raised their crossbows and fired a volley, and the overwhelming number of arrows flew towards Sauron. Looking at that posture, there was no intention of capturing Sauron alive at all, but preparing to shoot him into a hedgehog.
"Hey." Sauron chuckled, tapped his toes, and dodged forward to the bottom of the city walls before the rain of arrows fell, and greeted the soldiers defending the city.
"What, so fast?!" The soldiers in front of the door were about to admire the appearance of Zoro being pierced into a hedgehog, but in the blink of an eye, Zoro crossed a distance of dozens of meters and came to himself and the others.
"Up, hack him to death." The soldiers behind them suddenly roared, raised their weapons and charged at Sauron.
In the face of the charge of a group of soldiers, Zoro naturally did not get hit, directly disarmed and kicked the soldiers in front of him, and then brandished the standard long knife he grabbed to knock down all the attacking soldiers, the whole process was like a full-level god boss bullying a rookie who had just come out of the novice village, and there was no challenge at all.
Looking at the unconscious soldiers, Zoro felt that these soldiers should be glad that they were holding knives, and they could knock them out with the back of the knife, if he had just got a sword, then they would probably have been swollen in the face at this time.
As for why they weren't just killed, Zoro said that there was no need to kill them if they didn't have to.
"Ah, and the friends upstairs who are shooting arrows." With a slam open the closed gate, Sauron looked at the soldiers on the wall who were about to be in disarray, and jumped directly on the rough wall in three steps and two steps.
I have to say that the garrison strength of the Magnetic Drum Kingdom is really not good, even if Sauron's strength is there, but he can't even put out a decent defensive counterattack formation, which is really disappointing.
Knocking the last soldier unconscious, Zoro's stealth operation was a failure, turning into a naked attack.
The city gate was so lively, and the people in the castle were not deaf, so they naturally heard the movement outside.
A large number of soldiers poured out of the castle and stood in front of Sauron.
Looking condescendingly at the guards of the city surrounded by an iron bucket, Sauron shook his head and leapt towards the second floor of the castle.
His brain is not bad, so why should he find something to do for himself if he can do it easily. Taking advantage of the fact that all the soldiers in the castle had escaped, Sauron decided to run into the castle and talk to their king about his life.
And after entering the castle, Sauron's first reaction was also very correct. He jumped directly from the second floor, closed the door and locked it with his hands, locking the soldiers out of the door and drinking the northwest wind.
Solving a small problem, Zoro turned around and found that Valpo was not on the first floor, and it seemed that he had only sent his own soldiers and had no intention of taking action himself.
However, Zoro has a question that he can't understand, Valpo asked his soldiers to run outside to block himself, is his brain pumping?
Although Valpo, who technically has the ability to have a Devil Fruit, is the strongest man in the castle, why would he dare to face Sauron alone?
Or did he abandon his people and run away alone after encountering pirates? But Zoro wasn't so terrifying, wouldn't it scare him away?
With the sound of soldiers banging on the door outside, Sauron, who was puzzled, wandered around the intricate castle with this doubt, trying to find Valpo and ask.
Then he stumbled into Valpo's treasure house, and came into contact with Mr. 2 who was guarding the door of the treasure house.
"Yo, that's a coincidence." Zoro wiped his hands and smiled gently, "Is it convenient to ask for directions?" ”