Chapter 582: The Death of the Patriarch
Sur looked up at the Tyron level, only to see a raging fire burning on one side of the level, and he was about to give the order to attack, when Rog suddenly stepped forward and said to him: "Patriarch, I ask that I take someone first, you better stay here and observe the situation." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"How can that be done?" Sur refused without hesitation: "Mr. Rogge, although you are our loyal friend, you are a guest after all, how can I, as the patriarch, let the guests go on my behalf, and if I don't take the lead, how can my soldiers be willing to fight to the death?"
"But Patriarch, the stakes are high, we don't know much about the situation in the level, and we only rely on Stuart's signal to rush in, if things change, you will be in great danger!" Rogge persuaded earnestly.
"Do you trust Stuart?" Sur heard a different meaning in his words, looked at him with a puzzled frown, and asked, "Have you found something suspicious?"
"No, not yet, I just have a gut feeling that it's uncomfortable to do so. Rogge replied with an uneasy shake of his head.
"Stuart will not be in trouble," Susan, who had been listening, said to Rogge, "You don't know him, I can say that he and I grew up together, he is a faithful and reliable man, and he is also smart and meticulous, I believe that he has planned well and will be fine." β
Rogge was silent when he heard this, and Susan turned back to her father and said, "Father, I will go with you, and if there is any accident, I can also help you!"
"No," Sur shook his head solemnly, put his hand on Susan's shoulder, and said, "I need you and Mr. Rogge and Miss Catherine to stay here and take charge of the follow-up troops, and if something unexpected happens, you can send troops to support me in time." β
Susan reluctantly agreed when she heard her father say this, and Sur immediately led the vanguard to the Tyron level, and the orc soldiers followed him down the steep slope to the open gate.
Suddenly, the figure of an orc soldier appeared on the level, and Sur, who was charging towards the hillside, slowed down and looked up at him, and saw the soldier waving at them, Sur turned back to his soldiers and said loudly, "Rush up and occupy the Tyron level!"
The soldiers shouted and raised their blades and rushed towards the gate of the level, but unexpectedly, the soldier standing on the level suddenly raised a flaming bow and arrow from behind the wall and shot an arrow at the slope ground in front of the level, and as soon as the rocket hit the ground, a wall of fire was immediately ignited in front of the gate.
"What's going on?" Sur was taken aback, and was about to drink the rear team, only to hear a loud bang The earth and rocks under his feet flew up, and a huge explosion echoed in front of the level, and the flames rushed out of the dirt below the slope, and the orcs on the hillside were instantly engulfed by the flames.
"Father!" Susan, who saw this scene from a distance, let out a heart-rending cry, grabbed the double-edged battle axe left by her father and rushed to the level, Rogge hurriedly stepped forward to grab her, Susan struggled and punched Rogge in the face, Catherine grabbed her other hand, and the two of them used a lot of strength to control the emotional Susan.
"Retreat, get out of here!" Rog hugged Susan, who was crying and struggling, and turned back to the orc generals and shouted orders, the orcs retreated in panic, and Rog and Catherine pulled Susan to hurriedly evacuate the Tyron checkpoint under the cover of the orc soldiers.
Halfway through, they met Antonio and Karn, who had heard the explosion and came to meet them, and were shocked to learn that Sur had been killed in the explosion, so they had to retreat to the camp before discussing countermeasures.
After returning to the camp, Karn handed over the grief-stricken and fainting Susan to the care of Catherine and Tully, and he returned to the Chinese army tent with Rogge and Antonio, and the three of them sat opposite each other with heavy hearts, silent for a long time, and finally Karn spoke: "Mr. Rogge, you are the closest person to the scene, what do you think about this matter?"
Rogge lowered his head and smoked his pipe silently, and after a long silence he said, "There are only two possibilities for this, either Stuart deceived us and deliberately lured us into his trap, or he leaked the news and was used by the people of the Tyco tribe." β
"What do you know about Stuart?" Antonio looked back at Karn with an inquiring gaze, and Karn rubbed the white beard on his chin and said, "I don't have a deep relationship with the Turic tribe, I only know that they are not very strong, and Stuart's father is not a hardliner among the orc chiefs, but a relatively weak moderate. β
"As for Stuart himself, I have not heard of him having close contact with Grote, he does not openly support Grote like Brian and his ilk, but only remains submissive and does not resist him, and there are many more tribes like this, including me before that. Karn said as he looked meaningfully at the two of them.
"That means we can't infer whether Stuart is Grote's lackey or not?" said Antonio, with a troubled sigh.
"Of course there is," Rogge, who had been silent just now, suddenly raised his head and said, "If Stuart is innocent, and only leaked the news because of his lack of secrecy, then the Tyco tribe will definitely imprison or kill Stuart while killing the Sur Patriarch to achieve victory." β
"You mean, if Stuart wasn't imprisoned or killed, it means he's an inner ghost?" Antonio and Karn looked at each other and nodded slightly in agreement, Rog stood up and said to the two, "I'll go to the Tyron level to find Stuart now, and if he is really an inner ghost, I'll bring his head back." β
After he finished speaking, he left the camp with the little furball, and the little furball shrunk him and flew with him to the sky above the Tyron level, and saw that the fire on the hillside in front of the pass had been extinguished, and a charred black earth was covered with huge explosion craters, and the little furball glided over the hillside, and Rog, who was standing on her back, noticed that there were still fragments left by powder kegs at the bottom of the pit.
"These guys actually have powder kegs?" Rogge's gaze swept through one black pit after another, and he thought to himself, "The dwarves will never trade gunpowder with orcs, so the source of this gunpowder is probably from the human empire, maybe from the war materials plundered from the border, but it is not easy to gather so much." β
He let the little furball fly over the level, and saw a large number of orc soldiers celebrating the victory, the little furball flew silently over one camp after another, but did not find Stuart's shadow, he thought for a moment, and asked the little furball to find the prison in the level.
Little Furball circles around the huge level several times, and finally finds the prison where the prisoners are held on the right side of the level, and she takes Rogge to look through the window from cell to cell, and after searching for several cells, she finally finds Stuart lying on the bed.
Rogge let the little furball fall outside the iron railing of the cell window, he jumped through the iron railing and jumped from the window, the little furball chanted a spell in mid-air to change him back to his original state, Rogge strode up to Stuart, grabbed him by the hem of his clothes and dragged him up, gritted his teeth and asked, "You still have the heart to sleep, do you know what you have done?"
Seeing Rogge suddenly appear, Swart looked at him in surprise, joy and trepidation, and asked anxiously, "How is Susan, is she okay?"
"She's in pain now," Rogge said, pushing him down on the bed, staring down at him with his hands folded, "because you killed her father." β
Stuart rolled over from the bed in surprise, looked up at him in pain, and said, "I'm sorry, I really didn't know it would happen, I was planted by Grote, he leaked all our plans, and I didn't know what happened until the explosion." β
Rog looked at him with suspicion, and Stuart saw his distrust, so he sat up straight, raised his head and faced his chest and said, "I'm really sorry, I know I failed Patriarch Sur and Susan, please kill me, I don't have the face to see Susan again, please say sorry to her on my behalf." β
After he finished speaking, he raised his head and closed his eyes, Rogge stared at him and was silent for a moment, then suddenly flashed his winged blade and swung two knives at him, only to hear two crisp sounds, and the chains on Stuart's hands and feet fell to the ground.
"There is no way to compensate for your mistakes with your life. Rog put away his winged blade and stretched out his hand to him, saying, "If you want to make amends for your mistakes, go back with me and help Susan avenge her father!"
Stuart looked up at Rogge thoughtfully, the two looked at each other for a moment, Swart suddenly stood up and nodded solemnly to him and said, "You're right, I should take this responsibility myself, for Susan!"
"How are you going to avenge Thur?" Rogge asked as he glanced in the direction of the cell window, where the little furball was standing on the windowsill and watching around vigilantly, he moved his gaze back to Stuart's face and said, "It's impossible to break into the checkpoint from the front, is there any other way?"
"The two sides of the Taylon checkpoint are steep mountains, and this hillside in front of the pass is the only way up the mountain, and there is no way around the checkpoint. Stuart also looked out the window carefully, and said to Rogge in a low voice: "I have a way, maybe you can try, it depends on whether you can do it." β
Rogge looked at Stuart's green beast face, and motioned for him to continue, Stuart stepped forward and whispered to Rogge, "Since you can easily sneak into here, you may be able to take the opportunity to assassinate the commander of the Taike Orcs, that is, the Taike Orc Patriarch Tai'an." β
"What's in it for us to occupy the checkpoint by killing him?" Rogge said with a suspicious stare at Stuart, "The orc tribes have a strict ladder system, even if the patriarch is assassinated, someone will immediately take the place of the patriarch, and the orcs will not fall into chaos because of this, you should know better than me." β
"Of course," Stuart confidently clenched his hands into a fist and said, "But even if someone takes over, it will take time, as long as you kill Tai'an, my subordinates and I can take the opportunity to attack, we will take control of the level, as long as we seize the short opportunity of the dragon of the Taike tribe to lose their heads, the Tylen level is ours!"