Chapter 253: The Fall of the Flame Soul (Part II)
Red picked up a stone from the ground, threw it into the darkness, and said in a sad tone, "Can you believe it?
When the remaining thirteen members of the Flame Soul saw the "acquaintance" for the first time, the excitement in their hearts could be imagined, but just as they relaxed their vigilance, they did not expect the other party to launch a surprise attack.
It was a bitter battle. As soon as they came up, two people were instantly killed by spells and arrow rain, and some people thought that the other party had misunderstood, and when they shouted to explain their identities, they got a more ferocious attack from the other party.
The members of the Flame Souls realized that things were not going well, and they fought and retreated under the cover of Red, and one after another fell forever along the way, and in the end, only three of them escaped into the ruins, and thanks to the streets and alleys of those buildings, they were lucky enough to escape from the battle.
"You know what...... During that time, we hid in Tibet, with no food or supplies, so we could only hide in empty rooms and be vigilant against the enemy who would appear at any time!"
"Loren is a long-time friend of my stepfather, and the most powerful mage of the Flame Soul, and so is Jill, but they only died in front of me due to heavy bleeding from their trauma!
"I went back and looked for it, and I rummaged through the corpses of the enemy, but I couldn't find ...... I'm fucking useless!"
When Red said this, he did not mention that he had gone alone to fight seven or eight enemies in order to find some supplies to recover, and although he had killed three or four, he himself had been wounded, and if it had not been for the fact that one of the enemies had lost his courage by his bravery and had retreated a little to give the regimental commander an opportunity, he would have been surrounded by those who had come to him, and he would have been reduced to a pile of bones long ago.
Li Ang was shocked when he heard this, he thought of his companions from the tragic encounter of the Flame Soul, in fact, they were also very dangerous this time, if it wasn't for his own good luck, maybe they would have followed in the footsteps of the Flame Soul.
But can such luck happen every time? Speaking of which, even Leon himself did not believe it, or because he choked on food, he would never be in danger from now on? It is even more impossible, without mentioning Leon himself, that those companions would certainly not have made such a cowardly move. Therefore, while the young lord was vigilant, he was more eager to improve the overall strength of the team.
"But why would they do it?" Leon was still very puzzled by this, so he put aside other thoughts for a moment.
"If it weren't for the speculation of Loren and Jill later, I might not have thought of it until I died!" Red snorted coldly.
"You may not know that the Mercenary Guild was an indestructible whole at the beginning of its establishment, but as it grew in size, more and more people entered the upper echelons of the union, and now the union is not the same as before......"
The coverage of the mercenary union has maintained a steady growth trend for a long time at the beginning of its establishment, but in recent decades it has developed extremely rapidly, covering more than ten large and small countries, with nearly fifty branches, and hundreds of directly subordinate mercenary groups.
It is said that almost all of this credit goes to the "new faction" or "reformers" in the upper echelons.
The idea of the reformists is to expand, develop, expand, and develop again, and finally gain a position that can be compared with those top organizations and powerful countries, and can have an equal voice with them. The "old school", that is, the "conservatives", believe that this is contrary to the purpose of the mercenary union when it was first established - in order to provide a channel of communication for mercenary groups all over the mainland, to provide a guaranteed commission system, and to regulate the mercenary groups of good and bad, this is the duty of the "union".
The two concepts formed two distinct factions between the top leaders, and they often fought against each other, and there was a tendency to become more and more intense, and finally in order not to destroy the golden signboard of the entire mercenary union, it was finally decided to divide the north and the south.
However, the ideas of the reformist forces in the north will surely lead them to be unbearable and lonely, and after consolidating their power, they gradually begin to secretly encroach on some important branches of the conservative forces in the south, and the capital of chaos is one of them.
Among the only three people left in the Flame Soul, Jill and Loren were very suspicious that this time it was the conspiracy of the northern forces against the original forces of the Chaos Capital, and they took advantage of the fact that the Chaos Capital had just undergone a change, and one of the top levels of the branch, Yalin, who was obviously a conservative, was injured and left, and Carlo's position was not stable, so they took the opportunity to clear the original forces, and even the relevant direct mercenary groups did not let go.
The person who issued this special assignment at the top of the mercenary union was a conservative member, so there was no doubt about him on the branch side, but now it seems that this person must have thrown himself into the arms of the reformers. On the pretext of discovering the ruins, they summoned three mercenary groups directly under them to go underground, among which the "wolf head" mercenary group was bought by the reformers, and the task was to secretly eradicate the other two mercenary groups. Then you can also push this qiÄ onto the heads of the undead creatures in the ruins, thus solidifying the reformers' position in the capital of chaos at no cost, which has to be said to be a good plan.
"How many wolf heads are there?" asked Leon.
"I've heard of this mercenary group before, there are about forty or fifty of them, and they are very strong, but before entering the ruins, I only saw a dozen of them, and I thought they were too confident to bring such a few people, ha! The others must have been waiting in the passage for a long time!"
"And a mercenary group?" asked Leon.
"No news, but when I met the wolf's head, I saw that several people were obviously injured, and the rest were not in good condition, so it is estimated that there had been a battle between them a long time ago. ā
"Alas...... Maybe that mercenary group will be wiped out!"
Red said this, let out a dull breath, and seeing that Leon no longer asked, he continued.
"I also think that what Luo Lun said makes sense, so I am very worried about Yalin's condition, after this incident, I don't know if Yalin was really sent to a certain place to recover his body!"
"However, since Lao Tzu is not dead, I will be with them when I go back! As the leader of a mercenary group, we can sacrifice in order to carry out the commission, but we must not die in the machinations of our own people!"
Hearing this silently, Li Ang suddenly spoke: "There is no point in you doing this. ā
"There's no point, I'm going to do it, or my brothers will die in vain!"
"You want to avenge them?"
"Of course!"
"Do you believe me?" asked Leon.
"Nonsense! You ran all the way to such a dangerous place to save me, I don't believe who you believe!"
Speaking of this, Red suddenly remembered something, "That's right...... I invited you when I left the City of Chaos, and you didn't want to come at all, and you should have already returned to the territory, how did you know that we were in danger here?"
Li Ang briefly described the reason, and the original head of the Flame Soul was stunned.
"Dick is a good brother, and his strength is also very good, we just found out that he was missing when we first met the undead creatures, and it turned out that he was caught by the master of these reptiles......"
"Strange...... I wandered around the ruins for days, and I barely met many undead, except for killing seven or eight of us who sneaked up on us, and then Loren died, and Jill died, but the wolf-headed people disappeared as if they were gone, and then ...... I saw the fire in mid-air and thought they had finally reappeared. ā
"I came here with the determination to die, and I found out that your mercenary group was fighting with undead creatures, what is going on?"
"Red, I'll explain this matter to you slowly, since you said you trust me...... So listen to my advice?"
"Say it!" Red scratched his hair, "I know you kid has a great brain, and in the chaotic city, you can gather all the difficult people in the lower city to follow you to fight the undead army, but I will only lead people to fight small groups of enemies on the streets, and I almost lost, I admit that this is not as good as you!"
"Ahem, just admit it," Leon pondered for a while, tilted his head to look at Red's expectant eyes, and said, "How about you put aside the matter of revenge for the members of the group for the time being, and go back to my territory with me first?"
"It's okay to go back to the territory with you, I'm alone now anyway, but I can't tolerate those bastards killing my brothers and still getting away with it, I'm going to kill them all one by one!"
"Don't worry, Red, they won't be on the loose for long, don't worry......"
"No, I don't know what happens to my father, I have to ......."
"I'm relying on me to say how your head is like wood!" Leon was a little angry, "You think things are as simple as you think?"
"What, what's wrong?" Although Red has a rough personality and has been the head of the regiment for a long time, he has quite a leader's momentum, but when he found that this young man who was nearly ten years younger than himself and not as strong as himself was angry, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered in his heart.
There may be a combination of reasons for this - first of all, he admits that his brain is not as good as the other party, and secondly, he is a little bit worse than he is drinking, it seems that Li Ang has even improved his strength much faster than himself, and the most important thing is that this young man can completely bring down the members of the group, and he can also bring them back completely, and he took all the members down, but in the end, he was left alone, so many gaps added up, making him a little short of breath when he thought about it.
Li Ang didn't notice this, but felt that this former head of the regiment was too simple, and it was estimated that he was a little better than the barbarian Sapa and limited.
"Since those people have attacked you, it means that they have absolute control over the branch of the Chaos Capital, and it is estimated that even the so-called inspector is their person, believe it or not, as long as you dare to appear within the scope of the Chaos Land, maybe you will die outside without even seeing the shadow of the branch!
"IāI can go to other branches in the South and expose all these men's evil deeds!"
"Stupid! There are traitors even at the highest echelons of Southern conservatives, and you can guarantee that there will be no traitors wherever you go?"
Red stammered, only to find that there was nothing to say.
"As for Arin, who decided to send him out, where is he, how is the situation? What do you know?"
Red shook his head awkwardly.
"So, your idea is nonsense!"