Chapter Twenty-Six: The Darkest Hour
Huey led his team and hurried to the mine. Despite the advice of his eldest brother Raul to stop being impulsive, he still selectively ignored his eldest brother's advice. For no other reason, he really couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere of Monterreki City anymore.
Although he was the lord of the city of Montelgi and the entire province of Hussein. Hussein's third son. However, from the family side, he did not feel the slightest happiness. As soon as he was born, he began to be compared with his two older brothers. Raul is a waste, now a high-level magician, and he is only a thin line away from a magician. And his second brother Paul, who is a few years younger than Raul, is now a junior magician. The weight of the pressure took him breathless.
Almost everyone in the entire provincial city thinks he is a stupid pig, but the third son of a family like him, who has no talent, even if he is talented and intelligent, and his magic strength cannot be improved, so what is the use? On that day, when Huey suddenly realizes that he is an incompetent piece of waste, he has already broken the jar. Since then, he has been drinking, playing, and indulging in lustful dogs and horses, and even if his body has become fat as a pig, he still relies on a drunken life to anesthetize himself.
It wasn't until the coming-of-age ceremony approached that he was so happy to hear that his father, who had always been extremely indifferent to him, could finally give himself some opportunities to be independent. Even if it's just for him to go to a mine in the middle of nowhere.
But all of this was ruined by those unknown people, and he really couldn't understand why he was always unhappy. Since God doesn't give me good luck, then I will fight for it with my own hands. Huey thought to himself.
Of course, he was able to think like this because of the encouragement of his magicians. Think about it, people go to high places, and water flows to low places. Who can take refuge in someone who has little strength? The only thing that Huey can praise is that he is the third son of the Hussein family, and there are no other advantages. But these magicians still took refuge in Huey, just to speculate.
"Third Young Master, don't worry, we will definitely succeed immediately." A junior magician said to Huey flatteringly as he rode a horse. Some of the more advanced magicians are even able to fly with the help of objects and even in the air. But this ability is obviously not available to magicians. So the team was only Huey in the carriage, and the coachman was a guard. The rest of the magicians could only follow on horseback, and the remaining guards who couldn't do magic were only on the run.
"Hmph." An intermediate magician who pretended to be cold just now was very dissatisfied, and he thought in his heart that the junior magician who spoke just now was simply too arrogant, and he actually preemptively said what he wanted to say. He hurriedly added: "The third young master is wise and decisive, this time we will attack the mine when the enemy is not ready, and when the time comes, we will definitely be able to catch them off guard." ”
He didn't care whether what he said was logical or not, he just made his words sound more convincing. What's the time to work? People may have set up all the nets there. I've never heard of a long-distance run that can still be at ease.
But this is very reasonable to the ears of Huey, who is not familiar with the world. Huey's fat head trembled with the vibration of the carriage, and he listened to the words of the intermediate magician, and felt comfortable in his heart, and laughed, "Good! This time they must know who the real owner of the mine is. ”
It was said to be a long-distance run, but in fact Huey was not faster than Brad's team before, and it took more than a week to arrive in total. He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw that the mine was now covered in snow and ice, and there were no people on the periphery of the mine.
"Are you sure this is the Qingling Mine?" Huey asked the guard who was driving the carriage with a frown, and the fat head arched into a ridge. The guard hurriedly replied, "Third Young Master, it won't be wrong. I've been here once before with other troops, and that's it. ”
Huey got out of the carriage, shivering from the cold as his feet stepped on the desolate land of the mountains, even though he was wearing thickened boots in fawn skin. He is usually pampered, but he is not suitable for a place like a mine. Ke Mu arranged him here, not so much because of the love between father and son, but because he was out of sight and out of mind. But Huey didn't think so, he had a little fantasy about the mines and the independent and uncontrolled life. After seeing the desolation of the mine, all that remained in his heart was resentment. As a result, when I resented my life, my heart became irritable.
"Poof" A mouthful of thick phlegm spat out of his mouth, and Huey said with a little impatience: "Go, go into the mine." I'll see which bastard dares to stop me, and there will be no mercy! ”
So saying, he jumped into the carriage and urged the coachman to drive the horse. The guards, who acted as coachmen, hurried slowly and helplessly. There is no way, in the ice and snow season, it is impossible to catch up too fast on the mountain road. Unexpectedly, Huey gave the guard a kick in the back, kicked the guard, and Huey scolded: "Damn, something like I haven't eaten, hurry up for Lao Tzu!" ”
The guards dared not speak out. Several magicians also commanded the guards, and put on an undisciplined and unfamiliar formation, trying to pretend to be as majestic as possible. If Tsuneishi had been here at this time, perhaps a few of his arrows would have been able to produce some results. Of course, only on such a mountain trail. Let Tsuneishi face to face the confrontation of gongs and drums, it is absolutely impossible to win by him alone.
Huey's troops walked the mountain road for a morning, and finally came to the miners' village at the foot of the mine. There were still many residents left in the miners' village at this time, and when they saw Huey's chariot and horses coming, some people saw that they were nobles. But since Rhodes was not in the mine, the new managers had not yet entered the mine, and of course there was no welcome ceremony. The residents of the mine just stood stunned and watched. When Huey saw this, he was instantly furious and said, "Damn pariahs, you don't know how to be polite. ”
The junior magician, who had been flattering before, said at this time: "They are all people who have no magical talent, and they are only worthy of being coolies. Why don't you let the villain execute a few at this time to show our authority? ”
The rest of the magicians all listened to the words of this junior magician and felt disdain, but they did not say anything to refute it. Because they also knew in their hearts that Huey liked it.
Sure enough, hearing the word "execution", Huey's eyes showed a hint of bloodthirsty and cruel gaze. He licked his plump lips and smirked, "Okay, let these damn pariahs see how powerful magic is." ”
The junior magician smiled and nodded yes. He rode a tall horse, walked around the miners' village, looked at the ignorant miners, and shouted: "Huey, the third son of the Hussein family, takes over the position of the new owner of the mine, and the ignorant untouchables kneel to greet him!" ”
After shouting three times in a row, the villagers of the miners' village reacted. During the years when Rhodes was a mine owner, they were well taken care of by Rhodes, and gradually forgot the feeling of being a slave. At this moment, after the shouting of this junior magician wearing the mage's unique mage robes, they gradually realized that the oppression of the past had suddenly befallen their heads.
Of course, they can't resist. Before Rhodes entered the mine, they had more and more time to be oppressed, and it had long been their habit to be submissive.
The villagers knelt down one by one, and some of the old people in the village, as well as the captains of the mines, thought of hurrying to the miners' place to inform them to come down the mountain to greet them. But he didn't expect to be thought to be running away by this magician who was not very shrewd and only knew how to slap horses, and in an instant, he waved his wand and chanted a spell, and a few fireballs flew out.
Several fireballs were only the size of eggs, but their lethality was extraordinary, catching up with the few people who were running, and instantly ignited their clothes. Several people wailed and rolled on the ground, but they did not receive the slightest pity.
Huey looked at the fire in front of him and smiled excitedly. He didn't take matters into his own hands. Although he was also a nominal junior magician, he was able to sit in this position because he was forcibly promoted by the family's secret medicine. The Holy Volga Magic Kingdom has a rule that if you want to inherit and exercise noble power, you must be at least a junior magician or higher when you reach adulthood. This is also the reason why Ke Mu used the secret medicine to forcibly improve his magic strength. However, the side effect of using the secret medicine is that it is difficult to advance in this life, and even the combat power is far worse than that of a real junior magician, and it is more laborious.
Therefore, Huey will never waste the slightest bit of his physical strength, but this does not delay him from enjoying watching his subordinates use magic and abuse ordinary people.
The people of the mine were frightened, and in addition to anger and deep fear, they fell to their knees without thinking, trembling all over. Even the child was pressed and rolled to the ground by his parents, and his head was deeply pressed against the ground.
Huey, supported by the guards, stepped on the backs of the guards kneeling in front of the carriage and got out of the carriage. Several magicians surrounded him, and a hundred guards formed a long procession through the crowd.
Huey enjoyed his treatment in the mines. In the past, the streets were full of pedestrians kneeling, only for their father. Even his eldest brother and second brother are not qualified for this. Now, in this remote mine, he actually enjoys the same feeling as his father, which makes him full of affection for this place. Of course, it's the morbid pleasure of control and oppression.
The few residents who were hit by the fireball technique just now were no longer moving, their bodies were burned dry without fireballs, and their corpses emitted bursts of scorching stench, which looked terrifying.
Huey looked at a few dead people in disgust, and spat out contemptuously: "A pariah is a pariah, even death is so disgusting." ”
The inhabitants knelt and listened to Huey's words, their hearts like ashes. It was only then that they really realized that with Rod's departure, they had lost more than just the mine owner.