Volume 33 The Battle for the Restoration of the Kingdom Chapter 9 Breaking from the Inside
"Wait!" Ackerman shouted, "You can't do that." β
He had already received a secret order from Raymond in advance, and he knew what to say at this time.
Ackerman said to Duke Charles, "Your Majesty, you can't kill them. This Raymond was a man whom Renard hated very much, and I had heard Renard swear that he would kill him with his own hands. If you do kill him, with Renard's unpredictable temper, I'm afraid it will be bad. β
"So, it's better to lock him up first, and when Dirk's army arrives, hand him over to Renard to deal with. β
Renard's strange personality is the most frightening place, and sure enough, hearing this, Duke Charles couldn't help but show fear.
But he still said: "However, I heard that Raymond has some strange skills, and although he was ordered by Sophia this time, it is still a little strange that he actually came." It's hard to believe that this is not his strategy, so it is better to kill them. β
"Never. Ackerman hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, please think about it. The last time you deliberately betrayed Renard, you already angered him, but Renard couldn't find an excuse for a while, so he didn't react. If you kill Raymond again, I'm afraid he'll be..."
The latter part of the words was not spoken, but Duke Charles had already understood what he meant, and his face suddenly turned snow-white. Although he was arrogant, he was most afraid of the mad prince.
Seeing that Duke Charles was shaken, Ackerman continued to puff up his words: "On the contrary, as long as you hand over Raymond to him, it will be a great achievement." Reynard will no longer find an excuse to punish you, but will continue to hand over Gaspard to your rule. So you must not make a big mistake in order to vent your anger for a while. β
"Besides, there are only about 20 people, and there is not even a single magician. As long as they take their weapons, they will be kept in prison and kept under strict guard. Are you still afraid that these people will not be able to fly into the sky?"
Ackerman was now the most popular man with Duke Charles, and under his constant persuasion, Duke Charles finally changed his mind.
"Well, you're right, Renard is coming, but don't let him find an excuse to punish me. These guys are indeed the best gifts for Renard. β
"Then do as you say. Collect their weapons, put them in prison and keep them under strict guard, and nothing can go wrong!" then Duke Charles ordered.
Ackerman breathed a sigh of relief, watching the soldiers search Raymond behind him, and tied him up.
Just as Ackerman was worried about Raymond's future fate, Duke Charlie suddenly slapped him on the shoulder. Ackerman had a ghost in his heart, and he was almost scared to death this time.
Duke Charles smirked and said, "Ackerman, you are worthy of my most trusted person. Thanks to you, I didn't make a big mistake. Wait until Renard helps me retake Gaspard. I will appoint you as my Prime Minister. β
"Thank you so much. Ackerman hastened to thank him. He didn't know how many times he had heard this kind of thing in the past few years.
At the same time, he secretly said in his heart: "Although I don't know what your plans are, I have already done what you instructed. Lord Raymond, you must not fail. β
"I've had enough of this idiot!"
Raymond lay in the haystack of his cell, his hands behind his head, staring blankly at a small window hole the width of a palm in the wall, not knowing what he was thinking.
Every few minutes. A few heavily armed rebel soldiers walked past the cell, watching his every move warily.
As Raymond had expected. Duke Charles, who has a small amount of energy, will not let them go back. With Ackerman's help, he was imprisoned in the city of Orat as he wished.
Duke Charles took them very seriously, and in addition to collecting weapons, he also kept them in the strongest heavy prison cell, and each one was a separate cell, and no one was given any chance to connect with each other.
Besides. Each cell door was double-locked, and guards were stationed in the cell, patrolling every few minutes. It seems that he was determined to keep everyone in custody with the strictest precautions, until Renard came.
Raymond lay in a haystack. Quietly waiting. Gradually, through the small window on the wall, you could see that night was falling outside, and torches were lit in the cell.
Raymond remained unmoved, instead closing his eyes and seemed to fall asleep. It wasn't until the middle of the night that he suddenly opened his eyes.
A group of roving guards had just walked past the cell door when Raymond rolled over and rolled up his sleeves, revealing the space bracelet.
During the search, a soldier tried to take off the bracelet, but the bracelet was firmly stuck on Raymond's wrist, and with Ackerman's urging, it was not removed. Anyway, before being imprisoned, Duke Charles also sent a magician to detect it, and this bracelet did not have any magic fluctuations, so it was only regarded as an ordinary ornament.
Rao is Duke Charlie was extremely careful, but he still didn't think that the bracelet in Raymond's hand was the highest and best in ten thousand, and the detection skills of ordinary magicians were not effective against it at all.
After confirming that the guards were gone, Raymond lifted his bracelet and whispered a spell.
Immediately, I saw the round Ah Tu appear in the cell. Since there are no living things in the space magic items, Raymond thought of bringing Ah Tu from Alina and putting them inside.
He smiled heavily: "It's all up to you later." β
After a few moments, the patrolling guards returned. When passing in front of Raymond's cell, the guard who walked in front suddenly saw that there was a round and strange thing in Raymond's cell.
This was so weird that his first reaction was that he had seen it wrong, and he quickly rubbed his eyes. But that weird thing is there.
The guards were frightened and were about to shout, when suddenly they heard a soft ticking sound, followed by a flash of light in the prison, and at the same time a large blue electricity rushed towards the guards outside the prison.
A strong electric surge rushed through his body, and before the guards could react, they were all knocked to the ground.
Then, Raymond patted Ah Tu's shell: "Good job, open the door." β
Ah Tu slid nimbly to the cell door, and a steel plate above his head opened, sticking out several long, thin wires. After a moment of drilling in the keyhole, he quickly opened the double lock outside the cell door.
Raymond pushed the door open, and next door to him was Harlot, and when the patrolling guards were knocked down, he knew that Raymond had begun to move, and was now clinging to the railing of the cell door. The face was almost deformed by the cracks.
Seeing Raymond walk out, he hurriedly said, "Boss, save me." β
Raymond instructed Ah Tu to open the cell doors of the people in turn, and he walked to the door at the end of the prison and quietly looked out through the window on the door.
Outside the door is the guard room, where more than a dozen guards are eating, drinking, and resting, waiting for a shift change. In order to prevent accidents, the iron door leading to the outside of the prison was closed and only opened for a moment when the guards changed shifts. In this way, even if something happens in the prison, the people inside don't want to escape.
However, this arrangement is now greatly convenient for Raymond and the others, and the guards outside don't know what happened here.
Raymond walked back to the prison, and by this time Ah Tu had opened all the cells in the corridor, and Baster and the others were all free.
"Everyone's okay, right?" asked Raymond as everyone gathered.
"Meow, young master, it's time to do it. Baste said impatiently.
Raymond nodded. Have Harlot pull out a large pile of hay from a cell and spread it on the floor, then lift the space bracelet on his wrist.
As he recited the incantation. Soon a large number of weapons fell out of the bracelet. All of the people who were confiscated were ordinary weapons that had been replaced in advance, and their genuine weapons were all kept in bracelets by Kaminari.
Everyone picked up their weapons in a mess, and Raymond took out dozens of bursting grenades and smoke grenades from his bracelet and distributed them among them.
"I'll do what I plan later. After you get out of prison, Harlot, you take someone to set fire to the palace and set fires. Attract the attention of your enemies. Raymond commanded.
"Don't worry, boss, this is my old job, I promise to put it fast and as much as possible, and it will be no problem to burn down the palace. Harlot said unashamedly
"Uh... It's the capital of Sofia, so you'd better take it easy. β
Raymond said to Baste and the others, "Come with me to take the city gates." The speed must be fast, and once you are alerted by the enemy, your efforts will be wasted. β
Everyone knew that this operation was a dangerous victory, so they all looked solemn and did not dare to take it lightly.
Then, Raymond waved his hand: "Let's do it!"
"It's boring. β
Tilting his head and pouring a large sip of water, one of the guards put the cup on the table heavily, and sighed: "If only there was wine to drink." β
"Bear with me a few more days. Another guard said, "We are guarding very important prisoners, and we have already ordered them from above, and there must be no mistakes." β
"But it's really strange, I heard that the man named Raymond is very shrewd, how could he make such a low-level mistake this time, and actually send him to the door to die. The first guard said again.
"This is the so-called smart one, confused for a while. His companion said, "Forget it, the grievances of those big people are none of our business, we just need to take care of them." β
"That's right. The guard nodded, "It's about to change shifts, so tell the brothers to get ready." β
At this moment, the iron door of the cell suddenly creaked open.
"Strange, is it time?" the two guards stood up with a strange expression: "The guy inside isn't trying to be lazy." β
Suddenly, something as strange as an iron bucket slipped out from behind the door.
"Wow, what is this?" the two guards were startled and hurriedly took a few steps back.
At this time, the rest of the guards who were resting also discovered this thing and surrounded it.
"What is this?" someone asked, "Do we have such a thing in our prison?"
"I don't know, I've never seen it?" the others shook their heads.
A bold guard stepped forward, drew his sword and struck it on Ah Tu's body, making a thudding sound.
"It seems to be made of iron, could it be a garbage can?"
"No kidding, we saw it come out of the prison with our own eyes. The two guards hurriedly said.
"Wait, there's something going on in the prisonβ" one of the guards reacted sharply.
At this moment, I heard the thing suddenly let out a beeping chirp, and in an instant, countless electric currents filled the entire guard room.
The guards were caught off guard and let out a scream. After a while, the current stopped. The people in the guard room had all been knocked to the ground, and the smell of burnt paste filled the air.
"There's... There are monsters. A lucky fellow dodged the shock and struggled to get up and ran desperately towards the door.
Before he could touch the latch, Ah Tu chased after him with an electric current, hitting him directly against the wall and fainting.
Then. There was no one standing up in the entire security room.
After a moment, Baste's head stuck out from the doorway, looked at the scene in the guard room, and turned around and said, "Young master, it's all done." β
When Raymond and his party came out of the prison, they were all amazed at Ah Tu's efficiency. Harlot couldn't stop fanning the wind: "Wow, it stinks, it's like burnt meat here." β
"This thing is amazing. Hilnis was speechless, "If it weren't for it, there really wouldn't have been able to kill so many guards quietly." β
Raymond was also glad that he had thought of bringing Ah Tu with him. Otherwise, even if there is a space bracelet, everyone's escape from prison will definitely cause a big commotion.
They then quickly changed into the clothes of the guards, opened the guard room, and disappeared into the night of the city of Orat.
After breaking up with Harlot, who went to set the fire, Raymond ran towards the city gate with the rest of the people.
Since the beginning of the war, the people of Orat have fled in large numbers, and the once prosperous capital has been in decline. The rest were also due to Duke Charles' strict curfew. Don't dare to go out.
The streets were deserted, except for the occasional patrol. There was no longer a single figure in sight, which was just convenient for Raymond and his party.
Bathter was the first to explore the way, and Raymond and the others followed, briskly running through the silent street. The sound of chaotic footsteps echoed in the empty streets, and there was a sense of solemnity.
Suddenly, Baste in front of her made a covert gesture. Raymond and his party immediately dispersed and hid in the shadows of the houses on both sides of the street.
After a while, a patrol was seen walking through the street. Since there were only more than a dozen people on Raymond's side, the other party didn't notice anything at all.
After the enemy had passed, they continued to advance. That's it, under Bathter's detection. The group evaded several patrolling enemy troops in succession and successfully came to the vicinity of the city gate.
Due to the small number of enemy troops in the city of Orat, in order to guard against the attack of the Hedington army, in addition to the soldiers who surrounded the royal palace, Duke Charles arranged most of the people to be guarded here at the city gate.
If it is attacked, this point of people on Raymond's side will not be enough to see at all.
Fortunately, Raymond didn't plan to fight hard, and after waiting in the hiding place for a while, he saw a fire rising in the direction of the palace in the center of the city, and the smoke rushed into the air.
As a former member of the bandit group, Harlot's arson skills are really powerful. After a while, the fire over there grew bigger and bigger, and the red light reflected in the sky, and it looked quite powerful.
Under the deliberate disturbance of Harlot and others, the surrounding area of the palace immediately fell into a commotion, and the shouts and shouts faintly spread through the night sky.
The enemy troops defending the city gate also noticed the fire in the palace, and there was a commotion on this side. I saw that all the soldiers on the city wall looked towards the city, and the enemy who was resting also rushed out of the barracks, because they did not know what was going on in the road, the fire on the side of the palace made them make all kinds of guesses, and for a time the people were panicked and there was a great tendency of chaos.
Soon, the commander of the city gate came out, and a crowd immediately surrounded him, listening to his orders.
The commander waved his hand and said something loudly, and soon a group of soldiers ran towards the city, and the rest of the officers began to do their best to restrain their men. However, the army besieged the city, and the soldiers in the city were already under great pressure, and it was difficult to calm down for a while in the sudden commotion caused by this midnight.
Knowing that it was time, Raymond said to Hellness and Aishta, "Do it." β
The two elves understood, and the two of them nimbly climbed onto the nearby rooftop, and aimed at the enemy with their bows and arrows. At the same time, Baster also quietly hides in the darkness.
The commander of the city gate was shouting orders to a group of officers, trying to stop the chaos from spreading. Suddenly, an arrow struck at a rapid pace and pierced the commander's throat.
The commander's movements paused, and he shook twice, falling to the ground. The officers around were startled, and immediately there was chaos, and everyone looked around in horror. Due to the long-distance sniping, everyone in the panic could not see the two elves in the distance.
Then, arrows flew through the darkness one after another, each of which would hit one person accurately, and in a matter of moments, five or six officers had been killed by arrows.
The rest were terrified and turned and fled in desperation. The chaos here immediately affected the surroundings, but since it was the middle of the night, the scattered soldiers could not figure out what was going on for a while, and many of them just instinctively looked towards the place where the riot was.
When Sylnis and Aishta used the elves' night eyes to accurately snipe the enemy officers, Bath, who had been lurking in the dark, also took action.
A squad leader yells at his men to return to their posts. Suddenly, a white shadow appeared from behind him, swept past him like a gust of wind, and then disappeared into the darkness again, coming and going like flying, extremely strange.
Then, in front of the surrounding soldiers, a large tuft of blood suddenly rushed out of the side of the squad leader's neck, and the person had fallen to the ground and died, but everyone didn't even see the shadow of the murderer.
The soldiers were horrified, and everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly raised their weapons in their hands, but the figures around them shook, and all kinds of noises were chaotic, and the shadow of the murderer could not be found.
Just when they were in a panic, they heard another group of soldiers on the side burst out in a frightened shout: "Team, captain!"
"What killed the captain just now?"
"I don't know how to do it, I can't see it clearly. β
...... (To be continued......)