Late at night, it was already late at night.
In the only decent wooden house in Redwood Town, the light was dim and all the thieves, except for the two who were responsible for keeping watch, were already fast asleep.
Yug, as an old thief who managed to survive until old age in the wilderness, he is considered to be meticulous and rich in experience. Otherwise, he would not be alive now, and he would not have the ability to lead seventeen thieves in the wilderness. He escaped from the Yinshuang Territory’s pursuit and escaped here alive.
He was also very vigilant about the farmers in Redwood Town. He assigned five people to guard the entrance of the town to prevent their people from gathering, to monitor Enge and the townspeople, and to let the cooks prepare the cooked food first. Eat it to confirm it is not poisonous.
Finally, at night, he asked his subordinates to block the door of the wooden house with long logs. Apart from his brothers, there were only four women, including Kress, in the whole wooden house. As for these four women, they were unarmed and had not had enough to eat for many years. Of course, they were no threat to more than a dozen thieves.
“…What else can we do? Aren’t these women meat? Kill a few and take them away when you leave. It’s almost winter, and it’s getting harder and harder to find anything to eat on the plains…” Lying on the side with three other companions Among the straw in the house, Kress opened his eyes, and various scenes from the day and the words of the thief leader flashed through his mind.
“If you don’t kill, you will be killed!”
“If you don’t kill, you will be killed!”
“If you don’t kill, you will be killed!”
“Killing… is better than being killed!”
Suddenly, the orange-haired little girl sat up in the straw pile. It was already late at night, and the three women beside her who had been frightened and unable to sleep in the first half of the night were also fast asleep at this moment.
Kress stood up and walked outside the room. In the room, the candles that he would never let go of were now placed everywhere and all lit. But even so, the two thieves who were responsible for keeping vigil were a little weak. Damn, they had been in panic all day long when they were being hunted, and they had escaped all the way here. Of course, their condition couldn’t be too good, especially after sleeping for a while and now taking turns to keep watch, it made them even more uncomfortable.
“What?”
“Go pee.”
Hearing this, the night thief waved his hand irritably and didn’t pay too much attention. Most people wouldn’t pay more attention to it. It’s hard for a skinny kid like Kress to look like he’s only twelve or thirteen years old. Feeling threatened.
This is the wooden house of Lord Rhodes, and Kress is the maid here. Her familiarity with every item here is even far greater than that of Rhodes, so just by turning a corner, the originally defenseless Kress had a meat cleaver and several table knives on his body.
“I’m going to the bathroom too.”
Not long after, one of the two thieves on duty said this and then went to the toilet.
The room here is not small. It has wooden barrels that need to be cleaned every day. It is usually covered with white cloth curtains. However, in the past, it was only used by Rhodes or Kress. Today, it is used by more than a dozen people. Of course, the smell is not good. It would be great, but the thief didn’t care. He sat on the barrel with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, he felt a cold hand slowly caressing the back of his neck. The thief slowly opened his eyes because he realized that the other person seemed to be looking for a gap in the bones… Poof!
The sharp knife pierced directly through the gap between the bones of the back of the neck, and instantly pierced through the front of the neck. Kress slowly released his hand behind the man, then turned and left the room.
The remaining thief saw Kress coming back with a normal expression and didn’t notice anything strange. He just asked casually: “Hey, have you seen that guy?”
“Um.”
Kress heard the words and walked over. When the two of them were close to a certain distance, a table knife suddenly fell from the cuff into her hand. At this moment, Kress suddenly raised his head, raised his hand and stabbed the knife. The knife directly pierced the opponent’s throat cartilage, and the little girl quickly covered the opponent’s mouth with her left hand, so that the opponent could not make a sound even if he struggled in fear.
After a while, she slowly and gently lowered the body to the ground.
“It’s not that difficult. Rats are harder to kill than you.” Looking at her blood-stained left hand, the short and thin girl with some freckles on her face whispered softly.
At this moment, she didn’t understand why Grandpa Enge was afraid of these people, and why he wanted to give them the good things left for him. Obviously, you can kill them so easily.
At this moment, Kress did not feel that he was any different from ordinary people. Ordinary people, even militiamen who had received certain military training, usually did not dare to stab their weapons into the same place when they fought for the first time on the battlefield. As an enemy of mankind, many people will even vomit and feel intense discomfort after killing someone for the first time. This is the normal state of most people.
However, Kress had none of these negative states. In fact, they were completely opposite. The night, blood, killing, and death made her feel like the blood in her body was rushing, and she even trembled with excitement.
“kill!”
“Kill them all!”
Holding a blood-stained knife in the environment he was most familiar with, his footsteps were so light and silent as he landed.
“Why should we be afraid of them? They are obviously so weak. They cut the knife into their neck and gave it a slight scratch, then twitched it twice and stopped moving.”
“Rat is harder to kill than them!”
On the last night of his life, Yuger was awakened by an extremely strong smell of blood. He was very familiar with this smell, so even when he was extremely tired, he woke up suddenly when the smell became strong enough.
“Someone come!”
“Someone come!” He stood up suddenly and rushed to the knife beside him, shouting at the same time, trying to wake up his subordinates.
However, at this moment, there were no subordinates who could be woken up by him.
When Yuger finally saw the hellish scene in front of him, even this vicious old thief was terrified!
There were corpses everywhere in front of him, blood was flowing everywhere, and many people had opened their eyes, but died with their mouths open and endless fear on their faces.
“What, what’s going on?”
“Could it be that there are evil spirits in this house?”
At this moment, Yug’s ears moved and he heard the obscure sound of breaking wind. After all, he was an old thief who had experienced many battles. He suddenly dodged sideways and swung his knife to defend. With a clang, a sharp knife was bounced away, but Yug’s right shoulder and left leg felt pain at the same time, and both were deeply stabbed by a sharp knife.
“Hey, are you awake? It’s worth saving you to kill last. You are indeed the most worthy of being “killed.”
At this moment, Cress, covered in blood, walked out of the dark corner of the room. She held a sharp meat-cutting knife in her right hand, and held three sharp table knives with five fingers of her left hand together. At the moment she walked out, she still had a strange and intoxicated smile on her face. The weirdest thing was her eyes – they were vertical animal eyes like a beast.
“…Half-orc awakening? Damn it.”
There are gods, dragons, elves, dwarves, orcs in this world, and naturally there is the race of orcs.
Among this group, there is a group of people with relatively pure human bloodline, almost no beast characteristics, and such people are more often considered to be a branch of humans.
After all, in the worldview of this world, many royal families claim that their families inherit the bloodline of dragons or other powerful creatures, and the tolerance is quite high.
But even so, among these orcs who are highly assimilated by humans, only a very small number of people can awaken their own bloodline to a very high level. In the ancient common language, the word “Char” actually means cats, but for many, many years, no member of the Charr tribe can awaken the power of their ancestors again.
Until tonight.
“Ten thousand years ago, the reason why the sages chose to join forces with the archmages to launch an attack on the gods was because they detected that the activity of energy particles in this world was constantly decreasing. At that time, the sages thought this was a great opportunity. Both the gods and magic were no longer adapted to the times. Instead of waiting for the gods to prepare to attack us, we might as well take the initiative.”
“This wilderness was one of the important battlefields where the gods and the anti-gods alliance fought a decisive battle. The negative impact of that war has not completely disappeared until now, causing this place to slowly recover some vitality ten thousand years later.”
“But who would have thought at that time that my revival was because the activity of energy particles in this world increased again ten thousand years later.”
“Energy particle activity? That is to say, the so-called magic power, that is to say, the concentration of magic power in this world is constantly increasing?” Lying on a carriage full of various goods, Rhodes crossed his hands behind his back and pillowed them under his head, while constantly putting on the words of the goblin ruins sage through the ring on his left hand.
Originally, this ring only had the function of “life”, but due to Rhode’s bargaining and implicit threats from various angles, the relic sage had to add the “space” function and some other benefits.
“Yes, the concentration of magic in this world is constantly recovering and improving. In this process, races with natural magic power like dwarves and elves will become more and more powerful, so you have to be careful. The information I gave you cannot balance the natural gap between you as a human and these magic races. At most, it can only narrow it.”
Ten thousand years ago, the goblins once competed with the dwarves and elves for the hegemony of this world. Therefore, the relic sage hated the elves so much. In comparison, the human race, who is not good at controlling and using magic like the goblins, is undoubtedly relatively pleasing to the eye.
Just when Rhode noticed this and wanted to ask more questions, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the front of the convoy.
