"Great minds think alike, Manager Harry. I noticed this too. These slippery smelly mice wouldn't dare to approach us head-on because they know that they are no match for us. That's why they used such a method…" Fei suddenly thought about what the Black Stone King did before. Every time when it approached night, the Black Stone King would send Prince Ike to lead a cavalry squad and continuously harass Fei's camp, and Fei already vaguely remembered something else.
"But they knew that they would not be able to kill you with these means, why would they still do it?"
Manager Harry Redknapp naturally understood that this series of attacks were aimed at the Chambord King, he and the Soros Caravan were just there by chance. However, other than curiosity, he didn't have any thought of just avoiding this Chambord "plague". After all, for a businessman, there was a creed that had been etched into the marrow of their bones – it was absolutely impossible to not pay a price to get a huge return, and before making any investment, they will first let themselves judge the rate of return. And obviously, according to Redknapp's observation recently, especially when the Chambord King demonstrated extraordinary strength during the fight with the Blood-Edge mercenaries, his personal bodyguard Fernando-Torres and the meat-mountain Oleg had also showed their strength, Redknapp became even more convinced that the danger that this Soros Caravan of his would experience was absolutely worth the hidden worth of this Chambord King.
As long as the profit was there, businessmen will never be less courageous than the craziest mercenaries.
"Who knew? Maybe they are stalling time to prepare for something. Maybe they want to tire us out…" Fei shrugged his shoulders and said as if it was not a big deal, "In short, these guys are definitely malicious. Thinking about this is too troublesome, the truth will be revealed one day anyway… Harry, I have this premonition that someone is waiting for us at the front. Maybe, hehe, we will meet them soon."
After treating the injured, Fei commanded and the army began to accelerate their march.
Fei told Angela to return to the safer carriage that the Elder Princess was in, and at the same time, in order to prevent any more unnecessary injuries for being caught off guard, Fei called all the Saint Seiya back, and changed to [Druid Mode] himself. At this moment, the level 32 Druid Character could already summon 5 spirit wolves and 3 ravens. Fei scattered all these beasts and began closely monitoring the surrounding.
Since the Druid could readily change his vision to the perspective of the white spirit wolves or the ravens in the sky, it was almost like Fei grew more pairs of eyes, as if he had military satellites and radars. He could observe almost 10 kilometers of all movement within a radius.
On the surface, Fei looked calm, but inside his heart, killing intent had already risen.
The collapse of the mountain just now already injured five Saint Seiya and a dozen Bylaw Enforcement Officers, and some of the injuries were even serious. This was the most amount of damage Fei had taken after the very first time when Chambord defeated the Black Armor Army. If it wasn't for potions from the Diablo world that treated the injuries in time, there could have been casualties, and the damage had already spread to the Soros Caravan which costed them the lives of 5 guards. Such despicable sneak attacks one after another, who could imagine what those despicable rats would do next? What if someone really dies?
Are you f*cking joking me? My warriors aren't meant to die here.
Fei already made up his mind, he will for sure do something brutal to those sneaky and faceless guys.
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The sunset is like blood, dying red the grassland before their eyes.
The scenery was like a painting, so serene.
Suddenly, a very tall and skinny figure slowly appeared on top of a yellow grassland.
He used his trembling hand and slowly took off his pitch black helmet. Beneath that was a thin face with a pair of teary eyes. Looking at the rushing river and the towering castle that sat between the mountains and couldn't suppress his tears anymore. He greedily breathed the air that carried the scent of his homeland, and dropped his knees onto the ground. He began passionately kissing the land under his feet, and his body had already begun shaking excitingly.
"Chambord City, I finally came back alive!"
This man suddenly stood up with his hands in the air as if raising up his own soul, and then he let out an angry roar.
With the roar, more and more figures began appearing behind him and crazily ran to the mountaintop. They were all in ragged cloths and clad in black armor that were not fit for their size. After such a long journey they have been exhausted, using the spears and swords that were originally used for killing as walking sticks. Their energy was fully depleted, and they all relied on that unmovable faith in their heart to be able to make it back here.
"Back… I'm really back!"
"Chambord, my city, I'm actually back to see you again…"
"Oh god, I'm not dreaming am I?"
This group of people was the mine slaves that were finally escorted back by Lampard, Drogba, Pierce, and 20 or so Saint Seiya.
After experiencing the hell-like life in the Black Stone Kingdom, living every day in the fear of death in the next second, seeing comrades being killed from the mine collapsing or under the butcher of their supervisors. They all thought that they might not ever be able to drink from the Zuli River or see Chambord's city wall again, but now the scenery presented before their very eyes finally drove them completely crazy.
Suddenly, an exclamation uttered from the crowd.
A 50-year-old man fell from the horse, and when people lifted him up, he was no longer breathing.
"Dick Daddy is dead… in fact, his body was already overdrawn past the limit. If it wasn't for him holding his last breath to take one last look at motherland Chambord, maybe he would have already died on the road…" Some people's tears were dropping, "Maybe now that he felt that his wish was finally granted, he passed on. Now he can be buried in his homeland."
This group of people had mixed emotions, it was like a dream.
Lampard, Drogba, and Pierce rode round and round to protect the crowd, and they couldn't, help but let out a sigh after seeing this scene. Old man Dick unexpectedly held his last breath until he saw his homeland, and before that, even death was stalled by this old man.
Lampard dispatched a fast horse to Chambord city to report the news of their return.
At that moment, a batch of scouts on horses appeared behind them. They hurried to Lampard's side and whispered. Lampard's face instantly changed. He looked at the compatriots still celebrating crazily for their return, he lowered his voice and asked, "How far?"
"They have stepped into our borders, still one-hour horse-riding from us."
"Damn robbers, they dare to invade our Chambord city so brazenly. They really don't know how good it is to be alive. But now, time is short. Paul, immediately accelerate this group's march, maintain good order, and try your best to get everyone into the city within the next hour. Didier Drogba, dispatch a horse to go report to Elder Bast and Elder Brook. There is a tough enemy attacking so get them prepared to fight. Then, you come with me and cover the rear."
Lampard soon made the most correct decision.
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At the Tier 4 subsidiary kingdom Tadeke border area, Thunder Mountain region, there was a narrow and dangerous terrain named the One Line Sky.
On both sides of the One Line Sky were towering cliffs. The cliffs were smooth, unable to be climbed, and there was no vegetation growing.
A few sneaky guys in black cloaks were busy preparing for something on top of a giant rock at the top of the One Line Sky. At the same time, some people were standing in the high lookout staring at the distant mountain road, and at the same time urging, "Hurry up, they are almost here…"
In the distant mountain road appeared a large group of people moving fast.
But suddenly, just at that moment, with a shrill croaking sound, a shadow with a gust of wind came right into their midst. The few people in black cloak lifted their head, and just felt their vision going black, and sharp pain. Three pitch black ravens dove viciously into them, and even directly gouged out the eyes of three of them out with their steel hook-like beaks.
"Ah!!!!! NOO! Help!!!!"
The three unlucky scums that lost their eyeballs screamed in pain and rolled around on the ground. They began stumbling without a sense of direction and fell directly off the cliff.
It was chaotic, and at the same time, giant wolves covered in pure white fur appeared out of nowhere, surrounding the 4 remaining men in black cloaks and began biting fiercely. These giant wolves demonstrated shocking strength that was far beyond the level 3 magic beast Fierce Wind Wolf. Very soon, on the stone mountain top were left piles of scattered bones, rags, and blood.
After a dozen minutes, Chambord's expedition army and the Sorors Caravan finally arrived at One Sky Line canyon.
"Ah, there are a few more bodies here…" The fat man Oleg licked his lips and exclaimed with surprise.
"Go ahead." Fei really wanted to kick this fat ass's ass away because whenever he sees corpses he would act like a guy that was desperate to take a shit who stumbled upon a washroom. This was too f*cking embarrassing.
The manager Redknapp took a careful look at the corpses, and noticed that they were similar to the past 5 or 6 times they saw dead bodies on the road. Although these bodies fell from high above and broke into pieces, it could still be seen that their eyeballs were removed. It looked like they were attacked by some beasts. Redknapp couldn't help but start thinking a bit more. Ever since some people almost died from yesterday when someone used a spell to cause the mountain side to collapse, the Chambord king not only didn't increase their vigilance but withdrew all his scouts and sped up their march. What's even more surprisingly was that, since then, it had been a smooth ride. They didn't encounter any more danger or attacks and smoothly entered the Tadeke border.
Aside from seeing 4 to 5 groups of dead bodies of some men in black cloaks, there was nothing else that happened.
"It seemed like Chambord king did something in the dark and took out those assassins that were preparing their attack… Could it be he still has a hidden force under his command?" Redknapp was in shock.
After passing the One Line Sky and advancing two more hours, they came to the edge of the Thunder Mountain Region.
There were two mountains that were a hundred meters taller than the other mountains, like two tall cranes among a group of chickens. The two mountains were located on opposite sides of each other, like two towering warrior statues that stood on the edge of the mountain region. Their shape was quite peculiar, and they were very famous in this area, named the Dual-Tower Mountain. After passing the Dual-Tower Mountain and another day of traveling, they would successfully enter the territory of their destination, Zenit Empire.
However, when the group was 500 meters away from approaching the Dual-Tower Mountains, Fei noticed, there was a regiment of a hundred knights in golden helmets standing in firm formation under the mountain. They didn't show any signs of moving after seeing the arrival of the expedition army, and the young boy that was standing in front of the regiment, in golden armor, holding a golden helmet, with his blonde hair flying in the wind, riding on a strange-looking magic beast, was currently staring in the distance at him full of hostility.