"Dirty bandits, we have come for your heads," said a cadet beside Wang Ben.
He was fully clad in armor, and he had the semblance of a giant.
He pointed his poleax at one of the bandit cultivators.
Of course, everyone knew that the leader's head was to be taken by wang ben and they had no say in it.
"You little boys that have just crawled out of your mother's womb, do you really believe that you can take our heads?" The bandit leader screamed.
he was furious.
"The fire-bird base didn't deem him fit to fight against people his age ? So they sent little boys. They were trying to humiliate him." he thought
It pissed him off.
Wang Ben looked straight at the person that was about to be executed. It was the senior cadet that led Joey and Jake here.
He was boiling. "How dare they humiliate cadets of the fire-bird military base," he thought.
"You have worked hard, brother." Wang Ben sighed and looked at the executioner.
"Put down the blade," he said.
The executioner hesitated. Deep down he was still loyal to the Li family, but they had abandoned them and barricaded themselves in their mansions, leaving them to suffer.
"Little Ken, put down the blade," a voice drifted over from behind Wang Ben.
A horse soon rode over. It was the fifth. He looked at the executioner. The boy had a sad life. He was forced to execute his friends ever since the bandit had gotten here. He had suffered and they couldn't do anything about it.
He owed the boy's father and now him
The executioner was stunned. "Lord fifth ?" he said out loud.
The whole crowd was stunned. He was lord fifth of the li family that barricaded themselves ever since the bandits came.
Some were happy to see the Li family taking action, while some disdained them. They only saw fit to help now. Why weren't they here earlier when their people were being killed?
The executioner ken lowered his weapon. He was tired of killing for the bandits.
He turned around to cut the chain that bound the spies when a sword stabbed his abdomen.
"An executioner's job is to kill. If you can't do that simple task, then you have no use," said the bandit that had just stabbed Ken.
The fifth was enraged and so were the villagers. They had done the bidding of the bandits, but the bandits didn't think twice before killing them.
"Give me their heads!" shouted the fifth.
Soon, certain guards in the crowd pulled out swords and attacked the bandits. The others were confused about what was going on.
"Charge!!!!!" Wang Ben pulled out a sword and ordered
It was going to be a bloodbath.
...…..
In the guard house
The two people from the Li family had their heads bowed.
"Ha-ha little bataar and Ren, how have you been doing?" The middle-aged man smiled. These were Li family people.
"Lord first" They both looked emotional. They had come here just to find him.
He was the first master of the Li family, their leader.
It turns out that the lis had always planned to release their leader, who was held captive in this guard house, but couldn't escape without their help.
Frank felt used but also happy to have found another strong person to help their cause.
"Jonathan, so this is where you've been all this while," said the lord first.
The scene froze
he was talking about the man in the jail cell, the one Frank had made friends with.
"Father," said Jonathan.
The whole room was in an uproar.
He was Jonathan, the young master of the Li family. He had gone missing a day before the bandits took over.
People naturally assumed that he was dead, only to find him here in the guard house. He looked so different, but you could never fool your father.
"I'm sorry, father," said Jonathan. He knew what had happened after he left and always blamed himself for not being there when the village was under siege.
The first just looked at him with a bitter smile on his face. Jonathan was a very stubborn child. For him to apologize meant he was really sorry.
"Get my son out of there," commanded Lord Fifth.
"Some of you have committed crimes in the Li village and are here rightfully, some have not. That doesn't matter anymore. You are people of the Li village. Whether you were born here, or moved here, this village has nourished you, clothed you, and fed you. This village is part of you and you are part of it. Tell me, what will you do when people come and take over your village? "
The speech was like the sound of ancient gongs resounding in the hearts of all the men in the jail cell. Their hearts were beating, their blood was boiling.
"Fight!!!!" Their voices resounded throughout the whole room.
The fire In their hearts, having been lit once more, they would fight for the li village.
"Come up, those who survive will be pardoned of all crime and will receive rewards according to your contributions," said the lord first.
He then turned to Bataar and said,
"Arm these men and give them horses."
Soon they were on horseback and fully equipped, although not all. It was a very menacing crowd.
"Young man, I have been locked up for a while. What is the state of the village?" the lord first asked.
Frank proceeded to tell the lord first everything he knew, ranging from how the bandits suppressed the townspeople to the high taxes of the new lord to how the villagers treated the Li family ever since they barricaded themselves.
"Young man, do you know how I got captured?" Lord First asked frank.
Frank was stunned,
he had never bothered to ask a strong man like the lord first how he was captured.
"When the bandits attacked, we the fighters of the Li family didn't barricade ourselves; we fought them, we fought with all our might," said the lord. "First, he was very sad."
The villagers thought they were cowards. When the bandits came, the Li family deployed all of their fighters. Every single one of them fought against the bandits. They did it for the people of the village.
They lost fighters on both sides. In fact, the bandits were much more than what people saw now, but the Li family had killed most of them. Unfortunately, the leader was captured.
That led to the deaths of quite a few fighters in the li family, including the 3rd and 4th best fighters. They were left gravely injured and had no choice but to barricade themselves and ask for backup from the fire-bird military base.
Frank came to the realization that, in fact, the lis weren't cowards at all; they were brave men that were ready to die for their people.
"The square is right ahead," said one of the riders.
Soon they began to hear loud noises and the sight of a massive free for all battle came into sight.
"Lord Fourth, what do we do ?" said Ren.
"You two go with your young friend here." The old man was looking a bit shameful.
"I never got your name, young man," said the lord first.
"frank"
"Go with Frank and free his friends. I and the rest will have some fun with the bandits" The old man had a look filled with murder. He pulled out a sword and charged into the battleground.
"Let's go around," Frank said and turned his horse. He had already spotted Jake and Joey.
Wang Ben was currently fighting against the bandit leader. He was being suppressed. Surprisingly, the bandit leader was a rank 8 body refinement cultivator. He didn't have any good skills.
But Wang Ben was still being suppressed. The gap was just too large.
Soon Wang Ben heard a voice from behind. He tried his best to dodge but couldn't. To his surprise, it was a middle-aged man. He was lord first
He too was a cultivator, but he was only at rank 6 in the body refinement realm.
He joined Wang Ben to fend off the bandit leader, and soon the tide of the battle changed.
...…
Frank had just reached where the prisoners were lined up.
"brother joey"
Joey looked up and saw Frank. He was happy, but at the same time, he was shocked.
He thought Frank was dead. What was he doing here?
Jake was completely bloodied. He couldn't hear or see anything, but he had a feeling that things would be okay, so he remained calm.
Frank cut their chains and put them on horses.
Then the bandit leader screamed in a very loud voice, "Marrtorrr come here!"
"Howellllll!" A noise resounded
"Beast!" the lord first shouted.
It was a huge direwolf.
It headed straight for the bandit leader.
"You all think you can defeat me? You scum, you plotting against me? Today all of you will die." The bandit leader had brought out his trump card. It was
An 8-foot dire wolf