Chapter 501 The Tower of the Collapsed Castle (4)
Although Chen Kai and his team have the largest number of knights to clear out skeleton creatures, and they also have several spell casters, the speed of clearing out is the slowest. Because the Holy Flame Knights who set out in the same direction as them are too strong, they can smash a skeleton with just one attack, and Chen Kai and his team need to fight steadily even if they have two dwarves to help.
At the same time, they had to be called to help clean up the spoils from time to time. Although most of the valuable things in the city's shops have been looted, it seems that there are almost no valuable things. However, the knights of the Holy Flame Order still found a lot of valuable things, from scattered copper coins to fine gems. These Templar Knights almost missed a trace of valuable things, and they had to pay 80% of the harvest as the public property of the Knights for control. Only 20% would eventually fall into the pockets of these knights. Of course, some knights did not even intend to ask for this 20%, because the motivation to support them to continue fighting was no longer money or simple faith, but unforgettable hatred.
These knights almost abused themselves in the ascetic mode, in order to burst out stronger momentum in pain and quickly strengthen their strength to achieve the purpose of revenge. But this is also what Andre is most worried about, because he is worried that being too persistent in revenge will make these knights lose their direction on the road to progress. Once they are influenced by hatred, they will do some extreme things. Fortunately, all the Templar Knights have not done anything extremes so far, and no one chooses to fall to gain powerful power in order to maintain. After all, in this world, the way to obtain powerful power is not just ascitement. Some higher demons are willing to exchange their power for humans to exchange for their souls. But it is obvious that although these Holy Flame Knights pursue power, they are more clear that the culprits of all this are still the demons.[]
Although there was no trace of demonic trace in the battle to attack the Dawn City, no one did not think that those dark mages did not become so cruel after exchanging power to the demons. Therefore, the dark mages are just one of their revenge targets. The demons behind the Dark Mage are their biggest enemies in their hearts. Especially when the news of the gods fighting directly from the Holy Mountain and the news of several demon lords attacking the Dawn Lord of the Dawn came, the hatred of these temple knights towards the demons in their hearts was instantly raised to a terrible level.
So although they really want to kill some dark mages to take revenge, they hope to kill some demons to vent their anger. Of course, the so-called demons are not the Demon Lord in the lower plane, but ordinary little demons and big demons. If they ask them to trouble the Demon Lord, they will probably be eaten before they even have no soul left.
When there was no way to find the little demon to vent his anger, the target of the Holy Flame Knights could only be placed in Sanoras. Originally, Andre just wanted to kill Ahamadi to get the legendary weapon, and slaughter some ghouls to vent the anger accumulated in all the knights. Unexpectedly, he almost threw himself in, causing the death of more than 30 comrades and the death of the first paladin. This damage made Andre feel extremely guilty. When Chen Kai and the others left, Andre did not lie on the hospital bed to rest, but quietly looked at the neatly arranged urns. At the front of all the urns, the huge battle axe of Paladin Katou was inserted on the ground.
When Andrei looked at the battle axe, he thought of the scene where Gatu's body was torn in the end. A feeling of depression and pain slowly surged into his heart, but there was a chill that was accompanied by this sadness. It was a fear that covered his heart. It seemed that something bad was about to happen. But he didn't know where this feeling came from, so he could only look around and hold the sword beside him vigilantly. But after just a little force, a burst of pain came from the wound between his chest and abdomen, and a trace of blood slowly penetrated out of the wound. Seeing Andrei's movements, the temple knights guarding the manor held the weapons in their hands and looked around nervously, and a ray of divine light appeared in their eyes.
However, they were very surprised because the entire manor had been wiped out, and there were two dragon knights in the sky riding the dragon while patrolling, which was impossible for an enemy to attack. Therefore, it can be said that the entire manor was very safe, but Andre's current performance made the guards nervous, and they thought Andre felt something.
"It's okay! I'm suspicious!" Andre waved to the Holy Flame Knights guarding the manor, and at the same time released his palm holding the long sword. The moment he let go he felt like he was being watched, so he raised his head and looked into the distance. At that moment, he seemed to see a shadow flashing across the tower of the city lord's mansion. Because they were too far apart, he couldn't see clearly what it was, and only knew it was a black shadow.
"Is anyone in the City Lord's Mansion?" A question came to Andrei's heart, because everyone has always believed that the City Lord's Mansion should be the first place to be destroyed in the battle. At the same time, the information provided by those who survived the Sanorass war was also confirmed that after the city was breached, a fierce battle occurred near the City Lord's Mansion. The surviving Baron Knights organized manpower there for a long time. So in theory, the City Lord's Mansion should be seriously damaged, and it is impossible for survivors to exist there. Looking from outside, the towering castle tower in the City Lord's Mansion house also fell.
Half collapsed, only three towers still stood. Such a broken image is difficult to compare with the relatively well-preserved Spell Association, so in the plan to re-attack Sanoras, the area of the City Lord's Mansion was ignored because no one thought there would be anything left here. But now Andre suddenly felt that something might exist in the City Lord's Mansion. This intuition made his eyes stay at the City Lord's Mansion. It was not until Chen Kai returned to the manor with several large boxes of things. When he turned his head, he found that his junior brother had become a porter.
Or he was almost going to be a ragged person, because basically, as long as the valuable things looked a little bit tattered, they were picked up by Chen Kai. Behind him were at least five horses carrying boxes, these noble Andean mounts and war horses have now fallen into the ranks of harsh horses that resisted bags. Seeing Andre kept shaking his head, and at the same time he was calculating how much these things could be exchanged for. However, he soon found that these things might not necessarily be able to buy a hectare of cultivated fields together, because although these things looked a lot, they were too messy, and many of them were small items. Although they were sold out in a high price, the sales cycle was too long, and it would take more than half a year to sell them all, so they could only be sold together. Once packaged, the price would drop sharply, so they could not buy much money at all.
But seeing Chen Kai's boxes and boxes moving to the ground, Andre was really not good at damaging the other party's enthusiasm. After greeting the knights behind him, he returned to the middle of the camp. The manor house that was used as a treatment room was resting. There were only a few Holy Flame Knights who acted as coolies in the entire manor to help Chen Kai collect all the worthless scattered items.
When Chen Kai, the former Lar and other war horses returned to the eastern neighborhood again, Su Xinghe and his friends had already transported at least fifty boxes waiting for him. However, most of the boxes were loaded with debris, with only a few boxes containing limited gold and silver coins. Of course, the most were copper, with ten boxes totaling more than five thousand gold coins. These coppers were found in the rooms of the surrounding civilians, and some of them had been rusted on them, which was obviously stored for a long time. These coppers were probably accumulated by many generations, but in the end they became abandoned in the ruins and the spoils of waste items recyclers like Chen Kai and others.
Of course, not all items will be used as the property of the Knights. Chen Kai found several boxes filled with some rag dolls found in ruins. They were toys for children who once lived in these civilian houses. In addition to hoping to determine how many children died, they were more important to keep them as souvenirs.
Everything was stored in different categories. It was not until the afternoon when Chen Kai and the porters completely cleared out the debris from a street. They were stored in the manor. Some of them would be charged as a Knights' Order fee, and the other would be transported back to the capital of the morning light and handed over to the government officials for processing. Most of the photos were some debris or photos of relics found. To put it bluntly, the photos in the game were just pictures taken by magical images. Many of these pictures had chronological significance. Even if the prices were relatively expensive, even the poor people would keep a few pictures as memorials. In these photos, the laughing days, sad days, and hopeful days of the people who once lived in Sanoras, and of course, the last days of despair. The broken photo frames were stained with the blood of their owners, and some had dry blood handprints.
As dusk approached, Chen Kai and his group arrived at the blacksmith shop where they had fought. The walls of the blacksmith shop had been completely destroyed. Seeing this, the two dwarves' faces became very bad, especially when they saw the bodies of dwarves scattered on the ground, their faces were as blue as iron. In Chen Kai and his friends' impression, although the bodies of the dwarves and women and children were separated from their heads and bodies, they were still neatly lying on the second floor of the blacksmith shop, but now they saw scattered limbs. The corrupt limbs were scattered everywhere, as if something tragic happened here.
"Damn it! Didn't you say that no one had touched their bodies?" The dwarf Parkon roared angrily at Chen Kai, especially when he saw a dwarf's toddler's head being shattered, his face turned red and bloody.
"When we came, we had never moved the body, even when we died! Don't you believe the oath made by a knight with all his honor?" Chen Kai was not willing to be outdone and argued, because he didn't want to be criticized for destroying the body of the dwarf clan.
"There are other people here!" Fei Yun said while examining the corpses on the ground, because he found several footprints that were different from ordinary people. Compared with their own footprints, these footprints seemed newer. Although they were also covered by dust, they were obviously left one or two days ago. Because they were covered with dust than the footprints left by Chen Kai and others, Fei Yun came to this conclusion.
"Who is it?" Chen Kai immediately wanted to go over to check when he heard Fei Yun's words, but his big feet were forced to lift them up just as they wanted to fall. Because the dwarf Parkon was staring at him with his big copper bell eyes. If his feet fell, the dwarf would probably chop the axe on his forehead next moment. Under his feet, a dwarf woman's corrupt head was tilted there, and if he stepped on it, his head would be absolutely cracked.
"I don't know! Maybe it's not a human!" Fei Yun slowly cleaned the dust on the surface with a small brush, and then used the ground plaster to print a footprint. When the finished plaster rubbing appeared in front of everyone, they all found that the footprint looked strange because it was very short. The size of the footprint made everyone look at the two dwarves because it looked too much like the footprints of the dwarves. As we all know, the soles of the dwarves are relatively flat and thick, because this can facilitate them to walk in the deep underground space. The thick soles of the feet can reduce the impact of the rocks on the feet. This is the result of evolution over thousands of years, while human feet are different. It is more suitable for flat ground rather than in mountains or mines.
"Impossible? The dwarf will not destroy the remains of his tribe. This will definitely not be done by the dwarf!" Cui Dingke looked at the footprint and compared his footprints. He found that in terms of size, it looked very similar to the footprints of a dwarf, especially the thick toe, which is definitely only the toes of a dwarf.
"If it is a living dwarf, of course it won't be, but don't forget that there are a few dead dwarfs here, and this guy is not wearing shoes! It is impossible for a living person to not wear shoes unless he is so poor that he can't afford shoes!" Fei Yun put down the plaster in his hand, and his words reminded the two dwarfs of that matter, which is the dwarf zombie thing that Chen Kai mentioned.
"Great Dwarf King! Why do you punish your people so much!" Parkon sighed, then lowered his head and cleaned up the broken bodies on the ground bit by bit. He had already agreed with Fei Yun's words. Because he couldn't agree with the evidence, many fresh footprints had obvious marks of the dwarf's big footprints. Especially a few blood-stained footprints made the evidence more fulfilling, but he couldn't accept the result.
When Parkon smashed the last dwarf's body into the wooden box and stuffed it into the space he carried with him, his brow frowned. At the same time, Cui Dingke, who was in charge of the record, also frowned, because they found that the dwarf's body was less, and Chen Kai and others were also frowning because they also discovered this problem.
"Fourth brother! Have you remembered wrongly how many bodies are there?" Chen Kai looked at the boxes and counted them again, but no matter how many of them counted, he had fewer bodies of ten dwarves. Originally, although Chen Kai and his friends were in a hurry when they entered the blacksmith shop, they also counted the bodies of dwarves and women. There were as many as fifty-three, but now there are only forty-three, which does not include the corpses of those dwarves and zombies. It can be said that not only the bodies of the dwarves and zombies are missing, but there are also fewer dwarves who should have lying here.
"I can't remember it wrong! There are indeed ten corpses missing!" Fei Yun took out his notebook and kept searching. Then he used white chalk to mark the locations of the corpses he had recorded little by little. Compared with the current locations of the corpses Chen Kai and the others found that the ten corpses near the middle disappeared. When the two dwarves saw the locations of the disappeared corpses, their faces changed because they knew the habits of dwarves. Only dwarves with long or higher status would die in the middle when they committed suicide collectively. A little outward were young people, and the outside was young people. Because most young people needed to fight until the last moment, even if they died, they were the last one.
The two dwarves looked at each other and rushed into the blacksmith shop, and then opened a mechanism secret passage using a method that Chen Kai and the others didn't know. But when the two dwarves opened the secret passage, they were stunned. The precious metal ore that should have been stored behind the secret passage was gone. At the same time, they also found that there were traces of the dwarves' life behind the secret passage, but the people living here were gone. The two dwarves were dizzy with black blood on the ground, and Cui Dingke collapsed directly to the ground, while Parkon was stunned at a broken stone slab landing in the corner.
"We're late! It's over!" Parkon kept muttering this sentence, even if he returned to the manor. He was in a daze and made Chen Kai and the others very depressed. Although they guessed that the dwarf's body might be missing, it was impossible to be sad. However, when Chen Kai handed the stone slab found from the blacksmith shop to Andre to check, the situation almost scared Chen Kai to death, because Andre stood up when he saw the stone slab. His face turned red and wanted to speak, but the first thing that was sprayed was blood and then he fainted.
"What's wrong?" Chen Kai was a little dizzy when he was sprayed with blood, but a large knight on duty picked up the stone slab and fell to the ground and looked at it. He quickly understood why Andre was so excited. He rushed to the side of the dwarf Parkon at almost a hundred meters of sprinting speed, grabbed the dwarf and raised him high, and roared at the dwarf with roaring words.
Chapter completed!