Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 261 Monster Hunter
Xia Houyan and the members of the Shuangfengling Hunting Team followed the knights asking for help, bypassing the hot and red flames of the manor, and walked into an old warehouse not far away along the road, and then they were shocked to find that there was nothing here The tiger dominates the dragon's plate, only unexpected rise and fall everywhere.

This large three-story wooden warehouse may have been used by the tenant farmers of Kemal Manor to store the harvest during the harvest season in ordinary years, but it had already been brutally requisitioned by hunting teams from various territories at this time: the warehouse was dirty and dilapidated The imperial flag and countless oil lamps have been hung on the wooden walls, illuminating the interior of the warehouse brightly in the early hours of the morning.

The internal area of ​​the warehouse is actually very large, but it seems a bit crowded at the moment:
The old wooden boxes stored in the warehouse were pushed to the corner, and on the ground paved with straw, there were countless criss-cross stretchers. On almost every stretcher, there were unconscious wounded screaming, and from time to time, a magician read The incantation of Lesser Healing resounded in a corner, and the air was filled with the smell of ashes, blood and herbs.

"These..." The knight who asked for help stood beside Xia Houyan, and nodded with difficulty to the shocked Lord Shuangfengling, "These are all wounded by the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture..."

There is no need for the knight to say more, Xia Houyan himself can find all kinds of family emblems and coats of arms on the wounded on the ground, warriors sitting against the wall, and mages running in a hurry;

However, the original colorful family crest pattern was almost soaked to the point where only gray black and blood red remained.

Xia Houyan looked around at the decadent crowd in the warehouse, saw the scorched swordsman, the archer who was almost torn in two by a huge force, and the mage who fell on the ground and groaned, but he didn't notice it. A pampered fair face.

"Where's your lord?" Xia Houyan stretched out his hand and flicked the snow-capped mountain coat of arms inlaid on the knight's breastplate with his knuckles.

"The lords don't participate in the hunt... They should still be resting at the station in the south, I'm afraid they don't know... Holy Spirit, they probably don't know what's going on here..." The knight's voice was trembling. The whole person was shaky, "Oh my god, what a shame..."

"So what's going on here?!" Master Laurie couldn't bear it anymore and asked aloud.

"Holy God...it's a nightmare!" The knight covered his face with his hands in pain, "The hunting started at night, in the middle of the night, and we had already made a plan to round up the Scarlet Flame Vulture... ...but, but just before the attack began, our camp was suddenly attacked!"

"Attack?" Master Laurie asked in amazement, "You were attacked by a purgatory bird instead?"

"It's not the Scarlet Flame Vulture! It's an orc! Bastard orc!" the knight hissed, "They were hiding in the woods to the east. ...Holy God..."

Xia Houyan blinked in disbelief.

Kemal Manor is not in the territory of the Federation, let alone the front line of the Eastern Border, but a group of hunting team members participating in the St. Augustus Festival hunting competition were stabbed by a group of lurking orcs at the gate of the imperial capital? !

He suddenly realized that he took the Shuangfengling team members to take a long detour, as if he just avoided a good show that he didn't want to go through at all...

"That group of orc bastards... that group of orc bastards... oh!" the knight cursed with blood and tears, "They didn't plan to go back alive at all! Those green-skinned bastards just rushed over with axes, see People will be chopped..."

"I'm afraid they are berserkers of the orcs." Master Laurie and the lord looked at each other deeply. "These fanatics of the God of War have always been proud of dying in battle, and they have no concept of fear at all."

"How did the Orc Federation transport a group of berserkers into the interior of the empire?" Chris opened his mouth wide.

"God knows, God knows..." Recalling the situation at that time, the knight's expression seemed a little dazed, "Even Master Mephisto, who supervised the battle, was shot by a crossbow arrow in the chaos..."

"What?!" Master Laurie jumped up like a spring, "Master Mephisto is also injured?! He... Where is he?!"

"I don't know!" the knight howled, "I, we can only gather some of the wounded into this warehouse. There should be many people fighting in the manor, as well as the dead and wounded, my God..."

"Is there anyone still fighting in Kemal Manor?" Xia Houyan recalled the battle sounds he heard from afar just now, and asked sharply, "You haven't dealt with that group of orc berserkers who were ambushing and attacking?!"

"No, it's not orcs...it's the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture..." The eyes under the helmet of the rescue knight flashed a strong light of fear, "We have a team of more than 20 territories, which is enough to take care of those bastard orcs. , but just as we were fighting, the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture suddenly rose from the barn of Kemal Manor and rushed towards us..."

Xia Houyan sniffed the burning smell in the air, glanced at the wounded with broken skin on the stretcher, nodded, and signaled the knight to stop talking.

He squeezed the space between his brows and sorted out his chaotic thoughts.

He finally knew why, the hunting contest that Shuangfengling had deliberately avoided fighting would lead to the miserable situation in front of him;
At present, it seems that during the absence of the chicken thieves from the Frost Maple Ridge hunting team, the hunting teams in other territories encountered a brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. The team launched a Long Live Charge, and then the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture, which inhabited the Kemal Manor, took advantage of the fierce fighting of the Imperial Federation, took off to persuade the fight, and then turned into the Ocean Taxation Bureau to reap the benefits of the fisherman...

The elites sent by the major territories to participate in the hunting competition are often good hunters of wild beasts and monsters, but it is hard to say that they are soldiers who are familiar with the battle. Coupled with the large number of people and the chaotic organization, Master Mephisto who can sit in the command Injured by the arrow - if they are suddenly sandwiched between the orc slayers and the purgatory beasts, these hunting teams will not be completely wiped out in a short time, which is considered awesome.

Chris was silent for a long time, and squeezed out two words fiercely from between his teeth:
"conspiracy!"

The knight asking for help gloomyly glanced at the wounded all over the ground. His eyes under the armor were not so much the anger of revenge, but the despair of all hope.

Now that the matter has come to this, everyone knows that the Empire has been fooled by the Orc Federation!
In the days leading up to the St. Augustus Festival, there were signs of orc activities around the imperial capital, but the imperial officials always thought that these green-skinned bastards were just trying to cause trouble at the festival, but they never imagined that the federal orcs As soon as he made a move, he was so accurate and ruthless!

They didn't want to embarrass the empire at all, they wanted the life of the empire!

The personnel sent by the major territories to participate in the hunting competition are all their own first-class high-ranking mages and elite fighters, but this hunting scene where the empire's elite gathers has just become a unique opportunity for the Beast Federation to use ambushes to conduct a beheading operation. Good time!

Recruiting berserkers, transporting ambushes, determining the location of the hunting contest... To complete the many steps of this sneak attack, the planner must not only have a deep understanding of the customs of the empire, but also have the skills to deceive the world!

This scene of the elite being ambushed and beheaded by the orcs was even enough to remind the imperial people present of the notorious and eternally recorded "Dayset massacre" on the Eastern battlefield decades ago!
"Damn it!" Chris gritted his teeth, "How did the federal orcs sneak into the imperial territory? Most importantly...how did they know where the hunting contest was held and ambush them in advance? The glass jar that designated the hunting mission , hasn’t it been kept in the imperial court and sealed with fire wax?!”

This is a question no one can answer.

There was silence in the warehouse, only the wounded moaned.

Master Laurie shook his head dejectedly, and casually threw a healing spell at a severely burned person next to him.

"All in all, Lord Igor, fortunately you and your subordinates have rushed over..." The knight grabbed the sleeve of the lord of Frost Maple Ridge tightly, and begged, "There are too many wounded here, and there are still people in the manor who are fighting with the red blood. The Flame Demon Vulture insists on fighting... Please, hurry up to the station in the south to inform the lords, and then send troops from the imperial capital to reinforce the Kemal Manor - just relying on our hunting teams, the situation is out of control!"

Xia Houyan and the members of the hunting team behind him looked at each other and made a decision in an instant.

"Eldridge, you go to the post station on horseback now, and report the situation here to the lords; Alice, you go back to the imperial capital as quickly as possible, go to Knight Commander Cousins, and ask him to find a way to request the transfer of the city defense army." Soldier reinforcements!"

Without any hesitation, Eldridge and Alice quickly walked out of the warehouse under orders.

"Tell me, what's your name?" Xia Houyan looked back at the knight asking for help with trembling lips.

"Yong, Commander of the Fortress of Eternal Winter, Knight of the Lily of the Empire, Depcost reports to you!" The knight saluted in a panic, and slammed his fist on his breastplate.

"Knight Commander Depcost." Xia Houyan looked around and slowly took off his white gloves, "As far as I can see, there seems to be no second noble here, so my words should still have some weight, right? "

Depcost obviously hesitated.

He naturally heard that the young Lord of Shuangfengling was ready to assume the leadership responsibility here.

Logically speaking, under the crisis situation where the hunting teams in each territory suffered heavy casualties and a large number of colleagues were still alive or dead, if a noble lord could stand up and preside over the overall situation, it would undoubtedly be a great spiritual encouragement for everyone;

But the problem is that the only nobleman present on the field is Elliot Igor, a down-and-out kid whose father was murdered for rebellion and who was sent to the southern border...

Let such a "noble" give orders, can it really convince the public?
Seeing that Lily Knight Depcoster was indecisive, Xia Houyan didn't say much, but turned back to Master Victor Laurie, and ordered loudly:
"Where's the 'Maelstrom Wound Potion', a special product of the Enzi'ai troll that we brought with the team? Take it out quickly! Divide it according to the dose for each person!"

Then, he turned back to Commander Depcost, and said calmly:

"Knight Captain Depcost, please go and count the injuries of the wounded - those who can't be cured will undoubtedly die, so don't let the brothers suffer in this world; but there is still a chance of life, you report the number to me, I will Press the wound medicine down the hair of the person."

In an instant, the expression of the knight captain Depcost changed ever-changingly.

For some reason, I heard such silly rumors in the imperial capital a few days ago that "Lord Frost Maple Ridge beat up the son of the imperial capital in public", "Eliot Igor and one hundred things that elf female writers must say" and so on. , come here today;

The knight commander took another look at Lord Shuangfengling's extremely young but strangely deep eyes.

"I'll go and count right away!" In the end, Depcost, the knight commander of Everwinter Castle, hammered the breastplate heavily, and turned his head away.

Master Laurie handed over the herbs Shuangfengling bought from the Sunset Forest to the Shuangfengling team members for distribution, and whispered in Lord Lord's ear:
"These are all the 'Great Maelstrom Potions' treasured by Chief Bloodfang and the others. We are reluctant to use them ourselves. Do we really want to distribute them all to these outsiders?"

"The icing on the cake belongs to oneself, and only giving charcoal in the snow is enough." Xia Houyan kept his face still, and whispered almost in ventriloquist, "These are all elites from various territories. If you don't sell favors at this time, when will you sell them?"

"If you really want to take this opportunity to make a political connection," Master Laurie sneered, "then I suggest that you go directly to the manor to fight the Red Flame Vulture one-on-one - maybe Master Mephisto You are still trapped in the fire, and you have done a lot of credit for saving an eighth-level archmage!"

Xia Houyan blinked thoughtfully.

"Fuck!" Master Laurie panicked at the time, "My lord, I, I just said that casually, you...don't take it seriously! The Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture is not kidding!"

Xia Houyan opened his lips slightly, and was about to answer, when suddenly his expression froze, and he turned his head to follow the footsteps.

I saw two men in black wearing Mo Ke's robes, crossing the threshold of the warehouse, walking towards him gracefully;

Two purple hyacinths swayed slightly on the shoulders of the man in black.

"Master Igor." The leading man in black passed through the criss-crossing wounded soldiers on stretchers, and under the vigilant gaze of the lord, he approached him and gave a shallow salute, "Mourners sent us to help of."

"Bai Shuang?!" Hearing this familiar voice, Xia Houyan exclaimed in astonishment, then turned to another man in black, "Are you Xuan Bing?"

The two Borrowers nodded, hesitated for a moment, then stretched out their trembling hands and pulled down their hoods, revealing two almost identical cold and pretty faces.

Looking at the twin sisters, Master Laurie immediately ignored the mourners around him, put his hands up and blew a disrespectful whistle.

(End of this chapter)