Working Prophet.

Chapter 598 Desperate
Cullen hadn't closed his eyes for two days, and he hadn't had a good rest before that.

Eighteen days have passed since being trapped, and there is still no hope of breaking out, and the situation will only get worse as time goes by.

Due to the lack of necessary survival supplies, the knights had no choice but to kill their beloved horses to feed their hunger, but compared to the huge number of troops, this horse meat can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.

What's more terrible is that there is no water source in this valley. The soldiers of the empire have now dug two wells out by digging hard.

Since they didn't have suitable tools, they could only use their hands and their own swords to dig... It took an unknown number of swords to find some groundwater.

But spreading such a level on everyone's head is just moisturizing the throat. After so many days, everyone's body and spirit have reached their limit.

Since yesterday, the army has experienced a large-scale attrition of personnel. In just two days, it has lost almost 2000 people.

Coupled with the more than 2000 people who died in the previous battle, there are less than 6000 people left in Cullen's hands.

I don't know how many of these 6000 people can see the sun of tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Cullen's body is obviously very tired, but he doesn't feel sleepy at all.

He got up from the blanket, put on some clothes and walked out of the tent.

The valley at night is very quiet, the mountain stream is covered with fallen leaves, and the boots will make a rustling sound when stepping on it.

The Patriarch of the Figuerola family recalled that when he was a child and sneaked away to play in Lake City without telling his father, he also passed through a small valley.

And his luck was not very good that day, and he also met a group of robbers.

At that time, Cullen was only 16 years old, and there was only one entourage around his age.

The entourage begged Cullen to flee, saying that he would risk his life to hold back the robbers and buy time for Cullen.

But Cullen rejected his suggestion, pulled out the saber at his waist, and chose to fight side by side with that entourage, facing the five robbers in front of him together.

At that time, Cullen said to his followers, "It was my decision to sneak out of Rock Snow City. You persuaded me but I didn't listen, so I can't leave you and run away now, and let you bear the mistakes I made."

In the end, Cullen and that entourage defeated the robbers who outnumbered them, and that was the first time Cullen killed a man in his life. The deceased was a drunken red-faced man.

Thinking about the past made the Patriarch of the Figuerola family a little distracted, until the guard outside the tent called him, "Master Marquis." Cullen came back to his senses.

Glancing at the guard who saluted him, it was a very young guard. Cullen remembered that he seemed to call Asuo from a small noble family with no territory, and he had been his guard for less than three years.

Asuo's swordsmanship and riding skills are very good, and he is very loyal to the Figueirola family.

Cullen is optimistic that he can become a knight in the future, and he hopes that he can accumulate some military exploits with him on this expedition.

But now Cullen noticed that although Asuo was still standing upright, his body was very weak. He had lost a lot of weight, and his eye sockets were sunken.

Cullen reached out, patted Asuo's shoulder, and asked, "How are those dwarves doing anything tonight?"

The young guard shook his head, "It's the same as before, there are only a few guys sneaking around behind the rock wall and looking over here."

After a pause, he added, "Master Marquis, let's send a few more people to try to break through, while the sky is darker now."

Cullen shook his head, "It's useless, those dwarves have already formed an alliance with the savage tribe in the mountain. No one is more familiar with this mountain than those savages. Sending people to break through is just to die in vain."

Asuo clenched his fists, with an angry look on his face.

"Those guys, the envoys they sent to the capital just said that they hoped to live in peace with us forever, how could they be so treacherous."

Cullen doesn't think it's a big deal. Although there has always been a saying that oaths are more important than gold on the Bratis continent, for the country and the country, only interests are eternal.

Just like those savage tribes, they have fought with the dwarves on the other side of the mountain for thousands of years, and the two sides have already formed a deep blood feud, but as long as the benefits are enough, they can also put aside their previous hatred and form temporary allies.

Not to mention that Edward II also made harsh words before his death, saying that he would help his two neighbors to make things right.

But Cullen didn't intend to say these words to Asuo, and the latter didn't need to know so much.

The head of the Figueirola family said to the young guard, "Go and get me Sir Judith and Ilkander of the Emmanuel family."

After Asuo left for a while, he brought the two of them in front of Cullen.

Ilkander didn't seem to sleep well tonight, he didn't even take off his armor. In his words, I don't want to be cut off in my sleep. If I really want to die, then I want to fight to the death!

As for Judith, the head of the Mariel family, he has completely lost his fighting spirit at this moment, his eyes are dull, his face is pale, and he looks devastated.

Cullen frowned, "Judit, wake up, I have something important for you."

Judith looked blank, as if he hadn't heard it at all.

Ilkander snorted coldly, went up and grabbed Judith by the collar, and slapped the latter on the face.

Judith was scratched by his palm and turned half a circle on the spot, and finally he was no longer like a log. After seeing the person who attacked him clearly, Judith became even more furious.

"Boy, what are you crazy about? Even if your father Theodossi is here, he doesn't dare to be so disrespectful to me. Is the Emmanuel family planning to go to war with the Mariel family?"

Ilkander curled his lips disdainfully when he heard the words, "When is this, you still want to use your identity to suppress me? Anyway, everyone is going to die, I don't care who you are."

Judith was a little discouraged by what he said.

That's right, everyone is going to die, so what's the point of worrying about these things at a time like this.

But then Judith thought of something again, and there was a look of hope in his eyes, and he said to Cullen.

"Master Marquis, let's...surrender. There are too many enemies, and they have already occupied a favorable terrain. They don't even need to do anything. As long as they push down the rocks on the top of the mountain, few of us can survive."

As he spoke, he glanced at Ilkander aside, worried that the grumpy young man was going to do something to him again.

The main reason is that it is different now than when I was outside. The title and the status in the family are useless, and the beating is useless.

But this time Ilkander didn't say anything, just stood there quietly.

And his reaction has already explained his attitude, it's not that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, the main reason is that they really have no chance of winning, and if they continue to resist, they will just die in vain.

Cullen actually knew what the two of them were thinking.

He was not disappointed, because what Judith said was right, this was already an impossible battle to win.

But he did not agree to Judith's proposal to surrender, but asked instead.

"As you said, those dwarves can kill us at any time, so do you know why they haven't done it yet?"

(End of this chapter)