Blood Lord of War

Chapter 152 The Horn Town Tragedy

Saru broke into the banquet suddenly, which made Martha very dissatisfied. She frowned and reprimanded: "Saru, I'm entertaining Baron Robin. Is there anything you can't talk about later?"

Saru looked serious: "I think Ma'am, you should know about this as soon as possible."

Martha looked at Robin and saw that Robin didn't show dissatisfaction, so she said, "Okay then, what do you want to report to me?"

"A group of refugees from Horn Town came outside the town. There were about a hundred people. The town of Horn was attacked by an indigenous army the night before yesterday. The whole town was slaughtered, and Baron Muhenxin was also killed." Saru Sermons in a heavy tone.

Bugle Town is another developed territory, slightly larger than Hongshi Town, starting from Hongshi Town, walking eastward for about a day.The ruler of Horn Town, Baron Muhenxin, and Martha are also old friends, and there are frequent trade exchanges between the two territories.

After Saru finished speaking, Martha immediately showed a shocked expression, and she asked in disbelief, "The whole town was slaughtered overnight?"

"Among the refugees are soldiers from Bugle Town. They told me that not even one tenth of them escaped." Saru said slowly with a gloomy face.

The atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly cooled down, and Martha sat back on the chair. The distance between Redstone Town and Bugle Town is too close. If Bugle Town is attacked, Redstone Town will also be unsafe.Moreover, the military strength of Bugle Town is slightly stronger than that of Hongshi Town.

"Saru, I remember you told me that there is no large aboriginal tribe nearby, so how could Bugle Town be attacked by aboriginals?" Robin asked suddenly.

Bugle Town is not too far from Raging Waves City, but only two or three days away, so Raging Waves City is also likely to be attacked by this unknown native. Robin must ask for the necessary information, and then make a plan early, and try to take the initiative to attack and destroy them. Aboriginal.

Saru turned his head to look at Robin, also showing a puzzled expression: "I don't know about this at the moment, maybe it's... the aborigines who recently moved nearby."

"Who is the native? Hobgoblin? Bear goblin? Gnoll? Or something else?" Robin continued to ask calmly.

"The deserters in Bugle Town said that there are several races among the aborigines, including the ones you just mentioned." Saru replied.

The wasteland natives seldom act together, but if there is a strong leader, it is not impossible to blend these miscellaneous races together. Smaug, the dragon vein goblin, is a vivid example. His army includes hobgoblins and jackals people.

"So, another powerful indigenous tribe has appeared on the wasteland. How many troops does the other party have?"

"The deserter couldn't tell. It was too dark at that time, and the opponent came out of the darkness suddenly. By the time they reacted, the wall of the town had already been breached." Saru said.

Robin let out a dissatisfied "tsk": "I don't even know how many enemies there are, what a bunch of idiots. If this is my soldier, I must hang him."

"The deserter also mentioned another situation, which I find very strange." Saru thought for a while, and then told Robin with a serious expression. "He said that those natives were very difficult to kill, and they could only be killed by cutting off their heads."

Robin's expression changed, and his heart suddenly "thumped".Hard to kill?Is it a mutant native?Robin had been worried before that if an army composed of mutant natives appeared, it would be a huge threat to Rage City.

Now that he has no time to hold a banquet, Robin stood up with a very serious expression: "I'm going to Bugle Town to take a look."

For the safety of Raging Waves City, Robin must find out the details of this native army. How many troops does the opponent have?How is the weaponry?Where is the lair?This information is very important, and the information will not be sent to your door, you have to dig it yourself.

The banquet ended hastily, and after Robin dealt with it indiscriminately, he and Saru set off for Horn Town.

The two of them had two horses each. They changed horses and changed people along the way. After running for more than half a day on the vast wasteland, they finally arrived at Bugle Town before dark.

Robin stood on a mound on horseback, looking into the distance, about 500 meters in front of him, Bugle Town was quietly located in an open land.

The two of them first wandered around Bugle Town for a few times, making sure that there were no traces of enemies in or near the town, and then they continued to move closer to Bugle Town.

While walking, Robin suddenly found a dead body in the grass, which should be a resident of Bugle Town.And as the two approached Bugle Town, there were more and more corpses on the side of the road.

Walking to the gate of Bugle Town, it seems that there has been a tragic massacre here, and the number of corpses has soared. Corpses piled on top of each other, there wasn't even a place to step down.

The blood from the corpse had already dried up, dyeing the ground below black and red. It had been nearly two days, but the strong smell of blood in the air hadn't dissipated.

Flocks of carrion crows hovered over Bugle Town, like a black cloud, some landed on the pile of corpses and were eating, some seemed to be full, and quietly landed on the wall, with a pair of dark eyes that were not friendly. stared at Robin and Saru.

The two of them came over on horseback and disturbed the group of crows who were enjoying their food. Immediately, a large group of crows "hula-la" started up in the pile of corpses. They made an angry "quack" sound, venting their dissatisfaction to Robin and the other two.

Crows are considered an ominous symbol by the imperial people, because where there are crows, there is death.

Although Saru was the knight commander of Redstone Town, he had never seen such a bloody scene, and suddenly felt his stomach tumbling, and his face became extremely ugly.

Robin looked indifferent, pulled the rein, and rode on to continue walking into the town.

Entering the town, the streets were also full of corpses. There were soldiers and civilians, old people and children. The aborigines carried out an all-round massacre on Bugle Town. They seemed to have no intention of keeping alive, regardless of men, women and children.

Looking at the horrific scene in front of him, Saru couldn't help but clenched the reins in his hand, and cursed angrily: "This group of beasts!"

Soon, the two of them walked along the main road of Bugle Town to a small square in the center of the town.A thick wooden stake was erected on the square, and a middle-aged man was nailed to the wooden stake naked.Around the stake, there are still many dead bodies from Horn Town.

Saru recognized the corpse on the stake at a glance, and he exclaimed, "That's Baron Muhenxin!"

Robin then noticed that there was a row of blood engraved on Baron Muhenxin's chest. He immediately rode over and dismounted in front of Baron Muhenxin.

He was a little surprised that the engraving on the baron turned out to be a very standard imperial character, and even the words used were a bit archaic.

[City Slayer, Duke of Blood. 】

Robin turned to Saru and asked, "Duke of Blood, have you heard?"

Saru was also full of doubts and shook his head: "I've never heard of it."

"This group of natives is not simple." Robin frowned deeply, and began to speculate in his heart:
Not only can they use the imperial script, but they also call themselves the Duke of Blood. The leader of this group of aboriginals is obviously an intelligent creature with a high IQ. Hobgoblins, bear goblins, and gnolls do not meet this point. Could it be that they are awakened aborigines like Smaug? ?
There were two young corpses lying on the left and right of Baron Muhanxin, a man and a woman. The man looked to be in his 20s, and the woman looked to be five or six years old, just a child.

They were the sons and daughters of Baron Mohensin.

A sad expression appeared on Saru's face: "Baron Muhen Xin is a good man, he should not suffer such treatment."

Afterwards, Robin and Saru searched the town again, but they found nothing except the dead, not even a single corpse of an aborigine.

Robin finds it strange that the natives don't have a strong sense of comrade-in-arms, and their companions die as soon as they die, and they don't deliberately bring their corpses back to their lair.

"My lord, come and see this way!" Saru stood at the other end of the central square and shouted to Robin.

Robin trotted over, and Saru said to him: "My lord, I checked the corpses around and found that the blood in these corpses is gone."

"It's gone? Isn't it coagulated?" Robin frowned suspiciously. It stands to reason that the body has been dead for so long, and the blood should have coagulated in the body long ago.

"Look, my lord, there are bite marks on their necks, as if they have been sucked by blood demons."

Saru squatted down and lifted the head of a male corpse. Sure enough, there was a fairly obvious bite mark on his neck, as if he had been bitten by a hound, and almost half of his neck was about to be bitten off.

Robin suddenly recalled that the mutant hobgoblin that attacked Raging Wave City had also sucked the blood of the same kind.

Then, Robin and Saru checked more than a dozen corpses in a row, and without exception, the blood in their bodies was sucked dry.

"This group of natives attacked Bugle Town to suck blood." Robin muttered to himself in astonishment. Although he felt it was absurd, the situation in front of him was only possible.

Saru squatted aside and said suspiciously: "That's not right. The deserter from Bugle Town told me that there are hobgoblins, goblin bears, and gnolls in the indigenous army. These races don't suck blood, only gorefiends do. But , how could there be so many gorefiends in the wasteland?"

The number of blood demons has always been very rare, and it is almost impossible for a second blood demon to appear in an area. Robin has already killed one, so theoretically speaking, there should be no more blood demons in the vicinity in the short term.

Robin couldn't help but think of the blood race again. It is said that when the blood kingdom was at its peak, there was such a horrible scene after the blood race army crossed the border. Human towns were wiped out, and all the dead were sucked out of blood.

Could it be that a blood awakener appeared on the wasteland?That's a big deal.

After ascertaining the situation in Bugle Town, Robin and Saru returned to Redstone Town.

It was already the afternoon of the second day when the two arrived in Redstone Town. After hearing Saru's report, Martha was terrified. She immediately started to adjust the city defense of Redstone Town.

Robin returned to Redstone Town mainly to pick up Janna.Because of the Horn Town incident, he was worried about letting Janna bring the caravan back to Rage City alone, so he asked Janna to wait for him in Redstone Town.

At such a tense moment, Martha certainly hoped that Robin could stay, but Robin had his own Raging Waves City to protect. After he and Martha bid farewell, he and Janna returned to Raging Waves City with the caravan.

……

Two days later, Robin and his party hurried on and finally returned to Raging Waves City.

The long caravan formed a long snake on the wasteland. Robin and Janna rode at the head of the caravan, and they saw the outer wall of Raging Waves City from a distance.

After this period of overtime work by the natives of Raging Waves City, the outer wall of Raging Waves City was almost completed. For this reason, Smaug did his best. It is said that he even broke a few of the whips used by the natives.

This circle of city wall is roughly an irregular circle, enclosing the entire Raging Waves City inside. The height of the city wall is more than four meters on average, and the top can accommodate two people walking side by side.

If compared with the nearly ten-meter-long city wall of Silver Frost City, the circle of Raging Wave City is simply a wall of earth.But in the barren wasteland, it is not easy to build such a circle of city walls.

Moreover, it didn't take long to build the city wall, so it was rushed out. At least Robin is quite satisfied at the moment, and he will gradually increase the height and width of the city wall later.

Robin has always believed in a principle in doing things, first solve whether there is something wrong, and then whether it is good or not.

After the caravan returned to Raging Waves City, Robin immediately held a high-level meeting to convey the matter of Bugle Town, and began to strengthen the city defense and patrol area.

The half-elf Luke also participated in this meeting. He just returned to Raging City this morning.It's a pity that he didn't bring good news to Robin, he never saw Master Negan at all.

"When I arrived in Silver Frost City, Master Negan had already left. Miss Helen said that Master Negan had gone to the Snowy Plateau."

In the lobby of the lord's mansion, everyone sat in a circle around the long table. The half-elf Luke stood up and reported his situation to Robin.

"I failed to complete the task, please punish me, my lord."

Robin sat at the head of the long table, pressed his hand to Luke, and motioned for Luke to sit down: "Forget it, sit down. I don't blame you for this. I didn't expect Master Negan's mobility to be so powerful." So strong, let’s go.”

Robin knew that Master Negan must have gone to find the second half of the Titan literature.

"However, Miss Helen gave me a lot of ancient books, and she said that they might be helpful to you, my lord." Luke said, and brought up a large backpack nearly half the height of a person from under the long table, which contained a full bag. ancient books.

"Miss Helen said that in these ancient books, there may be records about the red spar."

Robin nodded, then turned his head and told Aisha who was sitting next to him: "Find someone to look through these ancient books, maybe there will be clues inside."

Aisha replied: "Yes, my lord."

Then, Robin said to Luke: "As for the Horn Town matter, you should send someone to inform the Snow Eagle family. I don't think this matter is that simple. It is necessary to let them know."

Luke nodded: "I see."

In the next few days, the surrounding area of ​​Raging Waves City was calm, and it seemed that the affairs of Bugle Town were about to be gradually forgotten.Then one afternoon, the sentry on the city wall suddenly noticed a figure walking on the wasteland in the distance.

(End of this chapter)