Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 290 Adam
Vichy looked back at the village of Kuerros engulfed in flames. Her usually serious and dignified face revealed a rare look of fragility and confusion. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly. She tried hard to suppress the sourness in her nose, but her nails had already pierced deeply into the skin of her palms.

She knew there were no living people there anymore.

This was not the first time she faced such a situation. The last time, a young Samir knight fought his way into the encirclement of the fire giants alone and forcibly pulled herself out of the burning ruins even though she was prepared to die.

This time, however, the guy who was too old to lift the knife stayed with his son, and used the last ice storm he summoned to slow the spread of the fire - at the cost of being reduced to ashes along with everyone else.

"Mother-in-law, where else can we go?"

Kularis tightly grasped her left sleeve and asked in a crying voice.

Behind the girl, there were seven or eight younger children, and one of them was even held in Kulala's arms, crying helplessly.

"Escape from those bastards and go to Joses Town—"

Vichy tried to exhale a breath to boost his spirits. "Come on, kids. We can definitely escape alive."

"Only by escaping can we make humanity pay the price in blood!"

Vichy counted the number of people in the team again, there were ten children in total, so she told the Kulala sisters to look after four each, and she pulled out two daggers from her waist and held them in her hands, one upright and one upside down, ready to deal with the pursuers at any time.

"Follow me now. If anyone chases you, I will stay behind to intercept them. Kulara and Kularis will each lead a team to run to the southwest and west. You must not stop until you see the knights of the Joses clan. Remember?"

The two girls who were only a few years older quickly agreed, and the group of children who had just become sensible also responded nervously. The group immediately turned around and dived into the bushes near the path, quickly running towards Josephus.

In the first fifteen minutes, the team did not encounter any pursuers - the Wolf Hunters came from the southeast city of Lannia, and the Jero branch to which the Flame Monks belonged was in the east. It seemed that in order to avoid being discovered by the sentinels, they chose the shortest assault direction and had not yet completed the encirclement of the village, leaving a gap for escape.

But Vichy still did not dare to let her guard down. After living with humans for so many years, she deeply felt that perhaps this race was not as good as the Samir people in terms of individual martial arts, and it was even more difficult to compare with the fire giants, but in terms of the degree of cunning and insidiousness, all the native races in the Arctic ice field combined could not catch up to a fraction of the other side.

They are dangerous, complex and adaptable. They may be smiling at you and making an ally one second, but in the next second you may see them stabbing a dagger into your heart without any warning, and you can only breathe your last breath with resentment and resentment.

"Hurry up, kids. Just hold on for a few more hours and we'll be safe in Josephus!"

She looked at the children whose faces were red and who were running out of breath, and she encouraged them while silently digesting the emotions of pity and grief.

Is Joseph Town definitely safe?

To be honest, she couldn't be sure, but as the Samir clan was the closest to Kuerroth and ranked among the top three in strength, at least the surprise attack tactics that the Xilia family was best at would hardly work against them.

Generally speaking, a successful surprise attack can only be launched when the number of people is not much different, the high-end combat power has a clear advantage, and the opponent is completely unprepared. If a large number of Kuerlos' combat forces had not been sent to the Lannia front hundreds of kilometers away, and were not deceived and betrayed by the Hiero Flame Branch, they would never have been destroyed so easily by Gran Cilia.

In comparison, the Josephs clan, which is several times stronger, is a tough nut for humans to crack. Judging from the direction of the attack launched by the Wolf Hunters, they obviously bypassed Samir's large army on the Lannia-Josephs line and infiltrated here. If the Josephs clan has been defeated, then there is no point in taking this detour and they can just push forward directly.

Although she was leading a group of children, fortunately, the average physical fitness of the Samir people was outstanding enough, and the team had already run about ten kilometers in a quarter of an hour. The sounds of killing, burning, horse hooves and swords in the direction of Kuerros had become blurred and gradually inaudible. There was only the roar of the midnight cold wind and the rustling sound of snowflakes hitting the trees. In the lead-gray sky, the light of the golden tree was still gentle.

"Grandma Vichy."

At the front of the queue, an eight-year-old boy named Samir was running hard, his eyes red as he whispered, "Mom and Dad are dead. When we get to Yoss Town, will the knights there help us get revenge?"

Vichy was stunned for a moment, then nodded decisively and said, "Yes, from now on, every living Samir will spare no effort to seek revenge until they pay an equal price."

The boy lowered his head and wiped his eyes fiercely with his sleeve. When he raised his head again, a sad but extremely bright smile appeared on his little face.

"In that case, wait for me—"

sieve!
The sound of arrow feathers tearing through the air suddenly rang out, a black light flashed across the night, and then the crisp sound of a crossbow string being released was heard!

A thick arrow, as thick as a thumb, pierced the boy's neck diagonally, shot to his side with splattering blood, and used the remaining force to kill the baby in Kulala's arms!

The little girl was stunned for a second as she bathed in the boiling blood, and then she let out a heart-wrenching scream of collapse!
The next moment, a swarm of crossbow arrows as dense as locusts came from behind the earth slope in front.

"Get down!"

Vichy shouted and swung her swords in front of the children, dancing the two daggers into a vortex of flashing cold light. The sound of arrow shafts breaking rang out one after another, but crossbow arrows still escaped from the blind spots she could not defend, and instantly shot the two children to the ground before they had time to lie down!

"Tsk, what a troublesome woman."

Behind the slope, a Flame Archbishop wearing a fiery red cloak over his iron armor waved his hand in disgust, "You step back, let the monks take over."

The four wolf-hunting knights holding pulley crossbows in the front retreated, and a row of martial arts monks holding flame marks uttered prayers, raised their hands and condensed more than a dozen burning fireballs, which they waved at Vichy and the child behind her.

A hundred steps away, the old doctor's pupils reflected the raging fire, and her cracked lips and teeth uttered a desperate and unwilling roar - she was now in her twilight years, but even on the giant battlefield back then, she was powerless to protect those children under such intensive fire prayers.

Just at this moment, another wall made of flames suddenly stood up in front of them!
The more refined and condensed flames collided with the flying fireball, causing a violent explosion and heat wave!
The wall of fire blocked the prayer bombardment of the martial arts monks. The archbishop opened his eyes wide, trying to make out his opponent's face clearly, but before he could even react, a burly figure shot out from the dust and smoke!

The man rushed towards the team of martial arts monks with burning blood and furious roar, and punched the face of the monk in the front!

With a dull thud, the head exploded like a watermelon hit by a war hammer. In the rain of blood rising into the sky, they finally saw the face of the person who came.

"The fire thief—Adam!"

(End of this chapter)