A strange world

Chapter 977 Section 208. Blood debt must be paid with blood

Ize Bay.

Ize Bay, which was under the control of the Free Blade, imposed a curfew. The musketeer corps patrolled the streets and blocked the last way for nobles and wealthy merchants.

In the dead of night, Gregory, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door.

"Who is it?"

He sat up with sleepy eyes and listened attentively for a while. It seemed that there was a lot of chaos outside... What happened again?

Gregory wanted to put on his shoes, but his feet were stuck in the freezing cold water.

"What's going on!?"

He screamed and retracted his feet, then endured the cold water and opened the door. The screams, shouts, and water sounds outside suddenly became clear.

At the end of the street, a huge wave that submerged the doors and windows, carrying debris and struggling people, was roaring and hitting.

"Oh... Damn..."

Gregory thought he was going to die in the flood. At this moment, countless black shadows covered the night sky.

They spread their black wings, grabbed the residents on the street with sharp claws, and took them off the ground.

Grigori raised his head, and the ferocious bat face with thin and sharp fangs was more beautiful than the noblewoman he saw by chance a few years ago.

Grigori and other people rescued by the giant bat were thrown into the mountains outside Ize Bay. The terrain here is very high, so there is no need to worry about flooding. The Free Blades and the Legion have been evacuated here in advance.

Evil always breeds from chaos, so the people of Free City patrol repeatedly and ask the identity of everyone rescued by vampires.

"Name."

"Grigori."

The registered members raised their heads to confirm that they saw a human instead of an orc.

"Father said there are too many people named Grigori." Grigori, who was already used to it, hurriedly said.

After registering his identity, Grigori consciously walked among the group of refugees. A group of Free Blades surrounded an orc next to him. When Grigori thought the battle was about to break out, they suddenly lifted the orc high up, not throwing it up.

Grigori looked at it blankly, and the chieftain and shaman of the orc tribe also couldn't understand it.

The reason is very simple, the howler saved everyone - or you can say Annan saved everyone.

When the flood rushed along the Mam River, it was exactly the time of the teleportation portal at midnight.

Annan and the howler discovered the arrival of the flood at the first time, transferred all the orcs together, and then notified Ize Bay and surrounding towns to take refuge.

As a result, when the flood arrived at Ize Bay, most of the residents were evacuated to Free City and the mountains, and the casualties were far less than expected.

Grigori was both unlucky and lucky. He slept too deeply and missed the evacuation notice from house to house, but he was rescued by the vampire when the flood came.

Femi and Little Smo stood not far away and looked at this side. Little Smo whispered: "Master Legion Commander, this flood is not right..."

There has never been a flood in the North... At least Little Smo has never seen it, and this is winter, not the rainy season, how can there be a flood?

"Someone wants to destroy Ize Bay." Fermi's empty sleeves fluttered in the night breeze.

"You mean it was the Rekanel Kingdom that did it?"

"Who else could it be besides them?"

Little Smo opened his mouth and was about to speak when a heart-wrenching roar cut through the night sky.

"No! No!!!" Claude screamed painfully to the sky.

"What happened to him?"

The people around him whispered.

The registered Free Blade had a complicated expression. He was the only one of the rescued Kingdom soldiers who had such a reaction... So either his faith collapsed or his relatives died in the flood.

Just as the Free Blade members guessed, Claude, who learned that the flood came from the upper reaches of the Mam River, returned to the refugee group in a daze and fell to the ground. It took a while before he took out the notebook in his pocket and wrote a letter that could never be sent out by the campfire.

[To my love, Yanes:

The flood engulfed Ize Bay.

I lost my status, my comrades, everything, and... you.

I don't know what I am holding on to, what's the point of writing this...Long Lake Town is gone, and you too, do I need to continue to live after losing my faith and my lover?

I heard the encouragement of the Free Blade, they were in the desperate people who lost their homes... I was wrong, you were right, the kingdom is not worth our lives, we are just consumables that it can sacrifice for its purpose.

My lady, did you hear it? They are singing...

They are singing that everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness, listening to beautiful stories that are almost unreal, they are saying that revenge is the most sacred emotion in the world.

I know what I am going to do, my lady, I will pay for your blood debt with blood!

October 21, 1001, Saint Laurent calendar, Claude]

...

The next day, the raging flood peak had passed.

However, Ize Bay still had nearly two meters of accumulated water. The survivors continued to stay in the mountains, waiting for the flood to recede... They thought the flood would recede.

In the evening, a cold wave came from the north, and the temperature dropped suddenly. Even the flames of the campfire became cold, and the people who were warming themselves by the fire could not get any warmth.

As the snowflakes fell, the entire Ize Bay became a white world, and the pure snowflakes covered all the sins and sorrows.

The angry snowfall of the Ice and Snow Goddess closed the mountain with heavy snow. On the fifth day, the scouts outside reported a bad news: Ize Bay was frozen.

The scout was a member of the Salted Fish Gang before, and he was a bit dumb.

He couldn't explain it clearly, so Xiao Smo simply took some people to go to the city to have a look.

They were stopped by a group of locals when they were going down the mountain.

"Lord Free Blade!"

"My identity is the executive officer of Free Blade." Xiao Smo corrected.

"Lord Executive Officer, can you take us to the city..."

They were people whose families were still in Ize Bay and had not had time to escape or rescue them.

"If you want to come, just follow me." Xiao Smo said after a short silence.

The team of only a dozen people gathered more and more, and at the foot of the mountain, there was already a huge team of hundreds of people.

They stepped on the snow on the muddy, muddy, and bubble-filled glacier, drilled through the city gate, and saw Ize Bay covered with white snow.

The crowd unconsciously separated to find things they were familiar with.

"Ah!"

Suddenly some people screamed and retreated, knocked down by wooden sticks frozen in the ice, and pointed at a piece of ice that had been wiped away from the snow and kept hesitating.

Little Smo walked over and saw a blurry pale face in the ice.

Those who didn't have time to escape were frozen in the frozen river, maintaining the posture of the last moment before death.

As they moved forward, there were more and more shadowy silhouettes frozen in the ice.

Little Smo clenched his fists while walking between the ice layers.

"Blood debt must be paid with blood..."