Carry the Ring of Elden with you

Not to mention that none of the secret sentries standing guard outside moved. They must have been killed by this person. If he didn't run away, why would he still chat with them?

The purpose of these robbers getting together is to survive. Now they don't know why a ruthless character came to their door. Of course, they will fly away when disaster strikes.

A few seconds after the middle-aged robber jumped off the wooden tower, he felt a roar behind him, sawdust flew past his ears, and there were many bloody marks on his face.

The situation behind him made the middle-aged robber more and more determined that escaping was the right idea. He didn't even look back to see what the main entrance of the village behind him looked like. He wished he could grow eight legs and ran away like crazy.

Chapter 53: The signs of 'public opinion war'

Harold was not in a hurry to catch up and kill the escaping robber, because the direction of his escape was exactly where Robert and others were passing.

The Homeless Knight was just taking a stroll, destroying all the buildings that could be destroyed in front of him.

The robbers' cottage became noisy the moment they heard the bang at the front door. Many soldiers wearing Charles Empire standard armor poured out of the only building that could be said to be sheltered from the wind and rain. They came out with angry faces to take a look. Who dares to break into their territory and cause trouble?

The five of them formed a standard attack team of Charles Empire to cooperate and walked towards the main entrance.

"Who! Dare to intrude on your uncle Gabra's territory." Gabra, the current head of the village, also walked out surrounded by several soldiers, wearing very cleanly polished armor and carrying a long gun, and shouted. .

Gabra is a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance. He was a member of the aristocracy of his country before it was destroyed by the Charles Empire, so even if he turns into a bandit, he still maintains the clean habits he had when he was a noble.His face is very neat, his brown hair is neatly styled, and his beard is neatly trimmed.

If it weren't for the bandit-like tone in his mouth, people wouldn't feel that Gabra was a ferocious robber at all, but more like a polite aristocratic gentleman.

However, the only person who responded to him was the storm combat skill released by Harold. The middle-aged robber may not know who Harold is, but these Charles Empire soldiers who were dispersed and escaped from the war certainly knew.

When the soldiers in the front row saw clearly Harold's silver armor that shone in the daytime and the iconic flying dragon sculpture decoration on his helmet, they looked horrified and wanted to turn around and retreat.

But the soldiers in the back row were still moving forward, even cursing at the soldiers in the front row who were pushing back.

"Get out of my way!" The soldiers in the front row were pushing and shoving as they scrambled to escape, causing Harold to look with disdain in his eyes.

The Homeless Knight unleashed the long-awaited storm combat skill in his hand, and the howling storm broke free from its restraints, blowing away all the soldiers huddled together and strangling them in the air.

Gabra stopped his forward steps and froze in place, cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.

As the soldiers in front were cleared away by Harold's storm combat skills, Gabra, the bandit master, finally saw clearly who the incoming enemy was.

"The lost knight of the golden dynasty?" Gabra swallowed hard and said in disbelief.

Because Gabra's dress was unusually conspicuous compared to other soldiers, and he looked like a leader, Harold also set his sights on him.

"You guys, stop her!" Gabra yelled in panic, his voice was like a duck knowing that he was about to be slaughtered for soup, and then he turned around and started running away.

Thanks to the fact that the Holy Empire of France spared no effort in praising Roland's homeless knights, Gabra, who was originally a member of the Charles Empire's army, had no idea of ​​​​confronting them.

Just kidding, those high-ranking dragon knights and giant dragons all fell in the hands of these knights in shining armor. I, a squadron leader, am not even worthy of carrying someone's shoes.

At this time, sounds of fighting, shouts of death, and even the roar of the wolves were heard from other places in the camp, but Gabra could hear more of the screams of the robbers and their families.

Now Gabra didn't care about his men at all. Before he could even finish turning around and running away, Harold had already pulled out two Homeless Knight swords and chopped them down with a series of smooth double sword strikes. All the soldiers in front of Gabra then kicked him hard on the back.

As for Harold's set of chasing and slashing, it can be summarized in a video: Single brushing the Faded One in ten seconds.mp4

Gabra was kicked to the ground, his chest felt tight and his throat felt sweet.

"Ahem, spare my life!" He rolled over and coughed out blood while begging for mercy.

The sword of the Lost Knight in Harold's hand was placed on Gabra's neck. Although he was covered in armor, he didn't feel that the protection around his neck could give him much sense of security.

As for the soldiers who were eating and drinking with Gabra, they had already scattered and fled.

Moreover, all the soldiers who dared to come forward to help were killed by Harold with one hand, holding the sword with the other hand, making Gabra even more frightened by the strength of the Homeless Knight.

Harold didn't kill this evil bandit leader immediately because he naturally had questions to ask.She kicked away Gabra's spear that had fallen on the ground to prevent him from plotting against her while she was not paying attention, and then she asked, "Which army of the Charles Empire are you from?"

Harold naturally recognized that the standard armor on the soldiers came from the Charles Empire, so he asked.

Gabra took a breath and said: "We are the remnants of the Third Army. We were separated from most of them during the battle with the Holy Empire of France. We escaped here while avoiding the enemy's search."

"You also built this cottage?"

"No, it was built by the previous group of bandits. We just killed the previous bandit boss and occupied this place, and then made a living by robbing passing businessmen or small nobles traveling."

And while Harold was interrogating Gabra, Robert also encountered a lot of gains.

"I thought Lord Roland was just talking, but I didn't expect that there are real hostages here." Robert easily opened the shabby wooden house that could not be protected from the wind and rain, and looked at the hands and feet of several people inside who were tied up and naked. People snuggling together for warmth unexpectedly muttered to themselves.

With the help of sunlight leaking into the room, Robert could barely tell that these sallow-looking hostages were all slightly pretty young women.

"Tsk, this is something you will definitely find in a bandit's den. These bandits can't have lofty ambitions and hide some gold and silver treasures." Robert sighed and looked at the women with frightened expressions. Said: "Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."

Then Robert realized something was wrong. The panicked and evasive look in these women's eyes seemed not to be because of him, but because of someone in the room.

Thinking of this, Robert quietly held the handle of the pulley crossbow and put his finger on the trigger button. He could shoot the loaded short crossbow into the enemy's chest at any time, piercing his heart.

"Die!" Sure enough, when Robert slowly opened the door, a bandit hiding inside suddenly appeared and struck at Robert with a machete, while yelling viciously.

"Whoosh--" Yellow light flowed through the crossbow body of the pulley crossbow. Robert calmly pulled the trigger, and shot the crossbow arrow covered with thunder grease smoothly into the chest of the bandit. At the same time, he turned sideways to let him cross the mountain. The fallen body of a thief.

But Robert's attack did not end. The pulley crossbow in his hand was pointed at one of the women in the house, taking away her life.

As the woman died, a sharp dagger fell from her hand behind her back, and the surviving young girls around her finally showed expressions of surviving the disaster, and then gradually began to cry.

"Hiss." Robert shook his head. This was what he feared most. He was not good at comforting hostages.

So he shouted loudly: "Stop crying! If you cry again, you will end up like these two people!" While threatening, Robert also raised the pulley crossbow in his hand.

Sure enough, in the face of the threat of death, these young girls stopped crying, but their faces became paler, thinking that they had just escaped from the wolves and entered the tiger's mouth.

In particular, the Reed Land armor worn by Robert was not the mainstream armor on the Salid continent at all, so in the eyes of these panicked girls, the Reed Land warrior helmet seemed very weird.

"That's right. Just stay here quietly. Someone will come back and take you out later." Robert nodded with satisfaction, then turned around and left.

Among the hostages, a girl couldn't help but call out to Robert, and then her voice weakened: "Well!... Are you here to kill these robbers pretending to be members of the Golden Dynasty?"

Um?Hearing this, Robert turned back with a serious expression. He looked at the girl seriously and asked, "Did the people who kidnapped you say they were from the Golden Dynasty? Are their eyes golden?"

The girl was startled by Robert and replied hesitantly: "Yes... I heard what the robbers were talking about when I was brought to the bandit boss. And the eyes... Neither is golden."

"Well, I understand. What you said tells me that these are very important." Robert nodded, and then said to the girl: "I am from the Golden Dynasty, and the people outside who are chasing the robbers are also They are all from the Golden Dynasty. Do you understand?"

When the girls heard Robert saying that they were from the "Golden Dynasty", they showed relaxed expressions.

The girl from before stumbled and said: "Father said that people in the Golden Dynasty are very friendly and willing to accept civilians who can't survive. But after being kidnapped to this cottage, I always thought it was someone else who was bragging to deceive. People like us.”

"Let's talk about it, I have something else to do." Robert was not interested in the girl's words. He just waved his hand to say goodbye, and then left quickly.

He hurriedly walked towards the direction where Harold had just made a big noise.

Although he didn't know whether these robbers were intentional or unintentional, the fact that they pretended to be the Golden Dynasty and became robbers made Robert subconsciously feel that he must report it to Roland as soon as possible.

Robert didn't have the concept of "public opinion war" in his mind. He just subconsciously felt that the impact of this incident was serious.

If Roland knew it now, he would definitely hate it.

Thanks to the bards who came to Morn City before, Roland spent a lot of money to let these bards sing about the beauty of the Golden Dynasty, and as a result, many residents came to seek refuge.

But persecuting this beauty often only requires a simple slander. If these bandits were not eliminated by Robert and others, I am afraid that these rescued girls will always think that the people who robbed them are people from the Golden Dynasty. I will keep mentioning it in future conversations with others, and eventually it will turn into the most vicious venom in the hands of people with ulterior motives.

Chapter 54:The so-called "innocents"

Robert, who was dressed as a Reedland warrior, quickly found Harold who was interrogating Gabra, the leader of the cottage.

Robert's expression was serious, and he shook the blood on the cross knife. When he rushed towards this direction, some blind bandits thought that Robert could be easily dealt with, so they made a gun with their companions who were in the hostage house. The souls of the dead.

(The cross knife is a gun, I didn’t expect it.)

He ignored the bandit corpses and houses around him that had been destroyed by storm combat skills, and went straight to Harold, then looked curiously at Gabra, who was being interrogated by the Homeless Knight.

"Robot? Have you dealt with all the bandits over there?" Harold looked at the faded man from the Reed Land unexpectedly and asked.

Robert shrugged: "Absolutely. Those Kaidan mercenaries are taking their wolf pups to arrest anyone they see in the stronghold. It feels like there is no need for me at all."

Then he looked at Harold and said: "Never mind this for now. Sir Harold, I rescued several young girls who were captured in this bandit's village. From their mouths, I unexpectedly learned about these robbers. When he robbed passers-by and took them to his own village, he claimed to be a member of the Golden Dynasty. I think this problem may be serious, so I came here quickly to tell you."

When Gabra heard Robert's words, his already pale face was now even more pale. At the same time, he was still cursing in his heart: Didn't I have people let those hostages out on purpose a long time ago?Who on earth is still playing the trick of hiding the beauty in the golden house with me?

It can only be said that Gabra's order execution efficiency is not very high.

Because none of his soldiers wanted to leave their warm houses in the middle of winter, the soldiers who were originally responsible for secretly releasing the hostages were handed over to the bandits who had become poor people.

Those poor-turned-bandits also didn't want to work because of the cold weather. In addition, some of them had been bachelors for 40 to [-] years and had never touched a woman's hand, so they hid those women in private.

What's more, these bandits also hid a very important secret from Gabra. These girls are not only for them to vent their desires, but also have other uses.

But Gabra didn't know the real situation here. He only knew that the homeless knight in front of him might not give him a happy life easily.

If he meets people from other countries, he can also move out of his aristocratic status in the Charles Empire to save his life.After all, the nobles of various countries have some kind of blood relationship with each other. Most of them are captured when they can, and then the family pays a high ransom to exchange the captured nobles.

Although it was embarrassing, my life was saved.

But Gabra had never heard of any nobleman coming back alive from the hands of the Golden Dynasty.

"General Axe" Slit, a veteran general who had served two generations of emperors, was the leader of the Charles Empire's military system.Is this enough of a card?

The Golden Dynasty killed him as soon as he was told to kill him, and I heard that he even sent his mother's head back to humiliate His Majesty Judah.

So when Gabra was kicked to the ground by the Homeless Knight, he already knew that he was probably going to die. Now even if Harold lets him go, he doesn't dare to leave, for fear that some kind of spell will be cast on him. It automatically explodes a few hundred meters away.

He had personally seen those evil mages in the military doing similar things.

From the corner of his eye, the bandit leader saw Harold's cold eyes looking at him. He rolled his eyes and directly hit the sword of the Homeless Knight that Harold had placed around his neck.

It was naturally impossible for Harold to let Gabra succeed. She took the sword away and kicked Gabra in the abdomen, causing him to be in so much pain that he could not move for a while.

Robert didn't watch the show. When Harold was kicking someone, he took out the animal bone hypnotic arrow from his prop bag and pierced Gabra's body.

The sleeping oil took effect very quickly, and Gabra immediately fell asleep. Then Robert took out a clean cloth and tied it around Gabra's mouth several times to prevent him from biting his tongue.

Harold saw Robert tying up Gabra with a series of moves that he knew how to do, and he sincerely admired, "You faded ones must be the ones who do this skillfully."

Robert shrugged: "Everyone has their own specialty. I don't have the formidable strength like you, the Homeless Knight. I can only work on these strange skills. Well, I will leave this bandit leader to you." You can take it back to Mr. Roland for careful interrogation. I will go directly to the Holy Empire of France after cleaning up this stronghold."

Gabra's last move made Harold even more convinced that Gabra was hiding something very important from him. I'm afraid these soldiers of the Charles Empire were not just bandits who came after the defeat, but came here specifically to carry out someone's order. To discredit the Golden Dynasty.

After dealing with this group of bandits disguised as Charles Empire soldiers, the remaining bandits turned from poor people were unable to fight back. Even their families were all killed by Kaidan mercenaries and their wolves. Expelled together.

There are not many people in the village itself. Counting the more than 20 soldiers from the Charles Empire, there are only just over 100 people, and more than 30 of them are non-combatants who are family members.

Excluding the dozen or so bandits that Robert killed a few days ago and the three people who were on sentry duty outside, there were only about 20 bandits who were truly capable of fighting.

Therefore, the Kaidan mercenaries, whose strength was much higher than theirs, easily dispatched these people.

The non-combatants here are not just the elderly, children and women, there are also some teenagers who are almost adults.Of course, among the bandits there are also female thieves like the ones Robert killed before.

Wrapped and driven by twenty gray-white giant wolves, these people stumbled to the clearing of the mountain village where the cold wind was howling. They looked at the familiar corpses around them with panic on their faces.

"Master Bing, please let us live. We were forced to rob our homes and homes."

Someone among the gathered robbers and their families began to cry.

One of them started crying, then two or three.

"Yes, my village is dead. There is really nothing we can do."

"We just want to survive. What's wrong? These are people who have suffered a lot and have never done anything harmful to nature. Just be merciful and let us go. We promise not to be robbers again."

Robert's mouth twitched when he heard this last sentence.Brother, do you want to listen to what you are saying?Co-authoring: In your eyes, being a robber is not "unnatural", right?

But Robert didn't speak. He just stood aside and closed his eyes to relax.After all, Robert was here to help eliminate the robbers, so this troublesome matter should be left to Harold.

"Quiet!" Harold shouted, quieting the noisy crowd.

However, there was a hint of joy in the eyes of a few old men when they heard that the superior of these Kaidan mercenaries who obeyed orders was a woman.For them, being female means being soft-hearted and easily controlled by emotions.As long as they are miserable, although they will suffer some physical pain, there is still no problem in saving their lives.

"Master Harold, you should come over and take a look at this." Just when Harold was about to speak, a Kaidan mercenary who came from the backyard of the cottage came over with a look of disgust on his face and approached the Lost Knight. Report.

When his eyes swept over the bandits and their families, he couldn't help but hold his hand on the handle of the cavalry saber, showing his anger.

"What's wrong?" Harold observed the emotion on the Kaidan mercenary's face and asked softly.

The Kaidan mercenary whispered what he saw into the ears of the lost knight, and Harold's tone became colder: "Is everything you said true?"

The Kaidan mercenary nodded.

"Take me there and have a look." Harold motioned to the other party to lead the way.

Robert was very curious about what the Kaidan mercenary said to Harold to make him so angry.

Soon, Harold came back with the Kaidan mercenary, and Robert could feel the cold murderous intent against these bandits exuding from the homeless knight.

In addition to half-eaten and cooked human corpses, all Harold saw in the backyard were piles of white bones randomly discarded on the ground. Even the ground had begun to exude a faint green color, gradually turning into undead.

I'm afraid even Gabra didn't know what these bandits ate to survive when there was no food before he arrived with soldiers from the Charles Empire.