Chapter 45 (1/2)
Nine kiloiven it a deeper ony and curses of the knights oven into a poem, it would probably cast shadows on the epic heroic poems of the history
Nine kiloht travel The roads were rugged at best Even though the silver light frohts, the procession was encumbered and the heavily injured soldiers were in pain The beasts in the mountains seemed to have occupied the area they used before As they travelled out of the place, they had heard satisfied roars from beasts as they tore each other apart
The cohts and capital knights, Colonel Ka order He ordered the knights, nothe roan or to yelp to express their pain
Knights who couldn't move were strapped onto their horses' back, each of theht to take care of them They always had to wipe the sweat off of their teaes to wrap the wounds that got torn open
The speed of the procession was slow One of the knights started to tell jokes to another, saying if their commander had discovered the second squadron to advance at this speed, they would probably be strapped behind the Raytheon stallion and forced to run for the whole
The knight's joke was soon cut off Pain and lost of bloodorder No one was there to punish hiretted it as soon as he opened hishis partner's bandage again, despite knowing his partner had already passed on He felt he still needed to do so for the brave sacrificed warrior
The Princess' horseotten the Narcissus Knights' approval when she hopped on her ride, however, there's nothing in that the Princess took pride in Alanis' expression was unnatural, but she was, after all, the Princess of the Empire, she had already put the atteht noas Emory's health Her other maid was by her side as the poor Emory was fixed onto the stretcher on the horse The Princess wasn't sure if E any sound since she got on the horse, but the Princess saw her lips and hands quiver slightly
The Prince sat on the back of the horse, slipping in and out of consciousness He was not to be blamed He's probably the most unlucky Prince in titan Eh his first month after the coronation before someone decided to try for his life! Ola! The teen smiled wryly at himself, as a Prince he's such a failure!
Young Lady also ned for fe bust and iron chains for upper body, and an increased waistline designed like a skirt so it could fit on top of a dress Sasha liked the armor so much, she used to spread it out on the floor just to perforht about wearing it onto the battlefield, as an Andrew, sos were not meant to be avoided or think twice about
Hoas Kaher-ups when he finally meet them The two old turtle doves would definitely scoff at hirinned, he cold even predict what they would say, ”Hey kid! I heard youto cry?” This was his brigadier ”No! This kid wouldn't cry, he would be busy changing his diapers! Haha!” This was his regimental commander Kamille was sad, ould his soldiers say to him? In the ten years he had been in the army, he had sent away and received countless warriors, he didn't knohat his soldiers think of hih he knew the second squadron loves hi to hi to their ho them the next day at their farms
Lady duchess Celia Andrew Nedgabel hid herself in a large cape, her hts knehy the duchess would wear the , orline of injured soldier behind her
A unique chirping came out of the woods, it's a type of harrier bird frohts usually employ to send letters back home
Ka caused his wound to hurt as if it's going to tear
”Hoas it?”
The returning scout dismounted as well and hurriedly approached the colonel ”I saw the matches up hat Paladin Sarlat! The only discrepancy was that the enemy probably has more than five hundred people We need to speed up, the sun will be up in less than two hours!”
Ka the scout who remounted his horse and as prepared to lead the party
After Paladin Kaestured at the captains behind him, the arhttheir horses It's time they leave the injured behind
The ladies were asked to stay They were not suitable to join the assault, so they were tasked with taking care of the injured The whole party was divided into two halves in an instant, the reeted their cohts, si
The knights who can still fight handed their swords to the injured As a ritual, the ones staying would hold the blade-end of the swords They would rehters perished on the battlefield, the knights who performed the ritual would take care of his body and his family
The knights approached their destination with caution, silence fell onto them like a curtain
Just before dawn, the soldiers congregated at the specified location Over here, they'd need to do another round of screening Even though all the wounded soldiers were clutching their weapons, not all of them would be able to join the attack
The knights with bone fractures were all chosen to be on the offense, they were strapped tightly onto their horses, and their weapons were placed onto their injured hands, some were so badly wounded their hands even warped No one spoke in this process, they knew their injured coht, they still remembered their responsibility
The Law of Narcissus Knights, number twenty seven: Thy lives shall be released upon death, but Knights shall fight 'til thy swordhand lay liht is thy mission, thine only choice 'twixt birth and death
A veil of ht faded There was no sunlight to war tiny droplets to forht of the droplets and for in the mountain, in the woods, and in the valleys The wispy whiteness permeated every corner of the area, its nebulous silhouette added to the mysterious environment
Bunches of sparks still reround, wet by the ht in by the daybreak added to the smell around the camp
Several guards were huddled up around the wood pile, chatting ast theh to echo in this e The onlyItalian language The guards didn't place their attention on the vacant woods around the and the two accidental gains they acquired in the attack that had just passed
Kaga carried a dagger in his mouth, behind hiuards were less than ten meters away, behind the fence
As a veteran soldier with a had lost count of operations that involved a a ca to it Kaga didn't want to see Johanne who broke his leg becoet of the enemy marksmen and archers because he was secured on the horse
He had forgotten a remembered, there were nine others who followed Kamille into the ara didn't want to lose any one of them anymore
One of the guards saw a bloody blade piercing out of his partner's neck, he tried to look around In his horrified state, he only saw a ashy-faced knight charging toward hiht's hand, beco his last memory
Kaga and another Narcissus Knight hurried over and caught the two bodies that were going to tuhts were trying to dispose of the two bodies in the bush, it seemed like time had frozen
A scout had revealed hi area, his upper body was out of his outpost His hts in his camp
Kaga blanked out, instinctively, he raised his throwing knife before he saw so A black shadow appeared out of nowhere behind the scout, as the scout was going to yell, he spasmed for a moment before his eyes turned into the color of a dead fish's eyes
Kaga's subordinate was so anxious, they almost attacked Fortunately, their superior stopped thehts approached the silhouette Through the mist, they noticed the scout's outpost was built on the on the bottom of the decline, normally it wouldn't be seen if one wasn't close to it
”Snowstorm!”
”Kaga!” The King of assassins had spoken to the knight before, even though the knight didn't have the ability of a Paladin, he was quite capable in this sort of sneaking around
Kaga led his knights andinto a tent nearest to the outpost
One of the knights aled to cover his mouth
The situation in the tent was gruesome Out of the ten beds, nine were occupied by headless bodies, the only htly colored sock stuffed into his mouth His eyes were filled with horror
Nine heads were tied together with a piece of string and were hung frohts were partially nauseated Even though they are soldiers who'd been througha 'chandelier' made of human heads
That's right, the hu in the tent like chandeliers The Narcissus Knights checked the faces of those people, which was the only thing they could accept At least those people died without a speck of horror on them
Snowstorthe captive who thrashed about The Narcissus Knights didn't knohat he otten their uard stabbed the captive from behind his neck with a fruit knife, dark red blood dripped out of the wound, onto the assassin's clothes, and flowed down to the ground The mercenary immediately stopped, his life force drained
”Remember this action, I ask all of you to complete this in all the tents silently, however, there are more than five hundred people here, so it's impossible to kill them all I want all of you to slice at least two heads off in every tent hatever way you like, but not too hththt of assassins didn't stop his hands while speaking, he used his fruit knife to carve off thesquirt
”What's after? Hang theht voiced his question
”No, haven't you realized? Use your iination, you can place their heads wherever you want, just make sure it'll be a surprise for them”
The seven knights, including Kaga nodded simultaneously, they knehat they needed to do When they launched their assault with their uys would surely rush out of their tents just to find mounds of surprises, a and the knights knehat to do
In the area of the woods with the thickest fog, trees were obscured even at a dozen reyish-white color Small creatures approached the tall horses with caution, they had never seen big, friendly animals like this
Kaa and his squad had left one whole hour ago! Da seemed to still be buried under a whitish lake water
A sound suddenly appeared, approaching from far from the bushes Kamille raised his hand, the bowman squad on his left aimed their arrows at the direction the sound came from
It was a bloodied man, he stopped behind a tree, the bowmen captured his silhouette, a dozen boith , ready to strike
”Bobcat!”
”Tiger!” Kae and approached the man alone In just awhile looking at the team in front of him
This was the two tea in the Second Squadron of the Fifth Corps, Fourteenth Cavalry Brigade of the Narcissus Knights, there were about a hundred fully arh they could not see the scenery in front of them, they kneas almost time for them to attack
Kamille steered his horse toward the bowhtly, and the fifty archers auto speedily to the left and right sides respectively The Paladin worked his way to the sielding knights, the two hulkingthe teaed their own against their shi+elds, scaring the little animals away The Paladin pointed at the bush on the left of the ene men to move there slowly
The quiet woods returned to its peaceful silence after a brief moment of busyness The Paladin stood in front of the cavalry and let his mask cover his face, which was followed by countless identical movements behind him
The knights had lost their identity, as well as their fear Their eyes were beaed masks were covered with a layer of deithin moments
Kah the air outlet that leads to outside of his mask
Toot… toot… Honk!
”Wake-up horn?” The nal? The first ! Why is his tent filled with the smell of blood!
Screa one after another from different tents, the quiet camp soon descended into chaos soon after the horn blared The ht of their coainst their own chests, soh and left on top of spears, so in a bloodied water barrel, and some were placed neatly in one corner
”What happened?”
Who's sounding the horns?”
”Sir… sir…”
Thefro their weapons,the name of God
”Tooooot…” Honks blasted out from the woods around them once h to identify their situation They looked around, the depressing honks fleeted about in the air above them ”We… we're surrounded!”
”Sir!”
The mercenaries automatically cleared a path for their com was definitely wrong! Thethat he wasunder his breath!
”Sir!” Aabout, Black Ape's huge torso fell into his arms, all the mercenaries could see it now, their coer!