Chapter 78 - Vol1 Ch78: Floating Corpse Maggot (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

As Rhys watched from the side, he was also feeling moved.

This was the air of the draconic hero. In history, anyone who awakened the Dragon’s blood had, without exception, qualities beyond ordinary people.

Whether they became devils or heroes, they had an extremely persuasive sense of charisma that caused people to willingly follow them. Without a doubt, they were natural-born leaders.

And today, Nala was displaying this very quality. As Rhys looked around, the people here were feeling more or less mixed emotions of admiration and adoration towards this Saintress of Salvation.

And he was the same, he who had lived and was molded by darkness naturally did not trust others, but if it was Nala, he would pledge his loyalty and trust her without hesitation.

As night fell, an elite team led by Nala took advantage of the night’s cover and approached the Royas barracks to initiate a raid.

Just as Rhys had predicted, the long-term victory made the aristocrats of Royas arrogant, even though Marshal Kada of Royas had faced defeat just before, they were still holding an impression of Interkam as being a lamb waiting to be butchered.

Despite having people on night patrol, the Royas soldiers who had been holding the initiative weren’t very serious about it, in fact, it could even be said that they were slacking, so the elite team successfully infiltrated the Royas barracks.

“Our goal is to assassinate their commanders, cause internal strife within Royas’ army, and buy more time for our support to arrive” Rhys re-emphasized before they went in: “We only have half an hour, once that time is up, then regardless of whether or not we succeed, we must retreat immediately”

As he looked at the others splitting up, Rhys reached for the small cloth bag that he carried with him. Inside it was the book of monsters that he had picked up in the graveyard of that village. The opportunity that he mentioned in the meeting earlier today was never the act of killing the enemy commanders.

Doing that might cause a certain degree of chaos in the Royas army, but it wouldn’t solve the real crisis. They wouldn’t be able to kill every commander that Royas had. And after a short period of chaos, this assassination would even cause the Royas army to accelerate its offensive in retaliation instead.

So if you really wanted to stall the Royas soldiers, you could only rely on other methods—– such as a plague.

Rhys’ eyes were cold as he walked directly towards his destination. He had asked around earlier and found out that the daily supply of water used by the Royas soldiers came from a small lake, where he attacked and killed a sentry when he arrived.

Looking down at the sentry’s corpse, Rhys took out the book. Although a bit of hesitation flashed by in his eyes, he still turned to one of the pages. An underwater monster was depicted here, this monster was weak enough that a child would be able to kill it with a knife as long as they could overcome their fear, but if it was allowed to play its role, it would be the most terrifying demon known to man.

Sounds of disturbance could be heard coming from the barracks. The others had obviously started to take action, and there was no longer time to hesitate. Rhys pulled out a dagger, plunged it into the sentry’s body, then dripped his blood onto the page of the book.

The maggot-like patterns on the page of the book began to come to life as transparent tentacles began to stretch outwards from the parchment. Rhys quickly turned the page towards the body on the ground.

The transparent tentacles reached into the corpse’s wound, then slowly slithered into the wound until it was completely inside the body. Rhys tied a rock to the corpse’s foot then threw it into the water, as he watched the body slowly sinking into the water, Rhys was hyperventilating.

If the description in the book wasn’t wrong, then his actions just now were downright evil. There was no distinction of good and evil in war, but there were distinctions in the means used for war. Such as massacres or driving peasants from their homes, the use of chemical weapons or poison, etc. were generally frowned upon as being unjust.