Lord of Hyranza

"It turned out to be the bandits. How long has it been since they attacked Guta Village?"

Suldak looked at the sky too carefully, it was almost noon now.

The villager took a few breaths before saying: "They entered the village last night. Someone saw them rushing into the village. The village elder asked me to ride out on a donkey to deliver a letter. Some robbers saw me running out. So I rode in pursuit, and I rushed into the rocky hill in one breath, and then I used the rocky area to get rid of the robbers who were chasing..."

Suldak saw that the villager was not life-threatening except that he was weak and had many wounds from the knife, so he let him lie on the side of the road.

Then he took out a finely marked map from his arms, first drew a line between the desert and Guta Village, then drew a line between Guta Village and Wall Village, and drew a line between Wall Village and Guta Village. Draw a line with the edge of the desert, and a triangle just appeared on the map.

Suldak thought in his heart that even if he arrived at Guta Village now, those robbers should probably take the village and loot it and run away.

"Captain, what happened?" Andrew's voice came from a distance away.

Suldak didn't look up. He bet that these bandits didn't dare to stay in the barren land for too long, and they were probably on their way back to the desert now. If they drove directly from Wall Village to the edge of the desert, with luck, they should be able to catch these bandits. rob.

"Those robbers in the desert came out and ransacked Guta Village. Andrew, Samira, Gulitum, you and I go to the edge of the desert to stop them. Aphrodite, you stay in the village." Suldak He got on his horse and gave instructions to everyone.

Andrew and Samira followed Suldak on horseback. The ogre carried a bone-crushing club and stood barefoot behind them, also looking eager to try.

Only Aphrodite jumped off the horse with a depressed face, stood on the side of the road and complained: "I knew it would be like this... well, you can rest assured!"

Sulda pulled the reins, stopped the horse, turned back to Aphrodite and said, "If this operation goes well, I allow you to go to Hailansa City by yourself!"

Aphrodite's eyes suddenly brightened, and she asked Suldak, "Are you serious?"

"Of course it's true..." Suldak said with certainty.

After finishing speaking, he raised his horsewhip and took Andrew, Samira, and Gulitum towards the edge of the desert...

This time Suldak took the militia to train in the barren land, and did nothing. The only thing was to determine the location of each village in the barren land. In addition, the nearest roads connecting the villages were also marked in the Although the barren land looks flat on the map, in fact the fault zone, gentle hills, and rift valleys of the barren land also form a very complex terrain. If you are not familiar with the terrain here, it is easy to take a long detour.

They had to go through a gap in the Great Wind Valley, cross the rift valley, and then bypass a red ridge mountain before they could take a shortcut and rush to the edge of the desert in advance.

In order to be able to catch up with these robbers in time and not to waste the horses, Suldak could only cruelly take out the heads of four hellhounds as sacrifices to the face of God, in exchange for the blessing effect of the "Blessed Body" It was blessed on the three war horses, and the ogre Gullitum was blessed with the 'Body of God's Blessing'.

A group of four ran until dusk in one breath, only to see the huge sand dunes that were almost connected together at the edge of the barren land.

Those sand dunes looked like the scales of giant beasts from a distance. There was a dry atmosphere on the edge of the desert. The sky gradually darkened, and the temperature here also gradually became colder...

Chapter 588 The new owner of the barren land

A round of red sunset slowly sank in the endless sea of ​​sand.

The clouds in the sky are connected into a pale orange gauze, which is integrated with the yellow sand that can't be seen at a glance. The color in front of you is a gradual change from light yellow to orange.

The sky gradually darkened, and the night came, and the warm sand quickly turned cold.

Suldak looked up at the night sky where the stars gradually lit up. The gap on the edge of the desert was more than ten kilometers long. It was almost impossible to monitor the entrance of this desert at night.

In desperation, Suldak opened the sacrificial altar again, consuming three three-headed hellhound heads to bless Samira with the blessing effect of "insight". After the sacrificial altar can obtain a more powerful blessing effect , Suldak found that the sacrifices he had stored had obviously become insufficient.

The team found the tallest sand dune nearby, and Samira was standing on top of it.

She is like a cheetah that has always been quiet, lurking there quietly.

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The camel team has been passing through the red rock wall full of gravel. The thick fleshy palms of the camels walked very slowly on the gravel. Some strong men with dark red turbans on their heads were leading the camels. Looking tired.

Each camel was dragging two large bales of heavy supplies, and these people walked silently in the dark without talking to each other.

A huge shadow appeared in front of him, soft and cool fine sand appeared in front of his eyes, and finally reached the edge of the desert, just like a fish swimming into the sea again, the tensed heartstrings of these strong men relaxed a little, someone will straddle The scimitar on his waist was re-hooked on the hook next to the hump.

The burly man walking in the front pulled off the veil covering his face, his sharp eagle-like eyes looked behind him, and then he leaned his body on the ground and listened for a while, waiting for him to stand up , the camel team behind has followed.

The strong man untied two water bags from the side of the hump and threw them to his subordinates. Then he pursed his dry lips and said in a hoarse voice:

"All the team members rest in place for a while, and can only rest after going down into the desert and walking back to the oasis."

The strong men leading the camel immediately surrounded the two water bags, shared the clear water in the water bags, and then lay down on the soft sand with the scimitar in their arms, squinting their eyes to let themselves relax quickly.

The strong man took a few steps towards the height of the sand dune, the soft fine sand kept flowing down, and every step he took would almost send him back to the original place with the quicksand.

A gray-bearded old man walked up slowly behind him, his eyes had been eroded by the years, making them cloudy and scorched.

He bowed his waist, stood beside the strong man, and said to him: "Awang, we shouldn't have killed so many villagers, and we took too much food this time, some people probably won't survive this winter, maybe The village will be deserted next year, so we won't be able to continue to grab food here."

"Even if we can't grab food, it will be next year. If we don't grab it, we won't even survive this year..." Awang said coldly.

The strong man Awang sat down on the slope of the sand dune, and the soft sand made him feel inexplicably at ease.

The old man also sat down with him, and said in a tone of nostalgia for the past: "In the past, when we went to the barren land, we didn't even need to cross the Gale Rift Valley, and it was only half a day's journey from the desert side. Go out and come back at night. At that time, there were still many villages close to the Rift Valley, and they cultivated oat fields next to the Rift Valley, and we will collect some oats in autumn."

The old man sighed, and then said: "In the earliest days, those who were willing to beg for a living in the barren land were poor exiles. Later, some homeless and criminals came here, and they settled down here. After more than a dozen generations of hard work, some villages have gradually formed."

"There is a sea of ​​sand nearly a thousand kilometers away from Babetila Province, and the closer you get to this side, the more desolate the sandy land is. Even people like us who are familiar with the desert, if they don't know the hidden oases, they will come here to rob villages "The old man continued: "Later, the other bandit groups in the desert saw that we could always survive the severe winter safely, and the secrets of the barren land were slowly leaked out. Those people did more ruthless than us, and they killed more Kill, slowly on the barren land, there are basically no villages west of Gale Rift Valley."

A robber at the side handed the water bag to the old man. The old man took a sip cherishingly, and continued:

"Now the villages hidden in the barren land are very hidden. They are usually hidden in the mountain depressions, and they are far away from the desert. Sometimes there will be no harvest. There are much fewer bandits who are willing to come here."

Awang spat out a mouthful of bloodshot spittle, and said to the old man: "If it weren't for that old dog Gage who drove us all to the east of the desert, I wouldn't want to venture into the barren land. It is said that there is a new baron lord here, and his methods are ruthless, and there are still hundreds of robber corpses hanging on the top of the Pagolos Pass."

The old man sighed again.

Awang then cheered up and said: "But this time our harvest is not bad. With this food and what we have accumulated before, it should be enough to survive this winter. When the spring next year, I will Go and see if you can cross the big meadow in the northwest, I heard that there are many wandering herdsmen raising horses, and there are groups of wild horses and yellow sheep, so it is easier to survive."

The old man shook his head again and said: "The nomadic herdsmen have a lot of animals, but those Duerwa herdsmen are all good at riding and archery, and all of them ride green horses of Qinglin horse bloodline, and they are staring at them on the big grass. , our camel team can't get rid of them..."

Before the old man could finish his sentence, there was a scream in the silent night.

"what!"

The strong man Awang suddenly stood up from the sand, and asked loudly in the direction of the screaming: "What's going on?"

A subordinate ran over in the darkness, ran up to the leader in a panic, and said with horror on his face: "Leader Awang, Ganda was shot to death!"

Awang's eyes widened, and he walked into the darkness, asking, "Where is the enemy?"

The robbers around held their weapons in their hands and looked around.

The flustered subordinate pointed to the top of the hill and said hesitantly, "It seems to be over there, leader. It's too dark to see where the arrow came from. It seems to be over there..."

At this time, Awang had already found the subordinate who had been shot through the throat on the sand dozens of meters away. His eyes were as sharp as knives looking at the top of the dune, and he shouted in a deep voice:

"follow me!"

A group of subordinates gathered around Awang, wearing leather armor and holding a machete, they rushed up the sand dunes quickly.

In the dark night, the feathered arrows that had been flying all the way were nailed into the forehead of a sand thief soundlessly. No chance.

Immediately afterwards, the shoulder of a Sand Bandit behind him was pierced by a feathered arrow.

"Sharpshooter! Shield..." Awang gritted his teeth and roared. He didn't lose any manpower along the way. He was about to enter the desert, but was blocked by an unknown team with a sharpshooter. He gritted his teeth and ran towards the top of the dune. Hastily hurried to follow.

He couldn't remember which bandit group had such powerful archers. In the darkness, Awang could only feel his body being locked away from a distance. It was a kind of mysterious fighting intuition, and this kind of intuition had saved him on the battlefield. How many times, facing the darkness at this moment, he had this feeling again. Awang didn't hesitate, his whole body was like a fish jumping into the water, his waist turned suddenly, and the whole person suddenly turned around and moved forward five times to the right. position...

I saw a black arrow flying past his original position soundlessly, another flying arrow flew close to his cheek, and the sharp hook drew a blood groove on his face, Awang stopped. Halfway up the sand dune, curling his body into a ball, he has never been so close to death.

Samira, who was standing on the top of the hill, let out a little exclamation, drew his bow and fired arrows again, and shot down the two robbers who continued to charge upwards.

Those robbers were about to rush to the top of the sand dunes. The robbers who rushed ahead held their shields in their hands, but ten brothers lay down on the way of the charge.

Awang rushed to the top of the sand dunes and saw a three-meter-tall ogre wearing black simple shoulder pads waiting there with a bone-crushing stick in his hand. A chill rose from the soles of his feet, and he suddenly remembered There was a rumor among the robbers before, that there was an ogre and an elf archer among the subordinates of the new noble lord in the barren land, but I didn't expect that the archer turned out to be of 'night elf' blood, possessed The ability to see at night...

Awang somewhat regretted his recklessness. His body was like a vigorous sand wolf, stepping on the soft fine sand and rushing towards the right waist of the ogre. The scimitar in his hand wanted to follow the ogre's waist There was a wound on the left side of the forehead, and the robber around him cooperated with Awang very tacitly, and rushed directly to the right rib of the ogre. The ogre ignored Awang and the robber at all, and swung the bone-crushing stick in his hand. It was round, and the robber who rushed forward swept out sideways.

Awang took the opportunity to lower his figure, almost letting his body stick to the sand, barely avoiding the sweep, and then the scimitar in his hand drew a strange arc...

Just when the blade was about to approach the ogre, a dwarf chain shield appeared in front of the blade, and the scimitar cut on the sharp jagged edge of the dwarf chain shield, splashing a trace of sparks, and a silver light shone on the shield, Awang I only felt a counter-shock force that made my wrist rise sharply, and before I could counteract this momentum, a blood-red sword light flashed in front of me.

Awang didn't feel how sharp the blood red crescent was, but felt that his sight was not controlled by his body, and the surrounding scenery suddenly spun.

The severe pain in his neck spread to his brain, and he seemed to fly, but it was so light. In the whirling night, he saw the body standing in the sand that was spurting blood from his neck. Looking at the scene in front of me, I realized that I was beheaded by my opponent...

Awang's head rolled down on the sand dune, and the headless body fell to the sand with a 'plop'.

"drink!"

The ogre let out a loud cry, and swung the bone-crushing stick in his hand to fly five robbers who rushed forward at once. Almost all the robbers hit by the bone-crushing stick had their lumbar vertebrae like wheat cut down by a scythe in autumn... They broke off one after another, and their bodies were swept into two pieces.

"Who are you?" Someone in the robber group shouted angrily, but no one answered.

"Everyone spread out and run separately! Quick..." Someone among the robbers shouted in an accent different from that of the Badlands.

The robbers running behind didn't even see clearly what happened in front of them. Someone yelled this, and dozens of robbers seemed to run away in all directions, no longer looking at the battlefield behind them.

They are very experienced in escaping. Almost all of them circled their bodies and rolled down the dunes when they rushed down the dunes.

Andrew at the bottom of the dune has already killed several robbers guarding the camel caravan. He is holding a butcher's ax in his hand, standing in front of the sand, stepping on the head of an old gray-haired robber, spitting out the grass roots in his mouth , looking at those Sand Pirates rolling down quickly, their eyes were bloodshot.

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The battle at night was far smoother than Suldak thought. After Samira possessed the ability of 'insight', almost all the robbers who escaped into the night were chased and killed by her.

Compared with the battlefield on the dunes, the battle under the dunes is too bloody. The aboriginal warrior Andrew held an ax in both hands, like a wild boar rushing into a cabbage field. He never thought about the integrity of the robber's corpse. Get up and chop on the skull, the skull suddenly shattered...

Suldak even thought about whether the heads of these bandits could be sacrificed, but he just thought about it. If he really sacrificed, he probably would be labeled as a 'heretic' soon and be cursed by magic. Those magicians from the trade union law enforcement team are hunting around.

Before dawn, Suldak even had a chance to squint.

More than 40 camels have been connected in a string with ropes, and the supplies on each camel's back have been counted. Most of them are carrying wheat grains, some messy mountain products, and some tents to keep out the cold.

Some supplies were even stained with dried blood. Suldak packed the heads of all the robbers into boxes, handed over the heads to the guard camp, and got some meritorious rewards.

While helping the half-elf archer Samira to gather the camel team, the ogre found a camel with a broken leg, so the camel had become a veritable roasted camel in the morning.

The ogre held a huge hump and bit it down with a mouth full of grease.

When the sky was completely bright, the headless corpses that could not be taken away on the battlefield had been strung together by dozens of spears and stood on the top of the sand dunes. Along with these corpses standing in a row, there was also a gigantic giant weighing several thousand kilograms. The rock strip, this huge rock is about three meters high, placed on the sand dune.

A line of imperial characters 'Desolate Land Boundary' is engraved on it.

Chapter 589 Returning to the Village

Under the twilight, Guta Village looks desolate and dilapidated. Now it has just been ransacked by desert bandits, and the whole village is immersed in grief and despair.

The cold winter is coming, those robbers took away all the food they could find in the village, and killed more than 20 villagers who resisted them. Many villagers were injured under the pressure of the robbers, except for some food hidden in the secret cellar Other than that, there is almost nothing left in Guta Village.

From a distance, he saw wisps of cooking smoke rising from Guta Village. Suldak rode his horse to the entrance of Guta Village, and stopped Gu Bolai's horse.

On the hill not far from the west side of the village entrance, a group of people gathered there.

Suldak and Andrew rode over and saw a group of despondent villagers digging hard on the rocky ground with picks in their hands.

There are about a dozen tombs that have been excavated, all of which should have been buried. On the top of the tombs, a semicircular stone pestle was built with crushed stones.

Seeing Suldak rushing over, the group of villagers with numb eyes got away from the main road and walked around the cemetery. There are still six villagers whose corpses have not been buried here, so the villagers are still digging new ones. At the tomb, some villagers stared at Surdak with some hostility, as if complaining that he came so late.

The surrounding atmosphere was a bit oppressive, and there were faint mournful cries. Some women and children were picking up some stones in front of the tombstones that had been laid, and around the tomb that had not been dug here. Their footsteps were vain. Shock and sadness were clearly printed on his face.

When Suldak returned to the entrance of the village, the village head of Guta Village was already waiting there.

He was looking at the camels in horror, and when he saw Suldak come back on horseback, he immediately recognized the baron of the security station, with a look of sadness in his eyes, walked up to Suldak, and said deeply to him. After bowing deeply, he raised his head and said to Suldak: "Lord Baron Suldak, I am the village chief of Guta Village, do you remember me?".

Surdak jumped off his horse and said to the village chief: "Of course, I just came here with the militia battalion a few days ago! Village Chief Huggins, I received a report from the villagers that this place has been looted by desert robbers. The current situation How about it?"

"21 villagers died, most of whom were young and strong in the village. Among them were three militia battalion militiamen, and more villagers were injured, about [-]." The village head Huggins stood there with a slumped face, his gaze Chasing Suldak said.

"Did all three of my militiamen die in battle?" Suldak asked again.

"They and other villagers tried to keep those robbers out of the village, but they were hacked to death by those robbers riding camels." As he said, the village chief Huggins couldn't help but glanced at the security forces behind Suldak Members and camel teams.

Suldak knew what kind of doubts Village Chief Huggins had in his heart, and he said: "The desert bandits on our street ransacked the village first, and they rushed to the edge of the desert to intercept them. I guess you can see it too. , this camel caravan belongs to them.”

"Take me to see those injured villagers, maybe I can help them with their injuries!" Saying that, Suldak walked into the village.

Huggins quickly followed up from behind. He led the way and led Suldak into the dilapidated Guta Village. Perhaps it was because some villagers were still at the cemetery. The village seemed very quiet. When Huggins Village When the chief came to the village square, Suldak found a group of villagers waiting on the village square.

Villagers in some villages gathered around seeing the head of Huggins returning with a group of Surdak.

Suldak walked up to a dromedary, patted their loads vigorously, and told Village Chief Huggins: "Village Chief Huggins, take the grain and mountain goods that belong to you Unloaded from the hunchback, the first thing I do when I come to Guta Village this time is to return the supplies stolen by the robbers to everyone."

The villagers on the square exploded with a 'boom'. They were completely desperate for life, but when they heard that Suldak had retrieved all the lost supplies, hope of living was rekindled in their eyes. Some even Excited to issue a 'woo hoo' cry in the crowd.

No matter how strong people are, they are all moved by the scene in front of them. Suerdak's figure suddenly grew taller. Suerdak raised his voice, and said again to the villagers in the square: "In addition, please help to tell those injured When the villagers come here, I can help them deal with their injuries, especially those villagers who are seriously injured, even if I lift them, I have to carry them here."

The village chief Huggins immediately arranged for it. First, he called a group of villagers who were fairly nimble, and unloaded the supplies from the camels one by one.

Bags of grain were piled up again on the square in the village, and then a group of injured villagers were helped to the square in the village.

Suldak is in the square in the village. He treats these villagers on the spot, and he will casually ask about the process of the injury. When he meets brave villagers, he will compensate them for a little property confiscated from the robbers. He is the brave and the cowardly Although all villagers can be treated, the brave will get an extra property.

Suldak is already very proficient in the use of the Holy Light technique, so the healing process this time is very fast.