A Flying Feather Mercenary with a white goose feather on his leather hat appeared in front of Laurist. He held a blood-stained flail in his hand and laughed sinisterly. There were two or three bloodied guards lying beside him. Aside from one who was motionless, the other two were still twitching on the ground.
This Flying Feather Mercenary turned and saw Laurist walking towards him with a dark expression. He stopped laughing and narrowed his eyes. When Laurist was almost in front of him, he suddenly roared and smashed the flail in his hand down.
"Bang!" The flail hit the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust and leaving a small hole in the ground.
This Flying Feather Mercenary was stunned. Where did he go? Where did the young man who was just in front of him disappear? Before he could regain his senses, he saw a figure moving beside him from the corner of his eye. Before he could turn his head to see clearly, an indescribable pain made him tremble uncontrollably. He looked down and saw that his chest and stomach had been cut open, and his organs were spilling out.
"Ugh …" This Flying Feather Mercenary only felt his vision darken. He no longer had any strength left. When he fell to the ground, he was already a corpse.
Was this the tenth or eleventh Flying Feather Mercenary? Laurist could no longer remember. When he rushed into the chaotic battle, he found that the situation was more tragic than he had imagined. Most of the people lying on the ground were guards wearing double armor and guards wearing only one set of iron chain armor. With a quick glance, Laurist saw no less than twenty to thirty guards and guards in metal armor lying on the ground.
Laurist's figure turned into a gust of wind as he swept past a group of people engaged in a fierce battle. The four of them formed a battle formation and coordinated well with each other, killing seven or eight guards and guards in the surroundings until they were drenched in sweat. One or two of the Flying Feather Mercenaries looked like they could not hold on any longer. They clutched their throats as they spun and fell to the ground. The seven or eight guards and guards were stunned when they saw Laurist's back. The joy of escaping disaster and the arrival of strong reinforcements caused their morale to soar. As he chased after Laurist's back, he charged towards the Flying Feather Mercenaries with white fur sticking out of their heads without a care for his own safety.
As long as Loriste appeared, the guards and guards there would be in high spirits, their morale soaring. In the chaotic battle, the scales of victory quickly tipped towards Laurist's side.
It wasn't that the Flying Feather Mercenaries weren't valiant. In fact, even Laurist had to admit that the Flying Feather Mercenaries were braver than the guards and guards who used to be bandits. They were also more skilled in martial arts. Most importantly, the Flying Feather Mercenaries had all awakened Combat Energy. Even a Flying Feather Mercenary with Bronze Combat Energy was more than enough to deal with three or four guards. If it wasn't for the fact that the guards who had awakened their Dou Qi were bearing the brunt of the attack, the casualties of the guards would have been even greater.
Leurist's attacks were extremely ruthless and merciless. None of the Flying Feather Mercenaries that he encountered managed to keep their lives. Loriste's heart was currently filled with regret. He had thought of many different scenarios with everyone, but no one had expected that the Flying Feather Mercenaries, who were like trapped beasts, would actually dare to resist under the threat of more than twenty ballistae. They had only sacrificed a dozen or so lives, and the ballistae no longer posed a threat to them. The guards and guards who had surrounded them had thought that they would be able to force the Flying Feather Mercenaries to surrender. However, they were met with an unimaginable bloody battle …
'It's all my fault …' Leurist stepped back, and with a flash, he stabbed his sword into the back of a Flying Feather Mercenary who had been unable to stop himself from charging forward. The longsword pierced through the chest of the Flying Feather Mercenary …
'I was too careless. I shouldn't have thought of everything so optimistically. I thought that the Flying Feather Mercenaries would obediently give up their weapons and surrender under the threat of the ballistae …' Leurist charged forward, and with a swing of his sword, he beheaded a Flying Feather Mercenary who was about to stab his two-handed sword into the body of a guard on the ground. Blood spurted out from the neck that had lost its head, drenching Lollister into a bloody man.
Leurist couldn't be bothered to dodge, and allowed the blood to splash over him. 'It's all my fault. I was too careless, and my previous victories made me careless. I thought that everything would develop according to my plans, but I forgot that accidents are most likely to occur on the battlefield.' He didn't think that the Flying Feather Mercenary Group would suddenly have two Gold-rank Shield Bearers, and they would be able to hold him back.
Even though Master Xiluba had exposed Leurist's scheme, Leurist didn't care at all, and thought that everything was still under his control. Josk would deal with the Flying Feather Mercenaries outside the city, while Padt would lead another two hundred and eighty guards and guards to surround the tents. Auvikis and Sadekamp would command the ballistae on the hillside and the city walls respectively. As long as he could take down Commander Adams of the Flying Feather Mercenaries, he would be able to smoothly force the Flying Feather Mercenaries to land in the tents, and the entire plan would be completed.
However, he didn't expect that Commander Adams would have two Gold-rank Shield Bearers by his side, and they held Leurist back for almost 20 minutes. This amount of time was enough for many accidents to occur. Josk, Padt, Auvikis, Sadkamp, and Redi had all completed their arrangements according to the plan. However, Leurist made a mistake, and Commander Adams was left unattended. In the end, he gathered his men and charged at the formation of the guards, causing all of his plans to be in vain. An unexpected bloody battle had erupted just like that.
It was precisely because of the heavy casualties among the guards and guards that Laurist felt so conflicted and blamed himself. Before the northbound caravan led by Fatty Shi and Boddfinger arrived, Laurist had been troubled by the lack of manpower in his family. He hadn't taken care of the so-called four great families in Northern Field Town, and he was building a city here. He had to face the threat of the Kenneth Family, and there were still the Mountain Barbarians causing trouble in his territory. Although Josk had shown his might when the convoy arrived, shooting away the Mountain Barbarian cavalry with his godly arrows, no one could be sure that the Mountain Barbarians wouldn't take revenge and send their troops to cause trouble for Leurist.
Leurist felt that he was running out of manpower. It wasn't that he didn't have people, but that he couldn't use them. For example, in Maple Forest Manor, there were almost two thousand people who had awakened their fighting aura. Among them, more than forty were above the age of thirty-eight, and they were former soldiers of the family who had retired due to various reasons. They were either crippled or had old injuries. Leurist wanted to build a small team of guards who had all awakened their fighting aura, but he could only pull them in to make up for the number of people.
Why did Leurist want to teach all the young adults in Maple Forest Manor who were willing to awaken their fighting aura, even ignoring the objections of Steward Kleis, was because he felt that danger was looming ahead, and the family was in a precarious state. One of the biggest reasons Leurist wanted to move the main castle to this unfinished construction site was to avoid the threat of Northern Field Town. This was a secret that Leurist didn't tell anyone, and only he and Sadekamp knew about it.
Sadekamp stayed in Northern Field Town for two days. He was not there to help Steward Cordan with the population registration like he had told the public, but he was there to befriend the frustrated families and greedy guards of Northern Field Town as per Laurist's orders. He got an unbelievable piece of news from a drunken guard. The drunken guard said that the four big families could gather almost five to six hundred people who had awakened their Dou Qi. Although most of them were Bronze-ranked or Iron-ranked, there were still four to five Silver-ranked people in each family. Otherwise, why would the Four Great Clans secretly organize the smuggling caravans? Without the existence of these military forces, they would have long been swallowed up by the dark forces of the underground world, or by the passing Territorial Guards.
In the past hundred years, the commoner families of Northern Field Town had paid special attention to the cultivation of their children. Although they all practiced the fighting aura of the former Christen Empire, which was much more complicated and difficult to cultivate than the basic fighting aura taught by Leurist, their living conditions were better, and they didn't have to worry about food and clothing. Therefore, more and more children awakened fighting aura. The reason why the four great families could control Northern Field Town was because their children had the most awakened fighting aura, and they were the victors of many family fights in Northern Field Town.
Leurist was glad that the four great families secretly organized smuggling caravans in Northern Field Town. They couldn't pass through the natural barrier of the Mitobro River, which cut off the north from the outside world. Otherwise, if the four great families' smuggling caravans reached Morent City and sent their children there to study or buy basic fighting aura and high-level fighting aura manuals, the Norton Family wouldn't be able to suppress the ambitions of the four great families.
At that time, the four great families would be able to destroy the Norton Family, which was in a precarious situation. They could then find a random member of the Norton Family to marry the daughter of the Norton Family. In less than twenty to thirty years, the Furious Bear Family of the North would be rightfully replaced by one of the four great families. Fortunately, the four great families didn't have such foresight. At the end of the day, they were just a bunch of local tycoons who hadn't seen the world. Their eyes were fixed on the land in front of them, and they haggled over every copper coin. Now that Leurist had returned to his family, the end of the four great families was just around the corner.
If Northern Field Town really had only a dozen awakened fighting aura, Leurist wouldn't have minded leading his family's awakened fighting aura to Northern Field Town to start a massacre and wipe out all the unstable factors. But after Leurist received the news from Söderkamp, he couldn't help but think about it. Sometimes, he thought about how great it would be if he could command all the awakened fighting aura in Northern Field Town. Then, the Norton Family could even ignore the Northern Duke's order to raise taxes.
But this was just a thought. Northern Field Town was still ruled by the Norton Family in name, but in reality, Leurist felt that it was a bigger threat to the family than the Mountain Barbarians. The difference in strength was too great, so Leurist could only try to appease and divide the family while waiting for the northbound caravans to arrive. For example, the population registration in Northern Field Town made Leurist hate it. The four great families stuffed their own children into the expanded garrison, and at the same time, prevented the families of those who had been expelled from registering. They secretly incited their dissatisfaction with the families, so that Leurist wouldn't be able to use those awakened fighting aura.
Of the one thousand and five hundred people that Laurist had brought back last time, less than ten of them had awakened their fighting energy. Leurist could only endure it and wait for his plan to divide Northern Field Town to take effect. When those who had been expelled and lost their fields had a dispute with the four great families, and when they were escorted to Poplar Beach to build a new town, that would be the time for Leurist to make his move.
Leurist fought on the battlefield, but his mind was filled with many thoughts. Every time he saw a guard or a guard lying in a pool of blood, the guilt in his heart deepened. These were the family's most precious people, but they had been sacrificed because of his poor planning. This made Leurist hate himself and Captain Adams of the Flying Feather Mercenary Group even more. What made Leurist puzzled was why Captain Adams would still resist in such a desperate situation. Even if they killed the guards and guards surrounding the tents, they would still face the retaliation of the ballistae. Did they really think they could take back the construction site of the castle?
Two green arrows flashed past Laurist's eyes, knocking two Flying Feather Mercenaries to the ground. This was Josk's move. The cheers of the guards and guards around them grew louder and louder, and the scene in front of them became empty. There was not a single Flying Feather Mercenary left standing.
Leurist shook his head, trying to wake himself up from his dejected mood. Not far away, there were two groups of people gathered, and they seemed to be watching something.
Leurist walked over, and the crowd automatically opened up a path. Leurist walked in to take a look, and saw Redi and a Silver-ranked Flying Feather mercenary fighting in the middle of the crowd. Redi's thigh, left rib, and chest had been slashed, and there were still traces of blood. However, Redi was still able to deal with it easily. On the other hand, his opponent, the Silver-ranked Flying Feather mercenary, was panting heavily with a panicked expression. Even the white glow of the sword in his hand was flickering. He was already at the end of his rope, and Redi was bound to win.
Leurist left the crowd and walked towards the other group of people. Before he had taken three or four steps, he heard a scream behind him, followed by the cheers and applause of the crowd.
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