Blood tax

Chapter 4 Attack on Manisa Village

Heavily armed Griffith crossed flat country roads, crossed creeks and over hills.For him personally, such marches have been the norm for the past two years.

According to his plan, he only needs to march 30 miles on a good road and arrive before dusk, and he must remain ready to fight during the operation.

The four-person adventure team I saw earlier walked in a hurry, as if they were not fighting but snapping up free apples.

Although they looked very unreliable, Griffith was accustomed to feel that he should reunite with the friendly forces as soon as possible.After eliminating the option of the militia brigade that needs to camp in the wild, I can only try to persuade the adventure team to stay in the village for one night, waiting for the next day to join the main militia force and destroy the nest.

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Two hours after leaving the town, the vague figure of the adventure team had already appeared in front of the road.At this rate, it should be no problem to reach Manisa Village before the sun goes down.

Thinking that the adventurers seemed to be repulsive to team up with outsiders, Griffith also slowed down and kept a distance from them in silence.

The road to the mountains began to become crooked and narrow, and the hillsides on both sides were obscured by the thick trees.Griffith was immediately alert.In a place like this, an ambush is simply impossible to prevent!
At this time, a faint smell of blood floated from the front, and a wailing sound with pain could be vaguely heard.

Griffith hurriedly clenched the spear, bent over and entered the woods beside him, and weaved through the woods.

The adventure team also noticed the situation after a while, picked up their weapons and rushed forward.

Soon, there were shouts of fighting and roaring from the front, and the adventurer team walking in front had already entered the battle.

The fighting and shouting soon subsided, and when Griffith arrived, he found a broken carriage parked on the edge of the road.The driver and the packhorse pulling the cart were stabbed in the stomach by sharp objects, and they were no longer breathing.

The four members of the adventure team were surrounding the carriage. The skinny nun was treating a man with a broken leg. Badu swung his big axe and chopped off the heads from several green corpses scattered around. Chopping aside and muttering: one silver man, two silver men...""

"You are late, these are our spoils!" Miss Boxer Ulan noticed Griffith's approach, and immediately shouted with a straight face.

Yes yes yes, I know.The apprentice knight nodded obediently to Miss Boxer, bypassing them and inspecting the scene.

"Mr. Isis was attacked by goblins when he was driving through here, and the driver was killed," said the young swordsman Andy, wiping the blood on his long sword and pointing to the corpse on the ground, "Fortunately we came here. Early, killed four, and six escaped. Oh yes, this is the Griffith apprentice knight of the Eastern Army."

Griffith followed the direction of the young swordsman's fingers and saw four short corpses whose heads had been beheaded, and gurgling black blood was flowing from the wounds.

"Hello, Mr. Apprentice Knight." The middle-aged man who was sitting on the ground receiving treatment endured the pain and said, "I'm Isis, the apprentice of the mage. I came here to investigate the situation on the order of the mage. !"

The apprentice nun hastily apologized.She was unskilled in her prayers and had a small failure in healing the wound, tearing the otherwise insignificant stab wound a little further.

"Hello, Mr. Mage Apprentice."

Griffith nodded his helmet as a greeting, and continued to examine the scene of the battle.

The driver's stomach was pulled open, his stomach was pulled out, and his face was full of stiff pain.Dried bloodstains and broken intestines littered the grass by the roadside.

"Mr. Isis, when were you attacked?"

Isis said while bandaging the wound: "About half an hour ago, four little monsters suddenly jumped out of the woods and killed the driver. I could only defend myself by standing on the shelf with wooden sticks, but fortunately they were too short to climb up. , and it stayed like this for a while.

"Then, two of them started to tear the driver's stomach, and the other two continued to attack me and scratched my thigh."

"Then we arrived!" the boxer girl said proudly, "These guys even had ambushing soldiers, and six more came out of the woods, but they were easily beaten away by us."

"Why do they choose to attack during the day?" Griffith looked up at the sun. It was still early and the sun was still hot.

"Who knows~" Andy shrugged indifferently.

At this time, Badu said: "By the way, if we continue on our way, can we rush to the village before dark, or search for their lair? The few goblins were injured just now, and the blood will lead us to their lair. nearby."

"Slowly," Griffith hurriedly stopped, "Everyone, let's go to Manisa Village together. It's safer to join up with the town's militiamen tomorrow to encircle and suppress the nest."

The rest of the adventure team thought, the boxer girl was very determined to go to the lair and take the goblins, but the other two were hesitant.

"Wait!" Isis shouted, "I will pay, 10 silver men, please take back my package, which is full of materials and medicines that I have collected with great difficulty. Brin took it. We can follow their blood trail."

Hearing this request, the opinions of the adventure team began to unify, and the boxer girl thought it was a good idea.

"Mr. apprentice knight, can you come together?" Isis asked respectfully.

"No, I have to rush to Manisa Village to support."

"No need, four of us are enough!"

The voices of Griffith and the boxer girl sounded almost at the same time.The young swordsman Andy's face was also obviously relieved.

"If you don't retrieve the package when it's getting dark, come to Manisa Village as soon as possible," Griffith gave up hope of bringing the adventurer team back to the village for defense, but he still took care of him, " The forest at night is dangerous."

"I know." The boxer girl waved her hand impatiently.Her companion, Badu, began to dig a hole in the ground to bury the body of the coachman, while Andy helped the mage assistant to walk into the woods first.

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When the sun was about to set, Griffith, who was acting alone, could already see the shadow of Manisa Village.From the hillside to the plain where the village is located, the villagers are driving their livestock back to the village, a peaceful scene.

Okay, catch up...

"Jie Jie Jie Jie~"

A sharp scream came suddenly.Suddenly, a large and small black spot appeared on the gradually darkening land.They moved so fast on the flat ground that it was barely clear to see the black spot knocking some unfortunate villagers to the ground.The villagers, who had not yet returned to the village, were scrambling, and screams of misery and terror resounded through the fields.

He even launched an attack at this time! ?Are you going to take down the gate when the villagers return to the village?

The apprentice knight who left the front line had no horses to drive, and he continued to observe the surrounding environment while trotting toward the village.

A number of figures emerged from the gate of the village in the distance, waving long and short things in their hands.But they didn't seem to dare to leave the village gate too far, just desperately waving the weapons in their hands and shouting.

"This can't be done!" Griffith was less than 200 steps away from the village. He threw the package on his shoulders, clenched the short gun in both hands, and rushed towards the back of the attackers who were chasing the villagers.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and in the dim light, the apprentice knight saw dozens of little monsters that were not much taller than children.They have pointed ears, green skin all over their bodies, no matter how tall they are, they are only wrapped in dirty rags around their waists, and they are armed with sticks, machetes and short guns.

Goblin!
The creatures screamed and rushed at the villagers they caught, knocking them to the ground, followed by a swarm of small monsters swarming up and raining down with a variety of weapons.Occasionally a few women were caught, and the goblins grabbed the women by their hair and clothes and dragged them away.

The goblins didn't notice Griffith approaching from behind.But once the fight begins, it's only a matter of time before they notice.

Their organization must be destroyed as soon as possible!
Griffith jumped up quickly, and shot sideways with guns in both hands.Using the impact speed, the inferior short spear opened a large opening on the skulls of the two goblins, and red and white liquids splashed out.The woman who was still screaming for help suddenly found that the strength to hold her was gone, and then she heard a plop.

Griffith continued to trot forward without looking at his victory or the woman he had rescued.The goblins on the field were scattered like sesame seeds on the bread. Griffith swung the short spear in his hand to stab left and right, and wherever he went, the goblins fell like waves of wheat blown by the autumn wind.

Some of the fallen monsters hadn't died immediately, and screamed shrilly as they rolled.In the noisy field, the group of goblins who were suddenly attacked behind them still didn't understand what was going on. They burst apart like a pudding thrown on the ground, and most of them gave up their prey and looked around nervously.

Griffith moved without hesitation while fighting, targeting strong goblin warriors or goblins who were still holding on to women in the village.Among his enemies, there were also cunning and ruthless people who fought back against the apprentice knights with sharp blades, but under the attack of the long weapons, these monsters were unable to unite and were killed in a blink of an eye.

A green shadow suddenly jumped out of the grass and lunged at Griffith from the side.The apprentice knight stabbed it out of the air with a single shot.

Almost at the same time, a force hit the helmet heavily.Griffith was staggered, reached out and dragged a goblin with a hammer from the back of his head.

It's quite a match!Is it a coincidence?The apprentice knight smashed the goblin hard on the ground, lifted its iron boots and smashed its head.

"Jie Jie Jie!" Three more goblins rushed forward, and they suddenly dispersed four or five meters away from Griffith, one rushed from the front, and two flanked from the wings.

Heck!Not a coincidence!Griffith released his hands, and before the pistol landed, he pulled out a dagger and threw it to the right, then jumped to the right, and in the process of jumping, he pulled out another dagger and threw it at the goblin who was rushing to the left. .

"Yeah!" The two little monsters screamed.At the same time, the frontal enemy had already pounced and stabbed Griffith's chest with a boning knife.

Griffith raised his hand to block, and there was a flash of fire on the sturdy gauntlet.Immediately before the surprised enemy could react, Griffith grabbed the goblin's arm with his backhand and slammed it to the ground.

"Bah!" The little monster's head smashed into pieces on a rock.

They're capable of simple synergy... someone trained these creatures!

The apprentice knight took a breath, retracted the thrown dagger, picked up the short spear, and charged towards a small group of enemies.Among the remaining enemies, there was no such a skilled group, and Griffith went back and forth on the small battlefield for several times until all the goblins who dared to fight were killed.The remnants of the little monster howled and fled northward into the depths of the forest.

Almost fifteen killed, fifteen silver coins, well.Griffith glanced at the corpses scattered across the field with satisfaction, and made sure that there were no living enemies before he pulled out his axe, chopped off the heads of these little monsters one by one and put them in a pocket.

These filthy, murderous creatures really have nothing but broken weapons and rags around their waists.

Griffith quickly collected the loot to retrieve his luggage, and then walked towards the village gate.

A group of villagers gathered at the gate of Manisa Village. While comforting their neighbors who escaped, they stared at the apprentice knight as they passed through the gate and walked towards the village.

Carrying a short gun on his shoulder and wearing double armor, Griffith took steady steps, and the stones that stepped on the ground made a crackling sound.The frightened villagers consciously retreated to both sides like the tide of the reef.

(End of this chapter)