Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 10 Prayer
More than a hundred miles north of Karen City, countless flames flickered in a hidden valley, and there were continuous bursts of noisy sounds in the night wind.Hundreds of meters near the valley, you can easily see hundreds of marching tents in the valley.

Most of these tents are extremely dilapidated. A few thick branches that have undergone a simple dehydration process constitute their main frame, and the outside is wrapped with a layer of rags covered with stains and blood. From a distance, it looks like a festering sore growing on the surface of the earth. .Countless demi-humans and mixed races live among them, and occasionally one or two huge trolls can be seen. They wear broken leather armor and wooden shields, and hold rusty machetes and crooked wooden spears—if not Most of the soldiers looked quite strong, and they exuded bursts of brutality. Probably no one would associate them with the word "elite".

But what is strange is that the military tents in the entire camp are mostly similar in shabbyness, but the arrangement of each area is very different.Close to the position of the Chinese army, the distance between the tents and the structure of the tents seem to have been accurately calculated. There are even fire prevention measures and a large number of light and dark checkpoints around them, which is extremely strict.

Corresponding to it are the front and back parts. This group of demihumans and hybrids occupying [-]% of the camp area presents all kinds of chaos that are incompatible with the military camp. Some people are grilling the animal meat hunted during the day around the campfire, while The patched leather wine jug poured bad wine down the throat, and scolding and fighting caused by excess energy after drinking and eating were not uncommon.
The camp of the Chinese Army was built on a slightly higher plateau in the middle of the valley. At this time, an old man of mixed race with gray hair and wrinkles on his face was hunched over slightly, stroking his beard and looking at the chaotic scene in the distance. His eyes were full of worry.

"High Priest, it's getting cold, you shouldn't be blowing wind here anymore." A guard reminded softly from behind.

The old man didn't answer, still staring at the front silently, after a while, he sighed deeply.

"Okay, Kruger, don't worry about those useless things—" There was a burst of wind, but the mixed-race old man didn't dodge, and saw a ball of robes being thrown in the air, just landing on his thin body. on the shoulders.

"Didn't we already foresee such a situation when we summoned the tribal coalition?" The man behind said casually, and at the same time strode forward, came to the old man, and helped him tidy up the cotton he had just put on. robe.

It was a tall and strong demi-human about 40 years old, not to mention compared with his short kin, even standing next to Kruger, a half-beast, half-human hybrid, his size seemed to be neat A few laps bigger.

The man turned his head to look at the guards on both sides, waved his hand and said, "I want to discuss the military situation with the high priest, so go eat and rest first, there will be a battle tomorrow, give me enough energy!"

"Yes, General!" The guards were overjoyed when they heard the words, and they all bowed and retreated.

When the sound of everyone's footsteps faded away, only two figures, one large and one small, were left on the field where the big tent was located. Kruger looked at the man and said, "Soretto, shouldn't you be in the front army at this point in time?" , why are you back?"

"Sit down? What's there to sit on? It's not like you can't see what's going on over there!" Soretto rolled his eyes and simply sat down on the ground, "Karen City is like a piece of fat dripping with sesame oil. In front of us poor ghosts, not to mention those small tribes that don't make a difference, don't even our own fighters in Shuofeng go crazy?"

He pointed to the direction where the guards left just now, "Those guys are from the Luo Nuo family, right? I heard that their house was hit by hail this spring, so I'm just waiting to grab some more things this time and go back and add a few more." Tents, otherwise even this winter will be difficult.”

"Okay!" Kruger stopped his rambling, "Even if the prey is close at hand, it's not a reason for us to abolish military discipline—and, don't play the side drums with me, this time we will only move Hector I don't care what you discussed with the leaders below, this time we can't step into Karen half a step!"

Soretto's face was a bit ugly, "Just for the worthless agreement with Clivell? As long as Hector is killed, the whole of Karen will be at his fingertips. What can he do with us at that time? He is just a mere investigator." Xiangshi, not the furnace knight!"

"Superficial!" Kruger gave him a gouged look, "Why do you think I promised him that he would never violate Karen and the surrounding farms? Is it because I am afraid of his force?"

"Have you ever thought about it, even if we take Karen down, the Golden Dynasty can tolerate us for a few days? Dedas is only two hundred miles away from here, and they only need to send fifty Rodel knights, with Two hundred heavily armed soldiers can hang all of us on the confession rack, or worse - the demihumans are fed chronic poison and pulled to be coolies for digging mountains and rivers, and the hybrids are sent to the arena to be used with blood and blood. To please their nobles with their lives, and finally use anchor chains to penetrate the abdomen of trolls, and then put them in gorgeous golden armor and use them as livestock to pull carts!"

"So what if you don't take it?" Soretto's face turned purple, and he retorted with his neck stuck, "Can you guarantee that after we leave, Clivell will be the Karen consul? Can you guarantee that he will sit on that one?" Can the location keep its promise in the future, deliver the agreed food and medicine, and guarantee that everyone will have room to live in the future?"

"I can't—of course I can't!" Kruger widened his eyes and said, "But do we have a better choice?"

"Otherwise, just ransack Karen and go straight away with the things. The Gemir Mountains are so big, even if Didas really comes, they won't be able to find us."

"You fart!" Kruger was so angry that his beard and hair swelled, he jumped up and kicked Soretto, "No matter how big Gemir is, he is bigger than Yatan? How many people do you plan to kill if you also ransack Karen? That demigod Gu Long just passed by here, so what's the difference between us doing something like this and stepping on the faces of Rodel's two majesties into the soil? Then how many days do we have to live?"

Soretto was rendered speechless by the refutation, so he got up angrily and said, "I'm going to continue to inspect the former army. If that guy Turak comes back later, I'll bring him to see you." went back to the ground.

Looking at that figure from the back, Kruger took a deep breath, and his bloodshot eyes revealed a deep sense of exhaustion.

Soretto is more than ten years younger than him, and the two have been close for decades. It is also through the joint wisdom and efforts of the two that the Shuofeng tribe has developed more and more prosperously, to the point that it has gradually divided the many Asian tribes in southern Gemir. Humans and mixed races unite.However, with the expansion of power, the ambitions and desires of many people in the tribe also expanded, especially for Soretto, who was only under him.

Kruger knew that he didn't have many days to live. His early life of hunger, cold and war had greatly damaged his body, and it was precisely because of this that he valued the war in Karen City so much and was so merciless. Criticize Soretto face-to-face——Only by allowing Karen City to transition to Clivell's hands in a safe and stable manner, and allowing Soretto to learn to think about the situation from his height, can he let go with peace of mind.

A gust of cold night wind blew, and the old man couldn't help tightening his cotton robe, and several painful coughs rolled out of his throat.

"May God bless our people—" Looking at the cold full moon and dark black moon in the sky, Kruger prayed silently in his heart.

He didn't go to see the golden tree, because the golden law couldn't tolerate aliens like them.

(End of this chapter)