Chapter 56 The True and False Security Officers <TOC> Chapter 58 Eve of Battle
Translator: SumTLMan
Across the wilderness, a man from Xingdu rode on horseback at a rapid pace, with a frightened look on his face, unable to conceal his paleness.
Because Susanto suspected that the fake security officer was backed by a powerful marauder, he insisted on gathering all the manpower before leaving the town to pursue and kill, despite the opposition of other candidate council members, in order to prevent ambush by marauders outside the town.
This messenger was one of the over ten messengers sent out by Susanto for the last time. Out of concern for his subordinates being lightly hunted, he directly forced the residents of Orin Town to send a message for him.
Susanto believed that if the other party wanted to intercept the messenger, he would send more messengers, which would delay the damn fake security officer near Orin Town. If the fake security officer ran into Avonigarda Great Swamp, it would be even harder to catch him.
And Susanto did not believe that the other party could intercept all the messengers on different routes at once.
The messenger galloped alone in the seemingly uninhabited wilderness. If it were not for his family being locked up in Susanto’s manor, he would have chosen to throw away the letter in his arms and hide.
If the letter is not delivered to the monastic order of the Soul Sect, his family will surely die.
The messenger looked around suspiciously, always feeling that something was watching him. That cold and sharp gaze was like a needle that stuck to his back.
He tightly grasped the rough pistol at his side, without mercy for the beloved horse under him, constantly using sharp horse spurs to scratch the horse’s legs, so that it could run faster.
A monastic order of the Soul Sect is located less than thirty kilometers from Orin Town. There, trainee cultists are trained, and titled cultists teach apprentices how to communicate with the Lord of Souls, the teachings of the Soul Sect, and the martial arts used for hunting.
Outstanding apprentices, after refining their bodies to the extreme and deeply understanding the teachings of the Soul Sect, will be given family bones and become awakened, grazing the Lord of Souls’ lambs.
An excellent wilderness horse can cross this distance in less than thirty minutes. Even if the messenger took a remote road to avoid the siege, it would only take fifty minutes.
However, this short distance has become a moat.
Suddenly, the messenger felt his body lighten, and he was thrown off his horse, rolling several times on the ground before stopping his momentum. A moment later, he felt a tearing pain, as if all his bones had broken.
Struggling to get up, he saw in horror a huge bird of prey attacking his horse.
It was huge, over a person’s height. Its feathers reflected a brilliant metallic glow in the sun. Starting from the shoulder, it was a mesmerizing shade of sapphire blue, and it gradually darkened to an icy iron color at the wing tips and tail.
The over five hundred kilogram wild horse was easily pushed to the ground by the bird, in a near-death state, undergoing convulsions before death.
Its cause of death was the bird’s sharp claws. The bird swooping down from high altitude accurately crushed the wild horse’s hard skull with one claw.
The bird turned its head and stared at the messenger with icy eyes.
The messenger immediately raised his rifle in terror, he was all too familiar with this gaze, it was the monster watching him from the sky.
The bird spread its long wings and generated a roar of wind. The messenger had not even had time to pull the trigger, he was thrown to the ground and his rifle was crushed in his hand.
After knocking the person down, the bird only let out a long screech before closing its eyes and standing still. The messenger was even more afraid to move, as if he was dead.
After a long time, a hovercraft slowly arrived here. The bird excitedly flew to Li Mu, landing on his wrist.
This scene was somewhat amusing, the bird was still unable to adapt to its rapid physical changes, and always liked to interact with Li Mu in its previous manner.
In three days, it grew from one meter two to one meter nine.
Li Mu produced a heavy piece of meat, threw it with force, and the bird immediately took flight, pecking the meat in the air, and swallowing it.
He swung his sore arm, relaxed, and breathed a sigh of relief. Regardless, holding the sixty-plus kilogram bird with one arm was not a pleasant thing.
Especially since it’s also quite mischievous, constantly bringing its head over to beg for petting, and often accidentally slapping its head with its wings.
He walked up to the messenger:
“You are much more intelligent than your colleagues, knowing to take a longer route.”
The messenger looked at the thug in front of him who had killed all the cultists of Orin Town, shivering and unable to speak due to fear. He was just an ordinary leather craftsman in Orin Town, and the most vicious person he had ever seen was only the cultists of the Soul Sect.
The thug in front of him was the killer who sliced the heads of the cultists like watermelons.
He was afraid that if he said something wrong, he would be swallowed alive. It is said that those looters liked to eat people’s hearts the most.
“Rest assured, I will spare your life.”
Li Mu took out a water bottle and gave him some water to drink.
The messenger swore that he had never drank such delicious water in his life, clear and sweet, like a gentle rain, nourishing his body with every wound, and the pain immediately decreased significantly.
“Where is the monastery of the Soul Sect?”
“I… I don’t know.” The messenger answered in terror: “Mr. Susanto only asked me to run to a white boulder, and as long as I light this torch on it, the cultists of the Sect will naturally come to find me.”
“Tell me where that boulder is?”
The messenger immediately spilled all he knew.
“Can you still walk?”
“Yes! Yes! I can still walk!”
The messenger was afraid that he would be killed directly by the thug in front of him due to losing his mobility.
“Then continue to walk, to the agreed upon giant rock, light the bonfire, do everything according to Ansu’s instructions. And our little episode will just rot in your stomach.”
Li Mu put away the water bottle and screwed on the lid.
“Of course… Of course…”
The messenger nodded repeatedly, he knew that the people of the Spirit Cult would never believe that a thug would send him to deliver the message.
“As for your horse, I believe you can find a reason to explain it.”
Li Mu looked at the horse that had already died on the ground.
“I said that I was too hasty to hurry on the road and accidentally broke the horse’s leg.”
The messenger looked at his beloved horse, with a hint of heartache in his eyes, this was the most precious possession in his home.
“Ding” a sound, Li Mu snapped his finger and shot out a golden arc of light.
The messenger opened his arms to catch the arc of light, and found that it was a brand new gold Lasu. This gold Lasu was enough for him to buy another wild horse in the wasteland.
“Let’s go.”
Li Mu took another rifle from the hovercraft and threw it to him to prevent him from being eaten by the wild beasts in the wilderness on the road.
“Thank you! Thank you, sir!”
The messenger happily received the gold Lasu, this “sir” was called willingly.
Chapter 56 The True and False Security Officers <TOC> Chapter 58 Eve of Battle