Chapter 59 Great Chaos <TOC> Chapter 61 Pale Ashes
Translator: SumTLMan
The dark night and the armed coalition of the five candidate councilors exacerbated the chaos.
Sharuva was guarded by several trusted subordinates and watched the chaotic camp in terror. His ears had been completely occupied by various gunfire, and everywhere were the cries of wounded soldiers.
It is unknown where the fire started, but the rolling smoke rose, making the already poor visibility even worse. It was impossible to see anything even a few meters away.
They built a makeshift barricade with wood, and anyone who approached would be driven away, except for Sharuva’s soldiers.
Sharuva was completely soaked in cold sweat. He now regrets leaving the comfortable town of Orin and coming to this godforsaken wilderness.
“How many…how many marauders are there?” He wiped the sweat in fear: “Quick! Take me back to Orin!”
“Old master! It’s too chaotic in the camp now.” The trusted subordinate replied with a bitter smile: “It’s too dangerous to venture out of the camp, not only from the marauders, but also from the soldiers of other councilors. It’s safer to stay in the camp.”
Sharuva had to reluctantly agree with his subordinate’s judgment.
He was horrified to find that after leaving Orin, he was no longer able to command these soldiers. This gave him a hint of killing intent.
Amid the hurried hoofbeats, a wild horse broke through the smoke and charged straight at Sharuva. Its fur was sticky with burning oil, burning like a painful parasite on his flesh.
Sharuva was shocked and couldn’t move. A trusted subordinate kicked him out of the way.
“Boom!”
The crazy wild horse crashed through the barricade and fled. A moment later, more wild horses rushed in and trampled everything in their path.
Several soldiers who couldn’t dodge were directly hit by the surging horse herd. After rushing, the hundreds of kilograms of massive beasts had extremely terrifying momentum. The unlucky ones who were hit didn’t even have time to cry out in terror, they flew out ten meters and were already dead in mid-air.
Sharuva clearly heard the sound of their bones being smashed, as if they were crushed dry branches. He was so frightened that he shat his pants. The part that had just been kicked was even more painful as if it was about to burst open.
“Oh no, Master! The marauders have let all our horses run away!”
The henchman who kicked him had a numb scalp, without the wild horses, they completely lost their mobility in the wilderness, those marauders could chase them at will, harass the team, and wait until everyone was exhausted before wiping them out.
He was originally a marauder in the wilderness, but he had to run away from the Avonigarda Great Swamp because he slept with the boss’s wife and was taken in by Sharuva.
He was no stranger to the tactics of the marauders.
Just then, the heavy hoofbeats came from the dark smoke again. The henchman’s face changed, such heavy hoofbeats, the body must be very large, there would not be such a powerful horse in the camp.
He looked at Sharuva who was completely paralyzed and chose to turn and run, it was time to change masters.
The next moment, a knight in a black cloak rushed out from the smoke. His black horse was extremely tall, taller than the strongest wild horse by half a neck, like a swamp giant that was daunting.
The black cloak was like a black cloud, the knight pulled back the horse, and the cold gaze fell on Sharuva.
“No… no! Don’t kill me, no matter how much money, I’ll give it to you!”
Sharuva’s entire body of fat was shaking, the whole person was like a soft mud spreading on the ground. Faced with this knight who seemed to have rushed out of hell, he couldn’t muster any courage.
The black horse took a few steps forward, the knight thrust out the giant blade spear in his arm, and the spear pierced Sharuva’s neck, directly cutting off his head.
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The knight turned his spear, threw off the blood on the spear blade, and the black horse under his crotch jumped, rushing into the smoke, the heavy hoofbeats gradually faded away.
The confidant let out a sigh of relief, as the gaze of that knight fell upon him, he felt that his heartbeat was about to jump out of his chest.
The chaos in the camp lasted for about three or four hours before it gradually subsided. People in the camp didn’t even know when the marauders left.
Susanto lit a fire and counted the number of soldiers with him, the more he counted, the more shocked he was. He brought over two hundred people, and now there were less than fifty left, the entire camp was almost filled with corpses.
Among the surviving soldiers, the wounded accounted for half. The morale of all people had reached its lowest point.
Both Elino and Tabor were injured, Elino’s left arm was broken, Tabor’s leg was broken, and even now they were still somewhat frightened. Sharuva and Selim died directly.
Selim died shortly after the chaos broke out, his female slave shot him into a sieve. Sharuva died during the chaos, with a savage wound through his neck.
“I have already advised Selim not to keep that woman.”
Susanto sighed, the female slave was the daughter of the former councilman.
“What should we do, Susanto?”
Elino was somewhat collapsing:
“All the bodies are our own people, not even one marauder, I asked the soldiers, they said the number of marauders was three hundred to five hundred. Now we don’t have horses, how do we return to Orin Town in the middle of at least three hundred marauders!”
“And that ghostly knight, the soldiers are almost treating him as the incarnation of Death.”
Tabor added.
“We’re all going to die!”
If it wasn’t for the fact that most of the survivors had seen that terrifying knight, he would have thought it was just an illusion caused by the soldiers’ fear.
Susanto’s headache was splitting, and he naturally had no way out. The painful losses of the first half of the night left him bewildered. At this moment, he finally realized that war and hiding in the secret room in Orin Town to plot were completely different.
In the dark night, he was defeated before he even had a chance to see a marauder.
“Wait! We’ll continue to wait at the camp!”
He hesitated for half a day and made a choice from his mouth.
“Are you crazy? Susanto!”
Tabor limped to Susanto’s front. Due to the heavy losses, Susanto’s prestige was no longer enough to intimidate other candidate council members.
“We can only wait, wait for the Soul Sect to save us.”
Susanto answered with a forced hold.
“Since those marauders have gathered strength to ambush us, they must no longer be able to massacre the messengers I sent out. Otherwise, why would those marauders withdraw after occupying such a great advantage? It must be the reinforcements of the Soul Sect!”