The Blood Knight’s Villains

My Villains Chapter 348

59. Highland (8)

Longdale.

Located in the southeast of the plateau, it is a large settlement that is large enough to be a village and small enough to be a city.

As its name suggests, Longdale, located at the beginning of a long valley, is well-known for its rare breed of goats called ‘Ziegna’ and its faithful residents. It is also famous for its unique quiet scenery, as it is a region where desolate highlands and rich grasslands meet.

These days, around February, I could see the precious sight of green rye trees poking their heads out through the melting snow. Such a peaceful town was Longdale.

However, because it was neither such a longdale nor such a longdale, it could not escape the eyes of dirty marauders.

Dang dang dang dang-!

Armed men lined up on the walls amidst a loud sound resounding from the bell tower.

“Arrowman!”

cried Regan, the longdale police officer and vigilante leader.

“Come up from the bowman! Paul Godfrey Bontel! You stand at Munru!”

Hearing the urgent bell, the assembled vigilantes ran up the stairs in a hurry.

The wall, built by putting a wooden fence on a low rock and covering it with mud, was only 3 to 4 meters high.

Thanks to the fact that both sides were blocked by cliffs, the area to be defended was not long, and the tobo supporting the wall was thick, but it was nothing compared to a well-made fort or castle.

“quickly! Hurry!”

“Fill it from the middle! Don’t notice and intervene anywhere!”

The 200 or so soldiers guarding the wall were also not very good.

There were only twenty-nine soldiers in the direct command of ‘Somer’, Regan’s superior and Longdale’s high official, or standing army. The rest are all vigilantes.

Although the soldiers were equipped with proper military equipment such as chain mail and iron helmets, the vigilantes were all armed differently. There were very few cases that were better than the soldiers, and most of them wore leather coats over thick cotton clothes and looked like they were holding spears or axes.

“… Mr. Ha.”

Regan swallowed a sigh and looked at the roaring bell tower and the church below it.

In an ordinary village where the god of light is worshiped, it is common to build a small building and use it as an oratory, but in Longdale, a proper church with stone walls and colored glass was built.

‘If I had put the stone that was written over there on the wall…

Normally, I wouldn’t have thought of this.

There were no forests around Longdale, so there were few monsters that could be a threat, and even the low barriers and untrained soldiers were enough to stop the thieves who came infrequently.

However, what appeared before the walls of Longdale was not a wandering ogre or a trivial bandit.

“I can’t hear you!”

At the roaring shout, Regan looked at the enemies with a dark expression.

“You stupid bastards, take a day off and go!”

“If you open the door carefully, nothing will happen! This old man assures me!”

“Ofen diel Ttir!”

The sound of bells ringing endlessly was added to the chatter of hundreds of horsemen. All kinds of swear words and even the unfamiliar Gellan language were added to Regan’s mind.

“The Bloodmane mercenaries.”

They were notorious in the Mittergerant Empire and far to the southern continent. The rare killers who

swept through the colonies of the Amir Alliance and wiped out five native villages without a trace in four days .

“Hadi!”

A young soldier ran to Regan’s call. The middle-aged vigilante kept his eyes fixed on the Bloodmane Dragon Corps as he chewed and spit out orders.

“Go and get some people.”

“…yes? Villagers?”

“okay. Bring everyone who can fight. Even if you take out the children and the old man, it would be easy to have a long man of five or six hundred.”

“Should I go that far?”

The young soldier hesitated and continued.

“All of them are cavalry and there are many of them, but we are on the wall. I can stop that mess.”

“under! Wouldn’t there be a magician in that level of mercenaries? Stop talking like an asshole and get out of here!”

By the time the hardened young soldier ran down the stairs. Four or more people appeared among the mercenaries who had been talking and provoking for a while.

The way he licks his lips while wearing a robe…

“The X arm too. It’s a wizard-!”

Surprised by Regan’s paroxysmal cry, the soldiers fired arrows at the wizards. However, since it was the bloody mane dragon corps that skillfully controlled the distance while provoking, not a single arrow reached them.

“Such a dog-”

The distance from the wizard was more than 300 meters, but the vigilante smelled faintly of sulfur. He immediately groaned and fell flat.

“Get down on the fire pit!”

The mercenary wizards worked together to create only two fireballs, but they were the size of a human body and could easily fly hundreds of meters. Fireballs exploded on top of the soldiers with their stomachs pressed against the hardened earth of the wooden fence.

Kwak-!

The flames that exploded with a roar engulfed the entire Munru. A series of explosions hit the outer wall next to it.

“Gaaaaagh!”

“Save me, save me-!”

Regan, who had been trying to calmly lead, lost control in an instant as dozens of burning soldiers let out terrible screams and ran amok.

“Hahaha! Look at those buggy bastards!”

“Hugen ziel hugen ziel!”

“Okay let’s go!”

The bloody mane mercenaries immediately attacked the fortress wall. Everywhere was dirty and shabby, but at the thought of robbing a wealthy village, his eyes were full of energy.

“Wofen diel cun Speer!”

The man in the lead gave a command. The mercenaries, who rode vigorously, threw javelins at the top of the wall, and some fired bows or crossbows.

“behind! Take cover!”

The vigilante leader desperately shouted, but it was after more than 30 soldiers had already fallen. With the Munru on fire and the constant screaming barrel, there was no way the order would be delivered properly.

“Uh ha ha-”

Beep!

As arrows were fired at each other from the wall, the cavalrymen turned around with a loud noise, then rushed back and threw their spears. After repeating this over and over again, the frightened soldiers could not put their heads above the wall.

“Now!”

And in the fourth charge, the looters called the bloody mane mercenaries threw a spear.

Seeing sharp claws torn into three halves gripping the wooden fence in front of his nose, Regan drew his sword in fright.

“It’s a hook! Respond!”

He swung his sword vigorously three or four times to cut off the lines attached to the siege hooks, but dozens of hooks were already caught on the fence.

“Zielken!”

“Pull!”

As the cavalrymen with hook lines hanging from their saddles ran, smoking dust! The wooden fence tilted with a loud noise. Starting from the outer wall next to the gatehouse that was engulfed in flames, the wooden fence fell like a domino.

As the pile of soil supporting the back of the wooden fence poured down and formed a ramp, the mercenaries hit the reins without hesitation. The looters, who had been constantly mocking and swearing throughout the battle, did not even shout at the moment of breakthrough. He just blinked and raised his weapon.

“Enemies are coming, stop it! Regan, who had been yelling at the window- uggh, spewed blood bubbles. He collapsed on his butt with his throat pierced by an arrow, and then his throat was cut off by a mercenary.

“Captain!

“Ughhh!”

The soldiers reacted differently to Regan’s death. To brandish a weapon in rage, to freeze in fright, to flee in terror.

“Ahhh you cowardly bastards!”

“I don’t need a man! Kill them all!” The mercenaries on the pile of dirt felt victory and started talking again. Enraged and astonished soldiers fell under the mean taunts.

“Hey, that kid over there. How much if you get it right?”

“I bet a silver coin. Twice if it hits the head, twice as much if it flies somewhere else.”

“Huh good.”

The unlucky ones among the frightened soldiers who fled became prey for cruel games. And the lucky ones became heralds of terror and fled throughout the village.

“The wall has collapsed!”

The old woman standing in front of the door hurriedly asked back at the screams of the soldiers who had rolled into the church.

“Oh Ben. it’s you Regan. What about Sheriff Regan?”

“He also passed away. throat was cut They were their children…

Fear spread among the hundreds of residents who were tightly packed in the spacious chapel, holding their breath. The old woman, Lord Somer of Longdale, sighed and sat down in her chair.

“Is Landry still with His Excellency?”

“The Marquis is in High Castle, Grandma. He doesn’t even know that Longdale is under attack.”

“iced coffee.”

The soldier wept and continued.

“Hady is Regan’s lieutenant gathering the men. I’ll buy time somehow, so take the women and children and run away-” “

…run away? Where?” “It’s like,

“The back is in an endless mountain valley and there’s not much food, so where should I run to? Do you mean to climb a cliff and throw yourself?”

When the soldier shut his mouth, Somer closed his eyes tightly.

The Somer family has ruled Longdale for a third generation, ever since Grandmother was bestowed a coronation by the Axodbrook family, the border guards. I couldn’t abandon the village pushed by mere mercenaries.

“Light a fire.”

“grandma.”

“Light a fire! hurry!” At the woman and children hiding in the cathedral, Prince Somer frothed and shouted.

“The Lord will judge with fire! door! Light the door too! We have to stop them!”

“grandma!”

“No old man!”

Soldiers and women seized the seizure-ridden old woman. The old woman screamed incomprehensibly, and the frightened children wept bitterly despite their mother’s disapproval.

Clink!

Suddenly, the expensive colored glass engraved with the myth shattered. Realizing that it was the bloody spear that had broken the glass, the people screamed in unison.

“Back off! Everyone back off!”

At the cry of the soldier who pulled out his sword, the villagers gathered like sheep in front of a wolf.

“Over there! Oh honey!”

Because the huge window, over 4 meters high, was smashed, the outside of the cathedral was bright. Moreover, since the cathedral was built on a hillside, it was easy to see the scenery under the stairs.

“Uh ha!”

“There are only guys who smell like this! Where are the bitches!”

The strong men who had gathered holding clubs or poles were being slaughtered one-sidedly by the looters.

As befits a group of notorious killers, the bloody mane mercenaries showed no mercy. In that short period of time, so many people were sacrificed in the square in front of the cathedral that the blood they shed formed a small stream.

“ah. Ah Ennomd!”

While those who had been restraining themselves stiffened at the shocking sight outside the window, the old gwan-gwan rolled his eyes and went wild. He grabbed the silver candlestick hanging on one side of the wall and threw himself out the window.

“Ha grandma! No, come back!”

“Old man!”

In an instant, Somer rolled down the slope and charged at the mercenaries, brandishing a candlestick that had all been extinguished.

“What is this?”

“I looked for an X-arm girl, and a bitch came out. Like shit.”

The mercenary spit on the pile of corpses and pierced the old woman’s chest with a spear.

“Ag Ennomed-”

Longdale’s crown prince twisted and scratched the window stick before dying.

“Grandma Grandma!”

It was just then that the young soldier with his legs hanging over the window sill was screaming for his throat to burst while being held by the women.

wheein.

A chilling wind from the west conveyed a strange presence.

“Uh…

“… Mr. Xarm. what?” The mercenaries, who had been feasting on the slaughter for a while, looked back in horror. The slaughtered young men escaped and ruined it, and the residents hiding in the cathedral moved their gaze to follow the looters who suddenly stopped. towards twilight.

A man and horse appeared on top of the burnt down Munru and piles of dirt.

A rider riding a huge beast with forked horns. A horseman wearing a thick cloak and flowing black hair.

“Hey kids. I finally got it.”

A strange silhouette grew from his right arm.

It looked like a reaper mounted on a goat-like devil, and the residents of Longdale held their breath involuntarily. And the mercenaries rather reacted close to panic.

“……toret ritter.”

“En toret ritter. En toret ritter mokkert!”

Grandson Somer’s grandson and soldier, Ben, was able to infer the low cries of the mercenaries through his short knowledge of Gellan.

“A red knight?”

When he looked back at the rider who had turned his back into the twilight, he was already rushing towards the mercenaries. Instead of running through the narrow streets of the village, the two-horned Witchbeast jumped up and kicked the roofs of houses one after another.

“Run away!”

“No, this is a dead end! Break through face to face!”

It took less than five breaths for the rider in the distance to jump in between the wandering mercenaries.

Suck it!

The dark red sword that grew more than 3 meters long, like the scythe of a death god, cut people and horses into pieces in three or four pairs.

“Aaaaaaa!”

“Disperse! Run west!”

Without a helmet, the red knight completely crushed the bloody mane dragon troop with his face exposed.

“Red Knight. A red knight?”

Ben, who was muttering in his mouth, opened his mouth soon after discovering a group of troopers appearing in the twilight.

At the head of the troopers stood a handsome man with long silver hair.

“The Silver Prince. The Silver Prince and his enemy knight.”

Silver prosthetic arms turned towards the darkening sky, and angry horsemen attacked the fleeing marauders.