Chapter 1140 Misunderstanding!
In the darkness of the night, the enemies who suddenly attacked had intended to approach the camp quickly. But at this moment, they were standing in the wind and questioning from deep within their souls, “What are they crying about?”
It was not only the person who said it out loud who was puzzled; all the other assailants were as well!
The arrow fired just a moment ago had not succeeded in hitting its target, and no one at the camp was dead, so why were they even crying?
The sudden and inexplicable sound of the crying even bewildered them a little.
The assailants started wondering if something had gone awry with their plan!
The camp tonight was located in an open area where everything within a radius of 50 steps could be seen clearly. Earlier, the attackers had quietly sneaked over to scout the camp.
Although Qian Weining and his men were crying, there were actually still troops standing guard at sentry posts. Moreover, there were more than 30 of said sentries.
It was impossible to approach the camp without the trade caravan noticing. After much consideration, the burly man finally chose to create a diversion before attacking.
When the man saw he could not launch a sneak attack, he fired that arrow so it would alert all the guards at the camp. Then he would hide in the shadows while the camp was brightly lit by torches, making it convenient for him to examine the distribution of the guards.
He did this because he wanted to see how many proper guards capable of defending the camp there were. In addition, if he could immediately kill the target, Melgor, it would be worth a celebration too. They were here to kill him, after all. But the outcome left him a little surprised. After the arrow was fired, the man realized more than half of the people at the camp seemed to be soldiers! Shortly, within ten respirations, the guards at the camp, as well as the traders and travelers disguised as guards, crawled to the back of the wagon fort for cover to avoid a further hail of arrows. They were very quick in their actions.
It was so quick the man almost thought they were the ones who had been ambushed!
This situation was a little strange. And when they heard the chaotic sobs, the scene in front of them became even stranger.
This situation really was a little incomprehensible. They could not be blamed for overthinking things.
“Did we scare them to tears?” one of the attackers asked in a whisper.
“That’s impossible!” The burly man in charge quickly regained his composure. He said coldly, “There’s at least 400 soldiers at their camp. All of them are well-trained, so how could they possibly get frightened to tears by us? Look at that crying man. He was able to determine the arrow was fired from a steel bow just by looking at the depth it penetrated into the ground. Can the average person have such sharp eyes? They would be running for their lives instead!”
When they heard this, everyone fell into deep thought again. What was the other party crying about then?
“Sir, why are there so many people guarding Melgor here?” a man asked. “The intel supplied by the family states that this is just a normal trade caravan. But look at the situation at the camp. It’s obviously not normal. Not only do they have a lot of guards, but they’re even pretending to be traders and other unrelated people. They were clearly waiting to ambush us!”
The burly man in charge fell into deep thought. Just as his subordinates had said, everything about this trade caravan seemed very peculiar.
Melgor was just a fringe sorcerer. How could someone like him possibly hire so many well-trained soldiers at once?
So what exactly went wrong?!
“We’ll proceed with the original plan. Wang Yaoyang, lead a team to suppress the enemy with our arrows. The rest of you, follow me. We’ll take a detour to ambush them! Tonight, we must kill the target and eliminate that person who has angered the patriarch!” The burly man could not care less anymore. They had to carry out this mission no matter what!
Before they had set off, they received news from their clan that their patriarch was extremely furious. Although they did not know who had provoked him, nor how he was angered, being a knight meant they had to protect the honor of their lord. If they could not kill Melgor and whoever had angered their patriarch, they would not have to go back! They had sworn allegiance to the gods, so they could not go back on their word.
Who knew what they would think if they found out Ren Xiaosu had poked their patriarch’s nostrils with a tree branch?
As he spoke, the burly man started sprinting to the left with dozens of men following close behind him in the darkness. He was going to make a quick breakthrough and seek out Melgor. And if the man with a face of black mist wearing a white mask appeared, they would shift their attention to that person.
That person was protecting Melgor. If the man targeted Melgor, the other party would definitely appear.
Actually, the man did not really understand what the description of that person meant. A man with a face of black mist wearing a white mask? But the person in charge of communicating the clan’s orders said he would understand when he saw it.
Multiple figures could be seen outside the camp. Within the camp, Qian Weining hid behind a carriage and took out his bow. He kept crying as he commanded the guards to set up the defenses.
Qian Weining said to his trusted aide like they were facing a formidable enemy, “That was a steel bow! Those people must be coming for us!”
“Sir, didn’t you mention that Melgor also has an enemy who’s after him? Could it be his enemy that’s attacking us? That arrow was directed at him just now,” Qian Weining’s trusted aide wondered.
“That’s impossible!” Qian Weining said firmly, “Melgor is only a fringe sorcerer, so why would they need to mobilize such elite knights? Our enemy probably even outranks me, and their numbers might not be less than ours either. Why would they need such a powerful force to kill Melgor? Those people must’ve found out about our Knights of the Inferno’s northern expedition plan. That’s why they’re trying to stop our caravan from heading north. They don’t want to receive the bad reputation of killing merchants, so they’re framing it on bandits.”
“Uh,” his trusted aide said tearfully, “then what should we do?”
“Kill them!” Qian Weining said determinedly with tears streaming down his face, “This matter affects the plans of our Knights of the Inferno. Remember to leave some survivors after we’re almost done killing them. I want to interrogate them!”
“What are you planning?”
“I want to know where they got their intel from, and I also want to know how they’re planning to deal with our plan.” Qian Weining said, “Only then can I relay the intel to our knights accurately.”
His trusted aide hesitated for a moment. “Sir, why don’t we take the opportunity to leave? After we kill some of them, we can pull a switcheroo with their corpses and let the House of Berkeley think we’ve died in battle. After that, we can head to the northern counties to make a living, or even occupy a mountain and become bandits! Are you really OK with it even though the family sent you here to die? We’ve only offended a good-for-nothing member of the clan, yet the family wants us dead!”
Qian Weining slapped his trusted aide in the face. “Don’t you remember the oath we made when we joined the knights? Dying in battle is the best ending for us. Our clan can betray us, but we can’t betray the honor of the Knights of the Inferno!”
His trusted aide sighed and said, “Sir, it’s way too inspirational when you say all that while crying!”
Qian Weining was speechless.
At this moment, Melgor’s back was pressed tightly against the carriage. He panted heavily as he asked Ren Xiaosu, “You’ve been hiding your strength all this while, right?”
Ren Xiaosu asked with a smile, “Is your life or the answer more important?”
Melgor answered honestly, “My life, of course!”