Chapter 12: CH 12

Dan turned his head and left at once, fanning his wings while wishing he could fly up another eight kilometers away from those archers.

“Southeast! Fly toward southeast!” Oswald faced the strong wind and steadied himself with difficulty while giving a command.

“Trouble you to say front, back, left, or right!! I don’t have the f***ing brain to differentiate east, south, west, and north now!” Dan roared back. “Our clan had always relied on beast instincts! We never concerned ourselves with those complicated things!”

Oswald, “…..”

A distinct command sounded from the city wall. “What are you waiting for?! Release the arrows!”

The cone-head arrows had always been the pride of the Beifeicu Empire. The arrows they produced were steady and sharp. Along with the numerous wind-breaking buzzing sounds, they seemed like dense and concentrated torrential rain. There were also tiny barbs on the surface of this straight arrow. Once hitting the target, it would tear the skin and flesh; extremely annoying. Besides the hundred-fold pain, the wound wouldn’t stop bleeding and was extremely difficult to treat.

Being chased by this dense pour of arrows would make anyone have cold sweats on their backs and numbing their scalps, precisely because these arrows were unavoidable.

Kevin heard a round of chaos behind him. There were whizzing sounds of arrows, spirit-lifting shouts from the guards on the city wall, muffled sounds of metal arrows penetrating skins, and the painful mourns from the unfortunate people being shot.

Raptor shrieks and beast roars intertwined, and people were falling from the air into the enemy’s lair; the consequences could be imagined already.

“Turn left! Good! After that, go straight and fly past those range of mountains in the front! The rest should follow –” Kevin safely controlled Dan’s direction. He used one hand to firmly grab the falcon’s feathers, and the other used to wave a long sword, forming an impenetrable shield and repelling back everything that could hurt the falcon’s vital points.

Under the city, a large dense mass of Beifeicu Empire’s soldiers had climbed on hippogriffs and sped along. Every one of those hippogriffs was robust and powerful. When they fanned their enormous wings, they ran as if they were about to fly, resembling black waves that rushed forth unrestrainedly and unstoppably.

“Sapir was dying from sickness. Who would actually command this kind of relentless pursuit?!” Mio followed along with Kevin to block those arrows, but he couldn’t firmly grab onto the feathers. He was at risk of falling at any time, so he didn’t dare to make too big movements.

Of course, his sentence was too exaggerated. In fact, the rumors only said Sapir had been bedridden, not as bad as dying. This sentence only reflected the wish in Mio’s heart.

“When we flew near below before, I glanced there; the commander’s human shield was very thick. It looked like it was Sapir’s eldest son whose head was filled with disgusting things, Markoff.” Oswald mocked.

Mio’s face turned ugly upon hearing it. “Your Majesty, please don’t play with me anymore. If it’s really him, then the fun will be bigger. That good-for-nothing was famous for being deranged and evil!”

Kevin had a clear understanding of that monster, Sapir. However, Kevin’s knowledge of his eldest son, Markoff, who has just reached adulthood, only stopped many years ago. At that time, Kevin hadn’t been buried underground, and Markoff was only seventeen or eighteen years old. One of the rumors spread at the border of the Beifeicu Empire and the Jinshi Empire was about him.

It was said that three to four women disappeared in a row in the spring of that year at Farran, a small town located on the southwest outskirts of the Beifeicu Empire. The youngest was fifteen years old, and the oldest already had a four-year-old son. Some said strangers had captured them, while the others said they were already dead. Soon after this rumor broke out, similar rumors also spread across the other few border towns. The missing ones were all women, and there were about more than twenty women from the beginning to the end. Their family members had searched for half a year without any result and were almost hopeless.

One of Markoff’s close attendants stole his keys when it was near the wintertime and stealthily opened a prison at the back of Markoff’s resting chamber, releasing more than twenty delirious and crazy women.

Those women were entirely naked. Besides the iron-chain friction wounds and slit scars on their hands and feet, some had overlapping whip scars on their bodies, and others had scald scars covering their bodies; it was a dreadful sight.

They were those previous disappearing people, being locked at the prison by Markoff to satisfy his filthy *.  Each person was locked in one narrow cell with iron chains on their hands and feet.  They weren’t allowed to wear clothes and couldn’t see the light too. They had been used up and disgraced to the utmost like this for half a year, turning from plump and lively ladies into muddleheaded walking flesh and crazy.

The little sister of that close attendant was also included among them.

This matter didn’t cause a big uproar at that time because those crazy women couldn’t run far away. In the end, they seemed to be captured back by the guards that Markoff posted. All of them had been killed, and their corpses destroyed without any traces when the night fell, including that close attendant.

However, the truth would still come out, and there were fragments of rumors spreading out from the imperial city, Fei Ling. Regardless of whether it was true or wrong, the rumors spread and reached that small border town.

The family members of those disappearing women died from ‘accidents’ one by one within two years period. Ultimately, no one was left. It went without saying that those were all manufactured coincidences.

The people’s complaints that were accumulated for many years had exploded overnight. Sapir spent three whole years pressing down the matter caused by his eldest son’s beastly action and then walked on a tightrope to maintain this superficial peace.

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Without the aid of the Sand Ghost, this father and son’s pair, who were worse than beasts, would have been peeled and fleshed long ago and wouldn’t be able to breathe until today…..

Kevin climbed on the falcon’s back and squinted his eyes to watch the pursuing black waves below. “They pursue very tightly.”

The flying speed of the raptors from the Giant Beastman Clan had initially been very fast. With a bunch of youngsters and elders suspended on their backs and legs, it was already good not to fall on the ground. It was practically dreaming of reaching their initial flying speed.

This gave an advantage to the soldiers urging their hippogriffs below. If it were like before, they would have been left behind from earlier on.

Those soldiers also didn’t eat rice in vain, and their horseback skills couldn’t be underestimated. Although they were riding on the hippogriffs’ back, they could still steadily lift their longbows and launch attacks at the raptors flying above.

While making a hell of an effort to escape, they also had to avoid the sharp arrows that broke through the winds simultaneously. Dan and the others almost went mad from this.

Amidst the chaos, a white-beak vulture slightly behind them was shot by three arrows on one of its wings. The two people carried on its back toppled over. Its enormous body couldn’t control its balance and bump hard against Dan’s body.

His rigid wings flapped and knocked against Oswald, accidentally throwing off something hanging on his waist.

“It’s bad!” Oswald frowned.

“What is that?” Kevin bowed his head to look down, but he could only see an object slightly reflecting the moonlight falling to the ground.

“The glass bottle!” Oswald answered.

Kevin was stunned, but it was too late to gain the upper hand.

A moment later, Kevin squinted his eyes; his vision was excellent. He could see the leader holding the reign of his hippogriff, raising his hand, and catching the glass bottle.

Kevin said, “The leader seemed to be the Markoff you’re talking about. He caught it.”

It was simply terrible for this kind of thing to fall on Markoff’s hand!

Dan also understood the danger. He suddenly shrieked once and flew towards the direction Kevin pointed like crazy using his full strength.

Along the way, everyone felt this kind of ‘their lives were at risk’ sense of crisis. They had already brushed past death numerous times today. Everyone’s body was wounded to some extent – from only lightly scratched by wandering arrows to being heavily pierced by a few arrows. They were like a struggling hedgehog at death’s door.

Finally, Oswald pointed at something in the front. “They’ve arrived!”

At the place pointed by his finger, the Carat River extended from East to West. The river was vast and mighty with rolls of giant waves. Behind the spray of stirred-up waters, dense masses of troops reigned their horses at the riverside like a copper and iron wall.

That was the Wujin Iron Army under the direct command of the Emperor, Oswald!

It seemed that pinched sand messenger had delivered its message in time. Kevin let out a breath of relief and guided Dan and the rest to cross over the river, landing in the middle of the Wujin Iron troops.

Before Dan’s talon could land yet, they heard Markoff’s guard army halt their steps by the riverside. Amidst the horses neighing, Kevin saw Markoff, that lunatic, open the glass bottle in his hand.

“Retreat –” Oswald, who also noticed this, shouted, and the entire Wujin Iron troops retreated a step.

But beyond their expectations, Markoff didn’t throw the thing inside the glass bottle toward the Wujin Iron troops. Instead, he turned around and sprinkled it toward his own guard army.

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