Radiant Era - Chapter 63

Chapter 63 Assistance at Death’s Door

Ya and Ling powerlessly fell on a pool of filthy snow. It was exactly the place where the stray cats ate their meals. The snow was black, full of the fishy smell, blood, and bodily fluid with strange colors of fish organs. With the pungent smell assaulting their noses, Ya and Ling who had never fallen into such a circumstance almost cried.

Pain was all over their bodies and muscles and bones as if they were completely broken, yet the parts of their bodies pierced by the killer arrows were numb, without the slightest feeling. Even Ya’s lower abdomen that was penetrated was stiff. Fresh blood flowed constantly, yet she didn’t feel anything.

=Rhinoceros Knights, not only was their strength tremendous and their defence astonishing, their vitality was also extremely strong. So the arrows of killer crossbows had all been dipped into poison, a kind that was fermented from 18 types of poisonous grass. Just a drop of this poison could paralyze a buffalo, so after an ordinary human was poisoned with this, even their heart would gradually paralyze and they would die.

The feeling of paralysis was like the shadow of death, gradually spreading from the wound to the whole body. The two girls lay on the pile of filth. There was still some heat remaining rising up from their bodies. Their bodies were surrounded by a nasty odor, the kind that was nauseating, something they had never touched before in their lives. They had noble backgrounds in the Church and lived lives of luxury since childhood, even their fingers had never been tainted with unboiled water.

Now they lay here, quietly feeling death’s arrival. They wanted to cry, but the strict education they had received since childhood kept them from shedding tears. Weeping, shedding tears, those were negative actions for lowly ants, how could nobles like them cry?

During their infancy, when they were still babies, they were trained not to cry using a special method. Now when they wanted to cry, they had forgotten even the instinct to do so. They had the urge to cry, but couldn’t no matter what.

A heavy and orderly marching sound could be heard in the distance. The port’s defensive army was rushing over.

The sounds of hurried horse hooves rapidly approached. The patrolling Dragon Cavalry of the Guardian Office were coming.

Sharp sirens also constantly rang from all around. They grew nearer and nearer. The secret police of the Guardian Office was dispatched.

But the sounds of messy footsteps and weapons ramming against one another were even more numerous. The current regular army of Dunerk only consisted of one thousand men, the Dragon Cavalry and Copper Hats close to one thousand men, yet Dunerk’s militiamen numbered more than ten thousand men. Any random man of Dunerk was a burly fellow, so tens of thousands of militiamen out of Dunerk’s population of hundreds of thousands were sufficient to deal with the threat from the Five Dalian Islands in the north.

The previous explosion sound of the fiery dragon alarmed all of Dunerk, resulting in almost the whole militiamen of Dunerk marching out. The sounds of urgent footsteps and the berserk barks of various kinds of ferocious large dogs could be heard everywhere. On the roofs of several tall buildings, some people had lit large oil lamps and were pointing the lights to this side of the port using reflectors. Dozens of thick hazy lights were randomly flashing on the surface of the sea.

Ya and Ling quickly experienced blood loss. They only felt coldness from head to toe and their visions darkened. All of the activities drew nearer like a nightmare. The activities of the defensive army, Dragon Cavalry, and militiamen were like mutterings of demons, constantly pouring into their ears, so pressuring they nearly died.

Lin Qi rushed to the dock. He berated in a low voice, “Quickly, their golden notes! Also their necklaces! Rings! Ah, their hair clips as well, their hair clips are all inlaid with gems, damn it, at least three karat of highest quality gems! These two dead girls are too wealthy!”

Baltic had already arrived next to Ya and Ling with a cruel expression. He brandished his long sickle, about to chop off the two girls’ heads. However, he suddenly heard Lin Qi’s shout. He was slightly distracted, hastily squatted down, and roughly tore the two girls’ clothes, pulling out two brocade purses from the secret pockets on their chests.

Baltic had excellent eyesight even at night. Under the dozens of dusky and faint lights that were constantly flashing past at random, he tore the purses open and looked inside. Inside each purse was a thin pile of golden notes. There weren’t many golden notes, only around twenty sheets altogether, but the amount written on them simply dumbfounded Baltic. He hurriedly swept a glance, the smallest denomination was five hundred thousand gold coins, while the biggest denomination was impressively as huge as three million gold coins!

“Damn it, they’re practically two walking gold-transportation ships! Are they truly the members of that idiotic Vias? Damn it, they couldn’t be Vias Business Union’s people, the daughters of those nouveau riche could only be married off or learn how to take care of the family business, they couldn’t be spirit practitioners!”

Coldly snorting, Baltic quickly stuffed the two purses into his sleeve. He swiftly stripped clean the two girls’ necklaces, rings, hair clips and other accessories. When he was young, Baltic had been Dunerk’s most well-known golden fingers. He once set the highest record in Dunerk that no one could break — in the time it took to smoke one cigarette, on the most bustling commercial street in Dunerk, he stole 78 purses in succession.

So it was as if Ya and Ling were robbed by 36 thieves at the same time. Any valuable jewelries on them disappeared in moments, even the fine broken rubies inlaid on their boots were stripped clean by Baltic. These tiny rubies were dark-red like pigeon blood, filled with a powerful life aura. Although these rubies were only as big as a grain of rice, one piece was worth ten gold coins. If they fell into the hands of a magician, these rubies could be optimal mediums to cast fire-related magic.

“Big fat sheep, two big fat sheep! Practically comparable to that two gold-transportation ships!” Baltic plundered all the valuable goods on the two girls bodies in great delight, then jumped up and brandished his sickle to behead the two girls.

These were two big fat sheep, but they could also be two huge disasters. Even thinking with one’s butt, one could realize, with their huge sum of money, mysterious origin, identities as spirit practitioners, and high-level spirit magic scrolls, the background of these two girls was extremely strong. All traces of them had to be wiped out as soon as possible.

They could be swallowed by magical beasts, robbed by brigands, or pillaged by pirates, but couldn’t be killed by the Black Tiger Family in Dunerk.

The family wasn’t afraid of challenges, but it also disliked mysterious and unnecessary enemies. Might as well destroy their corpses and wipe out all traces!

As the sickle came down, Ya and Ling desperately closed their eyes.

The sickle brought with it a curving shadow as it chopped down. When it reached around 34 centimeters from Ya’s neck, a huge human shadow suddenly rushed out from under the seawall. An oddly-shaped and heavy bent-sword brought with it a mournful whistling sound, hissing wildly like countless demons being cooked in sulfur. The sword ruthlessly swung at Baltic’s neck.

If Baltic continued to chop down, his neck would take the blow!

Baltic helplessly breathed out and changed the direction of his sickle to face the bent-sword.