Chapter 447 (1/2)

Chapter 447: The Reaper

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN

Ayt was paralyzed with fright. He helplessly stared at the beast, who now also turned to look at him. He could clearly see mucus dripping from its beige fangs.

“Relax. I’m not going to eat you.” The beast suddenly spoke in human language with a muddy voice, which almost horrified him enough to shriek.

He was astounded again when seeing a girl jump off the beast’s back. She walked towards Bronzehill, turned him over and checked him out. She said to the beast, “He’s alive. Maggie, send him to Nana.”

“Ow!” The beast seemed to understand what she said. It grabbed Bronzehill with its claws and flew up again. The flapping of its wings stirred up the air, producing strong winds, which made Ayt unable to open his eyes. When the wind and snow finally stopped, he squinted at the city wall but saw nothing at all—as if everything that had happened was just a dream.

“No, it’s not a dream… That girl is still here!” he thought.

He vaguely saw the girl’s figure in the darkness. There was apparently no light around, but her pupils were emitting weird golden lights, like stars in the night.

“You… you’re…”

“I came to help you.” The girl’s reply left him dumbfounded.

“Wh-what?” Ayt felt this was more implausible than a dream. “You’re here to help me?”

“Yes. His Highness Roland sent me here.” She squatted down, dug out a long sword from the flattened corpses and swung it, completely disregarding the fact that the sword was covered with flesh and blood.

Ayt was overcome by a feeling of sickness. He retched twice but vomited nothing except bile. Just then, outside the city wall, a battle cry resounded again. The beast had just terrified the enemies一but now that they saw it had left, and they had no idea what had happened up there on top of the city wall, they began to stir again.

“By ‘His Highness’… you mean the prince of Border Town?” He wiped his mouth and gasped.

“Is there another Roland besides him?” the black-haired girl asked, as she started to dig another weapon from a corpse. Ayt immediately turned his head away from her.

“But it takes at least three days to get here from Border Town… How did His Highness know about the noble’s rebellion so quickly?” Ayt swallowed hard and continued, “and the beast just now…”

“It’s not a beast, but a witch that came here to save you.” Her voice turned cold. “I don’t have time to answer all your questions. Just keep quiet.”

As there was no flintlock blocking them this time, the enemies easily came up on top of the city wall. When torches lit the place up again, they were surprised to find only a girl standing in front of them.

Malicious laughter soon broke the silence.

Ayt immediately knew what they meant by the laughter.

“Stay alert. Don’t give them any chance to play any dirty tricks on us.”

“Don’t worry, my lord. We’ll take care of it, but later…”

“When I’m done, I’ll leave her to you.”

“Hey… fine with me.”

“Qui-quickly come back here to me!” Ayt struggled to stand up, but what happened next made him stare in amazement.

A silver light chopped down and the laughter died abruptly.

The leader of the enemies was chopped into two pieces by the long sword. His shield and armor could not stop it at all. In fact, he didn’t even see the girl strike.

When the two pieces of his body fell down with blood spurting out from the wounds, everyone’s smile froze on their face.