Chapter 441: Scapegoat (1/2)
Chapter 441: Scapegoat
Translator: LawEditor: Hitesh
Wulong Yao and Qing Lei came, rushing over indignantly along with Emperor Shun’s personal feathered warriors.
From Chi Ban Mountain to the current location, Ji Hao and a large number of captives had spent a significant half of the month to cover this distance. However, Wulong Yao and Qing Lei arrived in only one and a half hour after they received Ji Hao’s emergency message.
With lightning-dazzling eyes, over a hundred thousand feathered warriors floated in midair, glaring at those warriors from the Ink Ape Clan and the seven other clans, who were now kneeling on the ground in lines. These warriors were tormented by Ji Hao with the soul-shaking clocks for an entire night; both their souls and bodies were terribly exhausted. Torpidly, they knelt on the ground and couldn’t help but quiver ceaselessly, as if they had just survived a grave illness.
What made them terrified, even despair, were not Wulong Yao and Qing Lei who had just rushed over. Based on their positions in their own clans, these warriors could not figure out what the appearance of a Magi Palace’s inner palace elder and the commander of Emperor Shun’s personal army meant.
What actually frightened these warriors to death was an immense pile of human heads right in front of them.
The heads of all direct and collateral relatives of the eight Magus Kings Po killed last night, and all clansmen who were related to them by affinity were chopped off and piled up in perfect order right in this place. The total number of these people was over thirty-thousand.
The blood flowed till it formed rivers, and the strong scent of blood had suffused the entire space. The leaders of Ink Ape Clan and seven other clans, along with over a thousand clan elders, were kneeling on the ground like the humblest slaves, bitterly imploring for Wulong Yao and Qing Lei’s mercy.
All sins were shifted onto the shoulders of the eight Magus Kings. According to the explanation given by the leaders of these eight clans, this was all because the eight Magus Kings were tempted by those valuable captives. They colluded with some unruly migratory clans and recruited a batch of warriors who were willing to pledge loyalty to them. They then audaciously attempted to loot the trophies belonging to the alliance of the human clans!
This was a capital crime. Therefore, the head of everyone who was related to the eight dead Magus Kings had been chopped off and placed there.
The leaders of the eight clans had been showing an extremely humble attitude. They were so servile that they had no dignity that could be mentioned anymore. Moreover, they had been desperately crying and wailing while explaining to Wulong Yao and Qing Lei, claiming that this unforgivable crime was obstinately committed by the eight dead Magus Kings alone.
By now, all people who were related to the eight dead Magus Kings had been killed already. They had partially atoned for their crime with their own lives. According to the leaders of the eight clans, all warriors who had participated in the ‘rebellion’ last night would all be debased into slaves, along with their relatives. Governors in Pu Ban City could unconditionally decide the fate of these people.
Around three-hundred miles away from Ji Hao’s campsite, a few real migratory clans had pitched their camps and were grazing their livestock. Last night, all clansmen of the few migratory clans were slaughtered as well. Every last one of the more than three hundred thousand clansmen of theirs was killed. From the elderly ones to babies, from men to women, not a single one survived.
In addition to this massacre, when Ji Hao led Qing Lei to the scene in a fury, they found that the culprit clans had also put some dilapidated armors on the bodies of these extremely indigent people!
If warriors from the eight clans had successfully looted those slave warriors and slaves last night and accomplished their entire plan smoothly, the clansmen of the few migratory clans would have become the scapegoats, suffering the endless flame of fury coming from the entire alliance of human clans!
Once their plan was accomplished, the Ink Ape Clan and the other seven clans wouldn’t have borne any blame at all. In addition to those armors that came from unknown sources, some uniform armors worn by warriors from Ink Ape clan and the other seven clans were also found on those killed migratory clansmen’ bodies.
If anyone tried to investigate this thoroughly, Ink Ape Clan and the other seven clans could still pass the buck onto these migratory clans — All those warriors they sent to escort captives had died in the battle, and those warriors even had their bones smashed to pieces for the humankind. At that time, how could Emperor Shun and other humankind governors still be heartless enough to blame these few clans for the failed escort?