Lord Helanza

A glowing red sunset slowly sank in the endless sea of ​​sand.

The clouds on the horizon are connected into a light orange gauze tent, which is connected to the yellow sand that can't be seen at a glance. The color in front of you is completely gradual from light yellow to orange.

The sky gradually darkened, and when night came, the warm sand quickly turned cold.

Surdak looked up and looked at the stars gradually lit up in the night sky. The gap on the edge of the desert was more than ten kilometers long. It was almost impossible to monitor the entrance of this desert at night.

In desperation, Surdak once again opened the sacrificial altar, consuming three three heads of hell hounds to give Samira the blessing effect of'Insight', which can be more powerful at the sacrificial altar After the effect of the blessing, Surdak found that the sacrifices he had stored had obviously become insufficient.

squad in the vicinity Find the highest sand dune, and Samira stands on the top of the dune.

She is like a cheetah who has been quiet, lurking there quietly.

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The camel team has been passing through the red rock wall full of gravel. The thick fleshy palms of the hump walk very slowly on the gravel, and some heads are surrounded. Brawny, wearing a dark red turban, was leading the camel, and their faces were also exhausted.

Each camel was dragging two large bags of heavy supplies on the back. These people did not talk, and walked silently in the dark.

A huge shadow appeared in front, soft and cool fine sand appeared in front of you, and finally reached the edge of the desert, like fish swimming back into the sea, these brawny's tight heartstrings relaxed slightly After coming down, someone re-hanged the scimitar straddling the waist to the hook beside the hump.

Brawny, who was walking in the front, tore away the veil covering his face, his eagle-like eyes looked like behind him, and then he put his body on the ground and listened for a while. When he stood up, the camel team behind had already followed.

The brawny unwrapped the two water sacs from the hump and threw them to the men next to him, then pursed his dry lips, and said in a dry voice:

"All The team members rest on the spot for a while, and wait until they enter the desert and walk back to the oasis to rest."

The brawny who led the camels immediately surrounded the two water sacs, shared the water in the water sacs, and then hugged them. Scimitar was lying on the soft sand, squinting to relax himself quickly.

The brawny took a few steps to the heights of the sand dunes. The soft fine sand kept flowing downwards, and every step he took would almost send him back to the original place with the quicksand.

An old man with gray beard and hair slowly walked up behind him, his eyes eroded by the years, making them cloudy and browned.

He bowed his waist, stood beside brawny, and said to him: "Awang, we shouldn’t kill that many villagers, and this time we took too much food. It is estimated that there will be some people. Can’t survive this winter, maybe next year the village will be abandoned, so we can’t continue to grab food here."

"Even if we can’t grab food, it will be next year’s business. Don’t grab it. We can't even survive this year..." Ngawang coldly said.

Brawny Ngawang sat down on the slope of the sand dunes. The soft sand made him feel inexplicably at ease.

The old man also sat down with him, and said in a nostalgic tone: "Before we went to Desolate Land, we didn’t even need to cross the Gale Rift Valley. The distance from the desert side was only half a day. Basically, we can leave early and come back in the evening. At that time, there were many villages relying on the Great Rift Valley. They cultivated oat fields next to the Rift Valley. We will collect some oats in the fall."

The old man sighed, and then said: "In the earliest days, those who were willing to ask for a living in Desolate Land were poor exiles. Later, some vagrants and criminals came here. They were here. Settling down, after more than ten generations of hard work, some villages have gradually formed."

"There is a sea of ​​sand nearly 1,000 kilometers away from Barbetilla Province, and the closer it is to this side, the sandy land The more desolate, even those of us who are familiar with the desert, if they didn’t know the hidden oasis, they would come here to rob villages.” The old man continued: “Later, the other bandit groups in the desert saw that we were always able to live in peace. In the severe winter, the secrets of Desolate Land slowly leaked out. Those people did more ruthlessly than us, and they killed them even more. Slowly on Desolate Land, there were basically no villages to the west of Gale Rift Valley."

A bandit on the side handed the water sac to the old man. The old man took a cherished sip and then said:

"The villages now hidden in Desolate Land are very hidden, usually hidden in mountain cols. It’s far away from the desert, and sometimes there is no gain. The band of bandits willing to come here is much less."

Awang fiercely spit blood-stained foam to the old man. Said: "If it weren’t for Gage’s Old Dog’s tricks, it would drive us all to the east of the desert, and I would not venture into Desolate Land. I heard people say that there is a new Lord Baron here with very ruthless means. There are hundreds of robber bodies hanging on the top of the Gros Pass."

The old man sighed again.

Awang then cheered up and said: "But this time we harvested pretty well. With this food, plus what we have accumulated before, it should be enough to survive this winter. When the spring of next year, I will try to see if I can cross the large meadow in the northwest. I heard that there are many stray herders raising horses, and there are flocks of wild horses and yellow sheep, making it easier to survive. "

The old man shook the head again and said: "The nomads have a lot of livestock in their hands, but those Durwa herdsmen are good at riding and arrow techniques, and they are all young men on the bloodline of the Qinglin horse. Being stared by them on the big grass, our camel team can't get rid of them..."

Before the old man could finish this sentence, a scream came from the silent night.

"Ah!"

Brawny Awang suddenly stood up from the sand and asked loudly in the direction of the scream: "What's the matter?"

A subordinate ran over in the dark and ran to the leader with a panic face. His face was full of horror and said: "Leader Awang, Ganda was shot to death!"

Awang widened his eyes, moved towards the darkness, and asked as he walked: "Where is the enemy?"

The robbers around him held their weapons in their hands and watched all around.

The panicked man pointed his finger at the top of the hill, and said hesitantly: "It seems to be over there, the leader, it is too dark to see where the arrow is coming from. Over there..."

At this time, Ngawang had found the man who was shot through the throat on the sand tens of meters away. His eyes were sharp as a knife and looked at the top of the dune, shouted in a deep voice:

"Come with me!"

A group of men gathered around Ngawang, wearing leather armor, holding a scimitar, and trotting up the sand dunes. rush.

In the dark night, the feathers that have been flying silently pierced the forehead of a sand thief. The sand thief was immediately pushed back by the huge force, and the whole person rolled down the sand dune. Falling, there is not even a chance to scream.

Immediately afterwards, a sand thief behind him was shot through the shoulder with a feather arrow.

"divine archer! Shield..." Awang growled with gnashing teeth. There was no loss of manpower on this road, and he was about to enter the desert. Instead, he was blocked by the unknown team with the divine archer, and he gritted his teeth. The top of the sand dune ran violently, and the men behind him hurriedly followed.

He can’t remember which bandit regiment possesses such a powerful archer. In the darkness, Awang only felt his body locked away from a distance. It was an extremely mysterious and abstruse combat instinct. This kind of intuition doesn’t know how many times he has saved him on the battlefield. At this moment, facing the darkness, he has this feeling again. Awang did not hesitate. The whole figure is like a fish jumping into the water. His waist suddenly turned over. Suddenly he turned around and moved five positions towards the right front...

I saw a black arrow flying silently from his original position, and the other flying arrow was next to him. His cheeks flew by, and a sharp hook made a blood groove on his face. Ngawang stopped at the half waist of the sand dune and shrank his body into a ball. He had never been so close to death.

Samira, who stood on the top of the hill, lightly exclaimed, drew her bow again and let go of arrows, and shot over two robbers who continued to rush upwards.

Those robbers were about to rush to the top of the sand dunes. The robbers who rushed in front held shields in their hands, but ten brothers lay down on the way to the charge.

Awang rushed to the top of the sand dunes and saw an ogre, more than three meters tall and wearing black simple shoulder pads, waiting there with a broken bone stick in his hand, a kind of chill rose from the soles of his feet. Suddenly, he remembered the rumors between the bandits. He heard that the new noble lord of Desolate Land had an ogre among them, and there was also an elf archer. He didn't expect that the archer was actually a'night elf'. His bloodline has the ability to see things at night...

Awang regrets his recklessness. His body is like a vigorous sand wolf, stepping on the soft fine sand moved towards the right side of ogre He threw his waist, the scimitar in his hand wanted to make a wound along Ogre’s left rib forehead. The bandit around him and Ngawang cooperated very tacitly, and directly pounced on Ogre’s right rib. That ogre ignored Ngawang at all. With the robber, the broken bone stick in his hand was rounded, and the robber who rushed forward swept out.

Awang took the opportunity to lower his body, almost let his body stick to the sand, and could not avoid the sweep, and then the machete in his hand drew a strange arc...

Just as the blade was approaching ogre, a dwarf chain shield appeared in front of the blade, and the scimitar slashed at the sharp jagged edge of the dwarf chain shield, splashing a trace of fire star, and a touch of silver rays of light covered the shield. On the way up, Awang only felt that a counter-shock force made his wrist suddenly rise, and before he could offset the momentum, a scarlet sword light flashed in front of him.

Awang didn't feel how sharp the crescent moon was. He only felt that his vision was not controlled by his body, and the scenery all around suddenly spun up.

The severe pain in the neck was transmitted to the brain. He seemed to be flying, but it was so light. In the rotating night, he saw blood spraying from his neck standing in the sand. Body, he looked at this scene in horror, and now he knew that his head was chopped off by his opponent...

Awang's head rolled on the sand dune, and the headless corpse was'thumped'. Fell on the sand with a sound.

“Hah! ”

ogre loudly shouted, the bone crushing stick in his hand swung up five robbers at once, and the robbers who were hit by the bone crushing stick almost They were all lumbar vertebrae like wheat that was cut down by a scythe in autumn...One after another, they were broken, and the body was swept into two parts.

"Are you who?" someone in the bandit roared angrily, but no one answered.

"Everyone spread out and run separately! Hurry up..." Some of the bandits shouted with an accent different from Desolate Land.

The robbers running behind didn't even see what was going on in front of them. Someone yelled with this scream. Dozens of robbers seemed to fled in all directions, no longer looking at the battlefield behind them.

They are very experienced when escaping. Almost all of the time they washed down the dunes, they circled their bodies and kept rolling down the dunes.

Andrew under the sand dunes has killed several robbers who guarded the camel team at this moment. With a butcher's ax in his hand, he stood in front of the sand, and under his feet was the head of a gray-bearded old robber. Spit out the grass roots in his mouth, looking at the sand thieves who were rolling down quickly, their eyes glowing with blood.

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The battle at night was much smoother than Surdak thought. After Samira had the ability to'see', those bandits who escaped into the night were almost all caught She chased and killed it.

Compared to the battlefield on the sand dune, the battle under the sand dune is too bloody. The native warrior Andrew holds axe in both hands, just like a wild boar rushing into the cabbage field. He simply never thought about the integrity of the robber's corpse. , The axe in his hand rounded up and smashed on the skull, and the skull suddenly shattered...

Surdak even thought about whether the heads of these bandits could be taken out to sacrifice, but just to think about it, if it really is. I offer to take out, and I guess I will soon be labeled as a "heresy" and be hunted down by magicians from the Enforcement Group of the Magic Union.

Before dawn, Surdak even had a chance to squint.

More than forty camels have been connected by ropes. The materials on each camel's back have been counted. Most of them are carrying wheat grains and some messy mountain products, and some warm tents, etc. Supplies.

Some supplies were even stained with dried blood. Surdak packed the heads of all the robbers into boxes. These heads were handed over to the guard camp to receive some meritorious rewards.

While helping the half-elf archer Samira gather the camel team, ogre found a camel with a broken leg, so in the morning, this camel had become not just in name only, but also in reality, the roast camel.

ogre is holding a huge hump, biting it down, full of grease.

When the sky is completely bright, the headless corpses that cannot be taken on the battlefield have been strung together by dozens of lances, standing on the top of the sand dunes, and standing there with these corpses standing in great numbers. There is also a huge rock of several thousand kilograms. This huge rock is about three meters high and is placed on the sand dunes.

A line of imperial words'Desolate Land 界'is engraved on it.