Chapter 495: Act 164 The Gambler’s Roulette (3rd update, seeking subscription)
The thin sword pierced the forehead with a crack, and the last spirit statue lost its strength and fell to the ground with a clatter. The female rcenary leader, with long fiery red hair, held the sword with one hand, panting and looking around. Her erald green eyes reflected the ground covered with bones and rcenary corpses. The battle had ended, and although it ca at a great cost, they had managed to repel the attackers.
Yuta exhaled, sheathed the thin sword into the sword scabbard wrapped in black leather.
“Squad Leader!” a shout called from behind. She turned around and saw a young man running quickly from the crowd.
The female rcenary watched the young man run to her, but interrupted him by raising her hand: “No need to talk, leave people to take care of the wounded brothers. Others follow , we must move forward, we’ve wasted enough ti, we must control the west gate before the Undead Army arrives!”
“Wait!” The young man, breathless, called after her.
“What is it?” Yuta frowned.
“It’s too late,” the young man said loudly, “when we were fighting those monsters, ‘Rat’ saw a magic beacon from the south, Squad Leader, it’s too late, the undead have already arrived. If we go now, we will face an innurable Undead Army—”
The female rcenary leader stopped and looked at him: “‘Rat’ said anything else?”
“‘Rat’ said our only option now is to imdiately abandon. We break out to the north, leave Fir City, the undead have co in, we will all die here.”
“If we leave, what about the others?”
“Squad Leader, if we stay here, can we change anything?” The young man said anxiously.
“Damn it!” The female rcenary leader punched the wall: “Have our people prepare locally, let Owl, Grey Wolf, and Brown Bear squads lead their n along three nearby streets! If we can’t stop them from entering Fir City, we’ll intercept them nearby!”
“Squad Leader, you’re crazy!” The man shouted, “We have less than three hundred people; those bone skeletons number in thousands, without relying on the city walls, we can’t stop them!”
The female leader pressed her chest and gritted her teeth: “If we can’t stop them, we still have to. You want to go back on my word—!”
“Leader…” The young man was slightly stunned.
“Hurry up and go!”
“But, for a noble, is it worth it?” The young man couldn’t help but take a deep breath: “That young man is also a noble, isn’t he? He’s helping us because he already has a conflict with Gruding. Ultimately, they’re all the sa kind. Why do we have to die here for soone like them—”
The young man gritted his teeth and shouted to her: “Squad Leader, your sister, your parents, were all killed by those damned nobles! Most of our brothers have similar encounters, everyone respects you as a Squad Leader, which brought us together! Why die for people like them, let them fight each other!”
Yuta was stunned.
She sighed and raised her head to say sothing. But at that mont, a loud ‘bang’ ca from Fir Castle, everyone turned their heads and saw a beam of white light suddenly rising into the sky from that dark direction – the magic beacon!
The pure white beam pierced the night sky as if it sliced through the pitch-black world. The light appeared so pure and flawless against the deep background, resembling the first tear drop shed by Mother Martha in the Cruz people’s creation epic, when she fell into the dark.
That was the first light depicting the world’s birth.
Light was born from the dark, giving wisdom, nobility, and spirit to all things—
At that mont.
Yuta and her assistant stared blankly upward, their eyes reflecting the brilliance within the darkness. They watched the light rise to the highest point, explode, then transform into a series of military transmission texts.
The text shone in the night sky, lasting for a long ti. The red-haired female rcenary leader raised her face, with the deepest glimr in her erald green eyes:
“Gruding is dead—”
She said calmly: “Lord wants us to respond imdiately.”
“Lord…?” The young man looked at her in surprise.
Yuta lowered her head and smiled at the young man: “If that guy Crenxia dares to choose this path, why wouldn’t I dare? Gruding is dead; the young noble has given an answer. From now on, he is the one I follow.” She smiled slightly but shook her head: “But it’s a pity, the ti is too short.”
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