Amber Sword Chapter 499: Act 166 The Gambler's Roulette (3)

Chapter 499: Act 166 The Gambler’s Roulette (3)

“No sign of the enemy.”

“No sign of the enemy on the left either.”

“No sign of those damned bone skeletons here either——” Voices echoed through the empty streets. Yuta turned her head, anxiety reflected in her deep green eyes—a shallow sheen of light. Where did those undead go? The Maid Corps Commander’s slender fingers remained still on the hilt of her thin sword, a mist of doubt spreading in her mind, a fog so thick one couldn’t see their own hand. Everyone was turning their heads in this fog, only to find nothing.

The rcenaries marched forward in the dark, their footsteps rustling. The unknown lay hidden beneath the lonely night, coldly clutching at everyone’s hearts. Fear lood over all, a shadow that needed no words to tighten its grip on their throats. The silence was such that one could hear a pin drop, everyone alert with their bright eyes glancing everywhere in the darkness:

Dreading that the undead, who had suddenly vanished without a trace, might surge out from so alley at any mont and surround them completely.

They crossed half the city, expecting to encounter those bloodthirsty undead head-on and engage in a deadly fight. But the enemy seed to exist only in their imagination. The undead at the West Gate seed never to have existed at all—could the young noble have misjudged? Yuta turned, the light from the lighting crystal in the boy’s hand penetrated her pupils, reflecting his face, pale and bloodless from malnutrition.

“Commander?” the boy asked.

“What?”

“Did the noble misjudge?” he whispered. “Could they have circled to the north?”

“Impossible,” the Maid Corps Commander firmly denied. “In battle, every second counts. The opponent’s commander wouldn’t be an idiot.”

“But…” The boy tried to continue when soone shouted from ahead: “Commander!”

Both of them were startled, looking in that direction simultaneously.

“What’s wrong?”

“We found sothing,” the person shouted. “Co and take a look!”

Yuta exchanged a glance with the boy, nodded, and followed. As she turned the corner, she was stunned——

The long street had completely transford.

It looked like it had been through a fierce battle. Scanning the area, the stone tablets paving the street were almost all shattered, with one large pit after another. The cracked stones seed to have been thrown outward by so strong underground force, so even flung dozens of ters away. If it weren’t for the lack of elental disturbance in the air, everyone would have believed that this area had undergone a battle of Gold-level strength or above.

Yuta looked up and saw a two-story building not far away, collapsing inward, as if struck horizontally in the center, breaking the supporting wooden beams. Such a strike would at least be at the Silver level. She took a light breath, moving forward while looking at the leaning skeletons and human corpses in the pits.

“Who are these people?”

The Maid Corps Commander frowned at the corpses, dressed no differently from the poor outside the city. That was easy to explain, but how to understand the bone skeletons scattered around these human bodies? Upon careful observation, she found a casualty ratio close to five to one, aning at least five skeletons’ remains for each human corpse. If the poor outside the city had this combat power—Yuta would doubt how Gruding had survived until today.

The rcenaries shook their heads.

“What about their weapons?” she asked again.

“No weapons,” a rcenary replied.

“No weapons?” Yuta took a light breath. “You an to tell these humans fought the undead bare-handed, or were they Silver People—?”

“Commander, I don’t know if they’re Silver People, but the first point—I’d say, yes.” The rcenary who had called them bowed his head and answered softly.

Yuta’s eyes flickered; the night’s events were beyond her understanding. At this mont, the sound of hooves echoed down the street, and everyone looked up to see two or three riders erging from the thin night fog—scouts sent earlier. The Maid Corps Commander snapped out of her thoughts, looked up, and asked: “What’s wrong, any discoveries ahead?”