Chapter 337
Chapter 337.
“Pirates? How can it be pirates?”
The affairs officers were more surprised than one, knowing that the west coast of the royal direct jurisdiction had not had any pirate traces for a long time, where did this group of pirates come out from today?
The fire in the distance was getting brighter and brighter, it seemed that the invaders were deliberately setting fires and were not meeting any effective resistance.
“My lord, should we go reinforce the troops stationed at the harbor?”
In the midst of the panic, Mark, the captain of the city guards, was still relatively calm.
Dylan replied, “Reinforcements? Uh …… yes, to go reinforce ……” but he immediately changed his words, “No, you and your men can’t go. Our mission is to guard the warehouse district.”
He made up his mind and ordered, “Quickly, strengthen the defense here, we can’t let the pirates rush here.”
“Aye! My lord.” Mark could only do as he was told, and he saw Lord Viscount’s body trembling slightly.
Although his mouth was both resolute and calm, Dylan’s heart was actually panicking a batch, he had never encountered such a situation before.
Under Captain Mark’s command, the city guards organized the laborers, blocked the street entrances, and constructed barricades in preparation for a possible onslaught. Of course, the crowd prayed that the pirates would just grab a handful and leave, and not run this way.
However, Lady Luck did not favor them, as the flames gradually spread towards them, and the cacophony of noises coming from the air cleansed the month more and more. Shouts of killing and the screams of civilians mixed together, burst after burst hitting the psychological defenses of the people behind the barricade.
Many were at a loss for words, and there were clear signs of panic among the laborers, even the soldiers stationed here were fearful, most of them had never experienced a battle of life and death before.
Another scout sent out to spy on the news ran back in a panic, his chest heaving violently and breathing heavily as he reported to Dylan and Mark and the others, “It’s not …… good, the navy …… navy over at the harbor is already not working.”
The crowd’s heart was cold, because Westport is a port city, the navy stationed here doubles as a city guard, and the soldiers in the warehouse district were transferred from the navy. The Navy was finished meant that the city no longer had any defense force, and the few posts spread out in the rest of the city couldn’t play a big role at all.
Dylan’s heart was scared and angry, even if the top management had been paralyzed, but the soldiers and officers underneath them were too useless, right, they were defeated in such a short period of time, was it because they were used to having a comfortable life?
As the highest person in charge here, it is time to show a wave of vigor. He took a deep breath and shouted to the crowd that was standing by, ”Sons of the kingdom! It’s time to show our loyalty to His Majesty the King! We must defend this place to the death, not even a single piece of rubble can be snatched away by the pirates!”
He paused, and silently thought in his heart, “Damn pirates, if you want to rob, go rob somewhere else, don’t run here.
Then continued to shout, “The people of the kingdom ……”
Clap! A burst of applause appeared from nowhere, and then a voice with a slightly teasing tone rang out, “What an inspiring speech, what a kingdom loyalist!”
“Who? Step forward?” Dylan was very annoyed and looked around for the source of the voice.
“There! On the roof!”
One of the clerks beside him pointed upward, alerting the Viscount.
Dylan hurriedly looked up, only to see a man standing on the roof of the building in front of him, of medium stature, dressed in black, with his hair gently fluttering in the night breeze, this disguise together with the bright moon hanging in the night sky behind him, resembled the mysterious chivalrous man described in certain novels who came and went without a trace.
“You! What are you?”
Captain Mark quickly moved to Dylan’s body and made a protective stance over him, abruptly drawing his sword and pointing at the other party in a loud question. Well, this reaction of his was also very appropriate.
“Me?” The man in black had a smirk on his face as he replied nonchalantly, “I’m the pirate ah the Viscount’s mouth.”
“Pirate?” The crowd’s faces lost color, rather than being afraid of the other party’s identity, they were more surprised at the other party’s boldness to leave their accomplices behind and barge in here alone.
“Damnable! You’re asking for death!” Captain Mark was furious, the guy on the roof was also too arrogant.
He grabbed the bow and arrow of a nearby subordinate and opened his bow to shoot at this maniac.
“Die! Stupid bastard!”
As soon as his words fell, something that made the crowd underneath go into shock happened, everyone saw that the arrow hit the black-clothed man’s body very accurately, yet it went through as if it hit the air and crashed into the tiles behind the other party.
“Aiyaa! It looks like this knight-sama’s accuracy isn’t very good. It needs more practice, hahahaha!”
The mysterious man in black spoke with a sneer.
“You! But a district barrier!”
Captain Mark was furious to the extreme and loudly ordered his men, “You guys, climb up and take down this maniac!”
A few people scrambled to find a ladder. The others stared at the person on the roof as if they were dead, some of them were rubbing their eyes, as if they couldn’t believe the scene just now, Captain Mark’s arrow clearly hit the other party’s body ah, it looked like it wasn’t blocked by armor or other defensive equipment, but it just naturally and unobstructedly penetrated through, and the other party’s body didn’t have a thing to do, how could there be such a ridiculous thing in the world.
Witchcraft! Magic!
These words suddenly popped up in everyone’s head.
Recalling the mysterious assassination case targeting the Navy’s upper echelon two days ago, yes, it must be the pirates who conspired with the sorcerers to first paralyze the Navy’s chain of command and then landed to invade while all the chaos was going on.
And the man standing on the roof – was a sorcerer!
Nathan stood on the roof, smiling as he looked down at the panicked crowd below.
“Gentlemen!” He spoke, “While your ladders are still here, shall we negotiate?”
“Negotiate?” Dylan wondered.
Nathan continued, “You guys seem to have a lot of good stuff hidden in your warehouse na! How about this, you give us everything in the warehouse – and the weapons you have on hand, a mosquito is still meat. We, on the other hand, will let you leave safely.”
He clapped his hands loudly, as if applauding his own idea, “All will be happy, what do you all think?”
“No way!”
Dylan was enraged, the important supplies that were shipped to the frontline were snatched away so unexplained by the pirates that came out of nowhere, he must not have a good time when he returned to the king’s capital.
“This is the property of the Kingdom of Aldo, don’t even think of touching a single millimeter of it!”
“Oh?” Nathan narrowed his eyes, and although his face still maintained this smile, it was clouded with a sinister color, “Then it’s not our fault ……”
As soon as his words fell, the sound of dense footsteps rang out, and heavy silhouettes suddenly emerged from the entrance of the street.
(End of chapter)