“Hah.”
Under the night sky, the bandit sentry on the watchtower was still leaning on the railing and yawning, his telescope casually hanging on the railing.
Just then, a chilly night wind suddenly blew.
The somewhat drowsy bandit sentry shuddered, instantly wide awake.
Even more strangely, the night wind blew out all the torches on the watchtower, plunging the sentry into darkness so that he couldn’t see anything.
The bandit sentry rubbed his shoulders, tucked his neck, and prepared to relight the torch.
“…What’s going on? Why did it suddenly get so cold?”
Schlick
However, before the sentry could finish speaking and before his hand reached the torch, a dull sound of claws piercing flesh rang out.
Liyakade stood leisurely behind the sentry.
Her claws followed the back of his head and pierced straight through his throat.
The sentry didn’t even have a chance to call for help before being stabbed through by Liyakade.
Blood splattered onto the wooden railing of the watchtower, staining the gray-white wood red.
The sentry’s body seemed to tremble slightly from the violent impact, but soon he completely lost his life force, even becoming somewhat shriveled, and no longer made a sound.
Liyakade casually tossed the sentry off her claws, like discarding a piece of scrap paper.
“Now, the outpost sentries around the stronghold have all been cleared.”
Liyakade turned to look at Mi La behind her.
By now, Mi La had grown accustomed to Liyakade’s brutal killings.
Whether it was broken limbs or organs splattered around, Mi La now saw them with a blank expression.
It had to be said, Mi La’s adaptability was quite strong.
Liyakade looked at the other watchtowers along the way.
By now, their torches had all been extinguished.
She had not spared a single bandit sentry on the towers or the bandit guards patrolling near the mountain paths.
The reason for clearing these posts was that Liyakade wanted to ensure all the bandits in the stronghold were annihilated.
She intended not to let a single bandit escape.
This was their retribution, and also Liyakade’s promise to Mi La.
If she first eliminated the bandits in the main fortress, the patrolling bandits would scatter and flee in all directions.
With so many bandits fleeing in different directions, even Liyakade might not be able to kill them all.
Liyakade looked again at the stronghold.
Now, the only place still lit was the main fortress.
Presumably, the last bandits and their leader were hiding in there.
“What do you say, Mi La? Should we just crush them head-on, or disguise ourselves and sneak in?”
Liyakade left the decision to Mi La.
Crushing these ants was too simple and boring for Liyakade, so she let Mi La choose the method.
“Sister Liyakade, aren’t you supposed to meet up with Sister Field and Sister Alice soon? Just hurry up and kill these scumbags. No need to waste time.”
Mi La wasn’t as sadistic as Liyakade.
Although she wanted to avenge her parents and make these scumbags die as painfully as possible, Liyakade’s brutal executions were enough in Mi La’s eyes.
Besides, Liyakade had her own matters to attend to, so she shouldn’t waste too much time here.
“Okay.”
Liyakade nodded, then gently grabbed Mi La’s wrist.
The wings on her back fluttered lightly, and the two figures vanished from the watchtower.
“Hahaha, with so much treasure, I can live my whole life. Now I just need to find a chance to go down the mountain, change my appearance, and never worry about food and drink for the rest of my life!”
Guan Xin was currently admiring his spoils in the stronghold’s treasure vault.
Piles of gold coins and gold and silver jewelry were stacked in the corner of the vault.
These were all things he had looted over the years from the mountain and from passing caravans.
Actually, over the years, he had never been very satisfied with life in the stronghold.
The reason was simple: even though he had plundered a lot of treasure, there was nowhere on the mountain to spend it.
All he could eat every day was coarse grains, and the women he could see were all ugly.
He wanted to enjoy delicacies and beautiful women.
That was why he had been accumulating wealth, all for this day.
He even thought that once he could go down the mountain, he wouldn’t care about these so-called brothers on the mountain anymore.
And frankly, who would consider these big, rough men as brothers?
In Guan Xin’s eyes, these people were just tools for him to accumulate wealth.
Finally, after the last raid, Guan Xin felt he had accumulated enough wealth.
So he ordered the other bandits not to act recklessly recently, to avoid any trouble in these final days.
He had prepared a storage ring with sufficient capacity.
Next, he just needed to find a chance to go down the mountain, sell off all this treasure at a casino, then slip away to the kingdom’s border or a city with mediocre security.
Then he could live the rest of his life without worries about food and clothing.
No, with this wealth, he could even open a small shop or start a caravan.
Wouldn’t he then have beautiful women throwing themselves at him and a house full of children and grandchildren?
Guan Xin had already decided: early tomorrow morning, he would go down the mountain to the nearest town.
But now…
Guan Xin had one more important thing to do.
That was, before leaving, to kill all the playthings he had collected over the years.
Guan Xin walked to the bookshelf against the wall.
He reached his hand into a groove above the bookshelf.
Then, with a dull rumble, the bookshelf began to slowly split apart to the left and right.
There was actually a passage hidden behind the bookshelf.
Guan Xin quietly entered the passage.
After he stepped in, the bookshelf automatically closed from both sides, as if nothing had happened.
However, all of this was fully observed by Liyakade, who was hidden in the shadows.
Guan Xin could never have imagined that someone had already infiltrated his stronghold.
He planned to change his identity and start a new life from tomorrow, but he didn’t know that he had no tomorrow.