Chapter 77: So-called Standards

  In the midst of the urgent hoofbeats, dozens of knights holding torches rushed out of the tunnel. Their horsemanship was extremely high, and the distance from the tunnel exit to the canyon was less than 20 meters. Ordinary people would have been flustered, but those knights were in control, effortlessly reining in their warhorses and then forming a scattered line, dispersing in all directions.

  "What a magnificent lava river..." A knight let out a heartfelt sigh.

  "There's signs of someone having been here!" Another knight discovered something.

  Just then, a hoarse and indistinct voice came over: "General, it's me... save me..."

  The knights were startled and looked in the direction of the sound, a thin, dirty arm stretched out from behind a stone slab, shaking vigorously.

  Several knights urged their warhorses forward, slowly surrounding him, while the rest of the knights remained on high alert. As they approached the stone slab, a dirty figure jumped into their line of sight, with tattered clothes that were even worse than those of a beggar. His face was covered in a thick layer of grime, making it impossible to discern his original appearance, and he emitted a strange odor. The man lay on the ground, with a long sword stabbed through his calf, pinning his leg to the spot. What was even more bizarre was that he was chewing something with his mouth wide open, while his right hand tightly clutched a piece of roasted meat from an unknown animal.

  "Who are you?" a knight asked loudly.

  "General... General Koons is here? I am Leopold!" Leopold said vaguely, he also knew that it was very rude now, but compared to the heart-piercing hunger, what did rudeness matter?

  "Who?" A tall figure loomed in front of Leopold: "Leopold? You... you've become like this?"

  Leopold had just swallowed the meat in his mouth and was about to gnaw on another big piece when he heard Quincy's voice, at which he froze, then slowly raised his head, and endless grievances turned into a sharp cry of despair.

  "Is it really you?"

  "General, you must avenge me..."

  "I thought those bandits were definitely... God bless!" Quincy jumped off his war horse and shouted: "Tell me, who did it?"

  "It's that mercenary! That damned mercenary!!" Leopold gritted his teeth and said.

  "Which mercenary?" Quincy was taken aback.

  "It was he who killed Lord Mario!"

  "Mario... it was him!" Quincy's face suddenly turned gloomy: "Only one person?"

  "Yes, there is only him here."

  "Adults, adults......" The two knights in charge of keeping watch on that side suddenly cried out one after another.

  "What's all the shouting about?" Quincy demanded.

  "Sir, just now we saw a shadow on the other side of the bridge!"

  "General, that's him! He just left a short while ago! General, you absolutely can't let him get away......" Leopold's whole body was shaking as if he had taken some kind of stimulant.

  Several impatient knights were pulling their warhorses onto the bridge when Quincy suddenly shouted: "Halt!"

  The knights were stunned, staring blankly at Quincy. Quincy strode to the head of the bridge and stamped his foot heavily on the bridgehead, causing the dozens of feet long iron chain to sway like a wave.

  Quincy observed for a moment, felt that there was no problem, waved his hand, and the knights rushed onto the bridge head in a file, charging towards one end.

  "General, don't leave me behind!" Leopold cried out, his heart racing with anxiety.

  "You and you." Quincy casually called out two knights: "You stay here and take care of him."

  "General..." It was strange, Leopold found himself growing more and more afraid, he didn't want Quincy to leave but couldn't find a suitable reason.

  Quincy nodded and stepped onto the iron bridge, adding up to Leopold's previous attempt, a total of three teams had disappeared in the tunnel, all done by that mercenary, who was also the murderer of Mario. As the highest commander of the secret base, he had to give an explanation, otherwise, he and his family would spend the rest of their lives in the slave camp.

  Leopold stared blankly at Quincy's back, when a knight suddenly whispered in his ear, "Sir, please bear with it."

  "What?" Leopold didn't understand, and the next moment a sharp pain came from his calf, the pain was so intense that he was stunned for a moment before letting out an ear-piercing scream: "Ah... what the hell are you doing..."

  "Sir, just bear with it and it'll be fine." The knight said with a smile, then casually threw the long sword to the ground.

  Ding... The long sword and the ground collided, producing a crisp sound. Immediately after, another sound followed: Ding... The knight was taken aback - how could there be two sounds? Just as he was puzzled, the collision sound came again. This time, he sensed something amiss and turned around to look towards the other end of the bridge, where a figure was using something to strike the iron chain.

  Whoosh...... A chain of iron softly fell down, and the iron plate bridge immediately began to shift. The figure on the other side walked to another side, and the knight suddenly realized that someone was going to destroy the bridge!

  "Kill him! Quick!" The two knights were shocked and rushed to the other side at their fastest speed, but this bridge was too long. They had just rushed halfway when another iron chain also left the bridge board, and the bridge body began to shake violently from side to side. The two knights were so frightened that they lay on the bridge board, tightly grasping the gap between the iron plates, not daring to move.

  Han Jin lightly clapped his hands, took out a fire talisman from the spatial ring, and threw it out. As soon as the talisman left his hand, it transformed into a strange fireball that streaked across the sky at an incredibly fast speed.

  With a loud crash, a huge boulder more than 20 meters above the suspension bridge was hit, and countless small stones fell down with a rustling sound. From Leopold's point of view, the boulder looked ordinary, but from Han Jin's current angle, he could clearly see that one end of the boulder had almost been hollowed out by someone!

  Han Jin threw out another fire token, and the huge boulder could not withstand the impact, crashing down with a loud noise. The tens of thousands of kilograms of rock fiercely smashed onto the iron bridge, causing the two knights on the bridge to be stunned, staring blankly as the boulder fell from above. Suddenly, there was a loud crash, and over a dozen iron chains fixed to the iron bridge simultaneously snapped, either flying into the air or whipping against the canyon walls, sending sand and rocks flying everywhere.

  Leopold lay motionless on the ground, a moment ago an iron chain had swung over and split the piece of beef into two segments, almost hitting him. After a while, Leopold, who had just calmed down from his fright, tried to lift his head to observe, but unexpectedly a foot came over and heavily stepped on his hand, then he saw a hand that very naturally pulled the space ring off his hand.