Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 313 Backstab
Always be vigilant and never trust anyone!

——Rizm Royal City Survival Rules
In the very center of this huge cavern in the Royal City of Rezim, a magnificent sculpture of the Spider Queen is bathed in eternal magical light.

The countless demon fires floating around are shining brightly, fully displaying the ultimate magnificence of the statue.

As ever.

Through the eyes of the sculpture, Rose, the spider god queen who lived in the pit of the devil's web, was watching with pleasure how the dark elves, led by the priestess, lived in the city of Rezim, which is full of conspiracy and conspiracy, because of power and desire. A city of betrayal... tumbling and struggling.

"Come here quickly!" A martial art master from a certain family who had been trained all day stretched out his hand to greet the students beside him.

"What happened? Martial arts master." The student asked doubtfully.

The martial arts chief smiled slightly, pulled the well-behaved student closer, pointed at the huge cave in Rezim King City, and looked towards the southeast of the city.

The most brilliant magic light was blooming there, the dazzling light kept flickering from the place surrounded by the dark enchantment, and the pillars of fire went straight to the top of the cave, and then disappeared without a sound.

"A pleasant attack." The drow elf said casually: "A small family, oh, I read that right, the attackers turned out to be a group of bereaved dogs."

"Why do they attack each other?" The innocent student was puzzled.

"To please the Queen of God, or to improve the status of your family in the city." The chief martial artist glanced at the magnificent spider sculpture in the center of the city, and said with a smile: "Of course, it may also be revenge, or to obtain... a noble status."

"This battle seems to be dragging on." At this time, another priestess who was watching the battle came over and commented:
"The attacking side's raid art is worth learning. Unfortunately, although they opened the gap perfectly and successfully rushed into the Wanruide family, the defensive side's resistance is very tenacious."

"That's true, and the Wan Ruide family has not lost the protection of the Queen of God, which will cause them a lot of headaches.

If the attackers fail to clear up any witnesses, these poor bereaved dogs will face the wrath of the ruling parliament. "The martial arts chief said lightly.

"But we are witnesses." The naive student said again.

"No." The Martial Artist replied with a smile: "We are bystanders, and this battle has nothing to do with us. Only the nobles of the victim's family have the privilege to accuse the attacker."

"The premise is that the nobles of the Wanruide family can survive." The priestess took a step forward, looking intently at the Art of War in the darkness.

It was clear that she was enjoying the pleasing sight before her.

At this moment, the entire family settlement in Rezim King City seemed to be boiling. All nobles and commoners, including ordinary soldiers and slaves, rushed to find the best viewing spot.Those who got there first excitedly described the scene of the battle to those who arrived one step later.

There is no doubt that no matter where you are, there will never be a shortage of people who watch the excitement and eat melons.

Of course, it also includes the sculpture of Rose, the Spider Queen, in the center of the city.

In the entire city of Rezim, wars between families do not happen every day, after all, this is a very risky approach.

Because all nobles in the 'victim' family must be cleaned up as quickly and as unobtrusively as possible.

If any of the nobles survived to accuse these murderers, the hypocritical justice of Rezim King City will issue sanctions and wipe out the attacking party, leaving no one behind.

If the raid was carried out perfectly, there would be no negative effects. Everyone in the city, even Rose, the Queen of Spiders, would applaud the opponent's courage and wisdom, and no one would ever mention this accident again.

Therefore, without absolute certainty, no one dares to provoke a full-scale war wantonly.

……

In the shrine where the Wanruide family serves the Spider God Queen.

The new mistress of the family is leading a group of commoner priestesses together, praying to the statue of the Spider Queen.

As the last family, if they don't want to make progress, what they have to face is just a group of bereaved dogs who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth.

At this time, the new mistress thought that these civilians known as the 'fourth natural disaster' would have to rest for half a year at the earliest before launching a surprise attack on them.

But she miscalculated the determination of this group of people. What she never expected was that the enemy's attack came so quickly.

Although the power of the family was severely damaged in the Black Dragon Disaster, it was not an existence that a group of bereaved dogs could easily shake.

At least, they haven't lost the protection of the Spider God Queen, which is their strongest trump card against the invaders.

But she already clearly felt that this shelter was slowly passing away, and she had to drive out all the intruders before the shelter disappeared.

Otherwise, the Wan Ruide family in Rezim King City will be completely expelled tonight.

The new mistress of the Wan Ruide family prayed devoutly while looking at the door frequently with restless eyes.

Obviously, she was really anxious, but she seemed to be looking forward to something.

Suddenly, a knock on the door interrupted the uneasiness of the mistress of the Wan Ruide family, the door of the front hall was opened, and the family martial arts chief walked in.

"Mistress, Mr. Pipison is here." The family martial arts chief bowed and said politely.

"Pipison from the Vinov Lone Wolf Mercenary Group is here!" The matriarch's resonant voice was full of joy: "Please invite him in!"

"My dear Mistress Wan Ruide, Pipisen, the head of the Vinov Lone Wolf Mercenary Group, greets you."

Pipisen, the mercenary leader in funny clothes, walked up to the mistress of the family, and lowered his cheap black agate-like head deeply again: "I heard that you are in trouble, as you wish, I will coming."

"The Wan Ruide family has not lost the protection of the Queen of God. According to the information revealed to me by the maid of the Queen of God, I know that the bereaved dog who invaded us has not been recognized by the Queen of God at all."

The new mistress said to the mercenary leader: "So, Mr. Pipisson, call your army immediately and help me repel all invaders!"

"But... my dear mistress..." the funny mercenary leader Pipisen said hesitantly:

"The Vinov Lone Wolf Mercenary Corps is a secret group...we can't... get involved in open warfare, otherwise we will... annoy the... ruling council of King Rezim City."

"I'll pay you as much as you want." The new mistress naturally knew the faces of these despicable thieves, and immediately made a promise.

"But the price..." The mercenary leader was still hesitating.

"I'll pay you as much as you want!" The new mistress raised her voice a little.

"This kind of action..." Pipisen, the mercenary leader, stroked his shiny head.

"I'll pay you as much as you want!!!"

The rage of the new mistress was revealed instantly, her scarlet eyeballs were like two piles of fire burning, she roared and kicked the hesitant mercenary leader to the ground.

"As you wish, I will do my best."

The funny mercenary leader Pipisen chuckled, got up and patted the footprints on his chest, lowered his cheap head again to the new mistress, turned and walked out.

The mercenary leader Pipisen was walking on the narrow bridge of the promenade, and suddenly grabbed a drow warrior to block a deadly crossbow bolt for him, and then threw away the unlucky shield. Looking at the Wanruide family guards who were blocking the intruders, he laughed easily;

"Everyone, take it easy, the time for our counterattack is coming soon."

In the eyes of a group of murderers, the mercenary leader groped for a while from the gleaming chain mail with a playful smile on his face, took out a delicate panpipe, and then leaned against the wall and began to play a silent melody.

When it was difficult for everyone to perceive the situation on the battlefield, the more than 200 drow warriors of the Vinov Lone Wolf Mercenary Regiment who were in charge of attacking from the main entrance all stopped suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, the group of the Lone Wolf Mercenary Group spontaneously looked at each other and began to wander in different directions.

Obviously, the pan flute is a special magical instrument, and no one can hear this deadly melody except the members of the Vinov Lone Wolf Mercenary Corps.

……

"Pfft!"

Thorn's short sword flew towards the scimitar facing the door, and the long sword in his right hand drew a graceful arc in the air, and the sharp blade directly cut off the drow's head.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

Afterwards, he immediately turned around and retreated, while dancing the two sharp blades in his hands tightly, and all the dozens of crossbow bolts that were galloping were all sent flying by him one by one.

——"Spell-like ability: Fireball!"

Noticing the sudden stop of the long-range attack that seemed to be ready to be loaded, a fireball the size of a washbasin quickly condensed in his palm.

"Boom!"

The howling fireball penetrated into the sentry tower guarded by the drow, bursting out with scorching flames and mournful wailing.

"There are already 73, and it will be completed soon." Seeing the beating information of the experience value, Thorne immediately judged how many lives the big fireball had harvested.

From the start of the battle to the present, the rear of the Wanruide family has been successfully captured by the warlocks. Sharis led the most elite drow warriors and has also lurked to the inner defense line of the four stone pillars, engaging in the bloodiest street fighting.

And the role of their group is to hold back the frontal forces of the Wan Ruide family, so that they cannot be distracted to support other places.

In other words, as long as they successfully hold back the Wanruide family's frontal forces, victory is only a matter of time for them.

On the frontal battlefield at this time, all the slaves had already crossed the wall and collided fiercely with the guards of the Wan Ruide family.

In addition to a large number of defensive drow fighters, the Wan Ruide family also has many huge spiders climbing out of the cave. These mutant spiders and drow fighters rely on favorable terrain to assist in defense.

For a while, neither side seemed to be able to break through the other's line of defense.

However, this stalemate is very suitable for Thorne to hunt and kill drow from a distance.

Whenever he found a place where a large number of drow had gathered, he would launch a fireball to carry out carpet bombing without any regard for the life and death of both sides.

This also indirectly caused him to be particularly eye-catching in the melee. Drow assassins who were good at assassination frequently lurked over and gave him the head of this 'crisp spellcaster'.

"Boom!"

In this stalemate battle, the wizard Charles released a scorching lava fireball that once again submerged into the Wan Ruide family's defense line, directly tearing a huge gap and breaking the balance between the two sides.

As a group of defense lines mixed with drow warriors and mutated spiders were cleared of a vacuum, the few slaves and the Tauren warriors behind them took advantage of the situation and rushed up, formally entering the stone pillar group of the Wan Ruide family.

It also announced that the Wanruide family's frontal defense line was broken by them.

Looking at the damage he caused, Charles nodded in satisfaction, and then began to search for the half-elf ranger, ready to assist him in the battle.

Because he found that as long as he successfully helped this kind ranger from the surface once, he could feel the slight fluctuation of the holy emblem worn on his chest.

This shows that his camp has begun to touch the good camp, so he believes that the moment his camp becomes good, the goddess he believes in will agree with him as a devout believer.

This holy emblem carved by himself will radiate the light of faith.

At that time, he will be able to gain the trust of the surface races and let them help him take away all those compatriots who yearn for surface life and the original residents of Rezim King City.

"The tauren charge!"

At the forefront of the frontal battlefield, Alista, the tauren who rushed into the group of stone pillars, roared excitedly, brandishing a huge ax and leading all the tauren around him to launch the most ferocious attack immediately.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of groups of tauren running could be heard.

At this time, the drow warriors who were blocking the path had no time to escape. They either died under the sharp corners, were smashed to pieces, or were cut in half by a huge ax the size of a door panel.

Alista the tauren sprayed steaming white air from his nostrils, and swung a giant ax the size of a door panel in his hand, which he spun crazily like a windmill, and drow limbs and broken arms flew around everywhere he passed.

Even in the face of long-range shooting from the drow crossbow, the crazy old cow went forward without fear.

Due to the fourth-ring spell "Stone Skin" blessed by the wizard, these fragile crossbow bolts shot at Alista's body, and apart from the soft tinkle, they couldn't hurt Alista at all.

At this time, the tauren finally realized what is called the highest state of "warrior", and they can open the shield wall without holding a shield. '

The current more than 20 Tauren warriors are a human-shaped shield wall.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Alista, who disrupted the drow defensive formation, found that the members of the Vinov Lone Wolf Mercenary Group did not keep up with his attack rhythm, but wandered behind them with a sullen expression.

"Get out!"

The careful tauren leader immediately sensed something bad and roared loudly.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

As soon as Alista, the leader of the tauren, finished speaking, more than a dozen mercenaries who were hiding in the dark suddenly appeared, firing poisonous crossbow arrows one after another, drowning all the tauren who hadn't reacted in time.

At the end of the frontal battlefield, Thorne and the wizard Charles walked slowly towards the stone pillars of the Wan Ruide family.

The current line of defense has been completely broken through, although there are still a large number of stubborn guards and ferocious spiders remaining in the stone pillars.

But as long as those in charge of cutting the back row clean up all the nobles, these drow civilian fighters will surrender without a fight.

"Why do I feel that the people of the Lone Wolf Mercenary Group look at us very strangely?"

Suddenly, Thorne grabbed Charles's sleeve, stopped in his tracks, and watched vigilantly at a large group of mercenaries moving erratically towards the two of them.

"Be careful! There is an ambush!"

Thorn's expression changed suddenly, and he reminded the wizard beside him.

As soon as the words fell, there was a roar of crossbow arrows tearing the air around the two of them.

At the same time, all the drow mercenaries around also showed their sharp blades and rushed towards them.

……

The rear of the Wan Ruide family settlement.

A horde of slaves led by Heriste's warlocks had broken through the defenses of the wall.

Howling fireballs, jumping lightning, pungent acid arrows and other gorgeous magics are constantly bombarding the houses of the Wan Ruide family, and at the same time they are constantly consuming their own cannon fodder slaves and Wan Ruide. The family's defense force.

——"Three-ring spell: Fireball!"

Hellist threw a howling fireball, looking at the exploding flames and the battle that was about to end, the corners of her mouth involuntarily curled into a smile.

Although these poor slaves have been exhausted under the attack and defense, they have also completed their mission.

Because the defensive forces behind the Wan Ruide family have been cleared by her warlocks.

They not only bought time for the compatriots in the back row, but also wiped out all the defending drow elves, which can be regarded as a successful completion of the task assigned by Evelyn.

As for those consumed slaves, who would care about them, as long as they have money, will they be less?
Although the people of the Warlock Academy can remain the most indifferent and neutral to the internal strife in the entire city as long as they don't have their own family, but Helisite doesn't think so.

Because civilians represent that they don't have any resources to support them. Almost all of their compatriots in the Warlock Academy are warlocks and wizards.

This means that if they want to steadily improve their strength, they cannot do without the consumption of huge resources.

Moreover, it is impossible for them to do everything by themselves, and it is their tendency to establish or join forces.

With a lifespan of more than 800 years, coupled with the profession of wizards with unlimited potential, and the system capabilities that each of them has.

Based on these, Helliste was not reconciled to living submissively in the Warlock Academy.

For their future, she must think clearly about her compatriots, and then choose to join the family power in Rezim King City.

Although there are many high-ranking and powerful families offering olive branches to them, after careful consideration by Helisite, she decided to make an investment with both risks and returns.

So what about Rose, the queen of spiders.

When their power grows stronger, what are these high-ranking gods?

At that time, it will only be a matter of one sentence to change the name of the Rezim King City.

"The battle seems to be over soon."

Julis walked up to Hellist, stood side by side with her, and spoke while looking at the buildings of the Wan Ruide family.

"That's right, I've seen the ending." Herister said with a smile as her beautiful eyes flickered a few times.

"Yes." Julis sighed, and suddenly shouted: "Be careful!"

Helis immediately looked in the direction Julis pointed out.

A sneer twitched at the corner of Julis's mouth, and a magical dagger that was ready to strike directly pierced Hellist's back.

……

What kind of abyss hell is this world, and how are our souls bound here.

In the light my skin is a repulsive ebony, and in the dark it radiates light from the goodness of my heart.

I really wanted to get out of this place, out of this life, out of the mistakes of this world, and find a place that didn't conflict with my beliefs.

But whenever I think back to those compatriots who died tragically because of my innocence, I know that my soul has been deeply bound here.

My name is Karlock, but I am not a dark elf in my actions, in my heart, or even in my soul.

If so, let the wrath of those who find me so different be upon me.

Only in this way can I find an excuse to leave this hopeless and helpless world.

Karlock, holding swords in both hands, stood on the balcony of the central stone pillar of the Wan Ruide family. At his feet, the corpses of two priestesses were silently telling what had happened.

Then Carlock immediately walked towards the inside of the stone pillar.

The two guards in the promenade spotted the uninvited guest and were about to rush past the barrier. Two cold lights flashed, and the two drow guards lay quietly on the ground, clutching their necks.

Carlock walked silently along the curved walls of the stone pillars, walking towards the core of the Wan Ruide family.

Two more guards blocking the way appeared on the steps, Karlock's eyes were fixed...then the two guards fell down clutching their necks again.

The wandering swordsman Karlock walked towards the top of the stone pillar while waving the sharp blade in his hand.

On the path he walked, the corpses of drow warriors and priestesses lay silently on the ground.

"It's here."

As Carlock walked down the steps to the very top of the pillars, he found an ornate metal door decorated almost exclusively with various spider morphs.

According to Sharis' description before he left, he immediately confirmed that this was the place where the priestesses of the Wanrad family gathered to pray.

As long as they are all eliminated, then this battle is almost over.

However, the moment he appeared, more than a dozen elite drow warriors, led by the martial arts chief of the Wan Ruide family, had already blocked his way, and all surrounded him with swords.

"Good come!"

Karlock's deep eyes burst out with endless fighting intent, he clenched the two fine gold long swords in his hands, and made a deep voice.

"Your movements are still so clean and neat, just as I imagined, my respectable teacher." At this time, the voice of Sharis, the master of drow swordsmanship, came from behind Karlock.

"Then let's fight together!" Carlock smiled.

"I'm so happy!" Sharis showed the same smile.

Immediately, the master and apprentice swung their swords to meet a group of guards from the Wan Ruide family.

The impact of weapons, the screams of death, and howls and roars flickered frequently in this empty corridor.

After a while, the master and apprentice, whose bodies were covered in blood, stood at the end.

"I've seen our future." Sharis walked to Karlock and said with a smile.

"What I saw was my own end." Carlock smiled slightly, turned around and left Sharis with a back.

Immediately afterwards, Sharis' expression turned cold, and he stabbed in with his sword without hesitation.

……

In the empty and silent corridor, only Gerson was walking quietly.

The reason why it was so silent was that almost all his compatriots went to raid the territory of the Wan Ruide family.

Gerson the drow thinks his chance has come.

Among the nobles in the city of Rezim, according to the tradition, each family will sacrifice its third boy to the Queen Spider God.

The newborn child of Rose Priestess Evelyn is her third son, so Gerson must save his poor child and take him away from this cruel underground world.

The only way to save the child is to kill one of Evelyn's other two children.

Only in this way, his newborn child would no longer be the third child, and if Evelyn wanted to forcefully sacrifice, it would undoubtedly be angering that damned spider.

She is smart and definitely wouldn't mess around like this.

So, he appeared here.

Suddenly, a spider web that had already been woven moved towards Gerson as a hood.

Gerson looked cold, and pulled out the long sword at his waist in an instant, a dense cold light flashed, and the woven cobwebs fluttered like fluttering catkins.

Immediately afterwards, he swung his long sword and jumped up, a gap was made in the ball-shaped body of the mutated spider entrenched on the cave roof, and viscous liquid sprayed out.

Gerson put the long sword back into the scabbard, turned and left.

Everyone thought he was a waste, but only he and his swordsman Karlock knew how strong his swordsmanship talent was.

The reason why he lives submissively is for today.

After all, his child was innocent, and he couldn't allow the newborn to be sacrificed to Rose.

"Gerson, I've been waiting for you here for a long time." Just as Gerson was about to step into the room of the two children, a pale yellow figure blocked his way.

"Kazik, why is he here?" Gerson looked shocked. He knew the strength of the mantis man Ka'zik very well, and he knew that he was not Ka'zik's opponent.

"Evelyn guessed that you would come here, I don't want to kill you, don't make things difficult for me, you'd better go back by yourself." The mantis man Kazik rubbed his jaw, making a whistle-like insect cry.

"Have you ever had a child before?" Gerson threw away the long sword, staring blankly at Kazik in front of him.

"No..." Carlock replied, shaking the two small tentacles on his forehead.

"You haven't even had a child, how can you know how much pain a father feels after losing a child." Gerson roared at the mantis man Kazik in a hoarse voice.

"This is what I promised Evelyn, and I can't break my promise." The mantis man Ka'zik rubbed his jaws, and the sound of insects sounded like a funny whistle.

"thump!"

Gerson suddenly knelt directly in front of Kazik, begging in grief: "Kazik, I beg you, just let me in, I've lost all my family, I don't want to Lose this poor child."

After finishing speaking, he began to kowtow to Kazik, and soon a large amount of bright red blood splashed down from his forehead.

"This..." the mantis man Kazik shook the two small tentacles on his forehead back and forth, showing his inner hesitation.

In the end, he hesitated for a while, and walked up to Gerson with a little reluctance, intending to help him up.

The moment Ka'Zix was about to approach the opponent, Gerson, who was prostrate on the ground, suddenly stood up, raised his long sword like lightning, and accurately stabbed the mantis man Ka'Zix's abdomen wrapped in an exoskeleton.

……

On the other side of the cave, Evelyn, the priestess of Rose, was looking nervously at the queen maid they summoned: Waxmelt Demon.

"Respected maidservant, Evelyn greets you." Evelyn stepped out of the crowd and came to the melted wax demon. She said calmly, "I hope that your presence can bless the family of the fourth natural disaster."

As soon as Evelyn finished speaking, all the priestesses once again sang the hymn in praise of the Spider God Queen.

"You're just a bunch of bereaved dogs." Waxmelt frowned, if she had eyebrows.

"According to tradition, we will offer the most satisfying sacrifice to the Spider God Queen." Evelyn quietly watched the Melting Wax Demon.

"Tradition is the tradition of the family, and you are just a bunch of bereaved dogs, so you are not worthy." Wa Rongyao's expression eased.

"I stand by what I do," Evelyn said.

Immediately afterwards, Marion came out holding the baby, and then gently placed the newborn baby on the back of the spider icon, and raised the sacrificial dagger.

"Wait a moment!"

Suddenly, Evelyn came up to Marion and took hold of her hand that held the dagger.

"You regret it!" Marion's expression turned cold.

"Let me execute it myself." Evelyn smiled and took the dagger from Marion's hand.

The handle of this cruel weapon is a spider with only eight legs sticking out. It is covered with barbs, which looks like the kick hair on a spider's body, and these eight legs are bent down at the same angle, arranged in a row. A sharp blade.

Evelyn, who clenched her dagger tightly, began to sing alone a hymn praising the Spider Queen.

After a while, Evelyn's chanting was coming to an end, and she had raised the dagger high.

The atmosphere in the audience became dignified and tense. Obviously, everyone was looking forward to the climax of this evil sacrifice.

The dagger slowly moved down along with Evelyn's wrist, but on the way, Evelyn suddenly turned the blade and pierced Marion's heart beside her.

"No!"

Marion let out a cry of pain, but it was too late, the eight sharp feet on the dagger tightly grasped her heart.

There was a deathly silence as Evelyn drew the dagger from the dead Marion.

"Treachery! Deceit! Cunning!"

Waxmelt Demon's laughter rang out: "You really know how to please the Queen of God. From today, Rezim Royal City will usher in a new family: the fourth natural disaster!"

A ball of fire exploded, and the Waxing Demon disappeared without a trace.

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(End of this chapter)