Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 407 Journey

It didn't take long for Rhodes to return to the fork in the road. This time he walked along the left passage.

This road leads to the outside. Rhodes stood at the entrance of the cave, and the war horse tied to the tree not far in front of him was still snorting at him.

He went into the cave again, and this time he walked forward along the passage on the right.

After a while, he came out of the cave again, but he didn't leave from the cave he entered. Using the war horse tied to the tree as a reference, this conclusion can be easily drawn.

Rhodes walked to the horse, untied the reins from the tree, and rode on the horse and ran towards Icestone City.

He suddenly admired his luck now. At that time, he had a two-thirds chance of leaving this cave, but he still entered this tomb that was not dangerous but contained many treasures.

If he had chosen to take the other two passages and left the cave directly, then Sam would definitely not be the only one killed by Otto, both Hammer and Weber might be in danger of life.

What he will experience next will definitely be different, and he doesn't know whether it will be good or bad in the long run.

But up to now, Rhodes still doesn't know what the message in the sarcophagus means.

Could it be that they want me to go through the Land of Eternal Night to the place where the dragons live, and help them destroy the dragons there?

Just as Rhodes was thinking about this, the war horse under him had brought him back to Icestone City.

Fortunately, Icestone City does not close the gates at night, and there is no curfew system, otherwise Rhodes can only sleep in the wild tonight.

He rode his horse back to the tavern where Al and the others lived, put the horse in the stable, and walked into the tavern.

Al hasn't rested yet, he is sitting in the lobby of the tavern and drinking with the tavern owner.

"Why did you come back so late?" Al asked.

"I went to visit an old friend." Rhodes replied.

"Then why do you smell like blood?" Al asked again.

"He's a...doctor. When I went, he happened to be helping a person with a wound, so he might have a bloody smell," Rhodes explained.

Al nodded, he stood up and said to the tavern owner: "Then I'll go to bed first, and we will continue on our way tomorrow."

"Okay, you go to sleep, I'll clean up here." The tavern owner, who was a little drunk, stood up and said with a smile.

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Early the next morning, the three of them embarked on the journey again. Before leaving, Rhodes bought some wine from the tavern owner and poured it into the iron kettle.

He didn't have the idea of ​​collecting wine produced in various cities. The spirits produced in his territory were much better than these wines that were only filtered.

"By the way, I never asked, where were you born?" Al asked Rhodes while walking on the road.

"The Dragonfire Province of the Nord Kingdom." Rhodes replied.

The original owner had been living in a manor there since he was a child, and when he grew up, he went on adventures with Baron.

But if you think about it carefully, you can find many problems. How could Baron have been wandering in the snow wind province and coastal province in the west, so he "coincidentally" passed by a manor in the dragon fire province in the east of the kingdom.

"What's the matter? Why do you ask this suddenly?" Rhodes asked suspiciously.

"It's nothing, it's just that I feel a little bored on the road." Al shook his head, and then he continued to focus on the road ahead.

"Then why don't you ask me where I'm from?" Achim said suddenly.

"You should have grown up in Brussels, the capital of the Roman Empire. Your accent is very similar to the people there. I lived there for a long time. When I saw you for the first time, I immediately I know where you are from." Al explained.

"You're right." Achim said, "I did grow up there."

While the three were talking, a group of mature men wearing old leather armor and holding weapons came out of the woods on the side of the road.

"Looks like they're here to rob again." Rhodes shook his head helplessly.

They surrounded the three of Rhodes to prevent them from leaving here on horseback.

"Your horses look good." The first man with a scar on his face patted the horse under Rhodes.

"Leave the horse, and we'll let you go. If you want to play tricks, don't blame us for being rude. I think you don't want to be beaten." He said again.

Rhodes saw that these people only wanted to make money and did not want to kill their lives, so he decided to deal with them lightly, knocked them all out, and gave them to the local lord.

As for whether the local lord hanged them in public, exiled them to the north, or stayed in the local area to do hard work, it didn't matter what happened to Rhodes. Each lord had different punishments for different crimes.

Rhodes climbed down from the horse, preparing to dislocate the arms of these robbers with the grabbing hand like last time, then tie them up with ropes, and drag them to meet the local lord.

It is best to let the local lord deal with them, which can deter other nearby robbers, as well as the residents of the territory who have such thoughts, and the kind residents will also feel very happy when this happens.

"You are very sensible." The bandit leader smiled and patted Rhodes on the shoulder, "But I lied to you."

He stabbed at Rhodes with his sword, and Rhodes reached out and grabbed the sword, and then broke the sword with his hands in front of him.

"I wanted to spare your lives and let the local lord judge your crimes." Rhodes shook his head and threw the fragment of the sword on the ground.

Rhodes reached out and grabbed the bandit leader who was about to escape, and grabbed it back, punched him, and hit the bandit leader's chest.

He used his inner strength for this punch. Although it looked like he didn't have a hand on the surface, his heart had actually been shattered by the force penetrating in.

Rhodes sent his hand away, and the bandit leader fell directly to the ground, blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, his eyes had lost their luster, and he probably couldn't survive.

Al also jumped off his horse and started fighting with the surrounding robbers.

In less than a while, the two killed the surrounding robbers and fled in all directions. Rhodes used his lightness kung fu to catch up and killed the fleeing robbers one by one.

Two robbers felt that they couldn't run away, so they stayed where they were and knelt down to surrender to Al and the others.

As a result, Achim, who had been watching the battle, picked up the weapon on the ground and killed him.

After Al saw Achim's behavior, his face was a bit ugly. He used to be a knight, and killing an enemy who had surrendered would damage the knight's honor, but he didn't say anything.

It didn't take long for Rhodes to drag the corpses back here. He piled up all the corpses and prepared to burn them all.

It would not be good if these corpses were allowed to rot slowly and cause certain diseases to the surrounding residents.

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(End of this chapter)