Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 442

After walking through the iron gate, Rhodes found himself in a city that had been reduced to ruins. This city gave him a very familiar feeling.

Walking on the dilapidated streets, looking at the surrounding ruins, Rhodes felt that this place seemed to be the Fortress of Glory.

It was just last year. There was no one on the street, only corpses all over the place. He pushed open the door of a nearby house and walked in.

There was no one in the room, only a few mutilated corpses.

Judging from their posture and the leftover sumptuous dinner on the table, they should have been killed by intruders while they were having dinner, with panic and surprise on their faces.

Rhodes closed the door and left the house. He felt that if the things in this house were true, they should not have been done by Nord's soldiers.

If the walls of the fortress were breached by Nord's army, the family would definitely not have the mind to continue sitting here to eat. They should have been killed before the walls were breached.

Rhodes continued walking on the street, trying to avoid stepping on the corpses on the ground. Along the way, he only saw corpses and dilapidated buildings all over the ground. Dead silence is the most appropriate description here, and it even made him feel very depressed.

As time passed, this street seemed to have no boundaries. Rhodes walked for so long without reaching the end of the street.

He started to get a little restless.

Rhodes stood still and calmed down. He opened a door next to the street, walked in, and walked out after taking note of the scene inside.

He opened the door of another house on the street, walked in and memorized the scene inside.

After opening hundreds of doors in a row, Rhodes didn't find that the scene in a room was repeated, and the appearance and method of death of each corpse were different.

He turned his head and looked behind him. The street behind him was still the same as before, and the door he opened was still open and not closed. He felt that this world was very real.

Rhodes continued to walk forward, opened each door, and recorded the scenes in each house.

He felt that the style of many houses did not match the surrounding houses. Even though they were almost reduced to ruins, these houses looked eye-catching.

These houses all have a common feature. There are only one or two corpses in the house, and they are all young people.

Rhodes opened the door of a thatched house. This house should not belong to this fortress. When he walked in, he only saw the corpse of a young man.

He felt that this young man looked familiar, but he forgot where he had seen him.

After walking into several houses that looked weird together with the surrounding houses one after another, Rhodes suddenly realized that the corpses in this house did not seem to be residents of this fortress, but soldiers of the Roman Empire.

These houses that do not match the style of the houses in the fortress are the "homes" of those soldiers.

The reason why he felt that some corpses looked familiar was because those people died in his hands.

All the people who died in that war last year, the last trace of consciousness left in this world built such a place in the consciousness world.

Even if they are not residents of this fortress, their old houses will appear here, sealing their bodies.

Rhodes opened another door and walked in. Although the room was dilapidated and most of the furniture was weathered and decayed, there were a few things that were out of tune with the surrounding environment.

He found an old fishing rod and a rusty sword in this room, and some scattered flower petals in the corner of the room. These things should be the most precious things of the owner of this house.

Looking at the young man's body on the ground, Rhodes couldn't help thinking of it. After a young fisherman was rejected by his confession to his beloved girl, he threw away the fishing rod his father gave him in order to change his fate. Pick up the rusty sword at home and join the army.

However, the ending of the story is not satisfactory. He failed to win the war and did not return home as he imagined. Instead, he died on the battlefield and became one of the many dead in this war.

Rhodes left this room and walked into the thatched hut just now. The death of this young man should be related to him.

This corpse was also different from the others, with a smile on his face.

This should be a poor but optimistic young man.

After saying "sorry" softly to the young man's body, he left the room and continued walking along the street.

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After an unknown amount of time, Rhodes in the real world woke up. He was awakened by the sound of training outside.

He felt that when he returned to the territory, it was necessary to find a group of people to study the glass. There were no soundproof windows, and he couldn't sleep well even if he wanted to sleep in.

Rhodes recalled the experience last night, and felt a burst of depression in his heart. Natalya once said that she had dirty hands and killed many people when she worked for the Assassin League.

But she killed more people than she might have killed herself.

If Rhodes is given a chance, he will continue to be an adventurer. Anyway, there will always be a succession to the throne in the future, which can save many innocent people from being killed.

Those soldiers who died are just a number in the eyes of the nobles in all history books, but they also have their own families and their own dreams.

Rhodes sat on the bed and took a deep breath. When he went to the battlefield tomorrow, he would not be merciless, and he would definitely use all his strength and methods to kill more soldiers of the Roman Empire.

If he is kind to the soldiers of the empire, he is irresponsible to those soldiers who fight for him. Before he set off, he also promised the soldiers he brought with him that he would bring them home as much as possible , I can't live up to their trust.

To end this troubled world, sacrifice is unavoidable.

What Rhodes can do for those imperial soldiers is to let them die cleanly, and try their best to make their next generation no longer experience the pain of war.

He got up from the bed, and was going to go to the market in the fortress to do some shopping, and was going to improve the food for the soldiers he had brought. Of the five hundred people, he didn't know how many of them would be able to go back.

Alcohol is still undrinkable, and we have to set off tomorrow. Some people who can't drink well may not be able to sober up when they arrive on the battlefield tomorrow.

Rhodes walked down the stairs. He stood at the door of the tower, looked at the soldiers training in the open space in front of him, and vowed in his heart to bring them back as much as possible.

Several of these soldiers were even younger than Rhodes, because Rhodes selected the 500 soldiers by letting the soldiers draw lots themselves.

Otherwise, if Baron and the others were to choose, they would definitely let Rhodes take away those who were poor in martial arts and who were older, because these people were of lower value.

However, Rhodes finally gave them a fair chance. After gathering the soldiers together, they asked them to draw lots by themselves.

The soldiers who came to participate in this war could only complain that their hands were not washed clean.

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