Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 472 Bazel, do you like the Dragon Breath Cannon?

What's more troublesome is that they can't stay here for too long. In fact, their condition is already not very good. This place is too far from Castel, and the symbiotic contract is constantly draining their life force.

Soon, the sirens determined their direction, came ashore from the river, and entered the forest.

Half a day later, the three female demons returned to the river, looking utterly dejected.

"How could it not be?"

"I think it's the map's fault; the map's accuracy is terrible!"

Nini disappointedly put the map aside. They searched for a long time but found no clues about the camp.

Moreover, while banshees move quickly in rivers, they don't have this advantage in forests, where exploring takes a lot of time and is inefficient.

"In that case, let's search along the river first. The resistance camp must need a water source, so it shouldn't be too far from the river."

After whispering among themselves for a while, the three of them jumped into the river.

The wind blew through the woods, causing the branches to sway along the riverbank.

After a moment, a crimson hue suddenly appeared in the woods.

A red-haired girl emerged from the bushes, carrying an unconscious man in her hand.

It was Lina.

"That's strange. I clearly sensed an extraordinary aura coming from this direction, but it suddenly vanished."

Lina's gaze fell on the riverbank, where the pebbles had been swept away, leaving a winding trail that led all the way into the water.

Lina narrowed her eyes.

Once in the water, the banshees' speed increased dramatically. They split up and searched along both banks of the river.

If the resistance camp was indeed not far from the river, there should be traces of water being drawn. The Kohler River is quite swift, and there aren't many shallows nearby, so it shouldn't be hard to find.

Nini and the other two agreed on a time and place to meet again, and then went upstream along the river to search for each other.

Soon, she discovered several suspicious locations, and after investigating them, most of the day had already passed.

But her efforts were not in vain; finally, she found a path in the woods not far from the river.

There were many footprints on the path, indicating that people had walked there frequently and not for long.

Nini immediately became excited and started walking along the muddy dirt road through the woods.

The forest was not easy to navigate, with branches and bushes often blocking the way, and the paths meant for humans were rather narrow for the banshees.

But this wasn't a big problem for Nini. She was wearing heavy armor and didn't need to worry about anything else; she just needed to go straight ahead. Behind her, the narrow path was stretched several times wider, and broken trees were crushed to the ground.

This was bound to make some noise, but Nini didn't care.

Banshees are not good at stealth, and this is a dense forest, so it would be too much to ask them to hide.

It would be better to just run them over.

She arrived at the camp shortly afterward.

This was the very camp the resistance had evacuated from the day before, and now it was a scene of utter devastation.

Although the resistance fighters left in a hurry, it shouldn't have been this chaotic. This was mainly because...
Nini narrowed her eyes as she watched the soldiers rummaging through the camp.

The soldiers numbered over a hundred; they were Bazel and his men. After leaving Sladedinburgh, they first went to the town where Winterwolf was located, then gathered their soldiers and supplies and plunged directly into the woods.

He brought only elite troops, and with the Frost Earth Guards there, the resistance's muskets would have no chance of breaking through their lines. Besides, most of the people in the camp were women and children who had only received basic training; the real fighting troops had already gone to support Gwen, and Lina was with them too. Even if Nora appeared, she wouldn't be able to make a dent in their defenses.

Lina is the strongest, and Bazel has no doubt about that.

Unfortunately, he didn't expect that he would come up empty-handed.

The resistance had just left without even leaving a trace, which made Bazel's expression turn cold.

However, he did not order a pursuit. Instead, he ordered his soldiers to search the area. He did not specify what they were looking for, but his order was to "bring over anything strange."

This left the soldiers somewhat confused.

Just then, Nini rushed into the woods.

Bazel had already heard the strange noises in the woods, but he just assumed they were animals and didn't pay much attention to them, since the soldiers were all wearing armor and ready to fight at any time.

He simply gathered the Frost Earth Guards, loaded their muskets, and waited.

When Nini emerged from the woods, the soldiers were stunned.

The Frost Earth Guards were the elite troops under Bazel's command, each one tall and strong, clad in armor, and much more robust than ordinary people.

But when they stood in front of Nini, they looked like harmless cats, even though Nini was more than twice their height.

Moreover, Nini was wearing full-body heavy armor. The armor designed by Hughes had a cold, steely beauty. Standing in front of her, people couldn't help but hold their breath, as if afraid of disturbing this steel giant.

"My lord, what...what kind of monster is this?!"

A soldier screamed, and Nini slowly turned her head, her eyes gleaming faintly through the gaps in her helmet.

"count?"

She spoke in a low, hoarse voice, tinged with excitement and bloodlust, like a demon from hell.

The soldiers in front of them all took a step back, feeling inexplicably surprised—this tall giant could actually speak. They had thought that there was only cold steel inside.

"Lord Bazel is a border count appointed by the Queen. What kind of monster are you? Get out of the way!" the soldier threatened weakly.

Bazel behind him made a few hand gestures, and the nearby soldiers surrounded him, but he himself subtly retreated and looked around.

It didn't take long for him to find a patch of red in the woods, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lina, come here!" His voice rose. "Monster, tell me where you came from, and immediately lay down your weapons and surrender!"

Nini remained silent, slowly putting something on her six hands under her armor, completely ignoring the soldiers who were slowly surrounding her.

"You are Count Bazel?"

She asked a question, and before Bazel could respond, he saw her raise six hands, pointing in all directions, with dark cannon muzzles beneath her steel gauntlets.

One of them was facing him.

Bazel instinctively sensed something was wrong. He shouted "Lina!" and everything before him was stained crimson.

The woodlands of the North are not very bright, with tall, thick trees blocking out the sunlight.

At that moment, the trees, along with the sunlight falling from the sky, were instantly engulfed by the overflowing firelight.

The surging fire dragon, like a roaring beast, burst forth from the cannon muzzle, engulfing everything around it.

(End of this chapter)