The Crystal Palace Plan of the Sinner Lord

"Ah... W-what happened?!"

The pastor lady was at a loss.

Caesar winced in pain.

The light element is a special attack against demons, which is equivalent to pouring a basin of sulfuric acid on the arm. However, since the priest lady's rank is not high and she only releases the lowest-level spells, the damage caused to him is very limited.

"Next time you cast a healing spell on the demons in the territory, remember not to inject any light elements into it. Only the Wind Wolf can do that."

"If a goblin was here, it would have been burned to death by the healing spell just now..."

Caesar raised his charred hand and tapped Shana on the forehead.

The pastor lady nodded tearfully, looking apologetic.

"I...I know..."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Caesar, I, I didn't mean it... (?o ﹏ o?)"

Chapter 133: Low Risk, High Reward

Although Caesar said the injury was not a big deal.

But Shana still blamed herself for a long time afterwards. Every time she saw Caesar, she would apologize repeatedly until Caesar touched her head.

In the second half of the night, Caesar led the demons to attack Black Stone Village.

If you can't recall those memories, just forget about them.

It was not his style to spend too much time thinking about these things. He had always been a man of action. Since he could not remember, he would take the initiative to contact the target. With the terrifying strength of the brave man, he would surely die if he approached rashly, but he could start by investigating Bernard Ryan.

If Bernard Ryan was related to his life experience, there would definitely be some clues left. After all, Bernard was a brave man, and his every move was under people's attention. There would be countless bards gossiping about his deeds and compiling them into novels and poems, which would be used as programs to be sung in taverns and as a tool to make money.

The more bizarre these stories are, the better.

Humans love to hear unexpected stories.

Is there anything more bizarre than a hero being connected to a demon clan?

Therefore, in addition to capturing some craftsmen, this attack on Blackrock Village also added a new thing, which was to capture the bard, search for books in Blackrock Village, and torture the captives to inquire about information related to Barnard.

Due to the war between the demons in Bona Town and Hot Wind Highlands, and the fact that Shijian Village had been wiped out by the demons, the defense of Black Stone Village was very tight. It could be said that every tree and bush was an enemy. Even though it was already four o'clock in the morning, there were still militia patrols outside Black Stone Village. There were quite a few of them, and when the light of the torches was dense, they could almost form a connected piece.

"King, a bunch of ordinary humans!"

The thin dog suppressed his voice and said intermittently: "Just send, little ghost, you can kill indiscriminately!"

Caesar observed Shijian Village silently.

Taking down this village was inevitable, and no knight order would be so stupid as to abandon the small town and deploy troops in these villages. However, what he wanted was not just to simply take down Blackrock Village, but also to avoid casualties as much as possible.

The detection of the thin dog is not sufficient.

That's right, a goblin that has only evolved once doesn't have a very good brain. It can already see the approximate strength of humans, and it's normal that it can't understand the arrow towers and crossbows surrounding the village.

Now any attack would inevitably be discovered.

Crossbows and arrow towers can easily kill a large number of goblins. The accumulation of pheromones slows down, the evolution of goblins slows down, and the next goblin leader is nowhere in sight... These are chain reactions that Caesar cannot accept. He can assume that goblins cannot defeat militiamen, but he cannot let goblins die from arrow towers and crossbows.

That's stupid!

So is there any way to trick humans out and kill them?

The answer is yes, although there are risks, the risks are not high.

……

"Kid, don't sleep anymore, it's time for the shift change."

The middle-aged man touched the young man's face. The man was leaning against the wall with a spear, his whole body hanging on the spear. It showed how tired he was that he could fall asleep like this.

"Kid? Wake up!"

"Um...Uncle, what time is it?" The young man raised his hazy eyes.

"It's about five o'clock. It's time for the shift change. Go back to sleep. You'll get sick if you sleep here."

Behind the middle-aged man were militiamen lined up, more than a dozen of them in total. They were the ones who had been replaced, and each of them had sleepiness and fatigue on their faces. The night wind was very cold, and this cool breeze that should have made people extremely refreshed could not blow away their tiredness.

Days like this have been going on for a long time.

Bona Town and Shijian Village were attacked by the demons, and now everyone's heart feels like there is a taut string in their heart.

"Uncle, how long are we going to have to patrol like this?"

The young man rubbed his eyes and complained that he needed enough sleep as he was in the growth stage, but he felt dizzy every day as if he would fall to the ground at any second.

"I don't know." The middle-aged man sighed.

"Maybe we'll have to wait until the war is over... Then we'll have to decide whether to stay here or move to Black Tower City."

"If you ask me, the demons won't attack us at all. They don't even have time to attack the fortress or the town, so how can they care about us? We should all rest well, otherwise, even if the demons come, we won't have the strength to fight them."

"That's a novel idea." The middle-aged man patted the young man on the shoulder and said, "I will report your opinion to the village chief."

However, just when everyone was preparing to return.

A shrill scream pierced the night sky.

Everyone's sleepiness disappeared instantly.

"what sound?"

"It sounds like a woman's scream?!"

“It can’t be a ghost…” The young militiaman hid behind the middle-aged man and said tremblingly: “I heard from the old people in the village that a female ghost appeared in the mass grave outside Black Stone Village before, and it screamed like this!”

"What nonsense! There will be no undead here!"

The middle-aged man glanced at the young man speechlessly.

Everyone looked into the distance in the direction where the scream came from.

In the jungle at the end of the wilderness, a white shadow suddenly jumped out, looming in the floating grass and trees, and flew towards here unpredictably, looking like a real ghost.

"Female ghost, it's really a female ghost!"

The young man's exclamation made the surrounding militiamen nervously raise their crossbows and aim at the white shadow.

"Don't!" The middle-aged man hurriedly stopped her: "That's a woman."

The white shadow was getting closer and closer, and the militiamen could see clearly this time that it was indeed a ragged woman. She was pale, terrified, dirty, and her face was full of tear marks.

"Help, save my child, please save my child, wuwuwuwu..."

The man stepped forward to help him up and consoled him:

"Tell us what happened first. How can we help you if you don't? Who are you? Why are you out in the wild at night? What happened to your child?"

Following the man's methodical questioning, the woman lowered her head and trembled as she spoke:

“My name is Tina, and I’m a villager from Shijian Village.

We were attacked by monsters a few days ago. Many people died and I was captured. Those goblins used us as breeding tools...

Last night, for some reason many goblins left, so I took the opportunity to knock out a goblin and escaped with the child, but we were still caught up by a group of goblins...

Please, please save my child, I kowtow to you!"

The woman knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, her head covered in blood.

The surrounding militiamen all focused their attention on the middle-aged man.

He was one of the captains of the militia.

He was the one who made decisions regarding the militia during this period.

"Are there a lot of goblins suddenly leaving?"

The middle-aged man touched his chin and frowned in thought.

The ones attacking Stone Sword Village were a tribe of goblins.

Everyone knows this, as evidenced by the traces left behind by those monsters.

And a lot of goblins suddenly left, probably because of the war between Bona Town and the demons of Scorchwind Highlands. The demon cannon fodder in Scorchwind Highlands was insufficient, so they summoned the goblin tribes around Sunset Forest.

It's not impossible for this kind of thing to happen.

Besides, he could see that the woman was sincere and didn't seem to be lying.

"Do you remember how many goblins came to catch you?" he asked in a serious tone.

If there weren't too many goblins, the child could definitely be saved!

Chapter 134: The Art of Playing with People's Hearts

"I, I remember there were more than ten..."

The woman said tremblingly.

"More than ten goblins are not a very strong force." The middle-aged man's eyes condensed. Weakness is only for the militia team, but for ordinary women, it is a huge threat.

"Boy, take this mother back to the village and wait." The middle-aged man ordered, "I and the others will go kill the goblins and rescue her child!"

"Ah, uncle, you won't let me go with you?"

The young man was obviously unhappy.

This is a chance to kill the goblins. He also wants to go along.

"Follow orders!"

Seeing the middle-aged man so serious, the young man didn't know what to say. He could only walk dejectedly towards the village with the woman. The two groups walked in opposite directions and no one noticed the woman's frequent looking back and evasive eyes.

……

The middle-aged man led a group of militiamen into the bushes and soon found the goblin's footprints.

He squatted on the ground and observed silently for a while.

"Based on the footprints, there are indeed more than ten of them. There is nothing wrong with the woman's information."

"Captain, should we follow in?"

The militiamen looked at the deep forest and their voices were inevitably a little timid. The sunset forest in the daytime was scary enough, and the sunset forest at night was even more eerie and mysterious.

"Don't be scared, they're just a bunch of goblins."

The middle-aged man swallowed and took the lead.

The other villagers followed him, and their figures gradually disappeared into the depths of the jungle.

Caesar hid in the dark and watched this scene.

Standing next to him was Xigou, who was holding a half-grown boy in his hands. The kid's face was covered with tears and his eyes were staring in despair. Unfortunately, his mouth was stuffed with cloth and Xigou's hand was covering his mouth, so he couldn't utter a word.

The woman before was sent by Caesar.

Threatening her child, the mother finally betrayed humanity.

Of course, Caesar also considered the possibility that the mother would ignore her own children and inform on others for the sake of humanity. If this happened, it would not matter. At most, he would lose some goblins and just attack directly.

"King, what should we do with these humans? They have been led away by Broken Tooth and his men."

Xigou asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry, Broken Tooth and the others are fine." Caesar's face was grim.

With only two teams of militia, Broken Tooth and one goblin leader can take care of them all.

Now all we have to do is wait for Broken Tooth and the others to send the prisoners over.

The facts were pretty much what Caesar thought.

As expected, these militiamen did not suspect that there was anything wrong with the goblins and chased them all the way to the ambush location of Broken Tooth and his men. When they saw a group of goblins, they showed bloodthirsty smiles, but as Broken Tooth's tall figure walked out of the bushes, they all shut their mouths instantly.

Twenty minutes later.

The militiamen were brought before Caesar with bruised faces and noses.

They looked up and saw a tall, evil demon, surrounded by lion demons and jungle trolls. The dark mass surrounded them from all sides, and the oppressive feeling released by these demons made the air become a little stagnant.

"What are these..."