Chapter 251 – Capital Road (3)

There were corpses everywhere.

Only the smell of blood and smoke soared in the plaza, where people’s voices had been heard until yesterday. There was only one man standing firm. Hero Wolf. An old sword had cracked and was on the verge of being smashed, and blood scabs were sticking to his face. The soldiers following him bowed their heads in fear rather than respect.

There were three huge valleys in front of Wolf’s eyes. It was a scene of heavy destruction created by swinging the sword only three times. I couldn’t even fill the one trace that crossed the front of the church, but the capital was deeply hurt again and trembled the ground.

Scattered everywhere were corpses and flesh that presumed to be corpses. Even a cursory glance revealed that many people, including the center of the rebels, had died. Those who weren’t dead were busy running away, and Wolf didn’t have enough energy to pursue them.

The banners the noble had unfurled were reduced to ashes, and his armor, together with the sidewalk blocks, had become a shape that a grave robber would prefer.

Wolf exhaled heavily and threw his head back. He hadn’t trained for a long time, and he was exhausted from swinging his sword three times, and it was difficult to move. He thought it was fortunate that the rebels were cowards.

“Wolf.”

The commander came behind him. His legs were shaking, and his face was full of fatigue. Wolf remembered that face. Because he was the commander who ordered his family to come. However, he was empty-handed, and when Wolf met his eyes, he showed even more fear.

Wolf asked.

“Tell me.”

“The mansion was already burnt down, but the family escaped safely.”

Wolf looked around. However, the only ones present here were the commanding officer and Wolf’s terrified soldiers. Wolf asked with a smile.

“Okay? So, where are my family now?”

Wolf tried to hide his anxiety with a smile. Even under his violent and ignorant disposition, there was a movement for positive reasoning.

Maybe the commander was just rolling his head. It didn’t make sense to bring my family in the middle of a battlefield like this. Seeing that the soldiers were not brought, the family could have already been resting in the castle.

Wolf smiled broadly and took a step closer to the commander. He was very intent on killing him if he did not bring positive news to his steps. The commander reflexively backed away as much as Wolf moved.

Wolf paused at his feet, and looked again at the commander’s movements with his eyes.

He did not appear to have come to fight. But he was strangely undressed. Wolf said to the commander.

“Where are my family now?”

“Yes. Mr. Wolf… That, that…”

I came prepared for death, but when faced with a crisis, everyone trembled in fear. Said Wolf.

“Tell me quickly. I ordered my family to come, so why did you come alone?”

“That, that… ! It has already been confirmed that they have already escaped by boat…”

“Ship? What ship? What boat are you talking about?”

Wolf couldn’t understand the words that came out of the commander’s mouth. Wolf’s family had never told him of their plan to escape by boat. They had always told Wolf that they would be by his side.

“I heard that it is a ship going to another continent. By the time we found out, the ship had already departed…”

Wolf’s face turned bright red. Tears welled up in his eyes, and his expression changed strangely. In a way, it was a funny expression, but it was not funny at all to the commander who was facing Wolf right away.

Wolf shouted.

“Do not lie! My family! You can’t abandon me! I brought you here! You’ve made me pay so far! But you left me and ran away! It’s a lie! That’s a lie! My family can’t do that!”

The commander shouted.

“Ha, this is a fact confirmed even in the port! Already, Mr. Wolf’s family is on a boat… ! Kuk… ! Gagging… !”

The commander’s next words did not follow. It was because Wolf grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up into the sky. The hand holding the collar was like a log, so it didn’t fall off, and the pressure that squeezed it seemed like it would break his neck at any moment.

“Keep it off… Kuk… !”

The commander screamed in pain. But Wolf’s face looked more painful than the commander’s.

“You! You sold out my family and lied to me! What do you know! It was the kind of family that swore to be together forever from the alley! You can’t abandon me! I said I’d protect you! I said I’d trust me! How can you say bullshit about running away!”

Wolf threw the commander to the ground. At close range, the commander’s body exploded as if it had been crushed by a giant hammer. The blood flowing on the floor and pieces of organs sticking to the armor aroused the fear of the soldiers even more.

Someone passed out after seeing Hero Wolf, and someone started crying while urinating. It was an unsightly appearance that could not be thought of as an army that suppressed a rebellion. Wolf looked at the shattered pieces of meat, but his anger did not subside. He shouted to the commander who was still waiting behind him.

“Right now! Find my family! Those rebels are hiding it!”

It was a family that promised eternity. Even when they bully in the back alley, even when they revealed their aspirations to become a knight, they were a family that was always consistent with a smile. If someone came in, we fought as one mind, and we tried to cover each other’s minor mistakes.

I was poor, but every day was hot and happy.

“Aaaaa!”

Cried Wolf. Wolf wanted to believe that his family had not abandoned him. He wanted to say that the tears flowing from his eyes were not from betrayal, but from sadness.

Wolf’s scream rang through the capital. Those who barely survived crawled into the slums or trembled in fear as they hugged each other in the piles of collapsed houses.

People prayed for a warrior to come.

I just prayed that someone would defeat that evil demon and open up a new world.

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The old woman covered in a blanket was walking leisurely through the streets. He was an old man whose face was full of fur and his eyes were white, so he couldn’t see properly. The soldiers, reluctantly rummaging in all directions, faced the old woman and distanced themselves with a frown on his face.

The old woman started to dance in front of his soldiers, humming his song. His slender arms and belly protruded like a tadpole. The soldiers turned their heads and began to go their way at the bizarre appearance, like a monster from a myth.

The old woman, who had been dancing for a while, stopped with her arms outstretched and stepped. As she peered through her floor, she began to move her head in sync with the movement of the cockroach crawling down her path. She then took the cockroach in her hand and shoved it into her mouth.

The merry dancing continued with the sound of crunchy chewing. Seeing her swaying her shoulders and circling her streets in the midst of her ruins made the imprisoned refugees feel proud.

“You crazy old man. Are you dancing now? Even if you go crazy, you have to go crazy!”

The old woman did not respond to the swear words of her citizens. She just spread her arms as she looked up at her sky with a pleasant smile.

People couldn’t raise her voice for fear of attracting attention, and they couldn’t help but stare at the old woman with huffs and puffs. The old woman stood on her toes gracefully, like the one in her spotlight on her stage, then she stretched her hands toward the sky, she said.

“A warrior will come.”

What is the old woman looking at? She exclaimed with her hands outstretched, with an ecstatic smile as if one were seeing heaven.

“A hero riding a white horse will come to the capital.”

The people who cursed her at her old woman and the guards who searched around her looked at her with strange expressions. She was a rumor that had always been heard, but the weight was different now.

“Riding on a white horse with dozens of legs, a hero will come here.”

People were looking at the old woman with blank expressions. The old woman opened her arms wide with her face intoxicated with her satisfaction and began her dance again. No one cursed at her old woman for her dancing. People leaned against the ruins and started praying, waiting for a warrior to come one day.

The guards stopped investigating the surroundings and sat down. Then they sighed deeply, patted each other on the shoulder, lit a cigarette and sighed. The old woman’s dance was far away. The soldier saw her old woman walking away and asked her comrade.

“Will a warrior come? A real warrior.”

“I don’t know.”

A colleague exhaled smoke. He knew nothing He was just praying. With a wish for the hero to die, for someone to put an end to this cruel tragedy.

With a heart that wants the world to be happy.