What exactly was going on?
Watching the town billow with thick smoke, the lord clenched his teeth. He had never imagined that the town under his rule would come under attack.
Come to think of it, who exactly were the enemies?
Demons? How was that possible? The demons were far to the south. Why would they cross the entire kingdom just to attack his territory at the very northern edge?
But if they were not demons, then who were they? Monsters from the other side of the Dragon Mountain Range? But no matter how he looked at them, those attackers seemed human.
"Darling!"
At that moment, the lord's wife came to his side with a baby in her arms, looking at him anxiously. The lord thought for a moment, then turned to his wife.
"Go take shelter immediately. I don't know who these people are, but they clearly mean us harm. No matter what, you and Sophia must be protected!"
"But you..."
"Go!"
As he spoke, the lord pushed his wife and daughter away and handed them over to the captain of his guard.
"Take them to safety. Protect them no matter what!"
"Yes, my lord!"
Hearing the lord's command, the captain nodded and prepared to leave with the fully armed soldiers.
However, at that very moment, the glass suddenly shattered. The next instant, several mysterious figures wrapped head to toe in cloaks leaped in from outside, raising their bows and aiming at everyone before them.
"Watch out!"
Seeing this, the lord hurriedly threw himself forward, wrapping his arms around his wife and daughter and forcing them to the ground.
The next instant, a storm of arrows shot forth. In the blink of an eye, they pierced through the bodies of the heavily armored soldiers, turning them into corpses.
"Urgh...