With the blind girl in tow, Fang Zheng set off once more. However, before they had gone very far, he understood what she had meant.
"This is really awful..."
Looking at the scene before him, Fang Zheng could not help but sigh. Not far ahead lay an overturned black carriage, surrounded by the corpses of guards. At this point, he could more or less guess what had happened—the blind girl and her guards had escaped the castle by carriage, only to be caught here. The carriage had been attacked and destroyed, the guards had stayed behind to hold off the pursuers, and the blind girl had fled alone... Unfortunately, it looked like everyone else had been wiped out.
Still... what the hell were those things?
Fang Zheng frowned as he looked at the strange creatures behind the carriage. They resembled monkeys with feathers and wings, dressed in crude clothing and wielding huge black iron cleavers. At that very moment, the monsters screeched wildly as they hacked at the soldiers' corpses with their blades.
Hearing their cries, the blind girl clutched Fang Zheng's clothes tightly.
"Th-they're the servants who went mad..."
"You people actually used things like that as servants? Your taste is pretty unique."
Fang Zheng muttered his complaint, then tightened his grip on his greatsword.
"Hold on tight!"
The moment he spoke, Fang Zheng urged Golden Steed forward, charging ahead like a whirlwind. Seeing him rush toward them, the monsters shrieked and turned around, attempting to block his path. Yet their frail bodies could not stop him in the slightest. Golden Steed's hooves crashed down upon them, knocking them flat and trampling over them. The creatures on either side did not even have time to raise their weapons before Fang Zheng beheaded them with a single sweep of his