Conscripts

The blast of the horn woke Lin Yun and his companions, and it also roused hundreds of thousands of civilians in Nurn.

Most of them were momentarily confused, but... a few turned pale. They recognized the sound: it was only blown when Nurn faced an army at its gates—or, more precisely, when the city was in peril.

The horn had sounded thirteen times.

As everyone knew, thirteen was an extremely unlucky number to Westerners. When the horn sounded that many times, it was almost always associated with utter disaster and death.

When Lin Yun and the others rushed out of the hotel, they saw crowds of civilians everywhere, some still in their pajamas, all running around in a panic.

Just then, a small squad of soldiers shoved through the crowd and entered the hotel where Lin Yun and the others were staying. As they were about to go inside, they spotted Lin Yun and Gazi. Neither of them was visibly armed.

The soldiers immediately stopped Lin Yun. One of their squad leaders walked up to him and said impatiently, with a hint of arrogance, "Are you mercenaries? The Beastmen army is attacking the city. Under Imperial law, whenever a nonhuman army lays siege to a city, all mercenaries are required to help defend it. Now get yourselves to the city walls and report to the officer on duty."

"The Beastmen are attacking?" Gazi asked, frowning slightly.

Everyone turned to look at Lin Yun almost instinctively... Earlier, Lin Yun had "discussed" with the priest, using the priest's authority to spread the lie that the Beastmen were attacking. And now... it turned out to be true.

"Let's go take a look," Lin Yun said, frowning slightly. He really hadn't expected... the Beastmen to actually attack the city.

After all, this was Nurn,