On the forest road leading back to Valleydeep Town at night.
Heluo Valleydeep rode on horseback, his face brimming with a smug, delighted smile.
How dare that bastard threaten me! He made me lose all face in front of everyone!
Not only would I take back what was mine! I would also set fires and throw his army into chaos!
More than twenty family soldiers followed behind him, their horses laden with heavy bundles.
Several carts were being hauled along by draft horses as well.
"Hahaha! We got back all the losses from our lands!" Heluo Valleydeep excitedly said to a knight beside him. "Father will be very pleased!"
"That shit lord fought the Wildlings to the death! It worked out perfectly for us!"
"Our lands were burned clean by that shit lord! This is compensation!"
"When we return, Father will surely reward us handsomely."
Heluo Valleydeep was still lost in his fantasies.
Suddenly, urgent hoofbeats came from ahead.
Lord Lofor Valleydeep charged toward them with two knights, his face livid.
"Father!" Heluo Valleydeep greeted him in surprise.
Yet Lofor Valleydeep showed no sign of reining in. With a grim face, he charged straight at him.
Bang!!! Without a word, Lord Lofor viciously punched Heluo Valleydeep off his horse.
Heluo Valleydeep crawled up from the ground, blood streaming from his nose and mouth. The fall had left him dazed, his mind completely blank.
"Fa... Father... what are you doing?"
"You fool! Fool!!" Lord Lofor trembled with rage, his eyes bloodshot as he pointed at the bundles on the ground and the packhorses behind them. "Bastard! You bastard!!"
He had still come too late. His son had secretly led men out of the town and forbidden anyone from informing him.
Only now had he learned of it, and he had hurriedly