amaotonovel Chapter 388 They are not living people
Chapter 388 They are not living people
Lorra's sudden statement puzzled Terra. "How do you know he's lying?"
"He is not Brancard!"
Blancard left a deep impression on Lorraine; he had seen him several times. When his teacher disguised himself as a bard, he often dealt with the mayor's personal attendant, Blancard, a handsome and imposing young man.
The one lying on the ground now is noticeably shorter, and has a completely different demeanor.
Lorraine remembered that his teacher's former glory had been overshadowed by Brancard. Whether it was Mayor Bourne, Tyran & Fording of the Scarlet Crusade, or even Master Yuvel of the Silver Covenant, they all praised this human lad highly.
As for capturing others, Lorraine was unsure of the veracity of the claim.
He himself was a pitiful soul who had been rescued, and it wasn't that he wanted the other person dead. It was just that the other person claimed to be Brancard, and upon looking at his face, Lorraine was certain that the prisoner was lying.
Lorraine recognized the prisoner. Come to think of it, the prisoner had taken a gold coin from the mayor... That's right, this guy was Mayor Bourne's nephew, the militia captain Said!
"who are you?"
"I...I...I..."
Even facing certain death, the prisoner still refused to tell the truth. Feeling offended, Captain Terra, the blood elf mage, drew a broken elven blade from her waist and twirled it...
The prisoner suddenly felt a flash of light before his eyes.
With a slight tilt of his head, both hands were severed at the wrists!
His pupils dilated... "I am the mayor's nephew, Syd Born III. Our Born family was originally one of the great noble families of Hillsbrad Foothills... I'll talk, I'll talk... Ahhh..."
Terra wiped the broken elven blade on Ced's collar. She coldly summoned the healer to stop the bleeding, but refused to reattach the severed hand.
"Kindness cannot be given to the faithless! I hate those who break their oaths the most. Those who speak like farts and cannot bear even the slightest responsibility will only face judgment in hell!"
Lorraine never expected that the seemingly beautiful and petite blood elf mage would be so ruthless.
I thought Terra was just bluffing and that he was just giving me a warning, but I didn't expect him to actually do it... Captain Terra looks rather petite, with a great figure, fair skin, and pointed ears, but he is also a battle-hardened, hundred-year-old blood elf mage captain.
Not a vase...
Bloodthirsty Rose...that's true.
"You wanted to ask what the Dragon Slayer's Manual had to do with the sacred artifact we're looking for, right? This broken blade in my hand is an unquenched ancient blade. If we can't find Quel'Serrar, we'll need to reforge the Holy Sword. This Holy Sword is an ancient dragon-slaying sword, and there's more than one. But we lack the forging method..."
Terra held the broken sword to Ced's neck. Ced trembled and dared not move an inch, but the pain of having his hands severed, along with the feeling of the healer casting holy light spells to heal him, made him tremble uncontrollably.
"So you're the mayor's nephew! How dare you lie to me!"
Terra seems determined to cut out the tongues of those who lie...
Lorraine couldn't stand these things...
"Don't kill him!"
"Hmph, of course I won't kill him; he's still useful. But if he doesn't behave, I'd like to test if the ancient blade can cut through this wretched bone..."
Lorraine couldn't help but regret exposing the poor man's lie. The Blood Elf Sunreakers were serious; they weren't just putting on a show. He hoped that Said wouldn't lie again. Fortunately, this time, the prisoners Said & Born were truly no longer hiding anything.
Like beans in a wooden bucket, he poured out everything he knew and didn't know.
......
"Ah... I only used the name Brancard, everything else was true. My uncle told me to take the money and run. He told me about the three keys, the password, and the mechanism, and told me to come back for it later... But I couldn't resist. Where would I go without money? So, I secretly ran back under the cover of darkness, thinking I could take whatever little I could."
"Oh? Aren't you afraid of encountering Alliance or Horde armies? Aren't you afraid of the undead? Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
.......
"I'm afraid... but I'm even more afraid of not having money... Without gold coins, I can't go anywhere... I've known for a long time that my uncle has a lot of money. He used to only give me a little, but this time he suddenly gave me everything, telling me to run as far away as possible and to survive. Little does he know how I'll survive without money..."
"Alright, that's all nonsense. I'm asking you, who exactly is your uncle secretly colluding with!"
Terra seemed impatient, fiddling with the fragments of the Ancient Blade... her eyes gleaming menacingly.
"I really don't know anything about my uncle. He never lets me know more; he only wants me to continue the Born family bloodline..."
The unlucky Saed & Born cautiously glanced at the short blade in Terra's hand while secretly observing Lorraine's expression, fearing that he would expose them again.
Captain Terra frowned upon hearing this. "Hmm?"
Saide quickly endured the pain and cried out, "But, but! I noticed something was off with my uncles a long time ago! They're hiding something!"
"What secret?"
"They seem to never bleed...never age, feel no pain...Uncle and the others aren't living people...They hide beneath the town hall every week to perform strange rituals. They always secretly take people passing through town to Atonement Isle, and everyone who goes there disappears. Uncle also lies, saying there's a port there leading to Kalimdor...He's lying, Atonement Isle is surrounded by reefs, the water level is too low, only small boats can pass..."
Sed, clutching his two severed arms, exclaimed excitedly, "So, it's very likely that my uncles have sold their souls to the devil! They're capturing living people... This time, the entire town has probably been sent to the island... The secret lies on the island!"
"However, I dare not go there. My uncle said the mine is a trap... and told me I must never go near it... that's why I had to lie to you..."
......
This is useful information!
Terra and Lorraine nodded at the same time. Lorraine suddenly remembered that in addition to his mission to eliminate traitors and retrieve the Bloodstone Shards for Undercity, he also had a responsibility as a Horde officer.
That was the assassination mission I received from the Tarren Mill Executor: to take down the main leader of Hillsbrad Foothills.
This includes several key members of the town who are suspected of intercepting the Undercity supply squad.
Mayor Born, the clerk, the tailor, the blacksmith, and two farmers and a mining foreman... The situation was too chaotic at the time, so Lorraine could only take advantage of the confusion to eliminate the traitors. All they hoped was that the targets of the assassination would die on their own during the biological plague, saving them the trouble of carrying out the assassination.
Now that he learned that these seemingly ordinary targets might actually be extraordinary people, Lorraine was also taken aback.
I became interested.
Captain Terra seemed to have realized something. She took the treasure list that her subordinates had compiled earlier and carefully examined the treasures that had been packed up and were about to be sent back to Silvermoon City. She frowned and said, "This is the property of a group of shadow mages and warlocks... All the wealth here is the spoils they acquired after ambushing merchants!"
"No, we must get to Atonement Island immediately! Before Garin and his gang and the Silver Covenant. We must split up and proceed according to plan!"
Terra grabbed the injured former Hillsbrad militia captain, Syd Bourne, and shouted, "You lead the way, and hurry up. Find what I need, and I'll reward you..."
"And you, you burdensome Lord Lorraine, go and see your masterpiece..."
As he spoke, Lorraine finally emerged from underground, crawling out of the kitchen basement where Mayor Bourne had originally hidden the treasure... The Sunreaver team was ready to go, and it was late at night on the twentieth day after Lorraine awoke...