Lord of Rot

Chapter 285: 3 Days of Looting

When Baron Ross and others entered the castle, they first saw Li Qi sitting aside and letting his servants cut off the arrows on his body with a knife.

His face and armor were covered in blood, and he looked like he had just stepped out of a pool of blood.

Turning around suddenly, everyone except Baron Ross subconsciously held their breath.

The bloody pressure made the air thicker.

"The Black King should be in the inner castle." Li Qi looked at the approaching Baron Ross and said, "He can keep his composure very well."

He didn't care whether Baron Ross helped him. The Iron Wall Castle had been "openly" handed over to him by the Duke. It was normal for others to do the work but not contribute.

"Yes!" Baron Ross nodded with deep understanding, and immediately ordered the nobles beside him: "Send people to attack the inner castle."

"Yes!" The nobles were excited.

The achievement of breaking the city was taken away by Li Qi, but the Black King is not dead yet. As long as he kills the Black King, he can still get the Duke's reward.

What an honor it is to kill the rebel king!

Mercenaries, militiamen, and militiamen from all over the place walked in the front row, heading towards the inner fort.

Everyone wants to work hard to win the final victory, and the strong one will pick the biggest bright red fruit.

It must be sweet and juicy!

But not long after, a voice came out: "The Black King is dead!"

"Wait, let me chop off his head! His head is mine!"

Listening to the noise, Reach nodded to Baron Ross.

They walked towards the inner castle hall.

The architectural style here is obviously different from that of castles such as Porcupine Castle, with a tall and long hall.

There were no decorations, just a platform at the end of the hall, with a huge stone throne as high as a two-story house on the platform.

The towering throne's back is like a tombstone, about three stories high, and full of oppression.

A man in black robes sat on a huge stone throne. He had died and lowered his head.

There are mercenaries below trying to strike with a sword.

"Wait!" Li Qi shouted.

His voice shocked the mercenaries, who witnessed Li Qi's unparalleled attack on the city wall, and no one dared to openly resist the order.

Li Qi said to Lacey beside him: "Go and have a look."

"Yes" Lacey ordered and walked over.

The mercenaries, soldiers and militiamen along the way took the initiative to leave the road. The most unforgettable person in today's siege was the Porcupine Baron, and his men also had a natural deterrent effect.

Lacey climbed onto the towering throne, held the body, inspected it and said, "Sir, he has been dead for at least a day. If we had come a few days later, we might have found a few maggots on it."

The Black King is dead and the Iron Wall has been breached.

The Battle of Iron Valley is over.

What awaits Li Qi next is a lot of troublesome work. Just now he noticed that there are a large number of residents living in the Iron Wall Fort. To them, he and others are invaders.

and “the resurrection of the dead.”

And Li Qi is particularly concerned about what exactly the 2000 mercenaries from Iron Stone City did when they came to Iron Valley, where they went, and why there is no trace at all.

The most important thing now is to take over the entire Iron Wall Fort first. Fortunately, Li Qi brought his own wealth, so he can barely use it.

Baron Ross and others also realized that the Black King was dead. Even if he and others did not come, the Iron Wall Fortress would be destroyed over time.

Just walked out of the inner castle.

"Ah!" A miserable scream attracted Li Qi's attention.

He saw a mercenary carrying a girl about ten years old.

In addition, he also saw a mercenary drawing a sword and slashing at a farmer and taking away his savings.

"stop!"

The mercenary heard Li Qi's voice, but did not stop his actions. He slammed the girl onto the wooden table and reached out to pull her skirt.

"Lord Li Qi?" Baron Ross looked at Li Qi. He guessed what Li Qi meant, but Li Qi had already rushed over and kicked the mercenary away.

His sudden move startled the mercenaries.

Lacey Sith and Quickblade drew their swords as soon as Li Qi took action.

The whistle blows.

The porcupine soldiers, who had already occupied the best position on the city wall, quickly set up their guns and aimed at the mercenaries in the castle.

Although people didn't know what the black pipe held by the porcupine soldiers was, their rationality told them that the porcupine soldiers did not draw their swords immediately but raised the thing, which means that the thing was definitely more terrifying than the sword.

Careful people have noticed that each of the Porcupine soldiers has a black pipe weapon, but no one is carrying a crossbow.

This black pipe might be a strange crossbow.

The mercenary who was kicked away struggled to get up. Li Qi's merciless kick just now almost broke one of his ribs. He was breathing heavily, with anger rising in his eyes.

"Lord Ross, what do you mean?"

He didn't have the guts to reason with Li Qi. The bloody Baron looked like the type who would chop off your head first and then have a good chat with you, so he chose Baron Ross who was more willing to reason with him.

"Lord Ross?" Li Qi looked at Baron Ross, hoping for an explanation.

Baron Ross said: "After the city is broken, the city is allowed to plunder for three days."

Li Qi asked: "Who allowed it?"

"This is customary! This is what happened when I was in the war!" shouted another mercenary.

"My father was like this when he was in the war." The person shouting this time was an old mercenary with silver hair. His words aroused responses from the mercenaries present.

"Yes, that's it!"

"Break the city and plunder it for three days. This is what the king did!"

"Correct!"

The crowd roared.

"Routine?"

Li Qi chuckled and looked at the small ostrich knight: "Sir Morton, tell me, will the knight attack the weak?"

The ostrich knight who was named was a little uncomfortable, but now Li Qi had offended the public and didn't mind his own business.

But when other people looked at him, he could only answer: "No, knights will protect the weak, but..."

Li Qi directly interrupted the follow-up lines of the Ostrich Knight: "That's right! Knights will protect the weak. Just like the Ostrich Knight said, this is the knight's mission!"

"They are enemies!" said a mercenary: "And we are not knights! We only need three days to plunder the city after breaking it!"

"A girl who can't even protect her own skirt, you call her an enemy? I didn't see you when I attacked the city. Maybe you should have rushed to the city wall with me at that time, and then showed your bravery! And! Didn't you just rush in and take off a girl's skirt after winning the battle, and brazenly say it was to deal with the enemy?" Li Qi looked at the mercenary and asked, "Or do you just take off your pants when facing the enemy? Rush up? Maybe I can help you find a sexy job in Iron Stone City."

"Haha" someone laughed.

The fact is that Li Qi captured the Iron Wall Fort, and the others just followed into the city, and they did nothing.

The mercenary blushed and asked, "You want to prohibit us from plundering?"

His questioning made the laughter disappear, and everyone present was waiting for Li Qi's response, which represented his attitude.

Li Qi did not answer, but walked towards the girl.

He reached out to the sobbing girl. The girl knew that the noble with arrows all over her body in front of her was her life-saving straw. Her confused head no longer allowed her to think more. She just wanted to find someone to protect herself.

The girl put her hand on the cold iron glove.

He gently pulled the girl up, gently held her back to prevent her from being too afraid, and said: "As a knight, she has cried to me for help, so I will protect her."

The brightly armored porcupine soldiers had a strong sense of oppression, and the existence of this team made the mercenaries choose to continue listening to Li Qi instead of swarming them.

Li Qi shouted: "There are no enemies here. The rebellious Black King is dead and everyone can continue to live peacefully!"

"Those who want to continue to live a peaceful life, put down their weapons." He looked at the other panicked people in the Iron Wall Castle and said, "I, Li Qi Clarence, swear to the Four Gods that I will protect every innocent person here!"

He looked at the mercenaries and said: "I don't care about the plunder you are talking about, but I will protect the lives and property of all innocent people who ask me for help, and I will wave my sword against the trespassers!"

After all, the mercenaries did not dare to take action. Even if they had an absolute advantage in numbers, they did not want to start a war with the nobles.

The group of noble men who hired him are all in the same group, and he will only suffer.

After this episode, Iron Wall Castle's celebration could only come to an end.

The atmosphere became very weird.

Some nobles wanted to have fun, while others thought about what they could gain from this war.

"Lord Li Qi" Baron Ross hesitated to speak.

Li Qi was the first nobleman to break the "custom" and break the city without killing or looting.

That's all for mercenaries, what should the soldiers do? They follow the lords to war, and what they pursue is glory and wealth.

The three-day plunder was not only to reward the mercenaries, but also to reward the soldiers.

But when Ross looked at the porcupine soldiers, he found that their expressions were firm. No one was angry because they couldn't plunder. Instead, they were filled with anger when they stared at the mercenaries who were maliciously committing violence.

How could they know that most of Li Qi's soldiers were once slaves. They were all people who had experienced war. They had a deeper understanding of justice and weakness than simple expressions of animal desires.

"I've made enough messes," Li Qi said with a smile, "Please allow me not to hold a banquet to entertain you."

"There will be a chance," said Baron Ross.