Chapter 4

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

When the thousand-man army reached the Earl of Langford’s territory, Hall could see them from the mountain.

However, because the sun was still high up in the sky, he did not do anything.

He had been observing their every move from the cave at the top of the mountain.

“A Holy War Knight and a Grand Magister!”

Seeing these two people, Hall felt very uncomfortable. He did not expect the empire to treat him like this.

He originally still had a sliver of hope for the humans, but after seeing this, he no longer held any compassion for them.

His two eye sockets started to emit red flames.

“Since you’re already here, you will stay here forever then!”

“All of you will form the foundation for me to conquer the Fergus Empire!”

The sky quickly turned dark. Landel and Walker immediately built a camp in the open space of the square, preparing to rest there for the night.

Tomorrow morning, they would lead the troops to the mountains in the east to find Hall’s hiding place.

Originally, Walker had not been in such a hurry, but because everyone in the village had been killed by him, he was very worried that Hall would find out and take revenge on him!

After all, Hall was still the strongest mage in the empire, and there was no one who could challenge him!

Not long after the sun had set, the skeleton soldiers in the mountains began to move. They did not have any real weapons. All of them were armed with farming tools that had been dug out from the ruins.

However, their lives were not important. As long as Hall did not die, these skeleton soldiers could be reborn indefinitely!

At eight o’clock, Hall had already planned out the actions that the 1,500 skeleton soldiers under him will take.

The patrolling soldiers in the camp patrolled the perimeter of the camp in groups. Because they had not eaten yet, they were not really in the mood to patrol properly.

After just a few steps, they extinguished the lanterns in their hands and found a flat place to sit down, waiting for the next shift of soldiers to come and take over.

Just a hundred meters behind them, a few hundred skeleton soldiers were waiting there.

If they had just taken a few more steps forward, they would have noticed them, but they did not.

Time passed quickly. At midnight, there was no more movement in the camp.

After handing over the shift, the patrolling soldiers found a place to sleep. Only the bonfire in the camp was still burning!

Hall then flew over and cast a hypnosis spell on the camp, hypnotizing all the soldiers.

At this moment, all the more than 1,500 skeleton soldiers around them began to move.

The first team of 500 skeletons charged into the camp first, snatching the weapons of the soldiers.

The thousand or so skeleton soldiers behind them then picked up the ropes they had prepared beforehand and tied up all the soldiers in the camp.

Walker and Landel felt a wave of inexplicable sleepiness not long after they fell asleep and then fell into a deep sleep.

However, due to his willpower, Landel still felt that something was wrong. After sleeping for fifteen minutes, he forcefully woke himself up.

When he opened his eyes, he found that there were skeleton soldiers surrounding him. Moreover, his body had already been treated with a special magic, and he had no way to break free.

Soon, a person with a strong black aura approached him!

The reason why Landel knew that he was still human was that he could still feel that the person was not completely corroded by the darkness. He could still feel a trace of humanity within the figure.

After struggling for a while, he said to Hall, who was no longer in human form, “You’re Lord Hall!”

Upon hearing this name, Hall turned his skeleton head around and looked at him.

His throat, which had long rotted away, could only make a sound due to the effect of magic. “You know me?”

“I am Giles Landel of the Holy Court. You’ve been to the Holy Court to teach us a very long time ago!”

“Why did you become like this?”

Hearing Landel’s question, Hall opened his big mouth, which was only left with bones, and laughed loudly. “Hahaha!” The voice was as unpleasant as it could be.

“Why? Don’t you know?”

“My family members were all accused of being dark creatures. They have all been burned to death. No one was left behind!”

“Why are you asking me?”

Hearing this, Landel’s face became very ugly. He had never thought that such a thing would happen!

“Impossible! Emperor Fergus would not do such a thing…” but as he thought about it, his voice became softer and softer.

Because it was not completely impossible.

In the past few years, the entire empire had become infested with bandits. All the nobles had become abnormally decadent. The glory of the cities had all but disappeared!

“I’m very sorry! I had no idea that something like this had happened.” After saying this, Landel fell into silence.

At this time, Walker, who was beside him, woke up. He did not open his eyes because his head was a little dizzy, but he heard the conversation between the two throughout the whole process.

After opening his eyes, he yelled at Hall with a ferocious face, “As expected, just like what the Imperial Military Secretary had said!”

“You really did become a dark creature. The Imperial Military Secretary had done the right thing!”

“Everyone in the Earl of Langford’s territory had been executed in advance!”

Hearing this, the flames in Hall’s eyes burned even brighter. He turned around and asked, “You know what happened here?!”

Hearing this, Walker became complacent. “Of course! Everyone here was burned to death by me!”

“I even personally tasted your granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law’s meat!”

Walker’s words completely infuriated hall. His eyes that were burning with red flames could not wait to kill the person in front of him right now!

But Hall wouldn’t let him die so easily.

Walker’s main goal was to stall for time. In his eyes, Hall had already become undead and was no longer a threat to him!

After breaking free from the restraints on his hands, he took out a magical instrument from his sleeve, expelling the dark energy that was restricting him from using his magical powers.

He was prepared to use this opportunity to escape.

“You think you can trap me like this? You are too naive!” After saying that, he stood up and prepared to use the weapon of light he had hidden in his pocket to kill Hall.

A white light flashed, and many of the skeletons around him disintegrated completely. However, Walker’s hand was instantly grabbed by a skeleton.

Soon, the weapon in his hand got crushed by this boney hand.

“Ah! It hurts!”

“You bastard, what did you just do to me?!”

Seeing Walker rolling on the ground in pain, Hall decided not to let him off so easily!