Chapter 40

The group slowly returned to the traveling palace, Feng Yan said: "This really is a good discovery, and, your things have come back too?"

"Yeah, but this little guy?" Chen Hao replied, looking at the dwarf in front of him, somewhat puzzled and asked.

Both remained silent; in fact they understood clearly, this was just like when they were with those dwarves before, except they were not merely simple labor tools; when the dwarf saw the Red-clothed Devil, his face turned fright; from this, Feng Yan secretly knew something; they were thinking, then suddenly stood up; the sky gradually grew darker; Feng Yan looked at the sky and said: "Looks, this will be a dark journey."

"Yeah." Chen Hao sighed, agreeing with Feng Yan's words, then looking at the dwarf sleeping, continued: "Looks like this little guy hasn't had a good sleep for a long time."

Feng Yan listened to Chen Hao's words, slowly turned his head to look, the dwarf was sleeping soundly, and also replied to Chen Hao, saying: "Then may he have sweet dreams."

Arrows fell like rain, dense and pouring down; some were shot in vital spots and fell to the ground, spilling red blood; the soldiers' shouts of killing shook the heavens; casualties on both sides were evenly matched, obviously a stalemate battle; if this continued, both sides' troops would be exhausted; however, one side's soldiers looked at the other side's soldiers, their blood slowly flowed back into their own bodies, then like rebirth, they gained fighting strength again.

The dwarves' morale greatly increased, they shouted: "Long live my god!"

The soldiers on the other side had already been scared witless, they threw away their weapons; although they had the help of crossbow bolts, the dwarves under god's protection were something they could never defeat.

"Damn!" The general of Li Kingdom hammered the table hard, making a bang, and shouted loudly: "Is there really nothing that can break the dwarves' god's protection? Are we military people only good at taking money and not doing real work, useless trash?"

"Report!" a soldier shouted.

"Speak!" the general shouted.

"Frontline emergency report, our army's offensive has been completely crushed by the dwarves, we are withdrawing back to the camp!" the soldier recited.

"Ah, I already knew this would be the result." the general sighed, waved his hand, the soldier withdrew from the general's tent.

Then the general gave the order, saying: "We should prepare to return to the country, to conquer the dwarf tribe, this matter still needs long-term planning!"

"But, if we do that, then……" the deputy dared not continue speaking.

"I know, if we return like this, we will be punished, demoted, fined this year's salary, but what can we do? You and I both know that the frontline rations have been layered and plundered by those above, and by the time they reach us it's less than one-tenth of the supplies; although enough for soldiers' rations, rewards are completely insufficient; do we now take battlefield merits to show the king their head counts?" the general answered the deputy's statement, saying somewhat dejectedly.

The two slowly walked out of the tent, looking at the evening dusk; they raised their heads to gaze at the sky, their hearts filled with sorrow; the soldiers watched the two officers looking at the sky, the soldiers' morale was very low; seeing the general and deputy's actions, they couldn't help but show a sad expression.

Suddenly, a red light appeared on one side of the sky, the red light shot straight up into the sky, then slowly returned to the ground; a scouting soldier ran to the general's front and said: "General, something has happened on the battlefield……"

At the same time, the dwarves looked at the sky; this is the situation foretold by their prophet: "In a certain dusk of a year, the dwarves will lose god's protection, they will become tools of Li Kingdom, enslaved people, losing their free bodies, losing some systems the dwarves pride themselves on, becoming raw material for a magic potion used by the Red-clothed Devil as a battlefield, the dwarves will face imminent disaster; only adventurers can save them……"

The dwarves set up camp in a dense forest, celebrating today's victory; at this moment, a red light appeared on the horizon, the general's joyful face showed worry, thinking something bad was about to happen.

"This scene, just as the prophet of years past said, it seems we will lose our god's protection." said the elder dwarf.

"But I don't feel anything wrong at all!" said a strong dwarf.

Just as his voice fell, beams of light flew into that dwarf's body; at that moment, an arrow shot directly into the dwarf's body, only a puff sound was heard, blood spurted out, the dwarf fell to the ground, blood staining the land where he fell.

The dwarves understood, their protection had vanished! They began to feel afraid; this was the first time they had lost god's protection, without god's protection they began to flee madly; at the same time, it was also the first time they felt fear and unease.

"Oh dear, so much game, how could it run away?" the man in white, holding a bow and arrow, shot arrows at the dwarves while picking up the dwarf just shot dead and placing it into the quiver behind him, red blood slowly dripping down, the white clothing slowly being stained red by blood.

A young dwarf lay on a tree, watching his companion be shot dead by the blood-clothed archer before him; he was both angry and afraid, knowing he couldn't kill him, he clung to the tree, hoping the Red-clothed Devil would slowly move away; he secretly watched the Red-clothed Devil walk farther away, his heart relaxed a bit; suddenly, an arrow shot straight at the dwarf's head!

"No!" the dwarf jumped up in fright, breaking out in a cold sweat; he looked around, this was no longer the place yesterday full of companions' blood; here it felt safe and warm; the dwarf slowly stood up, and saw Feng Yan and Chen Hao.

"Yo! You're up!" Feng Yan said.

"Um, thank you both for saving my life." the dwarf expressed his gratitude to Feng Yan and Chen Hao facing him.

Feng Yan didn't care about that, he directly asked: "Where did this little guy come from? I remember when I came to this country, I saw your companions basically working on ships, or else carrying food for soldiers; but in the palace, I was curious, what do you do in the palace?"

"You two benefactors, really need to say it?" the dwarf asked somewhat fearfully.

Chen Hao and Feng Yan's expressions were very anxious, staring at the dwarf before him, he said: "Right, and I see your gaze, Ma Ge wearing red clothes guy is obviously not a good thing, go ahead and speak, this is also thanks for you helping me pick up things."

"Well then, okay." the dwarf thought for a long time, finally made up his mind, and told everything to the two Adventurers before him.

The two became more and more angry; originally, the Red-clothed Devil's clothing stone tablet was dyed red with dwarf blood; they had been used as experimental white rats for that guy's research; this goal was so that the Li Kingdom's king could obtain all the wealth in the world; therefore, using the dwarves' special physique as experimental subjects, combined with a black magic, they produced a strengthening agent for Li Kingdom's soldiers; although the effect lasts only a short time, for Li Kingdom's soldiers it is a rare strengthening agent!

"Damn, is this even human? This is outright a demon!" Feng Yan swore loudly, and at the same time said to Chen Hao: "Let's go, stop that king's damn experiment!"

"Feng Yan, stay calm, here we have Yang Xin, plus his crossbow bolts, and we also don't know the strength of that Red-clothed Devil." Chen Hao advised.

Feng Yan slowly calmed his anger, calmed down, and said: "We should properly analyze the enemy's combat power; we don't have the Adventurers' Book anymore, if Yang Xin shoots another arrow at me, I'll really be game over."

Seeing Feng Yan calm down, Chen Hao nodded and said: "Now let's analyze, you have a sword in your hand, which is melee, whereas Yang Xin has a crossbow, which is ranged; so it looks like we have an advantage, but if Yang Xin catches an opening, we will definitely be wiped out; last time we were lucky, the metal directly bounced his arrow away, but I can't guarantee this time will be that lucky, so we must have someone hold off Yang Xin or Wang Tingwan, but you cannot deal with Wang Tingwan."

Feng Yan nodded, indicating Chen Hao was right, then said: "But we have another method, which is to first take care of the Red-clothed Devil, but the primary problem is we cannot know the Red-clothed Devil's laboratory location; that is, the plan is just a waste of paper; another method is to directly kill the king or the prince, but they may not be that easy to kill."

The two analyzed for a long time, but found the problem wasn't that easy to solve; then they fell silent for a while, and simultaneously thought of an organization—the Bounty Hunters!