I, the Villain, Want to Save Myself, But the Yandere Heroines Disagree-Chapter 12 - Man-made Disaster (3/3)
Although Count Carls was extremely unwilling, seeing the sharp horns on the other party’s head, he still submitted.
In the beastman tribes, besides the green-skinned beastmen with sharp tusks, there were also some beastmen with other characteristics.
For example, the Minotaur currently before Count Carls was a minority race among the beastmen.
The strength and physique of the Minotaur race were significantly larger than that of ordinary beastmen, but their numbers were quite small.
The reason for this was partly related to the Minotaurs’ own lifestyle.
Among the Minotaur tribes, there was a relatively ancient custom of “walking marriage.” In this situation, the children born only knew their mother and not their father.
Over time, for some unknown reason, the Minotaurs’ fertility greatly declined, and their population gradually shrank. From a tribe with considerable influence among the beastmen in the past, they became a small tribe today.
“This... this isn’t very good...” Count Carls said. “My lords, you’re here to plunder wealth and grain anyway. Just spare us people.”
“Who said that!?” The Minotaur said this, swinging his fist and landing a heavy blow on Count Carls.
The latter was sent flying several meters away, fell to the ground, and coughed while covering his chest.
“Cough, cough...” He felt a cutting pain in his throat, and constantly coughed up blood onto the ground.
At this moment, the beastmen who were searching the house inside also came out.
“Report, boss, we found a locked room. Do you need us to force it open?”
“Force it open,” the Minotaur said, glancing at Count Carls.
Count Carls closed his eyes in despair.
If, if he hadn’t been so mocking of Litte at the banquet when Litte first returned, making the Duke’s family unhappy, at least he could have gotten help from the Duke’s army.
He could already hear the sound of a massive axe chopping at the wooden door, and also the panicked screams of his wife and daughters.
It’s over, it’s all over. His territory, his wealth, his women, his children.
He didn’t know what he would have left after this battle, but when he realized that this was a preventable, unwarranted disaster, his mental state was no longer stable.
After a long while, as if making a decision, he forced himself to stand up from the ground and walked to the Minotaur.
“My esteemed lord, cough, cough... I, I know a place where there is a large amount of grain and weapons and equipment, enough for you for quite some time. As long as, as long as you spare my family, I will take you there.”
The Minotaur burst into laughter upon hearing Count Carls’ words.
Subsequently, he backhanded Count Carls to the ground again.
The people inside the room, seeing Count Carls’ state through the broken door, cried out, wanting to come out, but Count Carls just stopped them.
Then, he stood up again.
“I know I have no room to negotiate, but if you kill me, you won’t get anything except these women... No, will you?”
His body was trembling with fear, and his words were broken, but there was a sense of determination in them.
“Heh,” The Minotaur snorted upon hearing this, then ordered the soldiers who were breaking down the door to stop.
“Alright, but let me tell you first, if you lie to me, not only you, but your wife, children, entire family, and all the residents of this city you rule will suffer because of you!”
“I swear, I will not lie to you. If I lie to you, my body will be separated from my head,” Count Carls said this, making a gesture towards the sky.
“Alright, then lead the way,” the Minotaur pointed to a guard detail at the entrance of the count’s mansion. “Take them there. If they report back that there was nothing, you can wait to die.”
“I understand. I would never dare lie to you.”
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On the other side, the students of the Imperial Academy were advancing towards Carls City. freewebnσvel.cøm
After the news of Carls City falling reached Orson, he immediately dispatched a troop to reinforce it. The Imperial Academy also considered Carls City, as the capital of a count’s territory, to be of significant strategic importance and set its target there as well.
Olivia and Elsa respectively led the students of the Warrior and Mage classes. At this moment, when the two led the students to Carls City, they were shocked by the scene before them.
Carls City had been engulfed in flames. At the city gate, a chain was used to hang the corpses of dozens of people in mid-air. The corpses were bundled into a ball, making it a shocking sight to behold.
Although the students had already been on the battlefield, most of them still couldn’t help but vomit after seeing such a brutal scene.
The beastmen here had retreated.
They had received prior knowledge that the human army was about to arrive, so they had set everything on fire, leaving nothing for the humans.
Olivia and Elsa at the front exchanged glances. The two walked into the city.
Inside the city, at the entrance of every house, at least one corpse was hanging.
The corpses were in extremely brutal states, many of them having been tortured to death.
“This place... it’s simply...” Olivia walked on the street, constantly looking around, her brows tightly furrowed.
“A living hell...” Elsa’s body trembled slightly. She was suppressing her emotions that were about to erupt.
As members of the Imperial Family, everyone here had once been citizens of the Empire, people under their rule.
And at this moment, as part of the ruling class, she was powerless to protect these people...
This made Elsa extremely distressed.
For the first time, she felt so powerless.
Walking through the city square, the two arrived at the count’s mansion in the city center. At this moment, the once magnificent count’s mansion had turned into ruins. And within the count’s mansion, a person was hanging from every window, and at the entrance, over a dozen corpses were lined up, as if welcoming the arrival of the two.
Looking at this grotesque and absurd scene, the two felt for the first time what it was like to be blinded by hatred.
