After leaning against the city wall for a while with his eyes closed, and after forcing the intense dizziness to pass, Garland stood up and stood up straight.
When he got up, his whole body shook slightly, as if he was about to fall.
But in the next second, he forcibly supported his body and made himself stand on the ground.
Just when Garlan's body swayed, Kaihos, who had been watching silently beside him, subconsciously wanted to reach out to help someone. However, as soon as he moved his hand, he saw that Garland was holding on to himself, and then he silently retracted his hand.
He stepped aside, silently watching Garlan step forward.
Garlan walked forward along the city wall, he walked slowly, because his body was already overwhelmed, the hood of the cloak covered his abnormally red face, only the wet blonde hair was exposed.
Wherever he passed by, those soldiers who were exhausted and resting under the city walls all turned their attention to him.
Their dull eyes only gleamed when they saw him.
Their gray faces only recovered a little bit of anger when they saw him.
Garland's heart was heavy.
Even with the blurring vision, he could see the corpses lying on the road he walked. Among them, there were the corpses of pirates, and more were the dead of countless Tozes soldiers. The corpse lay tragically on the ground.
Someone had a look of pain on their face.
Some people are dying with their eyes wide open.
Blood soaked the mutilated corpses.
The scenes that he saw in front of him were like walking in hell, which made Garlan's heart tighten, and his vision became more and more dazed.
He let out a breath of hot breath.
"prince… "
Beside him, a faint shout suddenly came from the side.
Garlan turned his head to look subconsciously.
On the side of the road he just walked, a thin young man was sitting under the city wall, looking up at him with reverence, showing him a shy smile.
Glancing at it, Garlan's chest tightened.
He saw that the boy's half-cut arm was bleeding in the mooring ground, and he saw that the boy's other hand was covering his waist, and the whole hand was blood-stained red.
From the huge hole in the waist and abdomen, the internal organs that flowed out faintly.
Garlan walked over and squatted in front of the boy with his knees bent.
He looked at the boy and opened his mouth, but his throat seemed to be blocked and he couldn't make any sound.
At this moment, he couldn't say a word.
He could only stretch out his hand in silence, and pressed his hand on the back of the slave boy's hand soaked with blood and viscera.
The slave boy who was clumsily courting him to eat more a few days ago is about to die at this very moment.
The boy he took to the battlefield was about to die.
And countless slaves who went to the battlefield have died.
It was he who set them on the path of death.
"Prince... please don't show such an expression... "
The dying slave boy made a faint voice, but he smiled at Garlan.
"Although I'm going to die...but...the prince..."
He spoke in a broken way.
"These days... are the happiest... times I've been alive..."
He laughed heartily.
"No one... despised me... despised me and scolded me... I... um... these days... I'm no longer a lowly slave... "
The slave boy smiled happily.
"Even if it's only for a few days...I can live as a person...and die as a person...I'm really, really...very happy..."
"Thank you, Prince... Because of you, I can truly... be a human..."
In the last sentence, the sound is already absent.
The last word fell, and the slave boy closed his eyes and stopped breathing.
The rain soaked his body, washed the blood from the boy, and gathered into a small pool of blood under the boy.
Garlan didn't speak, he lowered his head, his wet golden forehead hanging down, covering his eyes.
All I could see was his bloodless lips pursed like a line, and the slightly pale, cold fingertips pressed against the back of the slave boy's blood-red hands.
The sound of footsteps came, and Seth came here at an unknown time.
However, after a few days, he seemed to have aged ten years, and he looked extremely haggard.
"Your Highness."
He knelt beside Garland and said softly.
"The fourth day has passed..."
The sky was getting darker, and it was already evening.
If there were reinforcements, they should have arrived.
But until now, there is still no sign of any reinforcements coming.
Seth whispered in a hoarse voice, "...There's actually no reinforcements, is there, Your Highness?"
"I know that you said there were reinforcements to keep everyone going as long as possible..."
His voice seemed to be shaking.
"But, I'm sorry, Your Highness, I've reached the limit now, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on any longer..."
No reinforcements.
Perhaps there will be no reinforcements from the start.
The prince of Aaron Landis bowed his head and remained silent.
He slowly looked around, the corpses everywhere, and the mottled bloodstains everywhere.
There seemed to be something indescribable surging in his golden pupils.
The rain stopped at some point, and the sun came out from behind the clouds.
The crimson light of the setting sun enveloped the city wall even more blood red.
Countless lives were lost in the war.
Blood-stained city, weeping lights, silent cry.
The cruelty of war is so nakedly displayed in front of everyone at this moment.
All eyes turned to him, the hope pinned on him.
It was such a heavy, almost overwhelming responsibility.
Also, at this moment, I can't do anything, I can only watch the powerlessness of life constantly losing...
…
Looking at Garlan who was half-kneeling in silence in front of the dead slave boy for a long time, Kaihos leaned over and wanted to say something.
However, before he had time to speak, there was a sudden loud bang.
The entire city wall shook with the loud noise.
This violent shaking shocked all the Tozes who were resting on the ground and stood up and looked around in panic.
Then, everyone saw a scene that shocked their hearts.
I saw a huge warship, which had sailed along the wide river of the outer city to the gate of the inner city wall.
Its bow is a giant metal ram in the form of a devil.
It was slowly backing up, so the metal ram that had hit the gate a second earlier followed with the gate's sawdust.
The giant warship slowly retreated several hundred meters.
Then, the giant sail was raised, and the three rows of wood pulp on the side of the ship moved rapidly. Under the agitation of the fierce sea breeze, the giant warship galloped forward again.
There was another loud bang, and under the horrified eyes of everyone, the warship slammed into the gate of the city wall with another bang.
The huge impact caused part of the hull to shatter with a click, but the huge gate of the city wall made of special hardwood also cracked once again under the impact of the giant metal ram.
The warship slowly backed away again.
For the third time, under the desperate eyes of everyone in Tozes, including Seth, only a deafening bang was heard, and the gate of the city wall was shattered by the giant warship.
Most of the smashed warships themselves smashed open the gates, and slowly drove into the city wall with a dilapidated appearance.
But even if it crashes, it doesn't matter, because there are dozens of pirate ships behind the warship.
The city is broken.
All the Tozes stood on the city wall dumbfounded, their minds blank at this moment.
The city of Tozes has fallen.
Someone's legs went weak and knelt on the ground.
Someone cried out in grief.
Someone frantically smashed the city wall in front of them with their fists, even if they smashed blood, they couldn't stop.
Their city, the home they desperately wanted to protect, was over.
At this moment, the shadow of despair shrouded everyone's heads.
Standing on the city wall, Garlan's eyes went black, his chest seemed to have been stabbed by a sharp weapon, and it hurt sharply.
Almost falling, he stretched out his hand and pressed against the city wall to support his body, barely standing.
He still managed to stand, but his fingers clenching the bricks of the city wall were shaking, and his hands clenching the bricks were so hard that his knuckles turned white.
In the river channel of the outer city, the pirates gave a huge cheer, and the sound was deafening and resounded throughout the sky.
The pirate leader Basha stood proudly on his boat, raised his chin, raised his hand and waved, and was about to call out all the minions to rush into the city and wash the city of Tozes—
However, at the moment when he raised his hand before he could wave it out.
The pirate on the watchtower shouted.
"Boss! A large number of unknown fleets appear in the rear and are heading here!"
Basha's sentence 'rush in for Lao Tzu' was stuck in his throat before he could say it out.
A bad premonition welled up in his heart, and he turned his head sharply to look.
At the same moment, on the high city wall, Garlan suddenly moved in his heart and raised his head suddenly.
At this moment, he almost forgot to breathe.
In the distance, on the boundless sea, through the crimson sunlight, it was faintly visible that a large fleet was speeding towards this side.
The first thing people can see clearly is the high-flying flag on the warship.
Seth, who was beside him, had already cried out.
"Elson's Navy!!!"
Elson's reinforcements have arrived!
Tarr arrives with Elson's Navy—
Garlan opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly, he felt his heart beating violently.
An indescribable premonition made him hold the city wall tightly with both hands and look away from a distance.
The next second, the young golden eyes suddenly widened.
"Kaijos!"
Garlan shouted loudly and pointed his finger forward.
That's not the direction Elson's Navy is heading.
His fingers pointed at this moment to the sea on the other side.
There, covered with the fiery red light of the setting sun on the sea, countless ship shadows sailed from the horizon.
The flag of the flaming lion flutters in the sky.
Aaron Landis' Royal Navy—
…
On the other side of Tozes City, on the river outside the land-facing gate.
Compared with the fierce battlefield on the other side, the pirates who were responsible for blocking this side and preventing people from escaping sat leisurely on the boat, waiting for the fall of Tozes City, so they could go in and get a piece of the pie.
Among them, on the pirate ship near the river bank, the captain of the little captain wearing a pirate hat was standing on the deck, scolding the two little scoundrels in front of him.
He scolds when he is happy.
Suddenly, a sharp arrow came through the sky.
Under the horrified eyes of the pirates, the arrow pierced the throat of the little pirate leader from behind.
The little boss didn't even have time to say a word, and the whole person fell straight forward, making a loud bang.
The pirates subconsciously looked in the direction of the arrows.
Hundreds of meters away, dust was flying, and countless knights came galloping from afar like a black cloud.
The leading knight, in dark armor, reflected the fiery red sunset in the sky.
The afterglow fell into those golden red eyes with deep suffocating aura.