The miners who were originally surrounding Derek immediately gave up their place to the soldiers.
All the miners ran to the corner, and only Derek stood in the middle of the house. Even Xiao Chong, who had wanted to leave with Derek, hid in the corner after seeing the two murderous soldiers.
"Derek, I didn't expect you to come back."
An old man in a black robe walked into the room. Derek knew him. He was the butler of the Busrinawot Family, one of the four major families in Scarre, which could also be translated as the Black Flame Crystal Family.
This family is the nominal miner and owner of the black flame stone mine.
The invasion of the Blood Crystal Beast Plague caused a major reshuffle of the aristocratic forces in Scarre. The Hubert family, the original first family in Scarre, was almost wiped out. Among the remaining three major families, only the Black Flame Crystal and Saw Sword families were intact.
The other Round Shield Family, like the Hubert Family, declined in the Blood Crystal Beast Disaster because they also had nobles who controlled military power.
General Hubert is the only one left in the entire Hubert family, but the Round Shield family has at least several descendants.
"Whether I come back or not has nothing to do with you."
Derek suppressed his inner fear. He was actually afraid to come back here, but the fighting spirit in his heart far outweighed his fear.
"It has nothing to do with me? You are our product!"
The old man's voice was a little angry. He didn't like Derek, a slave, talking back to him.
The arena where Derek was before was opened by the Black Flame Crystal Family, but now Derek is no longer obsessed with his past identity as a gladiator.
He now has new goals and ideals. One of these ideals is to become a soldier, but not a soldier of Skarre. Skarre's soldiers are just running dogs of the nobles. He wants to be like those soldiers in the camp. They are the ones who truly fight with honor and are truly protecting their people.
It's just that in this country, his goals and ideals are not allowed, and these nobles will never allow him to have such ideas.
So Derek has to find a way to change the country. Even though it seems impossible, he has to try.
First of all, we must escape from this noble!
Derek suddenly threw the empty backpack in his hand towards the soldier on the noble's side. At the moment the other's head was covered by the backpack, Derek rushed to the soldier standing on the other side.
This soldier was obviously a newly promoted recruit. He panicked instantly when he saw the aggressive Derek. Derek took advantage of the moment when the other party drew his sword, grabbed the other party's head and pulled it down, and kicked his knee upwards suddenly.
The moment the forehead collided with the knee, blood flowed from the poor soldier's nose.
When Derek wanted to attack the old man next, the magic power in the old man's hands suddenly gathered, and a shock spread out from the old man's hands.
The impact caused Derek to lose his balance and he took a few steps back. Another soldier took advantage of this moment, pulled off the backpack that Derek had thrown at him, and hit Derek's back with the hilt of his sword.
The heavy blow from the hilt of the sword caused Derek to fall directly to the ground. When he tried to get up again, the soldier kicked Derek directly.
Derek's body rolled to the other side of the room, and the miners there instantly hid to the other side in fear, leaving Derek alone, holding his abdomen and trying to stand up with difficulty.
But the next second the soldier punched Derek in the cheek again, this time with the spikes attached to the arm armor, and blood flowed out of his mouth.
"You have forgotten the lesson. I can help you recall it! This will be much more painful than fighting in the arena!" The old man walked up to Derek and said angrily.
Derek said nothing and still tried to stand up again. Seeing this, the soldier next to him hit Derek's back with the hilt of the sword again, and he fell to the ground again... but he still supported his body and tried to get up again.
The soldier stepped on Derek's back again, pinning him to the ground.
"I thought this would help you remember."
Another soldier brought the old man a long black whip. When the old man was about to swing the whip at Derek's back, a stone came out from nowhere and hit the old man directly on the head.
The old man covered his forehead and looked at his palm. Blood was already flowing out of his forehead.
This made him so angry that he almost lost control. His whole body was shaking uncontrollably and the expression on his face was like a man-eating monster.
"Who is it!" The old man angrily shouted to the miners around him, "Who threw the stone?"
No one responded to the old man, just like Derek before...the miners all chose to remain silent.
The old man angrily swung the whip in his hand and whipped the miner standing outside. A painful wail came from the miner's mouth.
"Stand up immediately! Otherwise, no one will escape the punishment today!"
The old man shouted angrily, but at this time the soldier next to him was knocked to the ground by Derek.
"What are you afraid of!"
Derek shouted loudly to the silent miners, but at this moment the soldier took back the initiative and was completely enraged by Derek. He grabbed his neck and pressed him to the ground.
The feeling of suffocation flooded into Derek's consciousness, but Derek still did not give up resistance. He swung his fist and hit the soldier in the cheek.
At this moment, another stone suddenly hit the old man on the head. The old man turned around angrily and looked behind him. He quickly found the person who threw the stone, who was Xiao Chong hiding in the crowd.
"Damn it!" The old man was completely enraged. He took a whip and wanted to catch Xiao Chong out of the crowd, but those silent miners suddenly turned into a wall without realizing it.
"Get out of the way! Do you hear me? If you don't want to be punished, get out of the way!" the old man shouted.
But still no one responded to him. The old man suddenly realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the house. The miners picked up the pickaxes they had used to mine.
"What do you want to do? Anyone who takes another step forward will be executed! You, and you! Soldiers! Take them away!" The old man ordered the slaves like a master.
But what is different from the past is that... the old man is constantly retreating, while the miners holding pickaxes are constantly moving forward.
Eventually, the area they had left empty out of fear began to get smaller and smaller. When the old man got to the end, he found that he had no way to escape and was surrounded on all sides.
"Kill all of you! You slaves!" The inscription on the old man's hand suddenly lit up. When he was about to release magic, another stone hit his head and interrupted his spell.
At this moment, the surrounding miners surrounded him instantly, picked up their pickaxes and completely "drowned" him.