Chapter 16: The Mark of Killing

How strong is the night that has awakened its real name?

There has never been a good reference, and even Cangye himself doesn't know about it, but now, more than two hundred units will be able to show their newly improved strength to the fullest.

Holding the dragon's scales in his right hand and the scimitar of Antioch in his left hand, the night jumped on the back of the captain of the guard and rushed into the crowd without waiting for the merchant's cry for help.

The captain's horse is a rare Antioch desert horse, with excellent speed and stamina, and the explosiveness is also top-notch.

The dust and sand were yang, and the vision in front of them was blocked, but after the night turned on the super dynamic vision as if blessed by the "Eagle Eye Technique", the hazy figures of the robbers became extremely clear in an instant.

In less than 5 seconds, the distance of nearly 100 meters was suddenly shortened, and at the forefront was a group of desert bandit cavalry in tattered armor, known for their high mobility and cunning.

The total number is no more than twelve horses.

Seeing that there was only one person on the other side, the robber cavalry frantically laughed at the stupidity and recklessness of the enemy, and at the same time raised their scimitars to meet them.

"Dual-wielding weapon fighting!"

"Swift Offensive!"

Both the scimitar and the chopping knife are the strongest only when they are ridden, and the Mad Prince spent the first half of his life on horseback, and this memory was naturally passed on to the night.

At the moment of the handover of weapons, Cangye's wrist turned, and the two knives in front of him and behind drew a perfect circle, and three cavalrymen who stepped into the attack range were cut down and fell to the ground, and the three horsemen were cut off their weapons, and their wrists were wounded and retreated.

Suddenly—

The night soared from his back, and the speed of swinging the knife was extremely fast at this moment.

A series of metal crashes.

With the leap of the war horse, four more horses were killed in an instant, and it was the most fierce decapitation attack.

In terms of skill, equipment, and horses, the night had an absolute advantage, killing and wounding two-thirds of a squad of desert bandit cavalry in less than a few minutes.

The remaining robbers were so frightened that they fled out of the battle circle screaming.

Cangye did not chase and continued to ride his horse and kill.

With the assistance of horses, and at the same time with the basic skills of [Mounting], Cangye at this moment is regarded as a second-order 1-level knight, but unfortunately there are no skills such as [Horseback Swordsmanship] and [Heavy Armor Mastery], otherwise Cangye can also raise the career level to level 5.

In the same situation, the knight's normal damage is more than twice that of the sword fighter, and the killing speed and killing efficiency are also more than doubled. Cangye rode alone, almost stabbing this group of rabble, and the already chaotic formation almost completely collapsed.

Although the stolen horses were very unhappy, the captain of the guard also reacted at the first time, led the guards into it, and attacked and killed, and the robbers in front of him were defeated because they couldn't even resist the first round.

Bandit groups are already demoralized, driven by pure desire, undisciplined, and quickly drained when they encounter tough opponents, let alone short-lived alliances forged out by interests.

In less than twenty minutes, the alliance was broken, and the nominal leader of the alliance was also beheaded by Cangye, and most of the robbers under his command were killed.

One hour later, after the battle was over, leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the robbers scattered and fled.

Night's total killed 59 bandits, with more than 120 experience points credited.

It has to be said that even if the difference between the combat effectiveness of the robbers and the army is huge, the experience points contributed in the harvesting area are almost the same.

In the midst of the gods and transcendent beings, all people are still inferior species.

After the battle, a faint blood-colored mark slowly appeared on the back of Cangye's hand.

"After a battle, your [Mounting] skill has been improved, and you have +1 points."

With the deterrence of hundreds of heads, no robber dared to attack the caravan for the rest of the journey.

Finally, five days later, they successfully arrived at the city of Antioch.

For nearly half a month, Cangye not only did not spend a penny, but got more than 2,000 commissions plus additional rewards, and after declining the merchant's retention, Cangye led the camel to find a hotel without an archway to rest.

Most of these inns have unclean backgrounds and frighteningly high fees, but they have a good advantage for the night, because it is more convenient to hide here for the next move.

The location of the palace of Antiochus is located in the northwest corner of the royal city, and the periphery is guarded by a large number of soldiers, and the night is not a thief, and he also does not have the skills of [stealth] and [stealth], so he can only wander around the outer circle of the palace for a few minutes before leaving.

The plan to infiltrate the palace and steal the dragon scale armor has failed, and now there is only one last way left.

There is still half a month to go before the wild hunting party of the royal family of Antioch, which takes place in the hunting enclosure on the outskirts of the royal city. Hunting was one of the few forms of entertainment for the Antiochian aristocracy, so it was used to show off their personal strength and win the favor of noblewomen and ladies.

The nobility was no longer satisfied with hunting wild beasts, so at the beginning of the day death row inmates from the prison cells were put into the enclosure, until finally, the pleasure of hunting humans drove the nobles of Antioch to purchase a large number of Eastern slaves to be released into the field.

Hunting humans is far more enjoyable than hunting wild beasts.

The next day, he left the inn and led the camels to camp in the wilderness, the coordinates of which were less than ten miles from the hunting grounds. Compared to the royal palace, the hunting grounds are undoubtedly much less vigilant.

In the eyes of the people, the hunting ground is an evil place, and no one dares to approach it at all, and even the most daring thieves dare not break into the field, so the guards here are much more lax than in other places.

Over the next few days, Nightshade continued to meticulously survey the terrain of the paddock and the distribution of armed forces, and a detailed panorama of the hunting paddock was perfectly presented in Nightnight's mind.

"Complete the activation conditions and obtain the basic skill [Search], +1 points."

There were still three days left before the start of the party, and the slaves used for hunting had been released into the arena in advance, with a total of more than 800 people, divided into dozens of batches, with shackles on both hands and feet.

On the last day, the key to open the shackles will be thrown into it, and in the first few hours of the arrival of the nobles, some short knives and small daggers will be thrown into it, after all, the prey without the ability to resist is too boring.

However, in addition to humans, large carnivorous beasts such as lions and tigers are also involved, and there are no cattle, sheep, deer and other creatures in the hunting grounds, which means that the beasts must feed on people.

The purpose of this was to prevent the slaves from uniting to revolt, as had happened in the past, resulting in the murder of more than twenty nobles.

Since then, the slaves released at each hunting party have belonged to different peoples, some of whom are enemies of each other, and it is even more impossible to join forces in such a situation, unless a figure like Spartacus appears.

……

As soon as the three days passed, Cangye entered the hunting ground early, disguising himself as a slave from the East, holding a dagger stained with plague and rust in his hand, but in fact, the dragon's scales and scimitar were buried in the realm of a tiger, and Cangye could easily kill the beast, but in order to prevent it from being found by other slaves, the tiger still had the value of living.

Amid the laughter, the nobles had already arrived in the paddock.

There were more than 100 nobles attending the party, most of them young men of good blood, looking forward to a heroic performance in front of their respective female companions.

In their words, they almost boasted of Antiochus as the most powerful of the Blood Alliances, and the nobles of Antioch were the bravest and fearless. Whether it is horseback riding, swordsmanship, and bowing, it is all first-class, and the nobles of other countries are nothing more than a group of embroidered pillows who only know how to find women to sleep, and after saying this, they have no idea that the purpose of their participation in the hunt is the same.

The night hides in the dense canopy of trees, watching the nobles' every move from afar.

Suddenly, there was a commotion, and a rider in scarlet armor arrived belatedly under the escort of a team of palace guards.

This armor was really strange, it only covered the upper half of the body, and even the arms, lower body, and helmet had to be worn together with other armor, and the surface was covered with scales that looked like snake scales but were countless times larger, and it was impossible to distinguish the scales of any creature.

The Dragon Scale Armor of the Three Sacred Weapons of the Protector is made of "god" scales, and the inner lining is sewn from soft but tough fur, and the whole armor weighs no more than 5 pounds, but it is so hard that even a bed crossbow can't pierce it.

Due to its weight, dragon scale armor is classified as cloth armor, and even leather armor is heavier than it, but the armor level is comparable to chain mail, heavy armor, and even plate armor.

This means that some classes that can't wear heavy armor can be easily worn, such as Warrior Monk or Spellcaster.

The Great Prince is here!

Cangye remembers the image of the eldest prince firmly, and this is the goal of his trip.

Since the age of thirteen, the great prince of Antioch has been the host of the hunting party, at the age of twelve he tamed the fierce horse that ordinary people could not tame, at the age of fourteen officially joined the kingdom war, once killed the lion released by the barbarian sacrifice in a battle to conquer the barbarians, now twenty-four years old, brave and good at fighting and extremely strong personal force, he has a soft spot for hunting activities during non-war periods, and hunting humans is what he proposed.

The nobles of the country have a natural fear of the eldest prince, and although they are really smiling, their eyes are too sharp as if they are facing a fierce tiger.

Far away, I didn't know what the eldest prince said, and the next moment I suddenly saw the guards bringing dozens of hounds, each with a strong body, and sharp claws and teeth made people firmly believe that this was a fierce beast that could fight with wolves.

The hound soon rushed into the forest, and the night turned away, followed by three hounds behind him, whose purpose was to find the location of the prey and thus attract the hunter.

The nobles let out a cry of excitement and drove the horses into the forest.

The forest is very thin, covering only a few thousand square meters, and the larger landscape of the paddock is plains and rugged mountains.

Cangye came to the tiger's lair, the hound was afraid of the majesty of the king of beasts and did not dare to enter, Cangye took the weapon, slaughtered the three hounds in the first time and left, the tiger rested from the night with an extremely dangerous breath, instinctively did not dare to approach, the night just glanced at it casually and made this large beast feel like falling into an ice cellar.

……

The hunting ground resounded all over the terrible screams, even with weapons, the slaves were difficult to escape the pursuit of the Antioch nobles, there was no shortage of intelligent slaves who tried to form a large-scale raid, but unfortunately, the Antioch nobles were not helpless eggs, the aristocratic class was still martial, every aristocratic youth began to receive training from the age of three or four, and before adulthood, they had to complete a killing ritual and wash themselves with the blood of fierce beasts or strong men to be considered a real Antioch noble.

When they reach adulthood, they are obliged to serve in the army, and every noble young man is skilled in bows and horses, and is assisted by hunting dogs and squires, and no matter how vicious the prey is, it is difficult to pose a threat to them.

Since the Great Prince accepted the hunting party, if a slave can successfully counterattack in the hunt, the head of an Antioch nobleman is exchanged for the freedom of a slave, which is also a small trick to keep the hunt from being too boring.

Cangye is not a jealous person, he is only here to achieve his goals.

The eldest prince was the last to join the hunt, alone, with no attendants and no hounds to follow, all from confidence in his own strength.

Crossing the forest and the steppes to a swamp, they were attacked by forty-eight slaves, seven wolves, and a lion on the way.

Cangye finally saw the true strength of the eldest prince.

A class template for a level 7 warrior/level 1 rider, there is a great chance that after death you will enter the kingdom of Caligula and become a true believer in this god.

But compared to myself, the gap is still a lot bigger.

The swamp is the area where the night is ambushed.

Looking at the bright night in front of him, the eldest prince looked at the other party with great interest.

Whether it is clothing or weapons, it is clear that the other party is not a slave who has been put into the cast, but some alien with an ulterior purpose, and it does not matter what the motive is, Antioch has many enemies, but all those who come to the hunting ground are prey, and he is a hunter.

The figure of the night flickered, and a wind seemed to rise under his feet, and he suddenly jumped on the horse's back.

The eldest prince's face finally became solemn, and the speed was ...... It's a fierce rival!

Syllable!

The eldest prince only had time to draw half of his scimitar before he was knocked off his horse, and he took a few steps backwards in embarrassment before he could stabilize his body.

"Who the hell are you?"

The eldest prince asked in a deep voice, his numb wrist seemed to tell the blow of the night like a blast of the wind, as long as he slowed down a little more, he was pierced through the left side of his lower abdomen, the gap in the scales.

The strength of this uninvited guest was far beyond his imagination, and the eldest prince had no way out, and a trace of regret rose in his heart for his arrogance.

If there are guards...... No, not even a hound!

For the first blow, Cangye used the back of the knife [Reverse Blade] to temporarily nullify the hands of the eldest prince. In the second round, the reverse scales alternate to the left hand, and the right hand draws the scimitar from the waist.

"Dual-wielding weapon fighting!"

The figure was like a whirlwind soaring into the air, and the double knives fell.

"Heavy split!"

The characteristics of the scimitar [cutting steel] were most useful at this moment, the scimitar in the hand of the eldest prince was cracked, and then it was cut off by the reverse scales, and the night took advantage of the situation to pass into the heart of the eldest prince, and the strong force kicked the eldest prince five or six meters on the spot.

Clutching his chest in pain, the eldest prince shouted in some panic:

"Wait, I ......"

However, before the words were finished, the expressionless Cangye had already swung his knife, and with the splash of blood, an unwilling human head flew high.

"Initiate the decapitation!"

"Trigger Fatal Verdict!"

"The enemy unit's immunity fails, the verdict passes, the unit dies, and experience points are 68!"

This is the most valuable target that Nightnight has killed so far, but unfortunately, if it weren't for the limitations of the plane, Nightnight would have been able to harvest at least nearly 150 experience points.

Suddenly, there was a sudden burning sensation on the back of Cangye's hand, as if the flesh was burning.

Looking down, I saw that the blood-colored traces of the circle were much clearer, and a twisted face with a frightened scream was outlined one by one, one left and one right pierced by the sword.

This is the seal of the god of blood and slaughter, also known as the seal of killing, which represents the favor of the gods for any of Caligula's favors, such as a madman, a thug, or a slayer.