Chapter 311: Shadow Lord
Later on the journey, the veterans became much more enthusiastic towards Kayn and the others.
After all, they used to be simply superiors and subordinates, but now they are accomplices.
If it were before, Kayn might have been flattered to be this accomplice. But now, as he got closer and closer to his destination, he felt uneasy and uneasy.
That's a whole village!
A group of innocent civilians!
Kayn couldn't bear it. He held the Leader's booklet in his hand all the way, and all kinds of crazy and bold ideas kept emerging in his mind.
Then……
He did nothing.
He was a ten-year-old soldier and there was nothing he could do.
After all, the Noxian military boots rolled over the Ionian land inch by inch and approached the Ionian village.
It was noon when they arrived. The sky above the village was filled with wisps of smoke from cooking, the air was filled with the smell of soil baked by the sun, and the breeze blew slowly from the village accompanied by distant but lively voices.
“Get ready.” The old soldier smiled and patted Kayn’s shoulder. “This village looks big. It’s easy for someone to escape alive.”
"It seems that you will have to help out later."
“……”Kayn remained silent.
Is it impossible to avoid it after all?
He looked at his hands, which were about to be soaked with the blood of innocent civilians.
Kayn gripped his scythe tightly...
Then he put it down woodenly.
"Yes." He nodded hesitantly, walked at the front of the team, and led the team of a hundred people into the village.
"Noxians are coming!" With a scream, the peaceful atmosphere in the village was instantly broken.
The villagers fled in all directions, some hurriedly fled into their homes, locked their doors and dared not go out.
Some tried to escape from the village, but were forced back by the ferocious Noxian soldiers with knives.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." The old soldier walked to the front and said with a smile on his face: "We are just here to ask the villagers some questions, not to embarrass you."
"Everyone come out, we'll leave after we finish asking questions."
This is of course a lie.
They just want the villagers to cooperate as much as possible and let themselves stand under the butcher's knife so that they can be dealt with collectively.
This trick used to work well.
After all, villagers in most places don't dare to disobey the orders of the Noxian master. This is a gamble with their lives.
But……
In the past half month, the Noxians' massacres of cities and villages have been so severe that their notoriety has spread throughout the Yipu River basin.
Although the old soldier had a smile on his face and pretended to be visiting the countryside to express his condolences, the villagers still hid in their homes trembling with fear and dared not show their heads.
Some people even mustered up the courage to continue running away.
"Oh. It really causes trouble for others." The old soldier sighed helplessly.
The centurion on the back of the dragon lizard also frowned slightly, slowly put down the whip, and raised the long sword.
"I'll give you one last chance. Come out and cooperate with the investigation!" The old soldier changed his expression and shouted loudly.
The villagers became even more afraid and no one responded.
The old soldier became even more impatient.
He grabbed a villager who had just escaped and was caught, and threw him in front of Kayn who was standing beside him: "Kid, kill him."
“I…” Kayn’s body stiffened instantly.
“I say, kill him.” The old soldier shouted, “Let these Ionians see what happens if they don’t cooperate with us!”
Kayn's body was shaking.
He couldn't move his hands. He seemed to have lost the ability to swing the knife at the weak.
"You?!" The old soldier frowned.
He glared at Kayn with great displeasure, then turned to the other young soldiers and said, "Come here. This is a chance for you to practice, don't waste it."
"Yes!" The other young soldiers answered without hesitation.
Most of them had seen blood during the massacre, and even those who had not had been educated by their superiors so that they had no aversion to killing.
So, a group of young people raised their knives.
And at this critical moment...
"Wait!" Finally, a villager came out.
At first, there was only one person, and then more than a dozen people came out of the house one after another. They were all wearing ordinary coarse cloth and short brown clothes, and they looked like country farmers that could be seen everywhere in Ionia.
But the man in the lead was very different.
He was a young man with light white hair and a gloomy and steady temperament.
His handsome, mature and resolute face was full of calmness, as if he was not afraid of the Noxian army in front of him at all.
Facing the Noxian soldiers approaching with weapons, there was no emotion in his eyes.
It felt like...
Looking at a bunch of dead people?
"You..." The veteran smelled a hint of danger.
In Ionia, you can't underestimate anyone. This is the secret of his survival in the past few years and his successful promotion to veteran.
Moreover, you can tell from the other person's expression...
The guy in front of me dressed as a farmer is most likely not an ordinary farmer.
"Don't come over here!"
The old soldier drew the sharp blade from his waist and slowly retreated behind Kayn and the young soldiers.
When he felt safe at a distance, he shouted, "Hey! White-haired guy, who are you?"
White-haired young man: “…”
The other party did not answer. But fortunately, he did not have any intention of moving forward.
The old soldier took a breath and then nervously shouted, "You, you are the leader?!"
"Leader?" The white-haired young man shook his head: "No, I'm not."
"Who are you then?"
“I am nobody. I am only an Ionian,” the man said.
veteran:"……"
Damn... an ordinary person? Met someone who pretends to be an expert without saying a word?!
He just had this illusion.
Then the white-haired young man asked in return: "Are you here to look for the leader?"
"Yes..." The old soldier was subconsciously infected by the other party's mysterious temperament and answered his question.
"I'm also looking for a leader." The white-haired young man said, "Do you have any news that you can share with me?"
The old soldier's eyes suddenly widened: "You?!"
The centurion riding on the dragon lizard's back immediately realized: "This guy is not simple!"
The soldiers immediately obeyed the order and drew their swords. For a moment, the swords were like a forest, flashing cold light.
"It seems like you don't want to talk about it anymore." The white-haired young man sighed.
Then, the next second...
He disappeared.
Without any warning, he disappeared from everyone's sight.
"W-what?!" The old soldier rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
Where are the people?
Here——
"Ah!!!" A scream from behind answered his question.
The old soldier looked back in shock, only to see that a person had quietly appeared on the back of the centurion's tall and majestic dragon lizard.
It was the white-haired young man.
The white-haired young man appeared behind the centurion as if teleporting, and with his bare hands he conjured up a sharp short blade that seemed to be condensed from shadows, and stabbed it into the centurion's back.
"It's only 3 centimeters away from your heart."
"Now can you tell me where the Wind Leader is?"
The strongest extraordinary warrior in this hundred-man team, the centurion whom Kayn revered as a god, was treated like a chicken to be slaughtered, and his life was easily taken away by the white-haired young man.
“I, I…” The Centurion’s face was completely drained of color: “I don’t know. We just didn’t know where the Wind Leader was, so we came out to look for them.”
"Okay." The white-haired young man sighed.
Then, the shadow blade in his hand suddenly stretched out and pierced the centurion's chest like a spear.
He casually threw the centurion's body off the dragon lizard's back, then shouted coldly into the air: "Go ahead."
As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of agile shadowy figures silently descended from the nearby rooftops .
The dozen or so "ordinary farmers" who had appeared with him earlier suddenly took out short blades and kunai from their arms, revealing their true murderous faces.
"Oh no!" The old soldier finally woke up from the shock just now.
Centurion, he is the strongest centurion in the team!
He actually died without any chance of fighting back?
"Go, everyone! If we don't take action, we will all die!"
The old soldier excitedly ordered the young soldiers to attack, but he himself staggered backwards.
But the next second...
He died too.
Before he died, he only saw a black shadow flash by and his headless body.
“This…” Kayn’s eyes widened.
He subconsciously clenched the sickle in his hand, and then... put it down quietly.
The comrades around him rushed forward in fear and frenzy, or fled, and then one by one they were harvested by the flashing and changing black shadows in the crowd.
But Kayn still stood there stupidly, as if waiting for his own death.
Soon, perhaps only a minute had passed, and he was the only one left alive out of the mighty team of a hundred men.
The enemy naturally noticed Kayn.
Someone threw a kunai at him, aiming straight for his throat.
But the white-haired young man suddenly appeared in front of Kayn and took the kunai for him with his bare hands.
"Master Jie?" Everyone looked at the white-haired young man respectfully: "Aren't you going to kill this Noxian brat?"
“No need.” The white-haired young man, named Jie, shook his head indifferently.
He looked at Kayn and asked with interest: "Kid, why don't you fight back?"
“I…” Kayn couldn’t say anything.
"I can sense that your body is not shaking. You are not afraid or nervous." This is very unusual for a young soldier in a desperate situation.
“You don’t seem to be afraid of fighting and death.” The white-haired young man looked at Kayn calmly, “But just now when your superior asked you to kill someone, you were shaking with fear.”
"Why?"
“I…” Kayn finally answered, “I don’t want to kill these innocent people.”
He said it from the bottom of his heart.
“……”The white-haired young man looked at Kayn in silence.
Finally, he signaled everyone around him to lay down their weapons: "We just need someone to bring a message - kid, you survived."
"Go back and tell those officers, tell your chapter leaders, that they must put an end to Noxus's unprovoked atrocities in the Ipu River Basin, otherwise..."
"The Shadow Cult will definitely send them greetings."
