Chapter 779: Citizens taking refuge...
In the city of Kulokas, because the emergency evacuation order was issued, the citizens had dinner early today. Afterwards, they each took their important movable belongings with them, and before sunset, they formed a long line under the command of the kingdom's soldiers and moved in an orderly manner towards the east gate.
However, the city had a population of tens of thousands. How could so many people be evacuated in one go? With so many people, conflicts naturally arose. Therefore, after the initial unconditional obedience to orders, some citizens began to cause trouble.
Sometimes an old man could not walk, sometimes a child cried and fell to the ground, then there were other bad things like a noble molesting a decent girl, a yellow-haired man taking advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of her, a little boy rebelling against a cart, and brain-dead fans arguing with each other, which made the soldiers at a loss and miserable.
"Why do we have to move the entire city in the middle of the night?! Everyone is obviously very tired after a day's work..."
The soldiers were helpless and could only tell the truth: "I'm very sorry, this is an order! Everyone must enforce it!!"
"This is a dictatorship! The Fiore royal family is a dictator!! We are all legal citizens of the Kingdom of Fiore! We have the right to stay too!!"
Seeing the people mutiny, the soldiers could only try their best to appease them: "Everyone... everyone... please be quiet!! We are seeking emergency shelter! Because the king said there will be a disaster tonight, this is for the sake of everyone's life safety..."
"You're exaggerating! Where is the disaster? There's no sign of it at all! Is it an earthquake? A storm? Or a volcanic eruption? Is the sun about to rise from the west?"
At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out from the crowd: "Hey, I seem to have heard a rumor that the king received a prophecy letter saying that a giant dragon will attack tonight..."
"Are you kidding me?! Where in this world are there dragons?"
“King Thomas blindly believes in prophecies!! Can such a king really be trusted?! Can the decrees he issues really make our lives better?”
"Shut up! Are you trying to kill yourself?!"
"It's better to be safe than sorry! If I don't leave, I might die..."
"I'll die! I've wanted to die for a long time! Compared to dying in a daze, maybe dying at the hands of a dragon would be more glorious!"
Soldiers: “…”
What a bunch of psychos! This world should just be destroyed by the dragon! !
In order to protect these citizens, the soldiers accompanying this time, in addition to the patrol troops of Kulokas, were mostly regular soldiers of the Kingdom. Although these soldiers had never fought in Fiore for many years, they usually did things like fighting criminals and catching thieves. They were regular "criminal police" and not "civil servants", so they had no idea how to deal with this situation, which slowed down the entire team's progress.
A young soldier who had just resolved a dispute walked up to his colleague and sighed tiredly: "Really... It's so troublesome! Dealing with these people's troubles feels more tiring than normal military training."
The captain of the soldiers, who was slightly older than him, asked, "What's wrong? Tell me about it."
The young soldier pointed his thumb behind him and said, "It's the guy behind me. He just got touched on the butt by an old man. What's the big deal?"
What? My butt was touched by a filthy old man? ? I didn’t expect that in the capital, there would be someone who would dare to do such a despicable thing? And when they were avoiding a disaster? ?
The captain of the soldiers was furious when he heard this: "How could such a thing happen? Who is it? I must condemn this..."
"We are all men, not delicate girls. Why would we suffer any loss if we are touched? Don't you agree, Captain?"
"Ah?? They are all men...?"
Upon learning that both the attacker and the attacked were male, the captain of the soldiers fell silent and swallowed the word "behavior" again. "This... seems... seems... to be wrong, right?"
The laws of the Kingdom of Fiore do not specify what to do when the person being harassed is a man...
Listening to the young soldier's continued complaints and feeling his nonchalant attitude towards the matter, the captain of the soldiers almost couldn't figure it out. At the same time, he couldn't help but slow down his pace, staring blankly at the young man next to him who had just joined the team for less than a month.
Shocked! Nan Tong is by my side? Are young people nowadays so open-minded? Isn't this too trendy? ? Am I too old? That's not right, I'm only 29 years old!
The captain of the soldiers was shocked beyond words. His eyes fell on the young man's back in a trance. Then his eyes slowly moved down, his thoughts racing: "This kid doesn't care about this kind of thing? Then is he..."
Wait! What am I looking at?! I'm a normal person! I would never--
Boom! !
Before the captain of the soldiers could figure out who he was, he heard a deafening explosion behind him.
“What’s that sound??!”
Such a huge commotion directly interrupted the already unsteady pace of the team. The soldiers and citizens stopped at the same time and looked back curiously. However, the first thing they saw when they turned around was not what happened, but a gust of wind.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the mountain to the west of Kurokas, which had existed for hundreds of years and was said to have been flattened by the Paladin with a dragon-slaying sword, and the Thomas Brau venue built on top of it, which was used to hold the "Great Magic Fighting Exercises", were being ravaged by several terrifying energies at the same time and collapsed at an incredible speed! !
“That is… the mountain is destroyed?”
No way, no way... Although I always complain that the mountain is boring and blocks the beautiful sunset, it has been there for so many years and accompanied me for decades, and it was destroyed like this? ?
I haven’t said goodbye to it properly yet!!
The captain of the soldiers felt a little lost for a moment.
"Hey, Captain! Is that the disaster that will happen today as mentioned above?" the young soldier turned around and asked.
"Ah? Ah... maybe... yeah!"
The captain of the soldiers answered haltingly. He was still in shock from seeing the mountain destroyed, and secretly wondered what kind of energy could cause such damage to it.
A citizen suddenly lamented: "What a pity! I haven't been there much."
Just as he finished speaking, another young citizen's voice rang out, with a hint of luck in his voice: "I did go there, just a few days ago, I went there to watch a group of wizards having a 'Great Magic Fighting Show' competition. To be honest, the magic scene was quite nice to watch, and the key is that you don't have to pay for the ticket, it would be a waste not to go..."
"I really envy you guys! Actually, I wanted to go too, but I couldn't because I had to work. So I didn't go."
"What kind of work? I must have asked for leave to see such a rare event!"
The previous voice stopped talking. I don’t know whether it was complaining in its heart that young people don’t know the difficulties of society, or regretting not giving it a try.
At the very end of this refugee team, a group of wizards with little combat ability from various magic guilds were in charge of covering the citizens' retreat. They also noticed the movements at the Great Magic Fighting Arena.
"Is that the disaster that the president mentioned?"
"What a big commotion! What ??"
In fact, not only the eight guilds that participated in the "Great Magic Battle" but also the other magic guilds that came to Kurokas received commissions from the Fiore royal family, and the commission was also to work together to deal with this disaster.
But unlike the wizards of the eight guilds on the mountain, the mission of other magic guilds is to guard the royal capital.
Since the "Ten Thousand Dragon Attack" mentioned in the prophecy letter would occur at the venue, King Thomas divided the combat power of all guilds into two parts: the main force at the venue, that is, the magicians of the eight strongest magic guilds; the secondary army guarding the royal capital, they are the magicians of dozens of magic guilds who signed up for the "Grand Magic Fighting Exercise" but did not pass the first day of the preliminaries.
In King Thomas's opinion, the wizards of the former guilds are stronger, but the latter have more people. If quantity can make up for quality, the overall combat power of both sides should be similar, so this is the most perfect arrangement plan.
It can only be said that it was fortunate that he did not choose to let the former defend the city and the latter go to the front line, otherwise those dozens of guilds and hundreds of wizards would have become cannon fodder the moment Acnorolia landed.
Among the wizards who were covering the citizens, several wizards from Fairy Tail were looking at the collapsed mountain nervously with pale faces.
"You must survive..."
Bisca looked worried and hugged Asuka tighter in her arms.
