Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29: The Fall of Wheatfield Town
Watching the goblin charge at her in excitement, watching the greed and lust flashing in its beady little eyes,
Martie gritted her teeth, gripped the Sword of Trelis with both hands, shouted, and thrust it toward the goblin’s chest.
With a wet stab, the goblin was pierced clean through the chest.
Martie’s eyes widened. She had not expected it to be so easy. Looking at the goblin still struggling on the sword, her heart hardened. She yanked the blade back out and then kicked it away.
The goblin twitched for a moment, then quickly went still.
“They are nowhere near as strong as they look, Miss Martie. You only need to overcome the barrier in your heart.”
Jiang Lin slowly relaxed the hand seal he had formed and looked at Martie as he spoke.
At that moment, under the sweep of his Divine Sense, he could still sense quite a few beastmen emerging from Dusk Forest outside the town.
And this time, it was no longer just goblins and Ogre Goblins. There were other beastman races as well, their savage appearances making it obvious they were far more dangerous than creatures like goblins.
Realizing this, Jiang Lin wasted no more time and led Martie out of the tavern.
In the town engulfed in towering flames, the ugly figures of goblins were everywhere.
Inside the houses, townsfolk who had hidden themselves away were constantly being discovered, after which terrified screams would ring out.
On the street, Jiang Lin walked in front with the Cangwu Sword in hand, while Martie followed behind with the Sword of Trelis.
Listening to the surviving townsfolk still struggling all around them, neither of them spoke, nor did they show any intention of stepping in.
Jiang Lin had even less intention of making a move. He had come back to the town only to find Martie.
As for Martie, because Jiang Lin made no move, she wisely said nothing either and did not ask about saving people.
In her heart, she could only pray that those townsfolk would somehow save themselves.
The two of them made their way through the town. After being blocked several times by goblins, they soon arrived beside the relay station.
At that moment, the only carriage in the relay station held a woman dressed in a silk robe.
Around it stood a group of servants clutching long blades, trembling as they faced off against the goblins.
Jiang Lin saw the woman’s face clearly. It was Mrs. Heath.
And Mrs. Heath, trembling with fear atop the carriage, also noticed the two of them.
She immediately waved her hand and cried out in a shaking voice,
“Miss Martie, please! Save us!”
At the same time, the shrill scream of a servant drowned out Mrs. Heath’s voice.
A few goblins were grinning greedily, as if they were merely toying with those servants instead of killing them right away.
Quite a few goblins kept letting their gaze roam over Mrs. Heath’s body. In their beady little eyes, there was nothing but greed and lust.
By now, some other townsfolk had also fled out. After seeing this scene, they only glanced at it, then kept running toward the outskirts of town without stopping.
Jiang Lin turned to look at Mrs. Heath, then at the servants retreating in terror.
Those servants had not even thought about fighting back. They only kept shrinking away in fear.
The Cangwu Sword shot out instantly and charged toward the goblins.
With one hand directing the Cangwu Sword, Jiang Lin slowly walked toward Mrs. Heath.
By the time he arrived, all of those goblins were already lying in pools of blood.
The expressions on the servants’ faces were now even more horrified than when they had first seen the goblins.
Jiang Lin’s casual slaughter of the goblins had shaken them deeply.
For a moment, every servant became exceptionally obedient.
They seemed to have remembered the way they had once treated Jiang Lin, and fear rose even more strongly in their hearts.
But Jiang Lin had no intention of doing anything to them.
Martie came over at that moment as well. After glancing at Jiang Lin, she turned to the still-shaken Mrs. Heath and said,
“Mrs. Heath, we need the carriage.”
“Of course, of course you can!” Mrs. Heath slowly came back to herself from the chaos and hurriedly nodded, though her eyes kept flicking toward Jiang Lin from time to time.
Jiang Lin said nothing more. He took the reins of the carriage and snapped the whip.
The frightened horse immediately let out a shrill neigh and bolted forward.
Jiang Lin yanked hard on the reins, controlling the carriage as it charged out of the town.
Martie and Mrs. Heath were in the carriage, while behind it three or four servants ran with all their strength, chasing after it.
Little by little, the group moved farther and farther away from the town bathed in flames.
Along the way, they also ran into townsfolk who had fled earlier. The moment those people saw the carriage, longing rose in their eyes, and they wanted Mrs. Heath to take them along.
But the former Baroness ignored every one of them and said through gritted teeth,
“Did they not run fast enough just now? And now they want to ride in the carriage? Dream on!”
After saying that, Mrs. Heath looked back at the towering flames in the town. Amid the blaze, the noisy, excited sounds and the occasional scream could still faintly be heard.
A shadow fell over her face, and she covered it with her hands and began to cry in grief.
Even Martie, watching the town recede farther and farther into the distance, felt as though it was unreal, as though she were trapped in a dream.
The town she had lived in for more than twenty years had just been overrun by beastmen.
This was something that had never happened before, and something none of them had ever imagined could happen.
In the silent and pitch-black night, on the dirt road through the countryside, Jiang Lin drove the carriage and slowed it slightly.
After sweeping the rear with his Divine Sense and finding that no beastmen were pursuing them, he relaxed somewhat.
He took out a Kerosene Lamp and hung it from the wooden pole of the carriage.
As the carriage rocked, the dim yellow glow of the lamp swayed with it.
No one spoke again, and the atmosphere gradually sank into silence. Only the sound of the wheels rolling over the road remained.
At that moment, Mrs. Heath seemed to have finally regained herself somewhat. Looking in Jiang Lin’s direction, she spoke sincerely,
“Thank you! Sir Jiang Lin, it is all thanks to you stepping in.”
As she spoke, she turned and clasped Martie’s hands.
“And of course, I must thank you as well, Miss Martie. Thank you both for your kindness. Otherwise, I truly do not dare imagine what kind of torment I would have suffered.”
“It is all right, Mrs. Heath. This is our disaster, is it not? None of us expected those damned beastmen to invade the town.”
Martie did her best to comfort Mrs. Heath, though it sounded more as if she were trying to comfort herself.
“This is truly a nightmare...” Mrs. Heath began sobbing again under her breath.
“There is still no news of my dear nephew. If they were still here, the town would never have suffered such a hellish fate...”
Hearing Mrs. Heath’s quiet sobbing, Jiang Lin, the very culprit who had killed her nephew, spoke with an unchanged expression,
“You can rest for a while. We will reach Gerson City in the morning.”
“I will take over in the second half of the night,” Martie said after thinking for a moment.
Jiang Lin did not refuse. He acknowledged her and continued driving the carriage.
With his Divine Sense stretched out ahead, night made no difference to him.
What surprised Jiang Lin most about this sudden beastman invasion was that they had actually managed to cross Dusk Forest.
That was the one thing no one had believed possible, including the people in the town. No one had expected those beastmen to make it through the dangerous Dusk Forest.
Jiang Lin felt that these beastmen were more like part of a carefully planned invasion.
The goblin group he had encountered around the Underground Palace earlier was very likely a vanguard force.
It was just that he had killed them all.
And the beastmen from just now were probably only an advance force as well, because before leaving the town, Jiang Lin had used his Divine Sense to sweep over another kind of beastman coming out of Dusk Forest.
Compared with those scrawny goblins and the mutated Ogre Goblins, those beastmen were much stronger and looked noticeably more intelligent.
Those were probably the real masterminds behind this invasion.
In the darkness, the Kerosene Lamp cast its glow.
Jiang Lin sat at the front of the carriage, surrounded on all sides by the silent black of night.
Out on the wilderness to both sides of the road, another glow of fire flickered faintly in the darkness.
Jiang Lin frowned slightly as he looked toward that distant blaze. It was another town within Gerson Territory.
Very soon, that distant firelight grew larger and larger, illuminating the surrounding haze.
Martie, Mrs. Heath, and even the servants following behind all noticed the blaze in the distance.
Mrs. Heath covered her mouth and cried out in alarm,
“Heavens, it is not only our town that has been invaded...”