Chapter 75: Phantom Thief Dauphin (19). What the Thief Unleashed
“The knights have lost it! They’re trying to kill us all!!”
“Aylin! Max! Where are you?! Answer me!!”
“R-Run! If you stay here, you’re dead!!”
Following the public declaration broadcast across all of Lebruk, the terrified citizens of the slums began to flee in a panic.
They tried desperately to escape their districts, to run somewhere—anywhere—beyond the knight order’s wrath.
But those who reached the edges of the slums first quickly found themselves confronted with something unexpected.
“...The roads are blocked?”
Scrap piles. Collapsed building debris. Even wagons.
All kinds of obstacles had been placed to prevent anyone from escaping the slums.
Maybe a few people could climb over them and get out, but it was utterly impossible for the entire slum population to escape through them.
At the major exits, fully armed knights, squires, and support troops of the Sarnos Order had already formed tight formations. Their eyes shone with a strange excitement and fanaticism.
“Advance.”