Chapter 288 - 248 Cleanse the Sins
An unprecedented uprising erupted.
The True Believers of the New Rule Garden spread the word; they constituted one-tenth of all Stone Slaves, and thereby unleashed an astonishing force. The cries of the revolt spread from one to ten, ten to a hundred, hundred to a thousand... In an instant, all the Stone Slaves of the Royal City burst forth with long-suppressed rage!
The Stone Slaves picked up wooden poles, nail rakes, shovels...they grabbed anything that could be used as a weapon. Under the leadership of the New Rule Garden, the slaves, the freemen, and the Noble True Believers who could no longer endure Antion’s rule, surged like a cataclysmic flood toward the high and mighty.
King Antion had executed the Stone Slaves so abruptly; just as abruptly did the city rise in revolt.
This long-simmering uprising caught every Noble Minister off guard.
The Guards defending the Royal City were the first to be struck; the Stone Slaves stripped them of their armor, seized their swords, and the unprepared Guards were utterly routed, some killed, others wounded.
Led by Xilan, they stormed the Kingdom’s armory.
It was Casas who had shown them where it was.
Xilan, holding a sword and being an Elf, easily decapitated two guards. His bravery inspired the surging crowd of rebels who, with their numerical advantage, effortlessly overwhelmed the guards of the armory.
They seized swords and armor by the armory, donned them, and thousands were armed.
Xilan had no idea how many had joined the uprising; heads crowded as far as the eye could see, perhaps tens or even hundreds of thousands?