The Boss King actually disguised himself as a novice village chief?!
Chapter 253 - 218: Granting You a Sea of Fire

Chapter 253: Chapter 218: Granting You a Sea of Fire

Arrows covered the sky.

Poisonous fog followed the waves of fire, forming a low-hanging cloud of poison overhead, enveloping the outpost above.

The dark, poisonous cloud completely obscured the light, pressing heavily upon their heads, making everyone feel dizzy.

When Lind returned to the Snake People Outpost, he saw soldiers struggling desperately.

The standing soldiers, with their damaged armor, had skin blackened and glowing with poison.

However, more of the fallen soldiers belonged to the Snake People Outpost.

"My lord!" Seeing Lind and the others return, Riff gathered new strength.

His body was pierced by arrows in multiple places, and it was only his willpower that kept him from falling.

Many present were in the same condition.

Lind released Lance and Serene, both of whom were also badly hurt, although not as close to death as Riff was; even magic would hardly heal their bodies easily.

He stepped forward to support Riff, noticing several holes in his body pierced by arrows.

"My lord, this is a misunderstanding—there was a conflict, and they foolishly thought we were using ourselves as bait here, then diverting troops to attack the Snake Catcher Fortress," Riff sneered at the stupidity of the Snake People Outpost. Who had ever seen anyone use their own lord as bait?

You would rather die than protect your insane lord, so how could we possibly hang the lord as bait on a hook?

Riff couldn’t explain clearly, his body repeatedly injured, and seeing his colleagues and friends wounded or dead, his heart was already surrounded by rage.

Nevertheless, all had to obey the lord’s command—the primary task was to ensure the lord’s safety and exit.

Blood dyed half of Lind’s face red, indistinguishable whether it was his own or the enemy’s; his expression remained calm.

His rugged features turned to another direction; the pursuers had already caught up, their demeanor wrathful and sorrowful.

In the eyes of the pursuers, Lind and his group were deceivers.

Whether the fall of the kingdom or the disappearance of human civilization, neither compared to their loyalty to Baron Ronan.

To them, Lind, who approached under the guise of "bait," was an unquestionable enemy.

Lind looked at the pursuers and whispered to Riff, "Attack the Snake Catcher Fortress? If I wanted to do that, I would have launched the attack before the Undead departed."

The Undead never face an unbeatable enemy; as long as he could draw your blood, death was the only path awaiting you.

Once a player, Lind was utterly convinced that being wounded meant you could be killed.

He chose not to take action, simply because he retained ample goodwill towards the Old Nobility.

As a new era dawned and the Old Nobility were abandoned, he hoped to unite all the forces he could. Every Noble who was deemed a villainous BOSS by the shadowy "The Officials" behind the scenes was a force he could vie for.

Little by little, fists full of sand can build a tower.

But seeing Riff nearly turned into a porcupine and the soldiers around him who might never stand again, Lind felt perhaps he had "recruited" too easily along the way, fostering the illusion that both sides had their uses.

Renzo voluntarily joined him after discovering he was Noble, Lance joined after recognizing him; Lind never encountered any obstacles when facing the Old Nobility.

It had been too smooth, leading him to mistakenly believe that "we villains" were all united.

It was like those novels where every figure from the hero’s righteous clan, from the master to the brothers, wished him dead, yet the villains always stood united from small to old.

As Old Nobility, Lind and his people were undoubtedly also "villains."

From every direction, soldiers of the Snake People Outpost nearly all gathered, bows in hand, arrows smeared with glowing poison mostly aimed at Lind.

If Lind and his group did not surrender, the only outcome would be annihilation.

Soldiers with puffed cheeks and necks continued to spew poisonous fog, striving to create a battlefield more conducive for the Snake Catcher’s approach.

The air smelled pungent, making it increasingly hard to breathe, and the visible range was shrinking.

"Almet," he looked at Flame Wing among the ten pursuers who had been responsible for communicating and was also the only one who could suppress madness with reason.

"There has been a misunderstanding between us."

Almet Flame Wing did not speak, but simply charged toward Lind.

"My lord!" Riff was anxious, as were Lance and Serene. The most important thing now was to ensure Lind’s safe departure.

After the recent confrontation, they clearly felt the horror of the battle, and it would be too dangerous for Lind to remain. It would be wiser to leave the battlefield and settle accounts later.

Nobody present believed that a war between Star Dragon City and Snake Catcher Fortress would be unwinnable.

The premise of everything was that Lind could not die.

As for themselves, of course, they were to use their battered bodies to obstruct the enemy.

Lind shook his head gently; he would not let the severely wounded soldiers cover his retreat, especially since his anger had already been ignited.

"Almet, there has been a misunderstanding between us, but resolving the misunderstanding comes second."

He was not a rigid person, and Lind lacked even the ceremonial sense of the nobility. Compared to the bigger picture of resolving the misunderstanding, all Lind could see now were his soldiers, severely wounded and falling.

There was a misunderstanding, but solving it would have to wait.

Someone should recognize the bigger picture, but that person definitely could not be Lind, who had never intended to sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Before that, someone had to pay the price for this baffling battle.

The mastermind behind all this had to pay, and so did the ten warriors!

Whatever the reason, the moment they shot arrows at him, they should have known what consequences to expect.

The arrows flew, arriving just moments before the warriors, their densely packed tips chilling to the bone. The wind tore through the poisonous cloud, like a sudden heavy downpour, focusing intently on Lind.

The arrows pinned to the ground and quickly closed in on Lind’s toes.

"My lord!" Riff tried to push Lind.

On the ground, on the city walls, on the rooftops... Snake People Outpost soldiers crowded the area. This was their most advantageous battlefield, a trap from which the only chance was to turn and flee.

The soldiers resisted, but still too many were hit by the arrows.

The ten warriors had already reached him.

Wrapping around Lind once again, they were confident.

"Roar!"

A heart-shaking dragon roar came from the sky.

The poisonous cloud enveloping the sky suddenly blazed red with searing heat, then was torn apart by a pair of huge wings, the dim view suddenly bright, almost blindingly so!

A two-legged flying dragon, its body covered in crimson scales, dove down, its bulky body crashing onto the canyon’s peak.

The ground shook, walls skewed and collapsed, and the downforce of the wings dispersed the poison mist and even the arrows flying through the sky.

Fire swellings on the flying dragon’s long neck burst open, flowing with Cursed Flames derived from the Magic Ring Shard.

The flames spread uncontrollably on the ground, burning everything in the vicinity.

The poison mist receded, leaving the flames to rapidly overtake the Snake People Outpost.

The air temperature rose as the dragon plummeted from the sky.

The soldiers at the Snake People Outpost looked in horror at the massive creature falling from the sky—a dragon from storybooks suddenly appearing before them.

The scene of their encounter differed from when they first heard tales about flying dragons, but similarly, the dragon fulfilled their inner fantasies.

It was large and terrifying.

Lind’s voice, filled with anger, rang out as he roared, "Alex, flames!"

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