Chapter 18: Hit high and hit low, hit XX

It was a pity that there were no newspapers in such rural towns, or Rand would have filled a tabloid newspaper with all the stories the tax collector and his bull had to tell.

Then it was printed in large quantities.

Now, probably only the tax collector's maid and the Baron here would know about his perverted stories with the bull, such as having close contact with the bull until his thing bled.

At this time, Serai and Ses were following behind Rand, whispering to each other.

"Can that tax collector be cured later? Is it possible that the Lord of God is too merciful?" Seth asked with some concern.

Serai obviously had better eyesight and more social experience. He recalled the scene he had seen before and got goose bumps on his head. He could not feel the mercy of the Lord Messenger of God at all: "It should be, it should be impossible to cure it. It may not even survive. And there is probably no hope for it in this life."

Then his face turned serious and he scolded in a low voice: "How can you question the will of the God's Messenger? The God's Messenger must have some hidden meaning in doing this!"

Seth immediately nodded in understanding and continued to follow Rand, thinking about his experiences during this period. Although there were still many things he didn't understand, it must be the supreme wisdom of the messenger of God that made it impossible for him to understand everything.

Back at the hideout, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner as usual, such as the strong cows with bull heads sweating in the fields, and the kind villagers taking care of the livestock.

Lisa was lying on the roof of the sacrifice room with her arms folded across her chest and her legs crossed, her feet dangling back and forth, attracting a lot of attention, but unfortunately no one dared to look.

Except Rand.

When Rand came back, he called Lysa down and wanted to ask her if anything had happened during this period.

But rarely, Lysa did not respond to Rand immediately, but instead turned her gaze to the west.

He stared at them with golden eyes as bright as the sun for a long time before coming to his senses. He landed on the ground, lowered his head and said, "A group of humans with weapons are coming this way."

Rand turned around to look at the villagers who were working and ordered: "Enemy attack! Prepare for battle!"

Then he shouted again: "Formation, have you forgotten the formation I gave you?"

Soon, the cultists and minotaurs formed a basic formation.

The simplest square array.

The minotaurs were in the front holding large wooden shields, a few cultists in the middle were holding hastily made spears, and the last row, at a distance, were slingers.

After forming the formation, they stood in front of the entrance of the hideout, facing the direction of the road, ready to fight.

The den is located in a typical mountainous terrain, and the only way leading to the den is from the bottom to the top. If a checkpoint is set up at the entrance of the village, it will inevitably cost a huge price to attack the den from above.

Rand did not set up a checkpoint because he believed that the Tauren vanguard was much more useful than ordinary roadblocks. Although he did not have enough resources to equip them with armor, the riveted large shields could block most attacks.

In addition to the Tauren's strong physique, it can only be said that they are against ordinary villagers and there is no way they can lose.

When the gang from the neighboring village approached, Rand frowned and realized that things were not that simple.

Why do ordinary villages have standard weapons? Why are there so many iron weapons? On the contrary, here in the den, there are only wooden and stone weapons, and the only iron is used to make farm tools.

Although the hideout was fully armed, it clearly looked like it was from the Stone Age.

"Why is the style different? I'm not included in the version upgrade, right?" Rand shouted at the top of his lungs in his heart.

Fortunately, we did not underestimate the enemy, and because our eyes were very sharp, we discovered the enemy in advance, so our chances of winning were still quite high.

The bandit chief of Takina Village also frowned. Why are there minotaurs in this village?

Aren't these kinds of monsters only encountered in the Underdark? Even if some minotaurs accidentally came to the surface through some temporary portal, there wouldn't be such an exaggerated number of them appearing at the same time, right?

After counting carefully, I found there were eight of them.

But it was too late to turn around and run away. The bandit village chief looked at the villagers who were already in a state of panic. As people from the north, these people were brave enough, but they were still a little afraid when facing an unknown monster.

Although they had better weapons, it was unwise to attack directly from above. They could only try their eloquence to see if it would work. The bandit village chief said, "How about we cooperate?"

Rand stood behind the shield and asked, "Are you planning to attack the Baron's castle with us? Or do you have enough food hidden away for us to eat besides these weapons?"

"And..." Just as the village chief was about to continue speaking, Rand waved his hand.

The slingers in the back row immediately threw the stones they had prepared, and they fell like hail into the crowd of villagers in Takina village below.

Immediately, several people fell down with screams. It was obvious that these people were also unarmored units and had no ability to resist the stones.

Without Rand's orders, the slingers readied themselves again for a second attack.

At this time, the bandit village chief had nothing to say and rushed up with his men.

The minotaurs in the front row blocked the only intersection like an iron tower.

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When these people rushed up, they stomped hard, just like the effect of trampling in war in the game, shaking the people who rushed up down.

It was this kind of vibration that made it impossible to distinguish between friend and foe. Just when several units in the back row were about to fall, Rand decisively stopped the Tauren's front row from marching.

These villagers were quite brave. They did not retreat after the first wave of attacks. Instead, they charged forward again under the command of the bandit village chief.

It's a pity that Blessing 2 is a single-target skill, otherwise Rand would have let the Tauren block here and cast a group Blessing 2, and then he could just watch the people below play Silver Party until they died.

Another wave of stones came, but unfortunately, since the slingers were not fully trained and had insufficient hit rate, the power of the stones was also average.

But every time a stone is thrown, it can knock down a few people, and when these people can't rush up, it is an infinite advantage.

At this time, the bandit village chief looked at the villagers under his command and knew that if he delayed any further, these villagers whom he had watched grow up would be wiped out.

Rand took out a red round bead from his pocket with trembling hands, and the pagan perception given by the Mother Goddess suddenly increased.

Activated Blessing 2 without hesitation.

The bandit village chief was quite knowledgeable when he was young, so after defeating the red-robed cultist who had turned into a monster, he dug the bead out of his heart.

As long as he eats it, he can turn into a monster like that in a short period of time.

Even though they will die later, it is better than all the children in the village dying in battle here.

But just as he was about to eat it, a violent surge of thirst flashed through his body.

The red round bead emitting red light in his hand also fell to the ground and rolled down.

Rand patted the butt of the white-haired elf who was watching the show beside him and asked her to pick up the red beads.

The elf's body trembled, realizing that she was now being treated as a hound. A slight blush flashed across her pretty face, and then she jumped up, passed through the theoretically inaccessible place next to the cliff, and rushed towards the red bead that was rolling down.

(End of this chapter)