Chapter 19: The growing power and the upcoming protagonists

The bandit village chief's willpower is unexpectedly strong, or it may be that Blessing 2 doesn't work well on older people.

He held on for ten seconds before he pounced on the young villagers around him.

Then, when he was out of the protection of the surrounding villagers, he was knocked down by stones.

As they lost their command, the fighting spirit of the villagers in Takina Village gradually declined. After their last attempt to break through the Minotaur's defense failed, they began to retreat.

Rand looked at the retreating villagers and shouted, "No killing for surrender! Drop your weapons and lie on the ground!"

After hearing this, only a few villagers stopped running, dropped their weapons, and lay on the ground as Rand said.

Most of the villagers didn't hear what Rand said, or simply didn't believe Rand. They turned around and dropped their weapons and ran away, trying to escape from this village with monsters like the Minotaur.

Rand estimated and walked up to the elite tauren leader Shasa: "Take your people and chase them until they can't run anymore. Kill those who fall behind and leave twenty."

In fact, these villagers who can maintain their fighting power for a period of time in the face of monsters they have never seen before are very high-quality sources of soldiers.

But now, we can only choose the best of the best. Due to the tyranny and extortion by the occupying party, there is not much food left. Even if the hideout is disguised as hideout No. 2, it is still seriously damaged.

Therefore, only the villagers who can run the fastest and have the best physique can be retained and absorbed as high-quality population.

In fact, Rand himself couldn't believe that he had given such an order without any feeling.

Clearly, more than a month ago, he was just an ordinary agricultural university student chasing his escaped graduation project.

Now I can say it without any emotion, leaving behind twenty such words.

But he had to do this. If he didn't plunder food from other villages, the food stored in the hideout would definitely not be enough to support the wheat harvest.

Therefore, they had to reluctantly give up some of these high-quality soldiers.

The fighting power of a Minotaur is basically equivalent to that of two semi-experienced adventurers, but for these villagers who are so frightened that they even throw away their weapons in order to run faster, the fighting power of the Minotaur is equivalent to infinity.

After all, it is almost impossible for ordinary villagers to cause harm to a strong adult minotaur with their bare hands.

Rand stopped watching the minotaur chasing after him and directed the villagers in the den to clean up the battlefield. He also checked to see if any of the fallen villagers in Takina Village could be rescued, or were worth rescuing.

The elf soon returned, knelt on one knee, and held up the gorgeous red round jewel, which looked like a heart offering in the sunlight.

If Lisa wasn't having her illness, her appearance and temperament would be quite attractive. If a skilled artist had drawn the scene just now, it might have been priceless.

It's a pity that this elf never seems to be serious.

Rand looked at the trembling elf, took the red ball, and said helplessly: "You can scream if you want."

Seeing Rand's permission, the elf's fair face turned red and he said softly, "Woof woof!"

Then he closed his mouth again, as if he was savoring something.

Rand sighed, feeling it was too humiliating to let the elf follow him back to the sacrificial chamber. Her kneeling in the middle of the road was a devastating blow to Rand's reputation.

Although it is very likely that Rand has no reputation at all now.

He skillfully offered the red beads to the Mother Goddess, then he walked up to the altar, offered himself as well, and asked the Mother Goddess what reward she would give him.

A moment later, Rand returned to the sacrifice room from the Mother Goddess's kingdom.

There is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that this series of tasks is not over yet. We need to find the cult hideout of this God of Struggle and destroy it.

It is estimated that the end of this series of quests is to completely eliminate the faith in the God of Struggle.

I don’t know if I’ll have the chance to complete it in my lifetime.

The good news is that the great, kind, merciful, magnanimous and generous Goddess of Abundance is finally not so stingy this time.

Rand

Gender: Male Ability: Sacrifice Immunity

Blessing 1: Black Goat Mother's Desire (reached limit) Blessing 2: Desire Sharing (single)

Will: N】(expandable)

Finally, there is no more "temporary" after Blessing 2, which is really great news.

After leaving the sacrificial room, the battlefield outside had been almost cleaned up.

Surprisingly, the chief of Takina Village was still alive. He was just knocked unconscious but not dead. And because he was knocked unconscious, he was very lucky not to be affected much by Blessing 2.

Looking at the awakened head of Takina Village, Rand asked, "What's your name?"

"Taran." The old bandit village chief replied weakly.

Although Taran was well aware of the fact that this cruel world was ruled by the survival of the fittest when he was young, he felt disheartened when he thought that his village of about thirty households might not even have thirty people left.

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He struggled to sit up, ignoring the blood gushing from his head, and wanted to kneel down and beg, "We surrender, we surrender, they are all good guys, please spare them, if you have any resentment, vent it all on me, it's all my fault."

There was no point in taking all the blame at this time. Seeing the silver-haired old villager kneeling down with his head resting on his boots, Rand's heart naturally wavered, but his determination would not change: "I will leave about 20 people behind."

Taran, with blood still flowing from his head, looked up and asked pleadingly, "Then, will you let those old and young go?"

"Will it help if I let them go?" Rand replied in a flat voice.

The hideout was not completely unscathed in this battle, after all, the attacking forces from the village of Takina were fully armed.

Under the attack of iron weapons and bows and arrows, there are still some places that the Minotaur front-row shieldmen cannot protect.

Two former members of the bandit gang unfortunately left this world and returned to the arms of the Mother Goddess, including the bandit leader who had sores on his face.

Oh, we should wish their souls not to go to the Mother Goddess's kingdom after death. Rand estimated that normal souls would not be able to endure such a scene.

"But, but." Taran lowered his head again, and then continued to rest his head against Rand's boots.

In fact, although he said this before, Rand had no intention of killing them all, and said, "Young children, I will stay."

Rand was not worried that the children he had spared and the villagers he had allowed the tauren to capture would retaliate.

This world is a place where the strong prey on the weak. For people at the bottom of society, as long as they can survive, there is no dignity or hatred.

Moreover, this is a cult den. Although Rand did not preach deliberately, the bandit leaders still chose the Mother Goddess as their belief under the influence of the original cult members.

However, the doctrine given to them was not the one that Paladin Taner recited, but one that Rand wrote temporarily. He only wrote a few words, under the pretext that: You are not qualified to understand deeper doctrines now.

Taran heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the news. This was already the best outcome. After all, there were only so many resources. If Lord Rand agreed to everything, he would fall into despair.

Then he closed his eyes: "Come on."

"?" Rand was puzzled. It's not that you, an old man, are not going to learn from Lisa, right?

After a while, Taran opened his eyes in confusion and asked, "You won't kill me?"

It stands to reason that after such a life-and-death fight, the enemy leader will definitely not let go.

Rand smiled, and suddenly had a sense of evil humor: "Guess?"

(End of this chapter)