The southern border of Gabriel Empire, Nolan City, the former capital of Norlander Duchy. As the former largest city in the southern border region of Gabriel Empire and now the second largest city, it was far more prosperous than the newly established Sarni City.
Despite being baptized by the war after the invasion of the Beastman Army, Nolan City hadn’t sustained much damage and most buildings were still intact. Presumably it had fallen too fast; the original defending soldiers were defeated by the Beastman Army before they could take the battle to the streets.
This famous border city, which originally had a population of more than a hundred thousand, was now controlled by the Third Army of the Beastman Race. This Beastman invasion army, dominated by wolfmen, was the main force that had attacked Sarnia Duchy over the past few days. They had originally had more than two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers.
In the war against Sarnia Duchy, the Beastman Army lost nearly fifty thousand troops and still failed. More than thirty thousand of them died in the demon ambush at the rear of Sarnia Duchy and nearly twenty thousand died near the moat in front of the city walls.
At present, the Third Beastman Army had only fifty thousand troops in Nolan City, while the remaining hundred and fifty thousand troops had surrounded Sarni City. Bella and the others had dressed themselves in Black Robed Wizard clothing, pretending to be Black Robed Wizards in order to infiltrate the scene.
The many Wolf Knight teams patrolling the streets of Nolan City and the heavy-armored Werebear Infantry, who had set up checkpoints on various major street intersections, made it hard to infiltrate the city. A large number of sentry posts were guarded by Dark Human wizards and countless three meter tall crosses had been erected in conspicuous positions beside these posts.
Hanging on these crosses were human corpses still dressed in assassin night garments. Depending on the situation, there weren’t many assassins who wanted infiltrate this place. On the contrary, every time the Beastmen fought an invasive war, the Mercenary Union and the Assassins’ Union would issue high reward missions to assassinate the senior ranking officers of the Beastman Army, employing assassins and hitmen to observe them.
This assassination mission must’ve failed. Previous assassination missions had high success rates because the Beastman Army had no means of detecting assassins who were sneaking around. This time, the Dark Human wizards had joined them. These unsuspecting assassins were shadowed and killed near the sentry posts before their infiltration was successful.
Noreya silently looked at her failed “peers”, clenching her fists hard, trying to suppress the negative emotions in her heart. Bella was thankful for her own foresight which had stopped her from sending Noreya, President Ivy, and Lola, these beautiful young assassins, to carry out an assassination mission. Otherwise, it would’ve been equivalent to sending them to their deaths.
The Beastman guards on the streets didn’t dare interrogate Bella and her companions, who were dressed in Black Robed Wizard clothing. Dark Humans seemed to have a great say in the Beastman Army. Although the two were allies, the Dark Humans should have a higher status.
The Black Robed Wizards originally stationed in various positions seemed to have received an urgent transfer command and had left their posts, heading towards the burial grounds outside Nolan City. There, the Dead Army of more than tens of thousands, which Bella had awakened, was revolting.
The Beastman Army stationed in Nolan City had about fifty thousand soldiers and it was really difficult for them to deal with the attack of tens of thousands of the dead. In order to stabilize the situation in Nolan City, the Black Robed Wizards were going to quash these corpses back to the graveyard.
For Bella, the retreat of the Black Robed Wizards meant that each of the sentry posts was basically unguarded. The heavy-armored Werebears on duty didn’t dare question their purpose. Without the presence of other Black Robed Wizards, the Beastman guards were afraid to question them.
“Why are you lot still strolling out here? There’s a big incident at the test site outside the city. Quickly, go support them. If you’re late, Master Kenneth might punish you severely.”
At the last checkpoint to enter the central area of Nolan City, Bella and her companions were blocked by several Black Robed Witches. The language of Dark Humans was quite similar to the human language here, but there were many additional demon words in the middle. Bella and the others understood everything.
Out of the concern that the more they said, the more likely they were to fail, Bella nodded to indicate that she knew and didn’t reply. They were afraid of revealing themselves and silence was the best disguise. Nolan City was shrouded by the veil of eternal night. There wasn’t much lighting outside Nolan City. Under such blurry conditions, the Black Robed Witches on the opposite side couldn’t tell that these few “companions” were imposters. They only saw Bella and the others nod.
“That’s right, Master Kenneth told us to go over and help… What… what are you doing? Someone… “
In a dark corner of the city gates, Bella grabbed a Black Robed Witch from behind and put her hand over her mouth to pull her into the dark. Before the other Black Robed Witches could respond, they had fallen to the ground after being tied up by Elaine’s puppet strings. Noreya drew out her sword and with a flash, she slashed off all the defensive magic artifacts on the Black Robed Witches.
“Aren’t you both a little too skilled? No matter how I look at it, you girls seem to have a rap sheet…”
“Bella, how can you say that. Didn’t you hint with your eyes?”
“Bella, I’m acting according to your practices. Do you want me to behead them all?”
Although Noreya and Elaine had repeatedly denied this, Bella was somewhat embarrassed by their subsequent coordination. Their technique was more experienced than Bella’s. She would’ve doubted them if they said that they had never done anything like this before.
Bella’s ambush was a success. No Beastman guard found anything unusual here. Over the past few days, they had thwarted many attempts to infiltrate the city by human assassins with the help of Dark Humans. The great success convinced them of the Black Robed Wizards’ witchcraft. With this, they relaxed their vigilance a little.
With the help of Noreya and Elaine, Bella stripped the Black Robed Witches of their clothing. The wizard garments they had on were specifically made for men, so they weren’t used to wearing them. Now that they had new clothes, they couldn’t wait to change into them.
Aside from suitable underwear, the witches almost had everything. Bella and her companions couldn’t be bothered about these things. They simply put on garments that fit them.
These Black Robed Witches looked cold and elegant with jet-black hair that trailed over their shoulders. With just a glance, it was obvious they had been selected with utmost care. This was the first time Bella had seen a Dark Human girl. Besides their abnormally pale skin, they weren’t much different from human girls. Their pupils were purely black, which greatly differed from the vacant eyes that real zombies had.
Bella couldn’t feel their heartbeat. Members of the Dark Human race all had the gift of immortality. The only strange thing was that these witches were still undefiled and hadn’t been “used.”
“Bella, your hands are being naughty again. Really, what’s there to touch? You might as well touch…”
“Bella, there are too many Beastman soldiers here. I think it’s better I kill them.”
Seeing that Bella was up to her bad habits again, Elaine and Noreya were a little jealous. Noreya had already pulled her dagger out, ready to slice these enemy witches at any moment.
“Don’t be impulsive, Noreya. I know you’re a good girl. Why don’t we go back to my room and chat alone?”
“I’m not going to your bedroom! Who knows if there are any strange traps in there.”
At Bella’s dissuasion, Noreya and Elaine didn’t kill these “survivors.” Bella looked around, intending to take these cold, elegant witches back for interrogation.
Just as Bella was hesitating on how to transport the captives back, a strange special carriage of the Human Race approached from outside. When Bella saw this, she quickly hinted with her eyes for Noreya and Elaine to act with her.
The witches had been knocked unconscious for a short time and soon regained consciousness. When they woke up, they were horrified to find that their clothes had been stripped, their entire body was tied up by puppet strings in a strange manner, and they were placed in a carriage.
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