33 Risen#re - Chapter 377

Lirian pulled Izlandi up into the air and rushed out of the Red Boar, it was already empty, so he didn’t have to worry about anyone seeing him.

He flew to the roof of the building and started to observe the city, surprisingly Stanley’s body was still pinned to the wall, but a banner was thrown over his body.

‘Huh, they were probably having a hard time trying to remove the bolts from the wall,’ Lirian chuckled internally.

That’s when the gates to the city started to grind open.

Up on top of the keep walls someone appeared, it was just a random member of house Kurt and he delivered just a few words, “Those who wish to leave the city are free to do so!” the man stated in a defeated tone and disappeared from the walls once more.

Lirian jumped across the roof tops of the city and made his way towards the wall, as he grew closer so did the sound of the chiming bells, that continued to play like the world was grieving.

Eventually Lirian landed on top of the gate in plain sight for everyone to see him.

Yet even as the soldiers looked at him with reddened eyes full of hate and anger, no one dared to move towards him.

“All of you, get of the wall,” Lirian said angering the soldiers even more.

The soldiers continued to glare at Lirian, but they refused to move.

“Oh, you want to be tough guys, huh?” Lirian questioned and brought out his spear, that he had taken as booty, and placed it against Izlandi’s throat.

Izlandi was hanging in the air above him, with her eyes red from crying, she made a pitiful sight for everyone to behold, and the blade against her throat made them all freeze.

The entire reason they were opening the gates was because she was being held as a captive, if she died than it was the end for House Kurt without a doubt, house Kant would take pleasure in using them to send a message.

If House Kurt claimed that Izlandi was dead, House Kant would merely say that Izlandi fled from the city with the aid of her family.

Even if House Kurt brought her body forward, House Kant would claim that it was a just some random half-elf being used as a body double.

Then they would use that as justification to completely destroy House Kurt.

The guards gradually started to retreat from the wall, in the attack the previous night, Lirian had taken down 16 of the 70 ballistae that lined the walls, he took out almost all of them from the western gate to the northern gate.

However, there were still a few that remained.

A while later there was movement from the city, the first few people reached the gates but they were hesitant to go any further, they kept glancing at the guards and back to the keep.

It wasn’t until a while later that House Marshall arrived, with Lady Liberia at the lead and sitting on a horse besides her was her daughter Althea Marshall.

The two nodded slightly at the sight of Lirian, in appreciation, and proceeded to move forward through the gates.

The outside of the city was no better that than the city itself, the sight was equally if not more appalling than the inside of the city.

There were thousands of dead bodies littering the area, what made it worse was that their were no walls or barriers to isolate the sight and smell, it was merely a mass grave yard and the earth was riddle with holes from the bolts that tore into it.

Once the main members of House Marshall left the gate they raised their banners and took of with haste, and as time passed nothing happened, they rode and soon exited the range of the weapons without being attacked.

Seeing that House Marshall made it out safely, people gradually started to stream out of the city, the houses closest to House Marshall also started to leave without looking back, and soon after that the less important noble houses started to pour out through the gates.

But it didn’t end there, the residents of House Kurt’s city no longer felt safe after the barbaric acts of their leaders, and so a new tide formed, a tide that outnumbered even the nobles.

People left by the thousands, and before long the outside had more people than there were inside the city, and still the flood of people showed no sign of coming to an end.

In the end even the soldiers started to rip of their blue uniforms that signified their allegiance to house Kurt and joined within the crowds as they saw their friends and family leaving as well.

What was the point of staying to fight if the people they were fighting for had left.

Then an even more surprising turn of events occurred as the entirety of the merchant guild, came out with all their wares packed on dozens of carts, the sheer number of carts being drawn was the proof of the wealth and power the merchant guild held.

With all that they brought it was a public statement of the merchant guild declaring that it would be completely withdrawing from house Kurt.

It was a strange occurrence, especially since, even if the city was seized and taken by another power, no one would dare to attack the merchant guild.

The new power would merely negotiate new terms with the guild and that was the end of it.

As Lirian watched he was surprised to find that there were two knights amongst the ranks of the guild members, hired guards most likely, and it was apparent that they had the power to contend against Rupid and Conner Kurt if the need ever arose.

As the guild moved through the gates, the two knights gave Lirian a deep glance before moving on and lastly Lirian could fell Moors looking at him, studying everything that there was to know about him.

‘He plans on selling information about me,’ Lirian realised, ‘I suppose that it’s only natural, he is a merchant after all.’

Lirian grinned at Moors, which caused Moors to frown, he knew it from that look he’d been found out, but it seemed that Lirian had no intention of making trouble for him.

Moors lowered his head and pulled the window on his carriage shut, yet even with his privacy he felt like he was completely seen through.

The flow of people didn’t stop for hours, it was merely an hour before the sun went down went the last people left.

In the end House Kurt was almost completely abandoned, only 7 minor noble house’s remained, 3 of which were apart of the 8 heads of the alliance, House Maxim, House Corius, House Vius.

But with that little bit, it wouldn’t make any difference at all, House Kurt was doomed.

The city was worse than Willcolly, when Lirian was done at Willcolly all the dead were converted into fate, but now the dead were littering every inch of the city.

And currently, there were more dead in the city than the living.