302: Chapter 150: The Truce Between the Wolf and the Flower 302: Chapter 150: The Truce Between the Wolf and the Flower The serpent creature, whose head had been blown apart, seemed to lose its vitality in an instant.
It was dragged down to the ground by heavy chains, raising a cloud of dust with a loud rumble.
The rampaging snake heads and tendrils, like snow under the sun, ceased their movements and disintegrated into wriggling flesh and blood, slowly dissipating along with the scattered segments of snake corpses on the ground.
Before the crowd could approach the serpent corpse transformed by Met, its massive body’s skin and muscles, reminiscent of their original growth, bizarrely intertwined with each other, rapidly degenerating.
The volume of the snake’s corpse kept shrinking, causing the pit it had emerged from to lose support due to the shrinking of the snake’s body hidden underground, and it suddenly collapsed.
By the time Leon and the others, following the retreating flesh, reached the edge of the pit, the once huge body of the snake had already disappeared from their sight.
The soldiers surrounding the pit could see neither the creature nor Met’s body.
Canis furrowed his brows, determined to see the body alive or dead, never resting until he saw his enemy dead.
As a spiritual body fearing neither death nor the powerful wizard’s possible tricks, the Wolf Family Young Master was the first to leap into the pit, grabbing his long sword and starting to dig through the chaotic soil and rubble.
With someone leading the way, more brave men jumped down to dig and search.
The Wolf Family’s knights brought shovels from behind and jumped down to help the Young Master.
A group of knights and soldiers turned into real diggers, beginning to search for the wizard’s body.
Leon stood on the edge of the pit, not joining the others.
He tilted his head, looking toward where the snake head, previously split by a spell from Hilgard, had fallen.
The monster’s head, previously as large as a truck’s front, had now turned into a limp, thin snake head lying on the ground.
Leon had a gut feeling of being deceived.
A knight seemed to have dug up something.
He bent down, grabbed the headless snake body buried under the mud and stones, and yanked its long body fiercely out from the earth.
“That huge snake from before was transformed from this, right?
But where is the wizard?”
On hearing the noise, Canis hurried over to the knight, grabbed the headless snake corpse, and started examining it.
The snake corpse looked almost like a smaller version of the snake monster, and upon closer inspection, one could see…
its cloacal opening under the belly was unnaturally distended.
Remembering the opponent’s move into the snake’s belly during their battle, Canis realized what had happened, and, furious, threw down his shovel.
“That cunning wizard hid inside a snake skin?…
Damn, what a disgrace!” Canis cursed, frustrated that his revenge was still unachieved.
The brief commotion within the Deer Family’s camp gradually subsided.
General Trosa’s soldiers soon also discovered traces beneath the pit suggesting the extension of a tunnel.
However, with the support of the large snake body gone, the interior had already collapsed, and tracking was impossible.
Clearly, Met’s magic had tricked everyone.
It seemed the wizard had never expected the creature he summoned to break through so many knights, so the half-man, half-snake magical beast was just a distraction from the start, meant to divert attention and cover his escape…
Outside the fields of Wacht Castle.
Sensing the unexpected disturbance at Trosa Camp from afar, the Wolf and Thorny Flower families’ troops dispatched cavalry quickly to check on their lords’ safety.
Gunnar and Eriv hurriedly calmed their overly anxious armies to prevent accidental discharge of weapons, which could lead to an unnecessary battle between the two families due to a misunderstanding.
The noble lords moved to another location, simply had soldiers bring chairs, and the knights cleared an open space to discuss the matters that had been interrupted outdoors, continuing the meeting.
As expected, Hilgard was temporarily detained by General Trosa, and the Warlock Master, to clear himself of suspicions linked to the Society, did not resist.
He and the Warlock Society were to face inquiry and investigation from the Capital.
At this moment, aside from the Wolf Family Young Master, Canis, most nobles were more concerned about whether the unexpectedly escaped Met would spread information about the Nightmare Forest.
However, considering that Farolis had already stealthily occupied Glade County, this news could not be kept secret for much longer anyway, and the lords understood the need for swift action.
With larger territorial interests in view, although the Kosos County Royalist nobles were displeased with the Thorny Flower Family’s monopolistic actions, they had no interest in wasting time asking for accountability.
Baron Gunnar was no exception; his Wolf Territory, closely bordering the Nightmare Forest, had not yet disbanded its troops and could send forces at any time, making the feud with the Thorny Flower Family insignificant compared to the opportunity to move southward and seize land.
After the brief emergency military council, the nobles dispersed, except for the commanders of the Lu Family who still accompanied General Trosa, while other lords promptly started their journey back to their camps in Mamor County according to the plans discussed in this military council, dispatching the yet-to-be-disbanded armies of each family.
Trosa personally escorted Eriv out of the military lines, promising him, “I will put in a good word for you in the application submitted to His Majesty.
I do not want to blame you for your past lies, but the Farolis Family must ensure control over Glade County.
You are still the vanguard this time, be ready to welcome the kingdom’s main force from the south, if the situation is true, the first reinforcement will arrive within half a month.”
“Thank you, General.” Eriv thanked with a pounding on his chest.
Trosa nodded, then turned his head to look at Leon standing behind Baron Thorny Flower.