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Chapter 60 The Scorched Earth

The burned charcoal splashed out several cold sparks and fell on the burning corpses under the broken walls. Although the whole night passed, the beams and wood that fell among the gravel rubble were still still burning. The only thing that still exists were several unfinished houses, standing in this ruins, and the broken wooden boards pierced the sky covered by smoke and dust, as if they were unyielding, their fangs were angrily exposed and their fangs roared at the injustice.

But no one could hear all this accusation.

When it was dawn, soldiers holding arms blocked all the ways out of the Lower City, and no one was allowed to enter or exit. But they really didn't have to do this, because when the massacre began at night, even if there was no curfew, all other residents in the entire Agrignon city closed the door and left no one out. This day may be the only time in the city that did not need to worry about theft and robbery. Even the hungry people who had marched and demonstrated in the early morning seemed much fresher in the morning, and the only regret was that some choking smoke still floated above their heads.

Romanus Ducas had no time to take care of this rare purity at this moment. He was anxiously ordering the Kuman mercenaries under his command to carefully search every corner of the entire slum. He did not hesitate to do such a thing in order to find the whereabouts of his mother and sister. Romanus knew that he had sacrificed his conscience to the devil, so he would use any means to achieve his goal!

But compared to killing and searching the ruins boringly, the Kumens couldn't help but find their interest. They thought there would be some good things in this business, but Romanus made them attack a slum, which disappointed them.

"What are you still rushing here?" Romanus, who was already irritated by the heat, smoke and noise, couldn't help but roar.

But the Kumans who did not take the young Greek nobles seriously replied with a smile: "Our respected master, when we pack up the spoils, we will naturally go to the person you want, and it will not delay your efforts."

While saying that, the Kuman took the plundered property into his pocket. The Kuman turned his back and said loudly in Kuman, "Let's come here to scrape the poor man's money and want to instruct us to do so much work, and this bastard doesn't look in the mirror?"

Looking at the other party's back as he left, the Kumans mocked him just now, the well-educated Romanus could naturally hear clearly. The young noble who had ever suffered such a humiliation was now broken. If he brought archers around him, he would definitely let these barbarians penetrate their hearts with arrows!

His hand had already landed on the hilt of the sword. Just as Romanus was about to draw his sword, the sudden shouts interrupted his anger that had been filled with his heart.

"Finished, found!"

Not far away, someone shouted that he had found it. He didn't care about his anger before, Romanus's eyes immediately changed. He looked at the Kumans escorting a mother and daughter slowly towards here. Seeing this scene, Romanus's heart was raised to his throat. Until now, even though he had done such a thing, Romanus still had not thought about how to face his mother. At this moment, the young nobleman wanted to see and not see each other. When he finally plucked up the courage to turn his gaze to the mother and daughter escorted by the Kumans. He looked closely, but was disappointed. In front of Romanus was not her mother Ajielina and her sister Irina, but just a pair of poor mother and daughter who had survived the disaster.

This made Romanus extremely angry. With the angry flames just now, the violent man drew his sword and stood up. He stabbed him hard without pity amid the screams of an innocent mother and daughter.

"Let's look for you again! If you can't find me, let the Genoese sell you to Egypt as slaves again!"

Stepping on the pool of blood? The roaring and manic Romans were brutal cold in their eyes? The Kuman mercenaries were not shy. Looking at the mother and daughter who died tragically, they had to move even the hardest-hearted person? The eyes of the Romanus Cumen also changed, most of them were fear, but more contempt. What kind of people could do such a thing? As a Greek, he could indulge foreign races to plunder their own tribes. He was cruel to the women and children who had no power to resist and kill them freely. Even the Kuman tribe who didn't care much about morality was disgusting with such behavior. Of course, they would not show it directly? The only thing they cared about was whether the Roman noble would fulfill his promise in the future. But now his behavior had to make many people question marks.

Under Romanus's half-threatening order, the Kuman mercenaries were preparing to search for the whereabouts of the mother and daughter they were looking for? At this time, the sound of a trumpet with a full style in the grassland in the distance suddenly rang out? It seemed that someone had discovered something again.

"I hope I won't make any mistakes this time!" The mercenary leader looked into the distance? He cursed and spitted on the ground.

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Among the ruins covered with broken walls? More and more Kuman mercenaries blocked the place. Under the carpet-style search, the secret passage of Dr. Dmitry's house, which was burned to white ground, was still discovered.

A couple fell in a pool of blood because of an order? So the Kuman put down the arrows in his hands and did not continue to shoot the mother and daughter in front of him.

Looking at the woman with disheveled hair standing there like dementia, did the Kumans unquestionably the other party was what they were looking for?

"Trag them up!"

Don't care about it? After all, they rely on them to receive the reward? The Kumans were about to step forward, but were suddenly shocked by the emotional outburst of the woman in front of them.

"Romanus!" she screamed? "Romanus, let him come and see me!"

Ajielina, with a disheveled face, hugged the child in her arms tightly? She shouted at the top of her lungs, "How could she look like the mistress of Agrignon in the past?" Looking at this scene, the Kumen, who looked at each other, didn't know what to do for a moment.

At this moment, a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar to Ajielina suddenly sounded, and the sound trembled with endless complexity and clarity. When it fell into the princess' ears, tears of regret had already filled her eyes.

"Mother!" When Romanus really saw his mother standing in front of him like this, he realized what a shameful feeling was. Even calling this title exhausted his last strength. At this moment, the relative murderer had countless words to say.

But Romanus's mother interrupted his son's words-

"Enough," said Ajielina, "Enough! The betrayal of the past is indeed betrayal, and that person finally achieved his goal! Don't call me mother again, I don't deserve this title. I'm not a good mother, let alone a good wife and a good woman. I shouldn't have lived in the world at the beginning, and I shouldn't have left you." She took it out from somewhere, and she pressed her dagger against her throat and looked at her son with a decisive expression.
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