Chapter 114 Painted Skin
The lord walked straight to the campfire and asked the knight directly.
The skinny knight was whispering with the woman with a flushed face. He was very impatient after being interrupted: "Go away! Don't bother me!"
But the woman looked at Leon and Klose behind him, then pointed a finger at the knight's lips to stop him from speaking, then stood up and looked at Leon: "Hello, sir... Are you also here to seek guidance and blessings? But where is your guide?"
The Guide...
Maybe it refers to women like her?
Every knight seems to have such a woman beside him...
Le Ang reacted quickly, but did not answer. Instead, he pointed to the camp of the Prophet's Legion, intending to see how the woman would react.
But unexpectedly, this casual gesture made the woman laugh immediately: "It seems that you are about to receive guidance from the prophet, so please come and sit down. This place is indeed closer to the prophet, my dear friend."
Those flaming red lips paired with the snow-white chin made her smile very seductive. Le Ang even wanted to lift up her helmet to see what she looked like.
Perhaps she thought her gesture meant that her 'guide' had gone to find the prophet?
The Lord is actually using sorcerer's art on this sorcerer.
This casual pointing can represent a lot of meanings and allow the other party to reveal information themselves - just like those fortune tellers who always like to point upwards or look underground without saying anything.
Le Ang felt that he was lucky. He didn't say much to avoid being exposed. He started to set up the tent next to the knights' camp.
But the skinny knight seemed quite unhappy : "My dear, you are my lucky charm, you shouldn't leave me!"
The woman smiled again, turned around and sat next to the knight: "Of course, Morgan, your wish will come true..."
But the knight named Morgan shook his head with an intoxicated look in his eyes: "My wish now is you... As long as I am by your side, I will do anything..."
hiss……
The lord shuddered. This kind of dog-licking is really disgusting.
Leon began to understand why these knights wanted to join the Prophet's army...
But, 'Lucky Guide'?
That woman should be the 'doom bringer', right?
Well, maybe in the eyes of a knight like Morgan, what she brought was indeed some kind of luck.
However, the price that comes with luck is probably hard to bear.
Two marching tents were quickly set up, and the lord hid inside and peeked out through the gap in the tent.
The night slowly fell, and soon the surroundings became extremely quiet. The nearby fires were completely extinguished, and only many braziers were still burning in the prophet's camp.
During wars, the braziers in the main camp were usually not extinguished at night. This was to avoid sneak attacks and to prevent spies from spying.
In an environment with light nearly a hundred meters away, the place where Li Ang was located seemed even darker.
After looking around, the lord climbed up a tall tree in the grove outside the tent in the dark and stood on a branch.
This position does allow you to see most of the environment in the Prophet's Camp.
But after just one look, Li Ang was so scared that he almost fell off the tree. He hurriedly hugged the tree trunk and managed to keep his balance without making any sound.
He saw a night patrol team in the camp, a team wearing heavy armor.
That’s about ten... people?
Or something else, Leon wasn't sure if it was a human...
Because those 'people' have no skin.
Yes, Li Ang can be sure that there is no skin!
They... or they, were supposed to be female, as can be seen from their body shape and armor.
They were wearing heavy blue-gray plate armor that was obviously made for women, with two spaces specially reserved for women on the chest.
But they were not wearing helmets.
Tight plate armor covered their entire bodies, but their heads were all reddish-brown flesh, without a trace of skin, scalp, or hair.
It looked like someone had peeled off its skin, with its teeth and eyeballs all exposed, looking extremely terrifying.
This terrifying team seemed to be about to change guard. They completed the handover with a group of "people" wrapped in black burqas and then entered a barracks.
Then, the team of guys in black robes took off the black robes covering their bodies, and what they revealed was exactly the same as the previous team - full body armor, with no skin on their entire heads.
But the strange thing is that when Leon saw them handing over, they seemed to be talking to each other - if they were not human, but monsters like the living dead, then why could they still talk to each other?
Are they still alive?
hiss……
That's even more terrifying!
The lord's heart was beating like a drum. He didn't expect these heretics to be so weird.
There were many gorgeous tents in the camp, and some female soldiers seemed to be carrying food and fodder.
Le Ang calmed down and looked carefully. It seemed that several knights with their followers handed some large bags to the female soldiers, and there were several doom bringers standing next to them.
These could be a few newly arrived knights, are they paying 'tribute'?
At this moment, outside the curtain, a small team of female soldiers patrolled with torches.
Fortunately, he was able to discover it early from his high vantage point and quickly got down from the tree. It would have been too conspicuous if he had stood on the branch. He would have been seen by the slightest light, so he had better hide behind the tree first.
This group of female soldiers were obviously normal people. There were about ten of them, carrying bows, spears and axes, and marching along the outside of the curtain with torches. They looked like sentries outside the camp.
It seemed that they were well aware that there was a possibility of being spied on near this grove, and they seemed to be patrolling directly towards the lord's location.
The lord did not want to be discovered by them and planned to return to the tent before they came over, but he did not expect that at this moment, a man came out of the tent of the thin knight.
It was hard to see clearly in the darkness. I only saw a dark shadow coming out and going straight to Leon's tent. The lord had to sneak behind some big trees again.
Klose and Sammer were squatting at the door of the tent to keep watch. They also noticed someone coming and seemed to be planning to block them at the door of the tent - but they probably didn't see the team of female soldiers patrolling behind the tent.
But given their size, they would be discovered if they made the slightest noise, so the lord stretched out his hand behind the tree, signaling them not to move.
Klose probably saw Leon's actions and dragged Sammer into the tent.
When the black shadow came near Leon's tent, because she was closer, the lord could see her appearance clearly in the faint moonlight.
This is the doom-bringer that was beside the thin knight before.
She observed around the lord's tent and didn't seem to notice anything. Then she took out a shiny object from her water bag and quietly shook it outside the tent a few times.
This thing looks very familiar to you, Lord. It is the Snake Heart Stone.
But Leon did not make any move. Something like the Snake Heart Stone would not have any effect on the defensive people of Mettenheim.
The Doombringer was obviously quite confident in the Snake Heart Stone. After putting the Snake Heart Stone back into the water bag, she simply lifted the curtain of the tent and swaggered into Le Ang's tent, taking out a fluorescent object in her hand.
Klose and Sammer are in the tent...
Seeing that the team of female soldiers were still slow to arrive, the lord quickly rushed into the tent.
Klose and Sammer had obviously been on guard before, and the unfortunate doom-bringer had been caught by them in the tent.
In order to avoid making any noise, these two guys used a rather brutal method to catch people.
The woman's current state is sitting on the ground at a right angle.
Klose had one hand around the Doombringer's neck, pinching one of her arms, covering her mouth with the other hand, and his legs around her waist.
Summer pressed on the woman's legs and grabbed her other hand.
Looking at the woman, she couldn't make any sound and was completely unable to move, her eyes rolled back, and she looked like she was about to faint - being strangled by the neck from behind by a strong man like Klose was no joke.
The two Mettenheimers are now very alert. When they are on guard, any drug probably won't work on them - Artemisia annua has almost become their daily snack.
But this thing is numb, astringent and bitter. Ordinary people will cough if they touch it. I don’t know how these foodies got used to eating it. They can eat it without making any sound.
Half-squatting in the tent, they still quietly dealt with the defenseless doom-bringer. Apparently, these two muscular men were starting to use their brains, probably because they had learned some cultural lessons.
The lord gave his men a thumbs up and immediately picked up the fluorescent gadget - it was a night-shining pearl the size of a pigeon egg. This woman seemed to be quite rich.
Li Ang directly covered the night pearl into the package that originally contained the tent, then helped Klose to twist the woman's hands behind her back, and then observed the movements outside.
With the help of the lord, Klose loosened his arms to avoid strangling the man and being unable to interrogate him.
No one made any unusual noises and they cooperated very well.
A few minutes later, the patrolling female soldiers slowly walked away, and the lord then took out the night pearl and lit it up again.
The two Mettenheimers were still in their restrained positions, but the woman had already fainted.
Klose finally heaved a sigh of relief and let go of her hand. He found a tent rope and tied her up with great skill. Recently, whether he was following the Lord or Amy, he seemed to be doing kidnapping or something like that...
"Sir, this woman is very strong. I have to use both of my hands to control one of her hands..."
Summer looked at his own thick arms, then at the woman's fair arms, and perhaps he began to doubt his life.
"Take her helmet off and have a look. These women look very wrong."
The lord remembered the skinless priestesses he had just seen.
Summer took off the half-helmet of the woman, and the lord used the night pearl to shine on the woman's head over and over for a long time.
This woman's face is so smooth and her skin is so amazingly good, she really looks beautiful.
"My Lord, what are you looking for? Don't wake her up..."
Klose saw Leon pulling the Doombringer's head back and forth to check it out, and was a little worried that it would cause the woman to wake up.
"How could two hundred beautiful women over 1.8 meters tall possibly..."
Li Ang muttered, his hands still moving, until he pinched the woman's face hard...
The skin on the woman's face was pulled long, and the woman opened her eyes as a result of this action.
Klose quickly covered her mouth again.
Leon also let go of his hand because of Klose's action.
The woman's eyes instantly became extremely frightened because the lord took out a knife and pointed it at her eyes.
"Don't scream, or you'll die soon..."
Leon threatened, but then he thought that this threat was probably meaningless to this woman - whether based on the experiences of Amy and Klose, or referring to the skinless woman he had just seen in the camp, or according to the Owl Knight Ors, these women were probably not afraid of death.
Even if they were afraid of death, the lord felt that his threat would not work - asking women not to scream? They couldn't control themselves...
So the lord simply grabbed her neck and hit her hard on the back of the head.
The effect was very bad - the woman had almost no reaction, but there was anger in her eyes.
Considering her extraordinary strength, Leon felt that either some kind of drug had stimulated the potential of the human body, or their dark goddess could indeed grant them some power, so conventional methods could not control her.
There was no other choice. Li Ang simply strangled her to death, not even considering whether this would kill her.
The woman's eyes rolled back and she fainted again.
After releasing his hand, Klose looked at the woman's face and understood why the lord had been looking for something on her face - the woman's face was deformed by Leon's pinching just now, and her skin was obviously wrinkled, which looked quite strange.
"My Lord, her face..."
Both Klose and Sammer looked a little panicked, as they had never seen a plastic surgery face.
"Yes, not only her, probably every woman around the knight here, including the so-called three prophets with incomparable beauty, is probably a fake face..."
Li Ang now completely understood what these so-called three prophets were...
No wonder these women worship the Three Prophets so much, and no wonder the Three Prophets, who were so legendary decades ago, are still young and beautiful today...
Li Ang originally thought that they were not human, but now it seems that they are human, but also not human!
These are the three women who can perform face-changing surgeries—they opened the first plastic surgery hospital in the continent of Pand!
But their plastic surgery methods are quite horrible...
They probably just replaced all the skin on their heads!
Judging from the fact that these women are skilled in using the Snake Heart Stone, they are just like what Anson once mentioned - using the Snake Heart Stone for anesthesia and then performing skin replacement surgery!
The source of those pink|soft skins is probably what Owl Knight Ors said, "They will take away all the girls and children..."
I see……
This technique is indeed witchcraft.
And their so-called guidance is probably to use various poisons and beauties to make people addicted, and let these plastic surgery girls stir up trouble among various nobles!
There is no doubt that they will gain a lot of money and followers from this.
And if nothing unexpected happens, those lucky people who get some hidden treasures or power because of their "guidance" are actually advertisements...
They must have placed those treasures there themselves so that people could obtain them because of their "guidance" - after obtaining them, they would be drained dry again by the three prophets sooner or later anyway.
Those who gained power because of "guidance" probably also did so because the doom-bringers were able to manipulate the nobles they deceived. Obviously, countless noble disputes must have been caused by the three prophets and their doom-bringers...
The guidance of the Three Prophets can bring money and power - the effect of this kind of advertising is naturally outstanding.
Those careless or greedy nobles would of course spontaneously seek out the three prophets, and pay a huge price to make wishes to them, pray for their guidance, and even lead troops to follow and protect them.
And those women who desire eternal beauty will try to learn the abilities of the "Three Prophets" from them and worship them as if they were gods - they will probably swear a blood oath in exchange for their souls, and eventually be turned into puppets by the prophets through drugs and psychological suggestion without realizing it.
What a great trick!
Li Ang was somewhat amazed and somewhat frightened.
This is a combination of a marketing management master, a psychology and social relations master, and an anesthesia and plastic surgery master - no wonder there are three of them, they must be good at a certain subject!
The lord had a general understanding of the situation, and a group of people put the woman into the package that was originally used to pack the tent, preparing to take them away from the camp under the cover of night.
But at this moment, a man in the next tent suddenly shouted: "My dear! My baby! Where have you been?"
It was the skinny knight Morgan. He probably woke up and found that the Doombringer was missing, so this clingy guy actually started looking for it everywhere...
The first place he looked for was Leon's tent - it was the closest to his camp, and the Doombringer had spoken to the lord before.
"Are you here, honey?"
This guy broke into Leon's tent quite unreasonably, turned around and looked around, as if he was catching someone cheating.
His mind was obviously not clear, and the deep eye bags and dark circles, as well as his weak appearance, showed his current condition - he had obviously been addicted to drugs and sex for a long time.
But he didn't see his 'baby' in the tent. Instead, he saw several burly men with murderous looks. He immediately got scared and left the tent like a frightened mouse.
However, this guy seemed to be planning to continue looking elsewhere, and it was obvious that he didn't want to leave his "baby" for a moment.
It was obvious that his behavior would soon attract a patrol. In fact, some female soldiers with torches had already heard the noise and were heading over here.
Li Ang punched him from behind and knocked him out to prevent him from continuing to yell and causing more trouble.
"Let's run before their patrol arrives..."
