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Now, with such a handsome young man, and Luo Ya being their savior, the girl's favor towards him naturally increased.
For some reason, the girl's cheeks flushed slightly, but she still said, "Um, thank you for saving us. My name is Anri Emmert, and this is my sister."
Enri Emmert, a village girl from Carne Village, is an ordinary person who appears several times in the original story. She is not an important character, but she is not a marginal character either.
The story begins with Ainz seeing Enri Emmert fleeing with her sister, which leads him to intervene and begin to learn more about this world.
However, this time, Roya's arrival caught Ainz Ooal Gown off guard, creating a sense of urgency in Ainz Ooal Gown's heart and causing a small deviation in the plot.
Enri Emmert ran out of the village again, but this time, instead of Ainz Ooal Gown coming to her rescue, she encountered Roya.
I don’t know whether to say the other party is lucky or unlucky. They had set up a safety barrier around the village. Although it was impossible to stop the other party for long, at least they were safe.
As a result, Anli secretly ran out with her younger sister to inform them of the situation, and to make matters worse, they were discovered by the other party.
You could say she was unlucky, but she just happened to meet Roya, who saved her life.
After helping the other person up, they realized they weren't far from the village. Luo Ya cast a flight buff on them, then, carrying one in each hand, they sped off into the distance.
“Let’s go, let’s go to your village and take a look,” Luo Ya said casually.
Under the girls' astonished gazes, Roya felt incredibly light, grabbed their small hands, and began to speed towards Kahn Village.
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Kahn village, square.
This is a vast area, located right in the center of the village.
On ordinary days, this place is a gathering place for children, a trading place for outsiders, and a place where some villagers also dry their grains. It is a lively place.
However, the square was silent at this moment. It wasn't that there was no one in the square; on the contrary, a group of people had gathered there. There were elderly people, young people, and children. Everyone had a look of fear on their faces as they looked at a group of people not far from the square.
They were a group of knights dressed in standard armor. Some were on horseback, while others stood still, looking solemnly at the villagers.
Around them lay more than a dozen corpses.
The most conspicuous among them were the knights in armor; these two knights were among the unfortunate souls who had been pierced by Roya's manipulated magic.
Besides these knights, there were also some ordinary-looking villagers lying around.
These villagers were killed by the knights because they were so terrified that they scattered and fled out of the range of Roya's magic.
The knights weren't stupid either; the lead knight probed a little and quickly got a pretty good idea of what was going on.
While magical barriers are rare in this world, they do exist.
Although they didn't know why a magical barrier had appeared in this remote village, they still had to complete the task assigned to them.
However, there was a way. The villagers scattered like birds and beasts after they saw them. After killing a few fleeing villagers, they realized something was wrong and discovered that the main hall was the safest place. The knights outside could not enter the village at all and could only threaten and intimidate from the side.
The perspective shifts to the leading knight.
He roared angrily at the knight beside him, "Find a way to get into the town! Damn it, what kind of magician would set up such a troublesome magic circle here? We never encountered this when we slaughtered the surrounding villages."
The knight commander's name was Belius, and he was indeed the captain of this knightly unit.
Chapter 395 The Crisis of Kahn Village
He was ordered to raid villages near Ye Lantier, so he had done things like this many times before.
He just didn't expect to suffer a setback here, since in his view, success should be something that happens naturally.
Now, all they can do is deploy knights around the village. If they see any villagers fleeing outside, they will order their men to kill the fleeing ones, thus causing even greater panic among the villagers who are hiding inside.
That's all he can do now.
"Damn it, which magician is so free to set up a magic circle like this in a small town!"
Bellius's face was grim, he cursed under his breath, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes. His warhorse neighed, and he began to think of a solution.
If these villages didn't have barriers, the problem would actually be quite easy to solve.
Belius would order some knights to search houses and slaughter the survivors, while others would carry out a massacre directly in the square.
Once the massacre was over, they would leave a few survivors, burn the entire village down, and their work would be finished.
This was the mission of the knightly team led by Belius.
If there were a few attractive women in the village, Belius might have developed some other interest, but unfortunately, the girls he has met so far are all of average appearance, and none of them have been able to move him.
Moreover, he now needs to figure out how to deal with the barrier in front of him.
Just thinking about this gave Belius a headache.
"Damn it, why did I have to run into such bad luck?" Belius cursed under his breath, then called out to the knight beside him, "Hey, Lundes, do you have any good ideas?"
The knight named Lundes had a sinister look in his eyes. When Bellius asked the question, Lundes forced a not-too-bad smile and said to Bellius, "It seems that the only option now is to try to attack by bypassing those shadowy areas."
Before he could finish speaking, Belius interrupted him with a disdainful look. He said in a loud voice, "Foolish! How could you say such a foolish thing? Look around the village, where isn't covered by this stuff?"
After being mercilessly berated by Bellius, Lunders' expression turned ugly, and his gaze became even more sinister. However, due to their respective statuses, he could only lower his head and nod, not daring to speak.
Clearly, the two did not have a good relationship; in fact, to describe it as bad would be an understatement.
The guy in front of them, named Belius, was neither a well-trained knight nor a companion they spent every day with. He was just a young master sent in by his extremely wealthy family to enhance his social standing.
This young master, driven by lewd desires, would assault village girls in the target village during missions. When the girl's father tried to stop him, he would immediately turn his anger on her and swing his sword at her repeatedly. He was the kind of person who made people feel disgusted.
Such a person would naturally not be very popular. If it weren't for the fact that military discipline is not to be challenged and that this mission was an important operation to cooperate with the talents above, Lunds would never have allowed the other party to boss him around like this and challenge him to a duel.
But right now, the mission is the priority, and for the sake of the mission, he can only swallow his anger.
Even though it made him very unhappy.
While the two were pondering a solution, they were unaware that a figure was already suspended in mid-air, looking down at the elite group of knights below.
Who else could this be but Roya?
Beside Roya were two thin, small girls.
The young man descended slowly from the sky with the two girls, one big and one small, and such a remarkable scene was naturally noticed by those who were interested.
The villagers exclaimed in alarm, "Look, aren't those the An Li sisters?"
"No, why did they come back again!"
Who is that young man next to them?
A cacophony of noise erupted, while the knights exchanged bewildered glances.
The leading knight, realizing that the other party had landed right in front of him, couldn't help but let out a chilling smile. His gaze was fixed on the three people above him. Belius licked his lips, pondering how to force the group out of their shells.
Soon, the young man and the two girls landed on the ground. Roya waved his hand, and the two girls ran back to the village. The knight tried to stop them, but Roya stepped in front of him and blocked his way.
Luo Ya's gaze was cold and his face was frosty, radiating a powerful sense of crisis.
After getting a clear look at Roya's face, Belius curled his lip in displeasure, raised his hand, and waved to the two knights holding bows and arrows beside him.
The two knights understood immediately, raising their bows and aiming at Roya. However, before the arrows could even whistle through the air, Roya said expressionlessly, "Third-tier magic—Lightning Strike."
Magic gathered between them, transforming into purple lightning that instantly pierced through the two of them.
Only then did everyone realize what was happening, and their faces showed horror as they looked at the charred corpse lying on the ground. Someone exclaimed, "It was actually a third-tier spell! This guy can actually use a third-tier spell! He is undoubtedly a high-level spellcaster!"
The room erupted in an uproar, and the two people who had the only authority to speak made no attempt to hide their somber expressions.
Both Lunds and Bellius understood what this meant.
In a world where ordinary magic casters can only use second-tier magic, those who can use third-tier magic are undoubtedly among the elite of humanity.
Generally speaking, based on adventurer ranks, bronze and iron-rank magic casters can usually only use first-tier magic, silver and gold-rank magic casters can usually use second-tier magic, and third-tier magic is the domain of platinum and mithril-rank magic casters.
In this world where the highest level of magic that humans can use is the sixth rank, the fifth rank is magic that only those who have stepped into the realm of heroes can use.
Therefore, a user of third-tier magic is already considered a powerful individual among humans. Faced with such a powerful being, they had to proceed with extreme caution. More importantly, this knightly unit lacked any individuals of that caliber.
Thinking of this, Lunds's expression turned even more unpleasant.
What I thought would be a piece of cake has turned into one problem after another. Now, I've even managed to blast out a high-level magic chanter. Life is getting more and more unbearable.
After a while, Lunders finally made up his mind, stepped forward, and stood at the front of the group, saying loudly to the young man, "We are knights of the Bahars Empire, unknown magic chanters, please retreat immediately!"
However, this is like throwing a stone into a calm lake, instantly creating ripples on the once tranquil surface.
Lunds' voice was loud, and it was this loud voice that made the villagers around him, who were originally in despair, roar out in anger.
"As expected, they are knights of the Bahars Empire!"
"Why are you slaughtering us? Don't you even spare civilians?"
"Because of the war?"
The cacophony of sounds rose and fell, and soon the crowd was thrown into chaos.
To be honest, the villagers were not surprised by the identity of these knights.
That's precisely why they felt angry.
The Bahars Empire is a neighboring country of the Kingdom of Ri Yestize and is a nation that frequently launches wars of aggression.
His relationship with the Kingdom of Ri Yestize was not good either; in fact, it could be described as completely hostile. The two sides, together with the Slane Theocracy, had fought countless battles near Je Lantier, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were enemies.
However, in the past, the flames of imperial invasion only spread around the fortress city of Ye-Lantir, and both sides were relatively restrained. After all, war is war, and neither side would deliberately massacre the villagers in the villages.