The Lord Of Blood Hill

Chapter 541: I Will Become Your Guardian

Looking at the young faces below him, still childish and full of fear, Henwell sighs and takes off his helmet."My name is Henwell. I am the lord of Blood Hill in Vorry, and the master of Peace Haven. Some of you may have heard my name. Some of you may not have."

"In a sense, I was once where you are now. More than ten years ago, I also trained at Forge Furnace Training Camp."

"Everything you have experienced, I understand it as if I went through it myself."

"For us, this place is also a nightmare as terrible as hell."

"Even though we now have the strength to protect ourselves, this place remains a shadow we cannot shake off."

"We chose neither to endure it nor to run from it. That is why we have come back to smash this nightmare apart."

"As for what happened to you, I do sympathize with you. In my original plan, after some time passed, I would let you freely choose whether to stay or leave."

Henwell pauses there. "But I have changed my mind. You are still too young. You do not yet have the ability to choose the right path."

"As your senior, as someone who came before you, and as the one who rescued you from hell, I believe I am responsible for you."

"Some of you may have lost your families. Some of you may have been abducted from happy homes."

"From now on, you will follow me for three years and receive my education and training."

"There is one thing you can be sure of. My place will not be as cruel as this. I can accept failure, and I can bear the cost of the mistakes you make while you grow."

"You will learn how to fight from me. You will learn all kinds of knowledge. In the end, the goal is for you to learn how to protect yourselves."

"Three years from now, I will give you a choice. Whether you go or stay, I will not interfere."

"Right now, you may not understand what kind of person I am. In the future, you will. I am someone who keeps his word."

"Even if you choose to leave, as your teacher, I will still give you travel money. I may even arrange for people to escort you home."

The young people below him wear all kinds of expressions. Some look at Henwell with fear. Some are angry. Some are suspicious. Some are full of hatred.

Henwell continues, "Forge Furnace Training Camp belongs to a vicious organization condemned by the entire continent."

"As trainees of this place, you will face many investigations."

"Right now, only I can protect you. You may not understand that now, but one day you will know I mean you no harm."

"From this moment on, you are my students."

"Without my permission, no one may contact you, and no one may hurt you."

"What you need to do is obey and avoid causing trouble for me. You can run away if you want. I am too lazy to chase you."

"But once you leave, if you want to come back, you will not get that chance again."

"Also, if you run, I will not hunt you down. That does not mean others will not."

After saying this, he waves for the young people to eat and rest.

At noon, representatives from the Billie Royal Council arrive with a bishop from the church to take over the place.

In the end, the documents and captives are taken away by the two sides, while the camp itself is handed over to Catherine.

This is a complete camp, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Building it must have consumed a great deal of resources.

Abandoning it would be too wasteful. Catherine plans to take it over and use it as one of her own bases.

The nobles nearby have already been escorted to the royal capital for punishment because they were spies planted by the Veil.

Naturally, their territories and property will all be confiscated.

In the future, Catherine will send a legion here to garrison the area.

It takes Henwell five days to bring the young people back to Yinxin City.

After settling them in Bloodhorn Arena, Henwell begins to review the operation.

Everyone joins in to discuss the mistakes made during the operation, hoping to avoid repeating them.

There are still three strongholds that Henwell needs to lead people to remove.

From the beginning of this operation, Henwell has been a participant. He cannot leave halfway through.

More importantly, Henwell needs to show the outside world a clear attitude.

He is not deliberately targeting the Billie Kingdom. He is truly removing the cancer called the Veil.

This will deepen the Veil's hatred for Henwell, but he can no longer worry about that. He can only choose the lesser of two evils.

Henwell is very annoyed right now. He has not even had the chance to throw his weight around under the church's banner.

Instead, he has been left in such a sorry state first. As expected, none of these old foxes are easy to handle.

Half a month later, Henwell successfully removes another stronghold and gathers quite a few young trainees.

There are no larger training camps left after this, and this side no longer needs so many hands.

So Victor and the others take most of the warriors and escort more than three thousand young people back to Peace Haven.

Henwell stays behind to keep fighting. Of the two remaining targets, one is a Veil spy planted among the noble class, which requires a sudden attack on a castle.

The other is a small training camp. For Henwell, that is no difficult matter.

However, given what happened at Sunflower Fortress, Henwell uses a rather nasty trick.

He poisons the castle's water source directly, producing symptoms that look like an infectious disease.

After forcing everyone in the castle out, Henwell leads his people in.

He simply lets the Billie Kingdom's soldiers take the lead while he holds the line from the rear.

This operation proceeds without danger or surprise. There is little worth describing.

For the final task, Henwell leads a raid on a stronghold and, together with several Grand Knights, badly injures the Iron Knight stationed there.

Members of the church take part in this battle, so Henwell still cannot expose himself.

Otherwise, some details from the battle at Sunflower Fortress will start to point back to him.

Even so, the three people cooperating with him are former young gladiators.

With their tacit coordination, they still place enormous pressure on that Iron Knight of the Veil.

Taking this opportunity, Henwell also tests the Heart-Piercing Lotus in actual combat against high-level fighting power.

The Heart-Piercing Lotus used in this battle has already undergone two iterations. Its power has increased greatly, and it is made specifically for Grand Knights to use.

The unprepared enemy takes two Heart-Piercing Lotuses head-on, and one of his arms is broken apart.

In the end, he can only use a life-burning forbidden technique to escape.

Henwell bears no responsibility for the target's escape. The members of the church understand this very well.

At the same time, the church praises Henwell lavishly.

The attitude of every side toward Henwell has already begun to change in subtle ways, while the church keeps loudly promoting his strength.

In the church's propaganda, Henwell is already comparable to an Iron Knight, and he is extremely close to breaking through to that rank.

The church's explanation is that they need to establish the image of a young hero to encourage morale.

But Henwell knows very clearly that they are forcing him, pushing him away from the camp of the nations.

They want him to become a sharp blade the church can use to interfere in those nations.

The nations all realize this as well, but they are also wary of Henwell.