Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 34: What Happened at Home
An almost invisible crescent moon hangs high in the deep sky, and the sky is full of bright stars. After a long journey of several years, the endless starlight falls on the earth across trillions of kilometers.

Today is a good day. The first day of every month in the Islamic calendar is always a good day with a dark and windy night. The Islamic calendar is a pure lunar calendar, which is completely based on the phases of the moon. Whenever a new moon appears, it is set as the first day of each month.

The more brilliant the starry night is, the worse the visibility is for people on the ground. After all, it is because the stars are more prominent because of the absence of the bright moon.

Gellis was walking in the wilderness. In Transjordan, trees and forests were rare resources. Although it could not be called a desert, it was actually quite desolate and could be seen at a glance.

If it were an ordinary moonlit night, if Gailis was walking on this uncovered land, he might have been discovered early by the sentry on the nearby watchtower.

But now, the weather was good and Gailis was allowed to walk to the wall without being noticed.

Looking at the thick and tall rammed earth wall, Garys sprinted forward a few steps, exerted a little force with his feet, and jumped onto the wall with a dunk posture. Then he grabbed the protrusions on the wall with three fingers twice in a row, performing a scene of climbing the wall with bare hands.

When he jumped over the wall, he realized that behind the wall, the Ahmed family had specially built a platform. On this platform, soldiers could shoot arrows from a high position, and some soldiers could patrol on the platform to warn foreign enemies.

Now, Gailis ran into an unlucky guy. The guy was wearing a turban and no armor, and even his scimitar was still in the scabbard at his waist.

When he saw a black shadow flash past and land in front of him, all he had was an expression of disbelief and surprise.

Then he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and the body below him lost feeling. His sight looked uncontrollably towards the starry sky. Under the gaze of the stars, he was kicked hard on the back of his head by something unknown. He felt a little pain, and finally the object drew an arc in the dark night, flew over the wall and landed in the sand outside the wall.

Blood gushed out like a fountain. While Garys had a scimitar in his right hand, he supported the body that was about to fall to the ground with his left hand and retracted his left foot that had just kicked.

He killed a person in the blink of an eye without making any noise to attract other people's attention, and for this, Gailis was quite satisfied.

It was a successful infiltration.

During the day, Gailis had thought about disguising himself, approaching the Ahmed family's mansion, then killing the guards and rushing in.

But from observations, ever since Ahmed left the compound with his main private soldiers, the gate of the compound has been kept closed in the past few days, completely cutting off contact with the outside world.

Garys was unwilling to wait any longer, which led to this scene at night.

He was not in a hurry to open the gate and let Simon and others outside break into the yard. Instead, he planned to check the situation in the yard by himself and eliminate those dangerous elements.

After all, those recruits haven't even completed a day of training yet. If they are asked to bleed now, I'm afraid they will have to see their own blood.

Standing on the platform behind the wall, Gellis had a panoramic view of the entire compound with his extraordinary vision.

This is a typical courtyard of a wealthy family in the Middle East.

The outermost layer is naturally the thick and tall rammed earth wall, and the thick gate is decorated with exquisite wood carvings or metal.

Looking inside, the first thing you see is a spacious courtyard with some flowers and plants planted and a well dug.

There are several rows of bungalows surrounding the courtyard, and it can be seen that this is where the core members of Ahmed's family live.

Walking two steps to the side, past the two-story main house that occupies the largest area, there is a martial arts arena with a building similar to a barracks stable and another gate. In Garys' personal opinion, this mansion is not a castle, but it does have military functions.

It doesn't make much sense when facing a large army siege, but it is more than enough when facing a peasant uprising.

Gellis removed the scabbard from the body and reinserted the blade.

As for the corpse, Gailis dragged it into a corner and didn't bother with it anymore. As long as he killed all the enemies he saw along the way, it would be a perfect infiltration and he would naturally not be exposed because of the corpse.

When walking down the stairs from the platform into the courtyard, Gailis once again ran into a sentry who had fallen asleep against the wall. He decisively drew his knife and cut off his throat, leaving the sentry with a sweet sleep like a baby.

After getting off the height, Garys released his restrained perception, and the sharpness of his six senses increased several levels. He carefully observed every plant and tree around him.

At this time, it is already after the Isha prayer, one of the five Muslim prayers. Most of the rooms are extremely quiet, either empty or with people sleeping.

But Gellis noticed a strange wheezing sound coming from one of the rooms.

With normal hearing, people usually cannot hear such subtle sounds, or even if they hear them, they are easily ignored.

After making sure there were no other sentinels around, Gailis walked towards the house to find out what was going on. As he got closer, Gailis's face became tense...

Although he hadn't reached the wall yet, he already understood what the two people in the room were doing.

“Ah! Ah! Yes, that’s it… Great! Faster!”

"quick……"

Although it was not appropriate to eavesdrop, these two people were so powerful that Gailis could not help but take a look inside through the wooden grille from the narrow window on the wall.

There was no light in the room, but Garys could still get a rough idea. No matter how explosive the names they called each other, in terms of age, these two worms were quite young, almost the same age.

Considering Ahmed's age, Gairis had a guess in his mind.

Garys was disgusted, his face was as troubled as if he had eaten a lemon, but now was not the time to judge the chaotic relationship between men and women in the other party's family.

Walking around the houses in the courtyard, Gailis went to the training ground at the back to see if there were any private soldiers of the Ahmed family there.

Not far away, Gailis heard some groaning again, coming from a house built entirely of stone.

When Gailis got closer, he realized that the source of the sound was actually underneath the house.
At the back of the house, there are some very low iron railing holes close to the ground. These holes look like windows, but they cannot allow people to enjoy the scenery outside the windows at all, and are only enough for ventilation.

To be precise, there should be a semi-sunken dungeon under this house.

Looking down from the vent, one could notice some naked people inside. Two of them had whip marks all over their bodies and were rolling over and over in the haystack, groaning in pain.

　The second chapter has been reviewed. Let's see when it can be released.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)