บท 193: Chapter 79: A First-Class Thief

About an hour after the Vineta Fleet withdrew from the bay, on the grand road connecting Red Sulfur Harbor with the entrance of the bay, a group of Tanilian was swaggering towards Red Sulfur Harbor with a line of prisoners in tow.

Less than twenty people were stretched out in a column along the packed dirt road, half of them being the Tanilian sailors responsible for the escort, the rest bound at the wrists and chained together were Venetian.

A gaunt pirate with missing teeth held a long spear aloft at the head of the procession, the spear's tip pierced through the head of someone wearing a Venetian military cap. The face beneath the cap appeared unnaturally pale, the result of having been drained of blood.

Among the group was even a large cart, its pitiful mule foaming at the mouth from exhaustion. Several Venetian corpses were covered with a casually thrown straw mat, revealing only their lower halves, and were tossed brazenly onto the cart.