Chapter 339
In order to deal with the pirates entrenched in Westport, Jingyao and its surrounding areas were mobilized urgently. The joyful atmosphere originally prepared to welcome the Holy Advent Day was washed away, and the people scolded the gang. Damn pirates that come out of nowhere.
A team of nearly 3,000 people was organized, led by Harrison Abbott, the eldest son of the Abbott family, and prepared to march west to annihilate the pirates.
Those families whose children are serving in Sihanoukville have united to write to the Royal Government, urging His Majesty the King not to rush to start a war after sending troops to Sihanoukville, because the lives of their relatives are still uncertain, and they may still be tortured at the hands of pirates. Of course, they were not opposed to sending troops to conquer the pirates, but they just asked the king to talk to the pirates about ransoming their prisoners first, and then wait until they ransomed their living relatives according to the ancient tradition before starting the fight. Pirates, don't they just want money? .
In order to appease the emotions of these people, King Rodney agreed to their request.
Early in the morning before the army was scheduled to depart, Jingyao's guards opened the city gate sleepily, preparing to welcome the new day. Suddenly, they saw a skinny horse carrying a man galloping towards the city gate from a distance. The guards felt something was wrong, so they immediately raised their spears and stopped the man, preparing to interrogate him.
“Let me pass!” The visitor was panting and a little lost.
"I am Viscount Willing Dillon, His Majesty the King...His Majesty the King's affairs officer stationed in Westport, I...I have important things to report to His Majesty the King.",
He was unshaven and smelled like he hadn't showered in a month.
"Viscount Dylan?"
The guards were confused. They knew that Jingyao's Dylan family was quite a noble family, but the image of the man in front of them was really hard to compliment. As for Westport, wasn’t it occupied by pirates? Where did the affairs officer come from?
The guards insisted on handcuffing Willing Dillon first. As a nobleman, Dillon couldn't bear the humiliation and resisted violently. After a few days of unbearable life, he became emotional and cursed at the city gate guards.
Just when the angry city gate guards took out their weapons and prepared to use force, their commander noticed the noise outside the city gate and came to check. The captain, who was also a noble, recognized Viscount Dylan and gave him He came to the rescue.
"Take me to see His Majesty the King quickly. Magic! Oh my God, they know magic!" Willin Dillon grabbed the sleeve of the city guard captain and requested impatiently.
The captain automatically filtered out the inexplicable part of Dylan's words and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Willing, relax, I will find a good horse to take you to the palace. But you go like this It’s not okay to meet His Majesty. Take a good bath and change your clothes before going.”
Half an hour later, after hurriedly taking a shower, Dylan got on a group of horses that had just been prepared, whipped the horses' butts, and rode away.
“Are you sure you don’t want to go home first?” the city guard captain shouted behind him.
“It’s too late!”
After galloping all the way to the kingdom, Viscount Dylan quickly received permission to meet the king. He was led by the palace attendants to the king’s meeting hall.
Rodney XVII, Earl Rupert, Earl Merlin and other ministers were already sitting inside. When he learned that a steward who had rushed back from Westport requested an interview with the king, Rodney, who was eager to know the situation there, immediately agreed. They stopped what they were discussing and waited for Dylan's arrival together.
"Your Majesty!"
Dylan was a little nervous and saluted Rodney. As a low-ranking official, he met with the king only a handful of times.
"No need to be polite, come and bring a seat for the Viscount."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Dylan thanked him hurriedly.
"Mr. Dylan, how did you escape? What is the current situation in Westport?"
Dylan was a little stunned: "Your Majesty, I... I was actually released by the pirates. They asked me to bring a letter back. A sufficient ransom must be paid before the captives with noble status will be released."
Then he took out a piece of paper, and it clearly stated how much the children of that family were worth. This kind of thing was not unexpected. After all, they were pirates, so let those families have the headache.
What everyone is most concerned about is the strength of the pirates, and Dylan is asked to explain clearly the situation on the day of the fall. Dylan had a look of fear on his face.
“I want to see Your Majesty so anxiously just to explain what I saw that night. The following language may be a little confusing, so please forgive me, Your Majesty and Your Excellencies.”
"Let me tell you my personal opinion first. We are not facing ordinary pirates, and we must be fully prepared to fight them."
He spoke a little confusingly, making everyone frown.
“On the night of the pirate invasion, because the front line was in a hurry, I led the affairs officers and part of the city guards to direct the transportation of materials in the warehouse area overnight. After discovering that something happened in the direction of the port and finding out that it was a pirate invasion, We immediately prepared for defense in the warehouse area."
"But a mysterious figure suddenly appeared in front of us..."
At this point, Dylan's pupils dilated.
"He...father in heaven...he turned out to be the legendary wizard!"
"Wizard?" Rodney and the ministers were very surprised, thinking of the granary fire case and the navy discussed a few days ago. Assassination case, now someone is exposed to the mystery again?
“Yes, Your Majesty, my lords, I dare to swear to the Lord of Light that I definitely did not lie, and I definitely did not read it wrong!”
“When he appeared, Captain Mark once Shooting him with an arrow, it clearly hit the chest, but the arrow passed through the other person's body, as if it had hit a phantom."
Hearing Dylan's description, everyone's faces became more and more angry. dignified.
"...The pirates followed and surrounded us, but we rejected each other's unreasonable request. Suddenly a fireball appeared where the guards were gathered..."
"This..." Everyone looked at each other, Merlin The earl asked: "Are you not mistaken? Maybe there was a torch there?"
"No!" A slightly gaffeful denial came from Dylan's mouth, and he covered his head with his hands. He said with some horror: "I definitely saw it right. It just appeared so suddenly, out of thin air. I think I saw it right...I definitely saw it right..."
Dylan finally His words seemed to be muttering to himself, and everyone looked at him with some sympathy. This young nobleman seemed to have been mentally shocked.
"Then it got bigger and bigger... bigger and bigger... and then, with a bang... it exploded!"
"Due to the heavy attack, most of the soldiers fell down on the spot, and even I, who was standing far away, was affected!"
"At that time, one side of my body was in burning pain, and my ears were roaring violently. I couldn't hear anything clearly, I just saw dense pirates coming towards us... This is the last memory I have of that night."
Dylan continued to describe his subsequent experiences, including being tortured and interrogated by the pirates. Intelligence, and how to release the prisoners back to convey the ransom matters.
After the young Viscount finished speaking, there was silence in the conference hall.
In the end it was the king himself who broke the silence.
"Everyone, we can now conclude that the legend has become a reality. The Kingdom of Aldo has encountered an enemy it has never encountered before, an enemy that is completely unknown and completely strange to us."
( End of chapter)