Chapter 281 134. Reform through labor
The knight captain came back, looked at Annan sadly and strangely, and said in a low voice that they could hear: "The armor of the commander and the knights is missing..."< br>
"What armor?" Annan was surprised as if he didn't know anything.
The chief mage said to himself: "Those are your trophies, and it is natural to capture them."
"But Galt's armor was made by his family, take away the armor People may be in some trouble..."
"The thief who took away the armor is really disgusting."
Annan's cheeks were a little hot, but five thousand gold coins were at stake.
The Chief Mage stared deeply at Annan and stopped dwelling on the issue: "There are still some people who are not here..."
"This is exactly what I want to say."
< br>Annan said seriously: "When we were cleaning the battlefield, we found five seriously injured knights, and Xingyue Bay temporarily treated them. Also, your scouts who stayed in Xingyue Bay went crazy and killed me after learning about the death of the head of the regiment. People. They will be judged at noon tomorrow at Xingyue Bay Square.”
"Mr. Mage, do you want to participate?"
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Annan, Mr. Swaro, and the guards returned to Xingyue Bay smoothly.
After listening to Annan's account, Ingrid asked him: "Why didn't you ask them for compensation?"
"I was going to do this, if the head of the regiment, Galt Didn't die here." Even Annan felt sorry for Galt, not to mention the knights of the Knights.
Letting the guard captain keep an eye on the knights' movements, Annan walked to Bronzebeard's blacksmith shop. He didn't see Bronzebeard. Parker, who was an apprentice here, was carefully wiping Galt's dark gold lion pattern armor.
"Lord Annan, Bronzebeard asked me to ask you if you want to display the armor??"
Annan thought of the strange things in Katalina's room and shook his head: "No. ...I don’t have such a hobby, just melt it.”
“This armor is at least made by a master and is worth at least a thousand gold coins. Are you sure?” Bronzebeard came out of the furnace room with a pile of ore. come out.
“Forget it...can it still be repaired?”
The back of the armor was riddled with holes from the arcane light.
Bronzebeard threw the ore aside: "Armor is like beer in a barrel. It won't taste the same after you open it. Even if you mix the same wine in, it won't taste the same again. But as long as you wear it, Its people will be fine if they don't turn their backs to the enemy."
"Remember to erase the lion mark."
Annan returned to the Lord's Mansion and opened the portal to Olmedo." Peace.”
"It's unbelievable..." Olmedo sighed, and then heard Annan say: "Lend me Tina tomorrow."
In the afternoon, the guard captain who was watching the camp said that the Knights were setting out.
It seems they don’t want to attend tomorrow’s trial.
The guard captain searched the camp and accidentally discovered an interrogation record left by the chief mage to Annan. The record details what happened in the capital, and corroborates Lilith's words.
The person who issued the wanted order was the acting king's eldest prince, and the news of "the rat clan going north" was regarded as a joke by the people of the royal capital. The second prince and Annan, who committed suicide in fear of crime, also became a joke: their funny excuse for rebellion was actually that the king of the northernmost part of the kingdom said that the southernmost part of the kingdom had been invaded——
Annan asked Bailong to watch from a distance, until the third The next day, they did not look back.
In the morning, people began to gather in the square where the gallows was moved. Annan personally presided over the trial and asked the guards to tie the three scouts to the gallows.
About them, Annan even found it disgusting to use them and pirates to do hard work: "You broke into my territory and killed innocent civilians... The only thing you can atone for is to sacrifice your life."< br>
"Rebellion King! Your soul will burn in hell!" The prisoner's roar stopped abruptly as the trap door under his feet was released.
Annan watched without blinking. Thousands of quiet residents around them stared at them like Annan. It turns out that the knight master will be killed just like them, and he is also so ugly...
"Annan...Annan?"
"It's over?"
Ingrid suddenly saw Annan opening his eyes again. "I was just thinking about things," he said.
Ingrid, who discovered the lifelike eyes drawn by Annan on her eyelids, did not expose Annan: "Those prisoners are also awake."
"Bring them up." Annan said majestically.
Not long after, four prisoners were taken to the gallows, and one was in the hospital, seriously injured and unconscious.
For the lost knights, Annan's attitude was slightly softened: "You were just deceived by wrong orders. This war is not a war crime, so you don't have to be like them... but you have to accept 'reform through labor'" '."
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"Reform through labor?"
In the Xingyue Bay dungeon, Hiller raised his head while leaning on the wooden bed.
"It just makes us do everything like hard labor... but we don't have to be locked up in the dungeon." Grafit said, "At least it doesn't look like he wants to kill us."
"Are you scared?" The knight wrapped in gauze satirizes.
"Don't say that, Krag, Lord Galt will have a chance to save us only if we are alive." Hiller said. As soon as the words fell, the cell suddenly fell into dead silence.
"What's wrong? Did Lord Galt know about it but didn't do anything?"
"Yes, Galt acquiesced." Cragg continued.
"Shut up." Grafit scolded.
"Why don't you dare to accept it? The head of one of the three major knights in the Kingdom, the Holy Grail Knight Preparatory, Marquis Galt died in a small city-state that was established less than a year ago?"
Krag spread his hands, the action tugging at his wounds.
"At least we are nobles and we are still alive. It fucking hurts...but it's good to be alive."
The five captives fell into a long silence.
In the next few days, they did nothing. The jailer brought food and cleaned the wounds on time every day. They thought that Cragg's guess was correct, that they were nobles and that the King in the North had given them preferential treatment. This thought lasted until the fifth day, when they were taken to the city wall and ordered to spread a gray wet mud on the city wall.
The five noble knights were forced to do dirty and tiring work like workers. What was even more difficult for them to accept was the teasing of the workers around them - which made them angry and considered it a humiliation. .
Then the large elementals staring at them extinguished their fury again.
That night, the jailer invited them to watch a "magic image" again.
In the prison cell, Grafit asked doubtfully: "What do they mean? To lure us out of prison and then catch us and kill us?"
"Maybe this is 'reform through labor'." Hiller said quietly.
The next day, they continued to work on the city wall. Hiller observed the streets on the way. He saw no slums, no scavengers or poor people. The houses were brand new and exquisite... He had never seen such a territory.
(End of this chapter)