Chapter 303 156. A distress letter from Ghost Town
When Annan and Princess Sales returned to the manor, a team of fifty people belonging to the Knights was waiting at the door.
They are the knights who follow the king's order to protect Annan.
"Your Highness the Princess."
The knights got off their horses and put their right hands on their left chests, but when they looked at Annan, they became unkind.
Annan shrank behind Princess Sails: "Where does your hostility come from?"
Princess Sails also said: "The Eighth Holy Grail Knight Mel and Annan came to the royal capital together. He is one of your own.”
It turns out that the hostility stems from the eldest prince’s second gift.
A girl who seemed to have been crying came out of the carriage behind the cavalry queue, her eyes shining with hatred.
She is a member of Galt's family.
"I said this was a misunderstanding, do you believe it?" Annan sighed and faced this scene.
"You killed my father..."
"Almedo also killed Augusta."
The epics of the kingdom are few and far between , especially Augusta’s death is linked to his great fatherly love. Realizing that the truth was not that simple, the daughter of Galt and the knight captain fell silent.
"Go in and talk, and the knight captain and clerk will follow." Annan needed to clear his name.
Princess Seles recused herself because the royal family played a disgraceful role.
“...Your father realized that I did not commit rebellion and that there was a problem with the wanted order from the royal capital. However, retreating at this time was disobeying the royal order. As one of the three major knights guarding the border, suspicion accompanied them. Never faded. In order to avoid bringing a bloody purge to the Knights, your father sacrificed himself to fulfill the king's order and save the Knights. The chief mage of the Knights can testify for me."
"I. Just like your father, he is a victim of wrong orders.”
The knight captain subconsciously frowned, wanting to protect the royal family, and then relaxed because this was the princess’s manor.
“You want me to take revenge on the royal family?”
A daughter who has lost her father dares to say anything.
"The legendary mage Agarwal offended me, but I just scolded him and never thought of revenge." Annan patched it in advance - who knows that the legendary mage just has no time to pay attention or can't hear it. "I tell you this to let you know the truth, not to make a meaningless sacrifice."
"...Uncle Maureen, thank you." The girl bowed to the knight captain and then looked at Annan: "I It's yours now."
"No, you are free now." Annan rejected her, "This is still a wrong king's order... so I will return it to you like your father. Freedom."
"Thank you, King of the North."
The girl, who was as stubborn as her father, ran out of the manor.
"She won't have any new troubles, right?" Annan looked at the girl's back as she went out.
“The King in the North himself released her, and others dare not trouble her anymore.”
“I mean will she go to trouble the culprit.”< br>
“Lord Galt’s daughter is not that stupid, Fernduo is a smart girl.”
Next, Annan got to know the captain and the clerk: Molin, the master warrior; the clerk Aemon, the elite mage. Annan asked how to investigate, and Master Aemon said that other knights would inquire, or accept a mission to go.
There have been many missions in the south recently, some escorting nobles, caravans, and residents, and some clearing out rat crowds. Annan entrusted them to return to the Knights to bring some tasks for him to choose from, and returned to the bedroom.
"You look even more tired than the past few days." The portal opened and Olmedo asked with concern.
“I went to the palace, and the eldest prince gave me the authority to go to the south to investigate, and also gave me a team of knights and Galt’s daughter... Fortunately, the misunderstanding was resolved, I gave her back her freedom.”
Briefly telling Olmedo what happened this morning, Annan sighed: "But the real feeling of exhaustion comes from other..."
From the ever-present sense of indifference from the people around him-they are completely indifferent. Mindful of the Skaven raging in the south, as if they believed the Skaven wouldn't harm them. In the past few days since arriving in the royal capital, no nobles have packed up their luggage and moved away. Instead, some commoners have sold their belongings and run to the east.
Where does their confidence come from? Is there any secret that they don’t know?
Fortunately, the Eighth Holy Grail Knight is on Annan's side.
"Then come back."
This is the second time Olmedo wants Annan to return.
"Why?"
"The McKeon Ratmen are in the Far North County, and it will take less than a month to arrive. Survival or destruction... we will all know by then."
But Annan is not the pessimistic Olmedo: "If we know one month in advance, we can make more preparations and save more people."
The efficiency of the Knights allows the Knight Captain and the clerk to In the afternoon, I received a bunch of tasks. Either clean up the Skaven, or escort the humans. Mixed with it was a letter asking for help that caught Annan's attention.
[Ghost Town in Illida County:
Knights of the Royal Capital, save us! A group of ratmen are in the north. They are very close to us. The militia in the town cannot hold it at all. The mayor and the nobles and rich people have already run away. We can't run away... Gods, kings, knights, please Please save us...]
The scrawled handwriting reveals despair. Elida County is adjacent to the Royal Capital. The ratmen who attacked Ghost Town were the vanguard rather than the main body of the rat tide. They had a chance.
Annan handed the letter to Master Yimen: "When is this letter?"
"All the commissions were sent this morning." Master Yimon took the letter and read it. Once again, he frowned: "...We are too late. It will take three days at the fastest from the royal capital to Ghost Town..."
"Ghost Town...isn't this your hometown?"
Mage Aemon was silent for a moment and nodded: "But it's too far away, we can't help them..."
"Town What's going on?" Annan couldn't tell whether it was a coincidence or a conspiracy.
"Ghost Town has a population of several thousand, but I guess there are only more than two thousand people left who can't leave." Master Aemon shook his head sadly: "As I said before, we will go to Ghost Town It will take at least three days, it’s too late.”
“Can it be done any faster?”
"This is sleepless speed," the Cavaliers captain said.
"Bring two horses and move lightly?"
The knight captain said that they would lose their combat effectiveness. At this time, Annan revealed one of his trump cards in front of them: opening the portal to reveal the large elements crowded in the underground space.
“You just need to provide support.”
Mage Aemon is full of hope: “Coupled with the light body technique of the accompanying mage, we have a chance to reach Ghost Town within two days! ”
"Then gather the knights and get ready to go."
Annan's blood is boiling. He wrote two letters and gave them to Mel and Kerberos respectively, and then went to the Knights' station to join fifty knights.
“Let’s go!”
(End of this chapter)