Chapter 971 Chapter 202. Judgment
The Guards who were still resisting suddenly fell into chaos. Francois took the opportunity to shout: "Your prince has escaped, surrender and don't kill him!"
Even if they Loyal enough, coming from a knight family or a mage family, but still confused by this scene, sitting back and watching the mages chase them out of Xing'er City.
The soldiers of the kingdom who could have caused some trouble to Xing'er City completely lost their will because of the general's escape.
Francois lowered his head and said to the complicated-looking knights gathered at the city wall: "Surrender, your enemies should be rat people and demons."
"The prince is a coward, but we will never betray the kingdom!" shouted a knight.
Francois ignored the knight and threw a document down.
"This is the target that the McCann Ratmen will attack next. Let me see if you are loyal to the royal family or to this country."
Jones took the documents picked up by his subordinates. , after turning over a few pages, as if he had made up his mind, he turned around and left with everyone.
Three days later, news came from the border of the kingdom that the Green Rose Knights died together with a group of elite ratmen who were invading the important towns on the border of the kingdom.
Francois held the battle report in hand and stayed in the big house for a long time. Finally, he came out with good news: the escaping prince was caught.
He came to the dungeon of Xing'er City. According to his seniority, the prince, who should be the uncle of the young king, was sitting in the cell. He was covered in dust from several days of escaping and looked a little embarrassed.
At this time, he looked at Francois standing outside with a serious face: "People from Liberty City, I demand noble treatment!"
"Nobles?" Francois shook his head, " There are no nobles in the dungeons of Liberty City, only prisoners."
The prince's face became even more ugly, thinking of the rebellious past of Liberty City, but the arrogance given to him by his status made it difficult for him to lower his head: "Give me the paper and the money. Pen, I will write to the new capital and ask them to pay the ransom.”
Francois was a little moved, but still shook his head. He thought Annan would support him.
“What do you want?”
“If you make a mistake, you will be punished, it’s that simple.”
Regardless of the prince’s gloomy face, Francois came again The place where prisoners of the Guards were held.
In these three days, they were taught a lot of truth about Liberty City and the Kingdom of Rekaner, as well as the magical imaging session every night.
Normally, they would just smile disdainfully, but in the dark dungeon, what they see and hear will turn into their thoughts in the darkness.
So when Francois said, "Is such a kingdom really worthy of your allegiance?", the prisoners seemed a little silent.
"I will let you go back." Francois's shocking words made them raise their heads.
“But allow me to remind you, in the style of that mad king, if you return after defeat, you will only be imprisoned in the dungeon of the new king’s capital and receive even more cruel treatment...”
"And if you are willing to stay, Liberty City will go and take your families back."
"Really?"
Someone spoke in the darkness.
“Free City never lies.”
One third of the five hundred Guards died on the battlefield, and one third of those imprisoned in the dungeon wanted to go back.
The remaining two hundred people are willing to join Liberty City.
Francois sent some undercover agents to go back first to bring back the families of the soldiers, and at the same time sent them to collect evidence of the prince's crime.
No noble's butt is clean, this is an iron rule - even Annan, whom everyone loves, has some scandals with women.
As the prince of the Ruikaner Kingdom and the king's uncle, the prince is full of crimes, if not full of evil. Even excluding some of the less serious crimes of "taking away shops with power" and "beating passers-by in the street", there is still a whole parchment listed.
It's more than enough...
...In the early morning of a new day, the jailer came to the outside of the prince's cell and opened the cell door.
Because he had not bathed for several days and defecated in the cell, the prince was dirty and smelly, and his neatly combed hair became messy.
"Where are you taking me!?" The prince suddenly felt uncertain.
"Where you should go."
The jailers are the "old men" of the Liberty Blade and the Salted Fish Gang, and they are the group of people who hate the nobles the most.
The prince finally could no longer maintain his composure. As soon as his feet gave out, the jailer clamped his arms and dragged him out of the dungeon.
In the square in front of the city lord's palace, a gallows built since yesterday has been completed.
The people of Xing'er City stood quietly on the street, watching an embarrassed and bloated figure being dragged by the jailer and placed in front of the gallows.
Francois appeared and looked at the prince with pouty lips: "Omo Montreal, Prince of the Kingdom of Ruikan. From the old royal capital to the new royal capital, your bad reputation is widespread."
“No…”
"In the year 996 of Saint Laurent's calendar, your people discovered a gold mine in the town of Brussels. In order to avoid the high relocation costs and hide the information, you ordered your men to lure a group of orcs to the town of Brussels and let them destroy the town. After the people were slaughtered, you led the guards to destroy the orcs and establish a mine."
"In the year 993 of the Saint Laurent calendar, you fell in love with the noble daughter Milissa at the dance and forcibly took possession of her. And beat her fiancé to death.”
“Year 990 of Saint Laurent…”
Francois told the prince’s evidence of crime one by one indifferently, and the prince who initially wanted to struggle gradually gradually. He lowered his head to avoid the arrow-like gazes of the people in the square.
"...Now, on behalf of Champion Warlock, King of the North, Lord of Free City, Annan Reeves, I declare: You are guilty."
"No..."
The noose was put around his neck. The prince wanted to say something, but was unable to speak. He just kept looking at Francois with eyes begging for mercy.
Francois raised his head and looked at the falling snowflakes.
The first snow in Xing'er City came unexpectedly.
……
The prince's death caused an uproar.
This is the highest-ranking person who has died since the war between Liberty City and the Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Rekaner instigated public opinion and criticized Liberty City for killing the nobles.
Then Liberty City revealed the details: they sent the information to the new royal capital, but there was no response. Except for the Green Rose Knights, who chose to sacrifice themselves for the people of the kingdom and protect the town, all other towns were under the control of the Ratmen. destroyed in an attack.
On the other side, Annan has been hanging out with Maria and Gale.
No matter what outsiders think, Annan did find out a lot of secrets.
During this period, Maria also met the centurion. The enemy was extremely jealous when they met.
The centurion wants to capture Maria and make a specimen for the new scavengers to observe. Maria wants to send the centurion to the bottom nest to ask for credit.
"Well, Maria hasn't done anything bad." Annan tried to smooth things over.
The centurion squinted and said in a sinister manner: "Has your head been commanded by your butt? She killed many people when she was a countess..."
"That must be their fault!"
(End of Chapter)