(Thank you YH29 for the tip, brother! Your support has been received, and its practicality is not so expensive, haha... ）

There was nothing worth talking about at the next banquet.

Charlotte is still surrounded by the aristocratic lady of the warbler, Mallory is still triumphantly bragging about her experience on the battlefield with her big-breasted sister, Hoyle talks with the nobles and works hard for the development of his territory, Edie sipps alone in the corner and occasionally talks to a few people, and Nell ...... The bastard was still having a hot fight with Vivien, while Lolita and Elle were feasting on the sidelines.

In the end, there was no glamorous scene of sleeping together. Charlotte either declined or ignored the invitations of the noble ladies and went back to her room to rest alone.

He roughly sorted out the problems he was currently facing.

The first was the problem that happened that night with Aven, and then the plan that Gloria mentioned that people cared about, and the corroboration of Vivien Leigh's identity was put at the end of the highest-priority issue.

However, the next day, when Charlotte finished exploring Helrington's dry body, something unexpected happened.

The next morning, Charlotte, led by her disciples, explored Helrington's body.

When the body keeper dragged Helrington's body out of the cramped and gloomy morgue, Vivien and Lolita, who had seen it once, looked disgusted.

The corpse was unbelievably shriveled and blood was gone, making Helrington's corpse look as terrifying as a mummy that had been preserved for thousands of years. Legendary warriors like Helrington, whose corpses would normally remain intact for a long time, were now muscular, shriveled, crumpled and crumpled to their bones like an old skin.

Charlotte rummaged through the body, but could not find any clues. The corpses killed in the battle were all covered with heavy injuries, among which Helrington was wounded by dozens of arrows, and the whole person was pierced into a hedgehog.

The clue was interrupted at this point, and there was no magic in the room, and Charlotte, who had no clue, could only shake her head and leave the morgue.

Charlotte led her disciples up the spiral staircase, ready to communicate with Brent. However, Brent did not see it, but he met the new Grand Duchess Eve.

Eve obviously remembered Charlotte, and after some exchange, Eve shook her head, "The Grand Duke went outside the city, supposedly to try the prisoners. ”

"Judge the captives?" Charlotte wondered, "what does this mean?

Eve stopped talking, and from her obscure expression, she could see that there was something else hidden in the matter.

"And what about Nell? isn't he in the castle?"

"Last night Nell said that he was going to do something outside the city today. This time it was Vivien who answered.

Charlotte glanced at the girl who was in love, shook her head, and prepared to go to Brent to ask for information about Gloria.

What happened next was something Charlotte will never forget.

When Charlotte and her disciples arrived outside the city, they saw a dozen huge earth pits and dense captives. Nell and Hoyle maintained order on their side, ordering the soldiers to push the captives into the pit one by one, and the militia filled the pit with loose dirt every two-thirds of the way to the end.

They are killing the captives alive!

One by one, the captives knelt on the ground and wailed or prayed with tears, and some tried to resist, but were beheaded by the Rocente soldiers without hesitation. The bloody corpses soaked the soil, and some people pleaded with tears to the Brent on the stage, but the new Grand Duke was ruthless and looked at the ministers coldly.

Wailing sounded everywhere, and the captives who had been filled in the pit climbed the dirt walls indiscriminately, their nails bloodied, only to be ruthlessly kicked by the soldiers when they reached the top of the pit.

Some of the soldiers in charge of the guards had a nervous breakdown, and they wept when they took their weapons and shovels to hide their faces, only to be forced back to their posts by the Overseers shouting and scolding.

Nell, who was overseeing on the side, couldn't bear to look away, but just happened to meet Vivian's gaze when she arrived. He was slightly stunned, his lips twitched, but he lowered his head in shame.

Vivien and Lolita were so frightened by the purgatory-like scene in front of them that they were blinded and trembling. Charlotte was stunned for a moment, then angrily walked towards Brent on the sidelines.

A conscientious guard tried to stop the mage, but was glared at by the enraged mage!

"How dare you stop me!!"

The combination of the momentum of the Master of the Eight Rings and the name of the Grand Duke of Icewind Castle made the guards who stood in the way frightened and overwhelmed. Brent waved his hand and motioned for the guards to let him go.

"Charlotte, why are you here?" said Brentt, smiling.

Charlotte hesitated for a moment, restrained the anger in her heart, and said in a low voice, "I want to talk to you! ”

Brent was visibly relieved, and he waved back before he said, "You shouldn't be here, Charlotte. It's not in my plans. ”

"What's in your plan?" Charlotte was furious, "Kill all the captives without me? Do you know what you're doing? It's going to make you a demon that everyone fears! yes! It's all your cronies, and you're hiding it from me because you don't want the word to spread the word, right? But can you hide it?!"

Brent was speechless.

His silence sparked even more anger from Charlotte, "I never thought you would make such a decision! Brent! We have played together since we were children, we played pranks together, discussed which girl was cuter together, and even talked about dreams together! But I didn't expect that the teenager who had the same dream as me would make such a cold-blooded decision!"

Brent's voice was low, "You also said it was a dream. Charlotte, as I said, depending on the position of the person, the dreams, behaviors, and ways of thinking about dealing with problems will change!

"Hmph, but at least I won't order tens of thousands of captives to be killed!" Charlotte said scornfully.

"What do you know?! Charlotte!" Brent was completely detonated by Charlotte's tone, he approached Charlotte, gritted his teeth, "If I had a choice, do you think I would be willing to do this? Winter is coming, we don't have food left to feed these executioners, and I can't let Horcente ransom these captives as is customary, so that they can swing their butcher knives at my soldiers on the battlefield!"

Brent gestured to the wailing captives.

"Look at them well! Don't be deceived by their pitiful appearance! They are murderers too! They killed my parents, brothers, and sisters, and raped and plundered! I am the flame of vengeance, the wrath of Rosente! I will announce the return of the Leslie family in this way! Wake up, Charlotte, there is no good or evil in war, and now is war! If you still hold on to this hypocrisy, you will be killed by yourself sooner or later!"

"You say it's hypocrisy?! Those people are living beings! They weren't the ones who started the war, and they shouldn't bear such responsibility!" Charlotte retorted angrily.

Because of the difference in ideas, a fierce conflict broke out for the first time between Brent and Charlotte, two cousins with similar childhood interests and close friends!