Chapter 17: The Burning Town
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"Rest assured, in a sense, I think we should be natural allies. ”
After saying this, even though the proprietress Linda's face was soothed, she could still see a strong jealousy in her eyes.
"I think so, Master Mage. But the wise woman did not show it, but expressed her gratitude to Charlotte.
She looked beyond Charlotte to the hotel lobby, where the fire was growing. There was a muffled thud from the upstairs guest room, and the tenants witnessed a riot, and they did not dare to flee from the lobby, but they had to risk their injuries and jump from the windows on the second floor as the fire grew.
Linda's expression changed suddenly, and the drinkers who had vomited also realized something, and their panic was overflowing.
"It's over, it's over!"
"Damn, what's next?"
"Santos is dead, damn it!"
"We're going to be hung from a tree!"
……
All sorts of panicked voices were in chaos.
Charlotte frowned, before he could do something, Lolita had already made a move.
"Quiet!" the short-haired girl with tiger teeth crossed her waist with one hand and the other hand in a STOP posture, quite a bit of a leader's demeanor, "A group of big men are like a girl!
Charlotte broke out in a cold sweat when he said this, he didn't think he had the ability to take on the army alone.
"Miss Mage, don't you know how powerful Horcente is! The Tyranny Temple's negate Herrington is also there, and it is said that Archduke Herbert was beheaded by him on the battlefield!"
"What!?" Charlotte's body shook when she heard the bad news, and if it weren't for her strong will, he almost couldn't help but collapse to the ground.
He remembered that his uncle, who would make his already messy short hair worse with his rough hands every time they met, and then smile and take all sorts of strange little objects from the hands of his servants and give them to himself.
He would also prick his cheeks with his rough short whiskers, and whenever she was devastated by herself, she would cover her mouth and snicker like a squirrel, and then the next second she was caught by Herbert with a ridiculous expression that life was worse than death.
He would drink and eat meat with his father Lawrence at the feast, and then tease the little adult-like Evan in his serious father's helpless expression.
Ask, 'Ah, has Evan found a lover?', 'Ah? or Hinata, you have to work hard, like me and Lawrence, but we have already ...... Ahem!', 'I'm sorry!' So Princess Cynthia is also there, too!' In front of his future wife, this kind of conversation between men is not very easy to talk about after all!'
This man has a lot in common with Lawrence, that is, they value blood relatives and family equally, but he is more relaxed than Lawrence, who pretends to be serious. Getting along with him is like the father-son relationship in a developed country in the previous life, like a relative, but more like a friend.
But once he is angry, he will also burst out with a power not inferior to Lawrence, the Lion of the North, and the majesty of the Lord of a Kingdom will be revealed.
He is the most trusted brother of Lawrence in authority, he is the closest brother of Lady Rebecca, he is the favorite elder of Aven, Charlotte, Vivien Leigh, and Cynthia, and he is the eagle that soars in the western realm of the Empire.
Can ...... now The Eagle has fallen!
In vain, Charlotte felt a great sense of absurdity, and he felt that the news was like a false bubble that should burst at the first poke. But the deep reason and panic in his heart made his eyes red, and he couldn't resist his impulse, and grabbed Linda by the shoulders, despite the latter's painful voice shaking violently.
"He's lying to me! He's not going to die, he's the Eagle of the Empire! The Supreme King of Locente! And Helrington, Helrington, as a legendary professional, how dare he openly defy the Steeu papers!"
Because of the change of appearance with Eleni's fraudulent mask, the well-informed proprietress Linda did not recognize the identity of this legendary hero at the first time, she looked at the almost out-of-control man in shock, and replied in a tone of sadness and hesitation, "...... I'm sorry, but news came from the north a day ago that our king, our king, had indeed passed away......"
Charlotte let go of her hand abruptly, staggered back two steps, lowered her head, and grasped the roots of her hair fiercely with both hands.
He still remembered that when he saw Herbert on the water a few years ago, he hugged himself like he had done when he was a child, and laughed at himself, "And you! I heard that you became the Grand Duke of Icewind Castle, and you have become the Master of the Seven Rings!!, a real genius!'
At that time, Herbert was sincerely proud of his achievements!
Two years ago, Heywood, the mentor who had been a great influence on him in his life, left him, and two years later, his uncle Herbert died on the battlefield.
What about the future? What will the future hold? Will anyone leave their side in a hurry?
"Tell the Dead Herrington-" Charlotte gritted her teeth and roared, and when she raised her head, the faint runes of the six-pointed star appeared in those magic eyes, and her red pupils were cold and ruthless, "I want you dead!"
The momentum belonging to the master of the eight rings suddenly released outward, and the originally mellow and gentle thoughts came like a storm in an instant, and the air pressure of the entire hotel sank in an instant. Spirits interfere with reality, and even the burning flames are released in all directions with Charlotte as the center.
At this moment, no one dared to doubt the truth of the words of this angry mage. Even if the name of the man in his mouth is the chosen person of the tyrannical god Bane, a legendary-level paladin, and an executioner who has been famous for a long time.
Vivien and Lolita were silent, and they rarely saw Charlotte angry. But once angry, it must be the power of thunder.
Elle took Charlotte's hand surprisingly sensibly, raised her head and smiled comfortingly at Charlotte. The latter patted her silky silver hair, tugged at her mouth ugly, and then coldly called at the proprietress Linda.
"If you don't want to be hanged on a dead tree at the entrance of town, take me to the man in the mouth of the charred corpse. ”
Before Horcent's side could react, Charlotte fled the town with the thugs. Along the way, there are people who are stupid enough to go home and pack their things, or hope to hide in the town to escape the hunt. In such a situation, the depressed Charlotte showed great impatience, and whenever someone wanted to do something stupid, Charlotte, who was in an extremely painful mood, would not hesitate to kick him out of the team.
Until he fled to the hill outside the town, there were only seven people left in the original team of ten people, and these seven people, including the proprietress Linda, had a great distrust of Charlotte because of his cold-bloodedness.
So much so that what happened next made Charlotte, who was already extremely depressed, almost break out.
"What did you say?!You said you didn't know where the rebels were?!"
"I'm sorry, sir. I thank you for helping us, but I really don't know where the rebels are, you know, they have to be able to operate in the occupied areas of Hostent, and they have to be well concealed......"
"Listen ma'am! I don't want to talk nonsense with you! As a master, and a master of illusion and soul, you should know that I have ten thousand ways to get you to speak!" Charlotte didn't believe her in the slightest.
It is true that the rebels must remain sufficiently concealed in the occupied territories. But that also means that they must have their own sources of information, and the lady in front of them is most likely one of them.
He must find the rebels in order to get more information. For example, apart from Herbert, are there any survivors of the Leslie family? Is Brent alive, who is close to him, and what about the illegitimate son Nell? Only by finding the people of the Leslie family can they gain an advantage in the next action.
So he couldn't help but bring Sen Ran in his tone, "So, don't force me to do what I don't want to do!"
The people who have escalated from drinkers to thugs endure fear and faintly surround the proprietress Linda, and the two parties, who had just cooperated, suddenly became tense.
"Wait!What's that!?"
Lolita's exclamation broke the increasingly sinister atmosphere, and the two groups of people followed the sound, only to see that under the hillside, the town in the darkness burned with a raging fire, reflecting a chaotic shadow of shadows, in the light of the night fire, like a group of demons dancing.
Crying out of fear, screaming of despair, roaring of rage, laughter of arrogance...... All of them come together to form a purgatory on earth with the burning town!
The town is burning!