Chapter Ninety-Three: Killing Decision
Lear roared, and the team of more than 200 people was stopped by him, and no one dared to move.
A young privateman in his early twenties fell to his knees with a thud, his forehead hit the ground and his head was covered with blood, and finally he sat down on his knees with a dizziness and said indistinctly in the lingua franca: "Count, spare your life, Count, spare your life......"
When the people around him saw the tragic situation of this private soldier, they all felt compassion, and even the civilians behind Lear felt pity for this enemy.
The other two men who shot the mage were so frightened that they fell to their knees, but did not kowtow.
Lear pointed at the three men and said, "Who shot me just now?"
The two who didn't kowtow all looked at the one who was desperately shouting for mercy.
Lear chuckled and said to the kowtowing private, "If you didn't attack me, but kowtow and beg for mercy, I'll spare you, and if you shoot me and don't aim at me, but don't kowtow, I might spare you." However, you knelt down and begged for mercy decisively, and you were so decisive that I was shocked. You are not very old, and if you are allowed to leave, it is tantamount to raising a tiger. Therefore, I will not let you go today! I want to blame you, I blame you for being too clever, and you want to make meritorious contributions to Count André!"
"The talents under my command are talents, and the talents under the enemy should all die!"
The young privateer looked at Lear, first delighted, but then desperate. With tears in his eyes, he pulled out a poisoned arrow and plunged it into his mouth, killing him with poison.
There was a deathly silence all around, and no one expected that the private soldier would die like this.
"Uh-huh......" Lear heard the familiar muffled grunt, and quickly turned his head to see Afra fainting in the arms of the butler - Afra didn't dare to approach until the men had taken the bodies of Boris and the magician, but as soon as he got closer, he saw a dead man.
Raymond stood affectionately beside a neatly dressed young woman, who was Lird's fiancée, and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't Lord Lear let him go, why did he kill himself?"
Raymond looked at Lear in admiration and said, "The teacher is so powerful, I can see through this person at a glance, I have almost been deceived." It's a pity that this young man, if in a few years, he will definitely become famous in the mountains of Belém. ”
His fiancée still didn't understand and asked suspiciously, "You haven't answered my question yet?"
Lear had to smile bitterly and explain in detail to his fiancée: "If he is as stupid as the other two, and three arrows are shot at the magician together, the teacher, as a junior swordsman, has a great deal of confidence in picking up three arrows in a row, and the result is that the private soldiers have not completed what Baron André has told him; But if he kills the teacher, he will be a scapegoat if the Homan Empire blames him, and if he doesn't kill the teacher, the teacher will inevitably kill him because he is too ruthless. ”
"However, he was clever and deceived everyone, except for the teacher - in order to complete Baron Andrei's mission, he shot to block the teacher, but this private soldier did not want and did not dare to kill the teacher, so he shot at the teacher's leg. In the eyes of ordinary people, after all, the teacher was not shot, and he kowtowed so miserably, it was over if he was released or beaten up, but the teacher knew that this person was too scheming and had to be eliminated. ”
"The teacher said that his subordinates are talents, and the enemy's subordinates are dead people, and he has the intention of recruiting him. However, if this private soldier had a family in Barony André's domain, he would have taken refuge in his teacher, and his family would have been killed, and he was not sure if he would have been seriously used in the future. So this private soldier chose to commit suicide, so that Baron Andrei would definitely treat his family well in order to buy people's hearts. The teacher is right, this kind of person has a great future, and since he is an enemy, he must not stay. It's a pity that a very smart man......"
Raymond, who was also from the Belém mountains, lamented the early death of the mountain people, but he looked at Lear with more determination.
"Worshipping him as a teacher may be the wisest choice in my life!"
Raymond's voice was not loud, but the nearly 100 people nearby heard it clearly, and immediately stood in awe of Lear, and they passed Raymond's words to ear, and soon all the people of Afra's territory looked at Lear in awe—their perception of Lear was not only rich and powerful, but also wise and decisive.
The other two begged for mercy and didn't, neither did they, and looked at Lear in fear.
Lear smiled and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, Baron André told you to kill the magician if he might be captured, as for why you don't know, right?"
One of them burst into tears of emotion and said in a broken lingua franca, "Yes, yes, yes, we really don't know anything." Yes, yes, yes......"
However, Lear suddenly rushed forward and unleashed a large horizontal slash with his long sword infused with the fighting spirit of fire, slashing off the heads of two men with a single sword.
In the shocked eyes of everyone, Lear said lightly, "Don't be afraid, since I am my enemy, I should be ready to die." Including you, and dear Baron André!"
Lear turned and walked over to the housekeeper, picked up Afra in his arms, and walked towards the castle.
None of the people present dared to move, all of them were shocked by his ferocity, and when he entered the castle, the private soldiers ran away in panic, and only the private soldier ran a few steps before realizing that something was wrong, and ordered his men to take the body away.
Raymond's fiancée was very kind and whispered, "Those two men didn't shoot the Earl, they are innocent." ”
Raymond shook his head, not explaining, he knew what was going on, but he didn't know what to say.
The housekeeper Mokel interjected: "You misunderstood this little fellow Earl, he did this to tell those private soldiers and those two barons that the cost of opposing him was to pay for his life! Those two barons knew that the cost would increase, so they would naturally reconsider, and those private soldiers knew that the Earl was vicious, so they naturally did not dare to attack him with all their strength in the future, and they would be lazy if they could." I think Afra was right before she was scared that day, he was a demon!"
The civilians of the mountain town had planned to hold a national dinner to celebrate after the battle, but today's battle was so brutal that even the swordsmen were killed, and the death was so horrific that they lost interest in having a dinner party.
In the days that followed, both Baron Pinkov and Baron Andrei hid in their castles like rats wintering, for fear of reprisals. And the civilians of Afra finally had a day of raising their eyebrows, and when they came down the mountain and passed by the two barons' lands, they only had to say that we were the people of Count Lear, and the soldiers who set up checkpoints to collect fees did not dare to take their money.
Lear continued to practice his sword without distractions, occasionally hunting with Raymond in the mountains, learning some hunter's skills, and occasionally teasing Afra and saying a few sweet words to deepen his relationship with Afra.