Chapter Ninety-Five: The Scapegoat

In the fourth dream, the Free Nation where the Horde is stationed is in flames. The unstable political situation in the Western countries www.biquge.info led to a long war, and the flames of war finally burned to this small country.

Along with the combined forces of the three countries to attack the border of the Free Country, there is also a team of men and horses with strange costumes and special equipment. Dressed in strangely patterned metal armor and armed with strangely shaped weapons, they numbered no more than a hundred, but they exuded a powerful aura of slaughter, and at first glance they were not ordinary soldiers.

This small army, known as the Demon Hunting Alliance, is a coalition of enemy nations that deny the legitimacy of magic, and they have been secretly cultivating anti-mage forces for several years, and the result is that this team is capable of hunting mages enough. The reason why these countries united to invade the Free Nation at this point in time was, of course, to attack the mage tribe.

The world doesn't know that behind the whole incident, there is actually the influence of the black magicians, which is the result of their years of ambush and manipulation by the grass snake gray line. In short, several countries that had been at war for many years suddenly found that joining forces to eradicate heresy in human society was an opportunity to restore peace, so they united extraordinarily.

The free country has weak national strength and barren land, and because of its relatively equal and open religious policy, it has attracted some non-mainstream religious figures to settle down. In normal times, it is only by relying on a neutral attitude and the protection of the mage tribe that they will not be drawn into the war. Now in the face of the pressure of the army, it is difficult to even protect itself, and it is even more powerless to protect the tribe.

The Demon Hunting Alliance is worthy of being a professional elite who has been cultivated for many years, and the Demon Hunters, regardless of their rank, are all extraordinary, but fortunately they don't make a move on ordinary people, otherwise the entire army of the Free Kingdom may be slaughtered by them in minutes.

Of course, the mages resisted, and some of the weaker mages and apprentices retreated to their neighbors with a neutral attitude. The rest are mainly high-level magicians, including all the great magicians above the heaven and earth imperial level, but the tribe has been defeated one after another.

The main reason is that the strength of the Demon Hunting Coalition is beyond expectations. In fact, a lot of their equipment is made of black magic, and they naturally know how to counter the tribe's white magic system, and they are infused with a large amount of black mana in unexpected places, which has a fatal destructive effect on the magician's spells. Coupled with the melee of ordinary human armies, the mages of the tribe suffered heavy casualties.

As a result, the monarch of the free country came forward to negotiate peace with the three countries, and finally reached an agreement after many games. All the mages of the tribe will retreat to the desolate New World, never to enter the Western world again, and will hand over a hundred mages as scapegoats to be beheaded in public as heretics.

The tribe handed over all low-level magicians, and a few great magicians who were already seriously injured, as well as some ordinary people who volunteered to sacrifice. Due to intrigues within the tribe, Dawn and her followers were handed over along with them.

At this time, Xuan Sheng had been sealed, and the second treasure she had refined, the Halo Halberd, was not strong enough, and Dawn was wounded in the war, and then imprisoned by the tribe in the name of protection. At that time, the leader of the tribe was a very conservative magician, who had always considered Dawn to be a heretic in the wizarding world, and was very afraid of her miraculous strength. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he wants to clear Dawn and her supporters from the river in order to maintain the purity of the wizarding world.

After Chenxi was tried, she was convicted of being a great witch and was to be burned at the stake in public according to folk tradition, and the way of heaven and earth was corrected in this primitive way of purification. Her followers were originally sentenced to beheading, but as people who were bewitched by witches, they also needed to be purified by flames, so they were burned at the stake instead.

On the eve of the execution, a mysterious man in a black robe came to the dungeon where Dawn was being held and returned to her the three low-level treasures she had just begun refining.

"You bring these treasures with you, maybe the mana in them can protect you for a while, you must not give up, I will come to save you." After saying that, the black-robed man left.

On the day of the execution, Dawn was escorted to the execution ground, carrying three treasures under her shabby robes. There was a huge magic circle under her burner at the stake, which dissipated her mana and prevented her from escaping. Dawn is not afraid, nor is she resentful. She was used to being betrayed, and when she fought for the Xuanxi tribe, the Xuanxi tribe betrayed her. All these years she was busy with the Tribe's mission, and the Tribe's betrayed her. She just couldn't bear to watch the people who followed her suffer, and she felt infinite guilt in her heart.

In addition, she also has guilt for Xuan Sheng, and she can't wait for the day when she will be reunited with him. In this life, she is destined to fail him.

The flames lit the stakes that filled the square, and the screams echoed through the city, and the stench of the dead aroused pity for even the most interested onlookers.

When it was the turn of the morning light, the igniter first lifted the brim of her hat that covered most of her face, and what was displayed in front of everyone's eyes was a peerless face that was enough to captivate the city, although the face was pale, but the expression was stoic. The onlookers let out a burst of exclamation, and some people began to intercede for her, how could this weak woman be a witch?

But the instigators who mingled in the crowd shouted the slogan "Down with the witch", which strengthened the determination of the executioners. What's more, whether it is for the invading country that wants to gain the legitimacy of sending troops, or the high-ranking tribe who cannot tolerate Dawn, Dawn must die.

When a huge pillar of fire ignited on the magic array, the morning light was instantly engulfed in flames, and everyone was silent, watching blankly at the generosity of the most beautiful woman in the world.

Just when people thought that the witch Dawn had died, a powerful water-based magic array fell from the sky, and the pillar of fire was extinguished in an instant. What shocked people was not this water magic array, but the dawn on the stake was not dead, and it didn't even seem to be injured, even the clothes were intact.

The top of the tribe appeared, but the leader was changed, and the new leader was a great magician of the Star Royal level, Sebastian. He was the one who had visited Dawn in the dungeon the night before. The new leader declared that Dawn was innocent, that she had been burned at the stake unscathed, and that to kill her was to violate the mandate of Heaven. The representatives of the three governments were still in shock, and no longer dared to call for Dawn's execution.

It turned out that although the three treasures that Dawn carried with him were all low-level, the ones attached to them were all ancient divine beasts, especially one of the spirit beasts with a vermilion fire and a heavenly crossbow, which was a vermilion bird that could achieve nirvana in the fire. It gathered the strength of the other two spirit beasts to maximize the defensive enchantment and protect the dawn. However, due to the forcible confrontation with the magic array under the stake, Suzaku not only overdrew his mana, but was also seriously injured.

Who was Sebastian who came to save Dawn?

As one of the very few great magicians of the tribe's generation, Sebastian has pure blood, good talent, and hard work, so he reached the pinnacle of magic cultivation at a young age, becoming the youngest star royal-level magician in a hundred years. But it was precisely because of his youth that he did not have deep roots in the tribe and had little decision-making power, and the position of the leader of this generation passed to the magicians with lower royal rank than him.

Sebastian was originally full of cultivation spells until the day Dawn appeared. This petite woman of the Oriental world amazed him, and he was enchanted with the morning light, but his restrained nature made him never confess. He secretly inquired about everything about Dawn, knew that she had a heart, and fell in love with his spirit animal. He was also madly jealous, but in the end he chose to protect the woman he loved and argued for her at a high-level meeting.

He thinks that everything he does is to protect Dawn. Except for only one thing, behind the proposal to seal the Vajra Xuanding Hammer, there is his action.

When he knew that the conviction of Dawn was due to the selfishness of the leader, he rebelled. On this day, when he rushed to the execution ground to save Dawn, he had already secretly completed the change of power of the tribe. He designed to get rid of the chieftain, and became the leader of a new tribe on the recommendation of people who didn't know the truth. After that, he had the power to change the agreement and direct the archmage to go to the execution ground to save people. Thankfully, he caught up.

When Dawn woke up from her coma, a day and a night had passed, and she was lying on the most comfortable bed in the tribe, carefully cared for by several maids.

She was told that the war was over, that peace had been restored to all four countries, and that the Demon Hunting Coalition had temporarily withdrawn from the territory of the Free Nation. However, considering the political stability in the future, the mage tribe still needs to migrate to the new world. As for the name of the witch of Dawn, she has been rehabilitated, and now she has been officially awarded the title of "Dawn of the East", becoming a well-known miracle.

In Sebastian's opinion, the person who has already obtained the dawn will get her heart sooner or later.