Volume 2 The Call of Fate Chapter 53 Pronouncement of Judgment
At dawn the next day, the rain had subsided, and as the sun rose in the east, the iron door to Daniels' cell was slammed open. A man dressed as a jailer walked in, and when he saw Daniels sitting silently on the edge of the bed, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Oh my God, you're finally awake." ”
At the sight of the jailer, Daniels immediately got up and threw many questions about why he was here. After half a day of explanation by the jailer, Daniels understood what had happened: it turned out that he was seriously injured and unconscious in the fight with the mercenaries, and just when the mercenaries were about to kill him, the alarmed city defense patrol happened to arrive and scared away the remaining mercenaries, and he was also captured by the city defense patrol and handed over to the Metropolitan Police Department. In order to find out the course of this major bloody case in the imperial capital, which caused eight deaths and one injury, the Metropolitan Police Department immediately launched an investigation into the case, and at the same time, it also invited a powerful priest in the city of Catalan to treat Daniels, in order to get the most valuable first-hand information from the mouth of the only survivor at the scene.
Daniels was disappointed when he asked what was going on. It turned out that this incident had nothing to do with Robonia from beginning to end, she did not appear around her at all, and it seemed that she was hallucinating that day.
Upon learning of Daniels' awakening, the Sheriff's Department immediately interrogated Daniels. In fact, during the time that Daniels was in a coma, the Sheriff's Department had roughly ascertained the facts of the case, and finally, after asking Daniels in detail about the case, the Sheriff's Office handed over the case file to the court.
The day of trial finally arrived, and Daniels stood in the dock, indifferently listening to the judge's verdict.
"The defendant, Daniels Notch, had a bloody clash with the mercenaries of the Vulture Mercenary Group in the Green Jade Bar, and was later ambushed by the mercenaries of the Vulture Mercenary Group in retaliation, resulting in a major bloody case in which eight people died. The mercenaries of the Vulture Mercenary Regiment were the first to provoke and the latter to ambush, and the defendant's behavior should have been excessively defensive. However, the defendant acted too viciously in the previous bar conflict, which indirectly caused a larger bloody case in the future, and he was not the party who was not entirely at fault. ”
"The defendant, Daniels Knoch, was sentenced to exile and confiscated to the northern frontier and was not allowed to leave for 20 years. ”
In the sacred courtroom, the judge's majestic voice echoed for a long time. The huge auditorium was empty. No one cared about him, and therefore no one came to listen, and the young boy was so lonely. The court's verdict said that he killed eight mercenaries, but in fact, he only killed four mercenaries in his memory, and the deaths of the four mercenaries all happened after he fell unconscious, although this plot is a big suspicion in the whole case, but Daniels did not tell it to the sheriff and the judge, and he was so disheartened that he didn't want to care about it at all.
The day before the trial, Daniels also received a notice of expulsion from Augustus College, and the former top students of the academy fell in this way.
"No one else can come to see me, why don't you come, did you really abandon me like this....... At the moment when he was escorted out of the courtroom by the bailiff, the young man murmured blankly.
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A ray of sunlight fell through the bars into the dimly lit cell, shining on Daniels' face as he sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed, staring blankly out of the bars with towering cheekbones and sunken cheeks.
Since returning to his cell in Citéla Catalan No. 2 five days ago from the court's sentencing chamber, Daniels has not touched a drop of rice, and the prison meals brought by the jailer have all been cheaper than the gray-haired mouse that had made a nest in the corner of the cell.
Daniels was so hungry at the moment that he was completely handsome and chic. He's like a walking corpse, losing interest in everything, including eating!
Perhaps, this is the so-called mourning is greater than heart death!
Outside the cell door, there was a sudden sound of footsteps.
The sound of footsteps made the stunned Daniels come back to his senses slightly, now is not the time for the jailer to deliver prison food, so it is obvious who is coming from outside the prison door.
Today is the day he was escorted to the Northland, and the person who came at this moment should be the soldier in charge of the escort.
The cell door opened, and three knights dressed in white cloaks, silver armor, and long swords at their waists entered the cells.
Seeing these three well-equipped knights, who were obviously not ordinary soldiers, Daniels was stunned for a moment, and then sneered, it seems that the strength of his fifth-level swordsman is very jealous of some people, and he actually sent three masters to escort him, is this afraid that he will escape halfway?
"Let's go!" Daniels didn't want to say more, got up and walked out of the cell.
Seeing Daniels say this, the three knights in charge of escorting him did not embarrass him, and turned around and walked out of the cell.
The moment the three knights turned, Daniels jerked at his feet and looked at their backs in amazement.
Daniels' breathing grew heavy.
For he saw a striking golden cross embroidered in the center of the white cloak of the three knights.
"Radiance Crusade?" Daniels felt a sudden stir of mixed feelings in his heart.
The Radiant Crusaders were an elite legion of the Byzantine Empire with a very special military formation. It is special because it is the only legion in Byzantium that is under the control of both the Imperial War and the Holy Catholic See. The dual leadership structure allowed the Legion Commander of the Radiant Crusade to also serve as the Deputy Head of the Templar Order, which was directly under the Holy See. Both the Imperial War and the Holy See have invested significant resources in this legion. Within Byzantium, the Holy Radiance Crusade even had the name of the First Legion of the Empire.
The Radiant Crusaders' preeminent status gave them the highest priority in the Byzantine Empire's annual recruitment of recruits.
Many of the top graduates of Augustus College each year were recruited into the Radiant Crusade.
If Daniels hadn't been removed from Augustus, by the time graduation season came in a few months' time, it would have been no surprise that he would have served in the Radiant Crusade.
But now......
Before Daniels could finish his emotion, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, how could it be that the Holy Radiant Crusaders sent someone to escort such a small prisoner as him? Even if he was a prisoner of the Divine Radiant Crusade and went to the Northland Border Pass to join the army, he had never heard of any troops of the Holy Radiance Crusader now in the north? If these three knights were here to receive the troops, it would not be right at all. Moreover, even if the Holy Radiance Crusader has troops in the Northland, but with his identity as a 'thief army', he can only join the ordinary legion when he arrives in the Northland, and it is absolutely impossible to enter an elite legion like the Holy Radiance Crusader.
The more Daniels thought about it, the more messed up his head became, and since he couldn't figure it out, then don't think about it. He took a deep breath, discarded the distractions, and silently followed the three Crusader knights of the Holy Radiance out of the second prison of Catalan City.
On the square outside the No. 2 prison, two war horses and a carriage were parked.
Of the three knights, two rolled over and stepped onto their horses, while the remaining one stepped into the carriage and sat in the coachman's seat.
The knight, who was acting as a coachman, then motioned for Daniels to enter the carriage.
Daniels was a little stunned.
Horse-drawn carriages were also provided along the way to the border gates, and when was the treatment of the troops so good?
Daniels, despite the strangeness in his heart, did so without saying a word.
The knight's coachman shook the reins and shouted, "Drive!" The tall horse in front of the carriage spread its hooves and pulled the carriage away from the square.
The other two knights immediately urged their horses to go, one left and one right, and followed on either side of the carriage.
Inside the carriage, Daniels was silent, and after a moment he reached out and lifted the corner of the curtain, his eyes scanning the street, confirming that the carriage was indeed heading out of Cataloland. However, the direction of the carriage was the West Gate, not the North Gate. The place where he was sent was the Northland, but why did the carriage go west?
Daniels became more and more confused.
"Where are we going?" he asked, leaning over to lift the curtain of the carriage.
"Barracks!" replied the knight coachman without looking back.
Daniels wanted to continue to ask which barracks it was, but the golden cross behind the knight's cloak suddenly made him think that the Radiant Crusader's base was not in the western suburbs of Cataloland?
Daniels didn't ask again, but lowered the curtain and slowly sat back into the car.
The roads outside Cataland are far less pauled than in the city, and as soon as you get out of the city, the carriage begins to jolt, and Daniels becomes restless with the undulation of the wheels.
What's going on here?
After more than an hour, the carriage finally stopped.
"It's here, come down!" said the knight's coachman.
Daniels stepped out of the carriage.
What caught his eye was a huge military camp. Three large flags fluttered over the barracks, except for the imperial flag and the military flag, one of which was very similar to the knight's cloak that accompanied him all the way, all of them were white and decorated with a golden cross in the middle, the only difference was that there was an extra silver border rolled on the edge of the flag. This banner is the legion flag of the Holy Radiance Crusaders.
Sure enough, he was taken to the Holy Radiance Crusader Barracks, but I don't know why he intersected with the Holy Radiance Crusaders?
"Let's go, boy, my lord is waiting to see you!" the knight coachman stepped out of the carriage and led Daniels into the barracks with two other men who had dismounted.
The three took Daniels to a nondescript three-story building in the barracks, and after greeting the guards at the door, they led him up to the third floor and stood in front of an office.
"Your Excellency wants to meet you alone, you can go in alone!" said one of the knights.
Daniels hesitated for a moment, then pushed the door open.