Desay Eve took Cress blindfolded to a camp and untied the ropes from her hands.

"I'm going to ask you something, don't lie to me."

She sat on the floor, her eyes meeting Kress's. If Kress lied, she would have seen it firsthand. Maybe she wasn't much older than Kress in terms of age, but she always exuded a dangerous aura, as if everyone had a grudge against her, which made people feel afraid.

"Just ask, and I'll tell you. But there are some things about character, I can't tell you, and I don't want to lie to you. ”

Kress took a deep breath and said to Desaivi.

Desaivi nodded, then asked.

Their conversation lasted for a long time, and their attitudes became more and more relaxed, from interrogation to normal chat.

Even the robbers around him were surprised by this.

..............

At this time, in a village where peony mercenaries had asked for directions, Byron's mercenary troops and the guards of the local nobles had surrounded the village, and the soldiers searched everywhere, and everyone was gathered in an open field, and the robbers who were hiding in the village and had not left were pulled out one by one and dragged in front of Byron.

"The people of a village are all shielding the robbers, so much so that this is the case. If it weren't for the fact that there were too many people involved, I would want to hang these people right now! ”

The knight who had followed Byron and them in attacking the robbers had a look on his face, and when Byron had told him before, he had not believed that there would be so many people helping the robbers and bandits in the forest. But the fact is that these robbers have infiltrated the area and integrated into the local population.

If it weren't for this incident that exposed them, maybe something would have happened in the future.

Two or three hundred mobs and robbers calling themselves "Brotherhoods" were enough to defeat all the guards and militia of a baron and plunder an entire village.

The news had reached the nearby nobles, and soon the nearby guards would assemble and work with Byron to uproot the self-proclaimed Brotherhood.

According to the knight's intentions, he would hang the two robbers in public to set an example to the people below. In this regard, Fatis was silent, and Ellen was strongly supportive. Bandak was obviously a little unhappy with the knight, but he didn't say anything in the end.

The two men were pushed onto the gallows, and the women below covered their children's eyes. The wives of the two men covered their mouths and wept, and there was a commotion among the men, many of whom tried to rush to the front, but were blocked by the soldiers around them.

"Be quiet, or go up with them!"

The knight roared angrily, and the men held back their anger and returned to the group.

The village chief wanted to say something, but swallowed what he wanted to say under the angry gaze of the knight and Elleen, and waited with his head bowed as the trial began.

But at this time, Byron stood up and told the knight that in order to ensure the fairness of the trial, he would give the two robbers a chance to speak.

The knight didn't want to agree, but he was surrounded by Byron's soldiers, and it wouldn't be good for him if he had a conflict with Byron, so he reluctantly agreed to Byron's suggestion, but he also told Byron that there was no point in doing so.

"Meaningless, these bandits are full of foul language and disregard for honor. We don't have much to say to them, maybe you can talk to them about something. ”

There was a hint of disdain in this knight's words, which meant that nobles like them had nothing to say to these people, and civilian mercenaries like Byron were naturally another matter. He used this to mock Byron's identity, and did not spit out a single dirty word.

Byron smiled, ignoring his sarcasm, and walked up to the two robbers, whose necks were almost in the ropes.

"Do you have any justification in the name of justice and honor?"

Byron asked.

"You bastards!"

One of the robbers was dead and silent, while the other cursed. He scolded the king, scolded the nobles, scolded Byron for being the lackeys of the nobles.

He told the people what had happened to him, the harsh taxes, the arrogance and hypocrisy of the aristocracy.

When the village was in danger, the nobles did not care whether they lived or died. And as soon as they had recovered their strength, they would take away their cattle and sheep, and snatch the last few of their children. He said that instead of starving to death in the fields, he would better join the fraternity. He said that the Brotherhood never robbed the poor, but punished the poor and stripped them of their property.

He believes that this is justice, this is true justice. And Byron and his peony mercenaries are a group of mercenary aristocratic lackeys who help them take away what is in the hands of the poor.

The crowd below shouted in support of his opinion, and the young man straightened his back, waiting for death like a hero.

The soldiers lost their control, and the knight walked impatiently towards the two robbers. Although he was quite proud to see Byron's disgrace, but everything had to be measured, and he didn't want to see these people rebel, after all, he would have to collect taxes from them in the future.

But Byron stopped him, and confronted the robber with a straight face in front of the civilians and soldiers.

"You claim to be righteous and fair, but I don't see anything of your so-called justice and justice."

"You rob innocent caravans, you slaughter passers-by who are also running for their livelihood. You plunder everything, but you don't pluck a single hair. The main reason why you don't rob the poor people in these villages is not because of the hardships they live, but because they don't have any money on them! ”

"Maybe you have had a miserable past and been treated inhumanely, but this is not a reason for you to sin!"

"You two, and these people down there, you just hate the rich and the noble. Many of you rob others of their money just to live like them, to be above your poor brothers like them. ”

"I admire your courage, but your actions and practices will only bring greater disaster to your family and to this village. And we are not the lackeys of the aristocracy, we help them collect taxes, and we are even willing to exempt your own income to make you feel better, but you have to inch in, and even want to attack us. You want to live, but we don't want to starve! ”

Byron's words weren't brilliant, but they did quell the riots below. In fact, he still has a lot to say about the nobles, but at this time he can only hold it in his heart.

The robber was silent, still angry, but he could not say anything to contradict Byron.

"In the name of the king and the lord, in the name of honor and the law, I declare you to be guilty of death."

The knight walked over, and with some haste pronounced the death sentence of the two men, and pulled down the board under their feet.

The two robbers finally lost their breath after a struggle, and Byron was once again in front of the stage.

"Remember, we are here because the Brotherhood attacked our people, and they killed our brothers, do they deserve to die? We have come for revenge and have no other purpose. But whoever stands in front of our Peony mercenaries, we will fight them to the end! ”