Chapter 21: Accidental Arrest
There is a small town not far south from Doko, which is called a town, but it is actually a little larger than an ordinary village, but it is only because the houses are better built that I call it a town.
There are very few people coming and going, and it is very unnatural to see people walking on the street occasionally, so it can be seen that they are not ordinary people.
These men were strong, steady, and had been trained in the army, and they looked at Darius with admiration in their eyes, yes, this was our destination.
Darius led us to a spacious house, which was a little dilapidated, with peeling walls and rusty iron.
He knocked on the door, and the man who opened it was a wrinkled old man, who was originally quite tall but was much shorter because of his hunchback.
"General, please come in."
"You two just wait outside, find a corner to hide, and don't let anyone suspicious go."
Darius went in, and I saw twenty or so men standing in the courtyard, and the smell of killing from afar told me that they were all battle-hardened men.
Tyrone jumped on the roof next to him, as an assassin he was very good at finding hidden positions, and I also learned a lot of assassination techniques from Shadow Sensei, and the hiding positions were also very clever, I could clearly see the location of the house, and it was difficult to detect.
After a while, we didn't wait for the suspicious people, but we saw a group of heavily armed people coming straight here, led by a woman, her red hair, her light armor could not hide her graceful figure in the slightest, and there was a scar in the middle of her left eye, it was Caterina!
She commanded her soldiers to surround the hospital, and her voice was sonorous:
"Darius, Svein, you are surrounded, surrender quickly and follow me to your majesty."
Without hearing a response, she continued: "I'm counting dozens, don't blame me for being rude if you don't come out yet!" 1.2γ......"
Darius told us not to let go of suspicious people, but I don't know what to do when so many people suddenly come, do I have to fight with them? Just as I was hesitating, Tyrone came to me out of nowhere:
"It seems that the situation is unexpected, there is no point in us going in and reporting, hold them off first!"
Before I could answer, Tyrone rushed out, and where the throwing knife passed, three people immediately fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and then he flashed into a nearby alley and hid his figure, and then rushed out of the roof and knocked down the three again, all in an instant, and the enemy immediately diverted his attention.
"They still have accomplices outside, be careful!" The men immediately became vigilant.
"Leave them alone." Caterina didn't seem to care, and continued to shout inside: "It would be naΓ―ve for you to expect these two people to be able to hold us back, since you don't come out, then don't blame me for being rude, prepare to attack!" β
"Don't be impatient, Sister Caterina, you have to give us some time to dress up so that we can see you."
Darius walked out with a smile on his face, and next to him was a limping man, who was ugly, with almost white hair, and a black trench coat, and an eerie appearance of Svein.
"Just the two of you? My intelligence says there are twenty-seven people in the courtyard, and where are the other twenty-five? Those two clowns don't count, do they? β
I didn't show up the whole time, but Caterina knew that there was someone else here besides Tyrone, and it was not easy, and it seemed that her killer instincts were also very sensitive.
"Svein and I gossip a lot, when did there be so many people? Your intelligence must have gone wrong, come in and talk? β
"Two homeless people gossiping? What a joke, since you don't admit it, then I'll search for it myself! β
The house was already dilapidated, and they almost demolished it, but no one else was found, and it seemed that there was a secret passage in the house.
We didn't delay it, but the men had left, but I didn't understand why Darius and Svein weren't leaving together.
Caterina was very angry that the search was fruitless, and asked for Darius and Svein to be locked up, at this time I could no longer stand idly by, and rushed out with a steel gun, but I didn't expect Darius to wave his hand at me, and then they were obediently locked up, and had no intention of resisting.
Tyrone returned to me at this time: "Let's leave first, or we won't be able to leave in a while, looking at Darius's expression doesn't seem to want to start a war here." β
I hesitated for a moment, and suddenly Tyrone rushed in front of me and "belled" to help me block a throwing knife, but he was still hit in the right arm by another throwing knife.
"Let's go, she's got Darius now, and she'll be turning the buckle against the two of us in no time."
We quickly evacuated to a forest in the west, and I felt very guilty that this time not only did we not help, but Tyrone was injured, and if he hadn't saved me, I am afraid I would have died under Katerina's throwing knife.
It's no wonder that Mr. Ying always says to be vigilant when facing killers, and some killer moves come without warning.
"I'm sorry you were hurt."
"Any battle needs to be fully concentrated, otherwise you will die a miserable death, let's go, they won't chase us, let's go to the Immortal Fortress, this woman will definitely escort the two to the capital for trial, and then it will depend on the situation."
"This woman's name is Katarina, and she's a killer like you."
The Immortal Citadel is the capital of Noxus, and unlike the Secret Silver City, it is not only a thriving neighborhood and school, but also countless poor people and slaves, and the polarization is like ice and fire.
In the past, I had a little understanding of it through games, but now it's a different feeling to see it with my own eyes, it's just a city and you can see thousands of worlds.
One moment you may see a few citizens enjoying themselves, the next you will see slave owners whipping and scolding their subordinates, and next to a corner full of academic atmosphere, there are prostitutes and prostitutes hooking up with their clients.
We arrived here one step ahead of Caterina, and she arrived a day later, and now the entire Immortal Fortress was talking about the Darius and Svein rebellion, and most of them were convinced that these two men would not rebel, and that their exploits to Noxus were unmatched.
But the Emperor's execution order made people angry but helpless, and Darkwell seemed determined to kill both of them, and in response to the suspicions, he ordered a public trial, set for two days later.
Tyrone and I carefully disguised ourselves to get a good look at the situation around the execution ground, so that we could know that Tyrone was familiar with the place, and that Tyrone had said that he had been captured for an assassination attempt and later ransomed to the Colosseum.
I had always wondered what kind of person would have escaped Tyrone's assassination, so I asked tentatively, and his answer surprised me: "Svein." β
"If you're going to kill Svein, why do you want to help them now?"
"Because of the different positions, I spent several years honing my skills, just to kill the person who once trampled on my hometown, that is, Svein, but in the end I failed, and was later ransomed by the boss of Kenchi, through talking with him, I learned that Svein had already been dismissed, and the original invasion of Ionia was forced by the emperor to do so, since he now wants to overthrow the emperor, of course I am willing to serve."
"Is this what Tam said you all share?"
"Yes, but not exactly, I just want to kill the emperor."
Sure enough, Tamu knows everything, this catfish is really a sperm, others don't know anything about him, but he knows anything he wants to know.
Through my investigation, I discovered that the execution table of the Immortal Fortress was the size of a football field, surrounded by high platforms, which were said to hold an entire city, and no matter what form of killing, it was very popular in Noxus.
It had been raining for the past two days, but it hadn't affected people's attention to the matter, and the public trial of Darius and Svein had attracted a lot of people, and it was much easier for Tyrone and I to get involved.
There were five people at the judgment seat, and in the middle of the roof was definitely the Emperor of Noxus, Brond Darkwell.
He was flanked by Caterina and a man in a black veil, and at the outermost were two old men with books in their hands, apparently the ones in charge of the conviction.
In the past, when the people saw Dakwell, they would shout "Your Majesty the Great Emperor", but today they are shouting "Let them go".
I don't think any ruler would want to see the people love their men more than themselves.
He drank to stop the uproar of the people:
"Quiet! My dear people, I know that you love these two people very much, because I used to like them in the same way, but when you know what they have done, you will understand why I have forged my love. β
The people quieted down and listened carefully to Darkwell's explanation of the ins and outs:
"As we all know, the failure of Darius to conquer Demacia, the loss of more than half of the elite of the Tomahawk Legion, and the defeat of Svein even to the group of primitives in Ionia, caused the vitality of the Black Feather Legion to be greatly damaged, and the defeat of these two legions cost Noxus several years of hard work."
"But they conquered a lot of places."
"They made Noxus famous." There are still many people who speak for them.
"Listen to me, they have made great achievements, I can forgive them for a defeat, but they are trying to subvert the empire!"
The people were quiet for a while, and then they all expressed their disbelief that the two famous generals who shed their blood for the empire would actually do such a thing as subverting the empire? No one could believe it, and that's when Caterina stood up.
"What Your Majesty said is true, I am Caterina du Quecao, the eldest daughter of the legendary general Duquecao, I believe everyone is no stranger to my father, the news of my father's unexpected death ten years ago made the whole of Noxus grief, but the real situation is not the case."
Seeing that everyone's attention was successfully diverted, Caterina continued:
"My father was the general of Noxus before his death, and the two most proud subordinates were Darius and Svein, and handed over the two elite legions of Tomahawk and Black Feather to them, but I didn't expect that the ambitions of the two were more than that, they wanted to gain higher power, so they plotted to kill my father!"
After saying these few words, everyone suddenly boiled, and most people still didn't believe it, but some began to waver.
After all, Duke Kao was once the idol of the whole of Noxus, people have a very deep affection for him, and the cause of his death has always been a mystery, but now it has suddenly been revealed, how can people not doubt it?
Caterina stopped the crowd again, and gave Darius a vicious look: "If your esteemed Darius doesn't tell a lie, then ask him to tell him if it's true!" β
"That's right, I was the one who cut off Durkkao's head with an axe ten years ago!"