Chapter 70: Prologue to the Empire's Turmoil (2)
Seeing that Pedion was actually coming towards him, General Arsian couldn't help but instantly raise his throat.
I saw that he made a sword from a tree branch, and it was as fast as lightning, and in just a few strokes, the soldiers standing in front of General Asian were repulsed, and the last blow was pointed directly at the general's throat, and only a minute was left to stop!
“——!!!”
General Arsian thought that he would die in an instant, but he didn't expect the other party to be able to use his swordsmanship so exquisitely, presumably if it was really Na Pedien, his swordsmanship would be even more amazing.
So the soldiers were stunned, they didn't expect this plain-looking guy to be so good.
Pedion withdrew the branch from her hand and tossed it aside, her serious face turning into a smile again.
"Offended, General Arsion."
“…… No, no, no, where is it, it's the old man......"
Before General Arsian could finish speaking, Pedion made a stop gesture and said
"It's okay, let's go inside first."
"Good! Your Excellency, please lead the way——"
The two men walked until they reached the more spacious room, and General Arsian motioned for his soldiers to go outside, and he and Pedion walked inside.
The moment he opened the door, General Asian couldn't help but be surprised, there was actually a veteran who had been rumored to have died, his best friend.
General Arsian looked at Pedion in disbelief, and then at his best friend.
“…… This... Is it true? ……”
He felt incredible, this kind of thing was amazing!
The best friend nodded, smiled, made a gesture, and said in a hoarse voice
"Long time no see, Arcion!"
When General Arsian entered the house, he was once again shocked that this dear friend had many more scars on his face and hands.
"This ...... What's going on?"
General Asian was at a loss.
"Sit down first, and listen as I tell you, General Asian."
General Asian then sat down and motioned for a few soldiers behind him to go out.
"General Arsian, I guess there have been many questions along the way......"
Pedi sat in the middle, looked at General Arsian and said.
General Arsian nodded, indicating that it was indeed so, and listened attentively.
"First of all, let me tell you why I am in Imo Village! I have been pretending to be a commoner and asking around in the Imperial Capital for news, and I happened to hear that you have been framed, and the king wants to punish you, and ordered ten members of the Purple Thorns to assassinate you, so I followed them to the village of Imo, and dealt with them before they could do anything......"
"Wait a minute, when did you start asking and why did you fall to this point?"
General Arsian interrupted him curiously.
"This, I will explain slowly, please don't worry, general."
Pedion said unhurriedly.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency continues!"
"The Purple Thorn is the personal unit of the original Count of Kearns, and now I don't know why it has become the king to command them, and Andrew who was originally eliminated by the mysterious person of the Slag Hui in Imo Village should have heard of it, and it is the original captain of the Purple Thorn."
"I see, I heard that there are not many people in the purple thorn team, they are very strong, and they are ruthless! We ended up in their hands!"
"Not bad! But now that all the members of the Purple Thorn have died, it can be regarded as your revenge. So, now I'll tell you something about me, twelve years ago, I was young and frivolous, thinking that I could sweep the continent by breaking through the realm of kings, even the current king, I don't care about it, he is also very jealous of me! He spent a lot of money trying to buy me, but I wasn't interested! Later, the king, fearing that I was getting stronger and stronger, and that he could not control me, ordered the daughter of your best friend to pretend to be in love with me, and finally poisoned my wine! Luckily, I only drank a small sip, but it almost killed me......"
"There is such a thing!? What's going on here?"
General Arsian looked at his dear friend again.
"Humph! The king was really not a thing, and he always thought that my control of the army was too great and dangerous, and he spread gossip that Pedion had bullied my daughter, and I didn't know the situation at the time, and I thought it was so rampant! Without noticing, the matter did not spread at all, but several people deliberately said in front of me that no one knew about this kind of thing. And although I was very angry, and I wanted to take the overall situation into account, I didn't turn my face immediately, who knew that the king used trickery again, saying that I was being wounded by Pedion, and my daughter ran to him without knowing it, and I received that Pedion actually kidnapped my daughter to him, and when I went in with the soldiers, I actually saw him grab my daughter with both hands, and I fought with him on the spot, and I was also injured by Pedion, and I was scarred in many places. ”
The best friend sighed after speaking, and seemed very helpless.
"This ......"
General Arsian looked at Pedion again.
"At that time, her daughter was going to beat me indiscriminately, but of course I didn't let her do it, and I kept saying that there was no such thing! I didn't expect that your dear friend would use force with me without asking the reason as soon as he came up! In a fit of rage, I slashed him, and some of the wounds on his body were indeed left by me! However, he also kept his hand at the beginning, and he really didn't make a ruthless move. ”
Pedion also said with some grievances.
"That'...... And what about later? ”
"After I was injured and went back, my daughter didn't bother to ask too much, she thought I was being bullied, so she came back and called many soldiers to look for him, and I ...... Alas! She had always held a grudge against him, and when I was wounded, I was assassinated, and my butler became a stand-in, and I escaped from the secret passage and was later rescued. ”
"Then doesn't your daughter hate her, and Pedion knows that she thinks your daughter is unreasonable, how can she love her so much?"
The more General Arsian listened, the more astonished he became, and the more he listened, the more he felt incredible.
"My stupid daughter, in the end, I didn't even identify the body, although he disguised it very similarly, but my daughter could still recognize it, she didn't even lift the cloth, she hugged and cried bitterly, and then many people attacked the mansion, and my daughter was rescued by another group of soldiers, this illusion made her think that these soldiers were rescuers, so she trusted them to follow. In the end, the mansion was on fire, and since I was rumored to have been injured, of course I said that I did not escape, and people did not suspect it too much. However, Pedion thought that our father and daughter were buried in the fire, and my daughter was in love with him in disguise ......"
By the time he finished speaking, his best friend was already in tears.
"How can this be ......?"
General Arsian slammed the table hard, his chest heaving in anger.
Pedion took the words of her best friend
"I didn't die, but my strength fell to only a dozen levels, my body was extremely weak, and even my appearance found a huge change, the king couldn't recognize it, I found something strange in it, and kept investigating, and five years later, I actually met your best friend! I knew some reasons, and then I practiced diligently, and finally broke through level 20, and a general saw that my strength was okay, so I became a guard chief! Two years later, I finally learned the truth and left the General's mansion to start plotting revenge with your best friend! Now, until now, you have become one of them again, and we want to use your power to get rid of this bastard!"
"Huh! I didn't expect it to be like this, this ...... I'm afraid it's difficult, I only have more than 300 soldiers brought out now, and now I'm afraid that going back will be a dead end, and I can't transfer troops! ”
General Asian was a little helpless.
"You're in Imo Village, didn't you find a thing!?"
Pedion asked tentatively.
"What?"
"Those Dark Knight Legions, but they were summoned by one person, the one who rescued you, called himself Shadow Kill, his strength is now unfathomable, we need his help!"
"-What!? Summoning magic? Those are actually called! I originally thought that he was just a steel-level adventurer with a strength close to that of a steel-level adventurer, after all, he only killed Benson! However, when you say that, I do find those Dark Knights very powerful! Without further ado, let's go find him and ask him to help!"
General Arsian was as excited as if he saw hope again.