Chapter 21: The Raging Civilians (I)

Noxus is a man who will "look down on all beings from above, and grovel to the weak on the knees to pay tribute to the strong and fish meat!" "This country where the natural laws of the jungle are expounded to the extreme. It differs from the Demacian Empire. In the Demacian Empire, as long as you do not transgress the laws of the empire, you enjoy the same status as noble nobles and even royalty, except for creatures such as slaves, of course.

Augustus didn't hate Noxus, a country with its bloody law of the jungle, but he didn't aspire to it either. A person who has lived in that peaceful and peaceful environment on the earth for a long time has more or less some comfortable problems that cannot be changed, and these problems may even be deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

It's just that Augustus himself doesn't know, in fact, he is very suitable for living in the Noxian Federation. His understanding of Noxus was far better than that of ordinary Noxian civilians, otherwise he would not have learned the life-saving hunting method with his father Saudi at the age of three.

The dilapidated earthen wall, which has been used as a passage by insects and ants, has small holes in it. The early morning sunlight shone into the house through the small holes, and the dilapidated-looking house was smeared with a sacred reddish glow. Augustus stood in the reddish glow, looking particularly sacred, with a slight smell of dust.

On the earthen wall hung only a horned bow and a quiver filled with arrows. This bullhorn bow did not belong to Augustus, but to the possession of one of the best hunters in the former city of Alder, Saud, who was Augustus's adoptive father.

When he was four years old, the bow and arrow that Saudi Arabia made for Augustus were buried in a Saudi cemetery with the death of Saudi Arabia when Augustus was six years old. Every June, Augustus would go to the outskirts of the city and sit for a while in the Saudi cemetery.

In fact, after Saud's death, the horned bow and quiver belonged to Augustus. Two years ago, Augustus also officially took over the glory of the first hunter of Alder City from Saudi Arabia. Pick up this horn bow. Augustus didn't have any strange feelings, holding the bow, Augustus was confident that even if the gods provoked him, he believed that the bow and arrow in his hand could shoot down.

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Hurriedly washing his face and brushing his teeth, Augustus walked towards Place Stirolan.

The atmosphere in Alder City is obviously different today, and the cloth that originally carried a hidden hostility has been completely lifted today. Whether it was a recruit or a giant in the city, those adults made no secret of their strong hostility and war intent towards each other. This made Augustus, who was alone and was using the morning, sigh lightly: "It's really worthy of a Noxus who gave birth to heroes and butchers." ”

When Augustus arrived, Stirons' Square was almost full, and although Augustus was not too late to get up, and none of the nobles on the high platform had arrived, these excited recruits were earlier than Augustus.

The vast majority of teenagers are armed with weapons. There were spears, spears, broadswords, and even iron rods, and the careful Augustus could tell that many of the weapons in the hands of these young men were brand new. Thinking of the smiling faces of the blacksmiths who had recently passed by the blacksmith shop, it almost didn't take them to think about it to know that the annual recruit meeting must be their happiest day.

Without waiting for Augustus to sigh too much, a voice with obvious arrogance and even a bit of condescension came to his voice: "Augustus, did you come to Place Stillo with the idea of failure?" Or maybe you don't have the money to buy a weapon that a knight or even a soldier should have? ”

A white horse slowly walked towards the square, and on it sat a young man with beautiful long blond hair, a handsome face, and a noble aristocratic temperament that caused the girls around him to scream again and again, and this man looked playful. He smiled at Augustus standing at the edge of the square.

Provocation?

Augustus smiled disdainfully in his heart, looked at Eisen of the Mark family, who had been deflated by his hands yesterday, with a faint smile on his face, and replied softly: "Dear Young Master Eisen, I must correct your opinion here. A true knight does not rely on the weapons in his hands, but on the strong physique of his own cultivation, and weapons are just an optional accessory for them! ”

Eisen couldn't refute this, but he didn't get as angry as he did yesterday. With a full aristocratic smile on his face, he said softly: "I remember that you are not a knight, nor a soldier!" ”

Augustus was in the strange and jealous eyes of the people. Plainly said through Solit's words: "Of course, now my identity is just a hunter among civilians!" No, I brought a bow and arrows. ”

With a faint smile on his face, Augustus answered the words of the nobleman Eisen very honestly as a commoner.

Eisen snorted lightly and dropped a sentence: "May the Lord bless you to shoot an arrow from your shoulder, not even one!" With a smiling aristocratic face, but it was obvious that the sneering face was arrogantly departing from the purebred Wheater horse, which needed at least ten strong minotaur slaves to buy.

Augustus made a perfect courtesy when he met a nobleman, and he bent over, his head down to his knees, and with a humble smile on his face, he watched the Solit, who rode a horse of noble blood, into Place Stiloland.

The purebred Wheater rode into Stironland Square with a bold look, leaving a trail of horseshoe prints in the eyes of civilians with a hint of brazenness. Envy, longing, ambition, the recruit's gaze on Solit, who had already gone away, came to his eyes one by one.

Augustus took the bow with the black horns, carried the quiver, and looked at Solit's back with a smile. Sweeping the envious, longing, and ambitious gazes of the recruits, with weapons in hand, a meaningful look flashed on their faces.

For Eisen's provocation, Augustus was frighteningly calm and rational. In Noxus, the nobility is always on the top, even if the commoners have a good reason, they must maintain a humble attitude in the face of the nobles, fight back, beat, and retaliate, which can only be done by the nobles fighting for the commoners or other nobles. Commoners have no right to do these things unless they are confronted by commoners of their class or slaves of inferior status.

In the eyes of outsiders, Augustus was a young man who was favored by the most noble and powerful nobleman in the city, the lord of Ergat, but even so, the fact that he was only a commoner could not be changed. Commoners had to bow their heads in the face of the nobility, whether they wanted to or not.

Being cautious in Noxus is not a bad thing at any time or place. The clever Augustus knew this very well, and in the face of some high-flying, full aristocratic demeanor came to him to him? Bare? Eisen, who was naked and provocative, he didn't mind making a little concession.

No, after Eisen left, the recruits who originally looked at him with strange eyes softened a lot. Although there is still jealousy and envy in his eyes, at least he does not regard Augustus as an outlier.

Rubbing his thumb against the swarthy horn bow and looking at Solit's fading back, Augustus murmured, "A humble and prudent commoner may have nothing to do in his life, and he may have the opportunity to be favored by a noble nobleman." An ignorant, stubborn, and unruly commoner can only survive and reproduce in the barren soil of civilians forever throughout his life! Oh, what elegant words! Unfortunately, this is not the case today. ”

The recruit squad was usually a group of fifteen people, but Augustus was very surprised that there were only nine people in the team. In addition to the six people who met Pompey, Eisen, Orit, Ural, Roger, and Kepler at the beginning, there was also a noble boy named Cairo Side and four noteworthy objects: Toquael, Isaac, Zhang Tianzuo, and Maude, two young men with long black hair, who were also long.

It can be seen from the crude weapons in the hands of Zhang Tianzuo and Maude that at least they do not belong to the category of nobles, and should also belong to the commoners like Augustus, Toquail, and Isaac.

The square was noisy and thunderous, and it felt like a boiling ocean. Sitting on a white horse, standing at the head of the line, Eisen was very eye-catching, and could even be said to have become the center of attention. Sweeping the envious eyes of the group, the mood of some annoyance from the dispute with Augustus just now disappeared in an instant and became pleasant.

Compared with Eisen, Oritt talked with Pompey and Cairo Side from time to time, belatedly, and the three who came to Stiroland Square seemed less eye-catching, but the elegance and nobility of the nobility did not need to be expressed in any words.

The square was already very crowded, but seeing these three young men with good temperament and aristocracy at first glance, the civilians standing in the square respectfully made way for the three of them to a road that was not too narrow, and by the way, they did not hesitate to give a sincere smile.

Looking at this scene, Augustus had a common man on his face, but there was a thick mockery in his heart, and he said to himself in a voice that he could hear: "Respecting the nobility is something that every commoner should understand, but challenging the nobility should also be prepared for every commoner!" If you don't understand the former, death will come quickly, and if you don't have the latter, you will be just a civilian! ”

With his arms outstretched and his eyes squinted, Augustus stared at the gradually rising sky and said with a bright smile: "The era of the ancient aristocracy has passed, and now it is the age of war and the age of the army!" ”

The sun shone on Augustus, and Augustus, who was walking forward in the sun at this moment, was really like the divine and majestic sun god Apollo, and he couldn't help but worship.

Coincidentally, at this time, Urgat and Svein stepped out of the carriage, and they were followed by a large number of nobles. The two happened to see this scene.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Urgart muttered to the sun in the sky, "What a good day! (To be continued.) )