() Seeing that Owen is going to die......

At this moment, a crossbow arrow was fired at the bearded man's vest with a whizz, and the latter realized it, gave up the slash at Owen, turned around and swung it sharply, just to block the crossbow arrow

Once again, Owen narrowly escaped death and scrambled a life from under the scythe of death

At the same time, three powerful crossbow arrows were fired at the same time at the three robbers besieging John, who were far inferior to their bosses, two were shot through the heart, one through the throat, and the bodies of the three robbers fell to the ground like three empty cloth bags, ending their life of sin

The sudden and sudden change also made John in the scuffle feel uncomfortable

The bearded man of the Knights Templar recognized the emblem on the banner of this team, and heard the shouting, and in the midst of the entanglement, John and the thirteen robbers who were still alive temporarily stopped fighting, and Mu Ran faced the sudden appearance of the third force

The two paladins at the head stared at the bearded man, and then the younger one said, "Your journey has come to an end, Duke the Jackal, and I will arrest you in the name of the paladin William Mano."

When Duke the Jackal heard the paladin say this, John Duncan's heart shook slightly, it turned out that it was him, no wonder he was so cruel

The bearded man, Duke the Jackal, heard the paladin shout his real name, and then left his accomplice and turned around and ran, only a fool would be the enemy of two paladins at the same time

However, even if he didn't want to be an enemy of the paladin, would the paladin let him go, only William Mano took his matching sword and shield from the saddle of his mount, jumped forward from his mount like an arrow, rushed straight forward at a great speed, and rushed to Duke at once, stopping his way, Luduk turned around, but at some point, another paladin stood behind him with a two-handed greatsword, and the rest of the robbers hurriedly scattered, and the paladin's team was the only priest who did not move, and the other four crossbowmen took out new crossbow arrows from their quivers, and the light cavalry and two shield men rushed forward to chase their own targets

The so-called Jackal Duke is a notorious robber, Duke is 42 years old, born in 1633 in a small fishing village in the Kingdom of Sealand, an archipelago country, the third son of a fisherman's family, he has great strength and hard work, and is praised by other villagers in the fishing village, if it were not for the fourth war between the kingdoms of Sealand and the kingdoms of Medin, he would have lived in the fishing village as a small man carefree for the rest of his life, but it was that war that changed Duke's life

Historically, the Kingdom of Zealand and the Kingdom of Medin have fought a total of four battles because of territorial disputes, of which the fourth war is the most fierce battle, due to the extremely strict attrition of soldiers on the front line, the king of Sealand issued a national conscription order, all the villagers and families who send strong men to follow the lords to fight can be exempted from taxes for one year, the first year Duke's eldest brother joined the army, but died a month later; In the third year, the war was still going on, and Duke, who had just turned 15, joined the army, but after joining the army, Duke Jr. was much luckier than his two older brothers, and despite his humble background, he showed extraordinary fighting talent and made great achievements in battle, and after the war, he was promoted to close guard by the local lord

You must know that in the Holy Light Society, the boundary between nobles and commoners is strict, and even more so in the army, every level of the army commander must be a son of a nobleman as a civilian soldier, no matter how prominent the battle exploits are, it is impossible to get promoted, being able to become the close guard of the lord is already the highest honor that a civilian soldier can obtain, and Duke's family has also been in their fishing village for a while

However, the unforeseen circumstances followed, and soon after, a palace coup took place in the kingdom, and the lords of the entire kingdom pledged allegiance to two rival groups, and the two factions killed each other...... The civil strife lasted for two years, Duke's lord's allegiance was defeated, the new king was ruthless, the lord's family was labeled traitors, and his close guards were wiped out except for Duke, who ran relatively fast, and then Duke fled back to his hometown. The small fishing village, but his family's former aura has disappeared, a qiē is not just a simple return to the original state, the attitude of the neighbors in the same village towards them has changed a hundred and eighty degrees, later, due to the informant of the villagers of the same village, Duke's identity as a traitor and the original close guard was revealed, he was caught by the local sheriff and put in prison, his parents hanged themselves, waiting in the prison to be executed, Duke underwent some unknown changes in his thinking, he escaped from prison that night and returned to the village, killed everyone in the fishing village, and then set a fire to burn the fishing village clean, and then Duke embarked on a road of no return

Since people of non-aristocratic origin do not have the right to participate in the knightly qualification examination, no one can say for sure what Duke's strength is, but it is said that although he has not yet been able to cultivate the spirit of war, he has already surpassed the level of ordinary legion knights, and he led his men to burn and plunder everywhere, and the methods are extremely ferocious, this gang of robbers avoids well-defended cities, and generally targets villages and small towns that are defenseless, and they not only plunder all the wealth they can take from the inhabitants, but also Humiliating the local women, and finally brutally killing all the local residents, and then burning the entire village and town, along with all the property that could not be taken away, the method is like a pack of jackals, so the jackal has become Duke's nickname, in recent years, the jackal Duke and his men have wandered around the countries of the Holy Light Cult to commit crimes everywhere, and the actions of this gang are outrageous, and at the same time, his name is getting louder and louder, attracting more and more outlaws to join his gang, and its momentum is also growing, Duke's power has reached its peak, and the rabble under his command has reached as many as 400 people

The behavior of Duke and his men caused public outrage, not only were all the countries of the Holy Light Cult wanted by them, but even the Central Church directly issued a wanted warrant for this group, four years ago, when Duke Jackal and his gang wandered to the Rocard Empire to commit crimes, they were surrounded and annihilated by the combined forces of Rocaldi and the Knights Templar, who received information in advance, killed and captured hundreds of robbers on the spot, and Duke's group was severely damaged, but Duke himself and a dozen backbones of the group fled, and then there was no trace of them for the next few years, only the occasional sporadic similar attacks in various countries showed the world: Duke the Jackal is still alive in this world

However, as William had said, Duke's journey had come to an end, and the battle had ended in less than a minute, and Duke's men had been easily killed by several Templar soldiers, as for Duke himself......

Hmph, self-defeating, Milorus stood with his two-handed greatsword on the ground, and glanced at the corpse with disdain, the legendary thief of the ocean, who ended his life with a dagger hidden in his left sleeve at the moment he was subdued, and perhaps he hid the dagger in that place and waited for it to kill himself at this moment

He knew that he was guilty of the crime he was guilty of, and he was afraid that he would die if he was brought back by us, and William Mano sighed lightly, this task is completed, let's go, we have a second mission

After saying that, the two paladins walked over to John side by side

Duke Duncan, you are the model of bravery and loyalty that a knight should be, you are very worthy of admiration, William respectfully bowed to John, and Milorus next to him looked indifferent

Duke this gang of robbers did evil in our kingdom of Poile, you have eliminated him, as the royal knight of Poyler, I should thank you, but - John is wary of these two paladins, and if it were not for the good play that you and the Fayale Empire directed in Hansand a few days ago, Duke would not dare to mess around in my country, and I don't think I should thank you for this

Duke Duncan's feelings, I know very well, this is a small oversight, we didn't expect Pan Alonda to find such a person beforehand, and we didn't expect that the people of the Fayale Empire would give them an important task without screening their identities, and William said with an apologetic look

Hum the Holy See, the Fayele Empire, and Panalonda were indeed premeditated, John snorted coldly, a small negligence, you know how many Poehler's villages I saw along the road were destroyed under this small negligence, and how many of Poehler's people lost their lives under this small negligence

Again, I deeply regret this, William explained that he was still humble, and in the course of a certain mission, we found that many villages had been burned, and the method was very similar to that of Duke the 'Jackal', and since Duke was also wanted by the Holy See, we decided to put aside the task at hand for a while, and hunt him down first

One of your so-called missions is to capture the princess, John noticed a detail in his words

It is not quite accurate to say that it is 'catching the princess', but it should be to welcome Princess Sophia to the Papal Island

Well, where is there so much nonsense, Milorus really can't stand the nagging of the two of them, and impatiently shouts that he just takes people away and completes the task

Milores: If I could, I would like to negotiate a solution to the problem, William frowned slightly to express his displeasure with that rude Milorus, who was an admirable knight, and I didn't want to do it casually

It was the mouth of the three knights talking, Susan held Owen's hand tightly, Owen could feel the cold sweat constantly coming out of Susan's palm, and he asked puzzledly: What's the matter, Susan, they killed all the robbers, and helped your uncle a lot, they are good people, why are you so nervous

They, they...... Not a good man, Susan said in a trembling voice that my father and brother were killed by them, and they must be trying to arrest me now

Ah, Owen was very surprised, aren't they knights, why would knights do such bad things

John took a step forward with his sword and said to the two paladins resolutely: I will never let you take away Her Royal Highness

Hmph, the current form shì can't help you, if you want, we will take her away, if you don't want to, we will take her away too, it seems that in the eyes of Milorus, only completing the task is the most important thing, and the other qiē has nothing to do with him

Duke Duncan, why are you stubborn, probably you should know that the poison in your body is called 'Black Widow's Tears', you should also know that after being poisoned by this poison, every time you fight, the toxin is deepened, and now the toxin has penetrated deep into your bone marrow, boldly say that you only have less than an hour to live now, although William's attitude is still good, he has slowly drawn the long sword from his waist, if you still want to fight, it will only make this less than an hour even shorter, give up, we still have a senior priest here to save you

Whether this was coercion or inducement, John remained unmoved

It's a pity, I'm sorry, I really don't want to be an enemy of you, William closed his eyes and turned away

You can die now, and Milorus dragged his two-handed greatsword and charged at John......

Unexpectedly, the Knights Templar had now been reduced to such a point that they were attacking children and poisoned and wounded knights—it was a sudden voice, not very loud, but full of clarity that reached everyone's ears now, and Milores, who was in the middle of the charge, stopped, and he turned his gaze to the source of the sound like everyone else

It was a dark, thin middle-aged man, dressed in old coarse cloth clothes, his face covered with the marks of time, which made him appear much older than he really was, he held one reins in one hand, and a white thin old horse on the other, and a leather frame hung on each side of the horse's back, which seemed to contain some leaves and flowers

Uncle Merkone Owen cried out excitedly

Who are you who you dare to do with our Templar Order, and Milorus asks the man who suddenly appears dressed like the average villager, which is also a question for everyone present (except for Owen and the other four children)

The man did not reply, he took out a metal plaque from his bosom and threw it at William Mano, who took it and examined it carefully, only to see that the metal plaque was exquisitely carved and by no means ordinary civilians could have, and there was a rose on it

Ah, the rose...... The emblem of the McMahon family...... William's words surprised everyone present: you are Putnnin McMahon, the Commander of the Templar Order who has been missing for twelve years, nicknamed 'The Rose Blade'.