Chapter Forty-Three: Hermione, the Wizarding Saintess
"The people of the Liberty are free, and we will not submit to power. It doesn't matter if it's an empire. The fangs of the doctrine are still the orders of the mediocre king. We will all resist to the end and defend our freedom to the death! ”
In a small town in the southeast of the Rising Sun Empire, a girl in a black robe who looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old was giving a speech.
The girl was none other than Hermione, who had been summoned by Zhang Yao, and in Hermione's memory, she was traveling around the world and making a brief stop in this town called Liberty Territory.
The day after Hermione's stay here, a group of ironclad soldiers broke into the peaceful town. The soldiers burned down the houses where they spent the winter, and destroyed all the farmland and even the workshops. He claimed that he was ordered by His Majesty the King to let everyone go to the Imperial City of the Rising Sun and build four satellite cities.
The relentless fire devoured the homes of the Liberty people, and while the soldiers were driving the poor people away from their homes like cattle and sheep, Hermione, who was hiding in the crowd, finally chose to stand up.
"Who are you, and why are you destroying everyone's homes!" Although Hermione was only fourteen or fifteen years old, her heroic face conquered everyone as soon as she appeared.
Under her forced gaze, even a dozen soldiers who drove away the people. I have to sigh from the bottom of my heart, this is really an angel who has descended to the earth.
Angels are the yearning for good things in people's hearts, but between life and yearning, these soldiers are destined to make a choice.
"The king has ordered that all neutral free towns in the territory of the Rising Sun Empire be destroyed. Everyone must rush to the Imperial City of the Rising Sun and build four satellite cities there! The soldiers drew their weapons, their swords pointed at Hermione.
They were warriors, and it was their mission and duty to carry out the king's orders.
"Let's not leave, this is our home!"
"They are the aggressor, hit the aggressor!"
Seeing Hermione surrounded by soldiers, the hearts of the people in the Liberty Collar were boiling. Countless people began to revolt under the resentment of burning homes and losing their fields, and the battle could no longer be avoided at this moment.
Although the Free Territory is said to be a territory, not many people live here. Hundreds of young men who had lost their homes, wielding scythes and hoes, fought with dozens of soldiers.
The young and strong people who had not been trained were as powerless as cattle and sheep to be slaughtered by dozens of soldiers.
The sickles and hoes in everyone's hands could not pierce the armor of the soldiers at all. And these formally trained soldiers, every time they wave their weapons, they can take a human life.
The whole scene was extremely chaotic, and the child's crying for his mother was endless.
The fire engulfed the entire Liberty Territory, and the soldiers no longer cared whether it was a man or a woman, a child or an old man, as the slaughter continued.
"Weapon deprivation!" A heavenly sound filled the fire and blood, and Hermione stood between the soldiers and the rebels with her magic wand in hand, biting her little lip.
"Wizard!" The well-informed captain of the soldiers, looking at the long sword that had been knocked away at his feet, couldn't help but take a few steps back.
People's fear of wizards comes from the soul, and the legendary wizards are extremely powerful and evil.
Dozens of soldiers, one by one, looked at Hermione, who was holding a glowing wand, and looked at their captain in a pinch.
"Wizard, I hope you don't meddle in your business. This is the territory of the Rising Sun Empire, not your wizard's Isengard! Although the captain of the soldier was also frightened by the name of the wizard, he looked at Hermione's childish face, which was obviously fourteen or fifteen years old, but he did not want to lose face in front of his subordinates.
"This little wizard is only a few years old, I don't believe how powerful she is!" The captain of the soldier cheered himself up in his heart, and approached Hermione step by step.
As the Captain of the Soldier drew closer, Hermione stepped back, and even though she was Gandalf's daughter and a wizard, it still didn't change the fact that she was only fourteen years old and an underage girl.
Hermione looked a little frightened under the pressure of dozens of soldiers, and her hand holding her wand trembled. Even at this moment, she had forgotten how to pronounce the spell, and the thought of escaping kept rising from the bottom of her heart.
"You can do it, you can do it, Hermione! Don't be afraid, you're a wizard, you're a powerful wizard! With tears in her eyes, Hermione exclaimed the moment the captain of the soldier reached out and grabbed her, and raised her wand in her hand: "Great Strike!" ”
"Bang!"
The wand glowed red, and the captain of the soldiers, who had just raised his hand, bore the brunt of it. Like a passer-by who was hit by a car, he flew straight upside down and crashed into the crowd of soldiers.
The power of magic showed the beauty of violence in this moment, and the armor of the soldier captain who was sent out of the air was already twisted and deformed. His face turned a terrifying purple, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Let's go, go to the military headquarters and report it, and say that there are wizards in the Freedom Territory who are making trouble!" The captain of the soldiers struggled to give the order, and after saying this, he tilted his head and fainted.
The morale of the soldiers was greatly reduced by the terrifying face of the captain, and the fear of the wizard's power prevailed in their hearts. Dozens of soldiers no longer had the courage to fight in front of Hermione, and they lifted the seriously injured and unconscious captain with all hands and feet, and fled like lost dogs.
"Victory, we victory! We have driven out the minions of the evil Empire, and we have defended our homeland! The living Liberty led the rejoicing, and the heroic treatment fell on Hermione like money.
Hermione stood in the crowd and looked at the simple gaze of these people, a life-changing decision appeared in the girl's heart at this moment.
"I'm a wizard and I should help them. Just like my father Gandalf, help them fight against the rule of the evil empire and help them protect their homeland and justice! Hermione made up her mind in her heart, and she decided that her travels would end there, because she had found something greater than traveling the continent, and that was to help the poor rebel against the dictatorship.
Hermione has settled in the Liberty Territory, and news spreads that wizards are guarding freedom.
More and more neutral towns are migrating to the area, and many believe that under the leadership of Hermione, they will rebuild their homes here and form an alliance of freemen to fight together against the bloody oppression of the evil empire.
In the territory of the Rising Sun Empire, which is polarized and does not exist in Hermione's free territory, the army of the Rising Sun Empire swept through like locusts, and all the people and materials were plundered, and they were continuously transported to the Imperial City of the Rising Sun.
And the southeast, where Hermione, a wizarding saintess, sits in town, has once again gathered a new force. Many poor homeless people and free-spirited people spontaneously gathered here to form a free territory of human beings that survived under the protection of wizards.
"Can we hold on to the Liberty Territory?" Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, winter went to spring. And as the snow slowly melted, the news that the Empire of the Rising Sun was deploying troops to prepare to extinguish the Free Territory also weighed on everyone's hearts like a dark cloud.
"Mario!" Standing on the walls of the Imperial City of the Rising Sun, Zhang Yao looked at the thriving scene of spring blossoms, and said to Mario behind him: "Any enemy who stands in the way of the empire is destined to be crushed. Destroy the free territory first, and then wave the army east into the kingdom of Rohan. Mario, you have a heavy burden, I hope you will not disappoint me and the people of the Empire! ”
"Yes, Your Majesty! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to fight for the Empire! Mario nodded respectfully, and three flaming fireballs appeared out of thin air outside the white suspenders.
"Go, get that wizard back, and march east!" In Zhang Yao's muffled words, Mario instantly jumped off the city wall.
Under the city walls, the 50,000-strong army that had been assembled was ready to go. Among them, the veteran Yan Junping was the commander of the three armies, Mario and five hundred dwarf warriors were the vanguard, and Yuan Tiangang was the military advisor, forming the spring offensive of the Rising Sun Empire.
"Go, let the honor bear witness to your existence!" Zhang Yao waved his hand at the 50,000 soldiers, and countless people shouted in unison: "Destroy the free territory first, in the Taluo Khanate!" Victory, the rising sun will win! ”
"Mario, Hermione! Such a battle is really worth looking forward to! Looking at the distant figure of the army, Zhang Yao smiled slightly.