Section 474: Succession
Donn is dead.
This is normal, so many people died present, and one more Tang En is not too many, but there are many soldiers in the team, but there is only one Tang En, which makes Tang En's death significant.
The role of a high-end combat force in the battle situation is significant, and people have just deeply understood: a Xiu, a Tang En, can be said to have played a decisive role in the battle just now, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as turning the tide of the battle. The death of one Donn was worse than the combined losses of the soldiers who died on the scene.
Without Don and only Xiu, will they be able to reach Siam smoothly?
It should be difficult, as you can tell from the expressions of everyone present - they are all worried.
Especially when Donn went so far as to appoint Norman as his successor.
If the team was led by Jacob or Rusyn, or even a mage cultivator in the future, they might not be so worried, but Don didn't know what he was thinking, so he appointed Barton to lead the team!
This was just a slave, and even if he had studied swordsmanship with Don for a few days, he would certainly not be able to defeat either Jacob or Ruthen, let alone the knowledge of marching and fighting.
What can this slave understand?
Their team had already lost their troops after today's battle, and under the leadership of this layman, let alone Siam, even if they wanted to return safely along the same route, it might be a little problematic.
This is a terrible appointment.
Don's last order before his death had not been implemented, and it was directly questioned by most of the people present, and as the highest-ranking person in the team after Donn's death, Demps was the first to raise his objection after a moment of silence with the others in front of Donn's corpse.
He stood up and said to Jacob, who was standing aside, "I'll leave the rest of the trip to Mr. Jacob." ”
He directly ignored what Don had just said, and wanted to put Jacob in the position of leader, obviously not thinking that Norman, a slave, could take on such a heavy responsibility as leading the team forward.
In Temple's opinion, the only people on the scene who could take on this important role were Jacob or Rusen. Although his family mage, Mr. Xiu, had more power, Demps also knew that he had a specialization in the art industry, and when it came to marching and fighting, Xiu was probably not much stronger than these slaves.
And the reason why he chose to side with Jacob instead of Ruson was only because Jacob had a slightly better personal relationship with him.
Norman certainly understood the meaning of Temples's words, but did not argue with anything.
He can even say that he can throw away the position of Situ of the Dragon Clan, and naturally he will not have any interest and greed for the leader of such a small team, and the person Tang En originally wanted to choose was not him, but Atrimithea.
Thinking of this, Norman looked into the darkness in the distance.
Atramicia was still nowhere to be seen.
Norman just wanted to see if she had returned, and didn't worry about her, because in his opinion, the aliens who simply relied on their physical instincts were nothing more than a rabble. Although Atramicia is not much better, the power of the Demon Archon's sword Truth Fang is obviously not something that the rabble can compete with, even if it is likely to only exert a small part of its power now, it should be enough for Atramithea to retreat.
Of the group, apart from Norman, Don should have the most combat experience.
He should have seen Atramicia's actions when she was guarding him just now, and saw that Atramicia had a power that was not inferior to him at all, and thought that Atramicia was a master who was hiding in the team for some reason, so he hoped that Atramicia would lead the team forward.
In Donn's opinion, it should also be a silver knight, or even a golden knight, and she can lead the team forward to ensure the safety of everyone and his followers to the greatest extent. It's a pity that he still designated the wrong object because of the lack of breath before he died......
Norman didn't want to fight for the position of leader, but someone helped him fight for him.
"Master Donn said that Barton would take his place. ”
Jacob bowed his head slightly, and said in a low voice, his expression uncontrollably sad.
"We will do our best to assist Mr. Barton in accordance with his last wishes. ”
Stupid!
Hearing Jacob's words, Demps cursed in his heart.
Now that Don is dead, Jacob and Rusn can be said to be in a divided position, and Demps has the support of the mage, and he will be the absolute leader on either side, and now he has chosen Jacob. But this Jacob was really an elm-headed, and he had not been a good leader, and he had never seen such a stupid fellow!
Demps is a nobleman in the end, even if he is now reduced to the point where he has lost the title of baron of the kingdom and does not want to run for his life, he still habitually thinks about the problem with his political thinking, but he does not think clearly about the two orthodox knights in front of him.
"Not bad. ”
Ruson echoed Jacob's words, his expression solemn and sad, but his voice was very firm and unambiguous, "Lord Donn has a unique vision, since he thinks that Mr. Barton can lead us out of the current predicament, then Mr. Barton is definitely more suitable for the position of leader than the two of us, even if he can't do it. ”
When Demps saw that Jacob didn't agree, he thought about whether he wanted to support Rusen, but he didn't expect Rusen to have the same idea as Jacob.
Two idiots!
Demps cursed again in his heart.
There is a clause in the knight's creed called "loyalty", which also exists in the nobility oath, but when Demps inherited the title of baron, he was just rote memorization, and now after so many years, he has long been left behind, so naturally he can't understand the thoughts of these two simple knights.
Demps was helpless, and glanced back at Xiu, hoping that his family mage could stand up and say a few words to help him, but Xiu was indeed an orthodox mage, he only had the world of spells in his eyes, and he was not interested in this kind of thing at all, so he had turned around and left.
Norman listened to their conversation, but he didn't show any joy at the unmistakable embrace of the two bronze knights.
He just looked at the darkness ahead.
A figure slowly emerged from the darkness.
It's Atrimicia who has returned.
She didn't bounce as she had chased her out before, only jumped a little as she passed through the trench, and then walked quietly.
The others also noticed that Atremicia was back, but no one made a fuss, except for a few who lamented in their hearts that the slave was really bold.
If those aliens hadn't been killed by the Donn knights and fled, they wouldn't have had time to pay attention to her, and she really didn't know if she would have returned safely.
Well, in their opinion, Atrimisia's safe return was all due to the aftermath of the Donn Knight, only the eyes of the two were a little different.
Jacob and Ruson seemed to have a very good relationship with Donn, and they were still basking in the grief of Donn's death, but that didn't prevent them from glancing at the returning Atrimithea, and a strange light flashed in their eyes.
They weren't strong enough, and they didn't have time to fight hard in the battle just now, so they didn't have time to look left and right, so they couldn't see Atramicia's skills, but this didn't prevent them from seeing the scene of Atramicia chasing those aliens at the end.
From the point of view of ordinary people and those warriors who have not even been able to obtain knightly qualifications, Atramisia is just a fierce woman fighting like a squirrel, at most she jumps a little higher when she crosses the trench, nothing unusual, in exchange they can also beat the water dogs like that, but they are not as bold as Atramithea and dare not chase. But in Jacob's and Ruth's view, it was different.
In the eyes of the two of them, although Atrimixia could not show much in the action of beating the water dogs, her every move clearly had a considerable level of strength and speed, which was no worse than those warriors in the team.
Atramisia was "Barton's servant," as Jacob and Russon had certainly heard. The fact that Atramicia, who had been so easily captured as a slave, now behaved like that seemed to them to be the result of Barton's teachings.
Although Barton has not been learning swordsmanship with Lord Don for a short time, every servant he has taught with this knowledge can have this level, and what kind of level will he himself have under Lord Donn's personal training?
This is undoubtedly a knightly genius who has made rapid progress, so it is no wonder that Lord Don would take the initiative to ask to teach him, which is a treatment that even Jacob and Rusin did not have at the beginning, and this is also an important reason why Jacob and Rusen insist on carrying out Donn's last wish.
Who knows how much Lord Donn has taught Barton these days? And who knows how much Ebatton's genius has learned?
Although Jacob and Russon didn't know these things, they knew that in the eyes of Master Don, Barton's genius had learned enough in the past few days to give him more powerful team leadership skills than the two of them.
They will support Barton, not only because of "loyalty", but also on the basis of an "accurate understanding" of the role that Barton's genius can play.
Demps thought the two knights were fools, but he didn't know that he was the real fools.
Of course, Jacob and Ruson are not much better, and they are clever and mistaken by cleverness, and it is their kind of people who are talking about it. They only have small wisdom, but they do not have great wisdom, but sometimes the result of small wisdom is surprisingly consistent with the result of great wisdom, and they can only sigh at the miracle of creation.
Seeing Atrimicia return, Norman untied the money bag that Don had told him to pick up.
As the opening of the money bag opened, the flames around the camp that had not had time to be completely extinguished rushed in, reflecting a yellowish and white light, faint and not obvious.
"Redemption. ”
Norman took the bag and said to Demps.
Ever since he left Arica, he's been a follower, and he still is.
Although he had no interest in the position of team leader, since the two bronze knights had unanimously insisted that he should be the leader, he could only follow their wishes, but he had a little hesitation when he untied the money bag just now: he thought about whether he wanted to tell Donn's true will and let Atrimithea fight these things, but finally gave up on this idea.
First of all, the so-called true intentions of Donn were only speculations made by himself, and even he himself could not be 100% sure, let alone convince others to believe them, and secondly, could Atrimithea resist these things? He really didn't know what Atrimithea would do other than bouncing around whack-a-mole and herding sheep to make the bed. If Atrimithea is allowed to be the leader of this team, the fate of this team is really worrying.
With Atramicia's protection, Atramicia and him may not die, but Atremithea is not the Norman she once was, her strength is limited, and her control over the situation is even more insufficient. In the event of an upgrade of tonight's attack, under Atramisia's leadership, none of the slaves, the civilians, and the warriors standing around them now would have died.
This is not alarmism, but a reasonable inference - tonight these peasants, who knew at a glance that they were a rabble and did not even have a serious weapon, beat them like this, and if there were really a few serious foreign bandits, they would not be dead?
Norman was an archmage himself, and the magic pool was created by him, so he knew how much power this black-robed guy with only three stars of true strength could exert at most. Xiu plus the power of the mana pool is very effective for today's scorching battle situation, but his upper limit is there, and when he encounters that kind of qualitative power suppression, he has only a dead end.
So Norman finally chose to continue to follow the crowd and follow the trend.
Demps looked at Norman, rolled his eyes, and sneered, "You are my slave, my private property, everything is my final say, I have decided not to sell you now!"
Although Jacob and Ruson had already expressed their attitude, he still did not give up, and wanted to make a final struggle and use such a trick to force Jacob or Rusen to submit, but his words were only exchanged for two flashes of sword light.
The swords in the hands of Jacob and Ruson both raised slightly, and Jacob even spoke, "Lord Demps, please respect Lord Donn's last wishes. ”
Jacob looked sad and spoke politely, but the sword in his hand that looked like it was about to be put around his neck at the slightest disagreement did not look like a joke.
Demps nervously took the time to look back, but he couldn't see Xiu's figure anymore, probably went back to the tent to continue his meditation, and finally had to turn his head and said with a wry smile: "Okay, 10 Quintalans." ”
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