Chapter 411: The Old King Is Dead
When Count Igo hurried back to Riwendale with his army, he was greeted only by rows of crosses outside the city, but the burial under these crosses was empty, because the unfortunate deceased were turned into terrible monsters after death, and then turned into black water and flooded the whole of Riwendale, and every street and house was flooded with this stench of black liquid, and the whole city became a huge cemetery.
Looking at the scene of the family's mourning, Cyrus Iago knew he was late.
When he received a distress letter from his enemy Stannis with his daughter inside, Cyrus Iago, who was familiar with the tricks of soldiers, refused to believe it at first, but when he learned that Stannis had indeed led all the people out of Drehem City overnight, which he had used as bait, Igo gradually felt that this could be true, and then he received more and more ravens from other lords with the words they had received from Miss Igo for help, and saw the outcasts fleeing to other places, and Count Igo realized that the disaster in his realm was real.
He immediately led his army back to the city of Levundale, and along the way he did not meet many of the other lords' troops who came to the rescue in doubt, none of them knew what was happening in Levundale, only that no one in the city had escaped from the city. But because of Count Igo's high prestige, they still sent troops to help, but among so many people, they still didn't see the Garcia family.
In the end, a rescue army of nearly 5,000 people rushed to the city of Revendale, and the lords saw this miserable scene, a total of 30,000 people were unfortunately slaughtered in this catastrophe, the originally prosperous city of Tanis is now deserted, and the survivors who hid in the lower city also ran to camp on the barren mountains outside the city.
And Cyrus Igo, who was even more sad than them, learned as a father that his daughter Zoe did not survive the disaster.
When Andre, the commander of the city defense, reported to him the outbreak of the corpse tide and the death of Miss Zoe, someone saw that the iron eagle of Kitahara, who had never been able to cry, had become old and tearful, and the first general who had been fighting on the battlefield for decades turned white overnight, from an invincible god of war to a declining old man.
"Zoe...... Is she safe when she leaves?"
Standing in front of the cross engraved with the name of his daughter, all Sellers could do as a father was to know if the jewel in his palm had suffered before he died.
AndrΓ©, who had been following him for decades, couldn't help choking up, "According to that name, Walter...... According to Sir Zoe, Miss Zoe left without any pain, and he also said that Miss Zoe was extremely brave until she died, and did not dishonor the name of the eagle. β
Stannis told a white lie, for he could not imagine the devastating blow it would have been for a father to learn that his daughter had been tortured to death and that her body was still defiled.
Cyrus didn't speak again, and the other lords held their breath as they waited for Iron Eagle to silently light a candle for his daughter.
Finally, Cyrus raised his head again, and he became a famous general who had killed countless irons.
"Was it the Sir Walter who saved you all?"
"Yes. Andrei nodded.
But Sellers frowned, for as far as he knew, the Wought family had no adult male in the family after Viscount Wall's death, so how could a man who called himself Sir Walter suddenly appear to rescue his city?
"Well, then, you call Ser Walter to meet me, and I want to reward him for saving the city of Riwendale, and I have much to ask of him. β
But Andre shook his head helplessly.
"What do you mean?"
The elderly commander of the city defense smiled bitterly, and took out a sealed letter from his pocket and handed it to the earl, and he also saw that the guy who called himself Sir Walter was not really Lord Walter, and his true identity was all in this letter.
"The mysterious man took the people away after saving the city and settling the refugees, but he left a letter for me to give to you by hand, saying that you just need to read it and everything will be understood. β
Sellers took the letter and immediately tore it open, followed by two lines of words:
Sir Cyrus Iago, King of Tanis of the East, Salutes you once again.
Seeing only the name, the Count instantly understood, and he immediately put away the letter and pretended to look around casually to make sure that no one could see the contents of the letter.
Later in the evening, Sellers reads the letter alone, and Stannis gives a rough outline of what happened, so that the Count understands that the origin of the incident is the Divine Seal and the Chaos Folk army it has formed to conquer the world, but some details are still hidden from the letter, such as the tragic circumstances of Zoe's death, and the mastermind behind this tragedy is Spencer the black wolf of the Wolf family.
At the same time, Stannis also reminded the Count in the letter, intentionally or unintentionally, that at the moment of the disaster, he was the first and only one to lead people to come to the rescue, and Garcia has not moved as if he did not know it until now, and the King of the East has to remind Count Igo who he is serving in the so-called Destiny King who personally saved him, or the old Duke of the so-called Guardian of Tanis, who is indifferent to the death of his daughter in the tide of corpses.
Finally, at the end of the letter, Stannis said, "I believe that the true ruler of Tanis will never see his people die and remain indifferent, and that the old king's era should come to an end!"
Igo put the letter away, he knew what he had to do.
The next day, a message spread throughout the Duchy: Count Igo, whose city had been destroyed, was devastated by the death of his daughter in the catastrophe, and he could no longer lead his army against the rebels, and he returned the post of commander to Duke Garcia, saying that he would never again ask about the war that divided the principality.
Although this is a seemingly reasonable reason, the lords and nobles in the principality who have an extremely keen sense of smell instantly understand that the Eagle family has defected! At least Kitahara Iron Eagle will never put all his chips on the Garcia family again, and everyone will have to look at this gamble again.