Chapter 19: Prelude to War (1)
"There's nothing more reliable than a Northridge friend. ”
- Edward L
The battle in the hall quickly came to an end, and the lords of the Northridge and their attendants were all characters who could fight and kill, and if it weren't for too much drunkenness, the battle would have ended sooner. Most of the Kakamans were beheaded, and the two lords and Mott were captured alive. There are so many people, only two of them are lords, and the rest are soldiers, because they all came during the banquet, so no one paid attention to this, I am afraid that this group of people was taken down early.
"Go and get the rest of them!" Roddock shouted. The highest title in the hall is now Domt, and Domt is not enough to serve the public in terms of seniority or age, but Rhodok is here, and the relationship between the two has made Rhodok's prestige rise, so it is completely reasonable for him to give orders now.
The various lords of the Northridge didn't say much, and rushed out of the hall to call on their men to deal with the guards brought by the Kakamans, and the entire city of Eternal Night was in chaos in an instant.
Rhodok gave the order and turned to the king's side, leaning his sword to the side. The queen waited anxiously for the king, and the woman of Northridge would not be frightened by such a scene, she only worried about her husband now.
Several of the king's cronies hurriedly found someone to heal Alan's wounds. Allen was nailed to the chair at the moment and couldn't move, his painful expression was exposed, Allen, who was born in peacetime, had never suffered such a big loss and suffered such a serious injury.
"Hold on to Alan, it didn't hurt your lungs. Rodok examined the king's wound and said, "I have to pull out the sword, it may hurt the blood vessels, it will hurt, you bear it!"
Alan nodded painfully, the pain making him speechless.
"Doctor, ready to stop the bleeding!" the doctor did not dare to draw his sword until Roddock arrived, and if he wounded the artery, the king would have lost blood and died in a few minutes.
"It's coming, it's coming!" an elderly bachelor came with a medicine box, this is the teacher in charge of teaching Allen's children, there are no full-time doctors in Northridge in this era, and generally this kind of erudite bachelor is the doctor in every town.
The queen looked nervously, Rhodok put his hands on the hilt of the sword, looked at the king, the king nodded, the bachelor took out a piece of gauze and stuffed it into the king's mouth, Rodok adjusted his posture and slowly exerted force. This kind of injury cannot be forced, and the strength of the person is easy to shake up and down, left and right, and must be pulled out straight.
In Alan's painful expression, Rhodok, who had increased his strength to the right point, slapped his elbow, and the sword was pulled out with a "poof". Beads of sweat the size of beans left on the king's forehead, and the whole person seemed to collapse, and the pain did not decrease but increased, almost fainting from the pain.
Fortunately, it didn't hurt the artery, and if it hurts the artery, the blood will spurt out, and now it seems to be okay, although the bleeding keeps but it is controllable.
"Come, Your Majesty. The Bachelor had quickly mixed the poppy milk and raised it to the king's mouth, and Alan knew that it had a special effect on relieving pain, and after the old bachelor took out the gauze in his mouth, he hurriedly put his mouth up.
A few people were in a hurry and didn't know how to help, and the old bachelor skillfully took out and cleaned Allen's wound after letting His Majesty drink poppy milk, disinfecting and stitching up the wound.
Seeing this scene, Rodok's heart calmed down slightly, and he hurriedly picked up his sword again and turned around and walked out, wanting to see the situation outside.
Walking out of the hall, I met Domt coming back.
"How's it going?" asked Rhodok.
The swords in the hands of Domt and his three subordinates were bloody, the fierce cold wind of the North Ridge blew again, the iron-blooded warriors seemed to have been awakened to the sense of battle, the entire Eternal Night City moved, the soldiers swarmed out and crowded the streets, the war is cold, it is cruel, and it is also the existence that fills every man with blood.
"A few people ran. Domt said murderously, the whole person has changed a state, not only him, everyone is like this. "I've had people chase after me. Domt continued.
"There are scouts, it can't be done like this, they must still be moving!Gather your army and have all the lords assemble in the hall. Rhodok said as he looked at the mess of Eternal Night City with a frown.
Domt turned around and looked at his three subordinates, no need to explain anything, the three of them retreated together, how to divide the labor is their business.
Rhodok walked towards the prison with his sword, and Domt hurriedly followed, asking as he went, "How is the king?" ”
"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be a big problem. Rhodok replied without looking back.
The cell is very close, two steps away. The guards saw the two and quickly got out of the way, and the two walked into the cell, where Mott, who had just been brought in, was kept.
Rodok asked the guards to open the cell door, and Domot sat in a corner of the cell, the old and slightly bloated Divine Comedy wrapped in a black sea otter fur coat, and the gray-white hair was bald on the top of his head, and the large nose characteristic of the Kakamans made Rodok look annoyed.
Say. Rodok went in and didn't say a word, but put his sword on Mott's shoulder and asked, "What are you going to do? Where is the army? How many are there! I don't believe it's just a few of you!"
"I don't know. Mott shook his head without looking up.
"Where's Morath!" Rhodok grabbed Mott by the collar and grabbed Mott's face in front of his eyes and asked, "What the hell are you savages going to do!"
"I don't know where Morath is, I don't know what he's going to do, he captured my whole family, White Castle was already under his control when I came! it's all his people! You've killed all the people I can trust, and the remaining two are locked up here!" said Mott, annoyed by the name of the Rhodoc savage.
This is also where the conflict between the Northridge and the Kakamans lies, the racial differences make it impossible for the two peoples in the same country to get along calmly, and the commoners will also be at odds with each other because of racial issues, not to mention the old nobles like Rodok who look down on the Kakamans at all. In the eyes of a considerable number of Northridge people, these Kakamans from the Devil's Mountain have encroached on their land, and the Kakamans first appeared in front of the Northridge people from the edge of the Devil's Mountain as wild men in animal skins.
After fighting and peace, bloodshed and sacrifice, the two clans finally got the Kakaman people's living space in exchange for the Kakaman people led by the Kafala family, for the origin of the Kakaman people, they claimed to be from the other side of the Demon Mountain Range, in order to avoid the disaster, their ancestors migrated south for generations, and it took several generations to reach the Naranster continent, as for what the calamity is, and their hometown, as early as the terrifying living environment of the Demon Mountain, it was wiped out by the time of several generations, and they themselves don't know where they came from.
It is difficult to determine whether this statement is true or false, because the Demon Mountain Range is so large and the environment is so harsh that no one has explored what is on the other side of it many years ago, because no one has succeeded in hundreds of years. However, there are also people who believe that the Kakamans are the wild people living in the Devil's Mountain, and those explorers who went to find the other side of the Devil's Mountain have been killed by them.
"You'd better tell the truth, or I'll slaughter your family to the end, no matter where they are. After Roddock said to Mott fiercely, he threw Mott's collar away and turned to leave, and Domt randomly followed.
"Is he telling the truth?" asked Domt, looking at Roddock, who was not speaking, as he left the prison.
"Otherwise, he is a Marquis of Northridge second only to you, could he abandon his wife just to assassinate Allen?" Rodok sighed and said, "This Morath, I should have killed him with a sword in the first place!"