The fire rose and engulfed the entire barracks, but did not set fire to the other buildings in the city.

This was a camp specially fenced by General Creon.

He had been ready for a long time.

He sent the soldiers who were not sick out of the city and then came back to clean up the aftermath of the dying brothers.

He was also the first to be relieved of grief and sentimentality.

"Your Excellency Leon, don't be upset about this. Those of us who are alive still have a lot to do."

While the fire was still burning, he had lifted a vat and began to sprinkle lime all over the city.

Sprinkle carefully.

"Everyone, obey General Creon's orders to ward off the plague at Cullen Deer Castle."

Leon stood up and followed behind Creon, and he followed what the old general did.

"They all possess the loyalty and sacrifice of knights...... But they are not knights......

Anson was still in tears, and joined in the work with tears and choked up.

"Knight? …… Child, I'm not a knight either...... In fact, even the current Knights of the Radiant Cross have never been recognized by Valids***. Speaking of which, including Loris, all the Knights of the Radiant Cross are not orthodox knights."

Creon whispered as he busied.

"Valids***" is the standard regulation for the Knights promulgated by the Pander Kingdom after the unification of the continent.

There are many terms and conditions that restrict it, and only those who fully comply with the *** will be regarded as legally established knights by the whole continent.

Of course, these restrictions are mainly aimed at reducing the number of knights......

The original Knights of the Radiant Cross were destroyed by General Ossa, and all the combatants were killed, leaving only scholars and doctors to protect the Order's cultural heritage.

Today's Knights of the Radiant Cross were originally selected from among the soldiers of the Bacchus Empire, which was General Ossa's move to win the hearts and minds of the people.

The Radiant Cross Exorcists were all civilians recruited to protect the healers, and none of them, including General Creon himself, were children of nobles.

Such a knight order naturally does not meet the standards of Valides***, and the knights of the Radiant Cross are indeed not orthodox knights.

"Valedes***? Hmph......*** is like a female cousin, as long as her fist is big enough, you can adjust it to the posture you want at will......

Leon shook his head and said, "The Countess Valera said that she wanted to become a knight, so Valedes *** happily recognized the legitimacy of a woman becoming a knight...... Because all the nobles know that Valera will really beat them!"

"Your Excellency...... I'm a little confused......

Anson muttered, but didn't say he was confused.

"From ancient times to the present day, there have been countless heroes as unknown as them. A true knight never relies on the name of a knight...... Do what you have to do, obey your heart, and you won't be confused, Anson."

Leon patted Anson on the shoulder.

"What Your Excellency Leon is doing now is different from the kidnapper a year ago......

Creon finished scattering the last handful of lime in the bucket and looked back at Leon, as if intending to get acquainted again.

….

Leon shook his head, "I've just been obeying my inner voice all the time. General Creon, your men are admirable, but you may be criticized by many Bacchus nobles."

"If I care about the nobles who can only brag, then I can't be a general......

Creon turned to look at the still burning barracks.

The fire in the barracks has gradually been extinguished.

Part of Leon's troops had also arrived outside Karen Deer Castle.

"I'm sorry, General Creon, but I had to occupy this castle for my own safety...... When the trouble caused by the Snake Worship is resolved this time, I will build a heroic monument on this gray end."

Leon looked at Creon, "But I'm afraid you'll lose your territory and have a reputation for defeat."

"As long as the difficulties faced by the empire can be solved, the territory will be there sooner or later...... Maybe after you settle in Karen Deer Castle, Bacchus and the Lion Kingdom won't have so many wars. Actually, I didn't want to stay in this city...... It's not a bad thing to be able to get out of here and do what I'm supposed to do."

Creon didn't care about the territory at all, he opened the gates, and walked out of Cullen Deer Fort without looking back.

Leon was behind Creon, looking at the old general.

It was as if he had seen another Earl of Auden......

In this era, those who can climb step by step from low-level civilians to high positions of generals are quite remarkable.

So it was with Count Auden, and so did General Creon.

None of them are brave warriors in the traditional sense, but they are true heroes.

They all looked unattractive, short and thin, and they didn't possess the best of personal prowess, and they even let their men use crossbows, which were considered 'dishonorable, assassination weapons' by the so-called Orthodox knights.

They are also not very wealthy, and they are also like ordinary old people who worry about their children.

But they all have excellent military management skills, they can go out into the civilian population unarmed, and they all have an amazing sense of purpose and determination.

Auden fought against the Cato all his life......

And Creon, all his life, fought against the Serpent Cult.

can make the soldiers under his command calmly die, such a command ability is naturally extremely rare, and it will be incomprehensible to the vast majority of nobles.

This can only be achieved by conveying long-term unified values and forging a firm will and sense of mission in the troops.

And Creon, who can give his troops this sense of mission, is undoubtedly a respectable general.

But in fact, neither General Creon nor Count Auden had a good reputation among the nobles, who were both regarded by the noble lords as 'cunning in nature'.

In fact, this comment is generally found in commoner lords who have no family background and rely on their ability to climb to high positions.

People who have no background to rely on, but still rely on their own abilities to achieve success, will naturally have the will and wisdom that most nobles simply do not understand.

At the same time, they apparently had a relatively sincere attitude towards the nobles and towards the civilian soldiers.

But what these nobles could not understand in their lifetime, these things that made them feel incredible, would be regarded by them as 'cunning.'

….

There are some things, in the perception of those nobles who were born with golden keys and are good for nothing but cannons, and are completely different from ordinary commoners.

Any lord who was born lowly but was able to defeat the strong with the weak, and held a high position with a commoner background, would be evaluated by the nobles as "cunning" or "insidious".

Leon is now also known as a sinister and cunning man.

In the eyes of most nobles, a young pioneer lord has gone from a small role to a powerful earl in a short period of time, and he is still so rich, this must be because he has done a lot of shameless acts that no one knows......

After hearing that there were still a few Noldor beauties around Li Ang, there were some more comments such as 'Shameless, and so on.

Moreover, Leon always mingled with the merchants, and did not look like a nobleman at all, which was called 'degenerate,' and 'insulted the dignity of the nobles,'.

And Godric, when he became rich in business with Leon, was also called a 'self-depraved scum,...... But when he went to Talon Castle and announced that he had broken off his partnership with Leon, the nobles immediately described him as a "good man of gentleness and kindness,......

In fact, most of the nobles who said these words had never been to the eastern region at all, and they didn't even know what Leon and Godric looked like......

Human nature is like that.

The benefits that you can't get are, of course, degenerate......

What you can't do by yourself is, of course, shameless......

The quality that you don't have is, of course, cunning

Deceitful ......

After all, the right to speak is in the hands of the aristocracy, and they are holding the pen and making a lot of nonsense, but they are incompetent and unscrupulous, and they want to be equally 'shameless and degenerate.

Sometimes, however, a phrase has been used for a long time, and people will decipher it as if it were a code word, treating it as a black word among the aristocracy and interpreting it.

And the gentleness and kindness in the eyes of the nobles will also be interpreted as being good at socializing and getting along well with the nobles - Justus is considered by the nobles to be a generous governor......

And 'cruel temperament, which can probably be understood as ignoring the tacit understanding between the nobles and killing the nobles who surrendered......

In fact, many lords, who were regarded by the nobility as 'cruel-minded,' often did a good job of protecting the commoners.

After all, the attitude of the nobles when they interacted with each other was not the same as the style of dealing with the commoners.

Just as slaves and paupers would regard 'wise men' as 'conspirators', so what the nobles considered 'cunning lords' to mean another thing in the eyes of the commoners and soldiers.

This meaning can probably be interpreted as 'a commoner lord who is good at solving problems, and the kind that is quick to follow.'

Now, the 'cunning, general' is going to go with another shameless and cunning enemy to the city of Boshi to continue doing things that the nobles cannot understand, and solve the most troublesome problems.

……

Bothic City.

Governor Justes was already in an extremely difficult situation.

The plague in the city has bad news every day, the nobles who are locked in the city are making a ruckus every day, and the whole city is in chaos.

Although Justes issued a strict order to force everyone to stay at home and not go out, the nobles were quite disobedient and made trouble all day long.

….

These noble men of illustrious families were afraid of the rebels outside and the Red Death in the city, but they were not afraid of Justus......

Because Justus was a 'good man' in the eyes of the aristocracy.

In fact, Justes is indeed relatively kind, probably because he is a cultured man and behaves in a relatively gentle manner.

But gentleness and generosity are not good qualities at times.

After the city was closed, the nobles probably drank all the wine stored in their homes, had no fruit to eat, no gladiatorial competitions to watch, and no singing and dancing performances, and were not even allowed to walk on the streets......

Coupled with the terrible Red Death spreading in the city, these people staged one absurd farce after another in the city.

Some nobles abused slaves at home and made cruel torture and killing, but because they tortured and killed their own slaves, it was legal according to the laws of the Bacchus Empire......

Some threw torches at the controlled quarantine areas in the city, claiming to burn the sick to death, but fortunately, no one really deliberately set the fires, but the littering of torches made the people in the city even more panicked.

There are also aristocrats who are constantly reporting who is infected and needs to be locked up under the pretext of the Red Death, or who is trying to cooperate with the rebels outside—and then these people take the opportunity to raid the homes of the people who are reported, and steal everything that can be robbed......

The city of knowledge was already facing internal and external troubles, but these people not only did not stop, but became more rampant, and caused a large area of panic in the city.

The mentality of a lot of idiots is really incomprehensible.

But Justus couldn't kill the fools - according to Bacchus's law, those people were not guilty of death, and Justs had to lock them up first.

However, those guys took up a lot of Just's time and manpower, and the panic they caused made it even more difficult to control.

If it weren't for the fact that the outside of the city was surrounded by slave rebels, I'm afraid the city would have been *** by this time......

But the movements of the rebel army outside the city also made Justes extremely anxious.

Because not long ago, an army of thousands of rebels left the city.

Justes didn't know where the departed force would go, but it was clear that it meant that the rebels had begun to split within and that they no longer had a unified leadership......

Moreover, the rebels may be short of food.

If this continues, more and more rebel armies will gradually break up and leave.

This is not a good thing, and although it seems that it will lead to the liberation of the city, it will also lead to the failure of all the plans of Emperor Marius and Alina.

In fact, for Justes, it was not a bad thing for the rebels to be completely outside the city.

These slave troops led by gladiators had no siege equipment and would have had difficulty conquering the city, and they surrounded the city to prevent the disobedient nobles in the city from running around and causing the spread of the Red Death.

On the other hand, they do not disperse or evacuate, so that they have the opportunity to be integrated.

As a result, Justes had to make a difficult decision.

He had his First Imperial Legion take the initiative to launch an attack on the slave rebels.

He wants to create a conflict and create the illusion of a forced breakthrough......

….

This is the only way to keep this rebel army here.

However, Justes did have quite a brain, and he let the nobles who worked all day long participate in this breakthrough - in fact, let the guards of those nobles be cannon fodder.

Perhaps Justes is usually gentle and generous, but he is not at all soft when it comes to scheming—how can a man who can be called a 'wise man' easily be able to make his mind clear?

Of course, those nobles were willing to break through and leave the city, and they were really good at making trouble, easily attracting the attention and firepower of the slaves in the first moment after the battle......

Enraged by the cruel and rampant behavior of many nobles, the rebels no longer fought within, but quickly selected one of the best gladiators as their leader, and easily repelled the First Legion of the Empire.

Then they began a real attack, intending to conquer the city of Bozhi, steal all the nobles' food, and free all the slaves......

Just like they did before they came to Knowledge.

Justes's ploy worked, and the rebels neither dispersed nor withdrew.

But the situation in the city of Urdashi has also become more difficult - the re-elected gladiator, now the leader of the rebels, seems to have a gnashing tooth of hatred for all the nobles and the soldiers of Bacchus!

That gladiator was completely different from Brutus, he didn't care about anyone's life.

Including his own......

He launched an attack on Bozhi City at any cost, and refused all communication!

The moon is shining on the twelfth floor