Chapter 208: Belonging 3
"Well, don't be arrogant or impatient, Ed, you are really a model of our new generation of knights at Roland, and you are not inferior to Knight Richard!" The crowd around automatically made way for the adult who spoke, and it turned out to be the old knight Howard.
He also brought another news to Ed, Max also came to the barracks after receiving the crown prince's commendation, and seemed to be looking for Ed's big brother!
Deliberately ignoring Margaret, who seemed to be reluctant to say something to him, after saying goodbye to everyone, Ed came out to see Max, who was dressed in brand new clothes, several ribbons representing honor behind him, shiny metal trinkets, and the whole person was as eye-catching as the little prince who came out of the story.
Seeing Ed also chattering around him, joking about his appearance, Max became embarrassed, and the two hugged and had a fight, Ed congratulated him, and Max thought that without Ed's previous encouragement to him, he would definitely not have worked so hard, and he would not have had the opportunity to find clues and find out the traitor.
Then Ed remembered something important, "About your father's murderer! ”
After calming down a little, Ed told everything he knew, and after Scott agreed to cooperate, he named the participants in the attack on the city that night, many of whom gathered around the advisor during the war and were killed by Ed's big move "Trial", except for Cole, the first culprit, who escaped without a trace.
"This Cole has broken his promise to Emperor Ingill, and it is said that he will never return, and will be hunted down and wanted by the Knight Guild. As for Scott, it's in my hands. But he's helped us a lot, I promise I won't kill him, and you'll probably agree with him if you've seen him now!" Eddard led him to the basement in confusion.
Something about Cole. In fact, Ed also heard from others, like him, the fugitive generally belongs to the country or the side that has broken the contract can report the matter to the Knight Association, and after the latter investigates it clearly, he will be included in the blacklist in the sphere of influence, that is, the whole continent, this kind of treacherous knight must be incognito wherever he goes, otherwise he will be spurned by everyone, and he can no longer enjoy the protection of various rules or unwritten agreements of knights, even civilians can kill him without being punished, and even go to the force that issued the wanted warrant in the first place to receive payment。
And after seeing Scott, who is like a lump of meat. Max also finally understood what Ed meant, it was indeed better to live like this than to die, and it was better to kill him directly than to relieve people's hatred, so far his father's hatred was relatively satisfactorily resolved, and Ed did it as he promised.
"I will repay your kindness with my life, Max hereby swears to offer all my loyalty to the knight Ed in front of me, let all the gods in heaven and earth testify, and every day I will reverently recite your name in prayer!" Max walked out of the basement and knelt down in front of Ed. He lowered his head and said sincerely.
Ed hurriedly bent down to help, but the other party seemed to use all his strength to maintain this sacred posture, and only shook it for a moment and insisted on completing his allegiance ceremony.
From the time he was a small soldier, Ed did not ignore him because of his humility. Witnessing and helping him grow along the way, helping him in any way he needed it, Max looked up with tears in his eyes. "My lord, this is not a decision I made on the spur of the moment, nor did I make it out of gratitude for my kindness. You do have the spirit I yearn for, and I am willing to serve you with my life!"
"Get up, I don't have anything for you to serve. Be an upright person, Max, follow your heart's decision and don't choose the wrong path, then I'll be happy!" Ed said Wen Yan as he picked him up.
"Integrity, the decision of the heart?" asked the latter, puzzled.
The two walked in the camp, the soldiers after the war did not need to be trained, they could relax for a day, they got together to chat, many of them also took out the popular local cards for entertainment, and there were also some hurried guys, holding the emblem representing the Holy Maiden, they were all members of the Holy Women's Army, some were on the way to the crystal statue to pray, and some were looking for someone to preach their own teachings.
"See, the same soldier, but everyone has their own different choices, people cannot be defined by their identity, but by their actual actions and intentions. Ed also had a feeling, "I am the general of an army, and I am an upright person when I fight to defend my homeland, but if one day I lead my troops to invade other countries for the sake of that vanity of glory, then I am on the wrong path, the same king should be respected, but not because of his status and bloodline, but because he has good intentions in his heart to truly do good things for the people." ”
Ed's ideas are still quite different from the actual situation on this continent, where all people are born unequal, and I am glorified because I have noble blood flowing in my veins, no matter what I actually do!
Seeing the expression on his face even more confused, Ed himself smiled, and he wondered how he remembered to say this, maybe it was a whim to see a phenomenon like allegiance that would never happen in a society where everyone is equal!
"Forget it, Max, as long as you know a little, protecting Delia will be the greatest reward for me!" Ed patted the other party on the shoulder and said, Max nodded heavily, this is not for Ed, he has always regarded himself as the personal guard of the saint in his heart, and he will never allow him to be harmed.
After separating from Max, Ed went to visit another person who was rescued by himself, Chesterton deserved to be a silver-level guy, although the injury was not much lighter than Scott's, but he recovered very quickly, and he didn't need Ed to use his imperfect medical skills to save him at all.
When he visited again this time, he could already feel that his body was basically growing with psionic energy, and Ed tried to stimulate the other party's brain with psionic energy, and he practiced this method more skillfully on Scott and the previous few test subjects who were seriously injured and dying.
Sure enough, after a little stimulation, Chesterton's eyelids twitched a few times, slowly opened, and saw Ed smiling in front of him, he was slightly dazed, and then seemed to remember the previous battle process, and sighed slightly: "Is it the same ending......?