When the captain of the knights returned, he looked at Annan sadly and strangely, and whispered in a voice that they could hear, "The armor of the chief commander and the knights is gone......"

"What armor?" Annan was amazed as if he didn't know anything.

The Chief Mage muttered to himself, "That's your spoils, and you deserve to capture them." ”

"But Galth's armor was built by his family, and the person who takes it may have some trouble......"

"What an abominable thief who took away the armor."

Annan's cheeks were a little hot, but it was about five thousand gold coins.

The chief mage stared at Annan deeply, and didn't dwell on the question anymore: "There are still people who are not here......"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say."

Annan Zhengse said: "When we cleaned the battlefield, we found five seriously injured knights, and Xingyue Bay temporarily treated them. Also, your scouts who remained in Starmoon Bay went berserk to kill my people after learning of the death of the Chief Master. They will hold a trial at noon tomorrow at Xingyue Bay Square. ”

"Mr. Mage, do you want to participate?"

……

Annan, Mr. Swaro, and the guards returned to Xingyue Bay without incident.

After listening to Annan's account, Ingrid asked him, "Why didn't you ask them for compensation?" ”

"I would have done this, if Galt, the head of the regiment, hadn't died here." Even Annan was feeling sorry for Galth, not to mention the knights of the Order.

Letting the captain of the guard keep an eye on the movements of the Knights, Annan walked towards the blacksmith shop of Copperbeard. He didn't see the Brass Whiskers, where Parker, an apprentice, was carefully wiping down Galth's dark gold lion-patterned armor.

"Lord Annan, let me ask if you want to show off your armor??"

Annan thought of the strange things in Kadalina's room and shook his head: "No...... I don't have this fetish, so let's melt it. ”

"At least this armor is cast by a master, and it is worth at least a thousand gold coins, are you sure?" Copperbeard came out of the furnace with a pile of ore.

"Forget it...... Can it still be fixed? ”

The back of the armor is riddled with arcane rays.

Copperbeard tossed the ore aside: "Armor is like beer in a keg, the taste will not change when opened, and the same wine will no longer taste the same when mixed in. But as long as the person wearing it doesn't turn their backs towards the enemy, it's fine. ”

"Remember to erase the lion print."

Annan returned to the Lord's Mansion and opened the portal to "report safety" to Olmedo.

"It's unbelievable...... Olmedo sighed, and then heard Annan say, "Lend me Tina tomorrow." ”

In the afternoon, the captain of the guard, who was staring at the camp, said that the Knights had opened.

It seems that they do not want to participate in tomorrow's trial.

The captain of the guard searched around the camp and stumbled upon an interrogation record left by the chief mage for Annan. The record details what happened in the royal capital, and corroborates Lilith's words.

The one who issued the wanted warrant was the eldest prince who acted for the king, and the news that the "nezumi clan went north" was taken as a joke by the people of the royal capital. The second prince and Annan, who committed suicide in fear of crime, also became a joke: their funny excuse for rebellion was actually that the king of the northernmost part of the kingdom said that the southernmost part of the kingdom had been invaded-

Annan let the white dragon stare from afar, and until the next day, they really did not look back.

In the morning, the square where the gallows had been moved began to gather people, and Annan himself presided over the trial, having the guards tie the three scouts to the gallows.

As for them, Annan was disgusted that he even used them and pirates to do hard labor: "You have invaded my territory and killed innocent civilians...... The only thing you can atone for is to give your life. ”

"Rebel king! Your soul will burn in hell! ”

The prisoner's roar came to an abrupt end as the trapdoor at his feet opened.

Annan watched without blinking. And the thousands of residents who were quiet around were staring at them just like Annan. It turns out that the knight lord, like them, will also be killed, and it is so ugly......

"Annan...... Annan? ”

"It's over?"

Ingrid suddenly saw Annan, who had his eyes open, and opened his eyes again. "I'm just thinking about things." He said.

Ingrid, who found Annan's realistic eyes drawn on the eyelids, did not debunk Annan: "The captives are also awake." ”

"Bring them in." Annan said majestically.

Not long after, four captives were taken to the gallows, and one was in the hospital, seriously wounded and not waking up.

For the lost knights, Annan's attitude softened slightly: "You are just deceived by the wrong orders, this war is not a crime of war, so you don't have to be like them...... But you have to undergo 're-education through labor.'" ”

……

"Labor reform?"

In the Starmoon Bay dungeon, Shearer, leaning against the planked bed, looked up.

"It's about making us do everything like hard labor...... I don't have to be locked up in a dungeon. "At least it doesn't look like it's going to kill us." ”

"Are you scared?" A knight with gauze bandaged on his arm sarcastic.

"Don't say that, Kragg, we are alive before Lord Galt has a chance to save us." Shearer said. As the words fell, the cell fell silent.

"What's wrong? Could it be that Master Galt knew about it but didn't do it? ”

"Yes, Galt acquiesced." Cragg continued.

"Shut up." Graffet scolded.

"Why don't you dare to accept it? The chief of one of the three major knights of the dignified kingdom, the Knight of the Holy Grail preparation, the Marquis Galt died in a small city-state less than a year old? ”

Kragg spread his hands, the action touching his wound.

"At least we're nobles, and we're alive. It hurts...... But it's good to be alive. ”

The five captives fell silent for a long time.

For the next few days, they did nothing, and every day the jailers brought food and cleaned their wounds. They thought Kragg was right, they were nobles, and the king of the north had given them preferential treatment. This thought continued until the fifth day, when they were taken to the city walls and ordered to spread a kind of gray wet mud on the walls.

The five noble knights were forced to do dirty and tiring work like workers, and what was even more difficult for them to accept was the teasing of the workers around them, which made them angry and considered it a humiliation.

Then the large elemental staring at them extinguished their anger again.

That night, the jailer invited them to another "magic video".

In the prison cell, Grafitte asked suspiciously, "What do they mean?" Lure us out of prison and then catch us and kill us? ”

"Maybe this is 'labor reform.'" Hiller said quietly.

The next day, they continued their work on the city walls. On the way, Shearer observed the streets, and he saw no slums, no scavengers and poor people, new and beautiful houses...... He had never seen a territory like this.

(End of chapter)