When Annan and Princess Sayles returned to the manor, a team of fifty members belonging to the Order of Knights was waiting at the door.

They were knights who were ordered by the king to guard Annam.

"Your Highness the Princess."

The knights stepped off their horses and pressed their right hand on their left chest, but when they looked at Annan, they became unkind.

Annan shrank behind Princess Sayles: "Where does your hostility come from? ”

Princess Sayles was also saying, "The Eighth Holy Grail Knight Mel and Annan came to the royal capital, he is your own man. ”

The resulting hostility stemmed from the second gift of the Grand Prince.

At the back of the cavalry line came down the carriage a young girl who seemed to have cried, her eyes shining with hatred.

She is a member of Galth's family.

"I said it was a misunderstanding, do you believe it?" Annan sighed and ushered in this scene.

"You killed my father......"

"Olmedo also killed Augusta."

Kingdom epics are few and far between, especially Augusta's death tied to his great paternal love. Realizing that the truth is not so simple, the daughter of Garter and the captain of the knights fell into silence.

"Let's go in and talk, and the knight captain and the clerk will follow suit." Annan needs to wash his name away.

Princess Sayles shrugged away because the royal family played an inglorious role in it.

“…… Your father realizes that I am not treasoning, and that there is something wrong with the wanted from the royal capital, but this retreat is disobeying the royal order, and as one of the three major knights guarding the border, suspicion has never subsided with them. In order to avoid a bloody purge of the Order, your father sacrificed himself to fulfill the royal decree and save the Order. The Chief Mage of the Order can testify for me. ”

"I, like your father, fell victim to wrong orders."

The knight captain frowned subconsciously, wanting to maintain the royal family, and then stretched out because this was the princess's manor.

"You want me to take revenge on the royal family?"

A daughter who has lost her father dares to say anything.

"The legendary mage Agarwal offended me, but I just scolded him and never thought of revenge." Annan patched it ahead of time - who knows if the legendary mage just didn't have time to pay attention or couldn't hear it. "I'm telling you this so that you know the truth, not a meaningless sacrifice."

“…… Thank you, Uncle Morin. The girl bowed to the knight captain and thanked her, then looked at Annan, "I'm yours now." ”

"No, you're free now." Annan rejected her, "This is still a false royal decree...... So I will be like your father. Return your freedom. ”

"Thank you, King of the North."

The girl, as stubborn as her father, ran out of the manor.

"She's not going to have any more trouble, is she?" Annan looked at the back of the girl going out.

"The King of the North himself has released her, and the others dare not trouble her again."

"I mean, she's going to go to the trouble of the culprit."

"Lord Galth's daughter isn't that stupid, Fendo is a smart girl."

Annan then got to know the captain and the clerk: Morin, a master warrior; Clerk Aemon, an elite mage. Annan asked how to investigate, and Mage Aemon said that the other knights would inquire or accept a mission.

In recent times, there have been many missions in the south, some escorting nobles or caravans, residents, and some clearing rats and gathering people. Annan entrusted them to return to the Order to bring some tasks for him to choose from, and returned to the bedroom.

"You look more tired than the other day."

The portal opened, and Olmedo asked with concern.

"I went to the palace, and the eldest prince gave me the right to go south to investigate, and gave me my team of knights and Galth's daughter...... Fortunately, the misunderstanding was cleared up, and I returned her freedom. ”

Briefly telling Olmedo what happened this morning, Annan sighed: "But the real exhaustion comes from other ......"

There is a pervasive sense of indifference from the people around them - they don't care at all about the rat people who are wreaking havoc in the south, as if they believe that the rat people will not harm them. In the past few days when they came to the royal capital, there were no nobles who packed their bags and migrated, but some commoners sold their belongings and ran to the east.

Where does their faith come from, and is there a secret that they don't know?

Fortunately, the Eighth Holy Grail Knight was on Annan's side.

"Come back then."

This is the second time that Olmedo wants Annan to return.

"Why?"

"The McCain Ratmen are in the Far North, and it won't take more than a month to arrive. To live or to perish...... We'll know when the time comes. ”

But Annan is not the pessimistic Olmedo: "If we know a month in advance, we can prepare more and save more people." ”

The efficiency of the Knights led to a bunch of tasks in the early afternoon. Either clean up the rat people or escort the humans. Mixed with a distress letter caught Annan's attention.

【Ghost Town, Illida:

The Knights of the Royal Capital save us! A group of rat people are in the north, they are very close to us, the town's militia can't hold it at all, the mayor of the town and the rich nobles have already run away, we can't run ......, gods, kings, knights, please save us......]

The scribbled handwriting exudes desperation. Illida County and the royal capital are adjacent to each other, and the nezumi who attacked Ghost Town are the strikers rather than the main body of the rat tide, and they have a chance.

Annan handed the letter to Master Aemon: "When is this letter?" ”

"All the commissions were sent this morning." Master Aemon took the letter and read it, frowning, "...... We won't have time, and it will take three days to get from the royal capital to Ghost Town at the earliest......"

"Ghost Town...... Isn't this your hometown? ”

Master Aemon was silent for a short time and nodded, "But it's too far away for us to help them......"

"What's going on in town?" Annan could not tell whether this was a coincidence or a conspiracy.

"Ghost Town has a population of a few thousand, but I guess there are more than two thousand people left who can't leave." Master Aemon shook his head sadly: "As I said earlier, we will be in Ghost Town for at least three days, and it will be too late. ”

"Can it be any faster?"

"It's a sleepless pace." Said the captain of the Knights.

"How about taking two horses and traveling lightly?"

The Captain of the Knight said that then they would lose their strength. Annan then reveals one of his cards in front of them: open the portal and bring to light the large elements that crowd the underground space.

"All you need to do is provide support."

Mage Aemon was hopeful: "With the light body technique of the mages accompanying the team, we have a chance to reach Ghost Town in two days!" ”

"Then gather the knights and get ready to go."

Annan is already boiling with blood. He wrote two letters, one to Mel and one to Kyrbelos, and then went to the Order's quarters to join the fifty knights.

"Let's go!"

(End of chapter)