Chapter 100: Interrogation in the Square
In the center of Brenos, east of the towering bell tower, the buildings that originally belonged to the aristocratic district have disappeared, and after Lucius mastered Brenos, he destroyed all the buildings that belonged to the original nobility, and then built the current huge open square, as a place for the people of Brenos to gather freely.
For three years, in this square, Lecius and the Bleonos magnates, together with the people of the city, worked together to formulate the edicts and institutions of Bleonos, as well as the plans for Brenos's expansion to the surrounding areas.
If Brenos was like a haven of freedom and refuge for everyone before, then Brenos today is more like a free city that is completely open to everyone.
Everyone who makes their home in Bleonos is entitled to speak in Liberty Square, east of the Bell Tower.
To be able to express his views on the future of Brenos and various systems and laws to giants including Merlin and Du Liniang, to be able to influence the pace of Brenos' progress, and to participate in the construction and development of Brenos.
This qiē makes people who originally wanted to take refuge under the divine power of Constantine recognize their identity as Brenos from the bottom of their hearts, and at the same time, they will start to develop and grow for Brenos from the bottom of their hearts, racking every idea in their minds and exerting every strength in their bodies.
"Belonging" is the most intuitive feeling that Brenos has changed in the past three years.
Today, the bell tower calls for the bell to ring, and without the need for special people to shout, the people of the city will consciously put down their work and flock to Freedom Square.
When a large number of people poured into the square, they soon found that in the center of the square, Merlin and Du Liniang led the giants had been waiting for a long time, and those giants were waiting with the three great wizards from the eastern country wearing shackles.
Habik, who was escorted to the central square of Blainos, couldn't help but feel a little frightened when he saw a large number of people rushing in at this moment. I began to wonder what the scene in front of me portrayed.
"Is the ruler of Brenos going to execute us before his people?"
This was the first thought that came to Habik's mind, and as he watched more and more people flock to the square, Habik felt more and more that this thought was very likely, his face gradually turned pale, and the fear in his heart became heavier and heavier, and he looked at his two companions in despair.
The other two, facing the people who kept pouring in to gather in the square, couldn't help but have the same guesses in their hearts as Habik.
The moment the three of them made eye contact in horror, they immediately understood the horror in each other's eyes.
Under the pressure of this surrounding crowd. In the end, Bernat couldn't bear it at first, and shouted to Merlin and the others in despair: "You, you can't do this, I, I am a messenger from Filiki, you have no right to execute me, you are trampling on Filiki's dignity, and Filiki will not let you go." ”
Hearing Bernat's desperate shout, Merlin and the others looked at each other with some tears and laughter. But didn't come out and explain anything.
The people gathered in the square whispered when they heard Bernat's shouting.
"How could a country to the east of us suddenly send an envoy to us? Are these three people envoys of Philippe?"
"Is Filiki going to make an alliance with us?"
Some of the more radical populace had no qualms about saying, "Hmph, an alliance, I'm afraid it's because our army is on their border." So they're scared? They're coming to us and asking for peace, right?"
"Haha, is Filiki very powerful? I heard that it is only one of the dozens of small countries in the east, and sooner or later it will not be annexed by us?"
"Yes, yes. Hey, Lord Merlin, since they're so threatening us. Just kill them, and then our army will go straight to war against Filiki, and we will defeat Filiki as well. ”
Hearing the unscrupulous discussion of the people in the square, Habick, Bernat and Corleone looked at each other again in disbelief, and the three of them did not expect that the people of Bronos would be so strong and dare to openly say their thoughts in such a big scene.
On the other hand, the few giants on the high platform in the center of the square now seemed unusually calm, and they didn't seem to care about the passionate feelings of the people at all, and no one would scold those who spoke radical words, even Merlin, who was called by his name, did not even have any unhappy expression.
The scene in front of them was really a bit beyond the cognition of Habick, Bernat and Corleone, and the scene in front of them seemed that the people in the square were the masters of Brenos, and Merlin and them were like the servants of those people.
"Jing ......" An elderly man walked up to the high platform and shouted the word "quiet", and the whole square suddenly fell silent.
After the old man had quieted the people, he slowly walked down the high platform and sat down on the stone steps next to the high platform.
Habick followed the figure of the old man, only to find that on both sides of the high platform in the center of the square, there were rows of stone steps, and on the stone steps sat an old man with a name.
It is not difficult to see that the old man who can sit on those stone steps has a highly respected position in the whole city of Bleonos.
After the old man sat down, Merlin slowly stepped forward, came to the edge of the high platform and glanced at the surrounding people, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, today we have captured three archmages from the three eastern kingdoms, Yuric, Filiki, and Snath, and in order to find out the purpose of their coming to Brenos, we have summoned you to interrogate them publicly. ”
"What? They are from the Three Kingdoms, and they are all Great Wizards, so don't they have a good status in the Three Kingdoms?"
"What does such a big man want to do in our Brynos?"
"Yes, three great wizards, what do you want to do here? Do you want to start a war against us?"
Hearing the questions of the people below, the three great magic guides were all dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer the questions of the people in front of them.
Finally, Merlin raised his hand to silence the people, and then walked up to the three of them and said, "Okay, three respected Great Demon Guides, our people have already raised questions, so will you also answer everyone's questions?"
In the face of Merlin's summary questioning, the three of them were still a little dazed and didn't know how to answer, and the three of them were not unheard of about being interrogated by the people.
But the three of them never imagined that as the Great Wizard, they would one day be interrogated like this.
After a long silence, Habik gradually calmed down, scanning the people staring at him below. "I, the three of us are here on behalf of our respective countries, and the purpose of our coming here is very simple, that is, to ask if you Brenos plan to continue eastward. ”
Speaking of this, Habik was no longer timid, and simply did not wait for someone to answer him, and continued: "Your army of Brenos has successively annexed and occupied our land, and is now on the border of the important towns of our three kingdoms. As the Auxiliary Grand Wizards of our respective countries, we must find out what your purpose is. ”
Although Habick's words were high-sounding, Merlin scoffed and said, "Very well, then may I ask your Excellency, since you are an emissary, why did you deliberately hide your identity and sneak into Brenos City?"
was asked by Merlin like this, and the confidence that Habik had just mentioned suddenly dissipated.
Somewhat helplessly lowered his head. After thinking about it, he stubbornly said: "This matter is indeed inconsiderate by the three of us, but we really have no malicious intentions, we just want to find out the true purpose of your Chen Bing." ”
As soon as Habick's words fell, the old man who had spoken earlier to silence the people stood up. He said, "I would like to ask Your Excellency, when the monsters invaded, why didn't your three kingdoms send people to resist the monster army? Those towns are borderlands, so why should we swallow them up and occupy them?"
As soon as the old man spoke, it immediately resonated with the people in the square.
"Yes. That is, when your countries abandoned those towns and allowed the monster armies to invade those towns and enslave the people in those towns, why do you now say that those places are yours?"
"Hmph, a group of shameless guys, when they saw that the army of monsters couldn't be stopped, they threw up those towns, and now they see that the monsters are being repulsed, do you want to come and go back?"
"Insatiable, if it weren't for the fact that you guys didn't save me, how could my family be killed by monsters?"
"Yes, yes, when we resisted the monster army for so long, we didn't see you send someone to save us, and now you still have the face to come here and say that those places are your land?"
In the face of the angry accusations of the people in the square, the three Habik all bowed their heads, and no one dared to refute anything.
As the auxiliary Grand Wizard of their respective countries, the three of them knew better than anyone else about the plan to abandon a large area of land in the west of each country and shrink their forces to stick to the key towns of their country, and even all three of them had participated in the formulation of the plan, and none of the three raised objections at that time.
"Bang ......" Suddenly a stone flew up in the square and smashed heavily on Habik's head, and suddenly Habik's head was splashed with blood.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of people bent down, picked up small stones in the square, and smashed them all at the three great magic guides on the high platform.
This kind of scene was something that Merlin and the others had never imagined, and when Merlin wanted to stop it, he found that he didn't know who had taken the lead and protected the three of Habik with a unique magic barrier, and did not let those stones stone them to death.
Du Liniang hurriedly stood up and yelled to stop the angry people and said: "Okay, everyone stop, I know that everyone has grievances against them, but please don't forget our identity, as the master of Brenos, we can't lose our due bearing and etiquette." ”
Du Liniang's words immediately stopped the people, but the excitement of the crowd did not calm down.
There are still people shouting: "Kill them, put to death this group of cold snow pigs on high above, and let them know." ”
"Yes, execute them, they don't know how to respect life, in order to save those nobles, they even gave up us commoners, they deserve to die. ”
Looking at the excitement around them, Habick, Corleone, and Bernat looked at each other, with bitter smiles on their faces, and the three of them, as the Great Magician, never thought that one day they would end up like this, and they would be regarded as ants by civilians, and they almost stoned to death in a foreign country.
Du Liniang stopped the people again, and then glanced at Merlin.
The latter immediately stepped forward, looked at the three great wizards with bitter faces and asked, "Three, what else do you want to say now?"
The three of them thought for a moment and shook their heads almost at the same time, the scene in front of them made the three of them really not know what else to say?
Seeing the three of them shaking their heads, Merlin turned to the people and said, "Well, since you have nothing to say, and you must already know our attitude, then let you go back today, hoping that you can convey our Brenos attitude to the authorities of your respective countries." ”
"Tell them that Brenos will continue to march eastward to free more of the enslaved people, and if you want to stop us and make us enemies, then we will break you without mercy. ”
......As soon as Merlin's words fell, the square suddenly boiled, and the people shouted in unison: "Break through you without mercy and liberate the enslaved people......" (To be continued......