Chapter 20: Punishment (Three Watches)

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When I opened my eyes, I saw a group of samurai with earthy faces.

The Marquis's palace was already full of people.

The current one is none other than the Marquis of Blatter.

Sparse applause rang out, and it was the Marquis of Blatter clapping his hands: "I am amazed, admired, and amazed by your wisdom, Huyglaire. I really didn't expect you to dare to cultivate under such circumstances, and it was an extremely in-depth cultivation. However, you managed to succeed, creating a new way of fighting in battle, and even defeating a Sky Samurai completely on your own. It's just incredible. ”

Huey looked down and saw Bicomb sitting on the ground with a dejected face, his body covered in scars, and a long sword wound on his chest that looked like it almost tore him in half. He looked at Xiui with horrified eyes, as if he were looking at a monster.

It's a monster indeed.

Only a monster can fight like that as a sixth-level samurai.

Only monsters can fight with their eyes closed and purely by breath sensing.

Only a monster has the courage to ignore the dignity of a sky warrior and cultivate himself in battle.

Only such a monster can show itself so calmly and freely in battle, and finally make a breakthrough.

Is that so?" a faint smile appeared on Xiuy's face.

Although the Dou Qi had been exhausted, he could still feel the powerful recovery power in his body, and he could feel the clear vein diagram of the Dou Qi running through his body.

Sure enough, he broke through, and he made a real qualitative breakthrough in the extreme battle with Bicombe just now.

He became a high-ranking samurai!

"Bicomb is a very rare opponent, a good opponent is so rare that I was willing to take some risks for it. Xiu Yi replied leisurely, "There is always something in the world that people are worth taking a risk for, right? ”

"It's not just a matter of luck. The Marquis of Blatter laughed, "You are a man of extraordinary wisdom and courage, and it is usually difficult to have both qualities, but you have both." ”

"So you already know everything about life?" Huey looked around, a large number of warriors from the Blatter family had tied up the warriors of the Neppleton family.

Marquis Blatter had a look of regret on his face: "Ivan made a big mistake and wanted to deal with a character like you, he was humiliating himself. It is inexcusable to behave like this towards an important guest of the Church of the Scourge. Please rest assured that Your Majesty will handle this matter impartially. ”

"Perhaps his only mistake was not being able to get it, right? Huey replied playfully.

Blatter felt a pang in his heart, he knew that Huey had doubted himself. But after all, he just smiled: "I assure you, this matter has absolutely nothing to do with us. His Majesty the Emperor attaches great importance to your coming, and he hopes to have a beautiful cooperation with a character like you, but we didn't expect that such a thing would happen before the cooperation began. But rest assured, we will make the best possible remedy. ”

A sneer tugged at the corner of Xiu's mouth.

He didn't believe every word this guy said.

This guy came by too coincidental.

Above all, there should be at least one person in this matter to make that hapless Nepulton realize the value of his technology to the Sierra Empire. There is nothing in the world that exists alone, and even the most stupid ministers must get some rumors before they dare to act rashly.

But then again, this kind of temptation is precisely a necessary existence, just like the dispute between the two countries, and peace negotiations always take place after mutual testing between the two countries. As long as one side believes that war can obtain greater benefits for itself, it will not hesitate to choose to go to war.

The current situation is clearly the same, the Serra Empire is testing itself, testing its own tolerance boundary, but also testing its own attitude towards threats. Unfortunately, however, Neppelton was not able to fully test the results they were looking for.

What they had hoped for was for Nepelton to catch him and punish him on a large scale, and it would be best if he could force out alchemy. If you can't force it, you will immediately take action, get rid of the Marquis of Neppleton, treat yourself as a benefactor, and put all the blame on Neppleton.

So friendship will return, and if Xiu Yi had been more innocent, he might have taken the initiative to hand over the technology out of gratitude. When the hard one doesn't work, the soft one comes, and the political game is always going on like this, and in essence, there are never too many tricks.

As for poor Marquis Neppelton, from the moment he laid his hands on Huey, his fate was already sealed to be a scapegoat.

Unfortunately, Neppelton failed, which made the Marquis of Blatter fail to solve the problem as Huey's benefactor, but instead saw a gorgeous performance that belonged only to Huey, and saw his amazing strength and potential outside of alchemy.

The impact of this on the Marquis of Blatter was obviously enormous.

So much so that he was completely unprepared for all this, which also led to the unfortunate timing of his arrival, which made Xiu Yi immediately feel the problem.

This annoyed him a little.

Because he knows one thing very well: after today's events are born, they do not mean that they are over. Because of Neppelton's failure, he didn't try out Huey's bottom line, in other words, maybe they would do something like that again.

Huey didn't like that.

He looked at Lord Neppleton, who was entangled in a vampire vine, the unlucky man who was dying.

Xiu Yi raised his finger, the demon vine gathered its stems, and Neppulton fell to the ground.

Pulling out the medicine bottle, Huey threw it to one of the Blatter family warriors: "Give Lord Nepleton a drink, and then let him go." ”

Marquis Blatter shook his body and almost didn't fall off his horse.

"Mr. Glare, you said you were going to let him go?" Blatter asked Huey, pointing at Neppleton, his eyes almost protruding from his sockets.

"That's right. Xiu Yi nodded affirmatively: "The Marquis of Nepelton has indeed caused me harm, and even destroyed my originally intimate relationship with your country, but the problem is that this damage has been minimized by your timely arrival. Considering the gains I have gained from today's battle, and to some extent I owe a debt of gratitude to the Marquis of Nepulton, and considering that he has done everything for the benefit of the Serra Empire, I think it is equally necessary for His Majesty the Emperor to forgive him. In any case, Lord Nepelton is a marquis, a nobleman, and he can't let the Sierra Empire lose an elite because of this. So I'm not going to pursue this matter anymore, and I don't think it will affect the relationship between you and me, so ...... Please let him go. ”

Xiui gushed as he smiled at Blatter.

At this moment, he was so generous that the warriors of the Nepulton family couldn't help but look at him with gratitude.

The Marquis of Blatter was completely stunned as he heard Xiuy's words, and he was completely stunned.

He never expected that the young man in front of him would be so difficult to deal with and would give him such a hand.

If Neppelton is released today, then when Neppleton recovers from this blow, he will definitely understand what happened. With this guy's heart, what kind of revenge will he take on himself?

Damn bastard Hue Igler, he wanted to take revenge on himself by the hand of Neppelton, but if he didn't agree, it would surely deepen his suspicions.

But even if Xiu Yi was suspicious, he would not have agreed to such a thing.

Blatter hated so much that he could only laugh dryly and say, "Neppleton has done something seriously offensive to you, he has violated the laws of the Empire, and he must pay for it." ”

"The price?" Huey tilted his head and thought for a moment, "It's true that there is a price to pay." In that case, can I carry out the punishment? As you said, he has offended me, and I have the right to punish him?"

"This ......" Marquis Blatter didn't know what the hell Huey was up to, but it was obvious that this young man was definitely not easy to deal with. He could only nod his head: "Yes, you have the qualifications to punish him." ”

"That's good. Xiu Yi nodded, and a bottle of blue-black potion suddenly appeared in his hand.

He raised his voice and said, "I guess there are a lot of people who know about the existence of such a thing, and yes, I have the skills to make it. It's a very magical form of alchemy, which allows people who don't have magical talent to use it, or allows a mage to be more powerful in his own right. There are a lot of people who are eager to get it, and maybe include you, Marquis of Blatter. ”

He pointed to the Marquis Blatter, who embarrassedly squeezed out an ugly smile.

Huey continued: "But few people know that great achievements often require great sacrifices. The price to be paid for engravening the magic pattern is unimaginable to anyone, and that is pain, a great pain that can make one willing to die. ”

As he spoke, a small silver needle lit up in Xiuyi's palm.

He came to the Marquis of Neppelton's side, put a small needle in the medicine bottle, and dipped the medicine into the Marquis Neppelton's skin.

Neppelton, who was originally unconscious, came to his senses in an instant and let out a heart-rending cry of pain. But Xiu Yi firmly restrained him, not letting him move at all, and insisted on carving that strange magic pattern on his body.

Neppelton's mournful cry was sharpened by this, like the last screams of an animal as it was brought to the slaughterhouse. You can't imagine that one person can make such a terrifying volume that everyone will have an extremely ugly face and a deep sense of empathy when they hear Neppelton's scream.

That's the magic pattern? It turns out that engraving the magic pattern can bring so much pain to people?

By the time Huey had finally finished his work, Neppelton's twitching body had curled up into a large lobster, his vocal cords had been silenced by the tears of the excess, and his body was cramping with the pain.

The Marquis of Neppelton could not be blamed for not resisting, after all, he had never experienced such a before.

Xiu Yi slowly withdrew his hand, turned to face the Marquis of Blatter, and continued what he had left unfinished before: "Look, this is my punishment. Engraved with a magic pattern, it is both a gift and a punishment. ”

Marquis Blatter only felt cold all over.

Glancing down at the Marquis of Neppleton, he muttered, "This...... It's horrible. ”

"It's not terrible. Xiu Yi said coldly: "The real scary thing is not to engrave the magic pattern for others, but to engrave it for yourself." ”

"What did you say?" Blatter's heart was pounding.

Xiu Yi slowly undid the tunic on his chest, revealing the purple-black tattoo inside: "I said, carving a magic pattern on yourself is the most painful thing. Passively accept the engraving, at least you can use all your strength to resist the pain, and engrave yourself, you have to devote all your energy to the engraving of the glyphs. Because there is no room for error in the engraving of the magic pattern. Every time you take a needle, it makes you extremely painful and makes you want to stop the pain, but your reason tells you that you can't stop, because that will lead to the loss of all your efforts. Therefore, self-engraved magic patterns are a serious destruction of self-nerves, and if you don't have enough perseverance, you can't do it at all. The way you engrave the pattern is as if you are committing suicide with a blunt knife, and you have to grit your teeth to bear everything, and only then can you persist in completing the work you have to do without losing ...... end."

"Oh my God!" the Marquis of Blatter looked at Huey in amazement, and the young man in front of him was like a devil, unleashing his evil, and he was cruel not only to his enemies, but also to himself.

Neppelton's pain when he received the magic pattern engraving was enough to make a nervous breakdown, and the boy had no scruples about doing it to himself, completing one exquisite and intricate magic pattern after another on his body.

Only the devil can do such a thing.

Blatter finally understood what Huey was talking about.

He's telling himself what Neppelton hasn't been able to accomplish - there's no way Huey Glare can bow his head under any violent coercion, and even if you manage to capture him, you'll only get a corpse.

Even if you catch him, the pain you inflict on him may not be as great as the pain he inflicts on himself.

Yes, that's what he wanted to say, to prove with a harsh and terrible fact.

That's a hundred times more effective than the truth that is spoken with your mouth.

In the same way, Huey is also warning Blatter and His Majesty the Emperor behind him to stop playing tricks on him, he knows what they think, he knows what they are up to.

Blatter swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and then forced a smile to Huey: "Now I admire you even more, Mr. Huey Glyer, you not only have extraordinary courage and wisdom, but also have tenacity and absolute perseverance. I can totally understand why you can do that in the Reims Empire, because there is never any pressure to make you bow your head. Your proud head is like the highest mountain in the Cortril Mountains, forever standing tall. ”

With a smile in his eyes, Xiu Yi nodded: "You're right, I'd rather bend than bend, this is me, Lord Marquis Blatter, I think you know enough about me now." ”

"Yes, Lord Hueglier. Blatter couldn't help but use the title of Your Excellency, and he felt that the boy was worthy of it: "So...... I'm sorry for what happened in my previous life. You know, sometimes people always make some wrong choices for the sake of the national interest. But luckily, as long as things don't get to the worst, there's always room for redemption, right?"

This speech made Xiu Yi also flustered.

After the great shock, Blatter has now come to his senses.

He understood one thing: since Xiui wanted to prove his determination to him, it meant that he had no intention of turning the other cheek.

As long as he doesn't plan to turn his face, then everything will be fine.

That being the case, it doesn't matter whether Blatter admits everything that is born or not, because Huey has already judged everything in his own way. For example, to release Neppelton, such as to give the power of magic to the Neppelton who is hating Blat, his method of judgment is simple but effective.

Therefore, what Blatter needs to do now is not a meaningless explanation, not a quibble denial, but a sincere reparation and genuine compensation.

Yes, compensation.

Isador once said that Huey was a businessman.

As long as you are a businessman, there is always a place to buy it. They sell everything, including their anger and hatred.

With this in mind, Blatter naturally knew what to do.

So when he said that, he believed that Huey understood what he meant: since the Serra Empire had understood what kind of person Huey was, it was impossible to use any more force against him. As for what has been done before, the Serra Empire is willing to make reparations.

Xiu Yi obviously understood what Blatter meant, and he smiled slightly: "Very good, since this is the case......"

He pointed to the Lord Neppelton, "I'll give him to you." ”

Then he pointed at Bicombe: "What do you think of you handing him over to me?"

"No problem, Lord Glare. Hearing this, Marquis Blatter breathed a sigh of relief, and the sweat on his forehead could finally fall relatively easily.

He suddenly appeared, and dealing with the young man in front of him was even more tiring than fighting a life-and-death duel with the enemy's thousands of troops on the battlefield.

The feeling this teenager brought to him was too terrifying.

"Then it's settled. Huey nodded.

He walked towards the gate, and when he reached the door, he suddenly turned back to the Marquis of Blatter and said, "The punishment given to Lord Neppelton is worth a thousand gold vets." I believe that the Sierra Empire's move will be even more generous. ”

With that, he turned away.

Blatter certainly understood what Huey meant.

The fact that a thousand Jinvit fell on the body of a dying man so casually already speaks volumes about Huey's worth.

Marquis Blatter sighed helplessly: "Very well, then how much money should I suggest to His Majesty the Emperor to satisfy your greedy appetite? You cunning and vicious little bastard! You are a devil, Huy Glare!"