A strange world

Chapter 1018 Section 249. Rescue the Holy Grail Knight Squire

"To be honest, I'm a little nervous."

Annan walked around the desk and sat in the chair of the judge, looking at the cold wind whistling outside the window.

"What are you nervous about?" Olmedo asked.

"You don't know what the judge said... He almost described your uncle as the mastermind, the big devil, the first wise man in the kingdom, and the man behind the king."

"I can't remember it either. The last time I saw him was when I was ten years old." "But do you remember the fall of Asimov?"

Annan stood up: "Do you want to say it has something to do with your uncle?"

"He is the think tank of the kingdom. He is the one who captured and executed the director of the kingdom's library."

"I know, I will keep my distance from him."

Fortunately, the head of the senator is a loner and doesn't have many friends. In addition, Annan's status is not high, so he will not attract attention if he stays away from him.

"By the way, Agarwal has also come to the new capital."

Olmedo fell silent.

Annan sighed, "Although I don't want to admit it, I hate that bastard more than the king."

Although the king colluded with the ratmen, betrayed the Holy Grail Knights, caused tens of millions of people to be displaced, and caused the Snow Mountain Fortress to fall... but Agarwal abandoned Breeze City!

Annan saw with his own eyes that the tower spirits who lost their masters and the rat tides that poured into Breeze City perished together. Three hundred thousand people in Breeze City were forced to leave their homes, and their cries still linger in his ears.

"Then get rid of him at the last moment."

With the help of the Skeleton King Leonefa and the Warlock Protection Association, it is not impossible for Annan to catch them all in one fell swoop.

He let the Free Blade sweep the kingdom, and he stayed in the new capital to wait for this reason - to drive out the nobles hiding in various places who were sucking blood from the people, and let them all gather in the new capital.

These days, there is an endless stream of noble convoys fleeing from other places. They bring news that makes the new capital panic and makes Annan happy: perhaps there is no need to wait until the end of this cold winter. The Free Blade, which is growing like a snowball, will be able to reach the new capital by the end of December in the year 1001 of the Saint Laurent calendar.

It was the Red Witch on the west coast who dragged his feet. They did not land, but slowly distributed leaflets along the coast - this was the original plan, but who knew that the nobles had no desire to resist at all. When they encountered the Free Blade, they either fled or surrendered. The few tough ones resisted to the end, and then were surrounded by the Free Blade and annihilated by the main army mixed in the team.

After closing the portal, Annan walked out of the study.

The president was sighing in front of the window at the end of the corridor. He began to realize the danger of joining the Free Blade... but it was too late to regret.

"Mr. President." Annan walked over and asked the president who turned back quickly: "How much do you know about the chairman of the parliament?"

"The smartest in the kingdom, powerful, unfathomable..."

What the president said was similar to what Annan imagined, but there was one thing...

"All the affairs of the kingdom, big or small, must be handled by the chairman of the parliament."

"You mean, most of the kingdom's decrees are issued by the chairman of the parliament?" Annan caught something.

"Well, the king has always been very sleepy, and he is awake for less than eight hours a day. The government affairs are handled by the chairman of the parliament and then issued by the king..."

Could it be that Irwin Augusta is the initiator?

Annan had to think more, because Olmedo's father was corrupted by the rat man. Could it be that Irwin was corrupted like old Augusta...?

The Augusta family is really full of loyal and brave...

For the time being, I will not consider such things without evidence. After returning the study to the president of the court, Annan took Maria to his loyal dungeon.

The dungeons of the Purification Court held Free Blades, Free Blade members, and suspected Free Blade prisoners captured by the judges from all over the place.

Annan asked the dungeon guard to bring the prisoner's information, and walked to the first cell while looking at the evidence listed on it.

"Are you a Free Blade?"

The prisoner in the cell raised his head and said hoarsely: "I'm not..."

Annan paused for a moment on the "arson and killing of a family of seven" in his information. "No, you are." He walked to the second cell.

The same conversation, the man covered in bruises raised his head and grinned: "Bah... Bastard, kill me!"

His information was "Inciting neighbors to fight for their own rights": "You are not the Free Blade."

Annan walked to the third cell: "Are you the Free Blade?"

The man with whip marks on his face threw himself to the iron bars and begged: "I am willing to work for you. I know where the others are. I can take you to find them--"

Annan paused for a long time at "leading the Free Blade to break into the merchant's house to distribute food and property to civilians" with regret, and shook his head: "You are the Free Blade."

Many of those captured were Free Blades, but not only Free Blades.

After all, the soldiers of the Purification Court also have selfish desires. What more effective means of revenge is there than accusing their enemies of being Free Blades?

Two-thirds of the thirty-odd prisoners imprisoned in the dungeon are Free Blades, and one-third of these two-thirds expressed their willingness to surrender because of torture.

Their existence gave Annan a headache. After all, if you put yourself in their shoes, those hideous wounds made Annan not confident that he could die without speaking.

It was Maria who suggested that they should be sent back to Liberty City to be punished since they had both merits and faults.

Annan adopted Maria's suggestion, gathered them together with the silent Blade of Freedom, and sent them back to Liberty City.

Arriving at the deepest part of the dungeon, heavy-duty criminals are held here: not the big guys in the Free Blade, but because they committed a big enough crime - assassinating the king.

Several young followers of the Holy Grail Knight who had been tortured were hung on torture devices, and they were not released until Annan appeared.

"The betrayer's dog, don't bother anymore..." The knight's retinue, who had the best physique and still had the strength to speak, sneered.

"It's too ugly for you to say that..." Annan's brows furrowed, then relaxed: "But you're not talking about me, you can scold me even more unpleasantly."

The knight's retinue looked at Annan: "Are you coming to kill us?"

"I just came to ask..."

Annan shook his head and took out the badge of the Holy Grail Knight's retinue from the magic ring and waved it in front of their eyes: "How many challenge points can you get by killing the king?"

"Who are you……"

The knight's retinue stared at Annan with his bloodshot eyes: "Who did you kill! Koro or Fenmire!?"

"You misunderstood. Just like you, I am a glorious candidate for the Holy Grail Knight." Annan put the badge on his chest.

"I haven't seen you."

"Because I became a retinue of the Holy Grail Knight not long ago, under the witness of Knight de la Torre and Knight Navin."

"Are you Annan...?"