A strange world

Chapter 280 Section 133. Return

The residents gathered spontaneously in the square. Their leader, Old Zollen, raised his crutch:

"We must protect Xingyue Bay!"

"Guard Xingyue Bay!"

"We must protect our homeland!"

"Protect our home!"

"We must protect Lord Annan!"

"Guardian Lord!"

"Guard Jack!"

"Guard Apple Pie!"

The courageous citizens held up their farm forks and axes, and as soon as they rushed under the city wall, they heard cheers of victory coming from above.

"we won?"

The leaders looked at each other, and a head popped out from the city wall: "We won! It's so fast that they don't even have time to cry!"

So the cheers spread under the city walls and spread among the towns.

The guards were cheering for this disparate and unexpected victory won with the help of the city wall, but an eerie silence remained around Annan.

"There is no difference between letting the cavalry attack the city wall and committing suicide, but they still did it... Arrogance or conspiracy?" Annan felt that it was not that simple. He stared at the corpses scattered outside the city wall. Is the knight pretending to be dead to trick them into opening the city gate?

"Their chief mage did not dodge my arcane light." Mr. Swaro said, "The chief mage did not take action."

"You think he did it on purpose? But why?"

Just as Mr. Shivaro was about to answer, chaos suddenly fell under the city wall. Several figures frantically attacked the people in the crowd, like butterflies flying in the fallen leaves.

"Stop them!"

The twisted rope emerged from the void and easily entangled the culprit of the chaos.

"Thank you, Mr. Swaro." Annan breathed a sigh of relief, letting the earth element shackle them with rock and soil, and sent guards to the dungeon.

The guards began to clean the battlefield and count casualties.

The two white dragons were wounded, and the blue dragon had dozens of arrows stuck in its wings. They attracted the attention of most of the archers for the guards on the wall. Only two guards were injured. One of them sprained his foot, and the other was so frightened by the momentum of the cavalry that he failed to grasp the iron sword and pierced the sole of his foot.

The Knights left behind five seriously injured prisoners and thirty-four corpses...including the Knights' overall leader, Galt.

But within the fortified city walls, three scouts lurking in the city caused the only casualties, killing seven innocent residents and seriously wounding five others.

This makes this defensive battle no longer perfect.

Annan could only comfort himself by saying, "It is better to explode now than to lurk in Xingyue Bay and cause more casualties."

The corpses of the knights were placed in the open space, and Annan saw the Galt. His armor is mostly intact, with only signs of damage on the back.

"Galt, the head of the Loyal Knights," Lily read. .

"You know him?"

"His portrait hangs in the Great Library."

The commander-in-chief of one of the three major cavalry regiments of the Ruikaner Kingdom, a well-deserved big shot, died in the little-known Xingyue Bay.

"Is he really dead?"

The last dead epic Annan knew was Olmedo's father, but manipulating power has become easy for them...

"The soul has left the body." Mr. Schwaro concluded his death. "Boy, that's why mages are at the top of the profession. Nothing can stop them from leaving if they want to."

"At least the legendary warrior will not be impaled to death by farmers with a manure fork." If Annan was also an epic, he would probably answer Mr. Swaro. But he was not, and could only express his admiration for the mage cooperatively.

"Annan, their armor is mixed with a small amount of secret gold, which gives the armor some resistance to magic..." The bronze beard was like a rolling barrel spinning in front of the knights' corpses.

"They are relics of the dead," Annan said.

"Are you sure? A set of armor can be sold for one hundred to two hundred gold coins."

"Tear off their armor and put them into clean clothes." Annan looked at Mr. Swarovski in an obedient manner, "Can you come with me to the Knights' station?"

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A special convoy got out of the open city gate and arrived at the Knights' station along the road that was somewhat bumpy due to the heavy cavalry.

The knights began to gather, pouring out of the crude stockade, ready to wash away their shame.

"I sent you our companions."

The knights' anger turned into complex emotions mixed with guilt, anger, and hatred, and they made way to the camp.

The chief mage and a knight captain wearing dark gold armor but without the lion emblem stepped out of the felt tent.

"What are you doing here!" the knight captain growled.

"Send your general commander and knights." Annan, standing next to Mr. Swaro, said flatly.

"The Reverse King...Knights!"

"loyalty!"

The knights around the camp raised their weapons and pointed at Annan and Swaro.

"Back off, Padre." The chief mage stopped the knight captain and said in frustration: "Should I... thank you?"

"I need to apologize more than say thank you."

Annan's words made the knight captain's eyes wide open. He continued to ask: "I want to ask you, as a knight stationed on the border, why did you leave your station and invade the territory of a king of the north?"

"Because you intend to rebel!" the knight captain roared,

Annan ignored him and only looked at the chief mage: "You know the truth, right? Mr. Mage."

The chief mage tilted his head: "Call the knights of the royal capital."

The surprised knight captain brought the royal capital knight. When he saw Annan, he exclaimed: "He is the wanted rebel king! Catch him!"

Annan looked at this guy from the royal capital: "I want to know where the wanted order came from, Crow?"

"How dare you call the king by his name!" The knight of the royal capital screamed sharply: "Master Mage, the king orders you to arrest him!"

"Acting King," the Chief Mage said.

The anger of the knight in the royal capital disappeared, and he moved his lips in astonishment: "What do you mean..."

The chief mage looked at him indifferently: "Galt and thirty-three knights died in the battle. Someone needs to bear the consequences. The knights will confirm with the royal capital where the arrest order came from."

"Of course, you can catch me and go back to the capital with him!"

"A knight guarding the frontier died worthless in deception..." Annan's sarcasm came from the side, "Is this your foolish loyalty?"

"Pard, control him."

The chief mage said. He didn't say who he was controlling, but the knight captain had realized something and grabbed the royal capital knight with a complicated expression.

"It's over, King of the North." The Chief Mage said, "We will leave your territory."

"I have a question. If the acting king removes his agency...will you listen to him again?" Annan asked him.

"Yes, because we are a knighthood." The chief mage replied.

"What's the meaning?"

"The virtue of a knight is to abide by the creed, maintain justice, and support the weak." The chief mage looked at the knights in silence. "The virtue of a royal order is loyalty."