Lord Highlander

The midday sun made the square a bit hot, and even the wind blowing was warm.

People crowded in the square, and a group of aborigines surrounded the punishment stone in the center of the square with some wooden boards raised high, trying to block the girl on the punishment stone from the scorching sun. Someone even wanted to pour water from the water bottle on the girl.

Four guards held their spears horizontally, blocking the crowd and preventing them from getting too close.

She was crawling on a black rock, her skin exposed outside her clothes was reddened by the glare, her mental state was very poor, her eyes were half closed, even if her lips were chapped and her eye sockets were sunken, she couldn't hide her beautiful face. She looked a little thin, with a pointed chin, a straight nose, and a slightly fairer complexion than other aborigines, but her face was full of stubbornness.

She was only eleven or twelve years old, and the long linen dress she was wearing had become tattered, and the thin arms and legs of the wood-bone stick had almost no flesh, and her bare feet were curled, her body was almost flat At the place of the black reef, it was burned red by the hot punishment stone.

Several aborigines in the crowd seemed very excited. They tried to rush away from the guards guarding the punishment stone, but were blocked by the guards.

There were still a lot of onlookers in the square, but those imperial people who immigrated from Bena Province just watched coldly from a distance, their eyes full of contempt and indifference.

The sun scorched the stone until it was hot, and some clear water splashed on the girl's face. She tried to curl up her body, but was blocked by two metal chains.

Suldak, who came from the crowd, stood in front of the girl, just in time to see the desire for life in her eyes at the moment she raised her head.

Seeing Suldak approaching, the girl closed her eyes indifferently, raised her pointed chin, let her head lie on the black rock, and covered her embarrassed face with one hand.

The guards didn't dare to stop Suldak, seeing Suldak's strange face, he didn't know what to say for a while.

After all, the shining silver noble medal hanging on Suldak's chest made them dare not show any disrespect to Suldak.

Several people dressed as aristocrats were watching from a distance, and seeing that the scene was a bit out of control, they whispered a few words to the subordinates behind them.

Two followers walked quickly to the center of the square and squeezed in from the crowd of aborigines. They saw Suldak standing next to the punishment stone with two female relatives and a little girl, followed by a local Guide, the two followers were hesitant, not knowing whether they should come up or not.

After hesitating for a moment, they seemed to have remembered the purpose of coming here, and began to help the guards maintain order on the field, and told the guards that someone had already gone to the garrison barracks in Kilan Town to apply for garrison reinforcements, so that they could hold on a little longer.

Hearing what the subordinates said, the guards who had flinched at first gained some strength in their legs, and became more determined to push back the aborigines.

Selena pulled Signa to stand beside Suldak, and was about to walk towards the girl on the Black Lagoon when she was stopped by a guard.

"We are following orders, ma'am! No one is to come near her."

Selena hesitated a little, and looked at Suldak beside her.

Suldak said calmly to the guard: "Listen, guard! She needs to drink some water, if this continues, she will die."

"The mayor ordered that no one should approach her until she reveals the whereabouts of the stolen goods." One of the guards said persistently.

Suldak took a look at the four guards. They should all be Bena people who came from the Grimm Empire through the portal, but their accents are different from those of the Bena people. They may have lived here for a long time. reason.

Suldak glanced down at the guard, and said with a serious face, "I need to take a look at the sentence issued by the court of the House of Representatives, or the authorization issued by the Governor of Kielan Town."

The guards did not expect the noble baron in front of them to put on a business-like attitude, they did not dare to resist the order of a noble baron, but they refused to move away, so they could only bite the bullet and say: "These certificates are not in our hands for the time being. "

Samira, who had been standing behind Suldak all this time, suddenly flashed out like a ghost, stepped forward and stood in front of the guard, her arm clasped the guard's neck like a poisonous snake, and stared at him coldly with a pair of pale red eyes. The guard shouted coldly: "Then get out of the way!"

The guard didn't even feel any thrust, and his body involuntarily took a few steps back.

Samira was wearing a valuable salamander leather armor and a hood, covering her face tightly. She walked to the side of the black reef, stretched out her hand to untie the water bag around her waist, and took the indigenous girl on the black reef Nestling in her arms, half hugging and half hugging, put the water bag next to her chapped lips, and fed her a little water.

Selena and Signa hurried forward to help.

The retreated guard quickly chased after him. He wanted to stop Samira but he didn't dare to approach him. He just tried to persuade him with a bitter face:

"You can't be so barbaric, you can't take her away, she is a thief, he stole a beloved ceramic vase from Baron Goss, with exquisite colorful patterns on it, you must know, this kind of vase brought from the mainland of Roland How expensive is the precious porcelain, but this aborigine, she stole the vase, we want to get the vase back, and give her a little punishment, which is not too much!"

Selena took out a blanket, covered the girl's body, and reprimanded the guard: "How long has she been drying here? She's already dehydrated, you want her life?"

The guard muttered something in a low voice.

The surrounding aborigines didn't expect someone to stand up and speak for them, and they were all excited for a while, and the black reef was surrounded by a water system.

Some of the aborigines came up with an earthen pot, pulled off the blanket tremblingly, and daubed a light green grass juice on the girl's sunburned skin.

The girl drank some clear water and gained some energy. She looked at Samira blankly, and the place where her wrist was worn by the shackles became a little rotten.

Samira took out a sharp dagger from her thigh without saying a word, and slammed it on the shackles of the girl's wrist, which immediately made Suldak's heart tighten. But using a standard dagger to forcibly cut off the prisoner's chains, the dagger will inevitably collapse.

The shackles snapped, and Samira asked the aborigine who boldly walked up with the medicine pot to smear her wrists with the medicine.

Seeing that Samira had cut off the shackles, the guards on the side turned pale with fright, and dared not go up. They just held the spear in their hands and said to Samira in a trembling voice:

"You...you can't let her go, she hasn't told where the vase is!"

Samira looked up at the vicious sun above her head, and wanted to hug the girl to a shady place. There were only a few poplar trees on the edge of this square.

When she got up with the girl in her arms, the surrounding aborigines also followed.

The four guards and two subordinates squeezed into the crowd, struggling to stop Samira and the others, but they stood in front of them and refused to budge.

Samira handed the girl over to Selena beside her, and without hesitation took out the alloy bow from her back, put on a straight feathered arrow, and stretched the bowstring to the full, the sharp tip of the arrow almost touched the guard's nose , The guard was so frightened that sweat dripped from his forehead.

"If you dare to block me again, I will shoot you to death with one arrow! Get out!" Samira shouted coldly to the guards.

The murderous aura brought back from the battlefield on his body seemed to shoot the guard straight through in the next moment. The guard's legs were a little weak in fright, and he hurriedly stepped aside with his companions.

...

The square is located on the west side of the town, not too far from the council hall in the center of the town, and the town's garrison camp is also within sight.

The commotion in the town square had already attracted the attention of the garrison camp. It would take some time for the infantry to rush over.

At this time, several people dressed as aristocrats standing on the side of the square saw that their subordinates could not control the scene, and they could not continue to stand and watch beside the square, so they hurriedly walked towards Suldak and his party.

Walking in front was a young man wearing aristocratic attire. His complexion was fair and he didn't have a sword on his waist. He was probably used to living a pampered life, but he didn't wear a noble badge on his chest, not even a knight badge. No, he walked up to Suldak and said to Suldak very enthusiastically:

"This Lord Baron, who are you?"

Suldak stood up straight and said to the young man: "Baron Suldak, the sheriff of the barren land of the guard camp of Hailansa City, Bena Province, belongs to the cavalry regiment of the Luthor Legion of Bena Province. I was ordered to garrison on the Bailin plane to replace the Legion of the Langdon family, what is your Excellency...?"

Hearing Suldak say such a string of names, the young nobleman smiled unnaturally, and said with some confidence:

"I'm Arlo Goss, and my father is a baron like you, managing this ranch here for the Goss family."

It turned out to be the son of a baron. No wonder he wore noble clothes but didn’t have a noble badge. Normally, these young people can choose to enter the knight academy. After graduation, they have the opportunity to directly become an official knight of the empire. No leather armor of any kind, no sword, and doesn't look like a knight.

Maybe it's because there is no Knight Academy nearby, Suldak thought.

But if this is the case, it means that this Arlo. Goss is just a commoner, wearing gorgeous aristocratic costumes, obviously not agreeing with his identity.

At this time, a middle-aged woman among the aborigines ran out and saw her lying on Arlo. In front of Goss, he hugged his calf and almost pressed his face against Arlo. on Goss' boots, imploring him:

"Master Arlo, please let Nika go, she really didn't steal your vase..."

Arlo. Goss wanted to kick the aboriginal woman away, but his legs were not that explosive, and the subordinates at the side forcibly dragged the aboriginal woman aside.

Arlo. Goss smiled awkwardly at Surdak, looked at the shiny leather boots on his feet, and said:

"You see how barbaric they are."

Then he realized that he couldn't let Suldak underestimate him, so he puffed up his chest and said:

"You just came to the Bailin plane, so you may not know much about the situation here. These unruly and poor aborigines are a mixture of thieves, rogues and beggars. They can't bear the hard life and often steal the property of our foreign colonists. This time I just want to get my vase back, and I haven't done anything excessive, so is that okay?"

Perhaps he has been used to living a pampered life, and his tone of voice is also used to the toughness of the superior:

"I'm just exercising the rights of the nobility. I don't think I violated the laws of the Green Empire. What do you think? Baron Suldak."

Several subordinates stood aside with bitter faces, really not knowing how to remind their young master, what tone they should use to speak to a real noble baron.

Surdak didn't expect that a vase would trigger the case.

He heard Arlo. The tone of Goss's speech felt a little uncomfortable. Thinking that I was going to ask Baron Goss to see Baron Goss, and wanted to buy some war horses from him, and got involved in this matter rashly, I felt a little regretful, and it was impossible to just quit, so I Shunkou said:

"You lost a vase at home? Maybe I can help you find the whereabouts of the vase."

Suldak thought that he might be able to find the real thief with the help of Aphrodite's 'death' and 'charm'.

Arlo. Goss didn't expect Suldak to say this, and he was stunned for a while. A vase was nothing to him. He just wanted to take this opportunity to let the aborigines in the town respect him. The life and death of the girl and the vase He didn't even care about his whereabouts.

"Tell me, did you take that vase?" Suldak turned his head to look at the weak girl in Selena's arms, leaned into her ear and whispered, "Listen, if you took it, as long as You return the vase to him, and I can guarantee that you will not be punished..."

Under the gaze of several people, the girl still shook her head stubbornly.

Suldak glanced at Selena and shook her head slightly. Apparently, she didn't think that the aborigine girl stole the vase, so she turned around and looked at Arlo. "Who else was in the house when the vase was thrown? I want to meet them...everyone," Goss asked.

"It's the study room. Except for Nika who has to go there regularly to clean it every day, almost no one goes there. Occasionally, my father also reads in the study room, but he just goes out these few days, so I usually don't pay much attention to it... ...I lost the vase, or Joe told me, Joe is my brother." Arlo. Goss pointed to a chubby noble boy beside him, and introduced to Suldak.

The little fat man noticed that Suldak was looking over, and forced a smile.

Seeing that his eyes flickered, showing some struggle in his heart, maybe because he knew some inside information, Suldak reached out and touched the top of the little fat man's head, and said to him and the people around him: "As a knight who believes in the power of the Holy Light , I have the blessing of the gods, I can see the truth and the false, and no one who lies can escape my eyes."

As he spoke, he unleashed his 'momentum' on the square, and behind him a phantom of a five-meter-tall double-faced four-armed demon god emerged, and the face that belonged to a god slowly turned, facing the front, facing the The little fat guy with sweat on his forehead.

He stared at the little fat man closely, and asked him, "If you don't want God's punishment... don't lie, tell me where is that bottle?"

Seeing Suldak's sharp eyes, the little fat man was so frightened that his legs became weak for a moment, and he sat down on the ground, pinching his ears with his hands and crying loudly: "I accidentally broke the bottle, I'm worried I was scolded and dared not tell the truth. I didn't intend to harm anyone, nor did I intend to harm Nika. I just wanted to buy another one at the grocery store in the town, but there were no grocery stores in the town that were exactly the same. I want to find a chance to say it, but I'm really scared..."