The Collection of The End

——4E, 201, Last Seed Moon, 17th, 8:00——

Emil is biting a donut and walking towards Solitude's Stormgate.

She has short purple hair and a slightly dark face that are completely different from Nords. She is petite and fluffy even in the smallest plush dress. The fur collar almost covers half of her face, but the little girl's feet Her dusty boots proved she hadn't just walked away from a prom.

Solitude, located on the seashore at the northwest end of Skyrim Province, is located on a huge rock that crosses the river as high as a bridge and flows into the end of the delta of the Sea of ​​the Dead. Its entrance is guarded by two gates and three towers.

"Holy Spirit, when did you go out? Lord Alicifer has been looking for you for a long time."

The guard at the gate of the city is wearing chain mail and a dark brown smock, and the steel shield in his hand is painted with the image of a wolf's head that symbolizes Solitude. At this time, the guard's relieved tone can be felt even through the full-face helmet.

"...Tulius, stole my donut." Amy revealed the grocery bag hidden in her sleeve: "Do you want it?"

"No, thank you for your generosity." The guard's voice was a little stiff.

You can give it to others at will, but you are not allowed to snatch it from her, right?

General Tullius went out to hunt down Ulfric Stormcloak who dared to assassinate the High King of Skyrim (High King) seven days ago, and took the donut that Amir was holding. "Wish me luck" he said at the time .

As a result, this little girl didn't understand this kind of behavior of asking for blessings before going out, but went directly to get it back? The general, who was pursuing her on horseback, must have been taken aback when he saw her.

Since she always liked to wander around, she often didn't go back to the Blue Palace. It wasn't until two days ago that the blond Ali Sifer, who was too busy, started looking for her.

"If you go in now, you'll still have time to meet Rogerville." He changed the subject stiffly.

"...What's wrong with him?" Amir ate the donut in his mouth and took out a new one.

"I think he should be beheaded, after all, the crime is treason," said the guard.

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"They can't hurt Uncle Rogerville, he is innocent!"

Not far from the Storm Gate, Amir was bumped into her arms by a girl younger than her.

"...what?" She gave the last donut to the girl, Swari, the innkeeper's daughter, with a round face from being fed by her so often.

"Edith and Atta are going to kill Rogerville, Emil, stop them!" Swary grabbed her clothes and didn't let go.

"Everyone is in your place." Amir heard the low voice of the captain of the Solitude City guard, Edith, from the execution platform on the side of the city gate. Standing next to him was holding a huge beheading axe. Atta the executioner in the cloth hood.

In Skyrim Province, due to the lack of supplies, it is impossible to detain criminals for different periods of time according to the specific behavior of the criminals like the Imperial Capital Province. In that case, for some people, the prison is equivalent to a hotel that provides free water.

Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, there are only three punishments for criminals, fines, imprisonment (without food) and beheading.

"Swari, you'd better go home immediately, there's nothing to see here." A young man dressed as a hotel waiter came over and pulled the little girl away from Amir.

"You can tell her that her uncle is a scumbag who betrayed the empire." Another woman dressed in the same dress as the young man said contemptuously.

"Uncle Rogerville is not a scumbag!" The little girl glared at her.

Amir couldn't figure out why the two brothers who worked at the city gate and the hotel would provoke the hotel cook. She just stretched out her hand and gave Swari a thumbs up.

"Roggieville,

After Ulfric Stormcloak assassinated High King Toig, you helped him escape from Solitude. ’ Captain Addis was holding a slate to announce his guilt, his bald head gleaming in the sun.

It is said that he is the most likely to take over the position of General Tullius. Could it be that one of the necessary conditions for becoming a general is baldness?

"You betrayed us!" "You traitor!" The people watching the execution were passionate.

It's strange, the people in the Blue Palace are obviously calm, even a little happy, why are these people...

As Emil passed through the crowd without a sound, he paid special attention to the loudest ones: Gala, a Brighton vegetable merchant who had been fined by the patrolling Rogerville many times for shoddy goods, Bell Rand, a Nord blacksmith, specializes in forging weapons for the empire, but Emil once heard him sympathize with Stormcloak when talking to his apprentices, and Garrera, this Argonian who tried to approach the lighthouse in the middle of the night and was arrested Giver was thrown into prison for a few days.

Hmm... that's interesting.

"—You opened the door for him, you betrayed all the residents of Solitary City, and now you are sentenced to treason and executed by beheading!" Captain Addis continued to pronounce the sentence.

door? Amir recalled the city defense system of Solitary City.

The first tower of the three towers is located at the crossroads, known as the Tongtian Tower, and the nearby roads are full of roadblocks. It will serve as the first line of defense in wartime, but its main function is an early warning watchtower.

A second tower and a smaller gate, called the Howling Gate by Solitude's inhabitants, and the attacking army, if any, would have suffered heavy losses and As for having to cry out loud.

The last one, and of course the most impressive one, is the Gate of Storms. It is a huge door made of ebony, strengthened by magic and indestructible. In the open state, once it is completely closed due to an emergency, if you want to pass it, you can only wait for the guards who control it on the city wall to open it.

So, Rogerville, a busy man who also held a series of duties such as patrolling the city, suppressing robbers, guarding the Blue Palace, and guarding the lighthouse, stumbled when he volunteered to help again?

"That wasn't an assassination! Ulfric Stormcloak challenged the High King upright and defeated him head-on!" Rogerville, who had short hair and a handsome face among rough Nords, retorted loudly. He was stripped of his guard armor, only wearing a linen prison uniform, shivering in the cold wind: "This is our tradition, the tradition of the Nords and the province of Skyrim since ancient times!"

The so-called Nord tradition is that everything speaks with muscle and strength. If you like something from someone, you will challenge him to a duel. During this period, you are not allowed to use magic and enchanted weapons. If you fail the challenge, you will be allowed to deal with it.

Of course, in the case of unequal status and price, the duelist can completely refuse, but Ulfric, as the leader of the Stormcloak, raised a challenge to the High King of Skyrim Province involving the ownership of Skyrim's sovereignty.

As the boss of the nine major fiefdom lords in Skyrim Province, the position of Supreme King has always been jointly recommended by all the lords. It is generally agreed that the lord of Dugu City, the largest city, is the lord of Dugu City. However, as the second largest city, Windhelm City, Wu After Fryk raised the anti-flag, half of the lords who supported him ignored the order of the Supreme King. At this time, the opportunity of unity came to him, and Toig had no choice but to refuse.

As a result, I lost.

"Woo—" There were boos everywhere, obviously the audience did not agree with this statement, this tradition is no different from robbery in the eyes of most imperial people, after all, they have no chance to see duels between nobles, and they have more contact with those who Robbers gathering in the wild.

In the constant conflict between the Stormcloaks and the Empire, the bandits around the town have become more aggressive as the guards have been diverted to fight, which also makes most of them dislike the Stormcloaks.

Plop, Captain Edith stretched out his hand and pushed Rogerville down on the execution platform.

"I will remember you, Rogerville, you were a good man," he said.

"Heh..." Rojiville whispered, "Today, I will return to Songgard."

After waiting for a while, Atta's beheading ax did not fall, and the surrounding crowd began to buzz and make noise.

"Ata?" Captain Edith looked at the executioner suspiciously.

"Captain..." Atta stood crookedly in a weird posture, as if something was pressing on his shoulders.

Looking carefully, the bald-headed captain of the guard found that there seemed to be a transparent figure there. After trying to distinguish carefully, he finally found a little girl sitting on the executioner's shoulder, holding the back of the decapitating ax with one hand to prevent it from falling go.

Although he could get rid of the restraint with a little force, but judging by Atta's appearance, he obviously didn't dare.

"Your Highness, please don't mess around." Edith lowered his voice and said, "He let the assassin go, he can't just pardon him."

"...Assassin?" Amir tilted his head: "Toig is not dead."

"My Highness——" Edith was going crazy, but he couldn't follow her to call the High King by his name: "Even if you don't regard Ulfric as an assassin, he is also the leader of the rebel army. Let him go so A person is undoubtedly treason, right?"

"...Windhelm City doesn't belong to the empire?" Amy asked back.

"This—" Even though everyone knew that the lord of Windhelm City, Ulfric Stormcloak, openly rebelled against the empire and controlled half of the territory in Skyrim Province, Edith didn't dare to nod in response to this sentence, it was just The rebels have definitely not reached the point of "other countries".

"Unless there is an order from the Supreme King, he cannot be pardoned directly by you." He finally answered bravely.

The leader of the Stormcloak probably couldn't have imagined that this little Highness from the empire would be so powerful. The long-lost Dragon Roar was blocked by a little girl, and the High King Toig was just blown into the wall and needed to recuperate. For a while.

"Orders from the High King—" A guard with an armor style completely different from that of Solitary City guards, but more deadly and gorgeous ran over, stood in front of the execution platform, took out an order and announced loudly: "Full pardon for Rodgerville's crimes! "

Edith heaved a sigh of relief. The uniform belonged to the Imperial Guard of Emperor Uriel Septim II - Sharp-Eyed Eagle, and the messenger was the captain of the squad ordered to protect His Royal Highness, Lazer Palaso s.

"Why is this again—" "Ata, your ax is blunt—"

Ordinary residents gradually scattered, and after receiving the order, Edith smiled wryly and pointed to Amir who was still sitting on Atta's shoulder, and helped Rodgeville, who was too cold to speak, to leave.

"Twenty-three times." Atta said while stretching out her arms, making Amy jump off on the ax face, although seeing that she could climb up without a sound, she knew it was unnecessary.

"Next time—" Lazhe looked at them coldly and said, "If His Highness wants to pardon someone, don't make any excuses. Even if it's the emperor's pardon, it's only a matter of time before you get it."

"Because she is the princess of the empire," Sharp-Eyed Hawk looked at the girl who was waving goodbye to Rojiville: "Emilia Septim."