Alando helped Ryan out of the tent. The town in front of him was no longer the same as when Ryan and the others first arrived. Except for the corpses that had been cleared away and buried, the entire town was still basically the same battlefield as it was two days ago: after the burning The trees and the blood stains that have seeped into the ground all tell the story of the intensity of the battle two days ago.
Ryan shook his head. He knew that most of it was caused by his fireball technique. He didn't want to do this, but the situation was critical and he had to do this in order to eradicate the thieves. Ryan felt no guilt about this.
Under Allendo's guidance, Ryan met Bacon in a corner of Giethoorn Town. The leader of the Holy Knights had grown a beard. It seemed that he had been under a lot of pressure in the past two days.
When Bacon saw Ryan coming, he quickly greeted him enthusiastically. He made a fist with his right hand and touched his left chest, performing a standard royal knight's salute. It's a pity that Ryan has never seen it before, thinking that everyone should do this when they meet, so he clumsily followed Bacon's lead and punched his right chest hard with his left hand, which aroused kind smiles from Bacon and several holy knights.
Ryan scratched his head, wondering why the knights were laughing.
Bacon smiled and explained to Ryan: "My action is a unique salute of the Royal Knights. You are not a knight, so you imitated it, but you did it completely wrong. You should use your right hand with your left hand, and you should gently place it on your left chest. In front of me, you beat me hard on your right chest."
Ryan also laughed after hearing Bacon's explanation.
This sincere laughter immediately brought the relationship between the two parties closer.
Seeing that it was almost noon, Bacon invited Lane and Allen to have lunch with him, and Lane and Allen happily accepted.
The three of them sat on the floor around a small wooden table, eating and talking.
Bacon first told Ryan and Allen about his own affairs.
Almost 20 days ago, Sainat rebelled. This Senat is the lord of Mori City, a city in the southeastern part of the empire. The geographical location of Mori City is very important. It is the only way to connect the imperial capital, the commercial city Yignas City and the largest port city Sea Breeze City.
Senna chose the time very well, taking advantage of the fact that the Northern Thunder God Fortress had just changed its defenses, the new recruits were still training, and the veterans should go home to rest. At this time, the empire could not mobilize enough troops in a short period of time!
General Orlando, the leader of the Royal Knights, decided to take a dangerous approach and personally led the Royal Knights, who were originally responsible for the security of the imperial capital and palace, to put down the rebellion. Although Orlando only brought five thousand Holy Knights with him, the so-called Imperial God of War still made clever arrangements to make Senat's rebels exhausted. In the end, they had to fight the Holy Knights who were best at charging on the plains outside Mori City.
Although Senat had a thousand heavy infantry who were good at dealing with cavalry and 2,000 archers, his cavalry force was not enough, with less than 500 men, who could barely be used as scouts. With nearly perfect on-the-spot command, Orlando used fast and slow tactics to form a local superior force, bypassing the heavy infantry defensive position and cutting into the archer position. After taking care of the archers, the Holy Knights had no enemy who could threaten them. . Orlando easily commanded the Holy Knights to massacre Senat's 30,000 infantry legion. However, the only heavy infantry that could cause damage to the knights could not catch up with the Holy Knights due to their extremely poor mobility. After a hard fight, Orlando finally commanded the Holy Knights to defeat Senat's rebels.
Unfortunately, Senat saw that the war was not going well and quickly fled the battlefield under the protection of his personal guards. The "left hand" Ryan dealt with in Giethoorn was Senat's personal guard chief.
After all, Orlando is the highest military commander of the imperial capital and cannot stay away for a long time. To counter the rebellion this time, he mobilized the Royal Knights who originally defended the imperial capital. For the safety of the imperial capital, Orlando had to end the war and return quickly. However, before Orlando returned to the imperial capital, he ordered Bacon to lead 200 holy knights to continue hunting down Senat.
Bacon led the team to track Senat to the edge of the Nantalun grassland. Along the way, Bacon fought repeatedly with Senat's army and suffered heavy losses, but the results were also great, annihilating nearly 1,000 Senat's men.
Perhaps he suffered the loss of not having cavalry outside Mori City. After arriving at the Nantalun Prairie, Senat began to send people everywhere to rob the herdsmen's horses. After several consecutive robberies, he was finally caught up by Bacon. Unexpectedly, Senat was very cunning. He sent someone to pretend that he was carrying bacon on the prairie for two days, draining the Holy Knight's energy, and then setting up an ambush in Sheephorn.
As a holy knight, Bacon had sworn in front of the gods of light to defend honor and protect the weak with his life, so even though he knew that Senat might have set a trap, he rushed into Giethoorn without hesitation. After all, there are nearly 1,000 herdsmen in Yangjiao Town. If Senat is allowed to do whatever he wants, he will suffer heavy losses.
Both Ryan and Allendo knew what happened next, and Bacon didn't go into details.
Ryan asked about the casualties of the Holy Knights again. Bacon's face was full of melancholy. He said softly: "Of 200 brothers, there are only less than forty left."
Ryan accidentally asked about Bacon's sadness and felt very sorry, but Bacon could pick it up and put it down. In turn, he comforted Ryan and told him not to pay too much attention. From the day Bacon and the others became Holy Knights, defending honor with their lives was their greatest pursuit.
Bacon asked about Ryan and Alando's plans. Ryan thought for a while and said: "Ellendo and I have learned a lot this time. We plan to return to Alpha City first and turn this experience into our own precious treasure." After Victory Day, I will go to the Imperial Capital." Ryan also told Bacon about his preparations to participate in the Royal Athletic Competition.
Bacon is very happy. The Holy Knight will send people to participate in the Royal Athletic Competition every year. Maybe Bacon will have a chance to fight Ryan in this year's competition.
Ryan is also looking forward to playing against the Holy Knight in a competitive competition. Throughout the history of the Holy Empire, Holy Knights have been the backbone of the Empire and have won many competitive championships. Orlando was just an ordinary knight 20 years ago. He made a sensation in the Royal Athletic Competition that year, and was appreciated by Fernando XII at the time and entrusted with an important task. Finally became the leader of the Royal Knights, representing the strongest power of the empire!
While the three of them were talking, two holy knights came over escorting an old man. Ryan accidentally saw that this old man turned out to be Mayor Zhelile.
Bacon saw his subordinates taking Zheli into custody, said sorry to Ryan and Allen, and interrupted the conversation between the three. Then he stood up and said to Zhelile: "Mayor Zhelile, I hope you can tell me where almost one-third of the herdsmen in Yangjiao Town have gone?"
Zhelile glanced at Bacon and said nothing. He stared at Ryan with his eyes. If eyes could kill, maybe Ryan would have died dozens of times.
Ryan said to Bacon: "Bacon, Allen and I have seen Mayor Zhelile and Senat standing together. It seems that they are very familiar with each other. And he is the hand of Aqimu in Giethoorn Town." Killed."
Zhelile gasped, clenched his fists with both hands, and stared at Ryan. Suddenly he let out a long sigh and put down his hands, with a look of helplessness on his face.
After listening to Ryan's words, Bacon asked Zhelile: "Mayor Zhelile, what do you have to say about the accusations made by the magician Ryan against you?"
Zhelile seemed to have suddenly aged several dozen years. He said dejectedly: "I really regret that I shouldn't have issued that mercenary mission. I originally planned to use this mission to bring the soul-eating killer into Giethoorn Town, but instead... However, two guys who don’t know the heights of the world took over this task in advance and ruined my plans for many years.”
Ryan asked: "If I guess correctly, you have been in contact with Senat before, and you actually introduced Azimu on purpose, right?"
Zhelile said: "Yes, with Aqimu, those who disobey me in Yangjiao Town will come close to me, and I can use the power of thieves to eliminate them all."
Ryan asked: "What you told me that night were all lies, right?"
Zhelile hurriedly defended: "No, it's not. Our ancestors once had countless brilliance, but when they settled down, they slowly lost that toughness. I once thought about restoring the strength of our ancestors through hard work. Glory, but these old stubborns say that our lives are very stable now and they don’t want to be like our ancestors. We are slowly degenerating and can’t go on like this. A few years ago, Lord Senat sent someone to find me. We gradually got in touch. I deliberately asked Azimu to oppose me, so that I could prepare to use Senat’s power to eliminate those who opposed me!”
Bacon was very dissatisfied with Zhelile's words. He said: "Zhelile, are you just killing your own people for a so-called glory?"
Zhelile said disdainfully: "They are not worthy of being my tribe! The strength of a race is based on bloody killings. No matter who it is, as long as it blocks the way forward, they will be ruthlessly eliminated. Fernando was not like that back then. Did he do this? How many lives did he kill to achieve the glory of the empire? "
Bacon stopped loudly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty Fernando, is not something you can discuss casually. His great achievements back then..."
"Hmph!" Zhelile showed a contemptuous smile and said, "No matter how great the achievement is, it's just about killing more people. He can kill, why can't I?"