Hubert was the last to go to the new camp.
He returned to the cemetery behind his estate before leaving.
Many ancestors of his family are buried in this cemetery, as well as his wife, son and grandson.
He is the only one left in this manor now...
"I'm leaving the royal city, Andress." Hubert placed a bouquet of flowers in front of his wife's tombstone. "The disaster brought by the blood crystal beast is a thing of the past."
Hubert couldn't help but feel sad when he said this.
This disaster left him with nothing. If it were not for assisting Queen Elena, Hubert might have chosen to commit suicide after visiting the tomb.
But Hubert has not yet recovered from his depression.
But in a trance he heard a "嘤嘤嘤" sound, and something was rubbing his cheek.
Hubert suddenly raised his head... and saw the walking beast that had been separated from him for who knows how many days had appeared in the cemetery at some point.
The fur on this walking beast is no longer as clean as it was when Hubert just left. It is covered in all kinds of mud...
But that didn’t stop Hubert from embracing it.
Now that the disaster with the blood crystal beast has been completely overcome, there is a new life waiting for him. Now is not the time to be decadent.
"Let's go, old friend." Hubert rode on the walking beast again. It whimpered twice and ran with Hubert towards the scheduled gathering place.
… …
The next morning.
After Sphinx made sure that all the people in green clothes had left, he quickly ran from the castle into the noble manor in the inner city.
Before the blood crystal beast disaster ravaged the Scarre Kingdom, he was a woodcutter in the manor area, responsible for chopping firewood for the noble lords. One time when he was chopping wood, he accidentally cut off his finger.
After that, Sphinx was driven out of the manor and lived on the streets for several years.
But now he can finally return to the place where half of Skarre's wealth is gathered.
"Ruby crystals, gold rings, and gold spoons... I'm rich!"
Spenna searched the noble manor where he used to work and found a lot of valuable things inside.
Whether it was the porcelain on the table or the necklace hidden in the small box, these things that only noble lords could own in the past were all stuffed into his pockets today.
As Sphinx watched the jewels and gold in his pocket increase in volume, his mood grew more and more excited. At the same time, he despised the poor people who followed the man in green clothes for their shortsightedness.
The royal city is now in disarray, and there is no telling how many treasures are buried beneath the ruins. These guys don't even want these glittering golden things just for food!
Sphinx came to the manor owner's former study and was about to put a gilded candlestick into his pocket when the door of the study was suddenly pushed open.
"Another thief has been found!"
A knight who was supposed to have left the city appeared in the study.
"I...I'm just taking shelter here! I didn't take anything!"
When Sphinx was about to argue, he was dragged out by the knight with shackles on his hands.
When he was brought to the street by the knight, he found that many refugees like him, who wanted to scavenger, were being taken out of the manor in groups.
"The general has caught another thief in Count Orrick's mansion." The knight said as he gathered the captured scavengers by the chain.
"Take them to the castle for trial!"
The order given by the general riding a walking beast was like pouring a layer of ice water on Sphinx's heart.
He was once again taken back to the castle along with a group of scavengers who had the same idea as him.
But now there are no tents with the words "earthquake relief" written on them. Instead, there are execution platforms used for trials.
Those scavengers who tried to break into the nobles' estates and loot them were gathered together in groups.
When Sphinx saw the rope on the execution platform, his heart sank.
He finally survived the disaster of the blood crystal beast, but before he could be happy for long he was hanged by this group of nobles!
"Your Highness Meira, all prisoners who attempted to steal or rob have been gathered here."
Sfinner watched as he was brought before a woman dressed in black and holding a long staff.
He knew this woman. She was said to be the fourth daughter of Princess Skarre... When he was working at the manor in the past, he saw this princess easily light a pile of firewood with a wave of her hand.
"Are we going to send them to the gallows?" the general asked, pulling the shackles on a prisoner's hands.
"Untie the shackles on their hands." Princess Mera gave an order that the general did not expect.
"You mean..."
"Untie them. We don't have the manpower to carry out executions now."
Princess Mera repeated the order again, and the general had to lead his soldiers to unlock the shackles on the scavengers.
"Although I have removed your shackles, you are still charged with theft. You should have been sent to the gallows, but I will give you a chance to clear your name."
Princess Mera just returned to the capital from the secret passage this morning. She thought that her sister would lead the army from another world to occupy the capital, but those guys disappeared after staying in the capital for a few days.
This made Princess Mera very strange, but what needed to be done now was to rebuild the order of the royal capital, and she urgently needed manpower.
"General, give them food." Princess Mera said to the general beside her.
"this…"
"I don't want to repeat every order a second time." There was a hint of anger in Princess Mera's voice.
The general had no choice but to obey the order and take out some black bread stored in the castle warehouse. These food stores had been distributed to other refugees before. Now they had to give food to these criminals. He really didn't understand what the princess was thinking.
Princess Mera quietly watched the reactions of the refugees below.
She had been waiting for this moment for too long. She saw the arrival of the blood crystal beast disaster as an opportunity to seize the throne.
However, she underestimated the threat of the blood crystal beast disaster and her father's stupidity. What she least expected was that her sister found a foreign army from somewhere...which was stronger than she had imagined.
Fortunately, today everything returned to the track she planned. The old king died because of the regicide, and the remaining nobles basically supported her existence.
Although there were only a few people left, Mera still had the confidence to rebuild a strong capital.
All she has to do now is win the hearts and minds of the people.
In the face of such a disaster, a meal is enough to win the hearts of the people.
Princess Mera has conducted countless experiments in the past... If she wanted those ragged refugees to follow her wholeheartedly, she only needed to feed them every day. As for what they ate... they would not care.
She wanted to make the surviving refugees understand that her own stupid father was different.
Therefore, the first day Princess Mera returned to the city, she gathered the refugees and "shared" the food stored in the castle with them.
Meira watched her soldiers distribute food to the refugees. She wanted to wait until the refugees' gratitude reached its peak before mobilizing them again.
But...the reactions of those refugees were a little different from what Mera expected
After receiving the bread, the refugees did not show excitement or gratitude. Instead, they remained somewhat numb, and some even had bitter smiles on their faces.
Something is wrong!
Princess Mera was certain that the behavior of these refugees was very abnormal. During the period when the blood crystal beasts were rampant, Princess Mera secretly gave some of the money to the refugees living on the streets in order to establish her own prestige.
Those refugees would be so excited that they would kneel down and cry even if they got a moldy black bread, but now Princess Mera gave them a piece of non-moldy bread and they didn't show any... expression.
Is it because of being frightened
"People of Skare, listen to me." Princess Mela raised her voice and spoke to the surviving refugees of Skare. "Whether you were serfs, criminals, or slaves in the past, from today on, you have the opportunity to become free people."
Princess Mera wanted to use this method to motivate the refugees present, but there were not only people at the bottom of the Skare who were present, but also ordinary people.
"In the days ahead, I will try my best to ensure that everyone has enough to eat and gets the wealth that should belong to you, but the prerequisite is that you are willing to work with me to rebuild Skare."
When Princess Mera said this, she expected the refugees below to cheer loudly, but they still looked at Princess Mera expressionlessly.
"…" Princess Mela gritted her teeth and said to the general behind her, "Take out the meat from the castle's food storage."
This was Princess Mera's last resort to mobilize the emotions of the people, but even though the generals distributed the dried meat to every refugee present, their emotions remained unchanged.
Why! Princess Mela wanted to grab the collar of a citizen and ask them, "We have food to eat, what are you still asking for!"
Sfinner also wanted to ask why.
In one hand he held a wooden bowl and in the other a piece of black bread.
If he had received this kind of food seven days ago, as a reward from a noble lord, he would probably have been so moved that he would have immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
But the problem is... during these seven days, he got used to eating white steamed buns, pumpkin porridge, meat dumplings, canned beef, Master Kong braised beef noodles, Master Kong seafood noodles and so on given by the people in green clothes!
Sphinx hadn't noticed it while he was eating, until today when he held this half piece of bread that had become hard enough to be used in a street fight.
He understood...the food he received from that group of people during those days was the most delicious food he had ever tasted in his life.
Just comparing the taste of the bread in his hand with that of the meat buns, Sphinx lost his appetite at all.
Damn it! I should have gone with that group of people earlier!
Spenna glanced at the small diamond left in his pocket. If he had known it would turn out like this, even if he was given more jewels and diamonds, he would probably have exchanged them for a ticket to ride on a truck.
Unfortunately, he no longer had the chance to regret.