The unrest in the military market was quickly quelled.
In this world where supernatural powers exist, the gap between the strength of armored knights and ordinary soldiers is huge, not only in terms of equipment, but also in terms of physical fitness. Even groups of soldiers still have difficulty fighting against a smaller number of knights.
A stray bullet hit the emperor's head in the chaos. Although it was nothing serious, it still angered the old man.
So, except for the soldiers who were killed on the spot, the remaining more than 600 soldiers who had rebelled and were captured and surrendered were all sentenced to death by hanging by the humiliated emperor.
Hundreds of corpses were hung on the gallows beside the military camp, floating in the wind and left to be pecked by crows. The original resentment in the army was quickly calmed down - or rather, it was transformed into fear.
The military bazaar was permanently closed, and now both the soldiers and knights had nowhere to go. They could only stay in the small and narrow tents to chat, gossip, curse the emperor, and whisper to each other.
The spies that the Blade Knights had planted in the army soon recorded a huge amount of complaints that slandered the emperor. They wisely chose not to report it immediately, but to seal it up as a file, because there were too many people involved.
If the increasingly suspicious emperor knew about this, there would surely be a night of long swords and rivers of blood.
The Blue Sword Mercenary Group also faced a certain dilemma.
The clues led to the Acid Dragon. There was no way for everyone to investigate this demigod directly, so they could only use Bruno, the Imagination Dragon, to save the situation in a roundabout way.
After some investigation, Bruno suspected that the mastermind behind the scenes was much more powerful than he had imagined, so he decided to investigate it himself and not let the Blue Sword interfere.
"So what should we do now?" Medea asked, "Just wait for Bruno to find out the results? Even if he has the results, he may not tell us, right?"
"That's right." Ask said, "So we have to bring in more forces to make this matter more complicated."
"More chaos?"
"Yes."
At dusk, everyone left the camp secretly. Outside the gallows, Ask put a copper coin into the mouth of the corpse.
After a while, the fog slowly rose again, and a small boat slid out of the fog, and Apirius and the ferryman gracefully got off.
Ask gave a brief account of the incident. The mayor of Olympia City listened expressionlessly and said:
"Tell me the time and place of the death of the prison priest."
"April 14, around 10 p.m." Ask replied, "In the trenches north of Verona."
"Okay." Apirius said in a deep voice, "My opinion on the Acid Dragon line is the same as the Illusion Dragon's. You guys should not intervene in the investigation for the time being. Just wait."
"As long as the Imagination Dragon continues to investigate in this direction, the Emperor's coalition forces will not remain calm forever. When the time is right, you can act accordingly."
Everyone was puzzled by Apirius's mysterious certainty, but soon the city lord took out a bottle of magic potion, which made everyone shut up at the same time.
"Theodora," Apirius said, placing the potion in Sheila's hand, "You need to be promoted as soon as possible."