Chapter 339
Chapter 339
In order to deal with the pirates entrenched in West Harbor, Jingyao and its nearby areas were urgently mobilized, and the joyful atmosphere that had been prepared for the Holy Landing Day was swept away, as the people cursed the damned pirates that appeared out of nowhere.
A team of nearly 3,000 people was organized by Harrison Abbott, the eldest son of the Abbott family, ready to march to the west to annihilate the pirates.
Those families whose sons and daughters were serving in the West Harbor united to petition the Royal Government, urging His Majesty the King not to rush into battle after sending troops to the West Harbor, as their loved ones were still alive or dead, and might still be suffering at the hands of the pirates. Of course, they are not opposed to send troops to conquer the pirates, only to ask the king first and the pirates to talk about the matter of redemption of prisoners, until they are in accordance with ancient traditions, the loved ones who are still alive to redeem and then start to fight, the pirates, is not to seek money?
In order to appease these people’s emotions, King Rodney agreed to their request.
In the army is scheduled to start the day before the morning, Jingyao guards sleepy eyes open the gates of the city, ready to meet the arrival of the new day. Suddenly, they saw a thin horse carrying a man galloping towards the gates from afar. The guards felt something was wrong, and immediately raised their spears to stop the man, ready to question him properly.
“Let me pass!” The visitor was panting, and a little disoriented.
“I am Viscount Willin Dylan, His Majesty …… King’s officer of affairs stationed in Westport, and I …… have something important to report to His Majesty.” ,
He was bearded and smelled as if he hadn t bathed in a month.
“Viscount Dylan?”
The guards were puzzled, they did know about the Dylan family of Jingyao, which was not a small noble house, but the image of this man in front of them was really hard to compliment. As for West Harbor, didn’t they let the pirates take over? Where did the officer come from?
The guards insisted on handcuffing Weylin Dylan first, as a nobleman Dylan unbearable humiliation, violent resistance, experienced a few days of unbearable days of his emotional excitement, to the city gate guards cursing.
Just when the angry gate guards took out their weapons, ready to come hard, their officer noticed the noise outside the gates came to check, the captain of the same nobleman recognized Viscount Dylan and gave him a break.
“Take me to His Majesty the King quickly. Magic! My God, they can do magic!” Willin Dylan pleaded impatiently as he grabbed the captain of the city guards by the sleeve.
The captain automatically filtered the inexplicable part of Dylan’s words and patted his shoulder, “Willin old brother, relax, I’ll find a good horse to take you to the palace. But it won’t do for you to go to his majesty’s audience in this condition, take a good bath and change your clothes before you go.”
Half an hour later, Dylan, who had hurriedly finished his bath, rolled over and mounted a batch of freshly prepared horses, jerked the horses’ asses, and rode off in a blaze of glory.
“Are you sure you don’t want to check back home first?” The captain of the city guard yelled from behind him.
“Too late!”
After speeding all the way to the kingdom, Viscount Dylan quickly received permission to have an audience with the king, and he was led to the king’s council chamber by the court attendant.
Rodney XVII, as well as Earl Rupert, Earl Merlin, and a host of other ministers were already seated inside. Upon learning that a solicitor who had arrived back from Westport had requested an audience with the king, Rodney, who was eager to know what was going on over there, agreed at the drop of a hat, and they stopped what they were discussing and waited together for Dylan’s arrival.
“Your Majesty!”
Dylan was a little nervous and bowed to Rodney. As a not-so-highly-ranked officer, he had met with the king only a handful of times.
“There is no need to be polite, someone, bring a seat for the Viscount.”
“Thank you, Your Majesty. “Dylan thanked in a panic.
“Secretary Dylan, how did you escape? How is the situation in Westport now?”
Dylan blushed a little, “Your Majesty, I …… was actually released by the pirates, who told me to bring back a letter that a sufficient amount of ransom must be paid before a captive with noble status will be released.”
Then he pulled out a piece of paper, which explicitly wrote who who’s son is worth how much money, this kind of thing is not unexpected, after all, it is the pirates Well, let those families go to the headache.
The crowd is most concerned about how the strength of the pirates, so that Dylan will be lost on the day of the situation to speak clearly. Dylan’s face revealed the color of fear.
“I was so anxious to have an audience with Your Majesty to explain what I saw that night. The language that follows may be a bit confusing, so I ask your majesty and your lords to forgive me.”
“Let me start with a bit of my personal opinion, we are not dealing with ordinary pirates, and one must be well prepared to engage with them.”
He spoke somewhat upside down, causing the crowd to frown.
“On the night of the pirate invasion, because the front line was rushed, I was leading the affairs officers as well as some of the city guards to direct the removal of supplies in the warehouse district overnight. After finding out that something happened in the direction of the harbor and poking around to find out that it was a pirate invasion, we immediately prepared for defense in the warehouse district.”
“But a mysterious figure suddenly appeared in front of us ……”
Saying this, Dylan’s pupils dilated a bit.
“He …… heavenly father ah …… he is actually the legendary sorcerer!”
“Sorcerer?” Rodney and a group of ministers were very surprised, associating it with the granary fire case and the naval assassination case discussed a few days ago, and now someone is touching the mystery?
“Yes, Your Majesty, Your Lordships, I dare swear to the Lord of Light that I am definitely not lying and definitely not mistaken!”
“When he appeared, Captain Mark once shot him with an arrow, and when it clearly hit the chest, the arrow branch passed through the other party’s body, as if it had hit a phantom.”
Hearing this description from Dylan, the faces of the crowd grew more and more grave.
“…… The pirates followed closely around, and we refused the other party’s unreasonable demands, the guards clustered suddenly appeared a fireball ……”
“This ……” The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, and the Earl of Merlin asked, “You can’t be mistaken, perhaps there was a torch inserted there originally?”
“No!” A slightly out-of-control denial came out of Dylan’s mouth, and he covered his head with both hands, saying with some horror, “I definitely didn’t see it wrong, it just appeared that suddenly, it just appeared out of thin air, and I don’t think I’ve seen it wrong …… I definitely didn’t see it wrong… …”
Dylan’s last words seemed to become na na self-talk, the crowd looked at him somewhat sympathetically, this young nobleman seemed to have suffered quite a shock mentally.
“And then it got bigger and bigger …… and bigger and bigger …… and then after that, with a bang …… it burst!”
“Due to being hit too densely, the soldiers fell most of the way down on the spot, and even I, who was standing in the distance, was also affected!”
“At that time, one side of my body was hot and painful, both ears were violently roaring, and I couldn’t hear anything, I only saw the dense pirates pouring towards us …… This was the last memory I had that night.”
Dylan went on to recount what happened afterward, including being tortured by the pirates to extract information and how he was released to return to convey the ransom of his captors.
After the young Viscount finished his story, there was silence in the council chamber.
In the end, it was the king himself who broke the silence.
“Gentlemen, we can now assert that the legend has become reality. The Kingdom of Aldo, has encountered an enemy that it has never encountered before, an enemy that is completely unknown and unfamiliar to us.”
(End of chapter)