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At this time, Marika opened the door and came in, saying anxiously: "Cavalry! The cavalry led by Langdon surrounded the tavern!"
Elizabeth: "Look! Let's go underground now!"
"Wait a minute!" Xiao Bai said, "Da Mingming told me that if something goes wrong, I should read his note."
Then the little guy took out a note.
Elizabeth frowned: "Why didn't he give it to me!"
Xiao Bai has unfolded the note and read the words on it loudly: "Don't worry, wait until I come back! That's what the note says."
As Elizabeth snatched the note and read it carefully, the door opened and Cassandra entered the room: "I'm sorry, Your Highness. The boss asked me to keep an eye on you."
Dwarf: "Okay, who's the second in command now? Tell me, should we wait or fight?"
Elizabeth sighed: "Let's wait."
Chapter 68: The End of the “Untouchables”
Duke Luan banged the gavel and announced loudly: "This court has ruled that the former emperor of the empire, the Duke of Styria, and the Elector Styria is guilty! You still have one last chance to make a statement, the criminal Styria!"
The emperor - no, the sinner, Steyer, laughed loudly, and then looked at Duke Luan with contempt: "I once granted you permission to call me by my name, and I still remember your grateful expression!
"If the young lion of the Langdon family thinks you are a reliable ally, he will be in for a big surprise in the future! You clearly sent someone to find me secretly when that old fox was here, trying to play both sides and get the benefits from both! Langdon's young lion, look at the frightened expression on Duke Luan's face now, it's obvious that he is afraid that I will show him the evidence!"
Duke Luan said angrily: "You are talking nonsense! I have always been loyal to my allies!"
The emperor laughed out loud.
Duke Luan: "He is crazy! Don't listen to his crazy talk anymore! Take him away..."
Bruce raised his right hand. "It's okay. Let him continue. After all, this is stipulated by the imperial law. It is his legitimate rights. He can say whatever he wants until the time is up."
Duke Luan wanted to say more, but was interrupted by the emperor's sharp laughter: "Haha! Then I will enumerate the sins of you people! Let Langdon's young lion open his eyes!"
Next, the former emperor listed all the dirty deeds done by every elector present, from left to right.
The dukes were so anxious that they kept looking at the hourglass, wishing it would tick faster.
Finally the hourglass ran out of time, and Duke Luan shouted on behalf of everyone: "The hourglass has run out, time is up! Someone come!"
Bruce directly took the hourglass from Duke Luan's desk, turned it over to let the sand start falling again, and then said: "The hourglass has just started to leak. Come on, sinner Steyer, continue. This is your right."
Steyer laughed loudly: "It's useless to pretend to be calm. Do you think you can wear the crown firmly now? Let me tell you what will happen next. These ungrateful guys will use the imperial law to say that all the electors must be present to recognize the new emperor, and they cannot be absent.
"Then they will be able to watch the internal fighting among the three duchies come to an end with peace of mind, and by then they will be able to reconnect with each other!
"Young lion, when your old fox was around, he could keep them in line, but you! Don't have that ability! Although you have subdued them with your ruthlessness now, deep down, they still think of you as a fool who only knows how to use force!
"Once they leave your territory, all kinds of little tricks will come to life again! You are not worthy of being an emperor!"
Bruce looked at the hourglass that had run out again and stood up. "I think you've got the most basic point wrong, old man. It's the old fox's long-cherished wish to obtain the imperial crown through the Electoral Conference, not mine."
The sinner Duke Styr snorted: "Then tell me about your long-cherished wish."
Bruce spread his hands and said, "My long-cherished wish is to meet a girl and then go on a horse-drawn carriage trip with her."
Wang, who was listening nearby, frowned: Why does this wish sound familiar? Did it come from me?
Everyone except Wang was confused - no, Wayne Langdon had also heard Wang talk about the anecdotes about his teacher, so he also knew that Bruce was talking nonsense.
Bruce continued, "I don't care about the crown or anything like that. I'm not going to execute you today for the crown. No, not at all. You're going to die here today because your conspiracy has caused this city of Langdon and my people to suffer huge losses.
"You must die to atone for the sadness and resentment of the homeless people on the street. You must die to comfort the souls of the young girl and the octogenarian mother who were murdered. You must die to let my father rest in peace in heaven - or maybe in hell or the abyss."
Bruce glanced at the entire round table hall, snorted contemptuously, and continued: "I know that many people don't believe my words. Because you are no longer qualified nobles, and your souls have been corrupted by hundreds of years of inheritance.
"But the guards in this room listening will believe it!"
All the guards from Langdon County present puffed out their chests with pride.
Bruce: "The people crying as they bury their loved ones in the church cemetery will believe it! The soldiers collecting their comrades' belongings in the barracks will believe it! The people of Langdon will believe it! Their sons and grandsons will believe it!
"The moment you are hanged on the gallows will become a festival for the entire Landon Territory! Every year on this day, everyone will sing and dance to celebrate your death! Celebrate the revenge!"
The emperor listened in a daze, then knelt on the ground, holding the iron bars. He seemed to have never expected to hear such words, and was directly shocked to the point of losing his mind.
Bruce slammed the gavel on the table, regaining the emperor's attention before continuing: "So you must die today. Your statement time is over. Sir Wayne! Escort him to the Gallows Square! You must make sure he is treated properly before he is punished!"
Wayne Langdon beat his chest with his right hand: "Your command is my destiny."
Then he opened the cage of the dock and almost dragged out the old man who used to be the emperor, and continued to drag him out of the Round Table Hall.
Bruce continued to give orders: "Take action immediately and post notices on every bulletin board to inform the whole city that we will execute the culprit of the previous tragedy! Let the public notice officers shout louder!"
**
Bruce's orders were carried out efficiently.
When Emperor Steyer's prison car came out of the inner city, the roadside was crowded with people who came to watch the excitement.
"It's the emperor!" someone shouted, "The old man on the gold coin is him!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a pile of feces hit Steele's face in the prison van.
Wayne, who was escorting the prison van, immediately said, "Don't use deadly force! Anyone with a rock in their shit will be arrested!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a few more bags of shit hit him.
"Murderer!" the old woman who threw the shit roared, "Give me back my son and daughter! Murderer!"
Besides shit, other random things were thrown at him. Wayne gave the order directly: "Equip the prisoner wagon with arrow defenses."
Defense Arrow can block most ranged attacks, not just "arrows". It can also block cow dung and rotten eggs. As for why Wayne didn't give the order to the mages protecting the prisoner car to use this spell, it was probably because he forgot.
After being covered by the protective arrows, the cow dung and stones all hit the invisible barrier, but the terrible stench still penetrated into Steyer's nostrils.
Along with it came shame and anger.
"A bunch of bastards!" Steyer growled, "Just wait and see!"
However, there is nothing to wait for. The fate of the former Emperor, Duke of Styria and Elector will end today, without any detours or variables.
**
At this time, in the Round Table Hall, Bruce said to the other dukes: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have some housework to deal with. Can you please leave for a while?"
Duke Luan stood up, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Don't mind what the emperor... the sinner Steyer said just now."
"I don't care. I really don't care about the crown." Bruce smiled slightly and then gestured to see him off.
After the dukes and Bruce's fiancée had left, Wang said, "I thought that when executing an emperor, you should at least show up at the scene."
Bruce laughed and said, "What emperor? You just hanged a guilty pariah. Fortunately, you captured him directly instead of killing him halfway. If you had killed him, his electoral qualification and dukedom would have gone to his son. According to the laws of the empire, we cannot revoke the son's title because of the father's sin."
Wang raised his eyebrows: "Is there such a setting?"
"That's what happened. When Kusaniya was established, it referred to the complicated laws of Monrovia and the Dwarf Kingdom, and merged the garbage from both sides." Bruce paused and looked straight at the king, "Let's talk about business. Now as you can see, I still have a long time before I can be crowned..."
King: "I believe you have enough wisdom and ability to handle this. I think you can definitely be crowned Emperor of Kuosaniya."
Bruce was rebuffed and sighed, "Okay, let's talk about the resurrection scroll. You see, we are still in danger. The reason why my father was not resurrected with the scroll was because he died of natural causes. And I am very young, which means I will not die of natural causes..."
King: "I understand. You want to go back on your word. It doesn't matter. Originally, we agreed to exchange the resurrection scroll for the knowledge of the seven-ring dragon spell. If that's the case, it's fine if we don't exchange it. We will take Erwin's body with us and revive him when we have enough strength. You know, we have a priest, a dwarf priest, and he will definitely be able to master the resurrection magic in the future."
Bruce was choked again and could only draw circles in the air with his hands, saying, "Uh, this... is... that thing..."
His archmage said from behind: "Your Highness, that is a dragon shape! Just imagine how much advantage you will gain in the confrontation with other dukes if I master this magic!"
Bruce looked up at the sky and sighed, "Alright. Then you copy the book now. When you have copied half of it, I will give the scroll to the king, and then you can copy the other half."
The king snapped his fingers and said, "Very good, happy transaction. But I have a condition. I need a holy warrior to mediate this transaction."
Bruce stared at the king for a few seconds before nodding, "Yes, a paladin. You need a paladin intermediary."
**
When Elizabeth and her party were brought into the Round Table Hall, Wang was pouring Erwin's body out of the dimensional bag.
Next to him stood the butler Merlin, and next to Solace stood a paladin of the god of justice, holding a scroll respectfully in his hands.
Xiaobai rushed out of the team, lay on the ground and sniffed Erwin: "It stinks, his internal organs must have turned into paste, this kind of thing is usually unpalatable and fishy."
Xiao Bai started to demonstrate: "No matter what kind of game you eat, you must remove the internal organs completely to avoid the fishy smell."
Elizabeth: "This is not a game, it's a human."
"You humans also have cannibals, and the elders said that when humans are starving, they will exchange children and cook them for food. We werewolves don't have such a habit."
Just as Elizabeth was about to defend human dignity, the king looked up and smiled at her: "You came at the right time. We are preparing to resurrect Erwin."
Elizabeth had just opened her mouth when she heard the great wizard Langdon slap the table and say, "Great! This magic actually uses this method to solve the problem of changes in the cyst cavity! It's so ingenious!"
The dwarf looked at the Archmage and asked, "Have you copied the dragon form to Landon's Archmage?"
"Yes, the transaction went smoothly. The resurrection scroll is already in the hands of the paladin. I will use the scroll myself later."
Elizabeth said very worriedly: "Is it okay? He is a seventh-ring wizard."
"No problem. I confiscated his bag of spell materials. This way the trigger spell can't be triggered."
The magic tool for triggering is a wooden figurine carved by the caster himself - it must be carved by himself. After casting the triggering spell and setting the triggering magic, the figurine must be carried with him, and the triggering spell will be triggered when the set conditions are met.
In other words, if you surrender the little figure triggering spell, it will be useless. At the killing feast yesterday, some great wizards were drunk and had their little figures touched on them, so the triggering spell could not be triggered and they died.
Misha Sara silently took out the bow and arrow, aimed at Erwin on the ground: "I understand."
Wang: "Be careful, don't shoot him once he's alive. Actually, there's no need to worry so much, we still have the great wizard of the seventh ring."
"Ah?" Hearing his own name, the Archmage raised his head, "Oh, yes, I'm here."
He put away his spellbook and stood up. "Are we going to start? Then I'll cast some defensive magic on myself first. I'm pretty stable against a guy without a bag of spellcasting materials."
Bruce had been watching this side silently, looking back and forth between Elizabeth and the king.
At this time, Wang suddenly thought of a question: "By the way, why did you come here suddenly?"
Elizabeth: "You didn't know? You gave us the note. I thought you predicted what was going to happen."
Wang spread his hands and said, "No, I just think it won't be anything too dangerous, so I'll let you wait until I come back."
Elizabeth was shocked: "Have you... figured out the current situation?"
Wang: "I'm sure you've figured it out. It's nothing serious, don't worry."
The entire team looked at each other.