Chapter 962 – 962. Void Stone (1)
Despite hearing the garrison leader’s loud roar as if he had lost all sense of reason, the garrison member hesitated.
“Well, that…” .”
He needs to say something, but he can’t quite explain it in his head.
The garrison commander had a hunch.
A difficult situation arose that he could not handle with his abilities.
That’s why I’m so tired of searching for myself at this time.
“… Let’s go.”
The garrison commander, who regained his senses, hurriedly moved under the guidance of the crew.
The place the two headed was the entrance to the castle gate.
At the entrance where foreigners coming in from outside were checked, a number of people bound with rope came into the field of view of the garrison commander.
It was a feudal lord’s family that suddenly disappeared, abandoning the mansion, estate, and residents.
And just as the garrison commander discovered the lord, the lord also discovered the garrison commander.
It was the moment when the two recognized each other and made eye contact.
“Ah!”
“…”
The reactions of the two were sharply different.
The guard captain frowned as if he did not want to deal with him, but the lord did not pay any attention to the guard captain’s expression and showed a pleased expression.
“Defense captain! Release this now!”
Why does this shameless man continue to think he can exercise the authority of a lord?
The garrison commander could not understand.
He made no reply, but the garrison commander continued his speech with a triumphant air, as if his own assistance had arrived.
“And throw this girl who dared to capture me without fear into prison immediately!”
The lord glared at the young girl who had bound him and his family with rope.
A doll girl who had the appearance of a human but was artificially created on the inside looked at the lord and his family with indifferent eyes.
The doll girl, Archis, soon opened her mouth.
“It’s annoying. Should I just kill him?”
“W-what?”
It was such a cruel word that I could never have imagined coming from the mouth of a young girl.
The indifferent tone of speech without any emotion felt even more abnormal.
Arcis took out his revolver and aimed it at the lord’s head, as if to prove that what he had said was true.
“What…”
The lord did not know what type of weapon the pistol Archis was aiming at was.
It was my first time seeing a weapon with a long metal bar running through the handle and the muzzle facing straight in the center.
One thing that came to mind was that it seemed to be a miniature version of a cannon firing huge shells.
The lord’s complexion belatedly turned pale as he realized what the muzzle of the gun Archis was aiming at meant.
“Let’s sleep… !”
“Wait, wait! “Please wait a moment!”
Just as he was about to fire with his finger on the trigger, it was the garrison commander who came in and blocked Arkis’s path.
He knew very well the power of the revolver Archis was holding.
The commander of Archis is currently in charge of commanding the puppets who are carrying out the mission of border defense and wiping out demonic beasts and undead on the front line more than the crew.
They possess a level of power that could easily turn anyone like themselves into dust.
In the head of the garrison, he imagined the lord’s head disappearing from existence as the light emitted from his gun barrel hit him directly.
The garrison commander had no choice but to come between Archis and the lord without knowing it.
“… “Why are you blocking it?”
Arkis’s expression frowned at the intrusion of the garrison commander who was restraining his actions.
“They say they are the lord’s family who abandoned this territory and ran away. “Is there a reason to keep him alive?”
“I didn’t run away! “I just walked away for a moment to avoid being cut off!”
“That’s what they call running away. Do you have a problem with your intelligence? Or is there a language function disorder?”
“What rudeness… !”
The lord’s face turned red and he got angry at Arcis, who casually doubted his intelligence and language skills.
“Defense captain! “Cut off this bitch’s head right now!”
“Are you going to do it?”
Arcis asked.
It was a pure question, as if he was genuinely curious as to whether he really intended to listen to that command.
“There’s no need to kill him, right?”
“No. But you keep being annoying.”
“Then can you save me?”
“I have no reason to listen to your orders. “You are not my master.”
“Defense captain!”
They were very angry at people treating them as if they didn’t exist and continuing the conversation among themselves.
“Shut up!”
“What… !?”
As the garrison commander roared, the lord was speechless.
This was especially true because he had never made such a loud noise to himself in his life.
“You are… You are no longer the lord of this domain. So don’t give orders for granted.”
“What… ?”
For a moment, the lord did not understand what he was talking about.
Only after belatedly understanding the garrison commander’s words did he raise his voice again.
“I am the lord of this territory! How can you deny that! As for the commander of the garrison who was just guarding the castle gate… !”
“…”
“My status and family are recognized by the Kingdom of Lucadia, to which this territory belongs, and by the royal family. How dare you deny that? This is treason and rebellion! “Do you really want to die!?”
“Is that so?”
“You still don’t know the seriousness of the situation! Release this bondage right now! “Then let me overlook this insult.”
“Otherwise, what are you going to do?”
“I will report to the royal family and hold you accountable for your treason! The garrison members who aided and abetted this and just watched! “The same goes for you!”
A situation where not only the garrison commander, but also themselves may be accused of treason and purged.
The complexions of the garrison members all turned pale and looked at the garrison commander.
“Great, Captain… !”
“Captain… !”
Some of the members, who did not want to be accused of treason, urgently tried to undo the ropes that bound the lord’s family, but the garrison commander raised his voice and stopped them.
“Everyone stop!”
“But…”
When the soldiers, who were torn between the lord and the garrison commander, were in a difficult situation, the garrison commander spoke.
“Did you say you would report us to the royal family for treason?”
“Yeah, that’s right…” !”
The garrison commander laughed at the lord.
“Of course.”
“Great, Captain!”
“Captain!”
His subordinates, the garrison members, were all astonished at the confident attitude of the garrison commander, as if he were responding to the lord’s rain.
“… “Are you serious?”
“Yes. Please report. Will the royal family of Lucadia really come forward with the baseless accusation of our treason that you claim? “I’m asking you to report it.”
“…”
When I faced him confidently, the lord hesitated for a moment.
Eventually, he realized something and his complexion turned pale.
“No way…”
“Did you think I wouldn’t know?”
“…”
The Kingdom of Lucadia was now virtually destroyed.
Because the blood of the Lucadian royal family, which was the center of the kingdom, has completely disappeared from this world, as if the seeds had dried up.
The lord knew this, but he did not tell the members of the estate, such as Yeong Ji-min or the guard captain.
Because if I say so, it will only cause further confusion.
Therefore, when a large army of demonic beasts and undead began to arrive, they thought that support would not come from the royal family and the capital, so they abandoned the territory and fled with only their family.
And for some reason, because Youngji was safe, he came back with an iron plate on his face.
“Now in this territory, no one recognizes you as a lord. You probably know better why. You… ! “Because you abandoned us!”
But how can I acknowledge him?
How can they recognize the person who abandoned them as their master?
This can never happen.
“Well, that’s… !”
“There is no need to say any more. “You bastards of trash.”
The garrison commander solemnly turned away from the lord and spoke again to Archis.
“… I will tell him. “Can’t you at least listen to his opinion and make a decision?”
“Do we really have to do that?”
Arcis tilted his head as if he couldn’t understand.
The lord and his family who abandoned this territory and ran away seemed to be of no value.
The same goes for the garrison commander who is so angry and despised.
However, he was absolutely opposed to killing.
“… Please.”
The garrison commander bowed his head towards Arcis and politely asked.
“…”
It felt somehow strange.
The way he treated himself, who was just a doll and not a human, as if he were a human being, and even as if he were someone older than him, was strange.
It was so big that I couldn’t refuse it.
“What are you going to do?”
“We are going to judge them through territorial law and hold them accountable.”
It was natural that regulations and laws existed even within the border territory.
Especially in a wartime situation when an enemy was invading from outside, the act of desertion, abandoning the place and running away, was no different from a serious crime even for the lowest-ranking soldiers.
What’s more, the lord, who is not only a lowly soldier but also the commander and owner of this territory, deserts.
Is there anything more absurd than this?
“I plan to strip them of all their family status and status and demote them to slavery for 10 years.”
“Slave… !”
“Shut up!”
The frightened lord and his family tried to protest strongly, but the garrison chief became angry and silenced him again.
“Originally, the general law is that desertion is punishable by 5 years of slavery, but their desertion is not just desertion.”
They are the lord’s family who must command the battlefield.
He had to impose an appropriate punishment, but there was no precedent to refer to.
Therefore, although the sentence was twice the maximum sentence for desertion of five years, no one disputed this opinion of the garrison commander.
Arcis listened to the whole story of the garrison chief and nodded his head.
“Okay. Instead, there are conditions.”
“… Yes.”
Arcis pushed aside the guard who had blocked him and spoke to the lord, who was bound with ropes and kneeling on his floor.
“Don’t shout loudly in front of me. “Yes, it’s really annoying that my memory is being used up by that needlessly loud voice.”
“… ?”
What was being said, not only the lord but also the garrison commander and members here could not understand.
But it could not be denied that the warning was real.
“If you speak loudly one more time, if your voice rises above 70 decibels, I will rip out your tongue.”
“Well, to what extent is that… ?”
“Ahhhhh.”
Arcis suddenly made a strange sound repeatedly.
Although it was a human voice, it was a strange sound, as if it had been artificially created.
“This is the average decibel produced by ordinary people. And the sound you just made… AA AA AA!”
A sudden scream made everyone around them cover their ears with both hands.
“Aaaaah!”
Only the lord and his family, who were tied up with ropes, were exposed to the noise because they could not cover their ears.
“This is the decibel of your voice just now.”
“Well, to such a large extent…”
“Are you saying I was wrong now?”
“No. Something like that…”
“If you waste my memory by yelling one more time, I’m going to pull out your tongue.”
“…”
The lord was unable to say anything in response to the merciless words of the girl who looked much younger than him.
Youngju eventually lowered his head helplessly.
“Put them all in jail!”
Once the commotion was over, the garrison commander ordered his men to throw the lord and his entire family into prison.
Before carrying out border guard duty again, Archis checked the contents of all the belongings brought by the lord and his family.
The doll girl’s hand, which was checking the contents of her belongings, stopped.
He immediately recognized the identity of the object that came into view.
“This…”
The reason Arcis’ hand stopped was because he couldn’t understand why this ‘item’ was in these people’s belongings.
“Why is this here?”
Arcis frowned when he saw the purple stones piled up in the bag.
And he immediately called Eunhyeon over the phone.
“Hey. “Maybe I should come here for a moment and take a look at this?”
