"You... who are you? Do you know who I am? Let me go!" The nobleman of Thessaly, who was tied up in big circles, looked in front of him in horror, and subconsciously shouted with a sharp voice.

Everything happened so quickly that he had not even figured out what was going on, so he had become a prisoner. He was preparing to wait for good news from his subordinates across the river. It was a sure hunt, but somehow he became someone else's prey. The nobles always remembered the scene when the group of desperate cavalry madmen launched a charge from the cliff-like slope. The shield wall formed by the guards beside him was nothing like paper. Until now, he didn't know who the sacred people were.

"Shut up your mouth and give me a little peace!" Before he could scream a few times, the soldier bent over his stomach with a spear, which made the nobles cry and snot speak. He had never received such treatment from the nobles. He bent over and hugged his stomach. The man who was extremely scared finally realized that the other party didn't care about his identity at all.

"Get gentler, don't kill him. His Highness Justinian has something to ask him." Zalius said coldly.

"Yes!" The soldier retreated.

When he heard the name Justinian, the nobleman who was so painful that he could not straighten his waist suddenly trembled. He had heard of this name! From the Macedonian plains to the hills of Pilates, the reputation of the Molia's little fox in the past two years was well known to the nobles. Some regarded it as the savior of the empire and successively destroyed the Latin tyrants of Peloponnese and Thessalonica, and some believed that he was a terrible ambitious because of the rebellious actions he had done in Molia and Macedonia. This nobleman had heard of Justinian, but he never thought that the other party was a young man standing in front of him like this.

When he raised his head, the nobleman realized that the other party was also looking at him. The young man with a weak appearance had a pair of extremely aggressive eyes. His deep blue pupils looked like the deepest sea, and he could never see what danger was hidden inside. When he stood in front of him, he spread out like a wall of steel, unbreakable.

"I think you probably don't know why you are here until now, right?" The young man finally spoke.

A brief sentence with a calm tone, and I don’t know if it was the influence of psychological factors, the Thessaly noble felt a sense of oppression arise. He clearly couldn’t say it, so he had to nod.

Justinian, who didn't care about this, continued to ask, "Tell me, who instructed you to do this operation? I think you should have been preparing for such a careful assassination for a long time, the Thesali. No, to be precise, it should be Rusnina's hawks. After all, without such a name, it cannot be explained that several of the heads in the previous slash were Epirus. They were equipped with nose-protecting helmets under the influence of the Normans. I remember that the Thesali soldiers were not equipped."

Are those people dead too? Thessaly nobles moaned in their hearts, and he had no way to deny it now.

"This..." The captured nobleman Thesali showed hesitation. At this time, he had become the other party's prisoner. Life and death were all determined by one person. He was not qualified to answer the questions. However, this action was a task secretly granted to him by his lord. He was worried that if he told the truth, he would be abandoned by him without hesitation and become a scapegoat. After all, his master had a territory with strong troops. Even if this little fox of Molia wanted to control the split Thesali, he had to win him over. On the contrary, if a little noble like him had told him all the time, he would have no bargaining chips in his hands.

Just as the nobles were still thinking about how to deal with their own interests, Justinian's next words surprised the man.

"Don't think about taking on things you can't bear, or be clever. From the beginning, I never thought about negotiations. This is just an ultimatum, so you are qualified to come to me to speak. I don't care about how well-established the people behind you are always, and when he decided to do all this, the entire Thessaly and the entire Roman Empire no longer have his foothold in my eyes. Do you still decide to continue to be silent now?"

Justinian's seemingly calm tone revealed endless murderous intent. Thessaly nobleman finally realized that the young man in front of him was so decisive. It was really like the rumors outside before, and it was a nightmare for all nobles.

"I didn't give you time to hesitate. I just need you to tell who is behind you. Have you decided?" Justinian said without any temptation, but a calm statement that could not be calm, as if everything had been under his control. He just needed to wait for the result like a bystander.

Word by word, a short sentence fell into the ears of the nobles of Thessaly, and was silent for a moment. He was still melancholy, and now he raised his head and looked at Justinian who was already impatiently waiting, and said:

"It was Lord Gafras, and the lord of Sesarian, Beth from the border of Gafras. He had secretly been loyal to His Majesty Mikhail of Rusnina, so he ordered us to secretly eliminate the power that might affect the situation in Agrenion." At the critical moment of life and death, the little noble no longer hesitated, and immediately told Justinian everything he knew.

"What's going on in Agrignon now?"

"Uh... I heard from the people over there that the situation seemed to be almost certain, but Princess Theodor and his daughter have not been found yet, so Rusny was eager to kill the threat of Thessaly in the bud. This is all I know, Lord Justinian." He answered tremblingly, and the little noble carefully observed Justinian's reaction.

But Justinian did not show a look of anger or surprise as he imagined. On the contrary, the young man's face still looked as usual, just looked down at the nervous nobleman of Thessaly and said:

"I happen to need someone who can lead me in Thessaly. What's your name?"

"Uh?...Dognis, Lord Justinian!"

The little noble who woke up from his dream then reacted from the implicit sound in his words and replied happily.
Chapter completed!