The turmoil in Mithril City erupts quickly and calms down just as quickly.
Lux's attack was clean and neat, leaving almost no room for debate.
What makes Lux a little regretful is that even if all the evidence is conclusive, only Cordola will be directly punished in the end - hanging is his last honor.
As for everyone else…
Although Lux still wanted to hold their accomplices accountable, Tiana would not allow it.
"It's enough to deal with one Cordora." Lux's aunt said, "As for the others... they didn't attack you after all - and there must always be someone to take care of Mithral City."
The various branches of the Crownguard family expressed their gratitude and chose to spend money to avoid disaster. For them, leaving their status as nobles was not a problem.
If you lose your status as a noble, then it will be really difficult to rise again.
In this way, the dust settled.
Cullen is a shrewd person, so regarding Mithril City's accounting issues, Lux doesn't need to get too involved in the investigation.
(Here again, I would like to thank Mr. Dili for the evidence and help he provided, and Ms. Tiana once again expressed that she is very optimistic about him.)
Under such circumstances, Lux simply focused her attention on the selection of disaster patrol knights.
Promoting civilians directly to knights is not common in Demacia - for civilians, even if they want to become a knight's retinue, they need to provide their own armored horses and obtain the permission of the lord; and from a knight's retinue to a knight, it is even more difficult.
You have to fight with your life.
Now, Lux directly gives knight status to the disaster patrol knight. This behavior will undoubtedly cause dissatisfaction among the nobles.
However, in Mithril City, no matter how dissatisfied the nobles are, they can only hold it in for now.
Anyone who dares to talk nonsense has not had a good attitude to admit his mistakes. Moreover, it is said that Lux has planned to promote Dili. The lady is not biased against the clansmen or the nobles. You people really can't stand on the stage!
In short, using the excuse of lying about the disaster, Lux finally conducted a three-day interview in person and successfully selected four disaster patrol knights.
Throughout the entire interview process, the rich agricultural knowledge she displayed convinced almost all the farmers who had the courage to participate in the interview.
Even though this lady is from a top noble family, she is really good at farming!
These farmers who admired Lacus obviously didn't know that Lacus was good at plowing with a hammer.
Throughout the entire interview process, Lux played the role of an "emotionless simultaneous interpretation machine". As for the content of the interview, it was completely based on Karya's rich farming experience.
It is no exaggeration to say that more than one-third of the specific layout of Shurima's oases, large and small, was planned by Kalya - from wind protection and sand fixation to water-saving irrigation, when it comes to the topic of farming,
, there really is no one better than him.
It is precisely because of Kalya's strong support that Lux has successfully created an extremely people-friendly character for herself.
However, unlike the previous time when socializing with nobles, Lacus was not impatient at all this time, and even continued to ask Kalya about some topics that interested her after the interview - obviously, for Lacus, even if it was...
It is more comfortable to work in the fields than to strictly observe aristocratic etiquette.
At least when plowing, there are no special requirements for the placement of farm tools, and when entering paddy fields, you don’t have to remember how many buttons to roll up your trousers.
How good it is to adapt measures to local conditions and seek truth from facts!
……………………
The accounting and subsequent trials will take a long time.
After promoting four knights, the demon seekers finally set off - they will escort Ino back to the capital of Demacia and imprison her in the demon-forbidden prison.
Before setting off, Lux met this thin little girl again.
Originally, the Demon Searchers didn't want Lux to have any contact with this "dangerous mage." Even though Ino was very cooperative from beginning to end and explained everything clearly, he didn't say anything to Lux when he received orders from Cordola.
What does silk do?
But...a mage is always a mage.
However, because of Lux's persistence, she still met Ino in the temporarily reinforced prison in Mithril City before she set off.
"Miss Laxana." Ino looked quite surprised after seeing Lax, "Why are you here - I..."
"Let's take a look at you." He waved his hand to let the demon seeker guards out, and Lux leaned against the prison fence. "After all... I heard your father said a lot about you, saying that you are very sensible and hardworking.
It’s very convenient and stuff like that.”
"I...I failed everyone's expectations." Upon hearing this, Ino's eyes that were originally bright dimmed suddenly, "Miss Laxana, I really didn't mean to help the old - uh, help Kodo.
What La deceived you about was actually threatening me with his brother."
"Okay, okay, I didn't say it was your fault." Lux put her arm through the prison bars and took the initiative to hold Ino's cold hand, "You don't have to worry about them now.
"
"..."
Ino stopped talking, but quietly stretched out his two hands and wrapped Lux's hand tightly.
"Let's stay here for two more days." Lux sighed helplessly, "When we get back to Xiongdu, the magic-forbidden prison over there - well, at least the food is much better, and the place is spacious."
Lux wanted to say something to comfort Ino.
Unfortunately, from her perspective, no matter what she said, she would only feel extremely hypocritical.
They are all demon-possessed.
But Lux doesn't need to be coerced by others, she still has Kalya to teach her.
As for Ino, even though her talent was very good, after being discovered by Ran Mo, she directly became a tool for others to use.
Perhaps in the happy Tiana's view, Lux's biggest growth during this trip was her insight into things and overall planning.
But for Lux herself, what she cared about more was seeing another world.
A completely different world from the one I have lived in for the past twelve years.
However, just when Lux was searching for words and wanted to say something, Ino in the prison smiled.
It wasn't Di Li's fake smile, but the joy and longing from the bottom of his heart.
"If Miss Laxana says the food in the Forbidden Prison is good, then it must be very good!"
When Lux heard these words, she felt her chest stagnate.
At this moment, she really wanted to raise her arms high and let endless brilliance bloom in this small cell.
But her reason told her that there was no point in doing so, and it would only make the little girl in front of her who barely ignited a glimmer of hope fall into pain and despair again!
So, by nodding her head, she lowered her head slightly, bit her lips, and tried not to make any sound.
On the other hand, Ino, who seemed to be a little excited, seemed to have completely opened up the conversation because of this ordinary nod. Like her father, she talked endlessly to Lux about the future.
"Brother said that there have been many vacancies in the knight retinue recently. He has been training hard and has a good chance of becoming one of them..."
"This year's harvest is not bad. In fact, when I froze the wheat seedlings, I didn't freeze much of the area..."
"My father's waist has improved a lot, and it seems that the price of firewood has increased in the city recently. He has made a lot of money by chopping firewood..."
"Thanks to Miss Laxana, we will have disaster patrol knights in the future, and we will no longer be afraid of being unable to pay taxes during natural disasters..."
"..."
"..."
It seemed that in this small prison, Ino regained her girlish nature, pulling Lux and chattering non-stop.
After Lux barely adjusted her mood, she smiled and became a perfect listener.
Finally, when the Demon Searcher guards finally came to urge her, Lux left the prison. When Ino reluctantly let go of her hand, Lux pressed her face against the bars of the prison, using only
Two people heard the voice whisper.
"Just call me Lux - and see you in the capital of Demacia!"
