In the early morning, Annan was woken up by the noise.
The deputy warden appeared outside the dungeon, notifying Annan and preparing to go to the court of justice.
"Are all those congressmen old men?" Catalina vented her dissatisfaction at being woken up. "Only old men would have nothing to do so early."
Annan sat up from the bed, sleepily went into the "bathroom" to wash up, and used the cleaning power of the mage's robe to clean away the dust and stains on his body.
The deputy warden and the guards left, leaving only the captain of the guard outside the dungeon.
Annan, who regained consciousness, asked him: "Is there anything I should pay attention to later?"
"Don't worry, the city lord's preparations are perfect, and you will be able to go out soon."
It sounds like something is going to happen at the Inquisition...
"I always want to know which legislators are on our side."
Annan needs to distinguish between well-intentioned questions and false traps.
The captain of the guard thought for a while: "Congressmen Heimer, Albad, and Leicht are on our side. Congressmen Newman and Brand may be unfavorable to you, and the other congressmen are neutral."
"You have to remain cold and fierce." The ogre suddenly suggested.
"Why?" Annan turned around and asked.
"Those human nobles will try their best to tear off a piece of flesh from your body, but as long as you are more vicious than them, they will shrink their heads like quails."
"Second." Catalina spoke concisely and to the point.
The captain of the guard urged: "Are you ready? We are about to set off."
"good."
Annan remembered these congressmen, passed the cell door opened by the guard captain, stood outside the dungeon, turned around and looked at everyone.
Stirkin lay indifferently in his wet haystack, with the orcs and ogres looking at him like two shadows, and Black Tires was repeatedly changing his face and tangled - because he no longer had to buy food at thousands of times the price.
, and also because he is no longer qualified to be entangled.
Annan said to the ogre: "I will find a way to get you out of trouble after I go out."
As for Katarina, it was even easier for her to go out than Annan.
Heitierres, who didn't care about changing his face anymore, rushed to the locked cell door and hurriedly begged: "Your Excellency Annan, for the sake of 2,700 gold coins, please take me out too..."
"Only 2,700 gold coins..."
The gold coins that almost exceeded Pinglin Town's ten years of tax revenue did not satisfy Annan.
Heitierres quickly changed his words and said: "If you can let me out, it will be 4,000 gold coins..."
"Forget it then, 1,300 gold coins is not worth the favor I owe."
"No! No... it's 4,000 gold coins. I made a mistake." Black Tierres changed his words with a smile: "5,000 gold coins is more appropriate, and there are more! There are many beautiful slaves in my manor that have not been sold. You can
You can choose at will..."
"Okay, I can take you out of the dungeon."
Annan asked the guard captain to wait for a moment, and said to the ogre: "Ogre, please prepare a piece of paper and pen for our Mr. Black Tierres."
Heitierres hesitated and asked cautiously: "Mr. King of the North, should we wait until we get out..."
"Then just write 3,200 gold coins."
"No, no, no... 5,000 gold coins."
Black Tierres hurriedly wrote the IOU, stamped it with a valid handprint, and asked the ogre to take it away with a look of pain on his face.
"Look on the bright side, you only need a few roast chickens to get out of trouble." Stilkin sprinkled salt on the wound.
Annan got the IOU and followed the guard captain outside in a much happier mood.
Apparently this trip to the dungeon wasn't entirely a bad thing...
Wow – Wow –
In the dark corridor ahead, several guards were escorting a criminal, with the sound of chains clanking from far to near.
Annan took a look out of curiosity, causing the prisoner to curse fiercely: "What the hell are you looking at?"
"How about you too."
Annan greeted with a smile, which made the unkempt female prisoner stunned. She stopped and stared at Annan blankly. She was pushed by the guards and disappeared into the depths of the dungeon with the sound of iron chains.
"The King of the North..."
The captain of the guard handed Annan a piece of gray cloth.
Annan walked up knowingly, and then stepped onto the steps.
…
The circular courtroom filled with morning light was solemn and solemn.
As the silhouette covered with gray cloth walked into the courtroom, the courtroom echoing with whispers returned to silence.
Annan took off the gray cloth, and the slightly dazzling sunlight made his eyes narrow, and then he straightened his waist.
At this moment, it was clear that all the congressmen in the courtroom surrounding the prisoner's bench were taller than Annan at the bottom. But Annan seemed to be looking down at them, while the congressmen with their heads lowered had to look up at that figure.
Annan quietly looked around at the parliamentarians above, feeling some admiration and some hostility.
The trial begins.
Annan followed the guard captain's instructions, lowered his eyes and remained silent. He listened quietly as they presented evidence against his identity.
First, as an example of a magical image, the Scavenger appeared to testify that Levi was a corrupter.
Then the young man who was next to the mayor at the Hirabayashi Town banquet said that Levis was not like this. The people of Olmedo brought the Fire Crow that only the Reeves family could control.
Next, they actually brought ogres and orcs. The councilors were in an uproar, covering their noses and frowning, even though they could not smell the stench they emanated from their distance.
Moreover, they were forced by Catalina to take baths twice a day.
No surprise, the ogres and orcs jointly pointed at the deputy warden, saying that he asked them to falsely accuse Annan, and the deputy warden collapsed on the ground in fear——
"Can an ogre or an orc serve as a witness?" A thin-cheeked congressman sneered: "And we all know that the King of the North has a unique love for foreign races, which stems from his warlock bloodline. Perhaps
, this ogre and orc have become the men of the King in the North."
Annan looked at the thin congressman and no longer remained silent: "What's your name?"
"This has nothing to do with the trial."
"But it became relevant after I got out."
The MP shut his mouth.
A smile appeared on Olmedo's face in the gallery.
The ogres, orcs and deputy warden were taken out of the trial court, and they brought Black Tires without giving up. Not knowing what he was promised, Black Tires said: The ogres and orcs were bribed by Annan,
And once conspired to pretend to be the King of the North——
"Mr. Presiding Judge."
Annan took out the piece of paper with Hetierrez's handprint, "This is Hetierrez's IOU. I think he is deliberately setting up a trap for refusing to repay the debt."
"You members may not know that Heitierres was imprisoned for transporting gold ore privately..."
These remarks made the MPs frown.
It is the consensus of all nobles and believers that alchemical power must be in the hands of royal power and divine power. Black Tierreis's behavior naturally stands in opposition to them.
Desperate, Hetierrez's testimony was dismissed.
Finally, Olmedo stood on the witness stand and concluded the trial:
"A gang of Skaven are trying to lure us into trapping the King in the North, just like they did when they attacked the caravan."
The presiding judge, who was always listening, announced the result of the trial:
"The existing evidence is not enough to support that Sir Annan Reeves is not the King of the North, nor is it sufficient to confirm that the King of the North has committed crimes in Breeze City. So——"
