"Of course." I leaned sideways to make way for the passage: "Welcome, General Winterhal Rennie!"
"If possible, let me introduce these people to you." Winterhal, who was wearing armor, said, "You won't hit me, right?"
"How dare I?" I laughed: "Who doesn't know that after the battle to defend the altar, General, you don't have a good attitude towards me."
"Don't talk nonsense to me." Winterhal raised his hand: "This is the chief dispatcher of the Pota Empire."
I smiled and nodded to the chief dispatch officer. Generally speaking, those who hold this position are relatives of the emperor. I have to hang out on someone else's territory. It's not good to offend him.
"This is the special envoy of His Excellency the High Priest of the Temple of the Pota Empire." Winterhal continued to introduce: "We happened to be at the military headquarters, so we came together."
I looked over and saw that it was an old acquaintance, the priest in white who had followed me all the way from the Pota Empire to the Holy Capital to award me a medal.
"Lord Knight of God's Blessing." He said with a smile, "Don't you recognize me?"
"Master Priest, how could I forget you?" I said seriously: "You gave me my first medal to wear on my chest. Please forgive me for my rudeness just now."
"This is the governor here and the deputy quartermaster of the coalition military headquarters." Winterhal said: "In addition to me, there is also a general from the military headquarters."
I said hello to these people one by one: "Please come in! I'm neglecting you, I only have tents here now."
"Run to call the two wing commanders, the military judge, and the chief of staff." I walked at the end and said to the orderer beside me: "Just call it an emergency meeting!"
"Yes, sir!"
I turned around and said hello, and then asked the people to sit down one by one. Then Carlos and his brothers came.
"Sit down." I pointed to the seat next to me: "These officers are all from the military headquarters."
There was only one table in my tent, a long dining table that could accommodate about sixty people. After everyone sat down in two sides, I signaled to the clerk that he could start.
"Everyone, this is what happened." The secretary, whose face was still a little swollen, stood up and said to everyone in as calm a tone as possible: "On the first day that His Excellency Cohen Keda took office as the commander of the Ninth Army, he arrested
His deputy, all officers below Brigadier General York Power, and they will be executed."
"Wait a minute." Winterhal raised his hand to interrupt the clerk's words: "Your Excellency Cohen Keda, is there anything like this?"
"Yes." I answered her very seriously.
Winterhal wrote down something on the paper: "Your Excellency, Secretary, please continue."
"Okay, we all know that the former officers of the Ninth Legion were all sent by the temple, and they were all good officers!" The secretary said excitedly: "Even if they really did anything wrong, they would have to be dealt with by the temple.
I would like to remind Mr. Cohen Keda that no matter what your considerations are, your identity cannot determine the fate of these hundreds of officers. Please also ask everyone present to make a fair judgment and prevent this tragedy from happening!"
While the secretary was making his statement, some of the people present were sitting upright, some were looking down in thought, but the young chief dispatcher of the Pota Empire was like an outsider, repairing the long nails on his little finger.
There was a moment of silence.
"Your Excellency, Dispatcher." Finally, it was Winterhal who spoke first: "What do you think of this matter?"
"General, are you asking me?" The dispatching officer rolled his eyelids: "This matter seems to be beyond my control..."
"Yes, Your Excellency." Winterhal said helplessly: "But since you are here, tell me what you think!"
The dispatch officer twisted his body on the wooden chair to make himself more comfortable, and then looked over to me.
"Your Excellency Cohen Keda," he said, "may I call you that?"
"Of course, Your Excellency." I said, "Please tell me."
"I have to thank you. You saved my cousin, the prince of the Pota Empire, at the altar last time."
"Your Highness." He said: "You know, I can talk to my cousin..."
I almost fell off my chair, who would have thought he would say this now?
"You're welcome, Your Excellency." I replied with a smile: "Under the circumstances, I was just performing my duties."
"Yes! It's a duty!" the dispatching officer said: "I believe that Mr. Cohen Keda will not do this for no reason. This is his usual style. Last time he killed a magician on the battlefield! Our country
His Majesty the Emperor also said that the slaughter was good and the slaughter was timely..."
"Excuse me, Mr. Dispatcher, I don't want to interrupt you." The clerk said, "But you are talking about what happened last time."
"Do you think I can tell a Divine Knight anything?" the dispatcher said, "I'm telling you right now, I don't have any opinion on this matter!"
I wanted to laugh when I heard this. This dispatching officer was really awesome. He talked a lot... but ended up saying nothing at all.
"Your Excellency Cohen Keda, I know that you will not punish these officers without any reason." The white-clothed priest said: "But in this matter, you have to consider the temple. No matter from which aspect, you punished like this at one time.
So many temple officers have been sent to the temple...the temple cannot accept this reality."
To be fair, what the white-robed priest said makes sense.
"Master Priest, it's not that I want to punish them." I said, "They forced me to do this. I will tell you the specific reasons later, okay?"
"OK."
I stretched out my hand and made a gesture of invitation to the deputy quartermaster. This should be the deputy of the left prime minister. Why didn't the left prime minister come in person?
"Your Excellency, I think so too." said the deputy quartermaster: "You have gone too far in handling this matter... Of course, you must have your own reasons, but in the eyes of the temple, these are all good officers, and they have
of people who even just studied in seminary…”
"I know what you mean." I nodded: "Is anyone still talking?"
"If you have no objection, I would like to say something." A general stood up: "As a general, of course I understand your painstaking efforts in maintaining military discipline, but if you do this, outsiders will think that you are excluding dissidents. In the world of gods and demons,
Do you think it is appropriate for such a thing to happen on the eve of the war?"
As I expected, someone really took the blame for me.
Everyone expressed their opinions at the request of the clerk. Basically, the dispatcher stopped talking, Winterhal strictly maintained neutrality, and others supported the clerk.
"General Winterhal Rennie." I said, "Is there an order from the military not to allow me to execute someone?"
"Your Excellency, because of your status, the military department cannot issue orders to you on this matter." Winterhal answered me: "I was only ordered to record and bring a message from His Highness the Prince."
"Speaking."
"The prince asked me to tell you." Winterhal said seriously: "Your Excellency took the guard with thousands of people when he took office. He ate all the supplies along the way and used up the supplies in each military station... These things have caused bad things for you.
Influence, please cherish the reputation of the Divine Blessing Knight."
"I understand." I stood up and said, "I already understand your opinions. Now, is it my turn to speak?"
"Yes." Winterhal didn't even raise his head: "Your Excellency, please tell me."
"Actually, what I want to say is very simple." I said: "In my opinion, an officer is an officer, and there is no difference between being a subordinate of the temple or not. If they do stupid things, they have to pay the price for their stupidity!
"
"I am standing here now, and I have three identities. As a governor of the Sbia Empire, I am responsible to my emperor; as a Divine Blessing Knight, I am responsible to the Light God Clan; and as the commander of the Ninth Legion, I
I have to be responsible for the coalition forces! Among my three identities, I have no obligation to be responsible for the temple!" My tone became serious: "It is none of my business to send officers under the temple, but they have to stay in my military camp.
Follow my rules, there's no price to pay!"
"Your Excellency, Knight of Divine Blessing!" the clerk said, "Please pay attention to your words. Did you just say that you are not responsible for the temple?"
"That's what I said. Why do you think I gave you three days?" I smiled coldly: "I want you to die with some understanding!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was stunned. None of them could have imagined that I would even kill the secretary.
"Your Excellency, did I hear you correctly?" The priest in white said in surprise: "He is the secretary! The secretary!"
"Master Priest, you know that I respect you very much." I humbly said to the priest in white, "Can you please listen to my explanation?"
The white-clothed priest nodded in confusion. He didn't know how to control the current situation.
"Everyone, do you know what these officers were doing on the first day I took office?" I picked up a piece of paper on the table: "This is an official document from the Military Justice Department. What they did really surprised me, and I was also very surprised.
Happy to share it with you.”
"That night, I led a thousand people into the 70,000-strong military camp from the main entrance and walked all the way to the commander's tent, which is where we are now, and no one noticed me! Why? That's because - including
There are only two officers on duty at the seven camp gates including the main gate, and both of them are drunk." I read from the official document: "Seventy-four lieutenant-level officers and twenty-six school-level officers are hidden in the tents.
There were women and nine officers molesting boys... They were just too busy!"
"Among the more than one hundred officers who stayed out that night, thirty-nine from Brigadier General York Ball on down were soliciting prostitutes in the town, twenty-four forcibly raped women, and more than sixty drank and gambled..." I said as I
While reading, he walked to the deputy quartermaster: "These people are the good officers you just said, good officers from the seminary! Do you still insist on this now?"
"Your Excellency, these are all trivial matters!" said the Deputy Quartermaster: "Our officers are usually very good..."
"They are usually excellent? No problem!" I chuckled: "Military Judge Jack, please tell us what they usually do!"
"Yes, sir!" Jack flipped through the official documents in his hand: "In three days, the Ninth Army's Military Law Office handled more than 400 cases, including murder, robbery, rape... almost every case
All serious crimes involve former military officers. If the case is handled seriously according to military law, it will not be enough for all the military officers to die five times."
"Impossible! How is this possible!" Hearing this, the clerk couldn't calm down anymore. He shouted loudly: "Your Excellency must have fabricated this! And what kind of military judge are you!"
"What I said are all facts, and these officers from the temple have admitted it! There are also their signatures on the official document." Jack replied unhurriedly: "I am a military judge, and this is my duty.
Fabrication, you have to show evidence!"
"You must have made it up." The secretary shouted: "I know that you did not hesitate to destroy the bodies of the officers in order to achieve your goal! You even... cruelly cut off the genitals of an officer!"
"There is no such thing." I said without changing my face: "I promise!"
The secretary was stunned: "You..."
"Secretary, let me remind you again, anything you say must be supported by evidence." I said: "If you can't find an officer whose genitals were cut off - you will be punished with an additional penalty!"
"That's the officer who raped the bakery owner's daughter! Where is he now?" The clerk didn't realize that he had stepped into a trap: "Is he still alive?"
I started to laugh, very happily. As I laughed, the clerk's face became increasingly ugly.
"So you know he raped the bakery owner's daughter... Hahaha!" I laughed and said, "Yes, this officer is no longer around. His crimes made me lose my mind. I personally ordered it to be purified with sacred flames.
His soul is gone. But if you talk about his body - I can clearly tell you that his body is very complete."
I clapped my hands, and a second lieutenant officer walked into the tent and placed the box in his hand in front of the clerk.
"He's in this box." I tilted my head and said, "Please accept it."
If you can recognize it when it's burned into a pile of ashes, that's a strange thing!
"Your Excellency promised me that you will not kill anyone before I come back!" The clerk shouted: "Your Excellency, please don't forget that you are a divine knight!"
"The Divine Blessing Knight is also a human being." I said, "Can't the Divine Blessing Knight lose his temper or lose his mind?"
"you you!"
The clerk pointed at me and started calling me "you".
"Maybe you think I broke my promise, but that's just your opinion." I said: "From today on, you will no longer be the clerk, and your name will disappear from the temple roster. To be precise,
, you have been seeking death yourself since three days ago!"
"You have no right to do this!" said the clerk: "No one here will let such a thing happen."
"You are wrong, everyone here will agree." I glanced at the people at the table one by one: "Of course, after listening to what I said."
"Everyone, you must be wondering why I couldn't wait to execute these officers. I can tell you clearly now that not only did their crimes be heinous, but they also used these crimes as merit and showed them off everywhere!" I have long thought about these words.
Okay: "Please think about it, if these hundreds of officers do not die, how much the reputation of the temple and even the reputation of the Gods will be affected! The war between gods and demons is coming, how much impact this will have on the coalition forces! The temple and the Gods
Will become the laughing stock of the entire Bis continent!"
"Yes, I executed an officer in advance, and I still have to bear the reputation of brutality, executing hundreds of officers sent by the temple at one time!" I slapped the table and loudly said: "Don't fucking reason with me,
I understand all these truths! Now I am using my own reputation to wipe the temple’s butt! What about those of you who keep talking about the temple and the Gods? But you came to stop me today! Stop me from safeguarding the reputation of the Temple and the Gods!
What on earth do you want to do?"
No one spoke, and no one could argue with me in this situation.
"That's my decision." I said, "Do you have anything else to say?"
"Sir, I understand your situation." The deputy quartermaster said, "Can we reduce the number of officers to be executed? After all, it is not easy for the temple to train them."
"Okay! If something happens, you are responsible!" I looked at him coldly: "Do you know why the quartermaster didn't come by himself? Because he knew that this was the only way to handle the matter, idiot!"
The deputy quartermaster was silent, and he didn't care even if I scolded him.
"Your Excellency." The priest in white gave me a hard smile: "Can I say something?"
"Of course, please tell me!"
"Your Excellency, among these people today, I have known you for a long time. I know that you are in a difficult situation now, and I really shouldn't open my mouth to you." The priest in white said, "But I can still request you in my personal name, at least.
Spare York Ball's life because he is my nephew."
"Don't say that, Lord Priest." I nodded: "If you can ask him to remain silent, I will agree to it."
"Thank you, Your Excellency." The priest in white said gratefully, "I have no other requests."
I thought the time was almost here: "So, do you have any opinions to express?"
"Military judge!" Seeing that they stopped talking, I turned to Jack and said, "You can arrest the clerk."
"No! No!" The clerk then remembered that I had just said that I would kill him, and stood up from his seat in a panic: "What crime do I have?"
Several soldiers have captured him.
"Secretary, listen carefully." Jack walked up to him: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Jack, the military judge of the Ninth Army Corps. Because you violated the orders of your superiors and conspired to destroy the reputation of the temple, the facts are sufficient and irrefutable. I now declare that you will be arrested.
.”
"No! I'm not guilty..."
Haiert, who was standing by, walked up to him and punched him, breaking his jaw so that he could no longer scream.
Seeing this scene, the people who came with him shook their heads. Who would have thought that the secretary who was so high-spirited just now was now a lamb to be slaughtered?
"Your Excellency, then this matter is over." Winterhal put away the official documents at hand: "We will return to the military headquarters."
"I'd like to say goodbye to you all. I'm really sorry for you all." I smiled and said, "This is how we deal with this kind of official business. The atmosphere is very bad."
Winterhal looked at me and said nothing.
"By the way, military judge." I said to Jack: "Go and bring York Ball and hand him over to the priest."
"yes!"
"Thank you, Your Excellency." The priest in white walked to me and whispered to me: "By the way, Your Excellency, you can indicate on the official document... did these officers die accidentally? In this case, the temple will feel better."
"Of course." I said loudly, "Please, I won't let you watch the execution. The scene must be very bloody."
I should really thank the title "Knight of God's Blessing" for being able to pass the test so smoothly. They couldn't pressure me with orders, and if I slapped them with the reputation of being a god, they couldn't do anything at all.
Under the pleading eyes of more than 300 officers, six people left from the main entrance, and the clerk was also tied up hand and foot and escorted over. Many officers standing under the gallows began to cry. At first they were sobbing quietly, and soon
It developed into howling.
"Jack." I whispered: "Execution!"
Hundreds of gallows were operating at the same time, and the ropes were tightened on the winches, making an extremely unpleasant sound. The faces of the victims began to twist... "Let's go!" I turned around, although I was already prepared for such a scene.
, but still felt a little disgusted: "They asked for this."
"By the way, boss." Jack whispered: "Does the official document really have to indicate that they died in an accident?"
"Yes, this way the face of the temple can be preserved." I said, "Just think about it! Any accident will do."
"Does it count if you choke to death on something?"
"Calculate!"
"Is it okay to choke to death on the soup?"
"Can."
"That……"
"Okay, I understand you want to make me happy." I patted Jack on the shoulder: "I'm fine, I'll be fine in a while. Now let's go to the tent and talk about business!" (To be continued)