Wang Xu did not seem very anxious about the follower contract.
He came to the Knight World to practice the meditation method. He asked the Blackmang Wizard for a follower contract. He should wait until he has mastered the Blackmang Meditation Method and returned to the Wizarding World to do it.
Anyway, in the world of knights, Green can't escape his grasp.
Even if he really wanted to run away, there would be countless people willing to catch Greene for him if Wang Xu gave the order.
After all, although Green has the strength to enter the second level for the first time, except for his physical fitness, he does not know any combat skills. Just like the Barbarian Bull who only has brute strength, I am afraid that a first-level Dzogchen wizard can easily do it.
Defeat him.
Empire
After months of absence, Wang Xu saw the royal city of the Iron Cross Kingdom again as if he had just seen it yesterday.
The royal city of the Iron Cross Kingdom is built between a canyon and a river. The entire city is built on the mountain, half by the canyon and half by the river. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack at a glance.
Outside the royal city, wheat fields, farms, plantations, orchards can be seen everywhere.
Not far away, there are merchant ships riding the wind and waves on the river, and fishermen casting nets and returning at sunset. The two complement each other, forming the Iron Cross Kingdom, the prosperity and prosperity of the largest city-state.
"In ancient times, a city with a population of one million was considered a rare metropolis." Looking at the huge city gate of the royal capital and the countless arrow towers on the city wall, Wang Xu thought with interest
With.
It's a pity that the world of knights is not a pure medieval era. The city walls and arrow towers here are more like props to show the majesty of the empire in front of ordinary people.
In fact, the entire Iron Cross Kingdom has not had a war for more than two hundred years, because the wizard who established the Iron Cross royal family is currently very popular in the academy. Before this wizard falls, there will be no one
to offend his descendants.
Of course, there is no national-level war, but rebels and small-scale conflicts are inevitable.
Not everyone knows that behind these descendants of the royal family, there are wizards who can change the world, and fools with ambitions but no vision will always be in short supply.
"Spread out, spread out!"
When Wang Xu was about to enter the city, a large group of soldiers suddenly poured out of the city.
These are not ordinary defenders, they are all palace guards wearing red cloaks and heavy armor.
If you want to join the Palace Guard, you must first have a requirement, which is to become a quasi-knight with a strength of over 800 kilograms.
If you don't have the strength of a quasi-knight, you won't even be asked to guard the palace's gates, let alone be by the king's side.
Tap tap tap tap
The palace guards took over the city gate here, and there were fully armed palace knights on the other side, advancing outward in teams of eight.
After ten teams of palace knights walked out in succession and surrounded them from all directions, a giant royal carriage pulled by eight white horses walked out from the city gate.
"Who is in the carriage? Why are the palace guards and palace knights coming out?"
"I don't know. Let's take a look."
Amid everyone's whispers, the carriage slowly stopped at the city gate.
After a while, as the palace knights rolled out the red carpet for the carriage, an old man in his sixties wearing a crown walked out accompanied by his attendants.
"See His Majesty the King!"
Seeing the old man appear, all civilians and soldiers knelt down, while those with noble titles held their chests and saluted.
"Subjects, I want to tell you some sad news. Your third prince, my dear son, has committed an unforgivable crime."
The king stood on the red carpet, his face full of sorrow, and whispered: "His crime is unforgivable, his behavior is unforgivable, and I have decided to flog him personally to eliminate his sins."
"Someone, bring it up!"
Following the king's words, a young man whose mouth was gagged and whose hands and feet were bound was brought up by two knights.
"Woo, woo woo"
The young man was the prince. He stared at his father, shaking his head and begging for forgiveness.
The king waved the knight to retreat, raised his whip with his own hands, gritted his teeth, and struck the prince with the whip.
After a few blows, the prince was beaten to pieces, but the old king had no intention of stopping.
"Isn't the third prince the King's favorite son? What mistake did he make to be whipped like this?"
"Who knows? Could it be that our Third Prince was worried that His Majesty was getting old and personally comforted the princess in the harem for him?"
"How is it possible? With the king's love for the third prince, I am afraid that even if the third prince really did that, the king would not be able to do such a cruel thing."
"What's going on? This whip is no joke. It's impossible for the third prince to plot to usurp the throne and be discovered by His Majesty, right?"
Everyone was muttering, and no one knew what kind of crime the third prince had committed, so that he was whipped by the king himself.
At the same time, what also surprised everyone was that His Majesty the King didn't know what was going on. He would look at the crowd after fighting for a while, and then continue to fight.
Is the king tired?
Everyone couldn't understand, and the same could not be understood by the nobles who followed to witness the execution.
Unlike the ignorant civilians, the nobles present knew very well that His Highness the Prince had not made any mistakes.
If there is one, it is that in the past few days, the prince was dissatisfied with the illegitimate son who went to Black Iron City to assume the position of earl and secretly sent his men to assassinate him.
Could it be that it was precisely because of this that the old king was so angry.
With this in mind, some nobles followed the old king's gaze and saw the family emblem of the Earl of Tulip hidden in the crowd.
hiss!!
Many people took a breath. Is it really because of Count Tulip that the old king was so angry?
No, no matter how favored an illegitimate child is, he can never be better than his legitimate son.
Or perhaps, the identity of Earl Tulip was not as simple as everyone rumored, which made the old king unable to help but make a righteous decision to kill his relatives.
In the distance, Wang Xu stood on the carriage, expressionlessly watching the old king whipping the prince under the city gate.
The old king was very strong. He whipped him one after another, and every time he hit the third prince, he was merciless.
After more than twenty whippings, even though the third prince had the training of a knight, he was still beaten to the point where he was rolling on the ground and bleeding from his mouth and nose.
Wang Xu, however, still looked at him expressionlessly, without any emotion or intolerance on his face.
Sensing his expression, the old king struck harder, as if what he was beating was not his own son, but the enemy who killed his father.
A middle-aged woman in palace attire pushed past the knight's barrier and broke in, opening her arms to stop the old king.
"Go away!" The old king took a whip and shouted sternly at the woman in palace clothes.
The woman in palace clothes was the queen of the old king and the biological mother of the third prince. She loved her son so much that she cried to protect the third prince and said with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, he is your own flesh and blood. What crime did he commit?"
What's wrong with you that makes you so cruel?"
"The mistakes he made were enough to destroy the royal family and cut off the legacy of the Iron Cross. Do you know what he did!"
The old king was panting and shouted to the palace knight: "Take the queen down!"
"Yes" The palace knights only obeyed the king's orders. The king asked to take the queen down, so naturally someone did it.
Seeing the queen crying away, the old king gently closed his eyes and slowly raised his whip.
Snapped
The sound of whipping sounded again. This time, no one was gloating about the misfortune, and everyone's breathing became silent involuntarily.
Once, twice, three times
At some point, the third prince's clothes were beaten to pieces, but the old king did not stop.
After a while, the third prince's skin was beaten to pieces, but the old king still didn't stop.
Slowly, the third prince, who had been struggling on the ground like a loach, began to become motionless.
But even so, the old king still didn't stop and was still whipping hard.
In this way, the aloof third prince was beaten to a pulp by the old king in front of many people.
Seeing this, Wang Xu nodded with satisfaction, turned around and returned to the carriage, which also made the old king breathe a deep sigh of relief.