"Hell is merely like this…"
"You've seen the other side of the medal, Doctor Shining."
"No, I've seen similar scenes before. But how should I say, even if I see such a scene a hundred more times, I can never get used to it…"
Looking at the tragic scene that appeared in the magnificent Knight Council Hall, Shining sheathed her long sword, her usually calm face rarely showing clear emotion.
That was a strong sense of disgust towards everything around.
However, Nearl empathized with Shining's strong sense of disgust, because looking at the tragic scene around her, she felt she had the same expression.
But this was just a part of the journey; next, they had to go to the most crucial stadium.
"Don't collect the bodies yet, let's go to the stadium first."
Nearl looked with disgust at the bloody and pungent corpses on the ground, beckoned Shining, and ran together towards the stadium.
Knights who had lost their honor fought to the death in the Knight Council Hall, which once represented noble chivalry. Due to unknown reasons, their rebellion was hasty and unprepared, but even so, more than one-fifth of the knights raised their swords against their companions. If not for Nearl's report, they might have really been defeated.
A calculated move against an unsuspecting opponent often holds a huge advantage, but when both sides are calculating, it evolves into a brutal street fight. When Shining pushed open the main door with her sword and ended the war, nearly fifty people had already fallen inside and outside the Knight Chapel. Counting the group that sniped Shining and pinpoint eliminated those noble knights, the number of rebellious knights in the entire incident might very well exceed two hundred, and among them were numerous knight retainers, as well as some assassins from the Unarmored Union.
The Unarmored Union hunted knights, a standard armed force configuration used by Kazimierz's ruling class to deter those lone knights and idle personnel. And even the figures of assassins from the Unarmored Union appeared in this hall; Nearl and all conservative high-ranking knights had already realized that things seemed to have exceeded everyone's control. But strangely, for some unknown reason, even though they clearly had the strength to wipe them out in one go, they hastily launched the rebellion. Only causing a disturbance of no great consequence, not even many people died. Only one city district connection point lost connection, but it was restored to smooth operation after a dozen minutes.
Much thunder but little rain ; this was the common judgment made by the surviving people after everyone had cleaned up those knights with erased insignia. No matter from what angle considered, this rebellion was reckless and foolish. They only needed to delay for a month to get everything, but they fell here instead.
Realizing something was wrong, Nearl led Shining out of the Knight Council, and together with other knights, hurried towards the attack location provided by the remaining knights.
One of the knights arrived very early; he had joined forces with the Knight Council after killing the sniper unit with Shining. This high-ranking knight wore a hood and strange cloak-like equipment, shuttling through street corners and alleys via various protrusions. His Originium Arts gave him abnormal gripping and jumping power, maintaining balance in mid-air, vigilantly watching for movements around, while explaining to Shining and Nearl who were pursuing those attackers in the streets and alleys below.
"Low-ranking Knight Reid, he is the only child of Midir the Lightless."
"Just a short while ago, he was killed on the spot for suspicion of murdering a high-ranking knight, his head cut off and tanned into a statue, then sent to Midir. This was the greatest humiliation, and it made him completely mad. He must eliminate all those who killed his son, or were related to his son, before everyone else."
"Those retainers and followers who were originally well-hidden were dragged out by him, then dispatched to various areas to create disturbances. He didn't really want to destroy his hometown; he made those people create disturbances just to buy time. He himself led his most elite subordinates to the stadium, intending to encircle all his enemies. So in the Knight Council, and on Miss Shining's side, the enemy's forces were abnormally large, but there weren't many people elsewhere."
"This was a clumsy act of revenge."
From the perspective of rebellion, this time was unbelievably foolish. But from the perspective of a mad father preparing for revenge, this action was very reasonable. Midir, as a hidden radical, had always wielded considerable power; when he went mad and flipped the table (idiom: to show one's hand), others could only brace themselves and follow.
And because some radicals went outside the city to receive express deliveries and obtain some Originium expansion weapons, the strength of the knights within the city instantly became imbalanced, and the radicals could only be annihilated individually. Midir had seen through this long ago; he led his core men to block Nearl and Shining in the council and the countryside, theoretically able to kill them all. Then he himself led the largest number of men towards the stadium, to offer his child's blood as a sacrifice.
Midir the Lightless not only manipulated darkness but could also cloud minds. Everyone had no doubt this crazy old man could slaughter tens of thousands of spectators.
The Knight Council, having freed up some manpower, immediately dispatched people to the main stadium, wanting to prevent the impending disaster.
"He's completely mad, mad beyond cure. He went mad the day that head was delivered. Less than twelve hours back and forth. The head was delivered on the front foot, and on the back foot, he launched a major rebellion. But he deceived his own subordinates; he just wanted to kill you two, and those delivering the packages, together."
"Mm, the number of knights they sent over was really not small; if I weren't slightly skilled in martial arts, I would definitely have been killed."
"…In short, their conspiracy has temporarily failed."
Glancing at Shining, who followed behind the knights calmly and effortlessly, the knight monitoring from the sky took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the emotions in his heart, and continued to report positions for the knights traversing the streets and alleys. They had to reach the stadium before those madmen.
But most people's hearts were heavy. Everyone lived in Krolewska; they had a deep impression of the streets and alleys here. Especially when they discovered the familiar motorized roads were already full of footprints, an ominous premonition began to rise in everyone's heart. But even if it was just one person, they still wanted to save those innocent people. This was what being a knight truly should do.
"The end of the alley ahead is the entrance to the stadium's express passage. We might be late—"
"Wait a minute! Look at that thing over there!"
"Th-This, what's going on…"
Looking at the red bloodstains spreading out from the alley, numerous knights stood downwind, almost fainting from a terrifying smell of blood.
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