Chapter 20 What, are you not convinced?

The smile on Baron Hoven's face suddenly disappeared, and his whole body exuded a serious and irresistible aura from the inside out.

"I have already thoroughly investigated the entire story of this terrible incident with extremely bad consequences, and it is a good opportunity to tell you all about it."

After he finished speaking, he called together the people who were attending the banquet and calmly explained:

"The tragedy that happened that night was horrifying. I investigated it carefully as soon as I came back. This is how it all happened."

Everyone was silent, waiting for Baron Hoven to continue speaking. Everyone knew that the "investigation results" he announced would become "facts" that could not be overturned.

"First, a despicable servant of the mayor colluded with the jungle natives and kidnapped the mayor's granddaughter. The mayor was extremely anxious and mobilized all the patrol guards to the jungle to search for his granddaughter."

After hearing this, Irene and Lucius basically understood Baron Hoven's specific ideas on how to deal with the mayor.

Baron Hoven continued, taking a deep breath, and said, "The sheriff left with the patrol, and the servant opened the town gate at night, which eventually led to a terrible tragedy."

"The patrol has arrested the servant. I will personally try him in a few days. Those jungle natives are too hateful. The mayor has also lost his granddaughter and is extremely sad."

"He is willing to give out half of his wealth to help us fight against the jungle natives. He believes that the blood of those evil people can comfort the dead souls of the Syat people."

He paused, looked into everyone's eyes and asked calmly:

"Everyone in Nasir Town, are you satisfied with the investigation results and the solution?"

Before anyone could even open their mouths, they suddenly heard applause in the banquet hall.

It turned out to be Lucius of the Fisher family. He smiled and clapped his hands, saying loudly:

"As expected of Lord Baron Hoven, he handled the matter very well. The Fisher family is very satisfied!"

Everyone followed suit and expressed their opinions. They all felt that every word the Baron said made sense and they were not dissatisfied at all.

Irene observed everyone silently. She knew that the mayor and the baron were related, but she still held a glimmer of hope.

After all, more than fifty people died in Nasir Town overnight.

Many of them were neighbors she knew. One mother and daughter who made a living by selling eggs had both died. She had once treated the mother's illness, and from then on the daughter would smile and give the Fischer family a basket of eggs every month.

After eating them for more than half a year, Irene and her friends really couldn't eat eggs anymore. But they couldn't bring themselves to refuse them, so they secretly distributed them to the servants in the family.

On the surface, she colluded with the members of the Fischer family and told the mother and daughter that the eggs were for the Fischer family members to eat themselves.

They had worked hard to pretend, but they no longer had to pretend.

When Irene passed by there in the morning, she saw that some of the chickens that the mother and daughter got up early every day to feed were burned to death, and some chickens that ran back after the disaster were silently circling in the same place, still waiting for their owners to feed them.

At this moment, there was endless praise all around.

She wanted to say something else, but Lucius's strong hands held her shoulders.

Lucius' face was filled with an exaggerated smile, as if he had encountered something very happy, and an unprecedented joy surged from the bottom of his heart.

Irene finally nodded silently, watching Baron Hoven's serious face once again display an elegant smile.

"And you, Lucius Fisher, a warrior of the Fisher family, my friend, you are our real hero!"

"I have decided to give you a small reward in my personal name. Please accept it. Everything is for the glory of the Syat people!"

After the banquet, all the families in Nasir sent money and supplies, and some even sent people.

The Fisher family invested ten gold coins and did not contribute any manpower, and the reward they received from the Baron was a "Metal Low-level Knight Heritage".

People with metal blood can advance to the first level of extraordinary people by practicing this knight's inheritance and combining it with magic potions, which also includes the matching defensive combat skill "full armor".

The value of a low-level knight's inheritance is about fifteen gold coins, which means the Fisher family earned five gold coins in total.

Of course, Irene knew very well that the low-level knight inheritance was actually a little compensation from Baron Hoven.

After all, the Fisher family was in the most dangerous situation that night, and two of their guards even died unfortunately.

When everyone else had left, only Baron Hoven and the mayor were left in the banquet hall.

The smile on Baron Hoven's face completely disappeared. He sat in the chair for a long time without saying a word. The mayor stood beside him with his head down, not daring to move.

"More than fifty people died. You are so brave. If you were not my distant relative, I would send you to Nasir's prison today."

Baron Hoven's expression was extremely cold and ugly. The mayor took a deep breath, but deep down he didn't care at all.

He was friends with the largest maritime merchant on the East Coast and was responsible for helping to sell goods. The money he paid as tribute each year accounted for one-third of Baron Hoven's expenses.

If you really kill me, wouldn't it be the same as cutting off one of Baron Hoven's legs?

There was no way he would let himself die like this, but he still took advantage of the situation to rob and take away half of the property. He was even more despicable than those jungle natives.

The mayor's face twitched slightly, but he still bowed his head respectfully and said:

"My Lord Baron, I will never dare to do that again. Thank you so much for your help! From now on, I will serve the Hoven family more loyally!"

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Three months later, until the arrival of spring, Baron Hoven's uncle, the Governor of the East Coast, finally dispatched an infantry regiment from the Kingdom of Syat.

The gradual development of alchemy, technology and cluster magic has created an army that can pose a threat to the extraordinary people, changing the previous war pattern of small-scale battle groups of extraordinary people.

In recent years, the Kingdom of Syat has reformed its military system in imitation of the Loen Empire, establishing a national unified standing army and dividing the army into two parts: the standing army and the reserve army.

The infantry regiment had a total of 1,200 people, equipped with flintlock rifles. There were two field training days a week, and each time they were provided with gunpowder and live ammunition for seven rounds of shooting.

There were fifteen extraordinary people joining the army at the same time, including five spellcasters and ten knights. The leading Baron Hoven himself and a storm priest who followed the army were the only two second-level "metamorphosis"-level extraordinary people.

The entire bloody suppression lasted about three months. The jungle natives, who could only survive in hiding, were constantly killed, and the war situation was almost one-sided.

Until the jungle natives sacrificed their own flesh and blood and organized an extremely horrific ambush.

The mysterious existence that suddenly appeared was the Bloody Lord mentioned by the natives. The powerful Bloody Demon finally showed up. His extremely terrifying power took the lives of more than 300 soldiers in an instant, and the rest also died one after another due to the curse.

The Governor was extremely angry and persuaded the Storm Bishop of the East Coast to go there in person, but he soon discovered that the natives had moved north collectively and there was no trace of the enemy in the jungle.

The north is the border of the neighboring country of Rhea. The Syats have had a thirty-year peace agreement with it, so it would be inappropriate to pursue them and kill all the natives.

This unequal war ultimately ended with the complete escape of the remaining jungle natives.

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One noon day, the sun was shining brightly in the town of Nasir.

Irene and her servants had bought things for the festival at the market and were preparing to return to the carriage when she suddenly heard crying. She then saw a group of jungle natives tied up with ropes not far away, most of them women and children.

They were the spoils of war, and were about to be transported to the city of Fein by ship driven by the Syat soldiers. Their subsequent fate was unknown.

A native girl of similar age knelt on the ground and cried. The soldier whipped her bare back with a whip, and the surrounding townspeople cheered.

Irene instinctively felt uncomfortable deep down.

She suddenly recalled the smiling face of the girl who delivered the eggs. If the Fisher family had not obtained the power of the great Lord of the Lost, they would have been the ones who died that night.

Just as Byrne said, he only cared about God and his family. Any extra mercy could only be given to acquaintances with whom he had friendship, not enemies.

She simply couldn't have any more compassion, because that would sooner or later bring disaster to the Fisher family.

"What's the matter, Miss Irene?" inquired the coachman.

"Nothing, let's go back."

(End of this chapter)