Chapter 570 Trial
Ash lifted Bazel's head in front of him, his cold eyes beneath the steel mask staring into the empty eye sockets of the skull.
"Humiliation and ridicule? I've long been used to it." Basel said coldly.
“No, it’s just stating a fact.”
Ash shook her head, her snake tail swung, and with the sound of steel colliding with concrete, she slowly stepped out of the car.
She walked forward, towards her people, and the banshees followed her one by one, towards the people of Blood Harbor, and the cheers from the crowd were deafening.
Ash straightened up and raised the hand that was holding Bazel. The Banshee stretched out her tall body, and against the backdrop of her steel armor, she looked like a god walking on earth.
The banshees followed behind her silently, their armor making low muffled sounds as they snaked. The mortal soldiers of the expeditionary force guarded on both sides, holding high the emblem of Castel and the symbol of the Imperial Truth, carrying rifles on their backs, and the fine rifling could be vaguely seen in the black muzzles.
The banshees and soldiers marched along the street. Wherever they went, the people cheered. The prince's harbor guards stood on both sides of the street to maintain order for the parade.
This was Castel's most powerful moment. They took in refugees that the North dared not take in, resolved the natural disaster that destroyed the White Crows, defeated the coalition forces of the four northern lords and three grand dukes, and now they brought the culprit Bazel to Blood Harbor for a parade.
A whistle sounded in the sky, and the earth seemed to tremble slowly. Basel looked at the shadow that suddenly fell on the ground and slowly looked up at the sky.
"Then, what is that?"
"The airship, Castel's sky beast, the embodiment of the Lord's will in the air."
Ash raised his wrist, allowing Bazel, who was held in his hand, to look up at the sky. Above the dome... No, the huge figure that blocked out the sun was the new sky of Blood Harbor.
A melodious whistle sounded in the sky, and a locomotive not far away blew its whistle in response.
Many prisoners of war who were brought back from the North for trial could not help but collapse to the ground, covering their ears and trembling all over. Every time the huge figure in the sky appeared, it was accompanied by the whistling sound of bombs cutting through the air, which was the echo of death in the world.
They lay on the ground unwillingly, as if their souls had been crushed into pieces by the explosion on the battlefield, leaving only their ownerless bodies trembling in place.
Bazel stared at Castel's sky-curtain beast, stunned and unable to concentrate.
He had never actually fought against Castel's expeditionary force from beginning to end, but had only heard of the deeds of several dukes.
In his opinion, the three Dukes of the North are all trash. Grand Duke Alvarez is a trash who can only surrender, Octavia is a trash who can only escape, and Grand Duke Dragonfang is a trash who can't even escape or surrender.
The fact that Castel defeated them doesn't necessarily mean he is that powerful. His territory, Basel, was also seized from the three archdukes.
But at this moment, Basel looked at the airship that almost covered the entire sky, and then looked at the Banshee in heavy armor beside him, and suddenly hesitant.
Can he really defeat these monsters?
Perhaps provoking Castel was a mistake from the beginning
No, it's impossible. Basel gritted his teeth, and a trace of ferocity appeared in the skull's eye sockets.
Ash took Bazel and walked around the streets of Blood Harbor and arrived at the port.
Rows of ironclad ships had already formed up, and they fired their cannons in unison when Ash arrived at the port.
A cluster of bright jets shot out from the Dragon Breath Cannon, and at that moment the fire even suppressed the sun in the sky.
Bazel was distracted by the firelight for a moment, and when he came to his senses, Ash had already turned around and left with him.
“This, this is.”
Ash glanced at him but didn't tell him, "I won't need that to beat you, you don't need to know."
Bazel's eyes flickered, and after a moment of silence, a muffled voice came from his skull: "I thought we were going to board the ship to Castel."
"The Tribunal is in Blood Harbor. You will be sentenced here and then sent to Castel after the verdict is over. Otherwise, if you go there first and go crazy, wouldn't you have avoided the trial for nothing?"
"Would you go crazy going to Castel? Why?"
"It's hard to explain. Most people can't comprehend how powerful Castel is. Even the mere knowledge of him can break their will and drive them crazy."
A hint of doubt flashed in Bazel's eyes.
What kind of power can drive people crazy and make them unable to even look at it?
Is this true?
Basel wanted to refute, but when he thought of the various wonders he had seen along the way in Blood Harbor, he shut his mouth.
He was already dead, only a skeleton remained, without any flesh or blood.
Otherwise, if he still had a physical body, he might have shown a weak and embarrassing expression when he saw those things just now.
After the parade, Ash brought the Banshees and sent Bazel to the Court of Inquisition.
At this moment, the courtroom was already full of people.
In addition to Chief Judge Chloe, the High Priest of the Blood Harbor Conclave Josh, the school principal Zoe, Castel's chief ship designer Tata, the military factory manager Gaia, and Richard, the R&D department and chief of the Fire Moth, were all in attendance.
As for Zeus, he was talking in a low voice with the prince beside him.
Although the prince's harbor guards did not directly participate in the war, they had been helping the expeditionary force to take care of the rear. They participated in maintaining law and order in Blood Harbor and transporting supplies.
Next to the prince is Galahad, the knight who has always followed the prince and now has completely changed his attire.
He still had a long sword hanging from his waist, but he no longer wore the shiny plate armor. Although he was watching the trial in the courtroom, he still carried a long spear on his back.
It was a specially tuned bolt-action rifle, combined with his hand-polished bullets, which successfully set a record for Castel's longest shooting distance.
Next to Galahad was a somewhat hunchbacked old man, the prince's former butler, Euan.
In addition, there are a few unfamiliar faces, all of whom are civil servants promoted by the prince.
The prince still implemented the empire's civil service system in Blood Harbor, but made more optimizations and completely eliminated the aristocratic system from the bureaucratic system. Hughes had estimated that if there was no border earl like him and no Castel, the prince himself could completely change the empire's administrative system.
Especially after he abandoned his status as queen, he could send the nobles to the gallows openly and take the power of the empire into his own hands.
The door of the courtroom slowly opened, and Ash's tall figure appeared in the corridor. The towering dome in the hall seemed not far away from her.
Everyone looked towards Ash as she made her way across the corridor to the original depression in the middle of the Trial Chamber.
Then he pushed Basel into a chair, and bones flew everywhere.
(End of this chapter)
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