Chapter 121 (1/2)

Chapter 121 Looting

When he had talked to all of the five noble fahtly relieved

When he leaned back into the chair, Nightingale took the initiative to step behind hian to e them

Fro the Duke, up until he had taken over the Lord’s Castle, had needed merely one day

Things were going ht, the moment after the Duke had died, most of the people had chosen to surrender Forthe war, so they just kneeled on the ground, saying that they illing to fight for the prince

So theover the surrendered knights and nobles, while the First Ar the roup moved further towards to the east, and in the afternoon at 3 puards saw the head of the dead Duke and the other captured nobles, they had i the 4th Prince into the city

Roland didn’t wait until all the nobles were gathered, giving thereat fanfare and to declare him as new City Lord, instead he immediately left for the Lord’s Castle

The castle was placed in the middle of the city and looked like a city within the city When he entered the castle area a sale had to use an explosion cachet to blow open the entrance to the flower garden Within the garden, uards loyal to the old Duke tried to stop Roland fro in, but they all were quickly killed by the First Aruards had still been able to use their hand crossbows, resulting in five injuries of which two had been seriously injured, fortunately Nana had co with the military operation and had quickly been able to heal them

In the uards used this opportunity to take the rest of the Duke’s fah the backdoor, but they were still spotted by Lightning and were captured soon afterwards The Duke’s wife and her two sons hands were tied and aiting to be judged – even now they were still in the dark, ignorant of the fact that the Duke had been defeated

When Roland gained control over the Lord’s Castle, Border Town’s First Army immediately swar the Lord’s Castle in Longsong Stronghold with the castle in Border Town, Roland had to adnificent shape It had a hexagonal outline with six watchtowers on its wall, and a five-story high tower in thethis era it was really rare to build places that were this high Within the castle grounds, there were also the residences of the castle’s inhabitants, warehouses, stables and everything else they needed, the Duke even had his own personal prison under the castle’s basement

He put the valuable prisoners like the Duke’s family into this exact prison, the civilians were all freed, while the mercenaries had their weapons confiscated and placed into the castle garden or it’s free rooms At the same time he also picked out some leaders and paid them to keep watch themselves – in Roland’s eyes, the Northern Slope Mine would be the best destination for these opportunistic people, but at the s he had to do

Until now, he had still to do the most important task after a battle – which was co the corpse

Roland together with a witch kept looking over everything over and over again inside of the castle, he hadn’t even let go of the God’s Stone of Retaliation he had found in the vault After they had searched through everything, the gain was really impressive Just within two boxes they had discovered in the baseold royals alone Within a hidden chaale discovered several scores of eyeball sized gems Echo found another chamber hidden behind the fireplace, which wasn’t only filled with a variety of gold crafts, such as the scepter, the crown, etc, there were alsoon the wall on a wooden frame

This were all the Duke’s personal financial resources!

When Roland saw all this great wealth in front of hiathered in the last two season, his heart was filled withthe feeling of looting was, if he didn’t cohly developed industrial era, hefor himself

But now he could only sigh with sorrow, he had to think of the greater picture In the foreseeable future, the working population in the Border Toould increase substantially, and before he could develop his territorial agriculture, he would need to irain from other sources

So all the treasure was stored into boxes and were lightened by Hubird, then under the protection of Iron Axe and several personal guards, they were brought back to his own castle storage in Border Town With the ti, the delivery would take around three days

Because of this, after the second day Roland no longer took in gold royals as ransoht hi people and animals

“Your Highness, do you really only want to stay here for a week?” Asked Nightingale

“What?” Roland had closed his eyes, enjoying the tingling burst co from his shoulders