36 Chapter 36 - The Boy Knight is Slain (2/2)

”What? They were there, my informants said so!” Lord Richmond huffed and puffed like a pig as he waived his jewelled fingers at the ceiling.

”With the Three as my witness, I swear it is so!”

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”Then what about the Headless Hunters...?” Jack said as he clasped his hands together and gave the sweating Lord a long look. ”You never mentioned that they could be hiding there, and yet my necromancer seemed to have been informed otherwise. Someone gave her access to the crypts too, and helped produce bodies under the false pretence that she worked with my approval.”

The Lord seemed not to know what to say. After trying to hide a small smile, he finally sighed.

”Fine, I might have helped things along a bit. But that's because there was a demon in that guild, a monster too! Out of anywhere in Tariak I could think of no other place that was more likely to house heretics, monsters and demons than aGuild that already did so! So let's brush this matter aside, eh?”

The Lord's many chins wobbled with hope.

”Crusaders, take this man into custody,” Jack snapped, the crusaders at the door seizing Lord Richmond's arms.

”Lord Richmond, you are charged with failing the duties of your station, multiple counts of manslaughter and corruption. Have you anything to say for yourself?”

”Y-you have no right! unhand me cretins, I am a noble, your superior!”

”I was given the right by the One. As punishment for your comes I sentence you to death by hanging. Take him away and see to it this filth in human skin is dealt with,” seeing the crusaders drag away the red faced Lord brought only some small relief to Jack's heart.

Yet that relief was soon crushed again by the weight of the crimes his former criminals had already committed. He'd orders hands to be cut off, backs to be whipped and two would be hanged along with the Lord but...

Jack swept his hand through the mass of reports. No doubt many more had yet to even be reported. This would be settled when his force left however, no harm they could do in a forest filled with only monsters.

And should the demon be secured, this would all become well worth it.

Grabbing the fire-haired boy that had started this all, Jack admired his lifeless golden eyes. Such a good-looking crusader sent down the path of evil made the whole situation even harder on Jack. Although even he knew this boy wasn't so bad, there wasn't any way he could have known of the demons capture, or how disastrous her loss would be.

As Jack pondered what to say in his speach to the troops about the destruction of the heretics, a clump of his hair came off on Jack's hand. Then the face began to melt, and the body swiftly dissolved soon after.

”What the... what is this?”

Peering up at his remaining crusader, the woman shook her head.

”Then prepare the Guildmaster of the Golden Goose, i'm coming to meet with him. Tell him if he wants to remain in his station he should be ready to give me answers about....” Jack just waved at the dissolved body with disgust, grey goo drooling down his table to pool on the floor.

”And get that Necromancer to the Guildhall to meet me while you're at it. Something doesn't add up here.”