Chapter 687 - Bloody Sea 4 (2/2)

He put a seal on Fernando’s wrist and spoke with a smile.

“Thank you. Because of your stupidity, we were able to capture Grenada very easily.”

Rondo and the other major ports were almost empty, thanks to Fernando who was driven by his vengeance, and took out the entire troops.

Thanks to that, the Holy Empire Navy was able to easily occupy the ports without even putting up a huge battle.

Several times over the past hundred years, they tried to subdue the pirates, but the Holy Empire always failed, they couldn’t even get close to the port.

“It looks like you went ahead and assumed that we would support Symphonia in the war, that was a huge mistake on your part.”

“Kuek!”

Realizing the huge mistake he made, Fernando seemed completely hopeless.

‘… But it isn’t over!’

He had some hope.

Princess Margareta, the envoy of Libiya Kingdom.

They were still in the Grenada Kingdom, they helped Fernando ascend the throne.

So Fernando believed that they would run over to save him.

However, his hopes got shattered when he reached the square in front of the palace.

It was because the Libiya kingdom’s envoys were hung by their necks.

Among them was Margareta.

She had an ugly death with her tongue sticking out and an expression which said ‘how did this happen?’.

“Y-you crazy bastards! They are the envoy of the Libiya Kingdom, killing them so carelessly…!”

It was an unwritten rule to never kill the envoys even if they were war partners.

At Fernando’s words, Arch Duke spoke back.

“If she wouldn’t have learned the enchanting magic and the forbidden dark magic, this wouldn’t have happened.”

When Rondo was taken over by the Holy Imperial army, Margareta and her party tried to escape from the place.

But unfortunately, they encountered the paladins led by Arch Duke Gregory.

Gregory, who looked young on the outside, was skilled enough to learn that Margareta and her party were made of warlocks.

Of course, he was about to take them down right away, but then Margareta used enchanting magic, which made no effect on Gregory, who was a Sword Sage.

They were captured right away, and were subject to execution.

“Th-that can’t be…!”

To Fernando, who didn’t want to believe it, Arch Duke spoke with a stern expression.

“Their bodies will be burnt after the cleansing ritual.”

The Holy Empire was famous for subduing the warlocks the moment they were found out.

In recent years, the policy was changed to punish the men according to the crime done, but the Veritas men were considered to be an exception from it.

It was because of the atrocities they had been committing in the nations under the cover, and a few years back, the zombie poison in the Holy Empire was a result of their actions.

“The Libiya Kingdom has joined hands with the remnants of the Veritas Magic tower…! We were wondering why the Symphonia Kingdom was trying to keep the Libiya Kingdom in check, figured it was for a good reason.”

Gregory, who said that, looked at Fernando who was staring at him.

“In any case, even you, who joined hands with those warlocks can’t be excused.”

“I-I didn’t know! I had no idea!”

At Fernando’s desperate denial, Arch Duke Gregory’s face turned cold.

“Did you really not know? Just a moment back, it seemed like you were expecting something from them?”

“That was…”

“Your wife has already testified. You assassinated King Drake after entering into a relationship with that woman. It is enough to understand while looking at your face the moment you saw her hanging.”

“No! I was framed! That wasn’t me!”

Fernando desperately denied everything, but no one listened to him.

Two days later, the bodies of Margareta and the other warlocks were buried, and Fernando was taken to the Holy Empire and hanged.

That brought an end to the history of the pirate kingdom, which had been wrecking the sea of the Rhodesia continent for hundreds of years.