Chapter 264, Collective Surrender

In midsummer, the new Earl of Glamorgan, the top of the Dawn Mage Tower, the private area of ​​Garland Councilwoman Veronica, the master bedroom.

The newly installed air conditioner is blowing out gusts of cold wind in the room. On the big fluffy bed, a couple of dogs and men are embracing and sleeping. The sun is shining brightly outside, but there is a weird smell inside.

The noble count gasped twice, he closed his eyes, but felt the hair brushing his face.

It feels itchy.

Ryan tried to escape, but the warm and fragrant nephrite lying on his chest hugged him tightly.

"Okay, honey, don't make trouble." Ryan had to open his eyes.

Veronica was lying on top of him, Witch Garland's sweet melon-seeded face was blushing with happiness and suspicion, and her beautiful hands were holding a lock of her own hair, which was black and brown on Ryan's face Swipe around.

"Don't make trouble" Ryan stretched out his hand again, and the earl easily grabbed Witch Garland's wrist. Veronica didn't resist at all. On the contrary, Witch Garland leaned on Ryan's chest and said in a dreamy voice: "My dear, thank you "

"We don't need to say thank you, Veronica, you deserve it." A faint sense of warmth spread between the two of them, Ryan hugged Veronica tightly, and the two smiled at each other. Ronika closed her eyes and kissed Ryan.

Three minutes later, Veronica panted and pushed Ryan away: "It's time to get up, Ryan, the hot water Catherine has been placed, you can take a shower before going back to the castle."

Ryan nodded. He should really get up. The Earl turned over. He noticed that Veronica was still lying on the bed, so he smiled and said, "Shouldn't we take a bath together?"

"Taking a shower together? Oh, my God, I don't want to take a bath for two hours. All I can do is grab the railing and let you toss." Veronica rubbed her waist dissatisfiedly: "Stop talking, My waist is still sore and my legs don't have any strength, so I need to sleep for a while."

Ryan was getting dressed, and he touched Veronica's face lovingly.

Veronica gave it all last night. She and Ryan fought until the early morning. Now Ryan is no longer what it used to be.

Ryan understood what Veronica meant. In fact, as she said, Veronica knew that her relationship with Ryan was already at a disadvantage, and Veronica had no cards to play. In order to express Her own love, she needs this.

After finishing work yesterday morning,

The two talked for a long time, and Veronica couldn't help crying. It is the dream of all witches to have a luxurious wizard tower of their own. With Ryan's help, Veronica realized it at the age of twenty-nine. With this dream in mind, she has completely gone ahead of everyone. She is the first among the Garland councilors who can build her own wizard tower before the age of thirty.

"I still miss the you from last night." Ryan turned over and said with a smile. Veronica in the morning has completely recovered her usual sharp and shrewd character. The woman who cried last night seems to be a dream. Ryan knew that such a witch had really existed.

"Humph" Veronica blushed pretty, and seemed to remember her gaffe, she said mercilessly: "My great knight, you still have this hobby? Then I think you can go to you Little Princess Jialan, she is definitely willing to cry for you!"

"Hahaha even at this time, you still don't give up mocking Teresa, Veronica, is there really that kind of endless hatred between you and Teresa?" Ryan said helplessly.

Veronica adjusted her skirt and leaned on the bed. She was a little dazed when she heard Ryan's question. After thinking about it for a while, Witch Garland suddenly sneered and said, "Actually, it seems to be true as you said. Whether it's in spells, in the wizard's tower or on top of men, I've defeated her, and it seems that I really don't have to argue with her, but after hearing your question, I think it's still necessary for me to entangle with her."

"That's just your jealousy, honey." Ryan was going to the bathroom, but turned around after hearing these words: "Veronica, show me."

Witch Jialan rolled her eyes at Ryan. Seeing his firm attitude, she shyly pulled her skirt away. On her belly, which was as tender as suet and jade, the spirit pattern imprint left by Ryan was still in operation.

The silver sword heart pattern always stores Ryan's spiritual energy, and it is worth noting that the wings on both sides have been fully opened. When Ryan's fingers lightly touched the spirit pattern, the spirit pattern immediately sparkled in response.

"Honey, what's the matter?" Veronica blushed a little.

"It's done, my spirit pattern engraving has penetrated into your body and soul." Ryan's fingers brushed over the beautiful pattern: "This means that you can master more advanced magic in the future without fear of being corrupted by chaos, and you will also be able to master more advanced magic without fear of being corrupted by chaos." mean"

"It also means that I have become your thing, doesn't it?" Veronica glared at Ryan: "Tell me, honey, how many women have this on them now?"

"I just carved Olika's body a few days ago, and now there are three." Ryan always likes to tell the truth, Veronica is a smart woman, and he will not lie.

"You will definitely engrave one for your female knight in the future, even though she doesn't know magic, will our little princess Jialan get one too?" Veronica continued to ask, it seemed that she was quite interested in this.

"Suria will definitely be there in the future. As for Teresa, she is unplanned. In fact, she has not existed in my long-term plan. I didn't expect to meet Jialan when I set off from Nord. The council has changed temporarily." Ryan shook his head in distress: "But she has come here after all."

A smile flashed in Veronica's beautiful almond eyes: "That's because you are too good, my dear, well, you go take a shower, I'm going to sleep for a while."

"Hmm." Ryan kissed Veronica lightly on the lips, turned and walked towards the bathroom.

If there is anything that has caused a stir in the Earl of Glamorgan recently, it must be that the Earl himself issued many decrees.

The release of the fixed agricultural tax did not cause much reaction from the knight class, because on the surface, the interests of the knights did not suffer much loss. At most, the knights just chatted after dinner, expressing that this is a kind of pity from the earl, hardworking serfs Can save more food, as for those serfs who don't work hard, the knights don't bother to care about their lives.

The serfs' reaction to the fixed tax was a little panicky. In order to stabilize people's hearts, Suria sent many family knights and knight retinues. They were responsible for issuing announcements in all villages, explaining loudly about the change in tax rates, and then let the serfs Memorizing and reciting, if you can recite well, you can get a handful of copper coins and two black bread. If you can’t recite it, you can get so many rewards if you recite it aloud twenty times. After settling down, the vast majority of serfs were illiterate, and most serfs could not count. They would not feel the real difference until after the autumn harvest was taxed.

What really caused controversy was the German decree promulgated by Ryan. The decree announced that all robbers and bandits in the territory must surrender unconditionally to the earl within one month. There is a large amount of wasteland in Sharon Forest that needs to be cultivated. First come, first served. If the time passes, the ones waiting for these robbers will be the Lord of the Holy Grail, the God-Chosen Champion of the Fairy of the Lake, and the Earl of Glamorgan, Ryan. Malcador's anger.

It was a sunny morning, the fifth day after the decree was promulgated.

A large group of uninvited guests ushered in at the gate of the earl's castle. A large group of soldiers surrounded them and surrounded these people. The sergeants all looked at the uninvited guests with hatred. Angry and puzzled, in their view, these robbers are all military exploits, and the earl's decree made the soldiers less chance to make meritorious deeds.

But there is no way, Ryan's prestige and reputation are too great, the soldiers do not have the courage to question and oppose the Earl's decree, the leading sergeant Denis is wearing a chain mail, with a dwarf's seiko long sword hanging on his waist, and carrying a sword on his back. Big Bow, entertain these bandit chiefs.

I don’t know if I don’t see it, it’s really shocking to see it. On this day, all the bandit leaders in the Earl’s territory brought their deputies to the castle and surrendered to Ryan. There were dozens of people standing outside the castle. The bandit leader They donated all their accumulated wealth to Lane, they let the sergeant search their bodies, and then accepted Katzenberg's arrangement.

The bandit leaders were very cooperative, and the butler Katzenberg ordered all the bandit leaders to go to a room outside the castle to rest for a while, waiting for the earl's reception.

Just after entering the room, the bandit chiefs broke out.

"Petty! You bastard! I thought I was the first to arrive, but you were the first to arrive!" A bandit leader shouted dissatisfiedly: "Damn, if you don't come, I will surrender to Lord Ryan, that would be nice!"

Petty, the leader of the Long Spear Thieves Group, has dozens of thieves under him, and is good at using long spear formations.

"Come on! Gross, you bastard! You are the farthest away from Jin Town, but you actually came with me?" Another bandit leader exaggeratedly shouted: "Okay, everyone is here! He was the first to surrender!"

Gross, the leader of the Pollack Bandit Gang, his first thought after hearing the decree was to surrender to Ryan.

No one wants to fight against the Holy Grail Knight, the Lady's God's Chosen Champion, and Ryan, who has a high reputation in the kingdom. The robbers were already in panic because of Ryan's appearance, thinking that they were doomed to die, but now they see that there is surrender. Handling the opportunity, all the bandit chiefs instinctively thought of surrendering, and they immediately scrambled to come.

More than a dozen bandit leaders were arguing in the room, and the scene was chaotic, it was a mess.

"Hugo, you little bastard, your people have never been active in the Earl's territory, why did you come to surrender?" After the robbers had a quarrel, they found a silent familiar face hiding in the corner Inside: "Get out quickly, you are clearly a bandit from the Principality of Belaon, why are you here?"

"Whoever said that the robbers of Bo Leon could not surrender to Lord Ryan? I, I am here to surrender!" The bandit leader named Hugo was obviously a little guilty, but he still defended forcefully: "I have already surrendered my brothers I brought them all to the earl, and I have been a robber of His Excellency Ryan since two days ago."

"Hahahahaha! What do you mean you are Lord Ryan's robber, are you worthy?"

"You are not worthy, I am worthy!"

"You match!"

The bandit leaders knew that this place was in the earl's castle and they could not do anything, but this did not prevent these bandits from frantically tearing down each other, and everyone wanted to be appreciated by His Excellency Ryan.

No one really wants to be a robber for a lifetime, they all long to return to society with a decent identity.

"Speaking of which, what about Bertrand? He didn't come to surrender? Was he deceived by lard?"

"I do not know."

In the room of the outer castle, the bandit chiefs are arguing, and in the inner castle of the castle, there is a man with a mustache, a green three-cornered hat with wings, a green coat and green tights, who looks about thirty The year-old man was kneeling in front of Ryan, offering a few pieces of parchment: "My lord, this is a list of all the property and personnel of the Bergerac Bandit Group. We have 350 tents and more than 800 people. , nearly 500 of them are good players who can use swords and bows, and good boys who can be equipped with spear arrays. Now, I, Bertrand, on behalf of everyone in our Bergerac Bandit Group, would like to surrender to you unconditionally, please You have mercy and we are willing to accept any punishment."

Ryan came out from behind the table, he reached out to help Bertrand up, and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that you would bring your people here the day after I promulgated the German decree. It was my poor hospitality that made you suffer." gone."

"No, no, no! Your Excellency, please don't say that. It is our honor to surrender to you. All of us in the Bergerac bandit group thank you for your tolerance and mercy." The bandit leader Bertrand knelt down and kowtowed: "We chose to become robbers out of helplessness. The Earl is willing to give us this chance to reform. We sincerely thank you."

"" Seeing Bertrand kneeling and kowtowing, Ryan's expression was a little speechless. He still underestimated people's desire for the so-called "return to the right path" in a world with gods. No one wants to be an unbeliever. The soul becomes the fertilizer of chaos, and most of the people who become robbers are forced to do this because they can't survive.

Ryan originally thought this way. After the decree was issued, the robbers were still hesitating. He sent an envoy with his decree to find the robbers: The Earl asked me to bring you a message, as long as you can surrender

This is only the fifth day since the decree was issued, not to mention the bandits in his counties, even the bandits from other duchies have trekked over mountains and rivers and surrendered to him!

This is the role of prestige, and after years of accumulation, the prestige that Ryan painstakingly cultivated finally played its role.

"Then I will call you"

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