Chapter 882 I Have the Final Say
For the people of the Kingdom of Paletia, it was a day that they will remember deeply.
Amid the flying petals and the sound of bells, the fully armed Paletia army and adventurers walked out of the gate of the royal city under the cheers of the people and began to march towards the Northland Fortress.
Looking at the army going away, everyone couldn't help but pray, praying that they could retake the Northland and make the Kingdom of Paletia a peaceful world again...
Well, fortunately, those people who were cheering excitedly on both sides of the street didn't know that there was already a big fuss in the military camp.
"What did you say?!"
The angry roars of the nobles came one after another, and Duanmu Huai just stood there, looking at them lightly, and then waved his hand.
"Don't understand what people say? I say it again, how we act, we will make our own decisions, and no one has the power to order us to act!"
Yes, this is the reason why the atmosphere is tense at the moment. At the first military meeting held by the coalition army, Duanmu Huai directly stated in front of everyone, "We don't obey anyone's command, we will act independently according to the situation on the battlefield."
And it was this sentence that made all the nobles present explode.
After all, Duanmu Huai and Enisfia were the only two forces that could resist the demons and monsters in the air. Everyone wanted to get their protection. Originally, the nobles wanted to seize the command of this team during this military meeting, but Duanmu Huai ignored them and rejected them all without saying a word!
"You mean, you don't even listen to the orders of His Highness Algard?"
"Of course."
Looking at the blond young man sitting in the middle and silent, Duanmu Huai snorted.
"I have said that I am cooperating on behalf of the Tribunal, but cooperation is cooperation, and the Tribunal is not your subordinates. We have the power to make decisions independently. I remember that King Orfen should have told you this, so how the Tribunal should act is the Tribunal's own business and has nothing to do with you."
"Then what about Her Highness Enisfia?! She is the princess of our Kingdom of Paletia!"
Hehe, you didn't take Enisfia seriously before, but now you think of treating her as a princess?
"So what? Enisfia is under my jurisdiction and is under my orders. This is a military operation. No one may disobey orders. It's that simple."
"You, what qualifications do you have to make such a decision?"
Just because I am a noble air force, you four-class horses are nothing!
Duanmu Huai complained in his heart, looking expressionlessly at the red-haired noble youth who dared to protest against him, and sneered disdainfully.
And this sneer seemed to anger the red-haired noble.
"Answer me, you barbarian, I don't know what kind of messy organization is the Tribunal, but we are representatives sent by the Ministry of Magic, you are so rude............!"
However, before the red-haired noble finished speaking, Duanmu Huai reached out his hand, grabbed his neck, and lifted him up directly.
"I don't care about the Kingdom of Paletia or the Ministry of Magic, you all listen to me."
Duanmu Huai exerted force with his right hand, and the red-haired youth screamed, and at the same time he looked around coldly.
"The Tribunal has only one goal, which is to protect humanity at all costs and eliminate all existence that tries to destroy humanity. The reason why I choose to join forces with you is that I think it will be relatively quick to achieve my goal. But if you are stupid enough to dare to challenge the authority of the Tribunal, I don't mind killing you all, and then I will go and deal with those lowly heretics alone."
Speaking of this, Duanmu Huai opened his mouth, and white mist sprayed out from the corners of his mouth like a beast breathing. And he just stared at the nobles in front of him without any expression.
"So, my patience is limited, understand?"
An incomparable terrifying pressure erupted from Duanmu Huai's body. At this moment, all the nobles present suddenly changed their faces. Their pride, their dignity, their status---everything they had was as fragile as glass and completely shattered in the face of this pressure that almost destroyed everything. For a moment, everyone was sweating profusely and couldn't speak.
"Quick, let me go!"
The red-haired young man who was caught by Duanmu Huai at this moment was struggling desperately, trying to break free from Duanmu Huai's restraints. As the victim closest to Duanmu Huai, he instinctively felt the extreme fear at this moment. He twisted his body desperately, struggling and twisting like a mouse caught by a cat.
"You, you can't kill me, my father is the chief officer of the Ministry of Magic! If you kill me, you will be an enemy of the Shartos family! My father is the earl...! The Ministry of Magic is all our people... Do you understand! Let me go quickly, let me go!!"
The red-haired young man roared desperately, while Duanmu Huai just looked at him.
"So what?"
"You...you..."
Feeling the strong murderous intent coming from Duanmu Huai's words, the latter looked at Duanmu Huai in horror, and his originally decent expression had become extremely distorted at this moment.
"You are a demon, you must be a demon! Destroy him quickly! From his appearance, we can tell that he is not a human being at all, but a demon! He came here to destroy us! Hurry, hurry up, otherwise..."
As he spoke, the red-haired young man raised his hands tremblingly. Following his movements, several magic-condensed missiles appeared out of thin air and hit Duanmu Huai directly.
"Bang bang bang!!"
The missile shot out directly hit Duanmuhuai's face, but it caressed Duanmuhuai's face like air, not even causing Duanmuhuai to lose a hair.
Oh, he had no hair left to lose.
"Monster! Damn monster! Monster----!"
Seeing this scene, the red-haired young man screamed. However, the next moment, Duanmu Huai suddenly twisted his right hand and forcefully tore the red-haired young man's head off his neck! The shouts of the red-haired young man were also interrupted, and then Duanmuhuai threw it with his right hand, and saw the red-haired young man's head being thrown on the table.
At this moment, the red-haired young man's eyes were still wide open, his face was ferocious, his mouth was wide open, and his tongue was hanging out - but he could no longer make any sound.
"Alas-----!"
Seeing this scene, the others turned pale and stepped back one after another, looking at Duanmu Huai in horror. They didn't expect that Duanmu Huai was so fierce, killing him directly in front of so many people in full view of the public. The son of the head of the Ministry of Magic is missing!
Is he crazy?
"Now, who else is against it? You can stand up."
As Duanmuhuai spoke, he glanced around. Wherever he could see, those noble heirs who had been shouting happily before were now so frightened that they hurriedly dodge back. They were joking, the other party really dared to kill people. ah!
"snort."
After looking around to make sure that no second idiot dared to stand up, Duanmu Huai threw away the headless body, then turned and walked out of the tent. Others stared blankly at the headless corpse, not daring to breathe a sigh of relief.
Duanmuhuai didn't care what those idiots were going to do next. He just returned to the camp and found Agnesphia.
"The matter has been resolved. From now on, no one has the right to dare to direct our actions unless there is my order, so you just have to listen to me."
"So simple?"
Hearing Duanmuhuai's announcement, not only Anisphia was shocked, but even Tierti looked at him in surprise.
"How could those guys pass up this opportunity? What on earth did you say to them?"
"Oh, actually I didn't say anything."
Duanmuhuai stretched out his hand, took the towel handed by Ojis, and wiped the blood on his fingernails.
"I told them that no one had the right to order us, who was in favor and who was against, and then I killed the one who danced the most happily in front of them."
"……………Why?"
Perhaps Duanmuhuai's answer was so unexpected that Anisphia and the others were stunned. As royals and nobles, what they were thinking about was whether Duanmuhuai had used some superb political means to persuade them. After killing those nobles, the result... was it so simple and crude?
"You killed... the opponents...?"
"That's right, there was a red-haired idiot who was making a fool of himself, saying that his father was the chief official of the Ministry of Magic and I couldn't kill him - just kidding, let alone him, it was his father who dared to stop him. Anyone who dares to hinder the Tribunal’s efforts to eradicate heretics will die without fail in front of me!”
"call……………"
Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, the girls had different expressions. Anisphia let out a sigh of relief with a complicated expression, perhaps because she was glad that Duanmuhuai didn't kill her younger brother. Tierti narrowed her eyes curiously and stared at Duanmuhuai, while Euphilia looked solemn.
"The situation is not good now. Count Chartos only has one son. Once he finds out about this, the consequences will be disastrous..."
"so what?"
Duanmuhuai stared at Euphilia.
"Listen, these are not important. On the battlefield, your identity, status, and power are meaningless. Do you know? Maybe when you are alive, you are some kind of Duke's daughter, but if you die, you will It’s just a simple corpse, everything you have is worthless and meaningless.”
When he said this, Duanmuhuai's voice suddenly dropped.
"The mission of the Tribunal is to eliminate all existences that try to destroy mankind. We will never allow the demons to destroy mankind, so any factor that dares to try to hinder the actions of the Tribunal must be eliminated. In order to maintain relations with them, it is foolish to obey Their orders will only hinder the actions of the Inquisition. In comparison, killing a mentally retarded nobleman who doesn't know what is called is obviously a more reasonable decision."
"Uh...is that so...?"
Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Euphilia's expression seemed quite complicated. Although she could understand Duanmu Huai's meaning, it was hard for Euphilia to say Duanmu Huai's method of solving the matter.
"I don't expect an innocent lady like you to understand such things."
Duanmuhuai didn't seem to care about Euphilia's opinion and just waved his hand.
"In a word, that's it. Other troops will not bother us anymore. When to dispatch and where to go, you just need to follow my orders."
After saying this, Duanmu Huai turned around and left with Ojis. It was not until his figure disappeared that the three girls in the tent let out a sigh of relief.
"Huh... I didn't expect that he was actually the son of Count Chartos, but it's no wonder..."
Enesphia didn't know the man, so she didn't feel much. She was even a little excited. You know, the Ministry of Magic has always been at odds with Enesphia. The two sides can be said to be incompatible. The Ministry of Magic couldn't stand Enesphia's magic and her eccentricity, and Enesphia didn't have a good face for the Ministry of Magic that always blamed her and even planned to pick her fruits.
At this moment, the Ministry of Magic was frustrated, but she was still very happy.
But on the other hand, Euphilia's expression was very complicated. She lowered her head and was silent for a moment, then raised her head and looked at Enesphia as if she had made a decision.
"Your Highness Enesphia!"
"Wow, what's the matter? Miss Euphilia?"
Hearing Euphilia's call, Enesphia was also startled and hurriedly came back to her senses.
However, what Euphilia said next surprised her even more.
"Please take me with you when you go to the battle!"
"Hey hey hey!?"
It must be said that Enisfia was shocked to hear Euphilia's request.
"Wait, that's a battlefield? Why do you want to go to that kind of place?"
"I am very unwilling to accept Mr. Duanmu's words... very unwilling, but he is right, I have never participated in a real battle, and I don't know what a life-and-death battle is like. So... I want to go to the battlefield in person and feel it!"
"Feel... But that's a war, Euphilia, fighting is not as simple as you think..."
"That's what I mean."
At this moment, Tilty also spoke with a bit of ridicule.
"You are just a young lady who has never been to the battlefield. Why are you going to the battlefield to cause trouble? You'd better stay behind the battlefield."
"But...didn't Her Highness Enesphia also participate in the battle? I heard that Her Highness Enesphia has always acted as an adventurer and even got the title of a high-level adventurer of the association..."
"That's what I said..."
Facing Euphilia's questioning, Enesphia didn't know what to say for a while. If you say that nobles can't do this, she is a bad example. But taking Euphilia to the battlefield - this is her brother's future wife, and the future princess. What if she accidentally gets into trouble?
In the end, Enesphia still came up with a solution.
"I don't have the final say. As you heard before, the judge has the highest command, so...you can ask the judge."
As she said this, Enesphia also wiped her sweat in her heart.
Finally, someone was found to take the blame.