Chapter 447 The City Gate Is on Fire

A drunk man staggered out of the tavern, but was accidentally pushed to the ground by people coming and going.

First, a few well-meaning people who noticed the fallen person rushed over like wolves, and more and more people who noticed the fallen person came one after another.

The guards hadn't arrived yet, but thanks to these kind-hearted people, those who fell on the ground were not trampled to death.

The patrolling guards quickly noticed the chaos here. Lin Qi looked at the crowd dispersing and the naked drunkards on the ground, and he seemed to understand the appearance of the civilized world.

He had nothing left except the underwear that he couldn't take off.

At least he wasn't thrown directly into the sewer. If Middenheim had a drainage system, it seemed like it would be. Thinking about it, the civilized world wouldn't be too bad.

God knows how Sorian became so prosperous in the local dwarf community. It was probably due to the power of money.

It was already afternoon when Lin Qi slowly wandered to the central square. Perhaps after eating and drinking, everyone had nowhere to vent their energy. Lin Qi looked down from a high position and saw the demonstrators gathering to cause trouble in the streets in the lowlands.

In fact, there are troublemakers everywhere, and some of them are very formal followers-out-and-out Verena believers, although their churches may not be willing to admit them in shame.

The most interesting thing is the reaction of the bureaucrats. They seem to be troubled by another thing, and even the priority of quelling the riots has been lowered. One of the Lords of Law, Heinlis, the minister of the Elector's Palace, has disappeared.

Along with the Law Lord, members of many committees in Middenheim also disappeared, which made the remaining officials quite confused. Lynch knew why the troublemakers in the morning were rampant for a while.

It stands to reason that this kind of protest march should have been dispersed at the first opportunity. Middenheim is not an open system, and the nobles still have important power.

Bureaucrats now seem more concerned with filling gaps than suppressing chaos.

Based on what they discussed, Lynch guessed that the bureaucrats had been missing for days, and it was only recently that other officials determined that the missing people were not coming back and that they had indeed suffered an accident.

Lynch hoped to get an accurate time and determined an interesting truth after repeated eavesdropping.

The missing bureaucrat can be presumed to have disappeared from Middenheim on the day of chaos in Duncanwald Forest.

Of course, you can't throw dirty water on them casually. It will take more than a few hours to get to the scene of the incident from Middenheim.

There was probably another reason, and Lynch no longer cared about the specifics.

As long as it has nothing to do with demons, they can make trouble no matter what they want.

God knows how the riot turned into a mutiny. Perhaps the guards who enforced the law were too violent. In short, there was blood when they dispersed.

What started as a verbal protest suddenly turned into a full-scale resistance. Citizens and passers-by picked up tables, chairs, stones, and sticks and started fighting with the guards.

The outnumbered guards were beaten back by the mob. In a very ridiculous situation, they were defeated by a group of rioters who used tables as shields and wooden sticks as swords.

Lin Qi had just been stunned for a moment when the chaos spread from a street to the outer ring, then up the hillside, and quickly spread to the upper commercial blocks.

Perhaps it was not too much for those temple knights to order a charge against the citizens at this time. Lynch was not sure if this was in compliance with the rules, but they did so anyway.

Before the knights, who were wrapped in heavy armor, rushed into the crowd, the mob was frightened by the resounding horseshoes. The riot might have ended at this time, but the knights who suppressed the riot did not stop. Lynch thought that They were just threatening, but they really ran into the crowd.

The first dead person appeared, and one after another the dead and wounded appeared on the road where the horses were galloping.

What's worse is that there seems to be a conflict among the knights. Some of the white wolf knights who were driving away the mob decisively turned their horses around after discovering the atrocities of their colleagues and asked them for an explanation.

It is conceivable that the soldier who was red-eyed by the killing had no explanation.

The knight who took the lead in questioning his colleagues was pierced by a hidden arrow shot from an unknown place. Lynch saw the crossbow taken out by a citizen.

The conflict reached its peak in an instant. Some of the knights understood the actions of their colleagues out of anger. The remaining hesitant little nobles mourned the death of their companions and did not continue to question the riot. They allowed the soldiers and citizens to fight each other. Facing each other.

It is conceivable that many soldiers decisively changed their focus after discovering that there were real casualties. Apart from a few professional soldiers, many more people still had concerns in the city, and their families were also citizens.

The officials left by the Elector in Middenheim were strangely indifferent to this, or in other words, they were unable to pay more attention to anything else.

Some mages living in seclusion in Middenheim defected in public, and the first magic appeared in the sky. The subsequent counter-casting and spell-fighting triggered a series of chain reactions.

The aliens in the city were just as dumbfounded as Lynch. The halflings were huddled at the corner and behind the collapsed carriage. The elves wisely avoided all the crowds and relied on their strong skills to avoid trouble on the roof.

The gathering of dwarves was forced to be suspended, and Lynch found that Thorian and his kin had all gone to the Temple of the White Wolf or the palace of the elector, apparently seeking the advice of the local rulers.

The rioting citizens were as martial and virtuous as Lynch had guessed. They used carriages and wooden frames to build temporary bunkers, and used a series of obstacles to block the knights' charge.

But the dismounted knight was also a well-trained expert, and the citizens were just resisting with crossbows and spears.

An even more unexpected thing happened. A hunter stood out from a street that was about to be broken through by knights. He was only wearing a simple leather jacket. After discovering that arrows could not penetrate the plate armor, he decisively took out the arrow and used it to smash it into pieces. The hammer made of animal bones could beat a well-equipped knight in a decent manner.

More "hermits" appeared one after another and stopped the knights from suppressing the mob.

Before the riots, Lynch had no idea that there were so many masters hiding in this city.

City hall officials belatedly used loudspeakers to call for peace, in vain asking both sides to stop the bloodshed and sit down for a talk.

Obviously, no one can listen to the truth at this time, and fists are their only reason.

Even the dwarves are not easy to intervene, although they have been Middenheim's allies since ancient times. Is it asking them to defeat the local king, or is it asking them to massacre the people of Middenheim?

Far-sighted mages tried to use magic to suppress the chaos, but their attempts to mobilize the wind of light magic were mistaken by other spellcasters as hostile mages accumulating magic power, and the colorful magic light just stagnated in the sky.