Chapter 52 Unification of the Principality
When Baron Sethus saw Vic being torn to pieces, he knew that he was finished and had lost the deterrence of the wizard, his subordinates looked at the knights who had just been loyal to him for a long time, and in Sethus's eyes, they felt that they would betray them at any time.
Facts proved that Baron Setos's conjecture was not wrong. Soon his knights all defected to Count Kratos and controlled his whereabouts. Setos felt that his dream of being a great master had come to an end. Now he just wanted to survive, return to his former territory, and be a real baron.
"Hahaha, isn't this Baron Setos nicknamed Hand of God? Why do you feel so bad?" Kratos took his knight into the enemy's camp and smiled happily when he saw the dejected Baron.
Kratos never dreamed that victory would come so quickly. After all, he was drinking in his castle last week, urging his lords to lead troops to protect his territory, and today he has stood in front of the enemy as a victor.
"I am willing to redeem myself with 50,000 gold coins and southern territory, and vow not to invade here." Baron Setos offered Kratos a considerable amount of wealth to protect his life. The lords around him were amazed, which shows how great a temptation this was.
Kratos was also hesitant when he looked at the Baron's head. In fact, he had a farther gaze. As the culprit who disrupted the entire old principality, his head represented a large amount of reputation. With the addition of himself as the hero who ended him, he had the confidence to recruit his power and continue to conquer the land backwards.
In the end, the desire for power overcame the desire for money. Earl Kratos slowly placed his hand on the grip of his sword and prepared to take the head.
"You have to think clearly that this wizard is just a student of my brother. When my powerful wizard brother comes over, you all have to be buried with me! Everyone in the entire kingdom!" Baron Sethus saw the other party put his hand on the hilt of the sword, and felt that things were wrong. He yelled at the knights watching him in his greatest voice. Since the rules of the nobles were not working, he had to take out his last card to threaten.
He was indeed unwilling to give up. He hoped for the help of the wizard brothers again, but the premise was that he wanted to survive this time.
Earl Kratos hesitated. The wizard left him too many indelible impressions these days. The invincible image has taken root in the earl's heart. Colin will leave, but he will not. The wizard will come to take revenge sooner or later. He thought for a long time and finally chose to give up the execution and let go of the hilt of the sword.
"Kill him, Kratos." At this time, Colin walked in, and he also heard Setos' threat. For Colin, since he killed Vic, he had already formed a grudge with the Ice Cliff. Since this was the case, he naturally was not afraid of doing things.
"He will definitely avenge you when he can contact the wizard. He will ask the wizard to make you into ice sculptures to show those who resist him, but you are still hoping to spare his life?" Colin talked about the consequences of letting him go back. Everyone was afraid of Colin, and the unknown wizard, and hesitated.
Colin was a little dissatisfied with the group of wastes, and felt that he was a waste of talk and was ready to waste time. He did it himself. Suddenly, Count Kratos drew out his long sword, cut off the baron's head with one sword, walked out of the camp to look at the soldiers, held his head in his hand, shouted loudly: "Setos, the leader of the southern rebels, has been killed by me, the great Count Kratos Rick."
After a brief calm, warm cheers erupted in the barracks. The soldiers did not know which nobles had traded. They only knew that the enemy's head was killed and the war was won. When the knights saw that the overall situation was settled, they had to follow the count's route helplessly.
Colin nodded with satisfaction, but this time he came not just for this matter, but to complete his own tasks, and collected ten body-forging techniques. It can be said that those with body-forging techniques are not necessarily knights, but powerful knights definitely have body-forging techniques. This time there are dozens of knights here. Isn’t it too sorry for Colin if he doesn’t come and blackmail him.
"Ahem, I understand everyone's happy mood very much. Here I have better news to tell everyone that in order to prevent the wizard's revenge, I am willing to protect everyone." Colin restored the friendly Lord Colin and said to everyone.
The knights also showed gratitude and said, "I knew that Lord Colin would not leave us."
"Mr. Colin will definitely become the greatest wizard, thank you so much."
But before he finished speaking, Colin added: "But there is a word circulating among the wizards, equivalent exchange. Since I provide you with shelter, you will give me something, so I decided to protect only those families who have handed over the body-forging method."
After listening to Colin's request, most of the knights did not cooperate with Colin. Some of them really didn't, but some did not want to hand over it. They felt that they were just small people in this war and would not be subject to subsequent revenge.
But they were wrong. The mistake was that Colin imagined it was too friendly. After Colin asked for it, they only collected four body-forging techniques, and they were basically handed over by the knights under Count Kratos, such as the Bronze Knights Swen family.
This is far from ten that Colin needs. Colin called Kratos and instructed: "I give you the right to start a war. I want you to regard those who have not handed over the body-forging method as enemies. To destroy them, bring me body-forging method. It depends on your own if you can expand before the wizards of the academy."
"As for orders, Lord Colin." Earl Kratos lowered his head to Colin, but the trembling body could not conceal his excitement.
Nearly half a year has passed before the arrival of the academy wizard. In this six months, the wizard Colin supports himself. He will be an invincible existence in this war-torn principality, and no one dares to resist him.
As soon as Kratos left Colin's room, he summoned the Bronze Knight Swen to discuss the plan of invasion.
The next day, he personally led a team to raid a lord who originally defected to his own lord. It was not a secret that his family had body-forging techniques, but he refused Colin's protection, so he would have to withstand the invasion of war.
Although this war is considered to be from Colin, it is not important, because Colin is the master here.
Under the iron hoof of the count's army, he knelt at Kratos' feet and cried to hand over the body-forging method to His Excellency Colin, but Kratos ignored him at all, and then occupied his land without hesitation.
The next day, Kratos sent Colin a new body-forging method and reported to Colin: "This guy refused to hand over the body-forging method, so I had to use some tough methods."
"I know." Colin didn't care about this, or for the sake of peace of this land, pain was always inevitable. Colin was helping the people on this land and collecting something for himself.
Chapter completed!