Another Life: Elf Archer

Tristan's guess was correct.

Lasso drove his strange-looking mechanical goblin and brought him there. There was the Ruby Archduke and his family of seven:

Parents, wife, three daughters and a newborn son.

All of this was used to blackmail Grand Duke Ruby as a bargaining chip.

Unfortunately, Tristan still underestimated how cruel and shameless Paiso was.

The clumsy mechanical monster climbed up the golden stairs covered with red waves, rumbled to the entrance of the auditorium, put the hostage in the claws on the ground and pushed it, allowing other members of the mercenary group to place their knives and axes on the family. It's on the neck.

Ruby Grand Duke's family was very calm. Except for the baby, the remaining three girls did not cry or make noises during the whole journey. At this moment, they did not seem to notice the sharp knife beside their necks. They stood there and slowly adjusted the wrinkles on their skirts. , straightening the chest is the family crest.

Ruby Grand Duke's wife is not considered beautiful. Now there are noble ladies lying in the auditorium. Any of them have more beautiful faces than hers, but they are not as calm and dignified as hers.

She walked to the mechanical goblin, calmly snatched her youngest son from a mercenary, held him in her arms, lowered her head and softly comforted him lovingly, and soon stopped her hoarse crying.

Grand Duke Ruby was still sitting on the throne. Seeing this scene, he smiled lightly.

"Sure enough, there is a noble Ruby family. This kind of generous sacrifice is really admirable."

Paiso applauded exaggeratedly, shook his head and stood up.

"It's just that if you are the only one left in the end, is there any point in your persistence now?" Paiso asked worriedly.

Grand Duke Ruby smiled sarcastically:

"I wonder if people like you understand the meaning of family honor and dignity."

"Ah," Paiso suddenly realized, "Dignity, honor, I understand, I understand."

Just looking at the family statues outside the Ruby Palace, you can tell that the Ruby Grand Duke's family values ​​​​honor.

The Ruby Archduke's eyes darkened, he tightened his cane, and a crimson arc-shaped light blade flew out like lightning, striking straight at his parents, wife, and children.

Paisuo seemed to be prepared early. The members of the mercenary group ducked and lined up neatly, some holding shields or waving giant axes and heavy swords to block the red light.

After looking at the few members who were shaken out of a mouthful of blood, Paiso nodded with satisfaction, and looked at the Ruby Archduke with a look that was even more pitiful than his own:

"Did you never expect that the Grand Duke would be so ruthless that he would kill his entire family?"

Grand Duke Ruby squeezed the cane tightly again, veins popped out and his knuckles turned white.

"But don't worry, I won't be so cruel."

Paiso turned around, patted the head of one of the little girls with pity, poked the family crest on her chest with a finger, and smiled gently:

"This thing is very important and cannot be tarnished casually."

Before he finished speaking, he smiled slightly and waved his hand gently:

"Bring it up."

Tristan hid beside the door frame, looked around, and found that the big iron weight next to him, which looked like a mechanical goblin, seemed to be moving. Through its four mechanical claws hanging on the ground, there were gaps, and there were five or six ragged dwarves. They were being pushed here like cattle and sheep.

tear-

Tristan quickly turned his head to look, then his pupils shrank and he looked away awkwardly.

"Your family's crest seems quite complicated."

Paiso held the ornamental badge in his hand and scratched the skin of the girl in front of him with his fingertips. He never really touched it, but it also caused a tremor that was visible to the naked eye.

Grand Duke Ruby is the eldest daughter. She is being set up by two dwarf warriors, one on the left and the other on the right. The clothes on her back are torn apart, and her white skin is like a piece of pure white drawing paper.

The painting method of this noble family's emblem was too complicated. Paiso sighed and gave up trying. He took out the dagger from his boot and stabbed it randomly on the drawing paper. At least he painted the important symbol of the Ruby family. come out.

"Not bad," Paiso looked at the painting in front of him with blood and looked at the next drawing paper with satisfaction, "Practice makes perfect, maybe it will be perfect by the seventh drawing."

Biting her lip and trembling all over, the eldest daughter suddenly broke free from the restraint, turned around and pounced on Paiso, trying to snatch the dagger from his hand.

Paiso raised his foot and kicked the frail noble lady away. She fell into the arms of the six poor people dressed as dwarves who had just entered the auditorium.

"I've rewarded you. Remember to turn her over and play with her from behind. Don't waste the family honor she carries."

Paiso blinked at the miners who were captured, and walked towards the next noble lady with a dagger.

There are definitely vulnerable groups for NPC players in the game, and there is a lack of legal constraints in modern civilized society, so it is easy for various vicious events that induce human nature to be ugly.

Intimacy between players requires the consent of both parties, and the same is true between players and NPCs. Forcible violence will lead to "natural punishment."

In short, players can beat, scold, injure, and kill NPCs. They can even engage in slave trading and torture without violating the game's background settings, but they cannot humiliate them.

Generally speaking, players will not have such thoughts about NPCs. After all, everyone has civilized people, and the laws of all races and countries in the game are still in force. Governments, prisons, wanted orders, and criminal announcements all have restrictive measures.

In addition to the natural punishment for attempted crimes, portraits, names, races, specific crimes, and affiliations will be disclosed in the mercenary union and various taverns and hotels. This measure is extremely lethal, and it was revealed earlier in the game. People tried the law by themselves, and then gradually became less and less.

Less does not mean that there is none. Generally speaking, some people have different personalities and can always find some loopholes to exploit.

For example, Paiso's method of only hurting but not touching is the solution.

He didn't even take a look at the frontal skin of this aristocratic lady. He could only concentrate on creating creations on her back. The wounds were not deep. Even if there was a true judicial judgment, they were only minor injuries.

Those dwarf miners who were in a daze were not under his control. What they did or didn't do had nothing to do with him.

If you do something, the dwarves are naturally governed by laws. If you don't do anything...

"Speaking of which, you miners are also pitiful. You have worked for the Ruby family for generations. You don't have enough food or sleep. Now that the resources are in crisis, you have to be locked up in the mine and starve to death."

Paiso sighed, wiped the blood-stained dagger on the skirt of the ruby ​​​​duke's second daughter, and looked at the freshly painted blood-red pattern for a while.

"However, the Grand Duke is also considerate. He is afraid that you will be too stressed and has nowhere to vent, and he is afraid that you will have no entertainment activities, so he has gathered many women and put them in the cloak alley for everyone's entertainment."

"Well, by the way," Paiso used a dagger to cut open the fabric on the younger daughter's back. "It just so happens that we can recover part of the wages paid to you and recycle them."

"Children are born in Clothes Lane, the men are raised to be workers, and the women are raised for entertainment. Anyway, they only need to be raised until they are ten years old to be used. Put it this way..."

Paiso tilted his head, looked at the miners, glanced over their clenched fists, and said with a smile:

"Maybe you guys have hugged me as a daughter or mother?"

"Oh, greatness is mother's love, greatness is father's love~"

Paiso sighed quietly, raised his foot, and kicked the little girl in front of him, who was no more than ten years old, into the arms of the miners. He turned around and looked at the wife of the Ruby Archduke with a gentle smile:

"Does it hurt?"

Behind him, there was the sound of clothes being torn, and some were being muffled and crying.

"Comrades, don't forget to show the sign that someone is a noble, and show Grand Duke Ruby what an honor this is."

Paiso tilted his head slightly and shouted loudly.

There was a muffled sound as the body hit the ground. The members of the mercenary group turned their backs in unison, winking at each other with red faces, and secretly looked at the Ruby Archduke with split-eyed eyes.

The red light of anger filled the auditorium, and all of them were blocked by the mercenaries. The mechanical goblin Lasso had already come in, with two thick claws spread out, holding up a magic light shield, which just happened to protect him. It's Paiso, the eldest brother.

"Next," Paiso walked around the Grand Duchess and stopped in front of the two old people, "I hope you two will not be stingy and give our lovely miner brothers more maternal and paternal love."

The two old men smiled contemptuously. The old lady raised her hand gracefully, took off two brooches from the side of her triangle bra, and handed one to her husband.

The pin was sharp and made two deep bloody marks on the necks of the two old men.

Seeing the old couple lying on the ground exhausted and unwilling to rest in peace, Paiso stood in awe:

"It's amazing. I didn't expect the two of them to go to this extent for the sake of family honor."

Facing the last light in their eyes, he bent down and bowed, respectfully saying:

"Don't worry, you two. When you two die, I will help you take off your clothes, wrap the two holy bodies in the noble ruby ​​family flag, and send them outside the city for everyone to watch and worship."

It didn't matter whether Grand Duke Ruby's family was alive or dead. He never intended to use the lives of these people as a threat, but rather to use the family honor represented by these people as a bargaining chip.

If you are alive, you may be able to make a comeback and wash away your humiliation. But if you are dead, you can only be at the mercy of others and can no longer be vindicated.

These two old guys were the choice, playing into Paisuo's favour.

"Stop it..."

The Ruby Archduke fell back slumped, slumped in the throne, like a gradually drying up balloon. The extremely luxurious cane slipped from his fingertips and fell to the ground with a clang.

Paiso immediately raised his right hand, and the mechanical goblin waved its claws and held down the dwarf miners who were abusing them.

"It would have been better if it had been like this," Paiso secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that this person would rather die than surrender. "You should know what I want."

"know."

Grand Duke Ruby's eyes fell on the cane on the ground. He raised his head and revealed a gentle sneer:

"If it hadn't been like this, I would have been killed by you."

It was obvious that Paiso only knew that the cane in his hand was important, and that another secret existed, but he didn't know what it was, so he did the scene just now to force him to submit.

"Then I hope you can cooperate."

Paiso approached the throne step by step and looked at the expressionless Grand Duke warily.

"My conditions." Ruby spoke openly.

"No problem." Paiso agreed readily.

"I want your life."

Paiso's smiling face made the Grand Duke very dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do.

"no problem."

Paiso's smile remained unchanged and he didn't take this matter to heart at all. His greedy eyes only stared at the ruby ​​cane that was getting closer and closer.

Grand Duke Ruby's lips moved, and after a while, he closed his eyes:

"If you want to know it's a secret, just--"

boom--!

Paisuo hurriedly protected his head and face, but his forehead was smashed by fragments of rocks suddenly exploded. He raised his hand and touched it, and there was greasy, warm and blood all over his hand.

"what do you have--"

Behind him came the roar of the brothers in the mercenary group, which suddenly stopped the next moment and turned into a clanging sound of metal, stone and iron.

Paiso raised his head and only caught a cluster of arrows disappearing in the corner of his eye. His eyes were already firmly attracted by the scene in front of him.

The Ruby Grand Duke's throne had been blown to pieces, revealing a shabby secret door. Through the gap in the secret door, one could see that there seemed to be a room full of gears underneath.

Next to the throne, the ruby ​​​​Justice was lowered from the air. He was stunned and looked at the uninvited guest in front of him.

——It is true that he once expelled an uninvited guest.

"Although I think none of you are good people," Nian Nian grabbed the cane, looked at it, and threw it to him, "it would be more fun to save you."

"what are you going to do?"

Two voices sounded at the same time. Nian Nian looked at Paisuo and then at Ruby Grand Duke, and said uncertainly:

"Preserve justice and peace?"