Path of light

Chapter 127 128. Trial 2

When the slave traders, carrying heavy shackles, filed into the circular trial platform below the trial hall, the shackles made a crisp clattering sound as they were dragged on the ground.

A total of thirteen crew members were tied together by heavy chains. This chain not only had neck collars, but also had a length of chain hanging to the ground, locking the crew members' hands and feet tightly.

The shackles were so heavy that they almost bent the waist of all sailors.

Only the warrior leader walking at the front kept his body upright. Although his clothes were stained with blood, his hair was messy, and his face was full of bruises, his steps were extremely firm, and every step he took , and his sharp eyes will look towards the surrounding steps.

The powerful aura caused the trial center to suddenly become silent...

His body was filled with an aura of blood and violence.

The crew members behind them all looked fierce, but their clothes were stained with blood and they walked slowly. They seemed to be seriously injured, like old dogs being dragged to the execution ground. Tails restrained his breath, but looked around with the most vicious eyes.

There are many slave traders pointing fingers at the Silver Moon elves around them.

That old elf was the presiding judge of the Castletown City Council of Elders. At this time, the tree vine holding up the old elf was like an octopus tentacle, and he could move freely in the court holding the cane basket.

The old elves controlled the scene in the trial house, and in the uppermost area of ​​the trial house, a group of Silver Moon elves wearing various costumes came in one after another. They all wore badges composed of bows, arrows and swords on their chests.

Claire leaned into Roy's ear and told him that these people were from the arbitration committee.

The presiding judge held the rattan basket with both hands and said loudly to everyone in the trial court:

"These criminals on the stage are the captain, the first mate, the second mate, and the ten thugs who landed on the Elf Continent to rob young elves... As the presiding judge of this trial, I want to hear what the prosecutor has to say. What does the Elf Academy have to say?”

After an impassioned speech, the presiding judge turned his attention to the teachers at the Elf Academy at the bottom.

One of the teachers stood up, looked up and looked around, and then said:

"I am the teaching director of Elf College and am responsible for arranging outdoor practical classes for freshmen this semester. According to past practice, our college arranged outdoor practical classes in the Malaga jungle. After many years of experience in holding outdoor practical classes, Malaga There is absolutely no threat from wild animals in the Malaga Jungle. The biggest threat to the new elves in the Malaga Jungle is the snakes, ants, poisonous insects in the jungle, and the changeable and harsh environment and climate in the jungle. However, this time we met all the An unprecedented problem.”

"The check-in point located in the northwest corner of the jungle was besieged by a group of slave traders, and our instructor stationed at the check-in point was killed by these slave traders on the spot. The freshmen who rushed to the check-in point to complete the course tasks failed to survive this group of slave traders. A total of seventeen college freshmen were robbed by the devil's hands."

"If their case hadn't been exposed midway, I think they would have captured more young elves than this. So I think the mistakes this group of slave traders committed on the elven continent are unforgivable, and I made an application to the Council of Elders. , these slave traders must be severely sentenced and all their property confiscated. I hope that they will be thrown into the mines where they will never see the light of day. The sentence will be death and they will not appear in the sun."

The dean spoke eloquently, and his voice rose in the last sentence, exaggerating the emotions in his heart to the extreme.

After he said this, he immediately stirred up all the elves in the trial place to raise their right hands and shouted angrily at the group of slave traders on the trial stage:

"Sentence them severely..."

"Heavy sentence...heavy sentence...heavy sentence!"

The presiding judge waited for everyone to vent their anger and the surrounding voices to recover, then raised his hands to signal everyone to be quiet.

Shuteng supported the chief judge and looked around the courtroom before everyone became quiet.

The old elf judge said again:

"The college's accusers have made their demands clear, so... the military representatives of the Silver Pegasus Elf Legion are invited to accuse these elves of their crimes."

One of the three Elf military representatives sitting next to the Elf Academy teachers immediately stood up. He was wearing a straight silver armor and said to everyone:

"I am the military representative appointed by the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion. These invaders landed quietly from the northern coastline of Castletown. They first poached at the Royal Hunting Ground of Ophelia. Various rare species in the Royal Hunting Ground were poached. Warcraft failed to satisfy the inflated desires of this group of invaders, and they then went into the Malaga jungle to rob young elves. For the evil deeds they committed, the military fully agreed with the request of the Elf Academy accusers and sent them directly to prison. Banished to the never-ending mines of death.”

Roy and Claire were chasing in the bottom row. They were closest to the group of slave traders and had the clearest view.

He counted from beginning to end, but could not see the Benjamin magician.

These crew members were beaten with bruises all over their bodies, and each of them had disheveled hair. It was difficult to identify them just from their appearance.

Roy could only recognize that the leader who led a group of sailors ashore to stay in a hotel was the captain of the Kumquat.

Roy whispered secretly to Claire:

"There seems to be one missing. I remember that the person who communicated with me was a magician named Benjamin, but now he is not among the prisoners being judged."

Claire's eyes widened. He thought that all the slave traders had been caught, but now it seemed that was not the case.

"Could he have escaped?" Claire responded in a low voice.

"It should be!" Roy said with some distress.

He was a magician when he ran away!

At this time, Claire, who was sitting aside, had just reacted, stared at Roy and asked:

"You mean there was a magician among the escaped slave traders?"

"Um!"

Roy nodded in admission.

Claire scratched her head and said distressedly: "That's really troublesome. We both have to be careful about the magician taking revenge in the dark..."

…

After the old elf judge invited a group of victim elf student witnesses to state the crimes of this group of slave traders, he turned his attention to Claire and Roy.

First Claire made a statement, and then Roy:

"Witness Roy, stand up!"

The presiding judge's voice had an irresistible power. Roy stood up obediently and said:

"Dear Judge, I am the witness Roy."

The presiding judge focused on the major slave traders and asked Roy: "Roy, have you seen them?"

Roy quickly replied:

"I can only confirm that the captain was sitting under the tree at the check-in point, waiting for our elf team to fall into the trap. It happened to be morning. The jungle was filled with thick fog in the morning, and the faces of other personnel could not be seen clearly. .”

The presiding judge nodded and asked Roy again:

"Roy, do you have anything else to say?"

If not, we have to continue questioning the next witness. There are more than 20 witnesses coming to the trial this time, and the interrogation process is also quite long.

Roy immediately raised his head and said:

"Lord Judge, their crimes don't stop there. In addition to robbing young elves in the Malaga jungle, the Kumquat docked at Castletown Port two months ago. It was this captain who He took the slavers off the ship and killed the half-blood elf Jefferson in the tavern at the end of Brown Street."

As soon as Roy said these words, there was another commotion all around.

Many people have known about this for a long time, so their voices are not very strong.

Roy waited for the surroundings to quiet down before saying:

"Also, I have a question for the captain."

The vine basket with the old elf floating in it floated in front of Roy. Seeing Roy's clear eyes, the presiding judge nodded in agreement: "Okay!"

Roy cast his gaze on the warrior leader. When he looked over with cold eyes, Roy said:

"Your Excellency, Captain, last time you guys killed the half-blood elf Jefferson after they docked at Castletown Port, do you still remember?"

There was an elf next to him who translated Roy's Elvish language into Imperial language...

The warrior leader narrowed his eyes and looked at Roy seriously. He seemed to realize something in his heart.

He looked at Roy coldly for a while before speaking a string of Imperial language that Roy could not understand.

The elf quickly translated his words.

"I can only say I'm sorry for Jefferson's death. In fact, he stabbed one of our comrades first, and we were completely out of self-protection at the time."

Surrounded by all the elves, the warrior leader was actually so organized when he spoke...

It was as if there was no fear at all in him.

"Then I have another question. I hope you can answer it truthfully. I think your answer will not affect your sentence, so I am just here to seek the truth." Roy said.

After watching the elf translator translate this sentence, he quickly said:

"After you killed the half-blood elf Jefferson, did you kill another half-blood elf named Peleus in the lower city?"

This time the warrior leader pondered again for a while, and then said with great certainty:

"No! After we accidentally killed Jefferson, we returned to the Kumquat and left Castletown Harbor not long after."

"Your Majesty, I have no other questions."

Roy got the answer. He had an intuition that what the warrior leader said should be the truth...

…

After some witnesses' statements, the trial finally came to an end. Everyone was whispering among themselves, and the elves on the arbitration committee.

The old elf chief judge raised a golden hammer and announced to everyone in the trial hall:

"Then... Next, I announce that through the unanimous opinion of the arbitration committee members of the trial court, all the crew members of the Kumquat are sentenced to two hundred years in prison. The prison for serving is Parram Island Prison, the captain of the Kumquat, and Thirteen The prison terms of the major slave traders were increased by one hundred years, and they were sent to serve their sentences at the Zijin Mining Prison in Innohouse City in the Evernight Forest."

After saying that, the golden hammer fell hard on the table...