Proof of the Sun King

The next afternoon, when it was still light, Raymond returned home, and he lied to the knight's butler that his mother was terminally ill, and was close to being anointed to prepare for the funeral.

Lord Cavalier's butler reluctantly agreed to Raymond's request for leave. Breton law stipulates in detail the exemption of serfs from labor, including sick leave.

The spirit of chivalry is still obeyed by the nobles... at least on the surface, where the law stipulates that the knights and nobles still maintain their fear of the fairies in the lake.

Raymond took the opportunity to return home early. He and his mother agreed to cook in the afternoon. After the family had a full meal, they waited for the riot to happen. Once the riot started, they would run for their lives immediately.

The serf opened the door of his house, and there was a burst of aroma, which was the reason why the old mother reluctantly took out the seeds and grains to make porridge.

Seed food is the life of the serfs. When he smelled this fragrance, Raymond was not only not happy, but his heart was cut like a knife.

If it wasn't for no choice, who would want to? Be a runaway slave, leave the land where your ancestors have lived for generations, and embark on a journey full of danger and uncertainty.

"Raymond, are you back? Hurry up and eat! I'll pack up again." The old mother is putting away the family's property, including a lot of bottles and jars and some old clothes, which are almost the family's All property.

"Oh, Mom, we're running for our lives! These things are heavy and hard to carry. We can't go far like this!" But Raymond knew that the family had been hungry for months, and a full meal was not enough for them After walking too far, the eldest son threw these things aside decisively, signaling everyone to eat quickly.

The youngest son Thomas couldn't handle so much. His thin and dry face was full of longing. He held the bowl with his small hands and drank the porridge and bread in big gulps. After the whole bowl of porridge was finished, the child Even sticking out his tongue and licking the bowl.

"Hurry up, Arang and the others are going to make trouble!" Raymond urged his old mother and younger brother to eat quickly. The serfs planned to start a riot when they finished work in the evening. Put them in the burlap sack, which is their escape ration, and then take out a handful of copper coins and a silver coin from the dark compartment under the bed at home, which are the last savings of the family.

The insurrection was not an impromptu intention, but a plan in advance. In the evening, when the serfs finished their work, it was the time when the garrison was the most slack.

The sky was getting dark, and the arrival of dusk did not make the village quiet, on the contrary, a quarrel broke out in the direction of the knight master's house.

"We grow grain, we starve to death! Who exactly did we grow this grain for?"

"I don't care! There is food here! We want food!"

"Vampire! Go to hell!"

Quarrels, fights, and thick smoke began to rise from the direction of the knight master's house. That was the situation where the house was set on fire, and Raymond in the house was waiting for this moment.

The guards on the high wall of the village noticed the change in the knight's house and heard the order to ask for help. They hesitated for a while, and then decided to rush to the manor for support.

It's now! After Raymond confirmed that there were fewer people at the village sentry, the family sneaked out of the house, and Luck from the next door also appeared from the house with his family. Luck was also with the young guy, he had two sisters, Both parents have passed away.

"Hey, Luck, are you ready?" Raymond whispered to his neighbor.

"Ready!" Another young man pulled his two younger sisters and was also ready to escape.

"Thomas..." Raymond looked back and found that his brother was behind him, but his mother did not appear: "Where's your mother?"

"I'm here!" The old mother was carrying a large basket of bottles and jars that they had thrown away before, panting: "Where to go?"

"Oh! Mom, why are you still carrying these!" Raymond shouted angrily, he grabbed the big basket on his mother's back and slammed it on the ground.

"Wow!" A large basket of bottles, jars, tableware and chopsticks were all smashed into pieces.

"Oh! God! Raymond, you know what you are doing? This is all our family's property!" The old mother couldn't believe that her eldest son would do such a thing, and she burst into tears: "You kid! If your dad knew you were messing things up like this, he would kill you!"

"If you don't throw these away, we will die on the way to escape sooner or later!" Raymond gritted his teeth and pulled his old mother and younger brother: "Let's go! It's too late!"

When the guards left to suppress the serf riots, Raymond and his party fled in the opposite direction, and they ran wildly towards the south.

They didn't dare to walk on the big road, and the group only dared to follow the trail.

What they saw and heard along the way shocked Raymond and Lack. The corpses of serfs were hung everywhere near the village, and groups of serfs were executed.

In the faint moonlight, Raymond could see that some serfs were runaway slaves who were caught and executed, some serfs were executed after rioting, and some serfs starved to death.

Either way, the end is death.

There was chaos everywhere, robbers and bandits shuttled in the dark night, Raymond and his party had escaped two waves of robbers, these robbers attacked the village, killed the defenders, and plundered everywhere.

If it was before, the knights would be dispatched to organize troops to eliminate these robbers and bandits. However, the chivalry war five years ago made the guards in many areas of the territory stretched, and the knights could only defend the core areas and key roads. Safety, many marginal villages and lanes have become a paradise for bandits, robbers, and beastmen tribes. The knights are still bravely fighting the evil, but the insufficient number of troops obviously makes the knights insufficient to protect all the territories.

They could only flee desperately, fleeing south.

It is said that the south is different from the north. There is the domain ruled by the Holy Grail Knights. The virtues of the Holy Grail Knights are trusted by the serfs. In fact, when the Holy Grail Knights pass by, the lords will restrain themselves and dare not go too far.

Maybe these Holy Grail Knight lords are willing to accept their poor people?

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In this way, the group looked for a place to rest during the day and traveled at night. They went south along the edge of the Arden Forest. After escaping for two days and two nights, they spent the last of their savings smuggling across a large river.

After a few hours, they entered a dense forest.

"Raymond~ I can't walk anymore." The old mother was panting, leaning against a big tree: "Let's take a break, okay?"

"Damn, where have we been?" Raymond had to stop and rest when he saw this.

After two days and two nights of frantic escape, the group no longer knew where they had escaped. They lost their way on the way to escape. The nobles had fewer troops to hunt down fugitive slaves. Raymond knew that they had left Leonasse. The principality has entered the boundaries of other principalities, but no one knows where they are.

In Brittany, the vast majority of serfs will never leave their villages in their entire lives. Generally, they have only a few opportunities to leave their villages to go to other places. They are also appointed by the lords. Once they leave the villages where they have lived for generations, For the serfs, the outside world is chaotic and unknown.

In order to avoid the patrols of robbers, bandits and nobles, they did not dare to take the road, and in order to avoid encountering the Beastmen, they did not dare to go too deep into the forest.

"Ouch~ Ouch~" Raymond's old mother really couldn't walk, she had never traveled such a long way, and now her feet were so swollen that she could barely walk: "Raymond, my Son, when are we going to run away?"

"Mom, don't worry, come, have something to eat." Raymond and his neighbor Lack took out some food, and they started to bake and cook.

After escaping, the two families ate better. Although it was late winter, there was still some food in the forest. There were fish in the pond, and rabbits and birds in the forest. They found a big tree to sit on. When they came down, the clothes of several serfs were not too thick. They hunched their bodies and hid under the big trees, eating.

"Brother, I'm cold." Raymond's younger brother Thomas shrank into a ball and said uncomfortable.

"Be strong, Thomas." Raymond shoved the bread into his brother's hands and whispered, "Be strong, everyone is cold, and it won't be like this if we spend a few days out of the forest."

After simply eating something and burning some water, the group was ready to continue their journey.

The dark forest is always scary, and several people don't even know what the sky is like during the difficult advance.

"What time is it now?" Raymond licked his mouth. His nose was red from the cold. In the cold weather, the serfs could only wear single clothes and cloaks covered with a lot of thatch. He didn't know at all. What time is it.

"Feeling...three hours? Four hours?" said another serf, Luck, suspiciously.

The sunlight could not be seen clearly in the forest, and the serfs could not tell the difference between east, west, north and south.

After walking for a while, the two serfs felt that something was wrong.

There was a smell of fishy smell in the air, and a low roar came from the forest in the distance.

It's the Beastman!

"Mom! Thomas! It's a Beastman! Hurry up! Get up, let's escape!" Raymond and Lack looked at each other, their faces turning pale, how would they deal with the powerful Beastmen? They only had a few sticks and two bread-cutting knives in their hands!

The Beastman also obviously realized that there were humans nearby, and the targets were several horned beasts. They let out a shrill roar, and then charged directly towards the place where the group was. These were ordinary horned beasts. They seemed to be injured. But even so, they are still not comparable to these fugitive slaves.

The group of people who had walked for two days and two nights in a row was already very tired, especially Lack's two younger sisters and Raymond's old mother. After only two steps, the old mother let out a whimper and fell to the ground.

She has reached her limit.

"Mom!" Raymond found his mother fell to the ground, he turned around subconsciously: "Mom, go! Otherwise we will all die!"

"No, I can't walk anymore, Raymond, take your brother with you and run away!" The old mother shook her head, tears on her old face: "Raymond, take Thomas, you run away, see you Beastmen When there is something to eat, I will definitely not be in a hurry to chase you!"

"Mom!" Raymond carried his mother on his back, with tears in the serf's eyes, he shook his head desperately: "No, I finally escaped, I finally escaped here, Mom, I will never give up on you."

The roar of the Beastmen gradually approached, and the shrill shouts were ringing in the ears of everyone, and it was so clear in the dim forest.

Raymond carried his mother on his back, dragged his younger brother, and trotted all the way, while his neighbor, Lakra, ran for his life with his two younger sisters.

Several Beastmen approached. Obviously, except for a very small number of human beings, most of them could not outrun a terrifying creature like the Beastmen.

"Ahhhh!" The first to be caught up was Lack. The poor serf was gradually overtaken by the horned beast. He pushed his two younger sisters away with all his might, then turned around and tried to stop the beastman: "You all go!"

How could a serf be an opponent of a horned beast? In just two rounds, Lack's left arm was chopped off in a scream. The Beastman grabbed his body and tore him in half in the air, with his internal organs and blood sprayed on the ground.

"Escape! Raymond." The old mother cried when she saw this: "Don't worry about me, I have lived for more than 40 years, and I have lived enough."

"Mom! Mom!" The little Thomas also cried out. Not far away, the Beastman was enjoying a long-lost feast. Although Lack had pushed his two sisters away, they couldn't find it. Still unavoidable, several beastmen grabbed the two girls and brutally shared the food.

"We can't escape, we can't escape, maybe this is our destiny." Raymond also sobbed: "Maybe this is our destiny, lady in the lake, lady salia, no matter who it is, please help Save us, please save us!"

This may be the fate of the serfs, no matter how they try, the end is death.

"Help us!" Raymond called loudly, echoing in the forest, and it was heard far, far away.

The serfs were simply incapable of fighting the Beastmen, and this was their last attempt to save themselves in desperation.

His plea for help was not ignored.

A golden arc appeared from the depths of the forest, almost in the blink of an eye, the beastmen who were raging were cut into scattered pieces.

A giant with a height of more than three meters and a golden helmet and armor appeared in front of the serf~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He was holding a halberd and wearing an extremely gorgeous golden power armor.

The Raymond family was speechless in surprise.

The golden-armored and golden-armored giant looked at the deceased Luck family on the ground, then looked at the horned beasts that had been chopped into pieces, shook his head, and said something incomprehensible to the serf.

Raymond had never seen such a wise and powerful figure. He even forgot to kneel and kowtow for a while, but shook his head in confusion, indicating that he could not understand what the other party was saying.

"Fugitive slave again..." The giant with golden armor and golden armor showed no expression on his face, he coughed and said in low Gothic: "I mean, you should shout for help earlier, or your companions will also won't die."

"You... are you a god?" Raymond was still stunned.

"No, I'm not a god, but I serve someone greater than a god." The giant pointed to a direction in the forest and said, "Go over there, a new road has been built there, and someone is patrolling, see They said that you are fleeing, they will not embarrass you, follow the path they pointed, and you can go to the territory of the Holy Grail Knight Earl Ryan, where you can find work and food, be diligent."

After that, the giant with golden helmet and golden armor was about to turn around and leave.

"That, Your Excellency, can you tell me your name?" Raymond called to him subconsciously, he knelt down and kowtowed, and said in a very firm tone: "Although I have nothing, Thomas and I and my mother must I will find a way to repay your kindness!"

"Name?" The giant turned around, looked up at the sky, and immediately shook his head, giving up the idea of ​​saying his name.

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