Invade the white dove

However, Julius didn't have much time to clean up his mess.With his nod, Hassan next to him stepped forward again and shouted loudly: "Bring the foolish prisoner to court!"

As soon as the order was issued, the soldiers shouted in unison, and soon, the sound of rattling chains filled the entire square.

Ulis looked at the dark crowd at the bottom of the steps.

After a long period of detention, everyone has bent their bodies and their hair is greasy and tangled together. The stench from their bodies still makes people dare not breathe even if they are separated by several meters.

After the battle with Garman, Kyle was very angry at the desperate resistance of the Odong people, and angrily deprived all the Odong people of their citizenship rights and reduced them to slaves.

In the Garman Empire, slaves and prostitutes were no different from ordinary commodities, and the status of slaves was even lower than that of prostitutes.

As long as a free man bought a slave through legitimate channels, he could beat and scold him at will. If the slave was accidentally beaten to death by others, he only needed to pay the original owner the price at the time of purchase.

The price of slaves is generally determined by the market, but in order to further humiliate the Odong people, Kyle clearly ordered that the transaction price of each Odong slave should not exceed three silver coins.

——You must know that the selling price of a normal slave will never be lower than ten silver coins, and the last time he had sex with an old prostitute in a remote town of Gaman who was suffering from plum disease was five silver coins.

This price is simply free!

The nobles of Gaman and the rulers of the dependent countries immediately caught their eyes.

I heard that in the month of the public slave trade, every market in Garman was crowded with people, densely packed like sardines in a can.The slaves of Odong were locked in the human trafficking area of ​​the market, tied with thick hemp ropes, naked, and rubbed every part of their bodies by the buyers who came to pick them. They used the method of picking animals to check their teeth, smell their breath.

The slave market lasted for a full month.Girls and young adults were picked out first, then women who had given birth to children, and then men aged 50 to [-]. In the end, those who had no choice were brought back to Odong to serve as free labor for building the castle.

Julis heard that on the day White Pigeon Castle fell, there were still tens of thousands of ordinary citizens hiding in their homes. He thought that the worst case scenario would be that the population was reduced by half.But now, there are less than [-] people standing in Wangduo Square.

The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are the only remaining people of Odong.

Julius glanced at these survivors one by one, and there were no familiar faces.

The "prisoner" being escorted up stood behind the pool of blood in front of the steps.They had already watched the entire process of the execution of the God Envoy Yihe, and some of them had already recited mourning prayers.

But no one was crying, or angry, they seemed to have expected this ending.

Ulis stood up from his chair with Sotiria's assistance.As if aware of his powerlessness, Sotiria stood obliquely behind him, supporting his body with his arms calmly.

He confidently handed over the weight of his body to Sotiria.

"My people!" Julius said loudly, spreading his hands, "I, the contract knight of King Garman, the captain of the guard of Lion Castle, and the Duke of Odong, Utur, hereby pardon you for your ignorance and blind obedience. At the same time, with the consent of His Majesty the King, I will restore your citizenship, and from now on, you are the free people of Gaman, and you are my people!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers escorting the prisoner turned around, untied the prisoner's chains neatly, and threw them on the ground.

Julius walked slowly towards the freed prisoner.

The crowd didn't respond, and in fact he wasn't expecting any.

During the three months of the Japanese Occupation, the people of Odong were tortured by the Garman Empire. No one would be grateful to the enemy for recovering their original identity.

"You are free, go back, return to your home. Soon, I will redeem your family from their master." Julius stood in front of a disheveled old man, raised his hand, and clapped Pat him on the shoulder, "Until everything recovers, I will organize soldiers to distribute beer and bread here every night."

Thanks to the pig-like "governor" who searched the storage of all the residents in Erdu City, in the next six months, even if his soldiers and these 300 people were lying on the bed waiting to die, they would definitely be full of ghosts.

The old man raised his head.

Julius did not ignore the fleeting strangeness in the old man's eyes.Before he could react, he had been dragged back by Sotiria.

However, the old man neither spat at him nor cursed him. Instead, he knelt tremblingly on the ground and kissed the ground where the soles of Julius' boots trod.

"Hessiam." He fell on the ground and murmured reverently.

The voice seemed to be some kind of instruction. The people who had stayed in the same place first glanced at Julius, stared at his red hair in a daze for a moment, and then slowly knelt down on the ground.

"Hessiam." They whispered.

The low, buzzing voices came and went, and they were more pious than the voices of believers who came to receive blessings when the God Envoy Yihe preached.

Ulis squeezed Sotiria's hand tightly.

"Hessiam" is not an ancient language, this is what Sotiria told him long ago.He also looked through the ancient language dictionary in the past few days, but he did not find a similar pronunciation, and the only God Envoy Yihe who knew the meaning of this word insisted that the time was not enough and he was unwilling to say a word.

——"Believe in your father's love for you, and believe in the arrangement of the holy court." The envoy only emphasized this sentence from beginning to end.

But now, as devout believers of the God of Austria, the people of Odong should have avoided Julius's red hair, but after seeing him, they were kneeling down.

Like bowing down to God, bow down to Him!

Julis is not a fool. After seeing such a scene that can be summed up as "strange" with his own eyes, he can no longer deny a fact that is about to emerge: the innocent dead buried under the tower, and his ingenious escape on the eve of Gaman's attack. The appellation of "Hessiam" and "Hessiam" are all intentional plans of the father.

As for this plan, the important ministers of Odong knew about it, the envoy sent by the Holy Court knew about it, and the envoy of Thoth, who forgave him his treason with a loving face, also knew about it.

It's no wonder that when he escaped from the merchant ship in embarrassment, he had already escorted the envoy to guard the ferry in the holy court, put him on the horse, and personally brought him to the temple.

Julis had long wondered why the Holy Court's latent plan was so thorough but was not implemented for a long time, and why the envoy taught him such an important task to such a young man.Now it seems that the task of lurking in the city of Stanley as a "gladiator" is very likely to be tailored only for him, for Julius Kleis, the red-haired son of the curse.

Julius raised his head and looked at the blue sky.

Two seagulls flew over their heads, making a loud cry, and the cool autumn wind turned the murmurs of the people kneeling on the ground into dull whimpers.

"destiny……"

Julius couldn't stop chanting the word.

Angel Thoth mentioned fate, Teacher Yihe talked about fate, and even his father often talked about fate.According to them, it is fate that they can return to Odong and stand in Place Vendor again as a "ruler".

But what is his fate?Is it the Avenger of Odon that his father expected him to be, the secret agent of the holy court that the envoy of Thoth said, or what Kyle wanted wholeheartedly, the eagle dog of the mad king?