Hail the King Chapter 386: Murder

As soon as this pale and thin messenger finished shouting, two of the mayor’s guards sneered and drew their swords as they walked towards those soldiers. They didn’t dare to attack Fei, but they could do anything they want to those low-level soldiers. When they walked pass Fei, one of them even smiled and squinted his eyes at Fei to provoke him.
Pia! Pia!
Fei who was standing there in silence suddenly slapped out.
The two guards who were sneering a second before didn’t react in time, and they were knocked away like two punchbags.
Fei didn’t hold back any of his strength; he was outraged. A few deep palm marks appeared on the silver helmets of the two guards, and the two helmets were completely deformed. The two heads inside the two deformed helmets were crushed, and blood and brain matters flowed out everywhere.
Bam! Bam! Their corpses smashed onto the battlement and were turned into meat paste.
This violent yet sudden scene shocked everyone on the defense wall.
For a moment, everyone was silent; there were only the sounds of people swallowing their drools.
“Crank……”
The noises the gate made when it opened was very ear-piercing at this moment; as if their hearts were being hammered, everyone shivered subconsciously.
“No! You can’t! You…… damn it! Stop it!” that messenger was angry and scared. He finally realized what was going on and pointed at Fei as he shouted, “Who are you? You are only the king of a little affiliated kingdom! You……”
Pia!
Before this messenger could realize what was going on and scream, his head exploded like a watermelon that got dropped, and his headless corpse staggered a little and fell to the ground; blood flowed out of his neck like a river.
“Aaaaaa! Murder! You killed the mayor’s messenger! You……”
The guards of the mayor who weren’t killed were terrified. They wanted to threaten Fei, but they decided to shut up and run after seeing the deformed corpses and the careless expression on Fei’s face. As if they saw an Undead Creature, they didn’t even dare to look back. Soon, they ran off the tall defense wall and disappeared.
Fei only sneered at them and didn’t stop them. After they were gone, he looked at the direction they were running at and thought about something for a while.
The gate of the city was fully opened.
The well-prepared 6,000 cavaliers entered the city in an orderly fashion. The cavaliers were able to control their horses well, and they entered the city in less than five minutes. After a series of cranking noises, the gate closed again,
As soon as the cavaliers entered the city, they were welcomed by the residents of Dual-Flags City on both sides of the street.
The residents didn’t participate in the defense, so they didn’t know how dangerous the situation was. But any kinds of reinforcement were good in their eyes. Although there weren’t a lot of soldiers in this reinforcement, the residents heard that they did help the defending forces of Dual-Flags City to fend off the invaders for now; this alone was enough for the residents to cheer them on.
With the help of [Earth’s Protection], not a lot of structures and buildings inside Dual-Flags City were damaged by the rocks, arrows, and magic spells of Jax. There were a lot of three-story stone buildings on the sides of the street; shy kids peeked out of the window to see who were the heroes that came to save them, and more courageous girls got to the side of the street and cheered for the cavaliers.
Red capes, black horses, sharp swords with the enemies’ blood on them, and handsome faces under the beautiful helmets…….
The appearance of the cavaliers attracted a lot of attention, and some mature girls couldn’t wait to capture their Prince Charming.
The cavaliers in the herald brigade enjoyed this warm welcome.
The 6,000 cavaliers were led by the subordinate of Frank Ribry and got taken to the Military Camp Square that wasn’t too far away from the gate. The warhorses got the chance to rest and get fed, and the cavaliers got the chance to set up tents and cook lunch; after the long-distance travel and the ferocious battle, the cavaliers and their horses were tired.
The commanders of the herald brigade of [Wolf Teeth Legion] met up with the commanders of military forces in Dual-Flags City for the first time.
The invaders didn’t back away, and another siege could potentially happen at any time. The commanders of the two different groups had to have a meeting and get familiar with each other quick; that was the only way to make sure that they could coordinate well in battle and don’t handle over any opportunities to the enemies.
Fei didn’t participate in that meeting.
The first thing the king did was to use the [Horadric Cube] to transmute and create 20 Mid-tier Magic Gems. After he placed them inside the magic array [Earth’s Protection], he used the knowledge he learned from Priestess Akara and fixed a few locations in the array that were damaged by the enemies; this magic array was crucial to the defense, and Fei had to fix it first.
After this was done, one hour had already passed.
“Eh, 20 High-Tier Magic Gems…… they are the last bit of treasures the Royal Family of Chambord has. I used them all here to help with the defense of Dual-Flags City, and we need to make a note of it. We will send a message back to the Military Headquarter of Zenit and ask them to reimburse us. Oh, tell them that they could just send back gold coins of equivalent value. To show Chambord’s loyalty to the empire, tell them that we can give them a 20% discount. Remember, ask our comrades at Dual-Flags City to notarize our claims, so the officials at the Military Headquarter won’t think that we are scamming them.”
Fei clapped his hands and reminded Peter Cech who was beside him with an earnest expression.
Peter Cech nodded and even took out a piece of paper and a pen to write it down; it looked like everything was within reason.
A tall commander of forces in Dual-Flags City was shocked to hear this conversation; he was acting as the guide for Fei, and it was his first time hearing that someone dared to ask the empire for a reimbursement. It was strange because everything felt normal as the Deputy Commander of the reinforcement acted calmly after hearing those words.
“Is he really only the king of a little affiliated kingdom? It feels like he doesn’t even care about the opinions of the officials in the Military Headquarter……” that tall commander thought to himself and smiled.
Although he didn’t know what role this king played in the reinforcement, he knew that this king wasn’t an ordinary figure.
What Fei did next was normal; he chatted with this tall commander about all sorts of things. When the topic turned to the defensive battle today, that tall commander told them that Mayor Soroyov and the nobles in the city pulled back their personal soldiers and were planning to ditch the city.
Cech’s expression immediately changed after hearing that.
After being with the king for a while, Cech knew about Fei’s personality; he knew that the king was simple and hated nobles and officials who were corrupt and cowardly.
What surprised Cech was that the king didn’t get triggered; Fei continued to chat with this commander with a bright smile.
After a while, Fei and Cech had a good idea about what was going on at Dual-Flags City.
According to the structure of Zenit, there were two branches of power. Using Dual-Flags City as an example, the mayor was in charge of internal affairs while the head commander of military forces was in charge of defense and patrolling the area. The mayor and the head commander of military forces didn’t have the power to interfere with each other’s work.
However, there was one law that messed with this structure – During wars, the control of the city and the military forces would be placed in the hands of the person who had the highest nobility; didn’t matter if it was the mayor or the head commander of military forces, they both had to listen to this person; this would unite all powers in a city and make sure no chaos would occur.
This law had no issues; it gave flexibility and structure to a potentially chaotic situation.
However, it created a lot of issues for Dual-Flags City. The Mayor Soroyov was a level 2 hereditary noble and was the person who got that power. Soroyov was a useless yet timid man; he was just like other hereditary nobles who were corrupt to their souls.
At a time like this, the hereditary structure of Zenit showed its ugly face.
After Soroyov knew that the Jax Empire was going to attack his Dual-Flags City, he almost crapped his pants. He hid in his mansion every day and hoped that the invaders wouldn’t come. Although he was scared, he wasn’t willing to ditch the city and ditch the wealth and the status he accumulated over the years.
As soon as the first scout of Jax showed himself, the selfishness of this corrupted noble demonstrated itself.
Soroyov ordered the soldiers to close the gates; he didn’t allow anyone to come in or leave the city.
This order caused the civilians of Zenit, who lived closed to Dual-Flags City and didn’t have the time to escape, die under the blades of Jax, and this order caused the territory around Dual-Flags City to be controlled by the invaders of Jax entirely.