Unknown Knight

The siege of Tiha lasted for more than a week. That day, Aix finally received the news from the messenger:

King Yarogerk of Roma Castle had obviously learned that he was in a "tough battle" in Tiha City. The Vigia lords who were attending the banquet in Roma Castle had sent out all the messengers on hand, and now the troops in their territories were gathering towards Roma Castle.

It seems that the Vigia lords thought that they had finally waited for the best time and decided to completely turn against Aix and send troops to launch a surprise attack on his Kudan City.

That night, Aix lifted the blockade of Tihar City and then divided his troops into two groups. The cavalry bypassed Tihar City and headed directly to a secret woodland near Fort Loma, while the infantry took a boat from Helusburg and went directly to the waters near the secret woodland in Fort Loma.

According to the original plan, Aix's army should have landed in the waters near the city of Kulau and then rushed to the city of Kudan by land. However, Robert's plan influenced him. Although this plan was very risky, if it succeeded, it would bring huge benefits, which made him determined to take the risk.

When Aix, leading the cavalry, arrived near a village called Findla, he ran into Robert who came to report to him. Robert brought Aix two news, one good and one bad.

The good news is that Robert told him that the plan was implemented smoothly. He personally sent the lords who attended the banquet in Roma Castle into the cesspool on the underground floor. They should have been caught in one fell swoop at this moment.

The bad news was that on the afternoon of the same day when he received the intelligence from the spies in Tiha, King Yarogerk sent messengers to announce his handwritten summons to the entire country of Vigia and the countries on the continent. In this summons, he accused Aix of treason, murder of his former father-in-law Voldratboye and his daughter, and arbitrarily provoking other countries to go to war. He removed Aix from the aristocratic circle of the Kingdom of Vigia, and reclaimed all of his territories and titles, and expelled him from the Kingdom of Vigia immediately.

What's even more disgusting is that King Yarogerk went to extremes. Along with the summons, there was also a bounty order listing the three major crimes. The reward offered was as high as 3,000 gold coins, regardless of life or death.

After listening to Robert's report, Axe sneered. Although King Yarogerk's behavior did not cause much harm to him, it was extremely insulting. However, King Yarogerk would never have thought that the summons he issued in the afternoon had not yet had time to discredit Axe, but he fell into the cesspool in the evening and might have been infamous for thousands of years. It was really a great irony.

At present, Roma Castle and the entire Vijia Kingdom should be in great chaos. It is a good opportunity. Aix immediately wrote a letter to Mrs. Gand who stayed in Kudan City, asking her to send out all the cavalry and regular infantry in the city, and then rush to Roma Castle. Only 300 militiamen will be left in Kudan City to defend the city. The time for the decisive battle has come.

The entire army camped in Findla for a night's rest, and then immediately rushed to Fort Loma. Overnight, the news that King Yarogerk might have died spread throughout the camp. Everyone's morale was high, and the marching speed increased a lot. It took only two days to reach the vicinity of Fort Loma.

Aix immediately ordered his troops to surround Fort Roma, but at this time the gate of Fort Roma was open, and the building was empty. The air still smelled of the stench of a manure pit. Apart from a dozen corpses of servants fished out of the pit, there were no other humanoid creatures.

Aix ordered his men to search around the castle and found more than a dozen people who had escaped from the castle in the nearby villages and jungles. After interrogation, Aix roughly restored the truth of the past few days from the mouths of these soldiers, servants, and maids.

It turned out that on the night when the main castle collapsed, not all lords fell into the cesspool on the underground floor. There were two survivors, Belgaruboye of Dremag Castle and Taishaboye of Aiko. Their seats at the banquet were relatively close to the windows. They were relatively young and had quick reactions. When the floor collapsed, they quickly grabbed the windowsill not far behind them and saved their lives.

As for the other Vigia lords including King Yarogerk, they were not as lucky as the two of them. Some of them were injured or killed during the fall, or they grabbed something on the first and second floors but could not hold on before the rescuers arrived. They were suffocated by the poisonous methane and fell into the manure pit and drowned. More people were directly drowned or suffocated to death after falling into the manure pit.

The loud noise of the floor collapse attracted the guards to rescue, but when they cleared the main fort gate that was blocked by debris, several soldiers who were eager to make a contribution endured the blinding stench and rushed in to rescue people desperately. However, they were immediately fainted by the toxic methane gas that had accumulated in the manure pit for many years, and fell into the pit and never came out again.

One of the soldiers who was at the back was pulled back by the people behind him, and he immediately fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, breathing in less than he exhaled, and it was obvious that he was dying. The soldiers behind him were so frightened that they no longer dared to go to the main fort to rescue people, and they all hesitated in front of the main fort's gate.

Later, someone whispered that there must be demons that eat human souls hiding in the basement of the castle, and anyone who tried to take food from them would be killed. When this rumor spread, the soldiers surrounding the main castle gate were so scared that they took several steps back unconsciously, and no one dared to rush in to save people.

In this way, they missed the best time for rescue, and the people who still had a chance of survival in the manure pool lost their last chance and were gradually fainted by the poisonous methane until they suffocated to death.

In fact, even if the soldiers rushed in desperately to save people, it was estimated that it would be difficult to save many people, and many lives would be lost in vain. The feces in the underground layer have been accumulated for who knows how many years. Without a gas mask, it is easy to suffocate people. Moreover, the feces here come from nobles. They often eat a lot of meat and fish, and their excrement is very acidic. The toxicity produced over time is even stronger. It is truly a deadly place.

In this way, except for Belgaluboye and Taishaboye, all the other lords who attended the banquet died in the cesspool, including King Yarogerk. The other two were saved because they were at the height of the third floor and breathed better air. They were rescued by soldiers from the windowsill on the third floor with a ladder.

It was not until the next morning when the smell had almost dissipated that the soldiers, under the coercion and inducement of the two boyars, Belgaru and Taisha, tremblingly entered the main castle to rescue people.

Before they entered, they were wrapped in thick wet cotton cloth, but six or seven people were still knocked unconscious by the smoke. Two of them died on the spot, and the rest suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. Three of them were seriously ill and fell ill directly. One of them died within two days.

After the soldiers risked their lives to salvage the bodies, they finally pulled out more than 30 bodies from the cesspool on the underground floor, including the bodies of more than 20 lords and King Yarogelk.

When the body of the last lord was fished out, Belgaruboye, who was in temporary charge, immediately called a halt to the salvage operation. Although there were still many bodies inside, some of whom were even boys of noble blood, Belgaruboye had to call a halt to the salvage operation because if the operation continued, the soldiers might mutiny.