Atlas Battle Song

It was just an ordinary day.

It was still daylight, and people had just woken up from sleep and were about to start a day's work.The smoke rises, and the morning light rises from the Bald Mountains, and spreads across the world to the west, across the Golden Horn Bay, until the illuminated Snake Sea leading to the underworld.Merchants, farmers, hunters, soldiers, people wake up.The navigator's eye is tireless.

The daylight is getting stronger, and the Sybyl nobles are about to fall asleep.

The ancient Familia ruled the night, while humans ruled the day. For 1000 years, the day and night of the empire have been turned like this, like two pages of a great epic, depicting the sun and the moon, gold leaf and ultramarine, forgotten and consecrated gods.

In the foggy morning, the teenagers kiss and say goodbye.

Trand went to work for the Knights.

While walking, he was thinking about today's dinner: "Why don't you make beef stew for the young master...Okay, then I'm going to the butcher shop today."

Then after get off work, stop by the Duke and inquire about the news inside the palace... He was thinking, and when he turned around, he saw Master Yi Ge standing by the window on the second floor, hugging the puppet, and waving at him.

Silly lion.

Egg moved his lips, he understood.

"See you tonight," Trander smiled and blew a kiss, "my beloved young master."

****

The morning light crossed the streets, the fog cleared, and the daylight illuminated the great golden dome of the Sibyl Palace.The gates of the city were opened, and the knights returning from the expedition escorted the sinners who had conspired against them—the former Earl Gorgon and his henchmen.

The man was wearing huge shackles, and his once meticulously beautiful black hair was disheveled and stained with blood.But his face was still fair, and his gray-blue eyes were fearless, as if he was still greeted by a grand and splendid banquet instead of a rope and a guillotine.

The count entered the night palace, and the emperor wanted to interrogate himself.

Unholy blood, noble blood, sinful blood since the birth of history.

The earl smiled, and took off the silver collar button with difficulty with his shackled hands, wiping off the blood—the three giant snake family emblems were revealed.

"Give this back to you, Your Majesty."

The silver buckle engraved with the coat of arms of the Gorgon family was thrown into the snow, and the wheels ran over, leaving two lines of marks on the snow, which were trampled by the horseshoes of the knights.

The white rose was knocked down by the heavy rain, the silver buckle was lost, and the 1000-year-old blood was dimmed.

****

The sun rises, the light of the sky shifts, and shines on the world day after day.

The news of the end of the rebellion has not been made public. Outside the imperial city, people are still tremblingly seeking to survive, fearing that the flames of war that may affect the imperial capital at any time.In the port of the Golden Horn, Omega merchants gather frequently, exchanging information about the war in order to protect their industries in foreign countries.In the meeting of the Gentile merchants there was a thief.

Even though he was a thief, the man was originally just an ordinary farmer who fled from his hometown of Dradite to the imperial capital in order to escape the war in the Earl of Gorgon.Men only know how to farm, and now there is no land to farm in the imperial city, so they try to make a living by helping out in taverns.One day, the man couldn't resist stealing the money bag of a drunken businessman.The stolen gold coins are more than his previous income from farming for half a year.The man tasted the sweetness and started to be a thief from then on.

Seeing the Omega merchants discussing together, the man approached quietly.

"I heard the war is coming to an end."

"Really?"

"A friend said that the leader of the rebel party has been captured, and the knights who resisted have also been killed."

Another Omega man said: "The Empress is still so powerful, and several nobles can't defeat her even if they join forces to rebel."

"But... a friend told me that only the leader, Earl Gorgon, was really arrested. The empress did not touch other families."

"Some kind of compromise."

The Omega merchants drank silently, and someone suddenly said: "It will be His Royal Highness's birthday soon, and the Northern Chamber of Commerce should prepare a gift. We have to have a meeting and think about it."

"That's right, His Highness is the crown prince of Omega, His Majesty's only son... There is no other candidate for the throne. If His Highness has a bad impression of the Northern Chamber of Commerce, and when he succeeds in the future, we may not be able to do business with the empire." Easy to do."

"A 15-year-old child is not easy to please. It's not appropriate to give anything at such a young age..."

While the merchants were talking about the gift, the thief approached quietly and cut off a merchant's money bag with a blade.The thief was very careful, but the blade was sharp, and the money bag was inadvertently cut——

With a jingle, a silver coin fell to the ground.

"what happened?"

The businessman turned his head and met the terrified thief's eyes.When he touched it, the purse was gone.

The thief ran away.

"There is a thief!! Catch him, catch the thief—!"

The patrolling guards heard it and immediately went after him.The thief ran all the way, escaped along the path, but was quickly caught.The guard took the rope and tied the thief's hands behind his back.

"Curse you!" the thief cursed under his breath.

"Shut up, go!" The soldier yelled, and the crowd's emotions were aroused, and they blamed the thief man even more angrily.There was a lot of noise in the street, and many people came to watch.The crowd scolded.According to the laws of the empire, a thief must have a finger cut off.

"Chop off his fingers!"

"A good man doesn't work, but comes to be a thief!"

"Shame."

Thinking of having his finger cut off, the thief man was first terrified, and then hated.If it wasn't because Earl Gorgon insisted on rebellion and war, and recruited them to be rebels, how could he have fled his hometown to become a thief in the imperial capital?He suddenly thought of the conversation with the Omega merchants just now: Earl Gorgon has been captured.A feeling of schadenfreude rose from the bottom of my heart, and the thief man suddenly shouted excitedly:

"It's all Gorgon's fault, he made me a deserter and a thief. Today my fingers were cut off, and tomorrow Earl Gorgon's head will be cut off!"

Attracted by the thieves' shouts, as more people gathered around, he shouted even louder:

"Cut off the earl's head! Just wait and see! The bloody head of Earl Gorgon—! Blame him, blame that man! The Gorgon family are all beasts!"

The boy heard it, and went to the window to look down.

The thief man continued to shout hoarsely, emphasizing himself.When he looked up by chance, he saw a window, a boy was standing there, and their eyes met——

In such a short moment, the child disappeared and the man who was the thief was escorted away.

"Wait, I know that boy...he's..."

The thief remembered that he had fainted in the forest when he was a deserter, and it was two children who woke him up.A white boy, a bronzed West Highland boy...they gave him bread and rum, and...

The white child also gave him a pair of emerald stud earrings...

The pair of stud earrings are not ordinary items, the back of the small gem is actually engraved with the pattern of three giant snakes.The man sells one and has one left.

Three giant snakes.

That was the family crest of the lord, and the thief man suddenly realized that it was the child of the Gorgon family, right here, hiding in this place!

He hastily grabbed the patrolman's arm:

"Wait, wait! I want to commit crimes and meritorious deeds! I'll tell you a big thing!"

"Stop talking nonsense," the guard slapped the thief's hand away in disgust. "Just wait a while for your fingers to be cut off. If you make up nonsense, your tongue will be cut off as well."

"Trust me! I have a secret to tell your boss, let me meet him! I found the traitor's son!"

The thief man made a noise, and the guards tied his mouth with a dirty cloth.When they arrived at the barracks, the thief was still screaming desperately, but no one believed him.The clerk is not here, so I can't make a file.The captain of the patrol guard ordered the thief to be thrown into a cell and locked him up overnight.

The next morning, the clerk came and made a simple registration and inquired about the law.The patrol captain on duty glanced at the file and said:

"Okay, let's do it. Cut off the first joint of this guy's little finger and let him roll, and if he dares to do it again in the future, just wait until the neck is tied with a rope."

The two executioners held down the trembling thief and pressed his little finger on the knife.The doctor stood impassively, holding a small iron used to burn red wounds, and bandages.The surrounding atmosphere was weird and terrifying. The man who was a thief looked at the switch knife and burst into tears, begging for mercy:

"Wait! Don't cut off my hand! I know where Earl Gorgon's son is hiding! Let me go and I'll take you there!"

The executioner ignored it, and compared the position to ensure that the switch knife could accurately cut the bone when pressed down.The man howled desperately:

"Forgive me! I'll take you to the traitor's son! Gorgon's boy! You can get rich with his head! You can do great things! Gorgon!"

"The ghosts are crying and howling wolves are too loud," the patrol captain frowned, "Gag this guy's mouth."

"Gorgon! I give you Gorgon's son!"

"Shut up.

"Wait, the Earl's... Woo! Uhh!" The thief's mouth was plugged, and he could only falter with frightened eyes.

"Go ahead."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

The thief's tears and snot flowed down his nose, and his fingers were about to be cut into blood by the blade.

"Wait a moment."

A deep male voice came, and the patrol captain who was sitting quickly got up and saluted his superior: "Your Excellency!"

"I heard this guy say something interesting, let go of his mouth, I want to hear it."

The thief man trembled all over, even though the cloth stuffed in his mouth was roughly removed, he was still choked up and unable to speak a complete sentence.Trembling, the thief knelt on the ground looking up at the officer who smiled gently like a savior.

The officer was blind in his left eye and wore an eye patch.

"Good day, Mr. Miglin Vaughan Archimboldi. Nice to meet you."

After being patted on the shoulder by the officer in a friendly manner, the thief man was confused and frightened, and gradually regained his senses.

"Your Mightiness!"

"You just said that the earl's son is still alive."

"Yes! Yes, yes! I swear... I swear I'm not lying, it's true! I saw it with my own eyes, just yesterday, and it's impossible to be wrong. That young master once gave me a pair of earrings, and I I used to be a farmer in the Earl of Gorgon. I have seen that child and talked to him, so close! So close! Impossible to admit wrong, I saw it with my own eyes!"

The thief begged, and almost crawled over to hug the officer's thigh, but was pulled away by the soldier again.

"Really?" the one-eyed officer smiled, very kindly: "Then tell me... Where is Egg Swalders Gorgon?"

He smiled and touched the left eye that had been stabbed blind by the boy.

"Where is it hidden? My dear bird."