——4e, Year 201, Last Seed Moon, 17th, 8:00——
Emil was biting a donut and walking towards the Storm Gate of Dugu City. 【】
She has short purple hair and a slightly dark face that are completely different from the Nords. She has a petite figure, and she still looks fluffy even in the smallest plush dress. The fur collar almost covers half of her face, but the girl's feet are covered with cloth. The dusty boots were proof that she had not just left a dance.
Solitude is located on the seaside at the northwest end of Interprovince. It is located on a huge rock as high as a bridge that spans the river and merges into the Sea of the Dead at the end of the delta. Its entrance is guarded by two gates and three towers.
"Holy Spirit, when did you go out? Lord Alisipher has been looking for you for a long time."
The guard at the city gate was wearing mail and a dark brown smock, and the steel shield he was holding was painted with the image of a wolf head symbolizing Dugu City. At this time, the guard's relieved tone could be felt even through the full-face helmet.
"...Tullius, snatched my donuts." Amy showed the food bag hidden in her sleeve: "Do you want it?"
"No, thank you for your generosity." The guard's voice was stiff.
You can give it to others at will, but you are not allowed to snatch it from her hands, right?
Seven years ago, General Tullius went out to hunt down Ulfric Stormcloak, who dared to assassinate the High King, and conveniently took away the donut that Emil was holding. "Wish me good luck," he said at the time.
As a result, this girl didn't understand this act of asking for blessings before going out for a battle, but directly chased after her to get it back? The general was chasing her on horseback, so he must have been shocked when he saw her.
Since she always liked to wander around, she often did not return to the Blue Palace. It was not until the blond Alisif who was very busy two years ago that she started to look for her.
"If you go in now, you can still have time to meet Roggieville." He stiffly changed the subject.
"...What happened to him?" Emil ate the donut in his mouth and took out a new one.
"I think he should be beheaded, after all, the charge is treason." The guard said.
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"They can't hurt Uncle Rogerville, he's innocent!"
Not far into the storm door, Emil was knocked into the arms of a girl who was taller than her.
"...What?" She gave the last donut to the girl. This was Swari, the daughter of the hotel owner. Her face looked a little rounded because she often fed her to her.
"Addis and Atta are going to kill Rojivel, Emil, please stop them!" Swari grabbed her clothes and refused to let go.
"Everyone is on your place." Emil heard the deep voice of the Dugu City guard captain Eddies ringing from the execution platform on the side of the city gate. Standing next to him was a man holding a huge beheading ax, with a strong body and a black headband. Atta, the executioner in a cloth hood.
In the Inter-Province, due to the lack of supplies, it is impossible to detain criminals for varying periods of time based on their specific behavior like in the Imperial Capital Province. In that case, for some people, coming to prison would be like a hotel that provides free food and water.
Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, there are only three punishments for criminals: fines, imprisonment (without food), and beheading.
"Swari, you'd better go home immediately. There's nothing to see here." A young man wearing a hotel waiter's costume came over and pulled the girl away from Emil.
"You can tell her that her uncle is a scumbag and he betrayed the empire." Another woman dressed similarly to the young man said contemptuously.
"Uncle Rogerville is not a scumbag!" the girl glared at her.
Emil had no idea why the two brothers, who worked at the city gate and the hotel respectively, would offend the hotel cook. She just stretched out her hand and gave Swari a thumbs up.
"Rogeville, after Ulfric Stormcloak assassinated High King Toig, you helped him escape from Solitude." Captain Addis was holding a record board to announce the crime, his bald head shining in the sun. Sparkling underneath.
According to him, he is the most likely person to take over the position of General Tullius. Could it be that one of the necessary conditions for becoming a general is to be bald?
"You betrayed us!" "You traitor!" The crowd watching the execution was filled with excitement.
It's strange, the people in Blue Palace are obviously very calm and even a little happy, why are these people...
As Emil passed through the crowd silently, he paid special attention to the people who shouted the loudest: Gala, a Brighton vegetable merchant, who had been fined by the Patrol Roggieville for shoddy products many times, and Bell. Rand, the Nord blacksmith, specializes in forging weapons for the Empire, but Emil once heard him talking to his apprentice and felt very sympathetic to the Storm Cloak, and Galela, the Argonian who once tried to approach the lighthouse late at night and was killed by Logi. Weir was imprisoned for several times.
Hmm...that's interesting.
"——You betrayed all the residents of Dugu City by opening the door for him. Now you are sentenced for treason and executed by beheading!" Captain Addis continued to pronounce the sentence.
The gate? Emil recalled the city defense system of Dugu City.
The first of the three towers is located at the crossroads and is called the Tong Tower. The nearby road is full of roadblocks. It will serve as the first line of defense during wartime, but its main function is as an early warning observation tower.
The second tower and a point gate, which the residents of Dugu City call the Wailing Gate, the siege army - if there is any, will suffer serious losses on this narrow only road. I had to cry out.
The last one, and certainly the most impressive one, is the Storm Door. It is a giant door made of ebony. It is strengthened by magic and is indestructible. It does not have any handles or locks, and is usually in a semi-open door. Once it is completely closed due to an emergency, if you want to pass it, you can only wait for the guard on the city wall to open it.
So, Rogerville, a busy man who also took on a long list of duties such as patrolling the city, cleaning up bandits, guarding the Blue Palace, and keeping watch at the lighthouse, fell into trouble when he once again volunteered to help?
"That was not an assassination! Ulfric Stormcloak challenged the High King openly and defeated him head-on!" Rojevir, who had short hair and a handsome face among the rugged Nords, retorted loudly. He was stripped of his guard armor and was only wearing a linen prison uniform, shivering in the cold wind: "This is our tradition, the tradition of the Nords and the Interprovince since ancient times!"
The so-called Nord tradition is to challenge someone to a duel if they like their muscles and strength. During this period, magic and enchanted weapons are not allowed. If the challenge fails, the other party will do whatever they want.
Of course, in the case of unequal status and price, the dueled party can completely refuse, but Ulfric, as the leader of the Stormcloaks, raised a challenge involving the sovereignty of the Interprovince to the High King of the Interprovince.
As the superior of the nine major fiefdom lords in the province, the position of Supreme King has always been jointly elected by all the lords. Generally, the lord of the largest city, Dugu City, holds the position. However, as the lord of Windhelm City, the second largest city, Wu After Frek raised the flag of rebellion, half of the lords who supported him no longer paid attention to the High King's orders. At this time, the opportunity for unification came to the door, and Toig had no choice but to refuse it.
The result was a defeat.
"Uh-" boos spread. It was clear that the audience did not approve of this method. In the eyes of most imperial people, this tradition was no different from banditry. After all, they did not have the opportunity to see duels between nobles, and they were more exposed to those who were in the army. Robbers gathering in the wild.
In the constant conflict between the Stormcloaks and the Empire, the bandits around the town became more and more aggressive as the guards were deployed to fight, which also made most of them dislike the Stormcloaks.
With a bang, Captain Addis stretched out his hand and pushed Rogerville down on the execution platform.
"I will remember you, Rogerville, you were a good man," he said.
"Heh..." Luojiweier whispered: "Today, I will return to Sungard."
After waiting for a while, Atta's decapitating ax did not fall, and the surrounding crowd began to buzz and make noise.
"Atta?" Captain Addis looked at the executioner doubtfully.
"Captain..." Atta stood crookedly in a weird posture, as if something was pressing on his shoulders.
Looking carefully, the bald guard captain noticed that there seemed to be a transparent figure there. After trying to distinguish carefully, he finally found a girl sitting on the executioner's shoulder, holding the back of the decapitation ax with one hand to prevent it from falling. .
Although he could break free from the restraint with a little force, looking at Atta's appearance, he clearly didn't dare.
"Your Highness, please don't mess around." Addis lowered his voice: "He let the assassin go, and he cannot be forgiven casually."
"...Assassin?" Emil tilted his head: "Toig is not dead."
"My Highness—" Addis was going crazy, but he couldn't follow her and call the High King by his first name: "Even if Ulfric is not regarded as an assassin, he is still the leader of the rebels. Let him go like this." A person is undoubtedly guilty of treason, right?”
"...Windhelm City does not belong to the empire?" Amy asked.
"This -" Even though everyone knew that Lord Ulfric Stormcloak of Windhelm openly rebelled against the Empire and controlled half of the territory in the Interprovince, Addis did not dare to nod in agreement. That was just The rebels definitely did not reach the level of "other countries".
"Unless there is an order from the Supreme King, he cannot be directly pardoned by you." He finally replied bravely.
The leader of the Storm Cloak probably didn't expect that His Highness from the Empire would be so powerful. The long-lost dragon roar would be blocked by a girl. High King Toig was just blown away and hit the wall and needed to recuperate for a while. That’s all.
"An order from the High King -" A guard whose armor style was completely different from that of the guards in Dugu City, but more deadly and gorgeous, ran over, stood in front of the execution platform, took out an order and loudly announced: "Completely pardon Rogevel's crime! "
Addis breathed a sigh of relief. The uniform belonged to the Sharp-Eyed Eagle, the personal guard of Imperial Emperor Uriel Septim II. The person who gave the order was the captain of the team ordered to protect His Highness, Raj Palazzo. Sri Lanka.
"Why is it like this again?" "Atta, your ax is dull, right?"
The ordinary residents gradually dispersed, and after receiving the order, Edith smiled bitterly and pointed at Emil, who was still sitting on Atta's shoulder, and then helped Rojivel, who was too cold to speak, to leave.
"Twenty-three times." Atta stretched out his arms and asked Amy to step on the ax and jump off, although seeing that she could climb up silently, it was obvious that this was unnecessary.
"Next time -" Raje looked at them coldly and said: "If His Highness wants to pardon someone, don't make any excuses. Even if it is the emperor's pardon, it is only a matter of time before you can get it."
"Because she is the princess of the empire," Sharp-Eyed Eagle looked at the girl who was waving goodbye to Roggieville: "Emilia Septim."
