After the tenant farmers and soldiers came out of the cellar, they quickly ran towards the city wall. They clung to the city wall and stared nervously at the crenellations above.
Schliemann looked at Hank who turned to leave, and shouted: "Hank Redol!"
Hank looked back with doubt in his eyes.
"My name is Schliemann, and I come from the outside world. If you can capture this city today, I think we can talk about establishing a shipping route!"
Hank's brows relaxed, and the sunny and confident expression returned to his face.
"Okay! Mr. Schliemann, before that, please wait here for a moment."
He ran towards the wall, blended in with the peasants and soldiers, and soon became indistinguishable.
The tenant peasant soldiers moved quickly along the city wall, like a wriggling earthworm. Every time they passed a wall entrance, the earthworm shortened a little, leaving a section behind.
The remaining tenant farmers and soldiers were waiting quietly at the entrance to the wall. Except for one person who was looking at the sky, the rest of them were all holding their weapons and looking at the top of the city wall.
The archers of each tenant team all stretched their bows and aimed at the crenellations at the top of the city wall. The others held their breath and raised their rough wooden shields to protect them.
After nearly two hours of waiting, they got the signal.
It was a slowly rising red balloon. It was as charming as fire, as if it were a spark.
As this spark rose into the sky, all the tenant farmers and soldiers at the entrance to the wall took action. They climbed up the stone stairs at the entrance to the wall, screaming and fighting with the panicked city guards.
Faced with this sudden battle with a huge disparity in numbers, the guards defending the city quickly gave up resistance. They were beaten to the ground and tied up before they could figure out what happened.
At this time, the only group of soldiers who stayed at their posts in Antler City were disarmed, and the city changed hands.
However, the actions of the tenant peasant soldiers did not stop there. They turned the city defense crossbows towards the city, and at the same time sent tenant peasant soldiers on horseback to run through the streets of Antler City.
They shouted that the jurisdiction of Antler City now belonged to them, and ordered the rogue warriors to stop their ridiculous behavior.
Wherever they went, the giant arrows from the city defense crossbows would hit.
With the deterrence of the city defense firepower, these galloping tenant cavalry quickly contained the chaos in Antler City and even began to direct the soldiers to carry out fire-fighting operations.
The residents who closed their doors were still huddled in their homes at first, until what they heard was no longer shouts and screams, but urgent orders from the tenant farmers and soldiers.
Antler City has recovered, and everything seems to be developing for the better.
When Hank returned to the Bell area again, Schliemann was fast asleep, and Hillpeter was sitting aside, staring at the surroundings vigilantly.
Seeing Hank coming back, Hillpeter pushed Schlieman gently, patted his butt, and stood up.
"finished?"
Hank admired Schliemann very much. He was not interested in watching the battle when the city changed hands.
"It's over, Mr. Schliemann, are you interested in chatting on the city wall?"
Schliemann turned around to call for Ampton, but as he glanced around, he keenly noticed that someone was missing.
Ram, who originally slept on his sister's legs, now slept directly on the ground, and his sister Selu was nowhere to be found.
"Where's Selu?"
Hilpeter scratched his head, looking confused.
"Who...who is Selu?"
Schliemann rolled his eyes and looked past Hilpeter to Vivian. Vivian shook her head, and he looked at Apton again.
"I don't know, I just fell asleep, I was too tired."
Walter jumped from the roof, causing a cloud of dust.
"She went in that direction."
Schlieman sighed, that direction is the direction of Hector's Temple.
"Aren't you going to stop her?"
Schliemann said to Hank, who smiled bitterly.
"I'm not qualified to stop her..."
Schliemann waved his hand. After Hank's torture, Scott's value was gone. Selu wanted to take revenge, and he was no longer qualified to stop it.
"Come on, let's see your results."
On the north wall, Schliemann looked at the tenant farmers and soldiers who had been organized on the main street. They had undergone earth-shaking changes from before.
They no longer wore leather armor and inferior weapons, but instead wore standard weapons and chainmail.
Minster was still dressed in the same robes as a priest. He stood in front of the trapped warriors and read out their crimes. House stood aside with his sword on the ground with both hands.
Those soldiers seemed to be afraid of Minster, and they all had low eyebrows and submissive looks, completely losing the arrogance and domineering energy they had when robbing other people's property.
"King Hisoka will not sit idly by, what are you going to do next?"
Schliemann was the first to ask his question.
Hank looked at the people gathered on the main street and the angry crowd where Minster read out the crime, with a calm expression, as if all this had nothing to do with him.
“Originally, there was only one way we could go, and that was to confront the Hisoka Kingdom head-on.
But such an outcome is foreseeable, because the secret passage will not always exist. We will be surrounded by large armies, and we will be starved of food in the battles to defend the city. Eventually, we will be trapped and die in Antler City together with the common people.
But it's different now. Your appearance has given us a second way. "
"Just wait a moment..."
Schliemann interrupted Hank and asked: "Are you saying that the purpose of more than seven hundred of you trying your best is to die in the end?"
"Yes."
Hank spoke firmly, and nothing seemed to change his stance.
"Mr. Schliemann, just imagine, the Hisoka Kingdom mobilized the whole country to suppress it, and only after a year of fierce fighting did it wipe out all the resisting tenant farmers. What kind of chain reaction will this cause?
When they want to inflict injustice again on us tenant farmers, these serfs, these unprivileged people, they will think of this incident, this incident will be like a scar, giving them enough time before making a decision. Timid, this scar will accompany Hisoka Kingdom until the end of its life.
Likewise, this matter will be planted like a seed in the hearts of the oppressed people. When they are persecuted or unfair, the first thing they think of is no longer to pray to God, but to take up arms. "
Hank's eyes swayed, and there seemed to be light shining inside. His expression was holy, like a saint ready to be martyred at any time.
Schliemann was very satisfied with his answer. He took back the pendant on Hank and laughed.
"Awesome, you are not an army of tenant farmers, you are more than 700 martyrs!"
"Yes, everyone present knows that they will die. They gave up their lives that they could survive for a long time just to burn themselves and leave an indelible scar on the old body of Hisoka Kingdom."
The holy expression on Hank's face was still there, which surprised Schliemann. He had obviously taken back the pendant.
The only explanation is that Hank really wanted to tell Schlieman the true purpose of the tenant army at this time, and this purpose had already convinced Schlieman.
