Their fear turned into hatred, The shiver in their spines turned into boiling blood in their veins.. the city started a revolt
People went out in the streets, burning everything in it, and attacking the fortified inner area where the Marquess and his close family lived.
The soldiers also laid down their arms refusing to participate in the incoming battle, and demanded that Remus son of Marquess Rufus must be handed over to the Burton family as an offering and to kick out the refugees from the Tawi family from their lands then start to negotiate with the Burtons after that
Facing such a general outburst just two days before the decisive confrontation, the Marquess ordered the knights to go out to the streets and kill all the rebels and behead every traitor who refuses to obey orders in the army.
But they refused...
After two or three days they will die in battle or live homeless in the corners of some foreign lands as refugees anyway, so why would they kill their own ken now? for what!? nothing would change if the public carried their weapons or not...
Also.. how can they punish them when they are also thinking the same thing.
Former Marquess Tawi gazed down from the palace balcony at the city that was burning even before the enemies could reach it, and saw how the Rufus family knights were so indecisive...
are those the ones who he threw his all with? how are those going to defend the city versus the Burtons when they already burning it?!
But where else would he go... no one in the kingdom would choose to refugee him and make enemies out of the Burtons for no reason, even the Royal Family abandoned him!
If this city also falls, then he will be doomed to live as a stray dog with no home and be hunted down everywhere he goes
Blood rushed to his head and with a fit of rage he ordered his knights and saints to go down immediately to carry out the orders of Marquess Rufus and take control of the city and restore order before the hostile army reach them
All the Tawi family knights and saints and the city moved and started attacking the revolting citizens with full force
But his decision proved to be the worst decision that could be made at the moment...
The knights of the Rufus family finally moved, but this time to defend their families from the outsiders who were committing crimes in their own city, they attacked the few Tawi family knights and killed them all.
Seeing their relatives killed, the Tawi family saints attacked the knights of the Rufus family in a fit of rage, but their numbers were simply too large for them to handle, and a few Rufus family Saints came to help.
A massive battle broke out inside the city, but it also subsided in the blink of an eye...
The results are that only Marquess Tawi was the only one left alive of his family's upper icons.
Afraid of his life, he quickly retreated to take shelter in the person who came to support, to Marquess Maximus Rufus, and to complain to him about what happened and demanded to kill the traitors.
but...
When he entered the war council dome, he found Marquess Maximus Rufus still sitting on the main seat of the oval table.. but this time a long blade pierced his heart from behind, and behind him stood Julius Rufus looking at him with fierce eyes like a hungry wolf
The level 28 saint and the second most powerful saint in the family has finally made a move.
*Betrayal!* The word exploded in Marquess Tawi's head as he turned around and rushed towards the city walls to try to escape.
But all the saints and knights of the Rufus family chased him down for two full hours until they finally caught him... and cut off his head.
The madness didn't stop there, all the sons of the former Marcus, including Remus and all his close associates of Knights and Saints, were captured over the next two days and were publicly beheaded.
After two days when Patriarch Brian arrived at the city's doorstep, he did not find an army trying to stop him.
Rather, he found all the doors open, and in front of them, many knights and saints were lined up in a full bowing position...
In front of them are more than a hundred heads placed on spears, and under each head, the name of its owner was written with blood.
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"…. This is exactly the situation as I see it." The Patriarch called Robin and began telling him what is happening in the lands of the Rufus family, "and now the new representative of the family, Julius Rufus, has completely surrendered...
honestly, their strength freaks me out, I don't know if he did that on purpose, But Julius Rufus has arranged his men in a matter that is very intimidating even in bowing position, the numbers of knights and saints here are too much, none of them decided to leave the city, and I fear none of them will leave it if we attack now...
if they decide to fight To the last breath, from behind the city walls, they would have caused us a lot of losses... What do you think we should do now?"
"Hmmm excellent, everything is excellent! We should accept their surrender, of course! provided that all the saints and knights in their family swear allegiance to us and not leak our secrets...
Tell them we will help and strengthen their family and give them even more lands to rule if they worked well under our banner." The reply came quickly.
"...boy, honestly tell me the truth, were you expecting this?" asked the patriarch, leaving the saints and the knights of the Rufus family still in bowing position
Robin was the one who told him to take it easy in his march towards them as much as possible and just try to show the strength of the army, and now with his arrival, he found this sight that he would never have dared to dream of one day...
Marcus Maximus Rufus... This person would not have bothered to greet him if he had seen him in the streets twenty years ago, and now his head is placed on a spike in front of his city as a sacrifice to calm his anger and stop the war...
The Patriarch until now still has not been able to comprehend what is going on!
"Hahaha, I just had a hunch, an old family such as them would refuse to get exterminated because of such a silly reason, or that's what I was hoping at least, I think they do still have smart and decisive people in their family, and those people will one of our strongest allies in the future!
The important thing is, if they accept our terms, send them to the oath pyramid in Jura and send a saint from our family to accompany them and follow through the whole process until the last of them swears the right oath… you have Billy in your army, right? Send him with them, he would be perfect for the task."
"Send wolves to our empty city? what if they tried to escape or make a move on the city? No no, I will wait for the Fire legion and the rest of the family's saints to gather here and send them with them as escorts.." The patriarch immediately refused.
"No need, they surrendered on their own, if they wanted to escape they would have done that already, as for plying any tricks... just make sure you encircle the city and have the families of saints and knights under house arrest before they leave to Jura, that will be enough to make sure they won't play any games~"
"Arrest their families…" muttered the Patriarch, "Honestly, I thought about it the moment you suggested sending them with Billy alone, but I am afraid to try something like this, I fear that the peaceful situation may turn into war and all of them attack us,
the numbers of knights and saints by my side are not that many to try to force something on them, and seeing the knights and Saints of the Tawi family, I think I would still have a hard time even if do have much more back up.."
"Don't worry, they wouldn't choose the fighting option unless we go too far, if they wanted to fight they wouldn't have killed their Marquess and their backup from the Tawi family... just know that if you are afraid, then they are terrified... do it as I told you and you won't find any resistance."
"...So be it." The Patriarch didn't argue anymore as he closed the communication line, looked towards the magnificent sight of all those saints and knights bowing in front of him one last time as if he wanted to burn it into his memory, then walked toward Julius Rufus who was two levels stronger than him, with shaky steps, but excited mind.
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