mynovelonline Chapter 750 - 74: Festive Celebration Atmosphere and Massive Knights
Chapter 750 - 74: Festive Celebration Atmosphere and Massive Knights
As the Radiant Competition Festival approaches, the celebratory and lively atmosphere within the territory grows increasingly intense.
It’s not just because of the festive rituals, but more importantly due to the immense influx of outsiders to the territory.
The merchants, citizens, and attendants of the territory are exclaiming with excitement, as if all the knights from around the world have come to the Hesse Territory!
This statement is, of course, an exaggeration, but for a city with only a few thousand inhabitants, the sudden influx of thousands of knights, armed attendants, mercenaries, and adventurers is indeed a significant opportunity and challenge.
Walking on the streets, it’s easy to see groups of knights and attendants in armor strolling about. That classic saying, "a brick thrown would hit two knights," is definitely not an exaggeration, but reality.
Especially since many of these knights come from noble backgrounds, many bring with them several armed attendants and half-elf servants, which simply packed the territory to the brim.
The Hesse Territory anticipated this scene and prepared four row houses in advance to accommodate these knights coming to participate in the festivities. These are signature Empire buildings, towering four-story dwellings, where the first floor houses the owner’s kitchen, including a laundry room, dishwashing area, and storage room. Next to the kitchen are the servants’ quarters—small rooms for girls or half-elf maids like country mice. They are responsible for taking care of the owner’s bedroom while supervising workers cleaning the second, third, and fourth floors rented out as dozens of rooms.
In the past, this area gathered people from all walks of life, with many wealthy knights and monastery priests keen on expanding their territory here, sending various teams and toughs to threaten and intimidate the row house owners.
But now those crimes and even the hidden Chaos Fangs and cultist cultivators have vanished without a trace!
After all, knights of the Sun Goddess Church might be unwilling to intervene in these evil deeds, but the knights of the Redema Church are indeed overflowing with a sense of justice! They constantly speak of upholding justice and purifying evil, and dare to pursue Chaos Fangs and cult followers to the end if they dare to appear.
It can be said they are the most earnest and resolute, or that they are the most suited to a knight’s sense of idealism.
After all, knights always have a bit of a mission to uphold justice.
It could be said that since the festival is near, the demeanor of the territory has transformed, akin to clear skies and smooth winds.
Of course, this is followed by massive brawls and riots, as this group of hot-tempered and fiery knights gathers, a disagreement could easily spark a duel.
There was even a Redema follower who, suspecting a village in the territory of having Chaos Corruption, followed the Empire tradition and set the village ablaze. This even alerted the territory’s Griffin Knights and Flying Horse Knights to investigate, only to find it was a false alarm. Enraged territorial knights and villagers tied the troublemaker up and nearly burned him at the stake! Eventually, the Judicial Court fined him over 200 Golden Crowns and compensated each of the 30 households nearly 10 Golden Crowns to pacify the public outrage.
However, he didn’t have that much gold, despite selling everything he had, he could only come up with over 30 Golden Crowns. He only provided compensation equivalent to a year’s income per household. Since these residents had been in the territory for less than a year, it barely counted as compensation.
However, the Judicial Court still tossed him into the Black Steel Redemption Mercenary Corps, sentencing him to 210 years of servitude, to repay his debts with war spoils.
This is his lot in life; at a young age, saddled with a debt of over 200 years, perfectly experiencing the despair of this bleak world. As a formal knight, no matter how he persists, he’s not living to 200. He’s not a Dwarf Long-bearded Warrior, without the long-lived lineage. It means he’ll spend from now until his death repaying this debt.
Besides a few such misunderstandings, most conflicts stem from the sudden explosion of demand and the insufficient supply.
The Hesse Town is only so big; accommodating 1,000 outsiders was well-thought-out.
Now, with thousands of rough men suddenly crowding in, from inns to taverns, from brothels to hot springs, it’s all passionate and overflowing with knights who greet each other warmly while fighting for food, wine, and lodging, asking affectionately about each other’s female relatives.
Then, verbal spats quickly escalate into more violent confrontations, further straining resources, as once they start fighting, they easily smash the tavern’s tables, chairs, and counters.
For several days, Hilude and Governor Oliver continuously reported various territorial issues to Su Li.
Su Li listened to Hilude’s report once again, just an hour ago, knights of the Goddess of Justice and followers of Lanode clashed in the territory’s square.
Because these Lanode followers cheat and deceive, taking advantage of the population surge to gouge prices and scam outsiders, both sides fought fiercely on the square. Locals, already resentful over soaring prices, and discriminated outsiders, fully unleashed days of pent-up anger in a massive brawl involving hundreds.
This even startled Demster, who had just escaped from the Seductive Demon Realm, almost drained by the lady Desire Demons. In his words, the ladies greeted him warmly with sharp daggers, and the blood he lost could give them a rose bubble bath!