Chapter 284
Side Story 17
The hooves of the Northern Imperial Cavalry trampled the earth. The lances held by the cavalrymen plunged into the serfs, and the warhorses of the heavy cavalry mercilessly trampled over the fallen serfs as they passed.
Bones shattered, entrails crushed, and screams echoed.
“Let them know the fate of those who dare defy His Majesty and the Empire and flee!”
Marquis Maximilian, who led the cavalry and also served as the head of the northern noble faction, shouted. He intended to personally bring this situation to a close, one that even the central government was failing to properly address and was merely muddling through.
He is the Marquis Maximilian, who once annihilated the main force of the revolutionary army in the north and who considers himself the pillar of the empire. Therefore, he was not the sort to be intimidated by those northern forces that the central government was already cowering before.
“P-Please spare me! I beg you! Forgive me!”
“Emperor! I will serve only His Imperial Majesty! I will never defy the Empire again!”
It wasn’t even a battle to begin with. It was a massacre, merely an example that needed to be set.
Once, led by the absurd nonsense that the ‘Fourth Empire’ had risen, serfs abandoned their estates and fled. Before them, the Marquis Maximilian smiled coldly.
Gazing at the serfs lined up in rows there, and at his family.
“……”
Dale quietly raised his head. Seeing the scene unfolding before him, he swallowed hard.
