Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 1 The Root of All Evil
Xia Houyan looked at the lampstand in front of him in a trance: the body was entirely made of brass, roughly shaped like a male lion, showing an elegant streamlined shape - the lion opened its mouth wide and filled with lamp oil.

A golden flame danced in the mouth of the brass lion.

"Lord Elliot? Lord Lord?" Someone next to him called softly.

Xia Houyan came back to his senses.

He turned his head blankly, and saw a young girl in a maid costume next to him, looking at him timidly.

"Sir, sir..." The girl dressed as a maid curled her flaxen hair on her temples and asked anxiously, "Are you alright? I saw you staring at this oil lamp for several minutes..."

"I'm fine." Xia Houyan reluctantly replied while trying to recall the maid's name.

Can not remember.

It has been two days since he traveled to this world, but the memory of the original owner of the body is still a mess.

He can only confirm now that his name is Elliot Igor, and his identity is a nobleman and lord of the empire.As for my age, is it...?Still 19 years old?

Xia Houyan pinched his eyebrows irritably.

"You... what's your name?" He opened his eyes and asked through gritted teeth.

The maid was stunned for a moment, then smiled softly, and said softly:

"Lord Elliot, my name is Angie Randall, and I am your personal maid. You have just recovered from a coma for less than two days, and occasional memory confusion is completely normal, please don't worry."

Xia Houyan sullenly agreed.

It was naturally impossible for the little maid to think that the original young noble Elliot Igor had already died in a coma.

Thinking of his new identity, he couldn't help but look around again.

Dark-yellow cowhide tent cloth; makeshift beds and sleeping bags made of animal skins directly on the ground; and a poor little maid in a messy maid outfit with a pretty face covered in smoke...

Yes, this is not some gorgeous lord's mansion, but a tent hastily set up in the wild.

Eliot Igor, a nobleman of the empire and a lord of food towns, is on a journey with his [-] lords.

Xia Houyan didn't know the ins and outs of all this, but he probably remembered that it seemed that the Igor family had been revoked by the empire for some reason. They traveled across mountains and rivers with their subjects and moved to new territories allocated by the empire.

Shortly after embarking on the journey, Eliot Igor fell into a coma due to illness, until two days ago, Xia Houyan's soul woke up in this body.

Xia Houyan tried his best to imitate Elliot Igor's usual tone, and asked tentatively:

"Is it safe where we are camping now?"

Anjie was startled when she heard this.She answered hesitantly:
"Master Laurie used magic to detect it. He said that there must be no zombies within ten miles, but farther away..."

Hearing the word "zombie", Xia Houyan suddenly felt a headache.He frowned and asked:

"So, we still haven't been able to leave the undead infection zone?"

Anjie shook her head:

"Master Elliot, Master Laurie said that after our convoy encountered a zombie wave during the day, we panicked... Now our camp... I'm afraid it's right in the middle of the undead infected area..."

During the day... Xia Houyan remembered the zombie attack a few hours ago, and his heart skipped a beat.he asks:
"So, how many people did we lose during the day?"

The little maid's face darkened at once:

"Lord Elliott, we lost a total of 26 people, nearly [-]% of our livestock, and... [-] guards during the daytime zombie attack."

"26 guards?!" Xia Houyan suddenly remembered something, his face turned pale instantly, "I remember we only have more than 30 guards in total?"

The little maid's eyes were a little wet:

"Yes, yes... Lord Elliot, we only have seven combat-capable guards left... Those sacrificed guards, he, they are all heroic fighters, without them, we would not have survived at all. Attacked by the corpse tide, who survived to camp..."

Xia Houyan was silent.

With the only knowledge in his memory, he calculated the possibility that only seven guards could escort the team through the zombie-infested undead-infested area—

The answer is zero.

"So..." He summed up the current situation with difficulty, "Our team of 500 people is now trapped in the middle of the infected area, surrounded by countless zombies and unable to get out?"

"Yes..." The little maid's voice was as thin as a gnat, and she was crying, "Master Laurie said, if it really doesn't work, I will leave the subjects tomorrow and send you out of the infected area alone... The seven guards plus the master himself , should still be able to protect you..."

Xia Houyan was stunned for a moment, then asked absentmindedly:

"Send me out alone? Then... what do you do?"

"I, I..." Tears fell from An Jie's cheeks, "An Jie doesn't want to drag you down..."

Xia Houyan felt something choked in his throat.

He took a deep breath and tentatively called the little maid's name:
"An...Jie?"

The little maid, An Jie, wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and said "um".

Xia Houyan closed his eyes and gritted his teeth:
"Go and tell Master Laurie that I can't walk by myself. What's the use of my lord if I leave the lord to run by myself?"

"But Lord Elliot..." An Jie shook her head desperately, "We definitely won't be able to survive... Even, even Captain Alice..."

"Alice?" Xia Houyan felt a little impressed by the name, "Isn't she our captain of the bodyguard?"

"Yes..." Anjie shook her head sadly, "At that time, the corpse tide was about to catch up with your carriage. Captain Alice rushed up to protect you..."

Xia Houyan pursed his lips.

In Elliot's memory, Alice was the captain of the guards of the Igor family, and she was a master swordsman - but even if she was highly skilled in martial arts and rushed into the corpse tide of countless zombies, there was no doubt about it. death-defying behavior.

"Master Laurie has done his best, but he only got back Captain Alice's body..." Anjie wiped away her tears, forced a smile and said softly, "Lord Elliot, the corpse tide is so terrifying, as long as it can kill you We are very happy to send it out safely..."

"In short, I can't run alone." Xia Houyan waved his hands irritably, "Let me be quiet. We'll talk about tomorrow's affairs tomorrow."

Anjie hesitated, but finally bowed, turned and walked out of the tent.

Both she and Xiahou Yan knew that this young lord was just procrastinating and deceiving himself.

In the infected area and in front of the corpse tide, there is always only a choice of life or death.

Xia Houyan waited for An Jie's footsteps to disappear outside the tent before turning his head and looking at the lion-shaped oil lamp beside the bed.

The yellow metal surface reflects a face that is too young - pale, thin, and his face is too gloomy against the black hair - until half a month ago, this man named Elliot Egg Er's young man is still a pampered aristocratic young master, studying hard for a magician's degree in the Imperial Mage Academy;
And now, he has become a genuine noble lord, and he is deeply trapped in the infection zone with his subjects.

The life and death of 500 people are in his hands.

"Elliot Igor..." Xia Houyan muttered his new name, and the memory of the original owner of the body gradually awakened and came back to his mind: childhood family time, the death of Youyou in the wizard academy, and the guards Captain Alice's once heroic and moving face...

Xia Houyan looked away from the oil lamp.He stretched out his hand, and slowly and slightly hesitantly pulled out a tarpaulin package from the luggage by the bed - which was brought back from the academy by Eliot when he dropped out of the School of Masters and came to inherit the family business.

Everyone else thought that the package contained the textbooks of the Mage Academy, but if the memory he had just recovered was correct, there should be something else in it...

Xia Houyan took a deep breath and opened the package.

The first thing that came into view was a dark diary.After hesitating for a moment, he put the diary aside, revealing the following tattered old books:
"Introduction to Curse", "Demonology", "Illustration of Ancient Rites"...

The cover of each book is covered with the blood-red "forbidden book" seal of the Master Academy.

He took out an old book at the bottom of the package, stared at the cover for a while, and then raised his voice and shouted:

"Angie!"

The voice of the maid soon came from outside the tent:
"Lord Elliot, what's wrong?"

Xiahou Yan resisted the trembling in his heart and asked loudly:

"Captain Alice's body...where is it now?"

(End of this chapter)