Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 49 Dialogue between the Dead and the Living
"I... I am I..." Deputy Head Tabili felt that his mind was blank.

A crowbar slammed in with a sound of breaking the sky, and his field of vision was immediately smashed into a blank space.

"Shut up, don't talk." Xia Houyan tapped his palm with a crowbar and said softly, "I deliberately drove everyone away from them, because before I kill you, I still want to chat with you a few words. - Just you, and me, have a chat. So shut up and listen to me - if you dare to make any noise without my permission, it will be more than just a crowbar."

Deputy Head Tabili opened his mouth, but did not dare to say a word.

Even though the brain was still in the state of the concussion that had just been hit, Deputy Head Jose Tebili was still aware of a key problem:
If I can't speak, how can I offer a life-exchange chip to the other party?
Jose Taibiri's eyes were filled with hopeless despair.

Xia Houyan didn't seem to see the expression on the prisoner's speechless expression. He pulled another chair from the corner of the tent and placed it in front of Tabili with the back of the chair facing him.The Lord straddled the chair inelegantly, hugged the back of the chair with his arms, and looked at his captive indifferently.

Tabili felt his tears were rolling down, whether it was because of the heavy blow of the crowbar just now, or because of fear and despair.

"What's your name? I allow you to answer this question." Xiahou Yan smiled at the captive.

"If, Jose...Tabili..." Tabili replied tremblingly, feeling that his lips were no longer under his control.

"Very good, Mr. Jose Tabili... You see, I'm not in a good mood lately." Xia Houyan rested his chin on the back of the chair and twirled the crowbar in his hand playfully, "So I need it very much. Find someone to talk to and tell me what's in my heart... But unfortunately, some things can't be told to others. However, Mr. Tabili, the goddess of fate is so kind, she sent you to me And you, Mr. Tabili, are a perfect listener to me!—do you know why?"

Taibiri shook his head desperately, and he flung the tears from his cheeks.

"Because you are a person who will die soon." Xia Houyan smiled and said every word, "A dead person will not reveal my secrets."

"I, I, I, I, I..." Deputy Chief Tabili stammered.

Another merciless crowbar.

The force of the stick was so great that it knocked Taibiri to the ground with the chair tied to him on the spot, causing a loud bang.

Xia Houyan stood up from his chair, took two steps forward, straightened Taibiri again, used the tip of a cold crowbar to lift the chin of this strong mercenary, stared at the other party's tearful eyes, word for word sneered:
"Remember? When I speak, you, shut up."

Tabili nodded humiliatingly, but Xiahou Yan didn't look at him—the Lord took two steps back, leaning on the back of his chair with his left hand, looking down at Tabili and said indifferently:

"Mr. Taibiri - I don't know what position you are in your team, so I'll call you Mr. Taibli - I believe that you still can't accept your failure, you must have doubts in your heart , why did the group charge of your cavalry fail to achieve the expected effect and completely overwhelm the defense of the convoy; life is unsatisfactory in all likelihood, but you, Mr. Taibili, I guess you still can't understand, today's How did this failure happen?"

Tabili nodded - what else could he do?

"Let me tell you the answer - your mistake is that many things in this world are not what they look like on the surface." Xia Houyan sneered, "When you, Mr. Tabili, see When I was in my motorcade, what you saw was a tired and vulnerable team full of old, weak, women and children. You thought you had discovered a powerless young deer for yourself with the eyes of a cheetah!

"But what you can't see is that this team has a thorn knight with extremely rich combat experience and wearing ancient epic equipment;
"What you can't see is that my captain of the guard is a master swordsman who is not only young and beautiful, but also amazing in his swordsmanship;
"What you can't even see is that, Mr. Chief Mage, his spiritual magic can turn the tide of battle in an instant!"

Taibiri, who was tightly tied to the chair, was a little confused: Isn't the empire only three levels of "Lily Knight", "Rose Knight" and "Bauhinia Knight"?

Where did the title "Knight of Thorns" come from?
——Of course, under the heavy blow of two sticks, he has long lost the ability to think carefully.

Xia Houyan didn't care about the other's confused eyes, and said to himself:
"And you, Mr. Tabili, your problem is that you not only misestimated your opponent's strength, but you even misestimated your own strength!

"In your psychological expectation, the dozens of cavalry under your command should be able to destroy the resistance force of my convoy... In fact, this was originally true. At that time, there were still combat capabilities in my convoy. It's just that thorn knight, my captain of the female bodyguard, and my chief mage..."

The lord smiled contemptuously, and compared a number in front of Tabili with his hand:

"Mr. Taibili, you have 60 people! 60 people! Sixty against three, no matter how strong these three people are, you should be able to use numbers to gain an overwhelming advantage—maybe the only thing you can't handle is the Thorn Knight. Clement's heavy armor, but you are fucking cavalry! If your men are aware of their own mobility characteristics, they can ignore the slow heavy warriors and use the absolute speed of the horses to drive me around in circles. The team killed them all, and then walked away under Clement's nose!

"But what did your team do? They just suffered a blow from Clement, and they completely lost their fighting spirit and fled. This gave my captain of the guards and the chief mage a chance!
"Mr. Tabili, maybe in your mind, the cavalry under your command is the elite of the southern wasteland, but I want to tell you, they are not qualified! I can tell you, I have seen too many such troops, they Maybe well-equipped, maybe well-trained, but they don't have faith in their hearts! Mercenaries like yours, who always fight only for their own interests, may be able to break through when they charge, but they will also lose a thousand miles when they retreat! They are jackals that can tear carrion on the grasslands, but they are not the mainstays that can stand firm in the tide!"

The deputy head of Taibiri gritted his teeth and stared at the young nobleman in front of him, all kinds of liquids woven into a river on his face.

Subconsciously, he knew that the dark-haired young man was right.

"Of course, these military issues are not the focus of what I want to talk about today." Xia Houyan relaxed his posture, stretched out his hand and took out a dark object from his arms.

—Tabili realized it was a notebook.

"The point of today is that there are many things inside that are not what they appear on the surface." Xia Houyan showed a cruel smile, and then lightly weighed the black diary in his hand, "And the former lord of Eagle's Rest Castle , Eliot Igor is a perfect example: in the eyes of most people, the young Eliot is just a game flower, a useless dude, but I have been reading Eliot these days. When I was writing his diary, I actually discovered another side of him—and this discovery really caused me to be in a bad mood recently."

Taibiri was confused.

He remembered that the black-haired lord in front of him, wasn't his name Elliot Igor?
But why did he talk about himself as if he was talking about another person?

Before waiting for the confused Tabili to react, Xia Houyan had already opened Elliot Igor's diary and read softly to the deputy head of "Wind of Desolation":

"September 93, [-] Imperial Calendar, sunny..."

(End of this chapter)