Can Arknights dream about the Knights of the Round Table?

"Hello, I am Faust... I don't know, does the 'new leader' of the Integration Movement have anything to do with me, a wounded person who has just woken up? Does he need me to do any tasks?"

Seeing Faust like this, old Wendy's scarlet eyes flickered, as if she was dissatisfied with his speculative behavior and was going to have an attack.

But the red dragon didn't mind.

"You know what true courtesy is better than Mephistopheles."

Moreover, Faust was able to quickly detect the changes in the current situation. He did not make any impulsive remarks because of the previous battle between the Round Table Army and the Integration Movement. Instead, he adjusted his position and used the title of New Leader to a small extent. A compliment to Ozwald.

This approach made Red Dragon's impression of Faust slightly better.

"Bozhuo Kasti once praised your correct style and expressed his approval... From the current point of view, you really deserve this evaluation, young man."

"It is an honor for me to be recognized by Mr. Patriot and praised by you, the leader."

Just like he only looked directly at his head when he first came over and then did not dare to raise it, Faust lowered his posture and said with some fear: "But I still don't understand. You came to me at this time." Reason, but I don’t think my previous performance was that outstanding, I would rather say it was useless.”

Having said this, he considered it for a moment and tentatively spoke:

"But if I'm allowed to take the liberty of making a guess, chief, the reason why you asked me to come here...could it be related to Ino?"

When the name 'Ino' came out, his eyes, which could not be seen by others because his head was lowered, fluctuated slightly.

And since this smart young man who was very observant had already guessed the reason for being summoned here, Ozwald didn't waste any more words and went straight to the point.

"Because he [did it too much]."

Ozwald spoke word by word, his expression was calm, and there was no trace of any personal emotion involved.

"Even as Tallulah pleads with me to give you all a second chance, I know how difficult life is for those infected. But depending on what they do, some people will get ten, twenty No chance is enough; I think you understand that, kid."

"Yes... my lord."

"I have reviewed the mistakes made by the grassroots in the past before you came. Now it is your turn, cadres."

"I understand, leader, that you want to clean up the atmosphere, and I agree with it and am willing to fully support it... But, Ino... there is a reason why he is like this..."

Faust said, his tone slightly floating.After all, no one, Mephisto's most important companion, knew exactly what his friend had done and how excessive it was.

But he still tried hard to argue for Ino: "Ino...he wouldn't have been like this originally. He is a very good person, gentle to his companions and outsiders... his dream is to use singing to heal everyone's pain. …It’s just that the shadow of what he’s experienced before was too heavy, and I condoned many of his revengeful behaviors, so he became like this now. Therefore, the responsibility in this regard should mainly lie with me. yes……"

"Therefore, if you want to punish, then punish me, but Ino has just gone astray. I hope you can still give him a chance - just... just like... just like our 'former leader' requested Same as yours..."

"I know that many things are not correct, but the anger of the infected is sometimes difficult to suppress. I can restrain my men, but I cannot force everyone to let go of their hatred. Leader, you should also understand this. , most of the infected people have indeed suffered a lot, and their desire for revenge is so strong that sometimes they can't be restrained. If you want to sentence the criminals, I hope you can take this into consideration..."

"——It is precisely because I have taken everything into consideration that I called you here."

"Faust."

After quietly listening to Faust's plea for Mephisto and the other infected people, Ozwald formally called the person in front of him by his code name: "I will indeed punish you, but not because of you. You must bear the sins Mephistopheles committed, and you must suffer on his behalf.”

"In fact, it is precisely because of your protection all the time that the kid's problem is caused now. Only verbal punishment can't help the young man who has gone astray and is deeply happy to turn around. If it cannot give pain, it will just be indulgence. That's all - in fact, your verbal accountability does not make the child understand [I can't do this], but makes him realize [I can still do this]."

"Just like other good cadres, your problem is only this connivance - it is your tolerance that has made Mephisto today, for others, the death penalty, which is the final means of criminal conviction, is meaningless. .

Being accustomed to ravaging life, he has long since cared nothing about his own life and death, and will never gain any reflection from being killed. "

"So I won't kill him."

"Just like me, I don't intend to kill you - because your sin is not worthy of death, and his death is useless."

Faust was secretly relieved when he heard this... As long as Ino is not killed immediately, there is still hope as long as Ino is not killed immediately!

But Ozwald's next words made his heart tighten again.

"I will take away everything he has to ravage others - his power, his position."

"His spirit will become the prison and punishment of his life. From then on, whenever he uses the Origin Stone skills, the double curse from the body and spirit will occur... Even when the hostile eyes of the outside world gather to a certain extent, the body surface will His brand will also make him relive the pain of dragon fire... He will thus repay those who died under his torture for everything they suffered."

From now on, he can only live as a weakling.

From now on, he can only live as a sinner.

"As for you, Faust, you must honestly assume the guardianship work that you should do but have been slow to do."

Ozwald stared at the young Phedea who was holding his breath in front of him, and slowly pronounced his verdict in calm but heavy words:

"Except for suppressing the kid's self-destructive revenge, I will not allow you to use Originium skills under any circumstances. Even if you are insulted and suppressed, you must endure it and escape from it."

"From now on, you can only use your own hands to earn money and food for the two of you to live on.

"On top of this, I will give you three chances. Faust." Ozwald raised three fingers: "I will ensure that you can live like a normal person without discrimination or the threat of ore disease. I will also Find you a job with a modest income but enough to support the two of you.

But on this basis, when Mephistopheles deliberately inflicts harm on others for any reason and the evidence is conclusive, I will chop off one of his hands the first time, and I will chop off another of his hands the second time. Only feet.And the third time, when his head fell to the ground - because it had already reached this point, it only proved that he was still unwilling to repent, and no one could make him repent. "

"Do you have any opinion on this decision?"

"........."

Faust wanted to speak several times, but listening to Oswald's calm but unquestionable words, he could only open his mouth from time to time and lick his lips a few times, but he didn't know what to say.

Especially after Red Dragon calmly stated the 'judgment', Faust's expression changed drastically. After licking his lips a few times, he seemed to be stunned for a while.

Then, he finally sighed deeply and responded in a low voice: "...No"

"Your decision is very fair. On behalf of Ino and myself, I thank you for your... kindness, sir. I think other infected people will definitely receive your harsh but appropriate judgment and live a good life with renewed hope. "

"After all, you guys are essentially just poor people who are satisfied with just begging for food, so it doesn't matter even if you don't want to join the army in the future, I will probably just let you live an ordinary life as planned; and that's what most of you are for. Something to work towards, isn’t it?”

Ozwald took a few steps forward and gently patted Faust's shoulder, which he tried his best to lower. "Try to teach that nasty little devil to be polite and right from wrong. Then reflect on it. This is what I hope you can do." It’s what I hope that kid can do.”

"Treat yourself as an ordinary person like the big guys, don't draw any more labels... Well, even if you want to go to school again, you can. I will organize people to teach you how to read... So if you have time in the future, remember to come and see me I'll sign up to make up the class. After all, it will make it easier for you to find a job."

Hearing this, Faust's eyes flashed a few times, and then he gently leaned forward to salute and said: "I understand, do you have anything else to say? If not... please allow me to take my leave first. "

"Well, walk slowly. But remember to be careful about the traces of the Sakaz mercenaries. They are most likely undercover agents inserted into the integration movement. Although I sent people to destroy the main force, if you have spare strength, you can pay a little attention .”

"..."

Faust couldn't help but raise his brows, then nodded, and saluted again, and also saluted the patriot who noticed Ozwald's intention and said nothing, just watched silently with scarlet eyes.

Then he left with the shield guard.

"...For Mephistopheles, this may be a bit merciful." After a short while after Faust left, the silent patriot spoke.

Obviously, he also agreed with this method of treatment - although the character of the old Wendigo still felt that letting Mephistopheles live for one more second was a waste of air and expensive rice.

"It's hard to say. For a kid who has become accustomed to and gradually becomes addicted to using his power to ravage others for pleasure, after losing this random power, he becomes a defective product that no one can match, and he will have to bear it for the rest of his life. The criticism and look-down from others... This huge psychological gap is not as big as just wanting to die.

But he must endure the humiliation and live because I won't let him die, and Faust won't let him die either. "

Ozwald held his chin with one hand, stared at the direction Faust left with squinted eyes, and wrote lightly: "If he doesn't choose to change, the longer he lives, the more desperate he will become."

There is a saying, although Ozwald planned to imbue Mephistopheles with Drak's Origin Stone skills in the form of branding runes, and cooperate with the ritual curse cast by the Patriot to make it last longer. Accepting the pain will not lead to death, but the original intention is not to completely strip away the magic and power that the kid has... Rather, in a sense, Ozwald hopes that he can cast spells frequently in this pain.

"I hope that he will clearly realize the mistakes he has made, and then take the physical pain caused by the surgery as the punishment he deserves for his sins, and reflect on himself every day."

"If he can even live a life of casting spells and doing good deeds in pain, just like the practice pursued by ascetics, then it will not be a kind of salvation."

“While giving people pain and fear to stop committing crimes, we must also make them sincerely regret and correct their mistakes. This is a [just] verdict.”

After hearing this, the patriot was silent for a short while, and then he only echoed Ozwald in a low voice.

"Okay, if there is nothing else important, let's organize the troops and prepare to return."

Ozwald took a deep breath and gave his final order.

"That's it for Chernobog."

ps: Well, this is basically how Mephistopheles and Faust were dealt with. Just like the Andorn incident, it was more important to pay for their sins and change than to simply die or kill them, which can be regarded as Austrian Zward has always adhered to the concept.

ps2: There are still a few to a dozen chapters in this volume, which are of a later date to relax after the big event.

The Legend of King Arthur of True Terra - The Last Days of Kiri Castle: 103 After the War·Frost Star

——In short, after roughly dealing with the issues on the main body of the integration movement, the Knights of the Round Table almost dispersed and began to stabilize the order and team of the infected in order to follow Ozworth's instructions. Germany ordered to withdraw from the core city of Chernobog as soon as possible.

Of course, Ozwald does not need these infected people to walk a long distance; he only needs them to join the group of people where Yelena is... until the city base blocks that have been generally controlled are adjusted and implemented in accordance with the regulations. The official long-distance migration will begin only after the previously issued cutting criteria have eliminated the degenerate elements in the team, and the initial 'cleansing' has been completed to allow purity and prestige (or fear) to be initially established.

So until then, just wait.

Compared with the infected who are more like "captives" in the core city of Chernobog, these nearly 500 people were called by Yelena and based on their trust in the "Frost Star" and "Infected Shield". He seems to be in generally good condition... he's a little confused at best.

After all, the hurricane caused by Ozwald came too fast and too fierce, and the time was too short to digest it, which made this group of people uncontrollably confused and overwhelmed.

But generally, the horizontal order was maintained, and he completed the construction of his residence and the digging of the sewage trough step by step; after filling his stomach, he learned to make simple handicrafts to earn daily necessities, while also starting Looking forward to the days to come - and the changes achieved by these pioneers will undoubtedly be noticed and noticed by the 'captives', becoming a good medicine to calm their original uneasiness due to defeat, and will become their model in the future. A behavioral template for changing your own life.

At least Ozwald has seen that some prisoners who are more intelligent and do not need to be punished by the patriots because their past experiences are relatively clean are beginning to look for ways to work and ask for advice.

However, observation is always mutual; like a veteran cadre going to the countryside to inspect work, Red Dragon was quickly discovered.

So just over half an hour later, Ozwald was caught by a snow monster that wandered nearby for some reason.

The witty and noisy guys were still chattering as usual, taking the initiative to talk to each other and chatting about these things; after getting Ozwald, they were still serious and basically said everything they felt could be said and asked. After the response, they appeared to be shocked, sighing, sighing, scared, including but not limited to "Big brother is invincible"

"The eldest brother insulted the black snake" and so on... The snow monsters with many mixed emotions welcomed Ozwald to Frost Star with exclamation and a little joy.

In other words, fight it off.

——As the saying goes, you must hear the person before you see him.

At the right time, Shuangxing was seriously studying a new-looking book that she got from somewhere. While she was reading the Common Language that she was not very familiar with, she heard the noise of the snow monsters nearby. There were also the sounds of chaotic footsteps entering the camp.

But with a slightly irritated frown, she raised her head and was about to curse, and then she saw Ozward, who was surrounded by three or five snow monsters and almost walked in without touching his feet.

Seeing this, the princess of the snow monster opened her mouth slightly, but she was stunned for a long time without even a single word coming out of her throat.

But in the end, she put down the profound and mysterious Common Language book in her hand, looked at Ozwald, thought about it for a while, then asked with a dry smile and said something nonsense.

"...It's okay. Brother Oz, are you done with it?"

After all, the current red dragon is even different from the clothes he wore before going out in the morning, let alone the twenty to thirty thousand infected people.

"At least for the time being, there will be no fighting." Glancing at the name of "One Hundred Bedtime Fairy Tales" on the book that Frost Star had put aside, Ozwald nodded with a normal expression: "Tallulah She'll be here a little later, but Beaudracasti is around here, supervising some of the little bastards who are twisting the twine they use to hang themselves, and I can take you there if you want."

"...It seems that that immortal black snake has been completely eliminated?" Shuangxing, who heard that his old man was supervising people to hang themselves, paused for a moment with his mouth slightly open, and then sighed: "Why? It feels so simple... There doesn't seem to be any large-scale preparations or anything like that, but it feels like you just rushed over with people... If you insist on saying it, there is a lot of movement. After all, there is a natural disaster..."

"In fact, a lot of preparations have been made." Ozwald shook his head.

If you don't have information about Kelsey, it would take you who knows how long just to collect countermeasures supplies, and even if you capture Tallulah alive, it will be difficult to deal with it later - the Fountain of Forgetfulness alone can be used as a spiritual direct agent. Lian's spellcasting medium is not enough.If you don't even know the key points, you will still be blind after entering.

"Besides, the black snake is actually quite difficult to deal with. That doesn't mean that destroying it once will eliminate future troubles forever... So let's see.

"But it's worth mentioning that I fought a battle on the moon with your father and used my invincible blasting fist to kill him to the ground. It was pretty cool; do you want to hear the details?"

"...Well, it's not impossible." Looking at Ozwald, who was beaming with joy and had been humiliated for many years, Shuangxing thought for a while and nodded.

But then, he shook his head again, thinking that it would be better not to listen to this kind of thing for the time being, otherwise, just by looking at the red dragon in front of him, who looked like he was preparing to tell a story, God knows how long he would have to chat.

As for the black snake issue... she actually didn't have much to say about it. After all, she trusted Ozwald's ability.

What's more, even according to what Ozwald said, the immortal black snake is the evil god of Ursus and cannot be eradicated physically, but the feeling is actually just like that - it is powerful, but in the end, it still needs the help of the tower. Lula's body relies on her own developed to an extraordinary level of performance to achieve outstanding performance.

Thinking of this, the rabbit ears on Shuangxing's head twitched and complained: "In comparison, I think the evil monsters that Old Stubborn said he fought are more terrifying."

blacksnake?It doesn’t feel as good as Crazy Carters (sure)

"Then the man-eating rabbits must be more powerful." Ozwald nodded: "So I must be more powerful and terrifying when I kill the patriots who crushed the rabbits. At that time, I used my strength to the point—— "

"I told you I don't want to listen to that kind of thing." Shuangxing pushed the red dragon in disgust, and then asked another question she was more concerned about in his disappointed look: "Tallulah's situation...how is it now? Is she still sober?"

"I was awake at first, but then fell asleep quickly."

After all, he has been living in a nightmare for more than half a year. In addition, he personally made the integration movement turn into the bleak reality it is today. The mental pressure is too great, and it is normal to need some time to buffer.

"Um...can I see her later?"

"I suggest it's better to wait for her to wake up naturally. After all, you may not wake her up just because you went there. People who are stressed generally can't sleep too deeply."

"That's right. After all, everyone has been rescued, so there is no need to rush for this little time."

Froststar nodded in agreement.

"Speaking of which... do we have any plans in the future? What should we do or where should we go?"

"The basic plan is to wait until the situation of most of the infected people has stabilized, and after the basic adjustments of the Chernobog sub-city are completed, I will use that thing to take all of you out of this land of right and wrong at the junction of Yanwu. location, and arrange work according to individual needs and abilities.”

During this period, we may stay at the border of Casimir for half a year to a year to deal with some long-standing issues about the old friend Linguang's family and expand the number of members depending on the situation, until the construction of our own Britain is completed.

Eventually, it is natural to sail to the land of Victoria.

After all, even if Ozwald has no interest in that cold throne, there is still an inextricable connection based on his origin.

Not to mention that Traces was there - this had to be dealt with no matter what.But there's no need to rush.

"Victoria? Well, it's the most prosperous place on the mainland, right?"