Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 196 Encounter
"Don't kill me! I surrender! I can spend money to redeem myself!" The Nord nobles at Rhodes' feet replied in panic.

"How much money can an unknown nobleman like you have?" Rhodes replied with a sneer.

"I can scrape together a thousand gold coins to redeem myself," the Nord noble replied.

"A thousand gold coins? Is your life worth that much? What's your name? What title?" Rhodes asked.

"I am Baron Corbett of Wild Boar Castle. One thousand gold coins is quite a lot. For a small noble in the countryside that most nobles call me, one thousand gold coins has been my tax for several years." The Nord nobleman replied with a sad face. .

Rhodes calmed down a little, and felt that it was the most sensible to accept the Nord nobleman's way of redeeming himself. It is normal for noblemen to fight each other within the same country.

However, if a noble is captured by the opponent, he can use money to redeem himself. If he does not accept the ransom and chooses to kill the noble or imprison him, many nobles will be disgusted.

Many people will feel that this practice is a matter of loss of honor, and most importantly, it breaks the rules among nobles.

For example, the king of Nord is now leading an army to surround the castle where the emperor of the Roman Empire is located. Even if the Nords suffered heavy casualties when the castle was breached, the king of Nord cannot directly kill the emperor of the Roman Empire. He can only choose capture him.

Unless the emperor of the Roman Empire was killed in a frontal battle wearing armor and holding a weapon, if he put down his weapon, killing him would violate the rules that the nobles have followed for thousands of years.

"Can you stop the bleeding first, I feel like I can't hold it anymore." Baron Corbett said again.

Rhodes glanced at Baron Corbett's bloody severed arm, and bent down to burn Corbett's wound with Flame Tongue Technique.

"Ah!" Corbett screamed in pain, "Are you trying to kill me?"

Seeing that the blood from Corbett's severed arm had stopped, Rhodes stopped using the Flame Tongue Technique.

"What's going on?" Rhodes heard a familiar voice, and turned around to find that it was Baron.

"This bastard is an imperial man, but he turned out to be a Nord. Not only did he want to snatch my captives as his military exploits, but he also killed my men and cut off my arm." Corbett stood up and shouted loudly, It was like seeing a savior.

Baron Corbett was a little excited. He knew that the bald Nord was powerful and reckless. If he believed in himself, he would definitely kill this bastard.

Rhodes punched Baron Corbett in the face who had just stood up, knocking him down again.

"Is that so?" Baron glanced at Rhodes.

"What do you think?" Rhode suddenly stepped on Baron Corbett's face.

"If you want to kill him, move faster and pretend to be killed by soldiers of the Roman Empire. I will deal with these soldiers." Baron took the battle ax behind his back.

"Don't kill me!" Baron Corbett's voice was a bit vague, Rhode's punch just now should have knocked out his teeth.

Baron Corbett realized that something was wrong. The two seemed to know each other. Now he regretted what he did just now.

When he saw this large group of captives, he didn't think too much about it. His mind was full of snatching these captives and claiming credit in front of the king, in exchange for a larger fiefdom and a higher title.The man covered in blood in front of him looked so young that he didn't take him seriously, thinking he was just an ordinary soldier, and these crossbowmen saw the Nord army captured The city walls dropped their weapons and surrendered.

"Give me a reason not to kill you. A thousand gold coins is not worth mentioning to me. It's better to kill you directly, and my mood will become happier." Rhodes stepped on the stepping stone harder.
"I might be able to take out fifteen hundred gold coins!" Corbett shouted.

"Do you want to be beheaded directly? Or be cut into two pieces like those soldiers over there, and still be able to crawl on the ground for a while?" Rhodes asked again.

"How about two thousand gold coins? If you kill me, there will be no benefit, but there will be a lot of trouble. All the other nobles will know that you don't follow the rules, and they will reject you together." Baron Corbett was very scared, his whole body trembled. Started to tremble.

"It's very easy for this kind of place to pretend that you and your soldiers were killed by imperial soldiers. If you can come up with three thousand gold coins, we can let you go." Baron said.

Rhodes had been waiting for the money-greedy Baron to speak. After seeing Baron, he knew that he would choose ransom instead of venting his anger, but it was more sensible to choose ransom.

"After returning to Nord, I can give you two thousand gold coins first, and the remaining one thousand gold coins will have to wait until next year." Baron Corbett heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"You have to swear to the Holy Spirit," Baron said.

"I, Corbert Pig, swear to the Holy Spirit, I will pay these two two thousand gold coins when I return to Nord, and pay the remaining one thousand gold coins a year later, and I will not pursue what happened today. If I violate it, I will never have peace!" Baron Corbett swore loudly.

Rhodes was a little speechless. He didn't expect that there was someone with the surname Pig, and the fief was still called Wild Boar Castle.However, what a baron owns should not be called a castle, but a tower.

"Take your people and get lost." Rhode lifted his foot that was on Corbett's face.

Baron Corbett got up from the ground, picked up his weapon, and quickly left here with his soldiers. He wanted to die now. Not only did he lose a few soldiers, he was also disabled, and he also lost A lot of money.

There is no profitable business in his territory, and it is too difficult to make money.

"Where's Hammer?" Rhodes asked after seeing Corbett leave.

"He went to the castle with the large army." Baron was counting the number of crossbowmen.

These crossbowmen are very afraid of Rhodes. Even though Rhodes had a conflict with that Baron Corbett just now, none of them ran away or made trouble, and they all sat obediently in place.

"That's right. You alone captured more than 200 people. This is the first time I've heard of such a thing." Baron turned his head and said in admiration.

"How much title can these people get me?" Rhodes asked.

"I don't know either." Baron showed a thoughtful look, "If you still want to get some more credit, go to the castle. I can help you look at these people. I can guarantee that if I stay here, there will be no such thing." The idiot came running."

Rhodes thought for a while and said, "Can you help me contact Hamer, and I can give him a good chance to gain military exploits."

"I think you shouldn't be able to find him. Even if you find him, he won't be able to get away." Baron sat on the ground and said, "What do you mean by good chance?"

"I know a tunnel leading to the interior of the castle..."

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(End of this chapter)