Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 323 The Hidden Basement
Marquis Marlon sat in the carriage and looked out the window with a gloomy face.

If something really happened this time, he would really lose face.

He had a good afternoon tea with the prince of the Fish Kingdom, when there was such a loud explosion outside that the prince insisted on going to see what happened.

The other nobles in the castle were also bored and followed along.

Even if someone is dead, they will definitely think that the law and order of my city is not good, and they will definitely brag to me tonight about how they manage the city.

Marquis Marlon sighed helplessly.

"Prince Joyce, do you have anything you like to eat? I don't think you have a good appetite here." Marquis Marlon asked the prince who was resting with his eyes closed.

"I've always been like this, and I don't have anything I particularly like to eat." Prince Joyce replied.

He was very handsome, with delicate features, fair skin, and long hair that reached his ears.

Marquis Marron felt that if the prince hadn't been wearing men's clothes, he might really have regarded him as a woman.

"For today's banquet, I asked my servants to prepare a lot of our Nord's special dishes, which might be liked by you." Marquis Marron said with a smile.

Although he still had a smile on his face, for some reason he had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart. The direction of the carriage made him gradually realize something.

The carriage is heading towards the business district, but if the final destination is not the business district, but the small alley next to it, then today will be troublesome, especially if there are many nobles from other countries, and even a prince.

He is still very clear about what his disappointing son has done.

But he has always turned a blind eye to it. After all, this business is still very profitable.

Oops!

Marquis Marquis saw the carriage stop and stopped at the entrance of the alley.

"It seems to be going on foot next time." Prince Joyce lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage.

Marquis Marron took a few deep breaths to calm down, and then he also got out of the carriage.

A large group of soldiers followed them into the alley.

"Your Highness, you better not go in, in case someone who tries to sabotage the relationship between our two countries sets up an ambush in the alley..." Marquis Marron tried to persuade Prince Joyce.

"I have confidence in my own strength." Prince Joyce interrupted him, and then walked into the alley.

A group of soldiers followed and surrounded him to protect him.

Marquis Marquis squeezed his fist hard, his knuckles turned white.

He sighed and followed.

"Is there some shady secret in it?" A potbellied Nord nobleman noticed his abnormality and looked at him with a smile on his face, which gave off a vicious feeling.

"It's none of your business." Marquis Marlon said angrily.

The lean noble walked aside with a smile.

"Put down the weapons in your hands, both of you." An officer's voice came from ahead.

Marquis Marlon saw the upstart young nobleman he had seen just now standing at the entrance of the shed holding a bloody sword, and next to him was a warrior covered in scars.

"Ashfire" Raymond.

Marquis Marron recognized him.

How the hell did he come to me at this time and discover this place.

Rhodes turned his head, looked at a large row of nobles behind him and smiled.

"Marquis Marlon, I found a slave trading market in your city, but don't worry, I have been guarding here, and none of them ran out. This time we can catch them all." Rhodes stood by the soldiers The Marquis Marquis behind shouted loudly.

Marquis Marlon forced a smile, "Thank you so much, I didn't expect such rats to exist in my city."

He tried his best to make his expression more natural, and prayed in his heart that his unworthy son would not be inside, otherwise today's affairs would be troublesome.

According to the laws of the Nord Kingdom, if ordinary nobles engage in the slave trade, at least they will be deprived of their titles and exiled to the bitterly cold north, and his second son, who has no inheritance rights, might lose his head because of this.

"Are you the guards of this city? Don't stand outside, come in quickly and arrest them, don't delay the evening banquet!" Rhodes shouted again.

The officer standing at the front changed his expression for a while, and finally issued an order, "All soldiers come with me, arrest everyone inside, don't let anyone go."

Rhodes stepped aside and let the soldiers behind him enter.

Not far away, the slave traders surrounding him ran back in panic after hearing this.

"Let's go in and have a look too." Prince Joyce said to Marquis Marlon beside him.

"Okay...Okay, Your Royal Highness." Marquis Marlon, who was thinking about countermeasures, woke up with a start.

"However, there is still fighting inside. It would be bad if you encounter danger inside." Marquis Marron came back to his senses and said again.

"It's okay, don't I look like I can't fight at all?" Prince Joyce smiled, and then he walked towards the wooden shed.

The nobles standing outside and watching all stepped aside and followed them in.

Passing through the corpses everywhere, they walked into the shed.

These corpses were all left by Rhodes. They were mercenaries and slave traders who tried to kill Rhodes who was blocking the door.

"There are quite a few poor people who have been caught and sold here." Prince Joyce looked at the ragged, yellow and emaciated slaves in the surrounding wooden cages, and said to himself.

The Marquis Marron next to him is not in any panic now, and he has already thought of a countermeasure.

Even if he met his disappointing second son here, he still had a way to explain it.

"I didn't expect this kind of place to exist in my city either. Tomorrow at noon, I will hang all these damned vermin in front of the residents of the city." Marquis Marron pretended to be angry and said.

"Master Marquis, the slave traders and the mercenaries they hired have all surrendered." A Nord man dressed as an officer ran over and said.

"Take me to take a look." Marquis Mullen nodded, he was relieved.

Judging by the performance of this officer, his son who failed to live up to expectations must not be here.

All the nobles present followed Marquis Marlon to the front. A group of people dressed as merchants and mercenaries raised their hands and knelt on the ground with their heads bowed. Sharp weapons were scattered around them.

"Take them all to the dungeon of the castle. At noon tomorrow, I will hang them in the square in the center of the city according to the laws of the kingdom!" Marquis Marron stood where he stood and pronounced loudly.

"Don't worry, there are still a group of people hiding." Rhodes who was mixed in the noble team suddenly said.

Marquis Marlon turned his head and looked at Rhodes with some displeasure, "You said they were hiding? Then where did you say they were hiding? Do you think soldiers like me are useless, and there are still people who can stand in front of them?" Hide?"

Rhodes smiled. He walked out of the team, walked around the kneeling captives under the angry gaze of Marquis, and walked to a stone wall.

He took a deep breath, stanced, a white light flashed on his right fist.

boom!
The fist smashed hard on the stone wall, the hard wall shattered, and the gravel fell to the ground.

Through the hole in the stone wall, everyone present saw several stairs and a closed stone door.

This is the entrance to the basement of that auction house.

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　Thanks to Qiankun Tunmeng for the monthly pass!

　　There is one more in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)