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Frey was very satisfied with Harold's serious expression of his loyalty. After Harold finished speaking, Frey smiled and said to Harold and Tris: "I'm looking for you two today. There are two things. One is to privately appoint Harold as the Minister of Finance. Of course, this appointment will not take effect until tomorrow's palace meeting. The other is to hope that you two will accompany me to the prison deep underground of the Royal Capital Tribunal. Let's go to the prison to meet our former finance minister of the kingdom, "Lord Earl Brut", and see if our warden Azik has any useful information for me, such as corruption. Apart from him, are there any other nobles involved in this military expenditure?"

Harold looked at Frey and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, are you saying that Brut is not the only one who embezzled military funds from the kingdom? No, Brut alone and other nobles are also involved."

Frey said in a cold voice: "Of course he can't be the only one. The military expenditures distributed by the Kingdom to the army over the years have reached billions of beliries. The number I have found so far is 1.5 billion beriries, and even more Not to mention that as the Minister of Finance, in addition to distributing military expenditures, other expenditures in the kingdom, such as urban construction, disaster relief, official expenditures, and a series of expenditures, are all issued by him. I will not believe that he has embezzled military expenditures. , did not reach out to other places, such a high astronomical figure is not something he, a Earl of the kingdom, can afford, there must be other nobles involved."

Frey saw that Harold still had something to say, so he waved his hand and said: "Okay, there is no need to ask any more questions. If you have any other questions, we can just ask our Lord Brut directly. I have arranged the carriage to wait for us outside. Now, get ready to go.”

Harold, who was about to ask more questions, had no choice but to give up. He and Tris followed Frey on the left and right, followed by the guards to the outside of the palace, got on the gold-plated carriage, and the group Heading towards the prison under the Judgment House in the west of the city.

In the capital of the Kingdom of Ferelden, there is only one surprisingly large prison under the Trial House. Although this prison is very huge, there are only a few prisoners. The vast majority of prisoners live in the Trial House. In three to five days, sometimes seven to eight days to half a month, they will face the trial in the court.

Depending on the identity of the prisoner, the subjects of the trial are also different. Generally, like civilians who commit crimes, they are judged by the judges in the court. According to their crimes, the judges will either execute them or fine them. , when their crimes reach a certain level, that is, if the death penalty is not enough and the crime is excessive, they will face permanent slavery. They will sit in the prison transport vehicle in the trial house and be sent to the huge building behind the kingdom. On the Workers' Bridge, the Workers' Bridge, also known as the Workers' Country, is a country on the bridge. The construction of this bridge began 700 years ago. The person who ordered it was the world's noble Tenryu. There gathered prisoners from all over the world. , pirates, slaves, and citizens of allied countries who are unwilling to join the World Government.

They and their descendants will stay on this bridge forever and ever, endlessly building this huge bridge connecting the islands until they can no longer work and die.

Frey sat in the carriage and looked at the passing scenery outside the window, thinking to himself: "The world's nobles "Dragon People" are really a cancerous existence. One day, I will put those high-ranking people in the so-called holy land "Marie Joa". "The Tianlong people will all pull down their horses, and I will let them experience the unyielding anger from the people at the bottom."

After driving for more than ten minutes, the carriage finally arrived at the West City Judgment Hall again. It was learned that Frey and his party were coming to the prison to interrogate the prisoners. Warden Azik was waiting at the door early with two cell heads.

Seeing Frey and the others getting off the carriage, Warden Azik and two prison chiefs diligently led the way and led everyone to the underground prison. The underground prison has three floors, all of which were collected from the mountains. It is made of huge rocks. This is the first time that Frey has entered a prison at this age. The light in the dungeon is not very good. There is a weak oil lamp hanging on the surrounding wall for about ten steps. The gas circulation in the dungeon is not very good. The air was turbid and smelly. Warden Azik and two prison guards held torches and led the way.

As he went deeper into the ground, Frey found that the tunnel below became tighter and narrower, and the light became fainter. Warden Azik said from the front: "Your Majesty, the prisoner Brut is locked up at the bottom of the prison. In a special room, the walls of the room were all made of molten iron and were extremely hard. The iron bars of the cell were made of iron pillars as thick as a baby's arm. There was only one key to the cell door. When I Keep it on your body at all times and keep it personally. The prisoner Brut guarantees that he will not be able to fly even if he has wings.

Listening to Warden Azik's report as if he was claiming credit, Frey smiled and encouraged him a few words, saying that he would keep his contribution in mind. This made Warden Azik very excited. After a while, Frey The group finally arrived at the cell where Brut was held.

At this time, Brut had long lost his former aristocratic glory. He was sitting on the stone bed of the prison, looking at the wall in front of him, sitting quietly in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking. In just two days, Brut, who was originally as fat as a pig, has now lost a whole circle. He is wearing a dirty and tattered prison uniform, his hair is spread all over his body, his eyes are empty and lifeless.

Warden Azik took a stick from nowhere. He banged the iron bars of the cell hard, foaming at the mouth and shouted rudely: "Get up, get up quickly, you dirty pig! Your great and merciful Majesty has come to interrogate you. Why don’t you get up quickly and confess all the crimes you have committed? Do you still want me to have you executed?”

Brut in the prison had no reaction to the words of the warden Azik. When he heard the words "execution", Brut, who had been sitting blankly looking at the wall, instantly jumped up from the stone bed. , he shivered in the corner of the stone bed in fear, covered his pig head with a moldy quilt, and wailed loudly: "No, please don't let them torture me, I'm going to do it, what am I doing?" Everyone, I want to see His Majesty Frey, I want to see His Majesty Frey."

Frey frowned and looked at Brut, who was huddled up in a ball. He thought to himself, what kind of torture had been done to make the previously arrogant former Earl Brut frightened like this. Thinking of this, he turned to look at the warden. Azik asked softly: "Azik, what did you do to him to make him so afraid of you?

When Warden Azik heard Frey's inquiry, he chuckled and said: "Your Majesty, I didn't use any torture on the villain. Although it was said to be torture, it was very gentle. I just fixed him in a On a wooden bed, he tied his hands and feet with belts, took off his boots, and then found two men who took turns using the softest swan feathers to gently tickle the soles of his feet for a day. He was scratched three to five times for an hour each time, and after two days he became like this."

When he heard Azik replying to him in an innocent tone, especially when he heard two men squatting at Brut's feet and tickling him with swan feathers, Frey almost couldn't help laughing when he thought of this scene. , he forced himself to hold back his smile, and said to Azik, pour him a basin of cold water to wake him up, then put him into a set of clean clothes, and bring him to the office of the trial center to see me. .

Azik bent down and saluted respectfully: "As you command, my Majesty."

Then Frey led Harold and Tris out of the underground prison of the trial. Ignoring Brut's screams from behind, Frey focused his attention on the mission prompt from the system just now.

Congratulations to the host for successfully launching the side mission, the Ferelden Crown Fee Corruption Case. Mission content: "Interrogate Brut, ask about the causes and consequences of his theft of military funds, and then convict him. The host will receive two skill points after completing the mission. If you fail the mission, you will be punished by deducting one thousand mission points."

Frey thought to himself that he finally started the mission. He had been peeking at this skill point that could improve his strength for a long time. However, the penalty for failing this mission was a bit harsh. His current balance of popular support is only 9600. This is his He finally got it after working hard to win people's hearts with his speech. If the mission failed and a thousand was deducted, Frey would feel extremely painful just thinking about it.

Frey also noticed a detail. The system that issued the task to him this time had a cold voice, completely lacking the ethereal voice when the system appeared for the first time.

He tentatively asked in his mind: "System, is the system here?"

The same cold voice replied: "Does the host have any questions that you need me to answer?

Frey decided to change his approach. He once again asked in his heart: "Glady Nora, is Miss Nora here?"

A long time passed, when Frey and his party arrived at the trial office and sat down. It was so long that just when he was about to give up, Frey heard the voice that made him addicted, and it was still the familiar smell.

"Giggle, giggle, Gladys Nora smiled coquettishly and said: "Host, what do you want from me?"

When he heard this familiar ethereal female voice, Frey's uneasy heart was relieved. He smiled in his heart and replied: "I haven't heard your voice for a long time. I miss you a little."

"After hearing Frey's almost straightforward answer, Nora didn't know how to answer him."

Frey continued: "By the way, why was the voice that gave me the task before so cold? It wasn't until I called your name and you answered me after a while that there was human emotion in the voice."

Nora was silent for a while, and then replied sweetly again: "Because I am me, and it and I are two independent existences. He is a native of this great existence, and I am just a person who originally had a long time ago." The soul that should have disappeared, I am in a symbiotic relationship with it.”