Chapter 480 The duke’s visit (21)

Chapter 480 The duke’s visit (21)

There were many insults and complaints that came at me once they recovered from their shock, but they fell onto deaf ears.

I didn't care at all about what they said and just gave a nod to the knights for them to do their jobs.

The elves were brought out into a line and forced to lean forward.

Behind each of the elves was a knight that held a sharp mithril sword.

As they leaned forward, the elves kept cursing and begging for their lives, but not a single person was moved by their words.

The knights just looked down at the elves in front of them before turning to look at me, as if they were waiting for some signal from me.

I just gave a simple nod for them and then the swords that they had been holding up came down.

Even in the moment of their death, the elves never believed that they would really die.

After all, it really was too hard for them to believe that they would be killed like this.

The looks of disbelief on their faces as their heads rolled to the ground really was something else.

Once these elves had been executed, I said to the knights, "Just bury them somewhere. Even if they were enemies, we aren't brutes."

They nodded in agreement before picking up the corpses of the elves to take into the forest nearby.

But before they could leave, Moon came forward to stop them.

They all looked at her with confused looks as she said, "Let me take a look at them first. I want to see if there's anything that we can use as evidence."nOveLb1n

The knights looked at me and I just gave a nod in agreement.

Though I didn't feel like she would be able to find anything, it definitely didn't hurt to let her try.

So Moon went over to the side with the knights holding the corpses.

It was also at this time that the remaining knights came up from the valley and joined us.

Perhaps he was right since if we didn't come here, we wouldn't have met the elves from the capital.

If we didn't meet them, then they wouldn't have come up with the plan to use me as a scapegoat and we wouldn't have had to fight all of these elves and goblins.

However, I knew that it ran much deeper than this.

In the end, it was the consequences of my own action since I was the one that had decided to kill Apollo back then.

It was only because he had been killed that these elves had come from the capital to investigate this matter.

So it could even be said that I was the root cause of all of this.

But I would never admit that even if I was beaten to death.

Still, I had to say something since I couldn't let the duke take the blame.

I shook my head and said, "No, even if you didn't want to come, this still would have happened. It just came faster because we were unlucky enough to bump into this group."

The duke looked at me with a complicated look.

But in the end, he just gave a sigh and patted me on the shoulder.

There was nothing that I could say in response to this even though I knew what he was implying.

I just gave a nod and said, "I hope that this doesn't ruin your visit."

The duke revealed a faint smile and said, "It certainly has been an interesting and exciting trip, but it can't be considered ruined."

The two of us were about to keep chatting, but before we could...

"Come over here, there's something you need to see."

Moon suddenly called out to me from where the knights were burying the corpses.

I looked over with a surprised and confused look, but I still walked over in the end.