Karadna stood in front of the window, staring at the beauty in front of her, the imperial capital Susal shining with golden light.

But at this moment, the sorcerer's thoughts floated to the distant southern seaside.

She still remembers that the sun shining on the blue sea water, with a fishy smell coming to her face. There was no cloud in the sky. The huge blue dragon fleet slowly moved to block the sunshine in the sky. In the city now, you could vaguely see a few wisps of light smoke rising from the harbor city, and you could vaguely hear the shouts and wails coming from afar.

The war is over.

After almost half a year of turmoil, the Kingdom of Cormier has experienced a series of disasters such as the Dragon Rebellion, the Orc War and the Rebels, and finally, in late autumn, the breath of the cold winter is about to come, just like those withered leaves falling on the ground, completely calmed down.

What impressed Karadna was naturally the war she had personally participated in, a war to quell the independence of the rebel Prince Selante, which seemed like a farce.

Now, the farce has finally come to an end.

After all the core personnel of the Merchant Guild and the Noble Council of Mashanbo were killed by Brian in the secret room, they finally collapsed completely. The rebels after losing their backbone were completely in panic and didn't know what to do.

And civil strife began to emerge at this time.

After the Royal Fleet blocked the Southern Harbour, the entire southern region was almost completely paralyzed, and some nobles who secretly turned against each other finally felt unprecedented fear and pressure.

After all, the rebel leader Selante died and was cut off by the regent himself. He walked easily, shook his hand and went on the road alone. No matter what, he could have avoided the fate of being hanged in Susal.

But the others were not so lucky. The southern harbour was blocked and no ship could enter and exit.

Huailun City and Twilight City, which are still resisting tenaciously, are surrounded by troops from the North and East.

For a time, the remaining core members of the rebels were panicked and there was no way out to defend themselves. The emergence of the Blue Dragon Fleet also marked the desire that the Dragon Coast would send people to help them, or the possibility of escaping was completely lost.

So now either they choose to surrender, or they try their best to run to the eastern swamp - Guangze, where the lizard people live, or cross the realm of Thunder Peak and enter the territory of the Kingdom of Sambia.

But for these remaining members, these three choices are dead end.

Because with the recapture of Mashanbo, all members of the Merchant Guild and the Noble Council were brutally suppressed by the Purple Dragon Knights. Even the Temple of Wealth that protected them added a raging fire to suppress the rebels.

Until now, all the surviving rebels, even the nobles and civilians of the entire kingdom, finally realized how cruel and ruthless the newly appointed Iron Regent, Sisiah, the little princess of the Obaiszier family, was in dealing with this matter.

In this regard, it is completely impossible to see that she should be a kind, just and glorious regent standing under the banner of the purple dragon.

Even after the rebellion ended, many people's evaluation of Ciseya began to appear, the word "tyrant" was unfamiliar in Cormier's history.

Because she will use an iron-fisted and bloody suppression to anyone who dares to resist her, just like steel, cruel and ruthless.

This is why these rebels who were guarding Huailun City and Twilight City would rather grit their teeth and struggle to death than give up.

They knew that once they surrendered, the only thing waiting for them was the only way to go on the gallows on the imperial capital Susar.

Obviously, they are self-aware of their crimes.

Of course, Xisaiya would not have done anything like some ancient kings, but she would not have done anything like "only arrest the main culprit, not investigated".

Don't worry, everyone has a share.

Because of his understanding of the Regent, the remaining core members of the rebels would not agree to surrender even if they were killed.

But the other two options are still a dead end for them.

Guangze is a place where order has not yet been shrouded, and the cold-blooded lizardman races there are the same, barbaric and cruel. They only worship the power of goodness and blood sacrifices, and they don’t care about anything other than that.

No matter how high the status or how much wealth you have in Cormier, it is meaningless to them, let alone the power of order there is very weak, just like the northern town of Mokou, once it approaches the Enoak Desert, the goblin side wasteland and the distant sea marsh, the order begins to become extremely unstable.

Those places where order has not yet been shrouded in are even more terrifying. It is impossible for ordinary people to survive in that kind of place.

The Kingdom of Sambiya is not a good choice either.

As we all know, with the fall of the capital of Sambiya, after the rule of the female commander Mirabeta, it was almost a country of undead and ghosts.

What made the rebels even more desperate was that their leader, Prince Serand, had discussed with the Holy Prince, and jointly attacked the Kingdom of Cormier and divided the territory together.

The ghost prince even personally assured them that the floating city had been repaired. Once you attack Susar City, you will immediately drive the floating city to attack Mokou Town, Tivanton and Arabe City in the northern border of Cormier. The Sambi's army led by the female university will also cooperate with them to set out from Leiming Peak and invade many areas such as Thunder Stone Fort.

But in this war, their so-called reinforcements did not move at all. What's more funny is that Prince Selante and the navy from Ximen agreed to arrive under the walls of Susal within seven days.

As a result, the army set out from Mashanbo and marched for only two hours, and was wiped out by troops that arrived instantly through large teleportation arrays, and took down Mashanbo.

The naval fleet in the Ximen and Weihong seas was directly destroyed by a meteorite falling from the sky.

If they dare to escape to the territory of the ghostly spirits of the "alliers", they may be greeted by either becoming ghosts, or becoming slaves first, and then waiting to become ghosts. It is just a difference between death penalty and reprieve. For the rebels, there is little difference - because they have no possibility of appeal at all.

So, at the moment they can only drag, and it is only a day that they can drag.

But they forgot one thing.

That is, human nature is selfish. They can live and die for one more day without caring about the life and death of others. Others will naturally not care about their lives for their own life and death.

Within this rebel army composed of merchants and southern aristocrats, the core members were minorities after all, and most of them were selfish and were unwilling to accompany them to die.

When Prince Selante was still alive, they did not dare to be too presumptuous because of the Bain Church and the Devil's Consciousness.

But now that Prince Selante and other core members were killed, these people suddenly became tough. They even felt that Prince Selante's death meant that all this was completely over.

They have no hope of victory. If they do not choose to surrender now, then there is really only a dead end.

It is precisely because of this that civil strife broke out within the rebels in the end.

Just as Brian explained to them why he was not in a hurry to recapture Huailun City and Twilight City.

"'A small group of core elements of stubborn resistance' can never play any role in the face of the 'the vast ocean of the people'."

Not only that, those guys who "sell teammates" even made good decisions to release the Purple Dragon Knight and War Mage who were originally detained by the rebels.

Until this time, the so-called southern independence of the Merchant Guild and most southern nobles also came to an end.

There is nothing to say about everything that follows.

The southern army stationed in Twilight began to become chaotic when they heard the news of Prince Selante's death. Taking this opportunity, the Eastern Army suddenly bypassed Twilight from behind and cut off their escape route again, which also made the rebels completely become a turtle in the jar.

After three consecutive breakouts failed, the Twilight City defenders announced their surrender. Then the royal army raised the flag and headed south. The already exhausted rebels did not even make symbolic resistance this time, and they directly raised their hands to surrender.

Karadna still remembers everything she saw when she walked into Twilight City, South Harbour.

She had also been to this southern harbor leading to the Sea of ​​Falling Stars before. At that time, in Karadna's impression, it was a clean, tidy and beautiful city.

The pedestrians on the street were dressed in brightly dressed, whispering and polite. They raised their heads proudly and proudly, as if they were full of endless hope for tomorrow and the future.

I have to say that at that time, the southerners were indeed very qualified to despise those northerners who came from the bitter and cold places in the north, wearing clothes made of thick fur, and speaking loudly and roughly.

But this time, what she saw was a completely different scene.

The originally clean and tidy streets became dirty, with corpses of people and animals everywhere, and waves of corpses came from the streets and alleys. Even on the beautiful and blue bay, many corpses swollen with water can be seen.

But the nobles and wealthy businessmen who were dressed in bright clothes are now ragged, pale and thin, hiding in their homes, secretly watching the royal army enter their city through the cracks in the door. Those originally neat and beautiful houses were also left unattended, and the previous riots made a city that was originally extremely beautiful, look like a beggar's nest.

What a tragedy.

Thinking of this, Karadna closed her eyes and cleared out the unpleasant scenes in her mind. If it were her teacher Sandra Kot, she might even sympathize with those poor people.

But Karadna doesn't. She doesn't think those people deserve sympathy. This is their choice, and they have paid a price for it. As for whether this price is a bit high, it is not within the scope of Karadna's attention.

After that, Hisiah also showed her decisive side.

This made Karadna seriously suspect that all the recent actions of her good sister were secretly instructed by Brian, the young guardian.

After all, she looks like a different person. As expected, love makes people lose their minds. This sentence is correct at all.

In just two days, Xisaiya captured all the remaining core figures of the rebels and locked them in the dungeon, waiting for trial and execution.

What shocked the entire kingdom even more was that these characters actually included many powerful nobles in Susal City.

This made most people realize that no wonder Prince Selante's rebels dared to attack Susal Imperial City with confidence. It turned out that he had already colluded with many forces in the city.

Once the troops are at the city, these people will cooperate with each other inside and outside.

All of these big names are under Brian's Tifflin, who obtained the death list through the Soul Crystal of the Deep Demon.

This is naturally inevitable with a massacre. Nearly 500 people in Susar Imperial City were implicated, and hundreds of noble heads fell to the ground in succession.

In addition, this time, when facing these rebels, Xisia's punishment was extremely serious.

With the cooperation of the Temple of Wealth, she confiscated all the property of the rebel members and the wealth stored in the Temple, and at the same time brought them back to civilian status.

Not only that, except for those poor people who have been confirmed to be hanged, others will also receive different degrees of punishment. Some people will have less punishment, while others will have more punishment.

Of course, this is only relative.

For the rebels, Ciseya's move is vicious enough.

Because this time, almost all the nobles and merchants participated in the rebellion, they all had large amounts of property and wealth in the south.

Otherwise, these people would not have the courage to dare to fight against the royal party under the leadership of Prince Selante.

You know, although Cormier has experienced the rebellion between the Dragon Crazy and the Orcs, and even the king was killed in battle, no one dared to deny that this kingdom is still one of the most powerful kingdoms in the entire continent.

Cormier's war mages and the Purple Dragon Legion are still the most famous army on the mainland.

It can be seen from the number of war mages and Purple Dragon Knights who turned against each other after this prince's rebellion.

After doing this, Xisia almost emptied all the commercial and aristocratic circles in the south, which was a complete destruction for the rebels.

Because this also means that they will no longer have enough energy and strength to compete with the royal party in the future.

If it were a daily routine, Xisaiya's approach would definitely arouse opposition and protest from many people.

Because Xisia's approach is not just a simple way to harvest the foundation of the rebel party. So many industries and chambers of commerce are managed by people. Now all of these have been confiscated by the royal party, which means that those who work for the rebel party's industries will also be affected.

If it were normal, I would have started protesting a long time ago.
To be continued...