Night of the Soulless Heathens – 270



#270.Chadra’s Loser 8

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Selim’s horn broke with a terrible sound and blood spurted out.

Azadin cauterized the burning Aurelia Dunn’s wounds with a cross-section of its horn stanching the bleeding.

“Kwaaah! My my! I’ve lost all my horns!”

Again the delicious smell of beef spread everywhere.

The griffins also come closer drooling as if the smell is whetting their appetite.

“Ugh…..”

“Looking at Selim it seems he trained Griffins since he was young so he doesn’t attack cows or you. But what if he smells something delicious like this? It seems like he can’t control his instincts.”

Azadin thrust his Azuresteel dagger into Selim’s neck and continued to wound Aurelia Dunno.

Selim who was pushed by the flaming sword and fell to the ground with his head down could not even get up.

It is the horns that are able to withstand Aurelia Dunn’s flames but if the blade were to touch your skin directly you would suffer a severe burn.

The instinct to avoid the fire caused Selim to fall to the ground.

The griffins were confused as the smell of salt wafted around them.

They are confused and at a loss about two events: the delicious smell and the crisis of the caregivers who raised them.

“Ah I understand. I lost! I surrender!”

“Then take the Griffin.”

Selim whistled.

“Hey kids go out and hunt. Daddy’s okay.”

As Selim said this the griffins circled around Selim and looked at Azadin and Selim with mixed feelings.

As Azadin lifted the flaming Aurelia Dawn and swung it the griffins took another step back. However they did not run away any further and continued to watch Azadin.

It seemed as though he would not back down until Selim was completely safe.

“wake up.”

At Azadin’s command Selim rose from his seat.

“Ugh I’m sorry Your Majesty. I’m just not strong enough to deal with a guy like this…”

It seemed that Selim still believed in Bishop Sehnat.

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Azadin tied Selim up with ropes and completely subdued him.

“Uh… Sir Selim has been subdued?!”

When Azaddin subdued Selim soldiers from Selim’s villages flocked to him.

“Everyone calm down! This guy is dangerous! He’s no ordinary guy so don’t go out of your way to save me…”

Selim was worried that his men would rush to Azadin to save him so he tried to stop them.

but….

“Now we are alive!”

“Viva!”

“Thank you Sir Azaddin!”

The soldiers cheered and rejoiced at Azadin’s victory.

“Now I’m free from those damned griffins!”

“Hey you! You little brat! You look great!”

“…uh?”

Selim seemed unaware that he was hated by his subordinates and the people.

“How could you do this….”

“How could you do that!”

“To you a griffin may just be a cute animal but to us it’s a terrifying monster!”

“You monsters are playing around! Do you know that my child’s arm was broken by the corpse of a horse that your Griffin threw away after eating? Even though my child’s arm was twisted and stuck he became a cripple and you still laugh at him! I wouldn’t mind roasting you over charcoal just to think of my son but I held back because I was scared!”

“The roof is stained gray with Griffin poop and it smells so bad that I’m scared to go up on the roof to clean it!”

People were at the point of shouting as they vented their pent-up anger.

If Azadin wasn’t there they would have speared Selim with their own hands and grilled him.

“Then are you going to kill me? Should I prepare a gallows?”

“It’s a Minotaur so the gallows must be huge. It weighs a lot.”

The soldiers were excited and prepared to hang Selim.

But Azadin stopped them.

“Wait a minute. Who said they were going to kill me?”

“yes?”

“Oh no of course I knew how to execute him…”

“You must kill him. You know what we have suffered.”

If they did not kill Selim it would only reveal the fact that they harbored resentment.

Their safety is guaranteed only if Selim dies here….

“If we don’t execute this man now we will die.”

“What if he’s executed? Will the griffins be able to handle it? The griffins hatched from eggs will probably think of him as their parent? In the first place they attack horses but not cows. Isn’t it because Selim is a minotaur and doesn’t attack cow-headed creatures?”

“….”

Everyone was speechless at Azadin’s question. The griffins hatched from eggs by Selim himself are controlled because they regard Selim as their parent.

If Selim dies the griffins will become uncontrollable monsters and continue to spread.

I feel dizzy when I think of the griffins growing larger and larger preying on the wild beasts of Chadra’s Dragon Springs.

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“Okay then Selim.”

“Ugh… ugh. Ugh uh-huh.”

To my surprise Selim was crying squeezing out his tears and snot.

“Everyone hated me! Ugh… Ugh. I wanted to be a knight!”

“….”

Everyone was embarrassed when the Minotaur a fully grown adult let out a loud cry.

“If you don’t like it just say no!”

“I told you it was scary because of that griffin right?”

When the soldiers said this Selim began to cry loudly.

“I told you I was scared of the Minotaur too. I thought it would be okay once I got used to it.”

“Go to sleep. Calm down.”

Azadin appeased Selim and reached out to Camilla.

Camilla handed Azadin the documents she had brought from Selim’s office.

“It’s the Bishop’s order. Your wanted poster? There’s a portrait too.”

“where….”

Azadin unfolded the documents he had received.

Indeed there were portraits of those who governed the fortresses and villages throughout the Chadra Plateau and Azadin was among them.

“There’s no specific mention of killing someone. Is that a given?”

Unless Bishop Sehnat is a fool he would not have left behind any evidence of an order to kill. Perhaps the order to kill was given verbally.

“The Lord Bishop told me that the people here were spies that the cultists had infiltrated into the Knights Templar. He said he had no choice but to protect the Knights Templar from the cultists.”

“Can you testify?”

“Witness? I can. But the contact person will wash his mouth and I’m a Minotaur so the church won’t believe me. The bishop is the patron so I’ve managed to secure a place in the church….”

Selim sobbed wiping away his tears and snot.

He was confident in the patron bishop who had accepted him into the Knights Templar.

However Selim found out that the villagers whom he had never doubted were loyal to him and who he had never doubted were actually hating him enough to kill him and now all of his beliefs were being shaken.

“Even if they are real spies it makes no sense to eliminate them without a proper trial. If they are really cultists wouldn’t it be more important to extract information about the cult organization that infiltrated them? Haven’t you ever thought about that?”

“I haven’t. The bishop is the one who led me to join the Knights Templar so I’ve never even thought about doubting him.”

“That is truly foolish. As a hospitalist virtue alone should be the light that illuminates your path. Loyalty to a person is nothing but a blindness that blinds you from virtue. Why on earth Selim did you want to become a knight?”

Azadin suddenly asked Selim that question.

Then Selim rummaged through his belongings and took something out.

It was a piece of ceramic depicting a knight flying on a hippogriff.

The porcelain pieces were fitted into a brass locket to prevent them from breaking.

“I picked this up by chance when I was little. I kept it because it was pretty and I looked at it every time I thought of it…”

“Huh? For just that reason?”

The other soldiers laughed at the surprisingly trivial reason.

But Azadin could see that Selim was sincere.

“No he is sincere. I know you have suffered under Selim’s atrocities but I don’t think it is right to insult you with this.”

“Oh. Yes…..”

“I’m sorry Sir Azadin.”

The soldiers all apologized to Azadin.

“I don’t think you have anything to apologize for but I understand.”

People won’t want to apologize to Selim.

The damage Selim suffered while hatching griffins was so severe that the resentment against him was too great.

Selim now realizing that what he had believed might have been wrong fell face down on the floor and buried his head in the ground.

“Sigh. I’m an idiot. I don’t know anything. Someone like me isn’t qualified to be a knight.”

The soldiers were embarrassed as they watched Selim wailing loudly.

‘It seems like you really regret it.’

‘But what if Sir Azaddin falls for such talk and releases Sir Selim?’

‘I even suggested hanging myself on the gallows. This is a big deal.’

When everyone was worried about their own safety Azadin spoke to the people.

“I understand that you are all afraid of retaliation for taking your grievances out on Selim. I will take care of him. I will not retaliate against you.”

“Is that so?”

“If that’s the case.”

“Actually it’s not that Sir Selim is stupid he’s just not a bad guy.”

The people were relieved when Azaddin said he would take charge of Selim as if he had no ill feelings toward him.

Azadin extended his hand to Selim.

“Now then arise Sir Selim. I need you.”

“But that’s true. What about you? What makes you different from Bishop Sehnath? Don’t you have some ambitions too and are you plotting something by defeating everyone including Chashan? I can’t trust anyone or myself anymore.”

“It is foolish to be fooled again after having been fooled once. But Sir Selim I do not ask for blindness.”

“hmm?”

“There is no need to be blindly loyal to Bishop Sehnat. Just go forward with virtue as your lamp and if I am an obstacle in your way cut down even myself and go forward.”

“…but I don’t know what’s right.”

“At least you learned that you don’t know. You paid a lot of money for education but that’s the lesson. Even if you know the knowledge written in the book with your head you have to pay a high price to know it with your heart.”

Azadin said so and smiled bitterly.

“I paid a lot to learn it too.”

Suddenly I wanted to see Medium. I wonder if he will be okay?

“Oh I understand. No I understand.”

Selim took Azadin’s hand and stood up.

“I have been ignorant and foolish in my sins and have engaged in evil. Sir Azadin I will follow your teachings. However… if you think that it is not the path of virtue as you say then….”

“Do whatever you want.”

“then….”

Selim knelt before Azadin and turned over his axe handing it over to Azadin.

“I offer you my axe. Lead me Lord Azadin.”

The oath of loyalty ended with Azadin receiving the axe and then returning it.

One of the Chadra Ogels the Minotaur Lord Selim pledged allegiance to Azadin.