Ann's memories are messy and she lives a carefree life at Zimmerman Manor, although she will be happy or sad every day over some trivial matters, she will lose her temper with her sister Demi because of a cheese candy, and she will also complain to her mother Jenny that she can't play in the snow in the garden, but every day like this, Ann has a happy life.Ann likes to hear from veterans who have returned from the battlefield about the inside of the army, about the battles of knights, or about the magic of magicians.He admired his father, his father, Count Zimmermann, was a fifteenth-level knight, with many followers and followers around him, and he seemed to be so imposing.He even heard from other townspeople in the town of Maas that Count Zimmermann was the king of the town.He had also heard his companions and servants privately talk that all this glory would belong to him in the future, for his surname was Zimmermann, the only son of the current Earl Zimmermann.Then, as he remembers the siege of the manor by a large number of barbarians, his father, Count Zimmerman, and his servants in the manor, resisted until Count Zimmerman appeared in his bedroom covered in blood.He had a sharp sword stuck in his back, the sword had been inserted by some enemy, and the blood gushed out of his mouth one by one, and his appearance frightened Ann, and he staggered into Ann's bedside and hugged Ann in his arms.Count Zimmermann knelt on one knee on the carpet, the smell of blood on his body causing the food in his stomach to rise continuously, and he tried to break free from his father's arms, but he could not succeed.Each breath touched the wound, making Count Zimmermann weaker and weaker, and the countess behind him turned pale, and ordered the personal attendant guarding the door to pull out the long sword on the earl's back and bandage the wound as soon as possible.The Earl hugged Ann, who was weeping bitterly, and looked a little desolate under his bitter smile, and said, "Don't draw your sword, so that you can at least live a little longer." ”Count Zimmermann looked at his wife lovingly, and his eyes were full of sorrow, showing so much love for this world, and he said to his wife, Lady Jeanne, "Time is running out, go and hide where I told you beforehand." ”Madame Jeanne wept bitterly, and even knelt down and hugged Count Zimmermann's thigh, and pleaded: "Hide together, for my sake and for the sake of Ann, please!"
”Count Zimmerman carried a storm sword, and said proudly with a smile on his face: "As a knight of the Grimm Empire, only dying on the battlefield is the true glory, how can the emperor hide in the hole of the ground as a turtle with a shrunken head." ”Count Zimmermann then walked away without looking back, every step he took was strenuous, and the wound of the sword made him have great courage with every step forward.Let the entourage protect his wife and daughter and hide in the cellar, and in this way, Count Zimmermann was killed in battle with the barbarians.In fact, the story should have ended here, and the retinue who stayed behind sent more than a dozen of the earl's closest ladies in the manor to the cellar for refuge according to the orders of the earl.But unexpectedly, there were already four servants in the manor, who took advantage of the chaos to hide in the wine cellar, they were the grooms, gardeners, winemakers, and cooks in the manor.The personal attendant didn't talk nonsense, and directly invited them out of the cellar with a spear.No one thought that the four servants in the manor would take advantage of the winemaker's convenience to hide in the cellar and drink, but they never thought that the battle would reach the most critical moment, and the Earl would hide in this cellar for the escape route prepared by his family.They pleaded bitterly in front of his retinue: "The cellar is so big, please give us four a seat, and wait until the barbarians have retreated, and we will be rescued and leave, we will eat very little, and if we have no food, we may even skip eating, but please do not drive us out!"
”"At this time, when you go out, you can only be plundered by those barbarians as mine slaves, let them stay!
The wine cellar is so big, why bother them!
”Countess Jenny said to the servant.With a slight hesitation, the servant complied with the countess's wishes, sparing the four servants and letting them remain in the cellar.The retinue signed a master-servant contract with Count Zimmerman, so when Count Zimmerman died, the servant died directly and silently in the cellar under the influence of the power of the contract.It doesn't end there, it's the beginning of the nightmare.The four servants, who had taken refuge in the cellar together, were at first very respectful to Countess Jeanne, and her daughters Demi and Ann.But later, when the four servants found out that the servant was dead, and that none of the dozen or so ladies had combat experience.One night later, the four of them showed their sinful fangs, the ugliest side of humanity was fully revealed, and they became the most powerful men in the cellar.They beat disobedient women and locked them up, they took full control of the food in the cellar pantry, and even planned to kill Ann.Before they could start moving, the barbarians outside set fire to the castle in the manor, fearing that the fire would spread and ignite tens of thousands of barrels in the cellar, so in desperation, they completely destroyed the four exits of the basement and sealed the entire basement.Sister Demi risked her life to let her go.So, Ann took advantage of the darkness in the cellar to hide in the cracks of the wine barrels and survived with difficulty.It turned out that the two patrols were looking for Ann in the wine cellar.When I met Ann, Ann had been hungry for days, and I asked him how he had survived, and he couldn't go days without food or drink and still be the way he was.Ann told me that he sometimes finds mushrooms on the old, rotting sleepers under the barrels.Sometimes, when he was so hungry, he would sneak back to the rest room of the cellar, and while the people were asleep or leaving, the women would bring some of the food they had saved to Ann.However, since the day before yesterday, those people found out that the women were secretly providing food to Ann.The punishment for the women was to halve the already small food supply every day, and all food had to be eaten in front of them.By this point, Ann had been hungry for three whole days.Every second of memory is a kind of suffering and torture for Ann, and he doesn't even want to think about those past events, and he doesn't want to face them.But once he told it, he was able to imitate the tone of the countess's voice vividly, and completely restored the conversation at that time, and it seems that these words are still fresh in his memory.At this time, Ann's eyes were full of anger, I don't know what kind of thing it was, and it was imprinted on his young heart with a scar that could not be forgotten, he suddenly grabbed my hand tightly, looked at me with a look of longing in his eyes, and then said: "You are an eagle warrior, you will definitely be able to beat those despicable and shameless civilians, please save my mother and sister!"
”I sighed secretly, because I saw the seeds of hatred in Ann's eyes, and Ann probably would never have any good feelings for civilians in her life.If they were found guilty and sent to the Inquisition, they would be tied to a cross and burned.I looked at Ann, at this time he needed some light and justice to channel the darkness hidden in his heart, I looked him in the eye and said to him, "Okay, I'll help you!"
”The cellar layout under Zimmerman's estate is very neatly built, belonging to an unconventional square underground building, with four lounges built in the southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest corners, of which the lounges in the northeast and northwest corners are filled with food at the moment, and are locked as a storehouse for supplies, and the key is in the hands of Anthony, the winemaker with pigtails on his head.According to Ann, the lounge was only intended to provide a place for the servants to rest in the cellar, and that there were about twenty servants working in the cellar in normal times, and that each lounge had only two rooms, with the groom and gardener living in the lounge in the southwest corner, and the cook and winemaker in the southeast corner.I originally wanted to take Ann out of the cellar first, but after Ann told me about his fate, I decided to rescue the women first.Ann and I were lying on the barrel shelf outside the lounge in the southeast corner, silently watching a middle-aged man as fat as a ball drunkenly holding a candle and pushing the door out, the candle flame was particularly dazzling in this dark wine cellar, his steps seemed a little vain, the bright candle flame reflected on his face, he was a little bald, the hair on the edge of his head was sparsely draped behind his head, his eyes were a little puffy, and the thin lips under the nose were red rosacea, which looked very mean.His big round face was shiny, and his chin was not visible, and his face was as thick as his neck, and he had a big belly as round as a leather ball, perhaps from drinking and staggering as he walked."
He's Joseph the Cook!"
Ann whispered in my ear, "He's been in an adventure party, I've heard him talk to winemaker Anthony, they met in an adventure group!"
”"Adventure group, they used to be warriors?"
I didn't expect these people to have been part of an adventure party, and I didn't know what their strength was, so I didn't want to take the risk."
That Anthony can play with a dagger in all sorts of ways, he showed it to some aristocratic ladies at the manor's ball, this cook is so powerful that he can carry a fat pig on his back."
Ann struggled to think about the characteristics of these two men, and then said to me.I took out the silver barrel gun from my magic waist bag, pressed an ordinary lead pellet into the magazine, put the barrel gun on the barrel, and while fixing the gun rack, I said to Ann: "Firearms are very common in the dwarf country, it is a magic weapon invented by dwarven craftsmen with long-range attack methods, here is the barrel, this is the magazine, here is the activation device, you look at the magic pattern circle above, the center of the circle can be inlaid with a magic crystal, if the magic crystal is installed, so that ordinary people can easily use a gun, Although its power is a little worse than that of a bow and arrow, its biggest advantage is that it can be used by ordinary people!
”Ann listened to my detailed explanation, her eyes were shining, she looked at me with envy, and said to me while swallowing and foaming: "It's a pity that this gun is too big for me to hold at all, I really want to have a gun now." ”I wanted Ann to have some means of self-defense in the future, so I took out a handcuff with a length of more than a foot from my magic waist bag and handed it to him.This handcuff is very beautifully made, the accuracy is also very good, the excitation device on it is very well designed, the bullet is a copper bean the size of a soybean, this handcuff has a very small recoil force, suitable for women with little wrist strength.This was a gift from Senior Benjamin some time ago, and he knew that I was very fond of firearms, so he did everything possible to get them from a weapons dealer.It's just that he miscalculated, he mistakenly thought that a magic apprentice like me was not so strong in his own strength, so he specially picked a handcuff with almost no recoil.Losing the effect of long-range sniping, such a handcuff in my hand is like a toy, for me, this handcuff with a range of only fifteen yards, I can't use it at all, I can release lightning arrows at such a close distance.Senior Benjamin also had good intentions, so I still happily accepted it, politely declined his invitation to join their team, and said that after the disbandment of the Battle Spirit Squad, I would not participate in any other team this semester, so that he was completely relieved.I know what he thinks, he just wants to make sure his team wins the tournament so that their team and each of their members' names will be engraved on the Wall of Fame.Therefore, I had an extra handcuff in my magic fanny pack, and at this time, seeing that Ann did not reject firearms, I gladly took it out and handed it to him along with the bag of copper beans.I said to him, "Before you become a real knight, use this handcuff to protect the people you care about the most!"
”He couldn't hide the joy in his heart, took the handcuff, nodded excitedly at me and said, "Hmm!
”Maybe it's because the cellar is so quiet that the slightest sound can attract the attention of others.At this point, the cook Joseph stopped and looked over to me suspiciously, as if he had faintly heard our conversation.Without any hesitation, I pulled the firing pin, activated the magical perception like a spider's web, and attached the magic of the Tongue of Fire weapon to the gun, and the next moment, the simulated trajectory of the sea of spirits coincided with the barrel of the spear, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the knee of the fat chef Joseph."
Bang!"
The sound of the spear was not loud, but it was very crisp, and the projectile came out of the gun, and a flash of fire erupted, and before Joseph could react alertly, the projectile exploded directly on his knee.The knee of his left leg was shattered by the lead shot, and he screamed and fell to the ground.Instinctively, he rolled his fat body, ducked behind the barrel, and shouted at Anthony