Chapter 244: Out to Kill Gervas!

"Damn it, run!"

And with Adani's death, Kieran and Bell reacted quickly, immediately trying to flee.

Unfortunately, Lei Meng, having freed his hand, would not give them that chance; joining forces with Gervas, he easily battered both into severe injury and captured them.

This was only because the two held open noble status and could not be killed in broad daylight!

And since even two vassals chose to flee, the common soldiers needed no further mention.

The more alert ones had been watching the battle of the titled knights over here.

The instant the outcome here was decided, cries erupted one after another within Lord Pa Ke's vast army!

"Run! All the titled knights are dead! Baron Kieran and Sir Bell have been captured; we cannot win!"

"Yes! Everyone, run quickly, or it will be too late!"

"Ah, everyone look, even my lord the Viscount has fled; everyone, run!"

This last cry that even my lord the Viscount has fled immediately caused Lord Pa Ke's vast army to disintegrate.

The army collapsed like a mountain falling; from now on, Lord Pa Ke's army's fate held no suspense.

Gervas would not be soft-handed this time; "Everyone, chase after them and kill them mercilessly!"

Having spoken, Gervas himself mounted his Fiery Horse and led the pursuit.

Lord Pa Ke soon heard the thundering hoofbeats from behind, instantly terrified to the point of losing his soul.

Especially when he saw that Gervas had already chased onto his Viscount's fief and showed no sign of stopping.

"Gervas, I surrender; I am willing to pay compensation; do not chase anymore!"

Watching Gervas and several knights draw ever closer, Lord Pa Ke finally grew afraid.

He also knew clearly that this time he had truly enraged Gervas.

Perhaps Gervas, in a fit of rage, would turn around and kill him.

"Compensation? Lord Pa Ke, once I kill you, I will apply to the Kingdom for compensation then; I can still obtain some compensation from your fief!"

"Although it will be less, killing you, I think, is worth it!" Gervas sneered coldly.

"You... Gervas, the Kingdom's laws stipulate that nobles cannot kill nobles; otherwise, it is a grave crime!"

"Lord Pa Ke, you speak of normal circumstances, but now the situation is special; there are corpses of over fifty light cavalrymen on my fief; under such absolute disadvantage, I can still counter-kill you; even before the King, I can speak with righteous confidence that it was for self-defense!"

Lord Pa Ke's heart gave a thud.

Because what Gervas said was true.

Under circumstances where the disparity in strength between both sides is huge, counter-killing an invading noble carries no guilt.

Unless both sides possess equal strength, only then would there be suspicion of being judged for intentional murder of a noble!

No!

I absolutely cannot die!

Watching the opponent's Fiery Horse draw ever closer, Lord Pa Ke hurriedly began to think of a countermeasure.

Quickly, he suddenly thought of a place.

If he could escape there, with many Kingdom soldiers seeing him, then Gervas would not dare kill him anymore.

After all, killing a noble out of necessity during resistance and pursuing him to the end afterward are worlds apart.

Thinking this, Lord Pa Ke directly changed his direction of flight; as for the life or death of his own subordinates, he had no time to care!

And that checkpoint was originally located at the border between Baron Kane's fief and Lord Pa Ke's Viscount fief, so the distance was at most three li or so.

And Gervas behind also seemed to have sensed the problem, immediately increasing his horse's speed.

Lord Pa Ke also gritted his teeth and whipped the mount beneath him with his leather whip as if risking his life.

This was a true warhorse; although merely a low-grade warhorse, the former Lord Pa Ke had cherished it immensely.

But now, to save his life, he no longer spared the horse's strength.

Fortunately, everything was worth it.

Galloping swiftly for several minutes, when turning a corner past a small grove, a wooden fortress a few hundred meters ahead came into view.

Lord Pa Ke nearly wept with joy; "Save me! I am the lord of Lord Pa Ke's Viscount fief; I am currently being hunted by the lord of Storm Fief!"

Fearing that even this last bit of distance might bring a change, Lord Pa Ke hurriedly shouted toward the wooden fortress hundreds of meters away.

In fact, the Kingdom soldiers inside the wooden fortress had long sensed the commotion behind.

After all, the sounds of shouting and killing could be vaguely heard even several li away.

And at this moment, all the soldiers turned to look at Lord Pa Ke.

At the same time, a Centurion officer also came to the wooden fortress wall.

"Lord Pa Ke, what is wrong with you?"

Having run to the foot of the wooden fortress with a scare but no danger, the Centurion above actually knew Lord Pa Ke.

However, this was not strange; Lord Pa Ke's family was at least a decades-old veteran border noble family.

And it was the most prosperous fief in the surroundings.

Therefore, these soldiers and officers would often go to Lord Pa Ke's Viscount fief to purchase supplies.

"Centurion Cole, let me in quickly; it is the lord of Storm Fief; he is hunting me!"

Boom! Boom!

As his words fell, a seven-man knight squad charged out from the corner of the forest behind; it was Gervas and his party.

"Centurion Cole, it is them; let me in quickly!"

Cole looked at the knight squad approaching fiercely not far away, thought for a moment, and still let Lord Pa Ke in.

Lord Pa Ke was after all a Viscount; saving his life now, he would certainly remember this kindness.

Moreover, with the Kingdom's laws in place, that pursuing lord of Storm Fief certainly would not dare to go too far.

As he was hoisted up into the wooden fortress by the basket, Lord Pa Ke finally felt the sensation of having survived a calamity.

Before he could utter more words of gratitude, Gervas's men had already arrived before the wooden fortress!

"Viscount Pa Ke, do you think you are safe just by hiding inside the wooden fortress?" Gervas spoke coldly.

Lord Pa Ke immediately grew tense and looked toward Centurion Cole beside him.

Centurion Cole knew that if one saves someone, one must save them to the end.

Of course, he did not dare to completely offend Gervas, so he spoke in a soothing tone: "My Lord Gervas, my name is Cole, the Centurion of this Kepa Outpost in the Southern Border. Do not be angry first. Both you and Viscount Pa Ke are nobles of the Kingdom; how did it come to this?"

"How did it come to this? Just ask Pa Ke himself. This fellow sold his iron mine to me!"

"But less than three months later, he regretted it. A month ago, he led troops to seize the iron ore, but I defeated him!"

"Last time, seeing as we were neighbors, I only taught him a lesson and drove him out of the border!"

"But I did not expect that this shameless fellow would return with renewed vigor and launch a surprise attack on my iron mine again today!"

"Moreover, he somehow found fifty light cavalrymen and launched a surprise encirclement attack against my Storm Army!"

"He does not merely want my iron mine; he wants my life!"

"If I had not been fortunate enough to defeat those light cavalrymen, I would probably already be dead at the hands of Viscount Pa Ke. Centurion Cole, tell me, should I not avenge this grudge!"

"This..."

Fifty light cavalrymen?

To directly kill Gervas?!

Centurion Cole widened his eyes and even subconsciously stepped away from Lord Pa Ke.

He had originally thought it was just a common border dispute between nobles, with both sides bringing subordinates to spar back and forth.

But he did not expect that Lord Pa Ke would actually hire external aid, and fifty light cavalrymen at that.

Leaving aside where the light cavalrymen came from, just the quantity and strength of such a force was indeed abnormal.

It was highly probable that they were truly targeting Viscount Gervas's life.