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Although, given Little Sheep's Originium Arts, this Volcanic Lash could last at least a minute or two, and if the caster could switch Originium batteries and fuel tubes quickly enough and carry enough, they could keep bombarding until the end of the match, ensuring that by then, not only would there be no corpses, but not even a nearly intact piece of armor.

"Clang!" The match was forcibly stopped, which was why Ivan had them use up their secret weapon in one burst after seizing the opportunity.

Because the Knights Association and the Federation will definitely terminate the competition midway, otherwise they will completely break off relations.

However, although not all of them were killed on the field, the result was not much different. One knight was killed, two were seriously injured, and one was burned to such an extreme degree that he died before he could be carried off the field after the bell rang.

In other words, the infected team wiped out half of the Conqueror Knights squad in half the time during the arena match, even more efficiently than the Unarmored Alliance.

The match ended, and the Red Pine team advanced to the finals over five corpses. Meanwhile, backstage, the Knights Association and the Federation were in an uproar, with the Knights Association demanding that these insubordinate commoners be executed.

The Merchants' Guild, on the other hand, claimed to uphold the righteousness of chivalry, stating that life and death in fair arena duels were left to fate.

Finally, both sides compromised: the Knights agreed not to publicly execute the players, while the Federation had to deal with the five Red Pine players privately or suspend them for using cheat equipment.

If they are banned, then the Nearl team will automatically win as the champion, and there will be no issue of awarding them the title of Knight.

Similarly, if the team is banned, it will quickly disappear from the public eye, and the Cavaliers Association can easily make them disappear forever.

"So, this is also part of the plan?" The spokesperson looked directly at Talulah. "Although we had considered using hired knight thugs to lure Nearl out, we never thought of using the lives of four conquering knights and a nobleman to do something like this."

"So what? Have you forgotten that you are not my superiors? In fact, in our cooperation, my strength far surpasses yours?"

"So, it's me who came today, not an assassin from the Unarmored Alliance..."

"The knightly class must disappear. It is useless to merely destroy the banner of the Nearl family. They can raise one banner of chivalry and then raise ten more."

Moreover, your schemes may fool the Knights Guild, but do you really think they are unaware of them?

Even if the Silver Spear Pegasus is unable to act directly due to the situation and the prevailing trend, it still means that your forces will be swiftly wiped out by them.

Talulah looked at the spokesperson and said, "So, I've revised your plan a bit..."

"I would like to hear the details..."

"A lie is always a lie, but what if it's true? The reason the Nearl family is the banner of knights is precisely because they are pure and unblemished. And what if these Pegasus warriors with lofty aspirations saw what the Knights Guild does in private?"

Disguised as knights and thugs, they burn down villages inhabited by the infected, attack participating teams disguised as knights and bandits from out of town, create accidents on the field, and rob gamblers who have won money.

Of course, these would all be disguised as the work of rogue knights, that is, those down-on-their-luck knights, rather than being done by proper knights with status.

The association naturally blamed the increase in knight hooligans on the Federation, believing it was due to the emergence of a large number of competitive knights without noble blood.

These competitive knights have a short career span; they quickly become unable to compete due to injuries and are thrown out by the federation, turning into these knight thugs.

Is this true? Yes, it is true. It was indeed something the federation did, and that's how it came about.

But are all these knight hooligans truly "knight hooligans"? That's not necessarily true.

“To kill someone, you must also destroy their spirit—” Talulah picked up a cup of tea. “This is my plan. Simply killing a Pegasus is meaningless…” “And now, I imagine the Grand Knight Commander is already furiously searching for someone, isn’t he?”

"Yes……"

"And why don't you stick to the original plan? The Federation has never wanted to break ties with the Knights, has it? So it's perfectly normal to send out assassins from the Unarmored Alliance."

Talulah took a sip of tea. "But, it all happened so suddenly..."

"Unfortunately, our assassins were too ineffective, or rather, Miss Margaret was too vigilant and powerful, and she caught us," the spokesperson said with a smile, understanding Talulah's meaning.

"Then the little knight followed the assassin's trail to the lower city. Unfortunately, the knight thugs hired by the Federation revealed that they not only wanted to eliminate the Red Pine Team, but also to frame them and the infected with a heinous crime. What could be more exciting than the infected blowing up a power plant?"

"The Infected Knight sacrificed himself to protect the power plant, perishing alongside the Knight Rogues, tragically destroying the power plant—our newspaper's headline tomorrow." The spokesperson's smile deepened.

"The association's newspaper headline reads, 'Infected Knights Clash with Rogue Knights, Battle Destroys Power Plant.' Our positions remain unchanged, because that's simply our stance, isn't it?"

It's so real that it's flawless.

"So what would the most renowned young knight of Kazimierz do?"

"Of course, it's to protect the power plant. Unfortunately, she will find that both of these possibilities are false. The truth is that in order to maintain the status and privileges of the knight class, the Knights Association, unable to execute the Red Pine Team due to the arena rules, chose to take action in secret."

Meanwhile, she will also discover that the Knights' Association has been doing this all along, suppressing commoner participants to ensure that only nobles can enter the finals, including the team we sent her to the finals today.

“You see, the little knight will understand in an instant that her current status is not because she is Margaret, not because she has chivalry, but because her surname is Nearl.

So even if she doesn't say anything, someone will automatically do all the dirty work for her. She'll start to question the source of all her victories.

"At this time, the Federation seems to have revealed its intention to collude with foreign forces and use the power plant explosion to frame the Association. Meanwhile, the Association's real assassins, or rather, their own knight thugs, will appear with the help of some 'accident'..."

"So what will she do? She doesn't want to see the city lose power, and she can't stop the two sides from fighting in the dark downtown area and causing the power plant to explode. What will she do? I'm very curious!" Talulah put down her teacup.

"Of course, we need to call on the Silver Spear Pegasus for help. Although only a small number of the 40 Pegasus Knights are here, together with the squires of the Rinko family, they are enough to launch a small-scale attack."

Unfortunately, all of this was a conspiracy and misunderstanding by the Knights' Association. The so-called foreign forces were merely hired to protect you, who were inspecting the power plant cooperation project. The spokesperson shook his head.

"When the Business Federation is branded with guilt, all the evil is attributed to it, but when everything is turned upside down, it will waver and start to think that perhaps the Federation is the one who is right."

"The Tacitus Trap, someone told me about this. When people lose all trust in an authority, whether it's doing good or bad, it will breed hatred. In the past it was the Federation, and in the future it will be the Knights' Guild."

"When almost all the conspiracies were the work of the Knights' Guild, proving that they hired knightly thugs, assassins, and even bribed the Unarmored Alliance, and that they would stop at nothing to achieve victory and uphold the glory of the knightly class, then who really did the power plant explosion? Does it even matter?"

"It doesn't matter. She'll think that the so-called knights hired by the Commercial Federation to blow up the power plant were a conspiracy by the Knights Association to frame the Federation, even though they didn't actually plan it. It was indeed us who did it."

The spokesperson laughed and said, "You really are a true aristocrat through and through..." Such insidious and vicious ideas could only be conceived by a true aristocrat who had grown up amidst court intrigues.

"Not only that, it was Nearl that attacked the power plant, and it was Nearl's Pegasus that attacked the guards. Now, Kazimierz demands an explanation from the Nearl family, as does the Republic of Kazdel, and even Ursus. Does the Knights' Guild still have the guts to vouch for her?"

Even if the Knights Association withstood the pressure and paid the price to protect the Nearl family, would the Nearl family still stand with the Association?

"When they believed that everything was orchestrated by the association, and that they were merely its victims, when they thought this was the association shirking responsibility and trying to cover up the truth, then the existence of the Linguang family became irrelevant."

"Because they have effectively broken with the Association, and the Federation will insist on preserving Miss Margaret's knighthood, perhaps exile is a good option."

"On her journey in exile, witnessing the knights' deeds in the countryside and surviving several assassination attempts by the guild will likely leave a deeper impression on her. By the way, I heard she has an uncle?"

"That's right, uncle and nephew facing off on the battlefield, then both realizing the true nature of the association and the fact that their families are about to become victims. Ah, I can't wait! This is more captivating than any drama!"

“It wins because it’s real—” Talulah shrugged.

"Yes, truth is the greatest power."

Doesn't the Knights Guild want to kill the Red Pine Team? They want it to death. They openly broke taboos on the field, pointing fingers at nobles and even wiping out half of a fighting knight squad, and those were lowly infected.

It's not news that a knight was killed by a farmer's pitchfork, but it was in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators and tourists from all over the world.

If the Knights Association can swallow this insult and is willing to abide by the rules of the game and accept the result, then they are all heirs to the Golden Spirit.

And were the assassins from the Business Federation real? Yes, the Business Federation didn't want to fall out with the Association, so they sent the assassins at the request of the Supervisory Committee. The assassins were real, the purpose was real, and the reason was real.

And did the association want to sabotage the power plant cooperation project? Yes, they did, because that would make the federation even more powerful. Did they send spies to observe Kobel and his group? Yes, they did, and these spies and the lurking knight thugs were real.

The only fake Knights Guild doesn't intend to blow up the power plant; it's the Federation that's planning to.

But if everything before it is true and the logic is sound, then the last thing that is false is also true.

The purpose of the Federation blowing up the power plant is something that little pony probably couldn't understand, or rather, something that the knightly class, who are focused on collecting rent and preserving property rather than investing, couldn't conceive of.

In their view, the power plant was the property of the federation, and these businessmen must be crazy to blow up their own property just to frame a pony.

In reality, blowing up the power plant meant that the businessmen would need to build new temporary power generation facilities, the city would lose power and heating, and would need fuel, while the business association had stockpiled a large amount of batteries and fuel.

Furthermore, it saves the cost of dismantling the power plant. In the cooperation between Titan Industries and the new power plant, this cost can also be partially borne by the party at fault, namely the Knights Guild or the Nearl family.

In other words, although it appears that some assets were lost, in reality, for the federation, it was just an ordinary investment. Why not exchange a power plant for a hundredfold profit and more say?

Not only that, Talulah even suggested that they open some charity shops in the lower city to win over the people and pour as much black water as possible onto the knights, but not onto the Nearl family.

Imagine, in this uproar, when the entire knightly class has turned evil, would the only innocent one really be seen as innocent? Especially when she still has indelible suspicions about her.

What did the Federation do in this? Nothing. They even tried to explain and defend themselves, attempting to preserve the Lin Guang family.

If the Nearl family still cannot change their attitude and continue to oppose the Federation, then they are truly beyond redemption and have no right to be the symbol of chivalry.

"It's better to make someone else's flag your own than to cut it down." Every class has its betrayers, and the knightly class is no exception, nor is the merchant class of the commercial alliance...

Miss Margaret, returning to the lounge after the match, was unaware that a conspiracy that would engulf the entire city and cause immense chaos had already been ensnared for her. She laid down her weapons, removed her armor, revealing her athletic physique, and changed into simple everyday clothes.

Although the Linguang family is a symbol of chivalry, their financial situation is really not good. In addition to her ideals, another purpose of her participation in the competition is to win some prize money. She can't rely entirely on her aunt and uncle for support, can she?

Of course, if she were to follow the example of other knights and raise the rents of her fiefdoms and manors to an absurd degree, the landholdings of the Nearl family would indeed provide them with a comfortable life.

If he were to also engage in usury and exploit his knightly status to plunder small merchants and businesses, he could live an even more extravagant life.

But if she did that, how would she be any different from those corrupt knights? She, confident in her ability to be the light illuminating Casimir, would never do such a thing.

Although her current ideal, in Lao Xia's words, is "nonsense," it is basically similar to Confucius's idea: to return to the rule of the Three Dynasties, where nobles, knights, squires, merchants, and farmers each perform their duties and live peacefully on the land, in an ideal state without cities or Oripathy.

To paraphrase Marna's criticism of Maria, "Those hanged farmers, those villages plundered by bandits, the urbanization of Ursus, the development of various countries—none of it compares to the old man's final sigh. All he had on his mind was the vanity of the nobility!"

[In the original text, I think the uncle was right. He directly interrupted Maria, who said it was for the sake of the nobility... The uncle directly interrupted her by saying "vanity."]

Compared to her sister who lives under the protection of her elders, Margaret is more realistic, but that's about all.

"Who's there!" The commotion outside the door suddenly alerted her. She chased after the door and saw a blue figure disappear around the corner. An arrow was stuck in the center of the door, along with a note.

"Hmm? The Unarmored Alliance?" Nearl took off the note, unfolded it, and glanced at it. Her expression changed drastically. She had watched the Red Pine team's match before, and she didn't think they had done anything wrong. They had shown bravery, tactics, and wisdom, which were the qualities of knights.

As for the issue of dead people, in her opinion, if that runaway guy had been on the battlefield, he would have been hanged even if he hadn't been killed by the supervising officers.

Now, an assassin from the Unarmored Alliance has sent a message to her informing her that the Knights Guild is preparing to take action against the Red Pine Team, and the Federation has also dispatched assassins.

Although Lin Guang couldn't understand why the assassins had tipped her off, she didn't have time to think about it. She immediately grabbed her shield and weapon, and without even putting on armor, ran barefoot towards the rest area.

"We won! Yay!" The five members of the Red Pine team cheered and boarded the bus next to the stadium, under Nearl's watchful gaze. The bus then headed towards the lower city. "Damn it! Too late!" Little Pony slammed his shield down. "Someone go and tell the family to bring reinforcements to my aid immediately!"

"Yes, Miss!" Lin Guang didn't wait until they reached the lower city to summon reinforcements; instead, she summoned the family's power from the very beginning. This was a slight deviation from the plan, but not by much.

"Are you all happy?" As soon as they got into the car, Sona saw Ivan's gloomy face. "Hurry up, take off your clothes and put on the Centurion armor..."

"what happened?"

"Stop talking nonsense! You killed four knights and one nobleman on the field, and you can still laugh? Aren't you afraid of death?"

"It wasn't you who told me to..."

"I mean, you did this and you thought those knights would let you live to go on the field tomorrow, in armor!"

Clearly, the infected, especially those from the suburbs, had virtually no trust in the knights and immediately put on their centurion armor with serious expressions.

Is the vehicle safe?

"With the steel plates added, the base in the lower city will be safe. However, tomorrow, no matter who asks, you all have to give the same answer: you went to the lower city for drinks and celebration. As for why not in the upper city—"

"Because we are infected!" Sona and the others shouted in unison.

“Very good, that’s more like it!” Ivan smiled and put on another centurion’s armor. The Merchant Guild’s assassins would put on an act. But those knights were serious.