Captive

Punk was still secretly studying the gray crystal inside the Mage Tower, so what had happened to Pandora, who had received no response from the Legendary spellcaster?

The answer was very simple: she had already been captured by the Scott Imperial Nation's orthodox knight order!

The moment Pandora arrived at Pearl City under Ganatica's identity and name, more than a dozen imposing Master Level professionals, led by Akto, surrounded the girl's tent without any surprise. Then, before Pandora, utterly incapable of resisting, could even kill herself, she was captured on the spot.

By this point, Ganatica, leader of the Mutual Aid Poor People's Army, had vanished without a trace. Pandora had become the nobles' prisoner, and nearly every member of the Mutual Aid Society had chosen surrender. The tiny number who stubbornly resisted were executed on the spot by the severe knights, while many leaders and professionals who had "performed outstandingly" and "returned from the wrong path" were even granted noble titles and fiefs.

The Mutual Aid Society, an organization that had once swept across the Scott Imperial Nation, had completely become history...

This sounded like a very fine victory. The nobles had won a crushing triumph, while the poor could only obediently continue enduring exploitation and laboring like beasts of burden. By all rights, those lofty nobles should have used this "victory" as an excuse to hold lavish banquets and celebrate extravagantly. But... in truth, only a few ignorant minor nobles celebrated carefree in the dark. The middle-ranking nobles had already detected something unusual in this extraordinarily strange rebellion and counter-rebellion, and as for the Five Great Nobles who ruled the Scott Imperial Nation...

These five seemingly untouchable rulers had once again... no, it would be more accurate to say they had become even more overwhelmed...

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