At the sight of Ilyena looking ready to burst into tears, several novice knights whistled excitedly.
The knight captain relished the feeling of holding someone else's fate in his hands even more.
With a cold laugh, he brusquely cut off Ilyena's pleading:
"Priest Ilyena, I think you've misunderstood something."
"I wasn't negotiating with you just now. I was relaying orders from Winterhold!"
"You will hand over those fifty people, whether you want to... or not!"
"If you dare defy the will of Winterhold's Church, you are heretics rebelling against the Righteous Gods!"
"I have the authority to represent Winterhold and wipe you savages who refuse to heed our warnings clean off the map!"
Overbearing!
Ruthless!
Threats and inducements!
At that moment, the arrogance and greed beneath the Winterhold knights' facade were laid completely bare!
At the knight captain's undisguised threat,
a dangerous, icy glint suddenly flashed through Ilyena's eyes.
Outwardly, however, she still looked weak and terrified, stumbling back two steps.
Just as the knight captain thought victory was assured and prepared to savor Ilyena's utter breakdown and despair,
he failed to notice
that within the shadows of the ruined walls surrounding the square,
nearly a hundred pairs of eyes had gathered at some point, packed together and blazing with fury.
"Holy shit! What did that old bastard just say?"
"Demanding people was bad enough, but now he wants to take our Ilyena too!"
"Those villain lines are way too fucking authentic!"
"Fuck! In all my years of gaming, this is the first dumbass I've seen who dared snatch our Newbie Village NPC wife right in front of the entire server!"
The players hiding in the shadows of the surrounding ruins were practically bursting with rage.
Who was Ilyena?
She was their breathtaking Wasteland White Moonlight, who had fought shoulder