Chapter 284: The Great Purge (Part )
Country families like the Salin family almost all control a large number of serfs and slaves. In addition, a large amount of land in rural areas also belongs to them.

Even the few free people were controlled by them in every aspect.

Moreover, during the period of local rule, taxes and military personnel from all over the country were collected by them.

It goes without saying that they will make a fortune for themselves, and most of them will also raise private soldiers to do evil in the countryside, so that they control every aspect of the countryside, like local emperors.

The local factions only want to exploit the common people, so naturally they are willing to collude with them.

Taxation is based on a lump-sum tax system. As long as enough taxes are paid, the local authorities don’t care what these country families do in the countryside.

But the War Council is different. In order to plan for the future, the Council needs a large population and a large amount of land, as well as a large amount of resources and wealth.

And these country families just happen to have all of these.

Therefore, for the sake of the war committee's cause, they had no choice but to die.

The committee's purge was ostensibly a crackdown on local factions and separatist forces, but in reality it was more of a massacre and plunder of rural families under various names.

Perhaps many people who do not deserve the death penalty, or even innocent people, will die at the hands of the rural groups.

Even though Roland issued various auxiliary tools to minimize the deaths of innocent people, he knew that this was bound to happen.

However, Roland also knew that wearing white gloves, not wanting to get anything dirty, and making himself look like a white lotus would not save Donald.

The committee needed people and land, which they had.

If there had been no Green Tide, Roland might have been more gentle, using coercion and inducement to slowly buy out the person. Unfortunately, given the committee's current situation, it was simply impossible to spend such a huge price to buy out the person, so they could only use iron-blooded means to rob him.

Whether it is the title deed of the Kingdom of Donnar Knights or the title deed of the Locke Rebellion, what does it have to do with our War Committee? We do not inherit these legal principles, so we do not recognize them at all.

In the Salin family manor, Harber led the soldiers along the way, and they killed along the way.

After realizing that the newcomers had ill intentions and that Harber had no intention of communicating or compromising with them but only wanted to kill their entire family, the Salin family finally could no longer sit still.

As Harber advanced, a large number of slave soldiers were driven to block Harber's way.

Harber and the soldiers showed no mercy to these completely enslaved slaves. They raised their swords and killed anyone who dared to approach.

However, although Harber and the soldiers killed many people along the way, most of them were completely tamed slaves, with at most a few attendants in charge of command. They never encountered the real private soldiers of the Salin family.

Harber was not in a hurry about this. He guessed that these private soldiers were still gathering and he would kill them when he met them.

A mere country family, no matter how many and how good their private soldiers are, can they fight against them?

Even if the car crashes, Harber and others can still be resurrected. Can they do it?

However, having said that, as he went deeper into the manor, Harber became very cautious. He kept up the detection spell and observed the surrounding environment without any slackness.

After killing all the slaves who rushed over again, Harber raised his head slightly and gestured twice with his left hand behind his back as if nothing had happened.

The soldiers who were watching Harber also noticed his gesture, coordinated with each other, pretended to be powerless and left behind, and quietly adjusted their ranks.

Afterwards, the group continued to advance and arrived in front of a stone wall.

Harber raised his head slightly and looked at the tall stone wall in front of him.

While Harber was looking, a large number of figures suddenly appeared on the empty stone wall. Archers drew their bows and fired a wave of rapid shots at Harber. As arrows flew towards them, the prepared front-line soldiers immediately smashed their shields to the ground, injected their own energy, and formed a shield covering all of them.

As the shield was formed, Harber handed the sword in his hand to the clerk beside him and carefully took out a magic book from his arms.

Roland made this personally as a reward for him because he had done a good job in the past two years.

This is a magic book that can grow stronger with me. It is so precious.

It is said that high-level spells are needed to create this kind of magic book, and it is extremely troublesome. Even in the Tower of Truth, there are not many high-level spellcasters who have this skill.

Moreover, as high-level spellcasters, they are not short of money and will not deliberately spend time to create such a magic book.

Unless you are a descendant or apprentice of those high-level spellcasters, it is almost impossible to get a growth-oriented magic book.

I heard that Roland only gave away less than ten copies, which are very precious.

Since Harber got it, he has kept it on his body 24 hours a day, for fear of losing it.

However, as a magic book, it cannot be kept on display forever, it must be used when necessary.

He opened the grimoire and began to cast a spell.

Under the protection of arrows and shields, he completed the spell very smoothly.

When all the arrows in the sky were blocked, the soldiers in the front row raised their shields, and the shields covering everyone dissipated.

Then, a huge fireball hit the stone wall.

"boom!"

The fireball hit the stone wall, and after a loud explosion, a big hole was blown out on the stone wall.

At the same time, balls of fire splashed out, and some nearby archers became the first unlucky ones. They were all ignited by the flames, wailing and rolling on the ground, trying to put out the flames.

However, the magic flame is not so easy to extinguish. Their rolling instead accelerated the spread of the fire and hastened their own death.

The flames spread along the stone wall and rushed towards the archers around.

Faced with the flames that could not be extinguished and could even burn on the stones, the archers on the stone wall were terrified and fled frantically.

At the gap in the stone wall, countless pieces of rubble smashed into the interior of the stone wall. Covered by flames, the continuously burning rubble carried kinetic energy and flames and fell directly on the private army that was ready to go behind the stone wall.

Under the double blow of rubble and fire, the private army, which had never expected to be attacked, was thrown into chaos.

Harber naturally would not miss this opportunity. He took the weapon from the clerk beside him, raised it and shouted loudly.

"Soldiers, charge with me!"

After saying that, Harber created an elemental shield for himself and rushed towards the gap.

Seeing that Harber had rushed forward, the remaining soldiers naturally followed him and rushed towards the gap, howling.

(End of this chapter)