"Do you know when I found out this trick of yours?" The woman clasped her hands in front of her large chest, raising her head and staring down at Kotaro and the rest: "If you know the answer, I will forgive you, what do you think?"
Kotaro did not pay any attention to the woman's words, and continued to stare at her angrily.
"When we entered the hall, right?" It was Ryota who spoke, he was obviously worried, and wanted to take advantage of any opportunity to save themselves.
"Ryota, what are you trying to do, did you really believe what she said?" Kotaro yelled, disagreeing with his friend. He was right, who would believe this nonsense, but Ryota also had his fears.
"Hmm...wrong, I've known about you from the start." The woman smiled: "Shall I tell you how I found out?"
"It was when the villagers began to behave strangely as they left their homes unconscious, you might have already guessed that it was because of the tea the two guards brought you this morning, and the reason why they were able to move even when they were in that state, it was because I had been controlling them all along time." The lady continued: "This is due to the ability of my 'Purple Mist' magic, and by using it I can produce hypnotic gases to control enemies easily, especially if they are not mages like the villagers."
"We've already figured this out, so we ditched the tea, so how did you find out?" A complicated look appeared on Ryota's face, and he still couldn't tell where the matter was.
"Haha, didn't you realize yet, it was your disposal of the tea that exposed you" The woman laughed sarcastic.
"Didn't I say that I could control others by means of tea mixed with my magic, if so, wouldn't I also know how many people I controlled?"
"This…" The three fell silent and stared with open eyes, it was as if someone had slapped their faces and woke them up from their slumber, they had remembered where they had gone wrong, and the reason was really as she mentioned, but it was too late and unfortunately they were now at the mercy of the enemy.
Ryota felt ashamed, "Shit, it was because of me, I was careless and didn't consider all possibilities."
"The three of us have mocked the enemy, don't blame yourself." Akina's spirits plummeted, and she couldn't help but blame herself.
"No need to be pessimistic, it was a smart move, if you didn't throw the tea away, you would be my puppets," said the lady, "but even then, you still fell into my trap, haha It seems you have no escape today from your death." .
"Screw you, I'll make sure to burn that smile of yours soon." Kotaro cursed inwardly.
"Wait in your beautiful cage for now, I'll deal with you later, I have another thing to finish." The woman straightened and seemed ready to do something, as she commanded the knights who were lined up in front of the columns: "Start your work"
As the knights received their command, they began to advance towards the villagers who were waiting in the middle of the hall, and when each knight was arriving in front of ten people, he stops there.
While the two guards brought large basins, they put one basin in front of each knight.
The woman gave her signal and the knights began to do their work.
One of the knights, who was also in front of ten people from the village, pulled a small dagger out of a small bag that was hanging on his armored pants, and came in front of a little boy who was also unconscious.
The knight grabbed the child's hand by the fist, and "Slash" opened a small wound on his wrist, the child did not feel anything and remained unaffected, while blood began to flow from the wound and fall into the basin that had been prepared in advance.
In front of another group, another knight also did the same, but the person was not a child but a male youth who was the youngest in this group.
All the knights acted like this and were choosing the youngest person among the villagers' groups to extract his blood.
"Hey you bastards, what are you doing?" Kotaro couldn't bear to see this act and shouted at the knights, "Stop at once."
"Don't heed his yelling, keep going." The woman smiled coldly.
"Bitch, I'll make you regret it." Kotaro was helpless inside the narrow cage, and he couldn't even move his hands to destroy the cage.
Minutes later, when the knight noticed the appearance of pallor and yellowness on the child's face, he stopped the operation and took medicine out of his bag, closing the wound on the child's wrist, and the bleeding also stopped.
Then he moved to the second youngest person in the group, and he also opened a wound on his hand and left him to bleed over the sink, which was slightly filled with the blood of the previous child.
It was the same for the other groups, and the process was to extract a quantity of blood from the villagers, from children to the elderly.
Half an hour later, all the knights were almost finished, and it could be seen that most of the basins were filled with the blood of the villagers, and a trace of a slashing knife left a mark on their hands.
The mysterious woman ordered the two former guards to return the villagers to their homes, and there were only three males left of them over the age of eighty, and it was now their turn to extract the blood from them, but their bodies had reached their limit, and they were old, they could no longer do anything Only waiting for death to come to them, in which case even extracting a drop of blood from them would cause an inevitable death.
Since the lady had been observing the proceedings from the beginning, she noticed the three old men and came to a decision immediately, and instructed the knights in charge of the three groups, with a stern and cold expression: "Kill them, since we cannot benefit from them in the long run, then we will make sure to exploit them now before wasting their blood for nothing."
"Yes, madam," the three knights responded as if this was an ordinary thing.
"You cowards, leave them at once." Akina's feelings escalated, and she couldn't bear to watch anymore.
Stealing blood was really a crime that deserves the death penalty, and before when Akina saw the knights doing this to the villagers, she could not help but insult the lady because of her inability, but to kill an innocent and helpless person and then use his corpse like an animal is another thing entirely, this was really unforgivable.