The brave man opened the coffin and rose

Chapter 130 Philip's Past

This warlock from Zhongzhou was arrested as a criminal because he taught magic knowledge outside the Mage Tower.

It was also there that the old man met Philip.

It was not surprising to see tieflings in prison. Although such an assessment was somewhat racist, it was not uncommon for tieflings to be driven astray by intentional or unintentional discrimination.

At first, Philip tried to pretend in front of Adeqi that he was just a thief or a liar, a common situation for tieflings.

But in the end, under Adechi's vicious gaze, he nodded and admitted that he was actually an elite-trained warrior in the past.

Generally speaking, the bloodline characteristics of a tiefling will be manifested at birth.

But Philip is an exception. He is the kind of person who is aroused by emotions.

As an orphan, in order to make a living, Philip sold himself to the darkness of the kingdom early on.

Learn killing techniques and then train day after day.

But after completing this training, what awaited him was not the glory of chasing people all over the country, but various shameful tasks.

He became a killer, the kind of killer who acted for some of the basest ambitions and some of the basest morals.

Originally, if it continued like this, Philip would not care.

However, after one of the missions to assassinate a noble, everything changed.

With the delivery of the task, what followed was not the pitiful bounty (the bulk of the money would be handed over to the superiors), nor the promised short vacation, nor the free hot spring ticket as usual.

What Philip encountered was a huge black pot.

It turns out that the assassinated nobleman was not an ordinary dandy nobleman, but a person who was about to take up an important position in the small kingdom of Wommza.

His death would render ineffective a series of reforms he had supported and promoted, and would lead to political turmoil in the small kingdom.

His superiors and organization, who were supposed to keep the secret confidential, somehow got the news and made his identity information public.

Soon, the hat of treason was put on Philip's head.

The devil's followers...

A very evil person...

The thugs who destroyed the beginnings of reform with their own strength...

All kinds of titles piled up, making Philip feel endless regret and despair.

Therefore, after being arrested for the first time, Philip was taken to the dungeon, but did not wait obediently for his fate of trial.

[If I don’t speak up for myself, no one will speak up for me in the future]

In the past, he was just a tool, and when the time came, he was played as a chess piece, and finally died with a bad reputation. Philip absolutely did not want such a future.

Because of this, he escaped from prison.

Late one night, when the jailers were all asleep, Philip launched his escape plan.

He used the killing skills he had learned and his agility to easily kill the few guards at night and successfully escaped from the dungeon.

Philip's crisis did not end after escaping from the dungeon.

Endless pursuits followed one after another, and he struggled to survive after stumbling for several years.

However, the long period of killing and fighting, as well as the fire burning in his heart all the time, allowed him to successfully activate the devil's essence, which was not too abundant.

The pupils disappeared, the skin turned into a devil's red, a tail emerged from the back, a sulfur-like smell emerged from the body, and even the body temperature became permanently several degrees higher than that of ordinary people.

In terms of appearance, Philip has become the current pure Tiefling.

Because of the change in appearance, the pursuit was temporarily stalled as the target was lost.

Philip, who thought he had no more troubles for the time being, also had a rare relaxing year-end.

What no one expected was that with the changes in the party struggles in the court, the assassination case related to Philip was brought up again.

When the local officials who received the order conducted an investigation, they found Philip again. Although his appearance had changed greatly, his features still matched the original.

So Philip, who was unable to react in time, went to jail for the second time.

In order to restrain this special criminal who had "mutated" into a Tiefling, heavy shackles were put on his wrists and ankles.

No matter his punches and kicks, or the high temperature of the magic flame, they could not break these shackles made of unknown material.

It can be said that if he needs to jailbreak again this time, the things on his wrists and ankles will be a big trouble.

However, this time, before he could plan his escape route, things had changed.

As a criminal, he unexpectedly got the opportunity to make meritorious service while serving his sentence.

General Paddy, the leader of the seven generals, seems to be mobilizing troops from all over the kingdom in order to fight against the foreign enemy, the Lizardmen.

In order to please General Paddy, the warden in charge of their prison pulled out the criminals in his own prison and formed a "thief army".

It was in this "thief army" that he met the unlucky old sorcerer Adechi from Zhongzhou.

He had only given a lecture on the street for a while, but this poor man from Zhongzhou was arrested because he violated the law and violated the interests of the Mage Tower, which was the only institution that could provide paid teaching.

In a way, they both have very similar reasons.

What Adechi violated was the interests of those people in the Mage Tower; and Philip himself, when he was on the run and was caught for the second time, came to his senses and realized that he assassinated the nobleman for the benefit of certain people.

The reason why he was arrested for the second time was not because some judge wanted to investigate the years of unjust, false and wrong cases and the accumulated old cases, but because some people wanted to take action again to protect their own interests.

All in all, these two people with such a big age gap unexpectedly became both teacher and friend.

What happens next is very simple.

General Paddy's ambitions were exposed, and warlords from all over the kingdom began to rise up.

The "thief soldiers" who got the chance took advantage of it, killed the minor officials who transported them, and formally raised the banner of rebellion.

Because there are people like Philip who have had strange experiences. They are different from those unruly mobs. They have thought about it.

"Where interests converge, disasters will emerge in endlessly."

For the sake of a peaceful future, they must go to where interests converge and eliminate those who are at the top.

So, Philip and Adechi, disguised as refugees, arrived at the wall of the royal capital with those who were willing to follow them and the members they recruited along the way.

And after preparing for a period of time, they began their siege.

And this was the beginning of what Abes and the others witnessed today.