Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

"Put down your weapons!" George shouted angrily. "Weapons are for you to use against the enemy! Not against your comrades!"

The Holy Grail Knight spoke, and the two knights and their followers put down their weapons one after another, but the looks they gave each other were still full of hostility.

"Your Excellency," the sword-wielding knight said first. "I was the first to discover the rabbit, and I was about to catch it, but he was so mean as to shoot me from behind!"

"I'm just following the sacred rules of hunting." The knight on the opposite side sneered.

George also saw what happened. To be fair, George also felt that the sword-wielding knight was right, but the point now was not who was right or wrong.

Looking at the rabbit's body nailed to the ground by the arrow, George swallowed his mouth calmly. No matter who was right or wrong, he had to think of a reason to eat the rabbit alone.

Admittedly, no matter what standard is used, it is not George's turn to eat the rabbit alone, but even a Holy Grail Knight has not had a piece of meat in such a long time. Now he finally has a rabbit, and even a strong Holy Grail Knight cannot control his inner desire.

How to cook such a fat rabbit?

Just when George was thinking about what kind of reason he could use to have the rabbit all to himself, suddenly the knights around him exclaimed.

"What's going on? Why are you shouting so loudly?" George heard the people around him shouting and shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Sir! Rabbit! Rabbit!" shouted a knight outside the crowd.

"I know! Am I not just dealing with the rabbit issue?!" George said a little irritably.

"It's not that rabbit!" the knight shouted again. "Rabbits! Lots of rabbits!"

Finally, the knights and followers, including George, finally understood the meaning of this sentence. Suddenly, a large group of rabbits appeared on the hillside not far away.

Dozens, no, over a hundred rabbits appeared on the hillside not far away as if they had appeared out of thin air, and ran off into the distance.

"Goddess of the Lake!" Seeing this amazing scene, George immediately threw all other thoughts behind his mind and rushed towards the rabbit group first.

To be honest, the sudden appearance of this group of rabbits was very abnormal. Although rabbits are indeed social creatures, with dozens of rabbits sharing a common burrow, and some rabbit burrows even connecting each other internally to form a large group of over a hundred rabbits, under normal circumstances, it is almost impossible to see hundreds of rabbits running in an open area at the same time.

But at this time the knights were so hungry that they had no time to think. When they saw a group of rabbits appear, they immediately picked up all the weapons they could use and started chasing the rabbits in chaos.

The knights used bows and arrows, throwing knives, meteor hammers, and even riding horses to trample rabbits. The knights rushed forward, causing chaos, but the harvest was also very rich.

After hunting down the rabbit, the knights and their attendants immediately began to cook and enjoy it. After enjoying it, the knights remembered to count the harvest. Everyone ate at least one rabbit, the knights ate two on average, and Sir George ate four.

After he finished eating, George realized belatedly that something was wrong with these rabbits.

Chapter 435: Suspicious Rabbit

The rabbits that suddenly appeared gave the knights, who had been hungry for a long time, a full meal. Everyone, from knights to followers, ate at least one rabbit.

Perhaps in preparation for winter, the rabbits were trying to gain weight, and they were quite fat, generally with much more meat than normal rabbits. The knights, who had been hungry for more than 20 days, enjoyed a delicious meal.

Although there was no seasoning, the knights ate with gusto because they had been hungry for a long time. After eating, when the hunger subsided, their clever IQs took over again.

There's something wrong with these rabbits.

The leader of the team, George, realized after a full meal that the appearance of these rabbits was very unreasonable. In addition to George, many experienced knights also realized after filling their stomachs.

There's something wrong with these rabbits.

When people are hungry, especially after being hungry for a long time, their thinking ability will be greatly reduced due to the lack of energy supply to the brain. Now that they have eaten their fill, the knights finally realized the abnormality.

"Gentlemen." George said solemnly, calling several knights over. "There is something wrong with these rabbits."

"We noticed that, too, sir." After George spoke, a knight immediately echoed him. "Rabbits are very timid creatures. They usually hide in their burrows and will not come out except to hunt and eat. And there won't be so many rabbits at the same time. This is very unusual."

"So what do you think?" George crossed his arms, his face a little gloomy.

George looked solemn, his eyes were deep, and he lowered his head, as if he was enduring something. After enduring for a long time, George finally couldn't help it and opened his mouth.

"Burp~" George let out a long burp.

As the saying goes, the greater the strength, the greater the appetite. A person's appetite is often linked to his strength. It does not mean that people with a large appetite are strong, but people with strong strength often have a large appetite.

As a Knight of the Holy Grail, George certainly has a big appetite. He just ate four rabbits.

The captain burped, and the other knights kept a straight face, not daring to do anything impolite, such as laughing out loud. George pretended nothing had happened and continued, "Let's check those rabbits first to see if they've been poisoned or cursed."

"As you command." One of the knights nodded, pounded his chest, and then one of them couldn't help but burped loudly.

George looked at the other person expressionlessly, his hand on the hilt of his sword.

Soon, the knight came back after the inspection and reported to George.

"Your Excellency, no traces of poison or curse were found on those rabbits."

"Not at all?"

"Not at all, by the Lady of the Lake," the knight swore.

"Please don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't trust you, I'm just being safe." In order to avoid misunderstanding, George took the initiative to explain, then turned his head to look at the leftover rabbit scraps he had eaten.

Wasn't he poisoned or cursed? George thought with a frown.

In George's opinion, if there was something wrong with these rabbits, it must be the cunning beastmen who used the beast magic to control them to do abnormal things. Since there were no magicians or clergy in the team, it was impossible to determine whether they were affected by the beast magic, but there were knights in the team who were good at judging poisons and curses.

If these rabbits were really sent by the Beastmen using the beast magic, they would definitely be poisoned or cursed, which is something that filthy creatures like the Beastmen would do.

But the final examination results showed that there was no poison and no curse.

So what's up with these rabbits?

"If they are not poisoned or under an evil curse, then what's wrong with these rabbits?" George asked with a frown.

"Sir, I once encountered something similar in my fiefdom." Another knight recalled and stepped forward. "Sir, do you remember the earthquake in Viminalie three years ago?"

"Remember, what happened?"

"My fiefdom is not too far from Viminalie where the earthquake occurred. Before the earthquake, a similar incident happened in my territory," the knight explained. "Many animals ran out of their holes, rabbits, mice, and so on, just like what happened just now. Not long after, the earthquake's vibrations came over here."

"You mean, is this a precursor to an earthquake?" George asked thoughtfully.

"Maybe, but I'm not sure, because there was only the rabbit just now, and the other animals didn't react." The knight said honestly.

The knights discussed the rabbit's abnormality for a long time, but still could not come up with a more convincing possibility. There was no sign of poison or curse on the rabbit, so the only possibility was that it was a divine power like an earthquake.

The discussion was fruitless, and for safety's sake, George ordered the entire army to rest where they were and not move for the time being. If there really was poison or a curse, it would probably take effect soon.

In fact, even if there was no possibility of poisoning or curse, George would have ordered the entire army to rest for a while before leaving. Everyone, from knights to squires, was full of food, and each of them had a bulging belly, so they couldn't leave even if they wanted to.

After resting for almost two hours, George ordered the whole army to continue to move forward. Considering the possibility of an earthquake, George ordered that everyone should take the main road and not go into the forest.

After eating, the knights had more energy to walk, and their morale was obviously much higher. However, as they walked, more and more people felt something was wrong with their bodies, and they felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.

Many people thought that they might have eaten too much, but then the originally neat queue became chaotic because many people's gait became disordered and they walked staggeringly, and some even began to shake their hands uncontrollably, like flapping wings.

From the beginning, their gait was disordered, and gradually, more and more people in the team began to behave strangely. Some began to wave their weapons around, some picked up stones on the ground, threw them far away like childish children, and then cheered, and some began to talk nonsense loudly, saying loudly that they wanted to drink the foot washing water of the fairy in the lake.

This is too outrageous! Even if I really want to drink it! Can I say this out loud!?

At first, only the servants showed abnormalities, but around 2pm, even the knights showed abnormalities. One knight suddenly twisted his neck greatly, looked around blankly, and finally his eyes fell on George, revealing a philosophical expression that made George's hair stand on end.

"Come on...ah!" Before the other party could speak, George struck with his scabbard.

Something is wrong. Ten percent or even nine percent wrong.

Chapter 436: Poisoned

Anyone who is not a fool will realize at this moment that something is wrong. Moreover, George, as a Holy Grail Knight, is no fool.

To gain the recognition of the Lady of the Lake, complete the Holy Grail Trial, and become a Holy Grail Knight, one must not only have superb martial arts and a firm will, but also a good brain. Although one does not need to be extremely smart, being able to travel to dangerous places across the continent and complete the trial alive will train one to a certain degree of thinking ability, even if one is really an idiot.

George, who was not an idiot, naturally noticed the abnormality in the troops. Almost everyone, regardless of their strength and status, made strange movements.

Not only them, but George himself also felt something was wrong.

His stomach felt bloated and he felt nauseous. This was understandable, he had eaten too much, but George also had a strange feeling. His brain felt happy, a bit like being drunk, and it was a very strange feeling.

There was a sense of uncontrolled running of thoughts, with all kinds of weird ideas flashing in my mind. Some of these thoughts were things that happened in the past, some were my recent thoughts, and some were blasphemous thoughts that had been suppressed deep in my heart and could not be expressed in words.

For example, when I returned from the Holy Grail Trial and knelt in front of the Chief Fairy of the Lake, I had the urge to rush over, hold those jade feet in my hands, and savor them carefully, toe by toe.

George was sure that if it were his current self, he could definitely do it.

The thoughts in his brain were running wildly like a river bursting its banks, and although George realized that something was wrong, he was unable to think effectively. In addition to his thoughts, he also felt physically uncomfortable. He felt nauseous and wanted to vomit, and his body, especially his hands, trembled uncontrollably. The scene in front of him seemed to be spinning, but it didn't seem to be spinning.

Was he poisoned or cursed? George used his remaining sanity to think that the knight's professionalism was not trustworthy.

"Everyone..." With strong willpower, George tried to stop the team from moving forward. The originally orderly team was now more chaotic than the exiled prisoners. But just as George was about to stop, a shout suddenly came from the front of the team.

"Enemy found!"

"Beastman spotted!"

"Prepare to attack! For the footbath of the Lady of the Lake!"

A series of excited shouts came from the front. George looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of beastmen.

There were a dozen beastmen, not many in number. Due to the distance, George couldn't see their race clearly, but one of them was very conspicuous.

Among the beastmen, there was a figure that stood out. It was a figure over three meters tall. Blinking hard, George looked again. It was a beastman sitting on the shoulders of another beastman.

The figure sitting on my shoulder looked familiar...

While George was trying to identify who that figure was, the people at the front of the team had already launched an attack without authorization. Acting without orders was a big taboo, and they would not do this under normal circumstances, but at this moment their minds were in a daze and they were unable to make detailed and complex thoughts.

Seeing the knight in front riding a horse and rushing over, the figure that George was staring at moved his lips from a distance towards George.

Then George got angry.

"It greeted my mom!" George shouted angrily. "I hate it most when someone greets my mom!"

George read the figure's words through the familiar lip movements, and then he became furious as if his toes were stepped on. He immediately swung the whip, hit the butt of his BMW, and launched a charge.

His brain was already in a state of insufficient function, and then his sensitive points were inexplicably touched, and George lost control.

The Holy Grail Knight's horse is different from the ordinary knight's horse. It is a white horse with elven horse bloodline, and its speed is much faster than that of the ordinary knight's mount. George, who was originally in the center of the army, rushed out of the team at once and rushed to the beastman who dared to greet his mother.

This group of beastmen was led by Linde. According to Ranna's suggestion, Linde came personally as bait.

"The enemy has taken the bait! Let's retreat!" Seeing the other side rushing over, Lind shouted, asking everyone to retreat.

"Your Highness, please sit tight." Lind was not riding Katie, the one he rode most often, but Fenrir. The beastmen that Lind brought with him were all wolf beastmen with the best mobility.

Following Lind's order, all the beastmen began to run wildly, retreating to the designated location as quickly as possible.

"Your Highness! Didn't Ranna say that we should not retreat all at once, but fight before leaving?" Fenrir reminded Lind while running with him on his back.

"I know! But there's no need!" Lind said confidently. "The knights must be in a state of confusion now! The formation is in such a mess! They won't doubt it! They will definitely catch up!"

Originally, according to Ranna's plan, the wolf group squad led by Linde was going to engage in a tentative battle, and then retreat in a pretended defeat to lure the enemy deeper. Running away directly after the encounter might alert the enemy.

But when Lind saw the team moving crookedly and not resembling an army at all, he changed his mind and just said a few beautiful words to the Holy Grail Knight from a distance, causing the other party to rush over without any vigilance.

Riding on Fenrir's back, Lind turned his head from time to time to look at the enemies chasing behind him, making him more certain that his plan was successful.

Linde asked Fran to use magic to control those rabbits and give them to the knights to eat. This plan was strongly opposed by Ranna, who believed that feeding the enemy before the battle was a pedantic morality and a serious irresponsibility to one's own soldiers.

"Don't worry. Do you think your boss is that kind of pedantic knight? Just wait and see." Linde comforted Ranna.

The enemy's abnormal reaction proved that Lind's plan was successful. The fact that they caught up without any vigilance proved that the metabolites had affected their brains, and their crooked gait proved that the enemy was in a very bad state.

The people on horseback were better off, but those on foot started to stagger after running for a while, either falling down or running like drunks, shouting confusing words.

Soon, Lind led the enemy to the selected ambush site. He turned his head to take a look, and after confirming that all the enemies had caught up, Lind dived into the woods.

"My Lord, you are back!" Ranna, who had put on her armor and was ready to charge, said in surprise and joy. "How did those knights become like this!?"

What appeared in front of Ranna were the Bartolan Knights, who were staggering and looked nothing like an army.

"What else can it be? He's been poisoned!"

Chapter 437: The Knight Becomes a Madman

Ranna was extremely shocked. The appearance of the enemy in front of her was completely beyond her imagination.

Ranna came from the country of knights, Batoran. Since the country was founded, the entire society has been filled with the culture of knights. No matter nobles or commoners, they are all deeply influenced by the culture of knights.

Although only nobles can become knights in Batoran, the path to knighthood has never been completely closed to commoners. Commoners can start the path to knighthood by becoming a knight's militia squire. Although it often takes several generations of hard work to get a place as a knight's squire, there is still a chance.

Compared with other civilians, Ranna was more deeply influenced by the knights. Due to special opportunities, Ranna often worked odd jobs for the knight grandfather. Although the closer distance than ordinary civilians allowed Ranna to see a lot of the dark sides of the knights, it also made Ranna more aware of the fighting power of the knights, which was definitely not something that civilians with pitchforks could fight against.

There have also been peasant uprisings in Batoran, but each time they were easily suppressed by the knights whose numbers were far smaller than the peasants, thanks to the knights' amazing fighting power and strict discipline.