Chapter 766 Hero El (Part 2)
Vashili held El's hand affectionately and walked into the city of Ariel shoulder to shoulder with El.
After entering Ariel, El was greeted by even more enthusiastic cheers.
The citizens of Ariel lined the streets to welcome El.
They cheered.
They shouted El's name.
They called El a hero.
After Vashili held El's hand and walked into Ariel, the prime minister, Mond, who had been walking on the side of Vashili, announced to the surrounding citizens with excitement:
"Fellow citizens! This is the great warrior who smashed the despicable tricks of the Knights of Michael in one fell swoop! He achieved a shocking reversal in desperation! Our great hero, El Bernard!"
As Mond's words fell, the cheers of the surrounding citizens became even more enthusiastic.
And El finally recovered now.
After recovering, El's face quickly became gloomy and ugly.
Another person whose face became ugly was Camille.
Camille, like El, understood what was going on.
"I was used..." El whispered to himself in a voice that only he could hear.
Vasili held El's hand intimately throughout the whole journey.
It was not until they entered Ariel that Vasili finally asked El:
"By the way, El, where is Dominic?"
"... Teacher... No, the marshal fell ill on the way back to Ariel and is now resting in the carriage behind."
Perhaps because of the pressure and self-blame for the defeat, or simply because of his old age, Dominic fell ill not long after leaving the Mukhavets Fortress.
Fortunately, Dominic's illness did not seem to be serious, but his body became much weaker.
After learning from El that Dominic was ill, Vasili just said "Oh": "Sir Dominic is ill, it seems that I have to comfort Sir Dominic later, after all, Sir Dominic has worked hard in this battle."
"..." El glanced at Vasili beside him, and then retracted his gaze. He didn't even want to respond to Vasili's words.
If it weren't for Vasili's hand being held too tightly, El would have wanted to take back his hand that was being held by Vasili.
El's indifference made Vasili a little embarrassed.
After being rejected, Vasili was silent for a while, then found a new topic and said to El enthusiastically:
"Sir El! You are the hero of this battle! I will definitely reward you well! After discussing with the Prime Minister, I decided to transfer you from a quartermaster to a general! And promote you to a first-class general in one go!"
As soon as Vasili finished speaking,
some people around him, including Gabriel, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
El is just a small third-class quartermaster now, and he was transferred to a general and promoted to a first-class general in one go?
This kind of thing has never happened in the history of the Holy Hilan Empire.
However, in the face of Vasili's generous reward, El was unmoved.
Just showed a polite smile:
"I would like to thank your majesty for your kindness. But I am not interested in the battlefield, and I have no intention of becoming a general on the battlefield. I just want to stay in the safe rear and be a quartermaster for life."
El tactfully rejected Vasili's reward.
El's refusal made Vasili embarrassed.
After a brief moment of surprise and dissatisfaction, Vasili quickly calmed down his emotions:
"...Since you are not interested in the battlefield, I will promote you to the first-class quartermaster! Our country not only needs excellent generals, but also excellent quartermasters!"
El only wanted to be a third-class quartermaster for life, so that there would not be too much work pressure and too much hard work.
Therefore, El still wanted to refuse Vasili's reward.
But when El's lips opened slightly, Kamil, who was walking behind El on the right, took the lead and quietly pulled El's right sleeve.
El quietly looked behind him on the right.
Kamil shook his head gently at El.
"El, stop while you are ahead, and don't confront the emperor anymore." - Kamil conveyed this sentence to El with his eyes and shaking his head.
El, who understood Kamil's meaning, retracted his gaze.
After a moment of silence, El finally sighed softly.
"...I will obey your order."
El agreed with an attitude as if he had accepted his fate, and in a tone without any joy,
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That night, Vasili prepared a grand welcoming banquet and celebration banquet for El in Ariel.
But as the protagonist of the banquet, El did not attend the banquet.
El refused to attend the welcoming banquet and celebration banquet on the grounds of being unwell.
"I really feel sorry and regretful that I can't attend the banquet." - This is what El said when he refused the invitation to the banquet.
El did not come to the banquet, and Vasili was more or less dissatisfied, but he was not too angry.
After all, this banquet was just a show, and it didn't matter whether El came or not.
Although El, the protagonist, was gone, Vasili still held a very lively welcoming banquet and celebration banquet with Mond, as well as a group of senior generals and senior quartermasters rescued by El.
Except for Dominic and Camille, who were sick and recuperating, the senior generals and senior quartermasters who had been rescued by El were all happy to attend the banquet.
Because they also wanted to use this lively banquet to wash away the haze of defeat in their hearts.
While the banquet place was in full swing and bustling, El was shutting himself in the room prepared for him by Vasily.
Lying stretched out on the bed, looking at the unfamiliar ceiling above his head expressionlessly, he didn't know what he was thinking.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"El, open the door, it's me - Camille."
"And me - Gabriel. "
"Push the door open yourself." El replied in a weak tone, "I didn't lock the door."
After getting El's permission to enter, Camille and Gabriel unceremoniously pushed the door open and entered El's room.
Looking at El, who was lying stretched out on the bed with a slightly tired look on his face, Camille joked to him:
"What's wrong? Our great hero, why are you pretending to be sick when you are not sick? Do you really not want to attend His Majesty the Emperor's 'celebration banquet'?"
"Big hero? Stop teasing me, Camille." El said in a helpless tone, "I'm not a big hero. I'm just a defeated general who saved some people by luck."
"Of course I don't want to attend that celebration party."
"We launched a very large-scale expedition with a total mobilization of nearly one million people."
"In the end, this expedition only gave Su Cheng a military honor, which made Su Cheng's reputation rise to a higher level."
"With such a disastrous defeat, our emperor still has the nerve to hold a 'celebration banquet'?"
The military genius brought Zizhi Tongjian to another world
The military genius brought Zizhi Tongjian to another world