Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 511 Chapter You are so poisonous

"…So, what problem did Master Nemisus find?"

——Isa Sandria asked impatiently.

It was already a week after the war council at Olaf's Roost. Soon after Xiahou Yan returned to Swan Castle covered in dust, he was forced by a group of high-ranking officials to tell them about his experience.

At this moment, the hall of Swan Castle was crowded with high-ranking members of the Igor family who were peeking in, all of them were listening to the lord's narration of his adventures like curious babies.

However, when talking about the key plot of "The Murder of Baron Misty Ridge", the lord followed Weilf's good example and cut off the text at the key point, which made the enthusiastic listeners very angry.

Not only was Isa anxious, but Master Lowry, Sean Mountbatten and others who were listening in on the side were also anxious. They wanted to hear what Master Nemisus had to say after examining the maid suspected of murder.

  However, Xiahou Yan was obviously not in a hurry to recount the situation at the scene. He picked up a pot of cold brewed cypress tea from the table beside him, gulped down a few big mouthfuls from the spout, and exhaled a long breath of relief. The most honorable storyteller in the history of Haven turned his head and looked around. Just when he was about to find a gavel to slam the table and recite the closing poem, he heard Yulia Minetoska suddenly say not far away:

"Master Nemisus discovered that the maid was controlled by someone else's mind, right?"

"Exactly!" Xiahou Yan was a little depressed that the answer that had kept everyone waiting for a long time was finally revealed by one of the audience members.

"Why is this little demon bitch still here?!" Isa Sandria glared at the arrogant Yulia and screamed, "Miss Yulia Minetoska! This is an internal meeting of the Igor family! Only insiders are allowed to attend, and those who are not allowed to attend please leave!"

"How come I'm not an insider of the Igor family? Do you know what 'General Manager of Frost Maple Ridge Trade' means?!" Yulia raised her nose and confronted Isa, "If you ask me, Miss Isa, aren't you from the Sandria family? Wait until you really get married and change your last name to 'Igor' before you say you are an 'insider'!"

  Seeing that the two girls were about to perform a full-scale fight of pulling hair, tearing clothes, and using cat-fighting in front of all the family leaders, Xiahou Yan hurriedly said sternly:

"Do you guys want to hear what's going to happen next?!"

Then Isa and Yulia fell silent, but continued to stare at each other angrily.

  Xiahou Yan sighed and said:

"…Yulia's guess was correct. When I caught the maid who committed the crime, I noticed that her mental state seemed a little abnormal, as if she was in a trance. After Master Nemisus examined her with the 'Eye of Graeos', he quickly concluded that this girl was controlled by someone at the time, and then she was manipulated to assassinate the Baron of Misty Ridge while she was almost unconscious."

For some reason, everyone present glanced implicitly in the direction of Master Victor Lowry.

——No way, the high-end spell effect of "mind control" is really the best in the "mental magic" practiced by Master Lowry. The reason why the mental magic is notorious and eventually degenerated into a corrupt magic faction is mainly because these idiot magicians often use magic to control others to do some dirty things that are outrageous to both gods and men.

Therefore, when the lord mentioned the matter of "mind control", the first thing that came to everyone's mind was a chief wizard of the family who was not very noble, not very pure, not very moral, not very free from vulgarity, and not very beneficial to the people.

Eldridge said bluntly with a sly smile:

"I can't believe... Ah, Master Laurie, you still have time to go to Olaf's Roost to do this kind of, ah, side job... Is this reasonable..."

"It wasn't me!!!" Master Lowry was furious at the ambiguous looks from everyone, "I can swear to the Most High Holy God..."

"If the Supreme Saint was any good, he would not have allowed you to live to this day, and would have killed you with a thunderbolt long ago." Xiahou Yan sincerely comforted Master Laurie, "But don't worry, I fully believe that it was not you who controlled the maid to kill the Baron of Misty Ridge... Because Master Nemisus discovered more than that at the time."

"What else did Master Nemisus discover?" Isa asked curiously.

What made Master Lowry depressed was that when he mentioned "Master Nemisus", everyone's expressions suddenly showed great respect, which was completely different from the three parts of contempt, three parts of disdain, three parts of disgust and one part of pity they treated him with. Master Lowry couldn't figure it out. At least everyone was a magician, so was there such a big difference in reputation?

  ——Just because that old bastard Nemisus got the title of "famous detective"? Ugh!

Xiahou Yan was unaware of his chief mage's criticism and continued:

"If you are familiar with common magic items, you will know that the reason why Master Nemisus's 'Gleos Identification Eye' is so powerful is that it can not only detect traces of being affected by elemental forces, but can even detect the specific types of elemental forces! After discovering that the unfortunate maid was controlled by someone's mind, Master Nemisus initially suspected, as I did, that there was a magician of the mental or illusion system who was secretly causing trouble... However, after an in-depth investigation with the 'Gleos Identification Eye', Master Nemisus discovered that the elemental power that controlled the maid's mind was not even magic!"

"It's not magic? Then what is it?" Sean was stunned and glanced at Yulia Minetoska. "Is it the magic of the demon priest?"

"You won't believe it if I tell you..." Xiahou Yan said with a wry smile, "The results of the examination by the 'Gleos Identification Eye' showed that the power of the shaman curse remained in the body of that maid!"

The family scum was stunned for half a minute, unable to figure out what the boss meant. "'Shaman'... 'Poison Curse'?" Sean said what everyone was puzzled about, "But don't orc shamans use war songs? What is a 'poison curse'?"

  Only the knowledgeable Master Moliere suddenly remembered something and clapped his hands in sudden realization:

"Ah! It turned out to be a 'poison curse'! No wonder!"

  Xiahou Yan smiled approvingly at Master Moliere, and then explained to the confused crowd:

"It's normal that people don't know about obscure things like poison spells, because I didn't know either before - it was Master Naimisus who explained it to me. Master Naimisus said that we generally believe that human magicians use spells to drive elemental power, while orc shamans use war songs to drive elemental power - in most cases, this is correct. However, just like there are heretical "array masters" among human magicians who rely on arranging magic arrays to use magic power, there are also heretical shaman schools among orcs who do not chant war songs, but instead delve into witchcraft and incantations - these heretical shamans use the so-called "poison spells".

"Although the formation master has declined, everyone still has heard of him. However, almost no one has heard of the 'poison curse' of the orc shaman in this era. Master Nemisus told me that the reason why the shaman secret art of 'poison curse' disappeared is that hundreds of years ago, its concept was judged by the Blood Council to be contrary to the belief in the God of War. In the eyes of the federal orcs who believe in the God of War, singing war songs on the battlefield is the best choice to show the glory of the God of War. The method of the poison curse shamans to stab people and curse them behind their backs is both shameless and vulgar, which is nothing less than a blasphemy against the God of War.

"Therefore, since that time, the orthodox Warsong Shamans have been working tirelessly to eliminate and 'purify' the Poison Shamans. Today, the number of orc shamans who can use poison spells on the entire continent can probably be counted on one hand, and they must all be hiding in the deep mountains and old forests that the Glorious Federation cannot reach."

Everyone nodded: This history of the "Forbidden Poison Curse" fits everyone's stereotype of the Federation Orcs.

Moreover, this also proves that the exclusion and suppression of heresy is definitely not a unique feature of the human empire: we are all crows falling on the back of pigs - no one should blame anyone else.

"So, the conclusion drawn by the Eye of Graeos shocked Master Nemisus and me!" Xiahou Yan shook his head. "Using poisonous spells to disturb and control people's minds is indeed the specialty of the poisonous spell shamans in ancient times. But we didn't expect that behind this assassination of a noble, there are actually these rare poisonous spell shamans!"

"Poison Shaman..." Knight Commander Cousins ​​asked tentatively, "Does this mean that the Glorious Federation was responsible for controlling the maid to assassinate Baron Misty Ridge?"

"It's hard to say." Xiahou Yan sighed. "Although it's true that the Poison Shaman originated from the Glorious Federation, in the eyes of the Orcs, the Poison Shaman is also an evil heretic that they want to get rid of as soon as possible. I find it hard to believe that the Federation will let down its faith defenses and put down its face to cooperate with the Poison Shaman who has been persecuted for hundreds of years. What's more, sending a shaman to assassinate a powerless imperial noble is not the style of the Glorious Federation, and it is not in the interests of these Federation orcs."

"So who did this?" Cavaliers captain Cousins ​​was dumbfounded.

"No one knows." Xiahou Yan shrugged. "At that time, Master Nemisus and I searched almost the entire 'Olav's Rest', but we couldn't find the poison shaman who cast the spell to control the little maid. The only thing we found was a trace of the remaining poison curse on the castle tower. Master Nemisus speculated that the poison shaman was standing on the tower at the time, remotely controlling the maid to assassinate the Baron of Misty Ridge through several walls, and then escaped..."

Unexpectedly, the murderer was not caught in the end, and everyone sighed again.

"If you insist on saying that the death of the unfortunate Baron Misty Ridge had any value... it probably contributed to the end of the War Council as soon as possible." Xiahou Yan smiled bitterly, "After the assassination, those stupid nobles were terrified, fearing that they would also meet with misfortune, and they didn't even have the heart to continue to make trouble... In just three days, these idiots actually cooperated with Quentin and others to finalize the siege plan, and then went back to their own homes - if not for this, I would probably have to spend ten days or half a month there."

"What happened to the maid who was mind-controlled and assassinated the Baron?" asked Yulia.

"Dead." Xiahou Yan sighed and said concisely, "Master Naimisus and I reiterated to those stupid nobles countless times that the little girl was just a murder tool used by others and was completely innocent, but they insisted that someone should be held responsible for the Baron's death... Although the master and I have been trying to protect the poor little girl, Marquis Liam still sent soldiers to hang her in the middle of the night one day."

Everyone was speechless.

They knew very well that even though the Lord and Master Nemisus had already explained the method of the Poison Shaman to control the maid's mind to kill people, in the eyes of the imperial nobles, the little maid was still the direct murderer who killed the baron with her own hands and an ominous thing: they must be afraid that one day in the future, the little maid would be controlled by someone again, and then stab the sword into the chest of another noble in the same way...

Therefore, for these imperial nobles, the best "solution" is to hang the innocent little maid, at least to seek psychological comfort -

——In the eyes of the imperial nobles, the lives of civilians and servants have never been considered lives.

"In short, after this war council, the plan to attack Thorn City is finalized." Xiahou Yan tapped the table with his fingers, interrupting everyone's sighs. "Next spring, the imperial army will attack several gates of Thorn City in multiple directions, and we, Frost Maple Ridge, will be responsible for supporting the main imperial forces at the Aurelian Gate in the north - you all know this. Everyone must seize this winter and prepare for war: although the number of orcs stationed in the city is not as large as that of the imperial coalition attacking the city, the other side has a strong city and powerful artillery, and its true strength is hard to estimate. Next spring, we will inevitably face a difficult and cruel life-and-death battle."

All the Frost Maple Ridge thugs agreed loudly.

"Also, the Northern Blizzard Mage Group must pay attention to issues related to magic defense and elemental power countermeasures." Xiahou Yan nodded seriously to Master Lowry, Master Calvino Linge, and Master Moliere, "...There is a mysterious poisonous curse shaman with unknown intentions roaming in the dark, everyone must always keep this in mind - I don't want to be killed by my own maid one day in the future."

"Don't worry! I assure you on my reputation as a junior magician of the spiritual department that no maid can threaten your life!" Victor Lowry patted his chest confidently, "You can talk to the maids about work, life, and ideals without any worries!"

"I'm talking about your mother's coin!" Xia Houyan kicked his chief mage lightly on the butt in annoyance, "You old Biden, you have a shitty reputation!"