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Chapter 177 The Prelude to the War

If the deduction is correct, it was Gray who came first, and the people who came after him caught up with him, and then they fought in this shabby house. Gray was defeated and escaped, but was killed on the way. After cleaning up the traces, he fled in a hurry.

The person who killed Gray is the key.

"Look, dig three feet, and find this man for me." Ulysses gave the death order.

The subordinates were ordered to inspect the dilapidated house and its surroundings, and finally found a trace of a blood-stained person 500 meters away from the dilapidated house.

The man fell to the ground, lying on the ground, motionless, as if he was dead.

Ulysses was about to go forward, but was stopped by Nancy: "You stay here, I'll go up and have a look."

Before Ulysses could answer, Nancy jumped out, and her feet landed on the dirt without making a sound.

She silently approached the "corpse" that fell on the ground, stopped a step away, poked it with a long sword, and pulled the corner of her mouth. She probably understood something, directly chanted the spell, and summoned A big fireball hit the "corpse".

This time, those who didn't die had to die.

Sure enough, the "corpse" on the ground rolled on the spot one by one, dodged the magic trick, jumped up from the ground, and threw countless hidden weapons.

Sure enough, Nancy did not use magic, but only used a sword to block all the hidden weapons shot at her.

When she saw the corpse for the first time, she thought that many creatures would pretend to be dead to confuse the enemy when they encountered danger, and fight back when the enemy relaxed their vigilance.

But this situation can be distinguished. There is an obvious difference between the body of a dead person and a living person. Live.

This person bounced off the ground and she knew why she chose such a method instead of running away directly.

"It turned out to be a cripple." Nancy glanced at the man's crippled arm, and smiled lightly, showing her disdain.

"I want to live." Ulysses said lightly.

"understood."

Facing such an opponent, Nancy was naturally no problem, and easily bound this man with magic and threw him under Ulysses' feet.

"Good job." Ulysses praised with a smile, and calmly dissipated the magic that had been squeezed in his heart but had not been released.

Nancy smiled: "Let's go, go back."

The matter of interrogation was naturally handed over to Ulysses, and he walked into Fred's study with a complicated expression after a while.

"What did you ask?" Fred asked first.

Ulysses replied, "Ask something interesting."

"This man used to be from the Abandoned Avenue, and he knows how to throw darts. This time he was sent to kill the traitor. The traitor is Gray. Gray wanted to report to us, but he didn't have time to enter the city yesterday. He was at the broken house. At the end of the day, he was caught up by this man, and the two entangled for a while, Gray knew magic and blew up his arm, and then rode a horse trying to enter the city, but was killed by this man with a throwing knife."

It is really rare for a former noble who has been stripped of his noble title to have such a heart.

Fred was silent for a while, and then said: "Bury him in the family cemetery of the queen mother."

After being deprived of his title of nobility, Gray was naturally not eligible to enter the family cemetery of the Queen's family. Fred recognized Gray's status as a descendant of the "Duke of the Buck".

The reason why he dared to act on his behalf was because no one would have an opinion on this point. After all, the person is dead, and the honor after death has nothing to do with the living.

It was a coincidence that Gray and Crowe got together. Since the southern side had already arranged Crowe as an internal response, there was no need to use Gray to do more.

"The rebellion in the south is just these few days," Ulysses said the biggest information he asked this time, "it is estimated that it will not exceed the end of the month."

finally coming……

Fred nodded: "I see, I'm going to discuss countermeasures with my father and queen mother."

On that day, the royal family let out the wind to the nobles, so that the nobles were mentally prepared, and the war would start at any time.

Sure enough, fifteen days later, the south raised a banner, saying that the royal family forced the nobles to survive, and the nobles wanted to resist.

The leader, at least on the surface, is Mary.

Mary shouted to the nobles all over the country: "Don't resist, my family today is your tomorrow."

She still choked up and played some emotional cards: "What did my family do wrong? We just did what all nobles should do. Why did we have to kill us all? Could it be that what the royal family did was more important than the royal family? Are we still short?"

These words spread to the capital, and a person as cold and indifferent as Safi was so angry that he smashed his glass: "Shameless!"

What playing the emotional card is clearly threatening, do you think that the nobles of the whole country are as virtuous as their family?

"Don't be angry," Fred reassured her, "She's just a puppet, and there's nothing wrong with being angry with her."

But Mary's action is not useless. Many nobles plan to watch from the sidelines and don't want to get involved in the war. Of course, they may just want to watch the tigers fight from a distance.

Fred can't control these people for the time being. No matter what they say, they all have fiefdoms and real power, and some even have their own army in hand. It's meaningless to argue with them at this time.

The aristocrats available to the royal family are less than one-third of the surviving aristocrats, and the rest are unwilling to mix and useless.

That being the case, don't blame the royal family for not leaving these nobles a way to survive.

The royal family promulgated a decree: In this war, rewards will be awarded according to their contributions, and those who have outstanding achievements, regardless of nobles or civilians, can be named earls.

As soon as this decree came out, the whole country fell into madness.

The common people have been oppressed by the nobles for too long. They thought that they could only live their lives by looking up to the nobles. Who knew that one day, the royal family told them that they could also become nobles. Suddenly, it seemed that the sun was shining through the dark clouds, and the world was brightened.

Compared with the craziness of the common people, the nobles are much calmer. They know very well that even if the common people take the initiative to participate in this war, they will not be able to succeed. It will be the heir of the family, but the side branch. After all, even the side branch has been practicing magic since childhood. The power of magic is not much greater than that of bare hands.

From the perspective of the nobles, the reason why the royal family issued this decree was aimed at the nobles' subjects.

For example, Asalez next to Felisa, his identity is Felisa's deacon, that is, a "close minister". The status of a close minister is very embarrassing, nobler than a commoner, but neither a commoner nor an aristocrat, they can use magic, It is mainly to assist the master, but this decree gives the close ministers the opportunity to separate from the master, and many close ministers will definitely be tempted.

But the nobles are confident that they can control their vassals, so they don't care.

(End of this chapter)