Game of Thrones: Knight of Glory.

Chapter 94 Assassination Mystery
After arranging various affairs in the camp, Lind came to Moroya's camp and handed the exquisite box found from the dwarf killer to Moroya.

Moroya looked at the box in Lind's hand and smiled: "Are you planning to give a gift to my lover?"

Lind ignored Moroya's teasing and said, "This is what was found on the dwarf killer who assassinated Vilas just now. I suspect that there is a manticore in the box."

Moroya showed an interested look, without any fear, and took the box directly, put it in his hand and looked at it.

"Why do you think there is a manticore here?" Moroya asked doubtfully.

Linde told her: "I know that there is an ancient assassin organization called Regret on the Essos continent. They are good at using dwarfs to disguise themselves as little girls to arouse the sympathy of others, and then take the opportunity to poison them with manticores. Poison the target.”

"Regret Guest? I seem to have seen records about them in a book in the school city. It is a very ancient organization." Moroya asked doubtfully: "Regret Guest, even if this organization is from the Essos continent, People may not know, but you recognized them just through one assassination. It seems that you have a lot of little secrets." After saying that, he put his hand on Linde's breastplate and leaned in front of Linde. He said provocatively: "Men with secrets are the most attractive men. I like you more and more, Lind Terra."

Faced with Moroya's teasing, Lind frowned and said nothing. He just took a step back and distanced himself from Moroya.

Moroya curled his lips with a bored look on his face, then walked to his workbench, put the box on the table, and asked lazily: "What do you want to do when you give this to me?"

Linde said solemnly: "Don't you like studying poisons? I need you to study the poison and antidote for this manticore."

"No need to study any more." Moroya shook his head, stood up and walked to the medicine cabinet aside, opened a drawer and took out two bottles of medicine, put them on the table, and said: "The square bottle is the antidote, the round bottle is the antidote, and the round bottle is the antidote." The bottle is poison, and the way to use poison is to apply it on the weapon. As long as the target is scratched with the weapon, even a small wound can be fatal."

After saying that, she reached out and opened the exquisite box on the table, and then she saw a manticore jumping out of the box with its tail raised.

There was no trace of panic or fear on Moroya's face. Instead, he reached out and touched the manticore as if he had seen a beautiful little pet.

"Be careful." Although he felt that Moroya would not be in danger, he couldn't help but remind him.

Moroya smiled and touched the manticore with his hand. The manticore did not attack her. Instead, it curled up as if it had encountered some kind of natural enemy and allowed Moroya to take it in his hand and play with it. .

"This manticore is really well raised, much better than the ones I raised in the past." Moroya held the manticore in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, then frowned. , said: "Linde, you may have made a mistake. This manticore is not from Regret Guest."

Linde asked: "How can you tell if the manticore is not a regretful guest?"

"Although I have never seen Regret's Manticore, the books I have read have detailed descriptions of Regret's Manticore form." Moloa placed the Manticore in his hand in front of Lind. Pointing to the carapace on the back of the manticore, he said: "Unfortunately, the manticore will use a special method to cultivate the poison of the manticore. The faces on the carapace of the manticore cultivated through this method will look like those of ordinary manticores." The human face is clearer, and the face is seen differently under different lights. This kind of scorpion-tailed beast is also called the Thousand-faced Scorpion-tailed Beast. It is one of the sacred beasts of the Church of the Thousand-Faced God, so some people think that Regret Guest is actually a killer organization born out of the Church of the Thousand-Faced God."

Lind looked at the location pointed by Moroya, and then asked: "Can you know the origin of this manticore?"

Moroya said proudly: "Of course you can. It is the most correct thing for you to send the manticore to me."

After saying that, she turned around and walked to the workbench, took out a small bottle, collected some manticore poison, and then took out several liquids to prepare some unknown medicine.

While mixing the medicine, she explained: "There are thirteen recorded species of manticores. Each type of manticore has different toxicity due to different distribution locations and different hunting methods. In addition, feeding The methods are different, which makes these scorpion-tailed beast poisons more types, and each type of scorpion-tailed beast poison marks their origin like an identity mark."

As she spoke, the medicinal solution in Moroya's hand had been mixed. She then dripped the scorpion-tailed beast venom into the medicinal solution and watched as the color of the medicinal solution gradually changed from turbid brown-gray to clear and transparent, and then again A touch more lavender.

"The Neptune Palace in Braavos?" Moroya couldn't help but be stunned after seeing the color change, and said: "This manticore comes from the Neptune Palace in Braavos."

"The Sea King of Braavos?" Lind also looked confused and asked: "Why did the Sea King of Braavos send people to kill the heir of Highgarden?"

"How do I know?" Moloa rolled his eyes at Lind and said, "I just said that this manticore came from the Sea King's Palace in Braavos. This has nothing to do with whether the killer was sent by the Sea King in Braavos." They are two different things. As far as I know, there are many manticores in the Neptune Palace in Braavos. Not only the servants can capture these manticores, but even the guards there can also capture these manticores, and these manticores can be captured. The beast is not fatal, but it causes great pain, and the pain lasts until death.”

Lind pondered: "In other words, the killer's purpose is to create a pain-ridden heir to Highgarden. Eternal pain will gradually change a person's character. No matter how good Vilas's current character is, he will be tortured for a long time. Next time, I’m afraid they will become twisted and crazy, just like the Mad King.”

Moroya also made a guess based on Lind's thoughts, saying: "At that time, he only needs to think that his pain comes from the City of Divine Grace, and that it is the eternal pain he obtained under the Martel family's promise of protection. He will hate Dorne extremely, and the conflict between the Reach and Dorne will become more intense because of his change of mind as the Lord of the Reach, and even a full-scale war will break out."

"Is this their purpose?" Linde frowned and said to himself.

Lind now discovered that the assassination of Willas had changed from a simple answer of a killer hired by the lords of Dorne who opposed the peace agreement to a mystery. Many people may have planned this assassination.

For example, the Iron Throne may have planned this assassination, because although Dorne has surrendered to the Iron Throne of the Deer Family, anyone who is careful will know that their rebellion has never disappeared, and they need a force to check Dorne.The Reach is the best choice. The Reach and Dorne already have a feud. Now that the heir of Highgarden has been assassinated in Dorne, life is worse than death. The Reach will definitely target Dorne with all its strength. By then, the Iron Throne will be safe. .

Not only the Iron Throne, but also the nobles of the Reach may have planned this assassination, because Willas's peace agreement plan was opposed by many Reach nobles from the beginning, even if Willas later convinced these Reach nobles , made them agree with his proposal, but it is unclear whether they agreed verbally or in their hearts.

As long as something happens to Willas in Dorne, the peace agreement will naturally not be implemented. If there is an heir to Highgarden who is tortured and hates Dorne, then those in the Reach who oppose the peace agreement will be justified. Initiate revenge against Dorne.

Similarly, the Neptune Palace in Braavos is also suspect, because as long as it provokes a war between Dorne and the River Bend, Braavos can earn huge profits from it, and what trade can be better than war wealth? Faster and more.

Thinking of this, Lind turned around and left Moroya's tent and walked towards Vilas' tent.

Watching Linde leave, Moroya picked up the manticore on the table and put it into a bottle. Then he took out a small bottle and dropped a few drops of medicine into it, then capped the bottle mouth.

Immediately afterwards, I saw that the manticore became extremely painful, its body trembled violently, and made a very sad hissing sound. It kept hitting the bottle, trying to escape, while Moroya watched excitedly. The painful manticore in the bottle had a slightly sick smile on its face.

On the other side, Lind came to Vilas' camp and told Vilas some of the information he had obtained from Moroya and some of his guesses.

After hearing this, Vilas was completely stunned. He did not expect that the assassination of him would be so complicated this time, which gave him a sense of crisis that he had never experienced before.

Linde said very seriously: "There may be other assassinations in the future. During this period, even if you go to meet the lords and nobles of Dorne, you must be accompanied by at least ten guards. In addition, you cannot participate in the martial arts tournament, because that would allow hiding The enemy in the dark will attack you justifiably."

"Okay, let's follow your arrangements, Lord Linde." Vilas did not refute Linde's words this time.

Lind rearranged the duty hours of the knight guards so that Vilas would always be protected by more than ten knights. All food and drinks must be inspected. In short, they were strictly protected.

The assassination of the Highgarden heir on his way to the main castle of Divine Grace City to meet Lord Countess Dellon has become the most discussed topic in Divine Grace City, even overshadowing the upcoming martial arts tournament.

After receiving the news, Countess Delon immediately took her son to the camp in the Reach to meet with Willas. From the look on Countess Delon's face when she left, it was easy to see that there was no grudge between the two.

After that, Willas visited the lords and nobles from various places in Dorne outside the city. He was not affected by the assassination at all. The demeanor and temperament he showed when meeting with the Dorne dignitaries made it difficult to believe that this ten-year-old man A boy of three or four years old.

However, there are still careful people who find that the protection around Willas is tighter, especially every time Willas leaves the Reach camp, the famous bear hunter Lind will follow him, and at the same time, he will be beside him. There is also the terrifying giant beast named Glory.

Unlike the lords and nobles of Dorne who attach great importance to Willas, the heir to Highgarden, the knights and warriors of Dorne pay more attention to the legendary figure Lind.

The song of the bear hunter has long been spread to Dorne along with the ships from King's Landing, and the feat of killing hundreds of people in the tournament has long been known to everyone, but just like other people who heard these rumors, the Dornish people also I don’t believe these rumors and think they are some exaggerations made by the bards to enhance the story.

However, now the knights and warriors of Dorne are starting to believe some of these rumors, because from the corpses of the assassins who died in Lind's hands and the descriptions of the surrounding witnesses, they discovered that a dozen powerful assassins actually died in a very short period of time. They were all slaughtered by Linde within a short period of time. According to eyewitness accounts, more than a dozen assassins died in Linde's hands in the blink of an eye.

Although the Dornish people somewhat believed that Linde had the strength to complete the feat of killing a hundred people, they did not believe that Linde could really kill more than a dozen assassins as easily as mowing grass like those witnesses, so some people challenged Linde and wanted to Proving that the warriors of Dorne are no weaker than the knights of the Reach.

However, faced with this challenge, Linde had no idea of ​​accepting the challenge. On the contrary, when the challenger heard the challenger using various provocative words to belittle Linde, saying that he was just an incompetent liar, he jumped out and took over the challenge. Linde's challenges, and directly told everyone that he was defeated by Linde. If he wanted to challenge Linde, challenge him first.

Afterwards, the Red Viper frantically challenged the knights under the lords of the camps around Divine Grace City before the tournament began, and then announced his participation in the lance tournament with a victory in the foot duel.

Careful people discovered that when the Red Viper challenged the knights of all the lords, they all killed the lords in the Crimson Mountains. Basically, the knights they sent eventually died in the hands of the Red Viper, and the Red Viper gave The explanation is that those knights are very powerful, so powerful that he can't stop them.

However, no one who has seen the Red Viper fight with those knights would believe that the Red Viper, who was in a playful state throughout the whole process, would really be unable to stop.

There are some rumors that the Red Viper killed these knights entirely because of the assassination of Willas Tyrell.

Because the Martell family had guaranteed Willas Tyrell's safety in Dorne, that assassination was not only targeting the Highgarden heir, but also the Martell family, and the Red Viper could not find the assassin. The mastermind behind the scenes, so he simply regarded all the lords and nobles in the Crimson Mountains who were extremely dissatisfied with the Vilas peace agreement as suspects. The death blow to these people's knights was also a disguised warning.

Divine Grace City also strengthened security patrols inside and outside the city because of the assassin incident. Not only the garrison was involved, but also the knights of the Earl Guard were dispatched. The originally chaotic Divine Grace City became more orderly. few.

Amidst these disturbing incidents, the Shen'en City's martial arts competition was officially held.

(End of this chapter)