Heart of the Castle

Chapter 584 Death Standing shoulder to shoulder with the night
"This is nothing more than your wishful thinking, my lord star mentor." Earl Brooks objected loudly, with a tone of sarcasm far more than respect, "And don't say I didn't remind you, Griffin Lord He is currently the only person who can integrate the military forces of the northern border into a collective, even if we try to bring him down, we will still face a messy situation."

"Your Excellency Satzienhel's wisdom has spread far and wide, and everyone in the kingdom has praised it. Since it is something that a young boy can do, he can also afford it." A man who looked older The nobleman spoke abruptly, and at the same time cast flattering glances at the teacher of the stars.

For such an ally who doesn't even have the slightest level of intelligence, Mentor Xingchen didn't even bother to give him a perfunctory smile, "Our ultimate goal is not to uproot Levi Stone and his forces. any good."

Satzenhell justified himself with a serious face, "Gods, I can swear by the name of the god of wisdom, Merkativo, who I believe in, all I want to get back is what the law gave us. The suffrage power of the rich and powerful nobles is the right to speak in the round table council. As for the Griffin Lord Li Weiston, isn’t he a famous anti-demon hero? Let him deal with the demon army.”

Immediately, there was a burst of discussion in the room, and there were many voices supporting the star teacher, and it seemed that the number of people supporting the reconciliation with Li Weiston was about twice as large.However, there was no joyful expression on Satzienhell's face. The royal nobles who were able to gather in the Harikos Manor were already the most staunch supporters after he personally screened, but now they have also wavered Moreover, the Earl of Brooks, who led the opposition against him, was not simple. His family roots were deep, and he spoke with great weight among the nobles of the royal capital.

But all of this is unimportant. The important thing is that after the integration of military forces, the attack of the green dragon, and the exchange of territories, the hearts of the nobles in the capital have been dispersed.

Satsyn Hell thought sadly.

That's right, people's hearts are indeed scattered.The identity of the Earl of Brooks is actually not too important. He served as the commander of the Royal Guard Army for one time when he was young, and he has no other more important positions other than that.Among the many wealthy families in the royal capital of Fermeyer, the Earl of Brooks's family couldn't even rank in the top [-]. This was the result after the famous Nine Pillars family was excluded.

However, among the nobles in the royal capital in front of us, the status of Earl Brooks can be ranked in the top three. Most of the powerful nobles in the royal capital have already taken refuge in the Griffin Lord, or have not taken refuge in the Griffin Lord, but because they are greedy for exchange The territories and mineral deposits that came from them were tied to the chariot of Northern County by invisible chains of interests.

One day, you'll know that only I'm right.Seeing the noisy crowd in front of him, Satzenher couldn't help but feel a little sad. "Leviston has now left Green Castle and is heading to the kingdom of elves to negotiate. This is the only opportunity we must seize." He spoke again, his vigorous voice suppressing the noise in the room. "We should take advantage of this opportunity. As long as Her Royal Highness Princess Fleisher is rescued from Li Weiston's hands, the next thing will follow."

"Her Royal Highness is probably not willing to accept such a rescue, Your Excellency Star Instructor." Earl Brooks curled his lips disdainfully, "Even if she was willing, we would not be able to move freely in the heavily guarded Green Castle, let alone Not to mention that there is still the Knights of Embers as the last line of defense."

"There are people from us in the Knights of Ashes." Sach Enhell simply mentioned, "Of course, it would be too shameful to rely entirely on internal responses. We must organize a team of our own to carry out from the outside. Only by cooperating can Her Royal Highness be rescued intact."

"Master Xingchen, if you haven't forgotten, I might as well remind you that the guard knights of our people have been integrated into the troops of the second and fourth defense zones in the northern border. Now there are no fewer than two families here with the title of earl." There are as many as ten companies, but it is difficult to say whether there will be more than a hundred available manpower." Earl Brooks said coldly.

"Yeah, we don't have any hands, not a single one," a voice murmured agreement.

"If it's human hands..." Sat Enheer was about to say his agreement with the Death Knights, when there was a hasty knock on the door, which made him swallow the rest of the words, and turned his head back in horror.

The knocking on the door shouldn't have happened at all.

You know, they are now plotting to bring down Levi Ston, which is actually no different from treason.Although there are not as many guards in the manor as in Greencastle, there are at least forty or fifty fully armed soldiers, and there is a stable Frye knight as the leader. They will never let anyone in casually.

The seat of Earl Brooks was closest to the door, and this middle-aged nobleman who once served as the commander of the Royal City Guard was also the most courageous. He walked over cautiously, pressing the hilt of his sword with one hand, and quickly opened the door latch with the other. .

There were more than a dozen people standing outside the door, all wearing heavy armor and cloaks, and full-face helmets with their face shields down. They looked like steel statues in the twilight.With the help of the candlelight in the room, Earl Brooks could clearly see that the person in charge was very simple in terms of armor and cloak, and it was designed with dark blue inlaid with black borders. The badge on his chest was a A blood-red sickle with a bleeding skull nailed to the tip.

"Death Knights?" Earl Brooks frowned, subconsciously pressed his right hand on the hilt of his waist, and then shouted loudly, "Knight Frye! How do you guard the gate?"

The shadows of the night were flickering, except for the whispers of the cold wind, there was no answer from outside the door.Earl Brooks was about to yell again when the Death Knight in the lead suddenly raised his left hand and threw a black sphere over.

Earl Brooks once also served as the commander of the Royal Guard Army. Although he has been out of battle for a long time since retiring, his strength that has reached the stage of dissipating fighting spirit has not completely disappeared.His long sword slid out of the sheath almost instinctively, and then a turquoise sword light flew across the air, making a "click", and swept the sphere aside neatly.

"Master Brooks, great swordsmanship!" A nobleman shouted, but Earl Brooks' face froze, and he jumped to the place where the sphere landed, and looked down with the help of the fighting spirit light on the blade.

"Damn it! This is Frye's head... Death Knights, you actually killed Frye's knight and the guard at the gate!" He raised his head suddenly, and shouted at the strange knights in a bad tone.

"What, Fry Knight is dead?"

"Damn it, this is the northern border, not your big and small Serres!"

"Killing people indiscriminately, aren't you afraid of the punishment of the kingdom's laws?"

Shouts suddenly resounded in the room, and more than half of the nobles of the royal capital began to curse angrily. Among them, a few noble children who boasted of bravery drew their swords out of their sheaths, and at the same time, a few timid guys began to blink their eyes. Find a hiding place.

It's a pity that the scale of the house in Harricos Manor is not too large. Except for a round discussion table and a corresponding number of high-backed chairs, there is no furniture here that can block the figure.In addition, dozens of royal capital nobles have half-filled the room, and the back door and windows on both sides have been locked for safety. They can now be said to have nowhere to escape.

But at least he still has the ability to fight.

With such thoughts in mind, the nobles of the royal capital with the title of knight stepped forward one after another and stood shoulder to shoulder with Earl Brooks. More than a dozen overly ornately decorated sabers burst out with stronger or weaker vindictive light, which seemed to be Enough to confront those death knights outside the door.

However, the leader of the death knight just took a step forward, and the blood-red sword light suddenly roared and filled the room. Most of the nobles uttered sharp and frightened shouts and retreated. Only Earl Brooks swung his sword to fight. , the light of turquoise and blood-red battle energy intertwined and collided, and the sonorous and deafening sounds of the two swords clashing sounded, but it was over with only three sounds.

Earl Brooks staggered back, his saber was already lying on the ground, and three finger-sized cracks appeared on the fine steel blade, at least until the blacksmith put it back into the furnace, it would be useless.

"What do you want to do?" Due to the sudden appearance of the death knights, the star teacher was so frightened and angry that he couldn't even say a word just now, and only now he asked sternly, "This is different from our previous agreement Same!"

"That's right, it's different." There was no emotion in the voice of the leader of the death knight, and the star teacher even had the feeling that he was facing an alchemy puppet instead of a human being. After I found out that the person I was originally in contact with was an old and frail waste, I have the right to decide to change the partner, such as... this Earl of Brooks?"

Marquis Brooks's throat tightened, and he wanted to refuse instinctively, but the burning pain in his right wrist reminded him that he didn't have the strength to resist now.Satsienhell choked on the phrase "old and decrepit waste" for a full minute, let alone speak.Just when he finally recovered his voice and was about to say something, the leader of the death knight suddenly moved his right arm, and the blood-red sword light passed horizontally across the throat of the star teacher, so fast that it was almost too late to react.

The Star Mentor Satien Heldun's eyes widened suddenly, and the sword light just pierced his throat, and the blood that flowed out was not much, but it cut off the thread of his life neatly. "You...will regret...you don't know at all, what you have to face is..." The leaky throat could not continue to faithfully convey his voice, and only he himself could hear the last words of Instructor Xingchen clearly. "...a...false god."

The once all-powerful Xingchen Teacher fell on his back, and even the sound of the corpse falling on the ground was not very clear, as if even the bones had decayed and withered.Fear spread in the room with bloody wings. Almost every noble in the royal capital looked pale, especially Earl Brooks, who was watched by the death knight leader.

"Four hundred gold coins!" An untimely voice broke the dead silence that enveloped the room, and Earl Brooks even felt grateful, because the leader of the death knight had already moved his eyes away from his face.Seeing that no one answered, Bachelor Qihe repeated, "Where are the four hundred gold coins? Where is the reward you promised me?" This time his voice was higher and shriller, and he seemed to be trembling slightly with fear.

Hearing Bachelor Zihe's protest, the death knight closest to him cast a cold glance, his eyes were sharp and hurtful, like a razor that had just been sharpened from a whetstone. "Shut up, idiot, didn't you see that the leader has something to deal with?"

"It's none of your business." Bachelor Qi He couldn't help but took half a step back, then puffed out his chest again, his face full of threats. "Where is the reward that was agreed in advance? I want it right away! Otherwise, all of you will be responsible for breaking the contract!"

"Give him the money." The leader of the death knight ordered in a cold tone, and then gave another instruction as if pointing. "Don't get sidetracked, be neat."

"I obey, my lord." The death knight bowed his head respectfully, tapped his breastplate at the same time, and said to the greedy Bachelor Qi He, "Come with me, I'll give it to you outside, it's not convenient here. "

"Four hundred gold coins?" Bachelor Qi He's tone seemed impatient, and after seeing the leader of the Death Knight nodded, his footsteps began to move towards the door, "That's all I want, and you agreed to give it to me." gold coins."

The death knight walked out after him, his eyes showing disdain and ridicule unabashedly, "Come on, I'll pay you right away." He lightly grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist , a sinister smile full of ominous meaning was drawn at the corner of his mouth.

The young bachelor didn't seem to know anything about it, but just as he stepped out of the gate, his footsteps stopped. "Well, no." Bachelor Qi He's tone seemed a little hesitant, "My bid is too low, you have to pay a little more!"

Even with the bloodless and tearless heart of the death knight, he couldn't help but feel a little ironic about Bachelor Qi He's greed.He sneered sarcastically, "It's okay to pay a little more, just walk faster, and I will satisfy you, a greedy guy."

"In this case, then bring it." Bachelor Qi He did not continue to walk out, but turned around.The death knight's pupils constricted slightly, feeling a little abnormal. The young bachelor's face was originally full of nervousness and greed, but now there was a cold smile on it.

There was an empty night behind Bachelor Qi He, but it seemed that a shadow crawled in from his side. "What?" With the sound of metal sliding, the death knight subconsciously drew his sword out of its sheath.However, it was too late, a slit suddenly appeared on his throat, the slit appeared so abruptly, even the blood was delayed for a moment before rushing out like a red waterfall.

The invisible blade was so sharp that it was unimaginable, most of the death knight's neck and the thick throat guard were cut cleanly, it seemed that the steel armor was no different than the parchment.Even for the Grand Knight Commander who possesses the pinnacle of fighting spirit, this wound is enough to be fatal immediately. The death knight dropped his long sword, covered his neck with his hands convulsively, and his mouth was full of blood red.Then his body fell backwards with a dull crash.

"what happened?"

"What are you doing..."

The unexpected collision sound made several death knights in the room turn their heads together, and then they saw one of their colleagues fell to the ground, a pool of blood under his body was rapidly expanding, and the leader ordered him to take it out and prepare to deal with it The young bachelor was blocking the exit of the room, with a weird smile on his face.

"Blood Dagger of the Sleepless Eye, a member of the Special Operations Team of the Griffin Knights——Qihe, let's formally say hello to everyone in the Great Serai County." The young bachelor said in a relaxed tone, his facial expression was not actually There wasn't much change, but the addition of the corpse in front of him made the smile look a bit eerie.

"It turned out to be the eyeliner set by that damned chief eunuch." Although the sudden reveal of his identity by the bachelor Zihe was unexpected by the leader of the death knight, it didn't frighten him who has experienced many battles. "But a little mouse is a little mouse." , if you run away with all your heart, there will be some troubles, and you dare to block the door, you are too greedy!"

Accompanied by the icy-toned declaration of the leader of the Death Knight, a blood-red fighting spirit burst out of his body, which was as thick as the substance. "Duqi Tianhua!" Earl Brooks couldn't help but screamed, only then did he realize that the leader had indeed shown mercy to his subordinates just now.

Otherwise, with his fighting spirit that has just reached the level of dissipation, it is impossible to withstand the three consecutive fierce attacks of the leader of the death knight just by paying the price of the long sword falling and the numbness of his arms.

However, before the majestic Death Knight leader finished speaking, a hoarse and unpleasant voice sounded in the room, "That's a big tone, Sir Knight, but can you please sew up the wound on your neck first?" Be careful of bragging too much, blowing your head off." The man's words ended with the hiss of a snake spitting out a letter, which made people sound creepy.

"Wound? What kind of wound?" The voice of the death knight leader was different from the sonorous force just now, sounding very confused.Then he noticed something in the many terrified eyes, and touched his neck with his hand, where hot blood was flowing, from his throat...

The leader of the death knight wanted to spit out forcefully, but a blood clot had blocked his throat, and the vindictive light on his body dimmed immediately. He only had time to let out a few slight gasps before he fell to the ground.

"I'm not the only one here in the special operations team of the Griffin Knights." Bachelor Qi He said with a smile, and then showed the gold badges in his hands to the death knights with livid faces.There is a vivid griffin on it, holding a blood-stained dagger and a crystal ball in its two front paws. "Now can we have a proper talk?"

"Yes, what's there to talk about? Don't you already know our identities and why we're here?" A death knight who seemed to be of relatively high rank refused in a soft tone, and the other death knights nodded one after another. , while moving closer to the center of the room, forming a back-to-back tight circular formation.

Bachelor Zihe narrowed his eyes, and he didn't need to carefully observe the pale faces, he could already smell the panic in the hearts of these death knights from the air.A strong man who was at least a knight died without a sound. Before he died, he didn't even know where his opponent was. This bizarre and terrifying way of death has opened a small gap in the death knight's defense. As long as you find a way to expand it, you can get a lot of useful things.The young bachelor smiled and spoke slowly.

"There are still many things I want to know, such as how did your Captain Thomas Jensen become the sheriff of Great Serre County? What is the combat effectiveness of the Death Knights now, and what is the situation of the garrisons in various places? Yes? These are precious information that can be exchanged for lives."

(End of this chapter)