Morning in the Tower of Swords

The specific assassination method is to create chaos in Wollenmud. At that time, Earl Bobby will definitely come forward to quell the chaos because he is reluctant to pay the tax in Wollenmud. That is the best chance to assassinate him.

It's just that Princess Sophie probably didn't expect that the extreme thoughts instigated by this person in her plan belonged to the kind of guy who would sacrifice all other people and things, including his own life, for Wollenmud.

So after murdering the innocent doctor Anto, he also provoked a man who shouldn't be provoked, even unspeakable, for Princess Sophie.

Chirp~~~

There was an incomparably loud and long cry of an eagle in the sky. A Caprini cautiously poked out from the door of a wooden house hidden in the snow forest and looked up. Although he didn't see the eagle, the wild animal The return of him convinced him that he had survived that terrible energy fluctuation.

At first, he thought it was the second natural disaster, but as a sorcerer, he was not born recklessly, so he quickly identified that this was not a natural disordered fluctuation, but a man-made spectacle.

However, based on his knowledge, he didn't dare to infer that the two big bosses were fighting. He just thought that someone was experimenting with some kind of Originium weapon similar to the "Leitania Phonograph". Of course, it must be an enhanced version.

The phonograph is a unique city defense weapon in Letania. It is mainly operated by an origin stone engraving technique called "Spell Transmission Protocol". It can output high-energy stone magic balls to target units. It can be used as shells to directly cause damage , can also be converted into healing energy under the manipulation of medical operators.

To put it simply, it is almost equivalent to a weakened version of Summoner Canyon Spring Water, which can heal one's own side and cause extremely high damage to intruders, but it requires professional manipulation.

Of course, this professional is by no means referring to otter robots, broadsword mines and tentacle monsters.

Although the phonograph cannot be used as a siege weapon due to its short range, it is very powerful as a defensive weapon. The reason why the mudstone is not easy to participate in the affairs of the infected in Wollenmud is that the phonograph poses a great threat to the mudstone colossus. one.

The Caprini tribe probably thought that someone was experimenting with a siege version of the phonograph nearby. Judging from the ambitions revealed by the "Grand Duke Karl" recently, it is not surprising that they need such a strategic weapon, although it will not be the same as a natural disaster. Wherever it goes, it turns into scorched earth, but it is quite dangerous if it is rubbed against.

It's just that he couldn't have imagined that the eagle that was soaring in the sky was the only creature that came back here, and it was just looking for him.

And when he turned to go back into the house, there was already a hatchet resting on his neck, as if it had hit itself.

"You made it easy for me to find, Thor...well, it didn't take much trouble."

Thor is the son of Sergeant Sergeant Severin, Volumd, and also the fiancé of the council secretary Tatiana. It should be one of the victims of the fire. Even the corpse is still in the morgue, together with Dr. An Tuo.

However, it was a charred corpse.

"……Who are you?"

Seeing this man who only covered half of his face with a hood, Thor was obviously startled and terrified, but he was not a trained agent after all, and he had almost no intention of showing his acting skills after being spotted.

"I'm here to collect the bill from you, remember this pattern?"

Jogo directly showed him the logo of Rhodes Island, and he could even clearly see Thor's pupils shrunk into needles in front of the logo.

So Thor made a decision almost instantly, that is, smashed a smoke bomb, turned around and ran away immediately.

If the goal has been achieved, then life and death do not matter, but his mission has not been completed, and the nobles who should be responsible for it have not been stabbed to death, so he cannot be arrested and let the truth be revealed to the public, which will make everyone The people of Wollumd were dishonored because of him.

But want to escape?How can it be so simple!

"what!!!!"

A throwing ax pierced through the invisible smoke and slashed directly on Thor's calf. The blade of the ax was so deep that it embedded in the leg bone. He fell to the ground immediately, his face pale.

Originally, in Thor's plan, he himself should have died in that fire with Dr. Anto, not only because he was a Lytania warlock who could manipulate the phonograph to instantly overload and detonate, but according to Thor's idea , He also understood that what he did was sorry for Dr. An Tuo and the other deceased.

However, in order to "save" Wollenmud, he thought he was fearless and kidnapped the lives of innocent people into the chariot, and finally planned to make atonement with death.

But at the last moment, Biederman told Thor part of the truth behind the Warrenmud conspiracy, and took the initiative to take over his death to atone for him, and found another corpse disguised as Thor to deceive him. other people.

For this reason, Biederman asked Thor to assassinate the noble who actually murdered Warrenmurd, of course, for the life he owed and the kindness to save Warrenmurd by applying for a "crisis contract". Grand Duke.

But in fact, Biederman made a mistake. After all, with his identity, he can't know so many inside stories. The real mastermind behind the scenes should be Princess Sophie, but there is no difference in the result. Thor is just a commoner. It is almost impossible for a magician to assassinate a nobleman standing at the high end of the power in Letania.

So far, it can only be concluded that Thor is an extremist who is controlled by the nobles of Letania above his head. Such people are not uncommon in disputes of any age, and most of them are classified as terrorists. , But there are also very few people who have become "heroes" under the influence of public opinion behind the scenes.

For example, if Thor succeeds in assassinating Earl Bobby, no matter whether he lives or dies, he will be immediately publicized as a hero of Warrenmurd, so as to cover up Princess Sophie's hands and feet in it. Only in this way can conservatives think that Bobby He was assassinated by his own people because of the brutal rule, so as to avoid alarming the enemy and facilitate Princess Sophie's next deployment.

But Thor has not succeeded in anything, nothing has changed. At the end of the original plot, Thor's lonely body was found in this cabin, which was his last moment of despair.

"I hoped that I could execute you very cruelly. After all, this is repaying kindness with kindness and repaying grievances with straightness, but I think that would be an irresponsible relief for you."

Jogo pinched Thor's neck with only one hand, and lifted him up from the snow, while Thor's leg was still dripping with blood, blooming and condensing into crystals in the pure white snow and ice. bloody flower.

"So, I decided to let you take on your sins and responsibilities again. Come with me! You can become a hero and come and give Dr. An Tuo justice."

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"My lord, the envoy of Ursus has brought it for you."

In the grand duke's mansion, a tall and thin man dressed gorgeously but with a sinister smile on his face held a cane in one hand and walked into the living room under the guidance of a servant. A man and a woman seemed to be waiting for him here.

The Caprini man sitting at the head is majestic and majestic, even the horns on his head are like tall and straight green pine, which can be seen at a glance, but the lady next to him is not Letania Capri at all. They are not the Ni tribe, but the Lupu tribe with a pair of wolf ears.

This pair of "wolves in love with sheep" is the current Grand Duke Karl of Letania and his grand princess Sophie.

The stinging man tapped his cane on the floor and came to them without any haste. Then he took off his top hat and bowed slightly in greeting.

"Dear Grand Duke and beautiful lady, with all my sincerity..."

"Excuse me for the unnecessary words. Do you really think that you are invited as a guest? I just want to urge you to bring your master to face him. When will he be able to fulfill his promise!"

It was not Grand Duke Karl who interrupted him, but Princess Sophie. It stands to reason that even if the Grand Duke is really a strict wife, the nobleman is a nobleman after all, and he should give him some face in front of outsiders, but Princess Sophie is right now. There was no concealment of the real relationship between the husband and wife, and even the envoy just smiled slightly when he saw this scene.

The curves of the face are more full of haze.

"Necessary etiquette, it is still necessary at any time, madam, you are too impatient, my lord will of course fulfill his promise to you."

"Hmph! Do you think I don't know anything? He was defeated by several remnants of the rebels exiled from Kazdel on his own territory, and even the deserters who fled the battle fled to the territory of Letania. , if I don't urge him now, then he will disappear from the world like before, and he will completely take this account!"

"Hehe, your news is very well-informed. In this case, please forgive me and explain it to Madam for my lord."

I saw that the envoy, who was as tall and thin as a dead tree in the wilderness, was not afraid of Princess Sophie's questioning, as if the two most powerful people in Letania in front of him had nothing to do with him.

"Since it is called an accident, it cannot be predicted and avoided in advance, but since it has already happened, it must still be within my lord's plan."

"...The tone is so loud, why don't you just explain that this is a show that you Ursus and those Kazdel rebels conspired to perform?"

"Hehehe, no, it is precisely because it was not performed by us that it can reflect the value of this accident. The delay you are worried about is just that my lord is re-enacting the next strategy to make it more in line with the current situation That's all. As for the promise to Madam, needless to say, my lord will definitely help your young master become the new king of Letania!"

It turns out that what Princess Sophie has been emphasizing repeatedly is to let her own son take charge of the kingship of Letania. She did not shy away from being the husband of the Grand Duke, because the two seem to have a tacit understanding. Privately called by his wife a political trash and a coward.

Grand Duke Karl is very open-minded. Anyway, the richness and water are not left to outsiders. He can still occupy power when his son becomes king. As for the dignity of the husband?A coward in politics does not mean that he is also a coward in other aspects. He has occasions for Princess Sophie, a ferocious she-wolf, to call her father...

In some ways, the two of them were indeed true love.

And what Mrs. Sophie did in Wollenmud was precisely to give her son a position and eliminate his opponents. Originally, this "small trick" didn't need her to do it at all, but who asked her to spend a lot of money to support Ursas? What if the ally suddenly lost the chain?

It wasn't until this time that Princess Sophie began to reflect that she was indeed too impatient, otherwise how could she have believed... the promise of a snake so easily?

"Please rest assured, my dear Grand Duchess, my lord will never give up your support, and you obviously need my lord's action to achieve your goal, otherwise, even if you uproot the opposition, it may be very difficult for you to face it." Blame on the Lord of the Tower? Therefore, you have no choice but to believe in my Lord."

Princess Sophie frowned when she heard the words, not only because of the threatening words of the other party.

But this envoy is really too fucking eloquent today. Princess Sophie has met him several times in the past. Although they are as polite as today, the envoy is not a diplomatic ambassador sent by the country. Call it a slave, the gap in status has been decided from the beginning.

No matter how calm he is, there will be humility engraved in the bone marrow in every move he makes when facing nobles.

But today, he seems to have completely reborn, from a shrewd servant to a scheming, well-established aristocrat, and even able to force the wolf princess who is so cunning and ambitious that Grand Duke Karl willingly handed over his power to be speechless. right.

Even if his master really rewarded him with a noble title, it wouldn't be able to change in a while, right?

Princess Sophie with a wolf's nose seemed to smell something unusual, but she couldn't immediately think of anything because she didn't know the inside story, and... something more urgent than that interrupted her thoughts.

Bang!

The side window of the hall suddenly shattered, and a feathered arrow was shot obliquely on the table in the center of the living room, directly shooting through and shattering one of the bottles of red wine prepared on the table. When they got their attention, they saw with their own eyes that a small object tied to the shaft of the arrow was flashing red.

There is also a slight beeping sound.

boom! !

There was a violent explosion on the wine table, and the gorgeous flames swept through dozens of high-end red wine bottles bursting out of the wine, splashing the flames into the entire hall in an instant, like a chef who just poured a large amount of cooking wine the frying pan, the flames are several feet high.

It's just that what's cooking in the pot is not a steak, but a sheep, a wolf... and a snake.

Princess Sophie made a decisive decision at the moment of the explosion, and directly lifted the luxurious dress on her body as a cloak, shielding herself and the Grand Duke from the splashed on-fire wine, and then threw the skirt, with the agility that fully fit Luper's physique He kicked open the door of the living room with one kick.

It wasn't until they had just escaped from the living room that the servant ran over to report in a panic.

"Master, an assassin has broken in!"

"Nonsense! You don't need to talk about this? How did the problem break in? Are the guards and defense systems here just decorations!?"

In front of the servant, it was finally Grand Duke Karl's turn to speak. He pointed to the fire in the living room, and the anger on his face seemed to be even hotter than that, so he didn't even slap the servant on the face. After all, he Just a domestic servant who brought tea and water, not the captain of the guard who should be responsible for it.

The servant looked at the door of the living room, trembling with fright for a moment and dared not say a word, but fortunately, a team of heavily armed guards from the Duke's Palace had arrived and knelt down in front of Grand Duke Karl.

"Master, the incident happened suddenly and the situation is urgent. Please go to a safe place to take shelter first."

"Where is Samuel! Let him explain to me, what does it mean when things happen suddenly!? Why are there fewer sentries and spell detection units in the house? What are the responsibilities of you guards! Don't tell me that you have not yet People can operate that defense system!"

Samuel is the Chief Guard of the Grand Duke's Mansion and is responsible for all security arrangements.

In addition to the normal manpower patrols and guards in the Grand Duke's Mansion, there are of course semi-automatic spell units like the "gramophone". But much more advanced and sensitive than that.

But in fact, before Archduke Karl was personally attacked, no one came to inform him about the suspicious situation of someone breaking in. If he happened to be standing by the window just now, wouldn't he have been shot to death by an arrow?

"I'm sorry, sir. It's really unclear how the outsiders broke in. Chief Samuel is leading a team to search for and capture the assassin, and arrange personnel to check whether the equipment is malfunctioning or disturbed. The captain said that after the danger is completely eliminated , he will come to you to plead guilty."

They really couldn't find it, because the entire Terra defense system has the same loophole, even the most advanced economic and technological Longmen is no exception, that is air defense, only the equipment used to cut off the transmission signal of drones, There is no such thing as an air-to-air radar.

When a living person... no, when a huge eagle flew into the Grand Duke's mansion from a high altitude without any concealment, not only did their spell units not respond, even the guards who witnessed it did not take it seriously thing.

The manor is not a no-fly zone at the airport. There are too many birds in the sky, and it is not uncommon to attract an eagle that catches birds and eats them. Doesn’t the Grand Duke need to hire a group of snipers dedicated to hunting birds?

The Grand Duke snorted coldly. He was not stupid enough to deal with the person responsible at such a juncture. He just vented his emotions and let the people below know how angry he was. But just as he was about to take Princess Sophie And when the envoy went to evacuate together, the intercom at the waist of the squad leader who came to protect him suddenly rang.

"Honorable Grand Duke Leitania, have you received my greeting gift? Do you like it?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the sound, and the captain himself was even more astonished, because it was obviously not the voice of anyone he knew. If the intercom channel was not hacked by technology, it would be that the intercom of other guard captains was stolen up.

The former means that their deployment has long been figured out, and if it is the latter, although these Grand Duke's guards are not at the top level of Letania in terms of force, but in terms of professional quality and loyalty, it is absolutely impossible to make a mistake. It's such a low-level mistake.

It could only be that a guard team had already been wiped out by the assassins.

Grand Duke Karl waved his hand at the squad leader, motioning to pretend that he was not there. The squad leader picked up the walkie-talkie after he understood, and yelled inside.

"Who are you! How did you break into the channel to talk!?"

"Hmm... Your impetuous tone doesn't sound like a pampered prince. Could it be that he didn't dare to answer me in person? Sure enough, it's the same as the rumors, but it doesn't matter. I know he can hear it."

"As for how I spoke here, of course someone kindly gave me his equipment, that is... what's your name? Come and tell your Grand Duke."

There was a sound of footsteps over the intercom, followed by the muffled sound of something heavy being thrown on the ground, like a sack full of potatoes, or a person.

After a while, the voice of another man coughing blood came from the team leader's walkie-talkie. Although he seemed to want to raise his voice and growl, he still seemed weak.