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He originally thought that the assassination of the frontline general was the result of the political struggle between the two parties, the eldest brother Albert and the fourth emperor's sister Cecilia. However, after Noel learned about it, he found that Albert and Cecilia were also fighting for This thing is a mess.

Especially now that most of the occupied land has been taken back by the Charles Empire, Noel felt that no matter how stupid Albert and Cecilia were, they would not be this stupid.

As for the assassin who committed the assassination, no one has seen him until now, and he doesn't even know whether he is a man or a woman.Even the general who was talking to someone just a second ago was found dead in front of him just as soon as he turned around. If that person wasn't a waste with no ether, Noel would have doubted whether that person was doing it on his own. The director acted himself.

At present, the news that the frontline position has been lost has not officially reached the capital, so Noel must find a way to deal with this troublesome assassin before the news reaches here.

But the professionals he sent out have not received any reply so far, and there are even two professionals who are about to reach the legendary level, so this gradually amplifies Noel's inner uneasiness.

"Your Highness Noel, you are a little panicked now." Feiya did not answer Noel's words directly, but gently reminded: "Please calm down, if this assassin alone can wipe out the Holy Empire of France. , then the Charles Empire has already done it, right?”

Noel sighed, straightened his messy hair and said: "There are still a few days until the celebration. If the news of the defeat on the front line comes back by then, it will be more disturbing to those nobles than the news of the annihilation of the Holy Wing Legion. And the civilians are uneasy. In addition, my people in the capital have reported to me in the past few days that many new faces have come in, and there must be spies from the Charles Empire. If they cause more trouble during the celebration, the morale of our army will It will definitely plummet.”

Then he raised his head and looked at Feiya: "So at this time, Miss Feiya, please come over and tell me that you can kill the assassin. Do you know what I think?"

Fia motioned for Noel to continue.

"The entire frontline troops have tried all kinds of methods and failed to catch a single hair on the assassin, but you suddenly came out and told me that your companions had a solution." Noel's voice became colder: "If it hadn't been for me Knowing the recent whereabouts of you and your companions, I would doubt whether this assassin was the work of your Golden Dynasty."

Fiya was not frightened by Noel's tone, but followed his words: "If this assassin was really sent by our Golden Dynasty, then Your Highness Noel would not be sitting here unharmed now. Talk to me here.”

The expression on Noel's face returned to a kind look: "Miss Feiya is right, and you have an open hostile relationship with the Charles Empire for a long time, and many famous generals have died at your hands. Just now it was just reasonable I doubt it, but I hope you don’t mind, Miss Feiya.”

Feiya nodded: "Of course I know the concerns of His Highness the Second Prince. This is something you must consider as the Crown Prince. So please feel free to leave this matter to my companions, and they will be able to help you soon. Bringing good news.”

"Since you said so, Miss Feiya, then I will wait for good news." Noel nodded: "I will prepare a generous bounty to express my gratitude to the Golden Dynasty."

Chapter 61: The Faded Ones [-]

The Holy Empire Front of France, the Auckland Front.

Auckland is the border mountain range of the Holy Empire of France. Even here on the front line, it can be said that the empire's recent war situation is very severe and disadvantageous.

"Haven't there been people from the capital to support you? Damn it, all the generals who can command are almost dead." In a tent covered with magic barriers and early warning devices, a man wearing the uniform of an ordinary soldier of the Holy Empire of France The person spoke anxiously.

He has brown hair and is about 30 years old. His eyes are bloodshot. It can be seen that he is very sleep-deprived and his face looks very haggard.

The other people in the tent were also dressed in the same attire as they spoke, but judging from the temperament they displayed, they were no ordinary soldiers.

"General Turner, the messengers asking for help have rushed to the capital in batches to ask for help. All we can do now is wait." One of them sighed and said in a low voice.

These people are the only remaining command levels on the front line and are having a meeting in this tent.

Since the mysterious assassin appeared, generals have been assassinated one after another, leaving the front line without command and the military morale in chaos.The Charles Empire then took the opportunity to counterattack after waiting for reinforcements to be brought.Under the morale that the enemy is strong and we are weak, the Holy Empire of France has been retreating steadily and has retreated to the country's gate.

There is now a large army of Charles' Empire outside the Oakland Mountains, and they are still worried about whether they will be assassinated by assassins tonight.

If they were simply assassinated, they wouldn't be so worried.The problem is that the assassin can also pretend to be a dead general and issue wrong orders. This is the real reason for the collapse of the Holy Empire of France.

Even old friends could not see the flaw in the generals disguised by the assassin. It was only a few days later that people discovered that those generals had actually died a few days ago, and the insides of their bodies were eaten clean by strange creatures, which made people shudder.

These generals of the Holy Empire of France had no choice but to change into the clothes of ordinary soldiers. Only in this way can the assassin's attack be delayed. However, once the identity of the assassin is confirmed, it is still difficult to escape death.

Even the generals who were meeting in the tent were wary of each other, wondering if their companions had been transferred by assassins.

"Report!" A messenger walked into the tent, attracting everyone's attention: "The additional troops sent by the second prince Noel have just arrived at the camp. They said they are here to deal with the rampant assassin."

The generals in the tent looked disappointed, because His Highness Noel, the second prince, had previously sent a group of so-called professionals.

But ever since the devoured bodies of those professionals and the assassinated generals were discovered, they no longer believed in the claims of the so-called 'professionals'.

"Hey... let's arrange a place for them first." General Turner waved his hands with a headache, not in the mood to see the help sent by His Highness the Second Prince.

The messenger hesitated for a moment and said, "But they always asked for specific information about the assassin. They also said that they were from the Golden Dynasty, which was different from the previous 'professionals'."

Turner frowned: "Golden Dynasty?"

"General Turner, why not meet them." One of the generals suggested: "I heard that there are many strange things in the Golden Dynasty, and there are also many capable people. Maybe they really have some way to deal with them. Where’s that rampant assassin?”

"Well, you're right." General Turner pondered for a moment and nodded.

Then he told the messenger: "Let them come to the next tent, and I will meet them alone."

One of the other generals kept his eyes open after hearing the words "Golden Dynasty" and didn't know what he was thinking until his companion next to him patted him on the shoulder, indicating that it was his turn to explain the area he was responsible for defending. Arrangement only came back to his senses and smiled sheepishly at his companion.

"Sorry, I really haven't had a good rest these days. I'm too tired." He said this, and the other generals didn't pay attention.

Because since the assassin appeared, no one had had a good rest. Those who dared to sleep at night were killed silently by the assassin. If it were not for the energy potion prepared by the priest, all the generals present would have fallen asleep. I couldn't wake up until the sun was shining on my butt on the third day.

But these generals did not notice that when he lowered his head to look for his documents, his pupils suddenly turned dark.

This poor general was assassinated just last night and was possessed by a shadow creature. Now the organs in his body are being melted and devoured bit by bit.

Not only this general, there were also a few pairs of dark eyes in the invisible shadows inside the tent, silently watching everything that happened inside.The reason why these shadow creatures did not choose to catch them all is that they are still observing, learning and imitating the behavior of these human generals.

With a burst of strange language that humans could not hear, three pairs of dark eyes disappeared from the shadows.

"Hunting Death" D led Robert and others and followed the messenger to a prepared tent.

"Please wait a moment, distinguished guests of His Highness Noelle, General Turner will come over to talk to you alone soon." After the messenger explained the matter to them, he left directly.

Robert let out a "ha" and said: "It seems that these people don't believe that we can eliminate the assassin. Their attitude towards us is entirely for the sake of the second prince."

Ludwig nodded: "Yes. Moreover, the atmosphere in the camp is very depressing. The soldiers encountered along the way are more or less injured. I am afraid that the situation on the front line is already very serious."

"The situation is serious and we don't care about our affairs." Robert shrugged: "I'm just here to help eliminate the assassins, not to help fight the war. Thomas, what do you think?"

Thomas had found a hard bench and sat down, closing his eyes to rest, resisting the pain caused by Long Feast's excessive execution.After hearing Robert's words, he opened his golden dragon eyes and said, "I am very interested in this assassin, and I really want to know what kind of magic he used."

D then said: "No matter what invisibility magic this assassin used, he has nowhere to hide under the light of the golden blessing."

"Anyway, when the fight starts, Master D, just don't take the opportunity to do something dirty to us." Robert curled his lips. D and them didn't have much communication with each other along the way. The cold eyes he occasionally looked at made Robert also Very uncomfortable.

D snorted coldly: "Although I have no dealings with you Deathborns, since Lord Roland has recognized that you have a place under the new golden law, then naturally I will not do anything unusual to you. Action, unless you betray Lord Roland."

Ludwig nodded: "Well, we all represent the Golden Dynasty when we go out, so naturally we have to work together to help each other."

While several people were talking, General Turner opened the tent and walked in. They immediately stopped talking.

"Are you...?" D looked at the general dressed as an ordinary soldier warily, and placed his hand on the handle of the closely twined sword.

Several other people also looked over with vigilant eyes, which made General Turner shudder.

Turner realized what he was wearing, coughed heavily, made a majestic look, and said, "Discourteous, I am General Turner, the current commander-in-chief of the Auckland Front. Why don't you kneel down when you see me?"

"Pfft." Robert couldn't help laughing after hearing this, and then waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Don't worry about me, don't worry about me, I just thought of happy things."

Ludwig explained to Turner very seriously: "I'm very sorry, General. Our Lord Roland has a rule that compatriots of the Golden Dynasty are not allowed to pray to anything unless they are praying devoutly to something they believe in." People kneel down.”

D and Thomas simply looked at Turner as if they were looking at fools.

"Well... you said you are General Turner, but the clothes you are wearing do not look like what a general should wear." D said, "How can we confirm that what you are telling the truth is not... What about a liar who talks nonsense?"

Within a few words of this meeting, General Turner felt that his blood pressure was rising.

Fortunately, those who can achieve the position of general are very good at controlling their tempers, and the other party is a distinguished guest of the second prince Noel, and is also a nominal ally of the Holy Empire of France.General Turner thought of this, adjusted his mood and said: "I should ask you this, didn't His Highness the Second Prince give you any tokens when he sent you? I have no way to confirm whether the identity you said is true."

D nodded: "Of course there is, and His Royal Highness the Second Prince said that the commander-in-chief of the Auckland Front also has a matching token."

"Then let's take it out at the same time." After General Turner said that, he took out half of the badge from his pocket. On the badge was an angel extending his hand downwards towards someone.

D also took out the other half of the badge, which showed a person raising his hand and calling for help.

The two badges emitted white holy light and called each other. They separated from the hands of D and General Turner and merged into one in the air, turning into a complete circular badge. The pattern on the badge naturally turned into an angel. Pictures of saving humanity.

D looked at the shining badge floating in the air and the relief carving full of religious meaning, and snorted in dissatisfaction.

He felt that the relief on the badge should be the golden tree descending to bless the many devout believers, rather than this heretical creature that he had never seen before.

General Turner didn't know that D cared about this, he just thought it was because of his previous words to express dissatisfaction.

"Didn't the Second Prince Noel say anything else? For example, when will the reinforcements arrive?" After Turner confirmed his identity, he felt relieved and sat in the main seat in the tent and asked.

Robert and the others did not answer the call, because Feiya asked them to focus on D this time, and they did not like to talk too much with people outside the Golden Dynasty.

D replied indifferently: "No, General Turner. Noel asked me to wait here just to eliminate the assassin who has been a headache for a long time in the army. He also asked the general to tell me the detailed information known so that we can have some information." Prepared."

"You didn't even ask His Highness the Second Prince for information about the assassins, and you dared to come here and brazenly say that you were here to encircle and suppress the assassins?" General Turner felt that these people in front of him were a little unreasonable.

D looked at Turner without saying a word, already feeling that the general was a little too wordy.

Of course, they had already asked the second prince about the basic information, but they were traveling in the past few days for fear that something unexpected would happen that they didn't know about, so D asked him like this.

"Well, I hope you have real skills in your hands." Turner shook his head, and then told them all the assassin's killing patterns, the wounds of the deceased, and the ability to possess the deceased.

General Turner only regarded these people from the Golden Dynasty as speculators who overestimated their abilities to increase the favorability of the second prince. He thought that they were just like the 'professionals' sent by the second prince before, and they were killed.

D and the three followers of Feiya listened carefully to the information Turner said, and at the same time made some comparisons with the information obtained from the second prince.

"That's all we know. The military is busy with business, so I'll take my leave first." After General Turner finished speaking, he stood up and prepared to leave.During this period, he also secretly looked at Robert, Ludwig and Thomas, and shook his head in disappointment.Because he did not feel any powerful etheric presence from these people, he was even more convinced that these people were just cannon fodder sent by the Golden Dynasty to please the second prince.

At this time, a shadow in the tent where they were was changed slightly, like a drop of ink in the dark water.

Ludwig's eyes moved slightly. He looked at Robert and Thomas calmly, and found that the two faded ones were also looking at Ludwig as if they had a trance.

D opened his mouth to stop General Turner. At the same time, he took off the twin swords from his back and held them in his hands: "General, please stay."

General Turner just turned around and saw the two-handed sword in D's hand swinging towards him.He broke out in a cold sweat. Just as he was about to subconsciously call out to the guards, he heard the crisp sound of a sharp object hitting the sword.

At the same time, the other faded people in the tent also started their own actions at the same time as "Hunting Death" D took action.

Robert quickly took out the pulley crossbow from his arms and shot it with a blue-silver magic arrow towards the shadow where he just noticed something was wrong. Thomas grinned, and the broad sword and kite-shaped shield in his hand blocked the arrows from above his head. and the thorns attacking from behind. After Ludwig cut off the thorns attacking him with the Kallia Knight Sword, he raised the teardrop-shaped Kallia Knight Shield and came to General Turner's side. , protect him.

"It seems that the assassin is not just one person, General Turner." D retracted the twin swords and said sarcastically: "Or, your army of the Holy Empire of France has killed so many generals, how many assassins are there? Don’t even know?”

Chapter 62: The Faded Three

"It seems there is more than one assassin, General Turner."

General Turner's ears were still ringing with D's harsh taunting words. He was frightened by the sudden situation and was sweating heavily on his forehead. His face was a little pale, and his hand had already touched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"Mr. D, leave General Turner's escort to me, and leave these weird enemies to you to deal with." Ludwig said. He took out his staff and already displayed the Radiant Sword Circle Formation, blue The shining swords surrounded Ludwig.

D nodded. At this time, those shadow creatures missed a hit and immediately retracted to the shadows in the tent where the light could not be found.

"Hush - don't make any noise to irritate them for now, General Turner." D saw that Turner wanted to call the guards to come for help, and immediately stopped him in a low voice: "I can't guarantee that I can save you from them next time. Down."

Turner held his breath when he heard this, nodded cautiously, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, what kind of creatures are these?"

"At least we know that these creatures are not human beings, right?" D replied casually. The golden holy mark fell into his hands, and he wanted to release the golden law's prayer to cover those dark places where the light could not shine.

Robert made an unhappy "tsk" sound. Those magic arrows just now didn't hit anything. They just shot through the wooden board that was originally placed in the shadow, and the arrows were firmly inserted on it.

"Creatures that have never been seen before seem to be afraid of light and can hide themselves in the shadows. There is no sound when launching attacks. No wonder so many generals have suffered. No, but these alone are not enough to kill so many General, be careful, I'm afraid they can do more than just this." Thomas's golden dragon eyes showed an interested look, and he told everyone present the information he had just observed, and at the same time, he was filled with curiosity as a scholar. My heart begins to stir,

The next moment, D and Thomas were attacked by these shadow creatures at the same time. They felt threatened by the golden holy mark in D's hand. As for Thomas, it was entirely because of the golden dragon eyes he turned into after executing too many dragon feasts that he was attacked by the shadow creatures. We focus on taking care of them.

Because in their memories, dragons are very powerful creatures and very difficult to deal with.And their leader also greatly increased his strength after devouring the corpse of a giant dragon, so they subconsciously felt that Thomas should be dealt with first.

D was interrupted from praying, and the two-handed sword with gold and silver intertwined in his hand resisted the attack.

At the same time, Ludwig looked suspiciously at the silent sword formation above his head, but he did not hesitate too much. He immediately grabbed General Turner and ran out of the tent.

It was just after noon when they arrived at the camp, and the sun was certainly high in the sky outside.

Because Thomas had just said that these abnormal creatures were afraid of light, Ludwig wanted to take General Turner out of the tent to a bright place while the shadow creatures had no time to care about him.

But Ludwig opened the tent, and the face under the sapphire-embedded Kalia knight's helmet showed a solemn look.

At some point, the outside of the tent had turned into a dark space. The only light was the tent behind him. There seemed to be countless pairs of eyes staring at him in the darkness outside, which was creepy.

Ludwig also carefully observed that the shadows outside were spreading toward the tent, as if a painter was using black paint to completely blacken the painting.

So Ludwig immediately returned to the tent with General Turner, leaving the others stunned.

"We have been dragged into an unknown space. It's pitch black outside and I can't see clearly, but I can feel that there are many creepy creatures in the darkness." Ludwig quickly told others what he saw. .

Thomas nodded with satisfaction: "That's right. Only such a dead end can allow these strange creatures to succeed again and again. I think I can guess how those generals and guards with good strength will face countless enemies outside. Desperate."

Robert twitched the corner of his mouth, and while dodging the attack from his shadow, he reminded him kindly: "Thomas, I think I have to remind you that we are the ones who are going to face those creatures soon."

"The worst outcome is to die here and return to Miss Feiya's arms." Thomas said with the broad sword in his hand, cutting off the hardened tentacles of several shadow creatures.

General Turner also recovered from his panic at this time. He said to Ludwig: "Knight, you don't need to pay too much attention to me. I don't need to stay behind you." A coward in need of protection.”

Then he drew out his sword, and his body erupted to resist the hard tentacles that kept stabbing out from the shadows.

To be able to become a general of the Holy Empire of France, Turner certainly knew how to do some martial arts.Moreover, his good qualities allowed him to subconsciously observe the enemy's attack movements even in the panic. Although he was not as good as the terrifying combat intuition of the Faded One, it was more than enough to protect himself under Ludwig's protection.

D frowned. He had been disturbed by those annoying tentacles and had no time to use the Golden Law prayer.

"I'm here to help you resist for a while, but don't let me be attacked by the Golden Law you cast." Robert took the initiative to come to D's side. The cross blade is a long-handled weapon, so in the tent. It is difficult to use it when there are many people, but fortunately he also has a knife that he carries with him.

D heavily stepped on a needle-like tentacle that was attacking under his feet, then swung his twin swords to cut it off before disappearing into the shadows. The other three tentacles exuding an ominous black energy that attacked from behind were killed by Robert. Use the katana technique to cut off simultaneously with the Iai Slash technique.