Utopia

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Bang bang bang bang...

Accompanied by a flurry of gunshots, Padsefino Golson, who already needed to use his scepter as a crutch, shook his head repeatedly.

He was even more embarrassed by the public test firing of matchlock guns in the square outside the palace gate than the Ascetic Church, which had not agreed to the introduction of firearms.

The range is too close and it has to be shot in three stages. If they encounter the troops of the Negan Kingdom, these musketeers who have lined up to shoot at close range will definitely be slaughtered by machine guns and cannons in the blink of an eye.

"Brother Wang?"

"Compared to the Negan Kingdom in the southeast, our matchlock guns can't be seen at all."

"But……"

"I know. The structure of firearms is quite complex, and bullets are even more difficult. Therefore, I just purchased 22 [to be honest, I have been using them recently, both Android and Apple] matchlock guns and came back to check them out."

"Brother, we really have to fight against the Ascetic Church..."

"Listen, when our father was still here, he said that the Ascetic Church had no ability to make our Kingdom of Galson stronger, and even continued to weaken and became a puppet of the central dynasty of the empire. Although our kingdom was originally It is part of the Eastern Province of the Kahn Empire. According to relevant legal principles, it is actually a crime for our Golson family to establish an independent kingdom. However, compared with this legal issue, our Golson family established the Golson family. What is the purpose of the Mori Kingdom?”

"Prosperity and prosperity."

"That's right. If we want to be prosperous and strong, we have to get rid of all kinds of restrictions. The purpose of the Ascetic Church is to maintain the Kahn royal family and unify the world as rulers, but reality has very cruelly proved the relationship between the Ascetic Church and the Kahn imperial family. Incompetent. What use is the incompetent church and royal family to our kingdom? It would be better to destroy them!"

"ah?"

"I know that you are related by marriage to the bishop of the Ascetic Church. Now you will feel uncomfortable listening to me speak ill of the church and the royal family. But the reality is always crueler than everyone imagines. Until now, in our kingdom, the salt tax and The tariff is still under the control of the Negan Kingdom. As a result, the development of our kingdom will inevitably be extremely bumpy. Even... In fact, in the year when my father died, I myself was prepared to become a subjugated king. , and then, together with the people of the kingdom, were sold into slavery by the Negan Kingdom. But what surprised me was that the Negan Kingdom did not do this, nor did it fully occupy the territory of our Golson Kingdom."

"That's because the Principality of Aikeen has a lot of territory for them to annex. As far as I know, there is only one family left in the Principality of Aikeen."

"Is there anyone else in the Aiken family?"

"Yes. There are six of them in total. They are now lecturers at the Noble Academy in Overflow City."

"Emperor Tony is still too soft-hearted and does not want to see the Aikken family completely extinct and disappear."

Speaking of the Aiken family, Padsefino was quite emotional. As the first reform pioneer among the princes of the Kahn Empire, even though it has declined to the point of disgrace. However, the history of the Aiken family has influenced the major vassal states, causing them to embark on the road of reform and strengthening the army.

The emergence of the matchlock gun is a very good sign.

After all, compared to an archer who requires at least three years of training (the standard of the regular army), a matchlock gun can turn an illiterate peasant into a qualified musketeer in just three months.

Of course, he also knew that the operation of the matchlock was too cumbersome, more complicated and unsafe than the crossbow.

He had heard of a tragic case before where a musketeer poured too much gunpowder and his holster burst, killing him on the spot.

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For this reason, he hoped in his heart that there would be a new type of weapon in the world that did not require the match to be lit at all times, and that did not require separate loading of bullets.

After all, he had never seen or heard of anyone in the Negan Kingdom in the southeast who could play with a matchlock gun.

"Your Majesty, urgent report. Someone in the church has been assassinated."

"oh?"

Compared to his younger brother who looked worried because he was married to a bishop's daughter and had an unusual relationship with the church, Padsafino Golson, who heard the news of the assassination, followed the messenger with a calm expression. Go to the scene of the incident - a place only 2 meters away from your location [To be honest, I have been using it recently, both Android and Apple are available. 】 meters, and only members of the Ascetic Church can sit in the auditorium in this area.

One knife, just one knife.

Padsafino only saw a black knife with only the width of his fist inserted into the back of the deceased. And when the black knife was pulled out by another member of the Ascetic Church, there was a strange smell. It spread out along the blood-stained blade.

"Brother Wang..."

"Poison. The assassin who killed him deliberately put poison on the blade because he was afraid that he would not die. It seems that someone hired a dark elf as an assassin to buy his life."

Seeing that the drawn blade had a slit in the middle and a hollow round hole in the middle, Padsafino immediately understood that only the dark elf assassins of the Negan Kingdom would assassinate like this.

Because this sharp blade with a hole in the middle was not made by the Golson Kingdom at all. But he knew the poisonous substance contained in the blade, scorpion.

The Kingdom of Golson had used poisoned weapons to attack the Kingdom of Negan in the past, but no one in the Kingdom of Golson had expected that the Kingdom of Negan would have a pharmacist who was good at making medicine as her queen.

As a result, the poison mainly composed of scorpion toxins could not hurt many troops of the Kingdom of Negan. On the contrary, the army of the Kingdom of Golson was deeply affected by it - they were unfortunately poisoned, which reduced the combat effectiveness of the troops.

But compared with the helplessness of Padsefino Golson, the assassin, Susa Xinduo, had taken off his disguise and burned the robe he had taken from a red-robed bishop, and even the body of the bishop who had been stabbed with the same knife, in a small alley.

In this regard, she did not mind the fact that she lost a knife. After all, the waist bags of the two bishops were in her hands. Although there was not much gold and silver in them, it was enough for her to buy ten knives she usually used.

"Atu!"

But sometimes her luck was not very good. A black-haired and brown-skinned warrior with a cross sword in his hand suddenly blocked her retreat.

"You... think you can stop me?"

Even though he didn't use the spell of understanding to translate the other party's simple words; but with his arms crossed, Xinduo didn't care whether the other party understood his language or not, and was thinking about how to escape quickly.

"Ma Li Ta Bu Sa, Di Sen Wei Na! No Pier A Wen Sa Rio De Sa Man Tou!"

After that, the warrior held the sword with both hands, with his left foot in front and his right foot behind, and pointed the tip of the double-edged sword in his hand at Xinduo's neck.