"My Lord Marquis, a theft is a theft. No matter what method the thief uses, if he fails to take good care of the weapons arsenal, it means that the guarding soldiers have neglected their duty and must be punished."

Viscount Jarvis explained solemnly: "If the guards are exempted from punishment this time, others will inevitably feel that the things they are guarding are not very important, and they will not be punished if they are lost. In this way, the guards may become slack.

Psychologically, he doesn’t care about the guarding mission at all.”

"What you said makes sense."

Are you usually too nice? Owen was thinking.

After thinking about it, he decided to leave the matter to Viscount Jarvis.

"Then how to punish the guarding soldiers is up to you, Viscount Jarvis."

"Understood, I will deal with this matter seriously." Viscount Jarvis said, stroking his chest.

"That's the end of the matter."

Owen was about to change the topic and turned to look at Lusha.

"Rusha, did the lizard warriors you sent out find any traces of the attackers?"

The reason why human soldiers were not sent to search was mainly to guard against the dark magician. Even if the lizardmen could not see the enemy, they could rely on their sense of smell to detect danger in advance.

Although the dark magician seemed to have been seriously injured, it was still best to be careful.

"Not yet." Lusha replied, "We are increasing the search scope. Yesterday's attacker seemed to have escaped into the Mystery Forest."

"Well, I understand, then let's continue searching."

Owen nodded, and then warned: "Please remember, once you sense danger, retreat and report immediately, and don't try to confront the enemy head-on."

"Thank you Lord for your concern. I will remind my people to pay attention."

Two days later, Owen received a report from Lusha, saying that he had found a female body during a search in the Mystery Forest, and was suspected to be the leader of the attackers.

Suspected? Why suspected?

With doubts, Owen followed Lusha to check on the body, and he immediately understood what was going on.

The corpse found by the lizard man had been bitten beyond recognition by the monsters, and there were not a few pieces of flesh left at all. It was better to say that it was a skeleton with flesh.

The only things that can prove his identity are the long purple hair, pieces of clothing, and the mask left nearby.

It is very sad that such a powerful dark magician was reduced to being eaten by monsters after death.

The assassination operation has failed. There is no need for the remaining assassins to stay here. In all likelihood, they will abandon their leader and return to the royal capital.

The lost old muskets and metal-cased bullets should be brought back to the capital and presented to White Wells.

Irving is not very worried about this.

Not to mention, the bullets are completely incompatible with old muskets.

Due to the improvement of technology, the diameter of the bullet is one circle smaller than the inner diameter of the old musket. If the old musket is directly used to fire the bullet, the power and accuracy will be very impressive.

After White gets it, he will definitely have to send people to spend a lot of time studying how to use the musket. Whether this problem can be discovered is a question mark.

More importantly, Wangdu does not have steam boring machines and other machine tools.

If he wanted to mass-produce muskets, White would have to let all the blacksmiths in the city work for him, but the production efficiency would still be low and the quality would be uneven.

In addition, White had to figure out the formula for black powder, otherwise the musket would be useless.

As for the layer of nitrocellulose at the bottom of the bullet, Irving was not worried at all. The other party would definitely think that it was just a small piece of ordinary gauze that served as a seal.

Black powder is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter.

One possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, someone in the royal capital can analyze its composition and test a formula that is close to the correct ratio.

Of course, this process will definitely take a lot of time.

Irving is already preparing to produce smokeless gunpowder to replace black powder. In this way, its own firepower will be improved and its advantage will continue to be maintained.

But no matter what, if you face White in the future, you have to be careful that the opponent may also have hot weapons.

After confirming that the body was the leader of the attackers, Owen asked Viscount Jarvis to reduce the castle's defense strength.

After this failure, the enemy should not launch any more assassinations in the short term, so we can finally feel a little more at ease.

His nerves have been tense recently, and Owen feels a little mentally exhausted.

…

In the royal capital of Junhui City, White led the remaining coalition army and fled back in embarrassment.

Yes, he led his army to attack Lion's Roar City and it was a complete failure.

In fact, from the moment White learned that his second sister was king in the South and was enraged, he had already fallen into the trap set by Trieste.

Trieste knew that White would definitely lead his army south, so she had already transferred more soldiers from the Great Wall on the border and set up various ambushes to wait.

The result is self-evident. The combined army encountered various ambushes and was defeated by Trieste's army, and was completely defeated.

If the Royal Capital Knights were not so powerful and successfully broke through with White, he might have been captured by the opponent, and the Kingdom of Morning Light would have almost changed hands again.

At this moment, White refused all the noble requests and was staying in his room in a rage, smashing and smashing many precious furniture and ornaments.

With a crash, White threw an expensive transparent glass artifact to the ground and smashed it into pieces.

"I'm so angry!" he said angrily.

All along, White thought that the only person who could prevent him from becoming the king was his elder brother Legovis.

After getting rid of Legovis, White happily believed that the entire kingdom was his.

Unexpectedly, Trieste would also join this dispute, not only making the South Territory independent, but also defeating his combined army on the battlefield.

Speaking of which, when White was planning to poison the king to usurp the throne last winter, Tristel was aware of his intention early and was ready to escape.

Because the person who can inherit the throne is usually a prince, and Trieste is engaged to the eldest son of Duke Connie.

Therefore, White never paid much attention to Tristel, she was just a sister who was about to get married.

He never expected that Tristel was the most hidden woman. Ever since he was a child, White had never really seen through her.

"Night Charm."

He was really angry and wanted to vent his anger.

But there was no response in the room. He called softly a few more times, but still no one responded.

At this moment, White suddenly remembered that he had sent Ye Mei to perform an assassination mission in Border Guard Town.

Why haven't you come back for so long? It's just a matter of killing a marquis. It won't take too long. Could it be that you failed?

"impossible!"

White shook his head. Ye Mei had performed so many missions and had never failed.

Seeing the mess on the ground, he left his bedroom, ordered his servants to clean the room, and then went to vent his anger to the beautiful woman he had brought back from Linshui City.
Chapter completed!