Arriving at the small town outside Barbarissa Castle, Leo did not rush into the castle, find Barbarissa, and tell him that he was indeed very likely to have the blood of the original god. Instead, he walked not far from the castle gate.

I sat in an open-air tavern for a while, watching the carriages passing by on the street, and listening to the people in the tavern talking about what they knew.

Leo had already made his choice on the hillside outside the Holy Sanctuary of the Beginning. Although he didn’t know what the situation of the dryads Lutasi and Devena was now, he believed that with their current abilities, they would not encounter each other.

It's too dangerous. If you want to find them, you need to leave this world and go to outer space. In that case, it will be possible to sense the mark on Devena. And now he doesn't want to leave this world yet, so he can only temporarily

Put the matter of Devena and the Dryad aside and see if you can find them when you meet up with Sylvia and go to the wizard academy together.

Since he was not looking for Devena and Dryad Rutaxi for the time being, and he was not too far away from Barbarissa's castle, he decided to solve Barbarissa's problem first, and also let Barbarissa take over Germany.

Wen Na's news was informed to Countess Xilu Jade to prevent her from worrying.

But when he arrived at Barbarissa Castle, he found that the situation here was completely different from the last time he came to the castle.

The last time I came to Barbarissa's castle, apart from Barbarissa's own guards, servants and townspeople, there were only some caravans passing through the town outside the castle. But now, inside and outside Barbarissa Castle can be said to be...

It was crowded with people. Not only were there a large number of troops stationed in the open space outside the town, but all around were military tents and military camps. Even the small town outside the castle was also filled with a large number of outsiders. As for the square inside the castle, there were already

It was completely occupied by the military tent.

It is not difficult to see from the flags flying above these military camps that the troops in these military camps are Barbarissa's direct army, the lower-level nobles' coalition and the vassal nobles' coalition. Looking at the past, it is basically certain that Barbarissa can muster the army in a short time.

Everyone has already gathered here.

Barbarissa definitely did not gather so many troops outside the castle just for fun. It was obvious that something big happened on his side during this period.

Soon Leo learned from the conversations between the townspeople and the noble generals who were temporarily living in the town that Barbarissa was assassinated just five days ago. He himself was not injured, but his children and wife were.

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Barbarissa was naturally extremely angry. He used all the intelligence organizations at his disposal that day to find out the forces behind the assassins, and followed the clues to uncover the instigators.

The force responsible for sending assassins is an underground organization from other kingdoms. The members of this organization are all assassins. The purpose of their organization is to kill all the people in power in the world because they believe that the world is in such chaos because of the evil of those in power.

, and the stronger the power the person in power has, the more evil the person in power is. Even if the person in power was a saint before taking power, even if the person in power has done countless good things after taking power, in their eyes the person in power is still a saint.

An evil target to be eradicated.

This assassin organization has been operating in various countries surrounding the Middle Kingdom in the past and has never entered the Middle Kingdom. This is not because they do not want to expand their organizational power to the Middle Kingdom, but because there is already a group in this area.

A very ancient killer organization.

This ancient killer organization in the Middle Kingdom may not be as large as that assassin organization, but in the three-thirds of an acre of land in the Middle Kingdom, it has an absolute advantage that is enough to deal with any invading enemy.

However, this time the Assassin organization found an opportunity to expand its power to the Middle Kingdom. Duke Joel, the owner of the Black Swamp Principality, the largest force in the southern part of the Middle Kingdom, sent people to find their organization and hired their organization's strongest assassin with a lot of money.

, assassinated Lord Protector Barbarissa of the Middle Kingdom.

In the Middle Kingdom, Lord Protector Barbarissa and Duke Yor of the Black Swamp can be said to be open enemies. At that time, the old Duke Yor was also one of the most powerful contenders for the title of Lord Protector, but unfortunately he was defeated in the end.

He was given to Barbarissa and was seriously injured. He died less than two months after returning to the territory. Barbarissa and the Duke of Yoel became mortal enemies.

Duke Yoel, who later succeeded him, once sneaked a surprise attack on Barbarissa's convoy when Barbarissa went to an area near the Black Marsh to mediate a dispute between nobles. However, he was ambushed by Barbarissa. The attacker suffered heavy losses and personally led the team.

The Duke of Jol was even captured.

At that time, Barbarissa did not kill Duke Yoel for some reasons, but chose to give him a special punishment, which was to personally take Duke Yoel to several major cities and aristocratic territories in the Middle Kingdom, in public.

The flogging of him directly caused the reputation of the Duke of Yoel, who had a relatively good reputation at the time, to fall to a large extent. His nobles became disloyal, and the Black Marsh territory fell into a long period of chaos.

However, this Duke of Yoel is still capable. Even though his reputation has plummeted, he still calmed down the civil strife in the Black Swamp through several years of conquests, negotiations, marriages, etc., and also established relationships with several people connected to the Black Swamp.

The kingdoms on the edge of the Middle Kingdom region have formed an alliance.

Although Duke Yoel's main focus over the years has been on mastering the Black Swamp, his hatred for Barbarissa has not weakened at all, and he is always looking for opportunities to deal a fatal blow to Barbarissa.

In the end, he discovered that Barbarisa would meet with ordinary civilians and farmers at close range every time during the Autumn Harvest Festival, and listen to the opinions of these low-level people, so as to revise his policies and at the same time show his people

The grace and confidence you should have.

So, he found a foreign assassin organization that had absolutely no connection with Barbarissa, and hired them to take this opportunity to assassinate Barbarissa.

Although the assassin had excellent organizational skills, he directly disguised himself as a few ordinary civilians, deceived the inspections of various security personnel on the day of Barbarissa's reception, and successfully carried out a near-perfect assassination of Barbarissa.

The reason why it is said to be close to perfect is that they underestimated Barbarissa's ability. As a result, when the assassination was about to succeed, all the assassins were disturbed by Barbarissa's thinking. When they woke up, they had been disturbed by Barbarissa's attack.

The knights of the guard captured him, but Barbarissa's wife and children were seriously injured.

If Barbarissa himself was injured, perhaps even if the assassination was discovered, there would still be the possibility of negotiation, but this time it was his wife and children who were injured, which directly touched his taboo, so after the assassination was found out,

Later, he did not abide by any rules at all, and first sent envoys to hold people accountable. Instead, he directly issued a gathering order to the directly affiliated legions, subordinate nobles and vassal nobles, ordering the troops to gather in the castle. At the same time, he openly declared war on Black Swamp and drove away

Some middle-of-the-road nobles who tried to persuade him to resolve the matter through negotiation seemed to want to make a complete break with Black Marsh.

Now about 70% of the army summoned by Barbarissa has arrived. The other four big nobles near the south have not come. Instead, they have been assigned to several strategic locations heading south, waiting for the army here to move south and fight with them.

Convergence.

The war that is about to take place in the south can be said to be a matter of concern to the Central Kingdom and its surrounding countries. First of all, because the Central Kingdom has not had such a war of two to three hundred thousand people for many years, although the Central Kingdom has

Regional wars occur frequently, but those wars only involve tens of thousands of people at best, and they are all local battles. There are few large-scale wars. The upcoming war will undoubtedly set a new record for the number of people involved in the war in the Middle Kingdom. I think

It's hard not to pay attention.

Secondly, many people believe that this war may determine the future unification king of the Middle Kingdom.

Legends about the emergence of a unified king in the Middle Kingdom and the establishment of a unified kingdom have been circulating for a long time, and there are hundreds of different versions. It is now recognized that the person most qualified to become the unified king

Naturally, it was Lord Protector Barbarissa, who was canonized by a living person. But below Barbarissa, there were several principal principalities with large territories. The Duke of Yoel who hired people to assassinate Barbarissa was one of them.

One of the most powerful people.

After this war is won, whether Barbarissa wins or the Duke of Yoel wins, they will inevitably annex each other's territory, unify most of the land in the south and the center, and become the southern hegemon in the Middle Kingdom. By then, even if the central

There are still some duchy lords in other parts of the Kingdom, but their strength and power are already far behind the new southern overlords. There is basically no possibility of competition. The unification of the Middle Kingdom has become a general trend.

In the eyes of some good people among the people, Barbarissa has great righteousness, is well-known, and has a personal reputation and charm that far exceeds all the nobles in the Middle Kingdom. He is also extremely popular, and his army is one of the best among all the legions in the Middle Kingdom.

, so his chance of winning can be said to be much higher than that of Duke Youle, whose reputation has just recovered a little.

However, Duke Yoel is not without any chance of winning. In recent years, he has calmed down the chaos in the Black Swamp not only through negotiation. His Black Mud Army is also very powerful and has rich combat experience. Compared to now,

Barbarissa's legion, which has been in truce for many years, is obviously much stronger.

In addition, in order to enhance his own power, Duke Youle married several countries bordering his territory. Not only did he marry a princess from a nearby kingdom, but his daughter and son also married big nobles or royal families in neighboring countries.

Having signed several secret agreements, and with the backing and support of these countries outside the Middle Kingdom, his foundation is slightly better than Barbarisar's to some extent.

Barbarissa was obviously very aware of his own shortcomings, so after he publicly declared war, he was not in a hurry to start a war. Instead, after the army was summoned, he conducted combat recovery training within each legion every day and summoned noble officers from each legion.

He went to the castle with his generals to conduct secret legion training. Although doing so would consume a lot of food and grass, Barbarissa didn't seem to care about this consumption of food and grass. It seemed that he was ready to fight a war of attrition.

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After understanding the current situation of Barbarissa, Leo waited until night, directly used the ability of Shadow Witch Su, hidden in the shadow of the carriage entering and leaving the castle, entered the castle, and then found Barbarissa's identity through the spiritual network

location, and sneaked over there.

It is not known whether it was simply to prevent outsiders from sneaking in, or to avoid being assassinated again, Barbarissa arranged a large number of open and hidden sentries inside and outside the castle, and also arranged some extraordinary items for warning in some places.

For ordinary people and ordinary extraordinary people, this arrangement is more than enough, but for Leo, this arrangement is in vain. He directly interferes with the thinking and cognition of everyone in the castle through spiritual energy. In the eyes of these people,

Leo is just an acquaintance who works in the castle. Even if he looks across from him, he won't feel anything wrong.

In this way, Leo sneaked outside the room where Barbarissa was staying in an aboveboard way, then opened the door and walked in.

I saw that this room was a large bedroom. In addition to a large bed, there were two small beds. There were people lying on these three beds, including Barbarissa's wife and children. At this moment, they

They seemed to be in some kind of high fever coma, and the servants in the room would put iced towels on their foreheads from time to time to cool them down.

At this moment, Barbarissa was sitting on the edge of the bed where his wife was, with a sad look on his face, looking at his wife lying on the bed with blank eyes, clasping his wife's right hand with both hands, and muttering words in his mouth, which could be heard to be some kind of prayer.

word.

Although Barbarissa has been canonized by various true God churches, he himself does not believe in gods very much. But now he is like an extremely devout believer, asking for help from an unknown god. Obviously, he is extremely desperate in his heart.

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Since the assassination that day, his wife and children have fallen into a coma, their bodies have been experiencing fevers repeatedly, and they feel as if they will die at any time.

At first he thought it was poison that was smeared on the weapon when the assassin assassinated him. His wife and children had been injured by this weapon, and the poison seeped into their wounds and mixed with the blood, so he died.

He fell into a coma continuously.

However, the doctor responsible for the treatment quickly gave a different answer. There was no poison in the wound. His wife and children were sick. If he wanted them to recover, they needed to use blood transfusion therapy to replace the patient's diseased blood. This

This is also the reason why Barbarissa is hesitant now.

Although blood transfusion therapy is an ancient medical technique, and many well-known people knew about this method in the past, this method is too dangerous. If something is wrong, it may cause the death of the patient. Barbarissa is not sure that his wife and children are now

According to his physical condition, whether he can survive the blood transfusion process, he is still hesitating and has not made any decision.
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