This will be a big event, big news that shocks two continents. Claude suddenly understands why General Bolognik said that Claude, we are done. Because even if General Xazolak carries this
Blame the blame, their generals as deputy commanders of the theater still cannot escape joint responsibility, even if they are not in Lanhu Town or they are seriously injured like Claude who was also assassinated. After all, the person who was assassinated was a capable person.
The general who was promoted to the marshal of the kingdom is also the leading figure in the army of the kingdom's old noble families...
Although the domestic political situation in the Kingdom of Ovilas has been unstable in recent years, the old king is ill in bed and has not yet decided on a successor. The eldest prince and the second prince have been in serious trouble trying to earn the throne. The people's livelihood has also been affected by a five-year war in the eastern region.
The reasons are somewhat depressed, but in any case, it is still a regional power in the Falea continent. Even though there was a colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks, the dominant power in the northern region, due to disputes over the overseas territories of the Nubisia continent, it could win three consecutive times with a weak hand.
The great victory in the colonial war won respect for the kingdom, and it has become a first-class military power in the Farea continent.
Now, when a general of the kingdom is assassinated during a military parade in front of easily obtainable military achievements, it is simply a slap in the face of the kingdom. The problem is that those killers and assassins are magicians, and they cannot be dealt with by ordinary soldiers.
When those gray-robed magician killers and assassins could not be found, it was not only General Xazolak who took the blame, but also General Skerry, General Bolognik, and even the seriously injured Claude, General Bichlin and Ban.
Sir Knight and General Albert, who is far away in Wickham Castle, will become the scapegoat for the kingdom's senior leaders to deal with this incident, and will even become the target of the anger of the old noble families...
"Are there any survivors? Didn't those killer assassin magicians in gray robes capture any survivors?" Claude asked.
"No, the five gray-robed magicians who fell after being hit by muskets in the square were almost beaten to pulp by the angry soldiers on the spot, and what you left behind were only the bodies of seven gray-robed magicians.
....." General Xia Zolak shook his head helplessly: "After the assassination, it took us two hours to react and blockade the entire town of Lanhu. However, after ten days of door-to-door checks, no one was found.
The whereabouts and whereabouts of any of those gray-robed magicians. We suspect that they left Lanhu Town immediately after the assassination, and now we don’t know where they went..."
Claude had a headache. He called his sister Anna to come over and rub his temples: "So we don't know the details of the gray-robed magicians who came to assassinate?"
"No, we know this very well." General Xazolak gave Claude an unexpected answer: "They are Gray Tower mages from Higros Island, killers and assassins among mages. Documents about them
There are many records in various countries in the Falea continent. Their characteristic is that they sneak into the target location with various identities before taking action. They all wear gray robes when performing tasks, and after the task is completed, they take off their gray robes again and disappear without a trace.
It is said that after the evil magicians were driven to Shigros Island by their ancestors six hundred years ago, the radical magicians who most wanted to counterattack the mainland established this killer organization called Gray Tower to sneak into Farea.
The mainland assassinated those nobles and generals in order to clear the way for the magicians to return to the Farea continent.
In response to these unscrupulous magician assassins and killers, the ancestors at that time also used various strategies to deal with them, including luring, setting up ambushes, and rounding up regardless of casualties as long as they found one. In the end, they dealt a heavy blow to these gray-robed magician killers.
The blow caused these gray-robed killer assassin magicians to pay a heavy price in casualties and disappeared.
A large part of the nearly six hundred years of Farea continent's history has been the battle between various countries and these gray-robed magicians. Almost every country in Farea continent has had kings, dignitaries and generals assassinated by these Gray Tower mages.
.In order to prevent the attack of this gray tower mage, all the countries in the mainland have also established some targeted special departments to deal with these mage killers and assassins.
However, in the past two hundred years, the life of Gray Tower mages on Shigros Island has become increasingly difficult. It is said that firstly, they lack resources, and secondly, there are fewer and fewer magicians joining them. As a last resort, they have to recruit from among the islanders.
Selecting those children who are not very talented in magic and training them from an early age will force them to waste more time in order to train a qualified killer assassin mage.
The last time a Gray Tower mage made a fuss in the continent of Farea was sixty-seven years ago, at the marriage ceremony between the king of the Kingdom of Morosik in the southern part of the continent and the princess of the neighboring Kingdom of Resnia. Nearly thirty gray-robed people
The Magician Killer prepared to kill all the dignitaries and powerful people from various countries attending the meeting. However, he fell into a trap set by the security department that had taken precautions and was all killed on the spot. This result caused the Gray Tower Wizard to be severely injured and unable to recover.
So far, I have never heard of the Gray Tower Mage having any activities in the continent of Farea.
A country once sent spies to sneak into Shigros Island to detect the activities of the Gray Tower Master. The result was that the Gray Tower Master was not so much a killer assassin organization as it was that the Gray Tower Master had become a group of assassins on Shigros Island.
The magician faction, but they still have a tough attitude towards the Farea continent.
However, there are only a few members of the Gray Tower Wizards left, and they have little influence on the Magician Council on Shigros Island, making it difficult for them to recruit suitable students and disciples with extraordinary magical talents. The report suggests that Gray Towers can be
Master Tower has lowered his alert level from paying close attention, believing that in the next few decades or hundreds of years, this mage-killer organization that was once famous in the Farea continent will disband on its own and be annihilated in the passage of time."
It seems that General Xazolak has put a lot of effort into these gray-robed magicians who came to assassinate him. He can even recite their historical records. However, Claude is still a little doubtful: "Can we really be sure that these gray-robed magicians are assassins?"
Are all the magicians in gray robes members of this gray tower wizard? Instead of someone else wearing a gray robe and pretending to be this killer mage organization..."
General Xia Zolak nodded: "You can be sure, because these magicians who were killed were all wearing the gray robe style of the Gray Tower Mage that was clearly recorded, and there were special Gray Tower Mage marks on them. In addition, the materials of these gray robes
It is also woven from the special products of Higros Island: Sigri long linen and Hiros fine wool. These two materials are not produced elsewhere."
So that’s it, no wonder why so many magicians suddenly appeared. But what’s strange to Claude is that the spell power of these gray-robed magicians doesn’t seem to be as powerful as he imagined. If there are only one or two, he can’t do it.
It seems that even without a revolver, I can deal with them for a while with the level of the second-level rune mage and the spells I have mastered.
"By the way, before I fought with those magicians in gray robes, I asked them why they came to assassinate me. They said it was for the reward. King Mechid III of the Kingdom of Hicks paid 100,000 gold shields for my head.
The reward..." Claude remembered what the gray-robed magician said.
General Xazolak's expression changed greatly after hearing this: "This is impossible, General Claude, are you sure those gray-robed magicians said such things?"
"I'm pretty sure that the gray-robed magician told me the truth about why he came to kill me because I was about to die, so that I wouldn't die in peace. What's the matter, why are you so panicked?" Claude said.
It was strange that General Xazolak's expression suddenly turned so bad after hearing what he said.
"General Claude and the Gray Tower Wizards will never assassinate others because of bounties or bounties. The targets they want to assassinate are all political dignitaries, high-level powerful figures, kings, grand dukes, or people who think they are interested in magicians and Higros Island.
Characters who pose a threat. They think that they are noble mages. Although they use the methods of assassins, they do so for the noble goal of reviving magical civilization, rather than the despicable business of being a killer for money. This is also easy to prevent.
One of their reasons."
General Xazolak smiled bitterly and said: "If those gray-robed magicians really told you that, then it's not that we have found the wrong target, but that someone is deliberately pretending to be a gray tower wizard to confuse our sight. Or there is someone else.
One possibility is that the Gray Tower Masters have completely changed their purpose and become a killer organization that seeks money and resources."
Claude looked at General Bolognik and General Skerry: "Have you reported this assassination to the capital?"
General Bolognik nodded: "It has been reported. It was reported by General Skerry the next day. Such a big thing must be reported immediately. It is estimated that the news will be received in the capital in seven or eight days. In addition, I rushed to Lanhu
After we arrived in town, we conducted an investigation into all the circumstances and wrote a detailed incident investigation report and sent it over, with the three of our names signed on it."
"What is the current situation of the Guards Division?" Claude asked again.
This time it was General Skerry who answered: "It's not good, people are panicking. Two senior officers of the division were killed and six wounded in the assassination. And the officers and soldiers of the Guards Division were rounding up and resisting the gray-robed magicians.
There were nearly 300 casualties during the attack. I have to admire them for being more tough than the soldiers in our war zone. The soldiers of the Third Panshi Division were frightened by the magicians' spells and rushed over when they saw the magicians.
Just turn around and run away.
The officers and soldiers of the Guards Division have a clear division of labor, how to contain those gray-robed magicians, and even risk their own lives to block the retreat of those gray-robed magicians, so as to buy time for their comrades behind them to load the ammunition and light the match ropes.
The five gray-robed magicians who were left behind were all shot to death by the soldiers of the Imperial Guards Division. The performance of the officers and soldiers of the Third Panshisacral Division could only be described as a mess.
Basic order cannot be achieved.
Later, I asked the officers and soldiers of the Guards Division, and they said that the Guards Corps has organized training on how to fight against rounded-up magicians. This training is unique to their Guards Corps, because they are stationed in the royal capital.
It is necessary to prevent the attack on the royal capital by the evil magicians from Shigros Island. However, now that the incident is over, the officers and soldiers of the Guards Division have become a little confused. They feel that it is a big mistake to come to the overseas war zone this time.
The general was assassinated, and their trip was in vain..."
Claude closed his eyes. Everyone thought that he was very tired and was about to leave, but Claude stopped them again. He looked at General Bolognik and said: "You go out and lead the Guards Division to capture Wei."
Port of Bartow.”
"What?" General Bolognik was shocked: "How can I go out at this time? People are in panic because of this assassination incident, and the Guards Division will probably not obey my orders. Claude, you don't
You must take the words of the gray-robed magician seriously. He said that Mechid III of the Kingdom of Hicks offered a bounty of 100,000 gold shields for your head. He was probably lying to you. If you use this excuse to accuse the Kingdom of Hicks
If you do, you will even be laughed at, no one would think that the Gray Tower Master would be greedy for money to assassinate the target..."
Claude could only shake his head slightly. General Bolognik's greatest strength is his stability, and his defense is indeed rock solid. But his biggest weakness in offense is also his stability, because if he cannot grasp the opportunity for the fighter plane to appear, he will be hesitant.
It is easy to lose the initiative on the battlefield...
"We must take this as true." Claude said categorically: "I just thought about it, and I can't imagine who would send out so many magicians to kill several generals in our theater, except for Xi
Outside of Melchid III of the Kingdom of Kos.
It is very simple. The biggest beneficiary of this assassination incident is no one other than the Kingdom of Hicks. If someone came to assassinate General Alges because of personal grudges, then maybe I will believe that it is the Kingdom and those
The hostile forces of the old noble families did not want General Alges to be promoted to the marshal of the kingdom and planned this assassination, but I believe they could not find so many magicians to be killers and assassins.
But I can't figure out why they came to assassinate me. Although I am a lieutenant general in the kingdom, there are more than a hundred generals like me in the kingdom. And I am not the commander of the standing or ace corps, which is far away in Nubisia.
The mainland's overseas territories are not close to the center of power in the kingdom. Even the commanders of those local second-line legions have more connections and more weight than I do in the kingdom.
Taking into account the qualifications of the Gray Tower mage to assassinate me, I am far from meeting their assassination standards. Even if I offend a powerful person in private, it is impossible for them to send seven magicians to assassinate me. So.
After thinking about it, I still think what the gray-robed magician said should be true, because I annihilated the three main legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, so that Melchid III would be willing to pay a bounty of 100,000 gold shields.
my head.
In addition, the target of the assassination this time was not only me, but also General Arges, General Severit and others. The purpose of assassinating us is very clear. The Kingdom of Hicks wants to delay time and keep the peace.
Bato Port. The goal of General Arges when he came to the war zone was to capture Vibato Port. I believe that the Hicks Kingdom had already obtained this information.
Now that General Alges has been assassinated and died, this expedition is over. We can only wait for the final decision to deal with the assassination from the royal capital. After the news is passed between the two continents, the royal capital sends personnel to deal with it.
, it would take more than half a year at the very least, but the Kingdom of Hicks was able to save Port Vibato, an excellent seaport city on the Nubisian continent, because of this assassination incident, and there was no need to worry about us sending troops to attack.
With this half-year delay, perhaps Melchid has quelled the local rebellions within the Kingdom of Hicks three times, reorganized the legion and recruited troops to transport to Vibato Port to continue this colonial war. But our kingdom lost this
This is a good opportunity to capture Vibato Port. If the situation in the kingdom changes in the future, then if our theater cannot withstand the Hicks Kingdom colonial attack and loses territory, we will all be the main culprits for the failure of this colonial war."
General Skerry nodded: "Claude is right. We cannot let the timing of this assassination affect our strategy of capturing Vibato Port. It is the kingdom's need to end this colonial war as soon as possible and cannot delay it any longer. In addition, we can
To use this reason to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Guards Division, let's say that the Kingdom of Hicks has offered bounties for the lives of several generals in the war zone. If Claude is worth 100,000 gold kops, then General Alges is worth 300,000 gold kops.
Shield. The purpose of their assassination with a bounty is to delay our attack on Vibato Port.
Another point is that the main purpose of the Guards Division's visit to the overseas territorial theater was to gain military exploits in capturing Vibato Port. Although General Alges was assassinated and died, many of the senior officers who followed him were also
Children of old aristocratic families, I believe that our slogan of avenging General Alges and capturing Vibato Port will definitely get their approval and cooperation. At this time, they will obey your command. Because they know very well that if you don’t lead them
If they go, their trip this time will really be in vain..."