When William returned to the Palermo palace, he saw Robert standing there with a gloomy face, surrounded by a group of noisy family members.
"What on earth is going on?"
"Isn't Sir Robert a demigod?"
"Even if you are a demigod, after all, you are facing your biological daughter..."
"You mean Sir Robert is soft-hearted..."
"Shut up!" Robert shouted unbearably. These guys didn't dare to point out their faults in front of him, but they wanted to point fingers in private, pretending that he couldn't hear their slander?
"Did you get the artifact back?" Seeing William coming back, Robert hurriedly greeted him.
William shook his head, and the surrounding family members immediately became even more panicked.
"How come the artifact is also missing?"
"What should we do? My son plans to take the magic potion next month... Where will the materials come from?"
Amidst the boiling noise, William impatiently shouted:
"Quiet!"
Under the despotic power of the demigod, everyone immediately shut their mouths like quails.
"Hidliba was not found?" William asked.
"They made a fake one." Robert spoke succinctly, with an ugly expression on his face, "I was fooled."
"I can locate the artifact. As long as it remains on the main plane or the attached demiplane, we will be able to find it sooner or later," William said.
"In which direction did they run?" Robert asked.
"East by south." William answered.
"It's the same direction Roger left." Robert's face was gloomy, "Maybe their destination is also Catania..."
"In other words, the so-called local guerrilla rebellion was also part of the plan to plot against us. I was not in Palermo at the time, and the only people in the family who could lead troops to suppress the rebellion were you and Roger (but after all, you are not from my family.
), so it must be Roger who takes action... They have calculated everything." William said in a deep voice, "As long as Roger's trip falls into their hands, they can use this to blackmail us."
"But the value of the family artifact is definitely not comparable to that of the heir." Robert added, "If they want to use Roger's life in exchange for our not pursuing the pursuit, that would be too stupid."
"Maybe they caught Roger to set up an ambush and lure us over..." William said suspiciously.
"Ambush two demigods?" Robert also pondered, "I once fought with one of their demigods, and the opponent's strength was not bad."
The implication is that the other party may indeed have invited demigods to join the battle. But how many people have been invited and their strength are all uncertain.
But since both the artifact and the heir are in the hands of the other party, it is naturally impossible for the two demigods William and Robert to "escape" just like this.
"Take everyone with you." William finally said.
"Yeah." Robert looked solemn and serious.
Since we are bringing everyone with us, it means that this time the Hauteville family...will have to fight each other for their lives.
Just like they did when they first came to Sicily, they directly launched all their chips on the battlefield and engaged in a thorough life-and-death struggle with their opponents.
If you win, move on; if you lose, you will die.
The Normans were never afraid of death.
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Northwest of the town of Catania, near Mount Etna.
On the bare rock, Roger was tied like a rice dumpling, looking at everyone with an expression of surprise.
Are these guys... crazy? They actually plan to lure the two demigods and the Northern Horn Army here, and then annihilate them all!
What’s even more terrifying is that the Cang Qing Sword Mercenary Group actually invited two demigods!
"It's a good plan." After listening to Asker's explanation, Derek and Shirley expressed no objection.
Next, the second phase of the tactical plan that everyone will implement is based on the original plan of Mier and Medea.
In terms of the strength of both sides, soldiers versus soldiers, generals, and two demigods restraining each other, the Cangqing Sword cannot defeat the Northern Horn Army.
After all, there are too many people on the opposite side. Quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes. A dozen clones of the Immortal Phantom Sword facing thousands of extraordinary beings are simply unbearable.
In this regard, Asker's improved tactic was to retain all the traps originally used to trap Roger and leave them for the incoming Northern Horn Army.
As long as the extraordinary army is eliminated, the two demigods here plus the Cang Qing Sword can completely surround and kill the two demigods on the opposite side.
As for how to deal with the Northern Horn... Asik looked at Sheila and Nora and asked:
"is that OK?"
"No problem!" the two girls said in unison.
Nora's expression was relatively relaxed, but Silla's face was a little too serious. Asik patted her shoulder and said with a smile:
"Relax, it doesn't matter if you really fail, in the worst case we will run away."
"That's right." Little Mia jumped out and said, pointing her thumb towards herself proudly, "I am also the one who has understood the law of black holes, okay? Then I will take everyone back to the north."
"I won't make a mistake." Sheila said stubbornly, "I have confidence in myself."
Of course, this confidence is not based on the illusory belief or rhetoric of the hot-blooded girl "I believe I can do it", but is confirmed by Mier's observation of the future: this trap with Sheila as the core has a success rate of more than 98%
Rate.
"Okay then, everyone should go to your places." Asik waved his hand, indicating that everyone should disperse and go to their designated positions.
So the team dispersed again, with the two demigods staying where they were, and Asker standing behind them, pretending that he was actually a follower of the demigods.
Mia and Peggy took the severed hand of Navia Bonetooth and walked around to the back of Mount Etna. At the same time, Hidrifa was waiting there, waiting for Ask's signal.
Eleanor, Medea and Mel, together with a large number of guerrillas armed with firearms, were lying in ambush in the woods at the foot of the backside of Mount Etna, waiting for the Northern Horn Army to pursue the Navia Bone Tooth and escape from the mountainside.
After circling to the other side, when they engaged with Hidrifa and the others, they fired from below.
Finally, there are Sheila and Nora, as the core point of this plan, staying at the top of Mount Etna.
"You seem a little nervous." Nora combed her hair back and said to Silla with a smile as the wind howled on the top of the mountain.
"Appropriate pressure can ensure mental concentration." Sheila defended herself.
"But they haven't come yet." Nora said, "We are not sure about the other party's traveling speed. Maybe they will come after a day. Do you want to put pressure on yourself all day?"
Sheila:…………
She relaxed a little and sat down on the rock next to Nora, looking at the lush shrubs and forest below.
Silla quietly looked at Nora's pure and beautiful side face with her peripheral vision, thinking that this person's face is really sweet and lovely, even if it is not much worse than mine.
If what Mi'er said is true, and Asik will indeed become my husband in the future, what will Nora do? Will she become my enemy?
She suddenly felt an inexplicable guilty conscience. She remembered that Nora could read minds, and then she remembered that she was wearing an extraordinary tool given by her grandfather to isolate her from mind reading, and she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.