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Chapter 177 The Prelude to the War

If the inference is correct, Gray came first, and the people who came later caught up with him, and then they had a fight in this broken house. Gray was defeated and escaped, but was killed on the way. After the killing,

He cleared the traces and fled in a hurry.

The person who killed Gray is the key.

"Look, dig three feet into the ground, and find this person for me." Ulysses gave the order to die.

The men under his command were ordered to patrol in and around the broken house, and finally found traces of a blood-stained man five hundred meters away from the broken house.

The man fell to the ground, lying on his stomach, motionless, as if he was dead.

Ulysses was about to step forward, but was stopped by Nancy: "Stay here while I step forward to take a look."

Without waiting for Ulysses to answer, Nancy jumped out and landed on the dirt without making a sound.

She silently approached the "corpse" that fell on the ground, stopped one step away, poked it with her long sword, twitched the corner of her mouth, and roughly understood something, she chanted a spell and summoned

A big fireball hit the "corpse".

This time, those who are not dead must die.

Sure enough, the "corpse" on the ground rolled on the spot, dodged this magic move, suddenly shot up from the ground, and threw countless hidden weapons with his hands.

Sure enough, Nancy did not use magic and only used a sword to block all the hidden weapons fired at her.

The first time she saw the corpse, she thought that many creatures would pretend to be dead when they were in danger to confuse the enemy, and then launch a desperate counterattack when the enemy relaxed their vigilance.

But this situation can be distinguished. There are obvious differences between the bodies of the dead and the living. The body of the dead is much stiffer, so she poked the person's body with the scabbard to tell whether the person was dead or alive.

Live.

When the man bounced off the ground, she knew why he chose this method instead of escaping directly.

"It turns out he is a cripple." Nancy glanced at the man's crippled arm and chuckled, her disdain clearly evident.

"I want to live." Ulysses said calmly.

"knew."

Faced with such an opponent, Nancy naturally had no problem, and easily tied this man up with magic and threw him at the feet of Ulysses.

"Good job." Ulysses praised with a smile, and calmly dispersed the magic that he had been holding in his heart but had not released.

Nancy smiled: "Let's go back."

Naturally, the matter of interrogation was left to Ulysses. Not long after, he walked into Fred's study with a complicated look on his face.

"What's the question?" Fred asked first.

Ulysses replied: "Ask something interesting."

"This man turned out to be from Abandoned Avenue. His best skill is throwing darts. This time he was sent to kill the traitor. The traitor is Gray. Gray wanted to come to report to us, but he didn't have time to enter the city yesterday. He was at the broken house.

When they were about to get close, he was overtaken by this man. The two struggled for a while. Gray knew magic and blew up his arm. Then he rode a horse and tried to enter the city, but was fatally struck by this man with a flying knife."

It is really rare for a former nobleman who has been stripped of his noble title to have such a heart.

Fred was silent for a while, and then said: "Bury the person in the mother's family cemetery."

After being stripped of his noble title, Gray was naturally not eligible to enter the family cemetery of the Queen's family. Fred recognized Gray's status as a descendant of the "Duke of Bucks".

The reason why he dared to overstep his authority was because no one would have an opinion on this point. After all, people are dead, and no matter how much honor they receive after death, they have nothing to do with living people.

It was a complete coincidence that Gray and Crow came together. Since the south side has already arranged Crow as an internal agent, there is no need to use Gray to make extra efforts.

"The rebellion in the south will only start in the next few days," Ulysses told the biggest piece of information he asked this time. "It is estimated that it will not last until the end of the month."

finally coming……

Fred nodded: "I understand, I will discuss countermeasures with my father, queen and mother."

On that day, the royal family spread the word to the nobles, asking them to be mentally prepared that the war would start at any time.

Sure enough, fifteen days later, the south raised a banner, saying that the royal family was forcing the nobles to survive and the nobles would resist.

The leader, at least the leader on the surface, is Mary.

Mary shouted to the nobles across the country: "If you don't resist, my family will be your tomorrow today."

She did not forget to choke up and play some emotional cards: "What did my family do wrong? We just did what all nobles should do, why should we be exterminated? Are these things the royal family has done worse than

Are we still young?”

These words reached the royal capital, and a person as cold and indifferent as Safi was so angry that she smashed her glass: "Shameless!"

Why are you playing the emotional card? It's clearly a threat. Do you think that all the nobles in the country have the same moral character as their family?

"Don't be angry," Fred comforted her, "She's just a puppet. There's nothing wrong with being angry with her."

But Mary's skills were not useless. Many nobles planned to sit on the sidelines and did not want to get involved in the war. Of course, they might just want to watch the fight from afar.

Fred can't control these people for the time being. No matter how you put it, these people all have fiefdoms and real power, and some even have their own troops. There is no point in arguing with them at this time.

The number of nobles currently available to the royal family is less than one-third of the existing nobles, and the rest are unwilling and useless.

In this case, don't blame the royal family for not leaving a way for these nobles to survive.

The royal family issued a decree: In this war, rewards will be given according to contribution. Regardless of nobles or civilians, those with outstanding achievements can be made earls.

As soon as this decree came out, the whole country fell into madness.

The common people have been suppressed by the nobles for too long. They thought that they could only live their lives looking up to the nobles. Who knows that one day, the royal family told them that they can also become nobles. Suddenly, like dark clouds, the world became brighter.

Compared with the craziness of the civilians, the nobles are much calmer. They know very well that even if the civilians take the initiative to participate in this war, they will not be able to get ahead. In the end, the greatest contribution belongs to the noble circle, but those who receive these contributions are not

It will be the heir of the family, but the branch. After all, even the branch has been practicing magic since childhood. The power of magic is not much greater than that of bare hands.

In the view of the nobles, the reason why the royal family promulgated this decree was directed at the nobles' subordinates.

For example, Azarez next to Felissa, his identity is Felissa's deacon, that is, the "near minister". The status of the close minister is very embarrassing. They are nobler than the common people, but they are neither commoners nor aristocrats. They can do magic.

It is mainly to assist the master, but this decree gives the close ministers an opportunity to break away from the master, and many close ministers will definitely be moved.

But the nobles were confident that they could control their own ministers, so they didn't care.

(End of chapter)