Blue Sword

"Sure enough, someone wants to assassinate me!"

Emperor Otto banged his desk angrily and roared with rage.

Just half an hour ago, a soldier came over and reported that he had found a way to deal with the minefield. The emperor was greatly surprised when he heard this and asked the Blade Warrior to invite him in.

As a result, as soon as the soldier entered the door, he suddenly took out a nail and stabbed the emperor. Fortunately, the nail only scratched the emperor's outer robe and was blocked by the dragon scale skin inside.

Emperor Otto is already a Level 10 transcendent after all.

The soldiers who attempted to assassinate the emperor were subdued by the frightened Blade Warrior. After interrogation, it was revealed that this guy actually stuffed tiny nails into his nostrils in order to assassinate the emperor, thus evading the body search and inspection of the Blade Warriors.

"The motive for the assassination was because the soldier's brother was greedy for the bounty and was killed in a minefield." The Blade Warrior reported to the emperor and the dukes.

"I don't believe it!" The emperor pressed his left hand on the stabbed left chest and his right hand on his temple, as if he was trying to suppress his anger. "There is poison on this nail! How could he, an ordinary soldier, get the poison?" nails!"

"According to his confession, the nails were secretly hidden when he was repairing the camp outside the town. The poison was pesticide bought from the residents of the town..."

"Trash! A bunch of trash!" The furious emperor smashed the things on the table angrily, "Check it out for me! Find out the mastermind who instigated him! By the way, go ask Mr. Dragon of Utopia to turn over this assassin's brain. come out!"

The Blade Warrior retreated, dripping with sweat. The Dukes present looked at each other in confusion. The eldest son of the Duke of Bohemia was the first to express concern:

"Your Majesty, are you okay?"

The emperor panted and waved his hand, and the attendant next to him immediately said:

"Your Majesty is in good health, please rest assured. However, how to eliminate the rebel forces in the army as soon as possible and how to deal with the current war predicament are what we need to focus on next."

This royal attendant is a young nobleman from the Saxon family. He is also the nephew of His Majesty the Emperor and is highly trusted by His Majesty the Emperor.

Now that the attendant said this, everyone began to discuss countermeasures.

How to eliminate rebel forces in the army? Close scrutiny, gone.

After all, judging from the clues on the surface, this is just an extreme assassination move by a soldier who lost his brother. There is no need to take it too seriously... Of course, this cannot be said to His Majesty the Emperor who is in the heat of the moment, so everyone can only guarantee that Will go back for "strict review".

As for how to break through the minefield, from an efficiency point of view, of course it is fastest to cooperate with Venis.

But who exactly should be sent? You must know that due to the incident of the governor being hanged, the lower levels of the Venis people are very hostile to the empire, while the upper levels have ambiguous attitudes and are trying to delay it.

Therefore, the diplomatic envoys sent this time need to possess not only flexible diplomatic skills, but also extraordinary courage and self-protection ability in order to survive the chaos in the Venetian city-state and successfully complete the mission entrusted by His Majesty.

"I have an idea." The Duke of Bavaria suddenly said, "Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the name of the mercenary group 'Blue Sword'?"

"Cang Qing Sword?" His Majesty the Emperor looked at the attendant, who shrugged slightly, indicating that he had not heard of it.

However, the demigod Acid Dragon Hedwig next to him suddenly let out a sigh: "The Fantasy Dragon mentioned to me yesterday that the leader of this mercenary group is a very interesting young man."

The attendant suddenly realized after hearing this, and reminded the emperor: "Your Majesty, it is the mercenary group that was accused by the jailer of hiding the devil last time. Later, the Duke of Bavaria and His Excellency the Dragon of Utopia jointly came forward to protect him."

"Oh." The emperor then recalled that due to the jailer's accusations, he planned to arrest the mercenary group and examine it carefully. However, due to the face of the Duke and the Dragon of Utopia, he just decided Let it go for now.

Seeing that the emperor's expression seemed depressed, the Duke of Bavaria spoke again:

"Your Majesty, during the rebellion in the empire, it was this Blue Sword mercenary group that went on behalf of our family to the Principality of Swabia. In the end, it persuaded the Falcon family to decisively surrender and cut off the Franconian reinforcements for Your Majesty. .”

The old Duke Griffin snorted coldly, and Duke Rudolf of the Wolf family looked embarrassed. However, His Majesty the Emperor was stunned for a moment, then turned to ask Duke Frederick, who was hiding behind the crowd:

"Frederick, is this really true?"

Frederick, who was shrinking back, secretly complained. Because of his sudden control over the Principality of Swabia, and considering that his family's political reputation was still a little weak, he had been keeping a low profile recently and trying to avoid conflicts with other big families.

Unexpectedly, the Duke of Bavaria actually carried him out directly.

In the eyes of the emperor and other dukes, Frederick could only show a well-placed wry smile and said:

"Yes, in fact, our Sauron family has long been willing to respect the emperor and suppress the rebellion. It's just that we had a hostile conflict with the Earl of Württemberg and were unable to support His Majesty for a long time."

"Later, it was the Cangqing Sword mercenary group that took action and attacked three places in a row, and also attacked and captured the city of Stuttgart. Only then were we able to successfully regain the entire territory of the Principality of Swabia, and then go north to support your Majesty's army. of."

A single force attacked three places in a row and captured the city of Stuttgart? The expressions of the Dukes present became solemn.

Three places in a row, it’s hard to say which three places it is, but Stuttgart is a big city! It is said that the Count of Württemberg stationed tens of thousands of troops in the city, but the Sauron family killed them overnight.

This incident was very sensational when it first broke out. Later, all major families tended to believe that the Sauron family had arranged internal support in Stuttgart. With internal support and external cooperation, they quickly defeated the Earl of Württemberg.

And now from what Duke Frederick means, it seems that this record was achieved by the Blue Sword Mercenary Group alone? Without any help from other forces?

This... even if the Iron Cross, the largest mercenary group in the empire, does not deploy tens of thousands of troops, it may not be able to do it.

Seeing the different expressions of the dukes, the emperor became interested:

"Oh, how did they do it? Is there a demigod on the team?"

"That's not true." Frederick said bravely, "But all the members of their team are extraordinary people, and one member is directly related to the Licinius family."

The Licinius family? The emperor was naturally familiar with the name of this wealthy Italian family, so he frowned slightly again.

The Duke of Bavaria knew that the emperor was suspicious again, so he quickly made amends and said:

"Not only that, my daughter also serves in this mercenary group, and she helped defend the city of Innsbruck during the imperial rebellion. Without them, Bavaria would not have been able to hold on for so long."

Of course the emperor could hear the protective meaning in the Duke of Bavaria's tone, and he frowned and remained silent. If even the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria is among them, then having direct members of the Licinius family does not necessarily mean that this mercenary group is politically inclined to the Holy See.

What's more, assisting in the defense of Bavaria and the recovery of Swabia, his contribution to the emperor's camp is indeed beyond doubt.

"I will consider this matter." Finally, the emperor waved his hand, indicating that the Dukes could leave.

After all the dukes left, the emperor, who had no comment on the matter, waved his hand to the royal attendants and said:

"Go and investigate this Cang Qing Sword mercenary group."

Thanks to jhwillie for the 100 coins, and thanks to Beikui Youkui for the 2,000 coins~