Cthulhu Gonfalon

"What?!" Inside a hidden basement, a gloomy young man jumped up and his eyes rolled round, exclaiming, "You say it again!"

Standing in front of him was a middle-aged man in a gray tunic with a face that was almost as gloomy as he was. He had no expression on his face and replied in a tone without any ups and downs: "The Earl of Good Horse declares that the assassin from the kill He found something from the capital, and he thought that the assassin was sent by a Marquis and asked the Marquis to explain it."

The young man was dumbfounded. After a while, he asked with some doubts: "Do you have something with the characteristics of the federal capital of the gold coin?"

"Of course not, anything in us is completely invisible."

"That... why did he say that?"

"I do not know."

The young man thinks of it, his own subordinates are playing, it is very reliable, but if he needs his brain... then it will not work.

Maybe he is actually smart, but as an assassin, he is very rigorous in obeying his duty, doing things only, not thinking.

The assassin is a sword, and the sword should not have its own thoughts.

This is naturally excellent at ordinary times, but when the person holding the sword is stunned by himself, things are a little bad.

The young man is the leader of the killer organization. Not long ago, he took over the organization from the sudden death of his father who died suddenly. He is strictly a rookie, which can be seen from the task of actually taking this kind of mental injury. But the rookie is a rookie, he still knows how to be awkward - his task is to try to provoke the federal civil war of gold coins, but not to stir up the aristocratic civil war!

In fact, he was still quite clever. After taking the task, he did not rush to act. Instead, he took the elite troops and lurked to the territory of the Earl of the "Good Horse" on the border, waiting patiently for the opportunity. The assassination was only carried out until the patrol on the border was attacked.

According to his estimation, those who attacked the patrols on the border should have the same purpose as themselves, but they were much weaker than themselves, so they chose the means of attacking the patrols. That may really make the atmosphere of both sides tense, but if you want to kill a few big men, let the merchants and the aristocrats fight, but it is impossible!

What are the deaths of several soldiers?

Not to mention the aristocratic faction, tens of thousands of soldiers, even if it is the leader of an assassin organization in this district, it will not put three or five lives on the mind.

I want to provoke both sides to fight, and conservatively estimate that I will kill hundreds of soldiers.

The risk of doing so is no longer a problem. The bigger problem is that after killing so many people, the most likely reaction between the two sides is not to fight like a cocked cock, but to find a powerful adventurer to trace it.

Young people have also been adventurers. He knows a lot about the group and knows that there are some people who have unique skills and are afraid to look down.

So he chose to risk his attack on an earl, in order to let the count be provoked by fear and retaliate in desperation.

Regrettably, it seems that his plan failed and lost three excellent assassins.

After a long silence, the young man sighed and said, "Continue to lurk."

"Follow."

"And... contact the 'black intermediary' and tell them that I want to recruit a few Necromancers."

"Follow."

"Go and do it, be careful."

"Follow."

When the middle-aged man left, the young assassin leader rolled his brow and returned to his bed under the ventilating window, sitting on the bed and meditating.

He has to carefully scrutinize the new plan, this time must be successful!

A few days later, another group of people were also injured by the assassination of the Earl, and he announced that the assassin might come from the capital and belong to the central aristocratic forces.

The middle-aged man who was silent and murder that night was a bit stunned. He frowned and tried to think about what was going on.

Could it be... is it a coincidence?

He shook his head and felt that things should not be so clever.

The killer business is a very rigorous industry. The idea of ​​"coincidence" and "coincident" will never appear in the mind of a sophisticated killer.

In his view, those who assassinate the count are likely to take advantage of the opportunities they have inadvertently created for them.

But... why would they take advantage of this opportunity? What do they want to do?

The old killer who has been living in the sword for many years has quietly calculated that he initially thought that the other party might have similar ideas with himself, in order to provoke a war between the merchants and the aristocrats, but they changed their minds but felt that something was wrong. - If that's the case, why does the other party leave something with a central aristocratic character?

He did not consider the possibility of the count's fraud, and he could not think of this aspect at all, so his thinking quickly fell into a misunderstanding and began to sneak.

After a long time, he finally made up his mind to go back and contact the employer.

At this time, the soldiers who have assassinated the border will probably not play any role. If he can, he feels that he may change his target and attack the people on the side of the merchant.

For example, attacking a caravan or something... should work.

Even if it doesn't work, at least it can plunder some supplies and boost morale.

His subordinates were transferred from pirates. Although they are usually obedient, it is always difficult to change the nature of pirates. If they can't get enough benefits, morale will soon drop. If the people are distracted, the team will not be able to bring it, let alone complete the task.

Moreover, he also wants to get some benefits.

In the middle of the gold aristocratic aristocracy and merchants, no matter where you are provoked, you can go to the other side of the sphere of influence to escape, there is no better condition in the world. If you don't take advantage of this opportunity, he feels a loss!

When he told the subordinates not to cause trouble, he set off to contact the middleman and asked the middleman to send his suggestion or request to the employer.

At this time, contrary to the conspirators who are not doing well, the situation of the joint exploration team is very smooth.

There are indeed silver mines here, and the reserves are not low. They only found the first few days to find a few pieces of silver ore, and the quality is still good.

After returning to the camp discussion, Hopps estimated the possible location of the veins against the map, and then concentrated the people, as if they were netting the fish, all of them were sent to the area.

Of course, they also include themselves.

In the days that followed, good news continued. First, someone discovered a rock containing a lot of silver mines. Although these rocks were dug down and did not dig up the subsequent veins, they at least greatly boosted everyone's confidence. Then Hops himself found a small silver mine in a natural cave. Although the reserves were not high, it was accompanied by a lot of Mithril.

The first news was over. The second news really made everyone's morale so great. Even the head of the federal government of the gold coin was alarmed. Despite the rugged terrain, risking the cave to the cave and studying the silver mine carefully.

Silver mine is no big deal, but Mithril is a good thing! A piece of soft armor woven with Mithril brushed silk, worth at least 3,000 gold coins.

Of course, this thing is really worth the money. This soft armor, which looks like a regular long shirt, can't resist heavy weapons. It doesn't have much use for the hammer axe, but if you wear it, you will be a dagger. Short knives and even flow vectors can't hurt you.

Especially for the big guys, wearing it in clothes can effectively reduce the risk of being assassinated. Therefore, it is also an essential bodyguard for those who are worried about being assassinated. It is always in short supply.

After scrutinizing the silver mine, the senior miner from the Gold Coin Federation came to the conclusion that everyone was very excited.

The secret silver here is worth at least 20,000 gold coins!