Lord of War

The news that the Void Empire declared war on the Ryan Kingdom could not be completely concealed after all.

Especially with Grain's seclusion behind the scenes, the entire Kingdom of Ryan suddenly fell into a precarious situation.

The northern nobles refused to obey the dispatch orders of the royal capital on the grounds that Grein was not the king; Roald G. Evans, the Duke of the border with the reputation of "Lyan Shield", also refused to support the central government on the grounds that the army of undead was overwhelming; Devin Soder Saber of the "Sword of Ryan" also refused the order to send troops to the support of Fort Tonis on the grounds that Grain was not the king; Strong, it is very rare that there is no civil strife in the Kingdom of Ryan at this moment.

Basically, Grein has completely lost control of the entire Ryan Kingdom: his influence and orders can only radiate to the entire royal capital and surrounding areas. After leaving the royal capital area, even the territory directly under the royal family has disappeared. Completely disobedient to Gray's arrangement. Especially after the four support armies that Grein sent to support the Fortress of Tonis were completely annihilated by Kozilek and Alexis on their own, none of the armies were willing to leave the station.

Almost everyone believes that Gray's death is only a matter of time.

However, only a few people know that as long as Grain still holds the life-saving trump card of Asuna, he will not die for a day.

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In a dim hut, a young woman is being hung up.

Two spiked iron hoops were wrapped around her wrists, and the sharp spikes pierced through her wrists. The blood flowed out from the blood holes, dried up, scabbed, and finally condensed into thick blood-stained lumps. The iron ring is pulled by two thick iron chains. The other ends of the iron chains are tied to the left and right corners of the house, and then pulled to the two steam gear machines. It is obvious that the weight of these two iron chains is absolutely not Light, without the operation of the steam gear the machine simply cannot be steered.

And on the woman's feet, there are two iron balls that are as big as watermelons and have a layer of purple luster on the surface. They are smelted with special technology and have a net weight of 1,000 kilograms. A special auxiliary tool to imprison the strong in the sanctuary.

The young woman was suspended by iron chains, one meter above the ground, just in the middle of the whole house.

There are countless scars on her body, and these scars have basically scabbed over, but there are also some scars that are inflamed and pus, which look abnormally disgusting and hideous, not to mention the smell from all over her body, which is enough to make anyone flinch. Although she was still wearing clothes, it could only be said to be barely concealable, especially the fragments of clothes still stuck to the many scars.

Beyond the iron fence of the hut,

A young man with a gloomy expression was staring at the woman inside the fence.

There were four people standing beside the man, three middle-aged men and a young man who was not very old.

One of the middle-aged men was wearing a set of black armor, exuding a strong and strong aura from top to bottom. This aura was almost attached to his body, fully demonstrating the middle-aged man's aura. Extraordinary strength In fact, he is indeed the strongest among all the people present: this is a genuine legendary powerhouse.

The other two middle-aged men standing next to this legendary strong man are not very strong, they are only at the golden level. It's just that the middle-aged man who is relatively younger has a unique aura that is about to move around, and he is obviously a person who has already half-stepped into the realm of the sanctuary.

As for the thin young man, his strength is completely worthless. Moreover, he is also the one who has the least status among all the people present, which can be seen from the fact that he is standing on the sidelines and has kept his head down as if waiting for orders.

The young man with a sullen expression stared at the young woman imprisoned in the iron fence for a long time, then turned his head to look at the thin young man next to him, and asked in a deep voice, "Is this woman still alive?"

"Not yet." The thin young man replied in a low voice.

"Gran, what are you going to do with her?" The legendary powerhouse frowned slightly, and then said in a deep voice, "Black Hawk and Ba have been out of contact for a long time, and I heard that the battle at Garrod Fortress has been completely put down. So I guess they should be more ill-fortune than good luck."

"I don't need you to tell me!" The young man with a gloomy expression said coldly. If you look carefully at this moment, you can clearly see that his eyes are bloodshot, "Do those guys in the void specialize in producing mad dogs? ? Sean is a mad dog, who will bite whoever he catches, even William and Hela under his command are also mad dogs, biting people everywhere! Now even that Cecilia is also a mad dog!"

When the people around saw Glenn furious, they all wisely chose to remain silent. No one wanted to touch his brow at this time.

Only the legendary strong man had a look of disdain in his eyes.

He was an outsider who wandered from the trading capital. He only got to know Black Eagle by chance at first, and later became Grein's guest through Black Eagle's recommendation. At that time, this legendary strong man was immersed in the grand plan of the prosperous world that Grein had depicted. As long as Grain could become the king of the Kingdom of Ryan, he could become the real power person under one person and above ten thousand people. For this reason, he Naturally, he also helped Glenn do a lot of dirty work.

Even without hesitating to be Gray's shadow, no one knew of his existence except for Gray and his close relatives.

In Glenn's original plan, once he became the king of the Kingdom of Ryan, Black Hawk would control the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Ryan and become his ears and eyes. And the other legendary powerhouse, Ba, is the country-defending powerhouse that Grein is going to put on the table. As for him, he will become the deepest hidden blade of Grain, who is responsible for solving those things that are not suitable for ordinary people to deal with. Of course, his identity on the surface will be a duke of the Kingdom of Ryan, and he is also in front of Grain. big hits.

It was these promises that made him stay by Grein's side.

However, what he didn't expect was that the world he knew was completely subverted overnight. Right now, Glenn is not only unable to fulfill his original promise, but even his own life may be lost if Asuna dies.

In front of him, the dying young woman imprisoned in the small black room is exactly Asuna G. Evans who is now looking for all over the world in the Void Empire.

Although she didn't die, her mental state was obviously not good, and her injuries were too serious. With the level of medical equipment and doctors in this secret stronghold, Asuna's life can barely be maintained, but with the deterioration of her injuries, I am afraid that it will not be long before she becomes a real cureless .

And it was precisely because Asuna was about to die that Grain seemed so flustered.

"Is there any way to suppress the deterioration of her injury?" After cursing for a while, Grain finally calmed down, "Don't mention anything to me about finding a priest from the Temple of Life! Besides this, is there any other way?" Method!?"

"Kidnapping a priest from the Temple of Life?"

The veins on Glenn's forehead popped up, he strode up to the thin young man, and slapped him to the ground: "Use your brain, okay? Kidnapping a temple priest? You can do this kind of thing." Can you figure it out? I mean medicine! Is there any medicine or potion that can cure her?"

"There is a kind of potion that should be able to..." the thin young man said timidly, "but... there are no ingredients here. If I want to mix it, I need to go out to get the ingredients and the formula of the potion. The main reason is that I have never blended this potion. Yes, so..."

"Damn it!" Grein cursed, "Get out of here now, I can't arrange guards for you."

"me……"

"I don't think there is any need to arrange any guards for him, anyway, few people will care about him." The legendary strong man glanced at the thin young man, and then said, "If you arrange guards, it will be easier Attract the attention of others...The current capital of Ryan King is not so peaceful, the hounds from the Void Empire have already come here."

"You're right." Glenn exhaled heavily, "Then go back quickly."

"Okay...okay..." The thin man got up and quickly left the underground stronghold.

In the corner of a manor in Emerald Castle, there was a sound of loose mechanism soon, and then a door opening appeared on the ground. Only then did anyone quickly crawl out of the door opening.

After leaving the burrow, the man turned around and turned into the green forest road of Emerald Castle, and then came to a fence. After groping for a while, he finally opened a trap door, and walked out through the trap door. Not long after, a thin young man walked out of an old alleyway in the capital of Ryan. This location was about three streets away from Emerald Castle.

Today's Ryan King's Capital is no longer as prosperous as it used to be. There are almost no people on the streets, and there are not even a few shops. Occasionally, there are a few pedestrians walking on the street, and they come and go in a hurry, and most of them go to places like rice shops or butcher shops to purchase, but there are several people standing outside the rice shops and butcher shops that seem to be A big man like a mercenary knows how chaotic the law and order in the capital of Ryan is now.

The thin man didn't care about this, he just walked quickly with his head down, and soon came to a dilapidated house.

Open the door, enter the house, close the door.

After a while of footsteps, the man came to the second floor.

At this time, it seemed that they heard a sound, and there was a sound similar to struggling in a bedroom on the second floor.

There was a flash of light in the eyes of this thin and thin man. He walked to the bedroom, turned the handle and entered the room, and then glanced at the person on the bed in the bedroom.

This is a man who looks exactly like the thin man, the only difference is that he is tied to the bed at the moment, with a rag stuffed in his mouth, preventing him from calling for help and shouting. Seeing that the door opened and a person exactly like himself walked in, the thin man on the bed showed a frightened expression on his face, he struggled vigorously, and let out a whimper of unknown meaning, as if he was begging for mercy .

The thin man standing at the door ignored the man who was tied up on the bed. He just reached out and wiped his chin, and then lifted off a thin human skin mask covering his face, revealing a Face: Judging by the face, he might not even be twenty years old. It can be said that this man, who can be called a teenager, is completely different from the thin man on the bed except that his figure is somewhat similar.

This is obviously a pretender!

As the pretender revealed his identity, the cowardly and humble aura in him quickly disappeared, replaced by a shrewd and capable one.

He rubbed his cheek, which was the place where Glenn slapped him before, and quickly took out a small box from the corner of the room, and took out a slightly worn post-it note in the box , there are many formulas written on it, which is obviously a medicine formula. Immediately afterwards, the boy didn't waste any time, and he found some other tools from several other places in the bedroom, including medicines, test tubes, and some materials recorded on sticky notes.

After finding out these things, the boy quickly packed them up and put them away, then took out a small notebook and a quill, and began to quickly sketch something on it. You will know that this boy is completely drawing out the map of his secret stronghold.

It can be said that since the young man left the secret stronghold, Glenn's hiding place is no longer a secret.

The boy only took about a few minutes to draw the map, and he had already drawn the map thoroughly. At the same time, he also wrote out the defense situation in the secret stronghold of Grein.

After doing all this, the boy put the thin mask back on, and his whole person's aura once again became that kind of humble and cowardly. He quickly picked up the package that had been sorted by the side, and then left the bedroom.

After a while, there was the sound of the door being locked.

As if sensing that the person pretending to be himself had left, the doctor who was tied to the bed began to struggle frantically.

"It's useless." A cold voice suddenly sounded in the room.

The doctor was startled, and cold sweat broke out from his body instantly.

He glanced at the source of the sound out of the corner of his eye, and saw a woman with a voluptuous figure coming out of nowhere, walking slowly to the desk, and then picked up the handbag left by the man pretending to be him. notebook.

The doctor couldn't see the specific situation clearly, he could only hear the sound of flipping the notebook, but for some reason, when the woman's voice sounded, he couldn't move anymore, completely dominated by fear.

Soon, the woman finished flipping through the notebook and muttered dissatisfiedly: "It's really troublesome.... Fortunately, I came here in person, otherwise it will take half a month to send it back. I don't have so much time to waste .”

Hearing this, the doctor felt his heart stop suddenly, and then he saw the woman turn around.

A name flashed through his mind, and the fear in his eyes became more intense.

The young woman walked slowly to the doctor's side, and then said with a smile: "Do you know why he could kill you, but didn't do it?" Ignoring the doctor, the woman continued: "That's because, He is now pretending to be you, an ordinary person without any fighting ability, so if he kills you, he will be stained with blood, which will expose his identity."

Following the woman's words, she put her right hand on her waist, and then drew out a pitch-black cutting blade.

dark.

The doctor who was tied to the bed was struggling crazily, but no matter how hard he struggled, he was still unable to break free. In the end, he could only watch Alexis wipe his throat with a sword.

A splash of blood spattered out, and in an instant, there was a bloody smell in the bedroom.

Alexis didn't retract the cutting blade, but after closing the notebook, she burst into the air and galloped towards the direction of the Emerald Castle.

At this moment, the entire king's capital rang out! (~^~)

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