Lord of War

The arrival of executive officer Kristina was indeed a little bit out of Sean's expectation, but since everyone said that she was in charge of arbitration regarding the ownership of the territory this time, Sean of course couldn't say anything. Therefore, he had no choice but to arrange a room for her in the lord's mansion, which happened to be next door to Beth. Anyway, as long as Beth was around, Sean believed that Christina would not be able to make any trouble.

As for Christina's combat effectiveness, Sean never doubted it.

A white-robed executive from the Peace Association, his combat power can definitely be regarded as the kind of existence at the top of his class. Moreover, after nearly a month of training, Sean has clearly realized the gap between himself and the upper-ranked gold powerhouse. At least he alone will never be Christina's opponent, even if there is Gulu at most. It was barely a tie, and if Cephaneo was counted, they could have won, but if Christina was determined to escape, they really had no way to stop her.

Because according to the description of the South Gate City Defense Army that night, Christina arrived through the air.

This technique of stepping into the air is the exclusive skill of arcane fighters, and it is a special ability formed by the dual combination of arcane art and grudge. This ability allows arcane fighters to move freely in any terrain without any interference. Although there will be a height limit when lifting into the air, as a profession below the sanctuary, only arcane fighters can do it. The advantage of being able to launch into the air is still very large.

No matter how you look at it, the appearance of Christina did bring unprecedented pressure and shock to Sean and the others.

After arranging things about Christina, Neil, William, and Sean came to the small conference room at the same time. After the three of them looked at each other, they finally sighed helplessly.

"I've never heard of an executive officer instead of an arbitrator in an arbitration involving the Peace Association." Neil said suspiciously. "That person...could it be someone from the Hastings family?"

"Improbable." William was also a little uncertain, "How could the people from the Peace Association be bribed?"

"No, no, no, I'm not talking about bribery." Neil shook his head, with an expression of why your reaction became so slow, "What I'm talking about is, could this person be a fake? That is to say, he Not from the Peace Society..."

"I think it's you who has a problem with IQ." William was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it carefully. It’s the same as whitening Neil with a look of disgust, but when facing Neil with this charming appearance, he feels a bit like a cow playing the piano, “If it’s a fake, then how could she know what was there two and a half years ago? collar……"

William glanced back at Sean.

"Tinders Territory, an Earl's Territory in the Portoroya Kingdom near the Starfall Forest."

"...Yes!" William nodded vigorously. "If she is a fake, then it is absolutely impossible for her to know what happened in Tindles Territory. From this point of view, she cannot be a fake.... Maybe as she said, she I have been chasing Sean all the time, so this time I came here on purpose after receiving the news. I think it is very likely that there may be a shortage of manpower within the Peace Association..."

But before he finished speaking, William himself shut up.

Although the Peace Association is a very extreme lunatic organization. Moreover, the Peace Association has never set up any army since it was attacked by all the countries of the entire continent. However, there are not a few executive officers who charge on the front lines of wars in various places and have a very high death rate.

What's more, the arbitrator who never needs to be involved in the content of the battle is only responsible for arbitrating disputes across the continent.

"This executive officer is indeed not a fake." Sean thought about it carefully. Then he said, "The standard robes of the Peace Association have special markings. I have carefully observed them before, and those markings are real. So her identity can also be confirmed. ... But this is for us In fact, there is no difference, anyway, the territory contract document is in our hands. Whether it is the executive officer or the arbitrator, the result will not change."

"That's true." William and Neil nodded.

"Speaking of which, the man named Stephen has been caught for a month, right? Did you find out something?" Thinking of this, Sean suddenly asked.

Hearing Sean's words, Neil also turned his attention to William. He himself was very busy recently, so he didn't ask about the interrogation of the prisoners. Reminder, he is also a little curious.

However, unlike what Sean and Neil had imagined, when William heard this, his face changed slightly, appearing extremely unnatural.

"What happened?" Sean frowned slightly.

"I have something in his hands."

Sean keenly noticed that William's hands that were originally on the table were suddenly clenched, and then stretched under the table. His complexion became very ugly at this moment, it seemed that because of recalling something, the blood on his face gradually faded and became extremely pale, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

"It doesn't matter what the reason is, you are mine now." Sean took a deep breath, and then said, "Those things in the past can no longer threaten you."

Hearing Sean's words, William raised his head and glanced at Sean, with a touch of emotion in his eyes, but he quickly hid it in his heart again.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became a little silent and awkward.

"What's the matter?" Neil couldn't hold back anymore.

"Do you know about the coup in the Millennium Covenant Empire about ten years ago?"

What happened to the coup d'état ten years ago?

Sean froze for a moment, he really didn't know this.

"Is it the reshuffle of the old and new aristocratic circles triggered by the Battle of Pochlia?" Neil seemed to understand this, and after thinking for a while, he said, "If I remember correctly, the current millennium The emperor of the Covenant Empire was a supporter of the new nobles. It was the coup that allowed him to sit firmly on the throne... There are rumors that after that coup, he killed a total of ten people including his own father. A member of the royal family."

"What happened to the Battle of Pochlia?" Sean was a little at a loss.

"It was a battle where the empire marched into the frontiers in order to open up its territory." Neil explained, "The leader of the army is the Marquis of Houghton, a new nobleman. In terms of family strength, it should be considered a But although the commander in chief is the Marquis of Holden, in fact, it was the White Rose Legion at that time who was actually in charge of the battle. This legion..."

Having said that, Neil suddenly stopped, and looked at William in surprise.

Sean was a little confused.

However, William has already opened his mouth to answer: "In addition to the imperial legion, there are eleven nobles' private soldiers participating in the formation of that army, with half of the old and new nobles participating. Although the Marquis of Horton is a new noble, but because of his He became the commander-in-chief of the army because of his highest title, but Marquis Horton himself is not particularly good at fighting. Therefore, the empire specially arranged for the White Rose Army to be the main combat army, and I was the deputy head of this army at the time."

"One month before the start of this war, it can be said that the Imperial Army won a complete victory. However, in a canyon later, because of the elation of the Marquis of Horton, the army was brought into a canyon and encountered the enemy's front and back attacks. It can be said that the loss was heavy." William took a deep breath and continued to say in a deep voice, "The legion I belonged to at the time was not even called a third-rate army in the empire. And at this time, I was ordered by the Marquis of Horton to lead the remnants of the White Rose Army."

"Isn't this an abandoned child?" Sean was furious.

"You are so naive. This is normal in warfare." Neil glanced at Sean. He said softly, "If you continue to flee like this, the entire army will only be wiped out, so you must abandon some people. Let more people survive, maybe you can turn defeat into victory."

"Yes, I stayed because of this consideration." William nodded. The voice returned to calm, "Although the process was a bit cruel. But the result is undoubtedly lucky. In the end, hundreds of people survived, including me. At that time, because I had the highest military position, I became one of the hundreds of people. Captain. After a month-long detour and absconding, we successfully returned to the border of the empire.... However, what awaits us is not glory, but a... massacre."

"Why?" Sean froze.

In fact, including Neil also has a look of disbelief.

"Because this so-called border war was actually a conspiracy from the beginning to the end." William sneered, his voice somewhat indescribably lonely, "At that time, there were four candidates within the empire who were expected to become the new emperor. , but the current emperor had the lowest approval rating at that time, because no veteran nobleman was optimistic about him, after all, the prince's strength at that time was not as good as his elder brother and sister."

Hearing this, Sean basically understood: "So, in order to become the new king of the Millennium Covenant Empire, that prince hooked up with those emerging nobles who were not taken seriously, and then designed a campaign against the old nobles. Conspiracy, and use it as a trigger to trigger the confrontation between the old and new nobles within the empire..."

"It's not confrontation, it's civil strife!" William corrected Sean's words, "This is a war that has swept across the northwest of the empire. A total of ten veteran nobles with more than two hundred years of heritage have all died in this war.  … Under such circumstances, it is impossible for neighboring countries not to know these things, so in order to deal with the imminent Emeria Empire, the Northwest Front Army had no time to suppress it. They had to mobilize legions from other parts of the empire, but no one could Unexpectedly, almost as soon as the transfer order was issued, a coup took place in the capital. A total of more than eleven members of the royal family were killed in this coup, including the previous king of the Millennium Covenant Empire, who is now the new king. King's father."

"It was only at this time that the nobles of the entire empire realized that this was a premeditated coup."

"If it's a coup, then it's impossible for other nobles to swear allegiance?" Sean was a little shocked.

"It was true at the beginning, but the first thing after the coup was that the rising nobles in the Northwest War Zone immediately expressed their allegiance to the new king, and at the same time, together with the Northwest Front Army, they became the first batch of troops under the new king's command." Neil said, Obviously, Neil has also studied the civil strife in the Millennium Covenant Empire, "After that, within a day, all the nobles living in the king's capital swore allegiance to the new king, although the specific circumstances are unknown. But probably Threats, assassinations, lures and other means are inseparable... Afterwards, the nobles who insisted on not submitting were only eleven veteran nobles in the southern aristocratic circle, including the two dukes. The new king naturally has enough military strength to quell the war in the south."

"What a capable and courageous emperor of the empire." Sean was amazed, but he seemed to realize that something was wrong with the current situation, so Sean changed the subject a little bluntly, "Then what's the matter with you? Aren't you Have you left the Millennium Covenant Empire? How can you still have a handle?"

"When I returned to the border of the empire, the war in the northwest aristocratic circle had already broken out, and what awaited us was a massacre." William said in a deep voice. "But we didn't know it at the time. We didn't know we had fallen into the trap until we were surrounded. Although we fought hard, there were only less than five people who escaped from the encirclement in the end.... Just when we thought everything was coming to an end At that time, I met a classmate of mine when I was studying at Wangdu Military Academy. She is the daughter of a rising nobleman, and she seems to be the commander of one of the defensive points in the encirclement."

"Oh!" Sean and Neil suddenly elongated their voices in a very tacit understanding.

"It seems that I probably understand what's going on." Sean nodded.

"I understand too." Neil also nodded, "No wonder it's a clue....So, this girl is still alive?"

"Yes, still alive." William nodded, "She was the one who let us go. In the end, only four people managed to escape, including me....It's just that the other three were civilians. So they were the first to escape after they escaped. There is no incident to leave the empire, but I can't, I have to go back to my family."

"and after?"

"It was only later that I found out that my family had already chosen to join the new king in order to protect itself." William smiled wryly, "So, I was an abandoned child and a victim from the very beginning....But because I Came back alive. So some things started to become strange, the Imperial Intelligence Department did not know why they found out that I was still alive. And what is even more strange is that they actually want to make me an earl, or a field earl.... But I don’t think I can I endured these things, so I chose to leave the empire, but I didn’t expect that I would be monitored by the intelligence department of the empire, so I had no choice but to go back to my classmate and escape from the empire under her cover.”

"So now your classmate was captured by the empire?"

"Yes." William nodded, "Although I don't know much about what happened next, but according to Diels, Leis was arrested five years ago, but if it was because of helping me escape from the empire, then it should be That was ten years ago."

"Did the man named Dills say nothing?" Sean asked.

"After he told me these things that day, I didn't see him again, and I handed over the interrogation to Ruby." William said with some frustration.

"What does he want you to do?"

"Tell him who the awakener of the Phoenix bloodline is, and at the same time, tell him the list of all the people who have left the Canyon Rift half a year ago, and let him go." William sighed, "How could I put Cecily away?" How about telling him about the Canyon? As for the Gap Rift, I know he must be looking for the secret research institute. If I tell him all this, it will mean that Sean and Cecily Is Yadu sold out?"

"It's okay to tell him." Sean suddenly smiled.

"What do you mean?" William and Neil were taken aback.

"It doesn't matter if you tell him about Cecilia and me." Sean said calmly, "Anyway, we never thought about keeping him alive from the very beginning, so isn't it okay to tell him about these things?... As long as He has been imprisoned here with us, so it is impossible for him to leak information."

"But..." William froze for a moment.

Hearing Xiao En's words, Neil thought for a while, and immediately understood. He turned his head to look at William, and said in a deep voice, "Are you a little nervous? If you really let him go, but he won't let you go?" If Ice said, then wouldn't we have lost a lot?... We must let him go after he let Reis go. But if we let him go, then the Millennium Covenant Empire will definitely know that we have Beth. No. 1 person, so it is absolutely impossible for us to let him go."

From the very beginning, from the moment Dills was caught, Sean, Neil, and William had reached a consensus that Dills must not be let go.

Otherwise, the Millennium Covenant Empire will know the situation here in the Void City, and then there may be stronger enemies in the plan against Xiao En in the future, which is something that Xiao En and others cannot bear. Therefore, when Dills was caught, his fate was already doomed, and his secret death would only belong to him, and no one else would know his whereabouts.

As for William, he just forgot some things because he lost his composure when he heard the news about Leis.

"However, if he gave the order..." William thought about it seriously, "does this mean that the Millennium Covenant Empire may follow this clue to me and find out that Diels is Where are we missing?"

"It's just an intelligence officer, or a spy. Could it be that the Millennium Covenant Empire will come to us to investigate with great fanfare?" Sean curled his lips.

"No." Neil suddenly understood William's concerns, "It's because we won't make a big fuss that we will appear to be more troublesome. We can't arrest them all, can we? And the strength of this Diers, but even Bess is injured, if it is really found that he is missing from our place, then it is meaningless to execute him secretly."

"Then what about Reiss?"

The conference room fell into silence again.

...

At the same time, in Fortress Tonis, a mysterious man wearing a hood and cloak who could not see his true face was pushing open the back door of a tavern, then went upstairs with ease, and knocked on a door. Door.

"Come in." There was a dry cough in the room.

The next moment, the door was pushed open, and the mysterious person who walked into the room raised his hood and knelt down on one knee respectfully: "My lord."

"Is there still no news about Diers?" The person in the room called "Master" is a handsome middle-aged man. It exudes an unparalleled majesty, and even if he is sitting in this simple room, his sitting posture is still impeccable.

This middle-aged man is the head of the Holy Dragon Knights of the Millennium Covenant Empire, Dragon Knight Turman.

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