Lord of War

Behind Fortress Tonis, there is a recently completed castle.

The predecessor of this castle was actually an outpost on a supply line. At the beginning, the Ryan military did not believe that Asuna's Tonis Fortress could be guarded by one man as she said. After all, if the Tonis Fortress If it is breached, then Dabion's army will enter the Yimapingchuan area. In this area, Ryan's side has no terrain to defend at all, and at least one-third of the territory will fall. An outpost will be built here in the rear, as a buffer point for Dabion's army after breaking through the Fortress of Tonis.

At the same time, this stronghold is also the last checkpoint of the most important supply route of Tonis Fortress.

However, as Dabion was annexed by Ryan, Tonis Fortress naturally lost its due value and role-at least on the surface. Therefore, this supply line was also withdrawn, but this outpost was retained, and it was included under the rule of Fortress Tonis. After several twists and turns, this outpost was also converted into the castle in front of us.

Perhaps because of the end of the war, the style of the castle is naturally not a war castle—except for the necessary battlements, perforations, and guard towers, there are almost no other defensive facilities. Even the moat has not been dug, let alone facilities such as suspension bridges, and even the number of soldiers stationed here is less than two hundred.

However, from the roof of the castle, you can see a large green field and an artificial lake in the distance. The scenery is infinitely beautiful.

Every morning and evening, at these two time points, the owner of the castle will enjoy the scenery on the top floor of the castle. Occasionally, when I am in a good mood, I will enjoy the night breeze on the open-air roof at night, or have fun with my wives and concubines.

tonight. The owner of the castle was obviously in a good mood, because even on the ground floor of the castle, the man's hearty and healthy laughter could be heard from the top of the building.

But soon, the laughter was broken by a rush of horseshoes.

The middle-aged man on the top floor frowned slightly, and quickly got up and walked to the edge of the terrace, looking down at the bottom of the castle.

Because of the bright lights, he could naturally see the situation outside the castle at this time.

Perhaps feeling the fierce aura exuded by the castle owner at this time, the laughter on the open-air platform fell silent instantly. Soon, a guard quickly stepped forward to report something to the middle-aged man, and the others saw that the middle-aged man's face quickly turned gloomy. Then he left quickly, and several guards quickly followed. At this time, these people dare not even show their air.

When the middle-aged man pushed open the door of the study room on the second floor,

There are already two people waiting in this room.

These two people were the magician and illusionist who escaped from Xiao En's hands before.

In this way. The identity of this middle-aged man is naturally ready to be revealed.

"Lord Floris." The magician quickly bowed and saluted.

Although as a magician at the peak of silver. He also has the status of a Viscount. However, in front of Floris Heilman, who is currently the actual controller of Fortress Tonis, he dared not show his arrogance and superiority like a magician at all.

While the magician was saluting, the illusionist next to him quickly bowed and saluted.

In the magic world, the identity and status of illusionists has always been much lower than that of magicians, so even though the strength of this illusionist has infinitely approached the upper silver, he still has not won any title of title. Not even Jazz. Therefore, this illusionist still cherishes and values ​​the current job that can receive more than ten gold coins every month, and since even the magician next to him can abandon his arrogance, then the illusion of no status Why can't the teacher bow his head?

Looking at the respect of these two magicians. Floris Hellman was not at all happy, his face was still extremely gloomy.

Floris Heilman, although the Marquis title is only for life, it seems that there is nothing special about it, but the twelve high-ranking nobles in Ryan dare not underestimate this person at all. The reason is very Simple, that is, this marquis is the most loyal follower of the throne, and is also the sharpest sword in the hands of the king of the Kingdom of Ryan. According to the information from the secret channels of the nobles, one-third of the gray and black industries in the entire Kingdom of Ryan are controlled by the Marquis, and many of them are even involved with nobles like them.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, as long as the conflict with the marquis is not irreconcilable, even high-ranking nobles will not act rashly. After all, after making the move, they must also consider whether they will suffer the anger from the person on the throne.

Accompanied by the heavy footsteps of Marquis Floris, the hearts of the two magicians almost reached their throats. After all, for such a high-ranking and powerful person, as long as he doesn't speak or show any expression, then the invisible coercion will be as heavy as a mountain, oppressing others so that they dare not speak freely.

This is also a kind of momentum.

Outside the door, several guards quickly closed the door of the study room, and stood guard with their swords.

In this castle, there is an express rule.

That is, once the door of the study room on the second floor is closed, unless the door is opened from the inside, no one is allowed to approach without permission, or they will be killed.

And this rule, after the Marquis of Floris personally ordered the killing of his favorite concubine who violated the rules and trespassed, no one dared to violate it again.

At this moment, when the door was closed, there was a faint light in the whole study room, and a very subtle fluctuation of magic power slowly flowed in the study room.

Seeing this, the magician's eyes had imperceptible arrogance, because he was the one who arranged the embedded magic circle in the study. As soon as the door is closed, the magic circle will activate by itself, which can isolate everything Detection-type magic, but also to prevent eavesdropping and conversations in the room from leaking. Of course, the only disadvantage is that it requires a lot of magic power. Basically, it needs to consume at least five elementary magic crystals every hour, so the door of this study room will not be closed at ordinary times.

Even the current actual controller of Fortress Tonis, Floris Hellman's family, cannot withstand such a toss and waste.

Sitting on the chair behind the desk, Floris Hellman frowned. He glanced at the two magicians, and then said in a deep voice, "Why are you the only two back? Where are the others?... What do you say? What happened if your mission failed?"

Floris Heilman's voice was a little deep, which made his aura even more awe-inspiring.

That magician was not bad, after all, he was one of the members of the Marquis' brain trust, but the illusionist was so trembling that he didn't even dare to vent his breath. After all, in the current situation, if you really want to get to the bottom of it. It can only be blamed on his lack of strength and poor academic skills. If he had some achievements before, it would be fine, but this mission tonight is his first mission.

Seeing that the illusionist was trembling, Floris glanced over coldly, and there was already obvious unkindness in his eyes.

But at this time. The magician spoke up: "My lord, Rox is not to blame for this matter."

This sentence. Successfully attracted Floris' attention. This made the illusionist couldn't help but cast a grateful look at the magician companion next to him.

"Tell me." For the magician's ability, Floris still had some trust. Now that the magician spoke at this moment, he also signaled the magician to continue, "What's going on? Why did the other people Neither came back."

"The old man... died in battle." The magician hesitated for a moment, and then said.

"What!" This time. Floris couldn't sit still at all, and stood up suddenly with an expression of disbelief.

But soon, this disbelief turned into a look of anger: "What the hell is going on! Why did this happen?"

old man. It was referring to the middle-aged man holding a chopping knife.

He is Floris' confidant and direct descendant, and one of the few people Floris trusts the most. In the system created by Floris, the middle-aged man is one of the few core members second only to Floris, and he takes over a lot of things, basically any task will go through his Then he will carry out the overall planning and arrangement, just like the manager in this system, and his strength is also the strongest among all, so everyone calls him the old man in private.

Sensing Floris' anger, the magician didn't dare to show any more tricks, so he hurriedly said: "Not only the old man, but Rox and I, no one survived. If we hadn't walked fast, It is estimated that the guard regiment will be completely buried there."

Murderous intent flashed in Floris' eyes, but he didn't say anything, instead his face returned to calm, and he slowly sat back on the chair, pretending to be listening carefully. And seeing Floris calm down from fury, the magician's heart skipped a beat, and he became a little more uneasy, but at this moment, he couldn't keep anything anymore, so he left. **Give it up.

"At the beginning, we really thought it was a very common task, but it wasn't until the moment we fought that we realized that this task was far from being as simple as the information said." The magician felt a great pressure It has been covering him all the time, which makes his tone of voice a little trembling and startled, and even just saying such a sentence, there are beads of sweat on his forehead, "At the moment when the battle broke out, and It's not as easy as we expected, but it's a hard battle..."

"What kind of hard fight?" Floris frowned, and asked some in-depth questions about the details.

If Sean could hear these questions, he would be extremely shocked, and even change his mind about Floris. Because these questions raised by Floris are all the most critical entry points in the whole battle, such as how Sean avoided the old man's slashing force, and from what angle did Reina lean? Floris didn't let go of the question of Xiang Shachu, the characteristics of the ground dragon, and even when their illusion was discovered.

Originally, at the beginning, the magician didn't think too deeply, but was asked by Floris, and then repeatedly narrated and answered. Even if this magician didn't know much about the battles between melee professionals, he still found some problems and flaws in it.

Suddenly, his heart was shocked.

At first, he just thought that the gap between the two sides in this battle was not particularly big, and it was only when he accidentally fell into a hard fight at the beginning, and after seeing the old man's broken arm, that he had the idea of ​​retreating. But at this time, after Floris' constant questioning and careful thinking, the magician discovered that it turned out that at the beginning of the battle, when their illusion was seen through. They have completely fallen into the disadvantage.

When the details of this battle were fully explained, an hour had passed, and then the entire study room fell into complete silence.

Both the magician and the illusionist stood aside nervously, neither of them dared to interrupt Floris's meditation.

"So, in the end you made the decision to retreat?" Finally. After an hour and fifteen minutes of silence, Floris finally spoke again.

"Yes." The magician nodded. "The situation at that time was that the other party obviously had a backup. At least one powerful magician far superior to me was concentrating magic power. No one knew better than me how terrifying a magician was preparing magic, so I concluded that even if the guard regiment rushed up at that time, it would only end in annihilation, so I ordered a retreat. And I rushed back as soon as possible to bring this information back. "

Floris nodded, but his voice returned to calm: "It is indeed a very important piece of information. The strength of the opponent far exceeds our assessment. And that ground-moving dragon is not an ordinary ground-moving dragon. ... Of course the most What matters is the weapon that the female warrior you speak of is wielding."

"My lord, I probably know who that female warrior is." The magician said again.

A gleam flashed in Floris' eyes: "Who?"

"I heard that young man call her Rui Na." The magician said respectfully.

"You mean..." Floris was obviously stunned for a moment.

"Judging from the name, personal strength, and the weapons he possesses, he looks like the Goddess of War under the command of the lord of Panda." The magician Shen Shenghui reported, "Although we don't have any information about the lord at the moment. news, but inferred from other aspects, the man who was able to calmly escape the old man's attack at the beginning is very likely to be the lord of the Panda collar."

"Are you sure?" Floris narrowed his eyes slightly, "If I remember correctly, there is some feud between the lord of Panda and Brod, but this time this man has had contact and contact with Brod. "

"Yes." The magician nodded, "According to the previous information, it is indeed the case....But now Brod is very likely to become the head of the Rhodes family. In the face of absolute interests, the past Naturally, small conflicts can be ignored... So I boldly guess that Brod must have recognized the identity of the lord, so he chose to cooperate with him. As for the specific content of the cooperation, it is uncertain .”

Floris nodded slightly, but said nothing more, then waved the two to leave.

Seeing that Floris was not angry and did not say anything, the magician's uneasy heart finally recovered a little bit of calm. After he and the magician bowed and saluted, they left the study room. Seeing that Floris had no intention of leaving, but was still thinking about something, the magician closed the door of the study room after leaving the study room. Close it, until then he was really relieved, and his back was already completely soaked.

Floris, who was still sitting on the chair, did not make any new movements, and was still thinking about something with his chin propped up.

After about ten minutes, Floris finally said, "Shadow Ghost."

"The subordinate is here." In the empty room, a hoarse voice suddenly sounded, the voice was like two iron objects rubbing against each other, extremely unpleasant.

"What do you think?" Floris said softly.

"He didn't lie." The strange voice called Shadow Ghost sounded again, "But that's just his speculation."

"Indeed." Floris nodded, and tapped lightly on the table with her right hand. After thinking for a while, she said again: "I have two tasks for you....First, with Go to those people and see if that man is really the lord. Don't act rashly if it is not necessary. The lord is not as easy to deal with as it looks on the surface. At the same time, give all the information to those guys from the Pofeng tribe. , and told them... My cooperation with them has come to an end, because the information they gave us was not thorough and complete, which caused heavy losses on our side, and it is impossible for people who cannot trust each other to have any cooperation."

"yes."

"The second thing... get rid of him." Floris said in a deep voice, but the murderous intent revealed in his words was very strong, "I don't need this kind of subordinate who ran away, although the previous encounter It is indeed beyond the assessment of the intelligence data, but if he escapes, no matter how bad it is, he can save two people."

During the whole process, this person known as Shadow Ghost was watching, so he naturally knew that if the magician hadn't run away, even if the old man couldn't be rescued, at least the two gold powerhouses would not have died in battle. Of course, as the same price, the magician and illusionist are also very likely to die there. But compared to the two gold powerhouses, the hundred soldiers and the two silver-level magicians are nothing.

Perhaps for other nobles, silver-level magicians are already very rare.

But for a big man like Floris Hellman, a silver-level magician is really nothing. (To be continued..)