Pivot of the Sky

Chapter 267: Allure

Cyrus was assassinated suddenly. No one had thought of it before. The time and place of the assassination was not when the city state held a celebration ceremony. Although the occasion was crowded, the guards around Cyrus were also the tightest, and there was no way to make arrangements in advance. From the perspective of the moonlight night, it is not a good opportunity for assassination.

After the celebration ceremony ended, Cyrus stayed overnight in the city of Nippur, and the next morning he drove west to the city of Kish, where General Darius would wait for him. Of course, the leaders of the city-state of Nippur will send off farewells, and the city-state will also hold a grand ceremony. Local military and political figures will follow Cyrus the Great to leave the city, and there will be people outside the city to bow down to worship the power of Cyrus.

The guards have been alert outside the city gates to prevent assassins from shooting in the farewell crowd. Cyrus the Great also has expert guards. Even if there are assassins, it is very unlikely that they can break through the heavy guards and approach Cyrus. , Suspicious people, etc. may have been resolved before they approached.

The change happened suddenly when Cyrus the Great left the city, and it was the time when everyone was most lax. At that time, the military and political officials of the city-state of Nippur followed the cars and lined up in the city, and the **** guards who opened the road for Cyrus the Great had arrived outside the city, and Cyrus's car just passed through the gate.

This was an occasion that could not be assassinated, because Cyrus was in the gate of the city gate, and there were heavy guards on the tower, surrounded by experts in and out of the city, but some people shot an arrow.

This arrow was shot from inside the city, and the shooter stood in the crowd who was looking out of the car of Jurus the Great. If Amon saw this arrow, he would be no stranger to it. Giant arrow. An arrow shot terrifyingly, with a mountain-like tsunami-like sound, drawn a parabola across the air to see off the official team, and shot towards the gate of the city gate. The giant arrow flew through the air, carrying a shocking shock wave, and the people on the ground turned over.

The arrow was shot from the back, which was beyond everyone's expectations. According to general experience, if an assassin really wanted to assassinate Cyrus, it should be common sense to stay outside the city. But the guards around Cyrus were well-trained in the battlefield and did not panic because of the power of this arrow. Countless swordsman crosses chopped into the sky. The magicians also performed a variety of divine magic to stay firmly protected. Lived inside the gate.

This arrow condensed powerful energy, hitting several sword-mountains in the air one after another, and after a few pauses, it continued to shoot forward at an undiminished speed, almost the same as that of the assassination of Madame Isis. But no matter how powerful this arrow is, it cannot penetrate the protection provided by the wizards. Surprisingly, this arrow did not shoot at Cyrus. At the last moment, it folds up and hits the wall directly above the gate. Only a loud noise sounded, and the entire building fell down!

Need to introduce the west gate of the city of Nippur. Below the thick wall is the gate of the city gate, and there is a tower above the gate, which looks solid and majestic, and is brand new. When Sinach attacked the city of Nippur, the gate was destroyed by a catapult and the tower was burned by fire.

Although the city gate was later repaired, the defense function was simply restored. After receiving the news that Cyrus the Great was coming, the local military and political officials urgently called for civil servants and artisans to repair two magnificent towers, namely the East Gate and the West Gate, because it was the place to welcome and send off Cyrus the Great. .

The West Tower was completed just a few days before the arrival of Cyrus the Great, and was built overnight at the expense of manpower and material resources. Of course, during the construction, the city-state guard and the magician were on the side to prevent craftsmen from cutting corners or using other hands and feet, and even every layer of bricks had to be inspected. No one expected what would happen to this tower.

However, there was a trap in the tower, which was laid by the hand of Mingyueye, who is proficient in assassination. Mingyue Ye and Dumuzi did not follow the Emperor Samir to the border inspection. They left Assyria ahead of time and arrived in the province of Poznying, but Mingyue Ye did not know what to do with the craftsmen who built the tower.

Nippur is a city-state recently occupied by Poz, and most of its inhabitants have also been relocated from the field by Sinach. The Poz occupying forces were not familiar with the local people. They urgently called for artisans to build the towers. They could only conduct strict body searches and carefully check the works. The identity of the artisans could not be verified one by one, which gave the opportunity to the moon night. .

This trap is very concealed, and it has the same effect as the trap that Enril encountered. When the tower was completed, even the great magician swept through the detective magic and found no abnormalities. The force needed to detonate this trap is very powerful, and it must also be very clever. People who do n’t know the inside story will not respond even if they use a catapult to knock down the tower.

The archer was not Samir, but the moonlit night who had trapped himself. When the black divine giant arrow fell in the air and shot at the gate of the city gate, there was a blue light entangled on the arrow body. It was as if it was taken away by a blue serpent. This is a helping hand for Dumz.

I saw two thin rows of stone bricks above the city gate turned into quicksand-like debris at the same time, as if they were cut with a knife, a terrible huge crack appeared. The support structure of such a building is not afraid of cracks in a few stones, and it is afraid that these integrated structures suddenly slide and move.

The reason why the trap set on the moonlight night is hidden, it does not make all the stone bricks in these two cracks become broken. It is just the impact of the energy of the giant arrow, which instantly splits the two bricks deep in the city wall. Then under the tremendous weight pressure of the tower, the gate of the gate would collapse, and Cyrus just passed by, and the calculation was not subtle.

An arrow shot at Mingyue night, and then he saw the collapse of the tower. He didn't even take a look at it. He leaped aloud, turned around and flew away. His mission has been completed, and the identity of the assassin has been exposed. Naturally, he will travel thousands of miles. Nippur's main guards were all around Simon, and he ran east. The masters were busy **** at this moment, too late to chase him, and ordinary guards could not stop him.

If you change people, the moonlight night is enough to solve the problem, but how could the Cyrus emperor be so easily assassinated? At the moment when the tower collapsed, the screams and roars rang, countless glories rose, and the space was frozen as if it had been frozen. Cyrus's carriage was suddenly torn apart, with two great magic The division held up his staff, and several large warriors hugged him and rushed out of the city.

The smoke rose behind them, and the entire tower collapsed completely, and Cyrus was not buried. But the other guards around the emperor were not so lucky. At least dozens of people had no time to get out and were smashed into meat sauce on the spot. The falling gravel also injured many people in the **** team inside and outside the city.

Although Cyrus was unharmed, he looked very embarrassed. He abandoned the carriage and rushed out of the city. There were only five masters in the gate guarding him from danger, while the other guards were buried in the collapsed tower.

The scene was chaotic at the same time, and a scream was heard at the same time inside and outside the city of Nippur. Some people shouted, "Cyrus is dead!" And people close to the gate fled, even the guards who were on guard could not restrain it.

The captain of the guard next to Cyrus raised his sword and drank all the voices: "The Great Emperor is no shy, be careful assassins, don't be confused!"

Immediately after that, more than a dozen figures flew into the air, Cyrus' guard guards and half of the masters had already left the city and opened the way. At this moment, the magicians turned and flew over the tower. The assassin appeared in the city, and Mingyue had fled, but another figure flew high, wearing a black robe holding a staff, and came out like a goshawk, throwing several scrolls.

Although the scroll consumes not the user's own mana, it also requires the user to control its attack range. It is much more difficult to pinpoint the target of the attack than throwing it at random. Controlling two scrolls is more than twice as difficult as controlling one scroll. The more powerful the scroll, the more so.

However, this individual even threw six high-order attack scrolls at the same time, and the targets firmly locked the guards who had just rushed out of the dust, and they all unfolded at the same time. The assassin was Faust.

Faust flew to the sky and threw the scrolls, which also exposed himself attracting all the attention. While the scroll was flying out, he couldn't escape immediately. He had to control the attack direction after the scroll was unrolled, otherwise he couldn't lock the target, and only grit his teeth and wave his staff, adding several magic shields to himself.

The brilliance in midair, the arrows on the ground like rain, almost all hit Faust in the air. The arrows shot by ordinary samurai at high altitudes are not dangerous, but the arrows shot by the elite warriors around Cyrus are amazing. The arrows are also mixed with various weapons, such as axe, flagpole, shuttle gun, and samurai weapon. Swords and so on-some warriors did not have bows and arrows, and simply cut out the weapons in their hands.

Shock waves of various roars and energy bursts scattered, fragments of various weapons swirling around in the air, and there were soot, light, and flames everywhere near the ground. There were seven or eight shadows falling from the air with screams. . These wizards are not incapable of dodging when the scrolls break out, but they have to protect the Cyrus Emperor on the ground, and can only stop this attack.

Faust ’s divine shield was almost shattered in an instant, and the black robe on his body was broken into pieces, revealing a white gown. He sprayed blood on his mouth, and the staff in his hand fell, rolled up by the surging force, and flew towards the city far away. At this moment, a blue light flew out, turning into a terrible monster in the air, covering Faust's figure, and blasting towards the north.

Dumz responded to the severely injured Faust and left, but the masters around Cyrus had no time to chase, because the real assassination of Emperor Boz was just at this time!

The accident happened too quickly and the scene was too chaotic. First, the tower collapsed and Cyrus abandoned the car and rushed out of the city. In addition to the few masters around him, the guards on both sides of the car were killed. The collapsed city tower also cut his guard team into two sections, which could not be echoed at the beginning and end. The people who saw off were horrified. The people inside the city did not know what was happening outside the city, and the people outside the city were not even clear about the scene in the city.

Faust descended from the sky in a chaos and threw the scrolls. It was another violent explosion in an instant, not to mention the magician who just flew up into the sky, and the warriors who were close to the gate of the city also turned around. The light flickered, only buzzing echoes in the ears.

The moonlight night was an arrow shot in the city, and Faust also flew out of the city, attracting all the attention of the guards outside the city. The guards hurriedly turned to rush to the city gate to escort, and the wizards turned to take Out of the staff, the quick response has flew into the air, and the alertness to the direction outside the city has been relaxed for a moment. Cyrus the Great himself turned and looked towards the tower.

Just as Faust was injured and flew out, Semir finally shot. The queen was wearing a shabby outfit, and her robe was very wide with patches, just like a slightly shy poor woman, mingling with the lively procession outside the city. When Cyrus' guard of honor came out of the city, she bowed and worshiped among the crowd.

After the upheaval, the panic shouted, and the attack power of Faust spread far away, and the panicked people were rolled over to the ground during the chaos. Samir flipped his head along the way, landing on exactly the position of half-kneeling and archery, and has steadily opened his bow to take the arrow.

The bow was the bow she used often, but the arrow was a long arrow that Gilgamesh had used to stab sinah. The white long-toothed arrow shot out, interspersed with the aftershocks of various divine energy energies, as if through time and space, seemed to flutter silently.

But half-kneeling Samir was so dignified that he turned into a hard stone statue, and his strength seemed to have been evacuated by this arrow. The guard who was turning and looking backwards did not stop the arrow, and most of the guards did not even notice it.

If the arrow of Semir assassinates Cyrus in normal times, the power is not small, but it is unlikely to succeed, and at this moment is an opportunity. The earth-shattering attacks inside the city were all covering the silent arrow outside the city. The captain of the guard next to Cyrus was suddenly alert, turned and struck out a punch, and the sabre in his hand had just flew into the sky.

Another great magician closest to Cyrus also sensed the danger, shaking his staff in anxiety, putting Cyrus the emperor on a layer of tough and invisible armor of air. Hearing only a bang, the captain of Cyrus's guard snorted and flew out, and a white long arrow appeared strangely, hitting Cyrus.

This arrow is coming so fast that it is almost unclear to the naked eye, but it contains a huge amount of energy silently and silently, which can shock a large warrior in a hurry. Affected by the elemental armor, the speed of this arrow slowed down, and even a dazzling light was wiped in the air, but it still penetrated the elemental armor into the back of Cyrus the emperor, and fluttered lightly from the chest. There was not even a trace of blood on the shaft.

The arrow behind Cyrus came out through the chest. The stormy emperor slowly reached out and covered the broken part of the breastplate. He looked at the arrow that fell to the ground with an incredible expression, as if he realized after a while. What happened. He wanted to turn to see who the assassin was, but his body had just moved, and his legs were soft and he was about to fall.

The guard rushed forward to support him, and the light from the priest's staff covered him, and an exclaiming voice came to his ears, but the voice became more and more distant and more misty. For a while before his eyes Bursts were black and blood had penetrated the armor of the chest and back.

There was still a lot of noise in the city of Nippel, but suddenly it was strangely quiet outside the gate. Except for those masters around Cyrus who shouted in shock: "Your Majesty!" The guards around them were stunned and couldn't believe what they saw.

The guard of honour guards first saw Semir's movements, and rushed forward to catch the assassins. But at this time in the wilderness came a wave of tidal waves. Almost everyone had hallucinations. The earth was undulating into waves, and the waves rolled to drown everyone. People shouted in horror, waving their arms, struggling, but they couldn't even hear the sound in their throats.

This is a phantasm unfolded by rumors. Several high-level accomplishers immediately accepted the interference of illusions, but all they saw were people and soldiers who were struggling and struggling. The archery assassin was gone.

The assassination plan planned by Mingyue Ye naturally brought his style as the best killer on the continent. Everyone sent out the most dangerous blow at the most appropriate moment, and then left without leaving. In the end, the arrow finally succeeded. Samir had only one chance to kill Cyrus. She succeeded!

It is conceivable that the chaos around Nippur City was assassinated when Cyrus the Great was killed. Masters began to track down assassins. At the same time, someone rushed to the city of Kish and reported to General Darius who was driving forward. The assassin had fled without a trace.

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According to the original plan, after the assassination succeeds, Semir will sneak back to the Assyrian border and continue to patrol the border guards, while Faust will be ordered to return to Nevez to deal with the complex situation that may arise. No one knew they had left quietly, everything seemed seamless.

The injured Faust returned the fastest, because the Doumz taking him away was astonishing. One day after Faust's return, Semir returned to the Queen's car, escorted by Rumor. Cyrus is dead, and Boz will definitely be in chaos for a while. The Assyrian Empire finally has a respite, but the fate of Assyria depends on whether they can take this opportunity to recover.

Samir sent Faust back to the imperial capital. At the same time, he secretly told him not to hurry and be careful not to worsen his injuries. After returning to the imperial capital, he must also focus on his injuries, but he should not expose himself to serious injuries, so as not to cause doubt.

However, Faust didn't heed the Queen's advice. He returned to Nevez almost day and night regardless of his injuries. Such a move by the Sage Magus is not surprising, because no one knows that he was injured, and the news of Cyrus the assassination has spread, and it is reasonable for the empress to send him back to the emperor during the inspection. .

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