The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What time is it?" Jacques Huppert used the best fish oil to maintain the long cross sword in his hand in the office of the regiment commander, and asked his adjutant without raising his head.

"Nine forty-three." The adjutant looked at his watch for the fourth time and replied accurately.

Although it is only a simple question of time, Jacques Huppert has asked this question four times since dark. The adjutant who has followed Jacques Huppert for almost ten years knows that such a situation has never occurred in the past , and now that this situation happened, it could only show that the recognized number one swordsmanship master in the Vinylon Continent in front of him was not absolutely sure of defeating the challenger.

However, as a smart adjutant, even if he sees this, he can't say it, and even when he places a bet, he has to pressure his superior to win.

Perhaps to confirm the adjutant's guess, Jacques Huppert suddenly ordered: "Go and get the copper box I put in the drawer."

The adjutant froze for a moment, then walked to the desk calmly, took out a palm-sized copper box from the drawer, and handed it to Jacques Huppert.

Jacques Huppert opened the box and took out a purple metal ring with cracks on the surface. After a little hesitation, he still put the ring on his hand.

Seeing Jacques Huppert put the ring on, the adjutant showed a little surprise on his face. In the past ten years, he had only seen Jacques Huppert put on the ring three times. As far as he knows, the ring has a magical power that can protect the wearer, so the three times when Jacques Huppert wore the ring were when he was not sure about defeating the challenger.

The fact is exactly the same, although Jacques Huppert became the winner in the end, but every time he wins narrowly, every time he fights, there will be fatal danger, and the challengers of those three times are not like other challengers He saved his life, but was killed on the spot because Jacques Huppert couldn't hold back.

"Have you done everything I ordered you to do this afternoon?" Jacques Huppert asked again suddenly.

"It's already done. The black market people we're looking for are all good slave catchers who have worked in the Mosang Continent." The adjutant quickly responded: "They have already ambushed in the forest around the military camp. As long as anyone enters, they will definitely be killed." They catch."

"Well!" Jacques Huppert nodded, then inserted the long sword in his hand into the scabbard at his waist, turned around and patted the adjutant on the shoulder, and said, "I don't want this to be known by others, and I don't want to replace it." A familiar adjutant, so you'd better be strict about this matter, if I hear anything about it outside, you should know what the consequences will be."

The expression on the adjutant's face immediately became tense and serious, he lowered his head and said, "Please rest assured, I will definitely not reveal a word to the outside world."

Jacques Huppert did not make the adjutant swear, because he never believed in swearing and swearing. He believed that as long as his strength and influence were strong enough, the adjutant would not do anything against him, if his strength and influence were weak No matter how ruthless an oath you make, there is a possibility of breaking it.

After tidying up the bits and pieces on his body to make himself in the best condition, Jacques Huppert walked out of the office and walked towards the main gate of the barracks, and the adjutant followed quickly.

The two soon arrived outside the barracks. The lawn had been rested. At this time, the officers staying at the gate of the barracks saluted Jacques Huppert one after another. Although their feelings towards Jacques Huppert are very ordinary, they still have a lot of etiquette, and they always treat Jacques Huppert as a real legion commander.

In normal times, Jacques Huppert might still have flirted with these hypocritical guys, but now his mind is all on the challenger who issued the battle post, so he ignored the salutes of the surrounding officers at all, and directly Walking to the lawn surrounded by torches, he looked anxiously at the only road leading to Miria City.

Time passed by little by little, and when it was almost ten o'clock, a vague figure appeared in the distance of the road. Torches on the lawn.

At this moment, everyone could see the appearance of the visitor clearly. They saw that the visitor was wearing a half-body armor of a French knight attendant that had been eliminated long ago, with a metal mask on his face that was used for attending banquets, and two swords that looked very handsome on his waist. Ordinary knight's cross sword, the whole person looks a little weird.

"Are you a descendant of the Perini family?" Jacques Huppert questioned in a voice that only the two people on the lawn could hear when someone walked into the lawn surrounded by torches: "According to As far as I know, the Perini family has been cut off long ago, and there are no descendants at all, you..."

Before Jacques Huppert could finish speaking, a slightly hoarse voice interrupted him, and said in Old French: "You have defeated me, and I will tell you where the two cross swords are? As for Does it matter if I am a descendant of the Perini family?"

Hearing this, all the doubts in Jacques Huppert's heart disappeared. No matter whether it was a member of the Perini family or not, at least the other party knew the whereabouts of the two artifacts. This was what he wanted to know most.

So, without any nonsense, he directly pulled out the two long cross swords at his waist, made a knight salute to the challenger, and then used the most proficient and most aggressive horns in the dual-wielding cross sword swordsmanship Potential, aimed at the challenger.

The challenger also drew out the long crossed sword at his waist, but instead made the crossed sword gesture that Jacques Huppert was looking forward to most.

The two of them didn't make random moves like those ordinary swordsmen, but confronted each other carefully, looking for flaws in the opponent's sword.

Although the two sides hadn't fought yet, the officers at the gate of the camp could feel the tense atmosphere, and none of them spoke, watching the duel on the lawn quietly.

Just after the two confronted each other for a while, when Jacques Huppert's body turned his back to the gate of the army camp, the mysterious challenger made a sudden move, raised the long sword in his left hand, and rushed towards the opponent's throat. The long sword in the right hand is held directly horizontally, showing a defensive posture.

Seeing the challenger using the safest offensive and defensive moves, Jacques Huppert was naturally very happy. This is also the cross-sword sword technique he most wants to face, and he also knows the best way to break it.

I saw that Jacques Huppert pressed down the long sword with both hands according to the method he knew, and the blade passed through the middle of the opponent's two long swords. It was said that with a flick of light, the opponent's long sword was twisted up by him and thrown into the air.

Jacques Huppert, who was sure he had won, was not happy, but rather puzzled, because he found it too easy for him to win.

Just when he sensed something was wrong and was about to withdraw his sword to be on guard, the challenger, who should have no weapons in his hands, unexpectedly saw a pair of extremely gorgeous looking cross long swords, and before he could react, they swiped towards him from left to right. , the speed was at least ten times faster than before, and he could only see two blurred sword lights clearly.

The two long swords slashed at Jacques Huppert's chest and waist without any hindrance. The moment the long swords touched the opponent's body, a faint light suddenly burst out from the opponent's body, forming a shield protect him.

Jacques Huppert breathed a sigh of relief seeing that his last resort was working, but before he could rejoice that the methods he used to kill those powerful opponents were still useful, the light that protected him instantly dissipated and was just blocked A swipe of the double swords across his body.

The movements of the two sides were too fast, so fast that all the offense and defense were completed in the blink of an eye. In addition, at night, the flickering fire caused some visual obstacles. The officers at the gate of the camp did not see the whole process of the two sides clearly. Seeing that the challenger's double swords were picked up by Jacques Huppert, he subconsciously thought that Jacques Huppert had already won.

Then, from their point of view, the challenger seemed to know that he had failed. He took a few steps back, opened a distance from Jacques Huppert, and then turned and left without looking back. The two cross swords did not go to pick them up either.

At this time, the officers at the gate of the barracks were busy gambling and distributing money, and they didn't notice any abnormalities at all. Only three people noticed that Jacques Huppert's raised hands hadn't fallen from just now, and his body hadn't moved at all.

Among the three, Jacques Huppert's adjutant was naturally a little worried, and hurried forward to check, while the other two, Major General Wood and Major General Roger, looked at each other, as if they could understand the meaning in each other's eyes, and the corners of their mouths inevitably Showed a little smile.

"Ah! The Legion Commander has been assassinated!" At this moment, a loud cry broke the silence of the night, and everyone looked towards the place where the shout was made. I saw the adjutant standing beside Jacques Huppert looking at Jacques Huppert who was standing motionless with a look of horror on his face. Falling down, the body becomes three sections while falling.

At this moment, all the officers realized what was going on. Their immediate boss was assassinated in front of them, and the killer left in front of them very calmly. No one would believe this kind of thing.

"Immediately block the scene, organize people, enter the forest to arrest the murderer, and send people to immediately block the road ahead..." After the death of Jacques Huppert, Major General Roger, who was the commander of the Volunteer Army, naturally became the leader of the army , he immediately gave instructions to the somewhat confused officers, and soon stabilized the situation.

At the same time, after entering the forest, Leo, the assassin, did not take off his cumbersome knight armor, but wore the knight armor. His whole body passed through the bushes like a cheetah, and quickly sped forward. OK.

At the same time, his mental net also opened accordingly, checking the surrounding situation, and soon several figures lurking in the bushes appeared in his mental net, obviously these were holding mechanical bows and crossbows, fully armed The person in charge should be Jacques Huppert's follower.

Without this knight armor, Leo might have sneaked in secretly and eliminated these people silently, but now his knight armor is making too much noise, and it is too loud to hide himself. shape, so he simply pushed towards those people like a tank.

Although Leo's undisguised running style creates a lot of movement, his speed is more than enough to make up for the defects caused by the sound.

The lurking people just heard the sound and knew their target was coming, but before they could confirm the location of the target in the dark forest, a black shadow passed by them.

At the same time, a fist as hard as an iron hammer mixed with huge force hit their heads. Before they realized what was going on, the entire head was like a bursting berry, completely shattered Then, headless corpses fell limply on the ground, adding a few piles of manure to the forest.

After getting rid of a few ants blocking the way, Leo didn't encounter any obstacles in his journey. It took less than five minutes for him to pass through the forest and came to the road outside the forest. After identifying the direction, he hurried towards the carriage that Sylvia had prepared for him.

The assassination of the head of the First Legion in Miria City is definitely not a trivial matter. Without the permission of the Miria City Administrative Council, the troops of the First Legion forcibly entered the interior of Miria City to hunt down the murderer. This move also made the internal situation in the city of Miria, which was turbulent after the assassination of the members of the Continental Congress, even more tense.

Some shrewd Miria residents have sensed that the situation has become a little chaotic. They have chosen to leave Miria city temporarily, live in surrounding cities and counties for a period of time, and return to the city after the situation stabilizes.

But except for those who had the conditions to leave, most of the rest could only stay in Miria City and live a life of fear, for fear that one day their doors would be smashed open by a group of soldiers.

Due to the chaotic situation, the embassies of various countries began to consider whether they should leave Miria City temporarily, and the paralyzed Continental Congress also convened an emergency parliament under the suggestion of some members to discuss the whereabouts of the Continental Congress. Among them, the most mentioned one is to temporarily leave the city of Miriya and go to the seven countries of the Hanossa Alliance in the north to temporarily set up a temporary parliament. After the situation in the Farland Empire stabilizes, they will decide whether to return to Miriya City.

Although the members of the Continental Congress didn't know who assassinated those colleagues who died, they could be sure of one thing. The deaths of these colleagues must have something to do with the current situation of the French Empire.

In their opinion, the French Empire must be crazy this time, not only using the banned imine gas, but also assassinating members of the Continental Congress because of the situation in their own country, causing the Continental Congress to stop.

It’s just that even though they knew that these were done by the Farnese Empire or the Duke of Devin, they had nothing to do with the Duke of Devon and the Farnese Empire. MPs dealt a blow.

However, just when the morale of these members of the Continental Parliament was low and the embassies of various countries began to consider retreating, a secret visit by a person gave them an opportunity to check and balance the Duke of Dewen and rebuild the order of the French Empire.