Working Prophet.

Chapter 603 Bad news

"What, Lord Marquis is dead?!"

After hearing the bad news, the female lord was also stunned. She even wondered if there was something wrong with her ears.

Although David had colluded with the Wing tribe, murdered her father Russ, and secretly released the black dragon to wreak havoc in the western region, the female lord still respected the Marquis Cullen, the head of the Figuerola family.

The latter was able to act impartially and put his most valued future heir of the eldest son's family in prison, and announced several crimes against David in a trial a year later, and sentenced him to up to 200 years in prison.

After that, compensation was made to Arias and other families who suffered losses because of David and the black dragon.

The result of this treatment also won the praise of the nobles in the western region.

In fact, most of the trials and mediations that the Marquis of Cullen participated in during the more than 80 years of ruling the Western Territory were very fair.

When Ilea competed with her younger brother Blanco for the title of Patriarch, it was decided by the Marquis of Cullen.

Until Herodotus rebelled against the Silver Moon Church and formed the Blood Moon Society, the western region had been at peace for quite a while.

Although there were occasional conflicts among the lords, they all maintained restraint.

All of this is inseparable from the contribution of the Marquis of Cullen, and the Figueirola family has guarded the western border for the empire for more than 900 years.

The Marquis of Cullen is like the backbone of the big guy, and now someone tells the female lord that this backbone is gone.

Miss Rabbit feels like a dream.

However, the silver pine standing in front of her, several other nobles with different identities, and the guards responsible for protecting the Marquis of Cullen all showed that this was not a joke.

Especially the few people in the back who just came out of the valley, they looked very weak, some of them were too hungry to walk, they needed help from the people around them, and blood vessels could even be seen under the skin.

However, when the bread was delivered, they didn't even take a few bites, and they came back with Yinsong to meet the female lord first.

"But... aren't you all fine, why did Lord Marquis die instead?"

Ilea took a moment to stabilize her mind before continuing to ask.

"Because there are traitors among us." Camzi, the head of the Treles family, gritted his teeth, "And there is not only one person."

"The head of the Weir family, the owner of Acorn Castle, Hugo, betrayed us first, he quarreled with Fabres, Fabres laughed at him and said he was a little boy who only sucked in a woman's arms.

"In order to prove his bravery, he led people into the valley, saying that he would chop off a thousand wildling heads before returning.

"The Marquis is worried about his safety. Although his father committed suicide, he died because of David. The Marquis wanted to keep his only son, but he didn't expect that the little bastard had already secretly taken refuge in those dwarves.

"He led us all the way into this desperate situation, and then slipped away by himself. We were trapped here for more than ten days, and we ran out of food.

"And just the night before, Ilkander also led the Emanuel family to rebel.

"Master Marquis was murdered by him, and he cut off his head. Afterwards, Sir Judith wanted to avenge Lord Marquis, but he was also killed by cruel means. Ilkander stabbed him with long hair His stomach, his intestines flowed all over the floor, and he wailed for a long time before he died.

"Then Ilkander shot Zero in the left eye again during the chaos, and Zero couldn't do it anymore." Kamzi said bitterly, and even spat on the ground.

He also led people to hunt down Ilkander at that time, and entangled with Ilkander for a while, but he was hit by a horseshoe in the chest and fainted at that time.

In short, because of the sudden incident, a large group of them failed to stop Ilkander, and the abominable traitor, Kingslayer fled with about thirty or forty cronies and went to the dwarves on the mountain.

Hearing Jie Luo's name, the female lord couldn't help but glance at Yinsong, because Yinsong came here this time to save his son, but she didn't expect that it was only two days late, and it was like this forever.

Although Yinsong didn't speak at this time, the girl could feel the endless anger in his heart, and the old man's knuckles holding the sword turned white.

In addition, the betrayal of Hugo and Ilkander also surprised the female lord.

She has seen both of them before. Hugo has a cowardly personality, has no opinions, and is easily bewitched by others, while Ilkander has a violent temper.

Miss Rabbit still remembered that when she first met Irkander in Black Rock City, the latter acted a little recklessly. Generally speaking, such a person should not have too much scheming.

Moreover, the female lord later heard that he was favored by Theodosius. Theodosius was injured by the black dragon. His health has not been very good, and he hasn't shown himself in front of people for a long time.

Compared with his eldest son and second son, he seems to be more optimistic about Ilkander, so recently, the voice of the Emanuel family to make Ilkander the next Patriarch has become much louder.

It's hard to imagine that a young man with a bright future like this has just embarked on a road of no return.

Because the news was too shocking, the female lord had to sort out her thoughts before continuing.

"In order to survive, Ilkander murdered the Marquis, and took the head of the Marquis to join the dwarves on the mountain. Is he still with those dwarves?"

"I do not know."

"How many dwarves are there?"

"We don't know either." It was Fabrice, the Patriarch of the Popo family, who answered the question.

"Lord Marquis organized us to break through four times, but those dwarves occupied a favorable terrain, and we suffered heavy losses with only rolling stones. Once, I led people to rush to the middle of the mountain.

"However, I soon encountered a group of dwarf warriors. There are about 500 of them, and I have less than 100 left on my side.

"We couldn't hold on for too long, so we had to retreat. One of my arms was broken by a dwarf." Fabrice shook his tightly bandaged left arm as he spoke. .

After a pause, he added, "I don't think their number will be less than ours."

"An army of tens of thousands?" The female lord's expression was a little dignified.

"But this morning, they evacuated the people who blocked us outside the mouth of the valley." Camzy said.

"There seemed to be fewer people on the mountain. We didn't know what they wanted to do. We were worried that there were traps in it. We discussed it, but we didn't come out right away."

Miss Rabbit thought about it, but couldn't figure out what the hell those dwarves were doing, but even if they had something to ambush, as soon as the morning dawned, they probably wouldn't be able to hide it from the eyes of the three-eyed bird.

(End of this chapter)