Hearthstone Farm Lord

Chapter 262 The Assassination In Progress

Although the mercenaries of the Flame Cross and Sean's other subordinates did not hear Sean's conversation, Kate's status as a "sky-level powerhouse" is enough for them to respect.

So on the way back to Hetan Town, everyone didn't dare to take a breath.

On the way back, Matthew also asked Sean:
"Sean, I'm seriously injured now, can I recuperate in your territory for a while?"

"Of course!" Sean replied without thinking:
"You can live here as long as you want! We're friends after all but I have a question, why are those Brotherhood of Mafia guys attacking you?"

"That's a long story."

Matthew sighed and said, "Let me make a long story short! This starts two months ago: two months ago, my daughter Kate found me."

At this moment, Kate abruptly interrupted Matthew:

"I am your subordinate, not your daughter!"

"Okay, okay." Matthew smiled and continued:
"Two months ago, Kate conveyed my father's order to me, ordering me to go to the Elf Kingdom to discuss the matter of 'reopening the trade route to the Elf Kingdom'.

After all, a full 100 years have passed since the Black Death, and it is time to restore trade routes. "

"Restore business routes?" Sean's eyes lit up.

In the past, Hetan Town existed only to do business with the Elf Kingdom, otherwise this ghostly place might not even have a village.

If the trade route can be reopened, it will be of great benefit to Hetan Town!

Matthew naturally understood Sean's thoughts, and said with a smile:

"Don't be too happy too early. The Elf Kingdom didn't agree. The Great Elf King said they don't trust humans."

Sean: "."

Matthew continued: "But for some reason, after we left the Forest of Elves, we were suddenly hunted down by a high-ranking man of the sky rank. His name is Mars Gale, also known as Mars Great Swordsman."

"A strong person at the top of the sky rank?"

Hearing Matthew's words, everyone around exclaimed, especially the mercenaries of the Flaming Cross.

Some time ago, I heard that Lucas River had broken through the sky level. The mercenaries already regarded Lucas as a god-like existence, let alone a strong man at the top of the sky level.

"That's right." Matthew nodded:
"Kate and I worked together to kill him, but we were also seriously injured, and our strength was severely damaged. Otherwise, we wouldn't have made such a big fuss when we dealt with two gold-ranked brats."

Hearing Matthew's words, everyone around opened their mouths in shock.

It turns out that some sky-level powerhouses really fell!
He is still a strong man at the top of the sky rank!
But Matthew and Kate can kill the high-ranking powerhouse of the sky rank together, so their strength is at least as strong as the middle rank of the sky rank, right? !
Thinking of this, everyone looked at Matthew and Kate with even more respect.

Xiao En was also shocked by the fall of the sky-level powerhouse, and asked quickly:

"Which side is Mars Gale? Is it from our Principality of Ryan?"

"No, he is from the Sunflower Principality." Kate on the side intervened and explained:
"They are the natives of this land, and there is another way of calling each realm:

Warriors of the Sky Rank like to call themselves Great Sword Masters, and mages of Sky Rank like to call themselves Magisters. When you hear the title 'Great Sword Master' in the future, it is [-]% Sunflower! "

Hearing Kate's explanation, Sean couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:

"Since it was sent by the Sunflower Principality, it makes sense! After all, your two countries are at war and have deep blood feuds. It is not too much to deliberately ambush and kill you..."

Seeing the weird gazes from Kate and Matthew, Sean quickly changed the subject:
"I didn't expect the Brotherhood of the Black Hand to be a subordinate of the Sunflower Principality. Why did the Sunflower Principality help Robert to assassinate me? It doesn't make sense!"

Sean fell into deep thought. After all, he is the son of Grand Duke Ryan, and the subordinate forces of the Sunflower Principality came to assassinate him. Wouldn't the alliance between the two countries be even more distant?
"No, I investigated the Brotherhood of the Black Hand some time ago."

Matthew explained to Sean as he walked:
"The Brotherhood of the Black Hand is not a force under the Sunflower Principality, but a transnational underground organization. This organization is very mysterious, and no one knows where their headquarters is. It should be only peripheral personnel who came to assassinate you."

Sean nodded and didn't speak. Windsor and Anduin were also thinking about their own thoughts, so the whole team became quiet again.

The large army continued to walk towards River Beach Town.

Kate did not break the silence until she walked into River Beach Town:

"Sean." Kate said with some embarrassment: "Is there any "Romance Novels" series I read last time? My one was snatched by the elf princess."

"I have a hardcover book in my castle, as well as beautiful new illustrations, and I can give it to you at that time!" Sean replied.

"Really! That's great!" Kate happily hugged Sean's neck.

Sean was almost out of breath by Kettler, and after handing Matthew to Windsor's help, he asked:

"Why did the Elf Princess steal your book?"

"What else? She likes to watch it. Wait, there is a situation!"

Kate let go of Sean's hands, and her face suddenly became serious.

At the same time, a house on the side of the street suddenly spewed out a huge amount of shadow magic elements.

The shadow elements covered the sky and the sun, and the sky darkened in an instant, as if changing from day to night in an instant.

Just two seconds later, a giant shadow magic circle quickly formed above their heads.

"Everyone be careful!" Sean shouted immediately.

At the same time, Sean also used [Summon Ball Lightning] to teleport forward, out of the range of the shadow magic circle.

Unfortunately, the place where Sean landed was the same as [shrinking ray engineer] Occam Sparks, so the two of Sean collided and fell to the ground.

……

Kate didn't panic too much, a light green magic shield rose from the ground, protecting everyone around her.

Although she only recovered a little bit of magic power, the spell above her head was level 4, which only had gold-level power. She believed she could easily block it.

So Kate said to everyone around:

"Don't worry, everyone! The magic above the head is only level 4, and I can completely resist it with my defensive magic."

Just halfway through Kate's words, the shadow magic circle that had formed in the sky suddenly stopped after approaching the magic shield.

"Crack!"

This dark magic circle did not attack the magic shield. Instead, it shattered like a mirror and disappeared completely.

"No! It's just an illusion!"

Kate was shocked, but it was too late.

At the same time, in another room behind her, a sharp blade condensed from dark energy flew over at an extremely fast speed, stabbing Kate's magic shield.

"Whoa!"

The magic shield shattered like glass.

The Shadow Blade ran straight towards Kate unimpeded.

(End of this chapter)