Demon Royal Family

In the 335th year of the Glory Calendar, on the 17th of the Lunar Moon, the Falcon and Woodpecker Legions were stationed outside the Black Rock Fortress and remained motionless all night.

In the early morning of the 18th, Lasces issued a statement asking Barea why.

On the 19th, Baria was silent, and the major forces in the Frigga continent focused their attention on the border between Laces and Baria.

On the morning of the 20th, Barea issued a statement, accusing Lasces of invading the eastern border, causing serious losses to the three cities of Antlers, Weiliman, and Gibral. He strongly condemned it and demanded compensation from Lasces. Later that day, Lasces responded to Barea, claiming that the turmoil on the eastern border of Baria was not their fault. He accused Barria of slander in order to find an excuse to start a war. Lasces refused to compensate and used tough words. Not afraid of war.

On the 21st, both sides were silent, and local friction occurred on the border between the two countries. In the afternoon of that day, the Baria Army retreated thirty miles to join the Leopard Tooth Army and stood still. That night, eight heavy cavalry brigades of the Lasces Pegasus Corps rushed to the Black Rock Fortress.

On the 22nd, Barea issued a statement stating that it would send diplomats to Lasces City to discuss with Lasces how to handle the friction.

With Baria's concession, the tense atmosphere on the border quickly eased, and a possible war was forced to enter the diplomatic process.

This incident was recorded in the history of Frigga. On the surface, it was just a regular friction between countries. It was not until the subsequent drastic changes were over that the entire Frigga suddenly discovered that the clues of drastic changes appeared in this simple friction. , everything that happened next, at this time, had already laid the fuse.

In the history books written by scholars, this incident is called the "prolonged prelude."

The real initiator of the "extended prelude" hidden behind the heavy curtains was the man who earned the nickname "Lord of Harricon" in the subsequent drastic changes.

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Seven days later.

Early morning sunlight filtered through the hotel windows.

Bang, a copy of "The Baria Incident" was thrown carelessly on the table.

Ivo yawned: "I've been making trouble, but it still hasn't started..."

The old man stood up and said, "Why do we have to stop the war? It's so boring."

Ivo sighed melancholy and pointed to the sun outside the window, "I don't want the wind to become noisy. Ah, look, how soft the sunshine that represents peace is... Damn, it's so dazzling!"

"roll."

This is a Baria town, and it is the meeting point agreed between Li Ang and him.

"Why isn't Li Ang here yet?" Ivo muttered, simply picking up the newspaper and reading it again.

Barea has sent diplomats on goblin airships, and they are about to arrive in Lasces City.

When communicating between countries, no time is wasted waiting for envoys to be on their way.

The goblin airship is a fast and convenient means of transportation, and the speed is more than ten times that of a horse-drawn carriage. The airship is a product of goblin engineering, and the cost is high (very high). The money-grubbing goblins will not give any discounts even when faced with national procurement, so Airships are rarely seen on Frigga.

I heard that in Odin Continent and Muir Continent, airships are a regular means of transportation. Frigga is relatively wild and cannot compare with these two prosperous continents.

There was a steady knock on the door. When the door opened, it was the ordinary-looking Li Ang.

Ivo handed Sha Ya's bounty list to Li Ang, "The target has been solved."

Li Ang nodded with a slightly strange look on his face: "It seems that you are also responsible for the disaster on the eastern border of Baria."

Ivo was not surprised. With the Brotherhood’s intelligence capabilities, it was impossible to find Shaya’s death place, but he didn’t care. He raised his eyebrows and said, “The Brotherhood still cares about this?”

Li Ang's expression returned to normal, "No, this has nothing to do with the Brotherhood. You have completed your mission very well. Come with me and I will introduce you to the Brotherhood."

Ivo followed Li Ang, left the town, and moved forward in the wild.

Until dusk, the two came to a woods.

"What are you doing here?" Ivo asked confused.

Li Ang smiled slightly, identified the trees, and then lay on the ground and groped. Soon, he pulled out a chain full of yellow mud from the ground and pulled it gently.

There was the sound of mechanical operation underground, and a square and neat intersection slowly appeared on the ground, with stone stairs extending all the way down.

Ivo clicked his tongue in surprise, Li Ang walked in front and led the way, and Ivo followed behind.

After walking all the way down for five minutes, it finally turned into flat ground. After turning a corner, my eyes suddenly opened up.

This is an artificially excavated underground space. It is very large and the light is deep. In front of it is a dark underground river with gentle water flow. A simple wooden boat is tied to the shore, and torches are hung on the stone walls, extending into the depths of the underground lake. at.

"Get on the boat." Li Ang and Ivo got on the boat and rowed the boat along the river.

After paddling for ten minutes, the wooden boat docked. In front of him was a black door without any patterns, alone embedded in the stone wall, which looked very strange.

Li Ang clicked on the door a few times with his fingers, sometimes lightly and sometimes hard. With a click, a groove popped up on the door. Li Ang took out the brotherhood badge, pressed it into the groove, and twisted it hard, touching the mechanism. The door slowly opened.

Ivo kept these steps in mind and followed Li Ang in.

Behind the black door was a long corridor. At the end, it turned out to be a dimly lit tavern. There was only an old man wiping his wine glass and no customers.

Li Ang had no expression on his face and said to the old man: "I introduced new people to join the club and they passed the assessment."

The old man glanced at Ivo, pulled out a piece of paper from under the counter, and handed it to Ivo, "Name or nickname, race, occupation, referrer."

Ivo thought for a while and wrote the nickname "Hurricane", human race, warrior, and introducer Leon Geng Dadio.

The old man read it over and nodded: "Mr. Hurricane, the Shadow Brotherhood welcomes you to join. You are now a formal member of the Brotherhood, and Li Ang is your recommender. The top brass of the Brotherhood will evaluate you for about half a year. Evaluation After completion, if the higher-ups feel that you can be trusted, you will be able to obtain the official Brotherhood badge and be able to travel freely to the 'Shadow Tavern'."

"There are thousands of shadow taverns in the five continents. Just like here, the shadow tavern is a place where members of the Brotherhood gather, trade, exchange information and accept bounties." The old man said concisely and to the point.

Ivo was surprised. The power of the Brotherhood was beyond his imagination. Thousands of shadow taverns were equivalent to thousands of secret bases spread across every continent. This was a huge intelligence network.

The old man took out a stack of bounty lists, "This is Frigga's bounty list, normal level."

The brotherhood's bounties are also divided into levels. High-level bounties represent strong targets or high status, and can only be selected by senior members. This is also an intelligence sharing mechanism, and senior members can obtain more intelligence.

Ivo flipped through it casually and suddenly found a person.

"Count Mufakata Tuli, a native of Baria, head of the Tuli family, age forty-seven, currently the foreign minister of the Kingdom of Baria..." A series of political achievements were listed later. At the end of the bounty introduction, the most recent The updated message is also what attracted Ivo's attention: "The most recent location, Lasces City, represents Baria as a diplomat, negotiating with Lasces on the handling of border frictions. The employer requested that in Mufaka Tower Assassinate him before leaving Laces City."

Ivo's mind changed slightly and he had many guesses.

The person who first posted this bounty must want to provoke a war. It may be other forces that are eyeing him, or it may be Baria itself. In short, if Mufakata is assassinated in the capital of King Lassis, Baria will definitely not give up. , the situation became tense again.

Ivo kept this in mind, randomly selected a few bounties whose targets were evil people, and left the Shadow Tavern with Li Ang.

…

Returning to the town hotel overnight, the sky was already slightly bright. After bidding farewell to Li Ang, Ivo locked the door of the room.

He used the scroll to summon Xiao Hei, and passed the information about Mufakata's possible assassination to Nafi again. Then he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he joined the Brotherhood. Knowing this information, he could Lasces was on guard.

The war seems to have nothing to do with him, but in fact it has a great impact. If a war breaks out in Frigga, the safe area will be greatly reduced and the environment will become more dangerous. He is also thinking about himself.

Ivo was a little sleepy after not sleeping all day. According to his habit, before going to bed, he asked Lao De to open the memory battlefield and hone his combat skills.

Entering the memory battlefield, Ivo opened his eyes and was shocked to find that in front of him was not the familiar purgatory, but a dark forest.

"Old De, what's going on? Why did the background change?" Ivo asked confused.

Lao De's voice sounded faintly: "The source of the memory battlefield is my memory. I want you to see some things that happened before my eyes."

"What's up?"

Lao De said calmly: "Maybe you should take a look at your ancestors."

Ivo was stunned, turned around suddenly, and found behind him the demon statue of Lao De, with dark eyes shining with black light.

This is a demonic statue worshiped by the Mimic.

Usually when I update in the morning, it means I want to take leave...

Don’t worry, everyone, I’m not asking for leave today, it’s just an early update =_= There will be another update in the evening

The reminders in the group are too scary. I have to update before I get up, so that I can have a complete erotic dream...

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