Dark Redemption of Elf

When he first joined the army, he was only 16 years old, which was the minimum age for joining the army. At that time, the Yaolan Kingdom was competing with the Swisston Kingdom for control of the Pingxi Mountains. The Pingxi Mountains were not only rich in mineral resources, but also a natural Barrier, whoever can occupy it is equivalent to occupying the opponent's gate, and whoever can take the initiative in the war.

At that time, he wanted to fight hard and earn military merit in exchange for a lot of money to subsidize his family's expenses. He was just a child born into a poor peasant family with elderly parents and a young sister. The war made them live a poorer life, but their father was already old. Perhaps to prevent his sister from being sold by his parents, he resolutely chose to join the army.

As a result, the veterans there laughed at and bullied him because he was too young. They asked him, a newcomer, to do everything from moving things, washing clothes, and cleaning toilets. They said it was to train him as a recruit, but these tasks were done by him. Qidu endured it silently.

It wasn't until the first time his military pay was distributed that his military pay was secretly withheld by his superiors. It was the money he was going to send home. This made his long-simmering hatred completely burst out, but how could he, a new recruit, beat him? A veteran of his team.

He went to his superiors to argue, but because he was only a 16-year-old recruit and was born in a poor family, no one paid attention to him. Then the veterans bullied him even more severely, finding various reasons to punish him corporally from time to time.

There are regulations in the army that superiors have the right to corporally punish subordinates, but subordinates have no right to take action against their superiors. This can only make them endure it silently and wait for promotion in the future.

In a small encounter, he moved forward bravely and vented all his long-standing resentment on the soldiers of the Kingdom of Switzerland. A 16-year-old boy killed 5 or 6 regular soldiers of the Kingdom of Switzerland in a row. This achievement was enough to He rose to the rank of sergeant.

As a result, when reporting the matter, his squad leader gave the credit to his trusted subordinates. He then went to his squad leader to argue, only to receive a burst of ridicule and a whip mark on his palm.

What power do you have, there is no way out. …

This planted the seeds of his desire for power for the first time in him. After that, he silently endured the usual injustices as always, secretly training his body crazily, and looking at the whip marks on his hands every time he was about to lose his strength. Finally, his body that was originally a little thin and malnourished became a little stronger, but the people around him seemed to be used to bullying him, and he was used to enduring it silently.

Until one time, their team was ambushed by the enemy, and the entire 20-man team was wiped out except for him.

He fell asleep exhausted in the middle of the pile of corpses until the Yaolan army discovered him and brought him back to the camp. From then on, he became famous. At that time, the Yaolan Kingdom was showing signs of retreat. The top brass of the army wanted to create a heroic image. ,Boost morale. Deliberately exaggerating this incident, they said that their team was surrounded by three times their own strength, successfully counterattacked and killed the enemy, and survived.

He immediately became a squad leader, and his life seemed to have a new beginning. All his subordinates were new recruits, and they all looked at Fnovich timidly. But he did not deliberately and maliciously punish them, but trained them fairly and actively. This allowed him to win most of his subordinates' trust and also made his team an elite team.

This made him feel the benefits of power for the first time, but then the battle became more and more intense, and his team had to obey orders from their superiors and perform some dangerous tasks.

He didn't want to die, he also wanted to go home and see his parents and sister one last time. But I don’t know how long this war will last... The two countries competed with each other on the tops of the Pingxi Mountains. One day it was the flag of the Swisston Kingdom, and the next day it was the flag of the Yaolan Kingdom. The sky was full of magic and arrows. Rain makes him live in fear every day.

In order to survive, he had no choice but to climb up at all costs. He ordered his men to die on his behalf. Those who agreed were fine, and those who refused were forced to agree, gradually accumulating a lot of military merit through the lives of his men. When the men die, replace them with a new batch, and repeat this process.

With luck and strength, he managed to survive.

War is often the fastest way to rise in rank. The ten-year war finally made Funovich the leader of a cannon fodder regiment. However, his eager desire for power also made him neglect contact with his family. Finally, both the Kingdom of Yaolan and the Kingdom of Swisston were exhausted, and in After the church's mediation, both sides agreed to a truce. The two sides used the Pingxi Mountains as their border and were not allowed to invade again, otherwise they would face attacks from the church's Silver Knights.

Just like that, the war...is finally over.

But among the many legion commanders, he was the only one who was born a civilian. No matter how hard he tried, he could never get the recognition of the other legion commanders.

So he took retreat as an advance and put down all his military duties. In exchange for a marquis title and a large area of ​​land in the Thorn Territory, he returned home in rich clothes with some of his subordinates who were loyal to him.

He did not tell his family about his situation. Because he was obsessed with fighting for power, he did not receive news from his hometown for a long time. I returned to my hometown with excitement, only to find that everything has changed...

A year ago, a local noble lord with royal blood fell in love with his sister and forced her to be his concubine.

But I heard that he was just a playboy who played with other people's bodies and then abandoned them when he got tired of playing with them.

His sister refused to die, so the nobleman killed his parents, and his sister was missing. Neighbors in the village said that his sister had gone to the Pingxi Mountains in the north to look for him.

He sent out all his men like crazy to look for him, but there was no news.

Angry, he secretly sent someone to kill the noble, and then secretly developed his own power in the Thorn Territory alone. In order to gain more say in the future, the Thorn Territory, which had become barren due to the war, finally became barren under his hard work. He became rich and eventually attracted the attention of the king.

How could King Yaolan see that a remote nobleman was getting stronger and stronger, so he tried every means to suppress Fnovic. He didn’t even know why, but King Yaolan actually uncovered the mysterious death case of the royal nobleman more than 20 years ago. Various clues pointed to him, which made him feel a sense of crisis after he originally decided to let go of some power.

He believed that if he blindly tolerated it, he might not get a good result, but a direct assassination from the imperial capital.

Nobles large and small appeared in the Thorn Territory and divided his power, but he still tolerated it.

Suddenly a mysterious organization approached him and expressed its willingness to cooperate with him to overthrow the country. After they showed some miraculous strength, the ambition buried deep in his heart resurfaced, and he decided to... launch a rebellion!

He was born in the Territory of Thorns, and with more than 20 years of hard work, the people in the territory trust him very much. In addition, the terrain is difficult, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are many loyal veterans. He was confident of building a new nation.

"Your Majesty the Marquis," a voice suddenly reached Fnovich's ears.

The Marquis opened his eyes silently. He had been used to this kind of thing for a long time. This was how the man in black suddenly appeared in his study without telling him about the many guards in the courtyard.

"What's the matter? Laurent" Fnovic half-opened his eyes and silently looked at the black-robed magician hidden under the hood. His instinct as a soldier told him that this man in black at least had With seventh-level strength, or even higher, he is fully capable of killing him, but whether he can escape among the many guards in Thorn City is a big deal.

In the Dawn Continent, even an eighth-level warrior cannot slaughter an entire legion alone. And a ninth-level expert would be furious when he encounters a determined army of 100,000 people. Only by slowly consuming it can an army be exhausted to death.

"I heard that the second wave of imperial envoys are still being held in a cell by the Marquis," Laurent said grimly with a strange smile on his lips.

"So what?" Fnovic looked at Laurent coldly. If the king hadn't discovered that he secretly sent people to murder nobles of royal blood more than 20 years ago, no matter how ambitious he was, he would not have rashly launched it. Rebellion, it is completely possible to be a leisurely big lord in this remote area.

"Mr. Marquis, could it be that you still want to keep some room for maneuver?" Now Fonovich only had the idea of ​​rebellion, but he did not take action. He had a hundred ways to leave the matter of privately imprisoning and murdering the special envoy of the royal capital to those who were doing it. A minor nobleman who was placed under house arrest by him.

"I will definitely leave a way out for myself, because I am on the surface. Unlike you, I don't even have a name." Fnovic said coldly. He still doesn't even know the name of the other organization. I know that the other party is very powerful.

"Name, haha." Laurent smiled: "Our organization has just been established not long ago, and you don't even know if I tell you."

Fnovic looked at the man in black coldly and said nothing. Now his power was basically controlled by the other party, but he knew almost nothing about them. This feeling made him very unhappy.

"Forget it, it's okay to tell you." Laurent looked at the Marquis' expression and knew that if he didn't say something, this unstable alliance would probably break. He raised his head with a fanatical expression: "I come from the Church of the Damned, a great church looking for a way to live forever"

"Immortal?" Fnovic's eyes narrowed slightly. This kind of immortality is still very tempting for a high-ranking figure like him, but he just thinks about this somewhat unrealistic goal. Don't take it seriously.

"Then why are you helping me?"

"Because the master asked us to help you, we will help you," Laurent said mysteriously.

Of course Fnovovich would not believe such perfunctory words, but he would not continue to ask. As long as it was beneficial to him in actual actions, it would not matter whether he asked or not.

"You said you wanted to help me, but I haven't seen any meaningful practical actions from you so far. You just broke the magic barrier of the Elf Forest. I secretly controlled the affairs of the Blood Wolf Thieves Group and the Royal Capital's special envoy. of"

"There will be actual actions, but the time has not come yet. Please be patient, Lord Marquis." Lawrence said solemnly: "Whether it is the recognition of the church, the help of the Kingdom of Switzerland, or the help of our cursed church people, it will come."

"That's good." Fnovic's expression softened. At the same time, there was a hint of fear in his heart about the Cursed Church. It could actually extend its power to the Kingdom of Swisston and the Holy See, and it also had certain influence over these two forces. influence.

"You were the one who released the news about the undead dragon in the Pingxi Mountains, right?" Laurent suddenly broke off his fingers and made a crisp sound.

"Undead dragon!? Wasn't that discovered by a mercenary? I was afraid that it would attack the civilians in the northern part of the Thorn Territory. In order to gain the support of the territorial people, I sent someone to issue a bounty. You have to know that the most important thing is to build a new country. It's the approval of the people." Fnovic frowned slightly, he didn't like to see others doing such frivolous actions in front of him.

"Oh, a mercenary has that kind of skill and spirit. Your thorn territory is really amazing." Laurent said coldly: "I know you want to test our intelligence. Believe me, we will not let you down. And by the way, I will help you suppress the disobedient nobles nearby and help you establish your prestige. Anyway, the undead dragon is just an experiment."

"Really, thank you very much," Funovich said lightly. Of course he sent those mercenaries. Various signs showed that these men in black came from the Pingxi Mountains in the north, so he secretly sent people to investigate. As a result, an undead dragon and some magicians also wearing black robes were found.

In order to learn more about them, he published information about the Pingxi Mountains and offered a high reward. The purpose is to attract mercenaries and adventurers from the entire Thorn Territory to check it out.

"By the way, I heard that the Marquis had a sister before," Laurent said abruptly.

"What? How did you know?" Fnovic's expression changed. How did they know about what happened more than 20 years ago? Only some of his most loyal subordinates knew about this matter.

"I learned this by accident. If the Kingdom of Thorns can be successfully established, maybe the Marquis, or the King of Thorns, can meet his sister again." After Laurent finished speaking, he turned and walked out. door.

"What did you say?" Fnovich didn't have time to say it, and lay down heavily on the chair with a complicated expression. He served as a soldier in the north when he was young, but he served as a soldier for ten years and was unable to see his parents for the last time. This has always been a problem. A thorn in his heart was now that he learned that his sister was still alive.

Even though it had been more than 30 years since he last saw his sister, he had a very good relationship with her since childhood. Years of power disputes still made him feel a little tired, and a longing for family affection suddenly ignited in his heart.