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The wound on Lucien's body was not deep. Although the knife was indeed pierced in, Andasi could tell that it was definitely not a wound that was serious enough to make people vomit blood on the spot.

Andasi immediately realized that he was being used as a tool by the little lunatic Lucien, but at this moment, the person passed out in his arms, his face pale and gassy, ​​as if he would die in a second, and the surrounding screams The noisy eyes that fell on him reminded him eight hundred times that he was on the same boat as this little lunatic.

Lucien capsized, and he couldn't even get ashore.

When his thoughts turned, Andasi's body reacted faster than his brain, and immediately made an expression of anger, shock and nervousness, bit the bullet and used the most decent acting skills he could work hard to put Lucien in his arms, cold He shunned the bystanders who were trying to get closer to avoid being noticed, and then Lawrence, who was also shocked and working hard on the other side of the hall, exchanged glances with Dalton to pick up his scene-"Please don't panic, stand over here! Dalton raised his voice to attract the attention of the guests, and Lawrence grabbed Elaine, who was still in a daze, in two steps in three steps, dragging him and Andersi, leading them to enter through the small door in the corner Banquet lounge.

When suffering from flesh and blood injuries, the mage's healing spells and the priest's divine spells are both more reliable than the doctor's medical skills. Lawrence accurately positioned these two tools from the beginning of the banquet.

The lounge hidden behind the secret door in the corner is very hidden, and the entrance passage has been occupied by Lucien and Andasi from the beginning of the banquet, so there are no guests in it to disturb the situation. Lucien put it down, giving Priest Elaine a space to focus on performing divine spells.

"Sorry, please make room for a little bit." Lawrence politely separated the priest Elaine and Lucien a little further away - even if he didn't move like this, the priest Elaine subconsciously stood a few steps away from Lucien place, dazzled by the scarlet and wet large bloodstains on the white dress.

"Please help the Duke." Lawrence also politely used (?) Andasi as a tool man, using Andasi's ocher-red mage robe and slightly plump figure as an archmage as well as his own body to cover Eli Priest Nuo saw the wound directly, raised his hand and pulled out the dagger stuck in Lucien's lower abdomen firmly.

The angle and force of the knife were well grasped, piercing the surface of the skin while avoiding the internal organs, and at the same time accurately piercing the blood bag in the clothes. Exhibits bleeding far beyond what the wound should be.

It was as if a knife had penetrated the internal organs and separated the arteries, causing a fatal wound.

The white light of the blade flashed with bloodstains, and Elaine gasped in reflex, and her heart stopped beating. I don't know if it was because of the heavy bleeding or when Dalton drew the knife. Pay attention to the angle, he vaguely felt two drops of wet liquid splashed on his cheeks.

He was not an adventurer like Andasi who was born without blinking his eyes when he saw a wound. Lawrence had already begun to proficiently heal Lucien before he pulled out his knife. Facing the bloody scene related to Lucien for the first time, the knife-edge flashed blood and brought him back to the death scene of the former consul. Under the double impact, Lawrence yelled several times before he regained his senses with a shiver, and stuttered and began to meditate prayers.

Lucien frowned in a coma, and uttered painful and restless dreams. The carmine that had been rubbed on his face to add blood color now made him as pale as a dead person.

Andasi kept buffing this little lunatic to heal and restore blood—at this time he had to curse Lucien's waste physique with his real name. No magic talent meant that the body was less sensitive to elements. Not only did the recovery potion have little effect on him, but the recovery Class spells are equally effective with half the effort.

While reciting the spell silently, he noticed Lucien's scars hidden in the tightly gathered cuffs.The wrist is the most commonly used location for bloodletting treatment. Lucien once dissed him that bloodletting treatment was meaningless during a chat, but apparently Lucien had found a better way to use bloodletting treatment.

Is there any raw material in this world that is more suitable for making blood bags than my own blood?

The swear words in Andasi's heart became louder.

"How…

...How could this be..." Priest Elaine's lips trembled, and the words choked in his throat a few times before he could speak. Lawrence stared at Lucien's face without looking back at him, and only replied in an angry and cold tone Said: "Then you have to ask our honorable noble lord. "

Elaine, the officiant, smelled the strong and dangerous smell of the coming rain with his instinct of jumping left and right on the wall.

He opened his mouth, wanting to speak to persuade something - once the power of the lord's side clashed head-on with the Union of Nobles, he would definitely not be able to maintain his current position of sitting firmly on the wall and not offending either side, and then he would lose the "divine right" A symbol of initiative.

But he looked at Lawrence, whose back was full of murderous looks, and Andasi, who was still stained with Lucien's blood on his sullen beard, and couldn't make up words in his mind that would please the two of them.

His only hope at this moment is Lucien who is in a coma. As long as Lucien can wake up and say something, the atmosphere in the lounge will not be so cold that his hairs stand on end.

This made him chant the prayers even more desperately, and he never prayed more devoutly than now that Lucien's wounds are fine and that he can wake up quickly.

——Interestingly, he wasn't worried that Lucien would be furious after being assassinated when he woke up, and he would completely fight the manor owners to the death.

What's more interesting is that the guests who were semi-forcibly invited by Doton to stay in the guest house also thought so, and even the assassins who were caught by the guards of the manor thought this way.

Duke Velvet will not completely confront someone head-on, even if he is the one who was assassinated.

……

When the "Assassin" in black was chased by the guards and fled into the depths of the forest, Lucien's guard captain, Sloter, was calmly sorting out the information he got.

Sloat was William's former adjutant, a young and talented mage.

Slote had to say that the assassin sent by the other party was tougher than he expected this time, which forced him to use some extraordinary means and took a lot of time to get the information he needed, so that Tuvalan was chased by the guards. When I rushed in out of breath, the scene that should have been arranged was still a mess and no one could be seen.

This is called Tuvalan hurriedly changed his clothes to help set up the scene without even breathing well, the assassin's black clothes he changed were rubbed, rubbed, burned to ashes by Slott's fire spell, and buried in the soil, he couldn't see in the night Leave a trace.

"Have you asked?" Tuvalan asked in a low voice.

Sloat nodded, "Of course." He paused, and then said a little annoyed, "It's the same as the lord's guess."

Tuvalan sighed cooperatively—when the assassin was caught, Lucien happily bet with them which nobleman was behind the scenes. Although they only bet one silver coin, it was always not so easy to lose the bet. happy things.

"If you give me a little more time to think about it..." Sloat muttered in such a low voice, but he also knew that the plan to capture the assassin and push the boat along the way was the lord's "I have a little idea" for today, but never knew the black market From the day the reward was offered, Lucien speculated about the possibility behind it one, two, three when he was bored.

In fact, the story that happened today was basically the line of the script that Lucien improvised at the time, otherwise they would not have been able to catch the assassin immediately when he sneaked in.

Naturally, the noble family that offered the reward was also the one Lucien guessed.

"The main purpose of offering a reward is not to really want to kill me, otherwise, I wouldn't have set such an outrageous price." Lucien said at the time, knowing that he was only worth [-] crystal coins seemed to make him feel better than being offered a reward Oops.

"However, there must be no fools to pick up this kind of business, and I should arrange a fake assassination to give me a sense of crisis. As for whether I will be exposed, I should not be so worried. I probably think that as long as I am not seriously injured, not only will I not If you pursue it, you will be deterred instead."

Otherwise, Lucien has worked hard for several months to establish a well-designed character set in the hearts of the manor owners, is it for nothing?

That is his greatest weapon.

——How to predict how others will react to your behavior?

——Based on the impression you left on the other party through your daily words and deeds, that is, your "personality" to infer.

If you are cowardly, you will be taken advantage of, if you are humble, you will be taken advantage of, and if you are generous and kind, you will be the best tool to be used.

And when you want the other party to do something, you just need to make good use of your "personality" and push it lightly - the dominoes will fall by themselves.

The manor owners did not deny that there was a part of Lucien's character that was insane and crazy that could not be deduced by common sense, but they believed more in the conclusions they had drawn from observing Lucien's daily life.

I like document summarization, I like to discuss in meetings, I like to discuss with others, but it is difficult to make decisions by myself-cautious, soft and lack of self-confidence.

He punched the former consuls hard, but he was kind to them. Negotiations were all about trying to reason at a banquet -- bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

Even if the construction progress was repeatedly hindered, it was only to solve the obstacles they set, without even warning them-it was obvious that he was not willing to cause a direct conflict, and tried his best to maintain a superficial peace.

At the same time, Lucien also has labels such as being sensitive and considerate, which cannot be considered commendatory in this context.

In addition to this, there is the most important point - on the night of the banquet with the manor owners, when the head maid Lucien personally testified that "the lord is not in a good mood", Lucien's first reaction was Instead of meeting his subordinates, he had an appointment with Archmage Andasi, and since then he has been complaining about his illness, and the number of guards around him has increased a lot with the naked eye.

Through these reactions, combined with the commonality of some wastes who were born as nobles like Lucien but without talent, it is easy to draw the conclusion that this young lord is seriously insecure about the surrounding environment, and Coupled with his sensitive and apprehensive nature, any violent conflict will give him the illusion of danger around him, and have a strong mental oppression on him.

They don't believe that a gust of wind in the summer can blow people so sick that they can't get up.

Such a person would not tear themselves apart with them. He definitely did not have the courage to fight the Noble Federation head-on. The stronger and more dangerous the opponent, the more cowardly he would be. Giving him oppression and deterrence would force him to give in to them.

So under the psychological hint given by such a character design, just as Lucien expected, someone jumped out and wanted to show him some flair, to let him know that Velveer is not a place that he, a waste, can control.

With a method that cannot be put on the stage and made public, even the aristocratic council of the imperial capital cannot say a word about Lucien's rebellion.

Offering a bounty on the black market was an unexpected and reasonable route for Lucien, and from the day the bounty was offered, Lucien was ready for the day when he would have to bleed some blood and then give himself a knife.

He knew that they just wanted to scare him with a feint shot, and let him receive a certain amount of external pressure when he was sick, so he felt that there were safety hazards around him, and he had no time to pay attention to other things.

But the story may also develop like this: the assassin confiscated the hand and let the lord walk through the gate of hell, so the lord, who deeply felt the threat of his life, decided to eradicate the source of his fear directly due to excessive fright.

As we all know, the first strike is the best.

Sloat went over the set one last time, squinting at the stars.

He thought that William and his fellow guards should have started working overtime tonight.

There are only sporadic stars twinkling in the sky, you can't see your fingers in the night, the temperature and the wind blowing are just right, it is a good weather to see blood.