The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When he came to the town outside Barbarisa Castle, Leo did not rush into the castle, found Barbarisa, and told him that he was indeed very likely to have the blood of the original god, but was not far from the castle gate. One of the open-air taverns in the pub sat for a while, watching the carriages coming and going on the street, and listening to the people in the tavern talking about what they knew.

Leo has already made a choice on the hillside outside the Sanctuary of the beginning. Although he does not know what the situation of the tree demons Lutassi and Devina is now, he believes that with the current capabilities of the two, he should not encounter it. It's too dangerous. If you want to find them, you need to leave this world and go to outer space. In that case, it is possible to sense the mark on Devina's body, and now he doesn't want to leave this world for the time being, so he can only temporarily Put the matter of Devina and the Dryad aside, and see if you can find them when you meet with Sylvia and go to the wizarding academy together.

Because he didn't go looking for Devina and the tree demon Lutasi for the time being, and he was not too far from Barbarisa's castle, he decided to solve Barbarisa's problem first, and by the way, let Barbarisa take care of him Wen Na's news to the Countess of West Green Emerald to avoid the other party's worries.

It was only after he came to Barberissa Castle that he found that the situation here was completely different from the last time he came to the castle.

The last time I came to Barbarisa's castle, in addition to Barbarisa's own guards, servants and townspeople, there were only some caravans passing through the town outside the castle, but now, the inside and outside of Barbarisa's castle can be said to be The crowds were crowded, not only were a large number of troops stationed in the open space outside the town, but all of them were military tents and barracks, and even the town outside the castle was filled with a large number of outsiders. The military tent was filled.

It is not difficult to see from the flags flying over these barracks that the troops in these barracks are Barbarisa's direct army, the lower-level noble coalition and the vassal noble coalition. Looking at the past, it is basically certain that Barbarisa can call up the army in a short period of time. have all gathered here.

With so many troops gathered outside the castle, Barbarisa certainly didn't just do it for fun, obviously something big happened on his side during this time.

Soon Leo learned from the conversation between the townspeople and the noble generals who temporarily lived in the town that Barbarisa was assassinated five days ago. He was not injured, but his children and wife were injured. .

Naturally, Barbarisa was extremely angry. On the same day, he used all the intelligence organizations in his hands to find out the forces behind the assassins, and followed the clues to find out the instigators.

The force responsible for sending assassins is an underground organization from other kingdoms. The members of this organization are assassins. The purpose of their organization is to kill all the powerful people in the world, because they think that the world is so chaotic because of the evil of the powers. , and the stronger the power held by the person in power, the more evil the person in power, even if the person in power was a saint before he took power, even if the person in power did countless good things after he took power, in their eyes the person in power is still Evil target to be eradicated.

This Assassin Organization used to operate in various countries around the Middle Kingdom region and never entered the Middle Kingdom region. This is not because they do not want to expand their organization to the Middle Kingdom region, but there is already an existing one in this region. A very old killer organization.

This ancient killer organization in the Middle Kingdom may not be comparable to that assassin organization in scale, but in this area of ​​​​the Middle Kingdom, it has an absolute advantage, enough to deal with any incoming enemy.

However, this time, the Assassin Organization found an opportunity to expand its power into the Middle Kingdom. Duke Joel, the master of the Black Swamp Principality, the largest force in the South of the Middle Kingdom, sent someone to find their organization and hired the strongest assassins of their organization. , assassinated Barbarisa, the Protector of the Middle Kingdom.

In the Middle Kingdom, Lord Protector Barbarisa and Duke Joel of Black Marsh can be said to be a pair of open enemies. The old Duke of Joel was also one of the most powerful contenders for the title of Protector, but unfortunately he lost in the end. It was given to Barbarisa, and he was seriously injured. He died less than two months after returning to the territory. In this way, Barbarisa and the Duke of Joel became mortal enemies.

The Duke of Joel, who succeeded later, once attacked Barbarisa's motorcade when Barbarisa went to a certain area near the Black Marsh to mediate disputes between nobles, but was ambushed by Barbarisa. The attacker suffered heavy losses and personally led the team. The Duke of Joel was captured.

At that time, Barbarisa did not kill Duke of Joel for some reason, but chose to give him a special punishment, that is, he personally took Duke of Joel to several major cities and noble territories in the Middle Kingdom, and in public The flogging to a large extent directly caused the reputation of Duke Joel, who had a good reputation at the time, to plummet.

However, this Duke of Joel is also capable. Even with his reputation plummeting, he still managed to quell the civil unrest in the Black Swamp through several years of expeditions, negotiations, and marriages. The kingdoms on the fringes of the Middle Kingdom region are allied.

Although Duke Joel's main energy over the years has been on mastering the Black Swamp, his hatred for Barbarisa has not weakened at all, and he has always been looking for opportunities to strike a fatal blow to Barbarisa.

In the end, he found that Barbarisa would meet with ordinary civilians and farmers at close range every time during the autumn harvest festival, and listen to the opinions of these people at the bottom, so as to revise his policies, and at the same time show his own people. With grace and confidence.

So, he found a foreign assassin organization that had absolutely nothing to do with Barbarisa, and hired them to take this opportunity to assassinate Barbarisa.

Although the assassin had excellent organizational ability, he directly disguised himself as a few ordinary civilians, deceived Barbarisa's various personnel who were in charge of security on the day of the interview, and successfully carried out a near-perfect assassination of Barbarisa.

The reason why it is said to be close to perfection is that they underestimated Barbarisa's ability. As a result, when the assassination was about to succeed, all the assassins were distracted by Barbarisa. The knights of the Guards caught it, while Barbarisa's wife and children were badly wounded.

If Barbarisa himself was injured, maybe even if the assassination is found out, there is still the possibility of negotiation, but this time it was his wife and children who were injured, which directly touched his taboo, so after the investigation was found, the behind-the-scenes instigators were After that, he didn't follow any rules at all. He first sent messengers to be held accountable. Instead, he directly issued a gathering order to the directly affiliated legion, subordinate nobles and vassal nobles, ordering the army to gather at the castle, and at the same time publicly declared war on the Black Swamp and drove them away. Some of the centrist nobles who were trying to persuade him to negotiate the matter looked like they were about to make a clean break with Black Marsh.

At present, about 70% of the troops that Barbarisa called have arrived, and the other four nobles near the south have not come, but have been assigned to several strategic points to enter the south, waiting for the army here to move south and join them. confluence.

The war that is about to take place in the south can be said to be a matter of concern to the Middle Kingdom and its surrounding countries. First of all, this is because the Middle Kingdom has not had such a war of 2000000 or 300000 people for many years. Although the Middle Kingdom There are frequent regional wars, but those wars are only tens of thousands of people at best, and they are all local battles, and there are few large-scale wars. Now this upcoming war will undoubtedly set a new record for the number of people in wars in the Middle Kingdom. It's hard not to pay attention.

Secondly, many people think that this war may be the candidate to decide the future unification king of the Middle Kingdom.

The legend about the emergence of a unified king in the Middle Kingdom to establish a unified kingdom has been circulating for a long time, and the various versions add up to hundreds of people. It is now recognized as the most qualified person to become a unified king. Naturally, it was Barbarisa, the protector of the state who was canonized by a living person, but below Barbarisa, there are several duchy lords with large territories. Now the Duke of Joel, who hired someone to assassinate Barbarisa, is one of them. One of the most powerful people.

After this war, whether it is Barbarisa's victory or the Duke of Joel's victory, it will inevitably annex the other party's territory, unify most of the land in the south and the middle, and become the southern hegemon of the Middle Kingdom. There are still some duchy lords in other parts of the kingdom, but their strength and power are already too far behind the new southern hegemons, and there is basically no possibility of confrontation.

In the eyes of some good folks, Barbarisa is righteous, famous for his apprenticeship, his personal prestige and charm far surpass all the nobles in the Middle Kingdom, and he is very loved. , so his odds of winning can be said to be much higher than the Duke of Joel, whose reputation has just recovered a little.

However, Duke Joel is not without any chance of winning. In the past few years, he has calmed down the chaos in the Black Swamp, not only with negotiation, but also with a very powerful black mud army and rich combat experience. Barbarisa's legion, which has been in truce for many years, is obviously much stronger.

In addition, in order to enhance his power, the Duke of Joel married several countries bordering his territory. Not only did he marry the princess of a nearby kingdom, but his daughter and son also married the great nobles or royal families of the surrounding countries. Having signed several secret agreements, with the backing and support of these countries outside the Middle Kingdom region, his foundation is slightly better than Barbarisa's to some extent.

Barbarisa is also clearly aware of his own shortcomings, so after he publicly declared war, he was not in a hurry to start a war, but after the army was called, he conducted daily combat recovery training within each legion, and summoned the noble officers of each legion. Going to the castle with the generals and training with the secret legion, although doing so will consume a lot of food and grass, Barbarisa does not seem to care about the consumption of this food and grass, and it seems that he is ready to fight a war of attrition. .

After learning about Barbarisa's current situation, Leo waited until the night, directly used the ability of the Shadow Sorceress Su, hid in the shadow of the carriage going in and out of the castle, entered the castle, and then found Barbarisa through the spiritual net. position, sneaked over there.

I don't know if it was simply to prevent outsiders from sneaking in, or to avoid being assassinated again, Barbarisa set up a lot of bright and dark posts inside and outside the castle, and also arranged some extraordinary items for vigilance in some places.

For ordinary people and ordinary extraordinary people, this arrangement is more than enough, but for Leo, this arrangement is useless. He directly interferes with the thinking and cognition of everyone in the castle through psychic energy. In the eyes of these people Leo is an acquaintance who works in the castle. Even if he looks opposite, he will not feel anything wrong.

In this way, Leo sneaked out of the room where Barbarisa was in this open and honest way, and then directly pushed the door and walked in.

I saw that this room was a very large bedroom. In addition to a large bed, there were two small beds in the bedroom. There were people lying on these three beds. They were Barbarisa's wife and children. It seemed that they had fallen into some kind of high-fever coma, and the servants in the room would put iced towels on their foreheads from time to time to cool them down.

Barbarisa was sitting on the edge of the bed where his wife was at the moment. UU reading www.uukanshu.com looked sad, looking at his wife lying on the bed with blank eyes, holding his wife's right hand tightly with both hands, chanting words in his mouth, you can listen It should be some kind of prayer.

Although Barbarisa was ordained a saint by various True God churches, he himself did not believe in gods very much, but now he is like a very devout believer, asking for help from an unknown god, obviously his heart is now extremely desperate .

Since he was assassinated that day, his wife and children have fallen into a coma, with repeated fevers and the feeling that they will die at any time.

At first he thought it was the poison that had been smeared on the weapon of the assassin when he assassinated him, and that his wife and children had been wounded by this weapon, and the poison had penetrated into their wounds and mixed with the blood, which is why Incessantly fell into a coma.

However, the doctor in charge of the treatment quickly gave a different answer. There is no poison in the wound. His wife and children are sick. If they want to recover, they need to use exchange blood therapy to replace the sick blood on the patient. It is also the reason why Barbarisa is hesitant now.

Although exchange blood therapy is an ancient medical technique, many well-known people in the past know this method, but this method is too dangerous. If it is wrong, it may cause the death of the patient. Barbarisa is not sure about his wife and children. His physical condition, whether he can survive the blood exchange process, so he is still hesitating and has not made any decision.

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