Lord of War

v3 Chapter 22: Floris Hellman

   Located behind the Tonys Fortress, there is a castle that has just been completed recently.

The predecessor of this castle was actually an outpost on a supply line. At the beginning, the Ryan army did not trust that Asuna’s Fortress of Tonys could be turned off as she said. After all, if it is in Fort Tonys If it is breached, then the Dabian army will enter the area of ​​Yimapingchuan. In this area, Ryan has no terrain to defend, and at least one-third of the territory will fall, so it will be close to Tonis Fortress. An outpost was built here to the rear of Dabion to serve as a buffer point for Darbion’s army to break the Tonys Fortress.

  At the same time, this stronghold is also the final checkpoint of the most important supply route in Tonys Fortress.

  However, as Darbion was annexed by Ryan, Tonys Fortress naturally lost its value and function-at least on the surface. Therefore, this supply line was also cancelled, but this outpost stronghold was retained and was included in the rule of Tonys Fortress. After several rounds, this outpost stronghold was also converted into a castle in front of it.

  Perhaps because of the end of the war, the style of the castle is naturally not a war-like castle-except for the necessary battlements and sheaves, and jing towers, there are hardly any other defensive facilities. Even the moat was not excavated, not to mention facilities such as drawbridges, and even the number of soldiers stationed here was less than two hundred.

  However, from the top of the castle, you can see a large green field and an artificial lake in the distance. The scenery is infinitely beautiful.

  Every morning and dusk, at these two points in time, the owner of this castle will enjoy the scenery on the top floor of the castle. Occasionally, when I am in a good mood, I will enjoy the night breeze on the open-air roof at night, or play with my wives and concubines.

  Tonight, the owner of the castle is obviously in a good mood, because even on the ground floor of the castle, you can hear the man’s hearty laughter from the top of the building.

  But soon, the laughter was broken by a rush of horseshoes.

  The middle-aged man on the top floor frowned slightly, and quickly got up and walked to the edge of the platform, looking down at the bottom of the castle.

  Because of the bright lights, he can naturally see the situation outside the castle at this time.

  Perhaps he felt the fierce aura exuded by the castle owner at this time, and the laughter on the open terrace instantly fell silent. Soon, some guards quickly stepped forward and reported something to the middle-aged man. Others saw the middle-aged man’s face and soon became gloomy, and then quickly left, and several guards hurriedly. Keep up, these people are even more afraid to show up at this time.

  When the middle-aged man opened the door of the study on the second floor, there were already two people waiting in the room.

   These two people are the magician and illusionist who had escaped from Sean’s hands before.

  In this way, the identity of this middle-aged man naturally came out.

  "Master Floris." The magician hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Although as a high-ranking silver pinnacle magician, he also has the status of a viscount, but in front of Floris Hellman, the actual controller of the Tony Fortress today, he dare not show his position at all. The arrogance and superiority of a magician.

  While the magician saluted, the illusionist next to him also hurriedly bowed and saluted.

In the magic world, the status and status of the illusionist has always been much lower than that of the magician, so even though the illusionist's strength has been infinitely close to the upper silver, he still has not obtained any knighthood titles after all, not even a jazz. . Therefore, this illusionist still cherishes and values ​​this job where he can receive more than ten gold coins every month, and since even the magician next to him can abandon his own arrogance, then there is no status illusion. Why can't the teacher bow his head?

  Looking at the respect of these two magicians, Floris Heilman was not at all happy, his face was still very sinking.

Floris Hellman, although the title of this marquis is only for life, it does not seem to be extraordinary, but the twelve upper nobles in Ryan did not dare to underestimate this person for a very good reason. Simple, that is, this Marquis is the most loyal follower of the throne and the sharpest sword in the hands of the king of the Kingdom of Lane today. According to the secret channels of the nobles, one-third of the gray and black industries in the entire Kingdom of Lane are controlled by the marquis, and many of them are even related to their nobles.

   Therefore, no matter from which aspect, as long as the contradiction with this marquis is not to the extent of incompatibility, even the upper nobles will not rashly take action. After all, after the move, they must also consider whether they will endure the anger from the man on the throne.

  Along with the heavy footsteps of the Marquis of Floris, the hearts of the two magicians almost all touched their throats. After all, as long as such a person with high authority and great power, as long as he does not speak without showing any demeanor, then the invisible coercive aura will be as heavy as a mountain, oppressing others to dare not speak at will.

  This is also a kind of momentum.

   Outside the door, several guards quickly closed the door of the study, and then guarded them with their swords aside.

  In this castle, there is a clear rule.

  That is, once the door of the study on the second floor is closed, unless the door is opened from the inside, no one is allowed to approach it privately, otherwise it will be killed.

  And this rule, after the Marquis of Floris personally ordered the killing of his favorite pet who still trespassed regardless of the rules, no one dared to violate it again.

  At this moment, when the door was closed, a faint light was lit up in the entire study, and a very subtle magical fluctuation flowed slowly in the study.

Seeing this, the magician's eyes had an imperceptible arrogance, because the built-in magic circle in this study was originally arranged by him. As long as the door is closed, the magic circle will activate on its own, which can isolate everything. Detecting magic can also prevent eavesdropping and leakage of conversations in the room. Of course, the only disadvantage is that there is a huge demand for magic power. Basically, it needs to consume at least five elementary magic spars every hour, so the door of this study room will not be closed at ordinary times.

  Even if it is the actual controller of the Tony Fortress today, Floris Hellman’s estate cannot withstand such toss and waste.

Sitting on the chair behind the desk, Floris Heilman frowned. He glanced at the two magicians, and then said in a deep voice, "Why are you only two of you back? What about the others? ... You say What happened to the failure of his mission?"

  Floris Heilman's voice was a little low, which made his aura even more awe-inspiring.

  The magician is not bad. After all, he is one of the members of the Marquis-sama’s think tank. On the contrary, the illusionist is shivering and dare not even dare to show up. After all, in the present situation, if you really want to get it down to the bottom, you can only blame him for not having enough strength and failing to learn art. If he has some achievements before, then forget it, but it's not dead tonight. The mission was his first mission.

  Seeing the illusionist shivering a little, Floris's gaze swept over coldly, and the expression in his eyes was already obviously unkind.

  But at this moment, the magician spoke: "My lord, Rox is not to blame for this matter."

  This sentence successfully attracted Floris's attention, which made the illusionist couldn't help but cast a grateful look at the companion of the magician next to him.

"Talk about it." Floris still had some trust in the magician's ability. Since the magician had spoken at this moment, he also signaled the magician to continue speaking, "What the **** is going on? Why did everyone else did not return."

   "The old man... died in the battle." The magician hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.

   "What!" This time, Floris couldn't sit still at all, and he stood up suddenly, with an unbelievable expression on his face.

  But soon, this disbelief turned into a look of anger: "What the **** is going on! Why does this happen?"

  The old man refers to the middle-aged man holding a knife.

  He is the confidant of Floris and one of the most trusted people in Floris. In the system created by Flores, the middle-aged man is one of the few core members second only to Flores, and he takes over a lot of things, and basically any task will go through him. Then he implements the overall planning and arrangement, as if he is the manager in this system, and his strength is also the strongest among all people, so in private everyone calls him the old man.

Feeling the anger of Floris, the magician dared not sell any more, so he hurriedly said: "Not only the old man, no one will survive except me and Rox. If it weren't for us to go fast, It is estimated that the guards will be completely ruined there."

A trace of murderous intent flashed in Floris's eyes, but he didn't say anything. Instead, his face returned to calm, and he slowly sat back on the chair, posing as if he was listening carefully. And seeing Floris becoming so calm from rage, the magician's heart also jumped suddenly, a little more uneasy, but at this moment he could no longer keep anything, so he left. **Replace it.

"In the beginning, we really thought this was a very ordinary task, but it was not until the moment we met that we realized that this task was far from being as simple as the intelligence said." The magician felt a great pressure. It has been shrouded in him, and his tone of speech is a little trembling, even just saying such a sentence, there are already bean-sized beads of sweat on his forehead, "At the moment when the battle broke out, and It’s not as easy as we expected, but it’s a tough fight completely..."

   "What kind of hard fight?" Floris frowned and asked some in-depth questions on the details.

  If Sean could hear these questions, then he would be extremely shocked, and he would even change his opinion of Floris. Because these questions raised by Flores are all the most critical entry points in the entire battle, such as how Sean dodges the old man’s slashing energy, and what angle Rena is oblique from. Xiang Xiaoxu, there are some characteristics of that terrestrial dragon, and even when their illusions were discovered, Floris has not let go of these questions.

Originally, at the beginning, the magician didn't think too deeply, but he was asked so by Floris, and then repeated narrations and answers. Even if the magician didn't know much about the battle between melee professionals, He also found some problems and flaws in it.

   Suddenly, there was a sudden shock in his heart.

  At first, he just thought that the gap between the two sides of the battle was not particularly big. It was only at the beginning that he fell into a hard fight accidentally, and after seeing the old man's broken arm, he had the idea of ​​retreating. But at this time, after Floris's constant questioning and careful thinking, the magician discovered that at the beginning of the battle, when their illusion was seen through, they had completely fallen into a disadvantage.

  When the details of this battle were completely explained, an hour had passed, and then the whole study fell into complete silence.

  The magician and the illusionist both stood a little anxiously on the side, and no one dared to interrupt Floris's contemplation.

   "So, in the end you will make the decision to retreat?" Finally, after an hour and fifteen minutes of silence and depression, Floris finally spoke again.

"Yes." The magician nodded, "The situation at the time was that the opponent obviously still had a back hand. At least one powerful magician whose strength was far above me was condensing magic power. How much is a magician preparing for magic? It’s terrible, no one knows better than me, so I decided that even if the guards rushed up, it would only end up in annihilation, so I ordered the retreat, and rushed back as soon as possible to send this information. bring back."

Floris nodded, and his voice calmed down: "It is indeed a very important piece of information. The opponent's strength far exceeds our assessment, and the earth travel dragon is not an ordinary earth travel dragon....Of course the most important information. The important thing is the weapon used by the female warrior you mentioned."

   "My lord, about the female warrior, I probably know who it is." The magician said again.

  A jing light flashed in Floris’ eyes: "Who?"

   "I heard the young man call her Rina." The magician said respectfully.

   "You mean..." Floris' expression was obviously taken aback.

"From the point of view of the name, personal strength and the weapons possessed, it is very much like the goddess of war under the lord of Pandaling." The magician Shen Shenghui reported, "and although we don’t have any information about that lord at the moment. The news, but inferred from other aspects, the man who was able to easily escape the blow of the old man at the beginning is likely to be the Lord of Bandar."

"Are you sure?" Floris narrowed his eyes. "If I remember correctly, there is a long-standing grievance between the lord of Bandar and Brod, and this time this man has had contact and contact with Brod. "

"Yes." The magician nodded, "According to previous information, this is indeed the case.... But now Broad is very likely to become the Patriarch of the Rhodes family. In the face of absolute interests, the past. Small contradictions are naturally negligible.... So I boldly guess that Brod must have recognized the identity of the lord, so he chose to cooperate with him. As for the specific content of the cooperation, it is uncertain. ."

   Floris nodded slightly, but said nothing, then waved to let the two people leave.

  Seeing that Floris was not angry, and did not say anything, the magician's originally uneasy heart finally recovered a bit of calm. After bowing and saluting the illusionist, he left the study to see that Floris did not intend to leave, but was still thinking about something, so the magician opened the door of the study after leaving the study. Shut it, until then he was truly relieved, and his back was already completely wet.

  Flores, who was still sitting in the chair, didn't make any new movements. He still held his chin thinking about something.

  After about ten minutes, Floris finally said: "Shadow ghost."

   "Subordinates are here." In the empty room, a hoarse voice suddenly sounded. The voice was like two pieces of iron rubbing against each other, which was extremely unpleasant.

   "What do you think?" Floris said softly.

   "He didn't lie." The strange voice called the shadow ghost sounded again, "but that is just his speculation."

"Indeed." Floris nodded, his right hand was tapping gently on the table, and after thinking about it for a while, he said again: "I will give you two tasks.... First, follow. Go to those people and see if the man is really the lord. Don’t take a rush if you don’t have to. The lord is definitely not as easy to deal with as it seems, and at the same time give all this information to the guys in the Pofeng tribe. And tell them...The cooperation between me and them ends here, because the information they gave us was not thorough and complete, which led to heavy losses on our side. It is impossible for people who cannot trust each other to have any cooperation."

"Yes."

"The second thing... get rid of him." Floris said in a deep voice, but the murderous intent revealed in the words was very rich. It goes beyond the assessment of intelligence materials, but if he escapes immediately, he can save two people no matter what."

   During the whole process, this person known as the Shadow Ghost was in the audience, so he naturally knew that if the magician did not run away, even if the old man could not be saved, at least the two golden powerhouses would not die in battle. Of course, for the same price, this magician and illusionist would also likely die there. But compared to the two gold powerhouses, the hundred soldiers and two magicians with only the silver realm were nothing.

  Perhaps for other nobles, magicians in the silver realm are already very rare.

   But for a big figure like Floris Heilman, the magician of the silver realm is really nothing. (To be continued.)