The Journey of the Demon Hunter
Chapter 1171
"I don't know, unless they accidentally poked the evil ghost's nest while cutting down the trees?" Yaksou wiped the drops of sweat on his forehead. With such a large number of evil spirits, even a demon hunter would seem a little hard to deal with by swordsmanship alone. "Should we take the opportunity to break through? As long as we don't walk along the avenue, we can avoid the soldiers."
"Yes, get the horse blindfolds ready, let's rush out!" Sidrek nodded nervously and with some excitement. "I'm going to inform Joel and Hirodinger! You are watching here, don't let those evil spirits be led to us."
After all, Sidrek hurriedly left the city wall along the stairs and ran towards the castle. Aksou stared nervously at what was happening in the camp outside. Several Nilfgaards jumped on their horses, trying to escape on horseback. A rider's horse was frightened, his legs stood up and the soldier who had just sat on his back fell off. Two evil spirits immediately rushed forward, but he covered the remaining soldiers. One soldier ran too fast on horseback and hit a branch and flew out wearing a feather-decorated helmet. The other soldier rode a horse and fled to the south along the river bank. Behind him were three screaming monsters.
It didn't take long for the screaming in the camp to stop, leaving only the unbearable gnawing sound. The blood ran down the lawn into the ravine in front of the castle. Aksou stared closely at the movement of the evil ghost group. A few scavengers crawled out of the forest, a few evil spirits and scavengers roared at them, but soon, the evil spirits fell into the wind and could only get away from the edge. Several scavengers rushed up immediately, grabbing a corpse and feasting on them. The evil spirits who have lost their food can only run to the other side to **** the war horses and human corpses from other evil spirits.
Suddenly, Aksou found that the sky was darkening.
He raised his head and couldn't help but grow his mouth.
In the sky, two behemoths flapped their wings, suspended above the castle, and slowly descended. One of them was covered with golden scales and let out a deafening roar. The monster outside the city rushed into the forest like a frightened cat, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
A dragon landed steadily in the courtyard of the castle, and the fallen wings smashed the thatched shed at the back of the courtyard with a loud crash, and the stacked logs fell to the ground. Another dragon landed on a tower, its huge claws crushed the edge of the stack wall, and the gravel fell down.
"Why, what's going on?!" Inside the castle, the remaining demon hunters ran out together. The frightened horses in the stable smashed open the wooden fence, ran around, and almost knocked Joeel down.
"Oh, I'm sorry." The golden dragon buzzed. "Please forgive me, I will compensate according to the damage caused."
The other demon hunters opened their eyes wide and couldn't say a word.
"Yakesou, Joeel! Don't be in a daze, come here soon!" Guksart's familiar voice came from the tower. "Hurry up and get ready, let's get out of here!"
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ps: Some bosses found Ida Emin's character model in the game files, and Francesca's unfinished eyes. Ada Emin’s face model comes from Polish actress Ajata Terzebkhovska, who played Ida Ray in the acclaimed Polish movie Ida in 2013 Benstein, the images of the two are very close.
Chapter 1950 The Silent Listener
A group of Imperial soldiers died in a monster attack in Anglin.
The news soon reached the hands of other people who followed the matter.
"These dozens of people have all died in the hands of monsters?" Boswell threw the report in his hand on the table. "This is too coincidental? Is that the woman behind the scenes? Rumors in the north say that her lover is a demon hunter. Didn't she also name a few places that are not allowed to be harassed by the army? Several often There are demon hunters. Did she summon a group of monsters to attack the soldiers?"
The surrounding attendants stood quietly around.
"I sent a spy to investigate the scene." Keppel put his hands on his knees and said cautiously. "There are gnawed corpses everywhere, and there are no traces of hacking with swords on the corpses."
"Where is the Demon Hunter?"
"The demon hunters are gone. There are some signs of damage in their castle. It is strange. It may be a fight or it may not." Keppel hesitated for a few seconds. "The shed and stables in the courtyard were completely destroyed, and the castle was damaged, but there were no blood stains, and the bodies of several other demon hunters were not found. They disappeared and disappeared. However, there are monsters in the castle, as if climbing from the back mountain. Go in."
"A few demon hunters will not cause any trouble. Leave them alone. The real opponent is the woman from Baihuagu."
On the outer wall of the manor, the carriage drove through the cobblestone path under the faint light of lanterns, and rumbling into the distance. On the side of the river below the road, a petite figure rushed to the iron gate of the sewer like a mouse in the grass. She looked left and right with emotionless indifferent eyes. After making sure that there was no one nearby, she opened the fence door, held a small package in her arms, bent over, and entered the foul-smelling tunnel full of mud and garbage.
Boswell's manor was built on a low-lying land. The listener recalled in his mind the intelligence gathered by lurking on the nearby hillside in the past two days. There are forty-five guards inside, two at the front door and two at the back door. The manor is divided into four parts, the front yard, the garden, the back yard and the main building. Among them, there is a balcony on the second floor of the house, which can overlook the entire garden. There are more gardeners than guards in the garden. The gardener will leave work at seven in the afternoon.
At that time, they will be inspected by the guards and hand over with the guards who are going to enter the garden to stand guard. The handover time is about ten minutes. In order to prevent the manor from flooding in rainy days, the architect of the manor designed a good drainage system underground. The largest drainage entrance is located at the four corners of the garden, hidden and overgrown with weeds.
The listener stopped, and the sewers branched out in front of her. One was big enough for adults to pass through, and the other small enough to let garbage flow out along the sewage. According to the investigation information she collected in advance, the large tunnel was built by the local city hall, but after the construction of Boswell’s manor, the manor’s engineers occupied part of it as a drainage outlet. It's not big, but the size of the listener is just right to climb in.
Looking at the drain with a little sludge, the listener put down the package in his hand, took out a black cloth from the inside after opening it, tightened his mouth firmly, and tied the two ends of the cloth behind his head. Then he took out another black cloth with two glass lenses inlaid on it. She wrapped the cloth around her eyes, and tied the two ends behind her head again, and the glass piece was aligned with her eyes. Finally, using a string to tie the re-covered package to her arm to prevent her from dropping her hand, she squeezed through the gap in the fence and crawled into the tunnel through the mud and residual sewage.
"Benny, why didn't I see red wine on my table?"
Boswell's dissatisfied shouts came from the manor.
"Sorry, sir. I'm checking them out, so I'm going to get the wine."
In addition to the guests, there are certain things in the manor that can only be obtained by certain people. After all, it couldn't be easier to buy a servant to poison the wine.
There are too few trustworthy people.
Boswell leaned back on the backrest, feeling bored in his heart. Not everyone in the association had the same ideas as him. Especially after the Adenian war was frustrated, many people began to doubt whether the war would go as smoothly as they expected, and more importantly, before Aden was destroyed. , Once they turn their military power to attack Hundred Flowers Valley, can they ensure that the power lost in this war is minimal? Most people are hesitating. This morning, Emperor Enhill expressed surprise and anger at the stalemate in the battle of Aden at the court, as well as sneered at the incompetence of the army commander.
This is a signal.
They must not lose the command of this field army, and after the court meeting ended, rumors of the Hobbes army commander's inaction appeared in the streets and lanes of the imperial capital, and they could not even defeat the Yankee army of farmers and loggers. Some retired veterans gathered in front of the court of the Eternal Empire, reporting that the Hobbes legionnaire had sold ordnance to the rebels privately in the campaign to put down the Ebin rebellion, and deducted military pay. Generally speaking, the Eternal Empire Court only deals with one charge-treason. The sentence for treason is always the death penalty.
When the Second Northern War broke out, the total size of the imperial army reached 340,000, with 17 legions. Emperor Enhill left 40,000 people to maintain domestic security, and 300,000 soldiers were thrown into the battlefield. After the war, the empire lost nearly 80,000 people in the north. Among them, at the Battle of Brenner, the two main armies of the Central Army were completely wiped out. As a result, after the Northern War, there are only twelve legions left in the empire, with a total of 240,000 soldiers. But eight of them will be stationed on the long stretch of land from the Hinterlands to Nifgaard to maintain security and coastal defense.
The empire has never failed militarily in the past, and the power of the empire legion has made many southern countries frightened. Until two consecutive defeats in the north, the southern countries that were originally conquered began to move around again. Not to mention, Skellig had been transporting looted imperial goods and equipment to the south by ships to encourage the rebels.
No one expects the Imperial Navy to defend the coast. They are not the opponents of the Skelligites. After the fall of the Hinterland, the lord of the Tursek family, "Blood Red" Torjir, wanted to serve his dead brother, King East of Sintra. ·Tulsek had revenge, and even went south to looting the capital of the empire. Fortunately, the guards were finally blocked by the guards. And just four years ago, Crazy Quat, the wild boar of the sea, broke into the hinterland of Martina Province, supported the local rebels, and looted all the towns along the coast.
These **** pirates.
Thinking of this, Boswell patted his thigh. These pirates made him wonder how much gold he had lost, so that many merchants could only choose to use more time-consuming and laborious land transportation to transfer freight. The Merchants Association once sent people to bring large sums of gold to contact the Skelligs, but the result was simple. The Skelligs didn’t recognize gold at all, and their leader Krach would kill every Nilfgaard he saw. People.
"Boar of the Sea" Craggy Quett, Nilfgaard's mothers always use his name to scare children, and everyone in the empire always talks about the "Boar of the Sea" that often terrorist attacks on coastal provinces. Keep the voice down a bit. After the First Northern War, only Skelliger among the northern countries refused to sign the armistice agreement. They vowed to make Nilfgaard pay the debts for the sacrifice of East Turce in the Battle of Manada. K, keep fighting with Nilfgaard for the sake of Carrance. So even though the war between the North and the South has ceased, Skellig is still harassing Nilfgard, burning and looting the water fortresses in their provinces. So that this time when it launched an offensive to the north, the empire had to deploy an army in each coastal province to prevent the humiliating war situation of the past from recurring.
Only the four legions reorganized by 80,000 veterans and the imperial guards stationed in the imperial capital are in the hands of the emperor.
The emperor had the Army of Adra, the Army of Vikvaro, and the Janissaries, and the Army of Martina and the Army of Ebin were under the orders of the members of the Merchants Association. They barely maintained the balance of power, but this war... the North has never been a threat to the empire. It was not a threat from the emperor, nor a threat from the merchant association.
The emperor’s greatest enemy is the Merchants’ Association, and the Merchant’s Association’s greatest enemy is the Emperor. The Northern War is just an opportunity to reshuffle the cards, for them, and for the emperor. Once the real power of the empire was in the hands of the Senate, the Entrance family broke this tradition. Twenty years ago, someone solved Emperor Forgus, and as a result, Enshir regained the throne. However, Emperor Enshir not only did not express his gratitude to those who helped him, but even worsened. If they can weaken the emperor's power in this war, they will be able to bring the empire back to its ancient traditions. Assassinations and military coups are always the most common power overlaps in empires.
"Don't forget, if we can get the treasures of Hundred Flower Valley, we can spend money to form two legions and recruit those retired veterans to join our army. At that time, we will be in charge of the army."
"But Hundred Flowers Valley also has an army. If you fight on two fronts...Also, Livia surrendered under the lead of Francesca. Livia may be on the side of Hundred Flowers Valley, if they suddenly cut off Hobbes. It’s very possible that our legion will be completely trapped in the battlefield."
"When the sun finally sets, Keppel. The next day may be cloudy and rainy, there may be dense fog, but you can't always stand in place because you are worried about the risk." Boswell looked west through the window. Sunset. "The time has come to have a showdown with Enhill. There is no time for us to hesitate. We must do everything possible to gain more advantage. At most one year, we can decide whether our people are sitting on the throne of the Golden Tower or Enhill continued to show off on it."
At sunset, the last gardener walked out of the manor with the settled Mark silver coin. The captain of the guard directed his subordinates to close the gate while entering the garden to patrol the guard. They rarely enter there during the day, except for the watchtowers at the four corners of the manor. Because too many guards will affect the owner's view of the scenery. At the edge of the garden, the fence cover of a leaking spout was pushed aside, and the listener covered in mud squeezed it out, then lifted the string to pull the package up.
Open the package and take out a cloak. This cloak is all made of emerald green weeds. The listener put on the cloak, took off the cloth strips from the eyes and mouth, and put them in the empty bag. Finally, she tied the string that was connected to the parcel to the fence cover, put the cover back in place, and hung the parcel from the sewer entrance, hiding in the shadow below. Looking around, she got down and crawled into a nearby bush. The cloak covered her whole person. Not long after, two guards chatted and walked past her without noticing that another person was hidden in the flowerbed next to her.
Boswell usually meets with guests in the afternoon and takes them away at 8 o'clock in the evening. The listener calculates the time in his mind. The location of the lawn is just right to see the front door of the house, and it is not far away.
A sudden, silent attack.
"A sudden attack should kill those elves." Boswell touched his chin. "They only have more than 20,000 residents. Hobbs should be able to completely control Hundred Flowers Valley in one night. The Adian people have no time to react. At that time, when the treasure is found, we can not only tear off the agreement signed with Francesca. Just this treasure is enough for the Association to make enough profits in this war. Why bother about the 20,000 elves? Just let Hobbes catch them all in the valley and kill them all."
"Twenty thousand people killed?" Keppel was a little surprised. "This is too much..."
"This is just a necessary loss in business development. Keppel, when you get the treasure, set aside a little bit and build one or two schools and churches in a remote place. People will sing praises to you, and they won't Care about where your money comes from." Boswell waved his hand. The butler stepped forward and filled Keppel, who didn't know what to say, full of red. "You go and inform Hobbes to immediately attack Baihuagu. Oh, yes, first send a letter to the woman in Baihuagu, telling her that we are very supportive of her agreement and actions, and let her relax her vigilance."
"I understand."
"How is the situation with Hobbes?"
"He said that the Adenian line of defense is almost out of place. If there is no reinforcement, he only needs a single attack to completely destroy their army, and the soldiers will come to Van Geborg. It is said that King Sdennis of Aden has fled. Abroad, Van Geborg's morale is low."
"Very good. After Van Geborg is breached, I will send someone to investigate why the military strength of Aden is completely different from what we have explored before. There must be a problem here! By the way, Keppel, what do others say? "
"They...are still hesitating. Only Matthews clearly expressed their opposition. He believes that we should take the opportunity to stabilize the country and treat the North as a dumping market and raw material gathering ground."