Chapter 264: The Faceless One (38/102)
Because of the harsh selection, there are only more than a hundred Faceless in the entire Shadow Organization, and this number is still accumulated over the past twenty years, and the Faceless have been officially on duty since they were twenty years old, and they will be abandoned when they are forty years old.
This means that at the most, there will only be one hundred and forty Faceless Ones in the entire Shadow Organization.
Since they are all very dangerous tasks, there will always be some attrition over the years, which makes the average number of people always maintain around a hundred.
At the moment, these two faceless ones are Eugen transferred from Jacob to protect him, with these two people, not to mention that the second young master only brought two personal guards, even if he brought a whole team of personal guards, Eugen would be able to leave safely.
At this moment, the second young master looked at the two people blankly, the strong sense of fear almost suffocated him, he had only heard of the mysterious legends of these faceless people, in the mouths of adults, they were the devils who were used to scare children.
When children are sometimes mischievous and unwilling to sleep, their parents will say in a threatening tone: "If you don't behave, someone hiding in the shadows will come and take you away." ”
It can also be seen from this that this mysterious assassination organization has a terrible reputation.
His own guards were restrained, the second young master was so frightened that his legs trembled, he turned his head to look at Eugen, forcibly showed a stiff smile, and said flatteringly: "Hehe, that, Count Eugen, I was joking with you just now, I hope you don't mind." ”
Eugen rolled his eyes, didn't bother to talk to him, and directly raised his hand and slapped the second young master's face.
The second young master was volleyed up by this slap fan, and it took five or six turns in a row before falling to the ground, and then the whites of his eyes rolled and fainted directly.
Eugen shook his faintly painful right hand, looked at the slap marks protruding from the second young master's face, and then said: "Hmph, I can't cure you this time, I don't know how many people will come to me for trouble in the future, so I just want to make an example of the monkey and let everyone stop for me." ”
Subsequently, Eugen ordered two soldiers to drag the second young master down, and then used a whip made of cowhide, dipped in salt water, and whipped the second young master ten times.
During this period, the second young master woke up once because of severe pain, and was fainted by pain after a while, this kind of whipping is a kind of punishment in the army, and the tortured person will feel unimaginable severe pain, which can be called life is worse than death.
The second young master, who has lived a good life since he was a child, where can he bear this kind of severe pain, and he has already reached the point of dying after ten whips, and Eugen saw him half-dead, so he bypassed him.
This painful lesson must have left an indelible impression in the second young master's mind, and it will also make him clearly realize what a terrible thing it is to offend himself.
The tragic experience of the Second Young Master and the appearance of the Faceless One pushed Eugen's prestige to a new level, and everyone in the entire Po River defense line tensed their nerves and strictly abided by the regulations set by Eugen, and no one dared to violate it easily.
Even Count Sartre, who has always been tough, remained silent this time, as if it was not his son who was beaten.
In fact, for Count Sartre, Eugen's own strength is nothing, and what is really terrifying is the faceless ones in those shadow organizations.
The Duke of Ji'an's gift of the Faceless to Eugen was a signal that Eugen had his full trust and could even decide the life and death of many people.
Eugen would be condemned by the aristocratic community for killing a nobleman in person, but if the Faceless One was sent out to secretly create some 'accidents' for someone to die, it would be impossible for anyone to find him.
The death threat from Eugen, with the addition of the Faceless, has become strong and real, and now all the nobles are trembling, deeply afraid that Eugen, a bloodthirsty madman, will send the Faceless to kill and find their heads.
Count Sartre was no exception, for the sake of himself and the safety of everyone in the family, he finally wisely admitted and no longer held Eugen responsible.
After putting the Po Line in order, Eugen was able to find Father Martin Luther.
He had already learned from Dirmit that Father Martin Luther had moved out of the house on his own initiative, and that he was now in the largest cathedral library in Verona, compiling the Book of Redemption day after day.
Father Martin Luther is now almost in a state of retreat, where he has to rely on servants to bring him food and drink every day, and even if no one brings him food, Father Luther will not come out and ask him, as if eating or not is not impressed to him.
Moreover, the food delivery person could only leave things at the door, and if he dared to step into the room, he would be severely beaten by Father Luther, who did not allow anyone to disturb him, and that extreme state was like a madman.
Eugen understands this, and sometimes people do need some madness to achieve great things.
Knowing that Father Luther's safety was not in question, Eugen was relieved and did not bother to visit again, but turned his attention to other matters.
His eyes were on the bandits who were entrenched beyond the Po River line.
As early as two months ago, Eugen had a plan to deal with these robbers, on the one hand, to eliminate hidden dangers and avenge the poor people who were killed by the robbers; On the other hand, nature is for the treasures that the robbers have accumulated.
At present, the city of Laber has entered a period of great development, and there is still a large-scale war going on in the surrounding area, and it is difficult to guarantee when the war will spread to the Laber area.
In every sense, Lebertown is in dire need of a capital injection right now.
What's more, even if Eugen was not short of money, how could he be willing to let those beautiful gold coins remain in the hands of those ugly robbers.
Because of the great battle with Viscount Tariq, this matter was delayed for a while, but Eugen naturally could not forget it, in fact, he had to talk about it almost every night for the past two months.
Sometimes I dream that I am lying on the pile of gold coins in the robbers' treasure cave, and the golden light illuminates the whole treasure cave, and the gold pile is surrounded by the corpses of dead robbers, even if they are dead, those robbers still reach for the pile of gold coins and want to grab those treasures.
Every time he dreamed of this, Eugen would wake up, afraid that the robbers would take away his treasure, but when he opened his eyes, all the gold coins were gone, and he felt a very lost feeling.
In order to kill the robbers more efficiently, Eugen directly transferred two hundred dragon soldiers and five hundred light cavalry from the city of Leber.