"Sure enough, someone is going to assassinate me!"

Emperor Otto slammed his desk and roared in rage.

Just half an hour earlier, a soldier had come to report that he had found a way to deal with the minefield, and the Emperor was so surprised that he asked the Blade Samurai to invite him in.

As a result, as soon as the soldier entered the door, he suddenly took out a nail and stabbed it at His Majesty the Emperor, but fortunately, the nail only cut through the emperor's robe and was blocked by the dragon scale skin inside.

Emperor Otto, after all, is already a transcendent at Lv.10.

The soldiers who attempted to assassinate the Emperor were subdued by the terrified Blade Samurai. After the torture, it was learned that in order to assassinate the emperor, this guy actually stuffed a small nail into his nostrils and avoided the search and inspection of the blade warrior.

"The motive for the assassination was that the soldier's brother was killed in a minefield because he was greedy for a bounty." The Blade Samurai reported to the Emperor and the Dukes.

"I don't believe it!" The Emperor pressed his left hand on the stabbed left chest and his right hand on his temple, as if he was trying to press his anger, "There is poison on this nail!" Where did he get the poison from an ordinary soldier, and where did he get the nails! ”

According to his confession, the nail was hidden by him when he was repairing the camp outside the town. The poison is a pesticide bought from the townspeople......"

"Rubbish! A bunch of rubbish! The enraged emperor smashed the things on the table angrily, "Check it out for me!" Find out who is behind him! By the way, please ask the Dragon of Fantasy to turn out this assassin's brain! ”

The Blade Samurai retreated in a sweat. The dukes present looked at each other, and the eldest son of the Duke of Bohemia was the first to express concern:

"Your Majesty, are you alright?"

The emperor waved his hand breathlessly, and the attendant next to him immediately said:

"Your Majesty is in good health, please rest assured. However, how to eliminate the rebel forces in the army as soon as possible, and how to deal with the current war dilemma, are the matters that we will focus on discussing next. ”

This royal chamberlain was a young nobleman from the House of Saxony and the nephew of His Majesty the Emperor, whom he trusted.

Since the attendant said so, everyone began to discuss countermeasures.

How to clear the army of rebel forces? Heavily censored, gone.

After all, judging from the clues on the surface, this is just a radical assassination move by a soldier who lost his brother, and there is no need to be too up-to-date...... Of course, this cannot be said to His Majesty the Emperor, who is on fire, so everyone can only promise that they will go back and "strictly review".

As for how to break through the minefield, from the perspective of efficiency, of course, you still have to go to Venis to cooperate the fastest.

But who exactly to send? You must know that now because of the Governor's hanging, the lower echelons of the Venisian people are very hostile to the Empire, and the upper echelons are ambiguous and try to delay.

Therefore, the diplomatic envoys sent this time need not only to have flexible diplomatic skills, but also to have extraordinary courage and self-protection ability, in order to survive the chaos of the city-state of Venis, and successfully complete the mission assigned by His Majesty.

"I have an idea." The Duke of Bavaria suddenly said, "Your Majesty, have you ever heard the name of the mercenary group 'Azure Sword'?" ”

"The Azure Sword?" His Majesty the Emperor looked at the attendant officer, who shrugged his shoulders slightly, indicating that he had not heard of it.

However, the demigod acid dragon Hedwig next to him suddenly sighed: "The fantasy dragon also mentioned to me yesterday that the leader of this mercenary group is a very interesting young man. ”

When the attendant officer heard this, he also suddenly realized, and reminded the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, it is the mercenary group that was accused by the prison guards of hiding the devil last time, and later it was the Duke of Bavaria and His Excellency the Fantasy Dragon who jointly came forward to protect it. ”

"Oh." Only then did the emperor recall that at that time, due to the accusations of the prisoners, he planned to arrest the mercenary group and examine it carefully, but later he temporarily let it go for the sake of the face of the duke and the dragon of fantasy.

Seeing that the emperor's expression seemed to be depressed, the Duke of Bavaria spoke again:

"Your Majesty, when the empire rebelled before, it was this Blue Sword mercenary group that sent an envoy to the Duchy of Swabia on behalf of our family, and finally said that the Falcon family decisively surrendered and cut off the reinforcements of Franconia for Your Majesty."

The old griffin snorted coldly, and Duke Rudolph of the Wolf family had an embarrassed expression, but His Majesty the Emperor was stunned when he heard it, and turned his head to ask Duke Frederick, who was hiding behind the crowd:

"Frederick, is this really the case?"

Frederick, who was huddled behind, secretly complained that because of the sudden control of the Duchy of Swabia, considering that his family's political prestige was still a little weak, he had been in the dark recently, trying to avoid conflicts with other big families.

Unexpectedly, the Duke of Bavaria actually carried him out directly.

In the eyes of the emperor and the other dukes, Frederick could only show a just right wry smile and said:

"Yes, in fact, our Sauron family has long had the intention of respecting the emperor to quell the rebellion, but it was just that there was a hostile conflict with the Count of Württemberg at the beginning, and we couldn't spare a hand to support Your Majesty for a long time."

"Later, it was the Azure Sword Mercenary Regiment that took action, connected three places with the strength of a regiment, and by the way, also attacked and captured the city of Stuttgart, so that we could successfully recover the entire territory of the Duchy of Swabia, and then go north to support Your Majesty's army."

With the strength of one group, three places in a row, and the city of Stuttgart was captured? The Duke's expression was solemn.

It's hard to say which three places are in a row, but Stuttgart is a big city! It is said that the Count of Württemberg stationed tens of thousands of troops in the city, but the Sauron family was killed overnight.

This incident was very sensational when it first broke out, and the major families later favored the Sauron family to install an internal response in Stuttgart, and only in the case of internal and external cooperation, did they quickly defeat the Count of Württemberg.

And now listening to Duke Frederick's meaning, it seems that this battle record was fought by the Blue Sword Mercenary Regiment alone? Without the help of any other forces?

This...... Even if the largest mercenary group in the empire, Iron Cross, does not dispatch tens of thousands of troops, I am afraid it will not be able to do it.

Seeing that the dukes had different expressions, the emperor was interested in this:

"Oh, how did they do it? Could it be that there is a demigod in the team? ”

"Not really." Frederick stiffened, "But all members of their team are transcendentals, and one member is a direct member of the Licinius family. ”

The Licinian family? The emperor was naturally no stranger to the name of this Italian and wealthy family, so his brows frowned slightly.

The Duke of Bavaria knew that this was the emperor and became suspicious again, so he hurriedly remedied it and said:

"Not only that, but my daughter also served in this mercenary group and previously helped hold the city of Innsbruck during the Imperial Rebellion. Without them, Bavaria wouldn't have lasted that long. ”

The Emperor, of course, could hear the protective meaning in the Duke of Bavaria's tone, and frowned in silence. If even the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria is among them, then having a direct member of the Licinian family does not necessarily mean that this mercenary group is politically inclined to the Holy See.

What's more, assisting in the defense of Bavaria and helping to recover Swabia is indeed an undoubted contribution to the Emperor's camp.

"I'll think about it." In the end, the emperor waved his hand and motioned for the dukes to leave.

After the dukes had left, the emperor, who had not been committal on the matter, waved his hand to the royal chamberlain, and said:

"Go investigate this Blue Sword mercenary group."