24. Invasion
The Fallen Hand is an underground organization active in the northern part of the Kingdom of Tria.
They specialize in people. Mouth. Peddler. Sell as well as provide the binding of the specified target. racking, assassination, etc.
It is rumored that this power group is in collusion with the nobility, especially the former Lord of the North, now the Duke of Guta, Winder. Ann Rocco. Jin Duo was the guest of honor in this power organization, so the Fallen Hand was able to grow in the Old North and become the largest underground force in the north of the Tria Kingdom.
However, with the end of the Northern Crusade, the name of the Guardian of the North changed hands. Glauder. Prince Tria's strong grip on the current North has hindered the Fallen Hand's business development to a great extent. It was not that they did not try to win over Prince Ahrens, but unfortunately their efforts so far have failed, and even caused their development in the north to suffer a great blow.
According to the hapless ghost who has now been turned into a necromantic warrior by Su Yan, the Fallen Hand had wrestled with Prince Ahrens two years ago, and neither side had any advantage. But both sides have at least tested each other's bottom line, so at present, in the New North Border, both sides are in a state where well water does not interfere with river water.
But Su Yan knew that this was actually only a temporary result, similar to an intermission.
Once both sides have gathered enough strength, they are bound to strike a fatal blow at each other.
Since Prince Ahren's home turf was in Northern Winterfell, the Fallen Hand Mercenaries secretly set up their branch in Akara City. Many people know that the Dark Embrace Mercenary Group has colluded with an underground force organization, and there are even many people who speculate that it may be a fallen hand, but due to the lack of sufficient evidence, no one has directly raised this matter, but the sense of the Dark Embrace Mercenary Group is naturally impossible to be any better.
Su Yan didn't know Earl Endri, Akara. Whether or not Tedmis was in collusion with the Fallen Hand or not, he wouldn't care.
Because his target is the Vice-President of the Fallen Hand, who is now located in the city of Acala.
A hero-level powerhouse.
The city of Accalla is not as good as the Northern Winterfell, and although it is one of the four cities in the north today, it does not actually have a heroic powerhouse.
In fact, except for the Northern Winter City, there are no hero-level powerhouses in the entire northern realm.
Therefore, the people of Acala City believe that the strongest person in Acala City should be the deputy head of the Rose Mercenary Regiment of Tydemis today, the first person of all the Northern Mercenary Guilds, the Sun Knight. Tony, a level thirty-five hero candidate, is just one step away from being a true hero.
But no one knew that in the shadows of Acala City, there was a poisonous snake that had been eyeing the prince of Northern Winter City.
A hero-level powerhouse whose strength is not below that of Prince Ahrens.
Vice-President of the Fallen Hand, Byrons. Gunn.
In fact, Su Yan positioned himself as a spectator, he peeled himself out of this world, and just quietly observed every move around him.
Except for Anna, he has no intention of intervening, nor does he have any intention of touching or touching everything in this world.
But it is precisely because of Anna that Su Yan will choose to strangle anything that endangers Anna at the first time, and will never let this danger sprout.
And Fan Er, as early as twelve days ago, when he revealed that kind of killing intent against Anna, he was sentenced to death in Su Yan's heart.
No one could save him.
The reason why he didn't choose to kill Fan Er in the first place was just that Su Yan didn't want to expose his situation for the time being.
And if it weren't for the fact that the Fallen Hand showed a horizontal intervention a few days ago, in fact, Su Yan didn't intend to make a move against the Fallen Hand. But in the current situation, since the Fallen Hand was also showing hostility, and Su Yan really wanted to know the relationship between the undead creation techniques and materials he mastered, then of course he would not let go of the Fallen Hand Vice President who was now lurking in Akara City.
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Although the city of Akara in the middle of the night is not like the city that never sleeps like the Northern Winter City, at least the constant noise in the tavern is still warm.
Su Yan walked through the city and felt the vigorous vitality of Akara City.
It was an atmosphere he hadn't felt in Northern Winterfell.
Prince Ahrens was indeed a very ambitious prince, but he was not as pragmatic as Count Endri. Therefore, his Northern Winter City, although the scale is far greater than that of Acala City, but the popularity of the entire city is not strong, if it is not for Prince Ahrens to sit in the Northern Winter City, and at the same time declare the Northern Winter City as the center of the entire Northern Territory, I am afraid that the Northern Winter City will not be able to develop.
But even with the gathering of so many favorable factors, if the Northern Winter City wants to truly become the center of the entire Northern Territory, and even the pearl of the entire Northern Territory in the true sense, I am afraid it will take more than five years.
The destination of Su Yan's trip is located in the south of the city.
It is one of the two affluent districts of Akara City.
The Fallen Hand bought an exquisite villa here in the south of the city as their branch base. Of course, there is still the disguise that should be there, and most of the time it looks like the mansion of a wealthy businessman, and there are occasional all-night parties. But all the members of the Fallen Hand who are secretly operating in the New North know very well that this is the Fallen Hand's branch stronghold in the North.
And this is the destination of Su Yan's trip tonight.
It's just that he didn't seem to have come at the right time.
Because tonight the villa seems to be holding a banquet - a way for nobles and wealthy merchants to assert their power. Basically, no matter what it is, as long as it is considered a good thing, they always like to have a party. Of course, according to the scale of the banquet and the number of banquet personnel, this kind of banquet naturally has different grades.
The dinner held here at the Fallen Hand Stronghold tonight is a large-scale banquet.
However, the attendees were mostly wealthy people from the city of Akala, and the nobles rarely participated in banquets hosted by wealthy merchants, unless they had business dealings with each other. Of course, this situation is not suitable for those noble children, so often if businessmen want to cling to the nobles, most of them choose the children of the nobles to start please.
Su Yan was not familiar with the situation in Akara City, or rather, he did not know the situation and relationship between the nobles and wealthy merchants in Akara City.
Or, he doesn't care about any of that.
There are six guards guarding the door of the villa, which is supposed to prevent some people with ulterior motives from sneaking in.
These guards are not very strong, and they are generally only level six or seven - but this is only the equivalent of the Mercenary Guild. You must know that the gate guards of Akara City have an average level of only four or five levels, and those above the sixth level can be captains, and the eleventh level of professional ranks is already considered an officer.
But these seemingly ordinary guards are actually members of the Fallen Hand Order.
Su Yan ignored these guys, he went around a little, and then jumped lightly in a place that others couldn't see, and the courtyard wall more than three meters high was directly climbed over by him.
After entering the villa, Su Yan found that the scale of this villa was larger than what the unlucky ghost said.
The main building is an H-shaped three-story building, the vestibule square is relatively small, there is a small fountain, and the backyard area is relatively large, which is also the main gathering place for tonight's banquet. Waves of cheers came from the backyard.
Su Yan already knew the specific situation of this villa through the description of the unlucky ghost.
So he didn't have any obstacles to walking, and his purpose was very clear.
Maybe it's because the villa held a dinner party tonight, so there are no guards patrolling here at this time. Of course, it is also possible that the people of the Fallen Hand thought that no one would dare to come to their trouble, so the interior of the villa appeared to be more lax.
But in this way, it is naturally convenient for Su Yan.
It's not that he didn't see some young people appear in the vestibule square and the boulevard next to it, but the life characteristics of these people are very obvious, so that when they were far away, Su Yan had already discovered these people, so he chose to avoid them early. Even some of the secret sentinels in the villa were all avoided by Su Yan: for Su Yan, this villa was like his own back garden, if he didn't want to be discovered, no one would be able to find him at all.
However, because there were also several servants and guards at the main entrance of the villa, Su Yan did not choose to enter from the front. Instead, he chose to climb to the third floor and pry open the window of a room to enter the villa from the inside.
Generally speaking, if the aristocratic banquet lasts all night, they will choose to provide some rooms for the guests to rest.
The villa of the Fallen Hand apparently uses the second floor of the villa as a temporary place for guests to rest. However, the third floor is not opened by the owner's house, but there are guards at the north and south stairs, which almost makes the discerning person know that the third floor is an important area at a glance.
However, this kind of thing is also a normal thing for the people who attended.
After all, most of the time this kind of banquet is a place for businessmen to discuss cooperation matters in private. And some cooperation projects, it is obviously inconvenient for outsiders to know, usually only those who are invited are qualified to participate in the discussion, so it is naturally a normal thing to arrange guards and guards.
Su Yan stood in the room on the third floor, surrounded by darkness, but this environment could not cause any disturbance to Su Yan.
The undead are one of the few races that possess both dark sight and anti-invisibility, as they do not rely on smell and hearing, but rather on the characteristic responses of living organisms. Of course, if those creatures can shield their own life characteristics, Su Yan also has other ways to sense.
At this point, within his perceptual range, he found that there were only people on the third floor in a room on the south side.
And there are quite a few people, as many as eleven people.
There are even two of them who can be regarded as his old acquaintances.
The leader of the Dark Embrace Mercenaries, Vail.
and the deputy head of the regiment, Sebes.
The corners of Su Yan's mouth raised slightly: "Interesting." ”