Chapter 646: You're Useless to Me

The forest at night is quite dark, and the dense canopy of the towering trees in the forests of Turalone makes it difficult for daylight, let alone moonlight, to penetrate it too much.

It's not easy to navigate in the dark in such an environment, at least for humans, but Lloyd is a trained guardian of the jungle, and with the skills he has honed back then, he is not slow to advance through the dense forest.

According to Gru's request, he knew everything about his own military camp and sneaked out of the camp without alerting anyone in the barracks, not even riding his silver flying horse, the Doom Blade was carried behind him along with the longbow, and his trust in Gru made him not even think much about how dangerous it was to go out alone with the Doom Blade, because if the Doom Blade was lost, the Farouk army would lose the best support against the enemy.

It didn't take Lloyd a long time to reach the junction, and through the unique contact information of the Guardians of the Jungle that Gru had trained, he quickly found a connector hidden in the dark.

It was only when he carefully saw the other party's appearance through the faint light that Lloyd couldn't help but be startled, because the unique face of the person who came with the characteristics of the elves and the human race showed that it was Gru himself who stood in front of Lloyd, not the person he mentioned in the letter.

"Lord Gru, why are you ......" Seeing Gru suddenly, Lloyd was surprised, delighted, and a little suspicious.

"I was in a hurry to see you, so I came by myself" Gru smiled faintly and waved his hand to interrupt Lloyd's words, "It seems that you were surprised?" Did the Doomsday Blade bring? ”

"Of course you brought your lordship, what happened?" Lloyd patted the Doomsday Blade on his back with his hand, "I haven't been able to contact you all this time, have we encountered any difficulties in our plans?" ”

Gru shook his head and said, "No, there is nothing wrong with my plan, everything is going well, I have gained the absolute trust of Parson as planned, and now, my plan has entered the third stage"

Lloyd couldn't help but be excited when he heard this: "Entered the third stage? That means we don't need Farouk anymore? ”

But then he realized something, and couldn't help but wonder again: "But Lord Gru, we don't have full control over everything Farouk has now, so we will replace it at this time, I'm afraid we can't ...... it."

"There's no need to replace him," Gru interrupted Lloyd again, "Farouk is no longer useful, just let him fend for himself"

Gru approached Lloyd: "You are the same, Lloyd, you are useless to me now"

Then, when the other party was stunned by his words, the half-elf easily slashed the opponent's throat with a sharp short knife that had been hidden behind his wrist.

Lloyd grabbed Gru's shirt with one hand on his throat, stared at a pair of eyes full of puzzlement and horror, and fell to his knees.

He couldn't believe what had just happened to him, he couldn't understand why the Greug he had always admired wanted to kill him, he wanted to ask the other party why, but the badly wounded throat made him unable to say anything other than a few meaningless syllables.

More and more blood flowed from the fingers of the hand he was holding around his throat, and his life went by quickly, and the hand he was holding Gru's coat became weaker and weaker, but he still refused to fall, even though his vision had begun to blur, he still stubbornly looked up at the half-elf in front of him.

He needs a reason, he needs an explanation, or he won't be able to turn a blind eye.

But Gru didn't get his way, and the half-elf tore away Lloyd's hand that was gripping the hem of his clothes, and stabbed Lloyd in the chest.

His movements were crisp and neat, his hands were very steady, his eyes did not change at all, his face was still calm, and there was even a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he didn't realize what he was doing now, as if what he was killing now was not a loyal subordinate who had fought side by side with him for many years and was willing to go to the trouble for him, but just an insignificant chicken.

Mortally wounded twice, Lloyd finally fell to the ground, his eyes wide open, at the feet of the half-elf to whom he had served allegiance, angry, horrified, puzzled, painful, unwilling, all expressions frozen and distorted on his face.

And these are just in exchange for a soft sigh from Gru, who is the murderer.

He then untied the Doomsday Blade from Lloyd's body, carried it on his back, found the letter he had written to him, and destroyed it, before he threw Lloyd's body into a deep pit he had prepared beforehand, buried it, and carefully erased all traces left nearby.

After scrutinizing the surroundings to make sure there were no traces, Gru turned and left, disappearing into the night.

The next day, when Lloyd's men still didn't show up at noon, they were horrified to find that their commander had mysteriously disappeared.

Alice and the others, who rushed to hear the news, were surprised to find that not only was Lloyd missing, but the Doomsday Blade, which had been kept by Lloyd, was also missing.

This time the Farouk army suddenly exploded, and a large search operation began, but of course they found nothing, Lloyd is indeed an excellent jungle guardian, no one can find his whereabouts that night, and Gru is even better, his clever burial method makes the Farouk soldiers who searched the murder scene unable to find anything unusual at all.

Then another incident plunged the Farouk army into even greater chaos.

When Farouk, who was anxiously waiting for news from Lloyd, learned that Lloyd had not only failed to arrest Eufritin, whom he had identified as a traitor, but had disappeared inexplicably, he immediately suspected that this matter was related to Eufritin, and urgently contacted Alice to beware of the dwarves playing tricks again, and what Ofrettin secretly did was known to everyone.

Although most people, including Alice and others, did not believe that Eufrittin would have anything to do with Lloyd's inexplicable disappearance, but in the current situation, the dwarf knight obviously couldn't defend himself, it was too coincidental, and as soon as Farouk ordered Lloyd to try to capture him, Lloyd disappeared immediately.

The dwarven knight is not good at verbal battles, and in the face of such a situation, he doesn't know what to do, in order to prove his innocence, he can only helplessly let Alice lock himself up first.

Alice was also dizzy at this time, things were too weird, she was angry that Eufritin's lack of secrets had caused such a turmoil, and she was worried about the disappearance of Lloyd and the Doomblade, and she didn't know how to deal with Farouk, who was furious because of these things.

So she had to contact Gru, although it had always been Lloyd and Gru in the past, but Alice, as one of the first people to agree with Gru's concept, was another heavyweight in Gru's group, of course, she also had a way to contact Gru directly, but after Lloyd took over the liaison work, Alice rarely contacted Gru like this.

She reported everything that had just happened to Gru in detail, the stakes were very high, she didn't dare to ignore it, without the Doomsday Blade, the Farouk army simply did not have the ability to confront the elven kingdom army head-on, if Lloyd and the Doomsday Blade really disappeared without a trace, then Gru's plan would be completely disrupted, Alice felt that the current situation was already in danger for Gru and for the Farouk army.

Just as Lloyd didn't expect Gru to kill him, Alice never imagined that Lloyd and the Disappearance of Doomblade would have something to do with Gru.

So when Gru wrote back instructing her to do everything in her power to find the whereabouts of Lloyd and the Doomblade while shrinking her army back to preserve her strength, she did so without hesitation.

At the same time, she also secretly informed Genova and others to take those soldiers loyal to Gru and be ready to break away from Farouk's army at any time.

"If Lloyd and the Doomsday Blade really can't be recovered, then our plan has completely failed, without the Doomsday Blade as a support, even if we can fully take over the Farook Army, with the current situation, we don't have much chance of winning, and it is more likely that we will be defeated under the front and rear attacks of the Elven Kingdom and the Erathia Empire, so we can only be fully prepared, once the situation is not right, we will take those who are willing to follow in our footsteps, retreat into the shadows, rebuild strength, and wait for the next better opportunity."

In the letter, Gru wrote that he asked Alice and the others to leave the Farouk army with his own group in case of emergency.

At the same time, regarding the matter of Eufritin, Gru expressed his disbelief that Eufrittin could have anything to do with the disappearance of Lloyd and the Blade of Doom, and also expressed his understanding of what the dwarves had done.

"Everyfrittin must not be handed over to Farouk, if necessary, this matter can be used as an opportunity to break with Farouk completely, and then we will retreat to the Ofer region through Hammondale."

As for the issue of the hill dwarves, Gru also gave the latest instructions.

"The situation has changed, we can no longer expect to turn these hill dwarves into our companions, even so, we might as well tell these dwarves about the Ntagri Empire as Everritin thought, so that they can try to return, and at the same time, we can also inform Jian Chen of the news of these hill dwarves, and sell the other party a favor, so that in case of emergency, maybe we can also seek the opportunity to cooperate with the other party After all, if it weren't for Farouk, We and Jian Chen could have been close allies, but now without Farouk pulling us back, there is no need for both sides with the same philosophy to become enemies."

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