Chapter 1 - The Seven-Day Civil War
As dawn approaches the end of the hunting night. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The battle was fierce on this night, and the only three founders of the original organization were Lu Ming, Nero, and Archbishop Tut. The total number of hunters, which was less than 3,000, was also reduced overnight to less than 1,500.
Among them, the more famous ones were also hit hard because of this hunting night.
Among the founders, Archbishop Tut and Lord Nero Catolo, as well as hunters such as Filna Ozmoz and Saman Negtus, all had to be hunted down because of their partner's bestiality.
Killing the partner who had just been fighting side by side was too big a blow to them, not to mention that Filner Ozmoz's partner was her fiancΓ©, Saldalo Hetiste.
They were depressed by the blow, and when the night of the hunt was over, they locked themselves in their rooms for two days.
But when they saw a major event, they had to force themselves out of that deep shadow.
The Grand Duke of Errebos, Ramster Hedis, the Black Dragon Duke of Mirakesa, is dead!
His mutilated body was found by the men who were sweeping the ruins of the city, along with him were the corpses of a large group of sub-nobles, as well as the corpses of six monsters.
Obviously, they were all torn apart by monsters.
The death of the Grand Duke was not something that Lu Ming and others, who had changed back into human form from the state of beasthood, could handle.
So the Archbishop of Tut and Nero Catolo, lord of Nifelheim, had to come out to preside over the funeral of the Grand Duke and inform several of the Grand Duke's children.
What everyone didn't expect was that the eldest and second sons of the Grand Duke of Hedist did not come to Paris City to deal with the Grand Duke's funeral, but launched a war and prepared to seize the position of the Grand Duke of Errepos by force.
Of the Grand Duke's children, only the youngest son, Raels Hadis, made it through the war zone to the city of Paris.
Looking at Raels, who was only ten years old, Archbishop Tut and Nero had dark faces!
Because of the beastialization brought about by the blood healing, Erebos was devastated. Naturally, it was necessary to let Lu Ming, Ferna and others hunt people and start cleaning up the monsters in the territory of Erepos.
This powerful force is naturally targeted by the two sons who are preparing for a civil war.
In the process of sweeping, the number of hunters became smaller and smaller, and in less than two days, only five hundred of a thousand hunters remained.
They did not die at the hands of monsters, but were bought by two of the Grand Duke's children to become some mid-ranking officers in their army.
In addition to these hunters, the two sons of the Grand Duke also set their sights on Lu Ming and Filner, and even married the fiancΓ©e of his deceased brother Saldarlo, Filner, in order to gain the support of the Ozmoz family.
This situation made Filner very annoyed, so he turned out to be hot-headed and forcibly pushed Lu Ming to tell the two sons of the Grand Duke that I have a new candidate, don't bother me anymore.
Seeing this, the two sons who knew that Lu Ming was a person who was not on the death team, and who were also a little unclear with Longdor, naturally would not be stupid enough to add enemies to themselves innocently, and they would no longer care about Filner's affairs.
However, although this approach made the two sons no longer annoying, it also made Filner have to become Lu Ming's lover and was spurned by most aristocratic women.
Although there was only one time, Filner was also labeled as Lu Ming's faction, and he had to wear Lu Ming's family crest in addition to his own fairy dragon crest to prove the relationship between the two.
Giving up the idea of marrying Finner Ozmoz to strengthen their political capital, the two sons came up with a very strange idea.
Since you can't marry Filner, you can always be your Filner's son-in-law, right?
With this in mind, the two sons proposed engagement to Lu Ming's two daughters, Kanina and Amilia, respectively.
Lu Ming and Ferner, who were hunting in a remote city in Nivelheim, were stupid when they learned the news.
Regarding the two sons' practice of doing things a little bit without using their brains, Lu Ming only had three words: "Impossible!" β
The two sons, who were rejected again, gave up the Ozmoz family and the Lu family, who chose neutrality, and instead prepared to win over other noble families and some new nobles.
On the fifth day after the night of the hunt, the two sons of the Grand Duke of Hedist officially started a civil war in Musberheim.
After the war began, the flames of war spread rapidly, and soon burned to Nivelheim, so that Lu Ming and other hunters had to rush back to Paris City with the survivors they had found. so as not to burn themselves and others in the flames of war.
What made the nobles, including Lu Ming, Ferner, Nero and other nobles, angry, was that the two princes used their own armies to fight among themselves, and they also used the undead and the spirits to help them. These unkillable spirits frantically plundered the souls of soldiers on the battlefield, causing some priests who had originally joined the army of the two sons to leave the army one after another, resulting in a huge increase in the number of soldiers killed during the civil war between the two sides.
The large number of soldiers killed caused Tartarus, who was close to Erepos, to have some thoughts about Erepos.
Fortunately, due to the fear of the bestiality caused by blood healing, Tartarus did not directly attack during the Ereposian Civil War.
It's just that in order to further reduce the strength of Errebos, Tartarus deliberately let the two counts who disagree with politics pretend to secretly support the two sons to succeed to the throne and become the new Grand Duke of Erepos, and give them more and more wandering spirits.
On the third day of the civil war, a great battle broke out in a forest twenty miles from the city of Paris, killing and wounding most of the human soldiers.
Knowing that if this continues, without the arrival of their own brothers' army, those geists will kill their two sons and abandon a large number of geists in the forest, further increasing the burden of hunters who clean up monsters and geists after the war.
On the fifth day of the outbreak of the civil war, the nobles who felt that this could not go on like this, gathered the nobles of the city of Paris and the other nobles who had not yet joined the army of the two princes, and secretly convened a meeting in a village between the cities of Paris and Agamemnon to discuss the current situation of Errepos.
Lu Ming, who was wearing a black trench coat and holding a white holy scepter with a red transparent crystal inlaid with a blue eye on the top, stood on the seat where the viscount was, listening to the quarrels between some counts and other viscounts, slightly bored.
"The harm that the two sons have done to Errebos is too great now! We can't afford them to go on with this! β
"But what should we do? Assassinate them? β
"I don't think the assassination is a good idea, knowing that if we do assassinate the heirs of the previous Grand Duke, the new Grand Duke will not have a good impression of us."
"Yes, if we really assassinate the two princes and leave a very bad impression on the new Grand Duke, then we will probably be secretly disposed of by the new Grand Duke. At that point, we won't have any place to cry! β
Filner, who was also wearing a black trench coat, walked to the seat next to Lu Ming and sat down, glanced at Lu Ming, who was holding his hands and half-opened his eyes, and asked with a low smile, "You think it's boring?" β
"You're late, and it's okay to propose now. The previous one was a bit boring. Smiling slightly, Lu Ming said.
At this moment, a nobleman from Musberheim stood up and said in a strong voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are nobles of Erepos, not vassals of the House of Hetiste. We have a responsibility to make Erepos better, and we have a responsibility not to let it go bad. β
"Now the two sons of Hedist are encroaching on our land with war, they are neither the Grand Duke nor the royal family of this land, they are only heirs! What authority do they have to do so? β
"We are also the owners of this land, and our people are suffering for their own selfish interests. If we just sit idly by and watch out for fear that the new Grand Guild will watch out for us. Even if the new Grand Duke will not be wary of us, he will look down on us for our inaction! β
"Brothers, sisters, we are nobles, not timid thieves and robbers. We should not be afraid of the so-called Grand Duke, we are the stewards of this land! Therefore, if you are willing to agree to assassinate those two brothers and sisters who have suffered for our land and people, please raise your hands! β
Listening to the hoarse roar of the old nobleman who looked to be in his eighties, Lu Ming and the other young nobles all raised their hands, and soon, the middle-aged nobles and a large number of elderly nobles also raised their hands.
Only a small percentage of the nobles did not raise their hands, among them was Filner.
Many people looked at Lu Ming, after all, at this moment, Ferner still had the sword wolf crest of the Lu Ming family.
It made Lu Ming and Ferner very embarrassed, the two of them didn't actually have anything, and the incident that time was just to make the two sons stop annoying Ferner. You must know that Lu Ming and Ferner also belong to the category of political disagreements.
Lu Ming is a typical young aristocrat, with a strong sense of competitiveness and responsibility, so he is sometimes more aggressive. Filner, on the other hand, is a more conservative type of aristocracy, who likes to think about the consequences of everything he does, and if the risk of something is thirty percent, he will give up.
Of the two types of nobility, the former is relatively easy to promote, although it is often prone to mistakes. The latter is the complete opposite, it is easy to get promoted, but it is not easy to make mistakes.
Out of desperation, Lu Ming had to take on the task of assassinating one of the two sons, so as not to cause dissatisfaction between the radical and conservative factions, after all, who made Filna still wear the silver sword wolf crest?
In the end, Lu Ming was assigned the task of assassinating the second prince, and the eldest prince was assassinated by a powerful viscount of Musberheim.
The reason why the nobles did it themselves was only because they couldn't trust those assassins. Moreover, Lu Ming and the others also had a way to get close to the two sons, so they didn't have to be as cautious as the assassins to enter the barracks.
"Perhaps, we really don't fit well."
"The wood is already in the boat, and we are inseparable."
"Perhaps."
On the sixth day of the outbreak of the civil war, Lu Ming and the viscount of Musberheim said goodbye to their relatives and lovers respectively and rushed to the military camp of the two sons. It's just that Lu Ming is only around Ferner, whose relationship is nothing more than acting, so there is no warmth between them when the Viscount Musberheim said goodbye to his wife, but is a little embarrassed.
Riding horses, Lu Ming and the viscount rushed to the military camp of the two sons on the seventh day of the civil war. Because the two sides were fighting at this time and were in urgent need of reinforcements, the two princes did not have much doubt about the defection of Lu Ming and the viscount.
As soon as he saw Lu Ming, the second prince smiled and said to Lu Ming: "I have heard of Viscount Lu Ming's strength a long time ago. With you joining, I think (the hunters) will join our army too! When the time comes, Archduke Ben will succeed to the throne and become Archduke of Erebos! β
Looking at the arrogant appearance of the second prince and Saldaro, Lu Ming sneered in his heart, and said respectfully: "Please rest assured, (the hunters) have been assembled, and they will arrive tomorrow to help the Grand Duke succeed to the throne." β
As soon as he heard this, the second son immediately burst out laughing. He patted Lu Ming on the shoulder and said with a smile: "When the Grand Duke succeeds to the throne, you will be one of the six counts of the Grand Duke!" β
"Thank you, Grand Duke!" Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, and the second son leaned over by himself, Lu Ming was naturally unceremonious, and directly used a dragon claw to pull out the second son's heart from his chest!
"What......" The poor second son was shocked like this, and swallowed his breath.
Looking at Lu Ming, who was holding the heart of the second prince in his hand and wearing a black windbreaker, whether it was a soldier or a hunter, the people who joined the army of the second son did not dare to approach him.
Because at this moment, on the eve of the night of the hunt, he waited for the mighty hunters who hunted wantonly, waiting for them to rush up and be easily hunted by him.
"The eldest prince has been killed!! The eldest prince was killed!! And at this time, news came from the eldest son's military camp that shocked the second son's army even more.
Since then, the civil war has ended with the death of the two sons. This civil war was dubbed the 'Seven Days Civil War' by the nobles and people of Erepos.
In the afternoon of the same day, the nobles, led by Nero Catolo, Dahl Carcarlo, and Fina Ozmoz, put the youngest son of the Grand Duke of Hediste on the throne of Grand Duke in the city of Paris.
By doing so, Finner Ozmoz easily became one of the six counts of the Duchy, taking the place of the deceased Count Artus Lecod. After all, the earl had no relatives left but his wife.
Even the heroes who ended the civil war, the viscount of Lu Ming and Muspelheim, received nothing but a certificate of tax exemption for twenty years. I can only take my family back to my own territory to develop my own territory.
But because the bestiality disease that came from the blood treatment still exists, compared to the one from Muspelheim, Lu Ming still has to lead (the hunter) to hunt......
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