Stormwind City, the king's hall of Stormwind Fortress, gathers all the bigwigs and high-ranking officials and nobles of the kingdom.

The young leader of MI7, Matthias? Shore, who was here to meet King Varian of the Stormwind Kingdom seated on his throne, was giving a report on the incident at the Gates the other day. And Countess Catlana? Presto and Boval? The two Dukes of Fortagen, along with several other nobles and dignitaries, stood at the head of the king on either side.

Yesterday, he didn't rashly give Ravenhold a mission to assassinate a queen of another country, this matter is definitely not something that he Madias can easily decide, even if the other party is just a country that is not recognized by the Stormwind Kingdom!

So, after obtaining information about the two little girls from Ravenhold, an Assassin League, Matthias, who felt that the situation was a bit serious, returned to Stormwind as soon as possible, and the next morning, he met with King Varian and reported to him what he had learned from the Assassins yesterday.

"Madias, are you sure that this information you have obtained is true and reliable? And without the slightest mistake? ”

King Varian took the written report signed by several important MI7 leaders in his hand, read the details for a while, and handed it to Bolval on the side. As he opened his mouth to ask, his face looked at Madias a little unnaturally.

In Varian's opinion, this matter is strange everywhere, and in his opinion, many places seem very unreasonable!

First of all, for the one who blew up his Stormwind gates, whose name is Annie? Queen of the Flame Kingdom of Hasta. Why did she run from the northernmost part of the continent to the Stormwind Kingdom in the south for no reason? What is the purpose?

Secondly, since the information said it, the other party seems to be with that person called Vanessa? Van Cleef didn't know him originally. A few days ago, there wasn't even any intersection between the two!

So, why did she inexplicably save that Van Cleeff's daughter? And recklessly blew up the gates of Stormwind in one fell swoop? And also killed at least thirty people to guard the city gates?

As the king of a country, he just makes a casual move, and, in order to help someone he doesn't know, he blatantly makes enemies of another powerful country? This approach, in Varian's opinion, is very unreasonable! Anyway, in his mind, no king would do such an outrageous stupidity!

In the end, the information even said, that one is called Annie? Hasta's Flame Queen is still an eight-year-old human demigod mage? You didn't have to make a move, and you directly scared away a powerful big demon?

What's the joke here?

So, when Varian saw this, he absolutely didn't believe that there could be any eight-year-old human demigods!

Medivan, the demigod guardian created by humans themselves, wasn't so outrageous back then, right? Not to mention, the other party even scared away the existence that was said to be very powerful, the great demon called Akmund!

Scareless? Not officially engaged? How could such a thing be?

That Ravenhold wants to make up a story to cheat money, please make it a little more reliable if you are troubled!

Anyway, Varian absolutely doesn't believe that there will be any little girl demigods, at most she is just a genius and a little stronger! And the other party's move to save that Vanessa, he Varian is also puzzled!

He would never have imagined that little Anne, as the queen of a kingdom, would never take this seriously! When she saw something that made her unhappy, she was in a bad mood, and if she wanted to do it, she just grabbed the fireball and started fighting, as for the consequences and the like, she didn't think about it at all, and she didn't care about this kind of thing at all!

Little Anne is going to hit you when she sees that you are upset, what can you do? Still dare to disagree? Dare to stare at it? Be careful, she'll let Tiebs come out and bite you to death!

"Back to Your Majesty! This should be true. ”

"Because, according to their Ravenhod's intelligence, in the entire Eastern Kingdom, there are mages who have the ability to cast spells to blow up the gates of our Stormwind City, and they are still a little girl of this age, I'm afraid there is only the queen of the Flame Kingdom! It is said that she is particularly good at fire spells, which is consistent with her performance when she blew up the city gates the other day. ”

At this point, Madias paused for a moment, and when he saw that His Majesty had no particular disgust, he continued cautiously.

"Moreover, shortly after the incident at the gates of Stormwind City a few days ago, Ravenhold Manor received definite information: the queen of the Flame Kingdom, she did return to her palace with a weak little human girl! Among them, the most important is: that frail little girl, her name is Vanessa? Van Cleef! ”

After saying that, Madias stopped talking.

Speaking of which, this thing is indeed a bit embarrassing. Their dignified MI7 was reduced to the point of buying intelligence from the Assassin Alliance......

However, he can't be blamed for this. Not long ago, he had just received an order from above, asking MI7 to send people to the four northern countries in front of him to set up intelligence stations.

Now, those spies and other men sent out are probably still floating on the merchant ship, heading for the eastern port of Lordaeron in the north, right? I am afraid that the work of gathering intelligence will take a long time. Moreover, it will be very troublesome to pass the news back at that time, they don't have a large number of mages casting spells to help communicate and the like, after all, now that Dalaran has been destroyed, those surviving mages are said to have gone to the Flame Alliance in the north.

"Well, even if all the information you get is true...... But what can we do now? Katrana and Berval, tell me, do you have any good ideas? ”

Even if all this is true, the gates of their Stormwind Kingdom were indeed blown up by the queen of another kingdom.

This kind of behavior that is obviously hostile and has fallen into the face of their Stormwind Kingdom, they will definitely not give up so easily! But for a while, he Varian couldn't think of any effective ways to deal with it.

After all, the distance between the two sides is so far away, and there are several continents in between, as well as areas infested by the undead and demons, whether they send troops to threaten or send envoys to protest, in this situation, it will seem meaningless!

"Uh...... Your Majesty, this matter ...... It's a bit of a trick! Maybe...... Can we just hire Ravenhold's killers and get them to get rid of these two wanted criminals? ”

After reading the contents of the parchment in his hand, Boval handed it to the Countess Catlana next to him, and made a decent suggestion to King Varian by the way.

Until now, the Storm Kingdom still doesn't recognize the Flame Kingdom and the Flame Alliance!

Since the queen of their Flame Kingdom, the leader of this illegal force, came to the south and blew up their city gates, and killed so many Stormwind City soldiers, then this matter must be explained to the public!

Besides, judging from what the other party did a few days ago, Bervar could tell that what kind of Flame Queen, she seemed to have a lot of hostility towards the Stormwind Kingdom!

In this case, in the current situation where MI7 is beyond the reach of the whip, then simply pay directly and let Ravenhold's Assassin Alliance take action, and cut off this Flame Queen and that Van Cleeff's daughter in one fell swoop, which will save you from causing messy trouble in the future!

"Where else can we come up with such a large sum of gold coins? It's not like you don't know the current financial situation, Bolwal! Even the little money that is being repaired now for the city gates, those bastards of the council have been grinding for several days before they reluctantly agree to send it out! ”

Without thinking about it, Varian directly vetoed Duke Berval's proposal. By the way, he also opened his mouth to complain and abuse the bureaucrats and nobles in the parliament.

Storm Kingdom, it's very poor now, to put it bluntly, except that there is no money or no money!

Not to mention the of being able to take out 50,000 gold coins to buy a group of killers to assassinate the queens of other countries! Even, they may not even be able to take out the deposit of 10,000 pieces in a short period of time!

If he really has so much money, he Varian would prefer to directly send troops to find trouble with the other party, rather than a group of high-level officials discussing how to send killers to play assassination, which is an extremely dishonorable act! You know, he Varian is the one who is most disgusted by using assassins to assassinate the king!

"Uh...... What's this...... A big problem indeed! ”

When it comes to money, there is no chance! Bolval had to nod and agree with the king.

That's right, now the Stormwind Kingdom just has no money! Otherwise, where would they still worry about the affairs of the Brotherhood of Defia before? Not long ago, those bullshit officials talked about the money for repairing the city gates for several days!

What's even more embarrassing for the Stormwind Kingdom is that those craftsmen are starting to become more and more unreasonable, and they even dare to say that they won't work if they can't get paid? Is the Kingdom of Stormwind that unbearable? Do you still owe them that much money?

Well, the stonemasons' union's can only be an exception, but because the money is too much to come up with in a short period of time, they will rely on it...... Ahem, anyway, no matter what, they will never repay the money for repairing the city gate, it's just a city gate, and it's not worth a few dollars!

"Your Majesty, then, what exactly should we do now?"

Matthias looked at the King and the Duke below, and for a moment they seemed to be unable to make up their minds, and when they began to fall silent, he had to ask again with caution.

He was just in charge of running errands and performing tasks, and he didn't want to get involved too much in the affairs of the upper echelons of the kingdom. Now, for the matter of these two wanted criminals, he has got back all the information, and he should be regarded as completing his own task.

So, he doesn't have any responsibility for this matter, and in the end, how to do it depends on the big guys above! He will always be wrong with what they say, Madias will do it.

"Don't do anything! Let's put it on hold for now, okay, adjournment! ”

Varian felt particularly aggrieved that his kingdom had no money! Relying on that meager tax is simply not enough to make ends meet, so a large part of the usual expenditure can only be raised by those aristocratic bureaucrats for the time being.

This also forced him to divide a large part of the rights belonging to the king, and in the end, he was subject to others everywhere, and put him, the king, in a very embarrassing situation!

There is no need to talk about this matter, when there is no money, to pay for Ravenhold to assassinate him. And the other party and the Storm Kingdom are really too far away, and there is no way to do it for the time being, so they can only be shelved.

In this case, there is no point in discussing it now, so after Varian announced the dismissal of the meeting, he directly shook his hand and took the lead in leaving, and it was out of sight! I'll leave that for later...... If you have a chance in the future, let's settle accounts with the other party.

"Your Excellency the Duke, you say, if I can persuade the council to come up with those 10,000 gold coins, will the assassination plan work?"

After seeing His Majesty King Varian leave, Katrana didn't know what the hell she was thinking, and she actually said such things to Berval, who was about to leave.

"Wouldn't it? Can you still convince that bunch of stingy guys to pay such a large sum of money? Forget it, Ms. Katrana, don't waste your time! Those guys, asking them to pay this money is equivalent to killing them! ”

Bowval shook his head and waved his hand, turning and striding out of the hall. Now that His Majesty is gone, what is he doing here?

It's rare that there is nothing major recently, and he has been drenched in two rains a few days ago, and his body is feeling a little unwell, just now that there is nothing to do, he has to go back and rest for a while.

"Bolvar! What if I could really scrape together that money? ”

The countess looked at the duke, who had already turned and strode away, with a smile and a loud shout at the other before he was about to walk out of the door.

"Then I'll leave this matter to you! Do whatever you want! ”

After a final wave of his hand at the countess behind him, Boval finally walked out of the door and turned to leave. His Majesty the King can't do anything about it, and of course he doesn't want to take care of it, so let her toss it.

Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it himself!

If Katrana can really make up that money, let her do it! It's good that the assassination is successful, but it can eliminate two potential enemies for Stormwind! If it fails, Bolval doesn't care, and he doesn't pay even a copper plate for it!

"Madias, come over here......"

After achieving her goal, Katrana, who had been empowered, began to smile and waved and shouted at MI7 leader Madias, who was stunned by the conversation between the two just now.

Money and gold coins are meaningless to her Katrana!

Even if she didn't have to contribute from those greedy and ugly nobles, she Katrana alone could take it out casually, but it was only 50,000 gold coins, and there were many more, who was she?

How nice would it be that something as interesting as this is, whether it succeeds or not, can add hatred between two countries?

Look, just pay so much gold to add a vendetta or mortal enemy to the Stormwind Kingdom, which is simply not too cost-effective!

In Count Catlana's opinion, she wanted to see things that could be easily solved or achieved with gold coins. In that case, she doesn't have to worry about other things, she is tired, where can she use gold coins to smash people? How nice is that?

……

Speaking of the Assassin League of Ravenhold, they are not only powerful, but also have always acted very secretively, many people, who have not been in contact with this Assassin Alliance, they even suspect that this so-called Assassin Organization may not exist at all!

But in fact, the headquarters of Ravenhold Manor is located in the southeast of the Alterac Mountains.

The location is just south of Icewindhill, north of Dunhold Castle, east of Tallenmere, and west of the hills bordering Hinterland.

The owner of this secret manor is it Cholazi? Duke Ravenhold! This man is known as the King of Thieves, and at the same time, he is also the supreme leader of this powerful League of Assassins!

In the first two months, although the army of the undead led by Kelthugad swept through the entire Hillsbrad Hills, they were not affected by the undead at that time due to the fact that Ravenhold Manor was too secretive. So much so that now, inside the manor, this gang of assassins is still doing what they have to do, and they don't pay any attention to the scattered undead or demons that are still wandering outside.

"Lord Duke! On the side of Stormwind City, the news has just come back that they are really willing to pay that money, and the 10,000 deposit has also been received. ”

In the manor, Jorazi? The Duke of Ravenhold, who was enjoying his afternoon on a wooden terrace on the second floor of the manor, in the mild sunshine, drinking afternoon tea and eating pastries.

As he closed his eyes, as if he were asleep, a masked thief quietly appeared behind him, knelt down on one knee, and whispered the latest news from Stormwind.

"Hmph...... Very well, it looks like we're going to make another windfall! ”

After being a demon for a while, Joraci said with a smile.

"The manpower over there in the Flame Kingdom is already in place, right? So...... Now you can go to the arraignment, let them go in a few days, and do it when they find an opportunity. ”

Don't even look at the person behind you, Jorazi? Duke Ravenhold continued to pick up the teacup, and after taking a sip, he snorted a few times, as if he did not take the assassination of a queen in his eyes at all, and such a big thing that was bound to break the sky.

In his mind, the other party is nothing more than a little girl with strong mana, is it a demigod to say otherwise, even if he has a strong spell power, what can he do if he can't release it? Besides, the fact that Kalimdor wore it back has proven that even a demigod can be killed!

Moreover, they didn't seem to have seen that little girl show corresponding strength. At that time, when facing that Akmund, she just exploded her strength, which was scary to look at, but in the end, she didn't even use a spell, and the other party ran away inexplicably!

Instead of believing that the other party has great strength, he prefers to believe that the other party must have secretly colluded with the demon in some way! Recently, news from the upper echelons of Lordaeron has also vaguely confirmed this, that the fire elementals are reluctant to cross the river that seems to have been defaulted to the border, and the undead and demons are the same. Well, this matter, after a little pondering, seems very interesting!

The most important thing is that this little girl, she acts all day long, and she has those powerful fire demon guards, but when she goes out, she never even brings a single subordinate!

Now, isn't it the same as playing with their League of Assassins to kill such an unsuspecting mage? This is simply a windfall for nothing, and if you don't do this vote, you're sorry for the conscience of their assassins!

"Yes! Lord Duke! I'm going to arraign! ”

In Cholazi? The masked thief behind Duke Ravenhold answered and gently turned away. Solo Choraki was left alone to enjoy the peace of the afternoon.

……

The time has come and gone, and the late bloomer of old John has been in a tight spring breeze recently! After the end of the Second Orc War, for a long time, his position at that time could be regarded as never touching the slightest.

However, since the undead plague raged, he had risen from a small guard tower to a lieutenant on duty, first as the steward of a refugee camp, and then as the mayor of Flame Town.

But now, the construction of Flame Town has not been completed, and he has been transferred to the bio-habitat of Flame City, serving as the supreme governor of the biozone, specializing in the management and daily operation of this large special area.

Now, in the bitter and icy winter season of this northern continent, the city of flames, which is as warm as summer, has naturally become more and more prosperous, and it has become a good place for rich and powerful humans or High Elves to spend the winter!

A large number of Lordaeron's remnant nobles or wealthy merchants, or the High Elves who have been tortured by the Demon Hidden have run to the biota of the Fire City under various pretenses, either to spend the winter, or to absorb the abundant fire elemental magic here to alleviate the Demon Hidden Demon.

And, most importantly, as soon as they came to live here, they started to set up tents or build houses everywhere, ready to be lazy and not want to leave.

Old John couldn't send troops to drive him away, because it was completely in line with the covenant signed by the Flame Alliance!

It was for these more and more nail households that John Sr. had to replan the entire bioregion, tear down all the original scattered houses and rebuild them, and auctioned off a lot of sorted out land, so that these humans or high elves who planned to live here for a long time could build their own houses and live without disturbing the basic order of his jurisdiction.

Soon after, thanks to the exaggerated construction speed of the fire elementals, the order of the biota under his control finally improved a lot, and began to become more and more prosperous.

Since he was appointed to take over this area, it has only been a dozen days, and it has become the most prosperous and lively place in the entire City of Flames, except for the commercial area!

To do business, go to the business district across that wide avenue; Eat and come to a thriving biota. This has become a familiar mantra in the City of Fire, whether it is the fire elemental or other creatures.

Whether dwarves, humans, or high elves, they all have a fair number of masters living here.

After all, the nationals of all four countries of the Flame Alliance, in the other three countries, enjoy the right to live and travel freely. They came here to buy land and build houses to settle down, and it was not against any of the rules of the Flame Alliance.

"Yo! Hello Archon John, have you been free lately? Why don't you continue to come to us for the Winter Ball tonight? ”

A nobleman from Lordaeron, who was wandering the streets, saw Old John in civilian clothes, leading two guards in fiery red armor and holding a flame emblem on his routine tour of the biosphere, and hurriedly approached him to talk to him and try to invite him to his ball.

The current old John, who was born with mud legs, can be regarded as a hot figure in the City of Flames.

After all, the nobles of Lordaeron, who no longer had much power, had access to the most accessible and most accessible high-level of the Flame Kingdom, perhaps, that is, John Elder, the prefect of this human zone.

"Aha, it's Baron Psius...... Thank you for your kindness, but it's just ...... I don't have that much time these days. As you must have seen, I've been very busy lately, and there are many things that need to be handled by me personally, so let's do it another day! I'll definitely come another day! ”

Old John smiled at these bastard aristocrats who knew pleasure all day long.

Ever since he had attended one of these winter balls not long ago, he didn't want to mix in anymore!

That kind of extravagant and lascivious ball was definitely not something that the poor John could enjoy, and old John did not like this kind of life very much, and he was very disgusted! The thought of that so-called winter ball makes him feel uncomfortable!

After dealing with the difficult nobleman of Lordaeron, Old John turned to a more lively street, only to see a little girl wandering around with a teddy bear in her hand, and it just so happened to be Her Majesty the Queen of their Flame Kingdom!

Seeing this, Old John's eyes lit up, since he was allowed to meet here, then, he must go up to say hello and try to show his face in front of Her Majesty, there are not too many opportunities like this, after all, even if he is already the ruler of the bioregion, he is not qualified to enter the queen's palace casually.

Not? Something seems wrong?

When Old John just wanted to go up to greet the Queen, as a veteran warrior, he found that the crowd around Her Majesty was ...... Seems a bit unusual? Murderous?

The humans eating in front of a stall seem to be a little careless? From time to time, your eyes still glance at Her Majesty who is walking that way?

Wait a minute! Also, the two goblins on the other side are obviously setting up stalls to sell some expensive things, and they don't go to the opposite commercial area but come here? Don't you know that this place specializes in food? Look at the deserted appearance in front of their stalls, and they neither care nor shout, is this what goblins who see money should do?

They're wasting their time, and for them, time is money!

And finally, on the way forward for Her Majesty the Queen, where to ...... There are still two trolls? Are they guards hired by a caravan? But...... The route they traveled seemed to have been outflanked in the direction of Her Majesty, intentionally or unintentionally? Yes! Did they reach into their backs?

Not good! There are assassins!

"There are assassins!!

Old John's heart sank, and he finally realized why he had always felt that something was wrong, it turned out that someone was trying to disadvantage the queen? After seeing this, he only had time to let out a heart-rending loud scream, but in an instant, along with the two guards beside him, he was suddenly knocked unconscious by the attack from behind......

A universal skill for the thieves: Stuffy Stick!

The three of them didn't know when three thieves appeared behind them, and they were directly three stuffy sticks, and they directly put Old John and the two plate guards who had just shouted to the ground, and without half a day's effort, the three of them would probably not be able to wake up.

At the same time, the two trolls who had already walked to either side of Little Annie, in an instant, took out the hands they had put in their backpacks, and they turned out to be two daggers that exuded a miserable green color, and it was obvious that they had been smeared with all kinds of poison!

The troll on the left directly wiped out Anne's thin white neck with a sharp dagger, which was the thief's deadly skill: slit, wipe the throat!

The troll on the right, on the other hand, is a crouching, two daggers smeared with poison, stabbing at both sides of Anne's back at a tricky angle, and it is also a thief's signature skill: kidney strike!

The two trolls, obviously repeat offenders, worked together perfectly, and when the blade was about to touch the little girl's skin, she seemed to have just reacted, and her big cute eyes were full of curiosity and a little surprise......