() was attacked inexplicably, and was busy for most of the day, and in the end, it turned out that the other party recognized the wrong person. Julian felt particularly angry.

The two Assassins who were fighting Dante realized that they had made a mistake, and immediately smashed a glass bottle containing the alchemical solution in front of Dante, fleeing under the cover of a large cloud of choking smoke that was created in an instant. Fearing fraud, Dante stayed by the carriage and did not chase after him.

And Julian, dragged on a horse and tossed to the ground to a bloody and dead life, also after regaining a slight freedom of movement, bit the poison hidden between his teeth and killed himself.

"Master, can you still be saved?" Dent approached Julian, who was casting a spell to treat the Assassin.

"My light magic cultivation is not yet home. Julian shook his head. After three failed attempts in a row, he gave up and retracted the cross.

Seeing that the only living room was gone, and the man who was chased and killed by the five of them also died quietly in the battle just now, Julian felt very helpless. At that moment, he found Ipeia following Dante, staring intently at the hideous corpse on the ground.

"Miss, you're so calm. Julian had to admire. Seeing so many dead corpses without changing her face, is this really the appearance that a pampered empress should have?

"What else do you want me to do, screaming and hugging you, crying and finding comfort?" Ipeia said in astonishment.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. Julian turned his head away in some embarrassment.

"I'm just joking, don't worry too much. Yipeiya smiled slightly and said, "Actually, I have seen this kind of thing too much since I was a child, and I have long been numb. ”

It was only after she said this that Julian realized that he had mistaken the concept. In order to inherit the family business, not to mention the upper nobles, even the middle nobles, the children of the internal struggle are quite fierce, the larger the family, the higher the status, the more wealth, the bloodier the struggle, not to mention the royal family of the Rocard Empire, which has a long history and flourishes. Although Ipeia looks like a weak and weak woman on the outside, as a child of the royal family, she has to face all kinds of assassinations every day. This is a thrilling struggle that Julian, as an only son, cannot experience at all.

To unravel the embarrassment between them, Dante turned the subject to another matter: "Master, I just investigated the three corpses over there. The man being hunted by the Assassins was wearing a broken knight's armor, and although the micro-mark representing his legion and title had been forcibly scraped away with his sword, I was sure he was a knight. ”

"Hmm. Julian agreed, "From the way he fled with his face covered, to the reaction of the Assassins when they saw him for what he really was. I assume that this man was not the target of the assassins, but it certainly had something to do with it. Most likely, he disguised himself as a target to distract the Assassins from his true target. This is precisely the spirit of 'sacrifice' in chivalric morality. ”

"By the way, I found these things from those two assassins, and I think I should be able to confirm the identity of these assassins. ”

From Dante's outstretched palms, Julian saw two blood-stained metal badges, only to see that on them were a round eye, and in the pupil was a sun gnawed by the teeth of a huge beast.

"Sun-eating pupils!" Julian reflexively called out a strange term.

Julian then examines the body of the third Assassin and finds an identical metal badge.

"You also know the 'Suneater's Pupil. Dante asked.

"Of course. Julian nodded, "This group is also one of the targets that the Templars have been trying to exterminate for years. ”

It should be noted here that there are many assassins operating on the three continents of Olopa, but they are basically divided into three categories: the first type is the freelance assassins, who are loners, do not belong to any country or organization, work for money, and can be hired by anyone as long as they can afford it; The third group of Assassins are the Assassins who work for money but are also highly organized and disciplined, all of whom belong to the only professional killer organization in Olopa, known as the "Sun-Eater Pupil" in Julian and Dante's mouth.

The so-called "Sun-devouring Pupil" was originally a regular mercenary group, which had established brilliant military exploits, but more than 30 years ago, it was suddenly keen to accept assassination missions, and the methods were brutal, without any regard for the Hui and the innocent, contrary to the professional ethics of the mercenary community, and finally the mercenary guild alliance terminated their mercenary group qualifications and ordered them to disband, but they ignored the order to disband, and turned to underground activities. After being expelled from the Mercenary Guild Alliance, he unscrupulously recruited a large number of professional assassins and completely transformed into a professional killer organization. The Assassins of this group may not be the strongest of Olopa, but due to their independent intelligence network and professional operational organization, they are able to complete more difficult assassination missions with a high success rate

However, behind the high efficiency and success rate is the cruelty of unscrupulous means to achieve the end, and the cold-bloodedness of turning a blind eye to the lives of innocent people. Where they carry out their assassinations, hundreds or thousands of innocent people are often killed or wounded, and the world is deeply disgusted. Because of this, in order to avoid being exterminated, the whereabouts of this organization are extremely hidden, and the number of members, the location of the stronghold, the form of organization, and the identity of the leader are all unknown.

"Not to mention the killers who can hire the 'Sun Devouring Pupil', and even the people and forces that can contact this organization, I'm afraid there are only a few in the three continents of Olopa. If you use the elimination method, you can probably trace the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes. Julian said.

"But is it necessary to track it down?" said Dante, disagreeing, "these men attacked us clearly by misidentifying the target, and they thought that the person they were going to kill was hiding in the wagon, and they fled as soon as they realized that something was wrong. In other words, the whole thing has nothing to do with us, so it's better not to wade into this muddy water. ”

"Not true. Be sure to follow it to the end. Ipeia vetoed Dante's stay out of the way, "I don't know anything about this gang of outlaws appearing in the Empire. Who was so bold as to plan an assassination on the land of the Empire must be clarified. ”

"The eldest lady is right. Julian agrees with Ipeya, "If you continue to let them do whatever they want, I don't know how many innocent people will suffer...... Wait! Innocents, oh no!"

Suddenly, Julian seemed to remember something, he hurriedly packed up his weapon, turned over and jumped on a horse, and gave a short order to Dante: "Don't leave the place until I return, protect the eldest lady." ”

Without looking back, he quickly pursued the two Assassins in the direction where they had fled.

Even if they were a little stunned by the suddenness of Julian's actions, Dante and Ipeia were both nimble minds, and they quickly understood Julian's worries and intentions. Although the "Suneater Pupil" is mysterious, there are still two patterns in their way of doing things: one is to kill all witnesses in each operation, even if the witness is from a city, and the other is to take away all the dead bodies of their comrades.

The two Assassins who had been unable to defeat Julian and Dent had left their companions' bodies there and fled, only to show one thing: they would bring more killers back and besiege them until they had killed all three of them.

This was Julian's fear, and he had to catch up with the two Assassins before they could find their companions. They took the Empress of the Empire on the road, not to show off their strength, and they must not let the Empress show her violence in danger. Although the two men had been running away for some time, the wounded man's legs could never outrun the horse's four hooves.

"Miss, please stay in the carriage until the master returns...... What are you doing?"

Dante, who proposed to build Yì for Ipeia's safety, turned back to find that Ipeia had used a dagger to cut the rope that held the horses to the carriage. Before Dante could stop him, Ipea jumped on one of the horses and whistled in front of the one-armed squire, galloping in the direction Julian had left.

"I'm going to help him!"

The voice of Ipeya fading away could be heard in the air.

"Hell, why is this empress so willful?"

Dante cursed, quickly mounted the last remaining horse, and chased away.