Chapter 30: The Capture of 6
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The Earl of Keaton's mansion was brightly lit, and a group of heavily armed soldiers were patrolling, and the servants who came and went looked nervous, because the Earl had killed a maid in anger today. The dead maid was hastily dragged into the garden and buried, but the oppressive atmosphere still hung over the lavish mansion. In the dark corners of the garden, crossbow-wielding soldiers lurked in them, and since yesterday the whole mansion was shrouded in an air of impending storms, and the Earl had not gone out for a whole day, but attendants had been sent out to inquire about the news.
Inside the study.
Earl Keaton's face was clouded by the dim candlelight, and he said hoarsely to the side, "Haven't you heard from your aunt yet?"
"Yes. Uncle. A grim young knight replied.
It's been two days.
After learning that Lady Elijah had been rescued by the Mystery, Earl Keaton's aunt decided to take matters into her own hands, but two days later, no news came back, as if the whole person had completely disappeared. All this made the Earl of Keaton feel terrified, but he knew how terrifying his witch aunt was, and it would be difficult for even an army of knights to keep her. But now that such a powerful wizard had suddenly disappeared completely, he could only comfort himself in the bottom of his heart that his aunt was only chasing down the wizard who had saved Lady Illya, and that nothing had happened.
Why did things suddenly turn out like this?
The Earl of Keaton was now very uneasy, and he had only one reason to deal with the Norrington family, and that was for that particular silver mine. Decades later, his aunt re-crossed the Channel to visit the continent, and it just so happened that the Earl of Keaton had bought off the inside line to get the news of a silver-like but priceless metal. The peculiar metal caught the witch's attention, and after determining its astonishing value, the Earl of Keaton immediately moved on at his aunt's beckoning. My aunt was there to get the rare metal, and he was for the Norrington family's domain and wealth. Originally, he thought that there was a powerful second-order wizard behind him, and the matter was simply captured, but he didn't expect that the wife and daughter of the Earl of Norrington were actually rescued by other wizards.
The rest of the aristocracy was already ready to move.
If the Earl of Keaton completely wiped out the Norrington family with a thunderbolt, then these nobles would only be afraid and would not act for a group of dead people. But now that Lady Illya and her daughter are still alive, many of the nobles who are related to the Norrington family by marriage are hostile to him, and they have not yet made any moves, but they are missing a chance to break out.
"Those damn bunches!"
Today at the Council of Nobles, the Earl of Keaton's proposal to strip the Norrington family of their lands was opposed by nearly half of the nobles, something that had never happened before.
This made him very uneasy.
He stood up and said to the guards next to him, "Keep sending someone to look for it!"
"Yes. The knight next to him bowed and nodded.
But.
At this moment, suddenly the house shook violently. Outside, there was a burst of exclamations from the guards and attendants.
"Earthquake?!"
Earl Keaton's face changed, and without saying a word, he jumped directly from the window on the second floor, the house was still shaking violently, but the scope was limited to the main house, and as soon as he landed, Earl Keaton found that something was wrong, because there was no shaking outside, and the nearby houses were also fine, this was not an earthquake at all.
Thundered!
With a dull loud noise, the main house in front of me suddenly collapsed after shaking a few times, and a huge pit more than ten meters deep appeared in front of me, I don't know when the foundation of the main house was hollowed out by someone, and the whole house became a pavilion in the air, relying only on a thin layer of walls to support.
In the dark.
A pair of eyes locked on the figure of the Earl of Keaton, his figure was so eye-catching, as soon as he appeared, he was surrounded by people around him.
- "Rune Acid Arrow!" [Spell Extreme]"
A cloud of dark green liquid turned into an arrow and flew out, although it was an arrow made of liquid, it still easily penetrated the underwear armor on Earl Keaton's body, accompanied by a sizzling sound of corrosion, Count Keaton let out a terrible scream, the strong acid quickly corroded his clothes, and then left a terrible wound on his flesh.
"There are assassins!
"Protect the Earl!
There was a shout of surprise from all around, and the minions scattered and fled, while the soldiers in the distance were hurrying forward.
- "Arcane Missile*10!"
- "Secondary chain missile!"
The night covered the assassin's actions, so that the guards could only vaguely judge the direction of the attack, but just for a moment's delay, there were dozens of Arcanon missiles in the darkness, they emitted a faint Arcanon brilliance, and quickly and fatally hit the body of Earl Keaton, the first Arcanon missile hit and broke one of Earl Keaton's ribs, and with the overwhelming Arcanon missile, the continuous force field damage directly knocked the figure of Count Keaton backwards one after another, and the entire chest cavity was already blurred and sunken in flesh, and under the force field injury of the Arcanon missile, all the ribs in the chest seemed to have been broken by a terrible impact and pierced into the lungs。
"Lord Earl!"
"Arrest the Assassins, protect the Earl!"
A group of soldiers in iron armor rushed in, but when they arrived, Earl Keaton's body was already full of holes, and he seemed to have been swept by a bunch of bullets the size of ping-pong balls after 36 arcane missiles in a row.
"Ahem...... I...... Ahem......"
The strong constitution of the Norman made the Earl of Keaton not breathe for the time being, but when he opened his mouth to say something, he suddenly coughed up a large amount of black blood, and then the Earl of Keaton's eyes widened and his hands hung weakly.
The commotion quickly shook the entire Windy City.
However, while the rest of the mansion was at a loss, a group of soldiers in full armor quickly entered the city in the darkness of the night, and quickly captured the south gate of the city in a short but fierce battle, and then a group of noble knights galloped towards the barracks, while another group quickly occupied the town hall and the noble council.
The old Earl Sutton, dressed in silver-white full-body plate armor, entered the Windy City from the south gate with an excited expression.
Behind him were thousands of elite soldiers in half-body armor, all of whom were his family's private soldiers, elite troops armed with iron mines. Old Earl Sutton was in high spirits at this moment, he pulled out his long sword and pointed forward: "Take the North Gate and the East Gate! The Earl of Keaton colluded with the Dragon City Rebellion to murder the Earl of Norrington! Plotted to seize the territory and wealth of other nobles by improper means! Now the Earl of Keaton has been killed!"
"Kill all these rebels!
A loud cheer of excitement rang out, and then a group of heavily armed soldiers, led by more than a dozen knights, quickly rushed towards the other city gates.