After a brief moment of shock, Funner reacted quickly, and immediately ran towards Arnold, drawing the sword at his waist as he galloped rapidly.

"Die for me, you shameless villains!"

Fonna rushed into the crowd and slashed through the enemy in front of him with a single sword.

Father Watt reacted as well, and he hurriedly raised the emblem before proceeding to perform his magic.

"Ask me, and I will give thee the nations as an inheritance, and the ends of the earth as a yield, and thou shalt break them with the rod of iron, and thou shalt break them in pieces like the potter's vessels: and now let your kings wake up, and let your judges of the earth be chastened."

The light of the emblem in Father Watt's hand pierced the sky of the bronze area, illuminating the men in black with no way to hide. Most importantly, he set up a barrier around Arnold in time to temporarily protect Arnold.

"Drink!" Fonnar, who rushed into the enemy formation, was much more straightforward, he held his sword in both hands, and the sword light was bloody and bloody, how could those men in black without armor stop him from killing like this, almost in the blink of an eye, this group of assassins who had been badly injured by Lily were killed by Fonnar again.

Taking advantage of the gap in Funner's killing, Father Watt hurried to Arnold's side, at this time Arnold's blood loss was already a little too much, his chest was full of viscous blood, and there was no blood on his face, if it weren't for his weak breathing and pulse, Father Watt would almost think that Arnold was dying.

"You will be strong, and you will have nothing to fear. Thou shalt forget thy afflictions, and thou shalt remember them as the waters that flowed past. Your days on earth shall be brighter than the noonday, and though there be darkness, they will be like the morning. ”

Father Watt muttered the scriptures quickly, although he majored in the discipline department in the seminary, the clergy were more or less proficient in healing arts, but they were not as proficient as those who specialized in the charismatic system as Father Puran.

Under the effect of divine magic, Arnold's chest wound slowly stopped bleeding, and this treatment was better than nothing at most, after all, Arnold's blood loss was now almost enough to kill him. Thinking of a fluke, Father Watt carefully tore open Arnold's shirt and searched for Arnold's wound in the blood.

However, when he saw the wound in Arnold's heart, he was almost in despair.

"Oh, no......" he said, clutching Arnold's wound and looking alarmed, "Oh my God, such a wound can only be done by a miracle from an archangel...... Oh my God, how am I going to explain to the Duke and the Archbishop?"

He raised his head and shouted at Funner, "Lord Fonnar, leave those people alone, Lord Arnold is in a bad situation, we must save him immediately, only Pran's magic can save him now!"

Hearing Watt's shout, Fonner's figure couldn't help but pause, and he was almost injured by a man in black beside him.

Narrowly dodging the dagger thrown by the other party, Fang Na turned around, and the blade of the sword turned around the four or five black-clothed men around him, barely breaking through the enemy's siege.

"Then hurry up and take him to church, I'll break off here!" Fonner held his sword in both hands, standing in front of Arnold and Father Watt, drawing an invisible line between them and the man in black.

Father Watt hesitated, but finally decided to believe the other party. He hurriedly picked up Arnold, although he was usually pampered, but at least the penance in the seminary back then was able to allow Father Watt to carry a young man of less than 100 pounds now.

Father Watt ran smoothly towards the church, not daring to run too fast to avoid too much jolting and worsening Arnold's injury. At the same time, he also used magic to shoot light into the sky to signal the church.

"You'll have to hold on, my lord. Father Watt looked back at Arnold from time to time, sweat still running down his forehead, "If you die, then the trouble will be really big!"

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"And then he sent him to the church and asked Puran to heal me with magic?" Arnold leaned against the windowsill, his eyes shining as bright as silver leaf in the middle of the night.

"Yes. Behind him, Lily, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, nodded slightly, and tonight Lily's expression was a little different from usual, perhaps because of the frustration she had suffered at Rodney's, and now she was extremely silent.

"I really didn't expect that the archangel would actually send me a miracle. Arnold involuntarily touched his chest, "If it weren't for that, my identity as a dependant of Belle would probably have been discovered by them, right?"

"Without a heart, it would have been discovered. ”

Arnold turned and looked at Lily. "What about you? Are you okay?"

Lily silently covered her ribs, and in the silence, her expression seemed a little stubborn.

Arnold felt like he was seeing another side of Lily.

"I've combined the information I've heard from you and Fonner, and I'm able to figure this out pretty much. Seeing that Lily was not in high spirits and did not mean to say much, Arnold went on to speak on his own, "First of all, the one thing that makes me doubt the most: how did Rodney know that I would go to the Bronze District that day, and set up an ambush beforehand. ”

"The place of meeting was the one that was settled. Lily narrowed her eyes, and there was a fierce light in the narrow slit between her eyes, "Don't you doubt him? ”

"That's normal, Lily, John Fonner, I still know something. Arnold shook his head, rejecting Lily's suspicions, "However, if it were someone else, it was indeed possible to betray this information to the Black Sheep Society." ”

"The priest?" Lily frowned, then shook her head, "He was following you temporarily, so it shouldn't have been possible to know about it beforehand." ”

"Then there's only one possibility. Arnold held out his index finger, and the moonlight hit his nails, causing the round nails to glow faintly like diamonds.

"John Fonter's people betrayed us. Lily quickly came up with an answer.

"Who is the man who came with him?"

"It seems to be Charlie, and he is responsible for Fothagan's lodging in Fotagen. ”

"Charlie...... Arnold rubbed his chin and thought of the young man's face, "it should be Charlie Fountain, Fonnar's nephew, John Fonner himself has no son, only a daughter, so he has always regarded Charlie, the son of his brother Spencer Fonner, as the heir of the Fonner family, and is ready to inherit his title and territory by him." ”

"It seems that it really values this nephew, and such an important task has brought this Charlie with it. ”

"And, in the Cold Mountain ......Lord," Arnold also narrowed his eyes, with a little chill in his narrow gaze, "Most of the young people worship my father, and they are eager for war to make a difference, so they want the lord to be a hero like my father." ”

"So, that Charlie is supposed to support your father?" Lily stood up and walked to the window, she would have chuckled mockingly if she had done it normally, but she hadn't done that tonight.

"Nine times out of ten, I didn't see him much, but he gave me a very direct impression of a young man who had a pure desire to make a career in order to catch up with his father's generation. There are many such people in the Cold Mountain Realm, especially after the war of conquest against the Holy Helm Collar eight years ago. ”

"You just said that most of the young people in the Leng Shan Territory worship your father. Lily leaned on the windowsill, turning her face slightly, looking at Arnold's side, "What about yourself, why do I listen to you as if you were an old man, don't you think of yourself as one of the young people?"

"It's a pity," Arnold touched his heart and lowered his head, "my time is different from theirs. ”

Lily was silent and didn't answer.

And Arnold quickly changed the subject.

"However, if you think about it this way, there is another question, how did this Charlie get in touch with the Black Sheep Society?"

"Maybe Black Sheep will contact him. Lily looked outside again, the city of Vortagan was quiet in the middle of the night, but everyone knew that the silence would soon be broken.

"It's possible, but Charlie has no reason to cooperate with the other party like this, it is a group of people he doesn't know the details, there is no reason for him to trust the other party so much, and even betray his uncle who has always beloved. ”

"Have you ever thought of a possibility?" Lily stared at the moon in the sky, her eyes seemed to be dyed a little cold by the cool moonlight, "The Black Sheep Society is not only possessed by Vortagen, in fact, they are found in many places. ”

Arnold turned his face sideways and looked at Lily.

"Is this your conjecture, or is it your advice?"

"You just have to believe what you believe in. Lily left the windowsill and went back to the bedside, "Let me tell you one more thing, after Funner and Watt were gone, I went back there to see the body, the man who hid in the wall and tried to assassinate you, we met before. ”

"Where?" Arnold asked, stunned.

"Do you remember the hostel on our way to Vortagen? ”

Arnold was slightly impressed.

"So, the whole of Vortagen City is firmly controlled by the Black Sheep Society, and even those hostels outside the city are their eyeliners?" Arnold frowned, thinking carefully.

"Not only that, but later Watt had the bodies identified, and found an even more interesting piece of information, the Assassin we had seen in the inn outside the city was the man who had been transferred to the city of Fotagen as an official just a few days before the chaos in the Black Rock Palace, and his name seemed to be Manan. ”

Arnold was silent for a moment before he said, "As Haze Brutus explained, Rodney did not give up control of the Vortagenland, he still hid in a place where no one could see him, and quietly controlled the city through the tentacles that the black sheep would leave on the ground. ”

"And neither the Snorren Nor the Cold Mountain Collar knew this, they didn't know about the existence of the Black Sheep Society, and they didn't know how strong the administrative structure of Vortagan City was. These people, blinded by power and profit, will fight to the death for the bait that Rodney threw at them, like two dogs fighting for bones. ”

Rodney took this opportunity to keep the Black Sheep Society hidden from being crushed in the clash between the two dukedoms. And, no matter who wins in the end, if he wants to rule this land, it is indispensable for him to stay in the open with the help of those chess pieces left in the surface, and the Black Sheep Society can still control the Vortagan Territory and countless mineral wealth in the dark. ”

"What a brilliant strategy!" Arnold sighed and couldn't help but admire, "Perfectly avoided the crisis that the Black Sheep would face after Lubigonde's death, saved his organization, and even continued to retain control of the Vortagan Territory, and solved some thorny problems, and most importantly, this will not attract anyone's covetousness and jealousy at all, the world will only see the Cold Mountain Collar and the Snowlen Collar fighting endlessly under the Black Rock Peak, but they will not think that a cult is quietly taking root." ”

"If we hadn't taken Ackerman...... Arnold chuckled as he rubbed his knuckles, "and he really got everything right, so he really wanted to kill me." ”

"How did he know Ackerman was with us?"

"Just think about it, and he can guess that we had exposed so much that day, especially the guy called the cuckoo. Arnold shook his head, not too concerned about the question, "It's good that we knew Rodney's plan in advance, at least, this time luck is on my side." ”