Chapter 161: The Flames Soar to the Sky
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The guards who had not yet left were as if they had been hit by a stone after hearing the bad news, and they were out of breath for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
A captain of the guard walked quickly over to Van Dek's body and whispered to Leonie, "Miss Leonie, you just said Miss Suzanne she..."
"Woo... I saw her pounce on Luthers' corpse and try to take it away, and I didn't have time to pull her away... A piece of wood fell off the roof of the house when it caught fire... It fell on her...", Leonie said as she wept bitterly, and most of the other guards had heard the news of Lord Luthers' murder, but they did not expect Miss Susanna to be so unlucky.
Fett looked at the blazing banquet hall, where the sound of falling objects began to be heard - the guards and the rebels who were desperately resisting the banquet hall would not survive, and Rutz, who had plotted all this, might have paid the price for what he had done, as Leonie had claimed.
Vittorio's face was more puzzled, "How could Levier be so misguided, didn't he think that those 'Cracked Powder' would bury him too?
Mafu was still comforting Leonie, and the other party's heart-rending cry moved everyone onlookers. Soon, other officers arrived and mobilized all the guards who had just arrived to intercept Jack to put out the fire around the banquet hall to prevent the fire from spreading further. Fidel and his party were also taken by the guards to a certain rest room in the palace, where most of the nobles who had escaped from the banquet hall were taken, including several important foreign missions.
"Captain Fed, you are still alive, it seems that we are all equally lucky!" Barnes, the consul of the Republic of Marveil, stood at the door of the lounge, his men all gone, and Barry, the second elder of the second, was nowhere to be seen.
When Fed asked, he learned that Barnes was the first important guest to escape, and that the rest of the Marvier Republic Mission had been left behind by him, and no one knew if the elderly Second Elder Barry would be as lucky as him.
Barnes' hair was stained with some poison powder, "Lady Meryl, who was in charge of the dinner just now, has found out everything, it turns out that the palace cooks are indeed infiltrated with the rebels, and so are the servants who are in charge of serving the food and pouring the wine. However, not all dishes were poisoned, and the few dishes I ate happened to be not poisoned. Barnes wiped a trace of powder from his face with his fingers, then put his fingers in his mouth, and it was fine.
"Hehe, everything has been found out in such a short period of time, I'm afraid she won't be able to wash away the suspicion of collusion with the rebels," Orlando, the leader of the beautiful boy mercenary group, walked out of the lounge, he was still as handsome as ever, and his clothes were very neat, "Please let me go, I still have to find that guy Toya." Orlando walked past Fielder and Barnes, and as he left, he glanced back at Field, a smile that looked at him.
In addition to Barnes, the members of the mission of the Kingdom of Sallins also escaped. Among them, General Taifu, who represents the second prince Amsul, seems to have been slightly wounded, and Queen Rosemund, under the protection of Princess Winris, escaped without incident. Some of the guests who saw the situation told them that Winlith, like some nobles, raised the table to protect the mission of the Kingdom of Sarins, and that the rebels did not dare to stop the one-meter-nine princess.
Unscathed, Maevie was comforting Leonie, who was still sobbing, as the second person in charge of the dinner, Steward Van Deke had died, and even the cold-tempered Feder could feel her pain - Steward Van Deke took good care of the Potato Mercenary Group, and so did his young daughter, but unfortunately the kind and dutiful person suffered a catastrophe, if he had stood up to stop Jack, maybe ...
Just when Fidel felt a little remorseful, Prince Walter appeared with some of the members of the mission of the Duchy of Deramain.
There was another man beside the prince, who had not yet appeared in the banquet hall, Barry, the second patriarch of the Republic of Marvil. Barry, the second elder with a long beard, was being supported by two envoys of the Duchy of Deramain, his clothes and beard were burned, and half of his hair and eyebrows were missing.
The frail senator was immediately helped into a room by several Duchy doctors, and Barnes, the consul, looked disgruntled when he saw his companion, but he symbolically thanked Walter.
"As soon as Prince Walter left the banquet hall, he heard that everyone in the banquet hall had been kidnapped by the rebels, and then in the chaos, Prince Walter stepped forward as soon as possible and rescued the old Lord Barry who fell to the ground. A woman in purple who followed Walter whispered to Barnes.
Barnes smiled and shook his head, "That's really thanks to your Prince Walter, a prince of the Kingdom of Salins attended the dinner on behalf of the Duchy of Draman, and also rescued the elders of our Marvil Republic, hehe, very capable." ā
The woman in purple wanted to refute the other party when she heard Barnes's cynicism, but Walter immediately waved her hand to let the woman in purple step back, "This is what I should do, but one thing is very regrettable, I couldn't save the deputy head of Kiro and the bishop who were close at hand, the scene was so chaotic at that time, those rebels seemed to have turned into crazy beasts..."
"The people of the Papal States have their own blessings from the Father, and it is not our mortals' turn to come to the rescue. Barnes said disdainfully.
The other aristocratic guests who had survived were sighing, glad that they had escaped from the hands of the rebels, but also guilty and uneasy that the other guests had been killed in the fire. Vittorio then counted the number of guests who had escaped from the inner banquet hall, and he told Fid that less than fifty percent of the guests had escaped. Fei De believes that most of the guests who did not escape were not poisoned by the poison powder, because the dozens of thick ropes hanging from the roof of the house did not all break, and it is estimated that the guests who did not escape either died under the butcher's knives of the rebels or died in the explosion of the "Cracking Powder".
"Doctor!" came the voice of a man from the door of the lounge, and a knight covered in dust was carrying a noblewoman on his back, most of whom recognized at a glance as Miss Susanna, the host of the dinner.
Fidel, who was standing nearby, immediately reached out to the horseman, who was exhausted, and picked up the injured Susanna. The man carrying Suzanne on his back was her personal knight Pedro, and it was only then that Fide remembered that the young knight seemed to have been gone for a while, and was not guarding Miss Susanna's side.
Several doctors immediately came from all over the lounge, and they carried Miss Suzanne into a room for first aid. As long as the guests who are not blind can clearly see that Suzanne has multiple burns all over her body, including the originally delicate face, I am afraid that she will become very ugly if she is rescued.
Fett glanced at his hands, the chained gloves were stained with Susanna's blood and flesh, and the nobleman who had been beautiful and moving a moment ago was no longer human.
Pedro fell to the ground, two lines of tears streaming down his closed eyes, and he whispered, "It's all useless to blame me for letting Suzanne suffer like this... Why wasn't I there at the time of the incident... Maybe I'm there..."
Fide looked at the exhausted knight Pedro, his face was full of remorse, and the other people who were still alive were also dead, and the smell of grief began to spread. Feder suddenly realizes that all of this tragedy is caused by the rebels, and their unscrupulous methods make Feder feel very disgusted, including the previous poison blade assassinations. Fidel remembered what Lazrov had said to himself, claiming that the rebels were on the side of justice, but if the rebels really stood for justice, then what they did tonight could not be called justice in any way - the rebels could claim that it was a necessary bloodshed, but for the rebels who pursued fairness and justice, this would inevitably become a stain on the rebels.
"Captain, I think something is wrong," Vittorio has been in a state of thought since Jack escaped, "I think after much thought that Levier would never have made such a low-level mistake. ā
"What do you mean?"
"I have known Revel for many years, he has always been calm and meticulous, this time the conspiracy of the rebels should have been prepared for a long time, even if there was an accident in the end when the Duke of Aldington golden cicada came out of his shell, Levier should not have pushed the rebels to such a dangerous place, and this is obviously a place where there is no way to live. ā
Fidel remembered the conditions proposed by Lutz, and in retrospect it really didn't mean much, could the rebel group really naively think that they could escape with those dozens of prisoners and the former leader Leon?
"Regardless of the outcome of this incident, tomorrow's rebel army will become the public enemy of the entire continent. Fei De glanced at the faces of those who had escaped, perhaps before today, these people had only heard of the Rebels and had not seen their methods.
"Become the public enemy of the continent... Levier and Iā" Vittorio was lost in thought before he could finish his sentence.
The air outside the window was getting hot and dry, and Fed stood by the window looking in the direction of the banquet hall. Smoke was still billowing from there, and countless Duchy guards were rushing there with buckets, and it was absolutely impossible to extinguish the fire for a moment, and the people buried in the flames included not only the nobles who attended the wedding banquet, but also the rebel gang who had created the plot.
"We are the Duke of Oldington's personal soldiers!All the guests who escaped from the banquet hall immediately signed here to confirm their identity!" Suddenly, an officer's voice came from the middle of the lounge, "Everyone regardless of their status must sign here!
The four of Fidel's group also stood in the autograph line, and just as Fide signed his name, the officer suddenly beckoned his subordinates to come over.
"This is this man, the prisoner whom the Duke of Aldington personally ordered to be arrested!"