In the blink of an eye, more than half a year passed in a hurry.

During this time, although the Western Continent was still in full swing on the surface, such as the war between Falkenridge and Stasi, and the Northwest Orcs were haunting the Constantine Line of the Vola Empire more and more frequently, and the war between the two major groups of Tadoya and Hawar was also escalating.

However, this is only the situation on the continent in the eyes of ordinary people. In fact, those real high-end forces have maintained a strange silence.

It's as if all this is just the calm before the storm.

“...... Stasi, I can't wait. ”

At the edge of the highest observation deck of the King's Castle in Zakif, the young humanoid red dragon Salamondo was standing silently with his hands in his hands, thinking to himself. The crimson pupils resembling the most precious ruby reflect the magnificent panorama of the new royal capital, but the thriving royal capital is now shrouded in a dazzling firelight......

Carrying up and down the sky were countless pillars of black smoke that billowed out from the burning area of the royal capital, and the violent winds that blew around them raged throughout the heavens and the earth. It was as if a pair of invisible hands had stirred up the entire part of the sky, mixed with the striking fiery red that rolled below, and had rendered the entire royal capital into a scene of despair.

The entire building was lit up in a striking maroon by the spreading sea of fire, and dancing sparks and ashes rose into the sky with the rolling smoke, and then flew and fell in all directions, covering everywhere they could see...... Rooftops, crumbling windowsills, tattered carriages, and corpses that were charred and blackened in the flames.

The fire began to spread from the outer lower part of the city, where the commoners lived, and the inner upper city, where the nobles lived, and began to spread to both sides of the lower and upper towns, and both the nobles and the commoners were affected by the burning flames, and the nobles cursed and shouted, and under the cover of the family guards, they got into the carriages and marched to the center of the inner city, where there were formations of royal guards to help them avoid the fire and the mob.

Some civilians broke out the dark side of their hearts under the infestation of the fire, not only did not participate in the firefighting, but even began to intensify the ignition of larger flames, and carried iron rods, wooden sticks, sledgehammers, knives and axes and other murder weapons to block the road, and even robbed and killed people...... Many atrocities were committed.

Some commoners, driven by their daily hatred, even gathered to storm the homes of the nobles, slaughtering the unprepared nobles.

The nobles were naturally unwilling to be killed, and usually bullied the commoners at will, and even regarded them as chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs and other beasts that could be used to abuse and kill at will, and they erupted into great anger in the face of the resistance of the commoners. Naturally, the guards, who had been trained and armed with standard firearms and weapons, were stronger than the civilians, and after the initial surprise and fear were suppressed, the regrouped guards were like tigers entering a flock, shooting and slaughtering civilians with the help of the escort army.

Yes, the prosperity and rise of Falkenridge is only relative to the overall situation, in fact, this country is not fundamentally different from any country on the Western Continent, and the opposition between the aristocracy and the plebeian class has been around for a long time, and its contradictions can be said to be incomplete.

For example, in a large country like the Longyan Empire and the Tadoya Empire, which profess to be civilized and righteous, the situation will be better, at least the nobles will try to find a legitimate reason when they oppress the commoners, and even try to win the support of public opinion, and the commoners rebelling against the nobles will rarely escalate the conflict to the point of frontal armed combat.

But small countries such as Falkenridge and Stacy are different......

At this moment, within the royal capital of Zakif, civilians, guards, noble guards, and kingdom troops ...... Of course, there is also the Stasi Killer, who sees the opportunity to further expand the situation of the riot, several forces begin to wangle and fight, gradually red-eyed, the civilian riot escalates step by step, and with the help of fire, the irrepressible chaos spreads.

And in the midst of this chaos—

"Fielding, go to the area around Custer Avenue at once and assassinate the mob commander there. ”

"Eugene, take a few trustworthy people to the northeast corner of the lower city, and kill all the seventeen people who have been slashed the hardest.

"On the side of the King's Clock Tower, the man who led the civilian rebellion was orderly and acted with great law, and it seems that he should be a middle and high-ranking person sent into the royal capital by the Stasi to intervene in the riot and fuel the trouble. Pickle, disguised as a security guard to kill him. ”

"Derek, do you see the golden carriage parked next to the Uptown Marketplace? Inside is a nobleman who has been confirmed to be collaborating with the enemy, and has sent two killers disguised as mobs to kill him. ”

"Longfellow, the escort army on the other side of the central square is too well stationed, send someone over and order them to immediately enter the battle to stabilize the situation. Today's kings can't afford such turmoil. ”

......

Orders were issued by the Red Dragon Salamondo, disguised as a general, and then quickly turned into actual action by the vast and sophisticated executive mechanism built under the guidance of the ideas left behind by Ello.

In addition, under the accurate assassination of the kingdom's increasingly powerful comprehensive intelligence department, people who can rationally lead riots and even agitate for firefighting are easily cut off like fragile seedlings.

Even the Stacy spies, who usually expected King Falkenridge to riot so that he could take advantage of it, could not control all this, and what could have been counted as a clear civilian riot and military suppression gradually turned into complete chaos, like a whirlpool that swept everything, expanding and developing, swallowing almost all the forces and stirring them into a pot of porridge.

The royal capital under the King's Castle is the ultimate chaos, but the observation deck at the very top of the King's Castle is the ultimate order. Saramondo is like a chess player in a board game, seemingly placing his pieces at random, but gradually letting the whole situation fall into his control.

In fact, Salamondo had long known that there were a number of Stasie spies lurking in the royal capital, and he even knew that these were all the methods that Grand Duke Jon had sent to destroy Falkenridge after he realized that the siege of Icourtt Valley had failed to kill Iroh.

And the reason why Saramondo waited until this moment to go all out to encircle and suppress these spies was also the result of comprehensive consideration of various factors.

The most direct reason is that the elimination of spies will inevitably mean the turmoil in the hearts of the people in the royal capital. As the new royal capital of Falkenridge, more than ten years is not enough time for it to show the style of the old capital Barrington, coupled with the continuous war, even if there is good news from the front-line army from time to time, but the nerves of the people tense because of the war do not allow any more turmoil in the royal capital.

Another point is that Saramondo is also watching the siege of the Icourt Valley. As the most arrogant and ambitious red dragon, Salamondo naturally couldn't really surrender to Iroh, just like Vis and Hirkat at the beginning, he was also waiting for the opportunity for Iroh to fall.

So at that time, he decided that if Iroh was killed in the Ikut Valley, then he would contact the Stasi spy, betray Falkenridge, and then use Vess's true identity to threaten the half-blood dragon and take the Tokamaks into his own hands.

Of course, if Iroh hadn't died—as he is now—Salamondo would have waited for Stasi's spies to jump out first, which would have saved some effort and would have been an opportunity to further incite the populace to retaliate against him.

In addition, Salamondo knew that what the Stasi wanted was a sane riot under their control, not absolute chaos without the slightest sense of reason. In order to turn the chaos into a riot they can control, the spies will continue to send men to the royal capital to help the flames, trying to turn things that have gotten out of control back on track.

In fact, the Stasi people also knew that the chaos in the royal capital might have been a bait thrown by Falkenridge himself, but this bait was too tempting. They have developed countless dark lines in the royal capital, and they have worked hard for many years to fail to achieve such a result, and now they see that the royal capital is easily chaotic, this can be called the best opportunity for the war so far, even if it is a trap, they have to grit their teeth and jump!

Now it seems that all the forces are in the situation, but in fact, the kingdom's comprehensive intelligence department led by Salamondo is still on the outside, or they are the culprits who have created the current situation.

As mentioned above, Salamondo asked the Stasi spies to orchestrate the fire, causing terrible chaos, and then mobilizing the assassination agency to wait for the opportunity. Eliminate these spies, as well as some of the nobles who have been corrupted by Stasi, and even the few ministers who question Salamondo.

Thereby...... Truly take Falkenridge into the hands of the Colored Dragon!

"Lord Jon, your flesh and blood, I'm getting more and more eager to try it......"

Salamoondo, who issued orders to promote the chaos and development, gradually deduced the one-sided thinking pattern of the orderer from the actions of the revolutionary army's continuous dispatch of men, which is obviously in line with the description of the style of the Grand Duke Jon in the intelligence compiled by Iello before.

According to the frequent operations of Stasi's spies in recent times, Salamondo deduced that there must be an important forward base set up by the Stasi people near the royal capital to be responsible for the transit personnel and materials coming to the royal capital, otherwise their speed of action could not be so fast.

Killing those dark lines doesn't help, Stasi has a foundation in this area, so their personnel replenishment speed is extremely fast, and they launch emotional and ideal brainwashing much faster than Falkenridge's side, under the iron rule of Grand Duke Jon, the desperate Stacy killers are like weeds after the rain, and they can't be cut at all.

So the only thing Saramondo could do was to uproot the root system that was deep in the ground, that is, the forward base.

Fortunately, the more people Stasi sent to intervene in the chaos of the royal capital, the more traceable their trajectory became, and under the analysis of the full-time personnel of the comprehensive intelligence department, an intricate indicator map was slowly drawn.

Salamondo looked at the map showing the location of the advance base that showed the possible distribution of Stasi's forces, and said to himself indifferently: "As soon as the final assessment is over, it will be almost time for the people of the 'Abyss Nova' to be dispatched, and there will be no living words left at that time." ”

At this moment, the ultimate assassination force "Abyss Nova" cultivated by the Sun Esoteric Cult ...... It's about to usher in its first action!