Pol admits that he coaxed, but he is a sword master after all, and in the mortal world, he is the pinnacle of this world, and he has his own dignity. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Maybe this dignity is worthless in the face of the overwhelming balance of power, but that person is not here at the moment, and it would be too embarrassing to be scared away just by mentioning his name. After thinking about it, he questioned: "How can you prove it? Why did your master and child come to Antaili and participate in this martial arts competition?"

"I'm Grom Aaron, a knight under Duke Foster, captain of the guard of his mansion, and you'll find out when you go back. Grom tossed his identification to the other party: "The adult's son has just come of age and is on his first long trip, and his parents are busy with more important things, so they sent me and another subordinate to lead people to escort them, and this time they are involved in the assassination case, which is a complete coincidence." ”

"How do you explain that tunnel?"

"The other person in charge of security is an intelligence officer of the Empire, and the two countries are in a state of opposition, and I think there will be a lot of Anteli spies operating in Winvi City, I hope you understand this. ”

Pol pondered for a moment and nodded imperceptibly: "Accept your explanation, if what you say is true, I can guarantee the child's personal safety in Anteli." ”

"Do you know who poisoned his wine, and if the answer is no, what can you guarantee?"

"It can be investigated. ”

"Then go and look up, but what if it's the top of the kingdom?

"I understand who you're referring to, I've heard about a small accident at the tournament, but Duke Tully is a steady man, I know him, it can't be that he sent someone to poison him. ”

"Speaking of which, you still don't know who's causing trouble, I'm just asking you, if that kid returns to Sardenburg with you, exposed to the hidden threat of the enemy, and still has an accident under your 'protection', will you be responsible?"

......

Can't afford it.

Pol also thought this clearly, he knew that there is only a thousand days to be a thief and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves: let the boy go back with him, and bet that he can fully guarantee his safety in the face of the enemy's secret, he is not sure of this. Besides, even if nothing happened, after all, it was in the name of detention to restrict the boy's freedom, and if his father did not appreciate it when his father came, it would be thankless.

It's better not to have anything to do with it anymore.

The pursuing troops behind him followed breathlessly, and the Pol Sword Saint also figured everything out, frowned and thought for a while, and made a decision: "I don't know the son of Duke Foster, and I can't verify what you said if I catch up, but this time I personally led the troops to chase after me, and it is impossible to go back empty-handed." ”

"Yes, I'll go with you, but only if you let the kid go, and if it turns out that I lied, you can just treat me as an assassin. "What the other party said also makes sense, originally Grom was ready to desperately obstruct the pursuers, but he ran into a sword master who knew the Duke and chased him. This is already a great luck, if you only rely on your own words to ask the other party to let him and Rod leave is too reluctant, Dieter sent Pauli instead of Morfan or Sylna, who had a better relationship with Rode, because the former is the most powerful and good at escaping pursuit, with him, Rod should be able to escape.

Grom thought for a moment, lowered his voice and compromised: "But in the same way, I have to give up the child who guards my master to stop you, and I have to have some results." It's better to compromise and let your men stop chasing, and then the two of us will have a fight, and when I make sure that the kid has run away, I will deliberately lose and go back with you, how about it?"

Pol nodded, turned his head and ordered loudly: "Stop chasing, surround this guy, let me clean him up." ”

......

Behind him, a vindictive roar could be heard in the distance, and Grom engaged the enemy, and the battle seemed to be more intense than the wild hunt in Shadow Town. Worried about the safety of his swordsmanship teaching, Rhodes slowed down.

"Grom ......"

"What is him, do you think you can help? The greatest good thing you can do now is to run away and not look back!" Pauli did not look back: a man, not too young, always as indecisive as a girl, what kind of system!

Rod has been with Grom since he was a child, and the time spent together is only longer than that of his father, and it is not too exaggerated to say that he is the same as father and son, so it is naturally impossible to be so free and decisive, and he still has to argue, Ciri pulled him: "Grom will be fine, we will cause trouble if we run slowly, stop arguing, continue to run." ”

Both of them said this, and if they said anything else, they were suspected of making nonsense, and Rod had no choice but to agree, and the three of them shuttled through the forest in the dim moonlight, and soon they could not even hear the sound of Grom fighting the enemy.

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The Boljut returned to the palace of Sardenburg and made a beeline for the council chamber. After the death of the king, the actual rulers of Anteli were here to deal with internal and external affairs, and before dawn, most of the people in the city were afraid that they still did not know what had happened, but the core of power was already busy in the middle of the night, and they were all tired.

Ms. Sasha looked up at him, "Arrested?"

"There was a gain, but it didn't bring back the people you wanted. Pol looked at the other man with a calm face: "Lord Duke, I personally don't believe that this matter has anything to do with you, but the stakes are so important that I have to ask, please answer truthfully - did you poison the Midland boy named Rorick at the banquet?" ”

"What?" said Duke Tully, confused, "no, we've known each other for years, do you think I'm like one of those fools who don't know what to do?" I even had my son watch after the game just to keep him from messing around. ”

"There was a waiter who was in charge of serving food for the banquet who disappeared after the assassination, and we questioned everyone, and the missing person changed jobs with the waiter in charge of pouring wine during the banquet, which was very suspicious. Lady Sasha interjected with a serious face, "The attendants who can serve by the king's side are all innocent, loyal and reliable young people, and the missing person is the illegitimate son of a baron, and I have sent someone to investigate." According to the chamberlain, he had been addicted to gambling for a long time and owed a lot of money, but somehow he was always able to pay it back in the end, and I guess there was a problem here...... In addition, the woman who assassinated the king was brought into the palace by another player who had reached the quarterfinals with an escort spot, but the player was an Anteli and had also disappeared. ”

"I had the alchemist test the glass and vomit, the exact results were not yet available, but it was determined to be a rare poison, and I watched as a white rat died on the spot just by licking the wall of the glass. It is not possible to explain how the child drank a whole cup and still survived, so he was still suspicious. The archbishop looked equally gloomy: "Now we are faced with another problem - since there are attendants who have been bought, why not just poison the king, can we still put it wrong?"

"I'm glad that kid is more resistant to poison...... If you want to say why you didn't poison the king directly, it could be that the people at the banquet were doing things from two different factions, or the assassins were not just targeting the king. Pol pondered, feeling that he could not explain to the gang about the Duke of Foster. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that anyone in the world could pinch all the Sword Saint-level powerhouses to death as easily as chickens: "The kingdom has a history of hundreds of years, and its dominance over its territory is very stable, and the death of King Elite will not make Anteli collapse directly...... We also have princesses, and the old three lord families. He paused and said with a solemn expression, "But if the boy is poisoned in the palace today or hunted to death by us due to a misunderstanding, then Anteli will soon be history." So I let him go, and hurried back to inform you that the pursuit outside the city should cease at once. ”

"Why?" Sasha asked, puzzled, "but the portraits of the suspects have been printed and distributed to the grassroots in batches, and they can't be collected now." ”

"Damn, I'll explain the reason later. But the first thing to do now is to make sure that the boy is safe in Antaili as much as possible. Immediately send an order down, recall the expatriate city defense team, lower the alert level of the officers of the troops in various places, and ask the reason...... Let's just say, we got the news that the real Assassin is still in the city. Pol frowned, it was strange to try to deceive his own people, but he had to do it: "I'm afraid this time I'll have to do it the other way around, I'd rather put a thousand wrong than kill the wrong one." Even if you give up the hunt for the real assassin, you can't hurt the child...... If possible, it's best not to let him lose a single hair. ”

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