"What time is it?" asked Jacques Huppert, who kept his cross-sword in his hand with the finest fish oil, without looking up at his lieutenant.

"Nine forty-three o'clock. The adjutant looked at his watch for the fourth time and replied accurately.

Although it was only a simple question of time, Jacques Huppert had asked this question four times since dark, and the adjutant who had followed Jacques Huppert for almost ten years knew very well that such a situation had never appeared in the past, and now that this situation appeared, it only showed that the recognized number one swordsman in the Velen continent in front of him was not absolutely sure of defeating that challenger in his heart.

It's just that as a smart adjutant, even if he sees this, he can't say it, and even when he goes to bet, he has to press his boss to win.

Perhaps to confirm the adjutant's suspicions, Jacques Huppert suddenly commanded: "Go and bring me the copper box I put in the drawer." ”

The adjutant was stunned, then calmly walked over to his desk, took out a palm-sized copper box from a drawer, and gave it to Jacques Huppert.

Jacques Huppert opened the box, took out a cracked purple metal ring from it, and after a little hesitation, put it on his hand.

The adjutant had a slight look of surprise on his face when he saw Jacques Huppert put the ring on, which he had only seen three times in the last ten years. As far as he knew, the ring had a magical power that protected the wearer, so the three times he wore the ring was when Jacques Huppert was not sure he would defeat the challenger.

In fact, although in the end Jacques Huppert became the winner, every time it was a narrow victory, and every time there was a mortal danger, and the three challengers did not save their lives like other challengers, but because Jacques Huppert could not take it, he was killed on the spot.

"Have you done everything I told you to do in the afternoon?" asked Jacques Huppert suddenly.

"It's been done, and the people in the black market who are looking for are all good slave hunters who have worked in Moissan. The adjutant hurriedly replied: "They are already in ambush in the forest around the barracks, and as long as anyone enters, they will definitely be caught." ”

"Hmm!" Jacques Huppert nodded, then inserted the sword in his hand into the scabbard at his waist, turned and patted the adjutant on the shoulder, and said, "I don't want this to be known to anyone else, and I don't want to replace a familiar adjutant, so you'd better keep your mouth shut about it, and if I hear anything about it outside, you should know what the consequences are." ”

The look on the adjutant's face immediately became nervous and serious, and he lowered his head and said, "Please rest assured, I will definitely not reveal a word to the outside." ”

Jacques Huppert did not let the adjutant swear, because he never believed in any gambling curses, he thought that as long as his strength and power were strong enough, the adjutant would not do anything to disobey him, and if his strength and power were weak, no matter how ruthless he swore his oath, he would probably break it.

After tidying up the bits and pieces of his body and making himself in the best condition, Jacques Huppert walked out of his office and walked towards the main entrance of the barracks, and the adjutant hastened to follow.

The two soon came to the lawn outside the barracks, which had been rested, and at this time the officers who had stayed at the gate of the barracks saluted Jacques Huppert. Although their senses for Jacques Huppert were very ordinary, they still had no less etiquette, and always offered Jacques Huppert as a true legionnaire.

In normal times, Jacques Huppert might still have a relationship with these hypocritical fellows, but now his mind was all on the challenger who sent out the battle post, so he ignored the salute of the officers around him, and walked directly to the lawn surrounded by torches, and looked anxiously at the only road leading to Miria City.

Time passed little by little, and it was almost ten o'clock, when a vague figure appeared in the distance of the road, and the figure walked very fast, and in a moment it came to the lawn full of torches, under the arch of the trees on both sides of the road.

At this time, everyone saw the appearance of the person who came clearly, and saw that the person who came was wearing a half-body armor of the Frank Knight Squire that had already been eliminated, with a metal mask on his face used to participate in the banquet, and two ordinary-looking knight's cross swords straddling his waist, and the whole person looked a little strange.

"You are the descendants of the Perini family?" Jacques Huppert questioned in a voice that only the two of them on the lawn could hear when the visitor entered the lawn surrounded by torches, "As far as I know, the Perini family has long been cut off, and there is no descendant at all, you ......"

Before Jacques Huppert could finish speaking, a slightly hoarse voice interrupted him, and said in Old Franish: "You have conquered me, and I tell you where the two cross-swords are, and does it matter whether I am a descendant of the family of Perigny?"

Hearing this, the suspicion in Jacques Huppert's heart disappeared, whether it was from the Perlini family in front of him or not, at least the other party knew the whereabouts of the two artifacts, which was what he wanted to know the most.

So, he didn't talk nonsense, he directly pulled out the two cross swords at his waist, made a knightly salute to the challenger, and then used the dual-wielding cross sword swordsmanship, his most skilled and aggressive horn posture, aimed at the challenger.

The challenger also drew the crosssword at his waist, and instead used the cross-sword movement that Jacques Huppert was most looking forward to.

The two of them did not shoot indiscriminately like those ordinary swordsmen, but carefully confronted each other, looking for flaws in the opponent's sword momentum.

Although the two sides had not yet moved, the officers at the gate of the camp could feel the tense atmosphere, and none of them spoke, quietly watching the duel on the lawn.

Just when the two faced off for a while, when Jacques Huppert's body began to turn his back to the gate of the legion's camp, the mysterious challenger suddenly struck, the long sword in his left hand went straight up, rushed towards the throat of the opponent, and the long sword in his right hand was directly held horizontally, showing a defensive position.

Seeing the challenger use the most secure offensive and defensive positions, Jacques Huppert was naturally very happy in his heart, this is also the cross sword swordsmanship he wants to face the most, and he also knows the best way to crack it.

I saw Jacques Huppert press down with his two-handed long sword according to the method he knew, and the sword body passed between the two long swords of the other party, followed by the left and right long swords crossed and twisted, and a resistance came out of the sword body, followed by a light, and the other party's long sword was twisted by him and thrown into the air.

Jacques Huppert, who was sure that he had won, was not happy, but was a little puzzled, because he found that he had won too easily.

Just when he sensed that something was wrong, he was about to put away his sword and guard it, the challenger, who should not have a weapon in his hand, didn't know that there was an extra pair of incomparably gorgeous-looking cross-swords from there, and before he could react, he swept left and right towards him, the speed was at least ten times faster than just now, and he could only see two blurred sword lights.

The two swords slashed at Jacques Huppert's chest and waist respectively without hindrance, and the moment the long sword touched the opponent's body, the opponent's body suddenly bloomed with a faint light, forming a shield to protect him.

Jacques Huppert breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his last resort come into play, but before he could rejoice that the means he had used to kill those powerful opponents were still useful, the light that protected him instantly dissipated, and the twin swords that had just been blocked slashed past him.

The movements of the two sides were too fast, so fast that all the attacks and defenses were completed in the blink of an eye, plus it was night, and the shaking of the firelight produced some visual obstacles, and the officers at the gate of the camp did not see the whole process of the two sides at all, but saw that the challenger's double swords were picked up by Jacques Huppert, and subconsciously thought that Jacques Huppert had won.

Then, as if the challenger had known to them had failed, he took a few steps back, and after a distance from Jacques Huppert, he turned away without looking back, not even picking up the two cross-swords that had been picked up.

At this time, the officers at the gate of the barracks were busy gambling and dividing the money, and did not notice anything unusual at all, only three people noticed that Jacques Huppert's raised hands had not fallen from just now, and his body had not moved at all.

Among the three, Jacques Huppert's adjutant was naturally a little worried and hurriedly stepped forward to check, while the other two, Major General Wood and Major General Roger, looked at each other, as if they could understand the meaning in each other's eyes, and the corners of their mouths inevitably showed a little smile.

"Ah! the Legion Commander has been assassinated!" a shout broke the silence of the night, and the crowd looked towards the shout. I saw the adjutant standing beside Jacques Huppert look at Jacques Huppert standing motionless with a look of horror, and before he could explain the situation, he saw the commander of the First Legion fall backwards, and his body turned into three knots as he fell.

At this moment, the officers realized what was going on, their immediate boss was assassinated in front of them, and the killer left in front of them very calmly, I am afraid that no one would believe this kind of thing.

"Immediately cordon off the scene, organize manpower, enter the forest to arrest the murderer, and send people to immediately set up a card to intercept the road in front of him......" After the death of Jacques Huppert, Major General Roger, who was the commander of the Volkswagen Corps, naturally became the leader of the corps, and he immediately gave orders to the somewhat chaotic officers, and soon stabilized the situation.

At the same time, Leo, who was the assassin, did not take off his somewhat bulky knight's armor after entering the forest, but wore the knight's armor, and the whole person passed through the branches of the bushes like a cheetah, and quickly moved forward.

At the same time, his spiritual network also opened with the momentum, checking the surrounding situation, and soon several figures lurking in the trees appeared in his spiritual network, it was obvious that these few people with mechanical bows and crossbows, fully armed, should be the backhands arranged by Jacques Huppert.

If it weren't for this knight's armor, Leo might have sneaked into the past and eliminated these people silently, but now the noise made by his knight's armor was too loud to hide his figure, so he simply pushed them directly towards them like a tank.

Although Leo's undisguised running style produces a lot of movement, his speed is more than enough to compensate for the lack of sound.

The lurking men had just heard the sound and knew that their target was coming, but before they could confirm the location of the target in the dark forest, a dark shadow passed by them.

At the same time, a fist as hard as a hammer smashed into their heads with great force, and before they knew what was happening, the whole skull shattered like a burst berry, and a headless corpse fell limply to the ground, adding a few piles of fertilizer to the forest.

After clearing a few of the ants that stood in his way, Leo did not encounter any obstacles on his way, and it took him less than five minutes to cross the forest and come to the road outside the forest, and he made his way towards the carriage that Sylvia had prepared for him.

The assassination of the commander of the First Legion was definitely not a trivial matter in Miria City, and without the permission of the Executive Council of Miria City, the troops of the First Legion forcibly entered the interior of Miria City to search for the murderer, and this move of the army also made the internal situation in Miria City, which was turbulent after the assassination of the members of the Continental Congress, become more tense.

Some of the shrewd residents of Miria have sensed that the situation is starting to get a little chaotic, and they have chosen to leave Miria City for a while, and live in the surrounding cities for a while, and then return to the city when the situation has stabilized.

But except for those who were able to leave, most of the rest could only stay in Miria City and live in fear, for fear that one day their doors would be smashed open by a group of soldiers.

Because of the chaotic situation, the embassies of various countries began to consider whether they should leave Miria City temporarily, and the paralyzed Continental Congress also convened an emergency council at the suggestion of some members to discuss the whereabouts of the current Continental Parliament. One of the most mentioned is that the seven countries of the Hanosa Alliance, which temporarily left Miria City and went to the north, temporarily set up a temporary council, and then decide whether to return to Miria City after the situation in the French Empire has stabilized.

Although the members of the Continental Congress did not know who had assassinated the dead colleagues, they were certain that the deaths of these comrades had something to do with the current situation in the French Empire.

In their opinion, the French Empire must have gone crazy this time, not only using the banned imine gas, but also assassinating the members of the Continental Assembly because of the situation in their own country, causing the Continental Assembly to shut down.

It's just that even if they know that these are all done by the French Empire or Duke Dewin, they don't have any way between Duke Devin and the French Empire, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the members of the Continental Assembly who once thought that they could control the political situation of all countries in the world of Velon.

However, just when the morale of these members of the Continental Parliament was low and the embassies of various countries began to consider a way out, a secret visit from one person saw an opportunity to balance the Duke of Devin and re-establish order in the French Empire.