Chapter 458
After listening to Sean's words, Leo guessed: "Since the royal family knows that Earl Drake is dead, and the Poseidon artifact is in Death Valley, then the royal family should have sent someone to Joshshire, right?"
Sean nodded and responded, "Five groups of people were sent before and after, one of which was missing, and the other four groups were not able to find Death Valley at all, but leaked the news." ”
"Where did the missing people go missing?" asked Leo again.
"I don't know, suddenly lost contact. Sean shook his head.
"Where is the last point of contact?" asked Leo clearly.
"In Fort Josh," Sean replied quickly, then felt that the answer was imprecise, and immediately added, "It's Old Fort Josh." ”
"Old Joshburg?" Leo was stunned for a moment, carefully recalling the familiar-sounding name, and suddenly remembered that the ancestors of his body seemed to be from Old Joshburg, and were survivors of the Old Joshburg massacre.
"You're talking about the old Joshburg of the Holocaust?" Leo confirmed.
"Yes. Sean nodded.
Leo frowned and said, "I remember that the castle has been completely abandoned, and after so many years, I'm afraid there are no buildings left, how can they ......?"
"Looks like you don't know yet," Sean interrupted Leo, explaining carefully, A few years ago, Ms. Charlotte wrote a book about the Fort Josh Massacre, which became the best-selling book in the kingdom, and was also adapted into a screenplay, so that many people went to Old Fort Josh to play, and the people who lived in Fort Josh wanted to take advantage of this trend and get some additional income, so they renovated Old Fort Josh, and then played the role of a participant in the massacre that year, re-enacting the scene of the Holocaust, attracting tourists, and now Old Fort Josh has become one of the most important incomes of Fort Josh. ”
Hearing these words, Leo suddenly had a strange emotion in his heart, a little annoyed and a little helpless.
These emotions come entirely from residual emotional memories in his body, because for Leo, he grew up listening to the old Joshburg massacre, and has a strange feeling for the massacre.
Joshshire first belonged to the territory of the Earl of Josh, and the Earl of Josh was also one of the knight counts who participated in the founding of the country, but like the vast majority of the founding knight nobles, the power of the Josh family gradually declined, and later even Josh County was occupied by another new military noble, so the relationship between the Josh family and this military nobleman was also very poor, the two families often fought each other for the border territory, and a large number of clansmen from both families died in these battles, so both families were also mortal enemies.
It's just that later, the successor earl of Joshshire was an outlier, believing that the two families should not continue to be hostile, and should make peace, write off the previous things, and jointly develop Joshshire in the future.
For this reason, the Earl of Josh restrained the members of the family, and even chose to back down in some conflicts of interest, showing his attitude of peace, and when he thought the time was right, he invited the patriarch of the noble family of the military merit to negotiate peace negotiations, and made an oath according to local tradition to ensure that no matter what the outcome of the negotiations was, the patriarch and his people would not be harmed in any way.
Perhaps the Earl of Josh showed enough sincerity, and the matriarch of the military aristocracy finally agreed to go to Fort Josh for peace talks, and it seemed that the battle between the two families of Joshshire, which had lasted for a hundred years, was about to end, and Joshshire was about to usher in peace.
It's just that no one thought that even the people within the military aristocratic family didn't think that the patriarch had never thought about peace talks at all, and he was ready to take this opportunity to wipe out the Josh family.
Later, in order to win the trust of the Josh family, the patriarch of this military aristocracy only took his eldest son, eldest daughter and a few attendants to Joshburg, but in fact he had secretly mobilized a large number of men to lurk in the surrounding area of Joshburg.
After coming to Fort Josh, the Earl of Josh did not immediately start peace talks, but according to the tradition of Joshshire, he gave the best hospitality to the visitors, with the best clothes, the best meat, and the patriarch of the military nobles.
After the feast, Count Josh arranged a place for the men to rest in the evening, and said that the negotiations could begin in earnest tomorrow.
And the people of Joshburg also thought that the other party was showing goodwill because of the behavior of this military nobleman patriarch who came alone with his children, and their vigilance in their hearts became very low, and even the city defense did not arrange enough manpower to guard it.
As a result, in the middle of the night, the Matriarch of the Josh family, who thought they had been asleep, led his children and knights to kill the servants who served them, sneaked into the gate of the castle, killed the soldiers guarding the gate, opened the gate, and let the army that had been waiting for a long time enter the castle, killed anyone they saw, and slaughtered all the people of the Josh family in the castle, only a few servants and craftsmen escaped from Fort Josh by familiarizing themselves with the terrain, and fled all the way to the outside of Joshshire, and spread the word about what happened in Fort Josh.
At this time, except for a few people who did not have time to rush back to Joshburg in the field, all the others died in this massacre, and it is rumored that the royal family members who later went to Joshburg to investigate the situation saw that Joshburg was completely stained red by the blood of the Josh family, and all the corpses were also by the military noble family
The people hung on the city walls, and the methods were extremely cruel.
This incident was extremely shocking to the English kingdom at the time, because when a noble family showed enough goodwill to the rival family, and faithfully followed its promise, to provide the hostile family with personal safety when it came, to provide them with delicious food and warm beds, no matter how much hatred they had before, no matter how much hatred they had before, no revenge should be resorted to at this time.
The military nobles who climbed up from the bottom, even if they have a hundred years of inheritance, do not understand the unspoken rules of aristocratic fighting, in their opinion, as long as the opponent is dead, it is a good thing, and they did not expect that their behavior touched the biggest taboo in the aristocratic circle.
So almost on the tenth day after the demise of the Josh family, the military noble family was also completely wiped out under the joint attack of several knight lords around it, and all the family members were arrested without exception and hanged on the walls of Joshburg, just as they treated the corpses of the members of the Josh family.
The death of the entire family of the two noble families that had been inherited for more than a hundred years in Old Joshburg added an eerie and terrifying atmosphere to Old Joshburg, and no one wanted to stay here for a moment.
The old Fort Josh was devastated by the night of the Holocaust, and the Josh family used some of the same traps as the enemy, leaving Fort Josh in tatters and crumbling, and it cost no less to repair it than to build a new one.
But the biggest problem is that because the Josh family has no legal heirs, Josh County is taken into the royal family, and the royal family does not attach much importance to this swampy land, and is not willing to invest a lot of money in the restoration of Josh Castle.
So on the land closest to Old Fort Josh, a new Fort Josh was built, which, despite its name, was actually nothing more than a small village, completely unworthy of its name.
Leo's physical ancestor was a blacksmith who worked for the Josh family, and he was among those who escaped from Joshburg on the night of the Holocaust, and because he was a freeman, he was not restricted, and after leaving Joshshire, he did not return, but settled elsewhere.
It's just that he has always been obsessed with the events of Joshshire, and in his later years, he made up the events of the massacre and other things related to Joshburg into a family story, and Leo grew up listening to these stories.
Now Leo suddenly heard such a familiar name, and he was also a little surprised, and the idea of going to Old Joshburg arose in his heart.
Leo stretched out his hand and shook the bell rope hanging beside the desk, and after a while he saw the butler push the door and walk in, and asked, "Sir, do you have any orders?"
Leo instructed, "You help me book a ticket to Bossa, I'm going to Bossa tonight." ”
"Yes, sir. The butler nodded, and turned to leave.
After the butler left, Sean also stood up and said, "In this case, I will wait for your good news, and I hope Your Excellency has a smooth journey." ”
"Wait. As Sean was about to leave, Leo suddenly stopped him and said, "I have something you need to deal with here, otherwise, I wouldn't be in the mood to help you with this." ”
"Is the thing you're talking about a spy case?" Sean was smart enough to immediately understand what Leo meant, and asked rhetorically.
"Yes. Leo nodded.
Sean hesitated slightly, nodded and said: "Although this matter is outside my authority, I can still have a way to remove the suspicion from you, you can rest assured that this matter will have a result soon." ”
With that, he put on his hat and saluted Leo, walked out of the room, and left the apartment.
It wasn't until Sean left that Leo set his eyes on the box, in fact, he didn't need to open the box, he had already sensed what was in the box through the spirit network.
In addition to two old notebooks, there was a bone necklace and a very old-fashioned pocket watch with many signs of disassembly, which appeared to be from the royal family.
Leo opened the box and first took out the two old notebooks and looked through them, which were not written about the wizard's sorcery, but the wizard's travel diary as he traveled through the world of Veron.
But in reality, this is not the case at all, and when Leo transforms his vision into a vision, the contents of the notes are completely different, and the two notes record the creation of two wizarding artifacts, one is a substitute for the dead grass man, and the other is a soul box.
Leo carefully read the manufacturing methods of the two wizarding artifacts hidden in the two notebooks, and began to suspect that the royal wizard might not have died back then.
The reason why he has such suspicions is because from the analysis of the efficacy of these two wizarding artifacts, they should be matching, and there should be other matching wizarding artifacts, and the function of this set of wizarding artifacts is probably to make witches.
Among the various legends and myths in the world of Veron, the Lich has always been the most special one, because no matter how true the legend is, even the canons of various churches list the Lich as the most evil existence, but interestingly, no one in the entire world of Veron has never actually seen a Lich.
However, from the knowledge gained from the Webweaver's Mark, Leo knew that the Tower Wizard had created a sorcery that could deceive the Webweaver, and this sorcery could allow the wizard to remain in the world as a soul and not be taken away by the Webweaver.
It's just that the webweaver doesn't know what kind of soul wizard this kind of soul wizard is in the world.
Now seeing the hidden content recorded in this note, Leo immediately thought of this kind of soul wizard, perhaps the legendary lich is this kind of soul wizard.
It's a pity that Leo doesn't know much about soul wizards, most of them still come from the mark of the web weaver, and in Count Drake's wizarding notes, it is mentioned that the content is probably that he has a deal with a soul wizard.
"Could it be that the soul wizard recorded in his notes is the court wizard of the English royal family?" Leo suddenly had a bold idea in his mind as he recalled the information related to the soul wizard.
Although this idea is a bit bold, it is not impossible, because from some fragments of information revealed in Count Drake's wizarding notes, it is not difficult to guess that when Count Drake wrote this notebook, he had already gone ashore and became an earl lord.
According to records, Count Drake has never been to sea since he came ashore, so the soul wizard mentioned in Count Drake's notes can only appear inside the Kingdom of Inge.
If you think about it carefully, at that time, the person who was able to talk to Count Drake on an equal footing as a wizard of the Tower, and make equal deals with him, seemed to have no one else except the court wizard of the English royal family, at least there was no second one among the people who had been made public in his memory, so the soul wizard mentioned in Count Drake's notes was probably the court wizard.
Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but feel as if he was inexplicably involved in a conspiracy, and the participants in this conspiracy seemed to be two wizards of the Tower.
However, he was not worried or panicked, but very excited, because he was likely to meet two Tower wizards on his trip to Joshshire, and perhaps he would be able to learn more about the secrets of the Tower Wizards, the reason for the tower's disappearance, and the wizard's research on the fog.
After half an hour, the butler handed Leo the train ticket, and then prepared a simple pack and suitcase for Leo, and before it was dark, Leo arrived at the train station and boarded the train to Saab, which is adjacent to Joshshire.
I don't know if it's because the people who spy on him are more hidden, or if Sean has already played his part, and all in all, from leaving the apartment to boarding the train, he didn't find a single monitor sent by Congress to investigate the case, and a spy case that affected him seems to be over.