Chapter 312: The Black Hand (5)
"Shut up, don't insult my mother!" The simple little girl finally couldn't bear it anymore, her eyes were red, as if they were about to breathe fire, Sophie's words sent her back to the poisoned village, and her tortured inhuman mother, in a fit of rage, the little girl was already a little incoherent, and she screamed hoarsely, but Sophie quickly understood what was going on.
After getting a rough idea of what was going on, Sophie let the girl howl in the dungeon while she herself walked out and reported back to Adra. The whole thing is very simple, the village where the little girl lives is burned to the ground, and everyone in the village is killed, and the evidence left at the scene points to Cassano's Iron Fist Castle.
"Hmph, boring farce. Adela glanced at her mouth disdainfully, for such a simple trick, only a simple guy like a girl would be fooled, for the villages near Cassano, Adela knows everything clearly, obviously the little girl's hometown is not near here, so is it necessary for Cassano to run hundreds of kilometers to rob them? Moreover, he also "deliberately" left quite obvious evidence?
"Lord Adela, it looks like a trap against us, and I guess it's probably my previous killer organization, because they found me tonight. Sophie made no secret of what happened to her tonight, anyway, the main characters of Cassano, including Vivien and Adela knew her past, and there was no need to hide anything.
"They are working so hard to deal with you?" Adela shook her head slightly, expressing her doubts.
"Of course not. Sophie said to Adela, "The killers who came to assassinate me tonight don't even have a crossbow, apparently their purpose is not to kill me, and judging by the druid who turned into a bear in the back, maybe their target is you and Vivien." At the moment, I can't confirm that these attackers and those killers are all the way, but if these simple guys want to infiltrate the Iron Fist Castle, I'm afraid it's impossible to have an inside line. ”
"Very good, Ryan has always been lenient to people, he doesn't care about power, Cassano's power can be said to be delegated to the below, but I didn't expect that there are people who are no longer satisfied with the status quo, have they forgotten how Ryan unified this place so quickly?" Adela sneered and said: "I heard that in the past, when building an important building, sacrifices were required, and I don't know how much it takes to build a new city." ”
Sophie listened to Adela quietly, but didn't interject in a funny way, Adela gently patted Sophie's shoulder, and said to the latter: "There are too many aspects involved in tonight's affairs, it can be said that everyone else in Cassano except me and Sister Vivien is suspicious, but you are more worthy of my trust." I should have asked my master for such a big matter, but unfortunately I don't know when Ryan will be able to return, and this kind of thing can't wait......"
Sophie, of course, understood what Adela meant, and knew that she intended to put herself in charge of investigating the rebellion, which required a great deal of power and a lot of money, and it was unlikely that it would be used only once, and that it would certainly lead to the formation of an organization that walked in the dark.
But this kind of thing is quite taboo, Sophie asked herself that there may not be anyone in the entire Cassano who can surpass her in this regard, but she doesn't dare to do it just by Adra's words, in case Ryan doesn't agree, then in the end Adela may not have something, and she will definitely be unlucky to handle it herself.
So Sophie said cautiously: "Then why don't you discuss it with Vivien and Faraz, the two mistresses?", but this sentence made Adela's face change, Sophie understood why Adela had this change, she saw the small contradiction between Adela and Faraz just now, but when it came to the end, Sophie couldn't avoid it, so she simply made her words clear.
"I know what you mean, but it's not very appropriate for you to do this kind of thing, of course Lord Ryan can trust you, but if you can get the support of Vivien and Faraz, I believe that you will be much smoother in your actions, otherwise even if I do it now, I will not be able to do it well, not to mention that just raising and concealing that huge amount of money is enough to frustrate anyone. ”
"I know that there have been some unfavorable remarks in Cassano recently, and I also know what the purpose of the little conflict between you and Mother Faraz is tonight, please think about it calmly, with the strength of the imperial capital, do you need such a big deal to plot against us Cassano?"
"Now the power of the imperial capital of the entire continent is the most powerful, but it is also the most isolated, almost surrounded by enemies on all sides. Now that it's easy to have a force close to it, and the leader of this force is quite trustworthy, do you think that the Mother of Faras would forcibly annex Cassano regardless of her feelings for her master of Lane?"
"However, Ryan is ignorant of everything about Cassano, and, moreover, ......" Sophie's words reached Adra's heart, which made Adela very touched, she was about to complain, but her face was red and she couldn't continue, because for the current Adra, what she was most helpless about was that Ryan didn't touch her and Vivien at all, if it was someone else, then this might be a precursor to the breakdown of the marriage.
"I see what you mean, but I'm joking here, how long have Master Ryan and Mother Farath known each other?How long have you known Master Ryan?" Sophie said: "Ryan is a person who pays attention to feelings, I believe he will not disappoint anyone around him, but he is also a person who is not very good at expressing his feelings, as far as I know, even Mother Farath found out about her relationship with Ryan because of an accident, isn't it?"
As for Lane's past affairs, Cassano's more important figures naturally knew everything about it, so when Sophie said this, Adela's eyes suddenly lit up, and Sophie saw that her persuasion was very effective, so she continued: "If it were other people in power, would they so casually hand over the power in their hands to the people below? But Lane did this, why? Isn't it out of trust in you and Vivien?"
"Needless to say!" Adela immediately interrupted Sophie, staring at Sophie and saying, "You follow me to see Sister Faraz immediately." ”
――――――*――――――*――――――*―――――― "Brother Brady, why haven't they come yet, nothing will happen?" Arthur and Brady crouched behind a boulder, anxiously waiting for the pre-agreed contact to come over.
"Arthur, hold your breath, the time is not yet up. Brady's heart was anxious, but he tried to comfort his companion as much as he could.
"I ...... How can I hold on!" Arthur said hatefully: "The thought of Jenny falling into their hands makes my heart like a knife, these beasts, they can destroy our village, and they are cruel ......" Arthur said this, his eyes turned red and he couldn't say any more, and the tragic scene appeared in front of his eyes again.
Arthur and the others originally lived in a peaceful hamlet on the edge of the Silent Forest, about a few hundred kilometers away from Cassano, and they already belonged to the territory of Mochizuki City. The village is very small, with only about two dozen people in total, but everyone has good skills because they are members of the Druid tribe.
The druid tribe is a rather loose organization, they can freely live in seclusion in every corner of the continent, usually the druids who live together in seclusion will elect an elder to be responsible for the affairs of the clan, and the entire druid tribe has three great elders to lead, whenever there is evil, the three great elders will gather all the druids to fight the evil to the end, but in normal times, each druid tribe is almost not in contact with each other.
However, although all the druid tribes are in a state of seclusion, each generation has not neglected the cultivation of young druids, such as Elendo, such as Brady, they will strictly follow the rules of the druid sect to conduct their own trials, and slowly improve their strength in various adventures.
Brady inherited the power of the sky, he can transform into a thunderbird to fly fast, and Arthur inherited the power of the earth, he transformed into a grizzly bear with infinite power, once smashed a cheetah to death with one punch, but that Jenny did not have this talent, on the contrary, she was very fond of plants, and even understood another power, such as manipulating plant seeds to grow quickly and then entangle enemies.
About a month ago, Arthur was going deep into the Silent Forest for his trial ritual, and as his friend, Brady naturally had to accompany him throughout the whole process, and Jenny, who had had a crush on Arthur since childhood, was also making a fuss about going, so the three of them went together. The whole trial went very smoothly, but when they came back, they saw a terrible scene.
The entire village was slaughtered, the eldest grandfather was burned alive by the flames, Jenny's younger brother, who was less than a year old, was also smashed to death, and six young women in the village were ruined into human shapes, including Jenny's mother.
The angry Brady trio naturally swore revenge, they hastily buried their loved ones, and the only clue to their revenge was the fragment of cloth that Jenny's mother had grabbed from her hand, on which the logo of Tekken Castle could be clearly recognized, of course, at that time they did not know what it meant.
After leaving their hometown, Brady and the others naturally had to ask around, and soon understood that the mark on the cloth strip was the newly unified Cassano mark, and this mark was also the unique mark of the personal guard of the Cassano overlord Lane. After a cursory understanding of Ryan's strength, Brady and the others firmly believe that the tragedy in their hometown was caused by this lustful magician, because with his magistur's ability, he can easily kill several druids in his hometown, and there are traces of fire burning everywhere on the scene, which is very similar to the rumors that the cruel and lustful magician is good at fire magic, and there has been news that the magician has quietly come to the Silent Forest recently, but he is secretive, and others don't know that his real purpose is very busy.
And now Brady and Arthur are anxiously waiting for another group of like-minded friends with them, that group of young people who have also experienced misfortune and Brady They have the same will, they have formulated a careful revenge plan, not only figured out the distribution map of Iron Fist Castle, but also spent a huge amount of money to buy off an inside line of Iron Fist Castle, and quietly took Brady into it, but the assassination failed, because the other party actually had another female magician with strength above the Magister. Although Arthur escaped with Brady's help, Jenny was caught in order to cover Arthur, and what Brady and they had to do now was to reconnect with the companions to discuss the next step.