Cyrus's assassination was sudden, and no one had expected it before. The time and place of the assassination was not the time of the city-state's celebrations, and although the occasion was crowded, Cyrus was also the most heavily guarded, and there was no way to arrange it in advance. In the eyes of the bright moonlit night, it is not a good opportunity for assassination.

When the celebration was over, Cyrus stayed overnight in the city-state of Nipur, and the next morning he sailed west to the city-state of Kish, where the general Darius was to wait for him. Of course, the governor of the city-state of Nipur will send him off, and the city-state will also hold a grand ceremony, and the local military and political dignitaries will follow Cyrus the Great out of the city, and there are also people outside the city who kneel down to raise the prestige of Cyrus the Great.

The guards had already been on guard outside the city gate to prevent assassins from mixing in the crowd of cheers, and Cyrus the Great also had expert guards by his side, even if there were assassins, the possibility of breaking through the heavy guards and approaching Cyrus was very small, and the suspicious people were probably solved before they got close.

The change occurred suddenly when Cyrus the Great was out of the city, and it was when everyone's defenses were most relaxed. At that time, the military and political officials of the city-state of Nipur followed the chariots in the city, and the guards who opened the way for Cyrus the Great had already reached the outside of the city, and Cyrus's chariot passed through the city gates.

This is almost an occasion that cannot be assassinated, because Cyrus is in the cave of the city gate, and there are also heavy guards on the tower, and there are masters in front and back, inside and outside the city, but someone shoots an arrow.

The arrow was shot from within the city, and the archer stood in the crowd watching Cyrus the Great's chariot drive out of the city, and Amun would be familiar with it, a black arrow engraved with a divine pattern. An arrow shot with a terrifying sound, with a sound like a mountain roaring and a tsunami, drew a parabola in the air and crossed the line of officials who saw them off, and shot towards the hole in the city gate. Huge arrows flew through the air, carrying terrifying shockwaves, and people on the ground turned on their backs wherever they passed.

The arrow was fired from behind, which was unexpected, and as a rule of thumb it was common sense that if an Assassin did want to assassinate Cyrus, he should have set up an ambush outside the city. However, the guards around Cyrus were well-trained in battle, and they did not panic because of the power of this arrow, and countless swords crossed into the sky, and the magicians also used various magic skills to firmly protect the inside of the city gate.

This arrow condensed a powerful energy, and struck several sword rays in the air one after another, and after a few pauses, it still shot forward at a speed, almost exactly like the situation when the Holy Maiden Isis was assassinated. But no matter how powerful this arrow was, it couldn't penetrate the protection laid by the magicians. Surprisingly, the arrow did not reach Cyrus, but at the last moment it struck the wall directly above the city gate, and with a loud bang, the entire tower collapsed!

It is necessary to introduce the west gate of the city-state of Nipur, under the thick wall is the city gate hole, and above the city gate there is a city tower, which looks strong and majestic, and it is brand new. When Sinah attacked the city-state of Nippur, the gate was destroyed by catapults and the tower was set on fire.

Later, although the city gate was repaired, it was only a simple restoration of the defensive function. After receiving the news of the arrival of Cyrus the Great, the local military and political officials urgently recruited men and craftsmen to repair two magnificent towers, the east gate and the west gate, because they were the places to welcome and send off Cyrus the Great.

The western tower was completed just a few days before the arrival of Cyrus the Great, and was built overnight at the expense of manpower and material resources. Of course, there were city-state guards and magicians on the side to supervise the construction during the construction, to prevent the craftsmen from cutting corners or doing other tricks, and even every layer of bricks had to be inspected, no one thought that there would be any problems with this tower.

But there is a trap in the city tower, which was personally laid by Ming Yueye, who is proficient in assassination. Bright Moon Night and Domuz did not follow Empress Semir to the border, they left Assyria ahead of time and came to the territory of the new province of Porz, and Bright Moon Night somehow blended in with the craftsmen who built the tower.

Nipur is a city-state that has only recently been conquered by Potts, and most of its inhabitants have been migrated from outside Sinakh. The occupation army of Poz was not familiar with the local people, and urgently summoned craftsmen to build the city tower, but they could only do strict body searches and careful inspection of the project, and the identity of the craftsmen could not be verified one by one, which just gave the opportunity of the bright moon night.

This trap is very hidden, similar to the trap that Enriel encountered back then, and when the castle tower is completed, even if the great magician sweeps through it with detection magic, he will not find anything abnormal. The force required to detonate this trap is very strong, and it also needs to be very ingenious, and people who don't know the inside story will not react to this trap even if they use a catapult to collapse the castle tower.

The archer was not Semir, but Bright Moon Night herself, who laid the trap. When the black magic giant arrow fell in the arc of the air and shot towards the city gate hole, there was suddenly a blue light entanglement on the arrow, it seemed to be taken away by a blue giant snake, and it turned flat and shot at the city tower, which was Domuz's help.

I saw that above the city gate, two thin rows of stone bricks turned into quicksand-like pieces at the same time, as if they had been cut with a knife, and a terrible huge crack appeared. The supporting structure of a building like this is not afraid of cracks in a small number of stones, but of the sudden sliding displacement of these connected structures.

And the reason why the trap set up by the bright moon night is hidden, it did not make all the stone bricks in these two cracks become fragments, but through the energy impact of the giant arrow, it instantly cracked the two pieces of masonry in the depths of the city wall, and then under the huge self-weight pressure of the city tower, the city gate hole will collapse, and Cyrus happened to pass by, and the calculation is not exquisite.

An arrow shot out on the night of the bright moon, and then he saw the city tower collapse, he didn't even look at it, he jumped high with a roar, turned around and ran away. His mission has been completed, and his identity as an assassin has been revealed, so he will naturally have to flee thousands of miles. The main guards of the city of Nipur were around the West Gate, and he ran to the east. All the masters were busy escorting him at the moment, and they didn't have time to chase him, and ordinary guards couldn't stop him.

If it were a different person, the bright moon night would be enough to solve the problem, but how could Cyrus the Great be so easily assassinated? At the moment when the city tower collapsed, the screams and roars rang out, countless rays of light rose, and the space paused as if it had been frozen, and the carriage in which Cyrus was riding suddenly fell apart, and two great magicians held their staff high, and several great warriors surrounded him and rushed out of the city.

Smoke and dust rose behind them, and the whole tower collapsed completely, without burying Cyrus in it. But the other guards around the emperor were not so lucky, at least dozens of them were smashed into meat sauce on the spot before they could get out, and the falling rubble also injured many people in the escort team inside and outside the city.

Cyrus, unscathed, looked so disillusioned that he abandoned his carriage and rushed out of the city. Only five masters guarded him from danger at the gates, while the rest of the guards were buried in the collapsed tower.

There was a great deal of confusion, and screams rang out inside and outside the city of Nipur, with people shouting, "Cyrus is dead!" and the people who approached the city gate scattered and fled, even the guards who were on guard could not restrain them.

The captain of the guard beside Cyrus raised his sword and shouted loudly over all voices: "The emperor is unharmed, beware of the assassins, no chaos!"

Immediately after that, more than a dozen figures flew into the air, and the guard of honor of Cyrus and half of the masters had already left the city to open the way in front of them, and at this moment the magicians turned around and flew to the top of the tower. The assassin appeared in the city, and the bright moon had already fled, but another figure flew high, wearing a black robe and holding a staff, like a goshawk volleying into the air, waving his hand and throwing out several scrolls.

Although the scroll does not consume the user's own mana, it also requires the user to control its attack range. It's much harder to accurately target an attack than to throw it around, and it's more than twice as hard to control two scrolls as it is to control one, and the more powerful the scroll, the more so.

But this man actually threw six high-level attack scrolls at the same time, and the target was firmly locked on the Praetorian guards who had just broken out of the smoke, and almost all of them were deployed at the same time, and this assassin was none other than Faust.

Faust flew into the sky and threw the scroll, which was tantamount to exposing himself to attract all the attention, and he was simply deadly in doing so. When the scroll flew out, he couldn't run away immediately, he had to control the direction of the attack after the scroll was unfolded, otherwise he wouldn't be able to lock onto the target, so he could only grit his teeth and wave his staff, adding several magic shields to himself.

The air was full of brilliance, and the arrows on the ground rained down, almost all of which hit Faust in the air. There was no danger in the arrows that ordinary samurai shot into the air, but the arrows fired by the elite samurai around Cyrus were amazingly powerful, and the arrows were mixed with a variety of weapons, including axes, flagpoles, pikes, samurai swords, etc.

The shockwaves of various roars and energy explosions scattered in all directions, and the fragments of various weapons swirled in the air everywhere, and near the ground, there were smoke, light, and flames everywhere, and seven or eight figures fell from the sky with a miserable cry. These magicians were not unable to dodge when the scroll exploded, but they had to protect Cyrus the Great on the ground, and they could only block this round of attacks.

The magic shield around Faust's body was also shattered one after another almost instantly, and the black robe on his body turned into pieces, revealing a white robe. Blood spurted from his mouth, and the staff in his hand fell, swept up by the surging force, and flew backwards into the city. At this moment, a blue light flew out, turning into a terrifying strange python in the air, enveloping Faust's figure, and shooting out towards the north.

Domoz took the seriously wounded Faust away, but the masters around Cyrus had no time to chase him, because it was at this time that Potz the Great was really assassinated!

The accident happened too quickly and the scene was too chaotic, first the city tower collapsed, Cyrus abandoned the car and rushed out of the city, except for a few masters around him, the guards on both sides of the car were killed. The collapsed tower also cut his escort into two sections, and the people who saw him off shouted in horror, and the people inside the city did not know what was going on outside the city, and the people outside the city did not know the scene in the city.

Faust threw the scroll from the sky in a chaotic situation, and in an instant there was another violent explosion, not to mention that the magician who had just flown into the sky fell, and the warriors near the city gate were also all on their backs, with only light flashing in front of them and only buzzing echoes in their ears.

The bright moon night was an arrow shot in the city, Faust also flew out of the city, attracting all the attention of the guards outside the city, the guards hurriedly turned around and rushed to the direction of the city gate to escort, the magicians also turned around and took out their staffs, and the quick reaction had already flown into the air, and the vigilance in the direction outside the city was relaxed for a moment, and Cyrus the Great himself turned to look at the top of the city tower.

Just as Faust was injured and flew out, Semir finally made a move. The empress was dressed in shabby clothes with patches and wide patches, like a slightly scruffy pauper woman, mingling in the crowd outside the city. When Cyrus' guard of honor left the city, she also prostrate herself in the crowd.

In the aftermath of the upheaval, cries of terror rang out, and Faust's attack spread far and wide, and the panicked people were swept to the ground as they ran. Semir flipped over and landed in a half-kneeling position to shoot an arrow, already steadily opening his bow and taking the arrow.

The bow was the one she usually used, but the arrow was the same fanged arrow that Gilgamesh had used to stab Sinnah. The white fanged arrows shot out, mixed with the impact of various divine energies and flashed away, as if they had traveled through time and space, appearing light and silent.

But the half-kneeling Semir movement was so solemn, as if he had turned into a hard stone statue, and the strength of his whole body seemed to have been drained by this arrow. The guards who were turning to look behind them did not stop the arrow, and most of the guards did not even notice it.

If Samir's arrow were to assassinate Cyrus in normal times, it would be very powerful, but it was unlikely to succeed, and this was a good opportunity. The earth-shattering attacks inside the city were all used as cover for this silent arrow outside the city. The captain of the guard beside Cyrus suddenly became alert, turned around and threw a punch with all his might, and the saber in his hand had just slashed into the sky.

The other great magician closest to Cyrus also sensed the danger, and in a hurry, he shook his staff and clothed Cyrus the Great with a layer of tough and invisible qi element armor. Hearing only a bang, the captain of Cyrus's guard flew out with a muffled snort, and a long white arrow appeared strangely and shot Cyrus.

The arrow was so fast that it was almost impossible to see with the naked eye, but it contained a huge amount of energy in a silent way, capable of shocking a great warrior who had rushed to respond to the situation. Under the influence of the air element armor, the speed of this arrow slowed down, and even a dazzling light was gleazed in the air, but it still passed through the air element armor and sank into the back of Cyrus the Great, piercing through the front chest and falling lightly, and there was not even a trace of blood on the shaft of the arrow.

Cyrus was hit by an arrow in the back and pierced his chest, and the mighty emperor slowly reached out to cover the broken part of the breastplate, and looked at the arrow that fell on the ground with an incredible expression, as if it took a moment to realize what had happened. He wanted to turn around to see who the assassin was, but as soon as his body moved, his leg went weak and he was about to fall.

The Praetorian Guard rushed up to help him, and the light from the priest's staff enveloped him, and there was an exclamation in his ears, but the voice became farther and more ethereal, and his eyes were blackened for a while, and the blood had stained the armor on his chest and back.

There was still a lot of noise in the city of Nippur, but there was a sudden and strange silence outside the city gates. Except for the masters around Cyrus, they shouted in shock: "Your Majesty——!" The surrounding guards were all stunned, unable to believe what they had seen with their own eyes.

The outermost soldiers of the guard of honor were the first to see Semir's movements, and immediately rushed forward to arrest the Assassin. But at this moment there was the sound of a tidal wave in the wilderness, and almost everyone was hallucinating, and the earth was surging and turning into a wave, and the waves were rolling and drowning everyone. People waved their arms and shouted in horror as if they were struggling, but they couldn't hear the sound in their throats.

This was the illusion of Leo, and several high-ranking achievers immediately reined in the interference of the illusion, but all they saw were the people and soldiers who were struggling in terror, and the assassin who shot the arrow was gone.

The assassination plan planned by Ming Yueye naturally carried the style of him, the best killer on the continent, and everyone was to deliver the most dangerous blow at the most appropriate moment, and then get out and leave without entanglement. In the end, the arrow finally succeeded, and Semir had only one chance to kill Cyrus, and she succeeded!

The chaos around Nipur was predictable, as Cyrus the Great was assassinated and the Assassins were immediately pursued, while some people rushed to the city-state of Kish to report to the arriving Darius General, who had already fled without a trace.

...... According to the original plan, after the assassination was successful, Semir would sneak back to the Assyrian border and continue to patrol the border guards, while Faust would be ordered to return to the city of Neveh to deal with possible complications. No one knew that they had quietly left, and everything seemed to be going on seamlessly.

The wounded Faust returned the quickest, for the Domuz who had taken him with him was astonishingly fast. One day after Faust's return, Semir was escorted back to the Empress's carriage. Cyrus is dead, and the next Potz is definitely going to be in turmoil, and the Assyrian Empire finally has a chance to breathe, but the fate of Assyria depends on whether they can take this opportunity to regain their strength.

Semir sent Faust back to the imperial capital, and at the same time secretly told him not to hurry, to be careful not to worsen his injuries, and to concentrate on recuperating after returning to the imperial capital, but not to expose his serious injuries, so as not to arouse suspicion.

However, Faust did not heed the advice of the empress, and he hurried back to the city of Nevea, despite his injuries. Such a move by the Sage was not surprising, as no one knew that he had been wounded, and the news of Cyrus the Great's assassination had spread, so it was not surprising that the Empress had sent him back to the imperial capital during the inspection.

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(To be continued)