Witnessing the power struggle within the Thornflower family, Merlin Avery felt a pang of disgust for no apparent reason. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The once palatial banquet hall had been transformed into a bloody slaughterhouse, where at least thirty guests and an equal number of knights of the Guards had died, most of their bodies incomplete, soaked in pools of blood, and looking horrible and terrifying.

The smell of blood in the air was even stronger to the point of poisoning, especially the smell emanating from the corpses of the three blood-red monsters, mixed with sulfur and strong acid, which made Avery feel a tingling in his throat, and he had to walk to the broken window to breathe in the fresh air from outside.

As time went on, the controversy intensified rather than eased. There was a small group of people gathered around the elder Kebagu, accounting for about a quarter of the Thorn of Thorns' manpower, but they were all older and had relatively high prestige; several young members of the Thorns of Thorns were flushed, and their voices were arguing fiercely with the elders of Kebagu, and it could be seen that the voices against the seizure of power by the elders of Kebagu had a clear upper hand, but they were not closely united, but each had their own opinions.

In short, after the head of the Thorn Flower family was seriously injured and fell into a coma, this not very old family lost its cohesion and had a serious split in the struggle for power. The traditional conservative faction wants to regain its grip on power, and for this reason it does not hesitate to give up blood feuds and throw olive branches to its allies decades ago, but the young young Zhuang will never allow such a thing to happen, and the main members who died in the turmoil and intrigue belong to their faction, and they want a brutal revenge and purge, and the influence of the Recoba family will be completely removed from Coventry.

Of course, taking the opportunity to ascend to the throne of the Archon of Coventry is also an important purpose of these young Zhuang factions, but it is a pity that the chair can only allow one person to sit on it, which makes the young Zhuang faction, which has the upper hand in numbers and strength, unable to suppress the voice of the elder Kebagu.

Victor Leader sighed suddenly, stood up from the unconscious Baron Edelman, and walked over to Avery's side. "Master Iron, the situation of Your Excellency the Baron is not good, not only is the injury serious, I judge that there are also signs of poisoning, it is not a means of alchemy, it is a very tricky biotoxin. ”

Avery frowned, he wasn't actually a qualified pharmacist when it came to diagnosing injuries, at least not as good as Leader Victor and Mentor Satum. If it is poisoning caused by alchemy potions, most of them can be solved by using knowledge from ancient civilizations, and even the alchemy death known as "the gods are helpless" can be alleviated, but biotoxins are completely different things.

Biotoxins are complex in composition and have different lethal mechanisms, so if you want to study thoroughly, you need at least ten years of experience as a pharmacist. All Avery could do was find a concentrated bottle of cyan steel, catalyze it, and pour it into Baron Edelman's throat.

The green steel potion can constantly repair the wounds of the body, but it has no effect on the toxins, even if they are superlatively concentrated. After the potion, Baron Edelman's pale face, which had lost too much blood, did regain some blood, but the symptoms of poisoning did not improve, and the blood foaming from the corners of his mouth turned red and purple, and gave off a sweet and greasy fishy smell.

"It's the smell of rotting internal organs, like a corpse that has been exposed to the sun for a day or two on the battlefield. The Blackwing Reaper Gana Enlais commented in a relaxed tone, her eyes never taking off the female elf surrounded by the masked assassin, the expression on her face mixed with excitement and provocation, as if she wanted to carry on the undecided battle just now.

However, the stabbing sword and the greatsword are two weapons that are difficult to compete fairly, and in the difficult and narrow terrain, it is impossible for Gana Enlais to hurt a single hair of the female elf, and in the open area, the advantage of the flying wing armor is too great.

The elf ignored Gana Enlais's provocation, but took the towel from her subordinates and slowly wiped the blood from her head, hands, and body. In the fierce battle just now, she could be regarded as unharmed, but when she hid in the body of the blood-red monster, she was stained with a lot of filthy rotten blood that exuded a foul smell, and her expression looked a little disgusted when she wiped these things.

The strange confrontation didn't last long, as the strife within the Thornflower family was unlikely to end quickly, and neither Merlin Avery nor Lilaya Recoba wanted to linger too long in this foul-smelling banquet hall.

The assassins evacuated first, approaching the windows and then using hooks to create a way out. Lilaya Recobar stayed until all the masked assassins had left along the hook before she gave Avery an elegant and dangerous smile before jumping out of the window with a perfect backflip.

With no one to stop the assassins from leaving, the Thornflower family, who were caught up in strife, were powerless, and Avery felt extremely depressed. When Baron Edelman fell, he felt that everything he had done had been in vain, and that power in Coventry was still in the hands of the man behind the self-proclaimed Lilaya Recoba.

"Maybe the simple life at Blaufry College is more suitable for me. Avery let out a long breath as he watched the assassins' backs disappear through the window, a sense of decadence rising to him as he didn't want to think about anything. "Let's go, guys, it's over......"

"No, it's just getting started. Lyania Recoba's voice suddenly rang out, and the slender figure of the female elf appeared in an untouched window. "The City Lord's Mansion is sealed by the Beacon Guard, and no one has gone out, Master Tie, I can't imagine that you are also counted as a threat that must be eliminated. ”

Avery couldn't believe his ears, and suddenly raised his head, "What are you talking about? The City Lord's Mansion is sealed by the Beacon Guard, how is this possible?"

"That's the way it is, the Beacon Guardian can not only resist external threats, but also turn into a death trap, this is the information I once received, but unfortunately when the victory is in hand, I was still a little negligent. Lilaya sighed as she jumped off the windowsill and walked towards Baron Edelman, who was lying on the ground.

Avery gestured with a calm face, and Victor and Gana Enlais met him left and right, serrated shortsword and black greatsword flashing with a grim light. "I will not allow you to harm Baron Edelman, Your Excellency Liraya, no matter how much enmity you have ever had with the Thornflower Family, your revenge has spread to many innocent people. ”

"There are no innocents in Coventry, except betrayers, robbers, cowards and thieves, and if anything, you're you. Liraya didn't pause, half-raising her two hands, signaling that she was unarmed, and the thin stabbing sword was properly inserted into the scabbard at her waist, "Master Iron, do you think that the real Baron Edelman Brippes is lying on the ground?"

This sentence made Avery's heart sink as he half-turned, wary of Lyraya's sudden attack, and glanced quickly at Baron Edelman out of the corner of his eye. Lying in a pool of blood, the ruler of the Thorn Flower Clan had just stopped breathing, and although the wounds on his body had been almost repaired by the concentrated green steel potion, the toxin still took his life.

Avery was only about to take a look, but when his eyes fell on the corpse, his breath couldn't help but beat. The man lying in a pool of blood was dressed in an archon's gown, his skin was dark from the biotoxin, and his facial muscles were spasming and twisting in pain, so that his expression looked terrifying. However, Avery could still tell at a glance that he was not Baron Edelman Brippes, because no matter how terrible the effects of the toxin were, would not cause a significant change in a person's appearance and age.

Baron Edelman Brippes was in his prime, a middle-aged man of outstanding appearance and good looks, with a very pronounced aristocratic aura, while the man lying on the ground was in his fifties, his face was full of wrinkles, and near his right eye was an extremely conspicuous purple-black birthmark, like a huge wound across his face.

"It seems that this is it, Shapeshifting, a special application of advanced alchemy, and speaking of which, I can also have a little bit of this ability, so I can pretend to be Lady Veronica. Liraya shook her head and sighed as she walked over to the corpse and flipped it over with her toes, revealing a tattoo of a bright red handprint from under her torn coat.

"It turned out to be him, one of the five hands of the Bloody Hand Mercenary Regiment, Barbarossa, a multi-faceted man, a fool who died for money. ”

Avery only felt that his mouth was full of bitterness, he didn't understand what was going on in Coventry, who was the enemy and who was the trusted friend, he was a little confused, but he at least understood that Baron Edelman had been prepared for this sudden massacre, and he had not revealed the slightest information at all.

"It seems that the Thorn Flower family is trying their best to promote the reputation of the Iron Master, and they really don't have any good intentions. Gana Enlais pursed her lips and said, "Okay, what are we going to do now? It's not a good thing to be trapped here by the Beacon Guard. ”

"It's not just you and us who are trapped, aren't those members of the Thorn Flower Family also trapped?" Victor put away his two serrated daggers and joined the discussion with a wary expression.

"There are no cronies of Baron Edelman among those people, tsk, what a miscalculation, how can I explain this to my eldest sister?" said Lilaya frowned, as if it was more important to explain to her eldest sister than to solve the difficult predicament at hand.

Avery glanced at the members of the Thornflower family who were still arguing, and realized that there were indeed no important people who supported Baron Edelman. The Ranger Captain Ansenbach and the Deputy Commander of the City Guard, Chiyovala, were nowhere to be seen, but it was Lorek, who had been stripped of his position as a Privather, and the former Ranger Commander, Sir Lokner, who appeared in the crowd, and belonged to the camp that supported the elders of Kebagu.

"Could it be that Your Excellency the Archon has the idea of wiping down the Thornflower Clan's opposition and those who might cause trouble? Gana Enlais retracted her body leaning out of the window, and although her tone was still relaxed, her eyes flashed with a cautious light, "I thought I could retreat through the sky, but now if I don't solve the Beacon Guard, there is no way to leave!" (To be continued.) )