Chapter 430: Trap
Harrican Line...... Now called the city of New Lasses, in the royal court in the middle of the city, Severn III was in a luxurious study approving documents, his brows furrowed, his lips pursed, and his expression very serious. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Since the destruction of the Holy Land by Ivo, he has been in a sad mood, because Ivo has the Golden Cross, and the Kingdom of Lasses has been criticized and questioned by the major empires.
The significance of the Golden Cross is that the issuing state is responsible for all the actions of the bearer.
Severn III repented that he had originally granted Ivo the Cross in order to tie him up, but he did not expect Ivo to do something shocking, and Lasses was implicated.
The pressure from all sides made Severn III so anxious to kill Ivo and use his head to appease the wrath of the nations.
In a dire situation, Cevern III ignored Ivo's exploits to the kingdom and captured Ivo's men who had remained on the Harrican Line in the dungeon, confiscating Ivo's assets. However, Ivo's reputation in the Harrican Line was so high that his actions nearly caused a riot in the city.
In fact, when Severn III learned of Ivo's misdeeds, he joined forces with the aristocracy to spread rumors that slandered Ivo's reputation and wanted to reduce Ivo's influence in Lasses.
However, the king miscalculated, and the people of Lasses did not believe these rumors at all, and even after confirming Ivo's evil deeds, the millions of people on the Harrican Line continued to worship Ivo as they were.
Because the Harrican Line is the place with the highest tolerance for Ivo's heretical identity.
During the Continental War, Ivo had shown his heretical identity, and the people here had long been mentally prepared to splash dirty water to erase Ivo's exploits.
This made Severn III jealous of Ivo from the bottom of his heart, and he was even more determined to get rid of Ivo.
The execution of Ivo's subordinates would only infuriate Ivo, and Severn III was cautious - or cowardly, wanting to gain but not wanting to take risks, after all, Ivo was now so famous that no one knew what kind of power he had.
So Severn III came up with a plan to temporarily imprison Ivo's subordinates and use them as bait for a deal, in exchange for the Golden Cross in Ivo's hands, and relieve the pressure of the countries, which was the first step.
Then deliberately put back a large number of Ivo's assets, so that they had to leave by land, and secretly passed the information to Barria and Reno, and used the two hostile countries to get rid of Ivo, in the eyes of Severn III, this trap could not only avoid angering Ivo, but also remove the big trouble, which was very cost-effective.
Severn III was very jealous of Ivo's assets left in the Harrican Line, but in his eyes, getting rid of Ivo was more important, so he endured the pain and did not confiscate Ivo's assets, but used them as bait, but Severn III was still not sure if Ivo would take the bait.
Severn III finished his instructions with great care, when a guard walked in and presented a letter in both hands, "Your Majesty, this is a letter found at the gate of the palace. ”
Severn III frowned, "This kind of thing of unknown origin should be handed over to the court mage group and given to me after confirming that there is no magical aura." ”
The guard said in a panic: "Your Majesty, the court mage group has checked it, and the contents of it are very important, this is a letter from Duke Ivo Harrican." ”
Severn III stood up suddenly, snatched the letter, and eagerly began to read it.
The letter, which was handed over to the royal family through the intelligence network, stated Ivo's attitude and said that he would come to meet with the king in some time to discuss the prisoners.
"Haha, he really took the bait!" said Severn III.
Seeing that Ivo had finally stepped into the trap, Severn III was in a good mood, and his depression was swept away, and he quickly wrote two secret letters for the guards to hand over to the messenger office.
The two letters were to be sent to Barria and Reno, respectively, and Severn III informed the two kingdoms that "the prey has stepped into a trap and is ready to hunt." ”
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The eagle of the steed swept through the sky and landed on a white arm on the roof of the castle of the Barian court, owned by a hot, good-looking red-haired woman in a beautiful red dress, who had been unanimously elected by the ministers to be the regent of the princess, Evel Barria, because the king was seriously ill.
Ewell gently stroked the eagle's head, pulled out the secret letter in the letterbox, and quickly read it.
"Ivo Harriken ......"
The name evoked memories that Evel was unwilling to face, and her calm heart lake inexplicably rippled, and a trace of loss and complexity flashed in her bright eyes, and she sighed slightly and whispered to herself.
"How sad, Ivo, even your country has abandoned you...... If you had chosen to marry me, even if you were the enemy of the world, Barria would not have been as ungrateful as Lasses. ”
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Ivo's fleet now consisted of six ships, the main Captain Kaze, a Baladine battleship, and four semi-combat-type armed merchant ships.
After the six ships resupplied at the desert island stronghold, they began to sail north, heading to the Cape of the Northland.
The further north you go, the ice floes on the frozen sea become denser and denser, and the weather becomes more and more cold, and all the islands you can see are covered with ice and snow, a piece of pure white, and the giant icebergs form a strait, which is very spectacular, but unfortunately the sailors who are frozen into dogs have no intention of appreciating it.
Sailing to the far north of the world, only a few navigators in history have succeeded, compared to the sad-faced sailors, Gordo is very excited, he loves the challenge of sailing.
Fortunately, Gavin carried a huge amount of supplies, which supported the heating consumption and kept the sailors from dying of cold.
Ivo had flipped through some nautical books and found that the Cape of the North Earth was the last piece of land to the north, and he thought that further north there might be ice similar to the Earth's North Pole, but unfortunately it wasn't, and the further north was full of oceans, which belonged to the frozen sea.
The Far Summer Sea and the Frozen Sea, two seas that belong to the north and south of the world.
It took longer to circumnavigate the south shore of the continent of Fliga to the north shore than it did to cross the Kamiwang Ocean, and Hokuriku did not have the giant ocean currents whose origin was mysterious, so he could only sail honestly, encountering countless disasters along the way, such as tsunamis, whirlpools, cold snaps, and hitting icebergs...... There were many disasters, but they still survived.
The dangerous voyage numbed everyone's sense of time, and before they knew it, seventy-three days passed quietly.
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"Captain, there's a huge cliff ahead!"
The exclamations of the sailors rang out from the deck, and Ivo walked briskly out of the captain's quarters, looking ahead.
In the distance, there is a cliff more than 30 meters high, stretching from land to sea, and there is no end in sight, as if it is separated from the sea, like a single horn growing on a land plate.
Ivo's eyes lit up and he laughed, "That's the Northland Corner!"
The sailors cheered.
"We're finally here!"
"Haha, this is the extreme north of the world!"
"This is the greatest voyage I've ever experienced!"
"I could blow in a tavern for the rest of my life!"
Gordo looked excited, "We have conquered the Cape of the Northland, enough to leave a name in history!"
Ander looked at the cliff curiously, "It turns out that the end of the Hokuriku looks like this. ”
Ivo knocked on the railing and said, "Don't be too happy, find a place to moor." ”
(To be continued.) )