In the middle of the night, when everything was silent, a sudden shock woke up the sleeping outer city, and countless people sat up in panic and looked out the window in the noise.

I don't know when it started, a scorching fire has risen in the sky, illuminating half of the night sky, and the sound of firefighting can be faintly heard.

In the distance, accompanied by the poignant moonlight, countless Imperial soldiers with armor and guns swarmed forward, surrounding the entire outer city, and the slightly impatient soldiers knocked on the door to check their identities one by one, but found nothing.

This sudden catastrophe finally alarmed the big man, and while sitting in a carriage with the coat of arms of nobility, Rowan Bilbohm, who had just gotten up from the bed of a slave girl, lowered the curtain and looked extremely ugly.

The carriage of the Bilbohm family was not examined all the way, and under the protection of the private army of the Bilbohm family, Rowan successfully arrived at the orphanage of St. Zachari.

When he got off the carriage, more than half of the eastern area of the orphanage had already burned down, and when it was built, in order to take into account the land application area, the buildings of St. Zachari were continuous and dense, but at this moment it became the main reason for the burning of the company camp.

As if in hell, the smell of barbecue mixed with ash greeted him, retching a few times, Rowan hurriedly took out the sachet he carried with him and put it in front of his nose, so as not to vomit out and lose his majesty.

"Ella! Take someone to fight the fire! ”

Saying a word to his personal female subordinate with difficulty, Rowan hurriedly turned back to the carriage and ordered the coachman to drive the carriage slightly away from the range of the flames.

Within ten minutes, the Imperial defenders of the outer city also arrived at the fire site, and under Rowan's scolding, the captain of the garrison and the garrison participated in the fire extinguishing operation.

As more and more people put out the fire, the fire gradually became smaller, and at dawn, the wave of flames finally subsided.

"Lord Rowan, the fire has been extinguished."

The grizzled captain of the garrison flatteringly came to Rowan's car.

"Do you have any other commands?"

"Retreat, we'll investigate this matter personally."

Catching the money bag flying out of the car window, the garrison captain casually checked it, and felt the sincerity in the money bag, and the garrison captain smiled with satisfaction.

Since the eldest son of the Bilboom family said so, the responsibility for this fire incident naturally fell on his head, but it can also be seen from this that the Bilbohm family is really angry.

I don't know how many people will suffer after today.

"Then Lord Rowan, my subordinates will leave."

When the garrison left, Rowan stepped out of the carriage, and as far as he could see, the eastern district had become a ruin, and many places in the western district had been affected, and the losses were not insignificant.

Saint Zachari was the common asset of many nobles, and now he had such a big problem that he couldn't hold it himself.

"Ella, count the property and personnel losses, strictly investigate the cause of the accident, and if necessary, torture them, and don't let go of any suspicious elements!"

"My subordinates understand."

……

The only dozen or so survivors in the eastern district of St. Zachari were temporarily housed in a warehouse outside the orphanage.

pinched her thigh meat fiercely, and Shiryl, who was shrinking into the arms of Sister Elisa, suddenly burst into tears, and tears flowed down like she didn't want money, so that the girl's black carbon face soon turned into a pulp lake that her own mother couldn't recognize.

The girl's performance quickly won the sympathy of most of the survivors, and many people who had a good time to do it were secretly wiping away tears.

"Sister Elisa, so many people are dead, there is blood everywhere, it's terrible......"

The gentle nun hugged the grizzled Shiryl and whispered comfortingly.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, with Sister Alyssa here, don't be afraid."

Retracting her admiring gaze from Shirille's body, Lienor lowered her head with a complicated face, a little worried in her heart.

The charcoal black on her and Shellyl's bodies was drawn by Shelly, and it looked as if they had escaped from the fire, but the fire only broke out after they left the barracks.

Whether it is disguise or ruthlessness, she can't be as pure as Sheryl, no wonder that mysterious and powerful girl has taken a fancy to Sheryl in just a few seconds.

Dean Atley is dead, Vera is dead, and there is no one alive in that house except her and Shellyl, which means that no one except her knows about Shellil and the mysterious killer, as the mastermind of the arson, she is not worried that Shellyl will betray herself, she is only worried about what if the mysterious person comes to save Shellyl and leaves herself.

The orphans of the same period happened to be the only two left, her and Shiryl, who were rescued and left alone, and what awaited her was endless hell.

Shiryl promises to take her with her, will that mysterious teenage killer say yes? Will you leave yourself behind?

"Lienor, didn't Vera escape with you?"

Noticing Eleanor's expression, Sister Avril took the initiative to talk, and Shiryl, who was not far away, changed her face slightly and pricked up her ears.

Stunned, she looked up at Sister Avril's beautiful face, but Lienor remembered what Shirmile had told her.

'Don't trust anyone, don't try to explain anything to anyone, if someone asks you a question, you have to be vigilant, it's up to you whether we can survive or not'

Coming to her senses, Lienor shook her head.

"Vera, she's fainted, we can't take her with us."

"What about the others? Didn't you flee with anyone else? ”

"I don't know, we thought we were going to be burned to death, but we didn't expect Childe to suddenly open the locked door, how can we take care of other people's ......"

Lienor's eyes were a little hollow, as if she was recalling the terrible experience of last night, and Avril listened quietly, caressing the girl's messy hair.

"Before Child's arrival, the house was full of fire and screams, and Shellyl screamed and poured what little water there was on my heads and Vera's heads,

I started banging on the door as hard as I could, but the locked door couldn't be knocked open, and Shiryl tried to persuade Vera to do the same, but Vera shrunk on the bed and shivered...... She's always been like this, always backing down in the face of danger, and we want to take her away......"

Glancing at Lienor's somewhat swollen right shoulder, Avril sighed softly.

"Vera is just a very ordinary peasant girl, maybe she has shown all her courage by that time, alas, it is not your fault, don't be too sad."

Nodding with difficulty, Lieno's face looked a little better and continued.

"The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the smoke was holding us back, and soon I couldn't see anything clearly, but then the door suddenly opened, and it turned out to be the dying Child, who opened the door, and they managed to break the door, but unfortunately the flames suddenly rose from the floor and burned Child, and he couldn't get up......

Vera screamed and got up from the bed and took a puff of smoke, fainting directly, the fire wave rushed from outside the corridor, there was no time to hesitate, Shiryl and I could only leave Vera and Childe to jump from the corridor window to the tree...... Almost, almost we can't get out......"

Recalling Vera's mournful pleas for mercy, Lierino shuddered with fear.

Avril sometimes observes Lienor and sometimes Shiryl, and Shiryl never expresses any extra attention to Lienor, as if the two of them just escaped together by chance.

"Okay, we're safe, relax."

That being said, Lienore and Shiryl and the others were once again taken away by strangers in turn, asking over and over what had happened last night.

……

The inner city of the Immortal Fortress, the residence of the Bierbohm family.

"Lord Rowan, Ella asks to see you."

"Let her in."

"Yes."

After a brief briefing, Ella knelt in front of Rowan, and Rowan asked coldly.

"Is the investigation out? Who is not afraid of death to sneak up on the important property of our Bilboy family? ”

"My lord, the enemy did not leave any obvious traces, only certain that there was a gang of more than five people who launched an attack on St. Zachari at the same time, one person broke through the gate of the eastern district and destroyed all the way, attracting the attention of most of the guards, and slaughtered all the way into the underground area in a crushing manner like entering a no-man's land, creating an opportunity for other invaders to plant bombs,

Other intruders seem to be well aware of the situation in the subterranean area, where key nodes have been completely destroyed, and it will take at least three years to re-excavate and reinforce the passage without alarming anyone else. ”

I didn't expect that Ella, who has always been capable, would be deflated here, and Rowan also realized the difficulty of the enemy.

The gangsters in the West Zone are okay, but the guards in the underground area are all elite soldiers drawn from the Imperial Legion, what kind of terrifying existence is the enemy?

"What about our losses?"

"All the finished products died in the explosion, twenty-five people survived the semi-finished products, only two people survived the first products, the damage to the guards was more than ninety percent, only a small number of lazy and off-duty guys survived, and most of the guards died in the chaos."

Rowan frowned, this battle damage was inevitably too ugly.

"I arranged more than 300 guards, and I was killed by five people on the other side?"

Ella nodded, there was no need to hide it in this matter.

"Most of the people died from explosions and collapses, a small number of people died from killers who broke into the East Side alone, the enemy's weapons are not uniform, and there is no way to draw any useful conclusions from the bodies of the deceased.

However, it is certain that the enemy's combat skills are very high, especially the frontal intruder, not only is the swordsmanship superb, but the long sword is also a rare good product, and every dead person is killed with one hit, and that person is by no means an idle person. ”

"I know this if you don't say that, how can someone who can kill Saint Zachari by himself be a simple character, Ella, say something I don't know, like the purpose of their attack on Saint Zachari, or how do we catch their rat tail?"

"The subordinates understood that, in my opinion, the actions of the attackers were more like pure revenge, and the intruders neither saved people nor took away any belongings,

The skilled killers didn't do anything unusual other than kill our people and destroy our property, and I wondered if there was a possibility that St. Zachari had captured someone who shouldn't have been arrested, thus offending some hidden power, and the other side was waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. ”

Hearing Ella say this, Rowan also had a feeling of sudden realization.

"It's not impossible...... If that's the case, things will be difficult, and the dead ones will either be corpses that can't be put together, or they will be reduced to minced meat buried in the ground, and we can't even be sure if there have been slaves rescued. ”

"So my subordinates suggested that adults should reduce the number of trips and increase guards to avoid danger."

Nodding with a smile, Rowan sighed, stood up, and took Ella in his arms.

"I didn't rest all night, I've worked hard for you,"

With a blushing face, Ella didn't speak, just looked at the young and handsome man expectantly.

In this case, Rowan naturally would not refuse the affection of a female subordinate.

"Don't go, just rest with me today, it's enough for you to protect me, if it's Ella, you can also do the thing of destroying Saint Zachari alone, right? After all, you're a magic swordsman like no other. ”

Who knows, Ella suddenly pushed away the stunned Rowan and suddenly became serious.

"Lord Rowan, I hope you will pay attention to it, I am not joking,

I could indeed kill every living person in Saint Zachari with the magic sword [Flare], but I couldn't do it so quickly and efficiently, from the beginning of the attack to the start of the bomb, it only took two hours for this group of invaders, especially the killer who fought alone from the Eastern Sector to the underground area, it was so fast, I couldn't understand how he did this,

Therefore, the master should not be careless, the necessary guards should be increased or need to be increased, and you can't blindly trust your subordinates. ”

Infected by the serious Ella, Rowan quickly calmed down, and no longer paid attention to the moving delicate body of the female subordinate,

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It is no longer something that can be laughed at to the strength of the enemy who can make the arrogant and powerful Ella so cautious, and in this case, it is not an act that can be described as stupid to let the small head control the big head.

That's the way to die.

Being targeted by such a terrible enemy, if he can't get rid of it sooner, I'm afraid he won't even be able to sleep peacefully.

"Since the other side is coming for the Bilboom family, they will definitely continue to attack, and we can't keep fighting......

Tomorrow is just about to report this attack to the Grand Duke, since the Grand Duke's temperament, will certainly not ignore the destruction of an important source of slaves, as long as the Grand Duke appoints two blood tracers over, I have full confidence that I will catch the little mouse that will do it again,

What about even the top killers who are hidden? The Empire has been in the fortress for so many years, and there are countless attacks on us, and we have a way to deal with the rats that hide in the dark. ”

"They want to deal with the Bilbohm family, I'll give them this chance, heh, it's up to them to see if they have the guts."