Lin and the others had already waited for the ship in Jasfan City. The three of them, together with a lich and four silverbearded dwarves, boarded the luxurious riverboat and set out on a journey down the golden waterways. And the only one who had extra followers was Uzov Gantia.

The group of companions of the Turtledove Alliance, they still love the unfettered adventure life. As it is now, it is not their pursuit to be a magician's little follower. Besides, if they stay, they won't be able to help much other than doing chores. If you want to be able to fight, a group of people tied up by yourself is not enough for either of the two magicians to make a move. I've seen it with my own eyes.

The other group of nobles were called back by their respective families, for the appalling incident, of course. However, this group of people who know the 'truth' has a tacit understanding to hide it.

Closest to the truth, they understand that even the presence of the great nobles will not help. Before the militaristic state realizes and releases its highest combat power, how many lives must be filled in to learn the lesson. What's more, the highest combat power of that group is not as fierce as this pair of men and women...... They're not sure.

As for the handling of the original ship slasher, they had caused too much trouble for those two magicians. Now that this is happening again, Madeleine Benz advocates not to make the trouble bigger and chooses to hide the truth, and everyone else agrees. All this for the good of the militaristic state. Just like when they fought for the sword at the beginning, it was also for the sake of the militaristic state.

Viscount Fu Teng, who has a grasp of the truth and is also the first to report the abnormality of the Bachman family, also chose to hide the truth. This was not only the result of a discussion between Kurtel Fu Teng and his own father, but also his reluctance to provoke the two magicians. The Bachman family will be extinguished, and his strength may be a little higher than that of Bachman, but will there be a difference in the eyes of those two? He didn't want to gamble.

However, for the Vida military state, the castle of Viscount Bachmann, the mysterious incident of the disappearance of the whole city did not gradually subside because of unknown reasons, but became more and more intense with time, and the impact was becoming more and more extensive. There are all kinds of speculations. Even in aristocratic circles, it is not an exaggeration to say that it caused an uproar.

At first no one believed it. Although forums are a convenient channel for transmitting information, militarists still only believe in 'evidence' confirmed by traditional methods.

In fact, such behavior is not difficult to understand, as the world's most powerful country, of course, they can't be moved, that would be too hasty. And because of the wrong information to carry out unnecessary actions, that waste is even more considerable. The information that is faster than in the past is at most just for them to plan ahead of time. To make a decision, more conclusive human or physical evidence is needed.

When the people sent out by Duke Becker to investigate, the people who brought back the entire castle disappeared, leaving no traces of a fight, and there was even a news that a magic tower was directly demolished, and there were also photographic pictures as evidence, the military high-ranking officials directly fried the pot.

Although the strength of a viscount is nothing to them, no matter who the opponent is, he provokes the entire aristocratic class of the militaristic state.

No bodies were found, although it could be said that the person was simply missing. However, it has been VII (7) days from the first notification to the arrival of the investigators at the castle of the Bachmann family. For VII days, not a single missing person appeared, and the worst scenario was that they were all killed.

There were no witnesses, no witnesses. At this time, the object of everyone's attention was naturally Viscount Kuttle Fu Teng, who was the first to find out and report back at the first time. But Kutle, who didn't want to cause trouble for himself, bit it to death according to the result of the discussion with his father, without revealing the slightest breath.

But as long as more than one person knows, it cannot be considered a secret. The knight of the Fu Teng family is not a dead man who is tight-lipped, he may be drunk, he may be boasting on the pillow, but in short, the news still flows out.

On the other hand, the method that Kuttel discussed with his father was not to say nothing, but to seek other channels to let out the news. The most important thing is to take yourself out and not let any party implicate him in this incident.

In order to achieve this goal, they have released some fake news in the name of speculation to confuse most people's perception. But as long as someone thinks about it a little, they can eliminate a lot of obviously impossible fake news and find the 'truth' of the matter.

In other words, the disappearance of the entire city of the Bachmann family is finally linked to the news that a certain magician has the secret weapon of the Karlsruhe Empire, the ship chopper. But even if there is a motive, there is no direct evidence, only a bunch of possibilities and rumors.

If it were against ordinary magicians, maybe these rumors alone would have been able to break them into pieces. Anyway, it is impossible to make a mistake if you kill one person, because it is impossible for a great militaristic state to make a mistake.

But the other party is not an ordinary person. A lot of information that is not very popular with the outside world is spread out on the tables of these high-level militarists. recent stormy bay fighting; An earlier civil war in the Elven kingdom of Pyathaime—news from the Centaur survivors—; the eerie fog of Mountain Ridge City; The original owner of Castle Dusk, a vampire who has been wiped out; Of course, there are also various kinds of the Great Sage's Tower.

To deal with such an enemy, the militarist state is still sure, but it is bound to pay a considerable price. If it is confirmed that the other party is not the murderer, it is not to say sorry, and the matter can be settled.

If you have a feud and you can't kill the other party...... Whether that one is the legendary demon king or not, the intelligence department of the military state still has reservations, but the other party must be a lich and a great magician. If a magician of this level sneaks into the shadows and thinks about it, even the emperor won't be able to sleep peacefully.

So even if the rumors spread violently and reached the point where they had noses and eyes, as long as there was no ironclad evidence, most nobles still chose to remain silent. From a practical point of view, it is not that I have suffered substantial losses. But for those who really suffered losses, they couldn't be so calm.

As the superior lord of the Bachman family, one of the five dukes of the Vidal Militar, Duke Becker, who was already 80 years old, shouted angrily at the old emperor who was not a few years younger than him in the council hall.

"So," said the old Emperor angrily, "is it not true that I will use the First Legion against the two magicians?" ”

The Vida Militaristic State has only the number of meritorious legions, and it is a standing legion directly under the Imperial Military Headquarters, and the First Army is undoubtedly the most powerful force of the militaristic state. In terms of function, the First Legion does not have any shortcomings, it can be attacked and defended, it can fight field battles, it can be broken, and even the Magicians Association within the militaristic state will be soft, because the flag of the First Legion is painted with XIII (13) tower-shaped imprints.

The nobles who followed the old duke, although they did not say it explicitly, their actions represented the same meaning. For a demon king thousands of years ago, and may still be a strong man who demolishes towers with his bare hands, no one wants to be a bird.

It's just that in their thoughts, there is no record of how the First Legion should be filed if it can't win against two magicians. For them, the First Army will eventually achieve the final victory, but how much will it lose? That's just a problem. Besides, it is better to lose the strength of His Majesty the Emperor than to lose his own strength. That's good for all nobles, isn't it?

But this layer of calculation may not exist in Duke Becker's mind. The reason why he would be angry was because of the one who died, but the youngest son of Duke Becker who had only jumped out at an age. In terms of age, he is the same generation as his grandson. The old man is easy to be favored, and the illegitimate child is difficult to restrain him, so he has created a lawless little overlord in the imperial capital.

In the end, because the capital went to inherit the name of the Bachman family, it was not so much a compromise in the aristocratic circle as a quid pro quo for the illegitimate son to leave the imperial capital.

Now, the youngest son who loved him the most was gone, and the group of people who had contributed to the trouble, in order to avoid the anger of Duke Becker, so they silently stood behind the old duke and supported his opinion. After all, those two magicians were so weird that no one wanted to face them.

For the old rival who has come this way, he is also an enemy and a friend, but the militaristic emperor smiled bitterly. Then he changed to a not very serious expression and said: "Qing thinks that the vassals of the vassals are also the vassals of me." "Although the old emperor's attitude is soft, it does not mean that his attitude is also soft. A fluttering sentence, but a knife was plunged into the chests of all the nobles present.

According to the routine of militaristic states launching foreign wars in the past, first border conflicts, and then local small lords intervened. Regardless of whether he suffered losses or not, the little lord always had to cry to his superior lord. In this way, when it finally reaches the emperor's side, it is possible to evolve into a national war.

But now that the youngest son of Duke Becker is missing, the old duke directly stabbed the sky and asked the emperor to send troops to solve this matter, which is not in accordance with the rules for the military state. Not to mention that the knife stabbed out by this old emperor was fast and sharp, directly piercing people's hearts.

In the past, because the territory of management was too large, and the circulation of information and the transmission of government decrees were limited, they could only use the feudal system to maintain the integrity of a country. There are also limits to the small nobles that the big nobles can divide out, after all, there is only so much land. If you divide too much, it is equivalent to weakening your own strength.

If a nobleman makes a mistake and is stripped of his title, he takes back his territory, and he takes it back by his superior lord, not the militaristic emperor. Such a restriction is exactly the original sentence mentioned by the old emperor: the ministers of the vassals are not the ministers of the emperor.

If the Bachmann family really allowed the old emperor to take the initiative over Duke Becker, the superior leader, it would be equivalent to breaking that limitation. This was unacceptable to all the aristocratic classes.

You must know that although the militarists are restrained in their use of the forum, they are not so trusting. But for the ruling aristocracy, and even the royal family, the forum also gave an opportunity, a turning point.

Rumor has it that the emperor's close retainers have proposed a centralized form of government similar to that used in small states, with the emperor directly administering the local nobility. Even like a direct domain, only administrators are sent, and nobles are not needed.

So as soon as this was mentioned, Duke Becker knew that the matter of forcing the emperor to send troops was completely useless. Not to mention that other nobles would not support themselves; If some political weaknesses are revealed, the old rival wearing the imperial crown in front of him will definitely make a big fuss. It is very clear which is more important than the power in the hands of an illegitimate child.

But it's not like there's no other way to elevate this event to the level of a militaristic state. Duke Becker said loudly: "I hope to ask the witch to find out the real murderer of the Bachmann family." ”