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The complete security system in the Monroe Territory was limited to the Monroe city-state itself.

With an ample supply of pen, paper and ink, and the ability to record events in great detail for later reference, there are almost no sub-towns in the vicinity, let alone even more humble villages, of this unprecedented advantage.

Like a pebble thrown into the water, dozens of riders spread out in all directions, quickly covering every inhabited part of the Monroe-Xilin Territory. They questioned villagers, village chiefs, town clerks, and even the head of the local chamber of commerce, and anyone who might have the slightest knowledge of these matters was questioned and tried to find out the whereabouts of those who were unaccounted for in every possible way.

Upon investigation, it was discovered that the number of missing persons was really quite large.

Seventy years ago, the province of Monroe became the richest land in Krant because of the wise policies of Archduke Aubrey, and in fact many of the villages scattered along the road were gradually established because of prosperous commerce. Even nowadays due to the incompetence of his younger generation, Monroe is much worse than it used to be, many caravans, sole traders, mercenaries, and adventurers still choose to come to the neighborhood in search of money-making opportunities.

- Just like Avenella on the other side, there are many floating people in the Monroe Territory, and with the poor southern kingdom's poor security and lack of recording tools because of poverty, almost no one knows how many people live in a particular village or town.

The only people who are remembered are the residents who have lived here for a long time, or the merchants who have been going back and forth between one or the other. The guys who may be here today, and who will be gone tomorrow, no one knows what happened to them. After all, the Krant region still has a lot of rainforest terrain, and vigilant dragon lizards and other predators don't get close to cities and highways. But there are always exceptions.

Sitting in a comfortable chair at the top of the castle and in the royal palace, the king was keen to engage his warriors in warfare with their neighbors rather than to keep peace on the frontiers, so the commoners who were not able to protect themselves were struck down by predators in the shadows when they had to walk the wilderness for their livelihood.

Even armed soldiers. There are also many people who have retreated after defeat but will never be able to return to their hometowns.

Demographics are confusing, there is no reliable means of recording, and there is a mixture of word of mouth and speculation. A great deal of information had been gathered, but sorting them out was an even more tedious and laborious task, and Herman had used whatever power he could muster - thankfully, as if he had finally picked himself up, on the 21st of March, Vega arrived on crutches.

"You can't be decadent forever. With that, the sheriff joined the ranks of the rest of the outpost.

There are two flowers, one on each branch. The search for missing persons continues slowly on the one hand, and on the other hand, on the other hand, on the origin of another type of magical material. The investigation into the acquisition of various monster glands and hearts, as well as blood, has made amazing progress.

In any case, there are still only a handful of people in poor Krate who can afford to buy magic materials, and even a small purchase will definitely attract the attention of the seller. Therefore, when the royal guards in charge of the investigation went to the chamber of commerce or merchants with ties to hunting mercenaries who might have these things, they were not surprisingly given a definite answer.

After Shun Teng, the investigators successfully discovered that the Duke of Monroe's Mansion was indeed the operator behind all this, and at the same time as the conclusion was reached here, the court mage and his party who had further analyzed and calculated the black ring on the other side also figured out an important basic data they used to calculate.

Even if the mana required is not very high, it is necessary to ensure a continuous supply during the high-temperature smelting process, and the consumption of organic materials containing mana has reached a considerable level.

Considering that even when stored in the potion and wine, the mana would gradually disappear with the death of the organism, and the Donald came to the conclusion that it took about five or six people's hearts to forge one such round bracelet - and that there were about forty of the dead under the hands of the Monroe magician.

Although part of it was done by another, more impulsive and emotional person. Considering the fact that the hearts of the people he killed were also missing, it was still assumed that he was also a member of the Duke's Palace.

Things culminated three days later when the results of other investigations were delivered. According to eyewitness corroborations from multiple angles, the first resident identified as being involved in the incident disappeared four and a half years ago - and that's not all. It was also at this time that the first deal to acquire the Warcraft glands in large quantities also appeared.

Although the person in charge of the transaction often changes the object of the transaction and tries to choose a different one, which shows the caution of the other party, but the great nobles of the Duke level are not ordinary commoners after all, and they do everything possible to omit one point-

The common unit of currency on the West Coast is the denno. For the convenience of traders, this concept is usually mentioned when quoting, but the unit of value is the unit of value. The currency used to pay for this amount is very significant.

Ordinary civilians use the lowliest iron coins on a daily basis. There were copper coins up there, and silver coins were used for them as deposits. The merchants, on the other hand, used more silver coins with copper coins - only the nobles, the top nobles with a lot of money, would use the most valuable gold coins in large quantities.

Because for them, silver coins can only be regarded as change, and the more low-level copper coins and iron coins are naturally not taken seriously.

Just as people who are too tall tend to be more careful not to hit the door frame when they enter the door, and the short people have no such consciousness at all, even if they are shrewd and cunning, but born with a golden key in their mouths, the Duke Monroe family, in this humble and insignificant detail, because of their natural advantage has caused blind spots.

"The fox's tail was finally exposed. Herman smiled as he finally found out the news, but there was still a hint of cold sweat on his face. For even the most conservative estimates based on these incomplete statistics show that the Duke of Monroe's house had at least two hundred or more black rings.

Accumulate such a large number of magicians. Even if they only last for less than an hour at most, if they are available to loyal enough men......

Wolf ambitions. Abundantly clear.

Why were the royal guards sent to Monroe's side, and the reason why a single murder incident made them use so much manpower and material resources was already clear at this moment.

- Duke Monroe wanted to rebel, and they realized it.

But it's not yet time, it takes more than just skilled craftsmen to make magic guides, the most important gatekeepers and magic circle carvings also require a skilled magician, and this magician is obviously the infamous "magician".

The interference spell sealed in the deteriorated black bracelet was enough to kill dozens of people when fully exerted, and this was a terrible artifact that could ignore any armor and work directly, except that the distance was too short, it had no flaws - the creation alone was already so terrifying, then the killer himself ......

Herman didn't dare to think about it anymore. He didn't want to startle the snake before he really found out his strength-the Grand Master of the Royal Capital's personal guard thought so, but what he ignored in his busy schedule was that how could he not startle the snake with this huge and wanton investigation.

......

It was getting late, and the temperature in Monroe rarely dropped below 30 degrees Celsius at the end of March and April.

In the evening, after a rain, the stars twinkled in the washed sky, and the cool atmosphere was a good time for a walk, but the men and women who were talking and laughing in this line obviously did not have that leisurely mood.

"Balk, Balk!" was audible from the footsteps, their confusion and the flickering of torches on the wall next to them. The light-lighters in the city were visibly lazy tonight, and only one of the rain-soaked torches had been replaced, and the rest was completely dark, even the moonlight was obscured by dark clouds.

"Hallie, he's dead!" the young man of his twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old grabbed the girl's hand and shouted, and the sound of footsteps echoing as if death was knocking on the door. Both of them changed color: "Hurry, hurry, he's catching up again!"

The three companions in front of them had already shaken off the two of them and ran away for their lives, and the young man took the hand of the girl named Harley and ran for his life.

"Bang-" The water on the ground made Harley slip. She almost fell to the ground like this, but fortunately, the young man in front of her grabbed her: "Thank you! The girl shouted as she gasped, and Shion nodded at her. The two men then began to run forward.

"Knock-knock-" The footsteps behind them continued, but it was at this moment that they saw the three companions who had run ahead of them at the intersection waving their hands vigorously.

"They're ......," Harley said as she ran desperately, and the next second she saw a patrol of heavily armed royal guards running behind her companions.

"That's great!" said the girl's face, a heartfelt smile. And then froze in this expression forever.

"Bang-!!!-click-!

"Whoa—"

"Quick, run!" The three surviving friends of the royal capital staggered past each other, carrying the vomit left on the corners of their mouths and clothes, and ran towards the rear with vain steps.

"Brush!" the shield raised its spear and flattened the line, and the sixteen elite soldiers, led by knights in full armor, took a vigilant posture.

"Damn you, killing people right under our noses!" cried the knight defiantly, but there was silence in the dimly lit streets. Standing in the middle of the phalanx, the two elite soldiers who did not hold a shield, but held torches, raised their torches high so that they could see more of the surrounding scene.

It's close to the abandoned residential area of Beicheng District, and although the law and order has become good recently, the young men and women who break into it really don't know whether they are alive or dead.

"Slowly retreating, the range of the interference spell is very close, and the other party must be trying to use the darkness to sneak closer to us. The knight turned back and said. Everyone nodded, and then they began to retreat in a group at a near-unison pace.

One step, two steps.

"Over there!" a gust of wind blew through the torches, and the surroundings flickered and darkened. The black cloak swayed in the wind, and the "magician", who was quite small compared to the knight, rushed over with a "boom".

"Damn it!" the knight swung his sword at him, but his wrist slanted uncontrollably to the side as soon as he got close to the other's body.

"Click-" I don't know if it's because of the limitations of the plate armor or because of the opponent's lack of strength. The other party did not directly abolish the knight's swordsman.

"Throw the spear!" the knight shouted loudly, holding his right hand, which had been stimulated by the interference spell with a burning pain, and stepped back, and the elite soldiers in the first row immediately reacted and threw the spear in their hand.

"Boom-ding-ding-ding-ding-sting-"

Due to the dim vision, it was impossible to tell that the other party's spears were not accurately hit, and all but one seemed to tear the corner of the opponent's cloak and slammed into the ground, causing dazzling sparks.

"Cut-" The magician smacked his tongue and turned and ran away without looking back, the soldiers were holding their shields and trying to advance, but the knight waved to stop them: "Poor Komo chase! ”

He said this, and let out a long breath.

"Whew...... Luckily, the magician wasn't as difficult to deal with as he thought. Just keep your distance at the right time. The knight moved his aching wrist, then turned his head.

"Let's go, go back and report to Master Herman. "Hmm, what did you just say—"

"Whew-huh-"

His reaction was not unresponsive.

The first moment the sound appeared, the knight turned around and threw out the sword in his hand, but the damage he had received before made his sword fall into the air.

"Spear throw, spear throw!" shouted the knight, as he held out his finger and pointed at the half-crouched figure on the roof of the house on the right in the pale blue moonlight that had instantly appeared in the pale blue moonlight.

"Cast-" "Puff-"

"You ......"

The spears in the hands of the elite soldiers stabbed each other.

Blood splattered, and the group rolled their eyes and fell to the ground.

"you!" the knight drew the dagger at his waist and charged at the other man.

"Heh, who told you that I am easy to deal with. "Bang bang! bang!" jumped to his feet, trying to throw the dagger at the other knight, his limbs twisted in mid-air. He slammed his whole body to the ground, and the plate armor made a loud noise when it came into contact with the hard ground.

"Ahem—" The crippled knight fell to the ground and coughed up blood from his internal wounds, and his vision began to flicker, and the magician climbed down from the roof and picked up the dagger he had dropped beside him.

"I'm very strong. A ghostly smile appeared on his fair face, and he stabbed the knight in the neck with precision.

"Ahem......" The knight, whose eyes widened in a daze, could no longer move. The "magician" stood up, glanced around at his surroundings, and then seemed to notice something. He took a few steps forward to the spot where a few spears had landed, and bent down.

At the end of one of the spears was a strip of linen cloth that appeared to have been torn off. The magician picked it up and held it in his palm. Then he slowly raised his head.

“...... It's kind of interesting. ”

......

"......" Herman grimaced.

As soon as the investigation was completed, the other party directly revealed the number of nearly twenty deaths in the night of the patrol guarded by the royal capital, along with the civilians, - this is a warning from the Duke of Monroe's palace, warning Herman to stop here.

The fists of the "......" clenched and then released, and the knights and elite soldiers who led the team were not weak hands, but they were also easily killed like ordinary people who were helpless in the absence of appropriate means of response.

"Not yet, not yet...... "Trying to suppress the anger in his heart, Herman gritted his teeth and kept repeating.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better!] (To be continued.) )