Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 212 Chapter [-] Commander, Adjutant, Lord, Spy

The night at the southernmost tip of the empire does not have the cheerful and noisy areas of the Central Plains, nor does it have the magical glow that reflects half of the starry sky;
There are only the bright moon hanging high above the dark sky, the everlasting bright galaxy, and the night wind gently blowing the branches of willows.

It was in this quiet and even somewhat bleak night that a demon businessman set off from a border tavern that still had some lights, and followed the most obvious light source in his field of vision - the arcane spire "Pillar of Eternal Sleep". Magic energy halo-walking alone.

In the dusty alleys of the frontier post, his black cloak was unremarkable.

But soon, the demon businessman found a relatively unremarkable guy at the bottom of the "Pillar of Eternal Sleep".

Adjutant O'Brien of the Confederate Army supported his body with one foot, leaning against the white brick wall of the Arcane Spire in a slightly decadent manner;
The short adjutant of the imperial army was still wearing his monocle as usual, but his gray military uniform was a little messy, apparently it hadn't been ironed today;
What attracted the attention of the demon merchant was the wine bottle in O'Brien's hand.

It was an exceptionally large spherical bottle of "Sea Salt Special", with a blurry and dirty label, indicating that this was undoubtedly a precious old wine - and the bottle had a slightly salty taste O'Brien had already drank most of the liquor.

The demon businessman stared at O'Brien as he drank the wine, with a playful look in his eyes.

He took off his hood and walked towards O'Brien.

O'Brien looked up.

Thus, the brown eyes of the human beings met the purple pupils of the demons.

"It's over?" The demon businessman crossed his arms and leaned against the tower wall like O'Brien.

"It's over, a dagger was shot at the throat, and the dead bald head is completely cold this time." O'Brien pouted towards the door of the Arcane Spire.

Through the thick white brick walls, the demon merchants could also hear the noise in the tower.

Even though this border outpost is still sleeping, the death of the commander of the Confederate Army has obviously caused an uproar among the soldiers in the Arcane Spire.

"Are you okay?" The demon businessman raised his eyebrows at O'Brien, his purple pupils flickered in the light of the halo above his head, "Don't we need to wipe your ass for you?"

"No need." O'Brien snorted, held up the Sea of ​​Salt special wine and poured it into his mouth, "I also have my own people in the army, not to mention a few bastard nobles who happened to come here as scapegoats... Now the autopsy is too late. It's done, the bald ghosts are all bagged, even if someone becomes suspicious, they won't be able to threaten me."

The demon businessman snorted, not knowing whether it was a compliment or a mockery.

"Is it okay?" He nudged O'Brien with his elbow.

O'Brien was silent for a moment, then suddenly opened his mouth, as if reciting a military school text, he said dryly:

"In the second year of the imperial calendar 960, the fifth brigade of the demons attacked, the imperial army sergeant O'Brien blocked an arrow for Corporal Paulus; in the fourth year of the imperial calendar 960, the imperial army sergeant O'Brien rode from the ruins Rescue Sergeant Paulus in the middle of the imperial calendar; in the second year of the imperial calendar 970, Lieutenant O'Brien of the Imperial Southern Army, under the command of the captain of Major Paulus of the second squadron, detected the enemy's situation and saved the squadron from an ambush; in the fifth year of the imperial calendar 980, Major O'Brien, the captain of the Imperial Confederate Guard, found poison in the package of Commander Paulus's adjutant, and avoided the tragedy at the dinner party; Commander Luce..."

O'Brien finished reciting this resume-like text, was silent for a moment, and sneered at himself:

"Without me, this stubborn donkey would have died a long time ago. He owes me more than one life, and I'm just getting the debt back. What's the problem?"

The demon businessman raised his eyebrows and glanced at the wine bottle in O'Brien's hand, but said nothing.

O'Brien shook his head and said:
"Since I chose to follow your demon clan, I actually expected such a day to come... but I didn't expect it to come so soon."

"We didn't expect..." the demon businessman said with a wry smile, "but in recent days, the operation of the 'Wheel of Doom' has exceeded expectations. ...You humans may not know it, but that old fox in Rosario may have sensed something... there is no longer any delay."

O'Brien stared at the starry sky in the wilderness, and shrugged:
"I have been in secret contact with me for 20 years, earning a whole line of arcane tower defense for nothing... Your Majesty the Demon Emperor's investment is worth it."

"When you go to the Demon Realm, His Majesty will definitely give you a duke." The demon businessman said enviously.

"Hmph, it's not sure who will die and who will live in a fight..." O'Brien pursed his lips, "But you are lucky, you came at the right time, just in time for me to hand over the unsightly lord newly conferred by the empire on the wasteland, And deal with it all together.”

"No problem?"

"Once Paulus dies, the Confederate Army will be mine. What can go wrong on our own territory?" O'Brien sneered, "I've already sent people to catch these hapless ghosts from Frost Maple Ridge. Go through a procedural interrogation in the future, just cut it off with a click—not only will I hand over the defense line of the arcane spire, but there will also be no lords in the land of cracked souls, which will become obstacles to prevent your demons from advancing!"

The demon businessman nodded, pondered for a moment, and said:
"If there is no problem, I will write back to Qiuyue City to report?"

"Go." O'Brien nodded at the alien businessman who was also his accomplice.

The adjutant of the Southern Army had been watching the demon merchant's black cloak disappear into the night, then he straightened up from the shadow of the tower wall, walked into the Arcane Spire with a wine bottle, and continued to deal with Paulus' affairs.

……

"Arrest?!" Bob Brook opened his mouth wide, like a hippopotamus short of water.

Several soldiers of the Southern Army leaned on their waists with swords, and stood aggressively at the door of the hotel where everyone in Shuangfengling stayed, shouting angrily:

"Yes! You are suspected of murdering General Paulus, the commander of the Southern Army, and you will be arrested quickly!"

"Murder?! Paulus is dead?!" Bob Brook's shocked expression resembled a crocodile waiting to be fed.

"Don't ask too many questions! Now we are under the order of Adjutant O'Brien to arrest you for interrogation and find out the facts of the case!" shouted the soldier.

"O...O'Brien?!" Bob Brook's mouth was big enough to swallow a hippopotamus and a crocodile.

Standing behind Bob, Master Laurie and Cousins, after a brief shock, quickly turned their heads to look at the lord.

But what surprised them was that when the sudden change happened, their young boss seemed much calmer than the old Jianghu.

Xia Houyan stretched out his hand to push Bob away, stood in front of the soldiers at the door of the hotel, and said solemnly:

"I'm Elliot Igor, the lord of Frost Maple Ridge and the patriarch of the Igor family... Commander Paulus, what happened to him?"

The soldiers leading the team and their companions looked at each other, gritted their teeth and said:
"Stop pretending, you bastards who murdered the chief of the empire! When Commander Paulus died, he was still holding your maple leaf flag in his hand, trying to testify against the murderer with his last breath! Come with us now! "

Xia Houyan looked back at Master Laurie.

The old mage who had been in the empire for decades quickly recovered from the shock of the death of the southern army commander. He tried his best to put on an amiable expression and greeted the aggressive southern army standing at the door, ready to arrest him. Soldier.

"Stop! You bastard! Put away your wretched expression!" The soldier drew out his sword and yelled.

Obscene? !Master Laurie blushed, and it took him a while to get rid of the dangerous tendency of myocardial infarction. He forced a smile and said:
"Little brother, you must have made a mistake, we are from Shuangfengling, but we have been staying in the hotel..."

"It's you!" the stunned green soldier shouted, "tonight, after Lieutenant O'Brien found out that Commander Paulus had an accident, he specifically checked the tower register—you were the only ones who visited Commander Paulus before he died. office!"

"Fuck your mother!" Eldridge couldn't help it anymore, "Who the hell has been to that kind of place? We just visited Paulus once during the day, and I was still bald by this dead man , ah, he was bullied...after night, ah, we haven't seen him!"

Seeing that the men under his command tended to turn into Dou E and Xiaobaicai Haiwen from another world, Xia Houyan hurriedly took a step diagonally to stand between them and the soldiers of the Southern Army, and said with a pleasant face:
"Well, this little brother, is Adjutant O'Brien asking you to arrest us people from Frost Maple Ridge?"

The stunned green soldier glared at the lord and nodded.

"Then, how many people did you bring?" Xia Houyan's tone was so persuasive that he could go to a kindergarten as a preschool teacher.

"Uh..." The leading soldier was also taken aback by the question, looked back, and then said angrily:
"Five! Any questions?!"

Xia Houyan smiled and said:

"Little brother, we have no problem, but you may have a problem...Look, there are six of you, but there are also six on our side..."

"Uh...so what?!" the leading soldier asked in a daze.

The scum of Frost Maple Ridge has begun to suspect that this guy is also a descendant of an elf, and his intelligence level is quite similar to that of Miss Welf who is far away in Frost Maple Ridge...

Only Xia Houyan tirelessly introduced:
"Little brother, look, this Miss Alice Comstock is the former captain of the guards of Eagle's Rest Castle, and a well-known swordsmanship champion in the western region of the empire, who has been treated differently by Samuel the Thunder Dragon The talented swordsman... See the blingbling sword in her hand, like a sky full of little stars? That is the magic long sword 'Light of the Sky', and the 'flare technique' attached to it can blind an entire area of ​​enemies dog eyes!"

"Uh……"

"Look again, little brother, this Mr. Aaron Cousins ​​is the former Knight Commander of Eagle's Rest Castle and the Lily Knight conferred by the Emperor himself! Although I have never seen his actual combat scene, but his past The record is enough to scare any wasteland bandit into incontinence..."

"Uh……"

"Little brother, and this Master Victor Laurie, don't look at his wretched face, but Master Laurie is a genuine fifth-level junior magister of the spiritual department! Do you understand the magician? You know a junior magister who can overthrow... ah no, how many people can be overthrown by simply reciting a spell?"

"Uh……"

"There is also this Mr. Eldridge, although he is a lazy dog, but he is also a legendary commander who has made countless orcs fearful on the battlefield in the East. In terms of military rank, he is so much higher than you... He is still an empire. The double winner of the 'Grand Cross Star Medal' and the 'First Class Blood Eagle Medal'! Do you understand the Blood Eagle Medal?"

"Uh……"

"Finally, this is Frost Maple Ridge's Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Mr. Bob Brooke... You may think he is just a fat person who is annoying to look at, but for the sake of your mental health and cardiovascular health, little brother , I really don't suggest you annoy Mr. Brooke..."

"Uh……"

"So little brother," Xia Houyan said with a "kind" smile, "Why do you think that we can be forcibly arrested with six people?"

"Fuck..." The Southern Army soldiers leading the team suddenly realized something was wrong:
People, it seems that the fucking belt is missing! ! !
But Adjutant O'Brien just asked to "catch six noble wastes from the north". Why did six such ferocious wilderness thugs appear when the hotel door opened? !

Look at the hunk of the red scarf man, look at the sharp long sword of the female swordsman, look at the wretched and evil old face of the magister...

The Southern Army soldiers swallowed in unison.

"That... that!" The soldier leading the team yelled sternly, "This is the defense line of the Arcane Spire! We belong to the Southern Army of the Empire! Are you going to violently resist arrest and fight against the Southern Army, the Imperial Army, and His Majesty Invincible?!"

Xia Houyan said sincerely:
"Little brother, please believe me, although the elders of our family have done this kind of shit, we, Shuangfengling, are all law-abiding citizens who are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor..."

Confederate soldiers felt that there was no more "law-abiding citizen" than this grotesque Frostmape Ridge mob.

"Then...then you will be arrested!" The soldier shouted loudly, "This is the order of Adjutant O'Brien! If you dare to resist with force, the thousands of Southern Army brothers around this 'Pillar of Eternal Sleep' will be enough to kill you." Destroyed to ashes!"

The soldier's words were very imposing, but there was an irrepressible guilty conscience in his tone:
The reason is very simple - if they really fight, the Southern Army can certainly easily subdue these six people. However, their arresting team is afraid that they will die in the line of duty first...

However, to the soldiers' rejoicing and apprehension, the young lord in front of him didn't seem to intend to use force.

He just licked his lips with interest and said:
"So let me confirm once again that it was the order of Adjutant O'Brien to designate Shuangfengling as the murderer and send people to arrest us? The one with the monocle?"

"Yes..." The soldier nodded stiffly.

"What's interesting is that you are acting under the order of Adjutant O'Brien..." Xia Houyan blinked slyly, and took out a scroll sealed with wax paint from his pocket, "But here I have another order, which is to protect Commander Luce's order..."

Commander Paulus? !The soldier opened his mouth wide and stared at the seal of the southern army commander clearly visible on the wax paint for a long time before stammering:
"Commander Paulus, Commander Paulus is dead!"

Xia Houyan took the time to pass the scroll of general orders to the soldiers, and said with a smile:

"You will probably know in the future, in our Frost Maple Ridge, 'dead' and 'alive' are two rather vague concepts."

The soldier glanced at the lord inexplicably, untied the scroll, and read in a low voice:
"General Paulus, the commander of the Imperial Southern Army, personally wrote an order: All soldiers of the Southern Army who read this order must know that this general may have been killed at this time, and you will temporarily obey the orders of Elliot Igor, the lord of Frost Maple Ridge. ..."

The soldier stared at Paulus' magic seal on the scroll for a long time, then looked up in shock.

"Little brother, let me ask you a simple question." Xia Houyan chuckled, "In your southern army, is it the adjutant or the commander who has the final say?"

(End of this chapter)