Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 161 The Assassin King in Action
"This is the first time I have met such a cowardly guy, bastard, his defense is even stronger than that of Emperor Nilfgaard!"

"May that guy be infected with the plague! To assassinate him is courting death!"

In the dark abandoned tower, two witchers, a man and a woman, complained.

The tower outside the city of Wengerburg once belonged to a knight, but after the knight died in battle, the knight's heir sold the land to a nearby farmer, and ran to Pertekt with the money to become a citizen of the future capital.

As for the tower, it was sealed up, but soon someone came in and scraped the entire tower, and then more and more people came here to look for anything useful, and the tower was completely deserted.

And now, this place has become the temporary residence of the Nilfgaardian Assassins.

The hair color of the two witchers was similar, both were red like flames, just like their faces, and they both had a pair of emerald green but messy vertical eyes, and their ears were slightly pointed-this is a typical half-elf feature.

"It seems that we have to adjust the order of his assassination, even though he is the character that the employers ordered to assassinate, my friends, I have to call the others back, stop doing those boring things Investigated."

His hair is gray, with white streaks on his temples, showing his age.

The face is pale like a legendary vampire, with a hooked nose and a pair of vertical pupils embedded in yellow-green eyes.

If there are people here who have experienced the massacre in Hierro City, they will definitely recognize this gray man.

His name was Braham, and he was known as "Hierro's Cat," a disgraceful page in the history of the Witcher.

Because of its notoriety, it is often compared with another "massacre" in Bravikan.

Many years ago, after failing to break the curse on the princess of Vizima who had been turned into a vampire bird, Braham disappeared.

Many people thought that the butcher was dead. After all, the casualty rate of demon hunters was so high. It was very common for even the strongest mutants to die suddenly during a certain mission.

But in fact, he just went to the south and returned to the school.

Now, Breham leaned against the broken wall of the tower, looking at the two young witchers in front of him.

They didn't object to Braham's words, they all nodded, and then began to caress each other in front of him. Thinking of the identities of these two people, Braham felt a little nauseous.

Otto and Dewin, newcomers who have undergone recent mutations, are products of Gizlas' new policies.

Since the return of Gizlas, the cat factions scattered all over the north and south have gathered, and the destroyed caravan has been rebuilt.

The caravan is the cat school. After all, wherever they go, they will quickly make their reputation notorious, so the school needs to move.

But, even so, the cats still failed to escape extinction, and the caravan was defeated by the army after all. Since then, cat pies have been scattered all over the place.

Of course, in the process of rebuilding Gizlas, there are many young boys who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth want to challenge the grandmaster.

In the end, they were all tortured and killed by Gizlas as if playing a joke.

With the return of the grandmaster, the cat faction's tradition of using half-elf children to mutate has also been paid more attention to.

In order to find enough children, Mao Pai did not hesitate to start abducting and selling, and even started the business of massacring relatives and abducting children.

Moreover, Gizlas did not know where to find a way to let those slave traders provide them with a lot of children for free.

In order to ensure the loyalty of these children, Gizlas brought a technology, a kind of hypnosis - Braham's experienced experience told him that this technology came from vampires.

Under hypnosis, these abducted or enslaved children will forget their past.

They will only remember that they are orphans adopted by the school, and that the school gave them everything, and they are even crazier and bloodthirsty.

And after the second mutation, these children will become more crazy and bloodthirsty than their old cat pie.

As an old-school Cat Pie, Breham really feels very uncomfortable with the present, although their Cat Pie was also famous for their madness in the past.

But under the leadership of Gizlas, a new generation of cat pies has developed towards the out-and-out madman.

In this assassination, it was all these young crazy people who came to attack him.

Unlike myself, who has experienced many battles and is very confident to retreat completely, this group of people is purely to experience the thrill of walking on the tip of the knife.

Well, Breham admitted that he also liked this feeling, but he would never do things for pleasure like they did - he would not go to death regardless.

Just as Braham's thoughts drifted away, in front of him, this man and a woman directly started kissing with naked tongues, which made the old witcher feel a little sick.

He didn't know whether it was the brother and sister in front of him who were disgusting, or their school was more disgusting.

Yes, Braham hated Cat Pie, and hated himself. He had an extremely strong tendency to self-destruct.

It was precisely because of this that he decided to lead this crazy action, even if he was going to die, he would fall into such a grand cause.

"So, old man, who shall we kill next? Foltest or Istrad?"

The witcher asked, and Braham didn't hesitate, and directly said the target's name.

"Foltest."

"Why him? Our sniping has exposed us before, and there is a demon hunter guard beside him, the famous white wolf. Although I don't mind fighting such an enemy, if we are entangled by the white wolf, we will Don't try to kill the target."

Otto's face was full of expectations, but fortunately, he at least remembered what his mission was.

"Take it easy, my friend."

Breham smiled, and there was a sense of certainty in that smile.

"Some of our friends .

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The scale of the La Valetti family's fortress passed down through generations is so stifling that calling it a "castle" is a gross misnomer or a joke.

Expanded over generations, the walled town billed itself as the greatest fortification in Temeria, and perhaps in all of the Northern Kingdoms.

This is a huge militarized town. When Redania and Temeria explode into war, the focus of contention here will also become the rallying point for the Temeria army.

Because it is so huge, it is not a problem to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Beneath La Valette's fortified city, many Redanian armies once fell into the sand.

The fort is located next to the White Bridge, an important strategic place on the Pontal River, controlling the entire surrounding area as well as trade routes and crossing points.

The La Valetti family has a very long history and can be traced back to the original Dismode family.

Since then, he has maintained a close relationship with the royal family for centuries, and can be regarded as the top rich and noble family in Temeria.

After the death of the old Baron La Valetti, the current head of the family is his wife, Baroness Marie-Louisa La Valetti and their eldest son, Ariane La Valetti.

And when such a family launched a rebellion, King Foltest immediately felt strongly uneasy, and without hesitation, he immediately summoned the Temerian army to surround the city.

However, the reason for the outbreak of this rebellion is very ridiculous.

The old Baron de la Valetti married Marie Luisa and had a son, Ariane, who was also the heir to the title.

But the baroness later became King Foltest's mistress and bore him two illegitimate children: Anais and Bowsey.

At first, Louisa concealed the fact that the king was the father of the children, and kept declaring that they were the children of the old baron.

But when the truth came out, Foltest denied everything, fooling his mistress and her family.

The young Arian could not accept the disgrace of the family, and his mother became more and more worried about the future fate of the two illegitimate children. They found that they could no longer bear the rule of Foltest and his trusted nobles. .

So they began to incite other barons to open rebellion, hoping to weaken the royal power and gain new privileges-and other nobles also "naturally" participated, but in fact, they just regarded La Valette as a pathfinder son.

Luisa finally declared the realm of La Valette independent from Temeria and made her son its ruler.

Foltest regarded it as a challenge to the authority of the royal family - and it was indeed a challenge to the authority of the royal family and so on - and quickly sent troops to surround the castle of La Valette.

None of the allies Luisa had enlisted came to his aid, so Temeria laid siege to the castle without much effort.

The other nations were laughing at Foltest's mismanagement for finally causing trouble themselves, seeing what had happened in Temeria as a farce—and it was a farce.

But Foltest, who is the person involved, has a different view. What happened in La Valette Castle really threatened Temeria.

The White Bridge behind the castle is an important strategic location on the border between Temeria and Redania. If La Valetti falls to Redania, then Temeria's strategic situation will be extremely bad.

They could advance into Temeria's capital, Vizima, whenever Redania wanted to, and Foltest would not allow that to happen.

Especially now that the Redanian troops in the north are mobilizing and gathering around the White Bridge.

Radovid of Redania became very interested in the affairs of La Valetti, and he didn't know what happened to the Tritog court. Germany, and then Redania had this series of actions.

Foltest knew that he had to solve the La Valette problem as soon as possible, and the longer this shit dragged on, the worse it would be for him.

But La Valette is not so easy to win. As a city that has endured wind, frost and war, this giant fortress has passed the test of time.

Fortunately, Foltest has an artillery team no less than that of the Adenians. With this artillery, Foltest is confident that he can take down this huge castle as soon as possible.

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"Calibrate the angle according to the third row and fifth column of the shooting table! Shoot!"

The artillery roared in the ears again, and the shells hit the wall of the fortress. There was a burst of dust, and a small hole was punched out of the wall.

Brad felt himself numb from the roar, just numbly stuffing the iron cannonball in after the Ripper finished cleaning.

How many times is this?

Brad asked himself this question, but still didn't get an answer.

Looking at the densely packed fortifications in front of him, as well as the majestic fortress, Brad felt that this war was extremely absurd.

The king and his lover had a conflict, so these ordinary soldiers were going to fight because of their conflict.

Moreover, the two of them may reconcile at any time—His Majesty Foltest said that as long as Mrs. Louisa is willing to surrender, everything can be discussed.

Ridiculous, Brad just thinks it's ridiculous, so many people need to die for such crap, what the hell is this.

Once he had fought for the North, furious at the Nilfgaardian invaders for tilting the North, now he was fighting in a war a king waged against his mistress.

Temeria is better now, and the artillery they use is from Temeria's own artillery foundry, not from Aedirn, but why, this battle is getting lower and lower?
He was lucky. As an artilleryman, he didn't have to crawl forward under the arrows in the trenches like ordinary Temerian soldiers.

There is no need to stand on the city wall at the risk of being hit by artillery like La Valetti's soldiers, worrying whether the next shell will cut off their heads.

The fort also has no artillery that can counter them. The accuracy of the trebuchets is extremely poor, and the range of the ballista is not enough. This can be said to be the safest position on the entire battlefield.

But this does not affect him to feel that this war is extremely ridiculous, like a joke.

When he was looking at the city wall with a telescope, he saw a young man was crushed by a shell. He was estimated to be only 56 years old. He was smashed into pieces by the shell. In a ridiculous war.

People will probably later call this war "the cost of Foltest's inability to control his belt."

Brad's thoughts continued to run wild. Of course, on the surface, the artilleryman was still fulfilling his duties dutifully.

He can't understand those things, but he has learned to hold the words in his stomach and not say them.

Another burst of artillery roared, and the entire traumatized city wall finally showed signs of collapse, and some brick debris fell from it.

A lot of artillery cheered, but Brad wasn't one of them, he wasn't going to be happy about this war that was like a joke, but happy that this damn war was over

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There is another person who feels that this war is extremely ridiculous, and the identity of this person is quite important.

He is King Foltest's bodyguard, Rivia's white wolf, Geralt.

As the guard of the royal family, Geralt naturally knew more information than ordinary people, but this did not affect his feeling that this matter was too ridiculous.

There are so many political factors, but in the final analysis, everything is still caused by Foltest's inability to control his lower body.

Geralt used to be so outspoken in front of Foltest, everyone thought Geralt would be punished, but the king just laughed, and he laughed until he was about to speak.

"Master, you are very bold and honest. If all my subjects were like you, this time things might not develop as they are now. However, since things have already happened, we can do what we can and go on." gone."

To be honest, Foltest's openness surprised Geralt, which was one of the two reasons why Geralt decided to stay and serve as the royal guard.

As for the other... During that snipe attack on Foltest, Geralt actually caught up with the assassin.

When fighting the assassin, Geralt saw his eyes, which were the vertical eyes of a mutant, and the man's skills undoubtedly belonged to a witcher.

The assassin finally fled after dropping a smoke bomb, and Geralt knew he was in trouble.

Although he lost a lot of memory, he also knew very well that if a demon hunter assassinated the king of the north, what kind of waves would be caused in the north, and how severely the reputation of the demon hunter would be hit.

So he stayed and served as Foltest's bodyguard, which lasted for several months.

During this period, he experienced the life of the upper class in the north. At the same time, as a monster killer, he always became the focus of discussion in the court of Temeria. Some people regarded him as a talking point, and some regarded him as a clown. Others see him as a... sex toy.

But he just had a good time. If he came to make trouble, he would spray and hit him. If he wanted to go to bed, he could only push him. After all, Triss was there.

Speaking of which, whenever he went to bed, Geralt would always think of a black-haired figure, and her perfume, clove and gooseberry...

However, when Geralt asked Triss, Triss began to hesitate, telling Geralt intuitively that Triss kept a lot of things from him.

However, Geralt didn't force it, because he felt that those things would damage their relationship.

Geralt was behind King Foltest now, watching the Temerian artillery bombard the fortress.

"I used to flirt with Luisa and say, 'Let my cannons break through your walls', and I never thought it would actually happen."

Foltest's tone was full of anger and unwillingness, and Geralt could only remain silent in the face of such remarks. Why, should he comment on the king's love words in bed?
And the king didn't seem to expect him to say anything, but continued to say

"After the attack later, Geralt, I want you to protect Luisa and her children. She was just bewitched by the nobles, and those two children should be under my guardianship. Also, yes Upper Arion also made him surrender as much as possible."

Faced with this series of words, Geralt had a lot to say, but considering the aggressive nature of it, even Foltestit would not accept it very much, so he only had one word when he came to his mouth.

"Yes."

At this moment, the walls of the strong fortress of La Valette finally collapsed, like building blocks destroyed by children, and the entire city wall fell like this.

Countless Temerian soldiers who had been waiting for a long time jumped out of the trenches and rushed to the gap in the city wall that was still full of dust. They broke through the city wall, won the first victory, and the opportunity to loot the spoils was in front of them!

From the king's point of view, the ground looked like a sea of ​​Temerian smocks rushing towards the breach in the wall.

From time to time, the sound of musket fire could be heard from the rushing crowd. It was the soldiers who carried muskets at their own expense and were firing.

La Valetti's soldiers responded quickly, and soon a large number of soldiers gathered in the gap in the city wall, and the crowd in green uniforms and the crowd in blue uniforms fought together.

"Geralt! Mount!"

The king's attendants brought the horse, Foltest jumped on it, and his guards also got on the horse, Geralt didn't hesitate to get on the horse.

"We must get to Luisa as soon as possible, warriors, come with us!"

With the king's powerful shout, everyone rushed up with the king.

The king's team was like an arrow from the string, and soon came to the gap in the city wall. Now that the battle has developed behind the city wall, the number of soldiers that the defenders gathered in a short time to block the gap is really limited, and they can't stop the enemy for too long. Soldiers of Temeria are expanding their victories.

Seeing the king coming, the soldiers hurried out of the way and let the king lead the noble cavalry on tall horses to rush in.

Looking at this scene, Geralt's cynicism flared up again. The ordinary soldiers fought for this moment for so long. In the end, the glory of taking the city went to the kings and nobles who had been watching.

Geralt felt more and more uncomfortable, and he swore that he would leave the king's side after all the problems here were resolved. Foltest was a good man, but staying here was too embarrassing.

What the king led was naturally the best heavy cavalry in Temeria, and the essence of Temeria swept the entire street like a whirlwind.

As long as La Valetti's soldiers dared to stand in front of them, their fate was to be trampled under the hooves of the horses.

Seeing the power of the costumed knights, Geralt was thinking about what would happen to him if he faced these knights.

And the final result was pessimistic. Facing one or two costumed knights, he could still block them, but when so many came... even he could only become a corpse under the horse's hooves.

Soon, the rampant Temerian knights came before the inner castle.

Originally, Geralt thought they would encounter a rain of arrows here, but found that there was not a single shooter on the city wall, but the city gate was still slowly opening, and then several people came out from behind the gate.

These are the Blue Guards, and they have cleared the way for the king.

The king and Roche, the leader, briefly said a few words, asking him to help the defenders take down a few difficult places, and then led the knights to ride on horseback.

Right now, the king's eyes are all on his illegitimate children, and they must be taken care of by himself, otherwise they will only become tools used by careerists and traitors to realize their plots.

When the king led the cavalry to cross the bridge leading to the inner castle, suddenly, there was an explosion on the bridge.

The explosion severed the king and his guard, and Foltest and Geralt almost fell if they hadn't reacted quickly enough.

When they came to the inner castle, there were only two knight guards left beside the king. Foltest left them here to guard the city gate, and he hurried to see his children with Geralt.

What he doesn't know is that death is waiting for him.

(End of this chapter)