Morning in the Tower of Swords

"what is this!?"

The source of the two front and back attacks almost simultaneously exclaimed, but Platinum, who was supposed to die half-detached and pierced through the chest, stood there without moving a step, quietly looking directly at Candle Knight Wei with those indifferent eyes. Vianna.

"I understand your thoughts, Ms. Candle Knight, I hope you can understand one day that this era cannot be changed with good intentions alone. If you don't fight—or die! By then, we will probably meet again.

Remember my name, although I'm just a resurrected soul from the "Spirit of Babel", we... there are many more. "

Platinum didn't care about Viviana's stunned expression any more, but turned his head, and made a few silent mouth movements towards a blue-blue, short-haired Kuranta fellow on the roof far behind, because She knew that the other party must be able to see clearly and "listen" clearly.

Then her whole body turned into a gray-purple veil, completely disappearing from everyone's sight like the undead she claimed.

'You boy, wait. '

Not long after Platinum left, Candle Knight's waiting room was full of people from the Harmony Alliance, including two Kuranta men holding bows and arrows, wearing a blue cloak on their shoulders, and even their hair was blue. And a film woman.

These are the two blue-gold positions second only to Xuan Tie in the Inverted Triangle of the Wuxia League today, Roy and Monique, both of them were Platinum's bosses when Xintraya was still a platinum position. Of course, They are now also another "Platinum" boss.

"It is confirmed that there is no holographic projection device, and according to Candle Knight's testimony, at least the arrows that the other party used to threaten her and the arrows that shot through the window glass should be real, but there are no arrow wrecks at the scene, only the wine table and The hole in the shattered glass you broke.

If it wasn't for Candle Knight's attitude that he was obviously hiding something from us, I would have almost believed in your evil, Roy, she must have taken these evidences away, but Candle Knight is still a big celebrity in the Federation, we have no There is no way to force her to tell the truth. "

After inspecting the scene of the crime, the blue gold Monique with cat ears on her head expressed undisguised contempt for the inexplicable panic in Roy's expression. Monique, a Victorian officer, had always disliked her colleague's undisciplined style.

She probably thought that this was another excuse Roy came up with to catch fish.

However, this is only a verbal dislike. Every time these two Qingjins are required to dispatch a mission together, Monique has never been ambiguous in terms of action cooperation, but Roy can do as much as he can.

But as Monique's senior, Roy's actual situation is not what Monique saw. He has served as the green gold leader for ten years. His attitude made him the longest-surviving Qingjin in the history of the Wuzhou League, and he had almost no life-and-death enemies.

But the reason why there is no life-and-death enemy is not just because of work, but because he subcontracts those tasks that are too offensive or have a very low success rate, and all of them are handed over to his subordinates, such as Platinum, Platinum or platinum.

Regardless of whether the mission is successful or not, the hatred of external forces and the scapegoat within the organization can always be blamed on Platinum. He is naturally happy to fish, but it is a bit too expensive for Platinum.

This is probably also the main reason why the Platinum Leader always has the highest death rate and defection rate among the Inverted Triangle Killers of the Wuzhou League.

But now, Roy has witnessed the "dead soul" who came to seek revenge from the former platinum lord Xinteliya. Eyes were watching him resentfully from the candle-lit shadows of the room.

That's right, the task of leading the team to besiege Zofia Manor to monitor the knight with the wrist was originally assigned to Roy, but Roy's insight has always been excellent, and he can see at a glance that the knight with the wrist cannot be positive Diqi is extremely violent towards outsiders, so offending him with such fanfare may cause big problems.

So Roy used the reason of "don't worry, little pegasus, you are the best person to take charge of this operation" on the phone, and pushed it to Xinteliya, who was still platinum at the time, but he didn't know that the move was wrong. , Send it into Bokou Heroic Chengren.

In this way, even Margaret had to "thank" Roy, the blue-gold killer.

"I really didn't bluff you, Monique, don't you believe my eyesight? That's really the ghost of Platinum Cinderella, and she even turned around and said lip-synch to me!"

"...Are you stupid? I didn't say that I don't believe it's Xinteliya. Are there not many people in our business who feign death to escape? But ghosts are too ridiculous. Have you never seen a magic show? Right? Exquisite and weird techniques, and the proper cooperation of others can achieve seemingly impossible effects."

Monique is now starting to wonder if the former Platinum was deliberately killed by Roy. Usually, when he was caught fishing, he never panicked, and even dared to smile. He was not at all when it was time to kill. Soft hands, how could a platinum position scare him like this?

"You just didn't see her with your own eyes! Simple magic or projections won't give me that cold feeling, just like..."

"It's like being controlled by fear, isn't it!? Didn't the intelligence say that there was a foreign knight named "Nightmare" who came to Casimir to compete not long ago, and his skill is to manipulate people's inner fear! Don't you think so? Are you lazy and didn’t read the mission briefing again!?”

"No, I didn't mean that..."

Roy couldn't explain it clearly to Monique, but was gradually persuaded by Monique's clear arguments. After all, according to common sense, if there is any ghost, it must be Roy's ten-year green gold career. The target of death, or the Platinum predecessors of Xintraiya should be the first.

Could it be that just because Xinteliya is the youngest Platinum in the history of the Wuxi League, does she have the privilege of jumping in the queue and being the first to be a ghost?

"Yes, you are right. I was probably confused by some skill. In addition to the Nightmare Knight, the Candle Knight must also have a problem. At that time, Xinteliya turned her back to me and said something to her. From her time Judging by the look on her face, it must be very important, but she didn't explain it to us!"

It was rare for Roy to bring up some enthusiasm for work this time, as if he had just woken up from a dream and changed into a new pair of underwear, his thoughts suddenly became clear, but he didn't know that the ghost-type skill "Grudge" that was applied to him before just failed at this point That's all.

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"The undead of the "Soul of Babel", could it be that... this is really an assassin organization that transcends death? "

Using the reason that she had just been attacked, Candle Knight Viviana directly rejected the invitation to attend the dinner, returned to the Sanhua Knights resident she led, locked the door and sat alone at the table in her room, Look through a notebook I once used to record poetic inspiration.

And on one of the pages, it was the big characters "Soul of the Tower of Babel" that she had written a few months ago.

Princess Sophie, the princess of Grand Duke Letania Karl, was brutally murdered by an assassin who claimed to be from the "Soul of Babel". Grand Duke Karl himself seemed to have a mental breakdown due to the murder of the assassin and became insane. The Grand Duke was also passed on his young son.

This anecdote that was circulated in the noble circle of Letania was how Viviana first learned about the "Soul of Babel Tower". It was just a rumor released by the Grand Duke's political opponents to deceive others.

Because Viviana has also done some research on this, not to avenge Grand Duke Karl, anyway, as far as she knows, the Grand Duke and her Grand Duchess did not do any good things in order to fight for power, so she just wants to know Does this legendary-sounding name have real historical origins?

But in the end she learned that the only thing that could be related to the words in the "Spirit of Babel" was a "rebel" force that failed in the Kazdel Civil War.

Later, Viviana also heard a gossip from her old classmate who was a teaching assistant in the Originium Department of Leitania College of Higher Education, saying that these "remnants of the rebels" had to escape from Kazdel after their failure, and she was disheartened. With a cold heart, I started to do medical research related to Originium...

"Wait! Origin Stone Medicine!!? Could it be..."

I'm afraid that even Jogo couldn't have expected this kind of thing. He once licked Laplande's whole body with his wolf tongue... Cough, the foreshadowing planted on a whim when he became the unspeakable person will suddenly appear in Kasimir's candle. The knight recycles here.

Although the element of coincidence cannot be ignored, Leitania's rich higher education and academic resources, Rhodes Island's gradually emerging reputation in the top field of Originium research, and Candle Knight's own yearning and pursuit of poetic legend and romance also contributed to this. The main reason for the eventual convergence of the two.

But this is not important to Rhodes Island's plan at this stage, the important thing is... our Platinum Man!

"So you still haven't caught that assassin?"

The person who was standing in front of Roy at this time to inquire about the progress was the spokesperson McGee. Although he was not the directors usually designated by the federation to communicate with the Wuxia League, it was related to the Candle Knight he was in charge of. , there is nothing wrong with letting McGee temporarily replace the contact.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Spokesperson, the other party is obviously highly skilled and well-prepared, and no effective investigation traces can be found on the scene, unless..."

Roy made a long sound on purpose, and McGee understood it as soon as he heard it. It meant that it would be impossible for him to report to the Federation to allow the Unarmored Alliance to search and even interrogate Candle Knight.

Apart from his little selfishness, Candle Knight is still a victim after all on the surface, and it is trivial to take coercive measures against her and cause diplomatic incidents, which made the group of Letanian nobles feel that their class was insulted, and angrily decided to direct the business between the two parties directly. Falling through is the big deal.

"There is no need to ask more questions. The directors of the federation will naturally make their own decisions. Please continue to stick to your posts and make sure that no mistakes will be made."

Hearing McGee's reply of evasiveness, Roy, who knew that he had successfully pushed the scapegoat down this time, also smiled. Originally, the sentry of the Wuzhou League was breached by an unknown assassin, and he and Monique must be held accountable. On the contrary, it now defaults to the main responsibility of Candle Knight's internal and external cooperation.

"Of course, Mr. Spokesperson, my colleague has already led her third team to strengthen the sentry staff, and I will lead the cleaning team to actively search for suspicious targets, and I promise that no one will be confused..."

Boom!

Before Roy's sworn promise was finished, an arrow made of black "frost" suddenly passed the tip of his nose just a distance away from the bottle cap. Buried in the wall beside him.

"!!?"

Both of them were taken aback, not only because the assassin directly ignored the sentry circle that Roy had promised just now, but also because they were at a multi-layered corner, which meant that apart from the surrounding Outside of several layers of walls, there are no windows at all for arrows to shoot in.

So they all looked at the direction where the arrows were flying. The layers of butter pierced by the red steel needle roasted on the fire are so smooth and smooth.

It means that if you happen to be the same height as Roy, you can directly see the night scene outside the walls of several floors from the hole here.

……

Nima's!Did she blindly spy on me through several solid walls? ? ?

Someone cheated, comrade!Does anyone care about the competitive balance of this garbage game? !

Roy was completely dumbfounded, but driven by a mysterious (you) mysterious (ling) force (ji) (neng) force (neng), he foolishly moved his eyes towards the hole, and then activated Pegasus Vision.

I saw a white and evil smile that was three parts cold, three parts sneering, and four parts indifferent appeared in the center of his field of vision instantly, which made Roy's heart as if tightly held by a knight with wrists. Undead—Who else could there be in Syntralia?

I saw Xintraya immediately raised a strange red and gold longbow decorated with dragon patterns towards his left hand, twisted the bowstring with his right hand, a black "cold air" wafted from his fingers, and then instantly condensed a black "Frost Arrow" took it up.

"……run!!!"

Roy woke up in an instant, and immediately yelled to remind the spokesman McGee to stay away from here. Although being able to see Xintleia with the Pegasus vision means that Roy can also reach the opponent, but the available shooting range It's just the small hole in front of him that was shot through by the opponent, he doesn't have the ability to penetrate the wall.

Facts have proved that Roy's judgment was correct, and he announced the critical situation to McGee in time, but it was useless, because Platinum on the opposite side didn't care about the spokesman of Rao Shizi, and the old lady shot you today!

Through the real-time report from the ghost balloon hidden somewhere, several black "ice arrows" composed of pure armed color energy shot one after another as if there was nothing on the cover wall.

Although the sense of crisis in Roy's heart was the same as that of the marsh gas alarm, the loud bangs kept going, but because of the lack of vision outside the wall, he couldn't even predict the attack point, so he could only roll like a rabbit right away. Start blinding the jaguar to hide.

As a result, only three seconds later, he was so embarrassed that he immediately received arrows in his arm, waist and buttocks, and fell to the ground on the spot with a "head" face. His life can make him feel the greatest humiliation and pain.

But Roy is a veteran assassin with ten years of experience in green gold. He immediately realized that this was platinum showing off his skills and deliberately torturing him. He might not be able to save himself by hiding alone. Maybe it will be his turn at any time. , horse lazy and carbine.

So he took out the communicator with difficulty and started calling Monique.

"Hmph, ah! Mo, Monique!"

"Roy, what's wrong with you? Why does the voice sound like this, uh..."

Monique's cat nose suddenly smelled a "phantom stink" that came from nowhere, but she, who was always serious and responsible for her work, still didn't say such inappropriate words to Roy.

"Monique! Xinteliya is sniping me, this time it is definitely a real person! But I have been seriously injured, and now I will temporarily hand over my cleaning team to Chief Platinum, and you will be in charge. Be sure to go to Jiang Xin Killed Traya! Her position is XXX, be careful of her..."

……

Monique looked suspiciously at the communicator that had been hung up by Roy, and she didn't understand why this guy who claimed to be seriously injured could still speak so nonchalantly, but he didn't know that Roy was just " "Prejudged" that he would be seriously injured.

However, according to Monique's previous cooperation experience with Roy, although this guy took advantage of the opportunity, he still didn't dare to mess around with important tasks, so Monique immediately asked the cleaning team and her own third team The order was conveyed, and of course the current Platinum Chief who had served as the team leader of his own team was also notified.

It was a pink-haired Kuranta woman who seemed to have an inexplicable relationship with Monique. Her salary level had surpassed that of Platinum when she was the leader of the third team, and now it is only lower than that of Green Gold. It's just worse than that level of treatment.

Of course, she didn't rely entirely on Monique's nepotism to promote her. An important indicator of being a platinum is the Pegasus Sight and its matching range and accuracy.

As a film, Monique, although unable to learn the sight of the Pegasus, she also has an advantage that the Pegasus can't match, that is, super mobility and night vision in street fighting in complex terrain. Whenever Kasimir's night falls, It was the opening ceremony where Monique declared invincibility.

So even if this is to catch "ghosts", she still feels very stable.

However, after all, the enemy is suspected to be the former platinum leader of the Wuxu League. If it is really Xinteliya, she must know the common tactics of the Wuxu League very well, so Monique did not think that he could easily win the opponent, but was very Carefully prepare for long-term tracking.

Just when Monique was about to arrive at the target location, thinking that she was about to start releasing feline animals at night... no, it was the hunting instinct, but she was shocked to find under the moonlight that Platinum, who she thought should have escaped early, was actually Still staying on top of the building that Roy told about.

She didn't even lift the red and gold bow in her hand, she just let it fall by her side, looked up at the night sky where only a few stars were still shining faintly against the brilliant lights of the big knight's collar, and looked He didn't notice the arrival of the killer of the Wuzhou League at all.

Moreover, the configuration of the third team plus the cleaning team is already the absolute backbone of the Wuzhou League, and there are Qingjin and Platinum leading the team. Except for Roy who failed to show up for some reason, this is already the Wuzhou League. It is the highest specification that the League can dispatch in regular missions, and it can be easily won even if it is hunting down a big knight-level target.

The so-called unconventional missions are the situation where black iron comes into play, and the hunting targets are usually unconventional, such as a knight with a big wrist, or someone from Rhodes Island who never pulls out. But Jian can directly scare Qingjin's big sister doctor away with his aura.

"That turned out to be Xintreia... Is there really any support?"

Monique was also deeply impressed by Xinteliya, after all, she is the youngest platinum leader of the Wuzhen League, and she is also the person who most fits the literal positioning of "platinum", because her hair color and clothing are all pure white.

This is not a mandatory requirement of the Umbrellaless League. In theory, you only need to wear the same characteristics as the "Yellow Turbans" to quickly identify your identity in battle, such as the blue cloaks of Roy and Monique.

And Xintraya was born with pure white hair, white clothes and white robes are also a personal preference, and later she stood out by virtue of her record and strength, and the platinum position "just happened" at this time, so she was promoted to the platinum position as a matter of course , as if this position was born for her.

This even made Qingjin Roy feel very itchy. Looking at the natural blue hair of his colleague Qingjin Monique, he also ran to dye his black hair and ponytail blue.

"Mara, try it out, I'll cover you."

When the No-Hail Alliance team had completely completed the blockade of Xinteliya, Monique ordered the pink-haired current Platinum officer to conduct a tentative attack on her.

This is not Roy's push-the-pot tactics, it's just a normal practice to seduce the opponent's lurking staff. The observation and cover work must be done by Monique, who has excellent night vision ability.