My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

So smart that it's like living two lives.

Mary thought so and walked to the door of Lucius' room.

Pushing open the door, Mary saw Lucius lying on the ground in a pool of blood.

She fell to the ground in shock.

"Hurry... someone come quickly! The Duke has been assassinated!" Mary said this and hurriedly shouted behind her.

The first one to arrive was Randall. He came to the door, saw Lucius lying on the ground, and hurried over to pick him up.

Then, the butler Albert also ran over.

"Master! Master!" He said this, came to Lucius, checked Lucius' breath, and after finding that he was still breathing, he hurried out to call a doctor.

The entire Duke's Mansion was extremely busy today.

……

On the other side, at the border of the empire, at the junction of the Duchy of Antica and the orcs, in recent months, more and more orcs have gathered at the border.

The reason is that the orc population has grown explosively, and the food in the desert cannot supply the huge orc group, so the orcs have set their sights on humans.

Orcs have green skin and sharp fangs. They are born warriors.

This world is unfair, just like the relationship between humans and orcs, a human needs twenty years of growth to transform from a powerless child into a strong warrior, while an orc only needs half the time, and his strength far exceeds that of ordinary untrained humans.

Moreover, orcs who grow up normally make a living by hunting in the desert and have more combat experience than humans.

Although they were also a hastily assembled army, three thousand orcs were able to defeat thirty thousand conscripted soldiers.

But compared with the paid standing army, the threat posed by the orcs is not that great.

It can even be said that in terms of high-end combat power alone, the elite troops of humans can even crush the orc army with the same number.

But the price paid is certainly not small.

On the border, a tall orc with dreadlocks and wearing a fur coat looked up at the sky.

In the sky, a giant eagle circled down and slowly landed in front of the orcs. A letter was hanging in its beak. The orc leader took out the letter, read the contents, and then nodded with satisfaction.

"The time has come, it's time to attack." He said this in Orcish, and then rode on the strong giant wolf and ran towards the rear.

That day, all the orcs gathered at the border

The tribe received orders from the joint chief Baru to immediately launch an attack and plunder food from human territory.

The soldiers guarding the border have been ready for battle for a long time. After more than ten years, the young soldiers who participated in the battle have now become officers.

An officer stood on the city wall of the border acropolis, frowning as he looked at the endless desert before him.

There was a sandstorm in the desert at the moment, making it difficult for the soldiers guarding the city to see the scene in front of them.

All they heard was a slightly mournful horn sound in the distant desert.

The new recruits did not understand the meaning of the horn, but when the veterans heard the horn again after more than ten years, their whole bodies subconsciously tensed up.

They reminded the new recruits around them to be ready for battle.

Then, everyone saw what might be the last scene they would see in their lives.

In the dust storm, groups of orcs rushed out and headed straight towards the Acropolis.

They were shouting something in Orcish, and the sound of killing was deafening.

Feeling the shaking sound from the earth, it seemed as if the city walls were shaking. The new recruits had never seen such a situation before and they could hardly hold their weapons steadily.

The officers guarding the city also drew their swords at this moment.

"Soldiers! You are now participating in the most glorious and greatest battle in history! You are protecting tens of millions of people from the empire behind you. For the sake of the empire, keep these barbaric orcs out of the city!"

……

"What? My father was assassinated?" On the third day after the midterm exam, Orson received the news that Lucius had been assassinated. He looked at the little maid in front of him with great surprise.

"Yes, Master Orson!" Vivian nodded. She looked extremely anxious at the moment. After she learned the information, she rushed to the imperial city as soon as possible.

"The master is not in danger of death now, but he can only lie in bed to recover from his injuries. I heard that the front line has been attacked by orcs..."

"..." Orson frowned when he heard that, and then he looked at Vivian.

"Well, Vivian, wait for me outside for a while. I will ask for leave from the academy and go home to at least stabilize the situation on the front line."

Orson certainly knew, as the commander-in-chief on the front line, what Lucius's fall at this moment meant.

Although Lucius arranged a deputy for himself, Lucius was a general who had participated in the last war after all, and his absence was bound to deal a major blow to the front line.

Then, Orson returned to the dormitory and started packing his things.

Lit looked at the anxious Orson and asked, "Orson, what happened?"

"My father was assassinated, and the orcs took the opportunity to attack." Orson said briefly.

Although the words are few, the information conveyed is very substantial.

When Lit heard this, he also covered his mouth and showed a surprised look.

"Orson, why..."

"I don't know either." Orson shook his head, and then he went to the dean's office.

"Dean Luca, I'd like to ask for leave to go home." As soon as Orson entered the office, he stated his purpose directly.

"Is there a problem at home?" Luca also knew about the recent problems in Antica, but in his opinion, with Lucius in charge, the front line might not be foolproof, but at least it could hold out for a while.

But who would have thought, Orson said: "My father was assassinated, although his life is not in danger, but the orcs took advantage of this period to attack, the front line is leaderless, and we urgently need someone to stabilize the situation."

"Ah?" Luca also frowned when he heard the news that Lucius was assassinated.

This should be the first time in his life that he heard the news of the Duke's assassination.

You know, in the empire, apart from the royal family, the most honorable person is the duke. Even in the local area, the duke has much more say than the emperor. It is unheard of that a duke would be assassinated.

"I understand. This leave is approved. In addition, if Lit also wants to go back, I will approve his leave as well." Luca said this and wrote two leave notes on a piece of paper and handed them to Orson, one for him and one for Lit.

"Go back as soon as possible to stabilize the situation. The board of directors will make a decision soon, and everyone in the academy will go to the front line to support you."

"Thank you, Dean Luca." Orson said this and nodded. Then he hurried to the Student Union with the leave note.

He called Olivia and Manuel together.

"President Orson, what happened?" Manuel asked in confusion when he saw Orson's anxious look.

"I have to take a leave to go home.

Until we come up with the tasks for the second half of the semester, the work of the Student Union will be handed over to you."

Of course Olivia knew what had happened that made Orson so anxious to go back, so she didn't ask any more questions and just nodded.

"Orson, take care of yourself." As she said this, Olivia walked forward, stretched out her hands, and hugged Orson.

"...Yeah." Orson nodded after hearing that.

Then he and Olivia separated and left the student union building.

When she returned to the dormitory, Lit had packed her things. She looked at Orson and said, "Orson, I want to go back too."

"Yeah." Orson heard this and did not refuse Litt's request.

In his opinion, as a member of the family, Lit also has the responsibility to take some responsibility for Lucius when he is injured and cannot go to the front line.

"Lite, please help me contact another group of people." Orson said this and whispered a string of names in Litt's ear.

"Please help me talk to them about this. I need their help."

When Litt heard the name Orson said, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

……

Three hours later, at the gate of Imperial College, Orson and Litt walked out.

Vivian was standing at the door, waiting for them anxiously. After seeing the two of them, she waved to them.

"Master Orson, Master Lit!"

"Let's go back." Orson said this, using the magic flying carpet to take the two of them towards the Dukedom of Antica.

Volume 2: Orc Invasion and Dark Clouds in the South

Chapter 1: Going Home

Antica, Duke's Palace.

Orson traveled day and night, using magic to speed up the magic carpet, and finally shortened the original two-day journey to one day.

At this moment, four days had passed since Lucius was discovered and assassinated.

Orson couldn't figure out who the Angel of Death was referring to when he told him in Saint Laurent City that someone would attack someone around him in three days.

It was clear from the information he heard from the assassin that the target should be Lit. After he instigated the assassin to defect, he indeed relaxed his vigilance and thought that the matter was over.

But now he told himself that something had happened to Lucius.

This made him start to doubt what the hidden meaning of the words that the Angel of Death said to him that day was.

You know, as a general of the empire, although Lucius' main expertise was in commanding troops and fighting wars, his martial arts value was not low at all, and he had the strength of the seventh level.

The assassin who was able to make the seventh-level Lucius fall in a pool of blood obviously had a strength above the seventh level.

Generally speaking, for someone with this kind of strength, if they really wanted to kill Lucius, it would be very easy and they would not give him any chance to breathe.

But when Vivian found Orson, she told him that Lucius' life was not in danger.

This is very strange.

It was already afternoon when Orson returned to the mansion. Because of the assassination, the Duke's mansion temporarily added a lot of guards.

The guard at the door let Orson and others in only after verifying their identities.

As soon as he entered the house, Orson saw the old butler Albert standing in the living room waiting.

"Uncle Albert, how is father now?" Orson looked at Albert anxiously and asked.

"Young Master, you should go and see the master's condition yourself." Albert said, pointing to Lucius' room on the second floor.

Li Te nodded when he heard this, and then he walked towards the second floor.

On the other side, Li Te followed closely behind.

She and Albert looked at each other, and then followed Orson upstairs.

Orson came to the second floor and opened Lucius's door. What came into his sight was Lucius lying on the bed and Mary sitting beside the bed, accompanying Lucius.

"Father, Mother." Orson said this and walked into the room.

Lucius, lying on the bed, looked in good spirits and not particularly weak.

"Your father just lost too much blood and needs to rest for a few days. There is no other problem." Mary explained when she saw Orson come in.

"That's good." Hearing Mary say this, Orson felt relieved.

At this time, Lit also walked into the room.

"Father, Mother." Litt was still a little reserved when he saw the two of them.

"Leet, come here quickly

"Orson said this, beckoning Litt to come to him.

"Father is fine, he just needs to rest." Orson repeated to Litt what Mary had just said.

"Orson, Lit." Lucius was touched to see his two children rushing back so quickly. In order to liven up the atmosphere, he quickly made a joke. "You are in such a hurry to come back. Are you so afraid that I will die?"

Although Lucius was only forty-eight years old, he was already accustomed to calling himself an old man.

"Father, please stop joking." Orson certainly understood what Lucius meant, and smiled. "Don't even mention that you were assassinated. Even if you caught a cold, we, as your children, would come back to visit you."

"Alright, alright, there's no need to say any more. We're all family here, there's no need to say those polite words outside." Lucius said this and waved his hand, looking nothing like he had been assassinated before.

"So, father, do you know who assassinated you at that time?" Orson said this and looked at Lucius, wanting to get the answer to the question from him.

"I don't know." Lucius shook his head. "To be honest, I don't know who wanted to attack me at that time, but look at my current situation, am I not fine?"