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

"Rosaline?" Elsa became alert immediately when she heard Orson say this name.

"When did she come to you?"

"About a month or two ago? I met her at the masquerade ball at that time. I did her a favor at the time, but I didn't expect that she would actually cooperate with His Royal Highness the Prince."

Orson sighed like this, and told Elsa about his encounter with Rosaline and how he later introduced her to Arthas.

When Elsa heard Orson say this, her mood suddenly became much worse.

Who would have thought that Orson actually indirectly helped Arthas.

If Scaloni were to become the new Duke of Naples as he wished, Alsace would be able to take the opportunity to expand his power and influence, which would be extremely disadvantageous to Elsa.

Immediately, Elsa thought of a way.

"Orson... I suddenly thought of a way."

"Ah?" Orson was also stunned when he saw that Elsa did not criticize him immediately, but instead thought of a way, and then asked: "Your Highness Elsa, what did you think of?"

"Why not, let you compete with Scaloni. I will support you to become the Duke of Napoli."

Chapter 115: Strange Troops

Orson listened to Elsa's words and was stunned for a while, then asked uncertainly:

"Your Highness, what you just said is that you want to support me to become the next Duke of Naples. If I heard it correctly, that's what you meant, right?"

"Yes." Elsa nodded. "There is only one factor that currently prevents you, Orson, from becoming the Duke.

"

"one?"

"Well, that's family identity." Elsa said.

"In the history of the empire, there has never been a situation where a family controls two duchies. You, Orson, will not be able to set a precedent. So if you want to become the Duke of Napoli, you can only leave the Stranik family first. And you can't leave on your own initiative. You have to let the Stranik family expel you because of an incident, creating a feeling of doom and gloom."

"It's a fight to the death..." Orson lowered his head when he heard Elsa say that.

"Of course, Orson, you can act out a play so that your family doesn't know anything, or you can tell them directly now and let them act with you."

"Whether you act like it or not is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that you cannot continue to be a member of the Stranik family and become the Duke of Napoli."

After hearing what Elsa said, Orson lowered his head and began to think.

Generally speaking, this matter is more beneficial than harmful to Orson. After all, the Duchy of Naples is not poor, and is even richer than the Duchy of Antica. Even though it is in chaos due to the war, as long as the war is over and the new duke recuperates, it will be able to quickly recover its pre-war vitality.

But to do this, Orson would need to leave his family and set up a new one.

Although he and Lucius have no blood relationship, they have lived together as a family for nearly twenty years. Separating them at this time is not much different from leaving their biological parents.

What to do is a difficult decision.

Finally, Orson looked up, looked at Elsa, and spoke his mind.

"Your Highness Elsa, I promise you that I will contact my father tomorrow and tell him about this matter."

"Okay." Elsa knew that Orson would agree in the end. She nodded with satisfaction at this expected thing.

……

On the other side, the city of Romulus.

Ever since Donny was locked up in the basement, matters of city defense and public security have all been decided by Giovanni himself.

After the news of the suppression in the city spread, Giovanni continued to implement his high-pressure rule. Eventually, citizens began to flee the city. Many people took advantage of the night to sneak to the city wall, or bribed acquaintances in the army to secretly open the door. When Giovanni learned the news, more than 4,000 people had already escaped from the city.

Of course, these more than 4,000 people brought out the news that the protest march in the city was suppressed.

When Scaloni heard that Giovanni treated his own people so brutally, he slammed the table in anger, and then increased the intensity of the daily siege on the city, striving to rescue the citizens from the dire straits as soon as possible.

On the eighth day after the first siege, the northern wall of Romulus was finally captured, and the next step was to enter an extremely bloody and brutal street fighting.

The city of Romulus was designed to be a bridgehead to pacify the separatist forces in the south at the beginning, so many places inside the city were set up as fortifications. During the siege, Giovanni mobilized all resources to strengthen the city of Romulus, determined to turn the city into a cold killing machine.

Giovanni's idea was briefly successful, and at least for the time being, the damage inflicted on the enemy throughout the city had met expectations.

In order to capture the northern city wall, the enemy suffered 20,000 casualties, and in yesterday's street fighting, the enemy lost more than 4,000 people in the whole day.

Although they advanced several streets, each step forward cost an average of more than a dozen lives, which made the enemy's advancement difficult.

If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid the enemy's losses will exceed 50% in the end.

Of course, things are not going well here in Napoli either.

This battle can almost be called the final battle of the South, and Giovanni bet everything on this battle.

If he succeeded, he would have a chance to survive, but if he lost this battle, he would not leave himself any way out.

Now, the number of defenders in Romulus City is less than 30,000, but they are facing at least 80,000 enemies.

It looked like it was only a matter of time before Giovanni was defeated.

But the reality is far from that.

In the coalition army camp outside the city of Romulus.

Ten thousand soldiers from the Duke of Orleans also arrived here three days ago. After resting for two days, they launched a brutal siege yesterday, leaving behind nearly a thousand corpses.

"Everyone, although we have suffered slightly more losses than the enemy, according to intelligence, the number of enemy soldiers is less than 30,000. Romulus City is very large. We will cooperate with the soldiers on the east wall to control the east tomorrow. This way, the number of soldiers we can send into the battlefield can be doubled."

At the combat meeting, Scaloni shared his ideas with the commanders of each legion.

The reason why the attack in the northern city yesterday could only capture a few streets was largely because the battlefield was limited. Even if more troops were deployed, the number of soldiers actually engaging the enemy would not change.

After capturing the east city wall, the combat area will be further expanded, so the enemy's defensive power and the damage caused by our side to the enemy will be greater.

The coalition forces are not afraid of death now. Their top priority is to capture the city of Romulus as soon as possible and bring the criminal Giovanni to trial.

At this moment, the messenger ran in from outside the military tent and said:

"It's bad! It's bad! The enemy sent out a very strange army. Our position in the northern city was taken back by the enemy not long after we took it!"

Upon hearing this news, Scaloni was stunned for a moment, and then asked in disbelief: "How is it possible? We have more people than the enemy, and we have deployed 10,000 people in the North City. With so many people, you tell me that the position has been lost?!"

"Yes, it's true!" said the messenger anxiously.

"It is said that the people in that small group of troops are very strange. They are not afraid of death at all. Even if they are chopped by swords, they will not make any sound. They are extremely ferocious. Our brothers think they are weird. Under their leadership, our position was quickly beaten back by the enemy!"

Chapter 116: I will find a good grave for you

"Not afraid of death, not making any sound when being cut by swords, extremely ferocious? Are you sure you are describing a human being?" Scaloni asked in surprise, looking at the messenger below.

As one of the major local forces in the empire, it is reasonable for the Duchy of Naples to have some elite armed forces. Just like the Duchy of Antica, there is a black army that followed Lucius and had been through many battles, and it also played a crucial role in the previous battles against the orcs.

However, because the Duchy of Naples was not on the front line against foreign enemies, there had been no large-scale wars in the territory for many years. Therefore, other regions of the empire knew relatively little about the Duchy of Naples' elite troops. Many people even believed that the Duchy of Naples did not have any so-called elite troops at all.

But this time, according to the description of the soldiers on the front line, the Dukedom of Naples obviously still has elite troops.

The soldier who delivered the message was also stunned by Scaloni's question.

"This... According to what you said, General, these people may not really be human... But..."

He himself could not give a definite answer to this question at the moment.

"Forget it, you go down first, we will respond later." Scaloni sighed and said.

This strange situation must be reported to the imperial center.

……

On the other side, in the city of Romulus, the Naples army was stationed.

The appearance of this strange army on the battlefield not only attracted the attention of the coalition forces, but also attracted the attention of friendly forces.

"Hey, have you heard? Yesterday, the Duke sent a very powerful army to recapture all the positions that the enemy had captured, and even drove the enemy onto the city wall!"

"Yes, it's true. That army is really powerful. I heard that each of them is fearless and brave. We are going to move our position forward today and take over the position they occupied."

"By the way, have you seen the true appearance of those soldiers? I heard that they all wear full body plate armor. The armor is so heavy that they don't take it off even in the heat of battle. Their physical fitness is too terrifying."

"It's no wonder they are so well-equipped. Most people can't wear that heavy armor, let alone wear it to fight."

"When I saw them leaving yesterday, I was ready to say hello to them, but they ignored me. There was no sound from the entire team except the sound of people walking on the road."

"It proves that they have good military discipline. It seems that we really have hope of repelling the enemy with this legion."

"Ok!"

The discussion about the sudden appearance of the elite legion gave the remaining Naples soldiers confidence in victory.

Although that elite army had only a little over a thousand people, it defeated ten thousand people head-on yesterday.

Inside the Duke's Palace, Giovanni looked at the north city wall with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Sure enough, as long as my army takes action, no matter how elite the troops are, they will be easily captured in the end."

"Of course. As long as you are willing to pay enough, we can provide you with more troops like this."

Behind Giovanni, a man with a cane spoke with a smile.

The skin on his hands was wrinkled, but his face was very young, appearing to be only in his twenties.

"I have no shortage of people, and I have no shortage of dead people." Giovanni shook his head.

"As long as I can rule Saint Laurent City, I don't mind even if the entire Dukedom of Naples is buried with me."

"Haha, that's not the case." The man behind Giovanni shook his head.

"If everyone dies, who will rule us? Besides, these people won't let us do this, right?"

Hearing the man say this, Giovanni didn't say much, but just shook his head silently.

"Andrew, how many more people can you transform using this transformation method?"

"Don't worry, all this takes time."

"I order you to build an army of more than 10,000 people for me in the shortest possible time. I only give you ten days."

"Duke Giovanni, isn't ten days a bit..."

"You can use the resources of the entire city of Romulus."

"Ah...that's much easier. Thank you, Duke Giovanni." Andrew said this and nodded with a smile.

"By the way, you should know the consequences of playing tricks, right?" Giovanni said this, and a cold light flashed in the shadows of the room.

"Of course I know that. My life was given by you, Duke Giovanni, so I will certainly live up to your mission."

"In that case, I'll be waiting for your good news." Giovanni said this, turned around and left the room.

Andrew stood there and waited until the disgusting atmosphere in the room dissipated before he snorted coldly.

"Just bear with it for a while."

Then he walked out of the room and went straight to a warehouse in the Duke's mansion.

……

After saying goodbye to Andrew, Giovanni went straight to the basement of the Duke's Palace.

When I opened the door of the basement, an unpleasant smell came out.

At this moment, in the basement, Donnie was chained to a wooden stake. He saw Giovanni walk into the room with hope in his eyes.

"Father! Please let me go. I feel so bad now. We must have misunderstood something before..."

"I'm sorry, Tony, my child. In order for you to be able to inherit the huge empire in the future, you have to bear these pains." Giovanni said this and came to Tony.

"...Father, you mean that I should stay here..."

"Well, believe me, Donny, as long as you get through this period of time, you will be reborn." Giovanni said this, looked at the button connected to the wooden stake, walked over, and then pressed the button.

After Giovanni pressed the button, Donnie, who was on the stake, could no longer speak. The burning pain from the four chains made him unable to make any sound except screaming.

"The potion I gave you will strengthen your body unprecedentedly, but you currently have no way of suppressing the side effects of the potion. You can only suppress it with the help of external forces. Once the side effects dissipate, you will be able to control that powerful force at will."

"Believe me, Donny, when you really come into contact with that power, you will thank me." Giovanni said this, and without paying attention to Donny's screams, he turned his back and left the basement directly.

"Keep an eye on Donny for me. We have to suppress him three more times today." He ordered coldly.

"Yes, sir." The dark shadow that appeared beside him bowed respectfully and accepted the order.