After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

"I am the princess of this country and the chosen hero of God. I will wear this level of blockade for you to see!"

Chapter 11 Murderous Intention

At the same time, in the lord's mansion of Tafia.

"Blood plague..."

Aize leaned on the sofa, his face became a little ugly, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing this, Wade waved his hand casually and asked:

"What's wrong? Any questions?"

"Kind of."

Aize nodded.

"Things like blood plague and blood slavery have existed since the birth of the vampire race. However, it was only after the vampire ancestors of the previous generation improved them that they were weaponized and officially used in the war against humans."

Blood slaves sound scary, but they are just more advanced zombies. They spread by biting people, so their efficiency is shockingly low.

On the other hand, the blood slaves of the past were completely uncontrollable, and even the vampires could be attacked by them.

Creating a large number of uncontrolled bloodthirsty monsters is also a troublesome problem for the vampires themselves.

Until a few years ago.

As a staunch supporter of the previous Demon King's radical policies, the True Ancestor of the Blood Clan specially improved the blood plague and blood slaves, making them controllable and endowed with the ability to spread through magic, which was then applied on a large scale in wars.

This information was obtained by Aize through his own channels, and no one else, including Heidi, knew much about it.

But that's the problem.

"Creating a large-scale blood plague infection was the unique skill of the previous True Ancestor. This True Ancestor was killed by the Silver Star Squad over two months ago. Now that a large-scale blood plague has truly broken out in King's City, who is responsible?"

It's impossible to just rely on a few vampires sneaking in and biting them.

If this is the only reason that causes a blood plague to break out, it would be better for Heidi and her subordinates to commit suicide collectively to apologize.

So, what's going on now?

Wade frowned and said:

"Could it be that the True Ancestor is not actually dead, and Team Silver Star failed?"

"It's possible, but not very likely."

Aize sighed softly.

"You know the style of the Silver Star team. It's unlikely that the demons they fight will leave a complete corpse."

"Furthermore, I specifically instructed Uriel that after killing the True Ancestor, you must use the Holy Sword and magic to completely burn his body and the entire area within a 15-meter radius, leaving not even a drop of blood. In this case, you say it's not dead?"

Yuriel is very reassuring in this regard, so there shouldn't be any problems.

But if that's the case... I can't think of any other explanation for the time being.

Moreover, Aize personally had a doubt.

If the vampires really had a large-scale operation, why didn't his informants in the demon clan have any news at all?

As he fell into deep thought, the conversation in the living room suddenly became quiet.

Wade was not polite at all. He crossed his legs and lay back on the sofa. He picked up the snacks on the table and ate them casually, then drank some black tea. He looked quite leisurely.

Several minutes passed like this, and Aize shook his head.

"...There's no high-probability possibility, and there are too many low-probability possibilities. Let's forget about it for now."

"What? You don't want to go over there and save the damsel in distress, do you? Or something like that?"

"..."

Aize had a disgusting expression on his face, as if he had eaten a fly and was about to vomit it out at any moment, and even his fists clenched involuntarily.

Realizing he had said the wrong thing, Wade quickly stuffed half a cookie down his throat and then changed his words:

"So, what are you going to do about this?"

Aize sighed and shook his head:

"What else can we do? Leave him alone for now."

"Uh, whatever?"

"Why don't you teach me how to manage it?"

If the information and speculation just now are all true, then Tafia is now almost undoubtedly under the blockade of the Duke's Alliance.

The flow of personnel and intelligence was completely strangled.

As for the church... through that messenger, they must have known what was happening in the capital, but in the end they did nothing and even assisted the Duke Alliance in blocking the source of intelligence.

The position is quite clear.

In this situation, what can I do?

At the very least, he had no idea what the current situation was inside and outside the city of Tafia.

We can only wait and see.

Of course, it’s not just about waiting.

"After you finish your business here, will you go back to the Holy City directly?"

"Yes, it seems that they are sending us to the north to guard against any movement of the giants. After returning, we will probably rest for a day before setting off immediately."

Aize nodded, thought for a moment, and then said:

"Well, there's a letter you can take back to the Holy City for me. I'll write it for you right away."

"letter?"

"A letter to my... uh, acquaintances within the Holy City, to prepare for what's to come."

Of course there was no reason to refuse, Wade nodded.

Aize stood up and prepared to borrow paper and pen from Xien to start writing.

did not expect--

Boom!!!

The door of the reception room was suddenly kicked open, and a Tafia guard rushed in hurriedly, so anxious that he fell to the ground.

This made Sheen, the owner, very embarrassed.

I quickly stepped forward and asked:

"What happened? Why are you so flustered?!"

"Report... Report to the Lord..."

The guard was breathing heavily, his face flushed red, and it seemed that he was in a really urgent situation.

"Oh no...oh no! That...that bishop from the Holy City was assassinated in the church in Tafia!"

"What did you say!!!?"

Sean's face turned pale all of a sudden, and Aize and Wade's eyes widened as well.

Without bothering to ask any further questions, they rushed over as quickly as possible.

The church of Tafia is located at the intersection of Noble Street and Commercial Street. It is a very exquisite and beautiful spire-shaped building that was built along with the city defense of Tafia.

Among the churches in various countries of mankind, its scale is considered to be quite large.

At this moment, the place was filled with noisy crowds and the order was extremely bad. If the guards and the knights from the Holy City had not formed a cordon together, the situation would have been out of control.

"Get out of the way! Everyone, get out of the way!"

Seeing the lord coming, the guards hurried forward and used the weapons in their hands to forcibly separate the crowd.

While clearing a path, the scene in front of the church was also fully displayed to the eyes of several people.

Just now, Colin, who was bossing people around in the lord's mansion, was now lying on the ground with his eyes closed, his face extremely pale, and he was motionless.

In his chest was a crudely made dagger.

Blood splattered everywhere, staining his gorgeous clothes red, and also dyeing the steps of the white marble church red.

With the solemn and dignified background, it even has a strange feeling of a famous painting for a moment.

The white-haired Holy Female Warrior was kneeling on the ground beside Colin, her hands clasped together, also covered in blood.

At first glance, it would seem that she had killed Colin.

But judging from the faint light emanating from her clasped hands, she should be using her brave skills to save the other person's life. The progress does not seem optimistic at the moment.

Xien was understandably devastated, rarely losing his composure, grabbing his hair with a bewildered look on his face.

If a church leader is attacked while preaching on his own territory, he will inevitably be in trouble.

The lord was so furious that he pointed at the guards and cursed:

"If you can't even protect one person, what's the point of having you? Where's the murderer? Where's the murderer?"

"it's here."

Surprisingly, there were no setbacks.

The guards stepped aside. In the middle of the circle they had formed, a middle-aged man was being held by his arms and limbs, and was being pressed face down to the ground.

Because of his posture, Aize couldn't see the man's face clearly, but judging from the robe with the church symbol on the man's body, he should be a very devout believer.

Why would someone do such a thing?

Aize was still confused, but the assassin who was pinned to the ground spoke first... It's not quite accurate to say this, it was more like he was just going crazy.

"Hahahahaha——Goddess, my mission is accomplished! This blasphemer who betrayed the Goddess and was disrespectful to the Goddess must die! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha——"

He looks like an ordinary fanatic.

Xien covered his face and waved his hands:

"Tie him up and interrogate him immediately! Then hand him over to the church and let them take him back!"

"Yes!"

The guards responded and pulled the dusty assassin up from the ground. After tying him up, they took him away along with the Crusade Knights.

“Haha ...

The assassin who was taken away was still laughing wildly before leaving, and was immediately beaten and kicked by the extremely annoyed Crusade Knights.

But even so, his laughter showed no sign of stopping.

This made Aize, who had remained silent all this time, fall into deep thought.

On the surface, this seemed to be a simple assassination case caused by factional conflict.

After all, the genealogy of the Church of the Supreme God is quite complicated. Due to different understandings of doctrine, it is not uncommon for people to excommunicate others and label them as heretics.

But is it really that simple?

Colin came to visit unexpectedly today. The trip was kept so secret that even Sheen, the lord, had no information about it beforehand.

What kind of assassin would ambush him in a place like this?

If he was a local, and this was Colin's first time here, how could he be accused of heresy or disrespect towards the goddess?

Moreover, the assassin just now looked like an ordinary fanatic and did not show any special abilities or outstanding qualities.

Even if he had murderous intentions, how could such a guy get past the guards and knights and approach Colin?

He even stabbed him from the front, hitting him squarely in the chest.

Suddenly, Aize seemed to remember something.

This guy's situation and performance were almost exactly the same as the group of knights who tried to assassinate him in Tafia more than 20 days ago.

In that case—