Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 400: Grey Tower Magicians and Policies

It's going to be a big event, shocking the news on both continents, and Claude suddenly understands why General Bolognick said that Claude, and we're done with that. Because even with General Shazorak carrying this black pot, these generals, who are deputy commanders in theatre, will still not escape that joint responsibility, even if they are not in Lake Lang town or if they are assassinated like Claude. After all, it was a general who could be promoted to the kingdom's marshal who was assassinated and the leader of the kingdom's old noble family in the army...

In spite of the instability in the domestic affairs of the kingdom of Ovilas, the old king has been ill in bed for several years and has not fixed a successor. The great prince and the second prince earned a great deal of space. Minsheng was also somewhat depressed by a five-year war in the eastern part of the country, but was nevertheless a regional power in the Farea continent. Even as a result of the dispute over the overseas territories of the continent of Nubicia and the colonial war against the dominant power of the northern region, the Kingdom of Hicks, which won respect for the great victory of the weak and powerful colonial wars for three consecutive times, has become one of the top military Powers of the continent of Farea.

Now an admiral of a kingdom was assassinated in the face of the kingdom at a parade ceremony in front of a hands-on battle effort. The problem is that the killers and assassins are magicians, not ordinary soldiers.

In the absence of those grey robe magician killers and assassins, not only General Shazorak, the blackjacker, but also General Scully, General Bolonik, even the badly wounded Claude, General Bitchclin and Sir Bennett, as well as General Albert, far away from Wickham Castle, will be the scapegoats of the kingdom to deal with the incident, and even the angry objects of the old noble families...

“Is there a live one? The killers in the grey robes, the assassins, the magicians, didn't catch a living one?” Claude asked.

“No, the five grey robe magicians who fell in the square after being hit by gunfire were almost beaten to the ground by angry soldiers, and all you left behind were the bodies of seven grey robe magicians...” General Shazorak shook his head helplessly: “It was only two hours after the assassination that we reacted, blocking the entire town of Langhu, but no trace or whereabouts of any of the grey robe magicians was found after a door-to-door inspection over a decade. We suspect they left Langhu Town immediately after the assassination, and now we don't know where they went...”

Claude had a headache, and he asked his sister Anna to rub two temples for herself: "So we don't even know the details of the Grey Robe Magicians who came to kill him? ”

“No, we know that very well.” General Shazorak gave Claude an unexpected answer: "They are Grey Tower magicians from Higros Island, killers and assassins among the magicians. There is a lot of documentation about them in the countries of the Farea continent, characterized by the fact that each time they infiltrate the target site in various capacities before the operation, they carry out their missions in grey robes, and when the mission is completed, they take off their grey robes and disappear again.

Six hundred years ago, after the evil sorcerers were driven to Higros Island by their forefathers, the radical sorcerers who wanted to fight back against the continent set up this killer organization called the Grey Tower, which specializes in diving into the Farea continent and assassinating those nobles and generals with the intention of clearing the way for the sorcerers to return to the Farea continent.

In response to these unscrupulous sorcerer assassins and killers, their predecessors also used a variety of strategies to confront them, seduce, ambush, and, once discovered, impose a siege, regardless of casualties, eventually inflicting a heavy blow on these gray-robed sorcerer assassins, causing these gray-robed murderer sorcerers to pay a heavy casualty price and thus silence.

Much of the history of the Farea continent, nearly six hundred years old, has been fought by nations against these gray magicians, and almost every country on the Farea continent has kings, dignitaries and generals assassinated by these gray tower magicians. Continental powers have also set up targeted special units to deal specifically with the killers and assassins of this Grey Tower magician.

However, the days of the Grey Tower magicians on Higros Island have also become increasingly difficult over the past two centuries, with reportedly fewer and fewer magicians joining them. They had to pick from the Islanders children who were less gifted with magic and train them from a young age, which made it necessary for them to waste more time developing a qualified assassin magician.

The last movement of the Grey Tower Mage on the Farea continent was sixty-seven years ago, at the marriage wedding of King Morosik of the southern part of the continent to the grand princess of the neighbouring kingdom of Riznia, nearly thirty Grey Robe Mage assassins were prepared to wipe out all the dignitaries and figures of power present, but fell into a trap set by the already precautionary security services and were shot dead on the spot. As a result, the Grey Tower magician was devastated and dismayed. To date, the Grey Tower magician has never heard of any activity on the Farea continent.

There have been countries that have sent undercover agents to the island of Higros to explore the movements of the Grey Tower Mage, and the result has been that the Grey Tower Mage is not so much a killer assassin organization as a faction of the Mages on the island of Higros, although they still have a strong attitude towards the Farea continent.

There are, however, few remaining members of the Grey Tower Mage, and there is little influence in the Mage's Council on Higros Island, making it difficult for them to receive the right cadets and extraordinary magical talents. The report suggests that the Grey Tower magician could be downgraded from a close watch, believing that in the coming decades or centuries this once famous organization of magician killers on the Farea continent would dissolve itself and be wiped out by the passage of time. ”

It appears that General Shazorak has put a great deal of effort into these grey robe magicians to be assassinated and even their historical records can be borne in mind. But Claude still had some doubts: "Are you sure these magicians in grey robes belong to this Grey Tower magician? Instead of someone else wearing a grey robe pretending to be this killer sorcerer organization..."

General Shazorak nodded: "Surely, because these killed magicians were dressed in the gray robe of the well-documented gray tower magician, marked with a special gray tower magician's mark. In addition, these grey robes are woven from the specialty Higros linen and Hillos fine wool, both of which are not produced elsewhere. ”

It turns out, no wonder so many magicians suddenly appeared, but Claude thought it odd that the magic power of these gray magicians didn't seem as powerful as he thought. If it's just one or two, even if you don't have a revolver, you seem to be able to swing around with them for a while, depending on the rank of a two-ring grammar and the spell you master.

“By the way, I asked those magicians in grey robes why they came to assassinate me before they killed me, and they said it was for a reward, that King McKid III of the Kingdom of Hicks offered me a reward of 100,000 gold shields for my head..." Claude remembered what the magician in grey robes said.

General Shazorak's face changed dramatically when he heard it: "That's impossible, General Claude. Are you sure those grey magicians said that? ”

“I'm pretty sure that the Grey Robe Mage said it was for what I was dying for, to tell me why he came to kill me so I wouldn't die without meditation. What's the matter? Why are you panicking?” Claude was wondering how General Shazorak's face suddenly got so ugly after listening to himself.

“General Claude, the Grey Tower Mage would never assassinate anyone for rewards or rewards, and they would assassinate individuals who are important, high-ranking figures of power, kings, archdukes, or those who believe to be a threat to the Mage and Higros Island. They consider themselves noble magicians, who, while exercising the means of assassination, seek to revive the noble goal of magical civilization, rather than the despicable deception of being murderers for money, which is also one of the reasons why it is easy to guard against them. ”

General Shazorak laughed bitterly: "If those grey magicians really say that to you, it's not that we're looking for the wrong target, but that someone is deliberately impersonating us as grey tower magicians to confuse our gaze. Or there is the possibility that the Grey Tower Mage has completely transformed their purpose into a killer organization for money and resources. ”

Claude looked at General Bolognick and General Scully: "Did you report this assassination to the King? ”

General Bolonik nodded: “Yes, it was General Skerry who reported it the next day. Such a big thing must be reported immediately. It is estimated that the King will receive news in seven or eight days. Also, when I arrived in Lanhu town, I did another investigation into all the situations, and I wrote a detailed incident investigation report and sent it back, and it signed the names of the three of us. ”

“What's the status of the guard regiment?” Claude asked again.

This time General Skerry replied, "Not good, people are scared. Two senior officers of the division were killed and six wounded in the assassination. And the officers and soldiers of the guard regiment were killed and injured in rounding up the magicians who resisted the grey robes. I had to admire them for being tougher than the soldiers in our battlefield. The soldiers of the Rock Third Division were frightened by the magic of the magicians, and when they saw the magicians rushing over, they simply turned and fled.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers of the Guard Corps clearly divided their work, how to block the grey robe magicians, and even use their lives to block the retreat of the grey robe magicians, so as to buy time for their comrades behind them to load up and light fire ropes. The five remaining grey robe magicians were all shot dead by the soldiers of the Imprisoned Guard Corps, while the performance of the officers and soldiers of the Rock Sacrifice Corps could only be described as a chaos, unable to maintain even the most basic order on the ground.

Later, I asked the officers and soldiers of the Guardianship Corps, who said that in the Guardianship Corps, they were all trained to organize themselves against the enchantress. This training is unique to their National Guard Corps, as they are stationed in the capital and must prevent attacks on the capital by evil magicians from Higros Island. But now that the events are over, the Guard Corps officers and soldiers are starting to get a little confused. They think it was a big mistake to come to the Overseas Territories war zone this time. The general was assassinated, and they came for nothing... "

Claude closed his eyes and everyone thought he was exhausted and ready to say goodbye, but Claude called them back, and he looked at General Bolognick and said, "Go ahead and take the Forbidden Guards to the port of Vibato. ”

“What?” General Bolognick was surprised: "At this point in time, I was in a state of panic because of this assassination, and the Guardian Corps probably wouldn't obey my orders. Claude, you can't be serious about that gray robe magician, he said McKid III of the Hicks kingdom is offering 100,000 gold shields to your head. If you use this pretext to accuse the Kingdom of Hicks, it will even be laughed at, and no one will think that the Grey Tower Mage will greed money to assassinate the target..."

Claude can only shake his head slightly, and General Bolognick's greatest strength lies in his steadiness, which is indeed rocky on defense. But the biggest weakness in the offense is stability, because if you can't grasp the timing of a fighter jet, you can easily lose your battlefield initiative...

“We must take that as true.” Claude nailed down the iron, “I just thought," I can't imagine who would send so many magicians to kill so many of our generals in the war zone, with the exception of McGidd III of the Hicks Kingdom.

The simple truth is that one of the biggest profiteers of the assassination was nothing but the Kingdom of Hicks. If someone came to assassinate General Algers because of personal vendetta, then I might believe that it was the kingdom and the rival forces of the old aristocratic family that did not want General Algers to be promoted to the rank of Kingdom Marshal who planned the assassination, but I believe they could not find so many magicians to be assassins and assassins.

But I don't understand why they came to assassinate me. Although I am a lieutenant general in the kingdom, there are more than a hundred generals like me in the kingdom. And I am not the leader of the standing or the Ace Legion, far from the overseas direct jurisdiction of the Nubian mainland, I have no access to the kingdom's center of power, even those local second-line Legion leaders have more power than I have in the kingdom.

Even if I count the eligibility of the object of the assassination of the Grey Tower magician, I am far from meeting the criteria for their assassination. Even if I personally offend a powerful figure, I will not be able to send seven magicians to assassinate me. So I want to think about it, or I think what the Grey Robe Mage said should be true, because I wiped out the three main legions of the Hicks kingdom, and that Machid III would be willing to give me 100,000 gold shields for my head.

The assassination was also carried out not only against me, but also against General Sevicht and others. The purpose of the assassination was very clear, and the Kingdom of Hicks wanted to delay and preserve the port of Vibato. The objective of General Algers' service in the theatre was to capture the port of Vibato, and it is believed that the Kingdom of Hicks has already received this information.

Now that General Algers has been assassinated and killed, this mission is over, and we can only wait for the final decision of the King to come and deal with the assassination. The transmission of information between the two continents and the dispatch of personnel to the Wang Dynasty will take at least six months, and the Kingdom of Hicks has been able to preserve the port of Vibato, an excellent seaport city on the Nubian mainland, because of this assassination, without fear of an attack by our troops.

With this six-month delay, perhaps Machid has settled three local riots within the Kingdom of Hicks, reconstituted the regimental conscripts and transported them to Port Vibato to continue the colonial war. And if our kingdom loses this opportunity to seize the port of Vibator, and if the situation in the kingdom changes in the future, then our battlefield cannot resist the invasion of the colony of the Kingdom of Hicks and the loss of territory, we will all be responsible for the failure of this colonial war. ”

General Scully nodded: "Claude is right that this assassination should not be allowed to affect our strategy to capture the port of Vibato, and that an end to this colonial war as soon as possible is a necessity for the Kingdom and cannot be prolonged. In addition, we can use this reason to inspire the morale of the Guardian Corps officers and soldiers by saying that the Kingdom of Hicks has offered a reward for the lives of several generals in the war zone. If Claude is 100,000 KP, then General Argers is 300,000 KP. The purpose of their prize assassination was to delay our attack on the port of Vibato.

Moreover, the main purpose of the regiment's visit to the Overseas Territories battlefield was to win the battle to capture the port of Vibator, and while General Algers was assassinated and killed, many of the high-ranking officers who followed him were also descendants of the old aristocratic family, believing that their endorsement and cooperation would surely be forthcoming in our offer to avenge General Algers' attack on the port of Vibator, at a time when they would obey your command. Because they know very well that if you don't take them, they will really come for nothing this time... ”