Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 402: The King's Response

Twenty-six days after the assassination, this appalling news finally reached the kings of the kingdom of Ovieras, and an unexpected wave of shock broke out. It's not like this has never happened before, even at first, when people thought it was the copiers of the Eagle Message who were drunk enough to pass on the fabricated draft paper.

The transcribers who were responsible for the Eagle Message had always been used to making up alarming news on the draft paper for their own amusement. On one occasion, there had been a great wave of inadvertent communication of the draft paper as a body. But it's worth noting that at best, those transcribers just change the body of the Eagle's message a few words, and they haven't had the nerve to make up such an alarming story...

Five more days later, more detailed investigative reports came from the overseas territories of the mainland of Nubicia, not only from the battlefield command, but also from more relevant departments, the Admiral of the Kingdom, the Heritage Count, the Supreme Commander of the overseas territories, Algers. General Kay Osmorin was indeed assassinated and killed before the parade ceremony, and the assassins were a bunch of magicians in grey robes, suspected of being Grey Tower magicians.

Now the whole king is buzzing, and almost everyone's attention is focused on the assassination. Even those magician assassins in grey robes had a lot of controversy over whether they were grey tower magicians or not. For example, a special division of the kingdom, they provided a strong piece of evidence that twenty or thirty years ago, they sent a man into the island of Higros, and found that there were only two or three people left in the Grey Tower Mage, long gone, so the special division was pretty sure that the assassination could not have been carried out by the Grey Tower Mage...

So who would have such a big pen if it wasn't for the Grey Tower Mage, recruiting nearly 20 magicians to go to the Overseas Territories for assassinations? The second investigation report from theatre commander described in great detail the grey robes worn by the twelve assassin magicians killed, confirming that they were the robes worn by the Grey Tower magicians in carrying out the assassination operations. This is very recognizable, because the gray robe is well documented in the countries of the Farea continent.

However, the decision-making organs of Wang Du dared not make a decision easily, and the only consensus reached for nearly half a month was the decision to send a special envoy to the overseas jurisdiction of Nubicia to investigate the assassination. However, it was not easy to coordinate the dispatch of a large fact-finding mission to the overseas territories on the 23rd day after the assassination was known that the King had dispatched his first mission to the overseas territories.

It is noteworthy that the Mission's first suspect investigation was aimed at the former commander in chief of the war zone, Lieutenant General Claude of the Kingdom. Although Claude was also assassinated and seriously injured, as was the case with General Algers, in the second investigation report submitted by the theatre command, the process was exceptionally questionable.

You should know that General Algers was assassinated and killed in front of thousands of soldiers who participated in the parade ceremony in Grand Square, and that the assassinated magician in the grey robe was blocked and chased by the Guard Corps officers and soldiers, and only five were killed. Claude was assassinated by seven Grey Robe Wizards with only a small group of guards, but he lost only 10 guards and a wagon driver, and succeeded in killing the seven Grey Robe Wizards...

Nearly two simultaneous assassinations, the opposite of which naturally aroused suspicion among the princes of Wang Du. Although the report also mentions that General Claude was badly injured and needed at least six months' rest, who knows if it was true? Several peripheral members of the Sterling royal family, the King's General, put forward that the assassination was likely to be a self-made act by the Overseas Territories Command, with the aim of, of course, competing for power...

Anyone can use this second submitted investigative report as a brainchild to supplement a theatre of war conspiracy to compete for the success of the Battle of Port Vibato. The relatives of the Sterling royal family, the Royal General, firmly believed that several generals of the former war zone must have secretly colluded in the wild magician and stabbed General Algers as the Grey Tower Mage because they were not angry that the Royal Army sent General Algers to assume the post of commander-in-chief of the war zone, leading the battle to capture Port Vibato.

This argument is not convincing at all. Everyone knows what the relatives of these generals of the Sterling royal family are, and they and the generals of the Overseas Territories' war zones have already had their grudges. Now that the Ranger Corps has become a big joke in their hands, the Royal Army Department would like to cut it off if it weren't for Royal Sterling's money to support it, lest it be embarrassing in the King, because the Ranger Corps has become a concentration camp for rogue gangsters and gangsters.

It is a matter of reflection that the generals in the Overseas Territories war zone should belong to the camp of the Grand Prince of Hamsburg, but the Grand Prince did not say anything. Instead, he believed that the Special Envoy should leave early and arrive in the Overseas Territories war zone as soon as possible to put an end to the assassination sooner. If the findings relate to the generals in the theatre, they should be disposed of as they please, without the need to delay. The attention of the Grand Prince is now focused on the palace, as Sterling X's body grew weaker and weaker for less than two months.

On the contrary, His Royal Highness Prince Vidrec spoke fairly for several generals in the theatre, arguing that the assassination could not have been related to them. The most obvious evidence is the assassination and death of General Sevichet, the head of the Rock II Division, for accompanying General Algers. In addition, more than a dozen senior officers of the theatre were killed on the spot, even General Beechlin, the head of the Rock III Division, and Sir Bennett, the chief civil affairs officer, were severely injured...

As for the old-fashioned aristocratic family forces of the Royal Army, the assassination was a very clear one, and they made no comment or comment on the assassination. Instead, the Royal Ministry of the Army was urged to come up with an alternative as soon as possible and find a solution to the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks. The assassinations could be investigated slowly, but the port of Vibato must be seized as soon as possible, breaking the hope of the Kingdom of Hicks to prolong this colonial war.

But in the politics of the kingdom of Orvillas, the most popular dancers are the relatives of the Sterling royal family, who tolerate the nobles of the kingdom, both the Prime Minister of the kingdom and the authorities, because of the events surrounding the ascendancy of the new king after the death of Sterling X. As long as it's not in your personal interest, you can let the relatives of the Sterling royal family hang on to your fingers for a while and cooperate with you.

After all, no one had the guts to tear their faces like Sterling IX, disobeying all their relatives and sending them to the gods of war. Paradoxically, the character of Sterling IX, who slaughtered relatives of the royal family to nationalize their private lands, then, after the remaining blood relatives had given themselves to the defeat, appeased vigorously and gave possessions to the estate to show respect for those blood relatives. In addition, the Presbyterian Church of the Sterling Royal Family has been organized, demanding that future generations must obtain the consent of the Presbyterian Church before the new king succeeds...

Perhaps Sterling IX believed that doing so would allow the legitimacy of his violent claim to the throne to be accepted by the majority of the population, while also allowing future generations to avoid the same civil war tragedy of competition for the throne. Though the Senate is usually useless, by the time the successor to the new king comes to power, it will be a weight that will overwhelm the balance.

So when both Prince Hansburg and Prince Widreck needed to please the Presbyterian Church at the moment, the King formed a fact-finding mission of envoys headed by several kingdoms of blood relations of the Sterling royal family, picking a good day for the wind and sunshine to set off for White Deer City. Ridiculously, less than six days after the mission's departure, a third investigation report from the Overseas Territories Command was sent to the Royal Army Department.

The investigation reported that the person behind the assassination was King Machid III of the Kingdom of Hicks, and submitted three pieces of evidence. First, the grey robe magicians set the venue for the gathering at the house of agents deployed by the Kingdom of Hicks in Lake Lan town, which had enough physical evidence and confessions. The second point is to assassinate Claude before assassinating General Argers, excluding the possibility that this assassination was triggered by General Argers' personal grudges.

The third piece of evidence was Claude's questioning of the Grey Robe Mage assassins at the time of the assassination, while also submitting a more detailed account of Claude's counterkilling of the seven Grey Robe Mage assassins. It relies mainly on two items, one silver necklace with a magic shield, and the other, a short revolver that Claude has just invented that can be sent six times in a row. Attached are the testimonies of the surrounding audience who witnessed the assassination and counterassassination in the distance, thus completely ruling out Claude's suspicion.

The investigation report also reported a major incident in which General Bolognick of the First Rock Division had led the Forbidden Division to capture the port of Vibator and had categorically refused to allow King McKid III of the Kingdom of Hicks to succeed in his attempt to prolong the colonial war. The purpose of the assassination, directed by Machid III, was to preserve the port of Vibato until he calmed down the internal riots and re-recruited an army to be transported to the Nubian mainland to continue the colonial war.

All the senior members of the kingdom who saw this survey report felt a lot of toothache, and it was kind of like a slap in the face. As soon as the Special Envoy's mission was dispatched, the results of the investigation and the speculation of the protagonist behind the assassination were sent.

If that is an unfounded presumption, it would be simple to reply to the letter of censure and refute the unfounded accusations and speculations in the investigation report of the Command of the theatre. Because this speculation is likely to provoke a huge wave in the Farea continent, King McGidd III of the Kingdom of Hicks rewards the Grey Tower magician of Higros Island for instructing him to assassinate the commander of the Overseas Territories battlefield of the Kingdom of Ovilas, which will be a major event affecting the situation of the entire Farea continent...

It is well known that the Grey Tower Mage, one of the most radical groups of magicians on the island of Higros, advocates assassinations to wipe out the distinguished personalities of the countries of the Farea continent in order to remove obstacles to the return of magicians to the Farea continent, with which the continental powers have forged deep blood feuds for centuries.

In recent decades, however, the Grey Tower Mage has reportedly relieved the political dignitaries of the continent in the face of the river situation on Higros Island. The news of the Grey Tower Mage accepting the reward of King Machid III of the Kingdom of Hicks for assassinating other generals and using nearly twenty Grey Robe Mages will not only keep the Kingdom of Hicks at the forefront of the wind, but will also allow powerful figures and dignitaries of other countries to begin to worry. The reason is simple: The Grizzly Tower Mage, the sorcerer's killer organization, has changed its course, and the ashes have rekindled...

Having seen the third report of the investigation sent by the battlefield command, the high-ranking figures of the Kingdom of Auvellas, many of whom had been eye-catching, were acutely aware that King McKid III of the Kingdom of Hicks did have great possibilities and motives behind it to instruct the Grey Tower Mage to carry out this assassination, and that eighty percent of the presumptions in the report were true.

Now that the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Ovilas have expressed their unending solidarity in the Overseas Colonies of the Nubian continent, the kingdom's ministers will naturally not be courteous to the Kingdom of Hicks, who soon released the third report of the inquiry to the public, and the countries of the United Farea continent demanded that Machid III must give a statement. The Kingdom of Hicks and MacGruber III naturally resolutely denied it, counterbiting and saying that the Kingdom of Ovillas was planted and framed, and that the two sides fought for a moment with their mouths and their hair...

This side accuses the Kingdom of Hicks, and the other side sends a quick horse to recall the first Special Envoy's Mission to Wang Du, in case they are unknown, so they go to the overseas territorial war zone to do nothing and make an irreparable situation. Fortunately, the mission of the Special Envoy did not go fast. It took more than a dozen days to swing from Wangdu to Bai Lu City. They had travelled a third of the way because they had accepted local banquets, but had been summoned back soon.

Returning to Wangdu, the Special Envoy's Mission, after reading the third investigation report sent by the Ward Command, refused to rest. The kingdom-generals, who had blood ties to the Sterling royal family, made a scene and considered the investigation report to be an untrustworthy and untrustworthy word from the Ward Command generals. But now none of the kingdoms are willing to take care of these idiots, because the best choices have been made by the surviving generals of theatre command.

Even if the king sent another kingdom general or a special envoy to the battlefield, he could not have done better than the generals of those battlefields, who appeased the guard corps while attacking the port of Vibato without leaving behind their original strategic objectives. In addition, active pursuit of the true purpose and instructions behind the assassinations of the Grey Robe Mages succeeded in linking the Kingdom of Hicks and Machid III to the assassination.

This is the happiest thing about the kingdom, anyway, the barrel of sewage makes sense. As the enemy of the kingdom of Ovilas, the Kingdom of Hicks has repeatedly humiliated its envoy, and besides winning three colonial wars and beating the face of the kingdom of Hicks, there is really no way for the kingdom of Hicks to take its undeniable tall sugar. Now, while the civil unrest is still under way, dial its dirty water in collusion with the Grey Tower magician of Higros Island and make sure that Machid III focuses on the colony of the continent of Nubia.

That would only require a smooth overrun of Port Vibato by the Overseas Territories' war zones, and then the colonial war plaguing the Kingdom of Ovieras could be declared over. Although the Kingdom of Hicks still possesses vast colonies in the hinterland areas of the Nubian continent, these are separated by coastal zones, and the only way for the Kingdom of Hicks to continue to possess these hinterland colonies is by pledging defeat to the Kingdom of Ovieras, otherwise it will only be possible to watch as the Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras slowly annex these hinterland colonies...

Now the King will reconstitute a special envoy to overseas jurisdictions to deal with the assassination. If the remaining generals in the war zone after the assassination were to wait for the king to send someone to deal with them, they would only wait for the first mission of special envoys.

Now that their self-help and efforts have been recognized by the Wang Du elders, it is more normal for the second mission. More of them are representatives of the old-fashioned aristocratic family, whose mission is to take care of the assassinated aristocratic officer while also having to bond with Claude in exchange for that short weapon that can be sent six times in a row...