Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 94:
“What?!” In a hidden basement, a gloomy young man jumped up, his eyes rounded, and he exclaimed, “You say it again!”
Standing in front of him was a middle-aged man wearing a gray robes and his face almost as gloomy as him. He had no expression on his face and replied in a tone without any ups and downs: “Earl Horse declared that he never killed The dead assassin found something from the capital. Based on this, he believed that the assassin was sent by a certain marquis and asked the marquis to explain this.”
The young man was dumbfounded, and after a while, he asked with some confusion: “Do you have something that is characteristic of the federal capital of gold coins?”
“Of course not. Nothing on us is visible at all.”
“Then…why did he say that?”
“I don’t know.”
The young man just remembered that his subordinate’s discussion is very reliable, but if he needs to use his brain… it won’t work.
Perhaps he is actually smart, but as an assassin, he strictly abides by his duty, only doing things without thinking.
Assassins are swords, swords should not have their own thoughts.
This is naturally excellent in normal times, but when the person holding the sword is at a loss, things get a little worse.
The young man is the leader of the killer organization. He took over the organization from his father who died of a sudden illness not long ago. Strictly speaking, he is still a rookie. It can be seen from the fact that he would actually take on this kind of mentally injured task. Come out. But the rookie returned to the rookie, he still knows good or bad-his task is to try to instigate the civil war of the gold coin federation, not to instigate the civil war of the noble faction!
Actually, he was quite smart. After taking over the task, he did not rush to act. Instead, he took the elite troops and lurked to the territory of the “Good Horse” Earl on the border, waiting patiently for the opportunity. They waited until the patrol on the border was attacked before launching the assassination.
According to his estimation, those who attacked the patrol on the border should have the same purpose as him, but the strength is much weaker than himself, so he chose to attack the patrol as a means of little significance. That might really make the atmosphere on both sides tense, but if you want to kill a few big soldiers, it is impossible for the merchant faction to fight against the noble faction!
What counts for a few soldiers to die?
Don’t talk about the dignified aristocratic faction, there are tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, even if he is the leader of an assassin organization in his own district, he will not take three or five lives in his heart.
If you want to provoke a fight between the two sides, it is conservatively estimated that you have to kill hundreds of soldiers.
Leave aside the risk of doing that for the time being. The bigger problem is that after killing so many people, the most likely reaction for both parties is not to fight like a cockfight, but to find a powerful adventurer to find out. .
The young man has also been an adventurer. He knows the group well and knows that there are some characters with unique abilities that people dare not look down upon.
That’s why he chose to take the risk to attack an earl, in order to let the earl be angered by fear and retaliate desperately.
Unfortunately, it seems that his plan has failed, losing three outstanding assassins in vain.
After a long silence, the young man sighed and said, “Keep lurking.”
“Yes.”
“Also… contact the’black intermediary’ and tell them that I want to recruit a few necromancers.”
“Yes.”
“Go ahead and be careful.”
“Yes.”
Wait until the middle-aged man left, the young leader of the Assassins group frowned, returned to his bed under the ventilation window, and sat on the bed thinking.
He must carefully consider the new plan, this time it must be successful!
A few days later, another group of people also got the news that Lord Earl was assassinated and injured, and he announced that the assassin may have come from the capital and belonged to the Central Aristocratic faction.
The middle-aged man who was silent and murdered that night was a little dazed. He frowned, trying to think about what was going on.
Could it be… a coincidence?
He shook his head, feeling that things shouldn’t have been so coincidental.
The killer business is a very rigorous industry. Thoughts such as “coincidence” and “coincidence” will never appear in the mind of an experienced killer.
In his opinion, those who assassinated the earl were probably taking advantage of the opportunities they had created unintentionally.
But… why would they take this opportunity? What are they trying to do?
The old assassin who has been living in the shadows of swords and swords for many years silently calculated. At first, he thought that the other party might have similar ideas with him, all in order to provoke a war between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction. It feels wrong-if that’s the case, why does the other party leave something with the characteristics of the central aristocracy?
He didn’t consider the possibility of the Earl’s fraud, nor did he think of this aspect at all, so his thinking quickly fell into a misunderstanding and began to dig into the horns.
After a long time, he finally made up his mind to go back and contact his employer again.
At this time, assassinating the soldiers at the border may not be of much use anymore. If possible, he felt that perhaps he could change the target and attack the merchants.
For example, attacking a caravan…should be effective.
Even if there is no effect, at least some supplies can be plundered to improve morale.
His subordinates were transferred from pirates. Although they are usually obedient, they are always difficult to change the nature of pirates. If they can’t get enough benefits, morale will soon decline. When the hearts of the people are scattered, the team will be difficult to lead, let alone complete the task.
What’s more… he wants to get some benefits himself.
In the middle ground between the gold coin federation aristocratic faction and the merchant faction, no matter where you get into trouble, you can run to the other side of the sphere of influence to escape. There is no better condition in the world than this. If he doesn’t take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune, he himself feels very at a loss!
Instructing his subordinates not to cause trouble for the time being, he set out to contact the intermediary, and asked the intermediary to send his suggestions or requests to the employer.
At this time, contrary to the conspirators who are not going well, the situation of the joint exploration team is going well.
There are indeed silver mines here, and the reserves are not low. They only set out to search on the first day and found several pieces of silver ore, all of which were in good condition.
After returning to the camp to discuss, Hopps and the others compared the map to estimate the possible location of the mineral vein, and then gathered their hands, as if casting a net against a school of fish, and dispatched them all to this area.
Of course, including themselves.
In the next few days, good news continued. First, someone discovered a piece of rock containing a lot of silver ore. Although digging along these rocks did not find any subsequent veins, it at least boosted everyone’s confidence. Then Hopps himself found a small silver mine in a natural cave ~ IndoMTL.com ~ Although the reserves are not high, it is accompanied by a large amount of Mithril.
The first news is nothing. The second news really boosted everyone’s morale. Even the person in charge of the Gold Coin Federation was alarmed. Regardless of the rugged terrain, he went to the cave at risk and studied it carefully. Silver mine.
Silver mine is no big deal, but Mithril is a good thing! A piece of soft armor woven with mithril brushed mixed silk thread is worth at least three thousand gold coins.
Of course, this thing is really good value for money. Although this kind of soft armor that looks similar to a normal long shirt cannot withstand heavy weapons, it is not very useful for hammers and axes, but as long as you wear it, Ordinary daggers, short knives, and even Liu Shi, etc., will definitely not hurt you.
Especially for those big people, wearing it in their clothes can effectively reduce the risk of being assassinated. Therefore, it is also an indispensable protection for those big people who are worried about being assassinated, and it has never been in short supply.
After carefully inspecting the silver mine, the senior miner from the Gold Coin Federation came to a conclusion that made everyone very excited.
The mithril here is worth at least 20,000 gold coins!