Liz was indeed being tortured inside, but the method was really simple and crude.

There was a big table in the center of the camp, with the middle-aged man tied up on it, while Liz stood aside and kept hitting the fingers of his left hand with a small hammer. I took a look at his right hand and the wrist.

He was being nailed to the table by a thick iron nail and could not move. At this moment, there were no complete fingers on his right hand, only a pile of smashed flesh remained. However, although the injury looked

It was very serious, but it didn't feel like the bone in my finger was completely broken, because I suddenly thought of the two magicians outside. I thought one of them looked familiar before, but now I remembered that the little girl was a healing magician.

Now looking back at the dried blood stains on the table, I think Liz must have done it again.

"No wonder it hurts so much that you are yelling..." I looked at Liz who was smashing her hard. Her expression was exactly the same as that of the little girls playing whack-a-mole in the playground.

It was full of joy and excitement, and I couldn't notice any discomfort at all.

"Erica..." Liz seemed to have noticed my presence, so she quickly put away the hammer and walked up to me and said, "I'm sorry...this guy is too tough-talking and just refuses to say a word."

"What?" I looked at the middle-aged man on the table who was about to go into shock and said in surprise, "You've been tortured to such a horrible state and you didn't even say a word?"

"Well, it seems that he has undergone some corresponding training..." Liz pointed at the middle-aged man and said, "The scars on his body are all traces of torture."

I looked in the direction Liz was pointing, and only after taking a quick look did I notice that the middle-aged man’s body was really full of scars from old injuries, but these scars looked inconspicuous and even a little unnatural.

.I thought about it carefully for a while before I realized that this was the effect caused by healing magic. After all, not all healing magic can master the healing effect without leaving scars.

At this time, Aurora came in with the magicians outside, but what surprised me was that neither Aurora nor the two magicians showed any reaction to the tragic situation of the middle-aged man.

Any discomfort, especially for Aurora, when she saw the middle-aged man, she even smiled more excitedly than Liz for a moment. I couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, and in turn thought that this should be caused by the gap between civilizations.

The moral concepts brought about were unequal, so I calmed down for a while without looking at them, and directly motioned for the magician lady to heal the middle-aged man's injuries, and then took the opportunity to ask Liz about the process of the interrogation.

"I have interrogated other people, but their information is very trivial." Liz turned her head and looked at the cage in the corner of the camp, where other thieves were being held. But when Liz looked at them, she was aroused.

There was great panic on the other side, and some people even fell to the ground and began to tremble.

"Have they ever mentioned this thing?" I was too lazy to worry about other little things, so I took out the three explosive bags and said, "Did they say how many explosive bags there are in total?"

"This guy refused to tell me whether he was alive or dead, but I interrogated other people and they said that Feida gave them a total of 34." Liz looked at the explosive bag in my hand and quickly asked: "How many more did you find just now?"

?”

"Just these three... So, there is still one left to find..." I looked down at the explosive pack in my hand, and after careful consideration, I felt that the remaining one would not go anywhere, after all, no matter what

The current three are still the same pile as before. The measurement of each explosive package seems to be not much different, so even if the only remaining one explodes, it will not cause collapse, and even if it explodes in the crowd, it will not cause a collapse.

How many casualties were caused? I then thought about other information, and then inadvertently remembered the name Liz just mentioned before asking: "Who is Feida?"

"That's him." Liz pointed at the middle-aged man behind her and said, "Those people are spies from the Solis Kingdom. They are nominally under the jurisdiction of the king, but now they have become outsiders because of problems in the kingdom.

They took refuge with a certain prince, but they didn't know which prince they took refuge with at all, because their leader didn't tell them. They only knew that Feida was sent by that prince. Oh, by the way, those two

So did the dead soldiers and conjurers."

"I don't know who I have taken refuge in??" I looked at the group of people shivering in the cage in disbelief, and I couldn't help but despise them in my heart for a long time.

"Well, they only know how to call the prince 'His Royal Highness Cromwell'... But this is obviously a fake name. I'm afraid it's a pseudonym. Anyway, I have never heard of any prince in the Kingdom of Solis with this ghost name.

...What's wrong with you?" Liz asked, shaking me with her hand.

"C... Cromwell?!" I looked at Liz in surprise, and after making sure she wasn't talking nonsense, I looked curiously at Mr. Fedda who was lying on the table receiving treatment.

"Have you heard of this name?" Liz asked puzzledly.

"Uh... Of course, but..." I still felt that there was some misunderstanding, so I quickly pulled Avrola over and asked: "Do you know that there is a prince named Cromwell in the Kingdom of Solis?

Yours?"

"Cromwell? What is this?" Aurora also thought for a long time in confusion, but finally shook her head at me and said: "I have never heard of it, and not only the Kingdom of Solis, but also some of the surrounding countries

The kingdom has never heard of this name, could it be the name of a place in a remote area? Ah...could it be from you?"

After getting Aurora's reply, I finally couldn't help but nodded, then looked at Feida and said, "Yes, a British name."

"England? Diana's hometown?" Aurora suddenly became interested, but I was not in the mood to continue talking nonsense with her.

I was desperately thinking about the deeds of "Cromwell" in history. Although I didn't go to school and didn't learn much history, after all, this guy had a great reputation and he was a Puritan.

So I remember reading some religious commentaries about him when I was in the monastery.

I don’t have much opinion about this famous Lord Protector in history, but I remember that this guy was an ambitious man who usurped the throne. No matter how noble his thoughts were, he was indeed a notorious guy in that era of royal power.

, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Solis uses this name, no wonder I have other ideas to think about this matter.

"By the way, Liz, what's the situation over there in the Kingdom of Solis? Is the war started by the king?"

"No." Liz pondered for a long time before slowly saying: "The situation in the kingdom is quite chaotic. The old king has been dying for a long time. He has been bedridden in the past few years. The government affairs of the kingdom have also been divided among the five princes for independence.

They have the support of a bunch of nobles behind them, but most of the nobles still choose to wait and see. The war army attacking the Principality of Michael this time was led by the second prince Aledo Solis, but the source of the army was Nosk

Soldiers of the Duchy."

"Really... So what is the connection between this Duke and the second prince? Relatives? Or..."

"I don't know about this..." Liz shook her head helplessly.

This is not her fault. After all, the relationship between nobles is indeed insignificant to a thief living at the bottom of society. It is normal for her not to know.

"I know." Avro pulled my arm and said, "The Duke of Nosk is the brother of the king's second wife, and is also the uncle of the second prince."

"Really...that's right. An army of relatives...that's what it is."

"What did you think of?" Aurora asked, tugging on my arm again.

I was not in a hurry to answer her my thoughts, but directly took the explosive bag in my hand and said: "His Royal Highness the ambition is quite ambitious."

"Why do you say that?" Both Aurora and Liz asked curiously.

"Because he gave himself the name of an ambitious man." After I finished speaking, I looked up at Feida who was lying on the table, and then said in a deliberately too high voice: "This war must have been initiated by the second prince, and

The purpose is also very simple, that is, I want to use the war to divert some domestic conflicts, and then use the victory of the war to win more support from the nobles."

"I see... This makes sense." Aurora nodded and said, "What if he is defeated? After all, Fortress Maria is a relic of the previous era. It is not an ordinary fortress.

It is impossible to capture it without the help of a large number of magicians."

"It's very simple, they already have this." I picked up the explosive bag in my hand and said, "That prince must be the reincarnation, and they already have black powder, so naturally they must have other firearms."

"This thing?" Liz looked at the explosive bag in my hand with a disdainful expression, and then subconsciously looked at the firearms and grenades on her body and asked, "Do they have guns?"

"I'm afraid there's more..." I looked up at Feida's expression. He was looking at me nervously, as if he was expecting my answer more than Liz. I smiled knowingly, and then said slowly: "No.

It’s just guns, there should also be artillery.”

"You should remember that the Solis Kingdom started recycling Solis copper coins in a high-profile manner some time ago, right?" After I asked Liz, I looked at Feida's expression, and I knew from his panicked look.

I was right.

"Remember..." Liz nodded.

"Copper is a good thing... Copper's ductility is better than iron, and making it into a gun barrel can reduce the problem of explosion. In other words... you already have artillery... right?" Feida naturally would not answer.

My question, but I had already determined the answer from his expression, and then I asked Aurora: "Copper is not produced in the Kingdom of Solis, right?"

"Well, there is only one copper mine in the kingdom, and its output is not high. And judging from its location, it should not be within the reach of His Highness the Second Prince. Most of the copper materials for the kingdom's copper coins are purchased from elsewhere.

"Aphroela replied affirmatively.

"That's right, artillery and city walls are a perfect match. The second prince's army should have a large number of bronze cannons, so they can definitely capture the fortress easily... and even without artillery, they can use a large number of

Trebuchets throwing explosives can also kill a large number of defenders. After all, there are not many magicians in the principality to assist, so the balance of this war has been tilted towards the Kingdom of Solis from the beginning." I looked at it and turned pale.

Feida smiled knowingly, and then said to him: "The principality learned about your attack plan before the war. I'm afraid it was also the fault of the second prince? I don't think he would be stupid enough to let his pre-war plan be so easy.

is known to the enemy, your purpose is to lure the principality to defend the fortress, in an attempt to directly defeat all the elite infantry of the principality in this battle. Is that so?"

"But Maria Fortress..." Aurora seemed to want to say something else, but I stopped her and told her to shut up.

"I remember Diana once said that the nobles in the Kingdom of Solis had considerable hatred for the Principality of Michael, but they were afraid of the principality's heavy armored soldiers and did not dare to easily launch a war, so as long as the prince defeated the Principality of Michael

Then he can easily win over the support of many neutral nobles, and even if the king does not give him the throne in the end, he can return to his country with the power of victory to claim the throne. After all, I said, the purpose of your war this time is diversity.

One of them is to use this war to test your new weapons, and the other purpose is nothing more than to plunder the grain-producing land of the principality and reserve grain for the coming civil war."

I walked up to Feida with a smile, pushed away the magicians who were treating him, then patted his head with the explosives in my hands and said: "The Kingdom of Solis has never been short of food. I have always been curious about you."

Why did you choose to attack there? After all, the richest place in the principality is in the south, but now I understand, because none of the food producing areas in the Kingdom of Solis are under the jurisdiction of the second prince, right?"

Feida did not answer, but sneered very disdainfully. I was shocked and thought that I had guessed wrong. Just when I was thinking about what went wrong, Aurora stood next to me and said: "No.

The Principality of Sk also has a lot of farmland, which I guess should be enough to supply their army. However, some border nobles in the west of the kingdom are short of food. I think the second prince wants to use this food to win them over."

Aurora's answer once again made Feida's expression distorted. It seemed that she was right.

"Tsk tsk... The scale is really big... I remember seeing on the map that the areas to the west of the kingdom are full of foreigners. Their folk customs are fierce and they have never obeyed the kingdom's orders. It seems that His Highness the Second Prince is going to launch a campaign.

The scale of the civil war is far beyond my imagination..." I looked at Feida with a sarcastic face, then stuffed a stick of explosives into his mouth and provocatively said: "Haha, you are really boring, okay

Forget about starting your civil war, why do you want to provoke me? But your little prince's ambition is really not small. I really want to know if I reveal this news to other princes... will the war in the kingdom be affected?

It will break out in advance..."

Feida finally reacted. He bit the explosive bag and jumped up from the table. With a red face, he stretched his hands towards my neck. I noticed some metal flashes under the wrist of my right hand. I guess it should be

It's the iron nail from before. It seems that he intends to fight desperately, but I will not give him this chance. After all, I just deliberately provoked and angered him. Since he resisted as I wished, then

I won't show mercy either.
To be continued...