Erica and her party did not leave the vicinity of Welsk City directly because they needed to contact Chris about some matters concerning last night's conversation before traveling, especially the follow-up to the exposure of Earl Ronan's secret message.

After a brief discussion, Erica immediately set off for Lavender. But after she drove away, in a hotel in the city, Morana, who was lurking in makeup, received a message from a subordinate.

Urgent contact, and the sender was Shay, who was a few streets away from her.

There were no lights in the room, but Morana couldn't read the text in complete darkness, so she came to sit on the small table near the window and read the text with the help of a little light from outside.

There is no note as big as a palm.

"I see..." After reading the small note, Morana summoned a burst of black smoke and shattered it into a ball of paper foam.

In his contact, Shay explained that he found someone following him in the morning and was unable to come to meet him. Then he named the reason he speculated and highlighted what he saw in Erica's backpack yesterday.

"Madam, has he been exposed?" At this time, a deep male voice asked from the shadows in the corner of the room.

"Probably not, but...he saw something interesting yesterday..." Morana stood up and walked to the window of the room, looked at the dark street scene in the distance, and then said: "It seems that Miss Mihail

I'm worried about my little secret..."

"Madam, are you talking about...the iron letter?" The man said disdainfully: "If you still send letters in this way at this time, the recipient is almost self-evident."

"It doesn't matter, it's no longer our area of ​​responsibility anyway, just leave it to those 'new friends'." Morana casually closed the window panels and closed the curtains, and then she lit up the lights on the table.

He held an oil lamp and pointed at the shadow in the corner of the room and said: "Come out and show me your results."

As soon as Morana finished speaking, three figures slowly walked out from the shadows. The three people were completely covered. Except for their fingers and glasses, other parts were protected by a kind of soft black leather armor.

The clothes were tightly covered, and it was difficult to tell the gender of the three of them with this unique tight outfit.

"Why are there only three of you?" Morana looked at the three of them unexpectedly and said, "Where is Kak? Could it be that he..."

"No, madam, he is not dead." The man in black, who was the leader of the three, walked to the front left and took out a small metal bottle and put it in front of Morana and said: "Our operation was successful and we got it smoothly.

The things were not discovered by our 'new friends'. But after returning...some accidents happened."

"What?" Morana glanced at the other person, then followed the other person's line of sight and looked at the small bottle on the table and said, "This thing?!"

Before the other party could answer, Morana picked up the small bottle, carefully opened the lid and poured a red pill inside on the table. Moraka looked again and again at the pill, which was only slightly larger than a grain of wheat.

She took a small amount of pills, and then shook the empty bottle very unexpectedly, as if she was very surprised by the quantity.

"Only this one is left..." The man in black felt a little melancholy before continuing: "We brought back a lot from Ronan Castle before, but... after returning to the stronghold outside the city, the card

Out of curiosity, Ke crushed a few of them to see what was inside..."

"Then what?" Morana instinctively looked at the pills on the table and asked, "What happened?"

"This... this..." The man hesitated for a long time without saying anything. Then, just when Morana was about to lose her temper and get angry, another man in black behind him stood up and said

: "Madam, let me speak."

The owner of the voice was obviously a woman, and the voice sounded very delicate, as clear and attractive as a petite child.

"Okay... Leah, please tell me more carefully." Morana sat at the table angrily.

"There is something in these pills, which is a small red bug that looks like a thread." After finishing speaking, the female black-clothed person named Leah looked at the pill on the table and continued: "But not all

The pills contained bugs, and Kak was unlucky to be infected. These bugs were very bloodthirsty, and several bugs got into Kak's fingers, and the bugs grew rapidly while eating his flesh.

...In order to save Kak, we cut off his arm, and then gathered everyone in the stronghold and used a large amount of magic fire gems to eliminate him."

"Insects?" Morana looked at the pill on the table in surprise and was stunned, because she did not expect such a result.

"Yes, madam, none of us have ever seen that kind of thing...but..." Leah looked at the other two people, then took a deep breath before continuing: "But there were a few people who were lurking in Lavender before.

A brother said that the rapidly growing bugs looked familiar, as if they were similar to some kind of monster that appeared with the mob on the night of the Lavender Riots."

"Lavender... Lavender again..." Morana sighed angrily.

Because on the night of the riot, it was not only the local residents who caused a disaster, but a safe stronghold of the Brotherhood of Shadows there was also destructively implicated, and many elite assassins even died. Therefore, this unreasonable disaster brought about

The loss has never been fully acceptable to Morana.

"So, they did what Lavender did?" Morana asked angrily.

"Not sure, but..." Leah looked at the red pills on the table and said in a low voice, "But this thing is indeed the same as what the cult group sent to the rats, but... we have never come into contact with that batch of pills before.

That’s all.”

"Has the pharmacist verified it?" Morana asked worriedly.

"I've identified it, but I can't draw a conclusion... It seems that there are too many ingredients in it that the pharmacist has never been exposed to." Leah replied affirmatively.

Morana looked at the pills on the table in silence and then reached out her hand to the table. Then a sharp dagger came out of the black mist in her hand. Morana cut it open with the dagger very accurately.

There was a pill on the table, but after the pill turned into two halves, not even a single scratch could be seen on the rough wooden table. However, when Morana cut the pill, everyone came over to watch, but

As expected, there is indeed a figure that looks like a small thread-like insect that is constantly writhing on the two cross-sections of the pill.

The three men in black began to retreat in alarm, but Morana waved the dagger in her hand again. The blade of the dagger was wrapped in a thick black smoke and fell towards the two pills on the table, followed by a sharp

The tip of the blade stabbed directly into the center of the two pills. Suddenly, black smoke fell from around the blade to the table like flowing fire, and the irregular black mist instantly formed a swirl around the dagger.

It flows, and then keeps rolling rapidly under the blade.

After inserting the dagger, Morana withdrew her arm because she noticed in the black mist that the bugs in the pill were being crushed in the black whirlpool. But what made her feel horrified was that,

The two insects did not die on the spot, but instead grew inexplicably, so that at that moment a bloody and ferocious tentacle was thrown out of the black mist. But fortunately, it seemed to be just a death struggle, and it was also

Just for a moment, the bug finally turned into a ball of scarlet powder under the continuous crushing of the violent black mist.

When the black mist on the blade dissipated, Morana reached out and pulled out the dagger on the table. When she pulled the dagger, all the areas on the table that had been swept by the black mist also transformed in that moment.

For the sake of powder. Looking at the large pile of powder and dust under the table, the three men in black couldn't help but feel a little frightened, because they just knew very well how much shadow power Morana, the shadow mistress, used to crush and kill that person.

A thread-like insect.

"It seems that our 'new friend' has some very incredible power..." Morana played with the dagger in her hand and said: "What a dangerous power... Something extraordinary is about to happen at Ronan Castle."

This is a terrifying thing. You return to Ronan Castle overnight. In addition to leaving the necessary observers, all brothers and sisters must immediately stay away from the Earl of Ronan... Of course, the personnel in the Welsk City area can continue to be retained.

"

The three men in black bent down and saluted, and then they turned into a black mist and disappeared. After they disappeared for a while, the oil lamp in the room suddenly went out on its own. Morana slowly walked to the window.

He opened the curtains and window panels again, then looked at the sunrise in the eastern sky through the glass window and smiled intoxicatedly.

"What a troubled spring..." After Morana finished speaking, she yawned very tiredly. Then she stretched lazily and walked to the bed and said to herself: "Go and sleep for a while.

Well... um... I wonder if the woman named Erica is still hiding in the forest... I have a headache..."

An hour later, in the central area of ​​the Bar Plain in the north, Duke Nosk's army had marched to a place less than 20 kilometers away from Maryburg.

The army had just captured a military town here at dawn. Although the town had a population of less than a thousand people, it was still enough to withstand the several-hour storming by the infantry under the Duke of Nosk. Finally, until A

After Ledo mobilized the artillery team, the gate of this small town with only wooden pile walls was blasted open by solid metal shells.

Although the soldiers in the town still resisted bravely, they could only grit their teeth and fight to the end in the face of an enemy hundreds of times their size. After the last soldier in the town fell to the ground, the entire town collapsed in Nosk.

The infantry were destroyed by burning, killing and looting. Although neither Aledo nor Braton liked this kind of extermination battle, they had no choice but to acquiesce to this barbaric behavior. After all, compared with

For the enemy's civilians, the morale of one's own army is the most important thing before the end of the war. Moreover, according to past history, massacre and plundering is not a notorious evil act. On the contrary, it is a

A symbol of strength and conquest. But because of the delicate balance among the seven human nations in the past, large-scale battles rarely occurred between nations, so people gradually downplayed this bloody idea.

"Sure enough... Michael's infantry are indeed hard-core." Brighton rode on the horse with a very bad expression. He looked at the smoke-filled military town in the distance and said calmly: "Compared with them, my infantry

They are just a group of farmers carrying hoes..."

"Don't mind, at least we won." Aledo also followed Brighton on horseback and said: "The process was indeed a bit unpleasant, but the result is still good."

"You won, not me. The same goes for the previous battle in Salanka. Without your guns and cannons, it would have been impossible to win." Brydon spat and looked at the burning town and said: "

Damn it, you will definitely sell me more guns after I go back this time, and I will also form a musketry team..."

"I can't say that, at least..." Aledo turned to look at the cavalry patrolling the town and said: "The cavalry played a good role before, and they played an important role in those battles."

"That's right!" Brighton said proudly, patting his chest: "Our Norsk cavalry is the strongest army in the Northeast! I'm afraid the only ones who can fight with it are the Knights..."

"This is meaningless." Aledo said: "Only light cavalry is the most suitable cavalry. Don't compare those iron cans with your cavalry. This is meaningless at all."

"Why not? At least the Knights can defeat our cavalry head-on..." Brighton said excitedly.

"The greatest role of cavalry is not to attack the enemy... At least this traditional combat method will soon be outdated." Aledo took advantage of the situation and looked at the resting artillery team and said with certainty: "Under the deterrence of guns and artillery,

Those outdated tin cans can only be cattle and sheep to be slaughtered... Maybe it only takes one cannonball to hit them and they will flee in pieces..."

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Brydon originally wanted to say a few words, but he tried to imagine the situation and tried all his commanding skills but could not think of a suitable way to allow the heavy cavalry to break through the artillery formation. So he arranged

Leiden could only look at the smoothbore cannons in the distance with greed, and then said greedily: "That's right, if there were more of these things, wouldn't we be invincible in the world? Maybe, we can go north to conquer Nuo.

It’s possible for Rand’s dwarves to compete with Ishka’s elves…”

"Elf..." Aledo looked at Brighton and suddenly smiled and teased: "Do you want the land of the elves or do you want their women?"

"Everything, everything... I'm not picky about food." Brighton replied like a rogue.

While the two leaders were chatting, a speeding scout interrupted their "men's conversation."

"What's going on?" Aledo asked quickly.

"Your Highness, residents of all our nearby villages and towns are migrating in the direction of Maryburg, and they have burned down all their residences and supplies. Only the people and soldiers moved with light equipment..." the scout reported excitedly.

: "We just created some chaos, and then arranged for a few spies to sneak into one of the teams..."
To be continued...