Chapter 506 Joseph Luen

"My lord, Grand Duke Fay Onan was assassinated in the theater this afternoon."

"I know." Joseph Luen sat on the chair, responded with a slight tone, stretched out his hand to rub his temples, raised his head after a pause, and looked at the young bachelor with a happy face: "You seem to be very happy?"

"Master Marquis..."

The young bachelor's expression froze, his lips moved, and he didn't know how to answer.

Logically speaking, the master of the house should be very happy that Grand Duke Fei Onan was assassinated and died. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Marquis Joseph could just get back all the power that belonged to him.

The Rune family behind Joseph Rune is one of the oldest and most prominent families in the Central. Once defeated the ancient orc alliance in the Jedi of the valley, and then established the central city-state with other human leaders and built the city of Vigia.

In the following thousands of years, the Rune family has always been the lords of the Vaegir city-state and the surrounding areas, hereditary succession, until twenty-five years ago, the previous king of Vaegia in a battle against the dragon, After being killed and devoured by the ancient red dragon "Queen" Aksuye, Tashanmu immediately appointed Duke Fei Onan, a direct descendant, to go to Vigia to act as the temporary governor.

"An immature child cannot govern a city-state." These are the original words of Head of State Tashanmu.

There was nothing wrong with this sentence at the time, but it was not until a long time later that people understood the deep meaning of it. On the surface, Joseph Luen could still inherit his father’s duke title, fief, army and all taxes, but In fact, except for the title of duke, all affairs of the city-state of Vaegia are managed by Feonan as the governor. Being gradually eroded, the influence is decreasing day by day.

Even so, the ruler of the whole territory in the holy city of Pudasius still refused to let it go. Fifteen years ago, after Fei Onan took full control of the situation in Vaegia, Tashanmu made a random excuse and directly confronted The duke title on Joseph's head was cut, and Duke Joseph was reduced to a second-class marquis. This incident shocked the entire trading city-state at that time.

From this source, one can imagine Joseph Lun's hatred for Duke Fei Onan and Head of State Tashanmu, but it is puzzling to the bachelor that Marquis Joseph Lun did not reveal the death of Fei Onan. Not at all happy, but seems to be a little...annoyed?

Joseph pondered for a while, rubbed his face, looked up and asked, "Where's the murderer? Have you caught him?"

"I've been caught by the guards." The young scholar couldn't read his mind, and didn't dare to say anything more: "But that guy refused to explain who he was and who he was instigated by.

Killed himself an hour ago. "

"It was a planned murder and no one had seen him before?"

The bachelor shook his head: "I asked the people on the patrol team, and they all said that they had never seen him before, and that he was an unfamiliar face. The identity of this person is still under investigation and verification."

"Take me to see the killer." Joseph stood up.

So the bachelor led him, along with a group of attendants and guards, to a fortified camp in the governor's mansion. After being captured, the killer committed suicide before he could be taken into the dungeon. Fleeing, panicked for a while, and didn't know how to deal with it, so I could only park the corpse here temporarily.

The deceased was locked in a dark room, his hands and feet were still in shackles, his hair was disheveled but his face was calm. The pastor said that he had been cursed beforehand, and he seemed to have already realized his mortality.

"Go out first and leave me alone for a while," Joseph said.

"My lord, this..." The soldier captain was a little hesitant.

"Why, worried about the resurrection of the undead, I was killed by a dead man?" Joseph glared at him.

People didn't dare to speak any more, they retreated one by one, closed the door, and in Nuo Da's dark prison room, there were only lonely and cold candlelight, and the faint breath of negative energy.

Marquis Joseph raised his head slightly and closed his eyes.

The next moment, the tiny negative energy overflowing from the corpse exploded like wildfire against the wind, filling the entire room in the blink of an eye, cheering and jumping around Joseph, then rushed to the corpse, cruising on the corpse.

After a while, Joseph opened his eyes again, and the negative energy disappeared without a trace. He let out a long breath, and said with a sneer: "The Duke of Vigia, the master of elements, Fei Onan, was assassinated by an ordinary person. Afterwards, I couldn’t even enter the Kingdom of God, and if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I probably wouldn’t have believed it myself.”

After he finished speaking, he fell silent, clenched his fists, and stared at the corpse steadfastly. It lasted like this for a few minutes, until a few drops of bright red blood dripped from his hands.

The veins in his hands were exposed, and he even pierced the palms with his nails!

"Damn it."

Joseph suddenly cursed fiercely, his voice colder than the winter wind: "Fifteen years, a full fifteen years, you don't know how many things I have done, vassals, territories, troops and popularity, I could have Take Vaegir back smoothly, I am already the master of Vaegir, but, Fei Onan, you actually killed him directly! All previous efforts were wasted, all previous efforts were wasted!"

"What is Fei Onan, I can kill him at any time, but it took me fifteen years to kill one Fei Onan, the second Fei Onan, and the third Fei Onan , let Ta Shangmu relax his vigilance, how could you do this? How could you do this!?"

Marquis Joseph's hands were trembling, words squeezed out between his teeth: "The Black Wing Empire—"

Using the dark ability of necromancers to find out, Joseph knew that the assassination was done by the Black Wing Empire. The killer took a special drug before the action, so he passed multiple tests and came to Fei Onan's side to kill violently. Things that are currently only available in the Northland.

However, Tashanmu, the ruler of the trading city-state, would not believe these words. Once Fei Onan died, he would become the direct beneficiary and the biggest target of suspicion, and he would definitely be investigated. Joseph Lun knew very well that there are no secrets that will never be made public. No matter whether Fei Onan killed himself or not, as long as Tashanmu starts to investigate in this direction, there will always be some clues about what he has done in the past fifteen years .

What puzzled Marquis Joseph was whether the assassination plan of the Black Wing Empire was aimed at Fei Onan, who was always against them, or was he deliberately persecuting him when he knew his inside story?

The former will make Joseph lament the vast influence of the Northern Empire, while the latter will make Joseph feel deeply afraid.

Of course, in any case, he has been cornered.

"I can't help it." Joseph sighed, and his face slowly returned to normal peace and quiet from the inhuman coldness and darkness before. He shook his hands so that the wounds and bloodstains on his palms gradually disappeared, and then removed the soundproofing of the room Magic, slowly leave the confinement room.

Returning to his mansion, Joseph Luen waved his attendants back, stepped into the secret passage in the mansion, walked through the long and dark corridor, and said to the dark poisonous snake in the corner: "Once Fei Onan dies, we have no way out. , no need to hide and lurk in the future.”

His face turned cold: "Notify the vassals to mobilize the army and raid Kehor tomorrow night. Without Jon Arthur, the old bastard, I will see the bear flag of the Lune family planted on the head of Kehor City the day after tomorrow."

This is not difficult. The king of Kehor and the legendary swordsman Jon Arthur died in the attack on the Northland, and the elite troops of the city-state of Kehor were completely lost. Now that the city-state of Nuoda is presided over by a woman, there are not many left There is a huge difference between the resistance power and Vaegir.

It's just that the poisonous snake in the shadows didn't understand the meaning of this move: "Attacking Kehor will not do us any real benefit."

"It's not good, but we have to do it. Cut off the retreat and show our determination." Marquis Joseph said, "Didn't they always want to intervene in the trading city-state? We also forced them to make everything clear. Come up. I don't believe they'll leave Vaegir alone."

"Understood." The poisonous snake said yes, and disappeared in the darkness.

"The war is about to begin." Joseph Luen stared at the dense black mist that could not be dispelled, and flames rose in his eyes: "I didn't expect it to be me who kicked off the curtain. If it takes another thirty years, I can successfully master the war." The top ten city-states may still have a chance to fight for hegemony, but now..."

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