Chapter 2279 The Far East Tragedy

As an overseas subject of the empire, Joan was supposed to be hostile to the rebel group in Kolasburg, and gloated over the assassination of the leader of the rebel party.

However, his personal experience during his travels in the Far East made him have to admit that the level of governance of the Kolas and his sons and their cabinet was more than one grade higher than the conservative, bloated, and dull imperial bureaucracy. Under the rule of the new government, people in the Far East generally live and work in peace and contentment, and it is reasonable to support the Kolas government.

Under the current situation, if the imperial authorities sent troops to the east, it would indeed have the right to quell the rebellion and recover the lost land in law, but in fact it would bring heavy disasters to the people in the Far East who had just lived a good life for a few days.

For this question, Joan's mentality is very contradictory.

Out of patriotism, he should support the empire to send troops to suppress the rebellion, but from the interests of ordinary people, he should instead support Rudolf I, who is far wiser than the emperor of the empire.

The same ambivalence is also reflected in his identity as a resident of the empire's overseas colonies.

If he believes that the central power of the imperial government is higher than the autonomy of overseas colonies, he should oppose the colonial independence movement that has been raging in recent years.

However, after all, he was born and raised in a colony, and he is very unfamiliar with the inland of the empire, which is far away from the vast ocean. From an emotional point of view, he is still towards the native colonial people in his hometown. If independence can bring tangible benefits to the colonists, he should support independence .

"Royalists" and "separatists", Joan has not yet decided which side to stand on. In fact, he hopes to remain neutral. However, he knew in his heart that as the struggle between "royalists" and "separatists" became more and more acute, "fencers" like himself would have nowhere to stand, and would eventually be forced to hold guns at their heads by the opposing sides. He clearly stood in line, otherwise he would be attacked by both sides at the same time.

Leaving aside his troubles for the time being, Joan returned to the newspaper and hurriedly glanced through the headlines. Unfortunately, the report was too brief and did not explain the details of Rudolf Kolas's assassination.

Joan put down the newspaper, closed his eyes and meditated, and connected to the "cloud network".

According to past experience, local people always broke the news on the "Cloud Network" forum for this kind of news that happened abroad, and it was more reliable than news published in newspapers in terms of timeliness and authenticity.

The first second after entering the cloud network interface, Joan noticed an unusual change.

The entire page is grayed out.

It can be seen that the news of Rudolph I's assassination and death is true, otherwise the "Cloud Network" operating agency established in Korrasberg would not express condolences in this way.

On the other hand, Joan also saw the forbearance and restraint of the Fort Colas authorities, who only changed the color of the page and did not publish an announcement on the matter, as if they did not want to attract too much attention.

Qiao An entered the forum skillfully, and immediately saw the topic discussion post about the New Year's Eve tragedy.

He went in and took a look, and the content of the revelation made him speechless.

Rudolph I, as a monarch, must have a large group of guards around him. In addition, he himself is also a legend-level powerhouse. Ordinary assassins have no chance to get close to him, let alone succeed in the assassination.

According to Joan's expectation, the assassins are mostly a professional team composed of a small number of quasi-legendary or legendary masters. Taking advantage of Rudolf I's attendance at the New Year's celebration, they mixed with ordinary people and launched an assassination by surprise.

However, the reality is completely different from what he expected.

When Rudolph was assassinated, he didn't leave the palace at all, and when the New Year's Eve bell rang, the mythal barrier covering the entire Fort Kouras would be completed, and a grand opening ceremony of the mythals would be held thereafter.

Just before the Mystic Barrier was fully opened, an artifact-level floating fortress named "Scaled Armor Sky" suddenly teleported into the night sky directly above Kolas Fort, and hundreds of fortress guns fired at the same time. Focused on the magic circle network composed of twenty negative energy ice prisms, concentrated bombardment of the palace of Kolasberg!

After being subjected to such a terrifying bombardment, the main building of the palace instantly evaporated. Not to mention that Rudolph I was just a legendary powerhouse, even a demigod would have to die there!

This kind of blatant bombardment, Joan really couldn't equate it with the word "assassination", it was more like a premeditated terrorist attack.

Subsequent revelations confirmed his guess.

The "Scaled Armor Sky" that raided Fort Kouras on New Year's Eve belongs to an organization called "Eye of the Dragon", which is said to be a Far Eastern cult that worships the "Mother of Evil Dragons" Tiamat.

In addition, there is also an organization called "Nailuo Cult" also participated in this conspiracy, and its members are mostly necromancers, death priests and undead creatures. It is also a textbook-like cult group.

These two cult organizations alone are not enough to challenge the Kingdom of Kolas. The boss behind the scenes who provides funding is said to be closely related to the royal family of the Holy Ashean Empire.

If the upper echelon of the empire is indeed the mastermind of this conspiracy, then it is not difficult to imagine that the Kolasberg tragedy is just an "appetizer". Dangerous moment.

Qiao An had a premonition that the international situation in the world of Vales was about to undergo drastic changes. However, judging from the wind direction on the cloud network forum, the vast majority of local cloud network users in the Far East were indeed sad and angry at the loss of the founding king. The future is not pessimistic.

People from the Far East on Yunwang, who are mainly casters, generally hold such a view:

The assassination of His Majesty Rudolph is indeed a huge loss to our government, and the revenge must be paid with blood, but fortunately, Prince Roland is safe and sound, and our leader has successors. Under the leadership of His Royal Highness, the subjects of the whole country will surely win the final victory!

Joan hadn't directly dealt with the princes of the Far East, but they had mutual friends, such as the three brothers and sisters of the Canaan royal family, and Ms. Ertalan from Yinkong. Judging from their evaluation, this Prince Roland's political skills even surpassed that of his father Rudolph I, no wonder he is widely loved by the people in the country.

However, as an outsider, it is difficult for Joan to be optimistic about Prince Roland's prospects.

Since his enemies dared to use the floating fortress to openly bombard the capital of the Kolas Kingdom and murder the king of a country in public, they would not be merciful to let that well-known prince His Royal Highness be merciful.

Whether it is assassination of the leader or terrorist attack, these despicable methods with small cost and huge profit are precisely the housekeeping skills of cult groups!

Once the assassination is successful, there will be a second one. How long Prince Roland can live is probably a question mark.

From this point of view, Joan sympathizes with Prince Roland's difficult situation. At the same time, he feels that the people from the Far East on Yunwang are too optimistic about the prospects of their country.