Chapter 544 Assassination

The square-faced man, named Hancock, was the leader of the recently disbanded Rainbow Mercenary Group.

At the same time, he was also one of the several mercenary leaders who were awarded the title of knight by Aini during the grassland war.

It was this knighthood that made Hancock make the wrong choice.

The Rainbow Mercenary Group, which he had worked hard to build and developed into a large mercenary group and ranked second, was wiped out overnight.

In fact, Hancock was furious when he heard Lin Qiu asked him to disband the mercenary group, and almost broke up with Lin Qiu.

However, after learning that Lin Qiu was guaranteeing him with his own life, and that the large mercenary group that originally had nearly a thousand people, had only more than 200 core members on the third day.

Hancock simply disbanded the mercenary group because he was bored.

He knew that even if he refused to disband, he would survive this storm smoothly, and the mercenary group would inevitably be downgraded afterwards.

Of course, if he wins, a large number of mercenaries will definitely join him, and demotion may be avoided.

But Hancock is much calmer than the other mercenary leaders. He knows that even Earl Eni can't defeat the opponent, so it is even more impossible for them to defeat the unorganized mercenaries.

There is no hope of victory. The reason why Hancock wanted to unite with other mercenary groups before was just to use the collective power to force Xu Lai to make concessions.

He can afford to pay a fine, but he can't bear the end of the mercenary group, and even the end of himself and the leadership.

Although the mercenary group was disbanded, he also said hello to the core brothers, hoping that they would not join other mercenary groups in the future.

When the dust finally settled, he would still find a way to create another mercenary group.

However, it is hard to say how long this period will be and how many people are willing to follow him at that time.

The leader of the No. 1 Evernight Mercenary Group, known as the Eagle of the Grassland, is also the hereditary knight Lanluo appointed by Eni.

Not only did he not accept this life-threatening task, but when Xu Lai announced that he would clear out these mercenary groups, he immediately expressed his willingness to provide services to Xu Lai for free.

Therefore, in the past three days, most of the mercenaries who had left the major mercenary groups were scrambling to join the Evernight Mercenary Group.

Even Hancock had to admire his courage. He was willing to take risks in order to pass on his knighthood to his descendants, but he was willing to throw away the title he had already obtained.

Xu Lai was a person who would give a peach and return a plum.

Lan Luo was directly appointed by Xu Lai as the deputy city lord to assist and assist Jimmy.

Of course, although his Evernight Mercenary Group did not need to be disbanded, he himself could not continue to serve as the head of the group.

It was just that this position of head was passed on to his son by Lan Luo, which was still equivalent to being in his hands.

This order has not been announced yet. Hancock was able to get the news because Lin Qiu was also appointed, but he was demoted from the previous Executive Speaker to the Director of the Taxation Department.

Hancock, he didn't even get a job, and only got a result of "let's talk about it later".

Hancock was originally full of resentment, but after helping out during the day, all the resentment and grievances could only be swallowed.

Just as Lin Qiu said, in front of Xu Lai, he was a mantis blocking the car, a character that could be crushed to death at will.

Seeing Hancock like this, Lin Qiu couldn't bear it.

She said to Hancock: "Don't worry, after Lan Luo becomes the deputy city lord, he will definitely control the power of the Evernight Mercenary Group.

And Xu Lai is now lacking a large number of capable, visionary, and powerful helpers.

I think he is not interested in this, and he is not stingy with the benefits. If we follow him now, the achievements we will get in the future will definitely be much higher than if you run a mercenary group.

Apart from anything else, he must need someone of his own to fill the vacant position of the Evernight Mercenary Group.

And he recruited so many mercenaries in one go, so he must need someone of his own to manage them.

Lan Luo definitely doesn't look down on such a position now. If you perform well today, you can at least lead the mercenaries of the entire Conaston or even the entire grassland in the future."

I don't know if Lin Qiu's words successfully moved him, or if he figured it out himself. In the following period of time, he really performed a lot more actively.

He personally led the backbone of the Rainbow Mercenary Group, cooperated with Lin Qiu and her guards, and firmly blocked one of the retreat directions of the mercenary group, greatly reducing the pressure at the city gate.

These mercenaries had already made two plans: either they beat Xu Lai to the point of pain, or they would take the opportunity to break out and go to other cities with the wealth they had accumulated over the years.

If that didn't work, they would just lay down their weapons and surrender.

With the hard work of Lan Luo, Mo Han, Hancock and others, all the mercenaries who resisted knew Xu Lai's attitude:

Only the chief culprit would be killed, and the followers would not matter.

In other words, Xu Lai wanted to kill only the mercenary leaders who opposed him at the beginning.

Ordinary people, as long as they laid down their weapons, would not be threatened at all.

And those mercenary leaders, whether they laid down their weapons or not, would only die.

The difference between the two was like a chasm, which made it impossible for the upper and lower levels of these mercenary groups to remain united.

Except for some mercenaries who were extremely loyal or were small cadres and were not sure whether they would die if they surrendered, they were still resisting fiercely.

The rest of the people did not have much intention to fight.

They ran if they could, but if they couldn't, they simply threw their weapons and knelt on the ground.

The mercenaries, who were already scattered, followed suit under the leadership of these people and were too lazy to run.

Lin Qiu's prediction was correct. These rabble, no matter how many masters there were, could not withstand the attack of the regular army.

They had never undergone collective training, no strict discipline, and were a group of mixed mercenary groups. They had no collective consciousness at all.

However, these mercenaries were indeed very fast.

Jimmy did not easily disperse his army, because once the army was dispersed, it would be easy for those assassins and killers to find opportunities.

Secondly, the dispersed army was easy to be defeated by mercenaries with stronger individual capabilities.

In a really crowded alley, Jimmy would rather demolish some illegal buildings.

Anyway, he only needed to be responsible for defeating the opponent head-on. After the opponent ran away, it would be the business of Lan Luo, Hancock, Mohan, Lin Qiu and others.

Xu Lai had been standing on the city wall for several hours, until the fires were extinguished and most of the mercenaries knelt down to surrender, he was slightly relieved.

His spirit had been in a highly tense state.

Today, it was not just about striking at the mercenaries, they were just Eni's supporters on the surface.

In fact, Xu Lai also planned to take advantage of the chaos created by the strike against the mercenaries to sweep away all of Eni's forces in the city.

This was also the reason why Jimmy was not in a hurry, he could not resolve the battle neatly.

Clearing out the mercenaries involved the entire city, and Xu Lai had to expand the scope of the strike. Xu Lai had no idea how terrible the chaos would be.

He was worried that this city would be completely destroyed by his mess.

Fortunately, the situation became clearer and clearer, and the situation was under more and more stable control.

But just when his highly tense nerves relaxed, a faint sound of breaking through the air came into his ears.

Xu Lai, who had an amazing physique, could hear even this extremely small sound clearly.

The same amazing agility gave him an extremely terrifying reaction ability.

Having been on the battlefield for a whole year, even if his nerves relaxed for a moment, he would instinctively turn his head.

With a sizzling sound, scarlet blood spurted out from his neck.

Xu Lai's timely dodge allowed him to avoid the fate of being pierced through the throat by a sword.

But the speed of this sword was also extremely terrifying. Even if Xu Lai dodged quickly enough, he still couldn't completely avoid it.

And until the sword was completely stabbed out, the attacker's figure was revealed for a moment.

This guy didn't come up from the city gate tower, but flew directly from the city wall.

Ordinary assassins would immediately flee thousands of miles away if they missed a strike, but the opponent was more interested in Xu Lai's head.

The moment the figure appeared, the whole person suddenly disappeared completely in the air, so that Xu Lai's timely counterattack only hit a piece of air.

After the figure completely disappeared, Roland, who had just woken up from a dream, subconsciously released the sacred armor.

The golden light enveloped the nearby units, and the invincibility effect was added. Xu Lai had the leisure to check his own status.

It didn't matter if he looked at it, but after reading it, his face turned green.

Not only did he lose more than 100 points of health, but he also had a particularly perverted poisoning effect.

"Affected by the skill "Weak Point Critical Hit", 125 points of health were lost (this attack will trigger a critical hit when hitting the weak point and ignore defense, and is affected by defense.)"

"Poisoned: Affected by severe toxins, 30 points of health are lost every second for one minute. Currently affected by the Holy Armor, the toxin is sealed (it will take effect after the Holy Armor effect ends)."

Xu Lai touched the wound on his neck. The tough epidermis had been broken, but except for a little bright red blood flowing at the beginning, the blood that came out later was all dark green and smelly.

Obviously, this poisonous effect was very severe. From the time Xu Lai was scratched to Roland opening the Holy Armor, the delay in between might be less than a second.

However, in this second, the poison had already merged with his blood, so that even the Holy Armor could not expel it and could only seal it temporarily.

Even Xu Lai did not see this clearly, he only knew that it was a thin male assassin, and he launched two fatal attacks at once.

If Xu Lai had not dodged quickly, he would have suffered such a critical hit on the weak point, and it would have lost at least 4,500 health points.

Xu Lai's defense, even without the protection of the prayer light, is still a very scary value under the blessing of the Angel Alliance and high morale.

But the assassin's weakness critical hit ability, as long as it hits the weak point, it can ignore defense and will definitely hit.

This damage is really scary to think about, even if Xu Lai's health exceeds 1,000 points, he can't withstand such a torment.

Then there is the poison that can lose him 1,800 points in one minute, and even the Holy Armor cannot expel it.

Invincible has the ability to be immune to all negative effects, but in order to expel this poison, Invincible can only drain the blood from Xu Lai's body, which is also equivalent to killing Xu Lai.

The Holy Armor can only expel toxins, but the prerequisite is to separate the toxins first.

Most of the poisons are either the kind that kill people instantly, and the toxins go straight to the heart, brain and other places.

Only this kind of poison can be called a highly toxic poison that can kill people in a short period of time.

The ability of ordinary toxins that mix with the body's blood cannot kill people in a short period of time, but can only cause people to lose health continuously.

The assassin's poison combines these two abilities, which is both highly explosive and difficult to clean up.

After releasing the holy armor, Roland urgently added a holy healing spell.

With his own captain's special bonus, this holy healing spell is enough to restore Xu Lai's lost health just now.

The skin on the neck has completely healed, which is the effect of poisoning, but it cannot be cured by holy healing.

But fortunately, Xu Lai knew that he would definitely become the target of the assassins, so he asked for a lot of antidotes from Elena early.

Because the Archbishop of Conaston was "sent" away by Xu Lai, the temple simply issued an official letter to transfer Bishop Elena to be responsible for the temple affairs in the Conaston area.

The reason why Xu Lai used the "begging" method was because his merits had basically been exhausted.

But who made Elena a person who was in Cao's camp but her heart was in Han?

Xu Lai only donated 100,000 gold coins symbolically, but Elena almost gave all the antidotes in the cathedral to Xu Lai as if it was free.

This time, she was going to come, but Xu Lai didn't agree to her taking the risk and told them to stay in the church.

At this time, even if they just went to the streets to appease the people, they might be attacked by assassins.

After all, almost everyone knew that the bishop brought by Xu Lai must be on Xu Lai's side.

As for whether assassinating the bishop of the temple would anger the temple.

The streets were so chaotic, what accidents could not happen?

But breaking into the cathedral by force would have a different meaning. Once there was a killer who did this, the temple would have to find the person and grind him to ashes even if it dug three feet into the ground.

Xu Lai realized that he was poisoned, so he didn't mean it, and directly picked up a bottle of the most effective antidote and drank it.

Sure enough, after taking the antidote, Xu Lai felt much more comfortable, and the numbness on one side of his neck began to gradually ease.

But in the last ten seconds of the Holy Armor, the poisoning effect on Xu Lai was still not removed, but the effect was weakened a lot.

"Poisoning: Affected by the severe toxin, losing 18 health points per second, lasting 45 seconds, currently affected by the Holy Armor, the toxin is sealed."

18 health points per second, 45 seconds is 810 points, and the weakened toxin is no longer able to directly poison Xu Lai.

In fact, even if the effect is not weakened, this strong poison can't kill him.

Because Xu Lai has hundreds of Holy Light Knights and Paladins around him, so many holy healing spells, let alone one minute, even an hour may not be able to poison him. (End of this chapter)