Chapter 252

Robin turned around and saw Inis standing at the top of the stairs looking at him.

Her eyes were filled with tears.

"I know what you are going to do, go ahead and protect yourself

, I will also protect Sally at home. "

Robin heard this and nodded.

"Okay, now that you and your wife have said goodbye, can you come with us?"

The recruiting officer's arrogant and domineering attitude made Robin quite angry, but at the moment he could only endure it.

There may be room for maneuver in being recruited into the army now, but if he refuses, his tragedy will only come sooner.

He also knew that Inis came forward to say goodbye to him because she did not want to be bullied by these recruiting officials again.

So, he nodded, took the initiative to walk out of the house, and then locked the door.

"You won't confiscate our food, will you?"

"Don't worry, we just need you to fight. We will take good care of your family."

"That's fine." Robin nodded after hearing this, and then followed the recruiting group on the street.

This kind of scene is the most common thing in the royal-controlled area of ​​Saint Laurent City today.

…

One day later, Arthas looked at the number of soldiers recruited and nodded with satisfaction.

Saint Laurent City, as the largest city in the empire, has a relatively small number of residents. It is a metropolis with a population of millions.

This kind of city is quite rare in the entire empire. Even if many people flee early due to the outbreak of war, 300,000 strong men can still be captured in the controlled area of ​​​​Alsace.

After three days of training, these 300,000 people will be assigned the best weapons to fight the enemy to the death in Saint Laurent City.

Three days was exactly the deadline given to him by the coalition forces.

Of course, this move caused a lot of resistance, but after several residents who were unwilling to cooperate were publicly executed in each street, the others had no choice but to accept the recruitment, participate in temporary training, and were later used as cannon fodder and sent to the front line. .

Of course, Alsace didn't expect this group of makeshift soldiers to have any effect. He just hoped that he could buy himself enough time and... more things through this army.

Of course, Alsace still has a major concern now, and that is the resistance in the city.

The army resisting Alsace in the city was formed by a group of mercenaries and citizens who volunteered to support Orson. Originally, after Orson returned to the Imperial Academy, Alsace's assumption was that their command level would definitely drop. In a big way, Alsace won't have to worry about this group of people temporarily rebelling.

However, it actually far exceeded Alsace's expectations.

After Orson left, the command level of the coalition forces did not decline. Instead, they adopted many more radical tactics, causing huge losses to both sides.

For example, in the previous move to transport refugees to the opposite side, after the forceful eviction failed, the other side even dared to attack the refugees directly, forcing the royal family to cancel the operation.

Originally, in the public street fighting on every street, Osun's strategy was to preserve his strength. When encountering areas where the royal army was heavily attacking, he would retreat mainly to preserve his effective strength.

However, when facing the attack of the royal army, the new commander seemed to be cheating. He could always accurately predict the main attack direction of the royal army and set up ambushes on the streets, causing considerable damage to the royal army.

In addition, they can also launch assaults in weakly defended areas of the royal army, tearing holes in the defense line and forcing the royal family to draw troops from other places to supplement.

The intensity that Alsace encountered not only did not decrease, but actually increased. This made Alsace come up with the idea of ​​using cannon fodder to weaken the enemy.

After a while, the raven appeared beside Arthas.

"My Emperor, I have investigated the current leader of that group of rebels."

"Who is it?"

Arthas was silent for a while, and then asked.

"According to the intelligence, no trace of Young Master Li Te was found in the Duke of Antica's army, and the intelligence from the Imperial Academy informant also did not find Li Te."

"Then what? Do you think it will be Liteuk?"

Arthas looked at the raven curiously, wondering how he came to such a conclusion.

In Alsace's view, there was no way that the leader of the rebels could be Lite. It was true that Lite had studied with Orson for a long time, but in his opinion, if Lite's talent wanted to be on par with Orson, then It's impossible.

At least, it would definitely not make him feel so much pressure.

He has been leading troops in wars for ten years. He can say that he cannot compare with a great talent like Orson. He can endure it, but he cannot compare with Li.

Especially for this young boy, this was somewhat humiliating.

"It's indeed Liteuk."

Raven said so.

"Oh, Lite is only nineteen years old this year. Even until a year ago, he was just a villager living in the countryside. Do you think I will suffer in the hands of such a person?"

"Of course I don't mean to question your Majesty's ability, but in my opinion, your Majesty, you don't have to think of Liteuk as so weak."

"At least, his growth trajectory is terrifying, isn't it?" Raven said, reciting Little's resume familiarly.

"I only received systematic and formal aristocratic education when I was eighteen years old. Then in less than a year, I grew from an ordinary person with no abilities to a sixth-level warrior and magician with dual professions. His current combat effectiveness should be It’s already comparable to the seventh level.”

"But that's not the experience of uniting an army!" Alsace retorted.

"In the battle against the orcs, Lite was only Orson's adjutant. Later, in the southern campaign to conquer Naples, Lite was able to take charge of the vanguard army on his own, and his record was quite good, with the weak defeating the strong. It’s not like there was no great victory, and it’s not like you don’t know about the Battle of Florence. My master, Duke Giovanni, was so angry that he couldn’t sleep for three days.”

"That battle was indeed fought beautifully..." Arthas nodded in agreement.

"But before that battle, Liteuk only had experience as Orson's adjutant, and it was less than a few months apart. At this time, do you still think Liteu is very simple?"

The raven said this, his eyes burning.

From Raven's perspective, Orson is indeed Alsace's biggest enemy at the moment, but if we take a longer view, Li Te seems to be the biggest hidden danger.

After all, it took Orson eighteen years of aristocratic education to grow into the scheming person he is now. If it were Li Te's growth rate, I'm afraid there would be someone more terrifying than Orson in the empire. exist.

After hearing Raven's analysis, Arthas also nodded silently.

His analysis was correct and could even be said to be logical.

"So, Raven, what's your suggestion?"

"My former master Giovanni gave me one last order before he died, which was to kill Lit, and I want to fulfill that order."

"..."

Arthas was silent for a long time, and finally nodded.

He originally did not want to be an enemy of the Antica Dukedom.

After all, when Odysseus was on the throne, the Dukedom of Antica was a firm supporter of the royal family, and Alsace once wanted to pass on the good relationship between the two families like this.

But now that the two families have become like this, it doesn't seem so necessary to take into account the previous relationship.

"If you are absolutely sure, just go ahead and do it. I will support you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The raven nodded, and then disappeared next to Alsace.

Alsace sat there for a while, then walked outside the room, looked at the bright moon in the sky outside, and fell into deep thought.

…

Li Te was sitting in Orson's office. A map of Saint Laurent City was hung on the wall. The current control areas and defense maps of both sides were marked on the map. Li Te liked to look at the map in a daze when he was free, hoping to find something from it. Breakthrough.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the room.

Li Teuk looked at the person at the door and was stunned for a moment.

"Mr. Owen, why are you here?"

"Orson asked me to withdraw from the front line earlier to protect your safety." Owen said.

"Orson? But I'm safe here. Mr. Owen, you are so powerful, but you still have to be on the front line to be most effective."

Leeteuk said this and waved his hand.

"Don't worry about me, they don't know who I am, how could they attack me, and this is the rear area."

"Not necessarily." Owen shook his head.

"Ossen told me that in the early days, His Majesty the Emperor might not take action against you, but as the war situation becomes more and more smooth, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely find you very troublesome. We are not as good as His Majesty the Emperor in terms of high-end combat power, so we can only Put me next to you to protect you.”

"Furthermore... I don't know where the raven who was previously imprisoned is now. I'm worried that he will attack you again."

"..."

Liteuk was stunned for a moment when he heard the news.

She had only felt the threat of death three times in her life. Once, Orson took her to the forest and faced her alone.

Against the wolves.

The other time was when Leeteuk faced Donnie alone in the city of Romulus.

As for the last time, and the most thrilling one, it was when the raven hiding in the dark took advantage of Li Te's unpreparedness and suddenly fired a cold arrow.

Among these three death threats, the most invisible but deadly one, and the one that frightened Li Te the most, was the one from Raven.

The previous two times, the enemy was in the open. Only the third time, Li Teuk didn't even see the raven's face clearly, and he almost died by his hands.

Therefore, when Lite heard the name Raven, he still had lingering fears.

"Then...Mr. Owen, how long are you going to stay at my place?"

"Wait until the war is over, or when Orson comes back."

"..." After hearing this, Li nodded and made a judgment in his heart.

"Then since it's Orson's request, I won't refuse anything. During this time, I'll leave it to you, Mr. Owen. I happen to be short of an adjutant here to help me handle things."

"Um."

Owen nodded and then sat at the desk opposite Li Te.

…

The Raven took advantage of the darkness of night to pass through the defense zones of both sides and penetrated deep into the coalition-controlled area.

After observing the patrol route of the defenders in the controlled area, Raven finally understood where the core of the controlled area was.

Sure enough, he walked along the route most patrolled by the defenders, and saw a building defended by many mercenaries.

This should be the base camp of the coalition forces.

The person he was looking for should be hiding here.

Raven thought so and walked secretly on the roof.

His ability was to hide in the shadows, so places without light and some dark corners were the most suitable hiding places for him.

He was a natural assassin.

Through his ability, Raven deceived the guard at the door and then sneaked into the building.

This should have been a chamber of commerce. There were three floors, each of which was quite large, with at least twenty rooms. Raven came to the top floor without thinking, and then disappeared, waiting for the target person to appear here.

Sure enough, three hours later, Lit walked out of the office. Just as Raven was about to take action, he saw Owen following Lit.

Considering that Owen was also an eighth-level existence, Raven stopped first.

Anyway, these two people could not sleep together. As long as Raven found Lit sleeping and took the opportunity to sneak into Lit's room, he could succeed in assassinating.

But when Owen passed by, Raven tried his best to hide his breath.

His ability to hide his aura is equivalent to invisibility for people who are two levels weaker than him.

For people who are one level weaker than him, they need to deliberately reduce their activity frequency to avoid being discovered by the other party.

For those who are at the same level as him, unless the other party is completely unprepared, they will definitely be able to detect something strange as long as they pass by where he is.

Therefore, Raven has never successfully assassinated someone of the same level as him.

As for those who are higher than him, Raven has not encountered them yet.

Fortunately, Owen did not pass by the corner where Raven was. After observing that the two of them went to a room and separated, Raven felt that the time had come.

To be on the safe side, Raven waited for another two hours, thinking that Lit and Owen should have fallen asleep anyway before taking action.

He came to Lit's door, followed the shadow of the door crack into the room, and then saw the light on the bedside and Lit lying on the bed and falling asleep.