Chapter 210 The beginning of the empire’s turmoil (please vote for me!)
"——The Royal Family of the Sun has been assassinated! Duke Brautrisul was attacked by enemy assassins, and his life and death are unknown! The war is about to begin!"
Chen Lun looked at the newspaper with deep eyes.
Golov was sitting on the sofa. He had just sent Maggie back and then gave the newspaper to Chen Lun.
The newspaper didn't have many details, it just gave a rough description of what happened.
This incident happened in Tourmaline King City, the day before yesterday, which was the birthday of Grand Duke Brautrisul’s daughter, Monica Tresur.
At the birthday party, a supernatural being disguised as a guest severely injured Duke Blau. Then on his way to escape, he was rounded up by the Asylum Executioner Team and the Lampkeeper Team of the Church of the Sun.
After interrogation, it was discovered that the assassin came from the neighboring country "Anlong United Kingdom".
This kingdom does not belong to the Trisur Empire, but is composed of three former principalities and more than a dozen small kingdoms. The main components are the Principality of Yako, the Principality of Sherol and the Principality of Tsbreba.
They bordered the Beelzebub Kingdom to the west and the Trisul Empire to the east, which was equivalent to a country living in a crack.
Due to the special geographical location and the rich resources in the country, it has always been coveted by the empire, and there are often frictions between the two sides.
However, because the empire has been moving eastward in recent years, launching colonial wars overseas in an attempt to cross the ocean and occupy the Misty Continent, it has not been able to spare its hands to formally launch a war against the United Kingdom of Anlong.
Now this assassination case is like a trigger, which has aroused the anger of the people of the empire.
The land of the Anlong United Kingdom, the three principalities, originally belonged to the Cuisul Empire hundreds of years ago. Now the public opinion in the country hopes to take back this land as soon as possible.
But there are many doubts about this assassination case. For example, how strong is the extraordinary person who can openly assassinate the Duke in the royal city under the eyes of the Sun Royal Family? Why did he choose to assassinate on such a grand occasion instead of a more powerful person? Hidden timing, etc...
But Chen Lun knew that none of this mattered, because all of this might have been guided by the Sun Royal Family themselves, and the goal had been achieved.
‘Is it that prince’s plan...? I remember that there was a post in my previous life that analyzed the main plot of version 1.0. It was precisely because of the war between the Trisur Empire and the Anlong Kingdom that the Red Apple Church took the opportunity to start turmoil. ’
he pondered.
As he continued to recall, he recovered some of those vague memories.
The prince of the Drisul Empire is named Dazlet, who is favored by the Sun King. The prince is involved in many political and state affairs.
This assassination case has been analyzed by players. It is very likely that the prince secretly promoted it in order to remove the opposition in the royal family and find an excuse to start a war.
Kill two birds with one stone.
And players who were active on the border at that time dug out some clues through various side plots. For example, Duke Blau was secretly trading with the United Kingdom of Anlong and sold a large number of equipment and weapons unique to the empire.
This may be one of the reasons why the prince killed him.
‘The war should start soon. This has been experienced in previous lives...and by then, the Red Apple Church will change its dormant state and begin to move around the empire. ’
Chen Lun felt some pressure.
'I need money now, the experience points required for upgrades, and the subsequent extraordinary knowledge... The Red Apple Church will definitely choose this opportunity to temporarily escape from the surveillance of the Sun Church and the asylum, and the high-end combat power will end... Strength is the guarantee for survival in this chaos. ’
He looked at the rest of the newspaper.
What's interesting is that at the birthday party of the Grand Duke's daughter Monica, the president of the previous Meidan jewelry company and Earl Lawson, who was rescued by Chen Lun, presented extremely precious diamonds.
But unfortunately, they all died on the assassin's path.
Chen Lun couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that Earl Lawson's fate had not been completely changed by him, and he still had to die in the end.
"Thank you for your hard work, Golov, go and rest."
He put down the newspaper and said to the bearded man opposite the sofa.
Golov stood up, took off his hat, saluted, and left immediately.
Chen Lun looked at the empty living room and shook his head slightly.
As soon as Maggie came back, he simply said hello and went upstairs to study new potions in the research room. Before he could ask about the situation of the plague outside the city.
"Forget it, let's go see how Floy and Noah are doing first."
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"Mr. Jack, here are the portraits of Mr. Golov, Mr. Barton, Miss Floy and myself..."
Noah lifted a piece of white cloth in the corner, revealing a box with more than a dozen oil paintings neatly placed inside.
Chen Lun walked over to check it out and found that these paintings had been simply framed and contained some extraordinary power.
Among them, Golov and Patton have the most paintings, each with five paintings, with different expressions and movements. There is only one portrait of Floy and Noah.
Chen Lun picked up Floy's painting. She was wearing a black dress, her eyes covered with black vines, and she was sitting quietly on a chair with a smile.
[Extraordinary things-Character oil paint (disposable consumables)]
Item description: A talented painter used extremely high attainments to copy the extraordinary power of a certain lady, and preserved a rare power of the moon.
"I didn't want to trouble Miss Floy for too long, so I only painted one."
Noah smiled sheepishly.
"It's okay, Noah."
Chen Lun then picked up the self-portrait that belonged to the other party. On it was a young man wearing glasses, washing the paint board in his hand.
"This is a self-portrait I drew when I was a child. It's funny, Mr. Jack."
Noah said.
"Well done, this is both a work of art and something transcendent..."
Chen Lun chuckled and praised.
"And you have indeed controlled your diet during this period and have lost a lot of weight... I believe that you will be able to return to the appearance in the painting before long."
Noah smiled and expressed his gratitude for the compliment.
Chen Lun put all these paintings into the blood poem ring, and then said to Noah:
"Come and draw one for me."
"Okay! Mr. Jack!"
Noah seemed very happy, and immediately prepared painting supplies and moved a chair for Chen Lun.
After Chen Lun sat down, Noah got into working mode without stopping. The bone key around his neck squirmed slightly, and soon blood slowly seeped out on the floor of the room, and an easel emerged from it.
Noah held a paint board in one hand and a paintbrush in the other and began to paint on the drawing board.
After a while.
Chen Lun felt a mysterious connection between the painting and himself, but he did not feel any discomfort.
"The painting is done, Mr. Jack."
Noah came over holding the painting with a smile on his face.
"You are indeed the most perfect man I have ever seen, and this picture cannot even describe you."
He turned the painting over, and it showed Chen Lun holding his chin in thought.
The medium-long black hair was slightly curled, vaguely revealing the handsome face and deep eyes underneath.
"Thank you, Noah."
Chen Lun took the painting and nodded with satisfaction.
He was a little curious as to how much power Noah had in the portrait he drew of himself through the Bone Gallery.
Chen Lun took another look at the paintings covered with white cloth in Noah's room, knowing in his heart that most of them were ordinary portraits of himself.
I just don’t know if Noah listened to me and put clothes on for them.
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Wait until after dinner is over.
Chen Lun originally planned to find an opportunity to chat with Floy alone, but he didn't expect that the other party approached him first.
"The crystal you gave me before... although it can inspire red lightning when used alone, I found after experiments that adding some other extraordinary materials will have better effects after fusion and forging."
Floy said as he took out two samples from the grape ring.
A short sword and a wand respectively.
"This kind of weapon is not a magic weapon, it can only be said to be an item with mysterious power."
"Thank you for your hard work, Floy."
Chen Lun took the two weapons and looked at them carefully.
【Extraordinary Weapon-Unnamed】
Item description: A weapon containing high temperature and corrosive power. It looks like a dagger as long as an arm. The sword body is made of black faceted crystals. The blade is very sharp. When it collides with the sword during attack, a red arc will be triggered.
The whole body is a fusion of a variety of extraordinary materials, and is forged by the extraordinary forging power of the moon. It is a seemingly simple, but very exquisite weapon.
Chen Lun stretched out his hand and covered Didak's armor on his palm. His pale fingers gently brushed the sword blade, making a soft clang sound.
Zizzi!
The red electric arc popped up, and Chen Lun felt a little numb.
"It's a very good weapon, let's name it 'Black Crystal Dagger'."
Chen Lun put it down with satisfaction, and then picked up the wand.
This wand looks similar to chopsticks and feels wooden, except that the top is inlaid with a black dragon's sharp stone. The core of the entire wand is also made of dragon's sharp stone.
Its description is similar to that of a dagger, and its usage is similar to that of the werewolf leader encountered in Wonderland. It raises its hand to aim, and it can stimulate red lightning for long-range attacks.
But it has a certain amount of time to cool down, and it takes about five seconds to charge before releasing the next bolt of lightning.
Chen Lun named it "Black Crystal Wand".
‘This extraordinary weapon is very powerful and can be sold to players as high-quality equipment of the ‘Black Crystal Series’…’
Chen Lun thought to himself.
He then said to Floy:
"Then try to add this kind of crystal to bullets and arrows, maybe you can create corresponding consumables... In this way, the power of long-range weapons can be increased in disguise."
Floy nodded and hummed.
After talking about business, Chen Lun pulled her to sit on the sofa.
"Floyd, you can go out more often and don't stay bored in the manor all the time."
Floy shook his head slightly.
"I don't like going out. It's nice here. I can do what I want to do and I can wait for you to come back at any time."
Chen Lun was slightly startled.
Speaking of which, without realizing it, I got used to seeing Floy for the first time after returning to my residence, and hearing her say "You're back."
Looking at Floy's delicate face, Chen Lun suddenly had an idea.
'When I am strong enough, I will restore her vision, and then take her to see the roads I have traveled and the scenery I have encountered in her previous life...'
"I had a dream recently."
Floy said.
"Dream?"
"Yeah."
She nodded slightly.
"There was a voice in my dream. It was very kind and said a lot to me... But when I woke up, I forgot most of it. I just vaguely remembered the sentence 'Don't go forward.'" It's the end of the month! Carrot is asking for votes! Dear readers, please hand in your monthly tickets at the bottom of the box! Please mess with me! I must work hard to code words next month!
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