Heart of Empire Chapter 515: Prison

Ekla escaped from the hotel, which can be said to have given Palan a blow in the face. E small 』ΩΔ said WwΩW. 1XIAOSHUO. COM

He rushed to the Milton Hotel in a hurry and saw the scene was a mess.

The Milton Hotel is the most luxurious hotel in the City of Bauhinia. It is said that the overall cost of the Milton Hotel was over 300,000 gold coins from the land price, design and construction of the house, to the subsequent decoration. This is a huge sum of money! This money is enough to configure the strength of a legion.

However, this super luxurious hotel has become riddled with holes.

At noon today, after Palan's troops captured Ekla, they threw the Earl directly into the Milton Hotel. In the capacity of the Earl, it is indeed a bit embarrassing to go to prison directly. Palan is going to settle him down in the big hotel first, and then wait until the guards stationed in his original mansion, as well as some soldiers of the Holy Alliance, are cleared out, and then welcome Ekla back .

Of course, Palan must have considered security issues.

A whole brigade, 300 elite soldiers, directly stationed in the Milton Hotel, acting as the 'bodyguard' of Earl Ecra. The captain of the team has the strength of a ninth-level fighter,

A ninth-level fighter is nothing; three hundred elite soldiers, although they are a strong force, but if they face a rescue team composed of a group of experts, their defense may be broken through.

With this in mind, Palan made other preparations.

The elf senior mage Banks personally sits in the Grand Hotel. At the same time, sitting in the town together was a half-orc sword master with fifteen professional levels that Palan spent a lot of effort to recruit when he was in the barren land pass. The two of them led a team of about 20 people and were responsible for the personal protection of Ekla.

The average level of these twenty or so individuals is all ten!

This is almost the strongest team that the Sixth Army can gather. In Palan's army, almost one-third of the masters have been transferred to this team.

It stands to reason that there should be no problem with this configuration.

If you encounter a large group of people, how can a large group of soldiers hold on for a while? The combination of two high-level mages is not weak either. After a while, the soldiers stationed in the hotel will soon be able to surround them.

No matter how strong a master is, without helpers, if he falls into the endless army, it is logically speaking that he will die.

However, when Palan arrived outside the hotel in person, the scene he saw was so miserable.

The entire Milton Hotel, as if it had been blasted one after another inside, has become very miserable. On the ground, the dead bodies of soldiers from the elite brigade of the Sixth Army were everywhere. Teams of soldiers entered the building, moved out one corpse after another, and helped out one wounded soldier after another.

"What's going on?" Palan asked angrily.

The adjutant who came one step ahead of him said in a panic: "I don't know what happened for the time being, but...Master Miller is dead, and Colonel Bartyn is also dead. Almost all of the third battalion of the first wing The specific casualty data has not yet come out, but at least two-thirds of the soldiers were killed or killed."

This news made Palan's already ashen face turn darker.

Master Miller and Colonel Bartyn are just two of his masters. Miller is the high-level human mage, and Bartyn is the orc sword master.

Before, when the news that Earl Ecra was kidnapped was heard to him, his first reaction was that it should be done by the Holy Alliance.

This is a very simple and straightforward guess without any evidence to support it. But there is no doubt that there seems to be no one other than the Holy Alliance who can have the motivation and ability to do this kind of thing.

However, looking at it now, it doesn't seem like it anymore.

In the Holy Alliance, the only thing worth caring about is the Holy Prome New Empire. The Victorians are also pretty good, but after losing half of the knight order, they are now battling with the orcs in the east, so they probably don't have time to mess around here.

As for the other two members of the Holy Alliance, Pudri and Florence, what kind of goods these two countries are, Palan knows very well.

Right now, with the power of the Holy Alliance in the Principality of Florence, can this kind of thing be done?

You know, less than twenty minutes have passed since the time of the event. The response of the Sixth Army was very fast. After the accident at the Milton Hotel, within ten minutes, a large number of troops had been mobilized.

That is to say, the time left for those who launched the attack will never exceed ten minutes.

In ten minutes, a high-level mage, a sword master, and an elite brigade were all taken care of. What kind of terrifying strength is this? Does the Holy Alliance have such ability in the City of Bauhinia?

Palan is unbelieving.

The intelligence organization of the Black Hand Academy is quite powerful in the city of Bauhinia. Firmino once assured Palan that if there was any trouble in the Holy Alliance, they would know immediately.

However, there is not even the slightest sign of what is happening now.

Thinking of this, Palan asked again, "Where's Colonel Firmino?"

His adjutant replied: "Just now, he brought a few people with him, and he is still in the hotel."

"En." Palan nodded, and said, "I'll wait here, wait for him to come out, let him come to see me as soon as possible."

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Didn't keep Palan waiting for long, Firmino soon appeared in front of him.

"How?" Paran asked.

Of course Firmino knew what he was asking, and his face is also very bad now.

The second-in-command of the Black Hand Academy said: "The situation is very bad, the enemy came very quickly. According to my investigation, your soldiers did not respond at all at the beginning. They sneaked into the hotel directly. Then they attacked Master Miller first. Miller had no ability to resist, and was killed almost immediately when the enemy attacked. Then, they turned to deal with Bartyn and his elite guards."

"It was also when Bartyn was fighting the enemy that the soldiers realized it. But when they just realized it, they should have been attacked by very violent magic firepower. They suffered heavy losses and were blocked in the hotel The lower level, there is no time to catch up."

"Batein and his men were wiped out within three minutes of the enemy's hands. He himself should have been hit by magic many times, and then he was struck by a heavy weapon with dark magic power. The sword split half of the body and died in battle.",

"Then, those people immediately took Ikela away, and used the power of the spell to teleport away."

Firmino gave Palan a rough description of the battle. In the end, he also said: "These are all the information I deduced from the traces left on the scene. Our opponents are very strong, and there are many traces of battle left, but in other respects, they dealt with them quite carefully. I I haven’t found more and more valuable things, and there is little hope of achieving results if I continue to follow up.”

"Damn it!" Palan cursed.

He felt that his luck was really bad.

Of Schindler's many generals, he was the only one who remained in the Garrison. Forget it, after all, his military rank has been promoted very quickly, and his qualifications are slightly insufficient. However, after he made achievements in the wasteland pass, brought out a combat-capable army like the border guards, and made his mark in the last war, it was with great difficulty that he really became the upper echelon of the king's side.

Not only did the border guards brought out by him have finally been reorganized into a regular army, but he himself became a general in charge of a country.

But this good day has only been uncomfortable for a few days, and the internal affairs of the Principality of Florence have made him burnt out, and now such a thing has happened directly.

He can even imagine whether his seat will be secure after the news is sent back to the kingdom.

Firmino sympathized with Palan's expression. A few years ago, the two had cooperated once, which can be regarded as some kind of friendship. Now, in the past six months, they have worked together again to maintain the stability of Florence. In addition, there are many places where the two of them need to work together, but there are not many places where there are conflicts of interest. The relationship is relatively good. Near is also natural.

He also hopes to be able to help more, but this matter...

"Hey, Palan, I can't blame you for this incident. You have done the best you can."

Palan smiled wryly, and said, "But I still failed in the end. Isn't this the most incompetent of me? I'm afraid, those people in the military department who don't like me will not let go of such a good attack." My chance?"

When it comes to this, Firmino can only remain silent. The intelligence system of the Mafia Academy has always been disconnected from the kingdom's officialdom. This is a tacit understanding. In this matter, no matter how good the relationship between Firmino and Palan is, it is impossible to help him. What kind of help—can't help if I want to.

Palan sighed, and put his focus back on the matter at hand. He asked: "Have you figured out who did it?"

Firmino said: "There are clues, but it's not sure yet, anyway, it wasn't done by the Holy Alliance."

Palan: "I also guessed that it wouldn't be the Holy Alliance. They don't have that ability. But then again, if it wasn't the Holy Alliance, I can't imagine any other force that would have the motivation to do this. things."

Firmino frowned, as if he was thinking about whether he should say it or not.

"Huh? What's the matter? What scruples do we have? Tell us if you have information."

"It's not really any intelligence." Firmino said, "It's actually just a guess, and there is no conclusive evidence yet. However, the magic traces left on the scene are basically dark magic. They The negative energy left behind is very obvious. Such a force that is good at using negative energy... Have you thought of anything?"

"You mean to curse the church?" Palan's face became serious.

When he mentioned negative energy, the first thing he thought of was to curse the church.

With his current status in the kingdom, he must be clear about the threat of the Cursed Church. However, in his original concept, he was stationed in the City of Bauhinia and the Duchy of Florence, and what he had to deal with was the threats from the conservative nobles in the Duchy and the Holy Alliance. It never occurred to him that the Church of the Cursed, which was said to be blocked from Broken Dragon Peak, would have something to do with him.

But he quickly thought of another point—on the northwestern border of the Principality of Florence, the place called Siye Forest is exactly a forest area at the foot of the Central Mountain Range! If you continue to advance from the Siye Forest to the depths of the Central Mountain Range, you can go deep into the dark jungle and Nancy Royal Court directly.

According to the information currently available to the Kingdom, the Royal Court of Nancy has already been eroded by the Church of the Damned several years ago. By now, it should basically be regarded as completely fallen.

From this point of view, Palan really can't feel that he can sit back and relax just by facing the Holy Alliance.

Before, he had never realized that the Church of the Curse might be behind the scenes, but now, after Firmino investigated and analyzed the traces left on the scene, his thinking suddenly changed up.

"Damn it!" After changing his mind, he suddenly realized a very bad situation.

Palan has been in Florence for half a year. Mr. Lieutenant General, let’s put aside his ability, but there must be no problem with his attitude~IndoMTL.com ~Florence, including Pudry, and even the map of the entire area in the southern part of the Orodic continent, has almost been completely recorded in his mind.

Outside the Siye Forest, that is the fir collar of the Sade family.

Earl Sade himself was burned to death by the breath of the dragon in the grip of the iron horse. It is conceivable what the Sade family's attitude towards the Schindlers will be like.

Just a while ago, there was a riot in Fir Collar.

This Florentine border territory can almost be said to be the most dissatisfied with Schindler's rule in the entire Principality, and they have become the most natural supporters of Earl Ekla.

Think about it, if the person who robbed the prison brought Earl Ekla to the Fir Territory, united with the nobles there, raised the banner of resistance, and with the support of the Church of the Damned...

Palan felt that he was in big trouble.

"This matter must be reported to His Majesty immediately!"