"My Lord, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated and killed in the theater this afternoon."


    "I know." Joseph roon sat down in his chair, not light or heavy, reached out and rubbed his temples. After a pause, he raised his head and looked at the happy young bachelor: "you seem very happy?"


    "Lord Marquis..."


    The young scholar looked sluggish and his lips moved. He didn''t know how to answer.


    It is reasonable to say that the master of the house should be very happy when the great hero Fei onan was stabbed to death. Taking this opportunity, the Marquis Joseph can take back all his power.


    The lune family behind Joseph lune is one of the oldest and most prominent families in Central China. Their history can be traced back to "Bear King" Lothar lune, a figure during the northward migration of the second era. He defeated the orc coalition in the valley Jedi, and then established the central city-state and built the city of virgia together with other human leaders.


    For thousands of years, the lune family has been the Lord of the Virginian city state and its surrounding areas. Until 25 years ago, the incoming king of virgia was killed and swallowed by aksuye, the "Queen" of the ancient red dragon, in a battle against the giant dragon. After the incident, tashanmu immediately assigned his lineal figure Duke Fei onan to virgia, Acting as governor.


    "A young child cannot govern a city-state." this is the original words of the head of tashanmu.


    There was nothing wrong with this sentence at that time, but it was not until a long time later that people understood the deep meaning of this sentence. In the face of it, Joseph roon could still inherit his father''s Duke title, fiefdom, army and all taxes, but in fact, except the Duke title, all matters of the Virginian city-state were managed by fionan, who was the governor, after a period of time, Under the dual pressure of tashanmu Yuanshou and Duke Fei Onan, the power of the lune family was gradually eroded and its influence was decreasing day by day.


    Even so, the rulers in the holy city of pudasius still refused to give up. Fifteen years ago, after Fei onan completely took control of the situation in Virginia, tashanmu found a reason at random, directly attacked the Duke on Joseph''s head and cut Joseph into a second-class marquis. This shocked the whole trading city at that time. Since then, The famous lune family was completely knocked down and never recovered.


    From this origin, it can be imagined that Joseph roon hated Duke Fei onan and the head of tashanmu. However, to the bachelor''s puzzlement, marquis Joseph did not show any pleasure about Fei onan''s death, but seemed to have some... Trouble?


    Joseph thought for a moment, rubbed his face, looked up and asked, "where''s the murderer? Did you catch him?"


    "I''ve been caught by the guard." the young scholar couldn''t understand his mind and didn''t dare say anything more: "but the guy refused to explain who he was and who ordered him. He committed suicide an hour ago."


    "This is a planned murder. No one has seen him before?"


    The bachelor shook his head: "I asked the people in the patrol team. They all said they had never seen him. He was a stranger. His identity is still under investigation and verification."


    "Show me the killer." Joseph stood up.


    So the bachelor led him to a strict camp in the governor''s house with a group of attendants and guards. Before the killer was captured and brought into the dungeon, he committed suicide halfway. The soldiers in charge of the arrest knew that they could not escape the responsibility. They were in a panic and did not know how to deal with it. They had to park the body here for the time being.


    The dead man was locked in a dark room with shackles on his hands and feet, his hair was dishevelled, but his face was very calm. The priest said that he had been cursed in advance and seemed to have realized that he would die.


    "Go out first and leave me alone," said Joseph.


    "Sir, this..." the soldier hesitated.


    "Why, worried about the recovery of the dead, I was killed by a dead man?" Joseph glared at him.


    People didn''t dare to say any more. They retreated in turn and closed the door. In the dark prison room, there were only lonely and cold candles and the smell of negative energy.


    The Marquis of Joseph raised his head slightly and closed his eyes.


    The next moment, the tiny negative energy overflowing from the corpse soared like a wild fire in the wind. In the blink of an eye, it filled the whole room, cheered and circled Joseph, then rushed to the corpse and swam on the corpse.


    After half a ring, Joseph opened his eyes again, and the negative energy disappeared without a trace. He took a breath and said with a sneer: "Duke of Virginia and element master Fei onan was assassinated by an ordinary man. After his death, he couldn''t even enter the kingdom of God. If I hadn''t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn''t believe it myself."


    Then he was silent, clenched his fist and looked at the body. It lasted for a few minutes until a few drops of red blood flowed from his hands.


    His veins were exposed in his hands, and he pierced the palm with his fingernails!


    "Damn it."


    Joseph suddenly scolded fiercely, and his voice was colder than the cold winter wind: "Fifteen years, fifteen years, you don''t know how many things I have done, including vassal, territory, army and popularity. I could have safely recaptured virgia. I am already the master of virgia, but Fei Onan, you have killed him directly! All my previous achievements have been wasted, all my previous achievements have been wasted!"


    "What''s fee onan? I can kill him at any time. I can kill one fee Onan, the second fee onan and the third fee Onan. It took me 15 years to let tashanmu relax his vigilance. How can you do this? How can you do this!?"


    The Marquis Joseph''s hand trembled, and the words squeezed out from between his teeth: "black wing Empire -"


    Using the invisible ability of the dead, Joseph knew that the assassination was the work of the black wing empire. The killer took some special medicine before the operation, so he came to Fei onan through many tests to kill. At present, such things are only available in the north.


    However, tashanmu, the ruler of the trading city-state, will not believe these words. As soon as Fei onan dies, he will become a direct beneficiary and the biggest suspect, and will be investigated. Joseph roon knows very well that there is no secret that will never be made public. No matter whether Fei onan killed himself or not, as long as tashanmu starts to investigate in this direction, there will always be some clues about what he has done in the past 15 years.


    Marquis Joseph wondered whether the assassination plan of the black wing empire was aimed at Fei Onan, who opposed them everywhere, or whether he knew his inside story and deliberately forced him?


    The former will make Joseph lament the influence of the northern Empire, while the latter will make Joseph feel deep fear.


    Of course, in any case, he has been forced to a dead end.


    "There''s no way." Joseph sighed. His face slowly returned to normal peace and quiet from the previous non-human cold and darkness. He shook his hand and let the wound and blood in his palm disappear gradually. Then he removed the sound insulation magic in the room and left the confinement room slowly.


    Returning to his residence, Joseph roon waved back his attendants, stepped into the secret road in the residence, walked through the long dark corridor, and said to the dark snake in the corner, "once Fei onan dies, we have no way back, and we don''t have to hide in the future."


    His face was cold: "inform the vassal to mobilize troops and raid kohall tomorrow night. Without the old bastard Jon Arthur, I will see the bear flag of the lune family at the head of kohall the day after tomorrow."


    It''s not difficult. Jon Arthur, the king of kohall and the legendary sword saint, died in the attack on the north, and the elite troops of kohall city-state were lost. Now a woman is in charge of the overall situation in nuohol city-state, and there is not much remaining resistance, which is very different from Virginia.


    However, the poisonous snake in the shadow did not understand the meaning of this move: "attacking kohall is of no real benefit to us."


    "It''s no good, but we have to do it. Cut off the retreat and show our determination." Marquis Joseph said: "they have always wanted to intervene in the trading city states. We also forced them to put everything in the open. I don''t believe they will ignore vegia."


    "I see," said the poisonous snake, hiding in the dark.


    "The war is about to begin." Joseph roon stared at the dark fog, and the flame rose in his eyes: "I didn''t expect to start the prelude. If I can successfully master the top ten city states in another 30 years, I may have a chance to compete for hegemony, but now..."