The 143rd Chapter Assassinates the Big Devil Anne (2)

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Stormwind City, the King's Governing Hall in Stormwind Fortress, gathered here the bigwigs and high-ranking officials and nobles from all walks of life in the kingdom.

The young leader of SI:7, Mathias Shaw, is here to meet King Varian of the Stormwind Kingdom sitting on the throne, and is reporting on the city gate incident a few days ago. Countess Katrana Prestor and Duke Bolvar Fortagan, as well as several other nobles and high-ranking officials, were standing on both sides of the king.

Yesterday, he did not rashly order Ravenholdt to assassinate a queen of another country. This matter is definitely not something he can easily decide on his own, even if the other party is just a person who is not affected by the storm. A country recognized by the kingdom!

Therefore, after obtaining information about the two little girls from Ravenholdt, the Assassin Alliance organization, Mathias, who felt that the situation was a bit serious, returned to Stormwind City immediately, and the next day Now in the morning, I met with King Varian and reported in person everything he knew from the League of Assassins yesterday.

"Madias, are you sure that the information you obtained is true and reliable? And there is no mistake?"

King Varian held the written report co-signed by several important leaders of MI7 in his hand. After reading the details for a while, he handed it to Bolvar who was beside him. While asking questions, he looked at Mathias with a somewhat unnatural expression.

From Varian's point of view, this matter is full of weirdness, and in his point of view, many places seem very unreasonable!

First of all, for the Queen of the Flame Kingdom named Anne Hastur who blew up his Stormwind gate. Why did she travel thousands of miles alone from the northernmost part of the continent to the Stormwind Kingdom in the south for no reason? what purpose?

Secondly, since it was mentioned in the information, it seems that the other party did not know the person named Vanessa Van Cleef at first. A few days ago, there wasn't even any intersection between the two!

So, why did she inexplicably save that Van Cleef's daughter? And blew up the gate of Stormwind City in one fell swoop regardless of the consequences? And also killed at least 30 city gate guards?

As the king of a country, he just acted casually like this, and, in order to help someone he didn't know, he brazenly made an enemy of another powerful country? This approach, in Varian's view, is very unreasonable! Anyway, in his mind, no king would do such an outrageously stupid thing!

In the end, the intelligence even said that the Flame Queen named Anne Hastur was actually an eight-year-old human demigod mage? Scared away a powerful big demon without taking a shot?

What kind of joke is this again?

so,

When Varian saw this, he absolutely did not believe that there would be an eight-year-old human demigod!

Medivh, the demigod guardian created by human beings, was not so outrageous back then, right? Not to mention, the other party actually scared away that said to be very powerful existence, the great demon named Archimonde!

scared off? No official battle? How could such a thing be possible?

That Ravenholdt wants to make up a story to cheat money, so please make it up a little more reliably!

Anyway, Varian absolutely does not believe that there will be any little girl who is half-god, at most she is just a little bit more talented and stronger! And Varian was also puzzled by the other party's move to save Vanessa!

He would never have imagined that, as the queen of a kingdom, little Annie never took this seriously! When she saw something that made her unhappy, she was in a bad mood, so she grabbed the fireball and started to fight. As for the consequences, she didn't even think about it at the time, and she didn't care about such things at all. !

Little Annie wanted to hit you when she saw that you were upset, so what can you do? Still dare not accept? Dare to stare? Be careful, she will let Tibbers out to bite you to death!

"Report to Your Majesty! This matter should be true."

"Because, according to their Ravenholdt's information, in the entire Eastern Kingdom, the mage who has the ability to cast spells to blow up the gates of our Stormwind City, and she is a little girl at this age, is probably the only queen of the Flame Kingdom! It is said that she is particularly good at fire spells, which is consistent with her performance when she blew up the city gate a few days ago."

Having said that, Mathias paused for a moment, and then continued to speak cautiously after seeing that His Majesty the King did not have any particularly disgusting emotions.

"Moreover, not long after the incident at the gates of Stormwind City a few days ago, Ravenholdt Manor obtained definite information: the Queen of the Flame Kingdom, she did return to her palace with a weak human girl! Among them , the most important thing is: that weak little girl, her name is exactly Vanessa Van Cleef!"

After finishing speaking, Mathias stopped talking.

Speaking of which, this matter is indeed a bit embarrassing. Their majestic MI7 has even fallen to the point of buying information from the Assassin Alliance...

However, he can't be blamed for this. Not long ago, he had just received an order from his superiors to ask MI7 to send people to the four northern countries to set up an intelligence station.

Now, the spies and other personnel sent out are probably still floating on the merchant ship, heading for the eastern port of Lordaeron in the north, right? It may take a long time to collect intelligence. Moreover, it will be very troublesome to send the news back when the time comes. They don't have a large number of mages to cast spells to help communicate. After all, Dalaran has been destroyed now, and those surviving mages are said to have gone to the one in the north. What went to the Flame Alliance.

"Well, even if the information you got is true... But, what can we do now? Katrana and Bovar, tell me, do you have any good ideas?"

Even if all of this is true, the gate of their Stormwind Kingdom was indeed blown up by the queen of another kingdom.

This kind of behavior that is obviously hostile and offends their Stormwind Kingdom, they will definitely not let it go like that! But for a while, Varian couldn't think of any effective countermeasures.

After all, the distance between the lands of the two sides is so far, and there are still several continents in between, and there are still undead and demon-ravaged areas. Whether they send troops to threaten or go out to protest, in the current situation, it will seem meaningless !

"Uh...Your Majesty, this matter...is really not easy to handle! Maybe...we can directly hire those Ravenholdt killers and let them get rid of these two wanted criminals?"

After Bovar read the contents of the parchment in his hand, he handed it to Countess Katrana next to him, and by the way, made a well-regulated suggestion to King Varian.

Until now, the Kingdom of Stormwind still does not recognize the Kingdom of Flames and the Alliance of Flames!

Since the queen of their Flame Kingdom, the leader of this illegal force, came to the south and blew up their city gates, and killed so many Stormwind soldiers, then this matter must be discussed!

Besides, from what the other party had done a few days ago, Bolvar could tell that that flame queen seemed to have a lot of hostility towards the Stormwind Kingdom!

In this case, in the current situation where SI:7 is out of reach, then simply pay directly and let Ravenholdt's League of Assassins do it, and cut off the Flame Queen and Van Cleef's daughter in one fell swoop, so as not to cause trouble in the future. There's a lot of trouble coming out!

"Where can we come up with such a large amount of gold coins? Bolvar, you don't know the current financial situation! Even the little amount of money for repairing the city gate now, those bastards in the council, are all dawdling. It took a few days before I reluctantly agreed to post it!"

Without even thinking about it, Varian directly rejected Duke Bolvar's proposal. By the way, he also complained and abused the group of bureaucrats and nobles in the parliament.

Stormwind Kingdom is very poor now, to put it bluntly, besides having no money, there is no money!

That's not to mention the fact that you can spend 50,000 gold coins to buy a group of killers to assassinate the queen of another country! Even, they might not even be able to come up with the 10,000 yuan deposit in a short period of time!

If he really had so much money, he, Varian, would prefer to directly send troops to find trouble with the other party, rather than like now, a group of high-level officials are discussing how to send assassins to assassinate, such an extremely dishonorable behavior! You know, he, Varian, is most disgusted with using assassins to assassinate the king!

"Uh... this... is really a big problem!"

When it comes to money, there is no chance! Bolvar had no choice but to nod, agreeing with the king.

That's right, the Stormwind Kingdom has no money right now! Otherwise, where would they worry about the Defias Brotherhood before? Even not long ago, those bullshit officials have been wrangling for several days about the payment for repairing the city gate!

What made Stormwind Kingdom even more embarrassing was that those craftsmen were getting more and more outrageous, and dared to say that they would not work if they could not get money? Is the Kingdom of Stormwind that bad? Still owe them that little money?

Well, the stonemason union's mess can only be an exception, it's just because the money is too much and can't be paid out in a short time, so they will rely on... cough cough, anyway, anyway, they are He would never renege on the money for repairing the city gate. It's just a city gate, and it's not worth a lot of money!

"Your Majesty, then, what should we do now?"

Mathias looked at the king and the duke from below. The two chattered for a while, as if they couldn't make up their minds. When they fell silent, he had to ask carefully again.

He was just in charge of running errands and performing tasks, and he didn't want to get involved too much with the affairs of the upper echelons of the kingdom. Now, with regard to these two wanted criminals, he has obtained all the information, which should be regarded as the completion of his own mission.

So, he doesn't have any responsibility for this matter. In the end, it's up to the bosses above to decide what to do! He, Mathias, did what they said, and he was never wrong.

"No need to do anything! Just put it on hold for now, okay, the meeting is over!"

Varian felt extremely aggrieved, his kingdom had no money! Relying on that meager tax, it is simply impossible to make ends meet, so a large part of the usual expenditure can only be raised by those aristocratic bureaucrats for the time being.

This also made him have to allocate a large part of the rights that belonged to the king. In the end, he was controlled by others everywhere, and he, the king, was put in a very embarrassing situation!

This matter, in the absence of money, there is no need to discuss the matter of paying for Ravenholdt to assassinate. And the opponent and the Stormwind Kingdom are too far away, there is no way to do it for the time being, so it can only be shelved.

That being the case, there is no point in discussing it now, so after Varian announced the end of the meeting, he waved his hand and took the lead to leave. Let's leave this matter for later... If there is a chance in the future, let's go to the other party to settle accounts.

"Your Excellency, tell me, if I can persuade the parliament to collect the 10,000 gold coins, will the assassination plan work?"

After seeing His Majesty King Varian leave, Katrana didn't know what ghosts she was thinking, but said such words to Bolvar who was about to leave.

"No way? You can still convince those stingy guys to pay such a large amount of money? Forget it, Ms. Katrana, don't waste your time! Those guys, asking them to pay this money is tantamount to asking killed them!"

Bovar shook his head and waved his hands, then turned around and strode away from the hall. Now that His Majesty the King is gone, what is he still doing here?

It's rare that there are no major events recently, and he was feeling a little unwell after two rain showers a few days ago, so he had nothing to do now, so he had to go back and take a good rest first.

"Bolvar! What if I could actually scrape together that money?"

The Countess looked at the Duke who had turned and strode away with a smile, and suddenly shouted at the Duke before he was about to walk out of the gate.

"Then I'll leave this matter to you! Do whatever you want!"

After finally waving to the countess behind him, Bovar finally walked out of the gate and turned to leave. Of course, Bovar didn't want to take care of things that His Majesty the King couldn't do anything about, so let her make troubles.

Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it with his own money!

If Katrana can really scrape together the money, let her do it! It's great that the assassination succeeded, as it can remove two potential enemies for Stormwind City! In case of failure, Bovar also felt that it didn't matter, and he didn't pay even a copper coin for it!

"Madias, come here..."

After achieving her goal, Katrana, who was authorized, began to smile, and waved to Mathias, the leader of SI:7 who was stunned by the conversation between the two just now.

Money and gold coins are meaningless to Katrana!

Even without the funding from those greedy and ugly nobles, Katrana can take it out casually by herself. It's just 50,000 gold coins, and there are more. Who is she?

How good is it that something as interesting as this one, whether successful or not, can add hatred between two countries?

Look, just paying such a few gold coins can add a nemesis or mortal enemy to the Stormwind Kingdom for nothing. This is simply not too cost-effective!

From Count Katrana's point of view, things that can be easily solved or achieved with gold coins are what she wants to see most. In that case, she would not have to worry about other things. How could it be so refreshing to throw gold coins at people? How good is this?

...

Speaking of Ravenholdt, the League of Assassins, they are not only powerful, but also have always been very secretive. Many people, who have never been in contact with the League of Assassins, even suspect that this so-called Assassin organization may not be does not exist!

But in fact, the headquarters of Ravenholdt Manor is located in the forest in the southeast of the Alterac Mountains.

The specific location is just south of Chillwind Hill, north of Dunholde Castle, east of Tarren Mill, and west of the mountains bordering the Hinterlands.

The owner of this hidden manor is Duke Jorach Ravenholdt! This man known as the king of thieves is also the supreme leader of this powerful assassin alliance!

In the past two months, although the undead army led by Kel'Thuzad swept across the Hillsbrad Hills, because Ravenholdt Manor was too secretive, they were not affected by the undead disaster at that time. any impact. So much so that now, in the manor, the gang of assassins are still doing what they should do, not paying any attention to the scattered undead or demons that are still wandering outside.

"My lord duke! There's just news from Stormwind City that they are indeed willing to pay the money, and the 10,000 deposit has already been received."

In the manor, Duke Jorazzi Ravenholdt, he is on a wooden terrace on the second floor of the manor, enjoying the mild sunshine, drinking afternoon tea and eating pastries, enjoying his wonderful afternoon time.

When he closed his eyes, half asleep, a masked thief quietly appeared behind him, knelt down on one knee, and whispered the latest news from Stormwind City.

"Hmph...very good, it looks like we're going to make another windfall!"

After Qiao Laqi became a demon for a while, he smiled and said something.

"The manpower of the Flame Kingdom is already in place, right? Then...you can send a message now, let them wait a few days, and do it when they find the opportunity."

Without even looking at the people behind him, Duke Jorachy Ravenholdt continued to pick up the teacup, took a sip, and then snorted a few times, as if he didn't think that he was going to assassinate a queen at all. Keep the big things in mind.

When he thought about it, the other party was nothing more than a little girl with powerful magic power. Was she a demigod? No matter how strong the magic power was, so what if she couldn't release it? Besides, the fact that Kalimdor passed back has proved that even a demigod can be killed!

Moreover, they seem to have never seen that little girl show the corresponding strength. At that time, when facing that Archimonde, she just exploded her strength, which looked scary, but in the end, she didn't even use a single spell, and the opponent just ran away inexplicably!

Instead of believing that the other party has great strength, he is more willing to believe that the other party must have secretly colluded with the devil! Recently, the news from Lordaeron's high-level officials has also vaguely proved this matter. The fire elementals are unwilling to cross the river that seems to have been accepted as the border by default, and the same is true for the undead and demons. Well, this matter, after a little thought, becomes very interesting!

The most important thing is, this little girl, she acts carelessly all day long, and has those powerful fire demon guards for nothing, but when she goes out, she never even brings a single subordinate!

Now, isn't it just like playing for the Assassin Alliance to kill such an unsuspecting mage? This is simply a windfall given away for nothing. If you don't make this vote, you will be sorry for the conscience of their assassins!

"Yes! Your Excellency the Duke! I'm going to summon you right now!"

The masked thief behind Duke Jorach Ravenholdt responded, then turned and left gently. Only Qiao Laqi was left here alone to enjoy the tranquility of the afternoon.

...

Times come and go, old John, a late bloomer, has been very proud of himself recently! After the end of the Second Orc War, for a long period of time, his position at that time had never been changed in the slightest.

However, since the undead natural disasters raged, he has made his way from a small watchtower second lieutenant to the sky, first as a manager of a refugee camp, and later as the mayor of Huoyan Town.

But now, the construction of Flame Town has not yet been completed, and he has been transferred to the bio-inhabited area of ​​Flame City, as the supreme executive of the bio-area, and is responsible for the management and daily operation of this large special area.

Now, in the frigid winter season of the northern continent, the city of flames, which is as warm as summer, naturally becomes more and more prosperous. It has become a good place for rich and powerful humans or high elves to spend the winter!

A large number of Lordaeron's remnant nobles or wealthy businessmen, or high elves who have been tortured by Moyin, ran to the biological area of ​​the Flame City under various names, either to spend the winter, or Absorb the abundant fire element magic power here to relieve the magic hidden.

Moreover, the most important thing is: as soon as they come here to live, they start to set up tents or build houses randomly, and they are going to be so lazy and don't want to leave.

Old John can't even send troops to drive them away, because this is completely in line with the covenant signed by the Flame Alliance!

Because of these more and more nail households, Old John had to re-plan the entire bioregion, knock down and rebuild all the scattered houses, and auctioned off a lot of land after sorting out, so that these people who plan to live in the area for a long time The humans or high elves here can build their own houses to live in, without disturbing the basic order of his jurisdiction.

Not long after that, thanks to the exaggerated construction speed of the fire elementals, the order of the biological region under his control finally improved a lot, and it began to become more and more prosperous.

Since he was ordered to take over this area, in just a short ten days, this place has become the most prosperous and lively place in the entire city of flames apart from the commercial area!

For business, go to the commercial area across the wide avenue; for food, come to the thriving biological area. This has become a familiar phrase in the city of flames, whether it is the fire element or creatures of other races.

Whether it is dwarves, humans, or high elves, they all have a considerable number of masters living here.

After all, all the nationals of the four countries of the Flame Alliance enjoy the right to live and travel freely in the other three countries. These people came here, bought land and built houses to settle down, and they did not violate any of the regulations of the Flame Alliance.

"Hey! Consul John, hello, are you free recently? Why don't you continue to come to our winter ball tonight?"

A nobleman of Lordaeron wandering the streets, when he saw Old John in casual clothes, leading two guards in fiery red full-body plate armor and holding a flame symbol routinely patrolling the biological area, he hurried Come forward to talk to win the relationship, and try to invite the other party to your dance party.

The current old John, who was born with mud legs, is a hot figure in the city of flames.

After all, the former nobles of Lordaeron who no longer had too much power, the most accessible high-level people in the Flame Kingdom, perhaps, was Old John, the chief executive of this human area.

"Aha, it's Baron Purseus... Well, thank you for your kindness, but... I don't have so much time these days. You must have seen that I've been very busy recently, Biological Area There are so many things in such a large piece of land, but I need to handle it myself, another day! I will definitely come another day when I am free!"

Old John dealt with these bastard aristocrats who knew how to enjoy themselves all day long with a half-hearted smile.

Since he participated in this kind of winter dance not long ago, he never wants to get involved again!

That kind of extravagant and promiscuous dance is definitely not something that the poor and accustomed John can enjoy. Old John doesn't like this kind of life very much, and he also hates it! The thought of the so-called winter ball made him feel uncomfortable!

After dealing with the difficult Lordaeron nobleman, when Old John turned to another more lively street, he saw a little girl wandering around with a teddy bear in her hand. It was a coincidence, It is Her Majesty the Queen of their Flame Kingdom!

Seeing this, Old John's eyes lit up. Since he met him here, he must go up to say hello and try to show his face in front of Her Majesty. There are not too many opportunities like this. After all, even if he is already in power as a biological region, he is not qualified to enter the queen's palace casually.

Well? Something seems wrong?

When Old John was about to go up to say hello to the Queen, as a senior veteran soldier, he discovered that the crowd around Her Majesty... seemed a little abnormal? Murderous?

Those humans who were eating in front of a stall seemed a little careless? The eyes still glance at Her Majesty the Queen who is walking there from time to time?

etc! Also, those two goblins on the other side were obviously setting up a stall to sell some expensive things, so they came here instead of going to the opposite business district? Don't you know that this place specializes in selling food? Look at the deserted look in front of their booth, but they don't care, and they don't shout. Is this what goblins with money eyes should do?

It's a waste of time for them, and for them goblins, time is money!

Finally, on the way of Her Majesty the Queen, where... there are two trolls? Are they guards hired by a caravan? But...their route seems to have intentionally or unintentionally outflanked Her Majesty's direction? ah! Did they reach into the back?

not good! There are assassins!

"There are assassins!!!"

Old John's heart trembled. He finally realized why he always felt that something was wrong. It turned out that someone was trying to harm the Queen? After seeing it clearly, he only had time to let out a heart-piercing loud cry, but in an instant, together with the two guards beside him, he was suddenly knocked unconscious by the attack from behind...

A common skill for all thieves: Sap!

They did not know when three thieves appeared behind the three of them. They were just three saps, and they knocked down Old John and the two armored guards who had just shouted. It didn't take half a day for the three of them I'm afraid I won't be able to wake up.

At the same time, the two trolls who had already walked to the two sides of Little Annie pulled out their hands in their rucksacks in an instant, and they turned out to be two daggers that exuded miserable green. , they smeared all kinds of poison on it!

The troll on the left directly wiped Annie's thin white neck with a sharp dagger, which was the deadly skill of a thief: cutting and wiping the throat!

And the troll on the right squatted down, and with two daggers that were also smeared with poison, they stabbed towards the sides of Annie's back at a tricky angle. It was also a thief's signature skill. : Kidney Shot!

These two trolls, obviously habitual offenders, cooperated seamlessly. When the blade was about to touch the little girl's skin, she seemed to have just reacted. Those big cute eyes were full of curiosity and a little bit of surprise... …