"Fishbone Count...... Annihilated? ”

"Not only that, but even Stuttgart has become a ghost town, and there is no survivor."

In the Falcon Castle, the nobles who participated in the clan meeting were silent.

Some of them were trying hard to chew and digest the news that was caught off guard, while more people were already in a completely dazed mood, and their minds were blank.

At first, everyone was relieved to hear the news of the occupation of Lutlingen and Metzingen.

After all, the town of Hessingen is so close to Falcon Castle. The front line of war is set up here, as if a sword is on the neck, and this feeling is not pleasant.

The occupation of the two towns allowed the Falcon family to have enough strategic depth for the first time, and they didn't have to worry about the Fishbone Earl's army pressing down at any time to "bombard the headquarters".

The Blue Sword Mercenary Group, although I hadn't heard of their names before, it seems that this mercenary business is quite cost-effective at the moment. If you change to the Iron Cross mercenary group, I am afraid that it may not be able to have this kind of super efficiency of two cities in one day.

It didn't take long for news from the front line that the town of Prosingen had been recovered.

The geographical location of Prossingen is very important, in the middle of the road between Stuttgart and Ulm. To occupy this place is to cut off the connection between the two cities, leaving Stuttgart's fishbone count in a helpless situation.

So everyone immediately ran to tell each other with joy. At this point, the scales of war have been completely turned upside down, and the dawn of the goddess of victory has shone above the head of the falcon.

All you have to do is surround Stuttgart and wait for the morale of the defenders inside to collapse and surrender.

Alas, hiring the Chow Sword Mercenary Regiment was the wisest decision ever made by Lord Frederick! 7,800 gold coins for a principality, where in the world is there such a good business!

Frederick also smiled at the politeness of the family members. Of course, he didn't show the ecstasy in his heart, but showed an unexpectedly calm expression of "Hehe, I already knew this", which immediately made the nobles who came to visit admire, and even took his prestige in the family up a few steps.

The day was not over yet, and as evening approached, news came that Stuttgart had been captured and that the Count of Fishbone had been destroyed.

It stands to reason that this news is the most blockbuster news of the day.

However, all the nobles who learned the news were unusually expressionless.

Wait, Stuttgart is a big city! The resident army of the Fishbone Count alone is already in the tens of thousands, right? How many people are there in that mercenary group?

Fake news, it must be fake news, are the current scouts so unprofessional?

This atmosphere of suspicion of the letter hung over the entire family, and everyone pretended not to have received the news at all on the surface, and privately quickly asked his subordinates to quickly go and report again.

It wasn't until after dinner that the news was confirmed.

"Well, Lord Frederick?"

"Huh?" Frederick was also visibly absent-minded.

"Stuttgart has fallen."

"That's a good thing, a good thing." Frederick said perfunctorily.

What a good thing God is! The nobleman who accosted him wanted to cry without tears.

If it is only to capture Stuttgart, of course, it is a good thing, after all, a large city with a population of 100,000 people, labor and taxes alone are a lot of wealth every year.

But this Blue Sword mercenary group ...... They didn't just take Stuttgart! They've wiped the city off the map!

100,000 people...... It's just gone? Didn't get it all clean?

Are you sacrificing the whole city to the devil?

When the people of the Green Sword returned, the Shoe Sect said that the word had spread throughout the castle, and the servants in the corridor saw that they were all detouring.

Girls: ???

When he came to Frederick's study, the count did not believe such nonsense as the Shoe Teachings, but his wife stuffed him with an amulet, and he put it in his pocket just in case.

At this time, seeing the arrival of the Blue Sword, he clenched the talisman in his pocket and said with a smile:

"Guys, you're finally back."

"Earl Fishbone should be dead." Aske said, "You send some men and pick up Stuttgart tomorrow." ”

"Dead?" Frederick's brow jumped.

"Well, dead." Asker, of course, won't say anything more, "Well, our reward ......"

"Of course." Frederick nodded hurriedly, and didn't dare to say or ask, "We are ready for the second installment payment, let the housekeeper take you to the treasury to collect it." ”

So they went to the falcon family's treasury to collect the money.

On the other hand, a few hours earlier, the Life School had been dealing with the greenskins in Stuttgart overnight.

"Some citizens have been deeply infected by essentia and cannot be saved. Some can barely be saved. But there will be sequelae. ”

"If there are too many cell divisions, there will be damage to lifespan. When I was young, I was able to say that I was more likely to get cancer than ordinary people after entering middle age, but after all, it was an anomaly, and I was lucky to survive. ”

"The lord, Count Württemberg, was found dead in his own castle, and his direct heirs were all killed in the mutation. Presumably Stuttgart will be taken over by the Falcon family in the south, but they haven't sent anyone yet......"

"What about the goal?" The current leader of the School of Life, Llewellyn interrupted his men's divergent thinking.

"We've searched a few designated locations." The Transcendent's subordinate hurriedly said, "At the bottom of the signal tower at the top of Popsar Mountain, the corpse of the target was found, and the 'Salmatia. essentia'. Luckily, the killer wasn't aware of what was inside him, otherwise we would be in trouble if we took the body. ”

"The location of the target's corpse comes from the information provided by the leader of the Azure Sword?" Llewellyn's face was slightly gloomy, "What is the cause of death?" ”

"Gunshot wounds, two bullets, one shot through the head, one shot broken in the neck, and injuries from a fall from a height." The transcendent lowered his head and said, "Also, there are traces of the River Styx at the scene. ”

"Styx?"

"Yes, on the ground near the corpses, there is a certain depletion of both the plant and the microbiota. The closer you get to the corpse, the more severe the depletion becomes, presumably the River Styx has flowed here for a short period of time. ”

"In addition, the transcendent properties of the corpse's condensation have also been taken away. From this evidence, it can be suggested that a demigod of the Necromantic Sequence has been here, killed the target and taken the characteristics, and may have searched the memories of the deceased, which is also consistent with the report of the Blue Sword Mercenary Regiment of 'Witnessing from a distance to fighting'......"

"If it's really from the Spirit Sect, why is there a gunshot wound on the corpse?" Llewellyn still felt that something was wrong.

However, after all, Styx is not something that anyone can summon.

It can even be said that as long as there is a Styx anywhere, it can already be 100% determined that the ferryman of the Spirit Sect has come.

"File the materials first and present them to the elders." Llewellyn said coldly.

Just to be on the safe side, I'll go to the Azure Sword mercenary group later to confirm.