Everything in the world is constantly changing in the long river of time, the sun rises and the moon rises, the vicissitudes of the sea, the plains dry up into deserts in drought, the lava solidifies into islands in the sea, even the seemingly eternal majestic peaks will eventually collapse in a violent tremor, and the world itself will eventually be destroyed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But some things will never change.

Faced with the flood of despair, Colin let out a scream of fear, and the old deputy, who was over fifty years old, lay on the ground, not daring to look directly at the man in mid-air, and he turned his head in a panic to look at his allegiance, the second son of the Suwards, but he could not make a sound as if he had been choked by the throat.

"Ah———h

The invisible distorted air flow enveloped Kleiman in an instant, and before the middle-aged nobleman had time to say half a sentence, his entire body burned in the fierce flames. He was not in pain, for the heat ignited his skin and flesh in an instant, vaporizing his bones and internal organs, and Kleiman turned into ashes in an instant, drifting into smoke.

In mid-air, a voice was heard.

"You're not innocent either."

It was a sonorous, cold voice like a symphony of steel, and Colin felt like he was in a sea of fire when he heard it. The unimaginable scorching heat tore at his soul, he closed his eyes tightly, and he never dared to open them again, and the scene of Kleiman turning into smoke and dust in the blink of an eye was still replaying in his mind, making the man feel extremely frightened and desperate.

And Joshua, who had already come to the top of the manor and listened to all the exchanges between the other party, looked indifferently at the middle-aged man who was only half of the manor, kneeling on the ground and trembling, and said in a calm voice: "But I don't kill indiscriminately." Six of my subordinates died, and I only killed six, tell me who the other masterminds were, and where they were hiding, and spare your life. ”

Although the major nobles basically have mansions in the imperial capital, not all of them will live in the Holy City of the Three Mountains, and the power of His Majesty the Emperor envelops the entire city, so that all intrigues and tricks are hidden, whether it is the Fertaor family or the Suward family, they have manors and holiday villas in the cities and suburbs near the imperial capital for daily work.

Although Adman Carlos was a power-hungry and foolish young man, he had worked with Alfonso for so long and knew some information, such as the location of the estate on the outskirts of the Suward family.

"Earl...... Lord Earl, the mastermind is not our ......"

Amid the crackling sound of the manor burning and the bursting of firewood, Colin struggled to open his mouth, forcibly suppressed his fear, and said tremblingly: "Feltao, Feltao's family is the mastermind!" Although we have reached a cooperation agreement, they are the ones who made the shot! ”

If the man didn't know the identity of the other party, then he couldn't have gone from a commoner to the deputy of the Suward family's imperial capital, and the warrior who killed Kleiman without hesitation must have been Joshua van Radcliffe, the notorious lord of the Northlands, the enemy dragon, who could rival the warriors of the Legion on his own.

His appearance can be said to have shocked Colin to the point that he couldn't think, neither he nor Kleiman could have imagined that the current head of the Radcliffe family would actually take action for those spokespeople, if in ten minutes, Colin would feel that this kind of thing was as absurd as a dream, but it had already happened, then the man could only accept reality.

"About a few days ago......" Colin did not dare to look directly at the warrior for fear of the scorching light, he knelt on the ground, pressed his face to the floor, and a faint voice came from his hands: "The group of the Feltaos have returned to the imperial capital...... It's in their mansion! ”

"Good."

Nodding slightly, Joshua didn't talk nonsense, he slashed down with a sword, and the vertical and horizontal strength also collapsed the mansion on the other side, and between the masonry and stone collapse, Colin froze in place because of fear, but the seemingly rough, but actually nuanced power destroyed the entire manor, and did not let any falling debris touch his body.

The red flame flickered, the wind howled, and the warrior was gone, leaving only his lieutenant, who still did not dare to move, kneel among the ruins, and it was a long time before he got up tremblingly, and when he was sure that he was safe, the man wept with joy.

Along the way, the messenger knight named Nack hid among the trees, the horses had long since been let go, and he himself was trembling - Nack saw the Suward manor not far away turn into ruins in the flames, and the power of the powerful spread, causing the golden knight to hide with bated breath.

Soon after, a red streamer streaked across the sky, and Nack felt a cold gaze sweep over his body, his hiding was as meaningless as an ostrich, but the streamer had no intention of staying, it slashed straight through and flew towards the imperial capital.

- Picked up a life. The knight was stunned for a few seconds, until the streamer disappeared into the distance, and then he reacted slowly. He knew that his survival was not because of strength, but because the other party did not want to kill him, just like humans would not deliberately step on ants on the side of the road.

And the imperial capital.

The mansion of the Feltao family.

Located in the northern part of the imperial capital, the Fertao family mansion is not so much a manor or villa favored by the nobility as a small fortified fortress, it is completely black, and the entire structure is made of amphibolite in the wilderness of Balad in the northwest of the empire, this solid, magic-resistant rock is usually used by dwarves to build temples, but the Fertao family uses it to build their own homes.

Unlike the houses that surround it with its artistic beauty, the mansion has a temperament that is so different and out of place, with walls over twelve feet high made of complete boulders and then filled with molten iron, and there are even four small watchtowers at the four corners of the mansion, and under fluttering flags, vigilant guards watch everything around it.

The Feltao family, which was built by military merit and started with weapons, will never forget their roots, these nobles with dwarven blood are always on the alert, waiting for the arrival of a possible battle, every member of the Feltao family will be sent to the battlefield before they reach adulthood, and only those who have experienced a battle and have not died can reach adulthood and officially become family members.

Tam Feltao, standing at the top of his mansion – or rather, the fortress, with his pipe in one hand and thinking about something.

He looked at the street next to the mansion with a discrete gaze, the flow of people in the northern area of the imperial capital is much less than that of other regions, it is now early in the morning, there is almost no one on the street, Tamu absentmindedly tried to light the pipe in his hand, but for some reason he has not been able to hit the spark, but he didn't care, but shook the pipe, and he didn't waste his strength.

"Young and vigorous."

Sighing leisurely, this short man, only about one meter and six years old, the mature half-dwarf touched his beard, his eyes condensed at this time, he thought of the few brothers he was still staying in the basement, and couldn't help but shake his head again: "These little guys, they don't understand anything." ”

The Feltao family has many heirs, but few formal members who meet the family rules, and Tamu is the sixth son in the family, but he is the third person in charge of the family's estate in the central region of the empire, and also serves as the spokesperson of the imperial capital.

Tam's sigh was because of his worried brothers downstairs - since the family sent his two adult brothers to the imperial capital a few months ago under the pretext of 'watching and learning', Tamu had never been at ease, young and reckless half-dwarves knew how to fight on the battlefield, but they didn't know anything about business, and they went around telling him about his work without giving him any feasible plans.

Especially this time. He tried to light the pipe again, and this time it worked, and Tamm took a puff of his cigarette, and the fire in the pipe flickered brightly and darkly, and a faint white gas floated out.

When the young men arrived in the imperial capital, they were extremely indignant at the family's declining transaction volume, and they did not understand the market demand, and they questioned Tam and questioned his incompetence. But in any case, the Felta's family's funds are indeed getting tighter and tighter, and they are not changed by people's indignation, and for his brothers, who are probably mentally deficient, Tamu does not care about and teaches them at all, but allows them to tinker.

They came up with the plan to attack the Radcliffe's estate and assassinate the principal. Probably too young, they are not afraid of revenge from the Radcliffe family at all, and they also question that Joshua's strength may have moisture, and the proud young people will not admit it at all, there will be extremely strong people in this world who are not much bigger than them, so they made a decisive move.

For this behavior, Tamu said that he would go with them, and he didn't care at all. If this behavior could have reconciled his two brothers, the half-dwarf thought that this might not be a bad thing, but unexpectedly, for some reason, after the death of Alfonso Carlos, the spokesperson of the Radcliffe family, his family did not react, and Joshua did not say anything, as if nothing had happened.

Tam smelled something wrong, he motioned for his brother to stop, but the young man laughed at its caution and caution for cowardice and incompetence, in the face of the seemingly weak Joshua, they almost let go of their hands to toss, in just a few days, most of the Carlos family was killed and wounded, the Radcliffe family's industry in the central region of the empire basically lost direct contact with the main family, and fell into a semi-paralyzed state, the Fertao family quickly grabbed back a lot of the weapons market, and the Suward family also got a lot of ore orders.

Everything seemed perfect, except for the strange attitude of the Radcliffe. Thinking of the two brothers who looked down on his brother more and more, Tamu took a hard puff of his cigarette and spit it out. Of course, he knew that if he wanted to destroy the competitor's industry, it would naturally be the most convenient to attack the high-level, but this kind of thing could not last long, and even if he gained benefits temporarily, he would suffer great losses in the future under the angry revenge of other families.

How can this be explained to the young and vigorous half-dwarf? Anyway, Tamu didn't plan to do this, he only cared about himself, and as for educating his brother, that was what a father should do.

Glancing around at his fortress-like mansion, Tamu nodded with satisfaction.

The residence of the Feltao family is based on their fortress in the Northwest Territory, and most of the members of the Feltao family live in this fortress, growing up and having children little by little. Although the fortress called the Black Flag is not the strongest fortress in the Empire, it is undoubtedly the most fortified city in the Northwest Region, and in history, the Orcs have sent large armies to sweep through the entire northwest of the Empire several times in their heyday, and only the Feltao family relied on the Black Flag Fortress to barely hold the territory.

His instincts from the dwarven blood made Tam love the massive rock fortress, and it made him feel extremely safe. And it is true, except for the Morlai Palace, where the Emperor lives, the Imperial Royal Mage Academy, where countless mages gather, is almost non-existent in a mansion that can be stronger than the fortress of the Fertao family.

Except for the relatively humid and cold environment, but this is nothing compared to safety.

But suddenly, he felt a creep.

In the distance, a red streamer suddenly appeared, this streamer was so fast, that it was like a meteor across the sky, Tamu stood at the top of his mansion, and saw this meteor from the gap between the three mountains, but for some reason, he didn't feel the slightest beauty, but felt the incomparable danger from it.

He extinguished the pipe in his hand and was about to concentrate on it, but the result shocked Tamu - in just a few breaths, the red light had already crossed a long distance and reached the vicinity of the three mountains.

The huge power fluctuation triggered the defensive magic circle around the imperial capital in an instant, and I saw a slight humming sound, with a radius of nearly a hundred kilometers, and a huge magic circle that enveloped all the areas around the three mountains appeared in the sky, and the huge magic power began to mobilize, trying to suppress this unstable red meteor.

But it was useless, the meteor was like an indestructible spear, all barriers and barriers were broken as if they did not exist, and the twenty-four layers of semi-physical air barriers were easily torn apart, producing an incomparably crisp sound of glass shattering, but before the sound could be transmitted, the red streamer had already reached the top of the imperial capital wall.

The defense above the walls of the imperial capital was more stable than the defenses around the mountain, and golden chains rose from the white city walls, turning into light cocoons, trying to wrap the red streamer, but a flame bloomed, and the dense chains all turned into energy light chips, which were shattered by the blow.

At this time, Tamu had just loudly warned the guards on the tower to be on guard, and he was about to return to the mansion to prepare the two young and bold underground for defense, but at this time, the red streamer had already come to the top of the mansion that was comparable to the fortress in terms of scale and defense.

There was no sonic boom, no hurricane, the air was dispersed by an inexplicable force, and then forcibly stabilized, and the red streamer was so powerful that in fact it was silent, so that many residents of the imperial capital who had not created it did not notice the arrival of the red streamer.

Tam turned his head in surprise, he looked at the red streamer, and let out a scream - the light was too bright to almost blind his eyes in an instant, but even that made the Golden Beginner Rock Warrior temporarily blind.

However, before that, Tamu had already seen the other party's identity, and this made his heart tremble.

Joshua!

The contemporary head of the Radcliffe family!

He actually came to the imperial capital, and with this kind of arrogance and unreasonableness, it was completely an invasion and forcible momentum, breaking through the defensive array, and coming to the imperial capital!

What the hell is he trying to do?!

Before Tamu could figure it out, the warrior had already raised his sword. He's always moved faster than the enemy's mind, and this time was no exception—

With a swing of the sword, the power of Scorched Hell's Breath was activated, and the heat of thousands of degrees was condensed into an invisible air shockwave, and the obvious trajectory of the giant sword extended towards the black solid fortress, from top to bottom.

The ripples spread, the impact came, and in an instant, the main body of the fortress collapsed with a 'boom', and the place where the shock wave hit the front instantly disintegrated into powder, and the golden lava neatly split the black mansion in half.

This sword was so precise and swift that when the last wave of sword wind swept by, the center of the entire Fertao family mansion was completely cut, and through the huge gap, even the inside of the mansion could be seen, shocking the maid sitting on the ground, and the guards of the surrounding guard towers were also unstable because of the tilt of the mansion, and almost fell out of the tower.

But not a single innocent person died. The power that was controlled to the extreme did not even alarm the neighbors around the fortress, and in less than two seconds, the two young family members in the basement of the Fertao family were completely incinerated into nothingness by the hot sword wind like the sun, leaving not even smoke and dust behind.

Tam is not dead.

In the ruins, the lower half of his body had been burned by the flames, and the half-dwarf had been buried in the sand and stone of the flash black rock, and he stared at the warrior who had withdrawn his sword in mid-air, his eyes full of incredulity and anger.

"The Feltaos will get revenge!" The half-dwarf's temper was harder than stone, and even the muscles of fear were shaking unnaturally, but he could still utter threatening words. Buried in the rubble, Tamu spat out a mouthful of blood caused by the shock, and he resisted the intense drowsiness of his near death, stared into the air with half-blind eyes, and cursed viciously: "You unruly fellow, all the Northwest nobles will- poof! ”

With that, he spat out another mouthful of blood, and then his pupils dilated, and he died.

To this, Joshua did not say anything, made any response, he just faintly turned his head to look south, in the direction where the Morlay Palace was located.

And in the next instant, the space shattered.

The angry legendary powerhouse came to the warriors.

"Joshua!"

Israel Delmond was wearing a nightgown, and he still had an unknown lip print on his neck. For some unspeakable reason, he was a second late, and the result was the death of all the members of the Fertao family in the imperial capital: "What are you doing?!" ”

"Long time no see, Your Majesty the Emperor."

Standing in mid-air, with the black mansion gradually collapsing behind him, Joshua calmly greeted the legendary powerhouse with an angry face in front of him, and the panicked and fearful screams of the servants of the Feltao family echoed in the sky above the northern district of the imperial capital, but this could not suppress the warrior's soft words: "As you can see, revenge only." ”

Some things will never change.

It's like this.

It's not that Joshua can't understand the rules of struggle of the nobles, he clearly understands that this is the cultural precipitation of hundreds of years, thinking that Alfonso himself is actually ready to die, and his son and deputy easily accept this fact.

But he won't. He never thinks about it that much. He is Joshua. He wants revenge, and no one can stop him.

“…… Hum. ”

Israel glanced at the Fertao family's mansion, and with a cold snort, he extinguished all the scorching aftermath and lava, he noticed that except for the three and a half dwarves who died, there was no fourth casualty, and his emotions gradually calmed down, he turned his head to look at Joshua, and said coldly: "Although it is ruthless and unfair, but this is the rule that all the strong people on the entire continent acquiesce into, if everyone is like you, then how can order be maintained?" Transcendents raid each other's homes at will? Do you also want the main city of Moldavia to be attacked by someone else?"

And Joshua replied more simply: "Just let them come." ”

The warrior did not hesitate: "Business matters, if they want to negotiate, I gladly accept it." If they want to coerce me, then I will not kill me even if they come to fight. But if you take a shot at my subordinates, I will take revenge directly. ”

"You just think you're better than all of them, so you don't have any scruples."

Israel laughed angrily, and His Majesty the Emperor didn't bother to talk nonsense, he showed a smile that made Joshua feel familiar: "Well, haven't you always wanted to challenge me?" ”

"Come on, then!"

Immediately, the latter also showed the same expression.

"Okay."

The next moment.

The two disappeared into the imperial capital.

The clouds high in the wee hours of the morning glowed brilliantly.