The arrival of Executive Officer Christina was indeed a little unexpected by Sean, but since everyone said that she was in charge of arbitrating the ownership of the territory this time, then of course Sean couldn't say anything. So, he had to arrange a room for her in the Lord's Mansion, which happened to be next door to Bes, anyway, as long as Bess was there, Sean believed that Christina would not be able to make any waves.

As for Christina's combat power, Sean had no doubts in the slightest.

A white-robed executive officer from the Peace Association, his combat effectiveness can definitely be regarded as the kind of existence at the pinnacle of the same level. And in the past nearly a month of training, Sean has also clearly realized the gap between himself and the upper golden powerhouse, at least he alone will definitely not be Christina's opponent, even if there is Gollum, at most it will be a reluctant draw, if you count Shefanio, you can win, but if Christina is determined to escape, they really have no way to stop it.

Because according to the description of the city defense army at the south gate that night, Christina came in the air.

This technique of stepping into the air is an exclusive skill for arcane warriors, and it is a special ability that uses the combination of arcane and fighting energy. This ability allows Arcane warriors to move freely on any terrain without any interference, and although there is a height limit when taking off, it is true that only Arcane warriors can rise to the air to fight as a profession below the Sanctuary, which is still a very big advantage.

In any way, Christina's appearance did bring Sean and others an unprecedented sense of pressure and deterrence.

After arranging Christina's affairs, Neil, William, and Sean came to the small conference room together, and after the three of them looked at each other, they finally sighed helplessly.

"I've never heard of an executive instead of an arbitrator in an arbitration in which the Peace Society intervenes." Neil said with a puzzled expression. "That man...... Could it be someone from the Hastings? ”

"Unlikely." William was also a little unsure, "How could the people of the Peace Society be bribed?" ”

"No, no, no, I'm not talking about buying." Neil shook his head, with a look on his face as to why your reaction had become so sluggish, "What I'm talking about is, this person, could it be a fake?" That is, he is not from the Peace Society......"

"I think you're the one with the IQ problem." William was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it carefully, he turned white like Neil with disgust. It's just that this charming appearance has a bit of a feeling of playing the piano with a cow when facing Neil, "If it's fake, then how can she know what kind of ...... she was in two and a half years ago?"

William glanced back at Sean.

"Tynders, a county in the Kingdom of Portoroa near the Starfall Forest."

“…… Right! William nodded vigorously, "If she's a fake." Then she would never have known what had happened to Tinders. From this point of view, she cannot be a fake. …… Perhaps, as she said. She's been hunting Sean for the past two years. So this time, I rushed over after receiving the news. I think it's very likely that there may be a shortage of people within the Peace Association......"

But before he could finish speaking, William himself shut up.

Although the Peace Society is an extreme mad organization, and since it was jointly defeated by all the countries of the entire continent, the Peace Society has never formed any army, but there are many executive officers who charge the front lines of wars everywhere and have a very high mortality rate. What's more, there is never a need for an arbitrator who is involved in the content of the battle, but is responsible for arbitrating disputes and events across the continent.

"This executive is really not a fake." Sean thought carefully before he spoke, "The Peace Society's uniform has special markings, and I have carefully observed them before. The marks are real, so her identity can be confirmed. …… However, this is actually no different for us, anyway, the territorial deed document is in our hands, whether it is the executive or the arbitrator, the result will not change in any way. ”

"That's right." William and Neil nodded.

"Speaking of which, that guy named Stephen has been holding on for a month, right? Did you ask something? Thinking of this, Sean suddenly asked.

Hearing Sean's words, Neil also turned his gaze to William, he has been very busy recently, so he didn't ask about interrogating the captives, he had forgotten about it, and now he was reminded by Sean, he was also a little curious.

It's just that, unlike the situation imagined by Sean and Neil, William's face changed slightly when he heard this, and it looked extremely unnatural.

"Is something wrong?" Sean frowned slightly.

"I have the handle in his hands."

Sean keenly noticed that William's hands that had been on the table suddenly clenched, and then reached under the table. His face became very ugly at this moment, as if he remembered something, so the blood on his face began to fade gradually, becoming extremely pale, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

"It doesn't matter what tricks you have, you're my person now." Sean took a deep breath before he spoke, "Those things in the past can no longer threaten you. ”

Hearing Sean's words, William raised his head and glanced at Sean, with a little emotion in his eyes, but he quickly hid it in his heart again.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became a little silent and awkward.

"What the hell is going on?" Neil couldn't hold it back.

"Do you know about the coup d'état of the Millennium Covenant Empire about ten years ago?"

The coup d'état ten years ago?

Sean was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know what to do.

"Is it said that the Battle of Pochilia was the fuse for the shuffling of the old and new aristocratic circles?" Neil seemed to have some understanding of this, and after a little thought, he spoke, "If memory serves, the current Emperor of the Millennium Covenant Empire is a supporter of the new nobles. It was the coup d'état that allowed him to sit firmly on the throne...... Rumor has it that after the coup d'état, he stabbed a total of eleven members of the royal family, including his father. ”

"What happened to the Battle of Pochilia?" Sean was a little dazed.

"It was a battle in which the empire marched into the wilderness to open up its territory." Neil explained, "The commander of the army is the Marquis of Houghton, a new nobleman. In terms of family strength alone, he should be regarded as a marquis with real power. However, although the commander was the Marquis of Houghton, it was actually the White Rose Legion that was really in charge of the battle at that time, and this legion ......"

Speaking of this, Neil suddenly paused and looked at William with some surprise.

Sean was a little confused.

However, William had already spoken: "In addition to the size of the formation of that army, in addition to one imperial legion, there are also eleven nobles' private soldiers involved, half of the old and new nobles. Although the Marquis of Holden is a new nobleman, he became the commander of the army because of his highest title, but the Marquis of Holden himself is not particularly good at fighting, so the empire will specially arrange the White Rose Legion to become the main combat legion. And I was the deputy commander of this regiment at that time. ”

"A month before the start of this war, it can be said that the Imperial army won a complete victory, but then in a canyon, because of the Marquis Houghton's triumph, he led the army into a canyon. When encountering the enemy's front and rear attacks, it can be said that the losses were heavy. William took a deep breath. Continue to speak in a deep voice. "The legion I belonged to at that time was not even a third-rate army in the empire, and the main force of the battle was actually just a cannon fodder unit, and I was ordered by Marquis Holden to lead the remnants of the White Rose Legion at this time."

"Isn't this an outcast?" Sean was furious.

"You're naïve. This is normal in the science of war. Neil glanced at Sean and whispered, "If you continue to flee like this, you will only be wiped out." Therefore, it is necessary to give up some people and let more people survive, so that we may be able to turn defeat into victory. ”

"Yes, it was because of that. So I stayed. William nodded, his voice calming down, "Although the process was a bit cruel, the result was undoubtedly lucky, including me, in the end, hundreds of people survived, and at that time, because I had the highest military rank, I became the captain of more than 100 people." After a month-long detour and absconding, we managed to make our way back to the borders of the Empire. …… However, what awaits us is not glory, but a ...... Slaughter. ”

"For what?" Sean was stunned.

In fact, including Neil, he also looked incredulous.

"Because this so-called border war is actually a conspiracy from beginning to end." William sneered, his voice a little unspeakably lonely, "At that time, there were four candidates within the empire who were expected to become the new emperor, but the current emperor's support rate was the lowest at that time, because no old nobleman was optimistic about him, after all, the strength shown by this prince at that time was not as good as his brother and sister." ”

Hearing this, Sean basically understood a little: "So, in order to become the new king of the thousand-year alliance empire, that prince hooked up with those emerging nobles who were not very valued, and then designed a conspiracy against the old nobles, and used this as a fuse to send out the confrontation between the old and new nobles within the empire......"

"It's not antagonism, it's civil strife!" William opened his mouth to correct Sean's words, "This is a war that has swept the entire northwest of the empire, and a total of ten veteran nobles with a heritage of more than two hundred years have all died in this war. …… In this case, it is impossible for the neighboring countries not to know these things, so at that time, in order to deal with the Emelian Empire, the Northwest Front had no time to suppress it, and only mobilized the legions from other parts of the empire, but no one expected that almost as soon as the transfer order was issued, a coup d'état occurred in the royal capital, and a total of more than eleven members of the royal family were killed in this coup d'état, including the previous king of the Millennium Covenant Empire, which is now the father of the new king. ”

"It was only at this time that the nobility of the entire empire reacted, it was a premeditated coup d'état."

"If it's a coup d'état, then it's impossible for other nobles to swear allegiance, right?" Sean was a little shocked.

"This was indeed the case at the beginning, but in the first event after the coup d'état, those emerging nobles in the Northwest War Circle immediately expressed their allegiance to the new king, and at the same time, together with the Northwest Front, became the first combat force under the command of the new king." Neil spoke, apparently having studied the civil strife in the Millennium Covenant Empire, "Within a day, all the nobles living in the royal capital swore allegiance to the new king, although the details are unknown. However, it is probably inseparable from threats, assassinations, inducements and other means. …… After that, the only nobles who insisted on not returning were the eleven old nobles in the southern aristocratic circle, including two dukes, but when the situation in other places was a foregone conclusion, the new king naturally had enough military strength to quell the war in the south. ”

"What a very powerful and courageous emperor." Sean was surprised, but seemed to realize that something was wrong with the current situation, so Sean changed the topic a little stiffly, "So what's the matter with you?" Haven't you already left the Millennium Covenant Empire? How can there be a handle? ”

"When I returned to the border of the Empire, the war in the northwestern aristocratic circle had already taken place, and what awaited us was a massacre." William said in a deep voice, "But at that time we didn't know what to do. It wasn't until we were surrounded that we realized that we had fallen into a trap, and although we resisted, there were less than five people who escaped from the encirclement. …… Just when we thought it was all about to end, I met a classmate from the Wangdu Military Academy, the daughter of a new aristocracy. And he also seems to be the commander of one of the defensive points of the encirclement. ”

"Oh!" Sean and Neil suddenly lengthened their voices very tacitly.

"Looks like I kind of understand what's going on." Sean nodded.

"I get it, too." Neil nodded too, "No wonder it's a handle." …… Let's put it this way. Is the girl still alive? ”

"Yes. Alive. William nodded, "She was the one who let us go, and only four of us, including me, managed to escape." …… It's just that the other three are civilians, so they left the empire first after they fled, but I can't, I have to go back to my family. ”

"And then?"

"I found out later. It turns out that my family has also chosen to take refuge in the new king in order to protect themselves. William smiled bitterly, "So, I was an outcast from the beginning. Also a sacrificial one. …… But because I came back alive, some things started to get strange, the Imperial Intelligence didn't know what happened to Lu Dao Wei Lu that I was still alive, and what was even stranger was that they wanted to make me an earl, or a field earl. …… But I felt that I couldn't stand these things, so I chose to leave the Empire, but I didn't expect that I was actually being watched by the Imperial intelligence services, so I had no choice but to go back to my classmate, and I managed to escape from the Empire under her cover. ”

"So now this classmate of yours has been captured by the Empire?"

"Yes." William nodded, "Although I don't know much about the rest of the matter, according to Dils, Laice was arrested five years ago, but if it was for helping me escape to the Empire, then it should have been ten years ago." ”

"Didn't the guy named Diers say anything more?" Sean asked.

"After he told me about this that day, I didn't go to see him again, and I left the interrogation to Ruby." William said with some frustration.

"What does he want you to do?"

"Tell him who the awakened of the Phoenix Bloodline is, and also name the list of everyone who has left the Gap Rift half a year ago, and let him go." William sighed, "How could I possibly tell him about Cecilia?" As for the matter of the Gap Rift, he didn't have to think about it to know that he must be looking for the secret research institute. If I told him all this, wouldn't it be tantamount to selling both Sean and Cecilia? ”

"It doesn't hurt to tell him." Sean suddenly laughed.

"What do you mean?" William and Neil were stunned.

"It doesn't matter if you tell him about me and Cecilia." Sean said calmly, "Anyway, we didn't want to keep him alive from the beginning, so wouldn't it matter if we told him these things?" …… As long as he is imprisoned with us, then it is impossible for him to leak the information. ”

"But......" William was stunned for a moment.

Hearing Sean's words, Neil thought about it and immediately understood, he turned his head to look at William, and said in a deep voice, "Are you a little too nervous?" If we do let him go, but he doesn't release Laice, then wouldn't we have a big loss? …… We'll release him only after he releases Laice. But if we let him go, then the Millennium Covenant Empire will definitely know that we have such a person as Bes, so it is absolutely impossible for us to let him go. ”

From the very beginning, from the moment Dears was caught, Sean, Neil, and William had reached a consensus that Dills must not be let go.

Otherwise, the Millennium Covenant Empire will know about the situation here in the Void City, and then there may be stronger enemies in the plan against Sean in the future, which Sean and the others cannot afford. Therefore, when Diers was caught, his fate was already sealed, and secret death would only be his belonging, and no one else would know his whereabouts.

And William, because he heard the news about Laice, was a little out of place, so he forgot something.

"However, if he gave the order," William thought for a moment...... "then does this mean that it is possible for the Millennium Covenant Empire to follow this clue and find out that Dears is missing from us?" ”

"It's just an intelligence officer, or a spy, will the Thousand-Year Covenant Empire come to us to investigate with great fanfare?" Sean pursed his lips.

"Nope." Neil suddenly understood William's concerns, "It's because we won't make a big deal about it that we will be more troublesome." We can't arrest them all, can we? And this Dils's strength, but even Bess was wounded, if it was really found out that he was missing from us, then even a secret execution of him would be a pointless act. ”

"And what about Laice?"

In the conference room, there was silence again.

……

Meanwhile, in the Tonis Fortress, a mysterious man wearing a hooded cloak with no real face is pushing open the back door of a tavern, then driving upstairs and knocking on a door.

"Come in." A dry cough rang out in the room.

The next moment, the door was pushed open, and the mysterious man who walked into the room lifted his hood and knelt on one knee with a respectful face: "My lord." ”

"Still no news from Dils?" The man in the room was called "Adult" was a handsome middle-aged man, although he was not wearing armor, only carrying a knight's sword, but his body still exuded an incomparable majesty, and even sitting in this humble room, his sitting posture was still impeccable.

This middle-aged man is the leader of the Holy Dragon Knights of the Millennium Covenant Empire, the Dragon Knight. Tuhlman. (To be continued......)

PS: It's starting to get colder and colder, so keep warm, my hands are frozen.