258. A conspiracy against the Void Principality
The principals of the Void Principality have always been the triumvirate.
The government affairs of the entire territory managed by Neil, including economy, culture, law and other aspects, can almost be said to be the real Grand Duke of the Void Duchy. And under his hands, there are naturally special institutions similar to the Void Realm, but there is no official name, but these people also have their own projects, among which the one who is directly responsible for Neil is Soma. Hasting, Kazi, and Ruud. Michelin trio.
These three people have their own strengths, Somayou, who was born in the aristocracy, is good at the development of culture, and under his arrangement, the cultural literacy of the entire Void Duchy has obviously improved; Kazi, who was a commoner and used to work as a secretary by Soma's side, is particularly adept at mastering various details, so he has a significant role in the compilation of the laws of the Void Duchy; And Rude, who was born as a commoner and experienced the life of an aristocracy and a soldier, and finally became a lord of one side. Michelin is also good at territorial management and has made remarkable achievements in economic construction.
Neil is usually only in charge of the big picture and lays out some plans, but the details are left to these three people.
From the beginning of the Void Realm to the Void Principality, these three people also have their own set of plans for managing the various government affairs of the entire Void Principality, so they have also cultivated their own team.
Back then, because of the demagogy of the Minister of Intelligence of the Millennium Covenant Empire, Kazi and Soma actually had some differences on whether to informe or not. And this disagreement gradually made a gap between the two as things became more and more intense later, and now, Kazi, who was originally Soma's identity with a fart, has an identity equal to Soma. On top of many political opinions, these two people have faintly antagonistic identities of political enemies.
The human heart is such a delicate thing.
It's just that these two people would never have thought of it. The contradiction that caused them to turn against each other today was actually arranged by William.
Few people know. William was actually a student taught by Neil.
When William betrayed the Millennium Covenant, he was in the most difficult period of his life, and it happened that at that time he met Neil who went out to practice, and was surprised by Neil's ability, William pestered for a long time before finally worshipping the teacher, but the two did not disclose this relationship to the outside world. And William is also limited by the relationship between talent and longevity, and does not study Neil in its entirety, but only picks the aspect of military strategy to learn.
But to say that William's talent is really not good, in fact, it is not true. It should be said that the cliché way of education is not suitable for him. He has a very wide range of imaginative thoughts, and his sense of smell is also unusually sensitive, and he is not limited to thinking about problems in one inch or one place, so he is often able to think more deeply than others in many things, and he will act more freely.
And after having such a super-large killing weapon as the Void Realm, many of William's policies and ideas can also be implemented more perfectly.
If the only downside is to be mentioned, it is that William's ability to judge the big picture is not as good as Hela's.
Hela is inferior to William in the use of techniques and schemes, mainly because Hela's judgment and analytical skills are not particularly good. But she has another advantage that ordinary people can't match: the manipulation of people's hearts.
Hela was born as a great nobleman. Since she was a child, she was born in a difficult environment, so she can clearly capture the hearts and minds of all the people who communicate with her. With this kind of use, Hela, who is naturally good at empathy, can naturally accurately grasp the true thoughts of the other party, and as she grows older, her experience increases, and her knowledge is enriched. Hella is also becoming more and more aware of how to grasp the development of fortune.
At the end of the day, there's only one way for Hella to do it: build momentum, and then flatten.
She didn't need to care about three-seven-twenty-one at all. Just let her spread the momentum and completely gain the upper hand. It doesn't matter if the other party has three heads and six arms, they all have to die at her hands.
There is Niranne. Hela and William Externally, as long as these three people do not fall, it is naturally impossible for any mistakes to occur. And the team established by these three people is now becoming more and more stable and strong, and it can even be said that the talents they have cultivated are just too overkill to manage a city and a place in the Void Duchy, these guys are either legion commanders who can control more than 50,000 people, or they can manage talents in a marquisate.
Each of them, for the nobles of Lane, can keep a family stable for decades to come, but the Void Principality is simply making it in batches.
This point naturally makes countless people blush.
Even the neighboring countries began to fight the idea of the Void Duchy.
And for the aristocracy, the most common conspiracy is nothing more than co-optation and assassination.
Since it can't be wooed, then it has to be assassinated.
In the nearly one year that Sean has left the Void Duchy, William has been assassinated three times. However, perhaps he had suffered at the hands of Sean, and the Assassins League did not take on these tasks; Although Deaththorn wanted to take it, he had no choice but to suffer a big loss in Sean's hands some time ago, so he temporarily relented; It was the Hermitage that really made the move, but after three failed missions and the loss of three elites, all assassination plans against the Void Principality were now put on hold.
If that's the case, the Void Duchy can really be safe.
But the conspiracies from among the nobles are obviously endless.
In addition, now that William, Neil, and Hella are separated from each other, many things want to support and inform each other, and there will definitely be a gap in time.
It's like now.
William, who was leaving the Great Rift Valley to return to the territory of the Void Principality, received an urgent message from the Void Realm.
Sitting in the carriage, unfolding the letter, William's brows instantly furrowed.
The Void Realm has grown unprecedentedly in the past few years, and the relevant rules and regulations and division of labor have also been clearly distributed. Now that the control of intelligence within the Void Principality is completely controlled, it is almost impossible for spies and spies from the outside world to infiltrate, even if they are lucky. It is often very costly. And with William's internal recommendation and orphan cultivation methods, even if these spies and spies can infiltrate. Don't even think of snooping on any secrets anytime soon.
And with the Void Principality as the core, the intelligence network radiates outward. It has also basically been developed and perfected to a certain extent.
It can be said that with the Tonis Fortress as the boundary, the situation of the territories outside the fortress is basically under the control of the Void Realm, and now that the magic array has been basically completed, the speed of information transmission in the Ryan Kingdom is much faster than imagined. The closer you get to the Void Principality, the stronger the control of the Void Realm, especially those who have an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with Sean, and their intelligence gathering ability is better than all of them.
In Seine's case, the intelligence work of the Void Realm has been clearly sniped. Infiltration efforts are being carried out very hard in many areas. Even though the treasury of the Void Duchy has been relatively rich recently, William and Neil have increased their investment, it is still going very badly. And these, or because those Sene aristocratic factions are no longer so tough after seeing the strong strength that Sean showed in the deep belly of the country last time, otherwise these groups that have reached a consensus of interests will join forces to blockade it, and the intelligence infiltration work of William and others will only be more difficult.
At this time, the content of the letter was a report of the incident that William had told him to keep a close eye on before leaving.
In recent months. Smaller groups began to infiltrate the county from the northeast of the Void Principality. These teams ranged in size from five to ten, and were mostly dressed as ordinary adventurers, with occasional small groups of mercenaries in the name of escort - since the establishment of the Void Principality, the control of mercenaries in the country was very strict. Basically, legions with a size of more than 100 people will inevitably be monitored as long as they enter the territory of the Void Duchy, and if there is a slight problem, they will be expelled directly.
Therefore, it is impossible to see any legions in the Void Duchy now. Others are obviously aware of this, so they use small numbers to infiltrate. Of course. If discovered, they will still be subject to strict surveillance or outright deportation.
It's just this time. It's a little different.
These small teams were still in good order at the beginning, and they entered the Void Principality through regular channels - no way, Sean's current military strength can maintain law and order in the territory, but when it comes to the security problems of some villages and towns, it will be a little stretched, and the territory of the Void Principality is relatively vast, and there are indeed several low-level ruins, dungeons and places where you can hunt demonic beasts, especially the existence of the Gray Shadow Forest, which makes many adventurers eager to do so.
In these matters involving interests, the Void Principality certainly cannot forcefully drive everyone out, which will offend many forces.
So at first, William and Hela didn't pay much attention to it.
It wasn't until some time ago, when William and Hela were murdering the Savage Legion, that they discovered some problems that were secretly hidden by each other.
More than twenty teams of adventurers actually have secret connections with each other, and with the cooperation of these people, they really let them smuggle a legion into the Void Realm. The scale of this legion is not very large, only two or three hundred people, but according to the investigation of the Void Realm, this is an elite army, and even those adventurer teams are soldiers, even with them, the scale has reached five hundred, which can already constitute a standard strong combat unit.
This is something that William and Hella could not ignore.
However, if all these people are driven out in the absence of evidence, then William can be sure that the other party will definitely take this opportunity to make a big fuss, and then the Void Duchy will definitely fall into a passive situation, which is not what William and Hela are willing to see. Therefore, the next course of action is to let the people of the Void Realm pay close attention to this group of people, and collect a piece of evidence in favor of the Void Principality, as long as there is sufficient evidence, then these people can be directly expelled from the country.
But what William didn't expect was that this group of people was incredibly cautious.
For three months, these people did not show even a single bit of their feet, and at this time Hela and William's Wild Legion plan was also on the agenda, so Ruby and Higrid had to be sent out, so that the intelligence gathering of this group of people was even more backward. Until Hela and William both left the Void Duchy, the origins, motives, and relevant evidence of this group of people could not be obtained.
This situation was naturally a shocking thing for the Void Duchy, which had almost reached absolute control now. This is because the opponent's capabilities in counter-reconnaissance and counter-intelligence espionage are obviously of a very first-class level. And so it goes. William had no choice but to dig deeper, and he himself naturally had no time to deal with the matter for the time being.
I didn't expect it. Over the next two months, several trading caravans entered the Void Duchy under the guise of hired escorts, and joined up with them.
Of course, this convergence was only a public meeting of each other's leaders - some of them even pretended to be drunk and made trouble, but in fact they were secretly passing on information, and William was of course very helpless about this, after all, there was no real evidence. Regardless of what the other party is plotting for, the scale of these people has now reached two thousand, which has produced a certain threat to the Void Principality.
Just when William was about to order the encirclement and suppression as bandits, this group suddenly adopted the original method of the Thunder Lion in the duel between the Thunder Lion and the Mountain Lion Legion: it was broken into pieces. Suddenly two thousand people fell like drops of water into the lake and sea. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared without a trace, and no matter how much the Void Realm explored, they could not find any trace of these people, so far William and Hela did not know that someone was launching a new round of conspiracy against the Void Duchy.
And the timing was perfect.
At the same time that Sean left the Void Principality, Hela and William also left at the same time.
William knew immediately that there was a traitor inside.
After thinking about this, William immediately changed his strategy, and as a result, he really found a few traitors who were bribed internally.
These traitors were not high-ranking people, but rather the commanders of the garrisons of the towns or the squires. Although the status is not high, it is a bit of a privilege to have one-third of an acre of land. With these people, it is very convenient, let alone two thousand people, with such a huge and vast territory of the Void Principality today. It's not a problem to mix in three or four thousand people.
As soon as he thought of this, William was immediately half angry, so he directly came to kill chickens and monkeys.
This. It was probably the largest internal and bloody purge of the Void Duchy since its founding. A total of 300 garrison captains and knights from the counties of Tinchiin, Soan, Day, and Yederby were directly executed for treason, including their families. In this way, it naturally greatly shocked the grassroots of the entire Void Principality. It also made these people finally remember that the establishment of the Void Principality was accompanied by countless bloodsheds. Now it is true that it is stable, but the methods of those in high positions will not be merciful.
After this thunderous and bloody method, the Void Realm really found new clues, and also had a reason to expel all these people from the Void Principality. It's just that William and Hela are not in the country, so after discovering the traces of this group of people, how to deal with it has become a problem, but the people in the Void Realm are also smart, and they directly went to ask the only giant who is now in the Void Duchy.
In this regard, Neil didn't even think about it, so he directly mobilized the garrisons of the two surrounding places to fight.
If things had gone so well, William wouldn't have received the letter.
The letter, written by Neil.
The two local garrisons that were dispatched by him totaled 3,000 men, and it was impossible for these two armies, which were only quasi-third-level strength, to have any advantages in terms of quality and quantity. It's just that Neil didn't plan to let them do anything, as long as they restricted the movement of this enemy army, but they didn't expect the captains of these two garrisons to be greedy for merit and send troops directly without knowing the details of the enemy and us.
With a quasi-third-level army against a fourth-level army, the result is known with your toes.
After the First World War, this army was no longer secretive, and simply occupied a key place in Yederby County, and directly launched fortifications. As a result, all three counties, including Yedby County, Dae County, and Void County, are directly threatened by this army. At this time, the two armies of Cecilia Guards and Thunder Lion were borrowed by Wiles to deal with the third garrison of the original Dabiang Kingdom because of the problems on the side of the Broken Dragon Valley, and it was obviously impossible to return to the country.
The only elite troops that the Void Principality can use now are steel wings, and the conviction wings, which are still secretly in existence.
Of course, the current size of the Wings of Judgment is only a handful of four or five hundred people, barely able to assemble a combat unit. It's just that at present, the relevant equipment of this army has not been completed, so if you really want to go to the battlefield, it is still quite difficult. However, because it is recommended by other top legions, it is actually possible to use the standard equipment of other legions, but this will be quite confusing, so it was directly vetoed by William.
"Is it only the steel wings that can be used?" William's brows furrowed slightly, "Sneaking in from Tinkiin, after more than half a year of secretly lurking to Yederby, the movement is very accurate, it is coming towards Void City." …… So is the goal to infiltrate Void City, or the research institute of the Thunder Lion's residence? It seems that there is a high-ranking person behind this army who is directing the transfer. However, now that the research institute and the arsenal are a little weak, the Void City does not have to worry about the other party attacking the city by relying on the advantages of the city wall, and must prevent the other party from having another strange army. It seems that he can only take 2,000 men to fight each other. (To be continued......)