Chapter 93 Assassination

The City of Divine Grace is located at the intersection of the Green Blood River, the Foul River and the Vance River. The water here is abundant and the plants are luxuriant. The city is built in a large forest. It does not look like a city in Dorne at all, but rather like a city in Dorne. is a town in the Reach.

The entire Shen'en City is very large, at least three times the size of Sunspear City. There are no tall buildings here, they are all low-rise buildings. The tallest building is the main castle where the Elion family lives.

Unlike other castles that use city walls to completely separate the inner city main castle from the outer city towns, the main castle of Divine Grace City and the outer towns are not blocked and completely integrated.

The lack of city walls does not mean that the defense of Divine Grace City is worse than other castles. In fact, the outer towns can also play a defensive role. These low houses, combined with the surrounding trees and narrow streets, turn the town into a maze .

Even if more troops enter this area, they will have to divide into small teams to pass through these narrow streets. Once the troops are divided, the Divine Grace Guards hidden in this town will be able to annihilate the invaders in the streets one by one. middle.

Only when you encounter a monster like a dragon that breathes fire from its head will the defense of Divine Grace City be completely ineffective.

When Rhaenys Targaryen rode her dragon Meraxes to attack Dorne, the lord of Divine Grace City realized that his castle could not withstand the dragon's attack, so he made an extremely bold move. The decision was made to abandon the entire castle, and everyone moved and hid in the nearby Shen'en Mountains, leaving only an empty city. Therefore, this Shen'en City was one of the few that was not completely burned by the dragon flames. Castle.

Although during the period of Aegon the Conqueror, the Arion family of the City of Divine Grace was one of the few families in Dorne whose strength was well preserved, and they also occupied the fertile land where three rivers converged, this family has always been difficult to develop and grow because It was as if their family was subject to some kind of curse. Whenever the family became prosperous, the number of heirs would inexplicably decrease, and the heirs were even almost extinct several times.

For example, Mrs. Delron Elion, who is now in charge of Divine Grace City, had to take on the responsibility of supporting the Elion family after all the direct male heirs of the Elion family died.

In Dorne, it is not uncommon for a female of the family to take power and become a lord, because the custom here is that both men and women have the right to inherit.

But when a woman holds power, the family does not have many side clan members to support her, and she has a lot of resources at hand, the dangers she faces will increase exponentially.

When Countess Dellon was in charge of Divine Grace City, it was such a critical moment. She was surrounded by a pack of wolves. The nearby big lords such as Thor City and Vance City all wanted to take a bite of Divine Grace City.

Her decisive choice at that time was to marry into the Martell family of Sunspear, choose a husband from the Martell family, marry into the Arion family, and use the strength of Martell to stabilize the situation.

A few years later, Roger Alliant was born, the Alliant family had an heir, and the situation stabilized.

When Roger Alyon was seven years old, the Martel husband of the Countess Dellon fell seriously ill and died. Some people said that the husband was poisoned by the Countess Dellon. The Countess Dellon was not hungry. But then she took a vow of chastity and never remarried until today.

Countess Dellon is naturally responsible for the fact that the Elion family is able to maintain its current situation. The surrounding noble lords also respect her very much. This martial arts tournament was held in her name.

When Linde and the others came to the City of Divine Grace, it was still two days before the official start of the tournament. Compared with other nobles in Dorne, they arrived a little late.

The woods outside the City of Divine Grace are all densely packed with tents, at least three to four hundred of them. From the flags on the tents, it can be seen that most of the noble lords of Dorne have sent people or come in person.

Because she had notified them with a raven in advance, even though Linde and the others arrived a little late, Countess Dellon still set aside two open spaces for the Martell family and the Tyrell family. These two open spaces were on the banks of the Green Blood River, and Together, they are flat and well-groomed grasslands, which are very suitable for camping.

While setting up the camp, Villas, accompanied by the knight guards such as Linde and Gars, went to the main castle of Divine Grace City to meet Countess Dellon.

Because the tournament attracted knights and warriors from all over Dorne, the population of the entire city of Divine Grace increased several times, which made the originally not very wide streets even narrower. From time to time, oxcarts filled with goods passed through the streets. Walking through made the crowding situation worse.

Although Gars and other knight guards protected Veras in the middle and tried their best to push away the crowd, they still could not withstand the push of the surging crowd. Several knight guards were pushed away by the crowd, leaving one in the protective circle. flaw.

At this time, a bullock cart that was slowly advancing in front of the road suddenly broke free of its reins as if it had been stimulated by something, and began to run away like crazy. It directly knocked away a dozen people blocking the front and rushed in the direction of Linde and the others. come over.

In order to avoid the charging mad cow, the people in front ran forward desperately, and many of the knight guards protecting Vilas were rushed away.

Seeing this, Lind shouted to Gars and the other knight guards, and then pulled Vilas and quickly moved to a relatively dark alley nearby to avoid the mad cow.

However, just as Linde and Vilas entered the alley first, a group of soldiers armed with weapons suddenly rushed out of the houses on both sides of the alley and rushed towards Vilas and Linde.

Facing these people, Lind directly blocked Vilas behind him, then drew out the two broad-bladed hand and half swords on his back, and faced these killers.

I saw that in a narrow space, he could still easily dodge attacks from all directions, and while dodging, the broad-bladed half-sword in his hand could easily kill these people. In less than a minute, more than a dozen people were killed. The killer had already had his neck cut off by Linde and fell to the ground.

Behind him, Gars and other knight guards had also protected Vilas and drew their weapons to prepare.

"It seems that the Dornish people don't like your peace agreement very much." Lind turned to look at Willas and said.

"Can you figure out where they are from?" Vilas was not panicked by the assassination just now. He motioned to Garth to get out of the way, then walked to Linde, looked at the corpse on the ground, and asked.

Linde said solemnly: "I think you should consider returning to the camp now instead of thinking about where these killers are from. The mad cow just now was probably not an accident. We don't know how many killers there are on the streets."

Villas thought for a moment and said, "I still want to continue to see Countess Dellon."

Lind frowned and said, "Aren't you worried that these killers were arranged by Countess Delon?"

Vilas shook his head and said: "These killers are most unlikely to be sent by Countess Delron."

Lind retorted: "On what basis did you make this judgment? Is there evidence to prove it? Or was it just your intuition?"

Vilas fell silent, unable to refute Linde's words.

At this time, the scene of so many knights waiting in the alley had attracted the attention of people outside. They looked over one after another, and what they saw were corpses all over the ground. Some people immediately screamed, and some shouted loudly. Call: "He killed someone, call the garrison, call the garrison!"

Soon the commotion spread at the entrance of the alley. The crowd that had not calmed down due to the mad cow collision once again became chaotic because of the corpses in the alley. People ran away and hid everywhere, fearing that they would be innocently affected. .

While avoiding the running crowd, a little girl was knocked into the entrance of the alley where Linde and the others were. Her head hit the corner of the wall hard, and blood came out of the little girl's forehead. The little girl also seemed to have been hit. He was unconscious and lying motionless on the ground.

Seeing this, Villas immediately walked over to check the little girl's injuries.

However, Lind grabbed Vilas and then motioned directly to the knight closest to the little girl.

The knight was stunned when he saw Linde's gesture, and then without much thought, he raised his weapon and struck at the little girl.

The little girl who was supposed to be unconscious suddenly opened her eyes at this moment, and rolled with extremely agile movements to avoid the falling weapon. She quickly rolled on the ground a few times, then got up and headed towards the not far away place. The crowd rushed forward, trying to escape into the surrounding crowd.

Although her steps were fast, they were not as fast as the weapon thrown by Linde. A broad-bladed half-sword passed through her body from the back and pinned her directly to the wall.

Vilas was stunned when he saw this scene, his face immediately darkened, and there was an angry look in his eyes.

The reason why he was angry was not because he blamed Lind for taking action, because he already knew that the little girl should also be a killer. He was angry with himself, angry that he was too naive to be fooled like this.

Lind ignored Villas who was reflecting on himself. He signaled Gals and others to protect Villas, then walked to the pinned killer, pulled out his sword, wiped it and put it back into the scabbard. , and then looked at the killer who fell on the ground.

This person is not a little girl at all, but a dwarf disguised as a little girl. There is nothing suspicious about him, only a beautiful small box.

Linde reached out and picked up the small box, looked at it, and was about to open it, but soon he thought of something and immediately stopped opening the box.

At this time, his extraordinary hearing heard a sigh from the crowd around him, as if he was feeling sorry for something. He looked over and found that the person who sighed was an ordinary-looking hawker.

So, he turned around and walked over, coming to the vendor.

Seeing Linde, the vendor's eyes showed a trace of panic. Before he could say anything, Linde's fist fell on his head and knocked him unconscious.

The people around him immediately fled in panic. They obviously misunderstood that Linde was trying to kill someone, and they were afraid that they would become Linde's next target.

Linde ignored these people, directly lifted the hawker up, walked back to Gals and others, handed the person in his hand to a knight, and asked him to find a rope to tie him up.

"Is this also a killer?" Villas looked at the vendor and asked.

Linde nodded and said, "They should be together with that dwarf killer."

"Dwarf killer?" Vilas was stunned, and soon thought of something, and looked at the corpse not far away.

"Let's go back to the camp." Lind ordered directly without asking Vilas what he thought.

At this time, Vilas said nothing more. The successive assassinations had proved that his current situation was very unsafe. Even though he had absolute trust in Linde's strength, he also understood that returning to the camp was the best thing to do now.

So, surrounded by many knights, Vilas and others walked back from the original road.

Although they encountered the Shen'en City garrison who heard the noise and came from other areas on the way, facing the menacing knights, the garrison did not dare to stop them and could only let them leave, and at the same time sent someone to notify the main castle. The Countess of Delon and Sir Roger Allion.

Soon Villas and the others returned to the camp. Lind immediately raised the alert status in the camp to combat readiness. People in the camp were not allowed to have contact with outsiders. Any supplies purchased in Shen'en City must be inspected before they can be purchased. Before entering, all types of food must also be inspected for poison.

The changes in the Reach camp naturally attracted the attention of the Sunspear camp nearby. The Red Viper didn't understand why Linde suddenly became so vigilant, but he had a vague feeling that something was going on.

Not long after, the news that Willas Tyrell, the heir to the Reach, was assassinated on the streets of the City of Divine Grace reached the ears of the Red Viper. His face became extremely ugly, and he immediately led people to the Reach. Camp.

However, Red Viper was stopped when he arrived at the entrance of the camp. Following Gars and his knights, they carried the fellow assassin who was captured by Linde before and came to the entrance of the camp. He said to Red Viper: "Master Linde asked me to Ask Prince Oberon, is the promise of the Martell family as non-existent as the bitch’s chastity?”

Obviously the latter description should have been added intentionally by Gals.

Hearing Garth's question, the Red Viper's face turned red. If the anger in his eyes could turn into real flames, it could burn Garth and his knights to ashes at this moment.

However, he still suppressed his anger, took a deep breath, and almost gritted his teeth and said, "This matter is my fault. I underestimated the madness of those guys. I will give you an explanation."

Garth gestured to his knights and asked him to hand over the assassin associate to the Red Viper, and said: "This is an associate of the dwarf assassin. We are handing him over to you now. Who is Oberon Martell?" "Whether you really want to give us an explanation or just want to find a few scapegoats is up to you."

After saying that, he deliberately loudly ordered the guarding soldiers on the side in front of the Red Viper not to allow anyone with unknown intentions to enter the camp, and then turned around and left.

The Red Viper was really filled with anger at this moment. He was not angry at Garth for criticizing Sang and Huai, but was angry at the person who planned the assassination for causing him to lose face. At this moment, he wanted to kill people, and he wanted to kill many people.