Chapter 503: Explosive News
The next day, a shocking news spread throughout the imperial capital.
Miss Emile of the Sheffield family was found dead in her manor outside her home, with her head and body separated. Currently, even her head cannot be found.
This news caused an uproar in the aristocratic circle, and people came to ask about their concerns.
At the same time, they denounced the murderer's atrocities and expressed their determination to find the murderer and give Miss Emile justice.
Two days later, another news came that the Duke of Asino was assassinated by his mistress, and the time of death was the same day as Emile.
At present, the mistress and her family members are missing, and the Sheffield family issued a hunting order for them.
At the same time, an application was issued to the empire and its allies, asking everyone to track down the murderer together.
This time, unlike when they first learned of Emile's death, everyone began to remain silent.
They all turned their eyes to Merlin College, where there was also a sage of the Sheffield family, and everyone was waiting for his statement.
But for several days in a row, people found that the sage had no expression about the fate of his family, and even did not show his face.
People began to wonder and began to investigate the sage's situation. Finally, they learned from insiders that the sage Ilysius had been missing for several days.
Suddenly, the group of people who were angry at the beginning began to have green light in their eyes.
You should know that the Sheffield family has a huge industry in the imperial capital, and many of these industries were snatched from them by the Sheffield family.
In the past, the Sheffield family was at its peak, and they did not dare to resist, let alone have unreasonable thoughts.
But at this time, these people have already understood that someone seems to be plotting against the Sheffield family, and has achieved significant results.
The two top combat forces of the Sheffield family died or disappeared, and the Duke of Asino was assassinated.
All this is enough to put the Sheffield family in an irreversible situation, and they can't wait to make up a knife.
However, as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and everyone is worried that the Sheffield family still has hidden strength.
Therefore, no one was in a hurry to take action, but waited and watched, waiting for someone to take the lead.
As a result, everyone did not wait too long, and someone took action within two days.
They were not surprised that someone took action first. The only surprise was that the first to take action was the royal family, which was still in chaos.
Queen Tolia, who is currently acting as the royal power, suddenly announced the withdrawal of the Sheffield family's coinage rights.
This stone caused a thousand waves. You must know that one of the core assets of the Sheffield family is the coinage right.
Once lost, it not only means that they have lost their core assets, but also means that they are unable to resist the royal power. People are looking forward to the reaction of the Sheffield family.
However, the Sheffield family did not react at all.
This made everyone see the weakness of the Sheffield family. Everyone has realized that the Sheffield family at this time is a lamb to be slaughtered, so people took off their masks and pounced on it like wolves.
The Sheffield family's industries in other places were almost swept away overnight.
In addition, there are worse things.
Not only were their properties in other places looted, but there were also constant riots in their own territories.
People who were dissatisfied with the Duke of Asino's paper currency policy suddenly began to take up arms to resist.
At first, it was just a small-scale looting and smashing, but after seeing that the Sheffield family had no response to it, people became more and more crazy. After a few days, it turned into a nationwide burning, killing and looting.
In just a few days, the entire city of San Fran was completely out of control. Countless people rushed to the streets, attacking indiscriminately, just to grab a little resource. The evil of human nature was fully demonstrated at this moment.
Countless men were killed, countless women disappeared, and there were displaced people everywhere, as well as helpless crying children. San Fran completely turned into a purgatory on earth.
The mastermind of all this was meeting with Pacia, the new patriarch of the Sheffield family.
"Sir Ethan, please, now only you can help us." Pacia shouted hoarsely.
"I'm sorry! Mr. Paxia, as far as I know, the situation in Saint Fran City has completely deteriorated. I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be invested to restore it to its original state.
I am just the chairman of the Maro City Council, I am afraid I can't help much!" Ethan said frankly.
"We agree to all the conditions you put forward, and I just hope you can help as soon as possible."
Paxia knew that the situation had reached the most critical moment. Now the family has to deal with various evil wolves outside, and it is already exhausted.
There are various riots inside, which make the family run around and put out fires everywhere.
Due to the sudden loss of top combat power and deterrence, and the fact that other branches are only concerned with guarding their own one-third of an acre of land.
Therefore, there is a serious shortage of manpower, and as a result, the fire at home is not only not extinguished, but it is getting more and more intense.
If this continues, the family's territory may be over.
Therefore, he doesn't care about any conditions. The most important thing now is to put out the fire of resistance in the territory first.
And now the only one who can help is Mr. Ethan.
He only took one day to quell the riot in the Red Rose area.
After the riot was quelled, there were only a small garrison of 500 people, and there were almost no other excessive demands. This was exactly the help that the family needed most now.
In his opinion, as long as he agreed to Maro City's conditions, Ethan would definitely be willing to come forward to settle the matter.
However, Ethan lowered his head and smiled: "Sir Paxia, I'm afraid I can't help. If you don't mind, I have other things to deal with."
Seeing that Ethan was going to send the guests away, Paxia was anxious: "Why? Why is Sir Ethan willing to help Red Rose but not to help us?"
Ethan did not reply, but directly arranged for someone to send the guests away.
When Pacia left, Sophia walked out of the side door with a smile on her face, clapping as she walked: "My dear husband, your performance is getting better and better."
Ethan snorted and laughed: "Do you also think he is here to test me?"
"Not a feeling, but 100%." Sophia nodded and said: "How could a noble who has received a strict education in logic not even understand that the premise of cooperation is strength.
They can't even stabilize the basic situation, so what are they talking about agreeing to conditions, and they are pretending to be in a critical situation.
If I'm not mistaken, they deliberately let the situation deteriorate, with the purpose of finding the murderer."
Ethan smiled bitterly: "I wanted to stop here, but Now it seems that we must kill them all. "
Sophia shrugged: "The Holy Empire Emperor Maximilian mentioned in "The Prince" that favors should be given little by little, and bad things should be done all at once.
Since we have already started, of course we have to continue.
But... it is too difficult to destroy a family.
With the population of their family, even if they are lined up for you to chop, it will take several days to chop them, and the key is that they will expose themselves. "
"It is quite difficult." Ethan sighed: "Let's see what cards they have first!"
Just as the two were chatting, Vol'jin came to report: "Master, the group of orcs has assembled, the number is estimated to be more than 7 million, and they are currently heading towards Barron Fortress. "
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