"Adrian, the Western Defense Fortress has been completely recovered. The sneak attack plan went very smoothly, and the enemy did not have time to destroy the weapons..." Count Parsim reported to Adrian with a serious look on the battle situation, but

Then he seemed hesitant to speak, as if he still had something to say but was very hesitant for some reason.

There were not many people in the conference hall at this time, because this was not a formal meeting, just a regular report after breakfast. If Count Parsim, who had not watched the battle report in advance, noticed some things in the battle report,

If it is a sensitive issue, I am afraid that the battle report will be read out loud by the waiter for everyone to listen. There is nothing wrong with this method, but the problem lies in some of the sensitive information in the battle report. If these things are not handled well, it will probably make everyone last night

That victory became the trigger for a new round of conflicts.

"Is there an accident?" Adrian also saw some problems, so he quickly waved his hand and asked some unimportant followers to leave the room. When only his close followers were left, he signaled Count Parsim to continue.

Go down.

"Yes... not many people were captured alive in this attack..." Count Persim raised his head and looked at another person in the room, a man who looked a little gloomy. He had been silently talking since just now.

He bowed his head in silence at the far end, and the moment Earl Parsim looked at him, he noticed it. He looked up at the old Earl, then showed a smile that could not feel the smile at all and clicked.

nod.

"Count Cerro, let me talk about this part." The gloomy man sitting at the end of the long table stood up and bowed sincerely to Adrian before saying: "Before this battle report was sent, I

I have already received a reply from the Night Owl agent on the front line, which said that a certain Jin Yuxiao agent under my command brutally tortured and killed a large number of prisoners of war during the battle... She probably executed about 100 of the 300 prisoners in one go.

, and then she had a... conflict with the garrison generals on the front line. Because she seemed to have lost her mind when dealing with prisoners, she accidentally seriously injured two garrison commanders... but the two commanders were on the spot.

He received treatment and is not seriously ill."

Everyone present, including Adrian, felt that they had heard wrong. An agent of Jin Yuxiao actually killed prisoners after the war? And also injured two commanders of the garrison? This is simply unheard of!

Before Adrian could react, a middle-aged man wearing garrison armor jumped up and glared at the gloomy man and yelled: "Kabarov! Your people are really good.

How audacious! You actually openly killed so many prisoners privately, and even injured my subordinates arrogantly. It seems that you night owls are really used to being domineering? What? Are you still going to ask for mercy from your chicks?"

"Baron Barnos, please pay attention to your words." The man known as Kabarov still said with a lukewarm smile: "We members of the Night Owl have never behaved in such ridiculous ways as to be domineering. After all,

This is our duty. If we really do this, we will undoubtedly declare our identity to the enemy. Or this incident is indeed our fault, but please do not mix personal grudges into the decision-making of the war. This is really an unwise choice. Also,

I had no intention of begging for mercy from the beginning... It would be better to say that the other Night Owl agents at the scene ended up injuring many people in order to prevent her from killing the captives. Although their lives were also not in danger... But about that person

I originally planned to execute Agent Jin Yuxiao directly, but unfortunately I can no longer control her at this moment, because there are 'big shots' protecting her, and my people can't even get close."

"Humph! Ridiculous!" Although Baronos sat down, he still slapped the table in displeasure and joked: "You night owls are directly under the orders of the Grand Duke. Who else can control you except the Grand Duke?"

?!Could it be that you want to say that the Grand Duke acquiesced in this matter?!"

"Of course not." Faced with the successive provocations, Kabarov still maintained a smile and explained: "The other party is not a nobleman of the principality, but he is also a special 'nobleman' who the Grand Duke personally ordered not to have any friction with.

So after getting the news, I reported the matter to the 'Lair', and no one of us in the Night Owls is allowed to act rashly before the Grand Duke issues new orders."

"Your Excellency?!" Adrian suddenly thought of something, because in addition to the combat forces under his own command, the night attack last night also had extra helpers involved, so he immediately felt that something was wrong and asked

Said: "Are they...those ladies?"

"It's them." Kabarov responded politely.

Adrian suddenly became nervous, and then he asked calmly: "The Jin Yuxiao who committed the crime..."

"Her name is Agnes...Agnes Campbell."

This time the answer was spoken by Count Persim first. At the same time, after he said such a name, many people present looked bad. Even Barno, who had originally planned to take the opportunity to tease Kabarov,

Baron Si also lowered his head with a gloomy face and remained silent.

"The second daughter of the Campbell family, the sister of Akanos Campbell, Centurion of the Vali Wolf Claw..." Adrian gritted his teeth and muttered, "No wonder he was so cruel..."

The Campbell family is not a famous family, nor is it even a noble class. It is just a family with a slightly special status living in Maryborough City. The reason why this family suddenly makes everyone fearful is because they

Their origins are somewhat special. They come from a small village in the northern mountains. They were included in the jurisdiction of the principality not long after the independence of the principality. However, the population of this village at that time was less than half a hundred, and due to the strange famine problem

They almost became completely extinct in that valley that almost no one cares about.

The surname of the Campbell family was acquired after joining the principality. In the past, their family did not have a surname because the locals would call their head of the family "Shaman".

Although this word is a word that was later adopted from the Annuo language, it is not difficult to understand the status of this family from the meaning of this word.

People born in Valley Village all have a certain kind of unique belief. Even if they leave their hometown and come to Fort Mary, they have not abandoned this belief. Even every once in a while, the heads of the Campbell family will go to the village in person.

Some kind of mysterious sacrifice was held at the old site, and the object of their sacrifice was a giant jungle wolf worshiped as the "Wolf God Volm Torre".

The Principality of Michael pursues religious freedom, but this is because there are no supernatural beings such as gods behind the so-called "religion". This is also the common understanding of most senior officials in the Principality, with the exception of very few exceptions.

Obviously, the "Wolf God" in Vali Village is an example. It has neither been officially recognized nor officially rejected. Even Archduke Michael once sent an envoy to talk to the man named Wormtor.

After negotiating with Lei's giant wolf, with the help of the shaman of the Campbell family, this giant wolf with extremely high intelligence and indeed some special powers stated that it had no intention of interfering with the outside world, but only asked the descendants of the Campbell bloodline to maintain sacrifices.

The tradition is enough.

This kind of thing is not a big secret among the upper echelons of the Principality, especially in the Mariencastle area, the core area in the north of the Principality. This is almost a "well-known" fact. And at this meeting at this moment

Everyone present in the hall are all high-ranking nobles and officials here. Naturally, they know more or less about this kind of thing. The reason why everyone feels a headache when they hear Agnes's name is because of this generation of Campbells.

The shaman is Agnes's grandfather, an old man who is over sixty and doesn't know how many more years he can live. The Campbell sisters' father died prematurely, and their mothers are outsiders, which means that this generation

The shaman can only choose one between the two sisters.

However, Akanos Campbell, the older sister, died at the West Guard Fortress not long ago. According to the information later obtained from the prisoners, she seemed to be in miserable condition. Her whole body was beaten to pieces by muskets and she was almost killed.

Carmon's traitor was beheaded. Although Adrian had a premonition of her death when the West Guard Fortress fell, considering that there was a sister in the Campbell family, he didn't take it too seriously. After all, Adrian's priority was at that time.

It was still the enemy who was approaching the city at that time. But now the enemy had been defeated, and some things that had been suppressed at the beginning naturally returned to everyone's sight.

Agnes Campbell must not make any more mistakes, because everyone here does not want the giant wolf in the mountains to go wild, especially since the age of this giant wolf is actually no younger than this fortress.

Anyway, if an old monster like this, which has lived for nearly a thousand years, starts to attack, even the Maria Fortress, which has fully restored its functions, may not be able to withstand it.

This is not an answer that everyone has come up with, because some people did see it before. When the people in Wali Village left the village, this giant wolf directly flattened a mountain to clear the way for the villagers. And that terrifying one

Adrian has also seen the mountains and plains many times, because the principality later discovered some outcropping mineral veins there, but compared to these unexpected encounters, Adrian felt the powerful power there very intuitively.

The shock brought by it. By the way, it is worth mentioning that the totem used by the wolf group known as the Wolf of Baal actually comes from the wolf god Volmutore. Although it is not its true form, it is the totem that once dominated Baal.

The appearance of the descendants of the wolf god in the plains.

In short, everyone immediately figured out what happened when Agnes suddenly went berserk and massacred the prisoners. Her sister died there and she died miserably. Then the garrison at the fortress over there happened to be the same group who shot Aknos.

Musketeers, so Agnes' cruel revenge methods can be justified. However, the real culprit who killed Arcanos was not there. It is said that the traitor from Camon Fortress had followed Aledo's large army to retreat to Bar.

In the northwest of the plain, the army then dispersed to defend the local fortresses and military towns.

After all, although everyone was afraid of Wormtorre and did not dare to deal with Agnes, after all, she had secretly tortured and killed more than a hundred prisoners of war. Although it was not known how she brutally killed more than a hundred prisoners of war, it was still unknown.

Human lives. Moreover, although Michael is currently at war with Solis...and Prince Aledo, this is a war at the aristocratic level after all. For civilian prisoners of war, even if they are not planned to be released, there will be no massacres.

The phenomenon of prisoners of war, even after the war between the two sides in the past, even if both sides were not happy, they would still exchange or redeem prisoners of war, and the situation will not change this time. Because no matter what, at this moment

There are also many prisoners of war on our side on the opposite side, and even many warriors of the war group have been captured due to injuries. If this matter spreads to the opposite side, I am afraid it will have a negative impact on the safety of the prisoners of war over there. At the same time, this incident

If the incident spreads abroad, it will also shake the glorious reputation that the principality has built up with great difficulty since its founding.

Adrian carefully asked Kabarov and Count Parsim about the detailed process. The former was the leader of Jin Yuxiao. Although his information was more detailed, it might be possible to cover up the suspicion of his subordinates. Although the latter's information was intelligence

It was sent back by the garrison, but it is also possible that the garrison forces deliberately exaggerated in an attempt to kill the golden-feathered owl spy who hurt his colleagues. After all, only the upper-level people know the story behind Agnes, and the grassroots people below may

I only know that she is a member of Night Owl, so I am a little bit repelled.

There are no overly widespread rumors about the Night Owl organization itself, which indicates that they belong to an intelligence organization and also have the responsibility of supervising the country. Therefore, most of the middle and lower-class nobles, officials and generals do not have a good look towards them. Over time, they are under the supervision of their superiors.

Under the infection, some subordinates with civilian backgrounds also began to have different views on Ye Xiao.

The most intuitive example in Adrian's eyes is actually the commander of the Northern Guard Army, Baron Holstein Barnos. He himself actually has no deep hatred for the night owl, but he made a few remarks not long ago because of a drunken gaffe.

As a result, these words were delivered to Archduke Michael through Nite Owl's spies that night. Baron Barnos was punished to a certain extent, but he diverted this anger.

It came to the Night Owl spies who "snitched".

Kabarov is the leader of the Golden Feathered Owls among the Night Owls. It is said that all Golden Feathered Owl agents are under his jurisdiction, and although he usually has a very gloomy expression, it is said that he

I am actually very considerate of my subordinates, so in this matter Adrian is also very worried that he will try every means to excuse Agnes. After all, if the principality does not punish her for causing such a big mistake, it will probably not take long for this to happen.

The enemy made a fuss about this matter. Although Adrian was very afraid at the moment that if he made improper punishment, Agnes would have an accident, especially if he accidentally cut off the bloodline of the Wolf God Shaman.

If so, it is estimated that the losses caused by the consequences will be even more serious.

After Adrian had a detailed understanding of the situation there, he still could not find any suitable solution, because the interference of a third party disturbed everyone's judgment. The man who calls himself "God Severna"

The Chosen female mercenary Erica, she forcibly protected Agnes after she went crazy, and neither the frontline garrison nor Kabarov's Night Owl spies could easily approach them.

In addition to their sensitive identities, their methods are also very impressive.

Adrian learned some information about them through some special channels and the letter from Chris sent by her trustee in the past two days. Even two days before he agreed to their cooperation in fighting, Archduke Michael

Alubeg also sent a private letter to his trusted aide. In addition to asking questions about the war, the Grand Duke actually mentioned the matter of the chosen ones. It seems that the Grand Duke did not fully approve it.

Although they were messengers of a certain goddess, they were still somewhat wary of her. From this, Adrian could see that the horrifying information in the letter from his sister Chris was not all exaggeration.

Originally, Adrian did not meet with them after they arrived because he had not figured out how to deal with their affairs. Later, he only heard that they were divided into two teams, and one team became mercenaries at his disposal according to the contract and went to the battlefield.

, and the other team was the elf. She took two children and a maid into the city of Da Caron in Mary Castle. According to the reports from the surveillance personnel in the past two days, they seemed to be really following a group.

Tourists usually go there for entertainment and do not have any special behavior. Although the identity of the elf has attracted provocation from some troublemakers, even so, the elf did not do anything too outrageous. On the contrary, the other elf did not do anything too outrageous.

The team members were a little different. Although they accepted his command on the surface, in fact they disappeared for two days after going to the battlefield. It was not until last night before the night attack on the fortress that they asked Agnes to send a message to them.

The large forces joined together and joined the action.

No one expected that such a terrible accident would happen after the originally smooth night attack battle. The private killing of prisoners of war had already made the principality very passive, but if the matter was covered up, it would not be spread.

This may be able to settle the matter, but the problem is that the garrison's dissatisfaction with this matter makes it unlikely that things will proceed so smoothly. In addition, there are still many remaining prisoners of war who are still alive, so it is not possible to spread this matter.

It's a matter of time. It's not like Adrian hasn't thought about killing people to cover up, but he can only think about it casually, because the messy situation at the scene makes it impossible to proceed secretly.

At least the garrison's chatty status would not allow it to carry out such large-scale secret operations.

Paper cannot stop the fire, this matter will one day spread to other countries, and it will definitely cause a big blow to the long-standing glory and credibility of the Principality of Michael. If a solution is not found immediately, even the Principality

Winning this battle does not necessarily mean becoming the winner.

While Adrian and everyone else were thinking about the solution with gloomy faces, Aledo, who was stationed in a military town in the northwest of the Bar Plains, received news from the conspirators.

"People from the Principality of Michael tortured prisoners of war?!"
Chapter completed!