No matter what the ultimate purpose of the enemies who brought him to Sivania were, they certainly failed.

Hasel burped and walked along the corridor toward the bedroom. The guards standing guard at the door saluted him, and he only needed to nod arrogantly in response. Two bodyguards followed behind him, everything was fine.

It was already very late, and it was almost midnight. The reason for this was that he handled a lot of chores today, especially more than a dozen letters. This made him start to use supper almost when others were sleeping.

If there is anything else in Via, it is that he can enjoy the treatment of the king here. For people in remote areas, the lord is the highest power, and in a sense it is no different from the king, and it also controls people's life and death. This feeling of making sentient beings bow to their heads can only be enjoyed here.

Of course, on the other hand, Via also provided him with a fairly stable source of wealth. Due to the small population and poor local areas, the land rent income here is limited, but the commercial tax revenue is quite good. Although he didn't scrape the ground, he also saved a considerable amount of wealth. A large part of this was because he was almost indifferent to this territory and did nothing except tax collection. Many responsibilities that were originally borne by the lord, such as repairing roads, chasing thieves, building water conservancy, etc., he did not take out a single copper coin. Anyway, at most one or two years, he would leave this ghost place and go back. If you want long-term investment, you should throw it to the next lord or governor to worry about it.

Hasel came to the door of the room and reached out to open the door. When he heard a dull hum behind him. The sound was made by his personal bodyguard. He looked back inadvertently, but happened to see the second bodyguard being strangled and struggling in pain. The bodyguard who made a muffled groan had already fallen to the ground, his limbs twitching weakly.

Because all this was too sudden, it took Haser a whole second to realize what was going on.

"There are assassins!!!" He shouted with all his strength. The next moment, he was already holding the sword in his hand. Although he had less time to exercise after he was in a high position, he was a warrior no matter what. Or at least he had been a warrior.

The assassin looked at his movements coldly, then his arm was suddenly exerted force, and the crisp sound of the twisted neck bone sounded. Then, the assassin dropped the body in his hand and stood up straight. The two of them confronted each other at five or six steps apart. Hassel finally recognized that the assassin was a female.

The female assassin was wearing a black armor. What was surprising was that half of the armor seemed to be leather, and the other half seemed to be metal. This armor was not ordinary armor, but a rare close body armor, which was tightly attached to the body, almost integrated with the body. The helmet covered the female assassin's nose and mouth, with only a pair of eyes exposed. Those eyes were staring at him.

It was not a pair of female eyes, but two balls of blood and fire.

"Hasel," he heard the female assassin say. "I'm back to find you."

The next moment, I don't know what happened, and the mask covering the assassin's mouth and nose suddenly "retracted" back. With the light of the torch next to him, Hathel saw her face. But it was only a moment. The female assassin rushed into the thorn and disappeared into the distant darkness at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

It must be said that there were enough guards in the entire lord's mansion, because in just a short time, the guards came from all directions. Hasser looked at the guards around him in a daze. If it weren't for the bodyguards at his feet, he would have thought it was a dream.

The guards who arrived looked at the lord in fear and saw the corpses of two bodyguards on the ground. They did not need the lord's order and immediately separated. Someone chased into the darkness, and someone checked the corpse of the deceased. The cause of death was easy to distinguish, one was twisted and the other was hit hard on the head. It was obvious that the assassin had very strong physical strength and used some blunt weapon to kill a bodyguard in one go, and then strangled his throat and twisted his neck before the second bodyguard could react.

A short time later, the team responsible for searching for the assassins came back, and they (very normal) got nothing. However, Hathel did not get angry. His original horror had disappeared after this period of time and had regained his true nature.

Someone took the body away, while others were waiting for the Lord's next order.

"Continue to search and find all suspicious places. Strengthen the guards. The patrolers must double the number of people in the past few days. Also, call the guards of the dungeons over here and call them all over here. The last time the female assassin was the third team? Call the rest of the team over here too."

These orders were quickly executed. Not long after Hasel sat in his bedroom, the guards of the third team came.

"Are you the squad leader?" Hasel sat on his head and asked the guards of the squad.

The captain of the third team was a very large man. If Ashu Rufate was present, he would immediately recognize that this person was the big man who was provoking him. However, at this time, the big man was submissive in front of the lord, bowing his head and eyebrows.

"The last time you caught that female assassin... Do you still remember?"

The big man was stunned for a moment. Didn’t the female assassin be “handled” long ago? This kind of news is not kept confidential to the people inside.

"Sir, why are you..."

"Don't ask me why, you don't need to know this! I want to hear the detailed process of your capture of the female assassin!" Hasel gave an anxious order and directly called the big man back.

The big man began to tell the whole process, and his companions added some details from time to time. The process of this matter was also very simple. The female assassin sneaked into the lord's mansion for some time, but he was unable to find the lord's specific living position for a while. As a result, he was discovered by the third team while hiding in the courtyard. Seeing a strange face and hiding in the hiding place, it made people suspicious, so the guards naturally stepped forward to interrogate. However, because the other party was a woman, they did not take precautions. As a result, Fei suddenly took out his sword to attack. When caught off guard, the guards killed and injured several people in a row, and then captured the assassin.

"Then you can easily subdue her?" Hathel asked in a suspicious tone. "So, the reason she killed three people was entirely because you were not prepared?"

"And our weapons," a guard added. "At close distance, the spear is useless at all. If we were holding swords and shields at that time, we would only hurt one person at most."

"How do you evaluate the level of that female assassin?" Hasel asked.

"To be honest, that is, the level of an ordinary soldier." The guards exchanged glances with each other, and finally the big man answered. "It can be seen that she has received a certain level of training and has a much stronger strength than ordinary women, but it is only this level. In one-on-one situation, maybe she can beat one of us, but there are ten people in our entire team."

Hassel waved his hand and signaled them to retreat. Did he read it wrong? It's impossible! Is there any other reason? He knew very well how good his two bodyguards were. Even if they were attacked, they would never die so simply at the hands of an assassin who "only the level of an ordinary soldier".

Then, the dungeon guards walked into his bedroom.

"Have you executed my orders and sent that woman there?" Hasel asked in an extremely stern tone. Several guards looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally their eyes were focused on one person.

"Sir, I personally sent it there." Finally, the man replied with a tough bullet.

"Are you alone?" Hasel looked at the guards and squeezed out these words from his teeth. He knew that this kind of task was usually performed by two people.

"There is also a voluntary helper," the guard explained quickly. "It was one of your servants... I remember... His name seemed to be Ashrufate. The one who accompanied you to the dungeon that night was the one holding a torch behind him."

"Voluntary help? Then what?"

"We sent that woman to... the old place... Later, he volunteered to stay... and looked at that woman..." Under the lord's stern gaze, the guard finally hesitated and told the truth. "But I swear, before I left that day, I saw groups of ghouls coming out from a distance. Even if Ash Rufate wanted to take the woman away, it would be too late. He didn't come back the next day, and I thought he was also eaten by ghouls. But it seemed that he had been back and had a conflict with the people in the third team this evening... In the end, it seemed that he picked up his luggage and left directly. I think he must have been scared by the things that night."

In other words, Fei is likely to be rescued by Ashu Rufat? Well, a man looked at a woman, so he felt compassion... or they were all in the same group at all? But it seems that something was wrong?

"Are you sure you saw a ghoul appear last?" Hathel asked.

"I swear, sir! Swearing with my father's grave, I'm sure I've seen a ghoul! Eshu Rufate couldn't escape with the female assassin. He was even very difficult to escape by himself. I didn't look at it at that time because my horse smelled the ghoul and had lost control."

Hathel did not continue to ask. The information he received seemed to be a maze, with forks and traps everywhere, covering up the truth. What happened? First of all, the woman must have been unable to move that night. If there were no rescue from her companions or a miracle, she would have been eaten by a ghoul. In other words, unless she was a scue, it would be impossible to escape with the woman.
Chapter completed!