Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 401 Such a good thing, don't give it to me

Xin Zhao jumped down from the horse, and in less than two breaths, he crossed a distance of tens of meters, rushed past the guards, and came to Jarvan III to check the situation.

The first to return to the king were the eighth shields of the two companies, a total of 16 people. They carried the shining steel kite shields, which were commonly called "Iron Walls" by the fearless pioneers. They were almost twice the size of ordinary shields and could almost Equal to others.

The fearless vanguard soldiers of the Eighth Shield Formation were actually tall and strong men, and only their size could handle such a heavy and huge shield.

After the two shield formations set up their shields, Tiana also led the standard sword and shield combination of the first and fourth shield formations of one company to the king.

Seeing the blood on the ground, she glared at Xin Zhao who was helping Jarvan III, and said angrily, "What's going on?!"

Because she was suppressing the mad crowd just now, she didn't know what was going on with the king, but when she heard the soldiers shouting "there is an assassin" and "the king is assassinated", she immediately rushed out of the crowd.

"How could you hurt His Majesty!" Tiana hurriedly checked the situation of Jarvan III, and asked Xin Zhao sharply.

"Tiana, don't get excited, it's not my blood." Jarvan III stood firm and looked at the blood stains on the ground and his palms, "I just fell and it's not a big problem."

"It's the assassin's blood." Xin Zhao said in a muffled voice.

"Where's the assassin?"

Tiana looked serious, and cast eyes mixed with various emotions at Xin Zhao, as if waiting for him to give an explanation.

"I..." Xin Zhao frowned hesitantly, and replied truthfully, "I didn't see the murderer."

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Tiana, who was already furious at Xin Zhao because of the assassination of the king, suppressed her almost uncontrollable anger.

"I heard the sound of a sharp weapon piercing the air, and it came from His Majesty's side, and then I shot without hesitation... But at that time, His Majesty was guarded by personal guards, and it was obvious that there was no one right. The blood burst out of thin air."

Xin Zhao didn't know what happened just now.

He clearly sensed that the king was in danger with his intuition, but why couldn't he see the murderer?

"Xin Zhao is right, I just felt that someone was watching me secretly, so I deliberately dismissed Xin Zhao to see if I could lure that guy out."

"What?! Your Majesty, you..." Tiana panicked, "How can you use yourself as a bait?"

Even Xin Zhao was shocked.

Just now, he really thought that Jarvan III wanted him to quickly resolve this crisis, but he didn't realize that this was just a sign that His Majesty wanted to lure out the enemies lurking in the shadows.

Thinking of this, Xin Zhao immediately knelt down on one knee and said in shame, "I have failed your trust!"

Jiawen III hastily pulled him up, "Hey, get down quickly, I didn't expect that guy to have such strength, and he could bypass the personal guards and come to my side."

Tiana was very puzzled, "How did he do it?"

"As we have seen, that guy is likely to be a mage, a mage who can be invisible." Jarvan III stared at the dark blood that had solidified on the ground and said, "But I have never heard of magic that can be so ignorant Unknowingly."

Xin Zhao thought for a while, and a name suddenly appeared in his mind, "The person who assassinated you probably has shadow magic."

"Shadow magic..."

This word also brought back the memories of Jarvan III and Tiana.

The ancestors of Demacia were deeply affected by the Rune Wars, and the historical records of that period are particularly detailed, especially the Shadow Wars at the end of the war.

Shadow magic began then.

According to the secret book, shadow magic can kill a person without anyone knowing it.

A powerful shadow mage can even abandon his physical body and escape into the spiritual realm, which is what Demacians often call the soul realm. If it is a spirit body, it is normal for the naked eye to see it.

But how to explain the pool of blood on the ground...

"Is it Ionia's Shadow Stream Sect?" Tiana guessed in a deep voice, "Right now, only they have mastered the powerful shadow magic."

"I do not think so."

Jarvan III shook his head, understanding the situation in Ionia.

"There are still many Noxus on the land of Ionia. The Shadow Stream Sect is now allied with the Navoli Brotherhood, trying to completely repel Noxus. They have no conflict with us in any way, no May help our common enemy."

As he spoke, he knelt down again to check the only pool of blood on the ground.

The assassins fled here without leaving any other clues for them, making it difficult to trace, which made their follow-up search more difficult.

The enemy will be invisible, and there is no blood on the way to escape. It is difficult to track the mage assassin who dared to assassinate the king.

Jia Wen III's eyes suddenly lit up, "Li Lin may have a solution...but why hasn't he come back yet?"

Xin Zhao and Tiana looked at each other, not knowing how to answer the king.

You can't guess that someone has an accident, can you?

"Oh, forget it, let someone collect blood, and then guard this place." Jarvan III looked at the conflicting crowd outside the shield formation, which was much quieter, "We have to deal with the civil riots first."

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At the same time, a certain remote sewer in Xiongdu.

A figure in a hooded black robe staggered along in this dark and dirty underground passage, not paying any attention to the guards who shuttled back and forth above their heads to suppress the riots.

At such an urgent moment, no one would look into the sewer for no reason.

"Damn it! That Ionian manager is even more terrifying than what was described in the letter!" The hoarse and deep male voice echoed, "A mage, huh...what a sarcasm."

The man pressed his left arm hard, and there was a big hole in his sleeve. His blood was actually blood, and the cloth band wrapped around it for emergency treatment of the wound was covered with dull red spots, which were traces of blood coagulation.

After passing through more than a dozen thick iron railings of the sewer that had been sawed open, he walked to a platform and took off a short jagged scimitar from his waist.

The blade of this short knife is silvery white, and the blade body is covered with a dull red, like blood that has been coagulated for a long time.

An obtuse triangle-shaped symbol is engraved on the connection between the blade and the handle, exuding a faint purple light.

The man casually threw the knife on the ground, made a "clang" sound as metal hit the stone, and then pulled out a note from the gap in the corner of the platform.

What was written on it was the words to assassinate King Jarvan III!
"Damn it! You can't blame me for not even investigating Xin Zhao's strength."

Distraught, the man crumpled the note into a ball, and a flame in his palm burned it.

Demacia's sewers are purely made of marble, without any mixed magic stones, and it has no effect on his magic.

But even on the ground, relying on the little Forbidden Stone mixed with the surrounding buildings, it doesn't have a great impact on him, it just costs a little more mana.

After destroying the evidence, he took out his bag from another loose brick wall, took out a small bottle of spirits and gauze inside, and prepared to treat his wound first.

"Damn it, why is my pocket knife missing?"

The man cursed and turned around to pick up the scimitar that he dropped just now.

But the empty ground made him stunned for a moment, and then he was horrified, "Who...who is there?!"

He was answered by a playful and mechanical youthful voice: "Tsk tsk, Draxa's legendary blade... such a good thing, don't you want to give it to me?"

(End of this chapter)