Ekla's escape from the hotel can be said to have given Palan a blow in the face.
He rushed to the Milton Hotel in a hurry and saw the scene was a mess.
The Milton Hotel is the most luxurious hotel in the City of Bauhinia. It is said that the overall cost of the Milton Hotel was over 300,000 gold coins from the land price, the design and construction of the house, and the subsequent decoration. huge sum of money! This money is enough to configure the strength of a legion.
However, today this super luxurious hotel has become riddled with holes.
At noon today, after Palan's troops captured Ekla, they threw the Earl directly into the Milton Hotel. In the capacity of the Earl, it is indeed a bit embarrassing to go to prison directly. Palan is going to settle him down in the big hotel first, and then wait until the guards stationed in his original mansion, as well as some soldiers of the Holy Alliance, are cleared out, and then welcome Ekla back .
Of course, Palan must have considered security issues.
A whole brigade, 300 elite soldiers, directly entered the Milton Hotel, acting as the 'bodyguard' of Earl Ecra. The captain who led the team had the strength of a ninth-level fighter,
A ninth-level fighter is nothing; three hundred elite soldiers are a strong force, but if they face a rescue team composed of a group of experts, their defense may be breached.
With this in mind, Palan made other preparations.
Banks, a high-ranking elf mage, personally sits in the Grand Hotel. At the same time, sitting in the town together was a half-orc sword master with fifteen professional levels that Palan spent a lot of effort to recruit when he was in the barren land pass. The two of them led a team of about 20 people and were responsible for the personal protection of Ekla.
The average level of these twenty or so individuals is all ten!
This is almost the strongest team that the Sixth Army can gather. In Palan's army, almost one-third of the masters are all transferred to this team.
It stands to reason that with this configuration, there should be no problem.
If you encounter a large group of people, how can a large group of soldiers hold on for a while, the barracks of the Sixth Army is not far away, and they will be able to support them soon; The combination of mages is also not weak. After a period of time, the soldiers stationed in the hotel will soon be able to surround them.
No matter how strong a master is, without helpers, falling into the endless army is logically speaking a dead end.
However, when Palan arrived outside the hotel in person, the scene he saw was so miserable.
The entire Milton Hotel, as if it had been blasted one after another inside, had become very miserable. On the ground, the dead bodies of soldiers from the elite brigade of the Sixth Army were everywhere. Teams of soldiers entered the building, moved out one corpse after another, and helped out one wounded soldier after another.
"What's going on?" Palan asked angrily.
The adjutant, who came one step ahead of him, said anxiously: "It is not clear what happened at the moment, but...Master Miller is dead, and Colonel Barter is also dead. The third battalion of the first wing is almost completely destroyed. The specific casualties The data has not yet come out, but at least two-thirds of the fighters were killed or injured."
This news made Palan's already ashen face turn darker.
Master Miller and Colonel Bartyn are just two of his masters. Miller is the high-level human mage, and Bartyn is the orc sword master.
Earlier, when the news of Earl Ecra's being kidnapped reached his ears, his first reaction was to think that this should be done by the Holy Alliance.
This is a very simple and straightforward guess, not supported by any evidence. But there is no doubt that there seems to be no one other than the Holy Alliance who can have the motivation and ability to do this kind of thing.
However, looking at it now, it doesn't seem like it anymore.
Among the Holy Alliance, the only thing worth caring about is the Holy Prome New Empire. The Victorians are also pretty good, but after losing half of the knight order, they are now battling with the orcs in the east, so they probably don't have time to mess around here.
As for the other two members of the Holy Alliance, Pudry and Florence, what kind of goods these two countries are, Palan knows very well.
Right now, the power of the Holy Alliance in the Principality of Florence can do this kind of thing
You know, less than 20 minutes have passed since the incident happened. The response of the Sixth Army was very fast. After the accident at the Milton Hotel, within ten minutes, a large number of troops had been mobilized.
That is to say, the time left for those who launched the attack will never exceed ten minutes.
In ten minutes, a high-level mage, a sword master, and an elite brigade were all taken care of. What kind of terrifying strength is this? Does the Holy Alliance have such ability in the City of Bauhinia
Paran is unbelievable.
The intelligence organization of the Black Hand Academy is quite powerful in the city of Bauhinia. Firmino once assured Palan that if there was any trouble in the Holy Alliance, they would know immediately.
However, there is not even the slightest sign of what is happening now.
Thinking of this, Palan asked again, "Where's Colonel Firmino?"
His adjutant replied: "Just now, he brought a few people with him, and he is still in the hotel."
"En." Palan nodded and said, "I'll wait here until he comes out, and let him come to see me as soon as possible."
…
Without keeping Palan waiting, Firmino soon appeared in front of him.
"How?" Paran asked.
Of course Firmino knew what he was asking, and his face is also very bad now.
The second-in-command of the Black Hand Academy said: "The situation is very bad, the enemy came very quickly. According to my investigation, your soldiers did not respond at all at the beginning. They sneaked directly into the hotel, and then attacked Master Miller shot. Miller didn't have any ability to resist, and was killed almost immediately when the enemy attacked. Then, they turned to deal with Bartyn and his elite guards."
"It was also when Barty was fighting the enemy that the soldiers realized it. But when they just realized it, they should have been attacked by very violent magic firepower. While suffering heavy losses, they were also blocked on the lower floor of the hotel. There was no time to catch up."
"Batein and his men were wiped out within three minutes in the hands of the enemy. He himself should have been hit by magic many times, and then split open by an epee with dark magic power. lost half his body and died in battle.”,
"Then, those people immediately took Ikela away, and used the power of the spell to teleport away."
Firmino gave Palan a rough description of the battle. In the end, he also said: "These are all the information I deduced from the traces left on the scene. Our opponents are very strong, and there are many traces of battle left, but in other respects, they dealt with them quite carefully. I No more valuable things have been found, and there is little hope of achieving results if we continue to follow up."
"Damn it!" Palan cursed.
He felt that his luck was really bad.
Of Schindler's many generals, he was the only one who remained in the Garrison. Forget it, after all, his military rank has been promoted very quickly, and his qualifications are slightly insufficient. However, after he made achievements in the wasteland pass, brought out a combat-capable army like the border guards, and made his mark in the last war, it was hard for him to really rise to the top of the kingdom's military.
Not only did the border guards brought out by him have finally been reorganized into a regular army, but he himself became a general in charge of a country.
But this good day has only been uncomfortable for a few days, and the internal affairs of the Principality of Florence have made him burnt out, and now such a thing has happened directly.
He could even imagine whether his seat would be secure after the news was sent back to the kingdom.
Looking at Palan's expression, Firmino was very sympathetic. A few years ago, the two had cooperated once, which can be regarded as some kind of friendship. Now, in the past six months, they have worked together again to maintain the stability of Florence. In addition, there are many places where the two of them need to work together, but there are not many places where there are conflicts of interest. The relationship is relatively good. Near is also natural.
He also hoped to be of more help, but this matter...
"Well, Palan, it's not your fault. You did the best you could."
Palan smiled wryly, and said: "But in the end, I still failed. Isn't this the most incompetent thing about me? I'm afraid, those people in the military department who don't like me will not let go of such a good opportunity to criticize me." Bar?"
When it comes to this, Firmino can only remain silent. The intelligence system of the Mafia Academy has always been disconnected from the kingdom's officialdom. This is a tacit understanding. In this matter, no matter how good the relationship between Firmino and Palan is, it is impossible to help him. What help—couldn't help.
Palan sighed, and refocused his attention on the matter at hand. He asked, "Have you figured out who did it?"
Firmino said: "There are clues, but it's not sure yet, anyway, it wasn't done by the Holy Alliance."
Palan: "I also guessed that it wouldn't be the Holy Alliance. They don't have that ability. But then again, if it wasn't the Holy Alliance, I can't imagine any force that would have the motivation to do such a thing."
Firmino frowned, as if he was thinking about whether he should say it or not.
"Huh? What's the matter? What scruples do we have? Tell us if you have information."
"It's not really any intelligence." Firmino said, "It's actually just a guess, and there is no conclusive evidence yet. However, the magic traces left on the scene are basically dark magic. What they left The negative energy breath is very obvious. Such a force that is good at using negative energy... Have you thought of anything?"
"You mean to curse the church?" Palan's face became serious.
When it comes to negative energy, the first thing he thinks of is to curse the church.
With his current status in the kingdom, he must be clear about the threat of the Cursed Church. However, in his original concept, he was stationed in the City of Bauhinia and the Duchy of Florence, and what he had to deal with was the threats from the conservative nobles in the Duchy and the Holy Alliance. It never occurred to him that the Church of the Cursed, which was said to be blocked from Broken Dragon Peak, would have something to do with him.
But he quickly thought of something else—on the northwestern border of the Principality of Florence, the place called Siye Forest is actually a forest area at the foot of the Central Mountain Range! If you continue to advance from the Siye Forest to the depths of the Central Mountain Range, you can go deep into the dark jungle and Nancy Royal Court directly.
According to the information currently available to the Kingdom, the Royal Court of Nancy has already been eroded by the Church of the Damned several years ago. By now, it should basically be regarded as completely fallen.
From this point of view, Palan really can't feel that he can sit back and relax just by facing the Holy Alliance.
Before, he had never realized that the Church of the Curse might be behind it, but now, after Firmino investigated and analyzed the traces left at the scene, his thinking suddenly changed.
"Damn it!" After changing his mind, he suddenly realized a very bad situation.
Palan has been in Florence for half a year. This lieutenant general, let’s put aside his ability, but there must be no problem with his attitude.
Florence, including Pudry, and even the map of the entire area in the southern part of the Orodic continent, has almost been completely recorded in his mind.
Outside the Siye Forest is the fir collar of the Sade family.
Earl Sade himself was burned to death by the breath of the dragon in the grip of the iron horse. It is conceivable what the Sade family's attitude towards the Schindlers will be like.
Just a while ago, there was a riot in Fir Collar.
This Florentine border territory can almost be said to be the most dissatisfied with Schindler's rule in the entire Principality, and they have become the most natural supporters of Earl Ekla.
Think about it, if the jailbreakers brought Earl Ekla to the Fir Territory, united with the nobles there, raised the banner of resistance, and with the support of the Church of the Damned behind them...
Palan felt he was in big trouble.
"This matter must be reported to His Majesty immediately!"