The assassination of Cyrus was so sudden that no one had thought of it before. The time and place of the assassination were not when the city-state held a celebration ceremony. Although there were many people and chaos in such an occasion, the guards around Cyrus were also the strictest, and there was no way to make arrangements in advance. From Mingyueye's point of view, it was not a very good opportunity to assassinate.
After the celebration ceremony was over, Cyrus stayed overnight in the city-state of Nippur, and drove westward to the city-state of Kish the next morning, where General Darius would be waiting for him. Of course, the chiefs of the city-state of Nippur will send them off, and the city-state will also hold a grand ceremony. The local military and political officials will follow Cyrus the Great out of the city.
The guards had long been on guard outside the city gates to prevent assassins from mixing in the crowd of farewells. Cyrus the Great also had expert guards by his side. Even if there were assassins, the possibility of breaking through the numerous guards and approaching Cyrus was very small. , Suspicious people, etc., may be solved before they even get close.
The accident happened suddenly when Cyrus the Great was out of the city, and it was the time when everyone was most relaxed. At that time, the military and government officials of the Nippur city-state followed their chariots and lined up in the city, but the guards who cleared the way for Cyrus the Great had already arrived outside the city, and Cyrus' chariots just passed through the city gate.
This was almost an impossible occasion to assassinate, because Cyrus was in the gate of the city, and there were heavy guards on the tower, and there were experts around him, inside and outside the city, but someone shot an arrow.
This arrow was shot from inside the city, and the archer was standing among the crowd watching Cyrus the Great drive out of the city. If Amon saw this arrow, he must be familiar with it. It was a black one engraved with magical patterns. giant arrow. An arrow shot out with terrifying momentum, with a sound like a mountain roar and a tsunami, it drew a parabola in the air, crossed the team of officials who were seeing off, and shot towards the city gate. The giant arrow flew through the air, carrying a terrifying shock wave, and people on the ground were turned upside down wherever they passed.
The arrow was shot from behind, which was beyond everyone's expectations. According to common experience, if an assassin really wanted to assassinate Cyrus, it would be reasonable to set up an ambush outside the city. However, the guards around Cyrus were well-trained in battle, and they were not flustered by the power of this arrow. Countless sword lights criss-crossed towards the sky, and the magicians also performed various magic spells to firmly guard the arrow. Live inside the city gate.
This arrow condensed powerful energy, hit several sword lights in the air one after another, paused for a few pauses and still shot forward at unabated speed, almost exactly the same as when the saint Isis was assassinated back then. But no matter how powerful this arrow is, it cannot penetrate the protection laid down by the magicians. Unexpectedly, the arrow did not shoot at Cyrus, but turned upwards at the last moment and hit the city wall directly above the city gate. There was only a loud bang, and the whole city tower collapsed!
I need to introduce the west gate of the city-state of Nippur. Under the thick city wall is the city gate hole, and there is a tower above the city gate. It looks solid and majestic, and it is brand new. When Sinakh attacked the city-state of Nippur, the city gate was destroyed by catapults, and the tower was also set on fire.
Although the city gate was repaired later, it simply restored the defensive function. After receiving the news that Cyrus the Great was coming, the local military and government officials urgently recruited peasants and craftsmen to rush to repair two magnificent towers, namely the east gate and the west gate, because that was the place to welcome and send off Cyrus the Great .
The west tower was just completed a few days before the arrival of Cyrus the Great, and it was built overnight with no expense in manpower and material resources. During the construction, of course, there were city-state guards and magicians to supervise the work, to prevent the craftsmen from cutting corners or making other moves, and even every layer of bricks had to be inspected. No one thought that there would be any problems with this tower.
But there is a trap in the tower, which was set by Ming Yueye, who is proficient in assassination. Mingyueye and Dumuzi did not follow Queen Semir to inspect the border. They left Assyria ahead of time and came to the new province of Poz, but Mingyueye got in among the craftsmen who built the tower somehow.
Nippur is a city-state that was recently occupied by Poze, and most of its residents were also migrated from other places by Sinach. The Potts occupation army was not familiar with the local people, so they urgently summoned craftsmen to rush to build the city tower, but they could only do a strict body search and careful inspection of the project. It was impossible to verify the identities of the craftsmen one by one, which just gave Mingyue Ye a chance .
This trap is very hidden, and it is similar to the trap that Enlil encountered back then. When the tower is completed, even a great magician will not find any abnormalities if he scans it with the detection magic. The force needed to detonate this trap is very powerful, and it also needs to be very ingenious. For those who don't know the inside story, even if they use a catapult to blow down the tower, the trap will not respond.
The archer was not Semir, but Ming Yueye himself who laid the trap. When the giant black divine magic arrow arced down in the air and shot towards the city gate, suddenly there was a green light wrapped around the arrow, as if it was taken away by a giant blue snake, it turned and shot straight into the city tower , which was helped by Dumuzi.
I saw that two rows of thin stone bricks above the city gate turned into quicksand-like powder at the same time, as if they were cut open by someone with a knife, and terrible huge cracks appeared. The supporting structure of a building like this is not afraid of cracks in a few stones, but is afraid of the sudden sliding displacement of these connected structures.
The reason why the trap set by Mingyue Ye is hidden is that it didn't turn all the stone bricks in the two cracks into pieces, it just cracked the two bricks deep in the city wall instantly through the energy impact of the giant arrow. Then under the huge self-weight pressure of the tower, the city gate would collapse, and Cyrus happened to pass by, so the calculation was not ingenious.
Ming Yueye shot an arrow, and then saw the tower collapsed, he didn't even look at it, he jumped up high with a roar, turned around and ran away. His mission has been completed, and his identity as an assassin has been exposed, so he naturally has to flee thousands of miles away. The main guard force of Nippur City was around the west gate, and he ran east. All the masters were busy escorting him at the moment, and they didn't have time to chase him, and ordinary guards couldn't stop him.
If it were someone else, Mingyue Ye's attack would be enough to solve the problem, but how could Emperor Cyrus be assassinated so easily? At the moment when the city tower collapsed, screams and roars rang together, countless brilliance rose, and the space paused as if it had been frozen. The carriage that Cyrus was riding suddenly fell apart, and two great magicians The master raised his staff high, and several great warriors surrounded him and rushed out of the city.
Smoke and dust rose up behind them, and the entire city tower collapsed completely, and Cyrus was not buried. But the other imperial guards around the great emperor were not so lucky. At least dozens of them were smashed into meat sauce on the spot before they could get out in time. The falling rubble also injured many people in the escort team inside and outside the city.
Although Cyrus was unharmed, he looked very embarrassed. He abandoned his carriage and rushed out of the city. Only five masters in the city gate guarded him from danger, while the other guards were buried in the collapsed tower.
The scene was chaotic, and there were screams inside and outside the city of Nippur at the same time. Someone shouted: "Cyrus is dead!" People near the city gate also fled in all directions, and even the vigilant guards couldn't restrain them.
The captain of the guard beside Cyrus raised his sword and yelled over all the voices: "The emperor is all right, be careful of assassins, don't mess up!"
Immediately after that, more than a dozen figures flew into the air. Cyrus' guard of honor and half of the masters had already left the city to clear the way ahead. At this moment, the magicians turned and flew to the top of the tower. The assassin appeared in the city, and Mingyue Ye had already fled, but there was another figure flying high, wearing a black robe and holding a staff, like a goshawk volleying in the sky, waving and throwing out several scrolls.
Although the scroll does not consume the user's own mana, it also requires the user to control its attack range. It is much more difficult to accurately lock the attack target than to throw it randomly, and controlling two scrolls is more than twice as difficult as controlling one scroll, the more powerful the scroll, the more so.
But this person actually threw out six high-level attack scrolls at the same time, all of which were firmly locked on the guards who had just rushed out of the smoke, and they were all deployed almost at the same time. This assassin was Faust.
Faust flew into the sky and threw the scroll, which was tantamount to exposing himself to attract all the attention, and he was desperate to do so. When the scroll flew out, he couldn't escape immediately. He had to control the attack direction of the scroll after it was unfolded, otherwise he would not be able to lock the target. He could only grit his teeth and wave his staff, adding several magical shields to himself.
Brilliance shot out in mid-air, and arrows rained down on the ground, almost all of them hit Faust in the air. The arrows shot by ordinary warriors into the sky are not dangerous at all, but the arrows shot by the elite warriors around Cyrus are astonishingly powerful. There are also various weapons mixed in the arrows, including axes, flagpoles, spears, and warrior armor. Swords and so on—some warriors didn't have bows and arrows, and simply slashed out the weapons in their hands.
All kinds of roaring sounds and shock waves from energy explosions scattered, and fragments of various weapons whirled and flew around in the air. The place near the ground was full of smoke, light, and flames, and seven or eight figures fell from the air with miserable cries. . It's not impossible for these magicians to dodge when the scroll explodes, but they have to guard Cyrus the Great on the ground, so they can only block this round of attacks.
The magical shields around Faust's body were also shattered almost instantly, and the black robe on his body was shattered into pieces, revealing the white gown. He spat out blood, dropped the staff in his hand, was swept up by the surging force, and flew backwards towards the city far away. At this time, a ray of green light flew out, and it turned into a terrifying strange python in the air, wrapped around Faust's figure, and shot out toward the north.
Dumuzi took over the seriously injured Faust and left, but the masters around Cyrus had no time to chase, because it was at this time that Emperor Bozi was really assassinated!
The accident happened too quickly and the scene was too chaotic. First, the city tower collapsed, and Cyrus abandoned his car and rushed out of the city. Except for a few masters around him, the guards on both sides of the car were killed. The collapsed city tower also cut his guard team into two sections, and the beginning and the end could not respond. The people who saw him off shouted in horror.
Faust dropped from the sky in the chaos and threw the scroll, and there was another violent explosion in an instant. Not to mention that the magician who had just flown into the sky fell, and the warriors near the city gate were also thrown down. The light flickered randomly, and there was only a buzzing echo in my ears.
The moonlight night was the arrow shot in the city, and Faust also flew out of the city, attracting the attention of all the guards outside the city. After taking out the staff, he flew into the air with a quick reaction, and his guard against the direction outside the city was relaxed for a moment, and Emperor Cyrus himself turned to look at the top of the tower.
Just as Faust was injured and flew out, Semir finally made a move. The empress was dressed in shabby clothes, and the patched robe was very loose, like a slightly sloppy poor woman, mixed in the crowd outside the city. When Cyrus' guard of honor went out of the city, she also prostrated herself in the crowd.
After the great change, there were terrified shouts, and the power of Faust's attack spread far away, and the panicked people were rolled to the ground one after another while running around. Semir took advantage of the situation and turned somersaults, and landed in a half-kneeling archery posture, and he had already drawn his bow and set his arrow steadily.
The bow is the magic bow she usually uses, but the arrow is the tusk arrow that Gilgamesh once used to assassinate Sinach. The white long-toothed arrow shot out, mixed with the shock aftermath of various magical energy, and flashed away, as if passing through time and space, appearing light and soundless.
But Semir, who was half kneeling on the ground, moved so solemnly, as if he had turned into a hard stone statue, and all the strength in his body seemed to have been emptied by the arrow. The guards who were turning around and looking back did not stop the arrow, and most of the guards didn't even notice the arrow at all.
If Semir's arrow assassinated Cyrus in normal times, it would be quite powerful, but it is unlikely to succeed, and this moment is a good opportunity. The earth-shattering attack inside the city was all a cover for the silent arrow outside the city. The captain of the guard beside Cyrus suddenly became alert, turned around and punched vigorously. The saber in his hand had been flying towards the sky just now.
Another great magician closest to Cyrus also sensed the danger, and flicked his staff in desperation, covering Emperor Cyrus with a layer of tough and invisible air element armor. Hearing a bang, Cyrus' guard captain flew out with a muffled grunt, and a long white arrow appeared strangely and shot Cyrus.
The arrow came so fast that it was almost invisible to the naked eye, but it contained huge energy silently, and could blow away a great warrior who had to respond in a hurry. Affected by the armor of the air element, the speed of this arrow slowed down, and even shone a dazzling light in the air, but it still passed through the armor of the air element and sank into the back of Cyrus the Great. There wasn't even a trace of blood on the arrow shaft.
An arrow pierced out of Cyrus' back. The mighty emperor slowly stretched out his hand to cover the broken breastplate. to what happened. He wanted to turn around to see who the assassin was, but the moment his body moved, his legs softened and he was about to fall down.
The imperial guards rushed up to support him, and the light from the priest's staff also enveloped him, and there was a cry of surprise in his ears, but the sound became farther and farther away, more and more ethereal, and there was a burst of light before his eyes. It was black, and the blood had already stained the armor on the chest and back.
The city of Nippur was still noisy, but there was a strange silence outside the city gate. Except for the few masters around Cyrus who shouted in amazement: "Your Majesty!" The surrounding guards were stunned and couldn't believe what they saw with their own eyes.
The outermost soldiers of the guard of honor were the first to see Semir's movements clearly, and immediately rushed forward to catch the assassin. But at this moment, there was a sound of surging waves in the wilderness, and almost everyone had hallucinations. The ground was surging and undulating and turned into a wave, and the waves rolled over to drown everyone. People waved their arms and shouted in panic, struggling, but the voice in their throats could not even be heard by themselves.
This is the illusion unfolded by Yolio. Several high-level achievers immediately took their minds off the interference of the illusion, but all they saw were the people and soldiers struggling in panic, and the assassin who shot the arrow had disappeared.
The assassination plan planned by Ming Yueye naturally carried the style of him, the most outstanding assassin on the mainland. Everyone made the most dangerous blow at the most appropriate moment, and then got away without entanglement. The last arrow finally succeeded, Samir only had one chance to kill Cyrus, and she succeeded!
One can imagine the chaos around the city of Nippur that day. Cyrus the Great was accidentally assassinated and killed. Immediately, experts from all walks of life began to track down the assassin. The assassin had already taken advantage of the chaos and fled without a trace.
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According to the original plan, after the assassination was successful, Semir would sneak back to the Assyrian border and continue to inspect the border guards, while Faust would be ordered to return to Niveh to deal with possible complicated situations. No one knew that they had quietly left, everything seemed to be going on seamlessly.
The injured Faust returned the fastest, because Dumuzi who took him away had an amazing speed. One day after Faust's return, Samir returned to the Queen's car under the escort of Urio. Cyrus is dead, and Potts will definitely be in chaos for a while. The Assyrian Empire finally has a chance to breathe, but the fate of Assyria depends on whether they can take this opportunity to regain their strength.
Semir sent Faust back to the imperial capital, and at the same time secretly told him not to rush on the road, be careful not to worsen his injuries, and concentrate on recuperating after returning to the imperial capital, but he should not reveal that he was seriously injured, so as not to attract suspicion.
However, Faust did not listen to the Queen's advice, he returned home without stopping, and rushed back to Niveh City almost day and night regardless of his injuries. It is not surprising that the sage national teacher acted like this, because no one knew that he was injured, and the news of the assassination of Cyrus the Great had already spread, and it was reasonable for the empress to send him back to the imperial capital urgently during the inspection. .