After leaving Rasul and Agrippina, Ask fell into deep thought again.
The key point that determined the outcome of this civil war in the empire was actually the defection of the Duchy of Swabia.
When the Falcon family took control of the Duchy of Swabia and announced their allegiance to the emperor's camp, the end of the civil war had entered the final countdown.
Of course, killing the Wolf family's demigod "Hidden String" Alberto will only make the Wolf family choose to yield and surrender more quickly, and objectively accelerate the end of the civil war.
However, killing a demigod... This is no small matter.
Demigods usually don't take action because they don't want to waste their spiritual energy. But once they encounter a situation where someone threatens their life, they naturally don't need to hold back, and the destructive power they unleash is extremely astonishing.
Fortunately, with the support of the demigod Agrippina, Rasul designed an assassination plan against the demigod, which sounded feasible... Ask looked at the heavy dragon bone sword at his waist, his heart sinking slightly.
Would Agrippina lie? If the poison in the sword could not successfully consume the spiritual power of the Hidden String, then I, who took action in the end, would be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth, giving myself away for nothing.
Of course, Ask soon overturned this assumption, and Agrippina had no need to deceive herself:
Firstly, there is no conflict of interest between the two sides at present, so there is no need for hostility. After all, I am still a Constantinople native, a member of the Solomon nation recognized by the other party, so under normal circumstances, there is no need to kill each other.
Secondly, if the other party really wanted to murder him, there was no need for her to resort to such despicable means. With her elusive disguise skills and poisoning abilities, who could escape her life
That is, the last time the other party relied on his demigod status and did not choose assassination but a frontal attack, which allowed the Blue Sword to deal with it. Later, as he arranged for Peggy to form a master-disciple relationship with the other party, the hostile situation finally collapsed.
Another possibility that cannot be ruled out is that Agrippina and Rasul "selectively lied" to themselves.
The so-called "selective lying" means that nine out of ten words are true and one is false. In this way, when the person being persuaded is thinking and analyzing, most of the assumptions that "the other party is lying" they put forward are obviously inconsistent with the fact that "nine out of ten words are true", so they subconsciously judge that what the other party said is all true.
In fact, that "one lie" is the most fatal part.
If it is selective lying, then where exactly is the “one bit of falsehood”
For example, at the moment of assassination and poisoning, the opponent still has the power to counterattack
(However, if he died, Peggy and Agrippina would inevitably become enemies, so this possibility is relatively low)
Or maybe there was nothing wrong with the assassination itself, but since it was him who swung the sword, would the Wolfe family subsequently identify him as the murderer
(This is more likely, but after all, I come from a mercenary group. At most, I will avoid getting close to the Burgundy territory. Besides, after the civil war is over, I will go south to fight the Holy See. As the defeated party, the Wolf family is already in trouble, and I don’t have time to embarrass them in the short term.)