"I'll go with you." Inelise couldn't help but become anxious when she heard that the matter was related to Irene.
"It might not be safe there..." Regnar did not reject Inelis directly. The little girl was now an intermediate mage after all. It would definitely break her heart if anything excluded her, after all, she was trying so hard to be useful...
"Ini is not afraid of danger. Moreover, with brother Regnar here, Ini will not be in danger, right?" Inelise asked Regnar with a smile.
"..." Regnar looked at the little girl, and finally nodded: "Okay, let's go together!"
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Regnar never thought that this Harson would be so lawless. He didn't expect that Halson's revenge would come so quickly.
As mentioned before, the organizers of this annual meeting are the two major magic academies. The scene layout, program arrangements, and personnel reception during the annual meeting are all arranged by the two major magic academies. However, they were not responsible for the security issues of the annual meeting. Instead, the Military Intelligence Department and the Imperial City Protection Guards were jointly responsible. To put it simply, the Imperial City Protection Guards patrol as outposts to control the order and security of the entire annual meeting. The agents of the Military Intelligence Department are secret sentries, responsible for protecting the lives of important figures in the empire at a single point.
Why do you do this? The reason is not complicated, because although the Magic Academy is training the top group of people in the world - mages. But so far, they are just a group of teenage students. Let them be responsible for the safety of His Majesty the King of the Hawke Empire? Not to mention that Larvin himself was worried, perhaps even the Magic Academy itself would not dare to take on this job.
And this is what happened to Irene. She failed to find Annelotte before, and Regnar followed Alexander and had something serious to discuss. So Erin, who was bored for a while, started wandering around. Fortunately, the two magic academies were responsible for organizing this annual meeting. As one of the double flowers of the Second Magic Academy, Irene is well-known in both the First Magic Academy and the Second Magic Academy.
So under the guidance of some students responsible for organizing the annual meeting, Erin wandered around and looked around, and unexpectedly came to the martial law area of the venue. It was a place for the Imperial King Larvin and some high-ranking ministers to rest and talk. It was an open-air building a few hundred meters away from the venue.
I don’t know what the guard who was responsible for guarding the entrance was doing, but Eileen reached the second floor unimpeded. Just when the half-elf was excited that he had found a place with a wider view, where he could watch the wonderful performances brought by various artists outside the auditorium. A group of heavily armed elite Imperial City Defense Team rushed over. They detained Irene and charged her with "possibly being a spy for the Stoker Empire."
If according to the laws of the Hawke Empire, the fact that an unidentified civilian like Irene would enter and leave the Empire restricted area at will would give the Imperial City Defense Force enough reason to kill her.
And the reason why Irene didn't suffer such an inexplicable tragic accident was because Regnar himself had kept an eye on it. Although in the eyes of others, Erin is an insignificant role. But Regner didn't dare to relax at all. Even if the Stoker people couldn't target her for assassination, Regner still didn't want to let Irene be affected even a little bit by this kind of thing.
So he sent a female agent from the department to follow Eileen secretly. If anything happened, he asked her to notify Regnar in time. This was originally just a precaution for Regnar, but he didn't expect that this would really save Irene's life.
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"Miss Irene, please hold on a little longer. I have asked the brothers in the department to inform Lord Regnar. He will definitely be here soon." The virgin military intelligence agent responsible for protecting Irene stood with a dagger. She walked in front of Irene and looked at the heavily armed Imperial City Defense Force soldiers in front of her expressionlessly, but her tone of voice when speaking to Irene was warm and soft.
Erin blinked and looked at the girl in front of her... uh... Actually, strictly speaking, it would be more appropriate to call her a girl. Because this female agent looks about twenty years old from the face, and her figure is thin and thin, and she doesn't look much better than Inelise. The relatively large dagger in her hand highlighted her thinness. Compared with her, even Irene seemed more mature and tall.
However, even such a little girl who looked completely insecure still stood in front of her as calmly as a piece of ice, preventing the guards with weapons from getting close to her.
"I reiterate again, put down your weapons and stop resisting. The woman behind you has violated the empire's security regulations, and we have to take her back for interrogation." The guard captain held the hilt of the long sword in his hand tighter. He looked at the girl in front of him and said mechanically.
These words are only what must be said when encountering an enemy who is disturbing public order and stubbornly resisting. He needs to repeat it three times, and if the other party still does not change his attitude after three times. Then the Imperial City Defense Force has the right to disable the resister. If the opponent dares to attack the Imperial City Defense Force, then he has the right to deprive the opponent of his life.
And just now, it was the third time he reiterated it. But the girl agent did not give an answer. She still assumed a threatening fighting posture, and the dagger in her hand never relaxed.
So, the guard captain drew his one-handed sword. Following his action, the other seven warriors behind him also drew their weapons.
The clear sound of the sharp and cold blade rubbing against the scabbard made Irene shiver. She finally understood that this matter was serious enough to involve people's lives. So Irene quickly pushed the girl in front of her away, and then said to the guards: "Please don't do anything, I will just leave with you!"
"Miss Irene, you must not do this!" The girl was a level 10 assassin, so her physical condition was better than that of Irene, a priest. She hurriedly used her strength to continue to block Irene behind her, and then said without looking back: "The task given to me by the Director is to protect you from anyone, so no matter what, I can't just watch. They will take you away. Just wait, the adults will be here soon!"
"But..." Eileen was a little hesitant.
"Since you are stubbornly resisting, we can only act in accordance with the law." The guard captain's eyes turned cold, and then he made a charging gesture towards the soldiers behind him.
"Damn it!" the young assassin screamed inwardly. She had just carried out Regnar to scare these guys away. But judging from their reactions, it seemed that they were determined to catch Irene, and her words only accelerated the speed of these people's actions.
The girl already possesses tenth level strength before she is twenty years old, and her talent is considered to be superior. But since these guards across the street can be assigned to maintain public order at such a grand occasion as the annual meeting, how many of them will be mediocre? It is no exaggeration to say that every guard in this annual meeting is as strong as the regular knights of the Golden Eagle Knights. This means that the eight people she faces all have intermediate strength or above. If there are only one or two, the girl can still deal with them for a few minutes, but if there are eight people... the girl has absolutely no chance of winning.
But since this is the task assigned to him by the director, he must complete it meticulously even if he dies! This is a concept that has been instilled in the mind of every Military Intelligence agent. However, this female agent executed it more resolutely and thoroughly. In fact, if we calculate the time, even if we let the guards take Irene away at this time, they will probably be intercepted by Regnar on the way.
But this was not the task that Regnar had given her. What Regnar told her was that Eileen should not be put in even the slightest danger at any time. He demanded that Irene should be absolutely unscathed before she lost her life.
This was the task assigned to her by the Director, and now, she began to complete her mission.
"Miss Eileen, please go quickly! If you hold on just a little longer, the adult will be here!" The girl agent pushed Eileen away, then rushed towards the guard with a dagger.
"This..." Irene lost her composure for a moment as she looked at the chaotic scene in front of her. With her temperament, she naturally refused to leave the people who protected her and run away alone. Therefore, Irene's final choice was to take a few steps back, and then watched helplessly and helplessly as a girl younger than herself and thinner than herself shuttled through the shadows of swords and swords in order to protect herself.
The girl dodged a horizontal slash from the guard, and the look in her eyes suddenly became a little colder. She originally thought that the guards would show mercy to her because she was from the Military Intelligence Agency. But now it seems that she has underestimated the intensity of the conflicts between these institutions within the empire. If she had reacted even half a second slower to that sword blow just now, her head would have been flying into the sky. They were definitely swinging their swords at themselves with the determination to kill them.
If that's the case, then why should she hold back? !
The girl relied on her petite body to slip through the gap between the enemy's sword-wielding arms. She came behind the guard, then swung the dagger and sent the blade through the gap in the guard's armor. There was a heartbreaking sound between the shoulder blade and the blade, and the girl knew that her blow had made the guy temporarily unable to swing the sword. So she was ready to pull out her dagger and go kill the next enemy.
But the girl still underestimated the quality of the guards in the Imperial City Protection Guards. The guard who suffered from shoulder pain did not completely give up resistance. He roared lowly, and then burst out with a fighting spirit that was not inferior to that of the girl agent.
The girl agent was staggered by the sudden fighting spirit, and her body fell backwards due to the huge thrust.
But at this moment, Erin let out a scream. Because in that flash of lightning, Eileen saw that there was a guard standing behind the girl agent. He was holding a sharp long sword in his hand, and the tip of the sword was pointed directly at the girl's waist!
Poof!