Chapter 19 Truth and Departure
The news brought by No. 3 did not change anything in a short period of time. Everyone in the lord's mansion lives as usual and there was no big change.
Fire and Hei were working together to rectify some of the matters in the Lord's Mansion. They occasionally took Brandon and Verdanni's two daughters to walk around and play in the main city. Most of the residents of the Moldavia Territory had long known this young maid, so no one disturbed their travels on weekdays.
Rin traveled between Winter Castle and the Lord's Mansion, handling most of the government affairs for Joshua. A young man with a slight workaholic tendency always works overtime until late at night. His diligent performance made No. 3 admire him, and made Joshua wonder if he was too squeezing the young man's labor force.
Atanis also visited the Lord's Mansion several times. After learning about the warrior's passing in the Holy Mountain, the old bishop repeatedly expressed his gratitude to Joshua. At this time, the warriors learned that Atanis had several former students and acquaintances who were now on the western defense line of the Holy Mountain. After hearing the news that his friend was safe and sound, the old man's sad face was wiped out.
Joshua himself, as usual, was communicating with the world all the time. He strengthened his strength bit by bit by bit by bit by resonating with the free energy in the atmosphere.
Recently, late autumn has gradually entered late autumn, and winter in the north is approaching. Whether it is farmers, hunters, explorers and adventurers, they are busy harvesting crops, hunting fat beasts, and finally explore the mysterious Great Aes Mountains when winter and blizzards are not coming, and get paid from the Lord's Mansion. The entire Moldavia is rarely in a busy state, and everyone has their own jobs.
At this time, the soldier was standing in the center of a wasteland that was at least dozens of kilometers away from the main city. His eyes were closed, his air flowed from his mouth and nose, and his chest and abdomen had rhythmic ups and downs. His breathing, hundreds of high temperatures were centered on his body, and he radiated towards all directions like a furnace, turning the wasteland within a radius of hundreds of meters into sandstorm and scorched earth bit by bit.
‘Breath of Jiao Prison’
Since last time against the Red Dragon Evian and having experienced a little "extreme intention of flame" from the self-destruction of the Fusion Star, the warriors have been trying to master this power.
Today, Qiao Xiuya has a solid physical quality, will and spirit and fighting spirit. He is a real strong man in the extreme, but his expertise and talent have not kept up, and he has not practiced the permanent gain state similar to the steel armor breathing method.
After all, it has only been two years since he traveled through time. He has been exploring everywhere and traveling to other worlds. Although this has greatly improved the level of the warrior, it has prevented him from keeping up in other aspects. This time, the battle against Mandagar in the Blood Moon Abyss and the battle between Holy Mountain and Evian exposed this shortcomings, except for throwing Ying and Rin out, he has no reliable long-range attack methods.
The extremely terrifying special ability of Fierce Sun Flash is undoubtedly very suitable for Joshua. For this reason, the warrior spent time specially to create a new power control technique to control the power of the flame and the sun, which is also the Breath of the Jiao Prison.
The Breath of Jiao Yu is a special energy internal circulation system. Its performance is to improve the practitioner's resistance to single-order damage and master the corresponding supernatural abilities. Judging from the current actual effects, the resistance shown by this unique breathing method is itself accompanied by the supernatural abilities obtained by the practitioner after completing his study. This ability in this aspect is even more like a tiger for people like Qiao Xiuya who combines high temperature and fire and other components of fighting qi, and even the time required for practice is greatly shortened.
Now that the improvement of the Breath of Jiao Prison is about to end, the warrior can now generate high temperatures beyond the surface of the sun by activate the fighting spirit with all his strength, and can easily gasify steel, break through most of the world's defenses, and use this power to base it, and then control the flash of the storm of the storm, it will undoubtedly be much easier.
The craze in the atmosphere gradually dissipated, the distorted air returned to calm, and Joshua stopped practicing Dou Qi. The sun set, and today's daily exercise was over. He was going to return to the lord's mansion to handle some government affairs.
The flying speed of the extremely powerful man was far better than that of gold. Not long after, Joshua, who had not used all his strength, had returned from the wasteland to the sky above the main city of Moldavia. He stood in the sky, looking down at his territory, watching the bustling crowds in the city and the crowds returning outside the city.
The Harvest Festival is coming. Joshua thought so that this was a large celebration held every autumn, and as a lord, he needed to preside over the entire process. Not only in the north, but also in all parts of the country, even His Majesty the Emperor, will preside over similar festivals.
"Since that's the case," the warrior whispered to himself: "It's almost time..."
At this moment, Joshua suddenly felt something and turned to look into the distance. He saw a white horse at the end of the horizon, racing towards the main city of Moldavia.
The horse has excellent bloodline and is obviously mixed with dragon beasts. After a very obvious long run, its physical strength can still make it make a long neigh, allowing passers-by and carriages who are walking slowly ahead to avoid it. On the back of the horse, there is an extremely tired red-haired young man. After experiencing the bumps of a long journey, he seems to be about to die.
As he watched the white horse approach the main city from a distance, Joshua's eyes flashed.
He slowly landed at the city gate, waiting for the other party to arrive.
A man fell from the sky, causing a burst of chaos and noisy noise, but after a few seconds, the scene became quiet.
Most of the lords had seen themselves as their young lords during festivals and festivals, and even a small number of their children were studying at Winter Castle Academy. Seeing Joshua descending, the gate of Moldavia's main city suddenly became silent, and the carriages and horses dared not continue to move forward, and the pedestrians stopped uneasily until Joshua turned his head and told those who were congested at the gate to enter the city soon, and the world was separated from the static.
While walking, everyone stared at their lord with awe until they left the city gate.
As time passed, the crowds of people coming and going at the gate of the city gradually decreased, the sun disappeared completely, and night fell. Joshua stood at the gate of the city, and he waited for the galloping white horse.
At the end of the road, the red-haired young man on the horse's back naturally saw Joshua. He hurriedly tightened the reins and stopped the mount under him. Then the young man immediately dismounted and rushed towards the warrior.
The red-haired young man had a sickly pale skin, which was obviously the consequence of staying in the house for many years without seeing the sun. His hands were covered with blood bubbles caused by driving a war horse. He knew at a glance that he rarely went out on weekdays and used his mount.
As soon as he came to the warrior, tears filled his eyes. The red-haired young man seemed to want to speak, but he couldn't say anything. He didn't have time to think about why Joshua happened to be at the gate of the city, so he knelt down, protruding his body, expressing endless respect and awe.
“Adman Carlos.”
After waiting for a long time, after seeing the other party saying nothing, Joshua said, "Alfonso's eldest son, why did you return to Moldavia for?"
After hearing the warrior's inquiry, the red-haired young man, Ademan Carlos, trembled violently. He raised his head slightly, dared not look directly into Joshua's eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Sir Earl...I...my father..."
Joshua looked down at the young man who dared not look directly at him, his eyes narrowed. He recalled the way he looked when he first saw this young man two years ago. Alfonso introduced his eldest son to the warrior and revealed that he was willing to take him as a hostage and entrusted him under the lord's mansion. However, Joshua saw the other party's loyalty and felt that there was no need to be such trouble, so he simply refused.
And now, too much has changed. The warrior said: "Alfonso Carlos, that is, your father is dead, I know that."
Perhaps because of Joshua's slightly cold words, Ademan's expression was a little stiff, but after hesitating for a while, he immediately replied in pain: "Sir Earl, my father is dead, uncle, uncle Dudley and others are dead!"
His words triggered a commotion among passers-by. Many people looked at each other and didn't know what was going on, but no one dared to stop and continue to listen to this matter.
Joshua didn't care about this kind of gaze, he said, "Be more specific, what happened."
"One night two weeks ago, my father was calculating the bill." Now, Ademan calmed down. He swallowed a drool and quickly said: "But when I delivered the hot drink to the study, I found that his father was dead without any signs. He stopped breathing like this. I even said hello to him a few minutes ago!"
Speaking of this, Ademan's expression showed extreme pain, and tears burst out from his eyes: "Every few days, someone in the family will die like this, first Uncle Cindal, and then Uncle Durik. I don't know that no one has left during the time I was rushing to go..."
"Enough."
Joshua shook his head in disappointment, his voice coldly: "Apart from that, is there nothing else you want to explain?"
Ademan was forced by momentum and could not speak for a momentum, but looking at this, the warrior knew that the other party did not want to explain other things.
Joshua looked up at the black night sky. The moon was slowly rising. He was silent for a while, and then said, "I had known Alfonso's death a few days ago. At that time, I planned to go to the imperial capital to find the murderer and avenge him, but No. 3 reminded me of something."
Looking down at the red-haired young man with violent trembling body, Joshua whispered: "Although I don't know why, you are the one who forged the report on the funds, Ademan. Although you imitate your father's handwriting, it is too clumsy for me and No. 3."
"Your concealment has delayed reporting of your father's death for two weeks." The warrior's tone was calm: "Explain it."
After hearing Joshua's words, the red-haired young man immediately raised his head in horror. He seemed to want to explain, but under the cold gaze of the warrior, he was speechless. In the end, Ademan could only lower his head little by little and tell the truth.
The funding report received at the beginning of the 3rd was indeed forged by several deputies of Ademan and Alfonso to conceal the news.
They thought Alfonso died suddenly because of his hard work and the secret injuries he suffered from business operations in the early years. No one had ever thought that this was a planned murder. Because they were worried that the Lord's Mansion would send people to take over the property of the imperial capital instead of Carlos's family, Ademan, Cindal and Dalik decided to temporarily forge the report on the flow of funds, preparing to first grasp the rights obtained by Alfonso's death, and then inform Alfonso of his death.
For the sake of power and money, even ordinary people will have great courage until the second and third persons die suddenly appear.
Cindal and Durik, and even the other servants in the house, died one after another, which scared Ademan to death. He instantly understood that this was a temptation against the Radcliffe family and against Joshua. The red-haired youth concealed and refused to report it was considered by Joshua's weakness, which made these unknown people even more rampant.
Frightened to the point of mental weakness, Ademan, with his rarely used mount, fled to a small town outside the imperial capital. He immediately teleported back to the border of the north and then ran all the way toward the main city of Moldavia. The red-haired young man originally wanted to hide his own plot of fighting for power and profit, but he didn't expect to be seen through at first sight.
“It’s so ugly.”
Shaking his head, Joshua closed his eyes. He didn't want to see the other party's embarrassing and embarrassed look. The warrior said calmly: "You have been in the imperial capital for more than me, and you must know better about the situation...Adman, who do you think assassinating your father and his deputy?"
He did not pursue the other party's concealment because there was no need for this. Joshua only wanted to know one thing now, that is, who the enemy was.
“…Fertao family, which operates the 'Imperial Iron Fist' series of chain weapons stores, owns the Suward family, the largest ore producer in the northwest."
After realizing that Giotto was not willing to punish him for hiding his concealment, Adman thought for a while, and then reported the names of the two families. Later, he thought about it and said the third family name: "Maybe the Torredo family may also...their industry is a magic scroll, and it has nothing to do with us, but it is rumored that the old earl had injured their contemporary family when he was young...this is just speculation."
After saying this, the red-haired young man immediately added a suffix in fear. He was not sure if these families did it, but the one who competed with the Radcliffe family recently was them. In terms of suspicion, the same is true.
"very good."
Nodding slightly, Joshua no longer paid attention to the young man who was kneeling on the ground and still trembling. He flew back to the sky, leaving only a cold voice: "The guilt you have committed cannot be forgiven, but that is not now."
"Repent, before the end of revenge."
Chapter completed!