Chapter 146

Chapter 146: Conflict and Opposition 1

Baron Jonathan was a young noble who was credited with leading the future of the Empire, and he was currently serving as the Empire’s Internal ministry .

He had an excellent ability to carry out the task at hand, and his loyalty to the Emperor was unrivaled .

Emperor Rudolf too had honored him and praised him on numerous occasions .

“Haam! Is it time yet?”

Seeing a dark shadow outside the window, Jonathan got out of his desk .

His wife had been nagging him a lot lately, telling him that he had been working too hard recently .

After leaving the Internal Ministry office, he hurried back to the mansion . He went up to the bedroom which was on the second floor and tried to soothe his wife who was upset with him being late .

“My dear, I have come…”

Puak!

Baron Jonathan, who opened the bedroom door, was shocked .

A knife had come from behind and stabbed him in the back .

As he turned his head, he was met with the resentful words of the man behind him .

“Kukk, this is for not being on the side of the Emperor . ”

With a cold sarcasm, the knife, which went through Jonathan’s heart, had been pulled back .

The assassin who had stabbed him didn’t waste any more time and disappeared into the darkness .

“Honey, Honey…”

The lady, who had to see an unexpected sight of her husband dying in front of her eyes, wasn’t able to come back to reality .

Her face turned white after seeing her fallen husband in front of her .

She thought that he was just pranking her for her constant nagging .

Believe it or not, her husband’s body was getting colder with every second, and the blood flowing from his heart was turning the floor red .

“Kyaaaah!”

Later, a scream had come out of the lady’s mouth after realizing that what was happening was real .

“Tch! Pathetic writers . I don’t know what you’re doing after a day full of discussions and measures and yet can’t come to a conclusion . If we don’t do it, we are in huge trouble . ”

Viscount Dugal was a noble lord of high esteem on the western side of the Empire .

At the age of forty which he had reached this very year, he was a well-established swordsman with a solid yet lean body . He was the best .

After hearing about the story of Marquis Cavanill, he stepped into a meeting with the noble lords for the night .

However, the nobles were all cranky and couldn’t jump into a conclusion .

It was because there was no evidence . They couldn’t place the blame on the Emperor nor could they let the issue go .

So, no decision had been made to convene an emergency meeting in which all the nobles on their side were present .

“Tch, frustrating . ”

With a dissatisfied shout, he was about to leave the meeting room .

It was very unlikely that the Emperor or a few neutral nobles would welcome him . Whether he was meant to be killed or to share a bread with, he was stuck with the nobility to the end .

‘I have nothing to discuss with these milk-drinking fools . I should go and see Duke Butler and discuss things with him . ’

When Dugal’s mind was fixed, the wagon he was riding had entered an alley in the outskirts .

“Huh? Where are you taking me?”

It wasn’t the way to his home . They turned in an unfamiliar alley instead . Dugal tried to talk to the driver .

Before the wagon stopped, the driver talked to him,

“Please get down . ”

Dugal did get out of the wagon and saw a man, whom he didn’t recognize .

“You’re not my driver!”

His wagon was always driven by the same man, but this man standing in front of him wasn’t the one .

“Huh hoo, if you have just noticed it now, you’re rather duller than I thought . ”

The driver’s face was a face he had not seen before .

“Are you an assassin sent by the Emperor?” Asked Dugal .

The young man smiled faintly and nodded . He pulled out his sword and looked at Dugal .

“Well, you can say that . ”

At the man’s response, Dugal realized that the young man in front of him wasn’t an assassin sent by the Emperor .

‘Who the hell is this guy?’

If one was to assassinate a noble in the capital, when caught, that person would be executed . Was there another force in the Empire who had the power to do such a thing?

Dugal tried to assess his opponent .

It was very unlikely that the man would tell Dugal what he wanted that easily, and Dugal wasn’t a man who liked to talk either .

‘It is better to cut off an arm and a leg and then interrogate him . ’ Dugal thought .

The man could be strong, or he could be one of those cowards who would just run away, but Dugal was confident that he wouldn’t lose a one on one fight .

In addition, he was being escorted by two Expert-class knights .

The escort knights had pulled out their swords the moment they stepped off the wagon .

“We’ll make you regret behaving like this in front of our Lord,” said one of the knights .

“Are you sure?” Asked the so-called assassin .

“Huk!”

The escort knights, who tried to rush toward the young man, fell on the ground while putting their hands on their chests which seemed to be in pain .

Dark red blood flowed down their noses and mouths .

Dugal had taken a step back as he started to feel severe pain in his heart .

“Poi, poisoned… How did you?”

“I sprayed it inside the wagon . While you were riding it, you kept taking it in,” said the assassin .

“This coward!”

Viscount Dugal grunted through his teeth and pulled out his sword .

But the moment he took out his sword, the pain became more unbearable . His body, betraying his will, collapsed into the floor .

“Even if I die, I will never forgive you . ”

Dugal, who cursed the young man, fell to the ground and threw up blood only to die seconds later .

The young man, with a cold expression, smiled .

“I did it in a hurry, but I guess it did work better than what I imagined . ”

Dugal’s body was filled with poison that had been made from the blood of a monster called Harpy, which was a commonly used technique by assassins .

The poison was mainly used for assassinating knights because it could spread much faster in beings who could use aura .

The poison was usually put on daggers or in food and drinks, but the young man had sprayed it in the wagon .

“I did the other thing with this . ”

The mumbling young man dropped something next to Dugal’s body and disappeared into the darkness .

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