"hiss!"
After forcibly waking up from the blood-reading state, George felt the hairs on his back stand up!
At this moment, the true identity of this short crossbow is already certain. It is a trophy looted from defeated human soldiers.
General Gramming was known for his strict military management, and George knew it. George would never believe that such an excellent general would make the mistake of allowing the loot to circulate on a large scale to the thieves' union.
Well, there is only one answer. The upstream suppliers of these Thieves Guild are actually...
General Gramming!
"Little vampire, it seems you know something you shouldn't know?"
At some point, General Gramming, who had already walked away, stood behind George. The hilt of his sword was gently pressed against George's waist, and his murderous intention seemed to be absent. George felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar!
"General, are you planning to kill someone and silence them?"
George's original intention was to invite foreign aid from the front line, so that he could have a hand when encircling and suppressing Lord White. Unexpectedly, the person Lova rushed to invite turned out to be a killer who wanted to take his life!
After seeing the power of General Gramming with one arrow, George did not think that this veteran who had experienced countless wars would give him a chance to resist at this distance.
"How could it be? You are my grandson-in-law. I heard that you rejected Alvin's olive branch and are working as a traveling businessman! Damn it, the two countries are obviously at war, but you, a young man, are so idle! Give you a chance, When you come to work under me, your talents should not be wasted like this!"
"What if I say no?"
"Little vampire, understand your position. Do you think you have the right to refuse?"
Sighing, George clearly realized that he had missed a move in this game. However, before getting rid of Graming's threat, there was a question that George had to ask clearly -
"Why would you, a general who is strict in running the army, collude with the Thieves Guild to do this kind of reselling of loot?"
"Really, are all young people today so evil-minded? Little vampire, if you are so smart, you should have guessed the answer a long time ago, but you still insist on letting me confess in person. You really want to bury me!"
Although he complained like this, General Graming still shrugged helplessly, sighed deeply, and even put away the hilt of the sword against George's waist.
"Military expenses, of course it's for damn military expenses! Logistics requires military expenses, conscription requires military expenses, construction of fortifications requires military expenses, and soldiers' food and wages all require military expenses! Damn it, Alanon's treasury is about to run out of money, is it possible for me to accept the Smurfs? Is it their charity? Little vampire, the elves are still wiping your butt for what you caused three years ago!"
"Forget it, forget it! Don't take the last sentence to heart. Without you, a little vampire, it would have been a matter of time before the two countries became like this. If we want to say who will bear the blame for this war, Pope Martin will definitely bear the brunt!"
Perhaps it was because many words could not be said clearly to ordinary soldiers, and General Gramming was so angry that it was difficult for him to speak.
But, what is the Smurf that General Gramming is talking about? After George asked the question with doubts, he got an even more confusing answer.
"Those are a group of annoying things who go around fanning the flames under the guise of justice. It's bad luck to mention them. Little vampire, it seems you really don't know anything. Forget it, I will break the rules and chat with you today. Some You should have known about this a long time ago."
After thinking about it, General Graming simply pulled George and found a seat somewhere to sit down. With a tone of resentment, he told George about the three years of confrontation with the Pelada Empire that he had witnessed - —
That was a story written on the back of the history book from the perspective of another high-level elf, different from what George saw:
What the Pelada Empire was planning, or in other words, what Pope Martin was planning, three years ago, or even earlier, this fact was not as obvious as it is now and has become an open secret. At that time, only a few people in power who stood at the top of the world could barely smell this vague crisis.
As an alliance and neighboring country, Elven King Alvin was one of the first people in power to realize the crisis. At that time, it happened to be that Lova was ten months pregnant and was about to give birth.
The human empire is not the only one hiding secrets. George and Lova's child, Apollo, is one of the secrets buried by the elf king Alvin himself. In order to hide it from everyone and allow Apollo to be born smoothly, after secretly reaching an agreement with General Gramming, Alvin directed and acted out a drama in which Lova accidentally faked his death.
Alvin's plan was successful. He deceived all the informants of other countries and buried the truth about Apollo's birth under the ruins. However, the only thing that went beyond the script was that the extremely guilty George volunteered to go to the Human Empire. trial.
Realizing that he could not stop George, who was filled with guilt, if he did not tell the truth, if he revealed the truth, the accompanying human Crusade general, Lova's father Arthur Pandagon, would notice something strange. After weighing it again and again, Alvin made a decision A bold decision——
Following the current situation, he arranged for the unsuspecting George to become his internal agent to find out the truth about the crisis lurking in the Pelada Empire.
Perhaps due to fate, George's encounter with the Archangel Michael in the Sealed Land, and George's encounter with the Imperial God of War James in the Heretic Trial Temple, became a breakthrough for Elven King Alvin to investigate the truth behind the conspiracy behind Pope Martin, and George The confrontation with Pope Martin became a turning point in the conflict between the two countries!
Whether it is the unexplained disappearance of the foreign elders of the elves, or the assassination of the Pope by the elders of the elves, any one of them can be the reason for a full-scale war between the two countries. However, after three years, the Elf Empire and the Human Empire have not further intensified the conflict and have not launched a war. All-out war is just about tightening your nerves, and the reason for the long-term tug-of-war on the territory near the national border day after day, centered on the Minced Meat River, can be summed up in two words -
contain!
