"Your Majesty, please listen to the people's voice. The situation has become very serious now!"

The official kneeling under the throne looked at the young man sitting on it and cried out in grief.

"You have been deceived by the minister! If this continues, the empire will completely collapse!"

However, in the face of the officials' shouts, the young man sitting on the throne remained completely unmoved.

"Secretary of the Interior Shao Er, because you have been reckless in discussing my policies and delaying government affairs, I sentence you to death."

"What?!"

Hearing this, the internal affairs officer who was kneeling below raised his head in horror and looked at the emperor.

"Your Majesty, you..."

"Someone, pull him down!"

Following the young emperor's order, guards soon came over and knocked the internal affairs officer to the ground.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You have been deceived by the ministers, Your Majesty! Please wake up! Your Majesty! Your Majesty——!"

Accompanied by shouting, the internal affairs official was dragged out by the guards, and then the door was closed again.

The other officials in the hall were silent.

“That’s our goal this time.”

Fang Zheng closed the Whispering Banner and looked at the assassins in front of him. Up to now, there were nearly ten assassins who joined the Brotherhood. Like Iyas and Shayou, the others were also targets of resistance against the persecution of nobles and officials. Most of them were women...

Although there are only two blonde girls.

"Our goal this time is to save the family of Minister Shao. He was sentenced to death for advising the emperor, and his family will also be captured and enslaved. Shao and his family will be publicly executed in the square. All we have to do is save them, let them leave the imperial capital, and kill the executioners at the same time."

"Teacher, why should we save those people?"

At this moment, another assassin asked in a low voice.

"Those officials are the emperor's running dogs. They are not worth saving at all!"

"There are also officials who truly care about the people, and under the current circumstances, they still dare to make suggestions to the incompetent emperor, which shows their courage and determination."

Fang Zheng stretched out his hand and made a gesture.

"We must not only eliminate evil, but also uphold justice. Those who are dedicated to serving the people should not die here. At least we can let them survive, so that they can serve this country in the future."

"So how long do we have to wait?"

"When we kill the Emperor."

As Fang Zheng finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

In the Northern Empire, the concept of the supremacy of the emperor is deeply rooted in people's minds. Even now, most people complain about the emperor's ministers, not the emperor himself. Therefore, when Fang Zheng bluntly said that he wanted to kill the emperor, everyone was stunned.

"Do we...really want to do this? Mentor? The emperor is just deceived..."

Shayou was somewhat uneasy, but Fangzheng just glanced at her.

"So what you mean is that as long as we kill the minister, the emperor will wake up overnight and become a good emperor who works hard and loves his people, instead of going crazy and seeking revenge on us?"

“…”

Shayou opened her mouth but couldn't say anything. Just as Fang Zheng said, this was basically impossible.

"But wasn't the emperor still a child?"

"He is the emperor. As he sits in this position, he is responsible for everything. So his end is also doomed, unless he suddenly wakes up and becomes a different person. But we all know that this is impossible."

Having said this, Fang Zheng stood up.

"Let's get started. Shayou, take a team with me to the execution ground. Iyeas, take another group to the home of the internal affairs officer. Remember, move quickly and follow the plan!"

“…”

No one spoke, all the assassins just nodded slightly, and soon after, the entire room was empty.

The midday sun illuminated the square in front of them, but the crowd gathered in the square was silent. They stared at the prisoners in prison uniforms and shackles with fear and horror in their eyes. The huge square was as dead as a cemetery at this moment.

"Internal Affairs Officer Saul disobeyed the Emperor's order and was executed along with his family!"

The leading judge raised the document in his hand and roared. Hearing his roar, the people below were silent and looked at each other anxiously. In the crowd, two figures also stared at this scene intently, clenching their fists tightly.

"hateful……"

Maine, a girl with pink twin ponytails, clenched her fists and stared at the people being taken to the execution platform. If she had an imperial weapon with her, Maine would have wanted to take action immediately to rescue these people!

"Don't get excited, Myne."

Next to Maine, the blonde woman Leone grabbed her shoulders.

"There are too many guards here. We can't succeed. Just wait. One day we will overthrow the rule of the Empire. Then, everything will be fine."

“Uh… um…”

After hearing Leone's answer, Maine was silent for a moment and lowered her head helplessly.

At this moment on the execution platform, the chief judge was still reading aloud the contents of the execution order.

"No one is allowed to disobey the emperor!"

No one noticed that a figure wearing a white cape and a hood walked out of the crowd silently. He stretched out his hand and slowly pushed away the people around him. The people seemed to be completely unaware of these people. They just raised their heads to look at the judge and the prisoners who were about to be sentenced to death. Even the people who were pushed away did not react at all.

"Anyone who discusses the emperor's policies will be put to death!"

The guard walking on the roof trembled, then fell backwards limply. At the same time, a black-robed assassin appeared from behind him, grabbed the guard's body and hid him in the shadow of the roof. Then, she leaned against the wall, raised the crossbow in her hand, and aimed at the execution ground.

"This is the result of disobeying the emperor's order!"

The inquisitor pointed at the prisoner next to him again, and at the same time, the soldiers who were maintaining order in the first row did not notice that figures had appeared behind them.

"Prepare for execution!"

As the judge's voice fell, the next moment, several rotating silver-white balls were suddenly thrown out from the crowd, and the next moment, they suddenly exploded.

“Bang, bang, bang!!”

Instantly, a thick gray fog suddenly erupted, covering the entire execution ground. Faced with the sudden scene, the onlookers screamed and ran in all directions.

“There’s an enemy——!”

The guards who noticed something was wrong immediately drew their weapons, but before they could make a move, sharp blades pierced their hearts and cut their throats, and whistling arrows fell from the sky and pierced their heads. Soon, only dull groans were heard in the execution ground.

What happened?

The shackled Saul looked at the foggy surroundings in horror. He couldn't see anything and didn't even know what was going on. His son was also scared and leaned against him tightly, not saying a word. However, at this moment, Saul suddenly heard a low groan in his ear, and the next moment, accompanied by the shaking of the fog, a corpse suddenly emerged from the fog and fell to the ground in front of Saul.

That was the Inquisitor.

At this moment, his eyes were wide open, he held the emperor's order in one hand and covered his throat with the other hand, blood kept flowing out from between his fingers, and there was no light in his eyes.

what is going on?

At this moment, Shaoer was already stunned, but the next moment, he suddenly felt someone grabbing his chain and pulling him and his son forward. His figure was looming in the gray mist and was almost invisible.

“You, who are you?”

Staring at the figure, Saul asked, but the other party did not answer. The next moment, Saul felt that his body suddenly lost balance and fell headfirst. But he did not fall on the cold ground. Instead, Saul felt that he fell on a pile of soft straw. Before he could react, a pile of straw appeared and covered him up.

Shaoer didn't know what happened next. He only heard the sound of the carriage running and the wheels turning. At this moment, Shaoer didn't know what to do except holding his child tightly. He could feel that someone was sitting not far away from him, but he didn't dare to say anything or make a sound.

After a long time, the carriage stopped. Then Saul heard knocks on the carriage board and the straw was removed. He opened his eyes and looked around.

"here it is……"

Shaoer turned around and saw that they had arrived at a wilderness forest outside the imperial capital. There was no one in the carriage, and next to the forest, several familiar figures were standing there. They were Shaoer's wife and other family members!

"Honey!"

At this moment, Saul couldn't bear it anymore and rushed forward, hugging his wife.

"how so……?"

At the same time, in the alley next to the execution ground, Maine and Leone also stared at the execution ground in front of them in amazement. When the smoke bomb exploded before, they realized that something was wrong. As killers in the night raid, Maine and Leone naturally knew how to protect themselves. They quickly left the crowd and hid in the alley next to them. But even so, the two did not leave. They stared at the execution ground, wanting to see what was happening inside.

But when the smoke finally cleared, what they saw shocked them both.

There was no one on the execution ground except the bodies of the soldiers.

"What... is going on? How did you do this?"

Seeing this scene, Marin was stunned and completely unable to understand. You know, the smoke just now was so thick that even they couldn't see the situation inside clearly, but now it seems that someone released the smoke and easily killed those soldiers and successfully rescued the internal affairs officer?

More importantly, how did they kill those soldiers?

Maine and Leone had not heard any sounds of fighting before, nor did they sense any murderous intent!

"Let's get out of here first!"

Leone also had the same question, but she did not plan to conduct an investigation at the moment because she had heard the sound of horse hooves and shouts. Obviously, what happened at the execution ground had alarmed the imperial capital garrison.

"We'll talk about the rest when we get back!"

"Um!"

Hearing Leone's answer, Main nodded. She turned her head again to look at the execution ground, then quickly left.

But at this moment, a question has arisen deep in Marin's heart.

So... who on earth did this? !