Xin Zhao jumped off his horse, and in less than two breaths, he crossed a distance of dozens of meters, rushed past the guards, and came to Jarvan III to check the situation.
The first to return to the king were two companies of the Eighth Shield Formation, a total of 16 people. They carried the Shining Steel Kite Shield, commonly known as the “Iron Wall” by the fearless pioneers. It was almost twice the size of an ordinary shield and could almost At the same level as others.
The fearless vanguard soldiers of the Eighth Shield Formation were actually tall and strong men, and only their size could control such a heavy and huge shield.
When the two shield formations set up their shields, Tiana also led the standard sword and shield combination of the first and fourth shield formations of one of the companies to the king’s side.
Seeing the blood on the ground, she glared at Xin Zhao who was helping Jarvan III up, and said angrily, “What the hell is going on?!”
Because she was suppressing the crazy people just now, she didn’t understand what was going on on the king’s side. However, when she heard the soldiers’ shouts of “there is an assassin” and “the king has been assassinated,” she immediately rushed out of the crowd.
“How could you let His Majesty get hurt!” Tiana hurriedly checked on Jarvan III and asked Xin Zhao sternly.
“Tiana, don’t get excited, this is not my blood.” Jarvan III stood firm and looked at the blood on the ground and on his palms, “I just fell, it’s not a big problem.”
“This is the assassin’s blood.” Xin Zhao said in a muffled voice.
“Where’s the assassin?”
Tiana looked serious and looked at Xin Zhao with mixed emotions, as if she was waiting for him to give an explanation.
“I…” Xin Zhao frowned and hesitated, then replied truthfully, “I did not see the murderer.”
“Do you know what you’re talking about?”
Tiana, who was already furious with Xin Zhao because of the king’s assassination, suppressed her anger that was almost uncontrollable.
“I heard the sound of a sharp weapon penetrating the air, coming from His Majesty’s side, and then I took action without hesitation… But His Majesty was escorted by his personal guards at that time. It was clear that no one was right. This blood stain burst out of thin air.”
Xin Zhao didn’t know what happened just now.
He clearly sensed that the king was in danger with his intuition, but why couldn’t he see the murderer?
“Xin Zhao is right. I just kept feeling that someone was watching me secretly, so I deliberately pushed Xin Zhao away to see if I could lure that guy out.”
“What?! Your Majesty, you…” Tiana looked anxious, “How can you use yourself as bait?”
Even Xin Zhao looked shocked.
Just now, he really thought that Jarvan III wanted him to quickly resolve this crisis, but he never thought that this was just his Majesty’s attempt to lure out the traces of enemies lurking in the shadows.
Thinking of this, Xin Zhao immediately knelt down on one knee and said with shame, “I betrayed your trust!”
Jiawen III hurriedly pulled him up and said, “Hey, come back quickly. I didn’t expect that guy to be so powerful. He could even bypass the personal guards and come to me.”
Tiana was very puzzled, “How did he do it?”
“The result is as we can see, that guy is probably a mage, a mage who can become invisible.” Jarvan III stared at the dim blood that had solidified on the ground and muttered, “But I have never heard of magic that can be so unknown. To the point where you can’t even notice it.”
Xin Zhao thought briefly, and a name suddenly appeared in his mind, “The person who assassinated you probably mastered shadow magic.”
“Shadow Magic…”
This word also evoked the memories of Jarvan III and Tiana.
The ancestors of Demacia were deeply harmed by the Rune Wars, and they recorded that period of history in particularly detail, especially the Shadow War at the end of the war.
That’s when Shadow Magic began.
According to the secret book, shadow magic can kill a person without anyone noticing.
A powerful shadow mage can even abandon his physical body and escape into the spiritual realm, which is what Demacians often call the soul realm. If it is a spirit body, it is normal for it to be invisible to the naked eye.
But how to explain this pool of blood on the ground…
“Is it the Shadow Stream Sect of Ionia?” Tiana guessed in a deep voice, “Nowadays, they are the only ones who have mastered the powerful shadow magic.”
“I do not think so.”
Jarvan III shook his head, understanding the situation in Ionia fairly well.
“There are still many Noxians on the land of Ionia. The Shadow Stream Sect is now allied with the Navori Brotherhood and is trying to completely repel Noxus. They have no conflict with us in any way. No. Possibly helping our common enemy.”
As he spoke, he knelt down and looked at the only pool of blood on the ground.
The assassin’s escape left no other clues for them and was difficult to trace, which made their subsequent search work more difficult.
The enemy would become invisible and leave no trace of blood on the way to escape, making it difficult to track the mage assassin who dared to assassinate the king.
Jiawen III’s eyes suddenly lit up, “Li Lin may have a way…but why hasn’t he come back yet?”
Xin Zhao and Tiana looked at each other, not knowing how to answer the king.
You can’t guess that someone had an accident, right?
“Oh, forget it, let someone collect the blood and then guard this place.” Jarvan III looked at the crowd of conflicting people outside the shield formation, which was much quieter. “We have to deal with the civil riots first.”
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At the same time, a certain remote sewer in Xiongdu.
A figure wearing a hooded black robe staggered through this dark and dirty underground passage, not caring about the guards who were passing back and forth overhead to suppress the riot.
In such an emergency, no one would look into the sewer for no reason.
“Damn it! That Ionian steward is even more terrifying than what was described in the letter!” A hoarse and deep male voice echoed, “A mage, huh…what an irony.”
The man held his left arm hard, and there was a big hole in his sleeve. His was actually blood. The cloth band used for emergency wound treatment was covered with dim red spots, which were traces of blood coagulation.
Passing through more than a dozen thick iron railings of the sewer that had been sawed open, he walked to a platform and took off a serrated scimitar from his waist.
The blade of this short sword is silver-white, and the blade is covered with a dull red color, like blood that has been coagulated for a long time.
An obtuse triangle-shaped sigil is engraved on the connection between the blade and the handle, emitting a faint purple light.
The man casually dropped the knife on the ground, making a “clang” sound like metal hitting stone, and then pulled out a note from the gap in the corner of the platform.
What is written above is the text that assassinated King Jarvan III!
“Damn it! You didn’t even investigate Xin Zhao’s strength clearly. You can’t blame me for that.”
Distraught, the man crumpled the note into a ball, then a flame formed in his palm and burned it.
Demacia’s sewers were made purely of marble, with no Forbidden Stone mixed in, and had no effect on his magic.
But even on the ground, with the little bits of Forbidden Demon Stone mixed in the surrounding buildings, the impact on him is not great, it just costs a little more magic power.
After destroying the evidence, he took out his luggage from another loose brick wall, took out a small bottle of liquor and gauze inside, and prepared to treat his wounds first.
“What the hell, why is my knife missing?”
The man cursed and turned around to pick up the scimitar he had just dropped.
But the empty ground made him stunned for a moment, and then he was horrified, “Who…who is there?!”
He was answered by a playful and mechanical young voice: “Tsk tsk, Draxa’s legendary blade… Such a good thing, don’t you want to give it to me?”
