"You, you are …" The young noble's expression was as if he had seen a ghost. His teeth were chattering, and he couldn't finish the name even though he had used all his strength.
The target that his family had been searching for had unexpectedly appeared in front of him. However, Murray didn't feel the slightest joy of spotting his prey. Instead, there was only endless fear in his eyes. He clearly remembered every word that was said in the top-secret meeting that his family held seven months ago. That was why he felt even more despair.
Rob was recognized as the new superstar of the magic world, the future guardian of the human race, and a super genius who had entered the sixth grade at the age of less than 20. However, only a few people knew his true strength. Other than Steins and Demain who taught him, outsiders could only guess based on groundless rumors.
In comparison, the Matthews family, as the absolute upper echelons of the Lionheart Empire, had more information in this aspect than others. Therefore, the family had conducted a simulation of the future supreme magus Your Honor's strength, and the final conclusion was that in order to defeat this person, at least four tactical squads of sixth grade professionals had to be deployed. At the same time, there should be a seventh grade magus or above to hold the line. In other words, there needed to be more than 20 well-trained sixth grade professionals to attack at the same time. Such a luxurious lineup was actually just to deal with a single person.
And this was only the level of Rob before he left the tower. In fact, with his terrifying growth rate, the longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous the Matthews family's plan would be. No one knew how terrifying Rob's evolution would be in a year or two. That was why the family was racing against time. In order to repair the magic device as soon as possible, no matter how ridiculous Gagarin's conditions were, they agreed to it without hesitation.
Such a monster was definitely not someone they could deal with. The young noble smiled bitterly. He had already foreseen his end tonight.
The remaining three were still a little confused. Although they had participated in this operation, they didn't know the most important thing, which was the name that the young noble named Murray had just carved on the magic device. Only when he saw the terrified expression on Murray's face and combined it with the terrifying strength and age of the person in front of him, Chris thought of an answer that made his blood freeze.
"His Holiness Atledrichardholstein." The voice of the middle-rank mage had never sounded so bitter. Even when he realized that the person in front of him was an advanced mage, even when his team lost two members, even when he was heartlessly abandoned by the young noble, he never lost the courage to resist. However, when he learned the identity of the person in front of him, he lost all his strength in an instant.
This name was like a curse, robbing everyone of hope.
Rob Atlede Richard Holstein Rex had become a legend in the Dawn Continent, especially in the magic circle. There were too many legends about him. Even if only one of them was true, they wouldn't be able to escape from him tonight.
Rob was also quite surprised. He knew that many forces were trying to find him, so he wasn't surprised that the Matthews family was also involved. Your Honor, the future supreme magus, just didn't expect that the purpose of finding him was to take this opportunity to kill him.
No wonder there was something fishy about this matter from the beginning. The guy who was suspected to be the illegitimate son of Viscount Megson was exploring the Endless Forest Sea and ended up trapped in the underground city. From the reaction of the Matthews family, this illegitimate son's status was very ordinary. No one paid attention to him for more than half a year. They only wanted to collect his body or something, so they just let the team grow mushrooms in the underground city.
However, half a year later, the Matthews family suddenly posted a request in the adventurers' camp to collect the remains and remains of the missing exploration team. At that time, Rob speculated that something must have happened that caused the sudden change in the attitude of the Matthews family. However, the future supreme magus, Your Honor, believed that it was better to avoid unnecessary trouble. After killing Raúl, he didn't plan to investigate this matter further.
Until that night, when he accidentally saw this magic device in the restaurant, Rob was surprised by the Matthews family's persistence in repairing it. Then, he recalled the major events that happened in the Dawn Continent during that period, but he still couldn't find any clues.
The future supreme magus, Your Honor, once thought that he was looking in the wrong direction, but now it seemed that he had overlooked the biggest event in the Dawn Continent during that period.
He escaped from the Royal College of Magic and Magic, walked down the High Tower, and got rid of the protection of Steins and Demain. Although this matter was only spread among the leaders and high-level officials of the major forces, it had an unprecedented impact and shock.
If the Matthews family's target was him, everything could be explained.
The reason why the other party had been so careful from the beginning to the end, even going so far as to kill everyone in the restaurant, was because the Mathews Family knew how dangerous it was. They were assassinating the trump card of the Tistee Royal Magic Academy, the direct disciple of the level-nine Supreme Magus Steins, the publicly recognized super genius in the magic world, and the future guardian of the human race. Once this matter was exposed, even the Mathews Family, which had thousands of years of history, wouldn't be able to withstand the wrath of the entire human race. When that happened, they would be annihilated.
From the moment they decided to kill Rob, they were betting the future of their entire family. It was like walking on the edge of a knife; one wrong move and they would die without a burial place. No matter how cautious they were, they couldn't be too careful.
However, the future supreme magus, Your Honor, didn't quite understand why the Matthews family would take such a huge risk to kill him.
As far as he was concerned, he didn't have any personal grudges with this ancient noble family.
When he became a level 6 magus, the Matthews family even sent him a congratulatory gift: 40 dragon crystals and a small island in the North Sea. It was a very beautiful island with fresh water and a lush forest. The Matthews family specially hired the best craftsmen in the royal capital to build a small castle in the middle of the forest. At the highest point of the castle, one could see the coastline. In addition, there was also a small gem mine on the south side of the island.
Unfortunately, Rob had been confined by Steins in the Royal College of Magic and Magic, so he hadn't been able to go to his island to have a look.
However, judging from the gift, at least the Matthews family respected him. Nothing unpleasant had happened between them. Why would the Matthews family suddenly want to kill him?
If he was really killed, the elves and dwarves would probably be very happy for a while. They might even set off fireworks to celebrate, but the humans would undoubtedly suffer heavy losses. This was a very serious matter. What the Matthews family was doing now was equivalent to betraying the entire human race. With such a huge risk, what benefits would they receive?
This was also what the future supreme magus, Your Honor, felt the most strange. The most likely explanation was that the Matthews family had been bribed by other races. That was why they would take such a risk. However, as long as one thought about it carefully, it would be obvious that this explanation couldn't stand up to scrutiny at all.
In the previous two magic wars, as well as the recent War of the Roses, the major races had resorted to all sorts of means in order to win. Of course, this included bribery and temptations. As the lowest rung of society, civilians were relatively easy to bribe as long as they offered enough benefits. However, their contributions were also the lowest. Nobles were the main focus of the strategy.
However, the most influential noble that the other races had spent so much effort to persuade over the years was only at the level of a viscount, and there was only one of them. What was worse was that this viscount had verbally agreed to it for two months and then reneged on his promise.
The reason was simple. What the other races could offer them wasn't proportional to the price they had to pay. After all, it wasn't as simple as serving a king or a feudal lord. Betraying the entire race was equivalent to giving up everything in the human world. This was unimaginable to the nobles who valued history.
This was especially so for the Matthews family. Their own benefits had actually overlapped with the benefits of the entire human race.
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