The assassination of Cyrus was very sudden, and no one had expected it. The time and place of the assassination was not during the celebration of the city. Although there were many people on that occasion, the security around Cyrus was the tightest, and there was no way to make arrangements in advance. In Bright Moon Night's view, it was not a good opportunity for the assassination.
When the celebration was over, Cyrus stayed in the city of Nippur for one night. The next morning, he set off west for the city of Kish, where General Darius would be waiting for him. Of course, the governor of Nippur would send him off, and the city would also hold a grand ceremony. The local military and political officials would follow Cyrus the Great out of the city, and outside the city, there would also be people kneeling to show the power of Cyrus the Great.
The guards had long been on guard outside the city gate to prevent any assassins from sneaking into the crowd. Cyrus the Great was also guarded by masters. Even if there were assassins, the possibility of them breaking through the layers of guards to get close to Cyrus was very small, and the suspicious people would probably be killed before they could even get close.
The incident happened suddenly when Cyrus the Great left the city, when everyone's guard was at its lowest. At that time, the military and political officials of the city of Nippur were lined up in the city with the carriage, and the guards that Cyrus the Great relied on were already outside the city. Cyrus's carriage happened to pass through the city gate.
This was an almost impossible place to assassinate, because Cyrus was in the city gate, and the tower was heavily guarded. There were experts in front and behind him, inside and outside the city, and yet someone had fired an arrow.
The arrow was shot from within the city. The archer was standing among the crowd watching Cyrus the Great's chariot leave the city. If Amon saw this arrow, he would not be unfamiliar with it. It was a giant black arrow engraved with the inscriptions of magic. The arrow was shot with terrifying momentum, and with a sound like a tsunami, it streaked through the air.
Drawing a parabola, he passed by the group of officials who were sending him off, and shot towards the city gate. The giant arrow flew through the air with a terrible shock wave, and wherever it passed, people and horses were thrown off their feet.
The arrow came from behind, which surprised everyone. According to common sense, if an assassin really wanted to kill Cyrus, he should have set up an ambush outside the city. But the imperial guards around Cyrus were well-trained and did not panic because of the power of the arrow. Countless rays of sword light slashed at the sky, and the mages cast various magic spells to protect the inside of the gate.
The arrow was imbued with powerful energy and clashed with several sword auras in the air. It paused for a few seconds before continuing forward. It was almost the same situation as when the Holy Maiden of Isis was assassinated. But no matter how powerful the arrow was, it could not penetrate the protection set up by the mages. Unexpectedly, the arrow did not shoot at Cyrus. At the last moment, it turned upward and hit the wall right above the gate. With a loud bang, the entire tower collapsed!
The west gate of the city of Nipur needed to be introduced. Below the thick city wall was the city gate, and above the city gate was a tower. It looked sturdy and majestic, and it was brand new. When Sinnach attacked the city of Nipur, the gate was destroyed by a catapult, and the tower was set on fire.
Although the gate was repaired later, it was only a simple restoration of its defensive function. Upon receiving the news that Cyrus the Great was about to arrive, the local military and political officials urgently conscripted laborers and craftsmen to repair two magnificent city towers, the east gate and the west gate, because they were places to welcome and bid farewell to Cyrus the Great.
The west tower was completed just a few days before the arrival of Cyrus the Great. It was built overnight without sparing manpower and material. Of course, there were city guards and mages supervising the work during the construction to prevent the craftsmen from cutting corners or using other tricks. Even every layer of brick had to be inspected. No one expected that there would be any problems with the tower.
But there was a trap in the tower, set up by Bright Moon Night, who was proficient in assassination.
Bright Moon Night and Dumz did not follow Queen Samir to the border patrol. They left Assyr ahead of time and came to the new province of Potz. Bright Moon Night somehow managed to sneak into the craftsmen who were building the tower.
Nipur was a city that had recently been occupied by Potz, and most of its residents had been moved here by Sinnach. The occupying forces of Potz were not familiar with the local people. They urgently summoned the craftsmen to build the tower, but they could only conduct a strict body search and careful inspection. They could not verify the identity of the craftsmen one by one, which gave Bright Moon Night an opportunity.
This trap was very well hidden, similar to the trap that Enlil had encountered years ago. When the tower was completed, even a supreme mage would not be able to detect any abnormalities when he scanned it with detection magic. Well, it took a lot of power to detonate this trap, and it also needed to be very clever. For those who did not know the inside story, even if they used a catapult to destroy the tower, the trap would not react.
The archer was not Samir, but Bright Moon Night herself who had set the trap. When the black magic arrow arced through the air and shot towards the gate, there was suddenly a green light wrapped around the arrow, and it was as if it had been entangled by a giant green snake, turning horizontally and shooting into the tower. This was Dumz's help.
Two rows of thin stone bricks above the gate turned into quicksand-like fragments at the same time, as if they had been cut by a knife, and a terrible huge crack appeared. The support structure of this building was not afraid of a small number of stones cracking, but of the sudden sliding and displacement of the whole structure.
And the trap set by Bright Moon Night was hidden because it did not turn all the stone bricks in the two cracks into powder. Only through the impact of the energy of the giant arrow, it instantly cracked two pieces of stone deep in the wall, and then under the huge weight of the tower, the gate would collapse. And Cyrus happened to pass by, and his calculation could not be said to be not exquisite.
Bright Moon Night shot the arrow, and then saw the tower collapse, but he did not even look at it, leaped high with a roar, turned around, and flew away. His task had been completed, and his identity as an assassin had been exposed, so naturally he had to escape thousands of miles away. The main guards of Nippur were around the west gate, so he ran east. The masters were busy protecting the emperor at the moment and had no time to catch up with him, and the ordinary guards could not stop him.
If it had been someone else, Bright Moon Night would have been enough to solve the problem, but how could Emperor Cyrus be assassinated so easily? At the moment when the tower collapsed, screams and roars rang out, and countless rays of light rose. Space seemed to freeze for a moment, and the carriage Cyrus was riding in suddenly fell apart. Two supreme mages raised their staffs high, and several supreme warriors surrounded him as they rushed out of the city.
Behind them, smoke and dust rose, and the whole tower completely collapsed, but Cyrus was not buried in it. However, the other imperial guards around the Great Emperor were not so lucky. At least a dozen of them did not manage to escape in time and were smashed into meat paste on the spot. The falling rubble also injured many people in the escort team inside and outside the city.
Although Cyrus was unharmed, he looked very embarrassed. He abandoned the carriage and rushed out of the city.
There were only five experts at the city gate to escort him out of danger, while the rest of the guards were buried in the collapsed city tower.
The scene immediately became chaotic. Screams rang out from inside and outside Nippur at the same time. Someone shouted, "Cyrus is dead!" And the people near the gate also scattered in all directions, even the guards on guard could not restrain them.
The captain of the guards next to Cyrus raised his sword and shouted, drowning out all the voices, "The emperor is safe and sound.
Beware of the assassins, do not panic! "
Then a dozen figures flew into the air. Cyrus's guards of honor and half of the masters had already left the city to clear the way in front. At this moment, the mages turned and flew to the top of the tower. The assassin had appeared inside the city, and Ming Yue Ye had already escaped. However, another figure flew high into the sky, dressed in a black robe and holding a staff. He flew over like an eagle and threw out several scrolls with a wave of his hand.
Although the scrolls did not consume the user's own magic power, they still required the user to control the range of their attack. Accurately locking onto a target is much more difficult than randomly throwing them out. Furthermore, controlling two scrolls is more than twice as difficult as controlling one scroll. The more powerful the scroll is, the more powerful it is. "
The more powerful the scroll.
But this person actually threw out six high-level attack scrolls at the same time, firmly targeting the guards who had just rushed out of the smoke and dust. They were all launched almost at the same time. This assassin was Faust.
Faust flew into the sky and threw out the scrolls, which was tantamount to exposing himself and attracting all the attention. He simply did not care about his life. When the scrolls flew out, he couldn't immediately escape.
He had to control the direction of the attack after the scrolls were launched, otherwise he wouldn't be able to lock on to a target. He could only grit his teeth and wave his staff, adding several magic shields on himself.
Light shone in the air, and the arrows on the ground were like rain, almost all of them hitting Faust in the air.
The arrows shot by ordinary warriors weren't dangerous, but the arrows shot by the elite warriors at Cyrus's side were astonishingly powerful. Mixed among the arrows were all sorts of weapons, such as axes, flagpoles, spears, swords, and so on. Some of the warriors weren't equipped with bows and arrows, so they simply slashed out with the weapons in their hands.
All kinds of explosions and shockwaves from the energy explosion spread in all directions. All kinds of weapon fragments flew everywhere in the air. The places close to the ground were filled with smoke, light and flames. Seven or eight figures fell from the sky with miserable cries. It wasn't that these mages couldn't dodge when the scrolls exploded, but they had to protect Cyrus the Great on the ground, and could only stubbornly block this round of attacks.
The magic shields around Faust's body were shattered in almost an instant, and the black robe on his body was torn to shreds, revealing his long white gown. He spat out a mouthful of blood, and the staff in his hand fell to the ground. It was swept up by the surging power, and sent flying into the distance towards the city. At this moment, a green light flew out, transforming into a terrifying serpent in the air that wrapped around Faust's body, and fiercely shot towards the north.
Dumz had gone to pick up the seriously injured Faust, but the experts around Cyrus had no time to give chase, because the real assassination of Emperor Boz just happened to be happening at this very moment!
The unforeseen event happened too quickly, and the scene was too chaotic. First, the city tower collapsed, and Cyrus abandoned his carriage and rushed out of the city. Apart from a few experts around him, the guards on both sides of the carriage were all killed in action. The collapse of the city tower also split his escort team into two, and the front and back could not communicate with each other. The people who came to see him off cried out in fear. The people inside the city didn't know what the situation outside the city was like, and the people outside the city were even less clear about the situation inside the city.
In the midst of the chaos, Faust dropped down from the sky and threw out the scroll. In an instant, another violent explosion occurred. Not only did the mages who had just flown into the sky fall to the ground, the warriors near the city gate were also thrown into a complete mess. Only flashes of light could be seen before their eyes, and only the buzzing echoes could be heard in their ears.
Bright Moon Night had shot the arrow from inside the city, and Faust had also flown out of the city, attracting the attention of all the guards outside the city. The imperial guards hurriedly turned around and rushed towards the direction of the city gate to protect the emperor. The mages also turned around and took out their staffs, and those who reacted quickly had already flown into the air. The guards outside the city relaxed for a moment, and Cyrus the Great himself also turned around to look at the top of the city tower.
Just as Faust was about to be sent flying, Samir finally made his move. The empress was dressed in shabby clothes, and her robe was very loose with patches. She looked like a poor woman who was slightly exhausted, mingling with the crowd outside the city to watch the show. When Cyrus' honor guards left the city, she also prostrated herself in the crowd to pay her respects.
After the great change, screams of horror rang out. The power of Faust's attack spread far and wide, and the panicked people were swept to the ground one after another while running around. Samir took advantage of the situation and somersaulted. When she landed, she happened to be in a half-kneeling position. She had already steadily nocked her bow.
The bow was the magic bow she often used, but the arrow was the fanged arrow that Gilgamesh had used to assassinate Sinnach. The white fanged arrow was shot out, mixed with the shock waves of various kinds of magic energy, and flashed away. It seemed as if it had passed through time and space, appearing to be light and silent.
But Samir, who was half-kneeling on the ground, moved so solemnly, as if she had turned into a hard stone statue. All the strength in her body seemed to have been sucked out by the arrow. The guards who were turning to look behind them did not stop the arrow, and most of the imperial guards did not even notice it at all.
If Samir's arrow had been used to assassinate Cyrus, it would have been powerful, but it was also unlikely to succeed. But now was a good opportunity. The earth-shattering attacks inside the city were all a cover for the silent arrow outside the city. The captain of the guards next to Cyrus suddenly became alert. He turned around and swung his fist with all his might. The sword in his hand had just flown into the sky.
The other supreme mage closest to Cyrus also sensed the danger. In a moment of desperation, he shook his staff and covered Cyrus with a layer of tough and invisible air elemental armor. With a bang, the captain of Cyrus's imperial bodyguards flew back with a muffled groan. A white arrow mysteriously appeared and shot Cyrus.
The arrow was so fast that it could hardly be seen with the naked eye. It was silent, but it contained a huge amount of energy, enough to send a hurried supreme warrior flying. Affected by the air elemental armor, the arrow slowed down, even leaving a dazzling light in the air. But it still passed through the air elemental armor and sank into the back of Cyrus. It came out from his chest and landed lightly on the ground. There was not even a trace of blood on the shaft.
Cyrus was hit in the back by the arrow. The all-powerful emperor slowly reached out to cover the broken part of his breastplate and looked at the arrow on the ground with an incredulous expression. It seemed that it took a while for him to realize what had happened. He wanted to turn around to see who the assassin was, but as soon as he moved, his legs gave way and he was about to fall.
The imperial guards rushed up to support him, and the light from the priest's staff enveloped him. There were cries of alarm in his ears, but the sound became more and more distant and ethereal. His vision darkened, and blood had stained the armor on his chest and back.
There was still a lot of noise in the city of Nippur, but there was a strange silence outside the city gate.
Except for the few masters around Cyrus who shouted in horror, "Your Majesty!" The imperial guards around him were all stunned, unable to believe what they had seen with their own eyes.
The outermost soldiers of the guard of honour were the first to see Samir's movements, and immediately rushed forward to catch the assassin. But at this moment, there was a sound of waves surging in the wilderness, and almost everyone was hallucinating. The earth was surging and undulating, turning into a wave, and the waves were rolling to drown everyone. People waved their arms and screamed in horror, but even they could not hear the sounds in their throats.
This was an illusion launched by Rulio. Several high-grade achievers immediately focused their minds and broke the illusion's interference, but they only saw the people and soldiers struggling in panic. The assassin who shot the arrow had disappeared.
The assassination plan of Bright Moon Night was naturally based on the style of the best assassin on the continent. Everyone would launch the most dangerous blow at the most appropriate moment, and then escape without getting entangled. The last arrow finally hit its target. Samel only had one chance to kill Cyrus, and she succeeded!
One could imagine the chaos in the city of Nippur that day. Cyrus the Great was unexpectedly assassinated, and all the masters immediately began to track down the assassin. At the same time, some people rushed to the city of Kish to report to General Darius, who came to welcome the emperor, but the assassin had already escaped without a trace.
According to the original plan, after the assassination, Samir would sneak back to the Assyrian border and continue to patrol the border guards, while Faust would be ordered to return to Nippur to deal with the possible complications. No one knew that they had left quietly, and everything seemed to be carried out seamlessly.
The injured Faust returned the fastest, because Dumz, who took him away, was astonishingly fast. A day after Faust's return, Samir, escorted by Rulio, returned to the Queen's carriage. Cyrus was dead, and Nippur would certainly be in chaos for a while. The Assyrian Empire finally had a chance to breathe, but the fate of Assyria depended on whether they could take this opportunity to restore their strength.
Samir sent Faust back to the capital, and at the same time secretly told him not to rush back. He also told him not to let his injury worsen, and to focus on healing after returning to the capital. But he could not reveal that he was seriously injured, so as not to arouse suspicion.
However, Faust did not listen to the Queen's advice. He was eager to return, and regardless of his injury, he rushed back to Nippur almost day and night. The actions of the Sage Imperial Preceptor were not surprising, because no one knew that he was injured, and the news that Cyrus the Great had been assassinated had already spread, so it was reasonable for the empress to urgently send him back to the imperial capital during her inspection.
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