Chapter 91: The ‘General’ Who Failed Before Starting

“Ah!” Liao·Chaoqun was so scared that cold sweat broke out all over his body, and he almost said incoherently, “Your Majesty, this, this, this~”

The Queen stretched out a finger to stop Liao·Chaoqun from continuing, then said indifferently, “Don’t worry, no one will know it was you, not even Rui Li will dare to speak out, because she planned and even directed this from behind. Afterwards, you just say it was an accident. She will definitely have to keep silent, unless she wants to be hunted down by the Lightning Magic Saint. As for you, you will be transferred to the Royal Guard. Your current position is no longer suitable for you to display your talents, it is time to be promoted to General!”

‘General!’ Liao·Chaoqun’s originally cold heart was ignited by these two words. You have to know, he was just from a small noble background. If he couldn’t advance further, his descendants would only fall to become commoners! But given the current situation, he was afraid he would spend his whole life suffering in the palace guards. Wanting to become a General was his greatest expectation in this life. For this goal, he absolutely would not hesitate to take a risk!

“Yes, Your Majesty, I will follow your will, Little Stephen will die in an accident!” Liao·Chaoqun replied in a low voice.

“Very good, my General, you can withdraw and prepare!” The Queen said with satisfaction.

“Yes, subordinate takes his leave!” Liao·Chaoqun was immediately made to feel like his bones were floating by the title of General, and he left excitedly.

After he went far away, a cold smile appeared on the corner of the Queen’s mouth, and she said to herself, “General? I will ‘posthumously award’ you! But the premise is that you, this idiot, can kill Little Stephen! And then, you can keep your mouth shut forever, no one will know that I have a hand pushing behind this! Hehe, conspiracy, is indeed a beautiful poison, I seem to be falling in love with this feeling!”

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It was a dark and windy night, gloomy and terrifying. Liao·Chaoqun took over a dozen of his men and quietly arrived outside Stephen Castle. Looking at the tall and majestic Stephen Castle, the hearts of the dozen or so people were somewhat beating drums. You have to know, Stephen Castle has a sacred meaning in the hearts of the people of the Griffin Kingdom. Every time foreign enemies invaded the Imperial Capital of the Griffin Kingdom, this place would become the most solid backing for the Imperial Capital. There were even a few times when the Imperial Capital fell, and it was by relying on this place that final victory was achieved.

So although they came due to Liao·Chaoqun’s order, they were still very uneasy in their hearts. In fact, Liao·Chaoqun himself was unwilling to sneak into this historic and famous castle, but for the position of General, he could only go all out. At the same time, he persuaded his men, “Brothers, as long as we complete the Little Princess’s order, everyone will get a reward of ten Gold Coins!”

Actually, the Little Princess didn’t offer any reward at all, this was just Liao·Chaoqun paying out of his own pocket for the success of the operation. For him, as long as he got the position of General, would money be scarce? However, even though he said that, taking out so much money still made his heart ache, after all, this was all the reward he got from being slapped by the Little Princess, right?

But for the others, hearing that there was a reward of ten Gold Coins, their hearts immediately warmed up. To hell with the sacred castle, let it all go to hell! So one by one they rubbed their fists and palms, ready to do a big job.

Seeing that the time was about right, Liao·Chaoqun immediately began to command. This kid had some talent after all, and quickly deployed his men. Then with a wave of his hand, a dozen black shadows touched towards the pitch-black castle in the distance.

However, what Liao·Chaoqun and the others never expected was that their actions were exposed to Old Xie’s eyes from the very beginning. It turned out that Old Xie had the habit of practicing at night, so every night he would go out to find a quiet place to practice a bit. It was this kind of hard work that made Old Xie’s strength improve by leaps and bounds. As an Old Demon Lord, Old Xie naturally knew the importance of strength, so he almost never slacked off, and today was no exception.

Old Xie practiced kung fu for more than two hours in the woods outside the castle, and even transformed into a White Tiger to adapt to the attack methods in this state. Then, covered in sweat, he hurried back, and as a result, he discovered the situation of Liao·Chaoqun and the others sneaking towards the castle from afar.

Old Xie was amused when he saw it, he was also a guy who feared the world was not chaotic. Seeing this, he didn’t disturb them, but just turned into a White Tiger, climbed into the castle from the city wall first, and then secretly observed the actions of these people.

To Old Xie’s surprise, these black-clothed and masked guys like Liao·Chaoqun seemed to be very familiar with this place. They crossed the moat outside the castle from the stone bridge in front of the castle gate, then walked along the castle wall for more than 200 meters to the left, found a hidden mechanism on the castle wall, pressed it lightly, and suddenly, an entrance cracked open on the city wall, and a dozen people just drilled in like that.

Old Xie was taken aback when he saw this. You have to know, he knew about that hidden entrance on the city wall, Lilith had specially introduced it to him, and said it was a secret. He didn’t expect these guys to know about it too. Old Xie didn’t dare to neglect, and hurriedly entered the castle as well, and went to meet them. At the same time, a mischievous thought rose in his heart.

Speaking of Liao·Chaoqun and the others, after easily entering the castle, everyone was very excited. Walking in this hidden passage, they couldn’t believe that they had entered the Stephen Castle, known as the never-falling castle, so easily.

After that excitement slightly passed, they then followed the secret passage and explored towards the inside of the castle. After walking for dozens of meters, they reached another exit. Opening a hidden door, Liao·Chaoqun poked his head out and found that it was an empty hall outside. After confirming there was no danger, the dozen or so people walked in carefully.

Liao·Chaoqun then tried hard to distinguish the direction, and soon pointed to a door and whispered, “This direction is where that kid sleeps, let’s go from here!” Saying that, he was about to push the door.

But unexpectedly, Old Xie’s voice suddenly came at this moment, “Wrong, that’s the guest room, no one is there! However, you guys should all lie down! Haha!”

“Who?” Liao·Chaoqun just called out in fright, then, countless lightnings sprinkled down from the walls and ceiling around the hall. The pitiful dozen or so guards all fell to the ground without exception.

It turned out that this passage was indeed opened by the Old Mage’s ancestors in order to avoid the surveillance of their elders and facilitate meeting girls. But after opening the passage, it naturally brought hidden dangers to the defense of the entire Stephen Castle. The people of the Stephen Family certainly wouldn’t leave hidden dangers for the family foundation just for their own selfishness? So, to make up for this defect, the ancestors of the Stephen Family set up many mechanisms and traps in the passage, and this hall, as the only exit of the passage, naturally received key attention.

Of course, after all, this was a passage used to meet beauties, and not all of them were agile, and they couldn’t ask people to watch you touch the traps in fear every time they came, right? So all the traps here were not trigger-type, but required manual operation. In this way, there was no danger for beauties to walk up, and once a war started, as long as one Mage was stationed there, thousands of troops couldn’t kill their way in, and it could even become a trap to kill a large number of the enemy’s living forces.

These things were almost not particularly special secrets, at least in the aristocratic circle of the Imperial Capital, there were quite a few ladies who had walked through this passage, and through their mouths, it spread everywhere. So the Old Mage didn’t take it seriously, and when Old Xie was in confinement, he told him everything about Stephen Castle, including this place. And just now, Old Xie activated the magic trap in the hall and directly knocked down these uninvited guests. Even though these guys came from palace guards and were at least warriors above level 2 who could use Battle Qi Body Protection, they were still not enough to look at in front of the specially set magic traps of the Stephen Family, and they all fell into a coma, barely having only one breath left.

Old Xie then showed himself, pulled off the mask on the leader’s face, and recognized him at a glance. Wasn’t this the guard leader Liao·Chaoqun beside the Little Princess? No wonder he knew this place, Rui Li must have told him. However, it seemed Rui Li was also playing tricks, telling them the location of the guest room, but not my real location. Presumably she was also pestered by the little girl and had no choice but to come up with this plan, right? Old Xie guessed.

Just then, the steward of the Mage Tower, Lilith, appeared at the scene. She didn’t even look at the people lying askew on the ground, and asked directly, “Young Master, how do you want to deal with these people?”

“Hehe!” Old Xie suddenly laughed evilly, “You don’t need to worry about this, I have my own arrangements. You go send someone to call a few Cyclops for me, and also prepare some ropes and ink, hehe!”

Although she found Old Xie’s request very strange, Lilith still respectfully said, “As you wish!”

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The next day, in the separate villa dormitory where the Little Princess lived in the Academy, a maid came to the garden in the backyard as usual. She needed to pick some fresh flowers from here to decorate the Princess’s breakfast table. But when she arrived at the back garden, she was immediately scared to scream by the scene before her.