Vatir de Lidaux.

The head of the Nifgaard intelligence agency, the first favorite and trusted person around the Emperor Enhill Enris.

A man whose actual power is far higher than his baron title.

As the head of the Nifgad intelligence agency, Vatir made great contributions to the entire empire many times.

He was not just the pawn of the imperial emperor, but also the strategic planner and executor of the southern empire's attack on the north.

After witnessing the destructive power of warlocks in the First Northern War, Emperors Enshir and Vatir carefully planned a series of conspiracy operations, attempting to split the Brotherhood of Warlocks from the inside, and at the same time, the relationship between the kings and the warlocks was separated.

The first step in the entire plan was the coup that took place on Sinnied Island six years ago.

That should have been just another party of the Warlock Brotherhood that was extravagant.

But before that, Vatir instigated a group of "current affairs" warlocks, including the elf queen Francisca, Vigofertz, and other warlocks who "know the current affairs" in an attempt to violently take over the Warlock Brotherhood on the day of the party and massacre the warlocks who support the North.

But I don’t know who leaked the news. Philippa Ehart, who learned the news, led the Northern faction to launch a coup in advance.

As a result, the party directly evolved into a magical war between the leading party, the northern faction and the neutral faction who did not know the truth.

The battle not only destroyed half of the Immortal Island, but also caused countless casualties of warlocks.

From then on, the Warlock Brotherhood fell apart, and the countless conspiracies and undercurrents exposed in this coup made the kings of the North see the insidious and cunning of the Warlock, and since then a serious crisis of trust has emerged.

And Vatir's methods are more than that.

Not long afterwards, he sent people to assassinate King Vizmir II of Redania.

In the midst of chaos of striking the blame, Nifgad launched the Second Northern War and annexed several small northern countries. It was not until the army of Temoglia turned the tide under the leadership of King Fultes that Nifgad temporarily stopped the pace of the northern invasion.

The Brotherhood of Warlocks no longer existed after the coup in the Sinnied Island, but Philipba re-engaged a group that only accepts warlocks - the Warlocks Club.

And she didn't know what method she used to pull in all the warlocks who had just fought not long ago, including the "elf queen" Franciska who had defected to Nifgad, the sorcerers who were still consulting the Northern Kingdom, Ada Emin who lived in seclusion in the deep mountains and forests, and the birthing factions such as Yennefa and Triss.

Seeing that the entire continent was about to fall into Philiba's control, only three years later, Yenav, who had just escaped from the claws of the Wild Hunting, fell into Vatir's hands.

Also arrested were the witcher Resso, who was entrusted by Geralt to protect Yennefa.

After severe torture, Yennefa revealed the existence of the sorcerer's assembly.

At this time, the sorcerer assembly was busy stirring up the civil war between Aden and Codwin in the northern kingdoms, trying to split Aden and establish a country truly ruled by sorcerers.

Their methods were as despicable as ever - assassinating King Demave III of Aden.

Emperors Enshir and Vatir, who had learned about the plan from Yennefa, decided to take the plan.

They bought Reso on the condition of rebuilding the Viper School, allowing him to pretend to accidentally get into the sorcerer assembly hall, and demonstrated his powerful combat ability.

The sorcerers who had heard from Yennefa many times that the "combat power" of the witch hunter were indeed trapped and entrusted Reso without hesitation to assassinate King Demavi III of Aden.

Resor completed the mission excellently and "first patronage broadcast", and killed several more northern kings by the way.

Then he said with an innocent look on his face: "It was all these shameless sorcerers who asked me to do it!"

The sorcerers said: "Damn me!"

The kings of the north said: "Damn me!"

So the north was in chaos again.

Although Geralt's efforts finally revealed that the Nifgad Empire was the real mastermind behind the scenes, Vatir's calculations did not achieve the expected results.

But King Aden's death was a sorcerer's assembly room that could not be separated from any connection.

Their reputation has never been restored.

Yesterday we fought to the death, but today we joined forces to try to manipulate all countries, and we had no position, took both the north and the south, and used all kinds of bad behaviors.

Shameless, shameless, or shameless.

Several assassination masterminds, including Philipba and Xier, were arrested.

Xier chose to commit suicide in prison and could not bear the humiliation.

Phileba became a prisoner of Radovid and experienced the ultimate imprisonment of Pree.

The newly rebuilt Warlock Brotherhood was also disgraced and could only rely on others to live under the control of Refnia and became the puppet of King Radoviger.

At the same time, with the deaths of several kings, the northern camp was divided and severely weakened in politics, military and personnel. Enhill also took advantage of the situation to launch the third Northern Invasion War.

The imperial army's offensive was unstoppable, with the once independent Temolia, Aden, Leriya and Livia all falling, while Redania took the opportunity to occupy neighboring Codwin and joined forces with the remnants of the northern forces to support it.

Eventually, with Radovid, the last fortress in the north, being assassinated by Geralt and Philiba, Nifgaard, who cleared all obstacles, swept across the north and eventually annexed all countries except Covell, basically unifying the known continent west of the Corraz Desert.

It can be said that all the major events in modern times: conspiracy, coups, wars, and even the death of Wigofortz, the "strongest warlock on the surface", stood the figure of this man behind it.

He was only in his early forties, but he carried out several intellectual dimensionality reduction strikes on the sorcerers, the old witches who had lived for hundreds of years.

He is scheming and is famous for his decisiveness. "A carefully planned assassination can solve all problems." is a widely circulated catchphrase of his words.

And the well-deserved empire giant is now floating in front of Zach with his body twitching, and his mouth keeps making vague whimpers and breathing like a broken bellows.

Vatir tried hard to breathe, but his chest seemed to be tightly tied by countless belts, and he could only barely enter and exit the tiny air, but he could not say a word.

Every joint of the body looked like a gear that had been rusted for hundreds of years. He tried his best but could not move at all.

His eyes could not turn, and he could only see the black-haired young man looking at him with a smile in his eyes.

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After a while, the soldiers around finally came to their senses from their trance and pulled out the swords at their waists one by one.

However, instead of slashing at Zach with his sword, they looked down in confusion.

There is only the empty hilt of the sword in my hand.

They were shocked and suspicious, but they started to scream in pain.

"ah!"

“So hot!”

The jingle sounded, and the hilts of the sword fell to the ground one after another.

The soldiers did not stop their movements. They all hurriedly unscathed the swordsmanship from their waists and threw them on the ground.

Orange-red molten iron slowly flowed out of it.

The cortical scabbard quickly became charred and then burned.

More than a dozen arrows shot down from the city wall, but fell to the ground like feathers. Then, with a few explosions, even the movement on the city was lost.

A few screams came from the crowd around, and the previously neat team was in chaos.

But no one has the heart to maintain order, and the soldiers who lost their weapons can only watch what is happening in front of them at a loss.

Geralt was stunned.

Yennefa was already sweating profusely. It was the instinctive reaction that was left to her by an extremely painful experience.

She knew very well who Vatir de Lidaux was. This man almost defeated the entire group of warlocks with his own strength. Yennefa herself had been abused inhumanely at his hands.

She had no idea that she would encounter this Nifgaard's intelligence leader here.

Even though he didn't expect Zach to take action without hesitation.

Why did this situation become? How to reconcile this situation? What are the consequences of offending Niphgad?

All of this made a pot of porridge in her mind.

But Zach had no intention of stopping.

He looked at Vatir floating in front of him and reached out to pull out a gorgeous steel sword from his waist.

"Nifgad's dagger..." The young man fiddled with the dagger and said to himself: "The sword of conquering the world."

He raised the weapon with his left hand and inserted it into the palm of his right hand.

The short sword melted into burning steel like a candle on the stove, flowing through Zach's fingers and sprinkling on the ground.

"Vatir de Lidaux."

Zach reached out and patted the spy leader's face. A few drops of iron splashed on it and slashed into the collar along the thin chin.

A sizzling sound, a trace of white mist emerged from Vatir's neck, and twisted wails squeezed out from the trembling mouth.

"Woo...ah..."

"Shh..." The mage's index finger pressed against his lips, and an invisible force sewed the spy leader's lips together.

The city gate became quiet again.

The black-haired young man threw the hilt of his sword on the ground, leaned forward, and said slowly:
Chapter completed!