After listening to Sean's words, Leo guessed: "Since the royal family knows that Earl Drake is dead and the Poseidon artifact is in Death Valley, then the royal family should have sent someone to Josh County, right?"

Sean nodded and responded: "Five groups of people were sent, one group disappeared, and the other four groups were not able to find Death Valley at all, but leaked the news."

"Where did the missing people disappear?" Leo asked again.

"I don't know, I lost contact suddenly." Sean shook his head.

"Where is the last contact point?" Leo asked clearly.

"In Fort Josh," Sean answered quickly, and then felt that the answer was inaccurate, so he immediately added: "It's Old Fort Josh."

"Old Josh Fort?" Leo was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and carefully recalled the familiar-sounding name. Suddenly he remembered that the ancestor of his body seemed to come from Old Josh Fort, and he was the elder of Old Josh Fort.

Survivors of massacre.

"Are you talking about the old Fort Josh that was involved in the massacre?" Leo confirmed again.

"Yes." Sean nodded.

Leo frowned and said: "I remember that the castle was completely abandoned. After so many years, I'm afraid there are no buildings left. How could they..."

"It seems you don't know yet," Sean interrupted Leo and explained carefully: "A few years ago, Ms. Charlotte wrote a book about the Joshburg Massacre, which became the best-selling book in the kingdom.

The book has also been adapted into a script, which has caused many people to go to the old Fort Josh. People living in Fort Josh wanted to get some extra income from this trend, so they specially renovated it.

Old Fort Josh then acted as a participant in the massacre, reenacting the massacre and attracting tourists. Now Old Fort Josh has become one of the most important income sources in Josh County."

Hearing these words, Leo suddenly felt a strange emotion in his heart, a little angry and a little helpless.

These emotions come entirely from the remaining emotional memories in the body, because for Leo, he grew up listening to the massacre at Old Fort Josh, and he had a strange emotion towards the massacre.

Josh County first belonged to the territory of Earl Josh. Earl Josh was also one of the knight earls who participated in the founding of the country. However, like most of the knights and nobles who founded the country, the power of the Josh family gradually declined. Later, even Josh

The county was also occupied by another new military nobleman, so the relationship between the Josh family and this military nobleman was also very poor. The two families often fought and killed each other for the border territories. A large number of members of both families died in these battles, so

Both families are also mortal enemies.

However, later on, the successor earl of Josh County had an outlier, who believed that the two families should not continue to be hostile, but should make peace, write off the past affairs, and jointly develop Josh County in the future.

For this reason, Earl Josh restrained the family members and even chose to give in in some conflicts of interests to show his peaceful attitude. When he thought the time was right, he invited Josh Fort, the patriarch of the military aristocratic family, to discuss

Peace talks were held, and an oath was taken in accordance with local tradition to ensure that no matter what the outcome of the negotiation was, the clan leader and his clansmen would not be harmed in any way.

Or maybe Earl Josh showed enough sincerity that the head of the noble military clan finally agreed to go to Fort Josh for peace talks. It seems that the century-old struggle between the two major families in Josh County is about to end, and peace is about to come to Josh County.

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However, no one thought, not even the people within the military aristocratic family, that the patriarch had not thought about peace talks at all, and was going to use this opportunity to wipe out the Josh family in one fell swoop.

Later, in order to win the trust of the Josh family, the patriarch of the military aristocracy only took his eldest son, eldest daughter and a few attendants to Fort Josh. However, in fact, he had secretly mobilized a large number of people to lurk around Fort Josh.

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After arriving at Fort Josh, Earl Josh did not immediately start peace talks. Instead, according to the tradition of Josh County, he gave the visitors the best hospitality, using the best food, the best meat, and warm hospitality.

If the head of the noble family hadn't known about the relationship between the two and saw the two chatting and laughing at the banquet, he might have thought that the two were close friends.

After the banquet, Earl Josh arranged a place for several people to rest at night and said that negotiations could officially begin tomorrow.

The people of Joshburg also thought that the military-honored aristocratic patriarch came alone with his children, thinking that the other party was expressing goodwill, and their vigilance became very low. Even the city defense did not have enough manpower to guard it.

As a result, late at night, the Josh family thought that the military aristocratic patriarch who had slept peacefully led his children and knights, killed the servants who served them, sneaked into the castle gate, killed the soldiers guarding the gate, opened the gate, and released the people who had been waiting for a long time.

The army entered the castle and killed everyone on sight. They slaughtered all the Josh family members in the castle. Only a few servants and craftsmen escaped from Josh Castle by being familiar with the terrain and fled to the outside of Josh County.

Word spread about what happened in Schburg.

At this time, except for a few members of the Josh family who were out of town and did not have time to rush back to Fort Josh, the rest of the family died in the massacre. It was rumored that the royal family members who later went to Fort Josh to investigate the situation met Yos.

Shibao was completely dyed red with the blood of the Josh family, and all the corpses were also stained red by the noble military family.

The people were hung on the city wall with extremely cruel methods.

This incident was extremely shocking in the Kingdom of England, because when a noble family expressed enough goodwill to a hostile family and faithfully followed its promise, it provided personal safety to the hostile family when they arrived and provided them with delicious food for a period of time.

Food and a warm bed, no matter how much hatred the two had before, no revenge should be taken at this time.

Even though the military aristocrat who climbed up from the bottom had a century-old inheritance, he did not understand the unspoken rules of noble battles. In their view, as long as the opponent died, it was a good thing. They had no idea that their behavior had touched the biggest taboo in the aristocratic circle.

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So almost on the tenth day after the demise of the Josh family, the military aristocratic family was also completely destroyed under the joint attack of several surrounding knights. All family members were arrested without exception and hanged in Fort Josh.

On the city wall, just like they did with the corpses of Josh family members.

Two aristocratic families that had been inherited for more than a hundred years all died in Old Josh Fort, which gave Old Josh Fort an extremely gloomy and terrifying atmosphere. No one wanted to stay here for a moment longer.

Due to the destruction of the old Fort Josh on the night of the massacre, and the use of some mechanisms by the Josh family to kill the enemy, Fort Josh has become riddled with holes and is crumbling. The money spent on repairing it is no more than rebuilding it.

One house is much less.

But the biggest problem is that because the Josh family has no legal heirs, Josh County was taken over by the royal family. The royal family does not attach much importance to this swampland, and is not willing to invest a lot of money to repair Fort Josh.

So the new Fort Josh was built on the land closest to the old Fort Josh. Although it was called Fort Josh, it was actually just a small village and completely unworthy of its name.

The ancestor of Leo's body was a blacksmith who worked for the Josh family. He was among the people who escaped from Fort Josh on the night of the massacre, and because he was a free citizen, he was not restricted.

After leaving Josh County, he did not go back, but settled elsewhere.

However, he has always been obsessed with the incident in Josh County. In his later years, he even compiled the events of the massacre and other matters related to Josh County into a family story, and Leo's body has been listening to it since he was a child.

These stories grew up.

Now Leo suddenly heard such a familiar name, and felt a little surprised. He also had the idea of ​​​​going to visit the old Fort Josh.

Leo stretched out his hand and shook the bell hanging next to the desk. After a while, he saw the butler pushing the door open and walking in, asking: "Sir, do you have any orders?"

Leo ordered: "Please help me book a ticket to Bosa County. I am going to Bosa County tonight."

"Okay! Sir." The butler nodded, turned and left.

After the butler left, Sean stood up and said, "In that case, I'm waiting for your good news. I hope you have a safe journey."

"Wait." When Sean was about to leave, Leo suddenly stopped him and said, "I have something that I need you to deal with. Otherwise, I won't be in the mood to help you with it."

"Is what you are talking about a spy case?" Sean was very smart and immediately understood what Leo meant and asked.

"Yes." Leo nodded.

Sean hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Although this matter is beyond my authority, I can still find a way to remove the suspicion on you. Don't worry, there will be a result soon."

After saying that, he put on his hat, saluted Leo, walked out of the room, and left the apartment.

It wasn't until Sean left that Leo laid his eyes on the box. In fact, he didn't even need to open the box, he had already sensed what was in the box through the spiritual network.

In addition to two old notebooks, there is also a string of bone necklaces and a very old-fashioned pocket watch. There are many signs of disassembly on the pocket watch. It seems that it should have been made by the royal family.

Leo opened the box and first took out the two old notebooks and looked through them. On the surface, it seemed that the contents of these notebooks were not the wizard's witchcraft, but the wizard's travel diary of the world of Velen.

But in fact, it was completely different. When Leo transformed his vision into spiritual vision, the contents of the notebooks became completely different. The two notebooks respectively recorded two methods of making magical objects.

, one is a scapegoat, and the other is a soul box.

Leo carefully read the manufacturing methods of the two magical artifacts hidden in the two notebooks, and began to suspect that the royal wizard might not have died back then.

The reason why he has such doubts is because based on the analysis of the functions of these two wizarding artifacts, they should be matching, and there should be other matching wizarding artifacts, and the functions of this set of wizarding artifacts are,

I'm afraid it's used to make lichs.

Among the various legends and myths in the world of Velen, lich has always been the most special kind, because no matter how true the legend is, even the books of various churches list lich as the most evil existence, but it is interesting

Yes, no one in the entire Velen world has ever actually seen a lich.

However, from the knowledge gained from the web-spinner's mark, Leo knew that the tower wizard had once created a witchcraft that could deceive the web-spinner. This witchcraft allowed the wizard to stay in the world as a soul.

Will not be taken away by the web spinner.

However, the web weaver does not know in what form this soul wizard remains in the world.

Now seeing the hidden content recorded in this note, Leo immediately thought of this kind of soul wizard. Maybe the legendary lich is this kind of soul wizard.

It's a pity that Leo doesn't know much about soul wizards. Most of them come from the marks of the web spinner. In addition, it was mentioned in Earl Drake's wizard notes that the content is probably about him and a certain soul.

The wizard has a deal.

"Could it be that the soul wizard recorded in his notes is the court wizard of the Ying royal family?" When Leo was recalling the information related to the soul wizard, a bold idea suddenly came to his mind.

Although this idea is a bit bold, it is not impossible, because from some fragmentary information revealed in Earl Drake's wizard's notebook, it is not difficult to guess that when Earl Drake wrote this notebook, he had already landed ashore

And became an earl lord.

According to records, Earl Drake has never gone to sea since he landed ashore, so the soul wizard mentioned in Earl Drake's notes can only appear within the Kingdom of England.

Thinking about it carefully, at that time, it seemed that there was no one else except the court wizard of the British royal family who could talk to Earl Drake on an equal footing and conduct equal transactions with him, who was the wizard of the tower, at least.

He could not find another person who had been made public in his memory, so the soul wizard mentioned in Earl Drake's notes was probably the court wizard.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but feel that he seemed to be involved in a conspiracy inexplicably, and the participants in this conspiracy seemed to be two tower wizards.

However, he did not feel worried or panicked. Instead, he was very excited, because he was likely to meet two tower wizards during his trip to Josh County, and he might be able to get more secrets about the tower wizards from them.

You can also get the reason why the tower disappeared and the wizard's research on the fog.

After half an hour, the housekeeper handed Leo the train ticket, and then prepared a simple outfit and suitcase for Leo. Before it got dark, Leo arrived at the train station and boarded the train bound for him and Josh.

Trains from neighboring Sabo County.

I don’t know if those who monitored him had hidden deeper skills, or if Sean had already played his role. In short, from leaving the apartment to boarding the train, he did not find a single monitor sent by Congress to investigate the case.
Chapter completed!