Noble Council's bodyguards are actually young masters with noble backgrounds. If an enemy attempts to assassinate the king, they may risk their lives to protect him and give their family a chance to prosper and shine.
But now, they are really unwilling to get involved in this kind of royal murder case - the matter between the king, Princess and the princess... Who knows what the results will be if they get involved blindly?
So they honestly disarmed themselves and waited for the results outside Noble Council.
No one was running around, no one was leaving, no one was even talking.
Maybe there were followers of Three Prophets among them, but no one showed anything suspicious - Li Ang stared at them coldly, no one wanted to be suspected of being an accomplice to murder or having ulterior motives.
The girl rangers were watching on the wall. Noble Council was already tightly sealed, but Li Ang was still not in a hurry to enter the tower.
He is giving orders.
The first order given is to close Lion City.
Order the garrison to return to its garrison and not leave the barracks without orders.
The garrison had no intention of objecting. After all, Noble Council's guards had all disarmed, so naturally these ragtag garrison would not say anything anymore.
At the same time, Li Ang asked Noldo Ranger to separate and seal all the side doors of Lion City, leaving only the main city gate that was controlled by the guards.
Lion City has five gates for entry and exit, but only the main city gate in the north is open daily.
Because identity checks are required to enter and exit the royal city, usually only opening one main city gate can save manpower. Of course, the most important thing is to facilitate the collection of city gate taxes.
The other city gates have their own purposes, including the entrance to the military station dedicated to the troops, the South Water Gate connecting the Sava River pier, and the two side gates on the east and west sides for the transportation of large quantities of supplies.
The entrance to the military station is generally closed for a long time, because entering from the entrance is the passage inside the city wall, which leads directly to the military camp and is a controlled area.
The South Water Gate will not be opened when no noble ships are docked. It is an exclusive entrance for nobles that can lead directly to the palace. This water gate will only be opened unless there are mission executors holding royal orders or envoys from other countries visiting from the waterway.
This is also a fast waterway that allows royal members to evacuate Lion City directly from the palace castle when necessary.
The two side gates on the east and west sides are also called the "Morning and Dusk Gates" because usually a large number of vehicles transporting vegetables, fruits, grains and other materials enter the city at dusk, and many vehicles transporting waste leave the city in the morning, so they are opened once in the morning and evening, which is regarded as a green channel to maintain daily life in Lion City.
But it was noon and none of these doors were open.
What Li Ang wanted to do was to make these city gates unable to be opened in a short period of time - he asked Noldo Ranger to separately destroy the winches that open these gates.
If the winch is destroyed, the heavy gate usually cannot be opened.
The guards brought by Li Ang were not many, with only more than 200 Noldor, and half of them had to be allocated to control the Noble Council tower. Since they could not spare more people to manage other city gates, they simply destroyed the winch and sealed those gates directly.
After destroying several other gates, Noldo Guard took control of the main city gate, which is equivalent to controlling the entire Lion City.
However, when Li Ang controls Lion City at this time, it is not actually to block people from outside, but to block people who want to leave from Lion City - or at least to delay their exit.
There are many nobles living in Lion City, and every family has attendants or guards.
At the same time, Lion Knight Order is stationed in Lion City, and there should be a small number of Lion Knight staying behind; there are also some king's personal guards in the palace.
But these people don't know what happened to Noble Council yet, and they haven't reacted yet.
Therefore, Li Ang will make them completely unable to respond, and they will not even be able to release any news in a short period of time.
Soon after, Noldo Ranger received instructions from Li Ang one after another and quickly went to various places to send messages.
In this way, the guards who control the main city gate have a clear way to deal with it - anyway, the humans are not allowed to leave Lion City, and only the Noldor are allowed to leave the city.
After arranging all this, Li Ang led a small group of people into the Noble Council tower.
At this time, the king had been entering the tower for some time.
However, there has been no sound coming from the tower, and it has always been eerily quiet. Probably because the top of the tower is too high, and if you don't stand at the window and shout, it is difficult for the sound to be transmitted.
Li Ang patrolled each floor with his sword in hand, giving all the maids he encountered a stay-at-home order, ordering them not to leave the tower.
After patrolling all the way to the top floor, I heard the voices of several key figures - this was also expected, after all, it happened on the top floor.
However, when Li Ang came to the top floor of Noble Council, the scene here was really beyond his expectation...
The door to the top floor was open, and four people were inside. As expected, something happened to Ulrich - he fell to the ground with a table knife stuck in his stomach and a sword stuck around his neck.
But the problem is that the person who pointed the tip of the sword at Ulrich's neck was not Anna, but Inna...
Ols held his sword towards Anna with an angry look on his face. He seemed to want to take action, but was hesitant - his son Inna stood in front of Anna and threatened the king.
And Princess Anna was leaning against the wall with a frightened look on her face. She looked like a pitiful and weak woman...
However, Inna, who pointed the sword at Ulrich's neck, kept shaking his hands.
Moreover, Inna looks even sadder than the king, and looks like he is begging for death.
"... Father, I must protect Anna! I must protect her..."
As soon as Li Ang arrived at the door, he heard Inna talking to Ols.
Is this silly boy planning to sacrifice his life for love?
"Inna! She is a heretic! She is a heretical prophet! Don't you want to live anymore?"
Ols said angrily.
"I can't live anymore... I have already attacked His Majesty..."
Inna spoke in a choked voice, but stopped only halfway - because at this time Li Ang entered the door.
Li Ang can generally understand why Inna did this. After all, Anna has his child in his belly, and Inna has indeed never seen the true appearance of Three Prophets - at this time, Anna still looks like a princess, a weak and helpless aristocratic woman.
"That was her move! Inna, don't do anything stupid...Lord Li Ang can help you, but you can't become a regicide!"
Seeing Li Ang enter the door, Ols seemed to see hope and persuaded him again.
But when Inna saw Li Ang coming in, he seemed to have made up his mind. "Lord Li Ang, I have been waiting for you..."
However, before Li Ang could reply or anyone could react, he stabbed the sword into Ulrich's neck!
Blood spurted out from the arteries and spread all over the floor.
Ulrich was killed!
Killed by Inna?!
Li Ang was stunned. He had just entered the door and had not done anything yet. He had no time to do anything.
"No! What did you do! Inna..."
Ols shouted in despair.
"Lord Li Ang... You saw it all... I plead guilty!"
Inna did not respond to his father, but dropped the sword, spread his hands and knelt in front of Li Ang: "Catch me."
Li Ang sighed and glanced at Ulrich on the ground. The king's neck was still bleeding and his eyes were still open.
But the strange thing is that there is neither anger nor panic in the king's eyes, nor is there any pain.
There is only sadness.
The sadness of despair.
Don't you even know the pain when you are hit by a sword?
"... I don't know what I saw... I just know that I have to catch you first, right, Mrs. Anna?"
Li Ang did not respond to Inna, but directly walked towards Anna with the sword in hand, but he walked very carefully - he knew how powerful this prophet was. "Catch her!"
Several Noldo Ranger quickly stepped forward and surrounded Anna.
"Lord Li Ang! I am the one who killed the king!"
Inna shouted, trying to grab the sword on the ground, seemingly trying to stop Li Ang, but was kicked over by his father Ols and fell to the ground.
"She was the one who killed the king! Don't be stupid, son!"
Ols shouted.
But Inna turned a deaf ear. He climbed up to Anna and stood in front of Li Ang: "Lord Li Ang, I did everything..."
Li Ang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Inna, I don't care who did it..."
"Hehehe... get out of the way, Inna..."
Princess Anna suddenly laughed and shook her head with a smile. This action was exactly the same as Li Ang: "Actually, Lord Li Ang is the real murderer of the regicide... right, Your Excellency Ols?"
Ols's face turned livid, but he didn't speak. He didn't know what he was thinking.
Inna glanced back blankly, and then there seemed to be some joy in his eyes. "Yes, he is..."
Only then did Li Ang understand that Anna had this idea?
She knew that Philina's death was almost impossible for her to explain. No matter how much Ulrich loved her, it was impossible to ignore the scene she saw with her own eyes, or at least she would be suspicious.
Even if Ulrich doesn't care about Philina's sister and insists on overturning the case for Anna, then Anna must first be put in jail for investigation and trial, and only a "neutral" minister can be responsible for the interrogation - such as Li Ang who happened to happen upon this incident.
In other words, Anna actually cannot escape. If he wants to survive, he can only hold the king hostage.
But if Ulrich is held hostage, it will be completely impossible to achieve her goal...
So, Anna changed her mind - she killed Ulrich, and used the more serious incident of regicide to change everyone's focus from Princess's murder to the king's murder...
Then, frame it on Li Ang... or any of the great nobles who entered the tower first.
In this way, no matter what Li Ang says, no one will believe it.
If no one enters the tower, or the frame-up is not successful, then Inna will bear the crime of regicide because he wants to protect Anna and his children...
And Anna is pregnant with the king's heir. As long as she doesn't reveal her identity as a heretic, no one will kill her at this time... On the contrary, many people will rush to protect her!
Li Ang gave Anna a thumbs-up sign and praised it sincerely, "It's a good idea, but... I'm the only one left in this Noble Council!"
"Really? Hahaha..."
Anna laughed, then she pulled off the belt around her waist and stood up straight. "This lady's dress is really uncomfortable... Lord Li Ang! Come and fight me!"
She is inviting a fight.
She finally stopped pretending and faced Li Ang like a warrior.
Li Ang took a step back, made a weird sword move, held the long sword at an angle, and then used a head-twirling move like a sword - he still remembered how he had dealt with Three Prophets before, and he could only use moves they had never seen before.
Anna seems to have never seen this strange trick of using a long sword as a simple sword, and this is not Pande Continent's sword technique at all...
Moreover, she did not have any objects in her hand that could be used to block, and her Flesh and Blood Armor was not on her body either.
But she seemed to have no intention of evading or blocking, and instead directly pulled the belt in her hand towards Li Ang.
Three Prophets's power Li Ang didn't dare to take it hard. Even if she was holding only a belt, Li Ang didn't dare to take it, so she had to retreat and dodge.
But at this moment, Li Ang heard what seemed to be a buzzing sound behind him.
"Buzz..."
This is the sound of a sword cutting through the air!
"Ding!"
Nowadays, Li Ang has extremely good hearing. He turned around with a change of expression, passed the sword around his head, followed the previous sword technique and used a body-encircling head guard, which barely blocked the sword thrust from behind.
The sharp Griffin Sword cut off the back-stabbing blade, but the flying blade still scratched Li Ang's face - this sword was aimed at the neck!
That's Inna.
"Sir, be careful!"
It was only then that the warning voices of Noldo Rangers came. Two Noldo Rangers rushed forward and pinned Inna, who was holding a broken sword, to the ground.
But Ols finally no longer hesitated at this time. He rushed towards Anna and attacked extremely fiercely. It seemed that Anna would be killed.
This actually prevents Anna from sneak attacking Li Ang when Li Ang turns around to block.
The Noldos also rushed forward, but Anna was leaning against the corner. In such a narrow space, there was not room for too many people to take action. Ols was almost one-on-one with Anna.
But surprisingly, Ols defeated Anna easily!
With just one Owl Knight, this 'female prophet' was beaten back and forth, and even stabbed in the shoulder with a sword.
"Humph..."
Anna suddenly laughed weirdly, and then Anna did something incomprehensible again - she jumped off the building!
Just as she gradually retreated to the window, she jumped out of the tower window just like Philina!
"No...Anna... No..."
Inna cried bitterly and tried to throw himself at the window, but he was held by two Noldo Ranger and knelt on the ground unable to move.
"... Go down and tie her up! Even if it's a corpse, you have to tie her up!"
Li Ang frowned and gave the order, then looked at Inna: "You don't need to be a regicide, Inna. Before you took action, His Majesty the King was already killed by Anna, I can see..."
"Anna..."
Inna could only see the window and was mumbling, seemingly unable to hear anything.
"That woman is not Anna!"
Li Ang simply pointed at the window and yelled.
Inna looked at Li Ang blankly and stopped struggling.
"She is indeed not Anna... I can't defeat the prophetess with my ability..."
Ols also frowned and said, he handed the tip of his sword to Inna: "I stabbed her, but she didn't bleed, Inna, you should know what this means..."