Chapter 163 - Chapter 163: Chapter 156: Murdering Byrne Fischer! (2/2)

Byrne nodded slowly, his words filled with respect for the man before him.

“I must repay the kindness your family has shown to the Fischer family,”

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The Fischer family had always been shrouded in mystery.

Their head, Byrne Fischer, not only possessed the strength of a Bloodline Knight but also had a transformative type of spellcasting talent, while Madam Irene Fischer boasted a formidable healing spellcasting talent.

As for Chris Fischer, he too possessed some sort of Bloodline Knight strength, but exactly which bloodline was something that had always remained unknown.

Many families would publicly claim what their bloodline power is, considering it was information that would eventually become impossible to hide over time.

However, there was no actual rule stating that a family must disclose the full extent of their bloodline power.

Therefore, what exact bloodline power the Fischer family possessed continued to be a mystery.

Viscount Garcia sent people to infiltrate Nasir Town and conduct thorough investigations. He also purchased various bits of intelligence about the Fischer family, striving to make ample preparations.

But information about the Fischer family was always vague, especially when it came to the nature of their bloodline power, which somehow remained elusive.

“How strange it is that the more we investigate, the more secrets the Fischer family seems to hide. What could they be?”

In recent years, Byrne had maintained a low profile, appearing and disappearing like a ghost, always highly vigilant.

Viscount Garcia had even considered ambushing Nasir Town to decapitate Byrne but felt it was very dangerous. The more he investigated, the more he felt the hidden power of the Fischer family was terrifying.

The deaths of the Meyer family members, the demise of the Spawn of the Abyss, and the Priest of the Sea God Cult could all very well be attributed to the concealed power of the Fischer family.

That is to say, they held some kind of powerful force capable of killing Extraordinary Exponents below the Monarch Level!

“However, that hidden force isn’t invincible, or it comes at a considerable price; otherwise, they wouldn’t have allowed so many people to die in Nasir Town.”

He speculated that the hidden power of the Fischer family was a Forbidden rare artifact ranked in the three digits or even the two digits.

Unleashing a significant cost, it could burst forth with tremendous power to kill the enemy.

In the end, Viscount Garcia still felt it best to find an opportunity to assassinate Byrne when he was alone and away from Nasir Town since he might not always carry that Forbidden rare artifact with him. In such a case, the hidden power of the Fischer family might not be deployable.

One day, Viscount Garcia, who was in his mansion’s hall, suddenly received crucial intelligence.

Byrne was going by himself to the Iron Blood Oder family to arrange his son Darren’s marriage. He desired to betroth his son Darren to Viscount Oder’s youngest daughter, forming a matrimonial alliance between the two families.

“Heh, a mere baronial family aspiring to marry into the Iron Blood clan, indeed, quite ambitious.”

He sneered, muttering to himself:

“But if this is arranged by the Lion clan, it might not be impossible to achieve, given that the Fischer family is an important vassal to the Lion clan and the Iron Blood clan is an ally of the Lion, no, more like its lackey.”

The route by which Byrne would travel to the town where the Iron Blood family resided was clear, and soon, Garcia’s men figured out his exact travel itinerary.

To verify the authenticity of the intelligence, he also made a point of checking the status of the Iron Blood family and discovered that they were indeed preparing to receive guests, evidently having been notified in advance.

“An opportunity not to be missed.”

Decisiveness on the battlefield is of utmost importance. After mulling it over, Viscount Garcia immediately decided to lay an ambush for Byrne Fischer somewhere along this route!

“He will die on his way to the Iron Blood clan, and when that happens, I can pin the deed on those Lost followers.”

Lost followers, who are a group of exceptionally evil and insane individuals, worship the terrible Evil God, a symbol of the endless finality that is the Lord of the Lost!

In the past few years, Lost followers violently committed crimes throughout the Eastern Four Kingdoms, killing many. One year, they even sacrificed tens of thousands of people from an entire town to the Evil God in a dreadful act.

The horrifying tales about them are far too numerous, and even today, the Ten Great Pillars take rumors of the Lost followers very seriously.

Of course, Viscount Garcia knew the weak Fischer family was completely unrelated to the terrifying and powerful Lost followers, who had no reason to set their sights on such an insignificant group.

He simply wanted to attribute “Byrne Fischer’s murder” to the Lost followers.

These Lost followers were mighty and mysterious beings that had not exposed even a single individual for many years. They would certainly not be easily traced or revealed by the church, meaning the true perpetrator would likely never be found.

“Let’s go, Andrew, Gus.”

Viscount Garcia changed out of his black uniform and donned an equally dark set of robes, masquerading as the notorious Lost followers. He took up the Forbidden rare artifact “Countdown Timer” and another Forbidden rare artifact borrowed from Zavier.

He led two of the remaining three Transmutation Extraordinary Exponents of his family to ambush Byrne Fischer, leaving only his son of low-level Transmutation back with the family.

Despite it being a case of a lion hunting a rabbit, he had no intention of underestimating Byrne Fischer. Instead, he planned to ensure the man would meet his end one hundred percent on the road to the Iron Blood clan!