Chapter 269 Annan's Plan

While Annan and Kaphne were whispering in the corner of the main hall, old Merlin appeared out of nowhere.

"His Royal Highness Annan."

Old Merlin didn't look at Kaphne, but whispered to Annan, "His Royal Highness Dmitry is looking for you."

There was no emotion in his thin face.

His silent and indifferent atmosphere was very similar to Dmitri's.

But even with the same expressionless face, because of the difference in appearance and clothes, Dmitri showed a formidable sense of majesty; but if it was placed on Merlin's deeply sunken cheek, it was It just feels like a scary monster.

In Noah's Kingdom, superhumans who violate the law are generally only "soft wanted".

That is to say, put his name on the wanted list and notify the grassroots, but never really send out pursuers. But the wanted person is like a normal wanted criminal, who cannot cross the border, cannot borrow money, cannot get married and have children, and cannot enjoy the protection of the law.

By depriving the lawful rights of supernatural beings who have violated the law, they suppress the range of activities of these supernatural beings and provide punishments that are better than nothing. When they really commit a big crime, they will really send out the Transcendent troops to hunt them down.

In fact, this is a kind of compromise and tacit understanding. As long as you have the self-awareness of being a mouse, keep a low profile and don’t mess around, then the kingdom will treat you and the crimes you have committed do not exist.

After all, if the extraordinary person jumps over the wall, the threat is too great... and if he really kills him, it will only leave a new nightmare.

But in winter it is different.

Especially in the turbulent winter, when the Grand Duke of Winter was nervous, the blizzard would also minimize the adverse effects of the death of the superhuman. Moreover, the population density of the Principality of Winter in winter was much smaller than that of Noah Kingdom.

So they won't make any compromises.

The Hand of Winter is a special operations unit responsible for chasing down the extraordinary.

Even if an extraordinary person kidnaps ordinary people as hostages, Winter's Hand will never make any kind of compromise. Even if the extraordinary kidnapped the nobles and even the members of the Winter family, the hand of winter would completely ignore the safety of the hostages and kill them mercilessly.

The Hand of Winter relies on this ruthless style of behavior, which has absolutely no exceptions and does not accept any negotiations, in order to maintain the stability of the Principality of Winter.

According to Annan's understanding, the Grand Duke of Winter in this generation... is also Annan's father, Ivan Winter. When he was only a teenager, he was kidnapped once:

It was a group of seven supernatural beings. There are four silver, one gold, one bronze...and even a ritualist.

They kidnapped Ivan, and Ivan's younger brother, of course, they couldn't be asking for money.

Their purpose was to force the then Archduke Yuri Winter to release a political prisoner.

The specific background and name of the political prisoner were vague in the information brought by Salvatore, but Annan did not find out. All I know is that he is also from Winter, or even a nobleman, and was later locked up as a political prisoner.

But even when his two sons were kidnapped... Grand Duke Yuri did not compromise with the kidnappers.

Grand Duke Yuri sent troops to surround the target and negotiated for two days and three nights. And at the end, when the kidnapper's patience was about to run out... The Winter's Hand troops broke in and struck it with lightning, killing six people and taking one prisoner.

But in this unsuccessful rescue, Ivan's younger brother unfortunately died.

And the person in charge of this operation is Merlin.

But not only was he not held accountable for his failure to rescue, but he was credited for his decisive actions, successfully capturing one person, and interrogating the conspiracy behind it.

According to Annan's understanding in Nightmare: The White Tower, Merlin should have retired due to a leg injury five years ago. At the beginning, Annan thought that Merlin was really dumb... It was not until the end of the White Tower that Annan saw that Merlin had a tongue.

As for the general Hand of Winter, their tongues will be cut off when they retire. Those information are like mysterious knowledge, which cannot be written down after being encrypted. It can only be delivered by speech a limited number of times.

So cutting off the tongue is the best way to deal with it.

But from now on... Merlin should have been licensed and still retains the ability to speak.

He could even gain the trust of Archduke Ivan to protect Annan and Dmitry from going to Noah.

Did Archduke Ivan have no feelings for his brother?

With reference to Dmitry's case, this is unlikely.

Annan speculates that this is because Archduke Ivan has high trust in Merlin.

Why, in the end, is an incapacitated wizard of the silver rank... so trusted by the archduke?

The Principality of Winter is not without talents of the golden rank. And there are several more.

But this time, among the escorts who followed Dmitri and the others to Noah's escort by subway, the highest-ranking Transcendent was Merlin.

It's a pity that Annan didn't see Merlin's full strength in the White Tower...

He decrypted it too quickly.

Annan doesn't even know what Merlin's spell is now.

Presumably Dmitry and the original Annan should know something.

Annan vaguely realized that if this nightmare cannot be successfully conquered by his own strength... he must find some way to borrow Merlin's strength.

But how can he get Merlin's assistance without revealing his identity? How much power does Merlin possess?

Many thoughts flashed through Annan's mind.

He quickly had some calculations.

He stood up and nodded silently.

Annan gave Kaphne a look, signaling her to stay here.

Kafney looked at Annan seriously and said she understood.

She knows what Annan is going to do this time

Three minutes ago, Annan said to Kaphne:

"I need to go to those six places. But I can't get rid of Merlin's stalking...I need your help."

"...?"

Kaphne tilted her head silently.

She didn't know exactly what kind of help Annan needed.

But after that, Annan explained his plan to Kafney:

He needs Kaphne to take him into a private room with a secret passage. Then Annan will go out from the other end of the secret passage. During this time, Kaphne needs to pretend that Annan is still in the room.

until Annan came back.

And this kind of private space is easy to find.

Kaphne is also somewhat of a princess.

Her own room suffices for all of the above.

Annan was a little worried whether Kaphne could understand his plan as a child...

Another concern is... As a stranger of the opposite sex, Kaphne will be willing to bring Annan into her room?

But Kaphne hesitated and finally agreed.

So the rest of the problem is Annan's.

Annan got up, straightened his clothes, and followed old Merlin to Dmitry.

He asked his brother Dmitri to take a leave of absence.

Let him know... that he is going to a more private place with Kaphne; and convince him that he does not need Merlin to follow.

... It seems that it is not very simple.