Chapter 1201: Section 733: Choice (1)_2
The list has gone missing.
Meanwhile, the first casualty among the middle management emerged; Carter Robinson’s friend from the same village, Kaldor Redon, was dead, killed by three shots fired by a drunkard.
Within the next twelve hours, nearly half of the people on the list met untimely deaths. Antoine decided to withdraw from Copenhagen overnight, and on the way south, he, Eric Wood, Todd Spencer, and Pinto Olsson were ambushed.
The ambushers were the Paladins of the Church of Justice, aiming at Todd Spencer, who was accused of being a Wizard. The Paladins intended to capture him. Todd prepared to sacrifice himself to let his two old friends leave, but when he surrendered, a bullet flew from somewhere and killed one of the Paladin’s Attendants. Both sides said they didn’t hear the gunshots, but it was later proved that the bullet that killed the Attendant differed from those of Antoine’s men. Both sides made mistakes in judgment over the night — Antoine’s men thought these Paladins were imposters sent to assassinate them, while the Paladins thought Todd’s surrender was fake.
In the brief gunfight that followed, Todd Spencer, standing in front, was shot seventeen times and killed.
Antoine was shot seven times and ultimately died despite rescue efforts.
Eric Wood took only one bullet, but since it hit his forehead, he naturally died.
Pinto Olsson, shot nine times, miraculously survived, but was later poisoned during treatment at the Benevolent Hospital.
At this point, the Church of Justice realized something was wrong. Facing the arrival of old Francis, the Bishop of the Church of Justice publicly declared this to be a vast conspiracy against the Church of Justice and the Northern ideology—old Francis, having heard the ins and outs of the event, no longer returned to the Harvest Church, instead choosing to reside directly at the Church of Justice.
His choice proved wise; the next morning, it was verified that robbers broke into old Francis’s home, killing two old servants and four adopted sons, leaving the place completely ransacked.
By now, the Svenson family twins, who returned overnight, stopped their plan to enter the city and directly went to the Sogn military camp, where soldiers leaning towards the Northern ideology shielded them.