July 19, 1501, the month of the scorching sun.

At this time, the capital of the Empire, the holy city of Kailandil, has passed nine years since the day of the attack and attack of the Destruction Wing Black Dragon Ildelai, and in these nine years, the world has changed too much.

Prince Keith, who was a child back then, has now become the emperor of the empire, Keith the Great.

However, the summer festival is held on July 20 every year, and it has been a custom in the Delman Empire for many years to commemorate the once glorious Emperor Theodon.

Today is the day before this year's summer celebrations, and the Empress Dowager is forty-one years old, but she is still as beautiful as ever, as if the years have really not left any marks on her face.

She was alone, in a garden in the palace, looking at the scenery in the garden and the starry sky in the north, and fell into a deep sadness.

The emotions were like a flood, and the sudden attack on the defense line in her heart made Dai Lina cry alone.

Today's empire is really stormy, like this broken drum, everyone has to hammer it, this big empire, Dai Lina doesn't even have a trusted person.

Emperor Keith has now grown into an adult, but he has become extremely brutal, and Dalena has been placed under house arrest by him, and his atrocities Dalena has only heard of a little.

But there is no way, Dalena can't control Emperor Keith, he has the support of the chief magic advisor behind him, everyone who resists him is dead, Alonso is also loyal to Emperor Keith, although he is dissatisfied with the emperor's atrocities but can only obey.

At the beginning of May, the Empire received news that Port Prin had been sacked and ransacked, and that the barbarians from the north had bypassed Kailandil and marched south to ransack the richest part of the Empire.

At that time, when the army sent to support saw the city, it was a scene they will never forget for the rest of their lives, full of dead bodies, stumps, naked dead women, burning houses, the stench of corpses, gnawing crows, making this place a scene of hell on earth, and the once attached port of Purin no longer exists, just a ghost town.

When they found the body of old Dreg, who had been executed by the Blood Eagle, they could imagine how much he had suffered.

This is the city of sorrow, and this is hell on earth.

Fortunately, not all the people here are dead, and there are still many Delmans alive around a large hotel in the west of the city, but it is being ruled by a dark-skinned young man.

The Empire's powerful intelligence agencies could not find out where this man came from, but given that he could protect his people, he still acquiesced in what he did.

After all, people are still needed for the next reconstruction work, and it would be nice if the young man could manage these people and let them join in the reconstruction work.

At that time, the news was brought back by a bishop of a local order, and it was the Pope himself who came to tell Emperor Cais.

When the little emperor heard this, he was furious, and immediately ordered Blackstone Fort to counterattack the Norsland Kingdom, although the empire has not recognized the legitimacy of the Norsland Kingdom until now, but it has to face up to the strength of the Norsland Kingdom.

At that time, Marshal Alonso tried hard to persuade him, and also sent an army to the north to attack the Kingdom of Norsland, but in the end he did not return, and Emperor Keith had no choice but to give up.

At this time, some religious fanatics declared that they would eradicate all pagans, and that anyone who did not believe in the seven gods was an enemy of the gods, and they were arresting people in the city, especially witches who knew magic.

At the same time, in addition to the rebellion that had been suppressed by Alonso, there was also a group of nature worshippers in the city, who compared nature to gods, and the followers of the believers were peace-loving ordinary people, who also secretly formed their own armies.

For a time, the dark tide under the empire was surging, and many forces were eyeing the dying empire.

These days, the palace belongs to the room of the chief magic advisor Molz.

This room is large, and it can be regarded as a separate palace, which is for Molz's private space.

This room is actually a tower to be exact, with six floors.

Morz lived on the top floor, where he worked on the third or fourth floor, and where he had his private library and alchemical research, on the fifth floor.

On the floor where he lived, a transparent stone ball was placed on a standing stone pillar. At this time, Morz was alone here, looking at the stone ball, which he had worked so hard to get.

This stone ball doesn't look special, it's similar to an ordinary stone ball, it can only be said to be smoother.

However, when Morz's hand was lifted, the stone ball instantly turned pale blue, and the light like a pale blue flame refracted an image on the transparent stone ball.

It turned out that Morz could see some images through the stone ball, and these images were actually what was happening in a corner of the continent at this moment.

The chief magic advisor, Morz, wore a large black magic robe and injected magic into the stone ball, which instantly turned pale blue.

Through the stone ball, Morz saw that, at this moment, in the depths of the Basilica of San Antonio. Several torturers are interrogating an unclothed witch who is abusing her incessantly.

These religious fanatics seem to be asking about the whereabouts of the captured witch, her companions. The woman might not have been a witch, she was terrified, but she seemed to really don't know the whereabouts of the people the torturers were asking about, and she trembled with fear.

But the torturers did not relent, and continued to torture the woman. Finally, two tall, muscular, masked men walked into the chamber, and a heart-rending scream erupted from the chamber.

Seeing this, Morz smiled slightly, just as he expected, this group of people of the Order was indeed attacking the people of the Witches' Council.

This witch council, ordinary people don't know much, and even many people don't know about the existence of this organization. But not only has this organization always existed, but it has existed much longer than the history of the Empire.

Even Theodon's achievements are inseparable from the witches' council. Therefore, as the secrets of the Empire, it is impossible for ordinary people to know these things, and only the upper echelons of the Empire can touch them.

It was also from the bottom that Molz climbed all the way to his current position that he touched the secrets of these empires. For these, Morz is more of an outsider watching the play.

He wanted to see what the Order's men were going to do.