Chapter 279: Suspicion
At the moment when the three unlucky ones re-ignited the station's locator beacon from the trade square in Ensdinger, Alahan, who was far away in the camp in the Kaigistan desert, immediately received a message that the beacon had been reactivated.
He immediately began the final step of his plan, in which a group of cultists of the True God Cult disguised themselves as refugees from Kegistan and infiltrated the three large cities of Kartim, Kusa, and Noenor, which were already crowded with refugees from all over Kaigistan, using illusions and makeup.
These cultists of the True God Cult are mixed with several Priest Ranks, that is, Cultists above level 75, who hold the most important thing in the project - the "Portal Cornerstone".
The cultists' sole mission is to send these portal cornerstones into the center of the sewer systems of the three great cities, where they can be activated, open the portals, and release the beasts of Endinger from its prison.
And the royal city of Kaltim will be led by Alahan himself to complete the task.
At the same time, in order to cooperate with their plan, Beria, the king of lies, also specially used his other identity, Hakan II, to issue a decree, requiring the city guards in the three large cities and the kingdom troops stationed outside the city to immediately carry out a strict self-examination, and must not allow the cultists of the True God Cult to infiltrate the army and the city guards, so as not to "incite riots" again.
Due to the wide scope of this self-examination, and the fact that the investigation was also very detailed at the request of Hakan II, this would affect the interrogation of the refugees entering the city by the city guards and the professionals who cooperated with the city guards, so that the cultists of the True God Cult could infiltrate the city.
This was a very serious omission and drawback, and many of the courtiers in the Kingdom of Kegistan immediately noticed this shortcoming, and they tried to persuade the king to let him slow down the self-examination of the city guards, at least not to affect the examination of the refugees entering the city, but Beria, who was nearing the completion of his own plan, began to have less and less patience to continue to maintain the false identity of this "good king".
Therefore, he not only scolded the ministers who came to advise him very harshly, but also directly blasted them out of the palace very arrogantly and unreasonably.
Hakan II's sudden change of temper made the ministers who had been thrown out of the palace suspicious, and they each went back to investigate a little, and then were shocked to find that there was a lot of so-called "evidence" in the rumors that led to the recent riots that had nothing to do with the king.
For example, how exactly did the Foreign Secretary's whereabouts come out?
And the letter carried by the Foreign Secretary with the King's golden seal, the specific contents of which should have been top-secret information known only to His Majesty the King and the Foreign Secretary himself, how could it have leaked to the ears of the mob?
Even the sudden "recurrence of the king's old wounds" at that time is now full of suspicions, because although the court doctors have seen the king's serious injuries with their own eyes, none of them have really touched the very terrifying-looking wound.
His Majesty guided the medical officers throughout the consultation, and even the prescription of the medicine was described by him himself.
Also, if you think about it now, since His Majesty was injured by the assassination of the "True God Cult Assassin", the timing of his "recurrence of old injuries" has always been very "accurate".
The kingdom was in bed when the dragons were leaderless and needed the king to step forward and clean up the country.
King's Harbor was attacked by True God cultists, and when the council sought accountability, his old wounds recurred.
When Ensdinger was devastated, the entire country was destroyed by the evil rituals of the True God, and when the council summoned all the kings of the human kingdoms to discuss the issue of rescue, he said that he could not come out of his illness.
There were rumors in the country that the king was dead, and those with ulterior motives tried to make a big fuss about it to incite riots, and just when he needed to come forward to refute the rumors, his old wounds recurred.
Not long ago, the True God Cultist slaughtered four cities in a row, killing and injuring more than 100,000 people, until the three Guardians and the Elders of the Kaltim Mage Society worked together to protect the remaining three cities where the riot broke out and suppressed the riot, and his so-called "recurring old wounds" that seemed to kill him almost at any time suddenly healed again!
What followed was a large number of "letters to the people" that sounded deeply moving, but were of little practical meaning when carefully analyzed, and a "merciful trial" that seemed to be very sympathetic to the people, could not bear the suffering of the people, and would rather offend the nobles than continue to kill their own people.
Well, this "old wound" is really convenient to use, the troubles and bad things are done by others, and when it comes to the benefits and people's hearts, you will be "healed"?!
The more the ministers investigated, the more wrong they became, until finally they remembered the rumors they had heard from the council that their king was really dead long ago, and now this Hakan II was just an empty shell with a false appearance, and his real identity was Beria, the king of lies, one of the seven demon kings of hell!
It is said that this news came from Lord Xue, who has already spread great fame in the entire First World, and Mr. Dika Kane, who is known as a wise man and enjoys an excellent reputation in the entire human world.
When they heard the news at that time, they naturally scoffed, thinking that Kane was already old and confused, and the so-called "light of human hope" Xue Hua was just a hairy boy who didn't know the height of the sky.
Now, however, combined with the slight conclusions they have come to after careful investigation, when looking back at this rumor... These ministers suddenly felt a chill all over their bodies......
Once a person becomes suspicious of something, then he will soon be able to see more doubts from the matter.
For example, one of the ministers recalled that he happened to be at the scene when the king was "assassinated", but he watched the True God Sect assassin disguised as Xue Hua stab their king's left chest with a steel fork in his hand!
That's the left breast!
O heart!
Who was poked in the heart by a steel fork and could still live tenaciously for so long?
A professional may be able to be treated with medicine, but a child under the age of twelve is definitely not!
Not to mention, Hakan II had been notoriously weak before, how could he have been able to hold out until the paladins arrived to treat him after being poked through his entire left chest with a steel fork?
He didn't think much about it when he was there, and when he heard the doctors say that the king was very weak, he should be able to survive, and he only secretly praised God for bless my country.
But now that you think about it... This little king is a monster completely!
If it weren't for the fact that his heart actually grew on the right side, then his true identity would be really suspicious!
The more the ministers thought about it, the more frightened they became, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt a chill in their backs.
They immediately decided to report the matter to the three Guardians of Kartim City, hoping that the Guardians would contact the Council and help them find out who their king really was!