On October 10, the new dungeon was launched.

This fact was announced in the 67th issue of Bignius the day before, and every student today is looking forward to it.

The new dungeon is called "Song of Victoria", which may sound confusing at first, but anyone who has participated in the closed beta knows that "Victoria" means "victory" in the Europa language.

In other words, this dungeon is called "Song of Victory", and as for whose victory it is, and for whom it is sung...... None of this issue is known.

……

When the crowd arrives in Seraf, Samuel begins to count the people, only to be surprised to find that there is one missing.

Seems to be the guy named Curran?

It seems that I haven't seen him for a while since the end of the closed beta, but Samuel was not in a good mood during that time, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

He hesitated for a moment, didn't think much about it, and went straight in with someone.

On the other hand, Philo also reassembled his staff.

Compared with Samuel, who is only one person less, his team has at least ten familiar faces this time, except for Roy and Dereis, who are already in an employment relationship and did not join this time, several other people were also deeply affected by the death of Roland Knight in the closed beta, so they quit the team and said that they would not join the team again.

Philo can probably understand their feelings, maybe the original intention of this group of people to become the Lone Ranger is precisely because they don't want to experience this difference, the bond is a difficult process from establishment to abandonment, the former means opening up, and the latter means being hurt, especially the more you invest, the deeper the damage in the end.

Fortunately, with the dual noble status of the internal tester and the third prince, Fei Luo quickly recruited a group of people, although the quality of them is really not as good as the previous group of people, but it is also acceptable.

Because the dungeon is an MMORPG this time, a group of people are assigned to a large moon room before logging in, which can be used as a meeting room or breakout room. After Fello had roughly described the problem they were about to encounter, the group lay down in the game compartment and connected with it.

……

When the darkness in front of everyone's eyes was replaced by light, the first few people who entered were busy opening their eyes and observing this long-awaited world.

They were standing in a huge square, the size of at least four squares of truth as far as the eye could see.

At the end of the field of vision were patrol guards in bright silver armor and spears, their footsteps crisp and neat, coming from afar, like thunder. The tremors also disturbed the white doves in the square, and the sound of flapping wings rang in the ears.

The sky was blue, and the bright sunlight hit me, glaring, but not scorching. There was a slight cacophony all around, mixed with the cooing of pigeons and the flapping of their wings, and countless newborns opened their eyes and stared at everything around them.

Grand and bright, solemn and solemn.

It's a word they can think of.

Close at hand is a huge marble statue, a slender male with a double wielding on his back, holding a spear aloft and making a forward strike, each stroke of the white wings outlined as if it were real, and faintly emitted a soft light.

Shock, incomparable shock, for a while no one in the team spoke.

Until—

"Fuck it, I have a bad premonition."

Until someone explodes foul.

Many first-time students were frightened and hurriedly searched for prestige, only to find that the expressions of a group of people at this time were more ugly than crying, and the swear words were coming from one of the angry guys.

They...... Why get angry?

"Hell...... Isn't this a Protestant guardian angel? Someone in there immediately exclaimed.

"Do they ......?"

"Wait, we're not ......"

"Caroline, this is Caroline."

Philo muttered, his voice as if it had lost its strength.

"That's right...... This is Caroline ......."

He leaned down and stroked the words on the base of the sculpture.

"Holy Caroline Empire - Guardian Angel of the Twelve Holy Angels - His Excellency Saint Laurent"

"This is Caroline......"

Philo struggled to his feet, his eyes wandering off the statue in front of him, his voice trembling slightly with his body.

"I don't believe it...... Fake, it's all fake! ”

One of the people in the team suddenly lost control, rushed out as if frantically, grabbed a pedestrian closest to him and asked, "Tell me, tell me where this is, where is this?" ”

The passer-by was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, but still trembled and replied:

"It's Caroline, it's Caroline, the Divine King......"

"Damn, what does it mean to be sacred? Caroline is good, why add bullshit to the front? ”

"Meaning, meaning that we are the people of the Holy Carolingian Empire......"

The man let go and let the passers-by flee, while he fell to his knees until the guards pointed their spears at their heads.

"...... of the Holy Roman Empire"

"Holy See ......"

"Fuck the Holy See!!"

One by one, Fall's old men knelt on the ground, weeping silently.

The new team members were all at a loss, watching their companions being dragged away by the guards one after another, and they had no will to resist......

……

On the other side, Samuel sat in a Protestant temple with a blushing face.

Oh, and they are now called the "Holy Curia", that is, the original Holy See and Protestantism are one, and the dispute between the two religions was only a superficial gesture to unify the faith on the continent: in the name of war, the kingdoms invaded each other, fought against each other, and when the Knights Templar were almost weakened, the process was about the same.

The one who made tea for Samuel was a cardinal. When Samuel and his party first entered the Caroline, the reaction was no different from that of the three princes, so they also recruited guards. But the difference between the two is that Samuel burned the guards to charred with magic in a moment of fire - as if for this reason, they were not captured, but "invited" back by the Holy See......

The so-called stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, although he hated the Holy See, but the other party treated him so politely, he still temporarily suppressed his anger and wanted to hear what the other party planned to do.

In the ensuing conversation, Samuel learns that it is the year 446 of the Holy Calendar, the 446th year after the Holy See unified the continent of Europa.

Similarly, the continent before the first year of the Divine was also in troubled times, and there were also names such as Caroline, Garros, Pompeii, and Uruk, which he was familiar with...... But the difference is that the direction and outcome of that period of history are far from what he knew.

There is even a sense of absurdity.

In the bishop's account, Garros, Pompeii, and Uruk are apostasy heretics, not subjects of the Holy See. And the holy Carolingians are the most devout believers of the Holy See. The Three Kingdoms rebelled from the Church, in order to guide the confused human race and reduce the killing, the omnipotent God sent twelve angels to the world as holy knights, assisting the people chosen by God to exterminate these heresies and unify the continent.

Samuel thought that the "chosen one" was Charlemagne, but this was not the case.

In the bishop's mouth, the Chosen One was a man he had never heard of, and Charlemagne was—but the king turned out to be a thief, a filthy thief.

One day, Charlemagne sneaked into the Chosen One's bedroom and tried to steal something, and was caught by mistake, and he should have been hanged according to the law, but the Chosen One was a magnanimous man, forgave him for his guilt, and because they were both of the same physique and appearance, he took him in as his own stand-in, and confused those who tried to assassinate him, and in order to survive, Charlemagne readily agreed, and there were only twelve angels who knew about it except for the person concerned.

In the years that followed, with the help of twelve angels, or Holy Knights, the Chosen One defeated the stubborn heresies one by one, and succeeded in allowing the blessings of the gods to shine once again on the entire continent, thus establishing the Kingdom of Divine Caroline.

But in the last battle, something happened suddenly.

The insidious and cunning thief Charlemagne is not willing to be a stand-in for the rest of his life, so he takes advantage of the trust of the Chosen One, poisons the food and kills the other party, and takes the magpie's nest himself, and sends the wrong orders to the front line. In the final battle, the soldiers failed to rescue the twelve paladins as agreed, resulting in them being besieged by an army ten times their size, and finally killed in battle, and at the cost of their deaths, Carolin's army drove straight into the field and destroyed the last resistance.

Since then, no one in this world has been able to fight Caroline, and there is no one who knows Charlemagne's identity and "stand-in", Charlemagne's stand-in successfully sat on the throne in place of the Chosen One, thus freeing his hands and feet to carry out his plan.

Over the years, he has also learned a lot of strategies and knowledge by the side of the Chosen One, and he has actually governed the kingdom with a nose and an eye. Over time, he cleaned up the mess of Europa and established the Holy Carolingian Empire, which unified the continent, with the intention of being crowned emperor.

However, at the very moment when he put on the crown for himself, the all-knowing God sent down divine punishment, and the evil thief was destroyed in plain sight, and the people of the Carolingian Empire were saved from deception—the first year of the Sacred Calendar.

After listening to this series of stories, Rao is a little difficult to accept a dark person like Samuel.

He could not tolerate Charlemagne, the king he admired, being called "dirty" Charlemagne and branded as a thief and a clown......

But there was nothing he could do.

The cardinal's eyebrows fluttered, his mouth fluttered, and the indescribable excitement on his face in the midst of the narration he had just told that he genuinely loved and trusted this history—history, not stories. As a member of the Holy See, he believes in the gods and has the same sense of honor, which is why he is so excited.

If this is also made up temporarily, then the person in front of you is too into the play, isn't it......

This knocked Samuel from the side, don't try to subvert the other person's cognition, the truth he knows is now an out-and-out lie, even a blasphemous cult.

After a moment's thought, he swallowed his unhappiness.

Forget it, the past is gone anyway, and there is no point in shouting injustice for the dead, he comforted himself.

The bishop looked at him with a smile and an indescribable deference in his eyes.

Samuel probably knew why, because of magic. As early as the closed beta, he had discovered that no one on the continent of Europa could use spells - except for the elusive Merlin. The other party's current fawning is probably because of the wonderful spells he has used.

Seeing the other party's indifferent expression, the bishop smiled and said, "Your Excellency Samuel, you must be the legendary 'hidden monk', right?" ”

Samuel frowned slightly, not sure how to answer, but his reaction seemed to the other party to be just the annoyance that his identity was seen through.

"Huh...... When the twelve paladins assisted the Chosen One, they also received help from the hermits. They are said to have the ability to change the weather, manipulating fire, water, and air! On the border of the Imperial provinces of Garros, Pompeii and Uruk, there is the famous Xiongguan 'Wall of Sighs', which is the wall of miracles built by hermits in a month! It was that battle that laid the foundation for the victory of the Chosen One! But after that, the hermits disappeared until your reappearance today......"

The bishop looked at him, his eyes lit up.

Samuel laughed dryly, and he became more and more convinced that this history was completely off, but he was still in this unrecognizable situation...... This was something Samuel hadn't thought about.

A mage is equal to a monk who is not in the world...... It's a funny joke.

Seeing him like this, the bishop was even more convinced of what he was thinking.

"Your Excellency's reappearance of the royal capital this time, is it also for that legend......

"Huh?" Samuel raised his eyebrows, his heart was extremely surprised, but on the surface, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked.

"What do you say?" He smiled.

……

……

"Legends?"

Desmond screamed, his feet straining, and the jailer screamed in pain.

He was being trampled under Desmond's feet, his chest and cheek pressed to the ground, one hand bent behind his back at an uncanny angle.

After the group of lost souls were caught by the guards, they had only now come to their senses, how could a small cell for petty offenders trap them, so they immediately escaped. When the members of the team finally arrived, they only had time to see the jailer being interrogated.

"Yes, legend...... Legend has it that Charlemagne the filthy thief - ahh......h

"You say it again? Who is the dirty thief? ”

"Check—ouch, ouch, no, it's not him! Your Excellency Charlemagne, Lord Charlemagne, Your Majesty Charlemagne! He, he was ...... by God No, it was killed! Before he was killed, he left behind a treasure that is said to have collected all the riches of the Four Kingdoms, and those who possess it can cover the entire continent with gold coins! Subvert the Holy Caroline Empire today! Become the richest man in the world! ”

Hearing this, Philo threw down the book in his hand. This is what he had just found from the guard, and it was a copy of the General History of Caroling. It wasn't detailed, but it was enough for him to understand the whole story.

He was already familiar with the various elements of the dungeon, of course, he understood that this kind of prop was set up to better obtain information for their group, which was one of the so-called "beginner tutorials".

"What about the present king? What did he think of this treasure? Fello asked, in a calm tone, not at all angry, but as calm as before the storm.

The guard was speechless in pain, and Fello motioned for Desmond to move his foot away.

"Say it now."

"Yes......"

The guards snorted and chirped to their feet, not daring to slack off in the slightest. He could see that although the guy in front of him who could make up his mind had a kind face, he was as depressed as a volcano before the eruption.

It turns out that the current Emperor Edward II and Pope Camatius have left the royal capital to search for the so-called "treasures" in various parts of the empire, and they want to find the treasures before people with ulterior motives to eliminate hidden dangers, after all, although the divine power of this era is above the imperial power, the two are still interdependent.

However, there is some gossip about the legend...... For example, some people say that it is related to the mysterious disappearance of the sorcerer Merlin, who tricked the filthy Charlemagne into assassinating the Chosen One and thus stealing the fruits of the victory of the Holy Knights. Therefore, as long as you find him, you will also find the so-called treasure.

"Merlin the Sorcerer...... Dirty Charlemagne ......"

Philo whispered the two names before he sighed for a long time.

"I know why it's called 'Song of Victoria', it's an epic written by the victors. And the victors, not us, are the Holy See. ”