"Who is it?" Brando asked.

"A Cruz man, who said he was looking for us, was being hunted down when we met this guy, and we rescued him from the cultists." Charles said as he beckoned behind him, and the bushes rattled as a ragged young man stepped out of it. The latter's face was pale and frightened, and his gray-blue eyes turned slightly with a hint of vigilance, and finally landed on Brando.

Brando felt a little familiar at first sight when he saw the latter, and then remembered that he had met each other before, near the Cat and Beard Hotel, and seeing him and the waiter girl in the inn walking very closely, he thought that the two should be lovers.

He remembered that the two of them should have gone out together, but at this moment the latter was the only one who came back, presumably something had happened.

It's just that there is chaos in the city right now, and it's not surprising that anything happens, but the girl named Seti is a kind and easy girl, he frowned, and subconsciously didn't want anything to happen to the other party, if something went wrong at this time, I was afraid that even he wouldn't be able to help the other party.

He thought for a moment before asking, "What's wrong, is something wrong?" ”

Although the young man named Arka was down, his thinking was quite clear, and he said, "My lord, please help us, those secret cultists want to use Seti against you. ”

± Brando immediately became alert: "What do you mean, what's going on?" ”

Arka then repeated in his own words what he had heard the conversation between the Esoteric Cultists. Brando noticed that the young man's language skills were quite outstanding, and he described the whole incident in just a few sentences, but then he was furious, and he didn't want to provoke the other party, but he didn't expect these damn hidden guys to come to the door.

He was worried for a while, but then he thought that Roman still had a white mist beside him. I put my mind at ease a little, that girl was just an ordinary person anyway, and the white mist was the spirit of the witch queen at the beginning, and the chance of poisoning it in front of it was too slim, and those shepherds obviously didn't expect this.

Only then did he take his worries into his heart. Then he noticed the suspicion in the young man's words, but before he could speak, Charles on the side spoke his mind first.

"These guys are really killing themselves." After hearing this, Charles also frowned: "Fortunately, there is a white mist around Miss Roman, otherwise the consequences are really unimaginable, but the relationship between the lord and Miss Roman, how did they know so clearly?" ”

Arka was worried about Seti, but he also understood that both he and Seti were responsible for this matter, and he showed a slightly hesitant look on his face, and finally replied, "I'm sorry." This is my ...... with Seti to tell them The secret has a lot of eyeliner in Rushitta, most of them ordinary people like us, but we only tell them about some of the guests in the inn, but we don't know the young lady...... It's your fiancée. ”

At this time, the old Niedwin, who was watching from the sidelines, suddenly spoke: "There is no doubt that the only person who can clearly know your identity should be the person around Her Majesty the Queen, and the only person who has the motive to instruct the cultists to do such a thing is the person next to Her Majesty the Queen, it seems that our previous guess is correct." ”

"What speculation?" Charles hadn't experienced the previous discussion, and he couldn't help but be confused when he heard this.

"It's the Dragon Queen." Medisa walked over and replied. Then he carefully explained to the latter the speculation of the old Prime Minister Nedwin.

The young wizard squire couldn't help but show a rather surprised expression after hearing this, and he thought for a moment before he spoke, "It's actually the baby girl from the beginning?" ”

"What did you say?" Brando immediately looked at Charles.

Charles patted his forehead: "I seem to have remembered a lot of things all of a sudden. Remember the last time you asked me about Miss Antitina's father in Pragues, and I suddenly remembered that I had been looking for something like them. ”

"What's that?"

"You're Mr. Charles?" Brando asked at the same time as the old chancellor, but the latter was obviously much more confused, and he looked at Charles closely, "Why are you still like this...... Young? ”

Charles didn't answer the question, but continued, "Maybe it's the answer to a question, and it's like a few words of clues scattered around my head. I often remember what I was looking for in the Arka region, but I didn't have a systematic answer, like a dream that had become fragmented after a long sleep. ”

"What's that?"

"What I remember is not the same as what Mr. Tulaman had said, but I remember that your grandfather and Her Highness the Princess had brought back a baby girl, who was wrapped in a bright amber. That night, only me, Heppard, and Pamid witnessed it—yes, Heppard was Miss Antitina's father. ”

"What happened then?" Old Nedwin's voice trembled a little, like a puzzle that had been pursued for decades, and finally when the mystery was about to be revealed, it had nothing to do with the Queen, the Empire, or even the truth itself, and the old man was haunted by the mystery itself, which was made up of countless complex knots.

Brando pursed his lips as well, the puzzle that had also bothered him for a long time.

"I remember that Her Royal Highness was not in a very good condition at that time-oh, that is, today's Queen, she looked very weak and not very stable, she avoided us, and consulted with your grandfather secretly for a long time, and at last your grandfather brought the baby girl out, and asked us to find a reliable person to send her away, and asked us to keep it a secret for this."

"His Majesty was in a very bad state at the time, how was it bad, with obvious external injuries?" Old Nedwin asked.

"No, no, but she looked very weak, like a serious illness, and her mental state was very unstable, and I remember that she was against taking the baby girl away for a while, and sometimes she was sobbing in a low voice, and it seemed to be very helpless, of course, this is my personal judgment."

"What about Mr. Darus?"

Mr. Darus's face looked heavy.

"Was that before or after?"

"Before what, after what?"

"Before or after His Majesty enters the final battlefield?" Old Nedwin asked aloud.

Charles glanced at the former Prime Minister of the Empire with some strange glances, and replied, "Of course, after that, they brought the baby girl out of there. ”

"Until then, what was the condition of His Majesty?"

"Good, there's nothing wrong with that."

Old Nedwin took a breath. He looked a little hesitant.

The others were far away, not understanding what was going on here, thinking they were arguing, and the sound of the quarrel came far away, and in the distance there were a few wild dogs wandering at the edge of the forest, after they saw the crowd on this side. Avoided with his tail between his legs.

Someone saw a fire in the direction of Rushitta, and the stars reflected the dark night sky in dots.

The air smelled dry and burnt.

"Are you sure the baby girl is wrapped in amber, Charles?" Brando asked.

Charles nodded.

"And after that?"

"We have found a reliable person in the coalition, your father's fiancée, Princess Gloria, who was then an envoy to the Eruin side of the coalition, and entrusted her to bring the baby girl back to Eruin overnight."

"Later, have you seen her?"

"Later, when I returned to Erouin, I saw her once, about three years after the Holy War, in a small town near Jean Denel."

"Where's the baby girl?"

Charles shook his head, "I didn't ask. She didn't say anything either, I only asked her a few things about your grandfather. ”

"Something about my grandfather."

"Yes, on the fourth day after we sent the baby girl away, the Buga and the dragon arrived, and Her Highness was very cold, and she described it in a very different way than what had happened, which meant that your grandfather had to take the blame for her. The three of us who we know are very incomprehensible about this, and we have asked your grandfather about this. But he was reluctant to say more about what came later. You know it all......"

The young wizard squire sighed, "In the decades that followed, all three of us have been searching for the answer to this question, and now it seems that the closest to the truth should be Heppard, but unfortunately he died too soon. ”

Brando gave him a deep look and replied, "Maybe you are too, Charles." ”

Charles was slightly stunned. Then he reacted: "Perhaps, my lord. ”

Brando looked at the old prime minister on the side, and the old man's face was a mixture of dazed and thoughtful expressions. "I felt like I had caught something, but I always felt like I was still covered with a layer of window paper, which was a really uncomfortable feeling." The latter couldn't help but shake his head and replied.

"Whatever the truth is. We'll all have to go on our way, and maybe meeting Her Majesty the Queen will answer that last question in our hearts—"

He glanced at the burning city of Rusta and gently closed the table of his pocket watch.

At this time, Alka, who had been staring at little Niedwin next to old Niedwin, suddenly said cautiously: "You are the Prime Minister?" ”

Little Niedwin was slightly stunned, there were few people around his father who would call him that, but when he saw the latter, he immediately understood that there were not many people in the entire empire who could associate himself with the title of Imperial Prime Minister, but in Rustad and the suburbs, there were still many people who could recognize him.

He nodded silently.

Arka couldn't help but glance at the others present, he didn't recognize many of these noble lords, and originally thought it was just Brando's noble squire, but the appearance of Little Niedwin obviously subverted his opinion.

When his gaze fell on the elder Niedwin, he couldn't help but become more complicated, he could hardly be sure that the old man had been in the empire for many years, but after the death of Grantody the Great he had lived in seclusion for decades, and if it weren't for the fact that he still had a slight resemblance to the little Niedwin, Arka couldn't believe that he was the legendary man in front of him.

Convinced of this, he looked at Brando with a completely different look in his eyes.

"Your Excellency." He bowed his head cautiously and spoke respectfully.

Brando glanced at him, although the actions of the young man and the girl might cause him trouble, he knew that the little man could not help himself, not to mention that Setti's brother did die on the battlefield of Ampesel, although he did not start the war, but this could not be blamed on the girl.

Perhaps this was the biggest mistake of the Temple and Her Majesty, who invisibly changed the fate of many people without ever feeling guilty about it.

Such arrogance has been ingrained in the hearts of the nobility for hundreds of years.

He replied, "Don't worry, there are ten measured people in the White Mist, and Seti is just an ordinary person, and it won't do anything to her." ”

Arka didn't know who White Mist was, but he was reassured by such a nobleman, and he looked at little Nydwin and the old prime minister, and he had to put his mind at ease - not to mention that the nobleman's subordinates had saved his life.

He was silent for a moment before he said, "My lord, if you want to enter the city, I may know of a secret passage that will allow you to enter the inner city. ”

"Secret passage?"

Brando was stunned.

"The tunnels built by the nobles of the inner city, the clergy of the secret order bought these nobles, and I happened to know by chance where the exit to one of the secret passages was?" Alka replied.

Brando, however, was not very interested in the secret passage itself, and only asked, "Is the secret passage guarded by cultists—the secret cultists you are talking about?" ”

"Yes, but there aren't many people on weekdays, and the secret passage is very remote, and the entrance is not large, so it belongs to the alternate passage of the priests," he looked at the others present and silently calculated, "But I think it should be enough to use it to pass through Lord Guò's men." ”

"So the cultists prepared these secret passages to pass through many people?"

Arka was stunned, obviously Brando's way of asking questions was somewhat unexpected, but he was a smart young man, and immediately realized what the problem was, and replied with a frown, "I don't know, but I think it should be." ”

"You said you know where one of the secret passages is, so how good is it?" Brando asked again.

"Not much, but there should be more than two or three."

Old Nedwin listened to the conversation between the two, and then his eyes flashed: "The inner city is dangerous." ”

"This is our chance." Little Niedwin on the side looked a little excited: "Her Majesty the Queen is too arrogant, maybe the dragon queen Gwendoline has deceived her, and the shepherd must have prepared early." ”

"The problem is that we don't know exactly what she's trying to do."

"There's no need to know." Brando replied softly, "We don't go through secret passages. ”

"Don't take the secret passage?" Arka really didn't understand what the nobleman was thinking.

Brando, however, had a chill on his face, and replied coldly, "Before we meet Her Majesty, let's go collect the debt—"

…… (To be continued......)