Elizabeth experienced the chaos in White Rock City, and after hearing the news from Alfred that the nobles led by her mother were heading to the palace in Desik, she hurried to the direction of the palace in the north of the city.

And just when she could see the palace tent from a distance, the black space had just been generated, and Elizabeth, who was the beloved disciple of the Grand Duke of Bazemore, could naturally recognize the dark magic of that space system and know its effectiveness. Elizabeth, who was anxious, lifted her dress and was about to cast a spell, and at that moment, a strong hand pressed on her shoulder.

Elizabeth, who hurriedly turned around, found that the person holding her behind her was none other than her magician, the younger brother of Emperor Desik, Archduke Bazemore.

"Teacher!" Elizabeth shouted in surprise.

"It's too late, Elizabeth, it's too late. Archduke Bazemore shook his head sadly.

"Teacher, aren't you one of theirs, aren't you the protector of some dark rise~, hurry up and stop them......" Elizabeth was anxious.

The Grand Duke of Bazemore, however, shook his head slightly, picked Elizabeth up and left the street.

Grand Duke Bazemore had a mansion in White Rock City, where he lived every time he returned to White Rock City. Far from the aristocratic district of White Rock City, it was quite quiet, and the great turmoil in the inner city did not break the tranquility here. Elizabeth sat in the room puffing up, completely ignoring the Archduke Bazemore. Before leaving, both of them felt the violent elemental fluctuations in the direction of the palace, and it seemed that those nobles of Desik had been completely wiped out by the people who had risen from darkness.

"Elizabeth, you know that I am the protector of the rise of darkness~, but you know why I am a member of them, you know, I am still the third prince of Desik. ”

Elizabeth shook her head, his teacher had never told her why.

"The story starts a hundred years ago. At that time, there was no Dark Rising, and my teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher, he and the earliest Patriarch of Dark Rising, were a pair of brothers, and their teacher was the head of the Ivan family, the local magician of the San Jose Empire. This is a magical family that has been passed down for many years, and their history dates back to the days of the Magic Empire.

Later, the family of the senior brother and teacher suffered a great change, and the Ivan family offended the royal family of San Jose for unknown reasons and was uprooted by the imperial army. The angry brothers and sisters have a huge conceptual gap about the way out in the future. The more irascible one organized the first rudiments of the Dark Rise in San Jose, while the milder one went to the Northland, unwilling to return to that sad place for the rest of his life.

And my teacher's teacher's teacher's teacher is the descendant of the frustrated Ivan family. So, to be precise, in terms of inheritance, I am the one who has risen from darkness. Therefore, for a hundred years, the position of the Northern Protector of the Dark Rise ~ has always been reserved for people of our department. It's just that, what is more special is that this department was inexplicably passed into my hands, and my teacher didn't know why, and accepted me as an apprentice with the status of Desik royalty.

So for the past few years, the people of the Rise of Darkness have been trying to contact me. Whether it is the head of the Black Dragon Society, Arthur, or the other protectors of the Dark Rise~, they have used many ways to contact me. My promise to them is not to interfere in all their activities and to remain neutral. ”

Looking at Elizabeth's innocent eyes, Archduke Bazemore asked with a smile, "Are you wondering why I would allow them to destroy our Desik Empire, after all, I am the Desik royal family." ”

Elizabeth nodded hurriedly.

"Then you say", Archduke Bazemore still did not say directly, "Prince Ferdinand and Edward VI, what is their relationship with me?"

"It's the teacher's brother!" Elizabeth didn't understand.

"They are all my brothers, but Edward colluded with Dark Rise and the Black Dragon Society to assassinate Ferdinand, should I settle this account with him?"

"That's ......," Elizabeth didn't know how to answer. Bazemore's question was so strange that after a long day of silence, Elizabeth had to change the question, "What does the rise of darkness have to do with the Black Dragon Society?"

"Well, it's going to start from the beginning of Dark Rising. ”

The original founder of the Dark Rising organization, Tanatos, when he first created the organization, he proposed the slogan of restoring the glory of magic, and such a slogan has considerable influence in the country of San Jose. After the fall of the Magic Empire, many ancient magical families in San Jose suddenly found a sense of belonging.

This sense of belonging is actually quite a subtle feeling. For these ancient magical families, their composition is complex, some are left over from the end of the Magic Empire era, they may be part of the rebels of the Empire, and some are magicians hidden from the people, such as Ivan the Elder, the ancestor of the Ivan family. So, in the beginning, many magicians became members of this organization, which at that time was still a relatively pure folk magic organization.

People on the mainland know that San José's attitude towards magic is actually quite ambivalent, on the one hand, they have to abide by the continental convention, and on the other hand, they also support the court magician, an official institution. In fact, the nobles of San Jose all understood that the court magicians were just the strength of San Jose's appearance, and their twenty or thirty magicians could not represent San Jose's magical strength at all.

Therefore, the folk of San Jose hid many "magical factors", and these factors contributed to the first expansion of the Dark Rising organization.

It is not accurate to say that the expansion is not accurate, Rise of Darkness did not recruit them into the core organization at all, and many people did not see the true face of the organization until they died. In the core leadership of the rise of darkness, the Patriarch, the Chief Magician, and the Four Protectors~, these people are basically passed down from the Tanatos lineage, of course, except for our Northern Protector ~ Dharma lineage. And except for us, the rest of them, all of them are good at space magic.

However, due to the development of the organization, relying on the mages of this department alone is no longer sufficient. Later, there were people from the periphery who began to enter the leadership of the Dark Rising, and the leaders of these organizations were contrary to Tanatos' original ideas in terms of ideology, consciousness, and purpose. The goal of Dark Rising has also changed, and the restoration of the glory of the Magic Empire era has been officially proposed after Mage Merlin became the Patriarch of Dark Rising.

However, in the course of this time, those who had different political ideas in the Rise of Darkness began to independently form an organization such as the Black Dragon Society. Although nominally part of Dark Rising, the Black Dragon Society actually has its own demands and purposes.

Of course, in the years of development, although the concepts are different, the two have the same root after all, and they will cooperate with each other in many things. At least on the surface, they are one. So when Merlin finally planned to carry out this conspiracy to dominate the continent, the head of the Black Dragon Society, Arthur, also said that he would fully cooperate. After a long discussion, the two agreed that Merlin would lead his men to take charge of the San Jose Empire, while the Black Dragon Society would be responsible for the unification of the Desik Empire.

"I understand that the goals of the Black Dragon Society are not the same as the Dark Rising, so their methods in Desik are also different. ”

"I can't say that exactly, they all do the same thing. Archduke Bazemore was a little upset, "It's all us Desiks who died." ”

"So what can we do now?White Rock City is already in such a mess, I don't think it will be okay anywhere else!" Elizabeth suddenly thought.

"It's not okay, De Sick is almost finished. Our people in the south have completely surrendered to the rise of darkness. The Merchant Alliance's Dispatch Army, our most elite armed force, is now almost completely independent, and they have ignored Edward's orders before. In our country, the army by the Morro River, the navy of Xingang, and the garrison of White Rock City have all been infiltrated by the Black Dragon Society, and now, I think Edward has already met with his loyal subordinates, Hans and Heinrich, in the courtyard of the Satanic Demon. ”

"Ahh Elizabeth covered her mouth in surprise, "What then?"

"I can't help it!" Bazemore spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, "It sounds good that I am the younger brother of Emperor Desik, the protector of the north who has risen in darkness~, but you have been with you for so long, Elizabeth, don't you know that I don't even have a place to stay except for the city of Auckland and the mansion here, let alone armed forces." ”

Elizabeth, of course, knew that Bazemore was telling the truth, and that he had been chosen by his master at a young age to be taken to the city of Auckland to teach him carefully, and that he had become a powerful magician at an early age. But in China, he is really a bare-bones duke.

"That's why I wanted to enlist the help and trust of General King and Earl Norton, so that's why I'll protect Earl Norton in Auckland at that time." Unexpectedly, this big fool actually ran to the lair of the rise of darkness to send him to his death. ”

"Ah, the lair?"

"Yes, Kyoto City is not the lair of the rise of darkness. The headquarters of the organization is in the country manor only fifty miles away from the Red Keep, where is the family manor of the ancestors of the founder of the Dark Rising-Ivan Manor, which is the family manor of the ancestors of my teacher's teacher's teacher. ”

"Who killed Earl Norton?"

"Such a proficient space magic can only be the descendant of Tanatos, I am the first to be the chief magician, after all, he is originally based in the Red Keep. ”

"Is that the mage named Morin?" you told me. ”

"Mourning is nothing more than his pseudonym, which he uses among court magicians. The Emperor of Benin never expected that one of his most trusted court magicians would actually be the chief magician of the Rise of Darkness - Elby. If he doesn't die, who will?"

"Now, what can we do, teacher?"

"There is a lot we can do, but it is imperative that the Desik Empire be preserved. At this time, the enemy of the enemy may be a friend, and we are probably going to go to the Shang Alliance, Elizabeth. ”

"Florian or the headquarters of the Business Alliance?" Elizabeth asked, thinking for a moment.

"I'm afraid, we'll all have to go. ”