Hidden Knights? It was also the first time Amber had heard this statement - after all, she had only roughly straightened out the aristocratic structure of the Old Kingdom by now, and she was confused about the obviously more secret, more special titles and titles, "What for?" A stalker with the same hand as you? ”

“…… Not really," Dark Crow had just been in contact with the new boss for a few days, and it was quite difficult to adapt to the rhythm of the other party's speech, so he was stunned for a moment before responding, "The Hidden Knight is a collective term for the secret nobles who are not open - the royal shadow guard who has made special achievements, the transcendent who is tainted but protected by the king, the 'secret hand' who is directly loyal to the king himself, there are always some people who work for the king in secret and are trusted by the king, but they cannot be disclosed for various reasons, these people are called 'hidden knights'."

"The king would give them surnames in recognition of their merit and loyalty, but they would not be recorded in the normal heraldic register and the genealogy of the nobility, and only the immediate members of the royal family and a small group of those responsible for the administration of the directory would know of their existence. Generally speaking, more than half of the Hidden Knights are royal shadow guards - and it's easy to see why. ”

At the end, there was a hint of pride on Dark Raven's face, and there was no doubt that he was also a "secret nobleman" with a "secret surname".

However, Amber was very unimpressed by his pride: "O royal family of Ansu...... Instead of working the development of production and the state system, we have made great efforts in these shady areas. It's really the same as what the old zongzi said, seven hundred years later, you must have new tricks on the basis of the royal shadow guard. ”

"Old zongzi?" This was the first time that the crow had heard this novel word, and subconsciously repeated it, "What do you mean?" ”

"Code, don't use it casually, it's easy to be killed if you use it wrong," Amber waved her hand nonchalantly, and then looked the crow up and down, "Don't talk about this, it looks like you're also a stealth knight, right?" Quite surprising...... How can you be a stealthy knight? ”

The suspicion in these words was obvious, and the crow's face was slightly embarrassed, but he really couldn't explain to a "master" who had kicked him out of the Shadow Realm three times in a row that he was actually a master of the Shadow Path - this half-elf lady's shadow talent was really unreasonable, and in front of her, his own stalker who was at the top of the royal shadow guard was like an apprentice who had just entered the industry.

It seems that as long as this half-elf lady continues to be her boss, then she will not want to stand out on the path of shadows...... It's really not good, consider Gawain? The Duke of Cecil once suggested going back to practice two-handed swordsmanship?

Amber didn't know what was going on in the crow's mind for a moment, but she was obviously very dissatisfied with the other party's daze: "What are you stunned about? I'll talk to you! ”

"Ah, yes, I...... I'm also a Hidden Knight, because I've done some credit during my allegiance to the royal family," Raven said hurriedly, quickly skipping the topic, "If you're looking for someone who has a noble surname and isn't on the normal noble pedigree, then he might be a Hidden Knight as well." ”

"I think he made it up by himself...... But what if ......" Amber smacked her lips and glanced up at the crow, "you have a list over there, don't you?" Why don't you find out yet? ”

"Yes!" The Raven immediately took the order and left quickly.

After the former royal shadow guard left, Amber glanced at the shelves full of books and dossiers, as well as the subordinates and scholars who were busy between the shelves, and smacked her lips, her ears drooping slightly, as if preoccupied, but not saying a word.

"Director......" a nearby MIA operative cautiously approached, "then...... Are we still looking? ”

"Of course, keep looking!" Amber glanced at the subordinate angrily, "Who knows if there are any clues in the directory of the 'Secret Knight', and if not, why don't you still go through it here?" ”

The MIA operative hurried back to work, and the Raven who went to get the list didn't keep Amber waiting long.

Just ten minutes later, the former royal shadow guard returned to the archives with several heavy, thick volumes.

"These are the lists of Hidden Knights who have been secretly canonized by the royal family in the last few decades, as well as some of their materials," Darkraven said as he placed the large books, both old and new, on the table next to Amber, "The earlier files are kept in another archive, and if they were from before the Foggy Moon Civil War...... It is even more difficult to find, and there are many confusions and mistakes. If you need to, it may take some time and people to sort it out slowly. ”

"Not for the time being, he's just an ordinary human being, decades ...... Decades are enough," Amber looked at the thick books, her always confident tone suddenly hesitated, as if she had a premonition, she looked at the black covers, as if she saw a scruffy and decadent face that was already a little blurry in her memory, "look here first, here first...... Leave those bookshelves alone, you guys! Come and help me find it! ”

Several of his subordinates immediately responded, "Yes, Director." ”

"Be careful, don't break it, some of the books are very old," Amber told as she handed them out to her men, "Remember, Surrey?" Randolph. ”

Soon, all that remained in the archives was the faint and cautious sound of flipping books.

Amber climbed onto a high chair and slowly flipped through the book in front of her, confirming word by word the names that appeared on it and the portraits attached between the pages, she almost held her breath, but after an hour she still found nothing.

But one of the MIA operatives suddenly shouted, "Director! I found it!! ”

"Show me!"

Amber took the roster handed over by her subordinates, and in the "Surrey? The first thing she saw before the words "Randolph" came to her eye was a vivid portrait of a young man under thirty years of age, with black hair neatly combed back and dressed in a gown, not very impressive, but with a hint of cynicism in his eyes.

Amber looked at the portrait silently for a moment, and whispered to herself, "Ah...... So you were young too......"

"Is that him?" One of his subordinates leaned over and asked cautiously.

Anyone can see that this person who appears in the secret information of the royal family must have something to do with their director.

"It's him, my adoptive father." Amber muttered under her breath, and her gaze raced to "Surrey?" Randolph" scanned through the relevant information, which mentioned the young man's origins, his family members, and some biographies, all of which were very brief and had become worthless over time, but Amber took it very seriously, until she noticed a black heraldic stamp at the end of the material, and a few words immediately following the stamp: defected or missing, removed.

"What does that mean?" Amber pointed to the stamp and the letter, and looked up at the Raven.

The Raven poked his head over and looked at it, frowning slightly, as if hesitating, but still spoke, "This seal indicates that he was once a royal shadow guard, and defected or disappeared...... It's literal. But for the Royal Shadowguard, disappearance is seen as a defection – we know so many secrets that if we lose contact and can't prove that we're dead, we're considered 'hidden'. ”

"Defection...... Is he a defected royal shadow guard? Amber muttered to herself, "But why did he defect......

Raven looked at the roster in front of Amber for a moment, and suddenly said, "If it's the action record corresponding to this roster...... There should be, I've seen it. Please wait a minute, I'll go find it. ”

This time, he returned faster than before, and in just a few minutes, he was back with a file that was clearly some years old.

"Here, Sarri? Records of Randolph's last mission before his disappearance - thankfully, it didn't involve much of a palace struggle and was not destroyed. Raven handed the information to Amber and pointed to the already vague handwriting on it, who immediately took it and whispered it:

“…… 690 ...... Travel to the Dark Mountains in search of the legacy of Gondor, never returned. No evidence of death was found, and defection was suspected. ”

Is that all about Surrey? A full description of Randolph's final mission as the Royal Shadow Guard.

"Dark Mountains...... He went to the Dark Mountains and then did not return to the royal capital to restore his life, so he was considered a suspected defector? Amber frowned, her mind racing, "No...... If according to the guidelines of the Royal Shadow Guard, he really defected...... In 690, he lived incognito in the south for more than twenty years......"

She flipped through all the memories of her adoptive father in her mind, trying to sketch a clearer outline from those memories to explain the trajectory of her adoptive father's life and the choices he had made-

A royal shadow guard, who won the trust of the king and was even granted a secret aristocratic title, went to the Dark Mountains to find the legacy of Gondor, and then defected without warning, lived incognito in the south for more than twenty years, adopted a half-elf adopted daughter, and was abducted with a bad druid, and finally was caught stealing books from the church, and was executed by the local nobles and bishops, and the death was meaningless, like a crappy thief......

The turning point of everything seems to have happened in the "Dark Mountains".

Surrey? Randolph had gone there in search of the Gondor legacy, and now Amber knew very well that there really was a Gondor legacy!

There's a fortress of disobedience!

Surrey? Did Randolph find the fortress? What did he find in the fortress? Or was it because he couldn't find anything that he had to live in seclusion in the south because his mission failed?

Judging from the logic, Amber feels that the second possibility is not very large, a royal shadow guard who can be canonized by the king cannot defect for such a reason, and the first possibility is ......

According to Amber's information, Cecil's explorers have not found any traces of third-party invasion in the Rebellious Fortress so far, and no one other than Cecil should have entered the ancient fortress.

But this conclusion is not 100% reliable - because the Fortress of Disobedience is too large, and many areas are hidden or in a state of unexplored for various reasons, so far the commanders of the exploration team dare not say that they have mastered half of the area of the Fortress of Disobedience, and even Kamel, the "Disobedient", does not know how many divisions there are in that fortress, how many different project teams are occupying different laboratories, and how many attempts to disobey the gods and fight against the demon tide are carried out.

Amber shook her head vigorously, suppressing all the confusion of thoughts, then grabbed the materials on the table, jumped out of the high chair and ran to the door of the archives.

The Raven couldn't help but shout from behind, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'm going to find the old zongzi!"

With that, Amber's figure disappeared outside the door.

The crow scratched his hair and looked dazed - so what exactly does the code word "old zongzi" mean?

At the same time, in the study of Silver Castle, Veronica/Ophelia was reporting to Gawain on some of the progress made in rebuilding the church's governing body.

"We have spread the oracle, and the middle and lower classes of believers firmly believe in the oracle and have not questioned the various restructuring measures too much......

"The upper echelons of the clergy are a little sensitive, and the right to interpret the classics touches their interests, but the situation is under control.

"Stopping the heresy trial will help ease the relationship between the Holy Light Church and other sects, and help restore order in the country, but there is also the possibility that the once oppressed cultists of the different gods will be prejudiced and resentful against the reformed Holy Light Church, which we need the propaganda support of the Government Department......

"The Patriarch is in the process of reorganizing and reorganizing the original Holy See Knights, because these Knights have been severely reduced in personnel and are in urgent need of reorganization and reconstruction, so the process is going well."

"Let's stop here for the church debriefing," Gawain said after Veronica's report was over, "and we'll talk about something else." ”

Veronica maintained a calm and gentle expression: "What do you want to talk about?" ”

"Talk about you, Miss Ophelia," said Gawain, smiling, "and the disobedience scheme you know of—I think it's time for us to go a little deeper. ”

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