Battles with the Patchy family are nothing new to Mario, who have been fighting for many years, and there are winners and losers between the two sides, but they usually don't reach the point of breaking the bones.

This time the capture of the opponent's five artillery pieces was a complete surprise, and the Pache family did not expect that Monteriggioni would suddenly have an extra marksman, and they suffered heavy losses by surprise.

For Mario, the precious loot captured is less important than Lu Xiao himself, and the Brotherhood, which is under the coercion of the Knights Templar, needs potential rising stars too much.

Lu Xiao had revealed his ambitions to Mario at the time of their first meeting, and that he planned to return to his hometown far east to avenge the tragic death of his family at the hands of the Templars.

Mario didn't know that this was just a story made up casually by Lu Xiao, and in order to keep Lu Xiao as much as possible, he decided to make some money to keep and entrap him.

In the study of the Auditore Manor, Mario waved off all the servants and closed the door tightly.

Mario removes the black cloth covering the wall, revealing a flat wooden board with the sparse pages of the book in front of the two of them.

'These pages ......'

Lu Xiao's eyes flickered faintly, he knew what Mario wanted to show him.

The pages on the boards vary in content, some of them are mere words, and some of them are painted with strange figures.

"These are the legacies of the ancestors that the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins has been looking for."

Mario solemnly explained, "They are the Codex left by the great Mentor of the Assassins, Altaïr ibn Harad, which is said to contain a great deal of knowledge related to the Pieces of Eden. ”

"In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Assassin Brotherhood flourished in the Middle East, and Masyaf Castle was the active center of the Brotherhood."

"Despite repeated defeats of the Templar Crusaders, the Mongols eventually broke through Maciaf, and Altaïr's Codex fell into the hands of Genghis Khan's descendant Kublai Khan, from whom Marco Polo struggled to retrieve."

"After a period of turmoil, the Codex and Altaïr's other legacy went back and forth between the Assassins, and finally passed into the hands of my great-grandfather, Domenico Auditore."

"Unfortunately, the Templars also learned of the existence of the Codex at that time, and sent a large number of men to rob Altaïr of his inheritance."

"In order to prevent the important legacy of his ancestors from falling into the hands of the enemy, Domenico scattered the Codex throughout Italy and built a sanctuary beneath the Auditore estate to house another important piece of Altaïr's legacy."

As he spoke, Mario tried to pull a book from a row of large bookshelves against the wall, and after a slight sound of a mechanism, the row of bookshelves suddenly began to move, revealing a hidden passage hidden behind him.

"Follow me."

Along the way, Mario lit the torches on the walls of the secret passage with flint and steel, and through the gentle slope that winds down, the two come to a spacious underground hall.

The hall is home to seven elaborate stone statues, the central one blocked by metal railings, and a set of fine black leather armor inlaid with silver metal is stored inside.

Mario opened his hands and introduced Lu Xiao, who was amazed, "These statues are all great pioneers who have made great contributions to the Brotherhood. ”

"From left to right, Hulangar, Darius, Wei Yu, Altaïr, Amunet, Iltani, and Leonius."

"My great-grandfather designed a token for each Assassin statue, and only by collecting all six tokens could the central railing be opened and the armor Altaïr had made in his later years removed."

Mario walked over to the railing and tapped lightly, "I've tried various methods before to try to force open this railing, but I don't know what material my great-grandfather used, and no sword can hurt it. ”

"Giovanni and I spent a lot of time in Italy when we were young, but in vain we didn't make it back, and in middle age we were trapped in the many official duties of the Brotherhood and had no time to go out and look for them."

"Perhaps you can complete our regret by collecting all the pages of Adzar's Codex, and finding all six tokens, and taking out Altaïr's armor."

"This armor is said to have been made using Altaïr's ancient knowledge from the Pieces of Eden, and is invulnerable and unusually light, making it the perfect equipment for lightly armed assassins."

Lu Xiao looked up and observed the seven statues from left to right.

Needless to say, Altaïr in the center, whose story was told throughout the Assassin's Creed generation, and his in-depth study of the Apple of Eden left a wealth of valuable knowledge for future generations of Assassins.

Most of the other Assassins were unknown, and even Wei Yu, who was clearly Chinese, struggled to resonate with Lu Xiao, but the names Darius and Amunet piqued his interest.

Darius appeared in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, where he was the first person in history to wield the Hidden Blade.

With this unexpected pocket weapon, Darius successfully assassinated the Persian Emperor Xerxes I, and the Hidden Blade was passed down from generation to generation, becoming the iconic weapon of the Assassin Brotherhood.

His son later married the demigod Kassandra, and after many generations, a great Assassin was born who was also inscribed as a statue.

Not far away is another statue - Amunet, whose original name was Aya.

Aya, like her husband Bayek, was one of the founders of the Hidden Ones, the forerunner of the Assassin Brotherhood.

'Demigods......

Thinking of Kassandra, Lu Xiao sighed a little in her heart.

Kassandra is the granddaughter of Leonidas, the legendary king of Sparta, and with the help of one of the Artifacts of Eden, she is still alive today, silently witnessing the development of history and the changes of the times, even into the modern day of the world of Assassin's Creed.

Due to her important role as a messenger, she can only be a spectator of history, and cannot intervene in it herself.

The so-called demigods actually refer to humans who have inherited a high concentration of Isu blood.

The Isu were the first civilized race on Earth, and were called forerunners and pioneers by later generations, and some humans even referred to the Isu as gods.

The Isu had a triple helix DNA structure, which was very different from the double helix of humans, and they had a longer lifespan and a stronger body than humans.

The Isu had one more sense than the five senses that humans possessed, and they called themselves "knowledge."

Interpreted in terms of human understanding, the "knowledge" sense should be described as a powerful inspiration, the so-called sixth sense.

The descendants of the Isu also partially inherited this ability, and Eagle Vision is one of the manifestations of the sixth sense.

On the other hand, only with a high concentration of Isu blood can you perfectly control the Pieces of Eden and unleash the true power of these ancient artifacts.

The reason why Mario was able to break free from the temptation and control of the Shroud of Eden was not because his will was stronger than that of other controlled mercenaries, but because the Auditore family was also one of the descendants of the Isu bloodline, and he had a high degree of resistance to the side effects of the Eden artifact.

As a traveler in another world, Lu Xiao naturally does not have Isu blood, which will add a lot of difficulty to his world mission of collecting the Pieces of Eden.

'Altaïr's armor, it's best to get your hands on it as soon as possible. ’

In this era when cold weapons are still prevalent, Altaïr's armor, which is difficult to damage with swords, is undoubtedly a big help for Lu Xiao's follow-up actions.

If Lu Xiao remembered correctly, the six Assassin tokens needed to obtain the armor were stored in the six Assassin Tombs.

These tombs are scattered all over Italy, and Lu Xiao's next destination, Florence, happens to have two of them.