With the death of Marco, Emilio, and Silvio, three members of the Templar family, Barbarigo's position as head of the family fell to the imminent Agostino.

Unlike his three own kindred, Agostino fundamentally disagreed with the idea of the contemporary Templars' frenzied struggle for power, and maintained a good working relationship with the Assassins.

With the help of the Barbarigo family's intelligence network and connections, Antonio's thieves soon gained access to the first scattered pages of Altaïr's book.

Carlo and Marco's poisoning plan led Governor Mocenigo around the gates of Hell and made him fully aware of the nature of the modern-day Templars.

Although the privileges were not open to the Venetian Brotherhood, according to Bartolomeo and Antonio, their men moved much more smoothly in the city than before.

While Lu Xiao traveled to the Church of Our Lady of the Visitor and successfully found the token of Leonius from the Assassin Tomb, Leonardo da Vinci was enthusiastically translating the eight newly acquired pages in his work.

As Altaïr's pages drew to a close, the Mentor's full vision was finally revealed to the Italian Brotherhood.

According to the Codex's numbering, Altaïr's mental journey was visually displayed to future generations through the Codex he left behind.

His Codex contained a deeper understanding of the Assassin's Creed, as well as doubts and speculations about the Precursors and the Golden Apple of Eden.

The rest was made up of assassination techniques and mechanism designs that he had researched through his knowledge of the Golden Apple, mostly related to the Assassin's Hidden Blade set.

In the newly acquired page, Altaïr mentions a term that interests Lu Xiao - the Golden Fleece, and the page also depicts the armor he had made himself.

Altaïr speculated that the legendary Golden Fleece in ancient Greece may have been related to the Pieces of Eden, and that some of the Golden Apples contain references to high-strength materials.

With the knowledge in the golden apple, he spent more than ten years collecting materials, and finally completed this set of artificial artifact armor that has been handed down to future generations.

After exploring many assassin tombs, Lu Xiao has long been familiar with the tricks set up by Domenico.

When Antonio kept his promise to retrieve the other three pages, Lu Xiao also successfully retrieved the last Assassin token representing Amenette (Aya) from St. Mark's Basilica.

With all six Assassin tokens in place, all that needed to be done was to return to the Sanctuary of Auditore da Auditore and place them on the statue, removing the dusty piece of Altaïr's armor.

But before that, Lu Xiao discussed the whereabouts of the last Codex page with Antonio, Teodora and others.

"Based on the cross-comparison of the intelligence provided by Governor Agostino and Mocenigo, we have come to a not-so-good conclusion."

Teodora's brows furrowed, and she habitually touched the silver cross around her neck: "The last page was once buried in Venice, and about a year ago, a woman of unknown origin bought it from the merchant who held the page, and has not been seen since. ”

Lu Xiao groaned and asked, "Does anyone know the identity of that woman?" Or rather, what are her characteristics? ”

Teodora shook her head: "The strange place is here, when we found the merchant according to the clues, he was very strange and couldn't remember the woman's appearance and age, as if it was just a ghost that appeared out of thin air. ”

Antonio added: "But in fact the woman did exist, and many people at the market that day had seen her, and even left some vague impressions, but they could not recall any of the woman's characteristics." ”

Bartolomeo interjected: "The only clue about the woman is that she left it on her own initiative, and many people who have seen her only remember the term - Cyprus." ”

Lu Xiao's brows jumped suddenly: "Cyprus? ”

Why did the mysterious woman mention Cyprus, it can't be just a coincidence, right?' ’

Rubbing his eyebrows with a headache, Lu Xiao said with a wry smile: "It seems that after I get Altaïr's armor, I will have to go to Cyprus." ”

……

All six Assassin tokens were collected, and Altaïr's Codex was only the one that was taken by the mysterious woman, and Lu Xiao's mission in Venice was successfully completed, and the system also gave the reward for the Venice suppression mission, which was also free skill point 1.

Lu Xiao hadn't used up the free skill points given by the Florentine Suppression Mission, and he knew that the free skill points would be very valuable, and he planned to use them when necessary.

Although Leonardo da Vinci was determined to travel around the world, he had not yet completed his research and exploration of the city when he had just arrived in Venice, and he did not plan to return to Monteriggioni with Lu Xiao this time.

Bidding farewell to Antonio, Teodora and Bartolomeo, Lu Xiao took the expectant Carlotta and the unknown Dante on board a passenger ship to Port Folì.

In order to hide the relevant information of the Eden artifact, Lu Xiao did not tell Carlotta what method he was going to use to cure Dante, but only told her that he knew a very powerful divine doctor and might have a way to cure Dante's memory loss and dementia symptoms.

Marco is dead, and the troubled couple can finally live in peace, and if there is a possibility of bringing Dante back to his senses, Carlotta is willing to try.

Through the channels of the Assassin Brotherhood, Caterina received the news of Lu Xiao's return early, and as her belly gradually grew, she insisted on going to Port Foley to meet Lu Xiao in person, despite the opposition of the maids.

Considering the perception of Pope Six, although Lu Xiao and Caterina had affection in their eyes, they at least behaved very restrained and polite in front of outsiders.

But as soon as he returned to the lord's bedroom in the rock fort of Levaldino...... Uh-huh.

There is a good saying, a little don't win a newlywed.

Knowing that Lu Xiao was in a hurry to return to Monteriggioni, Caterina was very sensible and did not forcibly leave him behind, but Lu Xiao didn't close his eyes at all that night.

When he returned to the road the next day, Lu Xiao's deep dark circles and trance-like spirit made Carlotta, who was traveling with him, worry about whether he was suffering from any disease, and offered to suggest staying in Forlì for a few days first.

Lu Xiao hurriedly shook his head and vetoed Carlotta's proposal, not to mention that time was pressing, even if he had plenty of time, he didn't dare to continue such a life every day.

After all...... There are no ploughed fields, only tired oxen.

In October 1477, Lu Xiao and his entourage entered Tuscany and were led to the small city of Monteriggioni by the mercenaries sent by Mario.

Considering the importance of the artifact of Eden and its side effects on ordinary people, Giovanni, who possessed some resistance to the artifact, temporarily put aside his job as a banker and personally came to Monteriggioni with the Shroud with Ezio.

After half a year, Ezio's temperament seemed to have matured a lot, and he should have received a lot of formal Assassin training from Giovanni in the past six months.

However, his merry nature still hasn't changed, and as soon as they meet, he jokes to Lu Xiao about his secret relationship with Katarina.

Giovanni patted his second son's head angrily: "Be serious, joke and wait until the business is done." ”

Mario placed Carlotta in a room at the Auditore family, and after stuning Dante, the group carried him to the underground church of Auditore, where he was placed on a makeshift workbench.

While Giovanni, Ezio, and Mario were snorting and moving the heavy Dante, Lu Xiao installed the prepared Assassin tokens on the pedestals of the six statues one by one.

"Crunch!"

As Amunet's token was finally installed, the sturdy railing that held Altaïr's statue to the statue finally let out a screeching sound of metal and began to unravel to the sides.

The monopure black armor of Altaïr was officially unveiled to the four Assassins, and Mario and Giovanni were a little emotional, as the long-cherished wish of their ancestors would finally be fulfilled in their generation.

"Go ahead, Lu."

Giovanni calmed down his emotions, stretched out his hand and gently pushed behind Lu Xiao's back: "You found all the tokens, and this set of armor should belong to you." ”