After completing the training and officially joining the Assassin Order, Lu Xiao's free time became more.

He was able to accept assignments from the Brotherhood and travel to Italy and Europe if he wished to assist the Brotherhood in their fight against the Templars.

Like Giovanni, he could continue to stay in Florence to strengthen the Brotherhood's foundation.

The sense of urgency in his heart made Lu Xiao unable to stop, and he decided to spend some time making a complete plan for his future trip.

Florence was now in the midst of an undercurrent in which the Templars were determined to overthrow the Medici family's control of the Emerald Friedral.

Giovanni and the others have not yet received the most secret information about it, and Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia of the Catholic Church, intends to come to Tuscany in person in the near future.

This information is Lu Xiao's speculation based on the content of the game, and at the beginning of the game, Rodrigo appears in the house of a certain Erwuzai, who is trusted by Giovanni, and even has a relationship with Ezio, who is desperate for help.

Given the difficulty of overthrowing the entrenched rule of the Medici family, it is understandable that Rodrigo personally came to Tuscany to plan nearby.

However, Lu Xiao speculated that Rodrigo would not rush into the city of the Assassins' powerful Emerald without any certainty.

Until he has a definite opportunity, he should be temporarily in the safer Templar sphere of influence, the territory of the Patch family.

During his time in Florence, under Lu Xiao's deliberate attention, he had a deeper understanding of the Pache family.

The Pache is a family with an ancient history, which is said to have originated during the First Crusade and has been a Tuscan nobility for almost 400 years with the help of the Knights Templar.

In the 15th century, during the Renaissance, the Patch family kept up with the times and made banking their main business.

The contemporary head of the family is Francesco de Pacci, an impulsive and unplanned reckless man who has been instilled in his family from an early age with hatred for the Medici family.

His son, Vieri de Pacci, inherited his father's character to a certain extent, impulsive, irascible and cruel.

Because his father, Francesco, focused most of his attention on his revenge plans for the Medici family, Vieri, who had lacked his father's attention since childhood, was sensitive and lacked love, and once he did not get the attention of others, he became hysterical.

Similar to Ezio, Vieri is also one of the most well-known top gentlemen in Florence, and the two have inherited a personal feud that is difficult to dissolve since a few years ago because of their family's differences and the fact that they often fight for women.

The reckless father and son, who are similar in personality, are nominally the rightful heirs of the Patch family, but in fact the leader of the Patch family is Francesco's uncle, Jacopo de Patch.

Compared with the two brainless juniors, Jacob, who is Lorenzo's assistant officer, is more calm and pragmatic.

Even under the influence of the family's brainwashing education of the Medici family, his evaluation of Lorenzo is really not low.

Jacob didn't actually oppose Lorenzo's rule, but due to the persecution of his family plans and Rodrigo Borgia, he had no choice but to go with the flow.

The Pacci family's territory was called San Gimignano, not far from Monteriggioni, and the irascible Francesco would occasionally send troops to attack the Auditore family's castle in order to show his loyalty to Rodrigo Borgia.

If Lu Xiao guessed correctly, after Rodrigo Borgia settled in Tuscany, he should first go to San Gimignano, the territory of the Pache family.

Rodrigo Borgia, the contemporary Grand Master of the Templars, a high-ranking cardinal, will even rely on bribery and **** to inherit the papal throne in the future, and the world will call him Alexander VI.

Nicknamed "The Spaniard", Rodrigo was undoubtedly the greatest enemy of the Assassin Brotherhood in all of Europe.

As Grand Master of the Templar Order, Rodrigo brought the Templar concept of "control" to the fullest during his reign, but did not do enough to guide the people.

As he struggled for power and expanded his family's power, it was clear that Rodrigo's approach had deviated from the Templars' original beliefs and ideals.

The Templars became pure villains during this era, with a large number of Templars lost in Rodrigo's lies.

Lu Xiao is just an outsider, and he doesn't have a deep sense of what the Borgia family has done, and he only pays attention to Rodrigo because he will master an Eden artifact in the future, and he has a direct relationship with another Eden artifact.

Each generation of Catholic popes inherits a papal staff, and most popes and believers are unaware that the staff, which they consider a religious artifact, is actually an artifact of Eden.

The Knights Templar tried every possible way to become Pope in order to recover this artifact of Eden.

Based on the experience of successive popes, the Papal Staff is one of the few artifacts that does not have side effects on non-Isu descendants.

Correspondingly, those who do not possess Isu blood will not be able to properly activate the true power of the Pope's staff.

If you think about it with your ass, the Papal Palace in Rome must be heavily guarded, and it is basically impossible to break into the Papal Palace and take away the Pope's staff.

Unless Lu Xiao is willing to spend years in Rome to weaken the power of the Templar Order, just as Ezio did in the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

But Lu Xiao doesn't have that much Italian time to spend in this world, and he may not even wait for Rodrigo to ascend to the papal throne.

"There is a give-and-take, the Pope's Staff is a super difficult artifact, if you really can't get it, give it up, and more importantly, another artifact that Rodrigo has been tracking down - the Apple of Eden. ’

The Apple of Eden that Rodrigo sought was not the one Altaïr had in his possession.

Just as there is more than one Eden Sacred Sword, there is definitely more than one Golden Apple, they are artifacts mass-produced by the Isu many years ago, and their main role is to record ancient knowledge.

The Golden Apple can be seen in the Odyssey as a mass-produced product, and the monsters of Greek mythology and legends, such as Medusa, Cyclops, Minotaur and Sphinx, are all so-called mythical creatures transformed by the Isu using the Golden Apple, and they are all human beings in nature.

There are two Golden Apples that are relatively easy to obtain at this stage, one of which is related to Rodrigo, and the other was brought into the library where Altaïr completed his final journey, and still accompanies Altaïr's skeleton to this day.

Altaïr's library was located beneath the ruins of Macyaf.

In order to enter the library, you must first obtain five Macyav keys, and Lu Xiao is not sure if she has that much time to collect the keys scattered around Istanbul.

Unsure of whether Rodrigo had obtained information about the Golden Apple, or whether he had made it to Tuscany, Lu Xiao decided to put his search on hold and concentrate on searching for Altaïr's Codex throughout Florence and exploring the two Assassin tombs.

If Lu Xiao remembers correctly, the Assassin tombs built by Domenico Auditore da Firenze seem to be related to churches.

As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence had a large number of churches, but there were only two churches that qualified to be selected by Domenico as the tomb of the Assassins.

One of them is the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore, known as the main cathedral of Florence and one of the city's iconic buildings.

Second, after many surveys and screenings, Lu Xiao finally targeted the Church of Santa Maria Novella.

The Church of Santa Maria Novella is the first pontifical church in Florence and is of great historical importance and is definitely worthy of Domenico's attention.

Judging by the distance to the Auditore Mansion, it is better to choose the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore to explore. ’