Chapter VIII Strategic Adjustment

Catherine sat in the royal study of the palace, reviewing the texts for her husband.

Although Durris had taught her how to handle government affairs before, and she had a few more hands-on experiences in handling government affairs, it was not like now, and she felt overwhelmed by having to handle so many paperwork on her own. The mountains of paper in front of you are not a pile of waste paper, and if you make a mistake in any place, it may have an extremely bad negative impact on the whole country. These days, Catherine has thoroughly experienced the hardships of her husband's daily work.

Of course, Catherine is not meticulous in everything, and she has to deal with everything, otherwise it will not be enough to give her three times as much time. She categorized the texts according to their priorities and then processed them selectively. Among the many essays, the most important and priority for Catherine is a kind of essaya with a red cover. Although there are not many of these red papers, she knows the value of these words. It was information about the last family of Duris, the "Fish School" organization, transmitted from within the Central Church.

She had been reviewing the latest red paper for three or four hours. Sometimes Catherine stood up and paced up and down in her study, sometimes she stood by the window and stared blankly at the view, sometimes she leaned against her desk and looked thoughtfully at the portrait of King Duris on the wall...... But he has not made up his mind how to approve it.

On the other hand, the red paper jiàn that was spread out on the desk, the content on it was ostensibly a detailed report on the agricultural production of a certain part of the kingdom, but if you looked closely, all the numbers that appeared in the text were copied by Queen Catherine with a pen on a note next to it, and next to the note was a novel, Catherine found some specific pages and lines in the novel from these numbers according to a certain rule, so as to extract the words that met the requirements, and then rearranged these words into complete sentences, written under the numbers - this is the information that the red text jiàn really wants to convey。

"The Battle of the Holy City, vampires, werewolves, dragons, Princess Sophia, the ...... of the Truth," Catherine carefully considered the important words mentioned in the intel.

A few days ago, the Battle of the Holy City had already caused a stir throughout the world of Olopa. The vampire tribe attacked the Holy City and declared war directly on the Central Church, causing the Holy City to be reduced to ruins and the Pope to die in the war. For the Kingdom of Poile, it may be in a rather awkward position in the subsequent development of the situation, because the Kingdom of Pole is the only country of the Holy Light Sect that directly borders the Blood Mountains, the territory of the vampires, and everyone knows that the King of Duris, who ruled Poile, formed a bond with the Central Curia during the attack on St. Auluffy, and now the three main forces of the Knights Templar are moving towards St. Papal Island, once the Central Curia recovers, with the temper of this group of clergy, they will definitely take revenge on the vampires, and they will inevitably pass through the Pole Kingdom, and how the Pole Kingdom will deal with itself at that time?

However, Catherine was not worried about this, because from the information she received, it was clear that before the Central Curia could take revenge on the vampires, they had to deal with the mess within themselves, and it was impossible for them to take their hands out of the Poeller Kingdom in the short term. The fact that the Truth Society, an unheard-of organization, had infiltrated the Central Church and secretly influenced the decisions of the Central Church for two thousand years? This kind of thing sounds inconceivable at all, and it is a great shame for those clergy with great self-esteem. Although the high-ranking cadres of the Holy See received the "divine message" issued by the Pope before his death to purge the Truth Society, the Central Church still kept silent about the organization of the "Truth Society."

Of course, these secrets cannot be concealed from spy organizations with intent on spying. The concealment of the "school of fish" played an important role, making Catherine the non-Church person with the most inside information. However, Catherine is in a dilemma because she has too much information. Because compared with the thousands of years old Truth Society, the "fish school" has only been infiltrated by the Central Church for more than ten years at most, and in comparison, it is completely insignificant, completely indecent, and there is no guarantee that there are no people from the truth society in the "fish school". If we continue to let the "school of fish" collect information, we may repeat the mistake of the "woods" organization, and perhaps it will be even worse, but if the action of the "school of fish" is terminated, then the central church will be completely deaf and blind, and the meaning of awakening the "school of fish" will no longer exist.

The biggest fear for decision-makers is indecision, and after weighing the pros and cons repeatedly, Catherine finally made a decision.

"Great white shark order: From now on, the 'fish' will stop one qiē activity and all return to the nest. ”

When she had finished writing the numbers, Catherine put down her pen and went to the window, looking to the east in distraction.

Now that her husband, King Duris, has approached Memphik in his place as "Mr. Peony", something big will happen in the city of Isoguien in the next few days. Until her husband returns, she must do everything she can to preserve his fortune and not let the "fish" she has worked so hard to build up be ruined, but she must not let the work of probing the intelligence of the Central Church be interrupted. To do this, she had to change her thinking and make the necessary adjustments to her original strategy.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness Princess, I may have to take advantage of you. Catherine muttered the words in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

When it comes to obtaining information, nothing is more accurate and detailed than what you get from the person concerned. Princess Sophia, who was taken captive by the vampires some time ago, has apparently established some kind of alliance with the vampires, otherwise Sophia and her companions would not have appeared in the Battle of the Holy City and helped the vampires fight the Central Church. Although Catherine doesn't want to involve Sophia in the political maelstrom, if she wants the best of both worlds, Sophia is undoubtedly the only way to break through.

Isle of the Dead, the mountain of the forbidden lands of necromancers.

The space was cut open by a black scythe. A beautiful young man dressed in black paced out of the crack in the space and came to a pool.

A year ago, this pool witnessed the thrilling battle of the Tower of the Seven Sins, and now it is once again playing its rightful role.

As the magic spread in the water, the originally calm and mirror-like water began to ripple, and gradually, the ripples became smaller and smaller, and finally returned to the original calm state, but after the pool level was as calm as before, the original reflection of the scene has completely changed.

It was thick clouds, and after a few seconds, the clouds dissipated and you could see that it was a view from above, with the blue sea and the green trees clearly demarcated. The reflection in the pool quickly approached the trees, and the vibrant foliage at the top of the treetops could be clearly seen. Then the image moved forward, and the trees below were retreating at high speed, and then, at the boundary between the sea and the trees, a small gray-white dot appeared. As the image in the pool approaches the gray-white dot at high speed, the dot gradually turns into a large gray-white area, and as you get closer, you can see that it is a gray-white building.

It is a city that has been abandoned but not deserted. The city was empty and lifeless, not even the roosters and dogs crowed, but the streets were clean and tidy, and the buildings remained in good condition, with no natural collapse, and even cracks in the facades were rarely seen. It's like someone regularly repairs and takes care of this uninhabited city.

The image in the pool continues to move forward, and a military castle built by the sea, the tallest, largest, and grandest building in the city, appears in the image. The castle is getting bigger, which means that the distance between the castle and the image is getting closer. The image then approaches a window at the top of the castle and pulls it into the interior.

It looked like it was a wargame room. The room was neatly decorated and spotless, and it looked like it was being cleaned regularly, and in the middle of the room was a huge sand table showing the layout of the whole city, as well as the topography of the woods outside the city and the distribution of small islands in the nearby sea. In the manager's seat in front of the sand table, sat a knight in full armor, his body tilted to the left, his left elbow rested on the handle of his partner, and his palm was holding against his gill gang, looking thoughtful. The image in the pool circled the room and approached the knight, and it was clear that the knight was wearing a set of armor with a considerable sense of historical precipitation, although time had worn away the luster of the armor, and even the insignia that was supposed to show his legion was brown, but it was still faintly recognizable as representing the Holy Cross of the Central Church and the emblem of the Knights Templar. The knight's face was buried behind a fully protective metal mask, and it was impossible to see the knight's face and expression.

Finally, the underwater image seems to stop at the back of the knight's commander's seat, and from this angle, only a small part of the knight's helmet, shoulder armor, and the entire sand table in front of him are visible.

"Nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace. Such unsolicited, not like your style. The Lich King. ”

The knight's voice, the vulture's ears standing on the back of the commander's seat, and the vulture's vision were transformed into magical power, and through the spatial magic array engraved in the vulture's body, it was teleported to a pool on the island of the dead thousands of miles away, and then transformed back into a sound, so that those standing next to the pool could hear it clearly.

"Oh, don't say it so ugly. The black-clad scythe-wielding young man, the Lich King Callowe, smiled, "I'm just here to visit you, can't I?" ”