Edward knew the name of Adenos, but he had never heard him mention his surname, and everyone in the tower did not know that Adenos was actually the prince of the kingdom of Mara, a royal family with the real right to inherit the throne.

By the time he left the City Defense Office, Edward had already reached a cooperation agreement with Hans, and the goal behind the conspiracy should be the coronation of the new king in seven days, because of Edward's guidance and Hans's own suspicions, the impression that Ardnos might be related to this incident has been imprinted into Hans's heart.

According to Hans, the entire palace has been tightly sealed by the king's guard, except yesterday when the king's will was read and the succession was decided, Hans entered the kingdom with some great nobles and the royal family, and no one has entered it since.

And Hans also felt that the changes within the kingdom were too strange, first of all, the death of the king was too sudden, and all the holders of the succession to the throne gave up their inheritance rights, so that the original sixth-ranked prince Adenos suddenly became the new king, which also caused an uproar among all the noble groups.

In addition, the entire King's Guard swore allegiance to Adenos, giving Adenos the most powerful military force in Babs in an instant, knowing that this was the King's personal guard, and it was impossible for the new King to approve of it before he inherited the throne.

Hans, who was born in the King's Guard, knew this very well, and when he found that his old department, which was born in the King's Guard and was inextricably linked with the owners of the King's Guard, had completely lost contact with the King's Guard, Hans knew that the King's Guard must have undergone an unexpected change.

This series of sudden changes and abnormal events, in connection, is enough to speculate some creepy conspiracy, the entire city of Babs has been completely plunged into a shocking crisis, if they do not take action, let the other party's conspiracy completely succeed, and the entire Mara kingdom will be completely destroyed by the ruling class of the entire Mara kingdom on the king's coronation ceremony.

This made Hans feel like his hairs stood on end when he thought about it, who the hell could do such a thing, and how dare he do such a devil-like act, his purpose was not to rule, not the desire for power and revenge, but to kill and die nakedly, to pull the entire kingdom of Mara into the realm of demons.

"Why? Why? When Hans spoke, his face was flushed and his breath was short.

"There is no why, maybe it's because of some strange ideal, maybe it's just an experiment to explore the meaning of life, maybe it'...... There are many possibilities, the real reason is only known to the mastermind behind it, and what we need to know is that he has done it, and what we need to do is how to stop him. Edward said.

The cooperation agreement between Edward and Hans is that Edward will find out the mastermind of the conspiracy behind the scenes, know the whole plan of the other party, and whether there is any difference between them and what they expected, Edward can mobilize the strength of the city defense army, and Hans will check the entire interior of the city defense army within a few days to find out if there are any high-level ghouls who have been mixed in, Hans can be sure that the seeds of conspiracy must have been planted inside the city defense army, and he must find out and clear it immediately.

Then he will use the city defense army to investigate and block the underground waterways according to the original Babs city construction blueprints, and must completely seal these underground monsters in the underground waterways, and must not let them climb out.

In addition, Babs wants to contact some trustworthy nobles in the entire Babs City to expose and fight against this conspiracy, if, as Edward said, the other party has mastered the King's Guard, a whole thousand knight legions, transformed into a stronger army of undead monsters, just relying on the two or three thousand soldiers of the city defense army who have not really experienced war, and the training is also a little lazy, to fight against them, it is simply a dream.

More importantly, Cardinal Pete of the Diocese of Light was informed, compared to those lords from all over the world who had long been eyeing the throne of the Monar family, Hans trusted Cardinal Pete more, and if he wanted to deal with this kind of demon-like power, the power of the priests of the Church of Light was also more trustworthy, although Edward didn't like the people in the church very much, but at this time, any little power was worth fighting for.

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The city of Babs was dyed the blood-red of the setting sun at dusk, and the vast Na'vi River outside the city was sparkling and intoxicating, and the young boatman standing on the bow of the ship waved to his wife, who was waiting on the dock with her child, and then jumped up and embraced her in her arms.

The old fisherman and his young son, carrying the catch of the fish, carried the box full of fresh fish together and walked home in the shadow of the setting sun, and the boats passed by and formed a variety of life, Edward squatted on the dock in the setting sun and watched the lives of these people, until the darkness completely fell, and then walked along the street towards the way home, but along the way back, his expression became more and more serious.

Seven days later, the king's coronation was held, and although the people in Babs City were still living in peace, Edward had an unusually nervous and hasty feeling, and the atmosphere of the coming war made him feel involuntarily trembling all over his body.

When he was close to his home, Edward found that in front of the small building along the street where he lived, there were people standing in front of him, constantly pointing inside, as if he was talking about something, and the personnel of the city guard were also standing in the courtyard, and the whole courtyard seemed lively and noisy, but the atmosphere was extremely strange.

The door to the room was destroyed, and Edward was stunned when he saw this scene, and suddenly understood something, and trotted into the room.

"What are you doing? Don't let you in, stand ...... me."

Immediately, some people from the city guard tried to stop Edward, but they immediately recognized Edward's appearance and knew that this person was an acquaintance in front of his boss Tucker, and immediately let Edward rush into the small building.

Edward entered the door, stopped suddenly, his steps suddenly became secretive, as if his whole body was a little weak, and he walked through the corridor to the drawing-room, and immediately saw a young girl lying in the hall, with a smile of joy and shyness that Edward was familiar with, but now it was like a delicate flower in a pool of blood, and the bright red blood spread on the ground, staining her somewhat whitish gray dress.

She died without pain, cursed witchcraft to kill her in an instant, still looking forward to Edward's return, immersed in her own little love and shyness, the smile on her face did not change, and the silver plate that was knocked over was the dinner she was preparing for him.

Edward is just a young wizard who has left the tower for the first time, he grew up in the tower, this is the first time he has seen such a person he likes very much and is familiar with and values, died in front of him, looking at Hathaway who died with a smile on his face, like a delicate flower suddenly withering, Edward suddenly felt a sour smell along his chest straight to his nose and eyes, and the whole person was a little overwhelmed.

Edward wanted to move forward, but he didn't stand all of a sudden, fell to the ground all of a sudden, stood up, and walked crookedly in front of Hathaway as if he had lost his soul, and knelt down in front of Hathaway, for more than half a month, Hathaway has been taking care of her, for this low-born, but hard-working and kind girl, after her father disappeared, with her own work to raise two younger brothers, Edward has a very good impression, just like Hathaway's young Muai, Edward is just an ignorant teenager, He chased Adenos to the death, just for the friendship and brotherhood that he couldn't let go.

Edward held Hathaway's face, and finally lowered his head and couldn't help sobbing, crying like a child, at this time, Tucker, who was standing aside a little earlier than Edward, patted Edward's shoulder, and could only sigh and say, "Mourn! ”

Edward, for his part, noticed a line on the table next to him that looked like it had been burned by fire: "Get out now!" ”

It was Adnos warning Edward, and even killed Hathaway to show his determination, warning Edward in such a decisive and broken form that he would leave immediately, and that he would not be careful.

Edward hugged Hathaway's corpse tightly, even if it was covered in blood, he didn't care at all, gently stroked Hathaway's eyes, looked at Hathaway's eyes, watched her close her eyes a little, and finally fell into Edward's arms, at the same time Edward's head was deeply lowered, the muscles of his whole body stiffened, and the muscles of his mouth trembled to highlight a few words.

"Adenos!"