In the spring of the twenty-first year of the Holy Calendar, because of the pressing and arrest of the Church of Light and the royal family, the Dark Council hiding behind the scenes finally showed its feet little by little, and the leader of the Dark Council, Count Evans, the prime minister of the Cretan Empire, was finally exposed in front of the Council of Light under the pressure of the Church of Light.

Facing a desperate situation, the prime minister Evans staged a coup d'état, launched most of the guards that had fallen under his control, washed the palace in blood, and killed two sons and one daughter of the Iliad VIII, who was still shot by arrows and died of serious injuries under the protection of more than a dozen royal guards.

Under the crisis, the younger brother of the Iliad VIII, Duke Vodigan, led his personal guards to storm the palace, entered the palace, defeated the rebels, and killed Evans in the main hall.

The Imperial City of Cretan Empire was in a state of extreme chaos, with a large number of troops mobilized, the city full of soldiers in armor, the gates closed, and in the middle of the night, torches passing through the streets.

Sean, the head of the Inquisition, broke into the palace with Duke Vodigan, rescued the Iliad VIII, and immediately treated the Iliad VIII's injuries together with the priest beside him.

Duke Vodigan waited by the side of Iliad VIII, and was heartbroken, expressing his anger at what the Dark Council and Count Evans had done: "I didn't expect that Evans turned out to be the leader of the Dark Council, these damned Dark Councils and wizards, we must not let them go, we must all send these guys to the gallows." ”

Sean stood behind Wardigan, looking at the pale, dying-looking Iliad VIII, his expression was not so calm, he was very proficient in intelligence tracking and searching, and was also responsible for monitoring the internal information of various countries, but he had no experience in governing and participating in the struggle, he came here this time to investigate the theft of the Dark Council and the Sword of Kingship, but he didn't expect this kind of change to occur, which was not expected by Sean at all, and it was not within his scope of responsibility.

The Iliad VIII's sons are all dead, and only the Iliad VIII and the Duke of Voddigan remain, and once the Iliad VIII appears to have anything else, only Duke Voddigan will be left with the right to inherit the throne.

However, at present, the church is not ready for the replacement of the Cretan throne, and Duke Vodigan is not on the pre-selection list of the Cretan imperial throne chosen by the church, so at this time, Sean cannot let the Iliad VIII die, at least not so soon.

And Sean always felt that all this happened too coincidentally, maybe it was too normal, but it made him feel abnormal, as if everything was arranged by someone, just after investigating that Evans had a problem, Evans launched a coup d'état, and also killed all the children of Iliad VIII, it seems that Evans's last madness, is revenge on His Majesty Iliad VII, who is loyal to him, but everything always feels full of a sense of disobedience.

And when Wodigan killed Evans just now, it seemed too deliberate and too hasty, and this large number of coincidences made Sean, who had a keen sense of smell, smell a sense of conspiracy.

At this time, the people from the Judgment Division outside came in and said something in Sean's ear, and Sean's face immediately changed: "What, there is no one?" ”

When he came, when Evans's coup failed, Sean immediately asked people to surround the mansion of Earl Evans to investigate the whereabouts of the sword of kingship, since Evans is the leader of the Dark Council, then from him, he must be able to find out the whereabouts of the sword of kingship, and even, the sword of kingship is likely to be in his hand.

But what Sean didn't expect was that in Evans's mansion, except for a few servants, his family and children all fled, the entire mansion was empty, and even a large number of related documents were destroyed, and several servants didn't know anything, saying that they were given a day off by their master in the morning, and they didn't know what was going on.

At this time, Sean immediately couldn't sit still, and immediately said goodbye to Duke Wodigan, entrusted everything in the palace to Duke Wodigan to manage, and left two priests to take care of Iliad VIII, and immediately rushed to the mansion of Count Evans, looking at Sean's figure leaving in a hurry, lying in front of the window of Iliad VIII, crying Duke Wodigan, a strange smile suddenly appeared in the corner of his eyes.

"This is it, they should be the city of Nia that they left through here."

This is not the mansion of Evans's family, but in an old water tower far away from Evans's house, the judgment sacrifice of the Inquisitor, relying on strong tracking ability, found that Evans's family is the city of Nia that escaped from here, Sean took a torch and looked under the tunnel: "Have you gone down?" ”

The judgment priest beside him immediately said: "I have already sent someone down to investigate, and there is a conference hall below, and there are several other passages, some leading to the city and some to the outside of the city. ”

Sean walked towards the passage with a few judgment sacrifices, and finally came to the dark council hall underground, filled with a dark and strange smell, Sean slapped on the table: "Evans is really the leader of the Dark Council, we finally caught him this time, but unfortunately he died too quickly, there are still too many questions to be asked, check, where are these passages outside the city, where are the people inside the city, every seat here, who is sitting, we must all investigate clearly." ”

At this time, several people behind him pressed a middle-aged man dressed in a burlap shirt to Sean in front of him: "Director, we have made a new discovery. ”

Sean glanced at the man, "Who is this?" ”

"Evans' coachman, he said he often saw, Evans was riding in a special carriage and was missing, and, some time ago, when he picked up Evans and came back, he found that Evans had brought back a very strange package."

Sean looked at the coachman: "What package, you tell me carefully." ”

The coachman looked terrified, trembling all over, and when he heard Sean's question, he did not dare to raise his head, and spoke while trembling: "It was like this about ten days ago, it was very late that day, and it was still raining, and the Count asked me to wait for him at the second street of the rue de Lille, and when he went, he was empty-handed, and when he came back, he carried a strange package. ”

"What package?"

"It seems to be a sword, no, no, no, it is definitely a sword, because I can vaguely see the hilt, very beautiful and snow-white, and there are strange symbols on it."

Sean and everyone present straightened up all of a sudden, staring at the coachman, and Sean immediately drew a few symbols on the ground: "Is it this?" ”

"Yes, I have the impression that it's this, absolutely." The coachman pointed out tremblingly.

"Sword of royal power!"

With a wave of his hand, Sean immediately saw a flash of white light, tearing all the tables and chairs in the council hall, Sean smashed his fist on the wall, and said angrily: "Sure enough, it's him, Evans, this old thing has always shown loyalty to our Church of Light, and it turned out to be a complete blasphemous." ”

"How long has it been since Evans' family left?"

The Judgment Priest had already investigated this aspect and was waiting for Sean's questioning: "It's been more than half a day, I'm afraid they've run far away." ”

"Chase, the sword of royal power must be on the descendants of Evans, we must catch them up, send a signal to Chief Charles and Cardinal Leon, everyone mobilize me, I must find their clues, find them for me."