"That's a pity, if she is here, these thieves should be easily solved," Kiro still remembers the events outside the Holy Light City that day, the fourteen-year-old girl has sharper accuracy than everyone else, "But we are not vegetarians, these subordinates behind me are carefully selected elites!"

Before Avi came in, he noticed that the dozen or so church knights were all calm and tall, and they were indeed much stronger than ordinary mercenaries, but how they performed in actual combat still needs to be examined. As for the young knight Captain Kiro, he also looked like an ordinary knight with no characteristics.

After more than ten minutes of walking, they finally saw the lamplight and a wooden inlaid iron door. Kiro took the key from his bosom and unlocked the lock, "After entering from here, it is the underground palace of the castle, you should start to be careful, because those invaders may invade here." With that, he took up the knight's sword in one hand, raised it with a torch in front of him, and walked in.

When Avi and Kosi walked in, they found that there were many luxurious decorations behind the humble wooden door, and even the paintings nailed to the walls looked like they were made by famous artists. A tasseled red tablecloth was spread on a cypress table, on which some washed fruit was served in a silver basin. A complete set of silver plate armor was hung on a wooden frame and was worth a lot of money. There were other delicate knick-knacks in the lockers, as if it were a room for the princes and ministers to rest and talk.

Quiro noticed that the five members of the Potato Mercenary Regiment were looking around, and he reminded in a low voice, "These are the Pope's things, and I believe that as long as you can rescue the Pope, he will be willing to give you even more valuable rewards." ”

I don't want any treasures, just find out Fede for me!" Keth said to herself.

There was no one on this stretch of the road, and although when they opened a room, a black cat suddenly came out of it to startle everyone, but the intruders of unknown origin apparently did not make it to the underground palace.

The underground palace is larger than the upper floor of the castle, and according to the estimation at the time of the next year, the underground palace has at least three floors, and Kiro is on the second floor.

After reaching an ascending staircase, Kiro ordered his men to be vigilant. He still held the torch forward, and slowly walked up. This staircase connects the first and third basement floors of the underground palace at the same time, and if those intruders do make it to the underground palace, then someone will definitely appear here.

However, the expected situation did not appear, and none of the enemies could be seen.

"Those guys can't have been wiped out by the guards who were already guarding the castle, right?" said Greif, scratching his hair.

"Well, perhaps," Kiro led the group on until they reached a place where the upper floors of the castle could be connected, "and this is the first floor of the castle, and the invaders should have controlled the gates of the castle from above." ”

"Then with more than a dozen of us, I'm afraid we won't be able to take back control of the gate, right?" asked Avi as he listened carefully with his ears to see if there was a sound coming from above, but he couldn't hear anything but his own words.

Kiro didn't answer, and he asked the two knights to slowly approach the exit to the upper level and scout first. The two knights walked to the exit of the underground palace, which was blocked by a large square block of pure black iron that looked like it would take a mechanism to open. The two knights looked up through the gap in the pure black iron frame, and they could see if there were enemies walking there. Avi pulled out his Quenched Knight sword, and Kosi took out the crossbow and aimed it at the iron frame, ready to deal with possible enemies.

The two knights scouted for a moment, and then one of them pulled a trap in the shadows. The large black iron frame was slowly pulled and retreated to one side, making some noise. Everyone who held their breath held their breath with their weapons in their hands, and Avi's sweat was dripping to the ground, and he could hear it himself. But after waiting for a minute, this time not even a cat appeared.

"There is no one guarding this position?" Quiro had mentioned before, the mechanism of this underground palace was found on both the upper and lower floors, and the location of the mechanism on the upper floor was easy to discover, so did those intruders not know about the underground palace at all?

"Maybe they're all rushing to the Pope? that's the most plausible explanation. Greif said, putting the harpoon back on his back.

Kiro nodded to the two knights, who immediately understood and walked up with their swords. The others followed, but when they reached the first floor of the castle, they found that there was no one here, and there was not even a trace of invasion.

"Go check the gates of the castle," Quiro told the knights in front of him to look at the gates, while he himself looked around the floor, "you follow me, those people may be in ambush..."

"Knight, the control mechanism of the gate has been broken, and there is no way to open it without repairs!" Before Kiro could finish his sentence, one of the knights shouted back.

Avi and the others found no sign of the intruders who had torn the mercenary group, as if the guards had gone to sleep.

"What's going on, Lord Knight, what about the intruder of unknown origin?" Marcus spread his palms, and according to his brother's resolute style, if Matthews had already run in, he would have hacked several enemies to death by now. But there was no one around, not even the slightest sound.

Kiro exchanged a look with his subordinates, and then said to Coth, "Well, for the sake of safety, I'll send my subordinates to send you back, and then I'll lead the others to the upper floors of the castle to look for the enemy and the Pope..."

However, just as he was halfway through his words, Amsol, the second prince of the Kingdom of Salins, appeared in the upper echelons, and beside him was a bloodied guard with a golden shield in his hand.

"Is it the prince?!" Kiro couldn't help but cry out when he looked back at Amsol.

Ansu was wearing a dark blue aristocratic robe, clean and neat, and his expression was calm and gentle, as if he had just taken a bath. He walked slowly to the first floor, followed by a number of personal guards, each of whom was stained with blood to varying degrees.

Flurry was startled, and she immediately turned around and walked briskly to where she had come. Although she had lived in Mallotte for a while, she had been "under house arrest" in the king's palace and had never dealt with the second prince, and because of the second prince's concubine, except for some important matters, Ansoil would live in a small city outside Mallot, and handle affairs as the lord of the city. From this point of view, this man he has never seen should not know himself. Thinking of this, Kerth immediately turned around and stood behind Greif. Avi, of course, they didn't notice Kesi's move, and everyone looked at the second prince who was safe and sound.

The Prince Amso had a serious expression, he glanced at the chief knight Kiro, nodded slightly, and then swept his eyes over the group of more than a dozen knights and the potato mercenary group. His eyes lingered on Greif and Coss, but he quickly looked away and continued to look straight ahead of him.

Kiro immediately gestured to his companion beside him with his eyes and stepped forward to greet the prince, "Great, Prince Amso, we are specially sent by the archbishop to protect you!" The handsome knight's eyebrows danced, as if he had seen a treasure given to him, "I don't know the Pope..."

Amsol walked slowly down the stairs until he reached the ground on the first floor, when he looked at Kiro and said, "Your Excellency, what's wrong with him?"

This rhetorical question surprised Kiro a little, and he hurriedly bent down to respond: "There was an intruder of unknown origin before..."

"The origin is unknown, Knight, your words are very strange," Ansoil raised an eyebrow, a little unangry, "There were indeed some assassins just now, but they have all been dealt with, and we have interrogated their assignees. ”

As soon as these words came out, all the people present were shocked. Avi They didn't expect that the guards in the castle alone would eliminate all the premeditated enemies, and they also asked who was behind the scenes! Before, whether it was Satnam or others, they kept saying that those who attacked the castle were "unknown origins" guys, but they didn't expect this second prince to figure out their origin at once, and now they are waiting for the prince to reveal the answer!

Kiro and the other Church Knights were nervous, for since the prince of another country was standing in front of him unscathed, his words were very prestigious, and if he still pointed the finger at the Church Knights...

"Those are cultists of the East Oguna Empire," Ansoil said, pulling his dark blue robes a little closer to his chest, "but all of them have been corrected by my guards on the spot, and not a single one is left alive. When he said this, his expression was calm, and the guards behind him had the same expressions, if it weren't for the blood stains on the guards' bodies, they wouldn't have seen that they had experienced an unusually fierce battle just now.

"The cultists of the East Austrian Empire...", Kiro subconsciously followed.

"That's right, and why are you asking the Pope?" Ansoil stared at the Knight Chief Kiro who bowed his head slightly, "The Pope is already bed, so don't go up and disturb him." Of course, the thieves didn't alarm the Pope, did they, Chedy?"

He glanced back at his Golden Shield Guard Captain, and the other party immediately knelt down on one knee and replied, "It's because the prince teaches well!"

Neither Avi nor Koth had imagined that this would be the case, and they had already thought that if the Pope was assassinated, the Papal States would be taken over by the Archbishop. Now it seems that they chose to come to the castle to end the turmoil here without much effort.

"Go and report it to your commander, those invaders also said that they have ambushed a large army outside the city, preparing to join forces to capture the Holy Light City. ”