"Didn't he agree?" After learning about the promise of the Lord of the Black Forest to the Knight King, Tessa Mocha couldn't help but be curious, and asked Count Pipero, but after asking, he felt that he had asked a stupid question, because if the Knight King had promised the Lord of the Black Forest, then there would be no later French Empire.

Although Count Pipero also felt that there was no need to answer this question, he still responded because of his current situation: "He didn't promise to become a god, because after becoming a god of the Black Forest, he couldn't leave the Black Forest anymore, he chose another way, and he decided to sign a contract with the Black Forest, which can make the French royal family stand forever on the continent of Veron." ”

Sylvia asked, "Is the content of this pact that the royal family can use the power of the Black Forest in times of crisis?"

Count Pipero replied truthfully: "There should be this article, I don't know the specific content, I just know that the contract between the royal family and the Black Forest involves two things, one is the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, and the other is the contract ring." ”

"Since it's related to blood, then everyone in the royal family should have the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, right?" asked Sylvia again, a question she actually asked the current King of the United Kingdom of France.

"It's not like that, only the Emperor of Farran has the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, and the other royal families just have the opportunity to get blood. The Count of Pipero explained, and seeing that a few people could understand his explanation, he continued: "I don't know much about the contract, but I know what Louis X is doing now. ”

As soon as Count Pipero's words fell, Leo immediately concluded his words and said, "Does he want to use the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest in his body to regain the position of the god that the Knight King gave up back then?"

Count Pipero was stunned, looking at Leo a little bewildered, he never thought that the big royal secret that he thought was extremely valuable would be told by Leo like this.

After a while, he came to his senses and asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

"It's very simple, it can be inferred from some of the things that the French Empire is doing now. Leo replied calmly, then with a pensive look.

Now it seems that the actions of the French Emperor Louis X did not have the permission of the Black Forest, and may even have deviated from the oath made by the Knight King and the Black Forest, so the Black Forest wants to withdraw the token of the oath.

This also made Leo realize that the contract ring was definitely not as simple as he thought before, and there must be some secrets in it that he didn't know, because Bailu would actually find an outsider like him to retrieve the ring, and recover the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, then it means that this ring is more important than the blood of the Lord of the Black Forest, which makes him wonder what kind of contract the Knight King signed with the Lord of the Black Forest back then.

Sylvia frowned and asked with some dissatisfaction, "Is it just this so-called royal secret?"

"Of course not, the real secret lies in his ritual of becoming a deity. Count Pipero hurriedly added: "I don't know how Louis X became a god, but I do know that there is one step that must be completed, that is, the scene of the contract between the Knight King and the Lord of the Black Forest must be reproduced, that is, both parties to the contract must be present, and the contract token and witnesses must be present." As he spoke, he pointed to himself and said, "I am the descendant of that Witness, and I am also the key to Louis X's godhood." ”

After saying this, Count Pipero thought that an important bargaining chip was already in his hands, because if Sylvia or the United Kingdom wanted to destroy Louis X's plans, they had to send him away and protect him, although he would lose a little freedom, but he would not have to worry about his life in a short time, and he was confident that as long as he was given enough time, he would be able to master the power given by the alien cells in his body, so that he could turn back into a normal person, and then find a way to escape.

"No, you're not the key, it's the blood descendants of the glorious nobles. However, Leo soon broke Count Pipero's illusion and said: "Although you are the heir of the glorious nobles of the past, you are not the only descendant of his bloodline, and you have already integrated the alien god cell of the True Eye, and the bloodline has long been impure, and the French official only needs to claim that you are dead, and choose another person with purer blood from the Pipero family to inherit your title." ”

Hearing Leo's narration, Count Pipero was stunned, and he didn't know what to say for a while, obviously the mutation of his body also affected his intelligence, otherwise, he couldn't have imagined such an obvious loophole. It also made him understand why the secret services of the French Empire were going to great lengths to hunt him down, rather than capture him alive, because in Louis X's opinion, he had no need to capture him alive.

Although he already knew in his heart that he was not the only candidate for witnesses, as Leo said, he could not admit it, because this admission would give him less leverage to protect himself, and he did not know if Sylvia would help him escape from the empire.

Just as Count Pipero was thinking of a rebuttal, Sylvia said: "You don't have to worry about leaving the empire, since I have promised, I will definitely abide by it." But the so-called secret value you mentioned is far from what I have to pay, so you have to pay some extra price. ”

Count Pipero hesitated a little and asked, "At what cost?"

"I know that although your Pipero family has territories in other places, they stay in the towns of the royal domain such as Winter Rin City all the year round," Sylvia said straight to the point: "After so many years of operation, your Pipero family should have established a lot of hidden forces in the royal territory, and you should have been helped by these forces when you escaped this time, so I need you to hand over these forces to me." ”

"No!" Count Pipero didn't think about it, so he refused: "These forces have been built up little by little by the Pipero family over the years, and they are the foundation for the permanent existence of the Pipero family, and I will never give it to anyone else." ”

"Don't worry, listen to me. Sylvia said calmly: "You are about to leave the Empire, once you leave, those forces will be out of your control, even if you don't break away, you will not be able to control the forces here on the side of the United Kingdom, and with the new Count Pipero succeeding to the throne, do you think you can continue to control these forces?"

Count Pipero was silent, as Sylvia said, these forces belonging to the Pipero family will inevitably be reassigned to the new Count Pipero in the near future, as for the length of time, it depends on when the French Empire will announce the new Count Pipero, and the new Count Pipero will find relevant information about those forces without the guidance of the previous Count Pipero.

"I can give you a list of those who have not yet been discovered by the Empire, but I cannot guarantee that each of them is extremely loyal, and they are all loyal to Count Pipero, and once the French Empire announces a new Count of Pipero, then you will most likely be betrayed by them if you try to contact them. ”

Sylvia said calmly: "You don't have to worry about this, you just need to give me the list, as for how to deal with them and how to make them obedient, it's our own business." ”

Seeing that Sylvia was so determined, Count Pipero didn't say anything more, and then reported more than a dozen names, which represented people from all walks of life in the royal territory of France, including royal merchants who specialized in providing supplies for the royal family, and some craftsmen at the bottom of society.

After Sylvia recorded these lists, she asked Count Pipero to ask some questions about the list of these figures, so as to learn as much as possible about these people, so that she could control them to assist her in the near future after infiltrating the royal territory of France.

During this time, Leo did not stay in the villa any longer, but left the villa and rushed towards the town of Lutem, which was located on the south side of the town of Cambay, and according to the information received from Monin, the city of Lutem was the only city in the entire county of Sardinia except for Sardinia, which had a black market.

No one else was holding him back, allowing Leo to rush at full speed, and in less than twenty minutes after coming out of the villa, he was already in the city of Lutem.

Like most of the other cities in the Francis Empire, the heart of the city of Lutem is still a huge knight's fortress, all the roads in the neighborhood are built around the knight's fortress, and the whole city is shaped like an irregular concentric circle.

There are no walls built on the periphery of the city, which makes it impossible for outsiders to enter the city even at night, but I don't know if it's because of this system, or because of the frequent occurrence of mutants, there are a lot of city gendarmes and police patrolling the city streets, they don't check the identity documents of passers-by, they only focus on the kind of people who cover up with clothes.

Before Leo entered the city, through the control of his body muscles, coupled with the use of the power of the Faceless, his whole body became shorter, his face also changed to a square face, and his body was strong, and he deliberately wore the weapon on his body, exposing it to the outside, looking like a bounty hunter.

In the French Empire, although the main force to deal with those out-of-control mutants is the secret department of the French Empire, there are also some bounty hunters who come for the bounty, and as the second largest city in Sardinia, Lutem City has also become a gathering place for bounty hunters in various villages and towns around it, people dressed like him are not uncommon in Lutem City, and the gendarmes and police also know their identities, as long as they don't take the initiative to make trouble, the gendarmes and police generally won't trouble them.

With his altered appearance and form, Leo easily entered the city of Lutem and, according to Morin's account, found the entrance to the black market.

In fact, there was no need for Mourning's narrative at all, and Leo was also able to find the black market, because after he entered the city, he saw no less than two batches of bounty hunters, several of whom also emitted obvious energy fluctuations, and they should be transcendent.

The place they traveled to was the same as Leo's black market in Lutem City, and this black market was located in a special place, in the largest underground arena in Lutem City.

Originally a primeval forest, the city of Lutem was one of the coldest places south of the Vinovi Mountains every winter, a typical bitter cold place, so it was also a penal colony for convicts in the first place.

The prisoners who were exiled here had to cut down the wood, and these things could only be done in the summer and autumn, because in the winter and spring, the trunks would be as hard as stone because of the weather, and it would be difficult to cut them, so even the prisoners had nothing to do in the winter and spring, so they could only stay in the prisoner's camp and wait for the next summer.

In order to allow these prisoners to have something to do during the long winter and spring seasons, to vent their superfluous experiences, and to avoid causing trouble to the garrison, the warden of the prisoner camp at that time built a small arena at his own expense, and then gave some money and materials as a reward to the last judge among the prisoners participating in the competition.

Although this arena was the whim of the warden at the time, and even the warden was impeached by the imperial councillors for this matter, this arena was preserved intact, and with the development of Lutem City, it was constantly rebuilt, and finally became one of the most distinctive entertainment activities in Lutem City.

On this night, the arena was hosting two athletic events, not bloody with swords, but two ball games that had become very popular in the French Empire in recent years.

The black market that Leo is going to is in the underground arena below the arena, which was originally a lounge for arena performers, because in the early years, some competitions were bloody competitions with hundreds of people, and the arena needed a rest place for competitors waiting to enter, so it was proposed to hollow out the underground of the arena and transform it into such a lounge.

Because the people who participated in the early 100-man battle were all prisoners, this lounge was also built to look a bit like a prison, and even if it has been transformed by the black market, there is still a shadow of a prison.

Leo entered the black market without any test, judging from the bounty hunters who entered it before him, even ordinary people can enter here, so in this black market, he saw something different from other black markets, that is, the number of ordinary people in this black market far exceeded that of the transcendental.

And because of the extremely large number of ordinary people, this black market is more like an ordinary trading market, all kinds of vendors put their things for sale on the ground, not waiting for people with eyes to come and find them, but shouting loudly to attract the attention of bounty hunters, and the items they put on the ground are all just ordinary weapons, not to mention wizard curiosities, not even some items related to the occult.