Now that Robert has revealed his true identity, the knights have a choice to make: to remain loyal to their current lord, or to keep their promise of eternal allegiance under the banner of the Golden Griffin.

Sixteen years ago, before Duke Garcia showed his true colors, some people of insight felt that something was wrong, Duke Griffin's eldest son in the prime of life suddenly died, and his eldest daughter, who had been married far away, also fell ill and died when he returned to attend his brother's funeral, and then Griffin's children died mysteriously one after another, no one knew the reason, and no one thought about Garcia, who had always shown loyalty and reliability, who was still the chief privy councillor and speaker at the time, but simply thought that misfortune had come to this family that had ruled the Duchy of Tanis for three hundred years, and some people persuaded the duke to send all his remaining children out to escape their doomRobert, who was still named Eschberg von Buenau Griffin, was ready to become the attendant of the Duke of the Duchy of Lombhayani, but the day before he left, the Duke suddenly ordered his children not to leave the royal city for half a step, and then, as everyone knew, the thick family tree of Griffin withered in just half a year, and even the strong Duke finally died on the bed like a skeleton, and the Golden Family was completely cut off, leaving only an only son who was less than 8 years old.

Although there is still a side line of the Griffin family, only the orthodox golden bloodline can ascend to the throne of God's blood, so for a while, the entire principality cannot find a person who can lead the princes. As a close friend of Duke Griffin during his lifetime, Marquis Felix, the guardian of the West, stepped forward to make the duke's only bloodline ascend to the throne, and asked Count Garcia to serve as the minister of care and the regent to assist the next duke until he reached adulthood.

Due to Phoenix's esteemed reputation and strength, most of the lords agreed to this proposal, and Count Garcia became Chancellor of the Duchy after many excuses, and everyone believed that the Duchy of Tanis would survive the crisis and continue to move forward under the rule of the Golden Griffon.

But the situation suddenly changed, and at the first royal meeting of the abbot of Count Garcia, Viscount Snake, who was an adviser to the Privy Council, suddenly took out a letter claiming that Eschberg was not in the Duke of Phoenix's blood at all, and that he was just a mongrel whose mother had an affair with a lowly stable!

The Marquis of Phoenix ignored such ridiculous accusations, and was sent east to quell the rebellion. But unexpectedly, as the regent and prime minister, Count Garcia seemed to have been prepared to accept Snake's accusation immediately, and arrested the thirty-year-old duchess and the stableman, and put them in the tower of the royal city and tortured them.

As a mongrel, Eschberg was immediately stripped of the duke's inheritance, and was even directly guillotined. However, the Marquis of Phoenix, who had finally returned from the East Mirror, with the help of his close friend Baron Worf, commanded the army into the royal city, rescued Eschberg and brought him back to the West safely. For a time, the principality was immediately divided into two factions, one faction led by Garcia claimed that Eschberg had no right of inheritance and needed to re-elect the duke. On the other side is the pro-king faction represented by Phoenix, and more than a dozen lords loyal to the Griffin family immediately formed an alliance to prepare to recapture the royal city and welcome back the little duke.

Seeing that the civil war was about to break out, Prince Van Dyck, the former envoy of the Imperial Representative, had to intervene, and the Marquis of Phoenix and Prime Minister Garcia also took a step back, agreeing that the royal city would remain under the rule of Garcia and the other members of the Imperial Council, and that Eschberg would remain in the domain under the protection of the Marquis of Phoenix, until Eschberg reached the age of 16, when the golden blood would awaken in his body, and it would be clear at a glance whether he was an orthodox golden griffin.

The two sides signed a contract in the presence of the envoy of the French King's Hall, Archbishop Clermont, and everyone thought that peace would come back to the principality, including the Marquis of Phoenix, who even invited Prime Minister Garcia to a dinner, hoping to clear up the misunderstanding between the two sides, after all, compared to the overall situation, the death of the Duchess can directly turn the page.

And as Anya said, at the beginning of the banquet, Phoenix also invited other lords to attend the council, including Evelyn's father, his most trusted comrade-in-arms, Baron Wolff, the Marquis of Phoenix believed that if the banquet could be held smoothly, it would be able to guarantee peace for at least five years.

But no one thought that it would be called' The night of Kristallnacht' ended with the slaughter of the entire Phoenix family, and the Phoenix Castle, which was once called impossible to be breached, was breached by the Black Watch under the guidance of the traitor, and the Phoenix family was killed from top to bottom, regardless of men, women and children, and finally this thousand-year-old castle was also set on fire to the ground, leaving only some high-temperature carbonized human bone crystals in the ruins that were particularly dazzling, since then this night has been called Kristallnacht and has become a dusty history that most of the lords of Tanis dare not mention.

No one expected Garcia's hand, before this, he always showed a generous and benevolent image, but that night he openly tore up the treaty that had not even dried the ink, which was equivalent to a solid slap in the face of the entire Western Continent and the French King Hall. But this heinous act of treachery went unpunished, and the Empire officially canonized Garcia as Duke of Tanis almost before the fire that burned Phoenix Castle was extinguished, and he will keep it forever. And the Church also flatteringly sent the most prestigious archbishop under the throne of France to the abbot's coronation.

But the voices questioning Duke Garcia did not subside because of the recognition of the Empire, it was not only the Phoenix clan who died in the Kristallnacht, but also many of the lords and nobles who were invited to attend were also slaughtered that night, only the Wolf family miraculously survived, and those who were unfortunate enough to accompany the funeral of Phoenix Fort had relatives and friends, and soon, a huge rebellion swept across the entire principality, and three of the four realms rebelled, and the rebels even captured two-thirds of Tanis's land at one point, and only the eastern realm was under the command of the Marquis of Frode。 Just when the royal city was about to be breached, the duke didn't know what strategy he used to assassinate the guardian of the southern border and let his most loyal ally Snake ascend to the position of guardian of the southern border, cutting off the back route of the rebels, and then defeated the rebellious coalition army under the royal city, slaughtering more than 300 knights and 20,000 soldiers, including the northern guardian Bell who had surrendered, and erasing more than 50 family names and coats of arms overnight.

Fifteen years have passed since this incident, and it seems that nothing has been forgotten, but these living knights will not forget their ancestors, brothers, and comrades who were killed in that great upheaval, and now is the time for revenge.