"What's there?" Doppler leaned into the window to see that there was nothing outside but the dark night.

"Right there, in the corner, it seemed to glow. ”

Doppler looked further in the direction of Mick's finger, and barely saw a shining object, but it was too far away to make out what it was, and told the coachman to fetch it.

The coachman trotted all the way to fetch what had fallen in the corner, and it turned out to be a golden bracelet. This bracelet is set with more than a dozen large and small gemstones, and the workmanship is so good that you can tell that it is worth a lot of money at a glance.

Mick grinned: "Today is really a good day, not only did the church trip be fruitful, but I also went out to pick up money, should I go and kowtow to Father?"

After Mick finished speaking, he noticed that Doppler was staring straight at the bracelet with a solemn face.

"Hey, hey, I found this thing, you can't take it from me. As he spoke, Mick hid the bracelet behind him, as if he was afraid that Doppler would take advantage of it and rob him of his ill-gotten gains.

"Do you see if there's a golden cross engraved on the back of this bracelet?" Doppler muttered.

Mick took out his bracelet and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Hey, there is no cross, there is only one crown." ”

Hearing Mick's words, Doppler's pupils shrank suddenly, and his face became even more gloomy. When Mick saw him like this, he immediately became a little more serious and asked, "What's wrong with this bracelet?"

"This bracelet is called the Holy Ring, and it is a spatial bracelet used by the high clergy of the Church to hold things, and if it is engraved with a golden cross, it means that its owner is at least a cardinal of the bishop level, or a higher cardinal, and the crown represents ...... Sage!"

"Sage, what is that?" Mick wondered.

"The Sage is the spokesperson of the gods walking on earth, or the person who has been blessed by the gods themselves, their status is very transcendent, if you have to talk about it, it is basically the same as the cardinal!"

"Oh, what a lucky man, then I guess he won't bother me for such a small amount of money. With that, Mick put the bracelet into his spatial ring.

"Mick, don't you understand? The owner of this bracelet has such a high status, if he loses something, he will definitely send a large number of people to look for it, but you see that we have come all the way from the Holy City, and we have not seen half of the clergy at all. ”

"Maybe he doesn't care about this little money?"

In addition to being a space object, the Holy Ring is also a status symbol, which is very precious. Even a noble saint can't ignore it, and if you can pick it up, it means that it's either a stolen item, or something happened to its owner. ”

Looking at Doppler's panicked face, Mick waved his hand: "Come on, don't say it so sensational, what I picked up is mine, and it is impossible to spit it out, if that guy has an accident, no one will regret a bad old man anyway." ”

"As far as I know, there are four saints in the church, three of whom are not in Maltis, and only one new saint, a beautiful girl named Ilona, who is still in the holy city. ”

"Don't be funny, a young girl can be a saint, you think I'm going to believe your nonsense...... Wait, what's that girl's name?"

Mick grabbed Doppler's clothes and startled Doppler with his panicked appearance.

However, before Doppler could answer, Mick suddenly felt a palpitation, and cold sweat instantly broke out of his forehead.

"What's wrong with you?" Doppler noticed that Mick was not looking right, and immediately helped him up.

Mick exhaled a long breath, looked at Doppler solemnly and said, "Mr. Doppler, do you have any feeling as if you are being targeted by a poisonous snake?"

"Vipers, you're saying someone is spying on us?"

"I'm afraid it's not just spying on ......," Mick gradually returned to normal, looking out the window at the night and said solemnly, "Maybe they've already started to kill." ”

At the Misty Island Manor outside Maltis, a lazy middle-aged man leaned comfortably on a recliner and chatted with the fat man opposite.

If someone familiar with Maltisse's political ecology was present, he would immediately recognize this middle-aged man as Duke Calus, the third son of Frederick the Great.

And the fat man who sat across from him and talked and laughed with him was one of the six major families, the patriarch of the Hohenzollern family, a member of the Imperial Parliament, and the Archduke Gabriel, the chief financial officer of the cabinet.

The two powerful nobles were not discussing anything big, but about the delicacies of the continent. In addition to blood relations, there is another bond that can make them close to each other, and that is a common hobby.

The two foodies often taste a variety of unique dishes together, and then lie comfortably in their rooms, with a cup of coffee or hot tea, and comment on the freshly eaten food.

While the two were chatting passionately, the butler hurried into the room and whispered a few words in the ear of the Duke of Calus.

Duke Calus's face instantly turned pale, and he exclaimed loudly, "What? The city guards suddenly surrounded the Black Rose Annex?!"

Hearing this exclamation, Grand Duke Gabriel's face also became very gloomy.

"Go, immediately draw two squadrons from my personal guard, not two squadrons, and you must not let them break in!" Duke Calus commanded loudly, his voice evidently panicked.

Seeing the butler leave the room, Gabriel said gloomily, "Why did the city guards suddenly surround Black Rose, are they testing our bottom line?"

"No, I think the second brother is ready to do it......" Duke Calus leaned back on the chaise longue, as if all his strength had been drained.

"It's not really, it's just an annex, even if they are allowed to go in, at most it will only lose some face, and when I go to Your Majesty tomorrow to theorize, who will suffer is not certain. ”

Duke Calus shook his head bitterly: "It's not just a Black Rose Annex, there are envoys from several principalities of the Lane Alliance living there, and they want to support me in my fight for the throne, but I didn't agree.

According to the plan, they would stay there for one night and leave Maltis tomorrow, and it was precisely tonight that the city guard surrounded it, and there would be no other explanation than Otto preparing to make a move on me. ”

The Aisha Alliance was an alliance of six minor principalities in the southwest of the Ottoman Empire, which had long oscillated between the two powerful empires of the Ottoman and Frank empires, and their geopolitics were complex.

At present, the Aisha Alliance is basically controlled by the Drake Empire, and is in a faintly hostile relationship with the Ottoman Empire.

"Even if the people inside can't see the light, it can't say anything, as long as you don't admit it, in the absence of conclusive evidence, Your Majesty will never let Otto succeed easily. ”

Gabriel was also startled to hear that the Black Rose Annex was inhabited by the emissaries of the Aisha Alliance, but his years of political career quickly calmed him down and found a way out of a desperate situation.

Duke Calus let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile, "In addition to those messengers, there are also three hundred sets of magic armor of the standard that they brought......"

"What?!" Gabriel stood up suddenly, his face turning very ugly.

Magic armor is a kind of magic equipment, and every nobleman with a little wealth will have one or two sets, not to mention the mercenaries who lick the blood with their knives, but with the addition of the word standard, it is completely different.

Standard magic armor is a strictly controlled military magic equipment, and the empire has a clear rule that unless authorized by the military department or His Majesty himself, any other private or institutional collection of standard magic armor is considered treason.

This means that as long as these standard magic armors are exposed, Duke Calus will not be able to escape a single treason crime anyway.