"Your Excellency, the old minister is also retiring......"

"Sir Daugard, you are frightened today, and I wish you a safe journey!"

In the castle of Suno, many councilors have already embarked on their way home under the escort of their guards, and the one who is leaving at this moment is the Duke of Daugard of the Rhodok Kingdom, after saying goodbye to him, Matthews wiped his shawl, looked around the empty living room and shook his head helplessly, as if he knew all the reasons for all this, but there was something unspeakable......

Just then, Trevor and Rolf pushed open the door and entered the living room, followed by Atros, who approached Matthews and asked him what he thought of the attack, but Matthews had already decided to confess everything, and he ordered Trevor to close the door and sit down at the guest table with the three of them. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Listen to me, General Atros, Rolf, and Trevor, too! Today's assassination is just the beginning...... Their real goal is to assassinate me, and we put aside Sion's purpose for a moment, what do you know about the members of Project Destiny?"

Trevor thought for a moment and replied: "Destiny No. 7 and No. 13, they were originally the best alchemy researchers of the Holy Sect, Odysseus and Asfa, and we have not met the other members, so we don't know, it is said that they have gathered fifteen warriors with outstanding abilities on the continent, is it true?"

"That's right, most of them are great warriors with great reputations, and the core of them are the talents of the Holy Cult, and the origin of this organization needs to be traced back to Victor Delacro's unfinished mission......"

"Victor, didn't you ask him to lead a number of alchemists to study Drua's hieroglyphs, so that he would make a breakthrough and turn against the Dark Army?" Rolf, who knew the antecedents, was surprised.

Matthews nodded, and began to talk about what had happened since then: "At the beginning of August of this year, Delacro's research group had figured out the meaning of the Drua and sent me a report privately. But I was still not satisfied with the status quo and asked him to continue to delve into these dark products and try to apply this mysterious power to our personnel...... Unexpectedly, Delacro told me that he was incompetent, so he ended his research, but a spy embedded in the Holy Cult stole the research records and secretly established a dark force roughly the same as I thought - the Knights of the Black Seal, with a total of fifteen members, except for a few voluntarily, most of them were branded with black seals when they had no other choice, and thus were manipulated by this mastermind to become cursed knights......"

Since the participants in the Destiny Project are all members of the Knights, it seems that these people are trapped in black magic and can't extricate themselves...... This is contrary to your original intention, Your Majesty the Pope~" Hearing this, Atros burst out laughing, as if mocking Matthews' original idea.

"No, the unfinished research of Delacro is the purification of the God's bequest, and the power is manipulated by the host, not by it. There is no doubt that this person behind the scenes is proficient in magic, and the Knight of the Black Seal is just some puppet of this person, and Fate's plan is an assassination operation against me, but I don't know the purpose behind all this!" Matthews retorted, and told him all about his original idea.

"Well, what exactly does this strange black mark do, and what difference does it make with purification or not?"

"The Holy Cult has been at odds with the Drua Order for many years, and we have obtained the Drua Order from some magical battles...... One of the great seals that the entire Drua Church almost forgot about it, the three stigmata symbolizing the power of the Medius, became a bequest from the gods after the Holy War (the Druas regarded them as sacred, the heritage of the god of darkness), and they were carved into the stone wall in perfect form, and they did not dissipate with the passage of time, and my ancestors transported the stone wall back to Bajicht and stored it at the top of the Holy Tower......"

"Let me talk about it next!" Matthews looked reluctant, and Rolf picked up the conversation.

"My father once saw the curse they bring, the call of darkness made the Barth Tower where we store the holy weapons entrenched by the undead, since then when we executors need to get their own weapons, we must venture into the Holy Tower, the battle with the undead has become a trial, and finally get the holy weapon and leave the Holy Tower, until Delacro was ordered to study the Holy Stigmata, our four executors emptied the monsters in the tower and transported the stone tablets with the Holy Stigmata from the top of the tower to the Alchemy Science and Technology Research Institute for storage. Some of the similar sigils that Delacro has developed can give the lodger (the runes printed on the body) great mental power, but they are very unstable, and sometimes they fall into darkness and cannot extricate themselves, and the final purification research is not completed, you know......"

Atros made a note of these and continued to ask, "Increased psychic power? This can only be useful for spellcasters who use willpower as a weapon, right? What about the current Black Seal Knight?"

Matthews pondered some of what he had seen in the past and said, "Odysseus and Asfa weren't originally such strong warriors, but now they have been able to defeat Zenda Kebrek, and it is clear that that kind of thing gives them great strength. ”

"Is there a way to get them to change their ways?"

"No, the research records were stolen, and the three major stigmatas were taken away together, and the host of the stigmata can manipulate all the Black Mark Knights, and we have no way to remove the Black Mark ...... on them."

Matthews thought he was irreparable, but Atros kept smiling and asked a question that had nothing to do with it......

"When do you plan to return to the Holy Church, it seems to be much safer there than here~"

Trevo explained the current security situation, the current intelligence showed that the Black Seal Knights were all wandering around Suno, and that they would be vulnerable to sniping if they left, and that the two executors could not even survive the fourteen Black Seal Knights, so Matthews temporarily abandoned his intention to return to Bajicht and decided to find out everything here.

After receiving the reply, Atros smiled: "Very good, I'm here to assist you in your investigation, but what I'm really worried about is not the Black Mark Knight, but Shion Freeman, thinking about his actions seems even more suspicious~"

"Then, Rolf and I will go to rest, and we will be ready to deal with the attacks of the Black Seal Knights!"

The two executors pushed the door and left, and Matthews looked out the window at the sergeants lined up outside the window, although this was already the safest place in Suno, he still felt that he was in danger of the strength of the Black Seal Knights, and could only sit back and wait for time to pass...... In the evening, as the storm of assassinations during the day had not yet dissipated and the entire city of Suno was still under martial law, Craggs used a clever political meeting to appease the curious people about the assassination, and then quelled the unrest of the residents, and the elite of the city were able to withdraw from the trivial tasks of maintaining law and order, and laid a net at the major crossings in the center of the city, just waiting for these mysterious assassins to appear......

A bird's-eye view of the center of Suno City, in front of the heavily guarded castle of the lord is a wide city square, fountains, fish ponds, Flower beds and other leisure facilities occupy part of the area, the rest of the area is solid marble floors, tonight's square is neatly lined up with a dozen teams of sergeants, these veterans in sleeveless armor once they perceive the attack, they will use their hammers to smash the head of each attacker, as a veteran of street fighting, Kraggs personally supervised the defensive front, and the four passages leading to the square are under their control, but Kragus is a little negligent, there are not many civilian buildings in the center of the city, and a large number of aristocratic mansions have extremely high floors, enough to cover the high walls of the castle。

"It's almost time, Thirteen! Let Fourteen and Seven snipe the four sentinels on the top floor of the castle!"

On the top floor of a tall building about 100 meters away from the castle, Odysseus looked at the changes in the night sky, when the clouds covered the bright moon, Asfa beside him raised his arms and made a gesture, and two figures holding large sniper crossbows appeared on the platform of another tall building nearby, and two crossbow arrows instantly killed the two sentries at the castle tower, and the remaining two guards were also shot through the throat in confusion, and the commanding heights of the castle had become the biggest blind spot before the attack began......

"Seven. Despite their negligence on the top floor, in order to ensure a 100% success rate, we still need a few volunteers to raid the lower floors, and this operation is under your command!"

"Are you crazy? The operation commander is you, not me, those brainless bastards, just let Ten settle down, where is he now?"

With a soft sound, someone landed on the spire of the building, and he hid everything about himself under the curtain of night, but Odysseus and Asfar still recognized him, and after a brief narrative, he determined his task and disappeared into the darkness without saying a word.

"This guy, I really don't know what's wrong with his brain, he never seems to have opened his mouth since joining us, right?" Odysseus was disgusted by Ten's silence.

Asfa, however, disagreed, saying, "He is a man of integrity, and he may be displeased by our company, but his strength is unquestionable, and I hope he may act without mercy......

"Alright, let Nine prepare the hook lock, we will occupy the commanding heights of the castle, and the operation will officially begin!

Odysseus fired a shot into the air, and while the gunfire attracted the attention of all the guards, a grappling hook with a rope across an interval of more than fifty meters hooked the tower wall, and several figures slashed from the top of the tallest building near the castle to the castle tower, and the fate plan officially began......

Ten minutes before the Assassin operation, inside the Hall of the Lord of Suno......

"General Atros, everything is ready, leaving only the upper tower as bait, just waiting for them to come and throw the net!"

After inspecting the deployment of his troops, Craggs reported the situation to Atros, analyzed the various plans of the Assassins, and worked out a strategy to lure the enemy in, but the only people who knew about it were Atros, Matthews, and Craggs.

"Alright, Count, you've done what you need to do this time, let's go to the audience?" Atros pointed to the back door of the hall.

Craggs then left the hall, and after closing the door casually, Matthews asked him, "Atros, the plan is very bold, but can you really fool them by pretending to be me......?"

"Don't worry, I've got my own way! Once they get caught, a few masters of the ambush will immediately let them have no return!And Count Craggs will lead all the guards to cut off the retreat of the remaining Assassins and promise to catch them all! Now, will you?"

Matthews smiled and nodded, turned to leave the hall, and Atros looked at the stairs leading to the second floor, grumbling, and jumped straight up the second floor, towards the safest and most dangerous common room......

"Boom, boom, boom!"

To the surprise of Atros, the fate plan was not to infiltrate the castle for assassination, but to blatantly attack the castle, after the attack of Asfar's powerful burst bomb fire, the west wall of the castle was blasted open, and the room where Atros was located was directly exposed to the eyes of the Black Seal Knights, although the guards in the castle immediately rushed to the gap to resist, but were knocked down by a rain of arrows in the smoke and dust everywhere, and then three Black Seal Knights wearing cloaks and steel swords followed the ropes hanging from the tower into the target room......

"Thanks to Thirteen's magic bullet and fourteen's archery, it didn't take much effort to get in, but where is the Pope?" the three stepped over the corpse on the ground and began to search for Matthews in the room in front of them.

"Kids, are you looking for me?"

With a flash of the sword, the three Black Seal knights were knocked to the ground by Atros's fast sword skills, and before he could confirm his life or death, Atros turned and rolled around to dodge a few bullets, and Odysseus led Destiny No. 2, No. 4, and No. 15 into the castle......

"Matthews? no...... Hell, it's a trick, it's a trap, everyone get out of here!!"

But it was too late, Atros threw the papal costume into the air as a signal for attack, and in an instant, the dragon tooth short knife in the double tooth blade pierced the chest of a knight with a black seal......

"Want to run, it's not that easy! Get past my Snow Wolf first!!"

"Why are you alone?Where did Fei go!!" There was one less person in the ambush, but he didn't know it, and Atros was angry.

"The outside has also been attacked, and there is a shortage of manpower! Let's send these two scum to the west first!!"

Oguma picked up his broadsword and attacked the remaining knights of the Black Seal in the room, and the fierce battle between the four began...... (To be continued.) )