The royal city of Haiyin Sturm was immersed in a rain and mist, and the rain kept falling, and the sky seemed to vent its sorrow.

In the palace chamber, Ling Yue, Billy Winmir, and Princess Yueying are discussing countermeasures. News of the Thieves' Guild had already reached Hyinstem before Neo Leigh, and its arrival made Billy Winmir, who had not yet set out, mixed with the joy that his mount, the Wyvern Silvermoon, had escaped the clutches of Cal Ivan and the worries about the safety of the Knights and the Wyverns.

"Karl Ivan shouldn't hurt the knights, his purpose must be more than just to destroy the Wyvern Knights, after all, this is the only Wyvern army in the history of the continent, I think, he wants to be able to use it more for himself, if he masters the Wyvern Knights, our confrontation with him will be completely defeated. ”

Billy Winmir agreed with Lingyue's analysis, but he knew that it would not be easy to control the Wyvern Knights, and Karl Ivan had never been in contact with Wyverns, and without experience in dragon taming, it was impossible to control the Knights' well-trained Wyverns, but the Wyverns were indeed under his control, which made Billy Winmir wonder.

"The letter from the Thieves' Guild says that the escaped dragon knight had said that Cal Ivan was carrying a purple crystal ball, and his control of the dragons seemed to be related to the crystal ball, maybe some kind of magic treasure?" Princess Yueying, who was sitting next to Billy Winmir, carefully examined each word with the letter in her hands, and her reminder made the two men think of something in unison.

"Could it be...... Dragon Soul Stone?"

"What is the Dragon Soul Stone?" Yue Ying asked curiously, looking up at the surprised expressions on the faces of the two of them.

"The Dragon Soul Stone is a purple crystal ball, which is said to have been fought between elves and dragons. Elven elders and priests sealed the souls of a thousand dragons with a purple crystal stone unique to the Normandelic forests, known to the outside world as elven ore, of course. The power of the seal is the soul of more dead elven warriors and magicians, and it is said that it also includes the soul power of the elven chief archmage Charling. This gives the Dragon Soul Stone the power to control the dragons, and those who own it can easily control any dragon. Of course, the dragon in the three caves of Gorubas is an exception, due to the magical power formed in the dragon cave for a long time, not only can the dragon not be controlled there, but the dragon's soul may also be released and become uncontrollable. ”

Billy Winmille's explanation was affirmed by Ling Yue, who rose from his soft chair. Pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back and pondering, he said: "If it is really the Dragon Soul Stone, things will get very bad, the dragons controlled by the Dragon Soul Stone will lose themselves and become slaves of the master, and it is impossible for any force to awaken them, unless they can take back the Dragon Soul Stone from Karl Ivan and remove the magic power from it." He stopped, looking up at Billy Winmill and Moonlight. The two of them were also looking at him, and the three faces showed similar uneasiness and hesitation.

"High Priest!"

Ling Yue glanced back at the soldier who had come to him quickly, and immediately realized what he was about to report, so she made a gesture to stop him from continuing to speak. Turning back, Billy Winmill and Yueying said, "Both, this matter is extraordinary, and it needs to be considered in the long run. Please go back first, and we'll take a moment to think about it. Maybe we can figure out a way to deal with Kari Ivan and then discuss it. How?" The two of them saw the performance of Ling Yue and the soldiers, and quietly got up and agreed, and left.

"Tell me, what's the situation?" After the two left, Ling Yue glanced at the closed door and beckoned to the soldier, who stepped forward and reported in a low voice: "Chief High Priest, just now I was outside the room of Deputy Captain Feng Ling, and I saw Miss Si'er knock on his door and enter the room. ”

"Si'er......" Ling Yue pondered for a moment, waved her hand to the soldier, and said, "It's none of your business, don't mention it to others." The soldier retreated. Ling Yue's footsteps followed the soldiers out of the hall, and her hurried steps left no sound in the empty corridor, only the hem of her golden robe swayed in the dim light of the candle flame, until her feet stopped at the door of Feng Ling's room.

There was a faint sound in the room, but Ling Yue, who had her ear on the door, was sure that she had arrived at the right time.

"Why let him go?" Si'er's voice was full of resentment, as if she was facing someone more hateful than Kaish.

"What a 'Red Maple Blade'!" After a short silence, Si'er gritted her teeth and sneered, opposite her, Feng Ling stood at the door of the balcony, clenched her teeth, still silent, letting Si'er's cold gaze sweep contemptuously across her face.

"We've known each other for a while!" Si'er turned away from him, but Kaede couldn't help but turn to her, he didn't know what she was going to say, but whatever she brought up wouldn't be what he wanted to hear. I heard her continue: "Although we don't have a deep friendship, you should know very well about our sisters," she suddenly turned to Kaede, and her voice became softer: "I know you sympathize with us, and you still try to help us," she suddenly became angry again, and let out a low roar at him, "But why did you let go of Cal Ivan at the most critical moment!"

Kaede was speechless, Si'er was right, it was indeed he who let Karl Ivan go, and it was he who released the crucial arrow just as Billy Winmill stabbed the fatal sword. Although he only shot an arrow and did not intend to harm Billy Winmir, he did help Calivan escape. When the green dragon asked him to stop Karl Ivan again, he stabbed Karl Ivan in the shoulder with a false sword, and deliberately fell backwards just before the two sides made physical contact, allowing him to escape from the main hall.

"Why? You know that leaving him will put everyone in danger, you know that you may harm everyone, he has already hurt the king, he may also hurt the duke, Ling Yue, and all of us, are you really willing to sell your soul to that devil?!" Si'er's sharp question made Feng shudder. Hearing her mention the Duke, the struggle and pain that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time suddenly exploded, and Kaede slammed her fist against the wall beside her, so that several cracks were left on the wall.

Si'er looked at it coldly. Kaede's actions didn't impress her, and killing Cal Ivan was something that she had been thinking about for a long time. When she was about to succeed, she was destroyed by the man in front of her, and she couldn't forgive him.

"How long do you want to step on two boats like this? You have only two outcomes, first, Duke Hunter and the entire kingdom will be buried in your hands. Feng looked back at her resentfully, but Si'er did not shy away from looking him in the eyes, and said in a stiff tone: "The second is that your affairs will be exposed, and you will be ruined in front of the duke!"

"Shut up!" Feng suddenly rushed towards Si'er in a frenzy, and his powerful hand grabbed her neck fiercely, and Si'er's face suddenly turned red from being unable to breathe. But she still stared at Kaede without fear, and said breathlessly: "You can kill me, and then, and then give me a crime of collusion and collusion with Karl Yiwen, and you will become a hero of the kingdom, and Karl Yiwen will praise and praise you," she smiled sadly, and said angrily: "I'm not afraid of death, as long as Xin'er is okay, I, it doesn't matter." Come on, as long as you can make your conscience and conscience passable!"

Kaede's eyes stared at her for a long time, and for a moment, the flickering death in those charming eyes made him feel so powerless. This woman who seems to have her fate in her own hands, but in fact, she is in control of her own destiny, and she can kill her. But things will eventually be revealed, and you will be ruined. Until then. Do you want to face Sakura as a sinner? Even if the matter will not be revealed, how can you appease the breathless conscience that has long been weighed down by guilt? I dare to look at the dream again. Beloved Sakura's crystal clear and pure eyes?

Kaede's hand loosened, and he fell to his knees in despair, covering his face with his hands, crying like a child. Si'er rubbed her aching neck and sat weakly on the soft chair next to her, wheezing. It was so quiet that only Kaede's crying drifted intermittently.

"I'm sorry, I know I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for your sisters who were persecuted by Karl Ivan, I'm sorry for the Duke and Lingyue who worked hard for the country, I'm sorry for Qinglong and his friends who have been risking their lives to fight against Karl Ivan, and I'm sorry for Your Majesty. At the beginning, Karl Ivan had murderous intentions towards the Duke. At that time, he was not yet a duke, and Karl Ivan planned to select a man from his 'shadow knights' organization to approach the duke and let him use the duke to infiltrate the rebels. So he chose me. That night, when Karl Ivan heard that the Duke and Lingyue were planning to assassinate Mondstake V, he asked me to pose as an Assassin as well, and then directed a scene to round up the Assassins, which convinced me to join the Rebellion with him. Later, when the rebels breached the capital, Karl Ivan was unable to regain the capital due to the loss of his forces due to the fierce battle with the Duke of Ou Rui, so he led his army to retreat and lie dormant in anticipation. He has two inside lines in the Resistance, one is me and the other is Kesh, hoping that we will help him create an opportunity for a counter-offensive. ”

"Since then, I have been staying with the Duke, Cal Ivan has asked me to murder the Duke several times, but I have tried every means to sabotage his plans, I really don't want to harm anyone, I am sincere to the Duke......" Speaking of this, Kaede hid his face again and wept, crying silently.

Si'er looked at the man in front of him who held military power, and nodded secretly. She knew that it would be easy for Kaede to help Carl Ivan if she wanted to.

"I understand that when I was around Carl Ivan, I often saw him lashing out and yelling at you in front of his subordinates for not doing things well, and I knew you weren't a bad person. However, you know that Karl Ivan is a demon, and in order to protect himself, he even cares about the relationship between father and son, why don't you take the opportunity to get rid of him and get rid of his control over you?" Si'er's expression was still indifferent, but her tone was a little softer.

Kaede let out a helpless sigh, he slowly stood up, his arm gently leaned against the wall, and said dejectedly: "Sometimes, I want to do this too, but if it wasn't for Karl Ivan back then, our whole family, my sister, would have been all over!" He glanced at Si'er, who was looking at him with a curious and scrutinizing gaze, waiting for him to tell him everything honestly.

"My home is in the northern part of the Eden territory, in a small village near the border," Feng Ling sighed lightly, as if every word in her words was full of melancholy, "My father is a blacksmith and has a good reputation in the village, and my mother and sister are also kind and simple people, and they get along very well with the villagers. Originally, my life was peaceful, but when I was twenty years old. Bad luck befell our house suddenly. One night, there was a knock on the door of the blacksmith's shop. Claiming to be a mercenary, he is going to rescue people in distress. I needed a few weapons, my father heard that he was going to save people, so he kindly opened the door, but unexpectedly, a group of gangsters took the opportunity to rush in and put my father to the ground, I rushed up to fight with them, but they grabbed my parents and sister and threatened each other, I had to put down my weapons, they beat me up and tied me up. ”

"The gangsters looted my family's money. I swore to the death of my sister, but how could she, a weak woman, fight those vicious murderers? Seeing that my sister was about to be humiliated, but there was nothing I could do, I really might as well die. ”

"At this moment, a group of people in black cloaks suddenly rushed outside the door, a series of knife flashes, all the gangsters died in a pool of blood, and the black-clothed people cut the ropes on our bodies. We were rescued when a tall and handsome man walked in from outside, and my father and I hurriedly stepped forward to thank him for saving our lives. I learned that he was Prince Karl Ivan . ”

"Because of the remoteness of my hometown, I don't know anything about the affairs of the outside world, and Karl Ivan himself is very mysterious. So I didn't know anything about him, and I saw him as a lifesaver. He was also very kind and kind and appreciated me. Asked me if I would like to follow him on the path of punishing evil and eliminating adultery, of course I was duty-bound, and in this way, I became his confidant,"

"It wasn't until later, when I was ordered to sneak up on the Duke's side, that I gradually learned about Karilvan's evil deeds, but Calivan was so kind to my family that even if he was a traitor, I could not turn a deaf ear to his death...... But I don't want to and can't betray the duke, on the one hand, it's the grace of saving my life, and on the other hand, it's the feeling of knowing it, and I can't part with both sides, and I've been struggling and suffering. ”

"Stupid!" Si'er's rebuke stunned Feng, and he raised his head and looked at Si'er blankly.

"Do you really think that your whole family, your sister, was saved by Karl Ivany?"

Facing Si'er's questioning, Kaede's brain went blank, for more than ten years, he had never doubted this, but now this question suddenly appeared in front of him, making him at a loss, he suddenly remembered that Si'er was the closest person to Karl Evan, did she know anything?

Si'er read the question from his gaze, and she looked at the simple man in front of her sympathetically, feeling that he was a little pitiful.

"Twelve years ago, when I was fifteen years old, under the persecution of Karl Ivan, I had just learned the dark magic and started to do something for him. Karl Ivan has always been very conceited, and it is his usual domineering attitude that makes many people afraid of him, and they dare not even look at him squarely. At that time, our sister was only a lamb in his hand, and he never took us seriously, so he did not shy away from me about anything, but let me know a lot of secrets. She paused for a moment and glanced at the expression on Kaede's face, Kaede's eyebrows were tightly locked, her expression was solemn, and she waited for the next step with a look of apprehension and longing. She continued: "At that time, though you were still unknown, the Duke of Hunter and the High Priest of Lingyue were already famous—although they did not have their present titles at that time—and Karl Ivan tried to win them over, but not only did they fail, but even those who were sent were killed by the Duke, and the enmity between the two sides was thus concluded. ”

Later, when Karl heard that the Duke was looking for the traces of the leader of the rebels, Geist, he came up with a plan: to send someone to gain the trust of the duke, so as to follow him into the rebels as a spy, and then find an opportunity to eliminate the duke and the rebels. Even if he can't kill the duke, he can put the charge of being a spy on his head and make him ruined. Si'er saw that Kaede's eyes began to burn, but there was still a little doubt, she remained silent and continued: "But Karl Ivan has found several subordinates, and they all feel that it is not suitable, which makes him distressed for a while. Later, one of his men passed by your town and overheard your story, so he came back to report it to Karilvan, for which he personally went to observe you in the vicinity of your house. After observing for a few days, he felt that you were simple and simple, of pure temperament, without the slightest sign of treachery, and that your approach to the Duke would not arouse suspicion. So he started thinking about how to entrap you, and then he finally came up with a solution, which happened to your whole family that day. ”

Feng looked at Si'er in disbelief, and couldn't believe his ears: "But that day, I saw with my own eyes that he and his people simply killed one of the gangsters and didn't leave any of them, and asked them to be pulled out and burned to ashes, isn't this also ......?"

"Hahahaha," Kaede looked at Si'er in surprise and smiled sarcastically, dazed and didn't understand what he said wrong. Si'er's smile gradually condensed into a sneer, and asked mockingly: "You have known Karl Yiwen for many years, and you really don't know anything about him?" Then let me ask you, from the time the gangsters began to commit violence against your sister, to the time when Karl Yiwen appeared, the time in between is not short, your sister is a weak girl, facing a few tough bandits, even if she struggles hard, how can she keep her reputation? Obviously, they are just putting on a show. As for Karvin Even, what pity is there for him to kill a few of his men to achieve his goal?

Kaede leaned against the wall dejectedly, unable to accept this fact for a while. For more than ten years, although he has seen Carl Ivan do a lot of bad things, he always thinks that he still really appreciates himself, and always cares about his life-saving and knowing grace in his heart, but Si'er's words completely broke his dream.

Si'er leaned back on the back of the chair, looked up at the ceiling with his hands on his chest, and sighed softly thoughtfully: "Karl Ivan is a very complicated person, he is good at taking advantage of other people's feelings, which is also his most despicable place, for people with strength and a sense of justice, he uses favors to make you die for him, for weak people, he uses threats and persecution to make the other party submit, your gratitude to him is completely foolish, if one day you are useless, he will not hesitate to abandon you, just like those subordinates who were burned to the ground by him." (To be continued......)