In the Chamber of Wind Chimes, after more than half a year, Victor sees Oroxia again.

Her appearance and temperament have not changed, she is still so cute and beautiful, but the green brilliance in her eyes has disappeared, and her eyes are like a blue and pure clear sky, and her own characteristics have become ordinary, just like a gentle and lovely aristocratic girl.

Victor couldn't help but think of Sylvia when he saw the current Orokxia. At first, her smile was indistinguishable from that of a beautiful noblewoman, and without X-3, it would be difficult for Victor to detect the perfection concealed by his extraordinary will.

The same is true of Oroksia today, where the will conceals perfection as a means of restraint, and restraint reflects her perfect control over her supernatural powers.

This is the external characteristic that distinguishes the Legendary Knight from the Golden Knight.

Legend is a kind of realm, and the realm cannot be simply equated with combat effectiveness. Because such an expression is too superficial, if you have to use one word to describe the legendary realm, "freedom" should be more appropriate.

It's as if Victor is a powerhouse in the Sanctuary, theoretically, ordinary knights can cut off his head, but in reality it is almost impossible. He has too many means to go beyond the limits of a knight.

The freedom realm of the legendary knight can also be understood as Oroxia has mastered the higher authority of the world origin. From then on, she directly mobilized the Void Element from the Elemental Sea, and as long as she did not exceed her own authority, she did not have to worry about being assimilated by the Elemental Sea.

In a sense, Oroxia was luckier than Sylvia.

Ordinary people are compared to power, status, and wealth, knights, clergy, and wizards are compared to extraordinary strength, and the top transcendents above the Golden Rank are superior to those who are superior to the realm.

The laws of the Tyrone world can be divided into two types, one is the Origin Law, which represents the "root", that is, the Elemental Sea, and the other is the Reality Law, which represents the "trunk, branches, and leaves". The law of roots is loose, the law of reality is tight, the human knight points to the root law of the world, and Victor points to the law of reality of the world.

Any living creature that tries to gain access to the law will be in great danger. Judging from the difficulty of obtaining the authority of the law, the human knights of the native species will undoubtedly be much easier, which is why the number of human transcendent knights is much higher than that of other powerhouses above the silver rank of the intelligent species.

Although the transcendent beings who follow the laws of reality are generally more powerful than the transcendent knights, they can hardly break free from the constraints of bloodline instincts, and there is no "freedom" at all. For example, the Sword Saint Draven was the best and dominated an era, but in the end, he still obeyed the blood instinct of the sun elves and left the human realm to find his elven kindred.

Victor broke free from the shackles of the law of blood, and Miller almost called him a "blasphemer". His combat power cannot be compared with that of the sword saint Draven three thousand years ago, and in terms of their respective realms, Draven can only bow to Victor.

His Highness Randall declared the Fury Wind Sword Saint, and he deserved it.

Orokthea has just been promoted to legend, and it is the time when she is full of ambition and pride. Victor doesn't mind showing her his realm so that he can fight for a higher position in the rest of the conversation.

Under the influence of the talent of the soul of the mist, Victor's dark golden eyes returned to pitch black, and the supernatural returned to the ordinary. Oroccia's mouth was half open, and her surprised appearance was particularly cute.

Although she couldn't understand the mystery, she didn't think that Victor's power was declining, and the only explanation was that the other party was able to freely control the bloodline talent, which made it unpredictable and became more threatening.

He is worthy of being a powerhouse in the Sanctuary...... Oroxia was secretly impressed, and regained her usual calm and serenity, and curtsied her knees, "Your Highness Randall, on behalf of the Barcelius family, I congratulate you on your promotion to the Fury Wind Sword Saint, and rejoice in your extraordinary achievements. The Barcelius family will soon have a congratulatory gift. ”

Victor leaned over gracefully, held up Oroxia's small hand, kissed her delicate fingers, and said with a smile: "Cousin Oroxia, on behalf of the Kingdom of Gambis, I congratulate you on your promotion to Legend, and I will also prepare a congratulatory gift for you. ”

"Oh, the Furious Wind Swordmaster's congratulatory gift must be extraordinary, and I'm looking forward to it. Orokthea tilted her head to look at Victor, pursed her lips and smiled, "No wonder Sylvia specially asked Sophia to warn me that I was not allowed to fight your idea." You've probably been trying to overcome the shortcomings of the Sun Elves bloodline a long time ago. Now, you should be able to stay in the human realm, stay in the kingdom of Cambys, right?"

Victor smiled and changed the subject and asked, "Sophia is still in the Duchy of Barcelius?"

Oroxia shook her head lightly and said, "With your wisdom, you should be able to understand that the Church and the Lord of Sarsan do not want the barbarians to leave the Arret Plateau and participate in the wars that belong to humanity unless they are forced to do so. Before the Centaur Great Khan counterattacked the eastern defenses, Patriarch Friedes asked Sophia to take refuge in the Arret Plateau with her Barbarian followers. Sophia had returned from the end of the war, and she was stationed in the Bronze Halberd City, where she received a letter from the Centaur Hills and told me what Sylvia meant. ”

Sophia stops at Halberd City and receives a letter from Sylvia...... Victor suddenly realized that Sylvia was going to send the rock bricks to him as an important weight, so that he could cope with the next changes.

"When the snow melts, I'll go to Bronze Halberd City to see my wife. Victor nodded indifferently, and said with more confidence in his heart: "Your Highness, I asked Andrea to send a message to the Barcelius family, and I want to see the beast wizard...... But in this secret room, apart from you and me, there are only two secret law guards...... It's a living person. ”

Oroksia puffed out her cheeks, her expression was helpless, she tilted her head sideways, and said, "I brought you the person you want to see, go in and have a look." ”

After saying that, she was the first to walk into the inner room.

In the vault, two secret guardians of the Barcelius family saluted Oroksia and Victor respectfully, and stood beside them with expressionless faces.

Victor glanced at them, turning his gaze to the table in the center of the room, on which lay a headless corpse. Despite the deceased's lack of a head, his physical characteristics match the physical details of the orcing wizard recorded by X-3. Victor confirms that the deceased is the wizard he met in the Eagle's Nest Forest.

The wizard's head was not cut off by a sharp blade, and the radiating wound in his neck indicated that he had died of an implosion in his skull. This reminds Victor of Mercury's capture of a Kamen Brotherhood wizard in Ascending Rock City, and that the wizard's head explodes when Todd and Barol torture him with psychedelic potions.

Of course, any Silver Knight with an elemental affinity can make a weak wizard's head burst. However, Victor also believes that the chances of the Barcelius family exterminating the Beast Whisperers are slim. Some time ago, he was in the Holy Helm City in the savannah, and through Andrea's channel, he expressed his intention to meet the Beast Whisperer, which was not a mandatory requirement. Oroxia could have ignored Victor, there was no need for her to kill people first, and then transport the body to Wind Chimes to show Victor herself.

This is all a provocation to humiliate His Highness Randall in person.

There is only one possibility, and things are out of the control of the Barcelius family.

Orokthea would rather risk misunderstanding His Highness Randall than bring the corpse of the beast whisperer, which in itself was an expression of sincerity. She admits to Victor that the Barcelius family is connected to a wizarding organization, but that they work together to use each other, not master and slave.

In any case, the dead don't speak, Victor wants the living, and Oroxia brings a corpse.

Victor's eyes turned dark gold again, carefully examined the corpse, nodded, and said expressionlessly, "It's okay, let's talk in another place." ”

The two highnesses went to Andrea's lounge prepared in advance, and the secret guardians of the Barcelius family also followed, and Victor couldn't help but look at them again, and after sitting down on the single sofa, he said, "Cousin Orokxia, what do you have to say?" ”

Knowing that she was wrong, Oroxia glanced at Victor, who had an indifferent expression, bit her pink lips, and said in a soft voice: "Cousin Victor, I hope we can talk openly and honestly, and before you ask me to explain, you should tell me what happened in the Giant Wood Forest a few months ago?"

Victor raised his eyebrows and asked with a cold smile, "Just with a corpse of unknown origin, you ask me to explain what happened in the Giant Wood Forest first, and then I can listen to you make up a story?"

Orooksia thought for a moment, smiled and said, "Okay. I'll explain first, as to whether I'm making up a story or not, let His Highness Randall judge for himself. ”

"Cousin Victor, have you heard of the Shadow Priest?"

The Shadow Council is indeed a secret organization of the Radiant Church....... but I didn't expect that the wizards of the Shadow Council had such a deep relationship with the church that they would dare to call themselves priests...... Victor mused, and at the same time he did not show any strangeness on his face, neither nodding nor shaking his head.

Oroxia didn't expect Victor to show her mouth, and continued: "The great families that have been inherited for thousands of years have all guessed that the church is secretly raising wizards. The reason is simple, the people of the El Nation are all descendants of the clergy, and for a long time, the young wizards born in the El have been taken away by the Church. At first, the Guardians of Light under Nakhtigar were tasked with cleaning up the El Wizards. After that, it was taken over by the Inquisition in Trigovar. ”

"No lord knows where the young wizard born in El ends up, but the detention of the Little Wizard by the Guardian of Light or the Inquisition is not a covert operation. We at the Barcelius family believe that it is impossible for the Radiant Church to purify the descendants of the clergy simply and directly....... this order was initiated by the papal lineage, and it is not forgotten that the Inquisition was also formed by the Pope. The purpose of the Pope's establishment of the Inquisition was to suppress the aristocratic forces inside and outside the Church, and to break through the crime of cultivating wizards. ”

"We of the Barcelius family are first-hand witnesses of the Pantheon Rebellion more than 1,500 years ago. ”

"We have reason to believe that the man behind the wizards of the Pantheon is the Pope. ”

Empress Verotica and Sword Saint Draven have twins, two brothers who are the heirs of the Iron Mountain royal family, and they take turns to hold the throne every other generation, each with two powerful descendants. By the middle and late stages of the Iron Mountain Empire, the succession system of the Barcelius royal family was broken. With the assistance of the Testiel family, one line, Barcelius, held the imperial throne for a long time, while the other gradually moved away from the center of power in the empire and retained the title of Grand Duke of the Empire.

Orokasia and Ursaine were the ones who were driven out of the imperial capital.

Victor asked curiously, "It is rumored that Grand Duke Barcelius once cooperated with the wizards of the Pantheon with the intention of regaining the imperial throne...... So, it was the pope back then who secretly instructed the Pantheon to help the Grand Duke of Barcelius?"

Oroxia nodded with a serious expression and said, "I can't disclose the specific details. As you can imagine, the Testiel Paladins were at their peak and had made great achievements, and both the Knights of Radiance and the Templars revered their orders. The Iron Mountain royal family worked closely with Testil militarily, but there was still opposition within the empire, and they gathered under the command of the Grand Duke's ancestors. The Grand Duke of Barcelius has certainly become a thorn in the side of the Knights of Radiance. ”

In the same way, the close relationship between Testil and the Iron Mountain royal family also aroused the jealousy of the pope. At the very least, Tystiel helped many low-blooded Iron Mountain nobles to enter the church, making many civilian clergy very uncomfortable. ”

At this point, many things have become clear.

Victor refers to human wizards as law-affinities, and in addition to their possession of supernatural powers, they also have the status of scholars. Originally a timid vassal, Wizard Emerson of Pinghu now lives without food and clothing, and with Victor's protection, he begins to delve into his talent for witchcraft, from which he has learned a lot of useful knowledge. For example, he helped Victor solve the mystery of the alienated creatures, from which Victor determined the relationship between the soul and the bloodline, laying an important basic theory for the secret method of the soul and bloodline. Emerson himself has ventured into the field of animal taming and has achieved many valuable results.

How can an ordinary scholar be like Imerson and simply breed three generations of swift birds, Randall horses, Randall war dogs, and blue-eyed eagles?

Knowledge is the embodiment of the law of power, and whoever controls the wizard can interpret and master the power of the law.

The great nobles of the Iron Mountain Empire all nurture wizards, and wizards can and need cooperation with each other. The wizards of the Pantheon are in collusion with the Grand Duke of Barcelius, and they naturally have common interests with the other great families of the Empire.

During the Pope's reign, the only great force that did not support wizards was probably the Knights of Radiance. Because the little wizards of the El Sect were all taken over by the Pope.

"I remember that at the end of the Iron Mountain Empire, a wizard caused a great plague that killed about 80,000 people. Shortly after the incident, a noble priest publicly proposed to supervise wizards, the general content of which was that the church should no longer blindly purify wizards, and let them voluntarily accept the constraints of the church, rather than hide in the shadows. This bold priest angered His Majesty the Pope, and the Holy See immediately set up the Inquisition and executed him. The first chief judge was the legendary paladin Bethel of the Testier family. ”

"The priest executed by the Inquisition is actually a noble son who supports the royal line of Barcelius, right?"

"Yes!"

Oroksia nodded very happily in acknowledgement, and said, "At that time, the Iron Mountain Empire was divided into two factions, the royal family supported by the Knights of Radiance and my ancestor, the Grand Duke of Barcelius. The Pope did not explicitly support the Patriarchs, but the Pantheon made contact with the Patriarchs during that period. The Pantheon's legacy is a great attraction for wizards, who have a fair share of status in the major families, even if they don't see the light. ”

"This is an advantage that the Knights of Radiance do not have. With the enlivening of the Pantheon, they not only gathered many wild wizards, but also infiltrated the empire's large families, helping the Grand Duke's ancestors to secretly form alliances with many imperial lords. Feeling the pressure, Testil and the royal family took advantage of the Great Plague to arrange for a noble priest to propose a new wizarding policy, targeting the Pantheon and the papal line behind the Pantheon, of course. ”

That temptation was not enough to prove the Pope's relationship with the Pantheon, but it also made the Pope determined to remove Tystir from the throne of the head of the Radiant Knights. The Holy See formed the Inquisition, with Bethel Testier as the first Presiding Inquisition, and the first order he received was to execute the noble priest. ”

"The Pope's countermeasures can be called vicious, but Testil got what they wanted - to fight the Pantheon Wizarding Order. This may have been a conspiracy on the part of the Pope, as the Families were gradually pitted against Tystiel under the blows of the Inquisition. However, the Pope did not expect the Pantheon to get out of his control. The archmover Blair and the brothers were born, and the core of the Pantheon was marginalized, and in order to fight against the persecution of the Inquisition, the wild wizards gathered in the Pantheon were led by the Blair sisters and brothers. The major families also secretly reported the news for the Pantheon and made trouble for the Inquisition. ”

Oroxia smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "The ancestors thought that they could control Blair and the Pantheon by means of love for their own use. The original core members of the Pantheon were also alienated by him, but the Blair siblings killed Bethel and the elite of the Inquisition, and things became out of control, and the ancestors had to compromise with the Pope and let Blair's lover lead the Blair siblings and the backbone of the Pantheon into the trap Jedi. ”

"You know the rest of the story. ”

"The Pope fell in the Wizarding Wars, the Pope lost his throne, the Knights of Radiance took control of the Holy See, and the Grand Duke of Barcelius was exiled to the west, but instead survived the turbulent years and became the only remaining Barcelius royal bloodline. Victor nodded, and instead asked, "In this story of yours, what happened to the original core members of the Pantheon?"

Oroksia smiled and said, "As you can imagine, they are under the command of the Knights of Radiance, the forerunner of the Shadow Priest. ”

She straightened her slender and well-proportioned legs, put her delicate boots on the sofa table, adjusted a comfortable sitting position, paused, and said with emotion: "What I am talking about is recorded in the family documents, and there are speculations. But I am sure that wizards with supernatural powers breed ambition and are not easy to control, especially in the church. Because, we can give the identity and bloodline of the wizard nobles, but the church can't. ”

Victor's eyes twinkled, and he asked, "So, the Shadow Priest approached the Barcelius family, what do they want?"

"Break free from Trigovar's control, walk in the sun, and become a shadow priest recognized by the Church. Oroxia smiled sarcastically and said, "It's a very naïve ideal, although the human kingdom is large, it can't accommodate another extraordinary political force. What's more, no one wants the Pantheon Rebellion to be repeated. ”

Victor thought for a moment, then looked up and said, "The unrealistic ideal just shows that the Shadow Priest is firmly sealed and isolated from the world by Trigovar. How did they get in touch with Barcelius, and if they were able to contact the Barcelius family secretly, indicating that they had a channel of communication with the outside world, why did the Shadow Priest be so naïve to believe that the great nobles were willing to support them? It's contradictory, isn't it?"

Oroxia sat up straight, her eyes bright, and said, "It's a wild wizard...... Trigovar is apparently using some of the Shadow Priest's abilities to rein in the wild wizards of the kingdoms. There is an indication that there is a shell beyond the Shadow Priests, who call themselves the Council of Shadows. The wild wizards controlled by the Shadow Council come from a low background, know nothing about aristocratic politics, and dream of joining a large family and becoming a member of the nobility. ”

"That beast wizard is the wild wizard of the Shadow Council. As for the Council of Shadows, he's said everything he can say. ”

Victor asked knowingly, "Is there anything else you can't say?"

"Bang!" Oroxia clenched her small fists, released her five fingers, simulated the appearance of her head exploding, and smiled, "If the Shadow Priest dares to send him, he is not afraid that he will reveal the real secret." ”

Victor flicked his fingers and said lightly: "You can't force him to die, but he still dies." ”

Oroxia sighed and said, "He wasn't the only one who died. The wild wizards sent by the Shadow Priest were all dead, just ten days ago...... After Howard Turstir was promoted to legend. ”

"Grand Master Tystiel promoted to Legendary?" asked Victor in surprise.

"It has not been officially announced. But the news is conclusive, in addition to Howard's promotion to legend, the Knights of Radiance have added three more highnesses. Oroksia nodded, then shook her head and said, "The current strength of the Radiant Knights is impressive. ”

Victor was also speechless, and this victory made the Knights of Radiance the biggest winner.

Also a great lord, Oroxia understood Victor's mood at the moment, and said with a smile: "We are all beneficiaries of this war. And the Shadow Priest lost completely, and ironically, as soon as Tystir was promoted to Legendary, he was impatient to let Trigovar kill the wild wizards of the Shadow Council. This made me more and more convinced that this inexplicable orc war was secretly promoted by the Shadow Priests, who led the centaurs to a dead end, and that they were the ones who were most responsible for defeating the centaurs and taking over new territories. ”

Victor frowned and said, "I suspected that the Knights of Radiance had designed this orc war...... But according to what you say, the Knights of Radiance did not know about the actions planned by the Shadow Priest, and just followed the trend. However, Trigovar was able to get the Shadow Priest to kill the wild wizards on the outskirts, indicating that the Shadow Priest was still under the control of the Inquisition. Isn't that a contradiction?"

"You suspect me of lying......"

Oroxia pursed her lips aggrievedly, and tried to explain: "You see, the action planned by the Shadow Priest is in the interests of the Radiant Knights, if it is not colluded in advance, it can only be that they have the same way of acting - the way of the clergy - to destroy the orc monsters and maintain the safety of the human realm. The education of the clergy in the Kingdom of El can make the Shadow Priest think so and do the same. Under the premise of redeeming believers, why can't Shadow Priest vindicate himself?"

"Furthermore, there are certainly different voices within an organization. Some of the shadow priests wanted to walk in the sun, but many more obeyed the Inquisition. ”

"If His Highness is still suspicious of the Barcelius family. I can show the utmost sincerity. ”

Oroxia stood up, clapped her hands, and instructed the two arcane guards, "You two show your supernatural abilities to His Highness Randall. ”