"......" No matter how terrifying Justin said, it still didn't feel much for Lancelot and the two. www.biquge.info After all, they don't know what the so-called demon party is, how strong it is, and ...... And what does it have to do with them.

"That demon party is not as strong as the secret party, right?"

"Of course. ”

"In that case, what are you afraid of? Why don't you just send them back to their hometown?"

"Do you really think Europe is so peaceful?" Justin suddenly smiled bitterly when he heard this, "If there is only one secret party in Europe, then of course there is nothing to be afraid of." We don't like to meddle in this kind of business, so we can be excluded. Then the rest is the Roman Church and the Black Hand in the Middle East. ”

"What is the black hand?" Hearing this, Naki Sakuraba suddenly wondered.

"The Black Hand is an organization that was founded in the Middle East during the period of jihad, and unlike ******, you can think of it as a black and white organization, of course, there is no such thing as black and white in jihad. ”

"Jihad...... Are you referring to the Crusades?"

Fifty-three years after the founding of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, at the time of the Second Crusade, in 1152 C.E., to be precise. The number of the Black Hand is very small, pitiful, and it will always be fixed, only a hundred people, and if there are new members to join, it must mean that someone dies and comes to replace them. During the Second Crusade, the Black Hand not only clashed head-on with the Crusaders, but also fought against the Byzantine Empire, the Fatimids, and even the Ayyubid Dynasty, founded by Saladin. Do you know the Battle of Mongiza?"

"I don't know. To Justin's question, Naki Sakuraba answered honestly. Lancelot, on the other hand, looked confused, completely unaware of what they were talking about. After all, he is completely ignorant of the history of the human world.

"The Battle of Mongiza, in which more than 3,000 Jerusalem knights and more than 100 Templars led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem confronted Saladin's 20,000 ****** troops, was won by an overwhelming victory in which Saladin was safely evacuated under the protection of his own Mamluk guard. 4,000 men against more than 20,000 men, although the Egyptian army was caught off guard by a sneak attack, but no matter what, it was impossible to achieve such a great victory, right? You must know that the Egyptian army lost about 20,000 people, while Baldwin IV only lost more than 1,000 Jerusalem knights and a few dozen Templars. The gap between the two sides is more than ten to one. ”

"You're saying there was a black hand involved in that battle?"

"That's right. Baldwin IV set out to defend against Saladin's imminent attack on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and to lead his army to Ascalon to strengthen its defenses. Before that, he had already been in contact with the Black Hand, so in that war, there were actually more than 30 members of the Black Hand who accompanied him. This, combined with the excellent command of Baldwin IV and Renard, and the carelessness of Saladin's army, led to victory. Without any of these links, the final outcome will be the defeat of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. ”

"......" Regarding what Justin said, Naki Sakuraba didn't say anything.

After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in the subsequent crusades, the Black Hand has always appeared, but its presence is very low and has never been recorded in the history books. The Black Hand themselves are also known for their stealth actions, so this is in line with their style. ”

"You said so much, what does the black hand have to do with the secret party?"

"I don't know. ”

"You don't know, ...... you talk about these things?"

"I mean, I don't know what kind of friction is going on between the black hand and the secret party. However, the only thing that is certain is that they are at odds with the secret party. The Black Hand operates in the Middle East, and the territory of the Nophile family happens to be the closest to the Middle East. As a result, they can feel the threat from the black hand more deeply than Rimmel is under pressure from the church. After all, the Church of Rome had an agreement with the Secret Order, and as long as they vampires didn't do anything, the Church wouldn't do anything to them. ”

"Agreements?"

"Didn't the Knights Templar disbanded in 1312 and completely destroyed in 1314 when the last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake? Although they had disappeared for hundreds of years and seemed to have suffered a much worse fate than the other two major knights, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, those two orders had now essentially become an organization similar to the Red Cross, and they were made up of ordinary people rather than real paladins. The Knights Templar, on the other hand, were nothing like them. The Knights Templar only numbered a few hundred people, but among them were the top field priests and paladins in the church, as well as a handful of exorcists. For the vampires, the threat posed by this Knights Templar of a few hundred men was far more dangerous than that of the Church of Rome, which had more than 10,000 people. ”

"However, there is still a ...... between them"

"The Knights Templar have always been unhappy with the compromise agreement between the Pope and the Esoteric Order. In the event that the demons return to Europe and go to war with the Esoteric Order, the Grand Master of the Templar Order will most likely threaten the Pope to lift the truce with the Esoteric and resume the holy war against the vampires. As for the black hands, as I said earlier, they are a time bomb that will explode at any time. ”

"In other words, the invasion of the Demon Party means that the secret party will fall into a situation where the enemy will be attacked on three sides in the future?"

"The possibilities are very high. ”

"But this has nothing to do with your retreat, right?" asked Lancelot, who was on the side, suddenly.

"Of course it's not about us, and we're not going to get involved in it. Hearing this, Justin suddenly shrugged his shoulders and said, "Be reasonable, if you didn't come to arrest me, I wouldn't have told me about it." The Retreat Society has no grievances with the Demon Party, the Church, and the Black Hand, and we can't leave Europe if we can't live in a fixed place, and it won't have any effect. But...... Now is the time, so I will tell you, and I hope you will remind the lord of the House of Maikáveh that he may mention it at the Camarilla Council, or at least at the highest assembly in Venice......" (To be continued.) )