There was no one in the long and lonely corridor, and the flames of the torches on the wall danced, which seemed very faint in this dark corridor, and the walls on both sides of the corridor were made of dark brown masonry, giving people an eerie feeling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At every distance between the corridors there was a wooden door leading out of nowhere, and the black paint on the door was mostly peeled off and full of scratches, so it was a little out of place for such a broken door to appear in such a noble place.

At the end of the hallway was a door, but unlike the rotten wooden doors on either side of the hallway, it was surprisingly large, stretching from the ground to the ceiling of this floor, like a whole wall, and the door was covered with strange patterns and words that ordinary people could not distinguish. No one knows what is behind this door, the soldiers in this castle have not seen that door open for years, they can't open that door, it seems that there is some kind of force outside the lock that prevents it from opening.

This is the Castle of Glory in Hull, the main city of San Lucas.

It's been two days since Danko managed to infiltrate San Lucas.

For the past two days, the presence of the invaders has not seemed to have been detected on the part of San Lucas, and Danko's plan to assassinate the king has not progressed for a long time. In fact, he had already had more than one assassination opportunity, but he watched the opportunity slip away again and again, and did not start.

The first opportunity was when Danko had just infiltrated Hull, when the king had left the castle to check on the town because he had heard about the dragons on the east coast, and ordered the guards to step up patrols and keep the people safe. At that time, the king of St. Lucas, Polutore, was riding a white war horse, surrounded by a few personal guards, only a dozen steps away from the alley where Danco was lurking, and Danco could completely drive a spell to cut off his head without approaching the king. Danco stared in the alley at the king not far away, King Porutor of San Lucas, with a gray beard and a kind face, smiling and talking to the guards, but thinking that he was the culprit who had waged the ten-year war, that he was the man behind the beasts that had humiliated Taylor that day, that he was the root cause of everything that had left him and fallen into darkness, that apparent kindness only made Danco more disgusted and angry. These hatreds, these reasons, these oaths were enough for Dan to kill him hundreds of times, but Dan Ke hesitated at that moment. He didn't understand why he hesitated, as long as he killed him, his mission could be completed, the ten-year war could be ended, and Taylor's revenge could be avenged, but at that moment, Danko's intuition told him that it was wrong.

The second chance was a day earlier, when the king was standing on the lookout of the castle and giving his speech to his subjects below. He actually said that the ten-year-long war was Vassilian's responsibility, saying that Vasilian had put the people of San Lucas in a dire situation, and that Vasilian had often sent people to infiltrate San Lucas since fifteen years ago, burned, killed, and plundered, and kidnapped many young children, saying that the "Church of Light" was "Vasilian's darkness...... Danco was now above the lookout in the castle, listening to King San Lucas spreading the "lies" he had made up and distorted to the people, Danco was furious and clenched his fists. He could have caused the masonry of the castle's exterior wall to fall off and hit the head of the crook below, making him go to hell to confess his mistakes, and disguise it as an accident. However, Danko hesitated again. A voice in his head told him – "Don't blindly trust things as they look. ”

Now, in this dark corridor, Danko's third chance, crouched on the roof truss of the empty castle corridor, waiting for the king to walk through it. Through the observation of the past few days, Danko has figured out the king's routine, and knows that he must pass through this unguarded corridor alone every night, and the purpose and reason are not clear.

"This is the last chance, I must ...... this time" Danko clenched his fists and stared at the hallway below.

Soon after, Porutol, the king of San Lucas, appeared, and he walked straight for the door at the end of the hallway, completely unaware of the threat lurking above him.

"Death, scoundrel!" Danco leaped from the beam, pulled out the dagger in his arms, gathered a powerful energy on the tip of the knife, and rushed towards the king, whose head slipped from his neck as soon as he realized the sudden attack.

"Finally ......" Dan Ke looked at the head on the ground, his eyes closed, his face serene, not at all like a person who had just been frightened and lost his life. Dan Ke began to panic inexplicably, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't know why he had been holding him back.

"You're still doing it. ”

A voice suddenly sounded, and Danco looked around, but there was no trace of a figure, and when he looked at the king's body again, he was surprised to find that the head that had been cut off by himself actually opened its eyes and stared at him calmly. When the head opened its mouth again, he realized that the words had been spoken by the dead king.

"Do you really think that if you kill me, it will be over?" asked the king blandly.

"Why are you still alive?What the hell are you?!" Danko had seen all kinds of demons, but he was clearly frightened by a human who couldn't die and a talking head.

"Do you think I don't know what you've been doing these days? Why do you think I'm talking about the 'darkness' of the Church of Light? Don't you have any doubts that the Church of Light ordered you to come and take my head at this juncture, instead of sending a powerful force to the front line to fight? Or were you blinded by love and hatred before, thinking that if you kill me, your wife will come back to life?"

"You...... How do you know?Did you really instigate what happened back then?How did you make your beastly soldier do such a frenzied thing!!" Danco clenched the saber at his waist, as if at any moment he was about to cut the hateful head to pieces.

"No, it wasn't me, and it wasn't my order to send warriors across the sea to attack many times later, and St. Lucas hasn't sent any more warriors to Vasilian since two years ago. The head replied calmly, it felt strange to bow his head and talk to a head, but Danko had grown accustomed to it, and with so many questions to figure out, even the question of why the king was alive was less important.

"Why should I believe you, if it's not you, then who is the troublemaker, and who are the remnants of the soldiers I killed the other day?" Danko asked.

You already have the answers to these questions. ”

"What?!"

"The remnants of the soldiers you slew the other day are indeed my warriors of St. Lucas, but we are not the ones who gave the task of aggression, and they are on the land of Vasilian for the same reason that the gang of thugs who insulted your wife appeared on the slopes of the hill more than ten years ago. The king's eyes sharpened, and it seemed that he could easily penetrate Danko's mind and see everything about him.

"I even know about the hillside, ...... you are there"

"Not only that, but I also know that you summoned demons to resurrect Taylor, but because the resurrected Taylor lost control and was killed by your own hands, you were promoted instead. ”

"Why! Why do you know all these things that I have never mentioned to anyone?!"

"As I said, you already have the answer. ”

"Is this all going on in my head? is it all my imagination?"

"Of course it's what's going on in your head, don't you already know what I know, but why can't that be true?" the head smiled, "Now, clear your mind and get the answer you want." ”

Danko calmed down and sorted out all the information that was known so far in his mind - Taylor had just been allied with Miller ten years ago, and he remembered that the eyes of those villains seemed to be a little different, and then the all-out war between St. Lucas and our country broke out, and then the archbishop who went to Miller suffered a so-called "accident" And death, then Miller broke off our alliance with us five years ago, and then St. Lucas launched another large-scale invasion at this time, so that we didn't have time to pay attention to Miller, and then went to the Sanctuary two years ago, and obtained information about the arrival of the Son of God and the relics, plus the regimental commander he killed a few days ago said before he died, "So it is", and the guy who possessed John...... The timing of all this is such a coincidence, is everything Miller behind the scenes?

"You finally get the idea. The head of King St. Lucas on the ground smiled, and then Danco felt everything in front of him spinning, and his vision became more and more blurred, and when the rotation stopped and his vision was clear again, Danco found himself still on the roof truss beams of the corridor, and there was no king's head or body in the corridor below.

"What the hell is this......" Dan Ke was still thinking back to the head he had spoken and the conclusion he had reached, "is this a dream or is it real?"

"But why can't this be true?" the phrase reappeared in Danke's mind as there was movement in the hallway below.

Someone walked in through the entrance and headed straight for the door at the end, but Danko found that it was not the king, but the Duke of Greedy, the royal knight of St. Lucas, who held half of the power of St. Lucas and was always with him. His eyes were blank at the moment, and he walked slowly forward as if he were sleepwalking, and this look reminded Danko of the nightmare day when he had slain the group of thugs on the hillside. At that time, he was only angry, but he did not pay attention to the strange look in the eyes of those people, and now he thought that he was exactly the same as Duke Grady in front of him.

"Are they all under human control?Is that why Miller was able to intervene in the affairs of St. Lucas?Then it should be the Duke Grady in front of him who gave the order to invade, but now he is going to ......" Danco stood still, lost in thought.

The Duke was getting closer and closer to the door, but Dan Ke still didn't mean to intervene, and the moment the Duke put his hand on the doorknob, a burst of energy emanated from the door, which was an energy that ordinary people could not see, but Dan Ke saw something at that moment. He had a sense of déjà vu, and he only felt that he had seen the door somewhere, but he couldn't remember when or where it was. When the energy dissipated, Duke Grady's body suddenly burst into flames, and the fire seemed to emanate from the duke's body, as if he was the source of the flames. He screamed, twitching his arms frantically, and his eyes finally returned to normal. He didn't seem to realize what was happening to him, but he didn't have time to doubt, and after a few seconds, with his last doubts and horrors, he burst into countless pieces of burning flesh that sprinkled and lit up the entire dark corridor.

"It seems that this place is not suitable for long, we must hurry to Miller!" said Danco, quickly jumping off the beam and leaving the corridor where the guards were coming. A few hours later, he was back on the shore where they had landed. "Let's go to the hut and see how John is doing, hopefully he will wake up and be able to act together, and everything will be resolved in Miller!"

Standing alone on a wooden boat invisible to ordinary people, Danko headed for the continent of Kaos, where Vasilian was.