On the evening of the day that Rogge and Catherine infiltrated the Condor prison, the High Priest Goethe once again came to Antonio's house, and as soon as they met him, he said to Antonio bluntly: "I have found out the whereabouts of your little lover, she is now in the palace, and the Holy Emperor has imprisoned her." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Hearing Goethe's words, Antonio, who was sitting on the edge of the bed in a decadent manner, stood up as if he had been electrocuted, and he strode up to Goethe, and asked impatiently: "How is she? Is she okay? Have you seen her?"

"I can't answer any of your three questions. Goethe calmly looked directly into Antonio's anxious eyes and replied with a non-caring attitude: "It's like I don't know why the Holy Emperor imprisoned her, but I can guess that the Holy Emperor is about the same age as you, maybe he was fascinated by her, so he ......"

Goethe glanced at Antonio meaningfully, passed by him, walked behind him and turned his back to him and said, "So every second your little mermaid is in the palace is likely to be toyed with or ravaged by, like a rag doll at the mercy of others......"

Before Goethe could finish his sentence, Antonio turned and rushed at him, pulled him towards him, grabbed him by the collar and yelled at him: "Shut up! No one can do that to her, no!"

Hearing Antonio's roar, the two priests standing guard at the door pushed the door and rushed in, but when they saw Goethe's calm eyes, they withdrew from the house.

Goethe waited for the door to close and stared coldly into Antonio's angry eyes and said, "Anger at me has no effect, Antonio, you must do something to save your little mermaid." ”

Antonio clenched his teeth, stared at the sarcastic expression on his face for a moment, reluctantly let go of his hand, he turned around and clenched his fists tightly for a moment of silence, closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and said, "I promise you, but I need equipment and help." ”

"That's easy, I'll arrange everything for you, and as for the manpower, I've contacted your remaining twelve old knights, who are very angry at the dissolution of the Knights and the Holy Emperor's disposition of you, and are willing to follow your will. ”

"I'll give each of you a set of royal guard armor so that you can infiltrate the palace, and you'll take care of the rest, do a good job, and don't let your little beauty down." Goethe patted Antonio on the shoulder, turned and walked out of the room.

The sky gradually darkened, and when the last rays of sunset were about to disperse, it was time for the palace guards to change the guard, taking this opportunity, Antonio, who had changed into the armor of the royal guards, and twelve old members of the Silver Dragon Knights mixed into the imperial palace.

Goethe arranged for a priest to guide them in the agreed place, and the priest who came to the junction told Antonio that the Holy Emperor had just eaten dinner and had gone to the temple where the Lord God was worshipped to pray, and that the high priest asked him to take people to the temple to wait for the opportune action, and Goethe would lead the people to arrive later.

Antonio and the Twelve Knights immediately rushed to the Temple, relying on the camouflage of the royal guards' armor and their familiarity with the paths of the palace, they managed to deceive or avoid the royal guards along the way, and came to the vicinity of the temple.

The gate of the temple was empty, the two golden gates were tightly closed, Antonio and his twelve men cautiously approached the gate, he asked his subordinates to pay attention to the surrounding situation, he carefully pushed the door open a gap, lifted the mask of the golden helmet and looked into the crack in the door.

In the brightly lit hall, around the walls are placed statues of the gods, a statue of the main god stands at the end of the main hall, a red carpet from under the statue of the main god to the gate, at this moment the Holy Emperor is standing alone in front of the sacrificial table in front of the statue.

After carefully observing the situation in the hall, Antonio was sure that the Holy Emperor was alone at this time, so he summoned his subordinates to his side and said, "Brothers, we are here to ask the Holy Emperor about Tali's whereabouts, although the Holy Emperor has treated us badly, we should not kill him, as long as we rescue Tali, we will leave here, do you understand what I mean?"

The knights looked at each other, and they all nodded in agreement with the captain's decision, Antonio saw that everyone understood, so he gave the order to act, he pushed the door and strode towards the Holy Emperor, followed by the knights who closed the gate, two knights sealed the gate, and the rest followed Antonio towards the Holy Emperor.

Hearing the voice, the Holy Emperor slowly turned his head, looked at these uninvited royal guards, and asked in a majestic tone, "Who allowed you to come in without permission, and what are you going to do?"

"Your Majesty, it was the Captain of the Guard who ordered us to protect you, and the Captain of the Guard received a report that someone was going to assassinate you tonight, and we were ordered to come and escort you!" Antonio said as he strode towards the Holy Emperor.

The Holy Emperor looked at him with a suspicious gaze, and suddenly raised his hand and pointed at him and shouted, "Stand there, don't come here!"

Antonio did not retreat but advanced and threw the golden spear in his hand at the Holy Emperor, the Holy Emperor dodged the spear and passed him, before the Holy Emperor turned around, Antonio had already flown and threw the Holy Emperor to the ground, he held down the Holy Emperor and pulled out the long sword at his waist and shouted loudly: "Where is Tully, give her to me!"

The Holy Emperor calmly looked at the mask of his golden helmet, was silent for a moment, and suddenly revealed a mocking smile: "Antonio, it's really touching, I didn't expect the power of love to be so huge. ”

"Tell me, where is Tully?" Antonio shouted through gritted teeth with his sword around his neck.

The Holy Emperor looked at him with a smile, Antonio looked at his strange smile, and suddenly heard a series of screams behind him, he looked back in surprise, only to see the twelve silver dragon knights he had brought with him falling in a pool of blood one after another, and next to their corpses, there was a group of black-robed people holding scythes burning with green energy.

"What?Void Hunter?" Antonio stared at the Void Hunters in the hall in amazement, and suddenly felt a huge burst of energy knock him to the ground, he struggled to sit up and looked back at the floating Saint Emperor, only to see his smile gradually turn into a terrifying killing intent.

Suddenly, the door of the temple was pushed open from the outside, and a one-armed Void Hunter dragged a man in a golden robe into from the outside, he came to the Holy Emperor and threw the man he was dragging on the ground, Antonio looked at the bloodied High Priest Goethe in surprise, looked up at the one-armed Void Hunter, and recognized him as Hunter, the leader of the Void Hunters.

"You...... How could it be?" Antonio looked up at the Holy Emperor standing in front of Hunt in surprise, Valentin II calmly glanced at the unconscious Goethe, shrugged his shoulders and said, "The High Priest should have done it earlier, it's too late now." ”

He glanced at Hunter, and Hunt kicked Goethe who fell to the ground, and Goethe, who was awakened by pain, let out a mournful cry and slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw the mocking face of the Holy Emperor, he couldn't help but be taken aback, only to hear the Holy Emperor laugh and say: "High Priest, now is not the time to pretend to be dead, the show has just begun!"

"You...... What the hell have you done?" Goethe asked, gritting his teeth as he put his hand over his aching chest.

"Ah, that's a long story. Valentine II spread out his hands and shrugged his shoulders and said, "You will not remember that the junior priest who used to sweep the floor in the library of the Holy Order, just because he accidentally got in the way of the noble high priest, he kicked down the big steps outside the library door, and fell with a bruised nose and swollen face, right?"

Goethe looked at him blankly, without the slightest impression of what he said, Valentin II sneered, shook his head and said: "I know you will not remember, but I will never forget that day, and I will never forget your contemptuous sneer and mocking words, which I remember more than all the bullying I suffered in the orphanage since I was a child!"

He put his foot on Goethe's head and said mockingly: "Since then, I have done everything for one thing - to be on top of this world, and no longer to be trampled under my feet, for which I have memorized that damn rotten book written by the old Holy Emperor, and I have personally directed the assassination of him, and I have used the flying stones that I have played with since childhood to shoot down the arrow that was shot at him......"

"Yes, I arranged all this, and that stupid old fellow really thought I had been sent from heaven to save his life, kept me with him, and finally made me a priest in red. ”

At this, Valentin II let out a mocking laugh, and he circled Goethe, who had fallen to the ground, and spread his arms to echo his sonorous voice through the hall.

"The most ridiculous thing is that he actually listened to my words, and before he died, he secretly instructed the person in charge of the election to replace eleven of the twelve cardinal priestly ballots with my name before the election results were announced, and gave me the throne of the Holy Emperor!"

"Now, do you know why I defeated you and became the youngest Holy Emperor in the history of the Empire, High Priest?" asked Valentin II as he crouched down in front of Goethe and sneered.

"You scoundrel!" Goethe gritted his teeth and tried to get up and attack him, but Hunter stepped on the ground, and Valentin II shook his head meaningfully and said: "No, my story is not over, and when I became a Holy Emperor I realized that having the title of Holy Emperor is not enough to control everything. ”

"Because the cardinal priests are behind you, and you still have real power, you can give the damned witch kill order in my name, and let the whole country spit on me, and I can't do anything against it, which makes me realize that I must do something to give myself the power to really stand up to you. ”

He turned his head and landed his gaze on Antonio's face, who was lying to the side, and said with a sly smile: "So I chose you, Antonio, you and your knights have helped me well against the high priest and won me some of the right to speak." ”

"After that, there was a big incident in the Condor Prison, which you must not know, and that was the death of William, the king of dark wizards who was imprisoned inside. Valentine II's words surprised Antonio and Goethe, and they looked at the Holy Emperor with wide eyes in amazement, in disbelief at his words.

"That's right, I killed him with my own hands, I absorbed his magic, obtained his 'Blood Array' and a lot of dark magic, you must be wondering, who is the guy in the Shadow Fortress that you threw into the lava, in fact it is William himself, but he is nothing more than a corpse, a puppet manipulated by my mind. ”

Valentine II walked up to Hunter, the leader of the Void Hunters, put a hand on his shoulder and said, "I avoided Goethe's sight under the pretext of going out on patrol, and went to the Shadow Fortress to defeat William's successor, and recruited all the Dark Wizards and Void Hunters to my command. ”

"You must think that the crowning of the Imperial Saint Emperor and the King of the Shadow Fortress at the same time is already an unparalleled glory, right?" The Holy Emperor shook his head with a meaningful smile as he stepped back, "No, they still couldn't help me free from my bonds, until I learned from the Dark Wizards that the power of true power, the unstoppable power of immortality......"