At this moment, a black shadow slashed across the sky at an unimaginable speed, like a sharp blade, and the clouds were split in two as it passed, which was extremely fast enough to cut the space! This kind of speed, even the fastest and strongest in the human race, I am afraid it is difficult to achieve!

But the black shadow suddenly stopped moving without warning, and when he stopped for a moment, it was as if the space was still, and then an unimaginably strong air pressure surged from behind him, as if the waves of the sea were hitting, and the clouds in front of him were blown away!

The dark shadow showed his tracks, it was a young man with a slightly delicate face, but there were fine scales under his cheeks, and a pair of strange wings behind him, indicating that the young man was not a human.

But the posture of spreading the wings, and the shining scales on the wings, do not make people think of any "angels", "demons" and other creatures with the human appearance of winged flight, but will make people have a strange feeling about them from the heart - this existence is perfect!

This young man is Dolank who left abruptly before, at this time his form is between dragon and human form, and his body has returned to the posture of the dragon, because the night invasion itself is Dolank's dragon scales, and once the dragon scales are all over the body, so many Ranks will change from human form back to dragon form. However, for combat, Dorank, the dragon's stance, is not very fond of it.

This is not to say that the dragon posture is not suitable for battle, but because of Lin Long's memory, Dorlank is still used to fighting in human form subconsciously!

But now Dorrank, it seems a little weird, his expression has a kind of sadness that rarely appears on Dorrank's face?

"Bang!" Doranke stayed in the air for a moment, and finally seemed to have made a decision, turned around and flew in the direction of the side, the dragon wings shook, and the sound of the air explosion appeared after his figure disappeared!

At this moment, in front of Dorank's path just now, a flock of geese were flying over there.

Although it was far away from Dolrank, with Dolrank's speed, it was almost in the blink of an eye, and the geese would be cut in half by the air blades generated by Dolrank's movement without any reaction, just like the clouds before them.

So Dorranke made a detour, bypassing the flock of geese in front of him, and continued to fly towards his destination.

If there is a person who is familiar with the terrain of the Golden Continent and can see Dorank's flight trajectory, he will definitely see that the purpose of his current advance is the center of the Golden Continent, the imperial capital of the Golden Empire!

At the ancient city barracks, an officer who seemed to be of no lower status was in his camp, frowning and looking at the report.

"How many days has this been?" the officer sighed, put the report aside, rubbed his brow, and asked the advisor beside him.

"What do you mean?"

"How many days have it been since the soldiers disappeared from patrolling and then reappeared, only to die of a strange illness within a few days?" the officer leaned back, as if trying to sit comfortably, but he felt strange anyway, and fortunately stood up.

"It's been three days, and they're all soldiers patrolling the surrounding towns. The advisor said, "My lord, it seems that there are indeed strange things in these places, and it is not our soldier's problem. ”

"Do you think so too?" the officer nodded, and walked to the gate of the camp with a complicated expression, "I think so too, and I really want to go out and find out now!"

"Is there anything unspeakable about my lord?" the strategist looked at the officer, who had been following the officer for many days and knew him well. According to his temperament, this kind of thing should have been investigated a long time ago, but now he has only been worried and has not acted.

"I couldn't have told anyone about it, but I couldn't help it. The officer turned around, clenched his fists, and looked like he had nowhere to vent, "So I'll tell you a person, you have to help me hide it!"

"Your Excellency, please. The strategist nodded.

"Actually, the boss gave me an order before, in the next time until the anniversary festival begins, no matter what happens in the army, don't care, the only thing to do is to keep the law and order of the ancient city. The officer said viciously, "Hmph, I didn't know what this order meant at first, but now I know that those guys must be playing tricks again!"

"Are you talking about the Church of Destiny?" asked the strategist, stunned.

"Who else but them? Every day they bewitch the people, make the empire nervous, this kind of demon, I really don't know why the empire will reuse them and attach so much importance to them!" The officer walked around angrily, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, "Although I don't know what those guys are doing, but I know very well that this group of freaks who believe in the so-called gods in their mouths will not be able to do anything good! If this continues, the empire will definitely have a big incident one day!"

"However, didn't the military doctor say that the soldiers were not affected by the outside world, and no poison or anything was found in their bodies," the strategist sighed, "General, don't get too excited, the Church of Destiny is the state religion, and it would be too expensive to oppose them." ”

"Alas, I really don't know what Your Majesty is thinking!" the officer also sighed when he heard what the strategist said, "Your Majesty chose to extend the battle line at the beginning, which made the beacon of the continental war a little weaker, and it was not bad for the people who experienced great hardships at that time. And His Majesty also took advantage of the opportunity to fight the rats on the Golden Continent who wanted to take advantage of the rebellion on the continent to pick up cheap. Which of those things needs the Church of Destiny, the so-called God?"

The advisor didn't say anything, because it was true that as the officer said, after the Church of Destiny was established as the state religion, there were actually great complaints in the country.

As we all know, the Golden Continent is the only continent among the five continents that refuses the preaching of the Holy Religion, and it can also be said to be the origin of atheism. The Golden Empire does not actually believe in Shinto, which is spread by the Holy Religion. Although there are occasional people who use prayer-like words such as "thank God" and "God, save me", in fact, it is just a saying, and the Golden Continent is indeed an atheistic continent.

However, the Church of Destiny was founded, and it was made the state religion by the Empire!

This made the people of the Golden Empire, who had always admired the power of human beings and ridiculed the people on other continents for being extremely weak because of their belief in the so-called gods, for a while they were puzzled and condemned, hoping that the Empire could withdraw this order.

But the Church of Destiny was still established, and the Church of Destiny is not like another missionary church as one might think. On the contrary, the Church of Destiny not only does not allow civilians to visit the church, but also does not promote doctrines!

This routine of the Church of Destiny made everyone stunned, but then the behavior of the Church of Destiny made some people feel that something was wrong.

The people of the Church of Destiny are very secretive, and the average official doesn't even know who is in this state religion, but there are exceptions, and the people of the Church of Destiny seem to be going on some activities all the time, and they will contact some of the officials and then carry out their activities.

And the official rights of these officials are large and small, and it doesn't look like they are building circles, and as far as the contemporary Emperor is concerned, if someone dares to form a party under his nose, then the mansion may be seized the next day.

So there is a rumor in the official circles of the Golden Empire that the people of the Church of Destiny seem to be looking for someone among the officials, and once someone from the Church of Destiny finds you, then they will ask you to do something for them, and they will grant you a wish.

How could such a thing be possible! If they really had this kind of ability, why would they come to vassalize in the Golden Empire, directly unify the five continents, and be the emperor of mankind?

However, it was not a chance that a good friend of the officer was approached by the Church of Fate, and that friend and the officer had the same philosophy. He didn't believe in the words of the Church of Destiny at all, and refused to cooperate with the Church of Destiny

Soon, however, the friend changed his mind, and though he didn't know why, the friend told the officer that the Church of Destiny had indeed fulfilled his impossible wish, and since then, the friend has gradually lost contact with him because of his completely different views on the Church of Destiny.

It wasn't until not long ago that the officer received the news of his friend's death! Without warning, a soldier who, like the officer, had the same passion to defend his family and country as he was, died inexplicably in his bed at home.

Even the investigation concluded that the friend just died a natural death!

This way of dying is simply a shame for a soldier, a soldier in his prime did not die on the battlefield, nor did he sacrifice for the country, but died in his bed at home without knowing why?

The officer didn't accept it, and he began to investigate the cause of his friend's death.

Moreover, this investigation also made him discover an extremely strange thing. Most of the officials who have interacted with the Church of Destiny seem to have said that the Church of Destiny has granted their wishes, and some of these people have died for some reason!

This caused a chill to suddenly appear in the officer's heart, and his intuition told him that the Church of Fate was not an accidental connection in these events! However, just as he wanted to continue the investigation, the empire suddenly issued an order for this officer who had served in the imperial capital to be sent to a large city barracks as the commander of the barracks!

was forced to leave the imperial capital, and the officer's investigation could not be carried out, and he had no choice but to give up.

But now, when the patrolling soldiers have problems, the first thing that comes to the officer's mind is the Church of Fate. And he had a hunch that if he could unravel the cause of the soldier's inexplicable death, it was very likely that he would be able to know. This should be regarded as an uninvited "Church of Destiny" for the Empire, their true colors!

"I still decided to disobey the order to find out!" the officer finally made up his mind, raised his head and said to the strategist, "Although maybe if I guess wrong, the empire will definitely not give me good fruit to eat, but if I guess correctly, then as a soldier of the Golden Empire, I have the duty to remove the cancer of this empire!"

The strategist stood there, looking at the officer's eyes full of conviction, and suddenly smiled helplessly: "It seems that I can't stop you in words, you have already made a decision, haven't you?"

"You still know me!" the officer nodded, and then ran back to his seat with some excitement, "Then let's plan, I am going to divide the strength of the barracks into two waves, one as a bait to patrol the villages and towns, and the other wave will be composed of elite soldiers." Be in charge of monitoring the bait, and if something does take the bait, then sanctions can be given!"

After listening to what the officer said, the strategist who was standing aside seemed to be lost in thought and did not speak.

"Hmm, why don't you speak, give me a little better advice."

"Flutter!"

"Hmm!" the officer suddenly felt a sweetness in his throat, and looked at the hand in front of him in disbelief, the hand that suddenly pierced his armor and his heart! Although he couldn't see the back, the officer knew very well that this hand had completely passed through his chest, and he was pierced through the heart!

"Now I use the beating of my muscles and veins to keep your heart beating and squeezing for the time being, you won't die now If my hand is withdrawn, then even your transcendent Douqi cultivation will not be able to save you. The strategist's tone was very calm, as if he was continuing to study things with the officer.

"Why" Blood kept pouring out from the corners of the officer's mouth, but as the strategist had said, he could still feel the pierced heart still beating normally!

This is simply incredible, although it is not the time to sigh, but the strategist may use the pulse of the blood vessels in his hand to act as the control of the power of the pierced heart, so that the officer did not even think about it! This brother who has been with him for so many years actually has such strength, and he can attack himself!

"No why, Imperial Order. The strategist's expression was also a little strange, as if he was also regretting that he had killed the officer, but his hand was slowly withdrawing, "Actually, if you don't choose to continue to investigate the Church of Destiny, I won't do anything, and you treat me as a brother on weekdays, to be honest, I don't want to make a move on you." ”

"Imperial order?" As the strategist's hand faded away, the officer could feel the speed at which life was draining from his body, and it became difficult to speak.

"For a patriotic person like you, I don't want to tell you these things. "Only the fingers of the strategist are still in the officer's body, and the palms of his hands are already on the outside.

"Hmm!!" The officer suddenly reached out and grabbed the strategist's arms, now he can't speak, but after all, he is a strong man, although he didn't use his fighting spirit in time to stimulate his strength when he was plotted, but his body after being undefeated can also remain alive in this situation

merely

"Whew. The strategist's hand was pulled out entirely, and the bright red blood made the palm of the hand so terrifying in the eyes of the officer, but this thought was also instantaneous, and the light in the eyes of the officer whose heart was pierced disappeared, and he died completely.

The strategist looked at the blood flowing from his chest and stained the ground red, but because the ground was dirt, the blood quickly penetrated into it, and the strategist moved his gaze to the table, picked up a report casually, used it as a cloth to wipe the blood stains on his hands, and then suddenly spoke.

"I'm part of the Imperial Covert Force Operations Team, and we're responsible for spying on all Imperial officials. Almost all the officials have us around them. The advisor wiped his hands and threw the bloodstained, crumpled report aside. Then he took out a very strange ball-like thing, "Actually, I have always used the best evaluation of your report, you will never become a traitor to the empire." But "

The strategist suddenly threw the ball back, and then the whole figure disappeared into the camp.

"Boom!" A strong roar suddenly sounded in the barracks, alarming all the soldiers who were in the barracks. Everyone looked in the direction where the explosion came from, and everywhere they looked, there was a sea of fire!

"It's on fire, put out the fire!"

"Hurry up, let everyone put out the fire immediately!"

"What's going on, something exploded all of a sudden? Is there anyone in there?"

The barracks suddenly fell into a panic, and at this moment, not far from the barracks, the strategist was standing there, quietly looking at the barracks that he had not been in for a long time, and said softly: "You have the possibility of betraying Your Majesty, so I can only do this." ”

The sudden fire in the barracks of the ancient city also alarmed the aristocratic families who governed the ancient city, and soon organized people to extinguish the fire. The fire was quickly brought under control. But the place where the barracks caught fire and the surrounding dormitories and the like were turned into charred ruins

"Was anyone in there at the time of the fire?" Soon after the fire was extinguished, the steward of the ancient city came to inquire about the soldiers.

"At this time, it seems that only adults and military advisors are dealing with official documents, by the way, there are some sick soldiers in the dormitory!"

"The adults are strong, so there should be no problem, but those who are sick, it seems that they can't move freely!"

"The fire came so suddenly just now, they may not have reacted, and now like this, the chances of survival are very low!"

The steward was also informed by what the soldiers had said, and then he said, "Hurry up and look for it, I hope it's all right!"

However, everyone also knew very well that the two adults, the officer and the strategist, who had become strong in fighting spirit, might be fine, but those soldiers who were sick and couldn't move in the dormitory should have no hope

The search was carried out quickly, after all, there were not many soldiers in a barracks, and everyone had some good cultivation, and it was also efficient to search in the ruins

But it turned out to be less hopeful

"Report, two mutilated bodies have been found in the tent" The soldier's voice made the person in charge hurry over, and then it was confirmed that a body was indeed the general of the barracks, a high-ranking officer. And the other one, naturally, should be an inseparable strategist by the officer's side!

"What's wrong, how could these two die in the fire so easily?" Everyone was also puzzled and panicked, knowing the strength of the general, they didn't believe it at all, a sudden fire caused these two people to die!

And the soldiers also mentioned that at that time they heard a loud explosion first, and when they turned their heads to look, the fire was already very big! But although everyone was attracted to attention, they were not stupid, and when they put out the fire, the people standing guard did not retreat. They also didn't notice anyone leaving the scene or whatever.

The steward pondered, it didn't seem like an accident, there was probably something he didn't know about it!

"But if someone is attacking the barracks, what is his purpose? No, you can't act rashly until the matter is investigated. "The steward gave an improvised order that all the soldiers in the barracks should be withdrawn into the city first so that they could investigate.

But the wise man knew very well that the reason why the steward withdrew the soldiers into the city was also a different kind of surveillance, and the steward might suspect that this was not an accident in itself, but that it was probably a planned action, and that the soldiers were all in danger and suspicion

I have to say that although the steward also considered it in detail, from the beginning, he was wrong