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The sound of footsteps echoed in the hollow stone path, the dark black walls were wet and damp, and when you calmed down, you could hear the faint roar of a dragon and a tiger, and the sound of rolling water...

It was the movement of the sewer system of New Ross City, which proved that the Mavi and the others had reached a depth of five or six meters underground, and perhaps there were countless pipes around them.

Yunia held the bear in one hand and Mavi's coat tightly in the other, her calves were fast, and her steps were very small, only in this way could she keep up with her father's pace.

As I walked, a fork in the road suddenly appeared in front of me illuminated by the kerosene lights, leading in different directions.

"Right." Gulhana said coldly.

The stone path on the right is a little low, only two meters high, and the cramped space makes people feel as if they are going to hit their heads at any moment.

Along the way, Ma Wei didn't say anything, he silently observed this underground passage, and his mind was a little calm.

There is no doubt that this was secretly built by the fourth prince Arthur in order to make his supporters hide from others, and the people who can enter here are either 'rats' who have mixed in by other means, or 'own people' who have been trusted by the fourth prince Arthur.

It's a good start.

A black iron door blocked the way, and Gulhana stepped forward and gently slammed the door.

Click!

The heavy gears embedded in the wall began to turn slowly, and the hard steel bars that blocked the iron door retracted in turn, and finally...

The iron door opened, and a warm breath came to the face.

It's a room full of red, red carpets, red bookcases, red tables, red flames burning in the fireplace....

Everything was red, even the man with the long blond hair and shawl sitting at the table was sipping a bright crimson liquid.

Light green eyes, handsome to a slightly bewitching face, long golden hair, a solemn suit, and a miserable white bellflower pinned to his chest....

The man seemed to be mourning a deceased friend, as if he was remembering the friend who had left suddenly, the sadness flashed in his eyes, and the next second he regained his quiet posture, raising his eyes to look at the few people who had come here from the stone path.

"We have met at last, dear priest."

"First meeting, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince..."

Ma Wei took off his hat, bowed his chin, and deliberately accentuated the tone of the fourth prince by a few syllables: "Thank you for your sincere invitation." ”

"No need to be polite, I hate red tape."

Arthur, the fourth prince, pointed to the only red-upholstered chair next to him, and said to whom, "Please be seated." ”

With an eyebrow, the communication leaned against the wall and stopped the maid beside her: "Please pour me a glass of brandy, thank you." ”

The advance statement of the communication silently answered the temptation of the fourth prince Arthur.

Arthur needed to know who was the one who had the final say in the Church of Truth.

The communication that came with it was ambitious or not, and whether it was trustworthy or not.

This is very important and important enough to influence the rest of the conversation.

Mavi sat down in his chair, picked up Yunia, and placed her hat beside the candlestick on the table.

Arthur also took out one thing, which was a revolver with a mahogany handle, a relic of Sir Antois.

The pistol was placed on the table, and then he reached into his arms, took out a brass bullet, and stood beside the candlestick.

"I need a name."

"No name, Your Royal Highness the Fourth Prince."

"You don't know?"

Mavi glanced at Gulhana standing on the side of the gate, and then at the blonde man.

"Gulhana, come here."

Arthur beckoned, summoned the grim-looking Gulhana to his side, and whispered, "Priest, let me introduce you, this.... It's my chief knight, codenamed Lancelot. She is the daughter of my sword master, who has followed me from the royal capital, and is loyal and reliable. ”

With her arms crossed in front of her abdomen, Gulhana made a knightly salute.

"Sean Rickman is your first knight? What about Antois Wellesley? ”

In Arthur's slightly condensed gaze, Ma Wei smiled: "I refuse to cooperate with mystics, because what they think is mysterious is often not reliable at all, and the wind blows..."

With a wave of his palm, the candle on the table was instantly extinguished, and a wisp of green smoke rose.

"And it will be destroyed."

Staring at Mavi for a long time, the corners of Arthur's lips rose to reveal a meaningful smile: "I'm not a mystic, and the reason why I do this is because there are so many people staring at me. The identity of the fourth prince has brought me obstacles, and I love and hate it, because this is the only treasure my mother left me, but inside, there is the dirty blood of that man. ”

"Your mother must be a very beautiful person."

"Yes," said Arthur with a soft smile, "She has long blond hair like a waterfall, and she loves to sing, but as ill-fated as a child, she was shot in the chest by a drain, where did the drain come from in the courtyard?" ”

"She fell in front of me, and when she was dying, she touched my hair and kept telling me to run, but if I didn't run, why should I run?"

With a grin and a real anger in his eyes, Arthur was no longer the gentle fourth prince, he had become a lion, a lion who wanted revenge all the time.

"Someday—" his voice trembled with rage, "I'm going to kill that man, kill my three brothers, kill their mother!" ”

"I don't know who the murderer is, just like I don't know who killed Eckert, it's nothing, because the murderer is among those people, just catch them all."

The anger receded, and in the blink of an eye, he regained his composure: "I can't lose, Father, at least not until I avenge my mother." ”

"Why choose us?" Mavi asked.

"I've been paying attention to you for a long time..."

Arthur said, "When you first came to New Ross, you caught my attention, at first, I thought you were the eyeliner sent by the royal capital to spy on me, but later I learned that it was not like that. ”

"For three years, you have been buying supplies for the orphanage every week, giving lessons to the children of Kerr Street, and solving the troubles of the faithful for free..."

"Father, you are an ambitious person, your ambition is even greater than mine, we are one kind of people, right?"

With burning eyes, staring at Ma Wei, the fourth prince of Arthur very much hoped to hear an affirmative answer from Ma Wei's mouth, but...

Ma Wei shook his head and hugged Yunia's arm a little tighter: "We are not the same kind of people, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince. You want revenge, you are looking for worldly power, I am different, I founded the church to spread ideas, not the chair that represents power and power. ”

After a pause, he added, "I don't have anything to take revenge on. ”

"No, you want revenge, of course you want revenge." Arthur smiled and said: "In the Battle of Perea, you became the warriors and heroes of the Kingdom of Windsor, and 70% of the proceeds of your privateers were handed over to the king, you were the king's appointed warriors, but when the fleet of St. Martiel's was destroyed.... My father did not explain the situation to the Kingdom of Popon, activated the extradition treaty, he treated you as worthless outcasts, and he no longer cared about your life or death. ”

"If it weren't for Commander Toure's resurrection and miraculous survival, you would have been hanged on the banks of the Lyin River long ago."

Mavi glanced at him and didn't retort.

"You've been here to work with me from the beginning." Arthur whispered, "You know me, and I know you... Dear Father. ”

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"Oh, Sean is the eighth knight, codenamed Bedwell, and Antois is the sixteenth, codenamed Eckert."

Arthur said word for word: "They are all Knights of the Round Table loyal to me, sixteen in all, including the dead Eckert. ”

Is this the fourth prince Arthur's biggest secret?

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

In any case, being able to tell the information of the Sixteen Knights of the Round Table shows his sincerity.

Next...

It was Mawi's turn.

"The murderer was most likely an acquaintance of Sir Antois, and when he died, the revolver in the drawer did not pull the hammer." "This means that the other side has not aroused Sir Antois's hostility," Mavi said. ”

"Other than that..."

A whole drawing of the sole of a shoe was placed on the table.

"This is the footprint left by the murderer when he left the manor, the texture of the sole uses a unique wavy circle, which is different from the standard template of the garment factory, it should be a handmade shoe, as long as you take it to the shoemaker for questioning, you can narrow down the scope of the suspect."

Ma Wei said faintly: "But I advise you not to act recklessly, the other party is probably not an opponent that the Knights of the Round Table can handle." ”

"I will investigate the murderer carefully."

Putting away the whole drawing, Arthur continued, "Now, you can tell me about the rats." ”

"You don't know?"

"Roughly... Can guess a little. Arthur looked at Yunia, who was sitting on Mavey's lap: "According to reliable information, at noon today, Bishop Fowler will lead the knights of the diocese of Wexford to New Ross City, and he is coming to New Ross City, but so far, I don't know the purpose of his coming to New Ross City, to mobilize the diocesan knights, you must get the order of the archbishop of the church, and you also need to report to the council, after all, this is a military operation." ”

"But I put my eyes in the royal capital, and I don't know anything about Bishop Fowler's transfer of the Diocesan Knights, which means that the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny did not report this matter to the council...."

With his eyes lowered, Arthur said lightly: "The council and my father have always been strict in controlling the church, just because they are afraid that they will seize power, and now it seems that something big must have happened to the king." ”

In the age of steam, the invention of the steam engine and post-fire ammunition meant that the previous era of fighting with cold weapons was completely over.

The revolver on the table is the best proof of this.

With it, the council and the king, who control a large number of armies, have overwhelming power, and the parish knights can't make much of a storm at all, and the church is just a 'mascot'.

But the drastic changes in the royal capital made the fourth prince Arthur have to think about why the church suddenly gained the upper hand, and the guns in their hands...

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Has it lost its effect?

You must know that even if there are many nobles who are believers in the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny, it does not mean that they will allow divine power to override the royal power, and the existence of the parliamentary system makes them the biggest beneficiaries who can restrain the royal power.

Who would give up power to someone else?

It doesn't make sense to make sense.

So...

It seems that there is only one left.

There is some strange power that surpasses the revolver in their hands.