As the main area where the Blood Demon Order is active, it is not uncommon for evil sacrifices to be performed in the Crescent Moon Kingdom, and there are always one or two cases in every place every year.

Even the Church of the Holy Court has long been accustomed to this.

No way.

The world is so big, although the control of the church is relatively strong, it is far from being able to cover every corner, and there are always people who choose to embrace the darkness for one reason or another, and the cultists will never be able to catch it.

This is also the consensus from the aristocracy to the church.

Of course, if we can't catch it all, we can't catch it all, and we still have to crack down hard.

At the very least, the Church will never allow the core area under its control to become a place for cultists to overflow, and every time a cultist emerges, he will inevitably suffer a fierce blow from the Church.

The most recent attack on the Blood Demon Order took place in the slums of the outer city.

Strictly speaking, this is not a very serious Blood Demon incident, but there are ordinary people who have been bewitched by the Blood Demon Order and want to gain extraordinary power through blood sacrifices.

The clerk of Castel's shop was one of the bewitched members who volunteered to believe in the Blood Demon Grand Duke in order to gain power and participated in the Blood Sacrifice.

The Blood Sacrifice should be said to be very successful, at least the cultists who participated in the Blood Sacrifice really gained strength and supernatural power from the evil gods.

Of course, as a "quasi-evil god", Charlotte only needs to listen to Sebas's description to know that this so-called acquisition of extraordinary power, the eight achievements are only given the power of bloodline by some bloodline of the Shedet clan, and transformed into descendants or even just blood servants.

This sacrifice was soon exposed.

Although the location chosen by the Blood Demon Cultists is a relatively chaotic slum, it is also the royal capital of the Crescent Moon and the place with the highest number and quality of demon hunters.

The church didn't even dispatch the Inquisition, and the Demon Hunter Knights stationed in the corresponding streets in the outer city were able to solve the Blood Demon Eucalyptus this time.

Its intensity and difficulty are comparable to the "emperor" of the mountain village of the Heavenly Dynasty in the previous life, and then the public security officers of the police station "wiped out the country" overnight.

And the reason why this incident alarmed the king and stirred up the city was that the timing was too delicate.

This central meeting was aimed at the third prince Philip, and the reason why the third prince Philip became the target of almost the entire noble council, in addition to his blatant violation of the rules, another important reason was his association with the Blood Demon Order.

Not to mention how many families in the Crescent Moon Noble Family dare to pack tickets, their own family has absolutely no contact with the Blood Demon Sect at all, no matter what, suppressing the Blood Demon Sect is definitely the political correctness of the Crescent Moon Kingdom.

Even Louis V, who hated the clerical power's interference in the royal power, was by no means ruthless in fighting the Blood Demon Order, and his methods were quite ruthless.

Brought into the matter of the third prince, that is, as long as the Central Council finally decides that the third prince does have dealings with the Blood Demon Sect, then he will be absolutely finished.

Of course, at the moment of the end of the Boulder-Castel War, the political life of the third prince, Philip, was already over.

But after all, he is still a royal bloodline.

The third prince was finished on his own, and he was judged to have had an affair with the Blood Demon Order.

The latter could easily be seen as having a royal connection to the Blood Demon Order, which is absolutely unacceptable to the king, as it is almost shaking the foundations of royal rule.

Charlotte could even imagine that the matter of the third prince definitely made Louis V suffocated.

Without him, this is not just handing knives to the nobles, but simply handing knives to the nobles and the church.

It was not a secret among the nobility that it was his Majesty's desire to centralize power and to weaken the power of the nobility and the church.

And the matter of the third prince is simply dismantling his platform.

Charlotte didn't even need to investigate to think that this central council might turn into a meeting of the nobility and the church to put pressure on Louis V.

It's easy to figure out that now His Majesty doesn't like the Church, and there is a constant conflict between royal power and clerical power, and the king actually has the upper hand

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Under these circumstances, this central council was definitely a good opportunity for the nobility and the church to suppress the royal power, and it would undoubtedly become the center of conflict.

And at this juncture, the Blood Demon Order would be very annoying to King Louis V again, as disgusting as eating a fly.

In a fit of rage, it was normal for the king to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire royal capital.

At this point, Charlotte recalled what happened to her when she first entered the city.

Her heart moved, she looked at Sebas, and asked:

"So...... Have you already arranged for the city guards of Rutasia to meet us in your place?"

"Yes, master, I want to cooperate with the review of the store, and I can't get away for the time being, so I asked them to pick you up, but...... It doesn't look like they're doing it."

Sebas said.

Charlotte chuckled and said:

"Oh, that's not just not happening......

"Huh? Master, is there something else going on?"

Sebas's heart fluttered.

Charlotte bowed slightly, and briefly recounted what happened to her team's team when it entered the city, and Sebas listened to it, and his brows quickly furrowed:

"Didn't recognize you? That's impossible! I have already reported the information to the royal capital officials, and there is no way that the guards at the city gate will not recognize your badge!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but ask:

"Master, are you sure that the city guards really didn't recognize your identity when they entered the city, and they didn't deliberately make things difficult?"

Charlotte recalled the details of the time and shook her head:

"They probably didn't recognize it."

"In that case, I'm afraid that the gate guards have been temporarily replaced, and it is likely that they are deliberately targeting us."

Sebas frowned and said.

After speaking, he was a little puzzled:

"Strange...... Is there any benefit to doing this? In addition to embarrassing us......

Charlotte snorted and said:

"That was in the end they still let us in, if we didn't recognize our identity at the beginning, I don't know how things would develop, the conspiracy is all one ring after another, maybe it will affect the Central Committee meeting later."

Listening to her words, Sebas's heart moved:

"Master, I mean, did someone help in the end?"

Charlotte nodded slightly:

"I guess so."

As she spoke, she looked at Sebas again:

"Sebas, how much do you know about Duke Gaston's family?"

"Duke Gaston? I only know that Duke Gaston's family is one of the nine dukely families of the kingdom, and it is also a well-known neutral nobleman......

Sebas said.

After speaking, his heart moved:

"Master, is it the Duke of Gaston's family who has helped?"

Charlotte bowed slightly, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

She was pretty sure the change in attitude of the guards before and after entering the city was due to the Gaston family's convoy.

Although the Gaston family's carriage was moving fast, she noticed that the young nobleman threw a bounty bag to the guard the moment she passed by her.

The guards later recognized the Castels by virtue of what was in the bag.

Although Charlotte didn't know what was inside, she could figure out after a little thought that it should be a reminder of the identity of the Castel family, the guards of the city gates.

In other words, if it weren't for the Gaston family's covert move, I'm afraid the matter of entering the city would really not be so simple.

Charlotte didn't pay much attention to it, though.

As the main attendee of the Central Committee, it is impossible for her to really be denied entry to the royal capital.

Some of the turmoil is, at best, a farce.

Of course, we can't underestimate the farce, sometimes the contradictions are accumulated in the farce.

A quarrel can turn into a pair of enemies, let alone a nobleman who has always valued honor.

Regardless, one thing Charlotte is sure of, though.

That is, even if she didn't have a thought, in fact, from the moment she entered the gate of the royal capital, she had essentially stepped into the whirlpool of power strife in the Crescent Moon Kingdom.

"Master, do we need to change our plans for the future?"

Sebas asked.

"Change? Why the change? It is also carried out according to the original plan, we are here to participate in the meeting this time to show loyalty, expand business routes, expand contacts, and add soil to the grave of the third prince by the way, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, as long as it doesn't go too far, don't worry about anything else."

Charlotte shook her head and said.

Sebas's heart moved slightly:

"What do you mean...... Neutrality at the Central Committee?"

Charlotte smiled:

"More precisely, on the basis of trampling the three princes to death, maintaining neutrality among the nobility, the royal family and the church, the troubled waters of the new moon, I don't plan to go, at least not now."

"Master, with all due respect...... This is not easy to do, and from the moment we plan to trample the third prince to death, I am afraid that we are destined to be remembered by the king, not to mention that you have a church background on your face......

"Well, how do you know if you don't try it?"

Charlotte said with a smile.

After speaking, she looked at the sky again and said:

"Okay, it's almost time, make arrangements, I'm going to rest early tonight."

"There are still four days before the meeting, and the news of our arrival in the royal capital has probably already spread, so we must be busy tomorrow......

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Charlotte miscalculated this time.

On the second day of staying in the royal capital, there were no guests visiting the manor.

All of them...... It was as if they had forgotten the Castel family.