Former Cormier Oberszir Champion Knight, now a Paladin of the Knights of the Golden Lion of Tom, and the master powerhouse Renard wanted to run the moment he saw Aaron.

He really didn't know how to face his younger brother Aaron.

With the Paladin's oath of dedication, Renard has a clear conscience in public morality, he knows what he is, he knows what he should do, everything he does is righteous, and Tom always recognizes Renard's dedication.

However, from the point of view of personal morality, Renard did not do so well, he was always running away, he was sorry for the mentor Lucian who raised him, he was sorry for his fiancée Maria Lysa, he was sorry for the vast number of Cormier people and the Purple Dragon Lady who entrusted him with important tasks.

So when Renard heard that Aaron and the others had come to Sword Bay, he was very upset.

Sure enough, whatever you are most afraid of will come.

"Reynard, you speak!" Aaron tugged at Renard's cloak, green tendons appeared on Viscount Cormier's head, and the paladin cloak of the golden lion on a white background creaked under his strength: "You have the ability to escape, you have the ability to speak!" ”

"............" Renard remained silent, he turned his head to look to the side, and the face behind the iris helmet did not even dare to look at Aaron.

In the end, it was the leading paladin Caton who stopped Aaron's actions, and his weather-beaten and scarred face was both majestic and majestic: "Enough, young man, I know you, the Flower Knight of the Fairy Princess, introduce myself, I am Caton of the Knights of the Burning Heart, and we have come from Amm to track down the Death Eaters of Baal......"

"......" Aaron shook off Renard's cloak and glared at him viciously, before facing Kaidon, he raised an eyebrow: "I know you, Kaidon Filcon, the hot-hearted paladin inquisitor, you are the most respected object of the Knights, an old fellow, and a good fellow. ”

Paladin Kaidon was a little surprised that Aaron actually knew about his existence: "You know me? I'm glad to be known by a celebrity like you, it shows that my efforts are always meaningful, and Tom is on top, and it's not in vain. ”

"Let Renard go, he has something unspeakable." Chedon raised his hand and gestured, "What we should pay more attention to now is that this murder was not committed by the Baal believers, but by someone else." ”

Hearing Caton say this, Nystyria, the sister of the dark elves, spoke first, as a drow, what she hated the most was these holy warriors who claimed to be righteous: "Giggles~ old guy, why do you come to preconceived conclusions?" Little samurai? ”

Nestia's frivolous attitude made several paladins frown instantly, and Kaidon's tired eyes flashed: "I advise you to give up this title, this title is not interesting at all, and it is not at all elegant, the paladins are never more noble than others, nor are they more correct than other races, we naturally have evidence in our hands." ”

"Is that so? Don't you see a man and throw one to detect good and evil, and then shout, 'Hey, any evil, bring to justice,' and go up to the Most Holy of Deads? "Nestia clasped her hands to her chest, her dark elf's bright red eyes were seductive and dangerous, and she harbored a deep prejudice against the paladin.

"Ma'am, this is a very inappropriate joke, and you should be ashamed of yourself for harboring such malice." Paladin Inquisitor Kaidon shook his head, his voice tired and his eyes full of frost, he was neither angry nor eager to defend himself, apparently having experienced this situation many times in his long life.

"Oh, it's boring, old fellow, do you get along with your wife like this at home?" Nestia suddenly felt bored, and what Sister Darkspirit liked most was that she could constantly question and the other party could only hurriedly argue: "Do you have to follow the dogma of the holy warrior in whatever position you use when you are together?" ”

"Elf, you'd better not mention my wife." Sure enough, Caton could be calm in the face of any doubts and ridicule, but at the mention of his wife, the paladin's face changed significantly: "You must learn to respect every soul!" ”

Before Nestia could say more, Aaron took the initiative to squeeze her little hand.

He could now be sure that this paladin was Kaidon, selfless, just, sacrificial, dedicated, and with a small guilt for his family.

It's no wonder that Renard would act with him, as the two men have a lot in common.

"I have a lot of respect for you, Am's Paladin." Aaron motioned for Nestia to say no more, "Can you tell me the details?" What you should know. ”

"The God of Suffering thanks you for your contributions, Lord Salian, and every gold coin that the Righteous Trio earns from your business will be used where it belongs." The paladin Kaidon did not refuse and told Aaron about the matter.

This group of paladins had come after the Baal Death Eaters.

Around the same time that Aaron noticed Bilak's return, the activities of Am's Baal Church intensified sharply, and Kaidon took the paladins to investigate the news, and finally joined forces with the Thom Golden Lion Knights led by Renard and arrived at Baldur's Gate to investigate.

"We have authorization from the Duke of Iltan, please let us inspect the scene." Caton did not say what the source was, and he showed the watchman the power of attorney from the Duke of Iltan.

The watchman confirmed that it was indeed the Lord of Iltan's ordination and let him go, and Aaron also said to Nestia and Charlotte, "Then let's go and see it too." ”

The group entered the estate of Archduchess Lila.

Each of the noble estates in the upper part of Baldur's Gate has its own style, either in the solemn and sacred Gothic style, or in the warm and bright Baroque style, or in the elven art style similar to Roman Byzantium, and in some garden styles like the pavilions and water pavilions in the east of Aaron's previous life, and the scenery of stone mountains and lakes.

However, no matter what style the nobles choose, their design structure must be tight enough, because the upper town itself is already crowded, and every inch of land is valuable, and there is nothing superfluous.

This reminded Aaron of the Emperor's Holy Terra, which was worth more than an entire city on any other planet during the construction of the Imperial Palace under Dorne's presiding authority (with the possible exception of Makurag in Kiliman).

Beyond the palace of Holy Terra, however, the descendants of the ancient Terra warlords who had agreed to the emperor's terms of surrender held vast lands.

The Grand Duke's manor has been under martial law at this time, but it can still be vaguely seen that its luxurious interior style is a very typical female mage manor, divided into a wizard tower area, a magic workshop area and a landscape area, which is heavily guarded.

Walking up to the top of the Wizard's Tower, the Celestial Flying Elephant and a few of the Warden Captains were already there.

In the midst of the layers of thick magical barriers, the living armor around them, the golems guarding the gate on each floor, the surrounding magic turrets, and the protection of a pseudo-dragon pet, the Grand Duke Lila fell in a pool of blood, she seemed defenseless, she should have just sat in front of the fireplace and read a book, and was killed by the assassin behind her.

The level of the Assassins terrified everyone present.

If this level of security doesn't give the Grand Duke time to react, then no one in the entire Baldur's Gate will be safe!

"We're discovering this." The Celestial Flying Elephant showed Aaron and the others its clues: "Look. ”

Turning the body over, Aaron and the others found that the archduke had left a blood mark on her forehead, which was obviously deliberately added by the assassin after the murder.

Aaron's face changed suddenly, he immediately pushed away the holy warrior in front of him, carefully examined the wound on the forehead of the female archduke, his eyes widened, and his pupils shrank as thin as a needle!

He knows who the killer is!

Skaven, Clan Aishin, Death Master Snikch!

The ace assassin of the entire race of Skaven, he did not fail a single assassination attempt in his life in the Middle World, and even the destruction of the Old World could not make Snicky die, and under the favor of the Great Horned Rat, Snicky survived safely to the end of his life, and continued to be active as the ace killer of Skaven in the years that followed.

Damn, is even Snicky here?

Could it be that the Great Horned Rat intends to shift his main business entirely to the realm?

Aaron couldn't help sweating on his forehead, you must know that Snicky has always been a god to block and kill gods and Buddhas, so far no one has been able to avoid the assassination of Skaven's ace, and usually mortals can't even see Snicky's shadow.

It is only on the battlefield of a head-to-head duel that Snicky occasionally shows his face, and everything is powder wherever the three artifact blades - Sorrow and Flurry pass.

So the question is, why did Snikch assassinate the Grand Duchess? Is it just to break Baldur's Gate resistance? Then it should assassinate Birak, or Anta-Silvershield and Duke Iltan.

Aaron was still thinking about it, and Nestia behind him spoke up: "It's the nezumi." ”

"Ma'am, have you ever seen a wound like this?" Kaidong took the initiative to speak in detail, and his attitude was very sincere, and he did not show that he had been provoked by Nestia before: "In the name of the dead and all those who have been hurt by him, I beg you to tell the truth. ”

"It's Skaven, and I've fought with these nezumi assassins." Nestia frowned, "In the pits of Nasikai." ”

"Wait!" With that, one of the younger paladins, the blonde vow of devotion paladin, rudely interrupted Nestria's words, "You did the mining disaster in Naxikai? Oh my God, Tyr's Eye of Justice is above, and you've killed more than twenty people! ”

"If we don't blow up the pit, more than a hundred people will die." Nestia hated the paladin's unwarranted sense of justice the most: "So what would you choose, little samurai?" Take the initiative to kill more than 20 people, or don't do it, and end up killing more than 100 people in the pit? ”

"I ......," the paladin was momentarily speechless.

"That's enough, Wallace." Kaidong motioned for the paladins to calm down, "Thank you for informing, ma'am, is there anything else you can tell us?" ”

"Their gods have blessed them." Aaron spoke: "I think I have a way to track down where they came from. ”

The blessing of the Great Horned Rat will leave a residual chaotic force in the air, and Aaron follows the breath of the Horned Rat God to restore the course of events.

Snik descended from the chimney of the fireplace, but instead of going down from the top, he climbed up from the bottom, cutting through the strainers and protective nets, and descending from the fireplace to the Grand Duchess.

Going downstairs and searching the ground floor of the fireplace, Aaron and the others discover a new world.

The deep staircase leads to a whole new world, and like the secret meeting hall of the Knights of the Shield Order beneath the Elven Song Tavern, the Archduchess's manor also has a separate secret underground hall underneath.

"Does every Bode have to dig an underground room in their home?" Charlotte said with a smile: "Secret base, secret base, I always liked this when I was a child~ I have a lot of cleverness~ clever~ I have a lot of little secrets~ little secrets~"

"That's where the Skaven came from." Aaron motioned for him to go down and have a look.

The Celestial Flying Elephants and the Watchers immediately shook their heads, they were not qualified to enter the Zonggui's home to search, but the Paladins were eager to try, they had already heard of the darkness of the Bode Zonggui.

At the center of the entire subterranean building is a chamber with multiple corridors leading to other locations, within which there is a separate platform that rises in the center, surrounded by seats for the magnates, wizards, and guests, and the whole thing looks like a theater for anatomists.

On the platform was a half-dissected Skaven.

The hall was flanked by bookcases, a mage's workbench with an intricate potion-making device, and the engineering piping system from the Gond gnomes had already been used as an aid, and the upper echelons of the kingdom were not low in industrialization.

"Wow, it's the interpretation of the flowers~" Charlotte quietly put the flowers on the table into her pocket, the eldest lady's eyes blinked, she didn't care about the investigation at all, she just wanted to see if there was anything useful for herself: "Trotham!" ”

And Nestia was even more excessive, the dark elf sister turned slightly sideways, taking advantage of the lack of attention of the holy warriors, so that the bottles of magic potions treasured by the Grand Duke disappeared quickly one after another.

Special Healing Potion, Medical Elixir, Two Potions of Arcane Nourishment, Titan of the Hill Strength, Elixir of Battle Mage's Power, and Elixir of Psychic Resistance.

Bottles of potion were packed into Nestia's satchel, far exceeding the capacity of the satchel on the outside.

"Hey?!" Just as Nestria was about to continue to put a bottle of universal resistance elixir in her satchel, the young blonde paladin finally noticed Nestya's actions, and he reached out to Nesstya's hand, which was already holding the slender glass bottle, and signaled to her not to do this: "Don't take it indiscriminately! We're here to investigate! ”

At that moment, the paladin's movements seemed to freeze frame.

A flash of green light, a flash of green lightning swept across the room, and suddenly, a dagger pierced the paladin's back, and he fell to the ground, his outstretched hand for the potion bottle slamming to the ground.

"Wallace !!" Everyone was taken aback by the blow, and they jerked their heads up.

A pair of green eyes stared at them from the ceiling, a pair of cold eyes wrapped in a mask, buried deep beneath the pitch-black nocturnal cloak, a long rat tail hooked with a bright green dimensional stone dagger.

No, there were more than one, and there were four Skaven masked men hanging from the ceiling!

Only then did everyone realize that these rat-headed and rat-brained guys had been there since they came in!

Four pairs of green rat eyes stared at the crowd below, and Aaron heard a voice from the Endless Blight of Decay.

The bells rang out, and short, evil voices whispered along the bells of Calamity.

"Yes, yes, you have come at last, you have come, the chosen son, my dark brothers, the beloved of my brothers."

"You don't have me, my blessing, you are not finished, you are complete."

"Come, come to me, let me wish and bless you."

"Rats! Rat! ”

Updated, ask for a ticket duck~

(End of chapter)