"Crunch." The recognized resting place of the members of the Night's Blade, recalling a single room in the hut, the door was pushed open, and Charles walked in from the outside, while Wang Yu and Edward had been waiting inside for a short time.

Wang Yu let go of the booklet in his hand and the objects he had been rummaging through and studying, and looked at Xia Er who was speechless, "What's the matter, did you encounter something when you were late?" ”

Charles doesn't usually get late, unless there's some unlucky accident, like being kicked out by the owner of the Echo Hut.

However, with Wang Yu and Edward vouching for Charles, the boss won't let him in.

"Don't mention it, my dad has been worrying about the change of the senators recently, pulling me over to explain a lot of things, and asking me to represent the family when the time comes, I don't want to do this, didn't I cut off relations with the Ryder family...... What is this called severance, oh my God. ”

Charles sat down in a chair in a private room and drank the juice he had ordered earlier.

"Whew, it's not as good as the last college dinner."

"If you don't drink it, get out! Pick and choose idiots! A roar of anger came into Charles' ears, causing Charles to jump straight from his seat in fright, this familiar voice, boss?

But didn't the private rooms of the Echo Cottage provide additional secrecy, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen this place to show his two companions the information he had obtained from Viscount Glenn's cemetery.

Charles glanced around worriedly, he had more than once commented in the common space outside that the boss's food was not as good as some of the other shops in the royal city, which made him yelled at the boss several times and blasted out several times.

After looking around, he didn't see the boss, but he saw Edward, who was looking at him with a smile on his face, and Wang Yu, who was touching his throat and pondering.

"Hmm...... Let me guess, that voice just now is Wang Yu? Charles's head was still spinning very quickly, and it was almost clear when he saw this.

"It's me, I'm trying to adjust some details of my body and stuff, it seems that through the combination of fighting spirit and muscles, I can imitate other people's voices, which is quite convenient."

Wang Yu raised his head and explained, and his voice changed to Zig's.

"Outrageous, your body is too weird." Charles scratched his head and sat back down.

"I'm going to show you what I got by replaying the past scenes in Viscount Glenn's graveyard, it's unimaginable."

Charles didn't dwell on the frightening moment anymore, and pulled out a Wheel of Fortune tarot card and placed it on the table.

"The Viscount has a penchant for abuse or torture, right?" Wang Yu asked.

"Well, how do you know?" Charles was surprised to acknowledge Wang's question and activated the Wheel of Fortune tarot card.

"I have some necromantic breath on me, and Avia has used necromancy to help me retrace these dead, all young and tormented souls."

Turning his gaze to the past projected by the Wheel of Fortune in the room, Wang Yu responded.

The Wheel of Fortune tarot card shows the past scene in front of the three of them in a translucent luminous stereoscopic image, and the location can be found in the details, although it is a little different, but it is the cemetery outside Viscount Glenn's window.

Some of the young men and women were tied with ropes, cloths in their mouths, and fastened to stools placed in the cemetery outside the window, while Viscountess and Viscountess Glenn held something in their hands, intoxicatingly inhaled.

"Well, that's true, the Viscountess's previous behavior was definitely a drug, just a side effect." Wang Yu looked at the things that were held in the hands of Viscount Glenn and his wife, making them look intoxicated, and nodded as expected.

Viscount and Lady Glenn first sucked in for a long time, and then showed a somewhat sluggish expression, and it took a long time to come back to their senses.

In the meantime, the young men and women tied to their chairs twisted their immobilized bodies and struggled to move their positions, but all failed.

The energy of the hallucinogenic potion did not dissipate, and they showed an exaggerated smile, picked up a leather whip and other similar things from the side, and began to whip the bound young men.

Although the Wheel of Fortune tarot cards do not play back the sound, it is clear from the sickly smiles on the faces of the Viscount and the Lady that they laughed loudly, and the constantly vibrating chairs also showed the wails of the bound people.

"Bang!" Edward's fist slammed on the table, and if the knight's strength hadn't been deliberately curtailed, the wooden dining table would have shattered, and the green tendons would have jumped on top of his fist, and the tightened eyebrows and trembling muscles all reflected his anger at the moment.

The scene continues, the viscount and the viscountess torture the bound people in front of them to their heart's content, each whipping, every time they spill something unknown on the wounds of these people, can make their emotions that have become particularly excited by the drug even more high-pitched.

With that look of intoxication and enjoyment, it's hard to imagine what they were feeling when they were doing these things.

This torture lasted for a long time, and halfway through it because the viscount's wife was an ordinary person, and because of physical exhaustion, he took a break.

The spasmodic bodies of the tortured men entered the eyes of the three, and apart from Edward's undisguised anger, Charles and Wang Yu were unusually silent.

Eventually, when the chest of the bound man no longer heaved, and the viscount's wife was already happy, she waved her hand, and the servant guards who had been waiting outside the screen entered the frame, buried the bodies of the bound people in the ground, and inserted the tombstone that had been prepared for a long time, and the picture ended.

"You deserve it." Charles sighed and concluded.

"Hmm." Wang Yu flicked the small alchemy element in his hand and agreed.

"Whew......" Edward only let out a long breath, but the trembling fist already showed that he was not at peace at the moment.

"If you are on the ground of the royal city, the blade of the night and the city guards will take care of someone who is missing, and the words of young people will be more concerned, so these people who appear in the picture should have been caught from places other than the royal city ground."

Charles put away the Wheel of Fortune tarot cards and analyzed them in a calm tone.

"The Shadow of the Royal City." Wang Yu's tone was very affirmative.

"It should be." Charles confirmed.

Although the Shadow of the Royal City is a secret to the average resident of the Royal City, it is a place where nobles often come and go.

Whether it is the trading of some ordinary alchemy artifacts, or some things involving the dark side of human nature, it is normal for the chaotic land of the Shadow of the Royal City.

"Are all these nobles like this?" Edward pressed his palm to his forehead, his tone tinged with uncontrollable excitement.

"What? Disillusioned with the nobles of the royal city? Charles asked rhetorically.

"Alas, in the Northlands, at least among the nobles whom I know, this cannot be the case."

"It's very simple, the nobles enjoy more resources than ordinary people, so they shoulder a part of the responsibility, for these nobles, defending the lords of the Northland is both a responsibility and an honor."

Edward was the son of the Grand Duke of the North, and both Wang Yu and Charles knew that he had a strong sense of responsibility, and it was normal for him to protect his people.

"You're right, don't let these things in the royal city affect your beliefs."

Wang Yu tapped on Edward's chest, which was a little confused, and emphasized that there was nothing wrong with what Edward insisted on and approved.

"You can't look at these nobles in the royal city so generally, at least, I'm also a nobleman, well, Wang Yu is currently counted, and Miss Avia seems to be too, at least more than half of the nobles who are trustworthy and responsible."

Charles coughed lightly, not elevating his opinion of Viscount Glenn to all the nobles of the royal city.

"Looking at a person also depends on what he does, identity does not determine whether a person is great or not, good or evil, nobility is just an identity, at least there should be no prejudice against people who have aristocratic status." Wang Yu made a summary.

"It's not about identity...... it's about how you do it." Edward chewed on the sentence thoughtfully.

"What about the murderer, at present, it seems that in the words of Wang Yu's hometown, this murderer is acting for the heavens, as a member of the Night Blade, although according to the laws of the royal city, he should definitely be arrested...... Not really. ”

Charles spread his hands and turned the conversation back to the murderer, now that he knew what Viscount Glenn had done, what the murderer did was still considered a crime.

"We naturally have a balance in our hearts, and we have our own understanding of what is correct, which is very simple."

"But now we have to think about whether the murderer is simply trying to cause chaos, or whether he is really targeting the sins of those Viscounts Glenn and bringing the uncoming heavenly punishment on his head."

"If it's the former, then it has to be stopped, but the latter, we can't help, but at least we can ......"

Wang Yu opened one eye and closed another eye, the meaning was already obvious.

"It's simple, if this is the end of the matter, it's fine, if similar attacks continue to happen, then you can judge what the murderer's purpose is." Charles rubbed his fingers.

"Well, that's all there is to it." Wang Yu responded.

"However, it should be noted that the black smoke on the surface of the murderer's body, because it can be concealed and probed like the magic of the Night Lady, and it is considered by those noble investigation teams to be related to the recent rise of the Night Lady's faith, Wang Yu, you have to pay a little attention, although you don't know much about your identity, it is difficult to keep it completely secret."

"And the Night Church side may also be affected by this."

At this point, Charles was very serious, and it seemed that he had gotten a lot of new information through his own channels.

Moaning slightly, Wang Yu also responded seriously, "Understood, I will inform them to pay attention." ”

In fact, Wang Yu knew that Charles had said to Edward before that at least more than half of the nobles in the royal city were trustworthy, and there were other meanings in them.

In other words, no more than half of the nobles have similar or even worse behavior to Viscount Glenn.

And this group of nobles, who have too many resources and power than ordinary residents, once part of it is rotten, the impact on the entire royal city and even the kingdom may be huge.

……

At the junction of the border between Alestre and Severin, it was night, and the two armies were stationed on either side of the gorge, and the barracks emitted modest lights, some of which were magic crystal lamps, and most of which were maintained by torches.

The deep canyon, where you can't see what the bottom is, is a natural dividing line between the two armies.

This is the crack that once directly shattered the bottom of the abyss, the ultimate weapon created in human history, exploded, tearing through the entire continent, known as the Canyon of Sighs.

The war on the front line was tepid from the moment it began, and the two armies continued to clash, large and small, but there was no real final battle.

Neither side of the army received orders for a decisive battle from within the kingdom, and they could only spend so much on the front line, not daring to relax their fronts, but rarely launching attacks beyond the scope of the word "temptation".

On both sides of the Sigh Canyon, the armies of Alestale and Seventan were on the same page, but with a strange tacit understanding not to break out into an all-out battle, which might come sooner or later, but for now, neither side was willing to push the war to its final stage.

Near the edge of the canyon, one of Alestale's members of the Night's Blade, who had been on his way to the front line at the call of the royal family, was completing his patrol mission while practicing the magic that could be used by the new faith that had recently spread among the Nightblades.

His faith in the Night Lady was still in its infancy, so he had no way to use the prayer communication network, and the priest was walking around the perimeter, his lips constantly wriggling, silently chanting something, and he was familiar with the prayers about the Night Lady in his heart.

The members of the Night's Blade in the royal city joined the faith in the Night Lady one step earlier than the members of the Front.

Because of their participation in the army, only the members of the Night Blade in the city learned about the new faith that spread within the Night Blade for some time afterward.

The soldier of the Night Blade had some doubts about the statement that the Night Lady's faith could invalidate the spiritual pollution, because the spiritual protection of the Night Blade for so long was largely due to the royal family's Heavenly Darkness consciousness engraved in the spirit.

Although there are great side effects, such as the impact of a huge amount of spiritual pollution, which will be turned into a waste by the impact of what is left in the soul before it is completely polluted, but for so long, there has been no better solution.

But if it's true......

Thinking of this, the soldier's recognition of the Night Lady was a little more than a moment that he was even aware of.

"Lady of the Night, please give me the ability to see in the dark."

Rather than praying to the other gods, he tried to complete the simplest of the Lady of the Night's belief in divine art.

A faint dark power, born from nothingness, spread like flowing water, lingering on his eyes, succeeded, the first attempt, it was so simple to succeed.

What was difficult to see because of the darkness brought by the night suddenly became visible, but before he had time to think about it, he suddenly noticed that something was wrong on the canyon of sighs.

A number of slender ropes, imperceptible under the cover of darkness, were stretching from the other side of the canyon on the opposite side.

Some guys in nightwear were hanging from these filaments, slowly and silently touching this way.

And in his vision of seeing through the darkness, several guys in night clothes had already appeared at the edge of the canyon on Alestrale's side, their bodies flickering, and disappeared into the woods near the canyon.

"Is it a man from Seventan? There is no vigilance circle near the edge of the canyon and far away from the military formation, so let them use it, what does Sewintan want to do, start a complete war? Gotta hurry up and inform the rest of the camp! ”

The soldier was about to act as soon as he realized what was happening, but as soon as he was about to act, after a brief interval between his body, a pair of hands that silently touched his back and didn't know when they touched his back, and they had already stabbed a sharp dagger into the back of his heart.

"Hmm......" The mouth that wanted to shout was covered by the same hand, and he couldn't make a sound no matter what, and the vitality quickly disappeared after the heart was pierced, and the weak body collapsed.

The owner of the hands revealed his body from nothingness, and the flow of fighting qi around him already explained where the ability to kill this member of the Night's Edge came from in the sudden appearance, the inner potential of the official knight.

"Attention all the dead, some of Alestale's soldiers seem to have the ability to see darkly, you need to be more careful, we were discovered by a soldier just now, I can stop it a limited number of times, speed up your actions, and proceed as planned."

The words spread silently through special props, and the figure of this official knight who was a hidden type of inner subtext dissipated again and disappeared into nothingness.

There was no voice to respond to his words, but the black-clothed figure that kept coming out of the woods at the edge of the canyon in the darkness was already the best response, the night attack, began to ......