As a member of the Abyss History Society, Tatiana actually has another layer of unknown identity.

She and Baron Fiorlando have similar origins, both have the blood of the royal family of Saint-Steele, and they are both "distant relatives" who are not very valued, and it is precisely because of this that the two of them have known each other for a long time, and Baron Fiorlando can even be considered Tatiana's cousin.

However, this weak kinship is no longer important in Tatiana's eyes.

Since joining the Black Sun Society and experiencing first-hand the power of the "worldly over the world", she has voluntarily abandoned all her past relationships, believing that the fragile ties between these inferior beings and populations have no practical meaning, and that individuals should have a purer way of relating to each other.

At the same time, Tatiana was rejected by the titles that originated from the royal family of St. Steele and the status and power that matched them, which in her opinion were also meaningless, and only slowed down her search for truth and pursuit of faith.

It is precisely because of this that Tatiana has always been dissatisfied with Baron Fiorlando.

Despite their similar origins, Baron Fiorlando was clearly more enthusiastic about the "pursuit of fame and fortune", a tendency that Tatiana saw as insincere in her faith and impure in her own pursuits.

However, the bond of the Black Sun Association still connected the two after all.

Although Tatiana disagrees with some of the Baron's views, she must also admit that the help of secular power is still needed in the process of achieving the goals of the Black Sun Society and realizing that great vision, so she ultimately chooses to deepen her cooperation with Fiorlando.

But now, the partnership seems to be on the verge of collapse.

The changing situation has made the importance of Overwatch City grow, and the failure of the previous "Great Promotion Ceremony" bestowed by the Abyss Court has made this area even more delicate, and in the current situation, any threats and instability need to be eliminated in the first place, and those who have caused these troubles through their own negligence must be held accountable for these effects.

Tatiana knew that this time, her old partner would be able to survive the accident in the mine, and she would probably not be able to escape the responsibility of the association, unless he really had the ability to wipe out all the hidden dangers before his shooter battalion was in place.

"I hope you can do it."

Tatiana, riding the Ashru Bird, let out a sneer, then maneuvered her mount and swooped down in the intended direction, now she could see the lights in the Rock Lake Mine, and from a distance, the crystalline spotlights in the mine seemed to be functioning normally, except that the huge ritual field used to envelop the mine and its surroundings was gone.

The Asaru Giant Bird let out a low hiss, indicating that a killing had just taken place in the vicinity - the Asaru Giant Bird was very sensitive to fresh blood gas, and to be able to produce such a reaction was obviously a very large scale of the killing.

At this moment, the people in the mine seemed to have noticed the "visitor" in the sky, so several crystalline spotlights turned towards the sky, and the huge and bright pillars of light swept quickly, reflecting the amazing wingspan of Yasharu.

Then, something unexpected happened to Tatiana.

She saw a magic signal rising rapidly from the central area of the Rock Lake Mine, it left a very conspicuous dark trace in the air, and suddenly exploded after reaching the high altitude, and the silver-gray magic lines were quickly woven into shape in the night sky, and finally formed an extremely standard black sun pattern, and in the center of this black sun pattern, more silver lines formed several stable magic symbols.

The moment she saw these symbols, Tatiana was a little surprised.

This is a common signal within the Black Sun Society, which is specially used to transmit messages to one's comrades when secret ritual communication is not possible, and the meaning of this signal is very clear - the enemy has been wiped out and needs follow-up support.

The symbol used to indicate "support needed" is repeated three times in a row, apparently in the hope that the sender wants to emphasize his tone.

And this is indeed one of the habits of Fiorlando.

Tatiana was cautious, and despite receiving the warning, she did not rush to land, but took out the improvised communication device she had with her, and sent a simple message to the two companions who had been temporarily separated from her, asking them to suspend their plans to attack.

The teams that were assembling in the distance had apparently seen the magic signal in the sky as well, so they quickly responded by saying that they would slow off the attack.

After receiving a definite reply, Tatiana piloted the Asaru Giant Bird as she slowly descended in altitude as she began to fly around the Rock Lake Mine, wanting to get a good look at what was going on inside the mine.

……

At this time, Xiuge, who was standing in the Yanhu mine, was ready to "pick up customers".

This time, he wasn't going to use any violent means against the visiting guest, because judging from the results of the swarm of magic rats he had scattered, once he launched an attack on those visitors, the entire Rock Lake Mine would become the most conspicuous focus near Overwatch.

Therefore, Xiuge resolutely carried out his original plan.

And this is the most crucial step for him and his team to completely enter the Kingdom of St. Steele.

Before and after entering the Kingdom of St. Steele, Shuge conducted an extremely profound study and analysis of the state of the St. Steele royal family and the Black Sun Society through the abilities he had mastered.

There are various indications and evidence that although the Black Sun Society now controls the whole territory of St. Steele with those strange rituals and its own powerful power, in fact, their management methods of the town, the army, and the entire St. Stille bureaucracy are still very crude and rudimentary, which makes it possible to exploit many loopholes.

One of the most typical is the problem of personnel composition.

At this stage, there is no way to even count the list of personnel in the official official army within the kingdom of St. Steele, let alone the "temporary workers" recruited by the Black Sun Society from the people.

And most of the soldiers and overseers in the Yanhu mine can be classified as such.

Deserters, refugees, ruffians, or ordinary residents who have lost their jobs because of the war...... They were the main constituents of these provisional armies, and the Black Sun Society had not yet had time to draw up a specific roster of these people, let alone to compile their situation within the turbulent bureaucracy.

"It is very dangerous to infiltrate Saint-Steele as a citizen, and for the Black Sun Society, the ordinary citizens of Saint-Steele are basically important targets for 'need for conversion', and in this case, the hidden spies and agents are very easy to detect by their secret rituals."

"Therefore, those who have changed their minds, or who have been identified as 'loyal believers' by the Black Sun Society, are our first choice."

"We need to find a suitable target, weed it out completely, and then find a way to replace ourselves...... Take the initiative to create some changes, strengthen the trust of the Black Sun Association in us, and create enough space for more plans and actions in the future. ”

In the light of the mines, Shuge, who held the Crystallized Hammer and the Book of Spells of Association, raised his head, and the psychedelic rainbow color flashed rapidly under his eyes, and then the gloomy abyss magic surged, completely obscuring the traces of the activities of the Destiny Rootbeard Clan.

The last time he used such a large-scale illusion to deceive his enemies was when Shug was trapped in the city of Selen, and that time, the target he needed to deceive was the Descendants of the Abyss, who were impaired in their intellect and senses.

Now, what he needs to face is a cautious Black Sun Mage with great magical prowess.

Therefore, this illusion of fate, which covers most of the Rock Lake mine, must be done in the best detail.

Luckily, the Roots of Destiny seem to be very confident in such a task, and they are even extremely happy with the order given by Shuge, and it is a real pleasure for them to be able to operate in such a place full of corpses and a lot of negative emotions.

Shogue himself, on the other hand, further strengthened his image as a Baron of Fiorlando.

Now, his appearance is very different from what he was an hour ago.

The "royal temperament of Saint-Steele" that Fiorlando had always deliberately maintained was gone, and now he was covered in blood, and even had an abominable scar on his face, which seemed to be left by a crystallized bullet passing across his cheek, and his clothes, which were always clean and beautiful, were now covered with dust and all kinds of dirt.

The baron was now on one knee in front of a badly damaged sculpture.

It was the Secret Ritual that was extremely important to the Black Sun Society, and there was still a remnant of the Abyss Court aura that all members of the Black Sun Society were all familiar with, but now, due to the severe damage to the Secret Rite, this "sacred" aura had become thin and disordered, and the fragments of sculptures scattered nearby indicated that it had suffered some kind of head-on impact from some otherworldly lethal magic.

On the other side, in the clearing in front of the mine, not too far from the baron, there were a large number of corpses.

Most of the corpses were dressed in the clothes of the miners of the mines, a few were dressed in the standard St. Steele uniforms, and now another group of soldiers were cleaning the messy battlefield, stacking and counting the different corpses separately, and some of the miners were standing cowering beside the clearing, guarded by a group of heavily armed soldiers and overseers.

After confirming that there were no other traces of turmoil in the mine, Tatiana finally manipulated the Yasharu giant bird to slowly land next to the destroyed ritual sculpture, and the one-knee Baron Fiorlando raised his head, and his extremely gloomy gaze fell on Tatiana's body, and some invisible pressure made the sensitous Yasharu giant bird shrink its neck - it felt a little frightened by the man in front of it.

"Oh, Lady Tatiana, I thought you didn't realize the seriousness of the problem."

Shuge slowly got up against the face of this baron, and he followed Fiorlando's past memories and habits, and took the lead in questioning Tatiana, who had just landed: "Why, aren't you going to continue to make two more laps in the sky?" ”

In the face of Fiorlando's familiar tone, Tatiana breathed a sigh of relief, with these scenes in front of her, she could basically confirm that her "partner" had not betrayed the Black Sun Society, and there must have been something unexpected happening in the mine.

"Fiorlando, you should explain what is happening here, the army is already gathering not far away, if you don't want to be killed by crystallized shells, then don't be busy shirking responsibility!"

"Passing the buck?"

Hearing this, the baron's blood-stained face became extremely hideous and distorted, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "What do you think I should shirk as a man who has just taken over this place for less than half a day?" I would like to ask, what exactly do you do with the monitoring of the surrounding area? Why would anyone be able to manipulate our rituals, and why would my itinerary be completely exposed? Why did the workers in this mine choose to start a riot tonight and succeed in obtaining a lot of weapons? ”

At this, he seemed to become extremely angry, and he pointed to the burning camp on the other side of the mine with the crystallized gun in his hand, and then to the clearing full of corpses: "My servants and retinue are almost dead, and those miners not only know all the arrangements I have made, but even destroy the secret instruments used for surveillance in the mine in advance...... Heh, guess they did it themselves, or was someone helping them? ”

"Wait, Fiorlando, you're trying to say that the man in charge of the mine has defected to the Society? That's an accusation! ”

"Nonsense, of course this is an accusation!"

The baron was clearly already a little hysterical: "Do you know what it's like to see our secret ritual explode from within? If you look at the corpses, almost all of the miners have participated in the mutiny, they have planned it for a long time, and a considerable number of them have already escaped into the secret passages in the mines! ”

At this point, he took a heavy breath and seemed to ease his emotions a little, and then he stared at Tatiana and said, "If I were you, ma'am, I would go and arrest the person who was in charge of this mine now...... I'm going to confront him, right under the witness of the Mystery, and I hope you'll catch him!" ”

(End of chapter)