After killing the two guards, the two Assassins descended deeper into the palace as well.

These two Assassins were the elite of the Brotherhood, and while they were also the ones lying down the street, they were also the few people Arthur had ever praised.

There is nothing superfluous in their movements, they are clean and neat, and even their killing intent is very low.

They are two brothers, the elder brother is called Eboni and the younger brother is called Evori.

The family used to be very devout believers, but then something happened to them and they chose to join the Brotherhood, pursuing the ideals of the Brotherhood, as Helang had introduced them to Arthur.

Arthur didn't ask anything, for for a man his age, he had seen too much human suffering.

No matter how tragic the story is, it seems to him that it is a cliché.

The Brotherhood's activities have gone underground in recent years, and the Nightmare Order has been attacked on the one hand, and the failure of the Brotherhood's revolutions in the rest of the larger countries.

During the years of silence, Heilang had been thinking, and he soon figured out why they had failed.

This is the same reason for his previous fears, although he succeeded in bringing Arthur's ideas to the Brotherhood, as long as the core tenet of "All things are false, all things are allowed" remained unchanged, it could not change the nature of the Brotherhood - an anarchic and violent organization that was free from the law.

Killing people alone won't change the world.

However, Helang also does not want to change the nature of the Brotherhood, which is also needed in this era.

So, they chose to step back into the background and began to fund people who could really change the world.

If there are people in the Brotherhood with similar abilities, Heilang will also make them temporarily forget their Assassin status and join their group.

And in this last moment, it was the meaning of the Assassin's existence in this world.

Before the unrest began, the tsar transferred an elite force into the interior of the Winter Palace.

A part of the armored forces was outside to prevent the people from storming the Winter Palace, guarding the Tsar.

While another part of the combat troops was stationed inside the Winter Palace.

It is very likely that these troops have just come down from the battlefield with Beichen and have experienced the baptism of blood and fire.

Even so, these elite troops were not a common enemy of the Assassins.

What they learn is how to use weapons and how to win wars.

And what these assassins learned was how to kill people neatly.

They silently advanced towards the interior of the palace, and all the guards who saw their figures entered the underworld almost the next moment.

The whole Winter Palace was eerily quiet, there was not a single sound of gunfire, only the shouts of the crowd outside faintly came in through the corridors.

Death, in this silence, harvests life one after another.

"The emperor doesn't exist in the bedroom, or in the council chamber." Evori walked through the galleries inside the Hermitage, stepping on a precious Persian carpet.

On both sides are paintings that were once collected by Catherine II in the interior of the Winter Palace, and according to the value of these paintings today, this gallery alone is enough to buy several warships.

These paintings no longer belong to a single royal family or a country, but are treasures of the entire history and culture of mankind.

In fact, if they can catch the Tsar, it is the best choice, otherwise, when the outside people attack, these paintings will not be destroyed.

The treasures of culture are guarded when life is abundant, and many people nowadays do not have this awareness.

The original Britannian Revolution destroyed a lot of things.

Evori continued, "Where do you think he will be? ”

Eboni's face is hidden under the hood, and the dawn sun shines through the stained glass windows above, reflecting the golden splendor of the exhibition hall, which can be seen in the cathedral grandeur.

He looked around, "In a royal palace like this, it's normal to have one or two secret passages. ”

He walked slowly, stopping at the end of the hallway.

Walking up the two stairs along the high-end red short-haired carpet at your feet, you can see a portrait framed by an elaborate picture frame.

The portrait is of a woman in a long dress, she is beautiful, confident, and especially in her blue eyes, which are like those on the shore of Lake Baikal, full of ambition, as if they contain thousands of troops.

There is no doubt that this one is undoubtedly the only female emperor in this country - Catherine II.

"What a beautiful woman." "I don't know why Peter III doesn't like him as an empress." ”

"If he had a normal mind, he wouldn't have lost his throne and lost his life." Eboni said.

Ebony looked around, then slowly stepped forward and tapped his arm on the wall behind the frame, and the sound was very crisp - it meant that there was space behind the wall.

He thought for a moment, pushed the portrait away, and soon found a keyhole behind the portrait.

Without hesitation, he raised his right hand, the nail of his right little finger was very long, but the rest of the nails were normal, as if they had been left on purpose.

He put the nail of his little thumb into the keyhole, and with a crisp sound, a door slowly opened inside.

He and Evori glanced at each other and continued inside.

The corridor was dark, but not long, and they barely had gone far before they saw a faint blue glow at the end of the corridor.

They walked out, and there were two guards standing on either side of the exit, and they seemed to notice the presence of the two assassins, but they were about to speak.

A cold glow flashed through the air, and the Hidden Blade pierced their heads directly through their chins.

The reason why stabbing here is also a saying, although piercing the heart can also kill with one blow, but it is difficult to ensure that the other party will not speak, and piercing the jaw can make people unable to make a sound,

In order to prevent the smell of blood from being discovered by people nearby, the two of them also dragged the body into the corridor for some distance.

Then stand back at the exit.

It is an open corridor, and from the fence of the corridor you can see an oval hall with Romanesque columns, marble floors, and dark blue curtains hanging from the windows around the hall.

Outside, there seems to be a window, and the sunlight shines through the window on the curtains, reflecting the space in a dark blue.

Tsar Nicholas II, whom hundreds of thousands of people outside wanted to see, sat in the office chair behind the desk in the living room.

And in addition to this, there were the rest of the people, such as some soldiers with guns, and two well-dressed middle-aged men, two of whom had seen the picture in the intelligence and were important ministers of the country.

Some were the wives and children of Nicholas II, and they were hiding here.

The rest of the people standing beside him made Ebony's eyes squint slightly, their bodies draped in divine robes, and their appearance was also shrouded in hoods.

In some of the rumors of the empire, the tsar did trust a priest with magical powers.

The priest was hated both inside and outside the country.

Alexandra, the queen of the country, was a believer in mysticism, entertaining such figures as "priests", "holy children", "prophets", "prophets", "saviors", and often performing séance ceremonies.

Much to the couple's grief, their son Alexei was suffering from hemophilia and often faced terrible situations, and almost all of them were helpless when Alexei fell ill. That's when the priest appeared.

In 1907, when Crown Prince Alexei fell ill again, the anxious Empress persuaded Nicholas II to summon the priest to the palace to see if he could save his son.

Amazingly, even the court doctors could not do anything about the seriously ill crown prince. But when the priest came in, he gave the crown prince only a small packet of powder, then prayed again, and then sat down next to the crown prince and told him some stories.

Then, a miracle happened, after a few days of recuperation, the crown prince actually regained his health!

In this way, the future fate of the entire empire seems to be in the hands of this priest, and the reason is that he is inextricably linked to the health of the crown prince.

In fact, as long as this priest remained in the palace, the crown prince was healthy and lively; In his absence, the prince would be emaciated.

In 1915, the priest had a bad relationship with the Tsar and was expelled from the palace. As a result, the crown prince suddenly suffered a nosebleed, and when the queen turned to the priest for help, he deliberately delayed it for two days, unexpectedly the prince's condition deteriorated as a result.

But as soon as the priest appeared, the prince miraculously recovered. From then on, his incredible power made Tsar Nicholas II completely surrender, and he had to give him three points for everything.

For the empire, disaster began.

Due to the court title of "Tsar's Lamp Bearer", the priest had free access to the inner palace and often exerted influence on the Tsar couple.

So the priest took advantage of his special status to seek his own benefit, and even openly interfered in court politics.

This year, in particular, the Tsar left St. Petersburg on a royal expedition, and the power of the state fell into the hands of the Empress, but in fact in the hands of the priest.

As a result, during this period, the internal affairs of Tsarist Russia were disturbed by this priest.

In just one year, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Tsarist Russia changed 4, the Minister of Internal Affairs 6, the Minister of War 4, the Minister of Foreign Affairs 3, and the Minister of Justice 4. The priest is said to have appointed officials without principle and out of whim.

He made the eighty-year-old Goromygin chairman of the Council of Ministers, even simply because he loved to eat potatoes made by his wife. In addition, many officials and nobles were dismissed for offending the priest.

In front of the royal family, he showed the face of a humble elder, and the queen looked at him and couldn't help but believe that he was possessed by God.

But in front of the people, he showed his hideous side—a drunken bald donkey, and many young girls were poisoned by him.

The people were indignant when they saw that the Tsar had taken in such a person in the palace, and the whole palace was puzzled and hurt by this.

In this way, the heralds of the Grim Reaper came between the ruler and the people......

And since neither side could fully understand the duality of the man, neither could understand each other, so the tsar and the people pushed the other to the edge of the abyss at the same time.

Of course, this is just the tip of the country's chaos.

The turmoil outside, this "demon monk" is one of the reasons.

But the emperor who believes in this demon monk is the root of all this.

Naturally, the Brotherhood knew of the existence of this demon monk, and even before he came, Hei Lang told them to be careful about this existence.

He comes from the Nightmare Order, an organization that the Brotherhood has been fighting against in the past.

(End of chapter)