It's just that the threat hidden in the darkness of the thieves' union has not disappeared, at least not lightly for a while. While the messengers usually ride their best fast horses and gallop on the way to report the news, they can never be faster than the rumors spread, and it is likely that some radical Thieves Guild branch president, hearing rumors about the Thieves' Guild headquarters, will send his killers to Onyx City before his branch is attacked, in an attempt to retaliate even more brutally for the brutal attack of the Dragon's Tooth Knights. And it is clear that Baron Wesley Ruda, one of the three most senior ministers of the Holy Asserr Empire, will also be on the blacklist of the thieves' guild for revenge.

Baron Wesley Ruda, the dignified Minister of State of the Holy Asserr Empire, is forty-two years old. This age is still among the ranks of children for long-lived races such as elves and dwarves, but as a human being, Baron Wesley Ruda has entered the prime of life. The son of a lord in the West, Baron Wesley Rueda left his hometown at the age of twelve to come to Onyx, where he studied the affairs of the Holy Asserian Empire with the former Minister of State in the National Assembly. After 25 years of loneliness, Baron Wesley Ruda rose through the ranks, finally reaching one of the highest positions in the Holy Asserr Empire five years ago: Minister of State of the Holy Asserr Empire, and Princess Sealy Klein, the daughter of Emperor Anfil XXXIV, became the wife of Baron Wesley Ruda.

This qiē was a well-deserved reward for Baron Wesley Ruda, who even gave up the opportunity to inherit his father's domain and lordship as the eldest son. But this qiē is not exactly satisfactory: in the so-called triumvirate of the Holy Aserr Empire. The Secretary of State has the most and most onerous affairs. At the same time, in terms of status, it is the lowest of them. The Minister of War has the power to mobilize almost all the armies of the Holy Asserr Empire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the other hand, held the entire economic lifeblood of the Holy Asserr Empire, so although Emperor Anfil XXXIV trusted Baron Wesley Ruda, he listened more to the other two ministers. But what could be done? With no soldiers, no knights, and no money, the Imperial Chancellor was already the pinnacle of Baron Wesley Rueda's national parliament.

Thinking of this, Baron Wesley Rueda couldn't help but complain a little about his green-eyed wife. Originally, Princess Sayari Klein had enough ability to fight for her husband to have more say in front of the Emperor, but since Prince Veran Klein, who was then the head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights in the South, was killed four years ago in a riot of giants against the southern part of the Holy Acer Empire, Princess Sayarily Klein has never approached the National Assembly, nor has she talked to anyone about the affairs of the country, not even her own father, Emperor Anfil XXXIV. Baron Wesley Rueda thus lost more opportunities to get close to Emperor Anfil XXXIV.

"Earl Brad Klein. The most dangerous guys. Baron Wesley Ruda muttered to himself. Lord Brad Klein, head of the Dragon's Tooth Order, lord of the Duchy of Mlian in the southern part of the Holy Aserr Empire, and son of Grand Duke Karen, was an eye-opener for Baron Wesley Ruda with his calmness and cruelty. Of the two sons of Emperor Anfil XXXIV, Prince Verdor Klein was known for his ingenuity, and Prince Jaccob Crane's reputation for bravery had spread throughout the Holy Empire of Acer, while the distant Count Brad Klein epitomized the virtues of the two princes, but not the fatal flaws of the two princes: Prince Verdor Klein missed out on many things for his indecisiveness, and Prince Jacques Crane's recklessness offended many people.

In any case, the Holy Asserian Empire was about to enter a period of chaos, and Baron Wesley Ruda left his study with great certainty and headed for the basement of the Chancellor's Palace.

"There are twenty-five corpses in the lobby of the thieves' union. Names and positions of the bodies have been ascertained, and a detailed report should be submitted early tomorrow morning. A total of thirteen corpses were exhumed in the tunnel. But they were all charred, and no one could find out their identities from the coke. ”

The person who spoke, the crest of the Dragon's Tooth Knights on his breastplate, and the dragon head pattern on each side, had three protruding stripes extending to the waist ribs, and the bottom one was only half as long as the upper two. These stripes indicate his rank in the Dragon's Tooth Knights, and the two long and one short stripes indicate his status as a superior knight.

In addition to a shining amethyst, the breastplate of the leader of the Dragon's Tooth Knights will also have three long lines protruding on each side of the regimental emblem. The right hand of the head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights was now caressing the stripes on the left side of his breastplate, and the superior knight in front of him, in addition to reporting the "harvest" in the tunnel, had also reported the corpse of the head of the Thieves' Guild found in the center of the hall of the collapsed Thieves' Guild to Count Brad Crane.

In pursuit of the members of the Thieves' Guild who had fled into the halls, the Dragon's Tooth Knights extinguished the flames as soon as the Thieves' Guild headquarters collapsed. The Dragon's Tooth Knights found the body of the Thieves Guild President, who had not yet been completely burned in the collapsed hall, and the priest of the Dragon's Tooth Knights immediately identified the body, and confirmed that the dead old man had been killed by someone who had been thrust into the left side of the rib with the thieves' most common weapon, a long dagger.

"Isis, tell me more about the knights when they stormed the thieves' guild. "Stopping what he was doing, Earl Brad Klein became interested in the president of the thieves' guild who had been stabbed to death in the ribs.

Hearing the regimental commander's order, Isis on the other side began to recount the bloody battle that had taken place that morning on Twin Tree Street, which could almost be called a massacre.

The process was not complicated, and the unprepared thieves would have almost no defense or counterattack. The Count was silent, listening carefully to the descriptions of his men, until Isis spoke of a small group of thieves hiding in the halls of the headquarters: "Yes, the thieves fled into the halls. Isis. Did you, or any of your men, see the head of the thieves' guild flee in?"

Isis tilted his head and thought for a moment. He replied, "No." I was standing in the lobby door of the Thieves' Guild headquarters. I saw the men enter the hall with my own eyes. None of them were elderly. ”

Count Brad Klein had no doubts about the words of his superior knights. Isis, now forty-five, began his apprenticeship with the Dragontooth Knights at the age of twelve, and then followed the path of apprentice knights, regular knights, senior knights, and senior knights step by step to the current rank of upper knights. His extraordinary bravery made this Dragontooth Knight sure to stand at the forefront of his duties in battle, and his piercing eyes led the knights of the Dragontooth Knights out of various difficulties more than once. If he said that the president of the thieves' guild was not among the people who fled into the hall, then unless the gods of heaven threw the old man into it, the president of the thieves' guild could have been in the hall in the first place, or his body had been parked in the middle of the hall in the first place.

The head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights stared at the light in front of him, as if thinking about something: "So, kill the head of the thieves' guild." Won't it be our knight?"

"Yes, sir. Our knights are not armed with long daggers, and the president of the Thieves' Guild is afraid to die at the hands of their own men. The superior knight replied without hesitation.

"Oh, got it, you go and rest first. Earl Brad Klein's tone was surprisingly flat, and there was no excitement in the slightest to annihilate the core of the Thieves' Guild in one fell swoop.

As the Parliamentary Secretary and Baron Wesley Rueda had predicted, the Holy Asserr Empire was plunged into unprecedented chaos in just three days, starting with the assassination of the Emperor and the destruction of the headquarters of the Thieves' Guild. For the first time in fifteen hundred years, an emperor has been assassinated, and a rogue-like guild of thieves older than the Holy Acer Empire has been dealt a total blow. These two events caused people to panic, and even the dwarves who lived in the southern hills repeatedly asked about the situation in Onyx.

But. Onyx is not as chaotic as other areas. Although the Knights of the Blood Griffin and the Knights of the Light, who supported the two princes respectively, were busy with their own affairs and clashed with each other from time to time, the overall situation was relatively calm. Much of this is due to Count Brad Klein and his Dragon's Tooth Knights, as well as an order from Edgar, the elder of the Thieves' Guild, to temporarily leave Onyx.

Elder Edgar gave this order after hearing reports from his men. Four elders were killed in the lobby of the Thieves' Guild, and the Dragontooth Knights found their remains in the ruins of the Thieves' Guild headquarters, while the other three were burned alive in the tunnels, as evidenced by the three silver Thieves' Guild emblems found after the Dragon's Tooth Knights searched the halls of the Thieves' Guild headquarters. Elder Edgar, who did not stay downstairs and tried to escape from the tunnels with the others, was lucky enough to save his life, "thanks to Samia's protection," said the halfling.

The demons Amtils and Dark Elf Ness, who had escaped from the sewers with him, were naturally not within the care of the halfling gods, but neither of them had brought this up to Elder Edgar, and neither the demon nor the dark elf had been feeling fear and anticipation for the rest of the day. The fear of hearing the news of discovering the corpse of his companion and the expectation that his companion would suddenly appear in front of him tormented the Dungeon Master so much that the demon had offered to go out several times to find the trace of the archmage Akiman, while the dark elf, who was also worried about his sister Nia, stopped him with Elder Edgar. In the past few days, the task of the Dragontooth Knights, in addition to constantly resolving the conflict between the other two knights, is to intercept every suspicious-looking person on the streets day and night, and the scarred demon Amtils is indeed not suitable to go out at this time.

Of course, the survivors of the Thieves' Guild have not spent the past few days in vain. Out of personal interests, Elder Edgar secretly invested in several shops in Onyx City, and Edgar's subordinates in these shops escaped the fate of being wiped out by the three major knights. The Thieves' Guild has all but disappeared from the power of Onyx.

And the men of Edgar, the elder of the Thieves' Guild. Elder Edgar, who had been staying in the Elder's "Sumer's Flaming Sword" weapon shop for the past few days, brought back a lot of the latest news. Except for the loss of the Thieves' Guild. There are also some things about the national parliament that have attracted the attention of the halflings. It is rumored that the lords of several nearby lords have already arrived in Onyx, and the other lords will all arrive in the next two or three days, and will vote between the two princes to elect the next emperor of the Holy Asyr Empire. Both Prince Verdor Klein and Prince Yagu Klein have been visiting the upper councils of the Holy Acer Empire for the past two days, trying to gain their support, after all, although the thirty-three lords in their own lord states have the right to choose the ruling emperor, they may not all be familiar with the current two emperor candidates, and in this case, the opinions of the superior members of the national parliament will become their most important reference.

The National Assembly of the Holy Asserr Empire now has a total of 864 members. One hundred and forty-nine of them are members of the Superior Council, which is busy with the heavy business at hand, and the regular session of the Superior Council is held once a week, but only half of the number of Superior Members are usually present at each regular meeting. Then at the meeting that will be held in a few days, there will not be a single councillor absent, because it will be related to the next royal power of the Holy Asserr Empire. In particular, many of the higher councilors, representing their respective lords, were more busy observing the actions of the two princes vying for the throne, in order to determine which of them would be more helpful to their lord's state when they had mastered the Emperor's scepter, and they would tell all their observations as they had when they arrived in Onyx. One of them is the superior councillor of River Xomea.

Councillor River Xsomeia was a tall man, and legend has it that the men who came out of his hometown of Blackriver had the stature of the strongest warriors, and the people who came out of Blackriver were most familiar with the descendants of the Crane family. Two of them have already entered into a battle for the throne of the Holy Asserian Empire, and one of them will soon take over the Emperor's scepter.

Tonight he will attend a feast in the palace of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Marquis Eugene Coma. As far as he knew, every superior councilor from another lord country, and even many lords who had already come to Onyx, had received an invitation from the Chancellor of Finance. There is no doubt that this is a banquet full of political atmosphere. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will use his incorruptible tongue at the banquet to convince every member of the Legislature that by putting Prince Jaccoy Crane, whom the Chancellor supports, on the throne of the Emperor, they and their lords will receive from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Marquis Eugene Coma, who is in charge of the Empire's finances, and that these benefits will be far greater than any losses that Prince Verdor Klein and the Green Leaf Church that support him may inflict on the lieges if they lose the election. The superior councillors who attended the banquet would have received additional benefits if they were able to convince their lords to vote for Prince Jacques Crane, as had been assured by the head of the Blood Griffon Order of the Knights of the Blood Griffon during a meeting with Prince Argu Klein in the office of the National Assembly the day before.

Of course, this additional benefit probably has no chance of falling to the upper councillors of River Xomea. His homeland is in the southern Duchy of Mrian, and his lord, Count Brad Klein, is already in the city of Onyx. The head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, Count Brad Klein, has always had his own opinions, and is personally following the situation of the two princes. The Earl also received an invitation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but casually tossed it aside, but casually instructed several of the higher councillors from the Duchy of Mlian to go to the banquet in order to observe the opinions of the other lords and the superior councilors.

"In order to suppress the thieves' guild, the Earl may have lost a lot of brains. Seeing Count Brad Klein's apparently sleep-deprived, bloodshot Senator Rif Xomea thought sober. Before I knew it, the carriage of the higher councillor had stopped outside the door of the Chancellor's Office.

The residence of the Marquis of Eugene Coma, the Minister of Finance, is located on the bank of the river in the eastern part of Onyx City, and the residence of the Minister of Finance in charge of finance is also full of money, and even the long railing outside the mansion is painted with a layer of gold dust, which looks very bright under the glazed street lamps burning with black oil. Upon entering, the superior councillor of River Xomea was greeted by several lords from all over the world: several human lords sipping wine while admiring the beautiful sculptures and ornaments surrounding the open hall of the Chancellor's Palace, and two elven lords from the large forest to the east and north were whispering something and clearly showing a look of reluctance to mingle with humans. The lord of the southern blackstone hills, the leader of the dwarven tribe, was glaring at their distant relatives along with the lord of the alpine dwarven tribe who had come from the Assel Mountains, and the lord of the gray dwarf tribe, Kedo Stone, was looking up proudly, not in the slightest for the anger of the dwarves who had been compatriots thousands of years ago and had now become old enemies.

Prince Jacques Klein's footsteps into the open hall silenced all the noise. A servant took the prince's cloak from him, and the prince strode as he led the Blood Griffin Knights behind him to his seat at the end of the hall, surveying everyone in the hall. He was pleased with the number of people attending the banquet to-night, and it was evident that many of the lords had begun to look forward to him, even to the point of reverence for the Emperor, but there was a fly in the ointment that Prince Jacob Klein did not see the owner of the mansion, Marquis Eugene Coma, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the open-air hall.

"What about the Marquis of Coma, why didn't he accompany these distinguished guests in the hall?" Prince Argu Klein picked up the purple glass of wine that a servant had brought to him, and whispered a question to the Blood Griffin Knight beside him.

Is that the purple wine that is exclusively for the royal family?, Reifer Xsomeia, the superior councillor, carefully examined the wine glass in the prince's hand. The purple color symbolizes the royalty of the Holy Asserr Empire, so this special, purple wine is also exclusive to the Klein family. At the same time, the higher councillors noticed that the two Blood Griffin Knights had left the prince's side and began to walk towards the entrance of the hall, presumably going upstairs to look for the Marquis Eugene Coma, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The crest of the Blood Gryphon Knights is a red Blood Griffin with its wings outstretched and its claws exposed, and the head of the Blood Gryphon engraved on the breastplate of the two Blood Gryphon Knights glows with a dazzling golden light, which the superior councillor of River Xsomea recognizes as the two High Knights who belong to the "Head of the Blood Griffon". Just as the higher councillors were looking at the blood griffins on the breastplates of the two knights, they found that the head of the blood griffin, which symbolized the knightly class of the blood griffin, was suddenly covered in bright red blood! (To be continued......