The ancient city of Onyx is littered with the footprints of Murat, the goddess of fate, and this phrase is passed down in the mouth of every troubadour on the continent of Vesta.

No one can deny this. From the founding of the Kingdom of Asyr 1,500 years ago, to the transformation of the Holy Aserr Empire to 850 years ago, and until today, more than 60 kings or emperors of the Klein family have lived in the royal castle on an island at the confluence of the Lana and Rafa rivers in the city of Onyx.

Every morning, when the steamer of Sumer, the god of the sun and life, crossed the towering east gate of Onyx, the emperor would depart from the royal castle in his four-wheeled carriage encrusted with crystals and pearls. The purple curtain on the Emperor's carriage was embroidered with a huge and majestic emblem of the Holy Acer Empire in beautiful silver thread, and fifty heavily armed knights were scattered around the Emperor's carriage, and the red armor on their bodies indicated that they were members of the Blood Griffin Knights, one of the three major knights of the Empire.

The Emperor's carriage would first pass through the stone bridge on the small island of Guò to the eastern part of Onyx, and then inspect the streets, buildings, and inhabitants of the capital Agate City in the order of the northern district, the central assembly island, and the southern district, while the ministers and other imperial officials scattered along the way would follow the emperor's carriage in their own carriages as the emperor passed near his residence. Eventually, the Emperor will arrive on another small island at the confluence of the Lana and Rafa rivers, just like the Royal Castle Island. On this small island, known as Capitol Island, stands a building even more majestic than the Royal Castle: the National Assembly of the Holy Asserr Empire.

Whether it is the clergy who enter the southern side every day before dawn, in the leafy church that is even older than the Holy Asser's Empire, or the guards who stand guard in front of the three gates of Onyx, which were built 1,300 years ago. Or the inhabitants of the streets, which are usually covered with white stone strips, and the colored glaze pieces inlaid on the white stone strips for decoration have generally been washed by wind and rain for thousands of years. Every morning the carriage of the Holy Emperor of the Asserr Empire is seen rumbling by. Some of the lazy people who didn't want to get up early even got used to the sound of the hooves of the two majestic horses in front of the emperor's carriage. As a gospel to bring themselves back to the world from the world of Hecate, the god of sleep.

The Holy Emperor of the Empire, and all the officials who joined the Emperor's chariot parade along the way, would spend the rest of the day in the National Assembly to discuss the affairs of the Empire, and according to the laws of the Holy Asser Empire, the officials of the National Assembly were required to appear in the National Assembly every day, unless something special had happened, or they were on annual holidays. According to the instructions left behind by the founding emperor Anfil I, the emperor of the Holy Aserr Empire lost the right to enjoy the holiday as long as he held the scepter that symbolized imperial power. Until the first day after his abdication, the only exception was when the Emperor himself led the armies of the Holy Asserian Empire into battle, and it would be the Empress or the Prince who rode through the Emperor's carriage in the morning. Even Anfil XXXIV, who had been bedridden for two years, had to set up his own bed in the national parliament, and every morning the Blood Griffin knights carried the emperor to the carriage. Anfil XXXIV would lie in a hospital bed in the national parliament and manage the affairs of the royal family until night.

The daily morning parade will be held in the reverse order of the morning when night falls. For Anfil XXXIV, the two hard bumps a day would consume all the energy in his body, and the archbishop of the Green Leaf Church, Zeni Keamo, often complained to those around him that such a trip was enough to offset his prayers for the health of the emperor, and it was because of this rule that Anfil XXXIV had been bedridden for two years.

As a king. The sun must be seen every morning before his ministers, and by the same token, the king must step into his house later than his ministers. This is also the instruction left behind by the founding emperor Anfil I. Even if it says that the title of king has been changed to emperor, this instruction is just as valid.

This trajectory began with the founding of the kingdom of Aserr by Emperor Anfil I and never changed until this day. On this day, the four-wheeled carriage of Emperor Anfil XXXIV did not step out of the gates of the royal castle, did not pass the three gates of Onyx, did not pass the mage's tower in the east district, the noble residences in the north district, and the leafy church in the south district; the residents found that the officials of the national parliament living nearby had quietly stepped out of their homes without knowing when; and even a few grocery store owners complained that they did not hear the emperor's carriage, which led them to open their doors much later than usual.

Some residents of the Eastern Side, however, have expressed their displeasure with the loud noises that disturb their dreams. Before dawn, a large number of knights in armor filled the streets, and the clashing of weapons and the neighing of horses continued one after another, until the knights were in good order and poured in the direction of the North District and the headquarters of the Thieves' Guild. The knights' armor was decorated with blue, and it was from this mark that an early riser recognized them as the Dragon's Tooth Knights from the southern part of the Holy Aserr Empire, led by Count Brad Crane.

Earl Brad Crane, who received the bad news from the royal castle, took less than two hours to rush into the east gate of Onyx City on his horse. Had it not been for the subsequent arrival of the Earl's retinue identifying himself to the guards, the Count might have been attacked by the guards for breaking directly into the city gates.

Despite the fatigue of his horses, the Count went straight to the Royal Castle Island, located at the confluence of the Lana and Rafa rivers, and after crossing the forest surrounding the Royal Castle, the Count came to the Royal Castle, which was already surrounded by a large number of knights. It was not only the two leaders of the Knights of the Blood Griffin and the Knights of the Holy Light who were suffering in the royal castle, almost all the ministers and officials did not hesitate to rush directly to the royal castle after receiving the sad news, so Count Brad Crane, who jumped off the back of his warhorse. It was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Eugene Coma, in his pajamas. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister of War, and the Minister of State have always been collectively referred to as the Triumvirate of the National Assembly of the Holy Asserr Empire. And two of the big three except the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Now they all appear upstairs as relatives of the Emperor, in the bedroom of Emperor Anfil XXXIV.

When Count Brad Klein stepped through the door of Emperor Anfil XXXIV's bedroom, no one was in the mood to greet the head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights with formal courtesy. The body of Anfil XXXIV had been moved back to the bed, revealing the face of the dead emperor under the large black silk that covered his body. The fear and anger of Anphil XXXIV overflowed his face, and no one would believe that it was disease that took Anfil's life.

In the room, except for the three men with law rods, the others were all relatives of the emperor. The Minister of War, Prince Verdor Klein, the eldest son of Anfil XXXIV, was sitting silently in a chair with his son, Leo Crane, in his arms. The princess beside Prince Verdor was wiping the tears from her eyes with her sleeve.

Prince Yagu Klein, the second son of Anfil XXXIV, was now pacing aimlessly by the window, a few drops of blood oozing from his clenched fist, and if the murderer of the Emperor dared to appear near the head of the Blood Griffin Knights at this moment, he would surely be torn to pieces by the enraged Prince Yagu.

Baron Wesley Ruda, the Minister of State, with his uncombed hair, was busy reassuring his wife, Princess Theary Klein. Princess Sayari Klein, still dressed in a lilac nightdress, stepped into the room and threw herself directly by the window of Anfil XXXIV, mourning her father with a poignant cry.

The three men with their rods approached the head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, and their gold-trimmed white robes and turquoise belts tied around their waists explained their status as bishops of the Greenleaf Church. Count Brad Klein recognized one of them as the current Archbishop of the Green Leaf Church, Zeni Keamo, who also held the position of head of the Knights of the Holy Light.

"Your arrival, Lord Lord Brid Crane, may share a little of the obligation to give orders to the two princes who are immersed in grief. The archbishop's voice shattered the oppressive silence in the room. Before that, all that filled the air was the sound of sobbing.

Count Brad Klein didn't know too well what the archbishop meant: "The obligation to give orders?"

"The knights need an order to fight the murderer. The archbishop pointed out the window, and countless knights had gathered outside the royal castle. Among them are the elite knights of the Dragon's Tooth Knights, brought by Count Brad Klein himself.

"The murderer, has it been identified?" the Count stared at the corpse of Anfil XXXIV on the bed, and the pupils of his turquoise eyes began to dilate. "My knights are ready to go. ”

The archbishop's voice was dry: "It's a killer from the Thieves' Guild." The wound on the Emperor's body was a long dagger commonly used by assassins from the Thieves' Guild. ”

"The Thieves' Guild, how could they have such audacity......" Count Brad Klein did not quite believe what he heard.

"It must be the Thieves' Guild! Someone sued me that the Thieves' Guild's headquarters on Twin Trees Street has been getting strangers in and out lately. The Minister of State, Baron Wesley Ruda, suddenly interjected.

Baron Ruda's words elicited a great reaction from Prince Jacques Klein at the window. Prince Yagu rushed directly to the Minister of State, and grabbed the hem of the pajamas on the Secretary of State with one hand: "You know where their headquarters are, and you know that they have abnormal actions but you don't sue me!"

Baron Wesley Ruda hurriedly tried to break free from Prince Yagu's grasp, but he had no choice but to accept the fact that his pajamas were torn apart: "You know that rumors about the relationship between you two princes and the thieves' guild have been spread all over the streets of Onyx. Before the baron could finish his sentence, he was pushed to the ground by the angry roar "If you sue me, they will not have a chance to get close to the Emperor."

"The Knights of Light also have an inside line in the Thieves' Guild. Archbishop Zeni Keamo spoke his opinion as he tried to pull Prince Yagu into the fist that he wanted to smash into the Chancellor. "They have sent back a message to me that the thieves' guild is very unhappy with the recent attitude of the royal family. And our inner line was also executed by the thieves' union not long ago. "The thieves' unions have always had only one execution of members of other organizations who have infiltrated them, and that is the death penalty.

Hear here. Count Brad Klein is almost completely sure. The murderer of the emperor came from the Thieves' Guild. He didn't say much either. He turned and walked downstairs, leaving Prince Jacques Klein and Baron Wesley Ruda, Minister of State, to continue the scuffle in front of the body of Emperor Anfil XXXIV. Archbishop Zeni Keamo, who had given up to stop the rage of Prince Jacgu Klein, also walked downstairs to the large group of knights, his face covered with three bloody wounds, which were wounds caused by the fingernails of Prince Jagu Klein, who could no longer control himself.

Count Brad Klein took a deep breath, then raised his hand, and several high-ranking Dragontooth Knights immediately made their way through the crowd to him. The head of the Dragon's Tooth Knights then turned to face the archbishop beside him: "I'm afraid he won't recover so quickly and let his Blood Griffin Knights stay where they are." Keep your Knight of Light safe in the vicinity, and be sure to send someone to take a few of the upstairs home to change clothes. Something about the Thieves' Guild. Leave it to the Dragon's Tooth Knights. ”

Without waiting for the archbishop's reply, Count Brad Klein issued an order to the high-ranking dragontooth knight in front of him: "The headquarters of the Thieves' Guild is in Twin Tree Street, and I don't want anyone to walk out of the gates there alive. ”

"Brad Klein, I will never let you go!" The expression of gritted teeth rarely appeared on the faces of halflings, a notoriously merry race, but Edgar, the elder of the Thieves' Guild, this thin halfling, was completely unable to suppress the anger in his heart at this moment.

The demon Amtils, who sat coldly on the side, looked at the corpses of several rats on the ground without saying a word. Rats, creatures that go to great lengths to spread germs throughout human society, usually come in groups in the sewers, and these hapless creatures actually ran past Elder Edgar, who was in a fit of rage. It is inevitable that he will become the object of halfling's anger.

The dark sewers were completely devoid of lights, and the disgusting smell of sewage passed by demons and halflings. Fortunately, the pain on their bodies at this moment had made them completely ignore the stench and dirt around them, otherwise they would have to add two more stalls of vomit to this invisible sewer.

"No, the Dragontooth Knights are still walking around the ground, and I can hear their footsteps. "When the dark elf Ness landed, she barely made any sound, which is a skill that every thief must have. Ness, who had climbed up a small hole, had used her superior hearing to probe the environment on the ground, and was sure that going up from here would only summon another attack from the Dragontooth Knights.

I was lucky enough to be able to escape the attack just now. The demon couldn't help but shudder when he remembered the scene just now.

At the headquarters of the Thieves' Guild, in the room of Archmage Aqiman, the six people, including the resourceful mage who would later be known as the brain of the dungeon, were completely unable to come up with a proposal that would allow them to leave their current situation. Even if the second floor will not be ignited for a while, when the pillars supporting the floor on the second floor are engulfed in flames, the people in the room will probably have to fall to the first floor and face the uncountable group of dragontooth knights outside.

The thief Ness once tried to jump out of the window, but the crossbow in the hands of the dragon tooth knights downstairs made her change her mind, the elder Edgar wanted to rush downstairs to fight the dragon tooth knights, but even the most belligerent demon did not agree with this opinion of the halfling, the dragon tooth knights who came like a tide were by no means something that a few people here could handle; the demon proposed to let the archmage Aqiman, or the dark elf mage Nia cast a spell that could make everyone invisible, but after Ness looked through the window and saw the figures of several mages in the queue of the Dragon Tooth Knights, this opinion was also rejected by everyone。 Isaac, who sat in the corner with a pale face, barely made a sound from beginning to end, and the upper and lower front teeth in his mouth, which kept colliding with each other, seemed to have told everyone that he was going to sit in this room and wait for death.

It was getting hotter and hotter in the room. Nia and Niss's beautiful straight brown hair had begun to bend in the heat, and the expression on Archmage Aqiman's face told everyone that he was eager to peel off the black mage robes from his body. It's just that the Dragon's Tooth Knights didn't give the archmage a chance to undress, and Niss, who had been crawling by the window and looking out, suddenly shouted: "Ladder, outside, next to the room!"

Nia couldn't understand her sister's incoherent words, so she cautiously went to the window. It turned out that the dragon tooth knights downstairs did not have the patience to wait for the headquarters of the thieves' guild to collapse, and they did not know how many long ladders they had gotten from there, and then set them up on the windowsills of several rooms next to them, and several swordsmen were trying to climb up. Downstairs, in the queue of Dragontooth Knights, a mage spotted Nia's figure and pointed the staff in his hand in Nia's direction. A fireball exploded above the window, but did no damage to the people in the room, and Nia gently flicked her hair to shake off the sparks that had just fallen from her long hair, telling everyone that the Dragontooth Knight was approaching the room.

There was no time to think about it, and everyone present knew that they had to rush out and give it a go. Led by demons, the people in the room rushed to the corridor on the second floor of the headquarters of the Thieves' Guild in turn, and as they rushed out, shouts of killing also sounded around them.

The demon took the lead, wielding the long dagger in his hand and wrestling with the four heavily armored dragontooth knights. Although the demon's strength was much greater than that of ordinary humans, with the long dagger in his hand at the moment, it was almost impossible to make a slightly deeper mark on the armor worn by the Dragon Tooth Knight, let alone stab the person wrapped in the armor. The elders of the Thieves' Guild, who discovered that the demon's shape was wrong, and his subordinate Dark Elf Niss raised their daggers and rushed to help. The archmage also hurriedly began to release electric lights on his Trist staff, which became the most effective way to kill the dragontooth knight in front of them.

On the other side, the situation is much better than that of the demons. Every time Isaac, who was at the forefront, parried an attack from his opponent, a fireball appeared in the hands of Niya behind him, and the dragon tooth knights could not rely on their armor to resist the attacks of these products of magical energy, so they had to fall at Isaac's feet one by one. (To be continued......)