Portofino, Italy.

In the depths of winter, the leaves are scattered, and at the end of the winding road, there is a building close to the cliff, which resembles a castle, the walls are made of white marble, the windows and doors are narrow, and the whole exudes a sunset-like antiquity, at this time the small dedicated parking lot has been filled with luxury cars, and a mountain bike is parked on one of the empty spaces.

After entering the modern era, thousands of years in the dark side, the "Dragon's Blood Secret Party" with steel charters has undergone internal reorganization, in view of the extensive influence of capital in today's world, many famous dragon slayer families in the old history have been forced to withdraw from the stage, and this generation of secret party power organization exists in the form of an academy board of directors.

The Board of Directors is completely equal to the Council of Presbyterians, the school board is the highest rank of the half-breeds, and has chosen Hilbert Jean Angers as executor, the face of the entire secret party and the ruthless executioner of the outside world.

In the mourning event of Summer, as the only person who met the Dragon King and survived, the half-breed world generally believed that Ange had benefited from an unknown state during his coma, otherwise it was not enough to explain his unprecedented strength of speech and physique, time zero was indeed terrifying, but this battlefield dominance did not belong to just one person before, and the Principal of Kassel alone raised the status of the entire God Speed Department, fast is strong.

And when the power and power similar to the Mandate of Heaven are combined, the secret party has undoubtedly become the same as the overlord in the half-breed world, and the annual school board meeting attracts the attention of all parties, and because of this, the meeting place is top secret.

The door of the white building slowly closed from the inside out, several ancient heavy locks snapped at the same time, and the elite team of the secret party in charge of security secretly guarded the surroundings vigilantly.

There are four teams of nine Crown-Unveilers directly under the Board of Trustees, each consisting of nine people, who have a sufficient basis to screen out hybrids who can meet the High Dragons, and finally remove their crowns.

The former serves as the commander and vice captain, and will be absorbed by the school board families after retirement, and the captain is basically a senior executive officer with outstanding achievements, and the honor is usually awarded to S-level operators.

As the most elite force of the secret party, the only criterion for judging the champion team is that it has successfully dealt with the recovery of three generations, and the secret party can become the overlord of the half-blood, and there should be a lot of background, otherwise it will not be able to cope with the increasingly intensive recovery of dragons around the world.

UI, UX, HCI, UCD, the code names of the four squads are all super artificial intelligence Norma's own choice of design terms, and the only meaning of the so-called "user" is the school board, respectively holding the king sword Durandal that breaks the spirit of words, the magic sword Dainslev that never misses and the wound cannot heal, the hero sword Kaladeboga with a spiral style and hosting thunder, and the Hado's helmet that can ignore the pressure of dragon power.

The accumulation of thousands of years has given the secret party a strong strategic reserve, which is inseparable from the huge efforts of the alchemy masters of the past generations.

The white building was once a place of penance for monks, so the interior is rather dim, and there are candles around it, illuminating the faces of every school director.

"Now that everyone is here, I declare this year's Board of Trustees meeting open." Ange sat on the main seat of the long table and shook the brass bell, although the position of headmaster was only the executor, no one could question the seat he had grabbed, just like his position within the secret party now.

There were five members of the school board present, and one of the fellows who contributed but rarely participated was still absent, and two old men sat beside Ange, one with beads in his hand and bowing his head to recite the scriptures, and the other was Frost, Gattuso's acting head of the house.

The middle-aged man in a bright sweatshirt had drooping eyes, he was the owner of the mountain bike outside, probably hadn't slept all night, and looked listless at this time.

And next to Laurent sat a surprisingly young girl, probably only fourteen or fifteen years old, with long pale blonde hair coiled on the top of her head, a face with a little baby fat with a serious expression, and the family butler behind her held his head high, looking as solemn as a sculpture.

Charlotte's family has admired alchemy wisdom since ancient times, and there have been three alchemy masters in a thousand-year history, and they are the absolute leaders of the secret party in this field, but since the emergence of Flamel and even Lucius, this family that has been broken for decades has endured a lot of criticism.

"You all have reports in front of you, all the stories that can be found out about the 'Fallen Island' incident, King Solomon invited Sir Snowden for an afternoon tea conversation, but there is still a pitiful lack of information." Ange said.

"You've indulged him too much, can't you say some things if you don't want to say them, the old friendship after breaking away from the secret party shouldn't affect the judgment, Snowden obviously has important clues, this is your dereliction of duty, Ange." Frost's face was serious after reading the paper report, and the clues on it were extremely scattered, lacking the key to connect them.

"You can't push people off the cliff, he's the half-race leader in Western Europe." Ange smiled as if he didn't care, "At the fateful point where the monarch is about to recover in the prophecy, none of us can afford the attrition of the internal war. ”

Sir Snowden made a rare refusal to cooperate in this matter, and everyone in the room knew that the enemy might have a tricky ability to kill the half-blood leader, but he would certainly destroy his family.

"It's not like you, Hilbert, the hatred of the dragons should make you draw your folding knife, and what makes you fearless if you don't continue to investigate such a clear situation? In Norma's deduction, there is a high probability that a pure-blood will enter human society, in my opinion, patience is always for a bigger plan, are you preparing some secret weapon? The monk-like old man raised his head slightly, his cloudy eyes aimed at his former friend, and said word by word: "A peaceful, safe, and seemingly normal Gu warehouse? In the face of Beowulf's provocation, the tolerance you have shown is beyond what I know of you, something is wrong. ”

"Yes or no, I don't like war." The middle-aged man raised his cheeks when he heard this: "But in the face of the results of the suspected pure-blooded flow, at least we have to come up with a charter, didn't the report say that there are traces of hunters and modern weapons, indicating that people may not have the support of their half-breed accomplices." ”

"What about the hunters." Frost gets straight to the core.

When the questioning was met with successive arrivals, Ange unhurriedly opened the document bag in his hand and distributed the photos inside to the school trustees.

"The clue is naturally gone, because the Faroe Islands are mostly flooded by the sea, so Norma defines it as a fallen island, and the northern part of the British Island and the western side of Denmark have also suffered varying degrees of loss, and those hunters are simply dead, but given their reckless behavior in the underworld, we may also have to thank the other party for their time-consuming and laborious clean-up." Ange folded his hands and said solemnly: "As for the issue of recourse, this is one of the key points of this meeting, and you need to exercise your power. ”

(End of chapter)