Arthur's recklessness caused the situation to spiral out of control.

Dark magic erupted, and Earl Milne and the man in black died under Arthur's knife one after another, of course, killing the old butler was just a matter of convenience.

The black mist had spread throughout the corridor, and the guards who had rushed up to hear the Count's cries for help cowered in the face of the billowing black mist.

Arthur naturally couldn't kill all of these guards, and such a large-scale trace of dark magic use would soon attract the Church of Light.

Under the cover of the black fog, Arthur set fire to the castle again. The smoke from the flames mixed with the black mist plunged the Earldom into complete chaos.

When the guards and servants completely extinguished the fire in the castle, they found that not only the earl and the butler had died tragically, but even the treasury had been stolen, and the Earl of Milne's family had been looted with all the savings and various treasures of the Earl's family over the years.

As for the extra body of the man in black in the earl's room, it became another mystery.

Before the people of Earl Milne's family could sort out all this chaos, a team of Punishment Knights of the Church of Light sealed off the entire Earl's Palace and brought everyone back to the Inquisition for questioning.

At this time, Arthur was yawning out of the room and shouting for the cook at the town hall to prepare breakfast.

Regardless of whether the Church of Light or the court office of Gurrul City investigated afterwards, the evidence of Arthur's alibi had to be sufficient in advance.

After breakfast, Arthur gathered Larkin, José, and the town's current officials.

First, it was officially announced that Larkin would remain as mayor of Nuel and that his salary would be doubled. Larkin was moved by old tears, and expressed his heartfelt heartfelt feelings.

Then it was announced that the Viscount Guard would be formed, with Jose as the captain, and the qualified members of the original town security team would be absorbed into the guard, and some of the old, weak, sick, disabled, and those with too poor qualifications would be directly severed with severance pay.

After announcing the appointments, Arthur left Larkin and José alone and assigned them separate tasks.

The mayor of Larkin was asked to stop the mining of iron ore in Longji Ridge and start preparations for the construction of the Viscount Mansion under Longji Ridge. Arthur's requirements for the Viscount's Mansion were to be comparable in scale to the Marquis' Palace, to be stronger than the border war fortresses, to use the same monolithic black rock as the royal city of Singalore in terms of building materials, and to paint the exterior of the building with an anti-magic Mithril coating.

Larkin grinned before he could listen to Arthur's request, not to mention the taxes of Nuel Town in such a viscount's house, even the taxes of several years of the county could not be afforded.

"You don't have to worry about money. Arthur said and took out the three thousand gold coins that Milne's old butler had compensated yesterday, and then poured a small pile of gold coins into the ground from the bracelet, "These five thousand gold coins are just start-up capital, and the taxes in the town will not have to be paid in the next few years, and all the rest of the money will be invested in the construction of the Viscount's Mansion except for the necessary expenses." ”

Although Larkin didn't know why his lord spent so much money to build such a mansion, the lord even had the money ready, and he would naturally do his best to do the rest of the work.

After assigning Larkin the task, José was asked to form a recruiting escort team with twenty veterans under his command. The escort unit should be expanded to 200 people, and the level of the escort combat strength should not be lower than the second level, and it should be trained in full accordance with the army's training method.

Arthur also left Jose a large amount of gold coins, in addition to a large number of third-level weapons and equipment, as well as low-level martial arts and fighting skills.

After explaining this to Larkin and José, Arthur did not say hello to anyone else, and quietly left the town of Nuel that day.

After several successive assassinations, Arthur is now much more cautious. With such a big deal in Earl Milne's Palace, Arthur fears that the mysterious organization or the Church of Light may soon find him.

Arthur has a clear understanding of his own strength, in front of those two behemoths, he does not have the ability to survive on his own, only the first time to rush back to the Blood Academy, under the protection of the Grand Magician of Halix and His Majesty Streich, he is temporarily safe.

As for the Viscount's Mansion and the escort team led by Jose, it can be regarded as Arthur's backhand left for himself in advance, and it will play a role sooner or later in the future.

......

Intramuros, Church of Light.

Since the war between the two clans, the Church of Light has kept a low profile in the Isaac Kingdom. The Knights of Light are still being rebuilt, and Archbishop Sosis rarely appears, and even the Knights of Punishment, who usually swagger around outside, rarely appear without major tasks.

In that battle, more than half of the Knights of Light were lost, the Great Light Seal was broken, and dark magic elements poured out wildly, but it was not the Church that finally resolved this crisis, which inevitably made many people who didn't know the inside story have a lot of speculations about the Church of Light.

If anyone really thinks that the Church of Light is silent, they are very mistaken.

In the Inquisition, Bishop Fast looked at the list on the table with a gloomy face.

In contrast to Archbishop Sosis, who always has a smile on his face, Bishop Fast has a perennial face. As the bishop of the Inquisition, Fast was known as the most terrible man in the Church, and with the slightest stroke of a pen in his hand, none of the people on the table would live.

A white-robed priest embroidered with three flaming flames embroidered on his cuffs walked briskly into Fast's study, "The parish of Gurul has reported that there has been an attack by a dark mage in the parish, and an earl and his butler, as well as an unknown person, have died in the attack of a dark mage. ”

Fast looked away from the list, "It's the dark mages again, they've been doing a bit a lot lately, have you found any clues?"

"Not yet, but they found out that the slain earl had just clashed with Arthur Sillow, the kingdom's canonized Viscount of Jiayong, the day before his death. ”

"Arthur, it's that Arthur again. Fast muttered under his breath.

The white-robed priest continued with Fast's words: "We have also noticed that from Sunset Ridge to Gurur City, including the last Canyon of Sighs, Arthur is also in the Frost Thunder Legion, it seems that he is nearby every time an event related to the dark mage occurs, and what is even more suspicious is that Pastor Arya, who we put next to him, has also mysteriously disappeared. ”

Fast nodded with satisfaction, "Your analysis is correct, although there is no direct evidence that it is Arthur, but all the coincidences put together, it is obvious that the dark mage is next to Arthur or he is a dark mage." ”

"Then I'll arrange for the Punishment Knight to do it now?"

Fast let out a rare sigh, "If an ordinary person could arrest someone based on these points to our Inquisition, but this Arthur is a student of the Blood Yao Academy and the newly canonized viscount of the kingdom, and we have found out that the person who recommended him to enter the Blood Yao Academy back then was Keno Patrick, the deputy head of the Wind and Snow Legion, so moving this Arthur without evidence is likely to provoke a strong backlash from Streich and the kingdom's military." ”

"What to do next, please tell the bishop. The white-robed priest bowed down and asked.

A cold light flashed in Fast's eyes, "Put him on the 'Demon Hunting List', from now on, you are responsible for sending someone to keep an eye on him, and you can secretly trap him under the condition of ensuring absolute control." ”

At this time, Arthur, who was rushing all the way to the royal city, did not know that his adventure this time had finally caused a big disaster, and after the mysterious killer organization, another behemoth targeted him......