289 Turbulence
While Pan Diesel nestled in his mage tower, sharpening his sword and preparing to deal with the vampire king, the chaos in Simon rose to a new level.
The nobles of Simon whose relatives were arrested did not care how many vampires were rampant in Simon City at night, and most of these poor people who were ignorant of the truth did not have the courage to face the fierce red-robed mage, so they could only constantly cry, complain and curse the ruling council of Simon City.
Driven by its impartiality and ruthless relentlessness in its fight against dark creatures, the Temple of Tyre, though alienated from the upper echelons of Simon due to its possible interference with the power of the nobility, has always had a good reputation, especially at a time when this person is in fear.
The nobles of the upper echelons of Simon could not prevent the people of the Serre Concession from kidnapping their relatives and friends, and even allowed the vampires to weave a conspiracy at the banquet in their mansion, and of course, their prestige was discredited - in the past, many civilians who did not know the truth and merchants who had not yet settled in the city may still have had hope, but the Dilari Mansion exposed all the shortcomings of Simon City in an instant, and the nobles of Simon City encountered an unprecedented crisis of confidence.
At this time, perhaps only an impartial third party can be trusted.
"Lord Bishop Khazar, my uncle was kidnapped by those murderous red-robed wizards and entered the Serre Concession, you must save him!" A young girl tearfully grabbed the arm of the sanctimonious archbishop: "He has been detained for two days, I don't know what kind of curse he is receiving, oh, the gods are above, curse those bald beasts from the desperate Eastern Regions." ”
"Trust that our Lord will help the people. Bishop Rao is a good bishop of Qajar, but under the harassment of a group of victims' families, he was still sweating, and he could only make a routine promise, break free from a large number of victims, and struggle into the corridor in the backyard of the church, and then he exhaled softly: "It's not okay to go on like this, Serra." ”
"Yes, Your Excellency. The capable paladin frowned: "This is those red-robed mages playing on the topic, and there is no need to be surprised by the anxiety of these people, those Searles are indeed too much." ”
Many of the believers in Tyre were lawyers and judges, and even the clergy who brought them with them had a strong sense of the law, and in their view, the practice of detention and interrogation without formal procedures and official approval was clearly unconscionable and injustice, so Serra spoke of this matter in a very dissatisfied tone.
"It's obvious. Bishop Qajar's beard trembled, and he looked a little helpless: "But it seems that our scattered Simon Council cannot organize enough forces to put pressure on the Serles. ”
"Of course, they're all in a mess of their own now. Sierra sighed.
After the death of the vampire duke, the aristocratic circle of Simon City was completely unsettled, and although the nobles did not necessarily want it to be so—some of the vampire minions preferred to remain calm and continuous, but there were still a few families that tried to break free from the control of the vampires and launched a purge - the first to bear the brunt of the Salavar and Ilista- These two nobles with a fairly pure Ximen royal bloodline took the lead in initiating a large-scale internal purge, which not only caused their own family to fly and jump, but also implicated other families, causing widespread turmoil in the upper echelons.
The Night Mask has also taken the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, the private armed forces of the two families have already clashed and fought with the Night Mask thugs several times, and it is clear that the death of the Duke has completely exposed some contradictions, which is undoubtedly a good thing in the eyes of the Temple of Tyre - friend and foe have never been so distinct, but for the Bishop of Qajar, things have come at a bad time.
In his vision, under the organization of the Church of Tyre and the Edmund family, some light or dark forces should be combined to fight against the Night Mask, and then cause turmoil in the upper echelons of Simon, so as to discover the traces of vampires and find out the vampire rulers hidden in the upper echelons of Simon.
However, the Serge people unexpectedly pulled out the Duke in advance at a very abrupt time, and the chaos that broke out in an instant made everyone feel anxious, and the Bishop also felt overwhelmed for a while - all the foreshadowing work became a joke, and now he needs to improvise to deal with everything, and the first problem to be solved is of course the group of Serbers who caused an uproar.
Those hapless nobles are still detained in the Serre Concession.
"Is there any news on the Searle side. ”
Bishop Qajar asked.
"My lord, they have made a condition. Serra took a breath, these noble family members didn't have the courage to fight with the Searles - Simon, who was in chaos, didn't have that ability for the time being, but he was worried about his family, and it was very positive to send spies to find out the news.
Referring to the terms of the Serre Concession, the Bishop of Khazar turned his gaze to Serra's hand, where there was a notebook with a dense copy of the name: "The Ser people say that after their interrogation, these names are the vampires' minions in Simon, and that they must be killed in order to appease the consul's anger." ”
This list is, of course, the strongholds and gangs that Penny has come into contact with in Simon with bloodbead rings in Simon for a while, and if they are all stabbed, the network created by the vampires in the upper layer of Simon will be paralyzed immediately, and if some of these strongholds disguised as chambers of commerce are destroyed, the power of the Night Mask will also be greatly damaged.
If Pan Diesel can send this list to Bishop Qajar through the proper channels, I believe that this bishop will definitely make good use of it and unify all kinds of forces to deal a heavy blow to the Mask of Night.
However, the wizard chose to spread out a list in this way, which made the archbishop undecided.
He couldn't believe that the list from the Sertres was real.
Many of the names on it are heads and faces in the upper layers of the West Gate, and if these people are eliminated, the entire upper layer of the West Gate will be in a mess without vampires attacking them, even though they are almost as messy as a pot of porridge now.
For a moment, Bishop Qajar even began to wonder if this list could be made up by a red-robed mage - this seemed unlikely, because each name on it had a nose and an eye, and the Ethel people's knowledge of Simon City could clearly know that everyone on this list could not be sure.
At this moment, years of battling the Night Mask made Bishop Khazar smell something unusual, and his expression immediately became solemn.
"What did you think of, Lord Bishop?"
"This list ...... There's something ...... behind," Bishop Qajar's two majestic eyebrows tangled together: "The taste is unusual, Serra, things are not simple." ”
"Isn't it easy?" Serra frowned and thought for a moment, "My lord, are you saying that this list is weird?"
"Of course it's weird, if I'm that group of red-robed mages, and I'm going to throw out such a list when I'm full, what do they want to do?" Khazar's tone also began to be a little anxious, he smelled a strong smell of conspiracy, but when he thought about it deeply, he was at a loss.
But there is no doubt that if anger drove the red-robed mage to throw out such a list, Bishop Khazar would never believe it, even fools know that as soon as this list was thrown out, the Serles had completely offended the entire upper echelons of Simon, and it was hard to imagine that this kind of crazy move would come from the hands of the red-robed mage.
Then again, because of an assassination to detain the Ximen nobles, this move was already crazy.
What do they want to do?
After a brief inference, Qajar deduced such a conclusion, but for what?
Even if you want to deal with vampires, you don't have to use such crazy and extreme methods.
So, disturb the upper floors of the West Gate?
But the source of all this, the assassination in Delari House, happened by coincidence.
Bishop Khazar, who was short of information, shook his head, and this clue came to an abrupt end here—a series of accidents that collided by coincidence were undoubtedly unknowable, and the madness of the red-robed mage was obviously not caused by this.
But if you think about it from another angle, the assassination was not a coincidence but a premeditated one...... Bishop Qajar's eyes lit up suddenly, and his hands trembled with the violent fluctuations of his emotions.
"My lord, what's wrong with you?" asked the paladin with concern.
"Serra, someone is arranging all this. The bishop took two deep breaths: "This one may be a big surname. ”
But then he shook his head, for he was not sure of the purpose of the 'putative' arranger—why the red-robed mage had trouble with the Night Mask, and why he had published this list?
This made Serra, who had a little bit of a shortage of brain circuits, shake her head: "But, my lord, I'm afraid we don't have time to think about this." ”
"What?" Hearing Serra's solemn tone, Bishop Khazar quickly stopped thinking.
"This list has not only reached my hands, some Simon nobles have already begun to investigate the people on this list. ”
"What?!!" Bishop Khazar immediately changed color.
He could imagine what things would look like after that.
It's terrible.
Following the list released by the red-robed mage, although many people who can stay calm in the chaos can be treated rationally, there are always a considerable number of people who can't keep calm, and most of these people don't know the truth - as Goodall once said, vampires can't control all people, they only control a few key people, and reach a kind of indulgence with a sense of mystery and looming threat, and the death of the duke and the appearance of this list undoubtedly made these people who were suppressed by vampires cast distrustful glances around.
This list also caused the vampire minions whose names were listed on it to fall into unease, and in the friction and collision between the two parties, whether overt or covert, these people gradually revealed their flaws, and the real surnames of the list were confirmed one by one.
"These Searle bald heads want to deal with us. In the gloomy underground castle, Albuck still had the pale face that he couldn't see the lower half of his face, and with a flick of the list in his hand, the parchment with countless names turned to soot, and an apparently disguised face came to his mind, and he shook his head and dispelled the image: "But I don't know who he is yet." ”
Hopefully he's dead, the Vampire King thought to himself, he raised a hand, looked at the palm of his hand for a while, and frowned, although he had enough confidence in his multiple energy absorption techniques, he was still a little unsure that he would be able to kill the strange mage apprentice - which undoubtedly made him feel a little uneasy.
But he finally shook his head, things have come to this point, no matter how much you think about it, if you don't kill it, just pay attention to it the next time you see it, and the top priority is to deal with the crisis in front of you.
"My lord, what should we do now?" asked a shadow hidden in armor beside him, respectfully, "Do you still need Tyberion to continue to put pressure on the ruling council? ”
"Chaos?" Albuck let out a sneer: "It's good to keep the chaos, with this list, our arrangement in the nobility is doomed, so let them mess up." ”
The shadow nodded respectfully, the chaos on the upper level of the West Gate was obviously more in line with the expectations of the vampires, it is conceivable that if the chaos on the upper level of the West Gate stopped, the spearhead would inevitably be pointed at the Night Mask under the West Gate, and the nobles who had escaped the control of the vampires would probably not succumb to the vampires' silver power as easily as before.
If all the official and private forces of Simon City were to gather together to fight against the Night Masks of more than 900 people, the result would be obvious - the foundation that the vampires had established in Simon would be completely destroyed.
He remembered the chaos that had plunged the entire city of Ximen into great turmoil four years ago, and it was clear that that level of chaos was about to come.
Thinking of this, the knight in the shadows closed his armor, and the previous owner of this armor died in the chaos.
"It's better to fill in a handful of ingredients~" Albuck sat for a long time, suddenly let out a yin and yang sneer, his body shook, and disappeared on the black and heavy seat.
Nearby, Duncan was wiping the floor with a damp cloth in his hand—the work he had done in Zoth's mage tower, and now he was back in the old job, and although his heart was full of humiliation, he could only swallow his anger, this time, he didn't even have the courage to curse.
...... The chaos in Simon City reached its highest level on the fifth day after the assassination of the Dilari Mansion, and the death of the duke, the kidnapping case, and the list brought the chaos of the entire upper echelons of Simon to a boiling point, and finally fell to a freezing point with the occurrence of an abrupt assassination.
One night, Polis Illista, the commander of the Simon Navy in the Illista Mansion, was sucked into a human in his bed, and although he was well guarded, the guards who were also sucked into human power failed to protect him - the magical barrier against dark creatures was broken before it was even fully opened.
There is no doubt that this is a warning from the Lord of the Night.
All the Ximen nobles who were in the midst of the internal strife were taken aback, and quickly stopped all their actions, and once again shrank tightly into their turtle shells, and all kinds of enchantments protecting dark creatures did not dare to relax around the clock.
Clearly, the Vampire King is unhappy with the status quo.
The opinion of such a guy, there is still no one in Ximen City who dares to ignore it.
Although no one wants to remain under his control.
The development of things has reached an impasse.
The wizard who had caused all the turmoil was still coldly observing all this in the dark, and it was all under his control.
But others who are concerned about this matter are not so calm.
"It's not the way to go. Bishop Qajar shook his head and frowned: "If time is allowed to pass like this, after a while, Ximen City will still change back to its old state." ”
Goodall, who was across from him, nodded: "Yes, Lord Bishop, we should find a way not to let time slip away like this." ”
The shrewd-looking middle-aged man spat out, "This is the best time to free the city from vampire control." ”
"Yes, the best time. Bishop Khazar nodded solemnly, "But no one has been able to gather Simon's power against the Night Mask. ”
He sighed, "Who has this prestige?"
Goodale shook his head with a wry smile.
The head of the Simon Council has been empty for a long time, and even if it is not vacant, no one is qualified enough to order all the nobles.
As Bishop Qajar said, no one has this prestige – and that's what vampires are doing.
Without a leader with enough prestige, the nobles of Ximen City are just a plate of scattered sand, how can they be enemies of the Night Mask?
What's more, outside the temple, the noble family members whose father/son/husband was captured by Ser are still crying, which undoubtedly makes the believers of Tyre even more frustrated.
What is it like to take advantage of? What is it going to do with those vampires?
But the turnaround always comes at the right time:
"Bishop, the Serbs have made a new offer, and as soon as the Consulate of Simon agrees to this condition, they will immediately release the imprisoned nobles. ”
Serra walked in and reported.
(To be continued)