Volume 2: Empire Chapter 37 Brotherhood Crisis
Outside, after "emergency repairs", the failed power was restored and the dark blocks became bright again one by one.
In another secret room, the light from the electric lamp overwhelmed the temporary magical light source. A group of people were having a meeting in the room. Most of them covered their faces with scarves, but all of them wore a silver dagger in a conspicuous place on their bodies.
Judging from the style of the silver daggers, they are all professional assassins of the Blade-Bearing Brotherhood.
The secret room was set up like a small classroom, with most of the thorns sitting in the audience. Some listened attentively, some took notes, and some lazily wandered off to some unknown place.
At the podium, a man with scars all over his face was writing and explaining.
Finally, he could no longer tolerate the deserting assassins and angrily said, "Look at you guys, do you still have the blade of the Brotherhood of Blades?
The Celtic Grand Duke's barbarian army has already engaged the Imperial Army in the Tedega Hills, and many of the Brotherhood's hereditary nobles have expressed their willingness to respond to the Celtic Grand Duke. The Blade Brotherhood must fulfill the promise made by our ancestors to the Golden Shield Family and protect this empire with the weapons we have never laid down.
As the Blade Brotherhood has invested huge amounts of money and materials to cultivate the Blade, our battlefield is in Saint Lun City, and our opponent is the Imperial Secret Service. But I can't see your fighting spirit and murderous intent, which will only make you die in cruel assassination and espionage missions!
..."
The leader wanted to say something encouraging, but a Blade in the audience raised his hand and said, “Chief Samuel, can the Celtic Grand Duke represent the Blade Brotherhood now?
As far as I know, some members of the Brotherhood went to Raging Waves. The Brotherhood of Raging Waves branch, under the leadership of Viscount Iscolan, completely turned to the Princess, and some of the familiar Thorns are cooperating with the Secret Service.
Some members of the brotherhood also joined the new nobility and became part of it.
All the arrangements you made here today will soon appear on the desks of our 'mortal enemies'. The reason why we can hold a meeting here safely is because this meeting is ridiculous!
Chief Samuel, wake up! The Brotherhood today is no longer the Brotherhood it once was. I don’t know which brother will stab me in the back tomorrow.”
This Thornblade's words triggered a noise in the entire room. Most of the Thorns agreed that the current Brotherhood was not a united organization and there were definitely traitors in the room who had infiltrated from other parties.
"Silence!" Faced with the increasingly chaotic meeting place, Chief Samuel shouted, "Ni Ze, you are here to deceive people and alienate the trust between the Brotherhood. I think you are the traitor who has been bought."
The Thorn Blade, codenamed Ni Ze, stood up and pointed at the tasks on the blackboard and cursed, "Samuel, look at what the tasks are! Assassinate the Emperor of the Empire, Assassinate the Princess, Assassinate the First Prince, Assassinate the Second Prince, Assassinate the Clear Sky, Assassinate the Meteor, Assassinate Gabriel...
Is this how the Thorn Blade, which the Brotherhood spent a lot of money and resources to cultivate, is used?
It is obvious that the Brotherhood's top brass have already decided that we, the Thorns in Saint Len City, cannot be trusted, and are asking us to launch a suicide attack to drain us dry."
Samuel said angrily: “Ni Ze, you are talking nonsense here and questioning the decision of the Brotherhood!
Come, arrest him."
Several Thorns were about to step forward to subdue Ni Ze. Ni Ze pulled out the silver blade from the leather sheath on his chest and took a counterattack posture. Some Thorns who were on good terms with Ni Ze joined in to protect his side.
Ni Ze jumped onto the table and shouted to all the Blades in the room, "Although we are assassins, the most training we receive is never assassination. If the Blade Brotherhood values us, they will only cherish our lives and let us complete as many intelligence stealing tasks as possible, rather than assassinating the imperial dignitaries who are under strict protection.
All the missions Samuel gave us were suicide assassinations, and it was obvious that he wanted to exchange our lives for his future.
Brothers... no matter whether we are brothers in the future or not, I will call you brothers again here.
There shouldn't be any fools among the blades who have survived to this day. They can see that the Blade Brotherhood no longer trusts us, and they want those of us who are still foolishly loyal to the Brotherhood to die!"
The room fell silent, and the Blades who were carrying out Samuel's orders to besiege the swamp became hesitant.
Samuel looked at the situation and knew that the morale of the team was broken and he could not lead the team any further. If a fight broke out, he alone would definitely not be a match for such a high-level thorn blade.
"Good, very good. Ni Ze, this is the result you wanted, you succeeded. If you don't carry out the mission given to us by these brothers... I will.
Brothers who are willing to die with me, follow me!"
Samuel walked out angrily, and in the end only five of the people in the room followed him out.
The room fell silent again.
Leader Samuel was gone, and those who refused to carry out the Brotherhood's mission were tantamount to betraying the organization. As for the future, everyone looked to the mud.
Ni Ze jumped onto the podium.
If Samuel was forced to leave, he would be the new leader of these high-level thorn blades. Together with the informant network controlled by these high-level thorn blades, the intelligence network of the Blade Brotherhood in Saint Lun City would fall into his own hands.
"Brothers, I don't care who you are serving now. I welcome you to be double agents. Tell the people behind you that the Saint Len City Brotherhood is willing to trade intelligence with anyone..."
However, before Ni Ze could finish his words, the light bulbs on the ceiling of the room exploded one after another, and darkness enveloped the room.
Then a large number of strange monsters rushed out from the wall and bit all the thorn blades in the middle. The high-level thorn blades faced the sudden attack and calmly cooperated with each other to defend. They killed the monsters that rushed in with their superb martial arts and spells, but the monsters seemed to pour out from the wall endlessly, and each of them was fearless and would bite the thorn blades even when facing a fatal attack.
Soon, the Thorns suffered casualties. Facing these monsters that they were not sure whether they could kill them all, they could only rely on each other to break through. However, when they reached the wall and were ready to blast out, they found that the wall did not exist at all, it was just a projection of the wall.
Space transfer!
This is a trap!
…
Outside the secret room was an abandoned warehouse. The door of the warehouse faced a quiet street. The street lights seemed to be disturbed by something and flickered on and off.
On the tall building across the road, Samuel, the leader of the Thorns, lit a cigarette for himself, and next to him stood a man who was curled up in a smock. The Thorns who followed Samuel stood behind him, and there were some people wearing smocks around him.
Samuel took a long puff of his cigarette with a melancholy look on his face, and said to the people around him, "Lord Morris, your prediction is correct! Most of the Brotherhood's Thorns in Saint Lun City have been corrupted. Questioning the mission is not the mentality of a qualified Thorn."
Standing next to Samuel was the fourth apostle of the Temple of the Abyss, Morris.
He stood at the edge of the building, looking at the quiet warehouse opposite.
"Isn't the Brotherhood in the same situation now? Lord Celtic originally thought that once the war started, he would be able to get an immediate response from other noble lords, but now most of them are just talking verbally.
They were all afraid of Augustine, even though the old guy had half of his body buried in the ground.
This war was started a little too early, and the Celtic Archduke has been waiting for news of your Majesty's death."
Samuel exhaled a puff of smoke. "The intelligence I collected showed that Augustine's sudden decision to fight this war had a lot to do with the meteorite that came from Raging Waves City."
"Meteor..." Morris repeated Meteor's name: "This is a person that the uncle ordered us to get rid of as soon as possible.
If he died, Raging Waves City would trigger scrambles from all sides. Once Raging Waves City was in chaos, foreign countries would see the weakness of the empire. Once the war broke out in the North, the pressure on the Tedega Hills would be greatly reduced.
And those nobles who are still waiting and watching also know that they should join the victorious side as soon as possible in order to preserve their power and land in the future."
Samuel said: "The matter of assassinating the meteorite can only be left to you... Once these thorns die, there is no point for me to stay here. Fortunately, the Celtic Grand Duke anticipated the situation of the Brotherhood and sent the Abyss Temple to the Imperial Capital to re-arrange a new intelligence network.
Meteorite is far less powerful than Clear Sky, I think you can easily complete the Grand Duke's mission."
Samuel's words were piercing.
Although he now belongs to the same camp as the Abyss Temple, without the Thorn Blade group in Saint Lun City, he is a lost dog. Coupled with the current situation of the serious division of the Blade Brotherhood, it is inevitable that he will feel jealous of the Abyss Temple, which is becoming more and more important.
Morris said coldly: "Just for this sentence, I can kill you."
Samuel threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped on it, crushing it: "No matter how down and out I am, I was once the leader of the Thorn Blade who managed the intelligence network of Saint Lun City. It's not that easy for you to kill me.
And I also know that someone in the palace has had secret contact with you. If you want to continue to gain the trust of the Celtic Grand Duke, you should do what you should do. Don't continue to send heads to Qingkong for the Book of Disaster. "
After saying that, Samuel jumped down from the roof, followed by five Blades.
Morris was on the rooftop, feeling the wind, and the hem of his coat was swinging violently in the strong wind.
How did Samuel know that Augustine had sent someone to contact me?
Was it someone from Augustine's side who leaked the information, or was it someone inside the Temple of the Abyss?
After having contact with Qingkong, Morris felt that the Abyss Temple seemed to have no secrets in front of her. In order to understand and deal with Qingkong, Morris had a secret talk with the Augustinians.
I didn't expect that this brief secret conversation would be noticed by Samuel.
The Thorn Blade of the Blade Brotherhood has been operating in Saint Lun City for so long. Although it was wiped out this time, it still has some foundation.
At this time, the flickering street lights returned to normal, and several dark shadows rushed out from behind Morris. They jumped down the building, crossed the street and went into the warehouse opposite.
After a while, one person returned.
"Master Apostle, it has been confirmed that all the people inside are dead."
"Start a fire and burn it cleanly."
"Yes, sir!"
…
After a whole night of recovery, the awakened Luke finally adapted to his body after completing the inheritance of his bloodline.
The most obvious thing is that the strength has been increased by a large span. If you are not careful in controlling it, things in your hands can easily be broken.
And most importantly, it is the magic that Luke has always dreamed of.
Inheriting troll bloodline did not bring Luke any magical power. He was able to release magic by using the magic power contained in the Greedy Scarlet Dragon Spear and the skills developed using the Thunder and Fire Pupil.
This time, by inheriting the bloodline of the lava stone demon, he not only gained a stronger body, but also gained good magical talent and abundant magic power.
Luke stretched out his hand and chanted a spell, and the magic of fire attribute gathered in his palm under the guidance of his magic power. The spell and the power of thought formed a magic energy framework, and the magic of fire attribute produced magical changes in the magic program in the framework. A ball of fire transformed into a physical entity and appeared above Luke's palm.
Qingkong's studies at Oulu College enabled Luke to master the solid basic principles of magic.
A simple little fireball, shaped as you like.
Luke continued to add new structures to the magic energy structure of the small fireball, injecting more magic programs. As the magic power was added, the small fireball expanded and burned violently, erupting from a swaying small fireball into a beam of fire that erupted upwards.
Luke added more magic energy structures into it. With the crazy injection of magic power, the fire in his hands made a roar like a jet engine . Unsatisfied, Luke added electric magic energy. After a burst of sparks and lightning, there was a series of explosions. The explosive force of the electric fire made Luke a little unstable.
The violent energy flow overflowed, cutting Luke's already tattered clothes into shreds.
Luke, who was casting magic independently for the first time, ignored the danger of releasing two violent energies of fire and electricity at the same time. He activated the Thunder Fire Eye, and the two energies in his hands that were not in harmony with each other immediately became tamed.
The colliding red flames and purple lightning merged together and turned into a blue electric current fire column that erupted steadily.
After playing for a while, Luke withdrew this eruption that consumed a lot of magic energy. Then, under the protection of the clear sky, he carried out physical strength adaptation training and magic energy micro-control training.
It is easy to use powerful magic with strong magic power, but it is not easy to use magic at will without hurting others. A beginner in magic needs to practice continuously for several years before he can control his magic freely.
Fortunately, Luke merged the magical knowledge and skills from Qingkong, and relying on his powerful spiritual energy, he quickly completed the magic control training that would have taken several years of practice.
In order to further consolidate and strengthen the ability to control magic, Qingkong also asked the Spirit Orb to design a set of daily magic exercises suitable for body training.
It is to control the flames to circle around the fingertips, starting with one flame, and then increasing the number of flames when you can control it easily. The flames cannot touch the skin, cannot leave a certain range of the fingertips, and cannot collide with each other.
When it was completely light, Luke changed his clothes and practiced returning to Copper Mulberry Avenue.
