Although he was puzzled by the sudden appearance of the dragon, Anvis was not ready to delve into it for the time being. Instead, he took Fiona to secretly contact Duke Carrot.
The Duke was overjoyed when he received the news about Anvis and Fiona. However, considering the confidentiality issue, after a brief discussion, the Duke finally arranged for clones to secretly take Anvis and Fiona back to the family.
As for what Avis said about Pomona's suspected collusion with foreign enemies, Duke Carlot was half-convinced. After all, it was Pomona who rescued him with the family guardians.
At the same time, he could clearly see Pomona as a person who was proud, cold, self-willed, and occasionally resorted to unscrupulous means to achieve his goals. But although his personal philosophy is relatively radical, he will never betray the Olivendi family for personal gain.
Rather, his loyalty to his family is among the most radical. If someone hopes to make some deal with him that harms the interests of the Olivendi family, the result will only be that Pomona will fall out on the spot.
However, the Duke did not ignore the many doubts Anvis said. Instead, he personally went to various sites to check, and used time retrieval spells to spy on the situation at that time.
Unfortunately, the enemy was obviously well prepared, and had specifically blocked time-returning spells when they were originally deployed.
In the end, the Duke, who found nothing, could only tell Anvis about the situation and told Anvis not to worry too much. He would be keeping an eye on Pomona recently.
If the other party really has a problem, then there will definitely be a way out.
But Pomona also seemed worried that his previous behavior would be exposed. Although Fiona had returned to the family, he only came to visit her initially, expressed his concern and left without much communication.
He behaves very normally every day, and even Avis can't find any problems.
Therefore, Anvis could only hide his worries in his heart.
With Duke Carrot and other ninth-level families here, Fiona won't have any problems for the time being.
Moreover, after all, these things need to be faced by the girl herself. He now needs to prepare to officially break through to the ninth level prophet.
Gray Mist's breakthrough this time was blocked by the stargazer's arrangement, causing the breakthrough process to be artificially 'slowed down', revealing many details, which was equivalent to a step-by-step standard breakthrough demonstration for many prophets who were preparing to break through. .
Anvis also benefited a lot. If he was only theoretically sure of breaking through the ninth-level prophet before, now he can be sure. As long as the stargazer doesn't stop him, he will definitely be able to break through.
Of course, it was impossible for the stargazer not to stop him, and he would eventually try to see what obstacles the stargazer had set up for him.
Anvis was initially worried that the Continental Magic Council would reveal that he was the leader of the Circle of Truth, and that Bishop Yanile and Marquis Draka had been controlled by him.
For this reason, he was already prepared to pretend to be stupid, and the clone had been prepared in advance, and he would throw it out if there was a ninth-level inspection.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was always silence on the side of the Magic Council, and there was no movement in the daily Magic Times. Stargazer seemed not to let others expose his secret.
This may be a sign of goodwill from the stargazer, or it may be that the stargazer feels that it is of little significance to do so, or the time is not yet available.
In short, everything was calm as if nothing had happened. Anvis returned to Pamir Academy in an ordinary way, studying hard with his seniors and making progress every day.
But within a few days of this, the situation in the empire changed drastically again.
What Anvis saw that day, the scene of three giant golden dragons cutting through the cloud ridges and soaring towards the Frey Province, finally came to fruition.
The Aslade family suddenly announced to the entire empire in a high profile that the legendary [Dragon Island] has officially returned to the main material world, and has reached an in-depth strategic partnership with the Aslade family, and will send out multiple ninth-level dragons temporarily. Affiliated with the Aslade family.
All of a sudden, the power of the Aslade family completely overwhelmed the other three families, becoming the first of the four major families in the empire.
At the same time, when the eldest prince almost completely suppressed the four princesses in the civil war, a disruptor that surprised everyone appeared.
The seventh prince, Ville Luo Augustin, whose current strength was only level seven, suddenly sent a large number of level nine warriors to sneak attack the eldest prince's army.
Through deliberate arithmetic and unintentional calculations, the eldest prince who was caught off guard suffered heavy losses. Not only was he seriously injured by a sneak attack, but two of his ninth-level guest ministers also died directly.
Even if these ninth-level people each have backup plans and hope to be resurrected in the distant future, it is no longer possible to participate in this battle for inheritance.
As soon as the news came out, the whole world was shocked.
Everyone was curious about where the seventh prince came from so many ninth levels. It was not until the next meeting of the House of Lords was held that the seventh prince walked into the conference room half a body behind the head of the Aslade family, and everything became clear.
You know, nobles are particular about where they walk, especially on such important occasions. As a lord, even if his own strength is low, he must not lag behind his followers, even if that follower is at the ninth level.
As in the case of the seventh prince, many people could see at a glance that the seventh prince was actually only a puppet supported by the Aslade family, and the real person in charge was the head of the Aslade family.
This made many old nobles who knew the inside story secretly frown. The Aslade family's behavior had blatantly violated the agreement between the four major families and Emperor Gloria during the founding of the country: the four major families were not allowed to interfere in royal affairs.
Simply put, due to the return of Dragon Island, the Aslade family has drifted, and they do have the capital to drift.
Currently on Dragon Island, there are more than a dozen ancient dragons of various types whose strength has reached the limit of the ninth level, and there are dozens of dragons above the ninth level.
Even the three-headed Golden Dragon King could use part of the power left behind by the legendary ancient dragons in the history of Dragon Island to temporarily reach limit-breaking strength.
Such a terrifying force, even if only some of them want to go to the Yaer continent, cannot be competed by any single force except the three major forces on the mainland and the Sorcerous Council.
As a foreign force, under normal circumstances, if the dragons of Dragon Island wanted to intervene in the empire's civil war, they would only temporarily make everyone join forces to fight against the outside world. But with the identity of the Aslade family, the situation suddenly changed from external enemies to internal strife.
Because the Aslade family is originally a family with the blood of the golden dragon, and the dragon knight is Aslade's iconic profession. It is even 'rumored' to be connected to Dragon Island. Now this connection has only been confirmed.
At the same time, the Aslade family is also holding private talks with the other three major families to win their support.
As long as the three major families support the Aslade family's actions, in return, the Aslade family is willing to share the quota for signing contracts with ninth-level, seventh-level, and eighth-level dragons.
(End of chapter)
