The mystery is solved. The chef had no idea that the vegetable soup he carefully prepared was poisonous. At this moment, he was trembling because of his previous act of proving his innocence. If he had drank the soup, he would be the one lying on the ground now, turned into ashes. Orcus struggled for a while, but cooks are only human.
"It's not me!" he defended loudly, looking around helplessly. However, people all avoided him, as if his eyes carried deadly germs. "No one has had soup, my lord." His voice trailed off as Joey stepped in front of him, the blade reflecting the light.
"He is telling the truth." Uriel couldn't help but speak. Joey couldn't be expected to be merciful at this point, and truthfully, there was no reason to stop him. Even Orcus, the Silver Song Knight, died because of this, so what does the chef’s life mean? Neither in Aurenia nor in the Mystical Realm does the Cook deserve to be saved. Even from the apprentice's perspective, he is nothing more than a phantom.
As a result, the master passed over the servant, and the soup in the jar froze. He lifted it up. "This is not the source." But he didn't let the chef go. "Arrest all the chefs and interrogate them one by one. If any nature spirits are found, execute them on the spot."
The guards followed orders. Uriel felt a chill creeping up his arms. I drove Janus away and Parsur was right, if he stayed here Joey would kill him. Magic can only cover it up for a while. Now Janus should be working in the city, or at worst begging - a life of his own choosing. More importantly, he chose to live rather than die in confusion.
"From now on, no one is allowed to touch the food, and no one is allowed to move alone." Joey ordered one by one, "Lock every door and close the windows."
He seemed to have found the clues and responded skillfully. The chaotic stairwell became orderly under the threat of guns and swords. Soldiers opened every door at the end and locked the ones that couldn't be opened. Armor chains collided with each other, and the sound ended at the cold corner. Joey walked to the window alone and raised his hand. Uriel looked at the broken pieces of the remaining soup in the can, and felt his stomach tightening. He doubted he would ever fear all vegetable soups from now on.
Joey turned the window shaft and the wood slowly opened. This is a specialty of the Ancestors period. Thousands of years later, he is not so good at handling equipment, at least his apprentices have never seen it. But now Uriel could see him tearing open the windshield and throwing the frozen remains off the balcony. He tightened the latch before it fell into the backyard well.
But at this moment, a water column spurted out of the well, and then the magic power was disturbed, and the frost froze the water column in place.
"Someone poisoned the well," the apprentice blurted out.
"You think I'm just listening?" Joey glanced at him contemptuously. "Don't get in the way."
"No one told me what to do." He just waited in the auditorium like other mysterious creatures. Zoman is already here, but Du Yilin is not yet. There was no sign of Bogart either. "You're going to the basement?"
"You should stay here in a daze. Get out of here!"
Even if he was a complete stranger, Bai Zhishi would not make such an arrangement under the current situation. Uriel noticed more differences between him and the messenger. At this time, Joey was still young, not just in appearance. "How do you know it's Tang's problem? Tell me the answer, and I'll follow your orders."
Joey was dubious. There was a time when he was eager to leave these things to me, Uriel thought, but now he is taking the initiative.
"This is the nightingale's usual trick," the mentor said, scraping the tip of his sword against broken porcelain pieces. "The nightingale among the locals. Blackwood County is no better than Malandeno. People here have no sense of honor. Poisoning is commonplace, and successful sneak attacks are worthy of praise. In order to deal with the mystery, mortals will become more knowledgeable about their professions than the mysterious creatures themselves. Defects."
"The Silver Song Knights are no exception? You are the elite of the empire."
"On the battlefield, Orcus can break down the city gate single-handedly, but he can't identify the parasites in the drinking water."
Uriel thought of the blood threads dancing like snakes. They were indeed more like insects. "Is that like witchcraft?"
"Only wizards know witchcraft. Bugs are the pets of elves - not natural elves, but moon elves from the south. The bugs in Blackwood County all come from the south."
In later generations, Mortus was the Black City of Brestatik, and Blackwood County was the entire Compass Highlands. After the neutral country of Vathimaus was captured by the Bures, Breth was bordered by the hot-earth hills of Eastman. Thousands of years ago, both Vathimaus and Eastman belonged to the elven country Alanvor.
Uriel was more familiar with Alanwo than with the Orenian Empire. The history of the moon elves is narrated by Emperor Alanvor and his betrayed lover himself - the tragic epic of Camaria's resistance to the dragon-scourge demon, the covenant destroyed by the war, the gifts and curses brought by the Broken Moon, the werewolves and the water elves The survival of the ethnic group... He remembered every word clearly. He had never had a simple adventure since leaving Winnie Watts.
"That's what Bernard Sterling said. He probably thought the enemy came from the Temple."
"He's lying to you. Wizards can't mistake witchcraft. You should stay as far away from that bastard as possible."
Uriel was not deceived. He never used magic in front of Bernard from beginning to end. "I thought you were closer. Bernard told me before that his family had facilitated you."
Joey scoffed. "But he didn't mention how much trouble he himself caused. Do you think I am willing to leave the imperial capital? Do you think guarding foreign hostages is a job I asked for? With a smug tower messenger and two temple wizards?" He said with disgust Scratching off the condensed ice flakes on the ground, "Sterling, hum!"
The frivolous tone appeared on him, and the apprentice felt indescribably weird. Or was he more like the White Envoy I knew when he made fun of Parsur? Uriel tried his best to ignore the difference. "In any case, you have returned to your hometown."
"Don't mention this again."
"Who can I tell? But this is what it is..."
"...A meaningless place. Gaia doesn't want to develop here! So he sent you here. I hope Alanvor takes this place away, and we have a reason to flatten Kamaria."
"Really?" Uriel said softly, "I thought you still missed the past days."
"No need. It's not bad now. Looting towns is not as fun as plundering kingdoms." Joey showed no remorse at all. "The past is not worth remembering." Is he deliberately covering up the mistakes he has made, or is he simply taking things as they come? Uriel can judge the truth and lies, but cannot guess his heart. The only thing that's certain is that Joey won't have any fun with it. In fact, he completely reversed his true thoughts just to refute my words. He's almost a bit of a rebel. Uriel almost smiled at the thought.
However, Bernard was not lying when he said that the Knights of Silversong would obey his orders. What secret is there between Joey and the future "Second Truth"? It is difficult for an apprentice to know everything. Needless to say, there must be something to do with McAdam, and even "Victor" Veronca is involved. At the wedding of Knight Commander Silversong and Princess Helen, Joey came to inform him of the emperor's death. The guards found traces of witchcraft at the murder scene, and Knight Silversong captured Janus, a natural elf who worked as a gardener in the palace.
If Uriel had not been replaced by a phantom, Janus would probably have been burned to death for the crime of killing the emperor after being tried by the mysterious body of the three gods. His life and death were not considered by the big shots. According to the law, after Princess Helen gets married, the throne of the Aurenia Empire will belong to the eldest son MacAdam...
Everything in the dream is history that is not recorded on paper, but it does not prevent Uriel from discovering the secrets. In other words, it is precisely because this is Joey's memory that some subtle clues and traces become so clear. The apprentice no longer has any reason to deceive himself that this dream has nothing to do with his mentor. When Joey was a free man, Uriel came to Mortus; during the Holly Agreement, Joey became the Silver Song Knight and followed the army to establish peace with the forest races. The Agreement, Uriel entered Holly Canyon when the agreement was signed. When he was in the whirlpool of power, Uriel was at the palace wedding banquet, and then entered the envoy guard escorting the exiled saint.
This history of ancestors follows Joey's footsteps, and the world unfolds from his past. This is his dream.
"Anyway, Joey, we have no differences now." Uriel said, "If you want to avenge Orcus, I fully support it."
"No disagreement? In Mortus?"
"You are a Knight of Silver Song recognized by the Holy Church, and the gods chose to forgive. I am also a priest of Gaia. Doesn't this count as the same front? What's more, the enemy didn't consider it when he poisoned the well. No matter who is his target."
Joey suddenly turned his head, almost sending Uriel back to reality. "The temple does not represent the gods."
"It's impossible for mortals. But the three gods will show their attitude through the words and deeds of mortals." His voice became softer, and Joey's eyes were cold and piercing, forcing the apprentice to shut up. The more you talk the worse it gets. The mentor is different from Bogart. His knight's coat of arms comes from the exchange of interests between the nobles and the Mercury Temple. He is likely to serve the MacAdam and Sterling families. The honor of the Silver Song Knight has nothing to do with him. The empire and the gods have nothing to do with it. The law was trampled under his feet.
Uriel didn't know why he said that, maybe Joey's indifferent attitude made him feel that everything was normal. Guilt suddenly rose in him. However, until now, he didn't know if his mentor really didn't care.
Joey didn't answer. Uriel was vaguely aware that his words had hurt him, but he wasn't sure. Through words, the Scroll of Oath can help me guess other people's thoughts, but Joey hardly gives me a chance. After the guards searched all the rooms on the top floor, Bogart came with news.
"No one has sneaked in," the knight asserted. "I searched every possible entrance into the manor and found no trace. Unless it was a ghost."
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