In the eyes of the world, the current king of Tariq, Herinen, has two jewels. One is the eldest prince Evan who is almost carved in the same mold as Herrinin. He is knowledgeable, calm and decisive, and has been Herrinin's best helper over the years. And the second jewel is Tiya, the third princess.
If the eldest prince Evan's political resume has traces of Herinin, then Tia's political resume is astonishingly clean. From a soldier to the vanguard of an elite force, and then from the elite force to join the Storm Legion, it took another year to be promoted to become the leader of the Storm Legion, shocking the world.
Only twenty-six years old, brilliant, the commander of the army.
These three words made Tia a well-known presence in all upper class society, and also made her brilliance more dazzling, surpassing her brother Evan's limelight. Therefore, whenever someone mentions Tarik's emperor, most people can name Tiya, some people will mention Evan's achievements, and Lorca is ignored.
Unlearned and incompetent, idle and without dignity. Among Tarik, who advocates martial arts and enterprising spirit, Loka, who is free and easy-going by nature, looks like a second-generation dissolute official in the eyes of outsiders. Although Lorca also obtained the demigod-level "Traveler" professional level, a profession that could only run away, hide and record, and had almost no combat ability was not looked down upon by the Tarik people.
However, only Herinen knew that his second son was the most genius among the three children.
One year and three months.
Helinen still remembers this time. He still remembers that a young boy forged a false identity. In one year and three months, he taught himself all the skills related to intelligence personnel such as cryptography, magic, law, investigation, and so on. The Traveler class abilities are seamlessly integrated into these skills, and then...
Admitted to the Birdcage, the empire's highest intelligence agency.
Yes, a person who forged an identity, spent one year and three months learning all the skills, and used a false identity to join the empire's highest intelligence agency. The most shocking thing is that during his three-year term, Lorca, disguised as a black crow, perfectly took into account his true identity. If Lorca had not told his father personally, I am afraid that Herinen would never have known about it. The "Black Crow" who shined brilliantly in the birdcage and made many achievements turned out to be his second son Lorca.
After learning about this, Birdcage ushered in a major change. Only then did Herinen know that the reason why Roka entered the birdcage was to remove the cancer in the birdcage without disturbing anyone, paving the way for Herinen to contain Jinggui. After solving some cancers in the birdcage that had been introduced by the outside world, Lorca secretly cleaned the city of Mosk as the Black Crow, directly laying the foundation for Herinen's "Operation Crystal Removal".
After solving most of the problems in the country, Lorca resigned from his position and chose to become his traveler. Helinen knew that his second son was just a teenager at that time, and he also had a once-and-for-all purpose in it. He wanted to show what he was capable of and contribute to Herinen and Tarik, and then return to nature without caring about the world.
Herinen agreed with Lorca's choice. He did not force the genius to stay, nor did he use his father's identity to kidnap Lorca. He only allowed Lorca to leave the whirlpool of power after solving the problem. At the same time, Herinen also erased everything Lorca had done so that he would no longer be bothered by these things.
But now, Lorca is back.
"You don't have to come back."
Looking at Lorca who was standing with a smile on his face, Herinen sighed and smiled helplessly: "Do you know how much effort I put into erasing the Black Crow's files from the database? If you wear this badge now, you won't be able to take it off in the future. Go down."
“The view of the Arnos Mountains is beautiful.”
Without answering Herrinen's question directly, Luo Ka just crossed his arms and said with emotion: "The first mountain in Magnum, a gift from the Snow God. Father, if you get there, you will see the real continuous snow." Endless beauty.”
"These are your favorites."
Although the days spent with them were few and far between, Herinen knew his children very well. He looked at Luo Ka with a little doubt in his eyes, "Why do you want to come back?"
"Because this is my hometown."
Putting the traveler's badge on the table, the dark gold carved birdcage badge on his chest glowed with a warm luster under the light. Lorca stared at his father and smiled: "The destination of a traveler is always his hometown."
"What I said to you six years ago, I still give it to you now."
After exhaling, Herinen had a relaxed smile on his face that had never appeared in recent days. He stretched out his hand and said solemnly to Roca: "Deputy Director of the Bird Cage Intelligence Agency, Black Crow, welcome to the team."
The weather-beaten hands were covered with dry and cracked hands blown by the wind of nature. At this time, Lorca was no longer as carefree as before, and his calmness shocked Evan.
"Long live the people."
"etc!"
After the simple joining ceremony ended, Evan finally realized what had happened. He looked at his brother in shock, his voice losing its usual composure, "Lorca, it's you, Black Crow!"
The name of Black Crow is known to anyone who has come into contact with Tariq's power. Whether it was the great changes he brought to the intelligence community when he was born, or the cleaning of the birdcage and countless plans to hunt down Jingwei, everyone who knew him was impressed by him. But Evan never expected that the Black Crow who mysteriously disappeared during a mission and disappeared from all information since then turned out to be his younger brother.
And he, who had lived beside him for so many years, knew nothing about it.
"I'm sorry, brother, for keeping this secret from you for so long."
Lorca smiled apologetically at Evan. Evan broke away from the initial shock and asked quickly: "Then why were you chased by several crystal spies at the airport in such a panic?"
"Have no idea."
Speaking of this, Luo Ka's face showed a little helplessness, "You don't know how long I have been a traveler. Back then, I relied on various technologies from the empire to cooperate with the traveler's ability to fight. Without those technological creations, my combat effectiveness is not very strong. And you also saw the strength of those Jinggui at that time. I definitely couldn't defeat them without equipment."
"Okay, let's talk about these things later."
Herinen interrupted the conversation between the two brothers and said to Lorca: "Since you choose to come back, it means you are ready. Tell me, what do you think?"
"Father, I don't know what you and Zhou Li were talking about at that time. But I know that you did something wrong."
After learning of Yin Jue's death, Luo Ka, who was traveling, relied on his keen senses as the former deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau to realize that the matter must be related to Zhou Li. After taking the airship back to Tariq, he first came to Tiya's home and asked his sister a lot about Zhou Li, and then gathered a lot of information from sideways, and then came to the palace.
Looking at his somewhat surprised father and Evan who wanted to say something, Luoka remained as calm as ever and continued: "I have learned about the situation from my little sister. You and your brother visited the brave man. You got the news of Yin Jue’s death from his residence, and then you chose not to listen to Zhou Li’s explanation and left his residence, right?”
"That's right."
Herinen nodded and frowned: "Zhou Li had already almost clarified the meaning behind this matter. If I had listened..."
"You will fight to the death with the gods, right?"
Luo Ka sighed and said helplessly: "Father, you are wrong."
"You think that the brave man will rely on his identity to start a full-scale war with the Commercial Church, and he will tell you that Yin Jue was killed because God instructed him to do a lot of shady things in the underground black market, and coerced you to fight alongside him."
"Not bad at all."
Herinen nodded, without any anger at being contradicted, but said calmly, "The brave man at that time had already told the truth, but as far as the gods are concerned, once the truth enters my ears, even if I choose Forgetting is also a mistake. So, I chose to leave. Moreover, the brave man at that time had been dazzled by the news of Yin Jue's death, and all he wanted at that time was to start a war."
"You are wrong."
Shaking his head, Luo Ka said in a deep voice: "Father, you still don't know enough about this brave man."
"If that person at that time was indeed the brave man himself, he would never have been in any panic or haste when he heard the news of Yin Jue's death."
"The goddess of life, the god of death, the god of literature, the god of lies."
After naming the four gods who had a close relationship with Zhou Li, Luo Ka stared at Herinen and said in a loud voice, "The gods are not worth mentioning in front of Zhou Li. Do you think that a mere twelve-quarter pope? Is it worth Zhou Li overturning the chessboard?"
Helinen was silent. He looked at his second son quietly and remained silent for a long time. Evan on the side frowned and hesitated to speak.
After a long time, Herinen closed his eyes and laughed to himself.
"As I get older, my brain doesn't work as well."
After laughing at himself, Herinen opened his eyes, and the original hesitation and hesitation were gone. What was left was only the majesty and fierceness that represented the Tariq royal family. He placed a badge engraved with feather patterns in front of Luo Ka and said solemnly: "Start now to fully engage with the brave."
"Right now, we won't need the underground black market."
Evan on the side was shocked that his father had made this decision, and was also surprised that his father would value Zhou Li so much. He looked at his younger brother and said worriedly: "If we do this, won't we alienate the top ten chambers of commerce?"
"Father, I have told you before that my brother has always been weak in spirit and weak in ability. You should not keep him tied to you."
With a bit of blame but a relaxed tone between family members, Luo Ka smiled and said to the stunned Evan: "Brother, have you forgotten?"
"Tariq, he was never the Tariq of the Chamber of Commerce."
Wearing the feather badge next to the birdcage badge, a look of solemnity flashed in Lorca's eyes. At this time, he was no longer the carefree traveler who didn't care about anything. Now he is the black monster, the black crow, who once made the entire Tarik upper class tremble with fear.
"What we want is the people."
"These people have really forgotten a lot of things these days."
When Khrinin spoke, he now had no air of twilight at all, as if the proud young man who single-handedly suppressed the Moscow merchant riots and was sitting in the palace again, his voice was full of undoubted majesty.
"Like... rules."
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"Lorca is back?"
In the living room, Zhou Li was holding a tea cup and looking at Tiya with a puzzled face in front of him with some surprise.
"Um."
Tiya nodded and said doubtfully: "Lorca was very strange at the time. He clearly said he would come back in half a month, but this morning he suddenly appeared at my door. After drinking a lot of drinks, he asked me a lot about you and Yinjue. question. After I told him about the previous dispute between my father and I, he was silent for a moment, then cursed for a long time, and finally left in a hurry."
"I feel like he is very dissatisfied with his father, but he didn't choose to stay and help me. I'm very curious."
After listening to what Tiya said, Zhou Li thought for a long time, suddenly realized it, and laughed dumbly.
It seems that the black crow came out of the cage early.
In his previous life, Lorca had hidden his identity until just before the Demon King's army invaded, Lorca went alone into a border town that had been completely transformed by the Demon King to investigate all the information and exposed his former role as an urban soldier. King status. But in this life, for his own reasons, this black crow with its own sharp claws chose to come out of the cage early to share his father's worries.
Thinking of this, Zhou Li felt relieved. Because he knew that compared to Herinen, who had been polished by time and was beginning to be too conservative, Lorca was definitely a different kind of smart. His perception of opportunities is very keen, and his intelligence compilation and analysis skills are also first-rate. If it were him, Lorca would be aware of his intentions.
In fact, on that day, Zhou Li had no intention of telling Tarik about the Commercial Church's attempt to create crystals in humans. He is not stupid. He certainly knows that once this matter is exposed, an unprecedented dispute between the Commercial Church and Tariq will inevitably break out, and this dispute will even spread to the whole world. He just wants to take down the underground black market and find out the purpose of the God of Commerce, rather than completely confront the God of Commerce, so there is no reason to provoke a war.
But at that time, Zhou Li still chose to test, because he knew that Herinen was now old, and the disappearance of his anger made him start to learn to compromise, and hesitation, something that he once hated, also appeared in him. Therefore, he couldn't afford to gamble, and he didn't want Herinen, who still wanted to deal with it, to know his plan.
But now, Lorca is back. According to Tiya's description, Zhou Li knew that Luo Ka had understood what Zhou Li meant at that time. Zhou Li also knew that Herinen was not completely old. There was still a sleeping flame waiting to burn in his heart.
And Lorca was the shadow that ignited the fire in his heart.
"Looks like we don't need to wait any longer."
Zhou Li put down the tea cup in his hand and looked at the spar lamps reflected in the white water. The corners of Zhou Li's mouth curled up, and a dangerous smile appeared on his face.
Tomorrow will be a grand show.
