"Lord Ainz, I'm afraid I can't hand this building over to you yet."

Louis looked at the patterns left on the wall with an extremely solemn expression.

Viscount Ainz was stunned for a moment, then asked curiously, "Mr. Julius, could you please tell me what's going on?"

Louis shook his head and said, "My name is Louis Charles Julius."

Viscount Ainz didn't react for a moment to why Louis said his name, but the next moment, he shuddered, raised his head in surprise and said, "Your Highness?"

"Well, in the name of the prince, I need to temporarily take over Ms. Xilin's former residence."

Viscount Ainz hesitated for a moment, then managed to say:

"You won't harm Ms. Xilin's former residence?"

"I won't if it's not necessary," Louis said calmly.

Viscount Ainz hesitated for a moment, then nodded reluctantly.

"Then please leave for now and accept the army's control."

He clapped his hands.

There was a flicker of light in the shadows.

A dull sound of footsteps was heard, and two heavily armored Raven Guards appeared behind Viscount Ainz.

These are the legion members who rushed over to support after Louis released the secret signal just now.

The cold aura emanating from them made Viscount Ainz shudder subconsciously, but he still shouted loudly: "Wait a moment, you can take me down to guard me, but you must walk lightly and don't leave any traces in Lady Sirin's former residence!"

So brave!

This viscount who is crazy about art is really risking his life!

He actually dared to directly scold the Ravens! But he liked people like this.

So when the two crows looked at Louis, Louis also chuckled and said, "Ms. Xilin is worthy of respect. You should walk a little more lightly. This is not a place where we can release our power casually."

The crows nodded and said, "Follow your will!"

Then he led the team to retreat.

Louis waited for a while and found that there was a thin mist around his body.

Not long after, a secret guard appeared in front of Louis:

"Your Highness, I am late."

Louis glanced at him and said:

"You're a lot slower this time than before."

The secret guard who came this time was the elusive secret guard that Louis had dealt with before in the imperial capital.

To be honest, he is very useful.

However, his plans during this period did not require the help of the secret guards, so he hadn't been seen for a while.

Louis said to him, "Look up and see if you recognize this thing."

He gently wiped his hand towards the fireplace in the living room.

A line of twisted cipher text suddenly appeared on the gray fireplace.

The secret guard's exposed eyes suddenly shrank, and he said in a lost voice: "Ducas's secret code?"

Louis glanced at him and said:

"It seems that I am not mistaken. This is the Ducas code used within our Enser Empire."

Ducas was a royal family in the history of the Enther Empire.

He has a research talent in the field of ciphertext that is unimaginable for ordinary people.

In the Star Continent, since various magical effects have cognitive effects beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, ordinary text records, even those written by extremely rare races, can be directly deciphered.

A typical example is the magic "knowledge of languages".

If no method is found to encrypt the information content, the mere knowledge of the language can be enough to mess up the intelligence personnel's mentality.

The ciphertext developed by Ducas has an unimaginable degree of secrecy, which can counter the currently known reading magic on the market and protect core intelligence.

And because Ducas himself is a member of the Enther royal family, this set of ciphers has become the current intelligence cipher used within Enther since more than 500 years ago.

After Louis completed his engagement with Beatrice, he soon gained a lot of additional expansion rights.

He has also completed the basic Dukas ciphertext recognition course.

It is worth mentioning that even Louis and Beatrice do not currently know how to read the Ducas cipher.

This method can only be read by the Emperor and special individuals among the Secret Guards.

The old acquaintance secret guard who came this time was one of the ones who mastered the reading method.

"I need to contact Her Royal Highness the Princess."

The secret guard said, "I have contacted the eldest princess. I will decipher the ciphertext for you two next."

When he said this, a glimmer of realization flashed in Louis' eyes.

Previously, the secret guard's ability to transmit information was so strong that he could not understand it.

It was as if he had just learned the information in the previous second, and in the next second he could pass the information to another place more than ten kilometers away.

Previously, Louis was still thinking about what kind of operating model this was, but now he finds that he may have been wrong.

This secret guard... doesn't look like a human.

"The highest level humanoid golem?"

"Yes, I am a member of the Rose Doll Mass Production Machine. You can call me No. 14."

Louis finally understood why this secret guard had mastered such a mysterious skill.

The rose doll technology comes from a golem-making master who is as great as a god in human history.

The crystallization of the life-long technology of the golem-making master is the special humanoid golem called Rose Doll.

The biggest feature of this type of humanoid golem is that it is no longer an object or prop, but a special golem with real life.

As far as Louis knows, the Rose Doll even has the gift of natural growth, and can continue to grow over time.

Obviously, the Enser Empire did not know when it obtained this technology, and successfully accumulated technology and completed the technology improvement plan.

The term "mass-produced machine" is not a term that should normally appear in the context of such high-end technology.

Although the Rose Doll does look like a living person, it is still a man-made creation in the final analysis.

Since it is a man-made thing, it must have some non-human characteristics.

If I'm not mistaken, this mass-produced rose doll... probably shares the same brain like all the stone men in the world.

This is the only way to explain why, even though we didn't see them move significantly, we were able to complete the information transmission in the shortest time possible.

——Because other people have the same mass-produced machines.

Soon, he received a piece of news from the secret guard that shocked him.

"Is this the secret code left by the Cangqing Mechanical Group?"

The Cangqing Mechanical Corps is different from large legions like the White Crow Legion.

This is an independent combat team within the Enther Empire.

The purpose of these teams' existence is to master the power of other extraordinary professions and enrich the means for the Enther Empire to secretly deal with different forces.

If it were Marvel, this independent team would be equivalent to Iron Man's "anti-XX armor".

The purpose is to be able to decipher the opponent's tactics at the critical moment.

The Cangqing Mechanical Corps was founded more than three hundred years ago and is a member of Enther's special team for high-level goblins.

Although it is a magical version.

But now the Cangqing Mechanical Group has been cancelled.

101 years ago, it was confirmed within Enther that all members of the Cangqing Mechanical Corps had been killed.

Although new replacement teams appeared later, they were no longer the Cangqing Mechanical Team that was cancelled that year.

The secret guard said in front of Louis that this code text was left by the Cangqing Mechanical Group, which means that it must be referring specifically to the team that disappeared that year.

The former leader of the Cangqing Mechanical Corps, he possesses a special ability that allows him to change the effects of alchemical potions by infusing blood into them, turning them into "resurrection potions."

The effect of the potion is that it can bring the user back to life in a short period of time, allow them to continue to move for a period of time, and even allow inorganic life forms to be alive for a short period of time.

The Cangqing Mechanical Group, which possesses this technology, has an incomparably terrifying advantage in reading goblin intelligence.

However, the last leader, Andas, underwent a mutation while mastering this ability.

Andas's technique permanently destroyed his ability to resurrect from the dead, but it granted him another gift.

The machines filled with his blood will have the ability to be activated.

During a mission, Andas lost an arm, so he made a robotic arm by himself and used his mutant powers to activate it, turning it into a biological prosthesis.

Later, with the help of Enser Research Institute, Andas created special individuals similar to bionic people and AI robots.

This turned the last generation of the Cangqing Mechanical Group into a "one-man team" based on Andas' special powers.

Louis got to know this person by chance, because of an accident.

He had only learned about this person when he was chatting with Gandalf in the White Tower.

The tower spirit [Enser 4000A] used by the White Tower today is the legacy of Andas from more than a hundred years ago.

For more than a hundred years, the White Pagoda has been using the same tower spirit as that of that year without any additional modifications.

In other words, Andas's work at that time was at least a hundred years ahead of the current mainstream tower spirit technology in the world.

If it's in other fields, forget it.

After all, for a profession like the warrior whose updates and iterations are extremely slow, it is not so easy to innovate related technologies.

But tower spiritualism is exclusive to the magician profession.

The magic academic community is the academic community in this world that is closest to the scientific research community in the previous life.

Their technological advancement is so fast that in some areas it even far exceeds that of previous scientific research circles.

Louis has suppressed the top geniuses in certain fields of scientific research for more than a hundred years. This is Andas, the last leader of the Cangqing Mechanical Corps.

However, 101 years ago, the Cangqing Mechanical Group suddenly disappeared.

Not long after, Enther confirmed that all members of the Cangqing Mechanical Regiment had been killed.

But no one knows where the Cangqing Mechanical Regiment died.

They were carrying out multiple secret missions at the time.

According to the information revealed in the secret code, the place where the Cangqing Mechanical Group last carried out its mission was at Ms. Xilin's former residence.

"The power of the Four Gods resides in the portrait of the genius. We have failed. The power of the evil god is stronger than we imagined."

"Love has polluted space and time, and Kevlar has completely degenerated and become a container for the pus of the abyss."

"I am powerless and can only choose to launch the final ritual to destroy everyone and the pollution of the portrait of "Love of My Life"."

"If any brotherhood comes here, please pass the news to the Supreme Emperor."

"Although we were unable to completely cure the world-destroying natural disaster, we took the first step and completed the first half of the journey."

"The Cangqing Mechanical Group is worthy of the blood of our ancestors."

"What is a beloved?"

Louis was thinking about this question.

The secret guard at the side said: "According to the database records, this should refer to Ms. Xilin's posthumous work "Love of My Life"."

"Rumor has it that Ms. Xilin painted a picture for her husband."

"That painting is said to be her second-to-last painting."

"But no one knows about this painting. Only Lady Silin's maid mentioned the existence of this painting."

Louis was stunned.

How could a painting be related to the Four Gods of the Abyss and the Cangqing Mechanical Group?

As for the "Love" and "Kevlar" mentioned in the cipher text, they are the magical version of the AI ​​robots and bionic people that Louis knew before.

God has mercy on them. These two members are lives that extend from the source of Andas’ power.

Logically speaking, this "life contract" between the Creator and the creation should not be distorted at all.

But these two beings did rebel.

The secret guard said calmly:

"The problem is not [Love] and [Kevlar], but Andath itself."

"He must have been contaminated by the power of the Four Gods of the Abyss. Although he was able to suppress the contamination, his essence has changed."

"This fundamental change is what drives other members crazy."

"Because Andas himself has gone mad."

Louis looked at the secret guard and asked curiously, "What is the reason for your judgment?"

The secret guard said calmly:

"Andas received full support from the Enther Research Institute and eventually gained two members, Love and Kefla."

"[Love] refers to the love of Andas' life, his wife whom he could never get back."

"[Kevlar] refers to his son who died young, a pain that he could never face in his lifetime."

"In order to allow the living spirit of the organism [Love] to possess the qualities of a living human soul, the Enser Research Institute and Andas jointly developed the 'Life Code'."

"In order to enable the bionic man [Kevlar] to grow like a real person, they further modified the ancient technology."

"In the second year after Andath's death, Kevlar's technology was fully formed, and it was called "Mass Production of Rose Doll Body Manufacturing Technology."

"Five years after Andas's death, the technology of [Love] was completely formed. It was called the "Artificial Soul 'Life Code' Technology."

"At this point, the technology for mass-producing Rose Dolls has been completely completed."

The secret guard raised his head and looked at Louis: "My brothers and sisters and I are the continuation of the technology left by Lord Andas."

"And I can sense that Kevlar's body has not been sealed in this house yet."

Louis was stunned for a moment and said in surprise:

"[Kevlar] is still sealed here?"

The secret guard nodded and said, "Yes, as a similar machine, I can barely feel the traces of Kevlar."

"If you need, I can help you find Kevlar's existence."

"He should have been sealed in the demiplane by Lord Andas."

Louis nodded and said:

"Let's think about how to deal with this after Beatrice comes over."

After all, this matter is related to the Four Gods, and anything related to the Four Gods must be prepared in advance.

(End of this chapter)