A hint of orange lit up the sky, and one manor after another on the north bank of the Tussock River woke up in the morning mist.

The tall and fat Franmi Cage came to the guest bedroom where Chounas Kilger slept last night, raised his hand and knocked on the door, preparing to have breakfast with the deputy director of MI9.

But no one responded.

"Has the major general already gone to the restaurant?" Franmi Cage turned around with a little confusion and left the floor.

When breakfast was over, everyone realized that Chonas Kilger was missing. Led by Dwayne Dantes, they came to the guest bedroom and watched Richardson, the manor steward, open the door with the key.

There was no one inside.

"Does Major General Korg like to take a morning walk?" Senator Macht pinched his cheekbones and asked in confusion.

Franmi Cage shook his head without hesitation:

"No."

"Did you hear anything last night?" Backlund University of Technology's president Portland Momont looked around and asked.

Senator Macht reflected:

"No, it's very quiet here, perfect for a vacation."

Beside him, Hazel looked into the room with a little curiosity, but couldn't think of any possible situation.

At this time, Franmi Cage put forward his own guess:

"Major General Korg is an important figure in the military. He often has to deal with unexpected events. Perhaps he left the manor a long time ago and returned to Backlund."

The steam-powered car tycoon was clearly trying hard to make the situation seem less serious.

He seemed to know a little bit, at least he could guess that Qiunas Kilger had his own purpose in coming to Meige Manor... Klein listened to their conversation and said to the butler Walter and the manor steward Richardson with a serious expression:

“Ask the servants in the manor whether they saw Major General Korg last night or this morning.

"If not, send someone back to Backlund to visit Major General Korg's family and inform them of this matter. They will decide whether to call the police immediately."

After giving the order, Klein stroked his graying temples and said to Senator Macht and other guests:

"We can't figure this out for now. Maybe Major General Korg really just left for something urgent. We can't let this delay everyone's vacation. Let's continue with our hunting arrangements and return when the police arrive."

Because Major General Qonas Kilger's companion, Franmi Cage, put forward the reason of urgency, which was very convincing, Congressman Macht and others agreed with Dawn Dantes's opinion and left one after another.

Hazel walked at the end and looked at the guest bedroom where Major General Qonas Kilger lived and the room next to it. She felt that something was not quite right and subconsciously wanted to use the ability of "Cryptologist" to reconstruct the situation there.

However, a strong fear emerged from deep in her heart, and she didn't know what she was afraid of, so she finally gave up this plan.

She vaguely felt that she had some experience in similar things, and those experiences told her not to look at things that she shouldn't look at, and not to listen to sounds that she shouldn't listen to.

After all the guests and servants had left this floor, a thick carpet supporting a coffee table in the room next to the guest bedroom where Qiunas was staying suddenly moved.

It slowly pulled its body out from under the sofa and coffee table without making much noise.

Then, the yellowish-brown thing stood upright, revealing the other side.

It was solidified flesh and blood!

As the flesh and blood squirmed and reorganized, the carpet soon turned back into a person, a young man with mixed-race appearance.

This is Dwayne Dantes's personal valet, Enuni.

And now following Dwayne Dantes is Chounas Kilger. They have the same face and the same body shape!

For Klein, there was actually no need to have the "winner" Enuni disguise himself in this way. It would be a simpler and safer way to disguise himself as someone else, mingle among the servants, and use illusions to interfere with their senses so that they could not detect the presence of an extra person. However, "acting" was still important for a demigod. It was one of the keys to speeding up the digestion of the potion and fighting against the tendency to lose control and become crazy. Therefore, Klein would deliberately seek "trickery" in the details of many things.

Of course, he didn't want to hurt innocent people. Even if he created a weird and scary atmosphere, he tried his best not to let other people notice it, so as to prevent them from being overly frightened and suffering psychological trauma.

That strange and terrifying atmosphere was mainly used to make himself and the potion in his body identify with it, which would undoubtedly speed up his digestion process. However, the lack of audience feedback meant that the "performance" was not complete, and the speed at which the "weird wizard" digested the potion would definitely not be as fast as expected. Even after doing so many things and performing so many times, Klein did not think it was possible for him to reach Sequence 3 this year.

…………

In a two-bedroom rental house in the East District of Backlund.

Xio sat on the unstable chair, staring out the window in a daze, his expression unusually gloomy.

Fors took a sip of water, walked over to sit opposite Xio, and blocked her sight:

"You seem to have lost motivation?

"Is it because of that answer that you don't know what to do next? Is it because the king is out of your reach?"

Xio's eyes moved, and he slowly came back to life and said:

"Whether it's restoring my father's reputation or seeking revenge, when facing a king, the hope is so slim. I can't think of any way to accomplish such a thing..."

"That's because you are still too weak. When you reach Sequence 4 and become a demigod, you will find that there are many ways, but they are more dangerous!" Fors comforted her in an encouraging way. "Also, you can use others, just like Sherman's monitor. She also wants to know who Viscount Stratford is loyal to. She must be very interested in the king's secrets."

"Sherman..." Xio repeated the name, and his mental state suddenly recovered.

On the table next to them, there was a copper-green cross and a dark blue gem that looked like a vertical eye.

The surface of the gem was covered with silk-like lines, which were the extraordinary characteristics that emerged after Sherman's death. It made everything around it softer and more beautiful. However, due to the existence of the copper-green cross, its light could only be shrunk to a very small range.

"That monitor is one of the murderers of Sherman." Xio said seriously.

They have found a place to bury Sherman, and Fors has been flipping through "Lemanno's Travel Notes" to comfort his soul.

Fors nodded immediately:

“Yes, that’s what drove her to investigate the king’s secrets and touch upon potential risks.

"Didn't you say that she might be monitoring our previous residence? Then we can find an opportunity to disguise ourselves and return there. We can drop a piece of paper into the mailbox and write that Viscount Stratford is loyal to King George III and that George III is hiding a big secret. In this way, I believe that person should be able to see it."

Xio thought about it carefully, nodded solemnly and said:

"good."

After discussing what to do next, Fors stood up and pointed at the copper-green cross.

"We have received help from Mr. Fool many times. It's time to show our sincerity. I plan to sacrifice it to Mr. Fool now. Do you have any objection?"

"No," Xio answered without hesitation.

…………

It was another evening at Meige Manor. The news conveyed by the family of Qonas Kilger was to wait a little longer, as the deputy director of MI9 often did similar things involving national security secrets. Therefore, Senator Macht and others did not panic. Instead, they held a barbecue dinner on the lawn behind the manor, using the animals they had hunted, which was different from the usual ones.

Watching the gentlemen roll up their sleeves and work at the grill, watching the ladies come over to help from time to time, watching the children running around, eager to try, Klein sat on a white wooden chair with a glass of sweet white wine produced by Meige Manor, with an obvious smile on his face.

Beside him, Enuni, a mixed-race valet, stood straight, waiting for orders.

And in a room in the main house of the manor, a pair of eyes were quietly staring down. They belonged to a person who looked exactly like Enuni.

The evening breeze blew by, and Klein was about to get up and go to the grill to demonstrate what Dixie-style barbecue was, when he suddenly saw a figure quickly outlined in front of him.

It was Arianna in her simple robe and bark belt.

The secret servant looked at Dwayne Dantès and said:

"There is nothing special in that underground ruins..."

He then described the key points of what he and the three archbishops had seen there, as well as what Prince Sonia Grove Augustus had said.

This doesn't make sense... The first thing that came to Klein's mind was doubt.

Since Viscount Stratford had the help of the "White Saint" Catalina, it was obvious that the King's faction and the Witch's Cult had not severed their ties.

Under the premise that the Backlund Great Smog Incident had already occurred, they were still connected to the Witch Cult. This could not be explained by their selfish desire to monopolize the "Blood Emperor" relics.

With such in-depth cooperation, don’t the Witch Cult and the Psychological Alchemy Society ask for a share of the harvest?

In that case, why not go directly to the three major churches?

Klein intuitively felt that the problem with the ruins had not been truly discovered. He suspected that the news had leaked out in the middle of the process, allowing the king to be prepared.

"With Ms. Arianna here, the possibility that the other party discovered something wrong through divination and other methods can be ruled out...

"From the time I fired Qonas Kilger to the time the three major churches took joint action, there were no more than ten people who knew about this matter, and they were all high-ranking officials of their respective churches. How could they have leaked the secret...

"Something went wrong with Viscount Stratford, causing the people in the underground ruins to activate the emergency plan? No, his status is not at that level yet. Even Qunas Kilger doesn't know the specific situation, let alone him? He is only responsible for contacting the Witch Cult and handling some peripheral matters. He may not even know about the underground ruins... Klein's thoughts raced, looking for the reason.

He first ruled out the possibility that the other party was prepared because of the incident of Viscount Stratford. After all, the death of the captain of the palace guards was not that important and critical.

In this case, there are very few possibilities that can explain the whole thing. One is that someone who knew the secret in the middle leaked the information intentionally or unintentionally for some reason. The other is that someone discovered that Qonas Kilger was in a seemingly normal state, but Klein didn't notice anything at all.

They are also working with the Psychological Alchemy Society... Could it be that one of my thoughts was read out and the secret was leaked? But I have the blessing of the gray fog, so no matter what, there will be some abnormalities, just like when I faced the "audience" demigod with Anderson before... The Psychological Alchemy Society originated from the legacy of Hermes, and Hermes is... As he thought about it, Klein's pupils suddenly dilated slightly.

He instinctively stopped himself from thinking too deeply, but after looking at Arianna, he felt relieved and asked:

“Is this place private?”

"It's very private," Arianna responded calmly.

People came and went behind Him, and no one noticed Him.

Klein exhaled, and his thoughts finally took shape in his mind:

Emperor Roselle said in his diary that the members of that ancient secret organization were all big shots...

So, is it possible that some high-ranking officials of the three major churches are members of the "Twilight Hermit Order"?

And could it be that the ruins that Arianna and other archbishops saw were not real ruins, but relics imagined by Adam?

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