Chapter 515 Pre-arranged Script
At the same time, Avis also figured out the whole process of the appearance of the Sword of the Chosen King.
In fact, hundreds of years ago, Marquis Draka accidentally discovered the traces left by the powerful spellcaster who stole the Sword of the Chosen King from the royal family during an exploration.
Based on these clues, Marquis Draka personally went deep into the ruins, broke through one defensive magic after another that was extremely strong even for a ninth-level cultivator, and finally found the Sword of the Chosen King located in the core of the giant instrument.
So, the ecstatic Marquis Draka immediately took the Sword of the Kingchoose and used various methods to try to crack its secret.
But to his disappointment, he had spent nearly a hundred years and invested countless manpower and material resources, but the Sword of the King was still in a self-sealed petrified state.
If it weren't for the identification of the prophecy spell, if it weren't for the fact that it could not be destroyed by any means below the ninth level, Marquis Draka would probably really doubt that this thing was just an ordinary stone sword.
When he realized that he might really have no way to deal with it, Marquis Draka's mentality gradually began to change.
He knew that for thousands of years, the royal family had never given up looking for it.
If he chose to hand it over, the royal family would definitely give him a generous reward.
But after careful consideration, Marquis Draka felt somewhat unwilling.
As a famous epic artifact, the royal family would never give out a reward of equal value to the Sword of the King. At most, they would only let him choose another ninth-tier artifact as compensation.
Exchanging an unusable epic item for a ninth-tier rare item doesn't sound like a bad deal.
But Marquis Draka didn't think so. In his opinion, this miracle should be able to play a greater role.
For example, let his title, which has remained unchanged for nearly a thousand years, be raised again.
Therefore, after a series of previous plans unexpectedly failed, he now secretly united with the prophets who were eager for a breakthrough, intending to use the Sword of the Kingchoose as bait to re-provoke chaos in the empire.
In the whole plan, the ruins that originally stored the Sword of the Chosen King became a natural trap.
Because it was really left behind by the powerful man back then, even if Avis had performed divination on the ruins in advance, he was unable to detect any problems with the ruins.
As for the stone sword in the ruins, it is just a replica with the aura of the Sword of the Chosen King.
Under the careful arrangement of Marquis Draka, the entire arcane instrument has been connected to the self-destruction array of the ruins.
No matter what method the newcomers use to try to break the core barrier, the final defense command will be triggered, causing the entire ruins to be instantly annihilated by huge magical turbulence.
In the Marquis' plan, this step should cause the target to suffer severe damage instantly, but not death, so that it would be easier for the plan to proceed.
Therefore, the descendants of the four major families who are the targets cannot be too strong or too weak.
If it is too high, uncontrolled accidents may occur easily. If it is too low, the target may be killed instantly, and even the amulet will not be able to rescue him in time.
Except for the special accident of Avis, the other three were guided in advance.
Yasira Aslade and Etno Alfred, who are at the peak of the seventh level, and Skarsa Enoch, who recently broke through to the eighth level.
The target of the Olivendi family was originally supposed to be Evan, who had just recently broken through to the seventh level.
The reason why Avis was able to learn about this unexpectedly was, first of all, his identity as a high-level prophet, and his identity as a foreigner of the last generation of dragon, which naturally made him very immune to prophecy spells.
Secondly, it was due to the special abilities of the last dragonborn. No one could have imagined that a fourth-level stranger could track a sixth-level spellcaster.
Since it involves players, Marquis Draka has nothing to say. He is also well aware of the fact that prophecy magic sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work for foreigners.
But his main target this time was not the Olivendi family, so Marquis Draca did not care too much about this "harmless" accident, as long as the people of the Olivendi family were also involved in this incident.
After learning this information, Avis also had a doubt in his mind.
The theft of the Sword of the Chosen King occurred in the Golden Month of the 967th year of the Glorious Calendar. This year is the 2462nd year of the Glorious Calendar, and less than two thousand years have passed in total.
For ninth-order warriors whose initial lifespan is over five thousand years, this is only a small half of their life, not to mention the various secret methods to prolong their lifespan.
But now, Marquis Draka actually found the "remains" left by the other party? Either the ninth-level extreme encountered some kind of accident, or there is some key information that Shadow does not know.
In fact, it is normal to think about it. No matter how loyal Shadow is, he is still just a subordinate responsible for carrying out tasks, and he is not suitable to know everything.
"So... using Shadow's identity, what can I do in this?"
After learning the true identity of the enemy behind the scenes, Avis immediately had some ideas in his mind.
Marquis Draka must have his reasons for choosing this time to take action. His biggest advantage now is that he has "turned" an important figure of the enemy, and the enemy doesn't know about it yet.
Therefore, this hidden chess piece must not be exposed in advance, otherwise it would be a waste.
Considering this, Avis decided to hold off for the time being and arrange for his clone to perform a scene for the other party according to the content of the other party's hypnosis.
So, in the next few days, the situation unfolded perfectly according to the script carefully arranged by the Marquis.
A moment after Yasira's death, the Aslaide family finally realized something was wrong. After confirming that Yasira's life crystal ball had been shattered, the ninth-level dragon knight Sid Aslaide personally penetrated the space and descended to the place where Yasira died.
But at this moment, the battlefield environment has been completely changed beyond recognition. All traces have been destroyed by the fire-type super-level magic [Earth Fire Burning the City], and it is covered with criss-crossing black gullies and lava flows.
Sid, who noticed a huge doubt, immediately invited the family prophet to predict Yasira's death.
The result surprised them. The Sword of the Chosen King reappeared, and Skarsa Enoch killed people and stole the treasure, then destroyed the bodies.
After seeing all this, the furious Sid went directly to the Enoch family's territory, and on the grounds that the other party had violated the agreement between the four families, he forcefully demanded that they hand over the Sword of the Kingchooser and the murderer Skarsa Enoch.
Facing the aggressive Sid, the ninth-rank [Silver Moon Traveler] Talina Enoch, who was currently in the clan territory of the Enoch family, came forward to confront Sid, and claimed that he was deceived and that the Enoch family got a fake.
The Enoch family was also confused about the whole story.
Previously, after the severely injured Skarsa returned to the Enoch family with the stone sword, he could not hold on and fell into a special state of mental sleep. He is currently recovering slowly.
Before the family leaders could figure out the exact cause of his injury, Sid came up to them directly.
And the stone sword, in the hands of the ninth-level of the Enoch family, has been verified to be a complete imitation with only the appearance and partial aura.
Perhaps by using it as a medium, it might be possible to use secret methods to find the whereabouts of the real Sword of the Chosen King, but there was no need to tell such a thing to Aslaide who knew nothing about advanced magic.
(End of this chapter)
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