401 The Causes (2/2)

Sophia stuck to her own pace. On the one hand, she kept casting her spells, and on the other hand, she kept distracting Beyer.

”My brother, are you still trying to figure out where our father got his power from? Are you still wondering why he managed to reach the legendary level? Think about it. Why could you find the hidden document? Do you think our father would have written down his biggest secret?”

Beyer's heart sank, ”Was it you?”

”Ha, I did quite a good job in imitating our father's handwriting, right? If you had never seen those documents, you would have never come down here, and you would have never left me such a great chance to kill you.” The smile on Sophia's face was still pure.

”So the secret does not exist?” Beyer murmured. His hope had been destroyed. Deniz's and Arthen's swords almost cut him. Claire was also almost defeated by the several nobles who had awakened their blood powers.

”No, it does exist, but it belongs only to us. Me and my knights! I am very lucky. Relph found this biggest secret from the family legend, thus we were able to put you into this trap. Including Arthen, they are my knights. They are willing to do everything for me, even at the cost of their lives! Our performance wasn't bad, right?” Sophia's smile was very charming by nature, and her petal-like lips could easily seize a man's heart, ”Also, many thanks to Beaulac, this little fool. You thought I was trying to control and help Beaulac, but you had no idea what my true purpose was.”

Then she turned around, and within her expectation, she saw the expressionless face of Beaulac. She slightly pouted and said to Lucien like a little girl, ”I do like you very much. Without you, my brother would never have fallen into our trap.”

”You…” Lucien responded as if he was totally speechless. In his mind, he had almost figured out the location of the secret chamber.

Sophia giggled, ”Stop playing. I know you're not simple-minded and you never fell in love with me.”

”How do you know?” Lucien asked sincerely. He always regarded himself as a good actor, and he had no idea which part of his performance failed.

After further confining Beyer with the wind ropes, Sophia answered, ”Your enthusiasm was just on the surface. I saw no heart-felt passion. You know, women are always very sensitive in this aspect. I was also playing my role. No matter what plan you have, it is not important anymore.”

Now Lucien was really speechless.

Turning back to her brother again, Sophia kept pissing Beyer off, ”You are even crueler than what I expected. You had almost killed Arthen before we carried out our plan. You almost ruined the plan.”

Although she was saying so, she was not worrying and her voice had no fear at all, as if everything was under her control.

”It was you who found the secret?” Lucien said to Relph who was standing beside him.

Relph had cast the spell, Slow, on Beaulac and made him unable to move freely. Now he laughed hard, feeling rather proud of himself, ”Right! It was me! You were quite surprised that all of a sudden I had awakened the blood power, Sun, weren't you?”

”Was it fake?” Lucien would never tell Relph that he had seen it through already.

The triumphant smile on Relph's face was even bigger, ”It was not a blood power. I'm a sorcerer, an honorable sorcerer! The Gorse family is the descendant of the Sun King, Thanos, the greatest sorcerer ever! But now they are begging for awakening their blood powers, which came from the experiments that the sorcerers did on their slaves. That's completely wrong! So I have been secretly studying magic, and by chance, I found a secret scroll left by the Sun King. Thus, I discovered the big secret of this underground palace, the secret that made Sun King so powerful!”

Lucien did not respond, so Relph kept showing off.

”In the secret chamber hung with many paintings, there is another chamber. It requires the blood of a real Thanos' descendant and half of his life force. When everything is ready, we will use your blood to open the gate and acquire the unimaginable power. At that time, I will become as powerful as the Sun King, and then I can marry…”

Relph's voice lowered. He took a glance at Sophia with the corner of his eyes.

Lucien guessed that Relph was talking about a different chamber, not the one Rhine told him. He wondered how many secrets were still hiding here.

Seeing that Beaulac did not reply, Relph was quite disappointed, ”You don't want to say anything, Beaulac?”

”…Well, thanks for telling me,” said Lucien sincerely.

...

Hearing Sophia's words, Beyer burst out laughing all of a sudden, ”My dear sister, thank you. I'm so glad to hear that the secret does exist!”

Beyer's six pairs of wings saved him again from Deniz's and Arthen's swords and Sophia's magic, but one of the wings almost broke.

At this time, Lucien sensed the ancient and horrible power under the wings. Then, he saw Beyer holding a small scale in his right hand. The left side of the scale was white and the right side black.

”Justice Scale?” The look on Sophia's face suddenly changed.

It was a well-known divine item from Holy Heilz Empire. It was said that the scale was left by God and its power could be compared to that of a legendary leader.

Obviously, the scale Beyer was holding was just a projection of the real item, like the duplicate of the Sword of Truth that Lucien saw before. However, the projection was still a level-five extraordinary item, and a projected item like that always had some special power that anyone under legendary level was unable to be immune to.

Even if the power could only be used once, the scale was already powerful enough to turn the things around!