Chapter 1265 - On the Eve of the Beast Tide (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren was now no stranger to Lavinia Turson Kant, the sister of Count Willie. During their journey across the wilderness, the freckled female knight went up and talked to Hao Ren. The way she behaved in front of the ancient guardian was like a great admirer of the people of the sanctum. It was her peculiar demeanor that left a deep impression on Hao Ren.

Count Willie had been proven to be an Armageddon follower lying low in the Kingdom of Order. There was fear that the entire Kant Family would not be able to get away from it. As his sister, Lavinia naturally would be a suspect.

After the incident in Kant Manor, Rudolph III’s court knights had arrested the guardian knight, Lavinia. But the kingdom had underestimated the scale of the action of the Armageddon believers and the importance of Lavinia in the cult. On the way to a secret prison outside the city, Lavinia was saved by a group of cultists. Not only that, she turned back and attacked the standard-bearers that she had been part of for many years, and ran away with an anciently sacred device.

Hao Ren was not surprised by the incident, which he had anticipated. When he found out the real identity of Count Willie, he had first suspected Lavinia who had tried to get close to him from the beginning. After the escape of Count Willie, he knew that Lavinia would somehow escape too. When Rudolph III finished, Hao Ren nodded and said, “I have been wondering if you have known from the very start that Count Willie and the Kant Family are members of the cult. It seems that you have long known that Count Willie and the Kant Family are members of the Cult of Armageddon?”

“The Armageddonists have infiltrated the Kingdoms of Orders, but we are not sitting ducks,” Rudolph III said faintly. “We had mastered the information of the cult members in the kingdom. But some of them had implanted deep into the foundation of the kingdom, getting rid of them requires careful planning and timing. More importantly, our operation had to remain discreet not to alert them. I had my eyes on the Kant Family since a few years ago, but it was only until today that things were ripe to take action to wipe them out completely. But unfortunately, I had not anticipated the situation of the tide of Chaos and the subversion of the Cult of Armageddon. So there have been some regrets.”

Ania looked at Hao Ren’s reaction curiously. “Your Venerable Guardian, it looks like you don’t worry about the loss of the anciently sacred object.”

“Let’s put it in another way: it was only proper that they took away the thing. It proves my suspicion.” Hao Ren said with a wry smile. “When they equivocated and asked about the two sacred items of the Cassouin Grand Temple, I knew that the things must be important to them. At that time, I still had no idea they were cultists, but I had guessed their motives for finding the artifacts.”

The old scholar Alfred became interested after hearing that. “The two sacred objects in the Cassouin Grand Temple? What are they?”

“The Radiant Disc and the Sky Heart.” Hao Ren started to describe the situation at that time. Then as he finished, he said, “That’s all about it. They seemed to want these two things badly, and even took the risk of blowing their cover to mention it before me.”

Veronica seemed to have finally understood. “The items that Lavinia snatched away are…”

“Oh, if they plan to hold a ritual with the ‘Radiant Disc,’ they will be disappointed.” Hao Ren shrugged.

Everyone in the room suddenly quieted down and looked at each other with a subtle smile.

Ania looked at Hao Ren, who was having an evil smile on his face. “Your Venerable Guardian, you… Ahh, I get it. But this doesn’t befit a person of your stature.”

“It’s called wisdom!” Hao Ren said.

While the atmosphere in White City was tense because of the cult incident and the discussion about the destiny of this world was going on in Rudolph III’s secret chamber, a large army had arrived at the border of civilization in the southern part of the kingdom.

A series of fluttering sound rose as movements in the forest scared a group of birds resting on the tree. The birds took off and flew into the overcast sky as feathers and leaves dropped from the air. Under the canopy in the thick bushes, a pair of small round eyes with orange glimmers rolled back and forth. The eyes were watching for movement outside the forest carefully. A lizard, covered in scales, walking in an upright position, came out from behind the bushes. The lizard was wearing simple armor made of animal skin and carapace, holding a sharp obsidian spear in its hand. The dark red pattern on its forehead showed that it came from a lizard tribe in the southern forest, and the obsidian spear in its hand suggested that the lizard was a warrior.

More lizards came out from the bushes. There were a total of 10 of them.

It was a scouting team. But experienced human commanders believe that lizardmen in the Black Forest were just a bunch of indisciplined, inferior creatures with low intelligence and civilization. This lizard tribe hid in the densest part of the woods. Usually, these lizards would not dare to come close to the patrolling human forces in the woods, let alone scout at the border of the human kingdoms.

So the appearance of the 10 lizards, a scout team, at the border of the kingdom was unusual.

“It is human… This city… The smell of smoke.”