The Rise of the Cemetery

Theocratic power is too strong, and the only consequence is the unprecedented shrinking of royal power.

Some promising and talented rising stars of nobles in the kingdom flocked to the Church of Morning Light frantically. The most direct consequence of this is that the entire royal power can't find any decent talents at all, and even if they want to compete with theocracy, they can't find a banner bearer.

As a result, the authority of the royal family fell to the bottom, and there was no improvement.

Wen Lier and Gaddis are both descendants of aristocrats who are close to the royal family, and they are both geniuses who have been depressed in recent years, so they have a lot of sympathy emotionally. However, one of them was in Fort Ansja, and the other was in Kushui County, which happened to be at the northern and southern ends of the Xilarg Kingdom, so they had few chances to meet each other. Unexpectedly, they met in Kern City this time because of the disaster of underground creatures.

But before Wen Lier could say a few words to the other party, a well-dressed military adjutant came out of the city hall and announced that Marquis Annas would receive everyone in the conference hall on the first floor.

Just as the leaders of the militia who came to help entered the city hall one after another, Wen Lier looked back around with some doubts. For some reason, amidst the jumping lights of many torches, she always felt a cold and strange gaze watching her, but she couldn't detect where the gaze came from!

Is it because I am suspicious? Or did something unclean actually run into Kern City?

Wen Lier shook her head in distress, turned and walked into the city hall.

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When the tall figure of the countess disappeared at the entrance of the hall, two green lights suddenly lit up in the shadow of the roof of a tall building opposite the municipal square.

Immediately, a small crow jumped out of the shadows.

This is a sharp-billed crow that is very common in Klein Continent. It can be seen in almost any wilderness and wilderness. It mainly feeds on plant roots and rotting animal carcasses. Because of the bad reputation of carrion, and the places where they haunt must be accompanied by death, this kind of sharp-billed crow is also called the mourning bird, which is deeply disgusted by humans. Therefore, they are rarely seen in densely populated towns.

But the sharp-billed crow in front of him was obviously different.

Not only is the black feathers all over his body too shiny, but even the pair of small mung bean eyes on his head are very lively and strange. Even in many cases, there will be human-like expression changes on its face covered by the night.

Seeing that the municipal square had returned to calm again, the sharp-billed crow spread its wings and flew into the night sky.

Since underground monsters have been found in several villages and towns to the north, as the city closest to the "disaster area", Kern City has imposed a curfew and martial law 3 days ago. So jumping up in the silent and deep night sky and looking down, the entire Kern City is full of lit bonfires and jumping torches, and there are patrols walking around with spears everywhere.

The sharp-billed crow spread its wings and flew over the towering buildings, then retracted its wings and plunged down from the air. This nimble and intelligent bird quickly weaves between the steeple and the roof, flying close to the roof. Passing over garden houses and low houses, it finally flew into a single-family villa in the west of the city.

A familiar figure was found behind a window, and the sharp-billed crow flapped its wings and nimbly drilled into the wooden window and landed on the shoulder of the hostess.

The arrival of the sharp-billed crow did not alarm anyone in the house.

The lazy hostess reclined in the spacious wooden chair, and in the crystal clear crystal cup in her hand, the bright red blood-like wine was slightly rippling and coiling, exuding the intoxicating smell of blood.

On the opposite side of her, several men in gorgeous aristocratic costumes were reporting something respectfully.

"... Judging from the information collected so far, the number of mind flayers that have rushed out of the surface has reached 200. If illithids are added, the number will be as high as thousands. This is almost the number of mind flayer cities in the Underdark. You have used the greatest strength. It can be seen that the strength and determination of the mind flayers who invaded the surface this time are very strong, and it is impossible to retreat to the ground after a slight setback like in the past!..."

"The Mind Flayer moved very quickly this time. After rushing out of the Cacas underground cave, it has been expanding its territory outward. The northern territory of the Kingdom of Xilarg extends to Kushui County in the north, Kern City in the south, and Ontario in the west. County, east to Imber Lake, the entire land of nearly a thousand kilometers, there are large and small troops of mind flayers scattered everywhere."

"The mind flayer's troops are also extremely elite. Due to the limitation of the mind, the illithid can only control 30-50 mind servants, but the mind flayer can control nearly a hundred. Each of their members is a small Even the elite army of the Great Cemetery will be very troublesome if they are confronted."

"And they have quite a complete range of strong fighting races in their team. So far, poison eyes, harpy witches, dark sound blind monsters, manticores, lizard knights, snake lizards, Medusa, Minotaur, bloody witches have been discovered... Listen to the underground The eyeliners reported that a black dragon was found in the mind flayer team. If this news is true, I am afraid that there is a Soul Eater level (legendary) mind flayer hidden in the opponent's team, otherwise they would not be able to enslave An underground black dragon immune to magic."

Several noble men told each other the information they had, and quickly pieced together the current status of the Xilarg Kingdom.

And the thin and tough bodies of these noble men exuded the arrogance and elegance unique to the old-fashioned nobles. But their faces, which were so pale that they didn't even have a trace of blood, were no different from those degenerate nobles in the kingdom who were full of wine and meat all day long.

If it wasn't for a bishop-level magician to personally examine them carefully, it would be impossible to discover the origin of the undead hidden in the deepest part of their bodies.

They are obviously the Blood Warlocks carefully cultivated by the Great Cemetery.

As for the beautiful lady sitting above them, of course she is the best among the blood magicians and the leader of the blood magicians in the entire Xilarg kingdom.

Velia, a female blood sorcerer, was born in the blood pool of the Undercity half a year ago. It only took her 3 months to upgrade from a level 5 blood mage to level 13. Such a rapid improvement speed also marked her super talent, so she was chosen by the bloody throne to come to the blood holy city of Solma, where she changed her job and became the most enviable blood warlock.

Now, she is already a level 17 blood caster, and was personally sent by the gorefiend to the restricted zone of the undead—the kingdom of religion, the Kingdom of Hilarga, to lead the blood spies lurking here. As long as she can successfully set up the information collection system of the Great Cemetery in the Kingdom of Xilarg, the Gorefiend promised that she must have a saint's place.

Saints, this is the ultimate pursuit for any blood race!

Therefore, Velia seems to be lazily tasting the freshest virgin blood food, and ignores the reports of her blood spies. But she couldn't stop thinking about it in her mind, looking for the best entry point. And the familiar crow, who had just returned, jumped up and down to her ear, chatting with one person and one bird.

"My lord, what has changed?" A close subordinate boldly asked.

Since she was in the core hinterland of the Church of Morning Light, of course she could no longer wear warlock robes, so what Velia was wearing at the moment was just a set of soft and soft spider silk gauze skirt, showing her slim and graceful figure without a doubt.

Hearing the question from her subordinates, Velia couldn't help but softly laughed.

"No big deal! It's just that one of our original targets, the Countess Wen Lier, has already entered the city. And it seems that she has gained a lot outside the city!"

The subordinate's eyes lit up immediately.

"My lord, this Wen Lier and the other Gaddis are both hardcore members of the royal party. Now that they have arrived, look, should we contact them in advance..."

"No, don't contact them for the time being!" Velia shook the glass, her tone soft but firm.

"My lord, has the previous plan changed again? Didn't our previous policy try to win over the nobles and nobles who are inclined to the royal party in Xilarg?"

"Yes, my lord. Has the whole plan changed?"

Several Blood Warlock subordinates couldn't help being confused.

Velia lightly lifted the wine glass and took a small sip. When the sweet and delicious virgin blood spread completely on the taste buds on the tip of her tongue, she narrowed her long and narrow pupils and glanced at everyone.

"Before I came, the policy you formulated was not wrong. In order to attack the Morning Light Church, try to win over all the forces that can be drawn. Such a policy is of course correct. Unfortunately, you underestimated the strength of the theocratic power in Xilarg.

I dare say that as long as the Great Temple of Morning Light stands in the capital, the royal family will not dare to do anything against the temple. Even if the Pope wanted His Majesty's most beloved concubine to be in his bed, His Majesty would only offer it himself with trepidation.

why?

Because the power gap between the two sides is too great! "

Several blood warlocks looked at each other in blank dismay, listening attentively to the leader's teaching.

"Of course, I'm not saying that it's wrong for you to win over the Royal Party's power. But it's really not the right time. At least until the Morning Light Church suffers major setbacks and injuries, the Royal Party will only be an obedient watchdog and dare not Against the church. If you send it to your door at this time, one will easily attract the attention of the church, and the other..."

Velia paused for a moment, and the close subordinate continued with a bitter expression.

"Secondly, it is easy to be betrayed by these cowards. They sold us back to the Morning Light Church as a stepping stone for them to ask for credit and reward."

"You just need to understand!" Wei Liya smiled and stretched her waist: "This time the mind flayer's chaotic charge is just our best chance. As long as we can cooperate with them well, let them give the Church of Morning Light a serious attack." It will be much easier for us to absorb power in Xilarg. Therefore, the most urgent task is not to go to win over those useless royalists, but how to contact the leader of the mind flayer side. Aren’t they short of intelligence? We'll sell them information!"

Several blood warlocks were dripping with sweat instantly.