Chapter 383

"Don't worry."

Rin leaned down and gently kissed her cheek. He knew exactly what the stupid swordsman was really worried about.

She should be more worried about whether the curse on her body could really be lifted.

Time was running out, and there was no chance for them to continue to investigate slowly.

Orlan was suspicious by nature. If he provoked him, he would definitely doubt why Xiye was so fearless.

It was reasonable to check the safety.

And for him, it would soon be a time to decide his fate. In order to be at ease, he would go back and check in the short term, and then he would bring the demon king into it.

This is the most convenient and effective way, although there is some gambling involved.

In the past, Orlan had not prepared for any big moves, would not be so anxious, and would not provide such a convenient opportunity.

At that time, Qiyu had not reached level 90, and had not yet learned the highest-level stealth skills similar to assassins. Facing many high-level magicians in Phoenix who had some mental perception, it was very difficult to sneak in and steal without a sound.

Now there is no need to worry about her safety, not to mention that Lin also lent Qiyu the amazing invisible cloak of Silly Roe Deer.

Although that thing... a certain princess only used it once during a private meeting.

The cloak can only hide the body and voice, and it is still weak in hiding the fluctuations of magic power, so it is not used as an auxiliary means.

Next, just wait for Qiyu to come back, and solve Xiye's problem as soon as possible, and also solve a worry.

Xiye raised his head, staring at Lin's cheek with starry eyes, and couldn't help saying: "Brother, it would be great if you could always be so gentle."

As soon as these words came out, the originally gentle and incomparable dead tsundere suddenly exploded.

...

The carriage soon stopped in the small manor, which was another private residence of Orlan, located in the suburbs.

The residence looked ordinary, and usually only some servants cleaned and guarded it, and no one would pay attention to this place.

As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows, so he naturally would not build his core headquarters near the capital. This place is just used as a second place to hide people's eyes and ears.

In fact, it was originally an ordinary room.

After entering the basement, Orlan took out a teleportation magic card and sent magic power into it.

The green light of the teleportation card quickly enveloped him, and in a blink of an eye he appeared in the hall of a luxurious castle.

The lights in the hall were bright, as bright as day. When the few people who were chatting together saw Orlan, they stood up and saluted.

Orlan waved his hand and asked in a row: "Are all six seats here?"

One of them was a little old man in black clothes, thin, and with a face as gray as a corpse. He took a step ahead of the others, obviously having an existing status.

"Reporting to the Grand Duke, because of your order, the six adults are here except Alex who was called to the banquet by the local lord and could not refuse."

"Send someone to call him back quickly and tell him that I have something important to do."

After saying that, he sat aside, his gloomy face seemed to be dripping with water.

Others did not dare to disobey. Some responded and left, and others quietly left the hall.

After sitting for a while, Orlan snorted coldly, stood up with his staff, walked upstairs, and soon came to a meeting room.

There was a spacious gilded round table in the meeting room, the decoration was classical but also luxurious, and the thick carpet covered the entire room.

He sat in the first seat and pulled the bell beside him.

Soon the whole manor was filled with the crisp but very special sound of bells. After waiting for a while, people came in from outside the meeting room one after another, and finally all arrived.

The six people were tall, short, fat, and thin. After saluting in turn, they sat at the round table.

Among them, the man with a curly beard and black and white hair was the youngest, sitting at the end, and he did speak first.

"Brother-in-law, you called us..."

As soon as the word "brother-in-law" came out, he shrank his neck in Orlan's cold eyes, and did not finish the rest of the words.

He quickly changed his words: "Lord Orlan, is the plan going to start?"

He is Alex, Orlan's brother-in-law, Alex Phoenix.

According to blood relationship, he should be Orlan's cousin, and he is not a distant relative, but a collateral branch of the Phoenix family.

In order to maintain the purity of blood power, the Phoenix lineage is also unavoidable to the bad habit of inbreeding.

Others with similar power, such as the Golden Family of the Shelley Empire, cousins ​​marrying each other is quite common.

Alex and his sister, Orlan's original deceased wife, are the children of Orlan's uncle.

The previous generation of Grand Duke Orlan was greedy and lustful, even to the extent of openly bringing several lovers back to the manor to live, and had many illegitimate children at home and outside.

This also made Orlan, who was excluded everywhere as a legitimate son, hate women since childhood and had no feelings for his deceased wife.

For him, his uncle and Alex, women are just tools for reproducing blood.

It's a pity that the woman died early, leaving only an only son, and Orlan himself had weak reproductive ability and no other choice, otherwise he would not have a child in his thirties.

Of course, as his dream was about to come true, he didn't need any other options.

What was the point of having offspring if he was immortal?

Alex's family had helped him successfully seize the position of heir, and they had killed all his mistresses and illegitimate children. They were his most staunch supporters.

So even if Alex himself is very weak, he can still become one of the core members of the Phoenix family.

Among the other people, the chief one is the most mysterious. He comes from the force that took the initiative to contact him and let him see the hope of immortality. He is also a consultant sent by that force.

The second seat is the black magician he saved in his early years, who stayed to work for him.

The third seat is the alchemist who started betting on him since his father's time.

The fourth and fifth seats are all collateral branches of the Phoenix family, and they also have outstanding abilities.

It is also because these people are somewhat complicated that Orlan trusts them on the surface and has to rely on them, but in fact, they are a little suspicious in their hearts.

Orlan looked around and said, "There were some mistakes before the plan was about to start."

The chief leader was impatient: "What's going on? Could it be that the boy moved the archbishop from the church, so we can't do it?"

"No, it's useless in the Phoenix family's territory even if the church comes."

Orlan continued: "Let's not talk about that rebellious son, the one who has a problem this time is Xiye."

"That little swordsman?"

The second seat's tone was sarcastic. Being able to control the famous swordsman in one's hands is a pleasant thing.

"Could she dare to resist?"

As soon as this was said, it attracted a lot of sneers. They all wanted to make a joke, but seeing Orlan's gloomy look, they looked at each other.

"Brother-in-law... No way, that little girl is really daring?"

Ollan nodded and knocked on the table: "There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. The news from the Holy Empire is that the Witch of Life Xiang lifted the curse of the princess, and she is a little hypocritical with Lin."

"Then she definitely can't lift the curse of blood. This little girl is too naive." Alex shouted.

Ollan glared at him, and then said lightly: "Now, I suspect that the secret method has been leaked. Of course, I don't suspect that someone in your public betrayed, but I am worried that the previous expansion and acquisition of the family has mixed in a lot of fish."

Everyone is not a fool, and can hear the implication of Orlan's words.

It sounds good, but in fact, it is still suspected that one of them is a traitor.

With a click, one of them took the lead in putting a golden hollow key on the table, and the others saw it and took out the key one after another.

After all, the Sword Saint has grown up to be one of the top combat forces in the world, and no one dares to make a mistake.

Compared with the major forces in the world, the Phoenix family is just a younger brother.

Even Orlan himself did not dare to guarantee whether he could keep the secret method of manipulating the Sword Saint alone.

So for the sake of insurance, he used the small old ruins handed down by his ancestors as a safekeeping place and divided the key into several parts.

In this way, even if one of them had an accident or betrayed him, there would still be a chance to make amends.

But this matter cannot be leaked to outsiders, otherwise the enemy will have enough power to hunt them one by one and release the Sword Saint.

The sword of the Sword Saint will tempt any force, and they may not be able to stop it if they really intervene.

This is why Orlan made such a fuss and was worried that someone would leak the secret.

As for why he didn't just destroy it and put it to rest, the reason is also very simple. Xiye needs to consolidate the curse every year, otherwise it will become extremely unstable.

Unless he is willing to completely destroy this sharpest sword, he will never feel that kind of stupidity.

"Now is the critical moment, one move will affect the whole body, so I'll ask you to wait in the ruins for a while, waiting for me to bring Lin into the ruins, and the great new era will come."

This is a disguised isolation, and there is no place safer than the ruins.

Even if others care in their hearts, they will not say much on the surface, because they all know that this is the most critical moment.

The chief finally reminded: "For Lin, you must be careful and cautious, if you still want a perfect body."

Chapter 30 You have my blood in your body

If possible, Lin would like to rush in directly.

No matter what, just go all out to catch the enemy in one go, and then slowly interrogate the method to remove the curse.

But this is the routine of the kingly male protagonist, and it has nothing to do with him, an ordinary little villain.

Under the premise that he doesn't know what means the other party has, and whether he will fight to the death and hurt Xiye, Lin dare not mess around.

In fact, he is super nervous now, not as calm as he seems.

But before he was still comforting Xiye, Lin at least can't show how anxious he is.

In order to hide his emotions, he deliberately turned on the phonograph and played soothing music, while holding a book and pretending to read it with relish.

It was just that he took a long time to turn a page, which exposed his nervousness and anxiety.

At this time, Xiye's mentality was much better after some adjustment. She looked sideways at Lin who was holding the book with both hands and lowering his head.

After staring for a long time, she asked curiously: "Didn't my brother hate reading this kind of love light novel from a female perspective? Why do you suddenly like it now?"

Rin came back to his senses, looked up at Xiye in a daze, and then stared at the book in his hand. It was like holding a hot potato. His hand shook and he almost fell down.

Xiye continued: "If my brother is more interested now, I can give him some. They were all forced to me by Iris. I... am not too interested."

"No, I just opened a book and took a look. This was given to me by Silly Roe Deer. Well, it's really not interesting."

Rin pretended to be calm and put away the pink kiss-covered book, then took out a popular science book that fit his personality and started reading.

There are also bookmarks in the book. According to the progress of the last viewing, I just happened to see the introduction to the twelve apostles of the current Demon King.

Rin turned a few pages absentmindedly, her eyes resting on a simple portrait of a mature woman whose face was obscured.

"The Black Witch..."

The only witch among the twelve apostles, she is also one of the two apostles who left a deep impression on Rin.

The reason why I was so impressed was not because of the emphasis on characterization in the book, but because... in the original work, she took away the homeless sword master girl and made her a black sword master by using the curse as a bargaining chip. of.

Not only that, she is also the most mysterious existence in the entire Demon King City. No one knows her origins or what she wants to do.

On the eve of Qiyu's decisive battle for the throne, the black witch disappeared and never appeared again, causing Xiye, who had some sense of belonging, to fall into confusion and despair again.

Regardless of the plot in the book, based on the information that Rin already knew, this black witch is quite suspicious.

Qiyu is recognized as one of the best spell masters in the world. Even she dare not say that she can easily lift Xiye's curse. She still needs to have complete information about the curse before she can do it.

So how did this black witch do it?

There is only one explanation that fits her behavior... and that is that she knows everything about the power of the blood curse.

It is very likely that she has had contact with the Phoenix family, and because she is in a relatively important position, she was able to obtain such top-secret information.

This is also consistent with the intelligence that the Phoenix family has been colluding with the black magician forces.

Some black magicians work in separate camps. Currently, what can be seen on the human continent are basically a small group of scattered people.

In fact, the black magicians themselves often belong to their own camp, and the recognized leader is this witch.

Rin's thoughts wandered unknowingly for a long time, and he was finally awakened by a sudden slap on his shoulder.

Turning his head, he saw that there was no one around him. Yuyeben leaned on another chair and closed his eyes to rest, because he opened his eyes only after being startled.

Just when Rin was still a little confused, the other shoulder was tapped.