"This pattern? It doesn't look like a mageweath or a Magic Array. Could it be just an ordinary symbol? " Among the senior executives of the Tower of Dusk, Master Basel, who used to live in seclusion in the library of Doland, was the most knowledgeable one. However, after seeing the pattern that Alan had brought, Basel also felt a little helpless. He couldn't find anything similar to the pattern in his memory.
"This pattern is on a man named Tannu. Rumor has it that those forces joined forces to deal with us, and he was the one who manipulated them. I suspect that this Tannu has something to do with the captive that Mr. President caught previously. I wonder if you have found anything similar on that captive. " Alan voiced his conjecture and looked at Gavin, who was personally in charge of interrogating the captive.
"Well, I didn't notice that. Wait a minute, I'll get someone to check on that person." After hearing Alan's conjecture, Gavin immediately looked for the person in charge of guarding the captive, and asked them to carefully check him from head to toe. Although there was nothing on the back of the captive's hand, who said that the pattern had to be drawn on the back of the hand?
Indeed, it didn't take long for the person who went to check to return and report that he had found a pattern on the back of the captive's neck. Although the pattern on the back of the captive's neck was smaller than the one on the back of Tannu's hand, there were many similarities between the two patterns.
"They are indeed in cahoots, but what does this pattern mean? Is it the symbol of that mysterious force?" The report of his subordinates finally allowed Gavin and the others to confirm one thing, but they still had no idea about the origin of the pattern.
As for the captive, Gavin had also used a lot of interrogation methods, but that fellow's timidity had actually become his protective talisman. He would faint immediately if he used a few tricks. In fact, Gavin even invited Ujfalusi over in a bid to let Ujfalusi use Necromagic to directly read the memory of that kid's soul.
Unfortunately, Ujfalusi, who was already at the peak of the Legendary-realm, couldn't do anything to that kid. That kid's soul was as fragile as a piece of paper, and Ujfalusi did not dare to use any strength, for fear that he would cause Lin Li's soul to collapse all of a sudden. Naturally, he would not be able to obtain any useful information.
Lin Li, who was a Sanctuary powerhouse, was probably the only one who could read useful memories from the soul of the captive. Unfortunately, Lin Li was now locked in the library, and Gavin and the rest did not want to disturb him. After all, the captive was there, and it would be fine as long as the kid did not die before Lin Li came out.
However, although there was no way to find out anything from the captive for the time being, Gavin and the others did not give up on investigating the special pattern. In fact, they even sent a letter to the Ashen Warlock, hoping to get an answer from him. After all, the Ashen Warlock had been in the Breezy Plains for countless years, and he might know something.
Although the Ashen Warlock had been living in seclusion in Gran Town, and seemed to be unconcerned about the affairs of the world, nothing that happened in the Breezy Plains could be hidden from him. Initially, as a Sanctuary powerhouse, he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to those insignificant existences. However, on the account of Lin Li, he still replied to Gavin and the others.
"Illuminati? What kind of force is that? Why haven't I heard of it before!? " After receiving the letter from the Ashen Warlock, Gavin and the others gathered together and opened the letter. There were only three words written on the letter, and they were none other than the Illuminati. However, none of them, including Basel, had any impression of the Illuminati at all.
Fortunately, the Tower of Dusk had always been on good terms with the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine because of Lin Li. After Gavin got the name of the Illuminati from the Ashen Warlock, he immediately wrote letters to the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine to ask about the Illuminati.
Although the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine had only been established at the end of the Dark Age, and had not existed for countless years like the Ashen Warlock, they also had plenty of secrets that were unknown to others in the history of Anril. In particular, the two forces both had a large number of believers. Even though the Darkness Shrine had declined, it had once been glorious, let alone the Brilliance Shrine.
Soon after Gavin's letter was sent, he received a reply from the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine. Only then did he find out about the origin of the Illuminati. The Illuminati had a longer history than the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine, and had already existed as early as the era when the High Elves ruled Anril. In fact, it was said to have been established even before the Dark Age.
During the Dark Age, the Illuminati once had a very large base of believers among humans. At that time, there were no Brilliance Shrine or Darkness Shrine, and the Illuminati could definitely be considered the largest religion of humans. Unfortunately, that was also the reason that the Illuminati aroused the fear of the High Elves, and the lords of the High Elves launched a brutal purge of the Illuminati in their respective territories. It was said that there were hundreds of thousands of Illuminati believers executed by the High Elves during that purge, and 80% of the senior executives of the Illuminati were killed.
Apart from the purge, the Illuminati disappeared from Anril, as if they had really been completely wiped out by the High Elves. At the end of the Dark Age, humans and other intelligent races that had been enslaved set off a wave of resistance against the rule of the High Elves. The Illuminati that had disappeared for hundreds of years also reappeared in front of people, and played a considerable role in the resistance war.
Unfortunately, after hundreds of years, the doctrines and ideals of the Illuminati were no longer accepted by most humans. The establishment of the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine further reduced the living space of the Illuminati to the extreme. About a hundred years after the end of the Dark Age, the Illuminati once again disappeared from Anril, and no one knew any information about the Illuminati.
"I heard from Ralph that the man named Tanu came from the sea. Do you think the Illuminati went to the sea back then? " Alan asked with a frown while holding the reply from the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine. Judging from the information in the reply, he could tell that the Illuminati was not ordinary.
The fact that a religion could survive from the Dark Age to the present, and even suffer from the purge of the High Elves, as well as the competition between the Brilliance Shrine and the Darkness Shrine, was enough to show how tenacious the religion was. Although the Tower of Dusk was now rather powerful, and had a Sanctuary-level President, Alan was still extremely fearful of the Illuminati.
No one would believe that there were no Sanctuary powerhouses in a religion like the Illuminati that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years. Alan had followed Lin Li to explore the Sky Castle, and knew that the strength of his President was not something that ordinary Sanctuary powerhouses could compare to. However, Lin Li was just one person, after all, and he couldn't possibly stay in the Tower of Dusk all the time.
"That Tanu came from the sea, but that doesn't mean that the Illuminati are also at sea. Maybe the Illuminati have been lurking on the mainland." Gavin's words were not unreasonable. The fact that someone from the sea had joined the Illuminati did not mean that the Illuminati were at sea, and there was no inevitable causal relationship between the two.
However, at this moment, Master Basel, who had been pondering at the side, suddenly thought of something, and said to the two of them, "Have you forgotten about that kingdom on the sea?"
"The Gilded Kingdom!" Alan and Gavin exclaimed in unison.
The Gilded Kingdom was a nation of thousands of islands. Although there was plenty of sea trade with the countries on the mainland, there was very little information about the Gilded Kingdom on the mainland. It was said that the Brilliance Shrine had once set their sights on the Gilded Kingdom in addition to being obstructed in their missionary work in the Felan Kingdom. They even sent two archbishops, 10 cardinals, and hundreds of believers of Holy Light to the Gilded Kingdom to preach, but the result made the Brilliance Shrine suffer in silence.
After the two archbishops took a boat to the Gilded Kingdom, they began to send letters to the Brilliance Shrine, describing some of the problems and gains they had encountered during the missionary process. However, after half a year, the Brilliance Shrine actually received a letter of withdrawal from the two archbishops and other believers of Holy Light. In the letter, they even persuaded the pope of the Brilliance Shrine to give up his faith in the Holy Light, which infuriated him greatly.
The reason the two archbishops and the other believers of Holy Light wrote back to declare their withdrawal from the Brilliance Shrine was because they had changed their faith, and became believers of the Illuminati. This time, the Brilliance Shrine had really gone for wool and come home shorn. Not only did they fail to spread the doctrine of the Holy Light to the Gilded Kingdom, they even lost two archbishops and 10 cardinals.
If it weren't for the fact that the Brilliance Shrine had kept the news under wraps, and even announced to the public that the two archbishops had met with danger at sea, the Brilliance Shrine would probably have become the laughing stock of the entire Anril.
Of course, Basel and the others did not know about the embarrassing matter of the Brilliance Shrine, and only vaguely remembered that there was a mention of the Brilliance Shrine's missionary work overseas in some historical materials. However, even if they were not clear about the inside story, they could guess that the Brilliance Shrine's missionary work this time had definitely failed. Otherwise, they would have long publicized it. As for the accident at sea, the two archbishops were both peak Legendary-realm powerhouses, and the 10 cardinals were also in the Legendary-realm. How could they have been so unlucky as to meet with danger at sea?
"Could it be that the Brilliance Shrine's missionary work failed because the Illuminati had already occupied the Gilded Kingdom?" As soon as Gavin said that, the faces of the few of them immediately became sullen.
If the Illuminati were only lurking in the mainland, their hidden strength would probably be very limited. However, if the Illuminati had always been developing in the Gilded Kingdom, it would be a problem of two completely different levels. For example, the Brilliance Shrine had developed with the Ledin Kingdom as its foundation, and was now only second to the Supreme Council in Anril.
The Gilded Kingdom was not just a small country that occupied a small island with a pitiful population just because it was a kingdom on the sea. The Gilded Kingdom was not called the Thousand Islands Kingdom for nothing. Not only did it have a large number of islands, but it also had a large area. Among the islands occupied by the Gilded Kingdom, the largest was the size of 10 Alanna regions, and the ordinary islands were not smaller than Doland region. If the area of all the islands were added up, it would probably not be inferior to the territory of the two human kingdoms. Naturally, there would be a large population too.
Hence, if the Illuminati really used the Gilded Kingdom as their foundation, their current strength would definitely not be inferior to the Brilliance Shrine even if they could not compare to it. It was definitely not good news for a force that was not inferior to the Brilliance Shrine to have their eyes on the Tower of Dusk.
After summarizing all the information, Basel and the others once again went to the library in a bid to report the information to Lin Li and discuss what preparations the Tower of Dusk should make next. However, when the three of them arrived at the door of the library, they still saw the tightly shut door.
The three of them looked at each other helplessly, but none of them went to knock on the door to disturb Lin Li. After all, in their opinion, Lin Li immediately went into seclusion after returning, and it was very likely that he had gained an epiphany, which was a very rare opportunity. Once he was disturbed and lost that feeling, it would be very difficult for him to get such an opportunity again in the future.
Anyway, even if Lin Li found out about the matter regarding the Illuminati now, there seemed to be no solution. They couldn't possibly go all the way to the Gilded Kingdom. Besides, the current strength of the Tower of Dusk was not something that could be threatened by any force. Putting aside the Eternal Furnace and the Sky Castle, the few powerhouses around Lin Li were enough to protect the Tower of Dusk. Hence, it would be better to wait for Lin Li to come out before discussing the matter regarding the Illuminati and the Gilded Kingdom.
Although the matter regarding the Illuminati and the Gilded Kingdom was a major issue, it was not something that the Tower of Dusk had to face urgently now. Hence, Gavin and the others did not think of disturbing Lin Li again, and instead put the matter aside for the time being. They devoted all their energy to restoring the operations of the Tower of Dusk.
However, what Gavin and the others didn't expect was that although they had put the matter aside for the time being, they still had to deal with it. Not long after they investigated some information about the Illuminati and the Gilded Kingdom, a mine of the Tower of Dusk located on the southern coast of the Breezy Plains was suddenly attacked from the sea.
A battleship that looked like a sea fortress suddenly appeared in the sea near the mine, and a wave of artillery bombardment cleared the defenses of the mine that was facing the sea. Next, a large number of crew members rushed into the mine, and moved almost all of the stored ores in the mine. Besides, not only did they empty the warehouse of the mine, they even blew up all the tunnels before leaving, making it impossible for the mine to resume production for at least three months.
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