July 19th, 1501, the month of the scorching sun.
At this time, in the capital city of the Empire, the holy city of Kelandil, a full nine years had passed since the day the Black Dragon Irdele attacked the celebration. In these nine years, the world had undergone too many changes.
Prince Kaiser, who was still a child at that time, had now become the Emperor of the Empire, Emperor Kaiser the Great.
However, the summer celebration was still held on July 20th every year. This had been the custom of the German Empire for many years to remember the once glorious era of Theoden The Great.
Today was the day before this year's summer celebration. Empress Darlina was already forty-one years old, but she was still as beautiful as ever, as if the years had really not left any traces on her face.
She was alone in a garden in the Imperial Palace, looking at the scenery in the garden and the starry sky in the north. She fell into a deep sadness.
Her emotions were like a flood, suddenly attacking the line of defense in her heart. Darlina actually cried alone.
Today's Empire could be said to be in a precarious situation. It was like a broken drum that everyone wanted to beat. In this huge Empire, Darlina did not even have a single person she could trust.
Kaiser The Great had now grown into an adult, but he had become incomparably cruel. Darlina had been put under house arrest in the Imperial Palace by him, and Darlina had only heard of his atrocities.
But there was no other way. Darlina could not control Kaiser The Great. He had the support of the Chief Magic Advisor behind him, and those who resisted him were all dead. Alonso was also loyal to Kaiser The Great. Although he was dissatisfied with the Emperor's atrocities, he could only obey.
At the beginning of May, the Empire had received news that Port Pullin had been captured, sealed off, and looted. These northern barbarians had unexpectedly bypassed Kelandil to the south and looted the Empire's most affluent area.
At that time, when the army that was sent to support saw this city, it was a scene that they would never forget for the rest of their lives. There were corpses everywhere, broken limbs, naked corpses, houses that had been burned to ashes, the stench of corpses, and the crows that were gnawing on food. It was a scene of hell on earth. The Spring Port that was once attached to it no longer existed, it was just a ghost town.
When they found the corpse of the old Dregg who had been executed by the Blood Hawk, they could imagine how much pain he had suffered.
This was the City of Sorrow, hell on earth.
Fortunately, not all the people here had died. There were still many Derman survivors around a hotel in the west of the city, but they were under the control of a dark-skinned young man.
The Empire's powerful intelligence agency could not find out the origin of this person, but in view of the fact that he could protect the people, they still acquiesced to his actions.
After all, the following reconstruction work still needed people. Since the young man could manage these people well and let them join in the reconstruction work, it was still very good.
At that time, the news was brought back by a local bishop who risked his life. It was the Pope who personally came to tell Kaiser The Great about it.
After the little Emperor heard the news, he flew into a rage and immediately ordered the Blackstone Fort to launch a large-scale counterattack on the Kingdom of Northland. Although the Empire had not yet recognized the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Northland, they had to face the strength of the Kingdom of Northland.
At that time, Marshal Alonso tried his best to persuade Kaiser The Great and also sent troops to the North to attack the Kingdom of Northland, but in the end, they returned without success.
At that time, some religious fanatics announced that they wanted to eradicate all heretics. Anyone who did not believe in the Seven Gods was an enemy of God. They captured people in the city, especially witches who knew magic.
At the same time, in addition to the rebellion that had been suppressed by Alonso, a group of nature worshipers had appeared in the city. They compared nature to God, and the followers of the believers were ordinary people who loved peace. They had also secretly formed their own armed forces.
At that time, the Empire's underworld was turbulent, and many forces were eyeing the old Empire covetously.
These few days, in the palace's chief magic consultant Morse's room.
This room was very large, and could be considered an independent palace. This was Morse's personal space.
This room was actually a tower with a total of six floors.
Morse lived on the top floor. His office was usually on the third to fourth floor, and the fifth floor was his private library and alchemy research area.
On the floor where he lived, there was a transparent stone orb on a standing stone pillar. At this time, Morse was alone here. He was looking at the stone orb. One had to know that this stone orb was something he had painstakingly obtained.
This stone orb did not look special. It was similar to an ordinary stone orb, except that it was smoother.
However, when Morse put his hand on it, the stone orb instantly turned light blue, as if a light blue flame was reflected on the transparent stone orb.
It turned out that Morse could see some images through this stone orb, and these images were actually what was happening in a certain corner of the continent at this moment.
The chief magic consultant Morse was wearing a large black magic robe. He injected magic into the stone orb, and the stone orb instantly turned light blue.
Through the stone orb, Morse saw that at this moment, in the depths of San Antonio Cathedral. Several torturers were interrogating a naked witch, and they were constantly abusing her.
These religious fanatics seemed to be asking the captured witch about the whereabouts of her companions. This woman may not be a witch. She was very scared, but it seemed that she really did not know the whereabouts of the people the torturers wanted to ask about. She was so scared that she trembled.
But these torturers were not soft-hearted and continued to torture this woman. Finally, two tall and strong masked men walked into the secret room, and then there was a heart-wrenching scream from the secret room.
Morse saw all this and smiled. It was almost as he expected. This group of people from the Church was really doing something to the Witch Council.
This Witch Council, ordinary people did not know much, and many people did not even know of the existence of this organization. But this organization not only existed, but its history was much longer than the history of the Empire.
In fact, the Witch Council was the reason why Therodon could achieve what he did. So as the secrets of the Empire, ordinary people could not know these things. Only the top officials of the Empire could touch these things.
Morse also climbed from the bottom to his current position, and only then did he touch these secrets of the Empire. For this, Morse was more like an outsider watching a show.
He wanted to see what the people of the Church were going to do.
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