The Church of the Storm had obtained very reliable information. The number two figure of the Secret Society, Professor, and the Great Alchemist of the Order of Skull, Southgate, had both studied at Turin Academy. Moreover, the Church of the Storm guessed that it was very likely that the two of them knew each other at Turin Academy! With regards to Blake's conjecture, Connor was very certain. After all, the words "Class 3" had appeared in the contents of "Reyes' Alchemy" regarding Southgate. This clearly proved one point.
The Order of Skull was the name of the mysterious dark Magi organization that Connor had always wanted to know about. Compared to the Secret Society that was already active in the Byzantine Continent, the Order of Skull was more active in the Khoy Continent. On the Empire's mainland, the Order of Skull wasn't very active. According to the records of the Church of the Storm, the Order of Skull had been established ten years ago. The Order of Skull had been established without any premonition, as if it had been established overnight.
In the Magus World that was full of ups and downs, the Order of Skull that had only been established for ten years was undoubtedly a new dark Magi organization. Although it was a new dark Magi organization, this didn't mean that the Order of Skull was weak. On the contrary, the Order of Skull was very strong. The newly established Order of Skull didn't attract the attention of the Church.
After all, just within the borders of the Kaman Empire, there were already over a hundred known dark adept organizations. A newly established dark adept organization could only be considered as a drop in the ocean in the World of Adepts. In the World of Adepts, the establishment of new organizations and the destruction of old ones was a very normal matter. Every once in a while, a new organization or several new organizations would be established. Therefore, according to convention, the establishment of the Skull Party wasn't worth the attention of the Church of Storms.
However, the Order of Skull's development was very fierce. In the first three years of their establishment, they had already swallowed up three small dark Magi organizations on the Khoy Continent. Their methods were very cruel and barbaric. The members of the dark Magi organizations that were swallowed up, as long as they weren't willing to join the Order of Skull, could only face death. This fierce development immediately attracted the attention of the Church of the Storm on the Khoy Continent. However, because the strength of the Church of the Storm on the Khoy Continent wasn't very strong, their style wasn't very domineering either. In addition, after the Order of Skull had swallowed up three dark Magi organizations, they needed to digest everything. Therefore, the Order of Skull once again disappeared without a trace and went into hiding.
In the recent two years, the activity of the Skull Order had once again become more frequent. First, they launched a surprise attack on the headquarters of a rather famous dark Magi organization in the Khoy Continent, the Evolutionary Cult, at lightning speed, causing the Evolutionary Cult to almost fall apart. Following that, during the process of the Church's investigation into the Secret Society, they followed the clues and found out that the Skull Order and the Secret Society were inextricably linked. They also confirmed that the strange technique that could transform normal knights into magically infused knights was researched and practiced by the Skull Order.
Regardless of whether it was researching magically transformed knights or colluding with the Secret Society, it was enough for the Church of the Storm to attach importance to the Order of Skull. One couldn't help but admit that the Church of the Storm's strength and influence were too great. After he attached importance to the Order of Skull, Blake had obtained a considerable amount of information regarding the Order of Skull!
The structure of the Order of Skull was very tight. The leader of the Order of Skull was a rank 2 Magus who called himself the Skull King. Under him was an official Magus named Reinhardt. Reinhardt and the Skull King's identities were very secretive. From the information in Epstein's mind, the Church's Blake only knew that Reinhardt and the Skull King had each killed an official Magus of the Evolutionary Cult when the Order of Skull launched a surprise attack on the headquarters of the Evolutionary Cult!
Within the Order of Skull, under the Skull King and Reinhardt was the Order of Skull's Great Alchemist Southgate. There was a lot of information regarding the Southgate Church. Southgate had once studied at Turin Institute for ten years. After graduating from Turin Institute, Southgate had received invitations from many Magus factions including the two large churches of the empire, secret organizations of the empire, and the Byzantine Continent. However, towards these invitations, Southgate used the excuse that he was immersed in the path of alchemy and had no intention of joining any Magus organizations as an excuse to reject them all. After rejecting these invitations, Southgate traveled to various countries on the Byzantine Continent. During this period of time, he had become an official Magus and refined the rank 3 magic artifact, the Anti-Magic Ring. He was recognized as a Great Alchemist in the Magus World!
Just ten years ago, Southgate had disappeared without a trace. There was very little information regarding him that appeared in the Magus World. Everyone thought that he had met with an accident and felt that it was a pity that such a talented Great Alchemist had disappeared. Recently, after the Church of the Storm investigated the Order of Skull, they found out that Southgate had already joined the Order of Skull ten years ago and had always been concentrating on alchemy. The Skull Society's technology that could turn normal knights into magic knights was the result of Southgate's ten years of research in the Order of Skull!
"The results of the magic circle part of the magic knight technology were provided to Southgate by my mentor. Southgate was going to bring some of the magic knights away from the Order of Skull and join the Secret Society …" Recalling the most crucial information from Epstein's mind, Connor's eyes became a little confused.
Marguerite once told him that there was a relationship between the Secret Society and the magic knights, and that his "distant relative" Politano had a relationship with the Secret Society. Now that the relationship between the Secret Society and the magic knights was basically clear, and the Secret Society and the Order of Skull had jointly developed the technology to turn normal knights into magic knights, then what was the relationship between Politano and the Secret Society?
For some reason, Connor's intuition told him that once he understood the relationship between Politano and the Secret Society, he would be very close to solving the biggest mystery in his heart. In a world like the Magus World where people were indifferent and valued equal exchange, why would his mentor, Professor Reyes, the number two figure in the Secret Society of the Dark Sorcerers, treat him, Connor Ferguson so well without asking for anything in return. "Well?"
What kind of shocking conspiracy was hidden under Reyes's smile?
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Connor slowly exhaled a turbid breath. Connor felt that the results of this operation had its pros and cons.
There were still pros and cons. Although killing the soul seed of the new Loen Church of Storms' Arbitrator Commander, Langlai, meant that he had definitely offended Langlai, it was an uncontrollable situation. No one would've thought that Langlai would plant a soul seed in Epstein.
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