"Where is him?"

As soon as he walked out of the underground waterway, Victor was intercepted by Lucien who was waiting at the entrance.

[who?]

Seeing that there were patrolling city defense teams nearby and the Trial Knights walking around in groups of three, Victor waved his tongue stick and asked a question again.

"Don't fool me! If I hadn't met Kelin Baier, what would you do in the sewer?" From the second meeting with Victor, Lucien found that the dead aura on his half-brother had disappeared, as if all had changed into the strong evil aura surrounding him, completely different from the first meeting. Moreover, facing this body wearing a black robe, he did not feel any incongruity, as if he was still alive...

[Just sense his breath and finally stopped here, come and check it out.]

"You..." Lucien immediately made a speech.

He also lost trace of Ke Lin when he tracked the entrance of the sewer, but he always felt that Victor lied to him and did not fully tell the facts he knew.

"Your Excellency, we have found suspicious signs at the East City Gate. It is possible that the mage has fled out of the city through the sewer." Ron, the captain of the judge's Knight, reported the news he just received.

"Send a few teams to the nearby villages to see. If the Necromancer really has escaped from the city, the small village without a church may be attacked by him." After explaining the search, Lucien lowered his voice, "The Duke has issued a formal summons and he is waiting for you in the official residence."

Mendel finally wanted to "care" about his shameless eldest son...

Victor thought to himself that if Lucien was not both talented and virtuous, he would not know if Fernandez would still attach so much importance to this legitimate heir.

At the official residence, will you meet Princess Notting, who is said to be married far away?

Fernandez really has the courage to take this opportunity to summon the illegitimate son directly into his residence. Has he reached some consensus with Princess Lantia? Or... Is it purely to show me that he has enough ability to control the situation?

Fernandez, you are wrong. What I want is not a legitimate identity. After all, I am not your son. Family, family, wealth, power, these are not my purpose. No matter how much you make up for it, it will not be truly satisfied, nor will it gain my recognition.

Following Lucien arrives at the official residence of Taran's Grand Duke in the heart of the inner city, the guards and servants in the mansion show great concern for Victor, who looks mysterious.

"Father, I brought him." He knocked on the door outside the study room and was summoned after not waiting for too long.

"You can really make trouble, Victor." Fernandez Mendel, the officials who retreated the routine report, angrily shouted with a cold face: "I finally got you into Jingyao. In just a few days, I received a notice of withdrawal from Dean Pero himself."

"It's all your fault. If you hadn't dealt with that villain Ramde, how could I be excluded by him and his disciples as soon as I entered the academy?"

Knowing that Fernandez was not easy to get into a problem, he stared at Victor, who was covered in a black robe, and began to find other problems.

"What kind of outfit do you have in this way, and you actually talk to your father in this way in this private occasion?"

"Ah... it's really rude." Fernandez and Lucien were stunned by the wolf's head that took off his hood and put it on his head.

"What are you dressing?" The Duke looked carefully, and his inquiring eyes turned to Lucien beside him.

"Father, this is a unique position in the Temple and the Magic Academy. The Guardian is responsible for guarding certain important forbidden areas or ruins. Victor is better than being recognized by the Academy than entering the association directly. After all, he is a dead soul. If he is not careful in an important position like the Senate, he will be caught and not good for us. The Guardian is hidden in the dark. Although he cannot directly interfere in the decisions of the association, he enjoys the right to know in major events. His role is not only guards, but also works like Frost Wolf when necessary."

After Lucien's explanation, Fernandez roughly understood Victor's current new identity.

"Please consider my situation more. As a dead soul, it is not easy to get involved in a group of human beings. Moreover... Lucien can't help the church. Usually, he is arrested. He still needs to be judged. He will not give face because I am your illegitimate child."

Fernandez's anger that had just been suppressed soared again: "Is this my fault?"

"Of course, you are the culprit. Since you know that you cannot marry and have children with a civilian, why should you provoke Lea? Without me, my illegitimate son, Lucien's knighthood will be flawless and will not leave any stains." The father and son subconsciously disgusted with Wood's existence, but one did not show it, and the other was completely unconscious.

It is not difficult to see from Wood's memory that the Duke realized that he had a son who was wandering outside when he was in his teens. In order not to let things go in the direction he did not want, he quickly asked his friend, Fisher, who had a good relationship with Lea, to take care of his illegitimate son.

Fernandez knew that Fisher had always admired Leah and would take good care of Leah's children. But he did not count the rebelliousness of Wood, who grew up without his father. If he stayed in the town and was just an ordinary alchemist, he would not have been killed, and he would not have been in the current situation.

"Okay! I'm asking you to come and talk about these meaningless things with you." Fernandez walked to the huge map hanging on the wall, pointed to the sea near Taran and said: "The situation has changed. Because of Alberrecht's sudden intervention, many nobles are now joining Perel's camp. He is no longer the prince you encountered during the exam."

"So?" Victor knew that Fernandez had some more details.

"So we can't count on the dark elf you sent to secretly sneak into the pirates. Now it's not just the second prince, Muta, who has joined the camp of striking pirates, but even the church is involved. Lucien has been sent to Tidis by the Pope, and there are a total of two thousand Knights of the Holy Light and one hundred clergymen who accompany him."

"Well... what does he have to do with me?" It turned out that the ordinary slaughter of pirates turned into a mutual competition between several major forces. Victor was puzzled by the fact that the second heir and Perel directly sent troops to him could be understood as competing for Tidis's support, but what does it have to do with the church? St. Vanssetis never participated in the power struggle within the empire.

"It is said that there is a holy object in the hands of the pirates. His Majesty the Pope ordered me to take it back to St. Vanssetes."

"Oh~ Holy objects, no wonder...but this has nothing directly to me, right?" Victor still didn't understand. Since Lucien was ordered to seize the holy objects, what did Fernandez want to call him to come? Could it be that he went north with Lucien? Staying with a large group of church people, no matter how perfect the "hypocritical illusion" is, sooner or later, it will be revealed.

"The Magic Association is also involved this time. I originally planned to wait for you to be promoted to a great mage and use this siege to promote my evaluation in the association. As long as you perform well in this siege, I can start to arrange for you to enter the Senate. I didn't expect that you were so unsuccessful, and I was so angry. I originally wanted you and Lucien to take care of each other..."

The last sentence is the key, right? Fernandez, what you worry about from beginning to end is the only heir who can successfully capture the Notting Empire.

Victor did not point out the duke's hypocrisy and explained slowly: "If this is the case, you don't have to worry. As the guardian hidden in the dark, he would definitely be sent by Pero to participate in the conquest of pirates. All I have to do is to volunteer to participate in this northward journey."

And the facts are indeed as Victor thought.

When it returned to the academy, it immediately received an emergency call from Pelo.

Except for the two who took the mission, the other guardians were present, all wearing wolf heads covering their appearance.

As Pelo said before, most of the guardians were evil mages, and many of them were red robes that respected power. Only five of the seventeen people wore white robes that represented neutrality, and Victor was the only black robes among them.

Feeling the magic of other guardians, Victor secretly complained.

His strength is more than one or two levels beyond Ke Lin, and there are two who should reach the level of a magician, almost catching up with Pelo. I really didn't expect that such a small magic academy would hide dragons and crouch. The most outstanding mage is not Yucai's mentor, but the guardian hidden in the dark.

"I believe you have heard that the Holy See has decided to participate in this pirate siege in the empire. If there is enough time to delist, I will select the right candidate from you." Pelo said Lucien's unspecified reason for going out.

It turned out that this time the church was invited by Hyde, the Elf Kingdom, and "recapturing the holy objects" was a secret that cannot be known to outsiders. The reason for the association's participation was even more ridiculous, and it was actually a request for support from Tidis.

Two heirs have already sent troops to clean up the pirates. Why are the elders of the association going crazy? They also have to join in the fun?

Not many people left the list. Just as Victor was thinking about how to let Pelo choose himself, the great magician's eyes suddenly swept over and called it its name.

"No. 19 and No. 5, I will send you to Tidis with this crusade force. Do you have any opinions?"

"No."

The guardian in the fifth place in the left answered, and Victor waved his hands repeatedly and signaled that he had no objection. This was a great thing that he could not ask for, so why would he refuse?

"Since you have no objection, go back and do some sorting, and leave tomorrow morning."

With his eyes swept over Victor who was standing at the end of the line, Pelo said in a deep voice: "Stay here, No. 19, I have something to ask you alone."

When the other guardians were exposed, Pelo asked.

"What's going on with Ke Lin? I want to listen to the truth." The bizarre death in the slums spread in the college. As the dean, he couldn't imagine it would be difficult.

"This guy who abandoned his wife and killed his children dreamed of becoming a dead soul. I just helped a little, but he didn't expect that he would not obey the agreement that had been agreed upon in advance, which almost made me his scapegoat." The burnt marks on his hand were still there, and Victor showed them to Pelo.

Although the holy power has disappeared without a trace, the great magician with rich experience can see the origin of its wound at a glance. Those who can cause such damage to the undead are mostly spells or holy tools similar to the judgment of the Holy Light, and the traces are mostly the latter.

The reason why Victor deliberately created Kelin's scandal was that he wanted to take advantage of human hatred and deliberately suppress Kelin's status in Peru's heart. Although he was protected by Ramd, Peru could not fail to investigate Kelin's identity. The good things he did when he was a mercenary must not be hidden from this great magician who was over 200 years old.

"Although I don't reject your identity, I will try to avoid similar things in the future. Victor Wood, think about his identity and don't add extra pressure to your father. It's not easy for him to protect you."

"Yes." Fernandez was doing his best on the surface, and outsiders who didn't know the truth thought he would protect his illegitimate child more. Hum... it's ridiculous. He was just a vulgar man who was confused by power. Victor despised Grand Duke Taran from the bottom of his heart. With such a father, how could the real Wood have the chance to survive?

"Go down, I will let No. 5 tell you what you need to do this time." Suddenly, Pelo waved his hand and signaled Victor to retreat.
Chapter completed!