I weave fate in parallel time and space

Chapter 378 The Demon Monk
After killing the two guards, the two assassins also went deep into the palace together.

These two assassins were the elite of the Brotherhood. Although they were also the same people lying on the street, they were also the ones Arthur rarely praised.

There was nothing superfluous about their movements, they were clean and neat, and even their killing intent was very low.

They are two brothers, the older one is called Ebony and the younger one is called Avory.

Their family used to be very devout believers, but then they encountered some things and chose to join the Brotherhood and pursue the ideals of the Brotherhood——Hei Lang had introduced them to Arthur in this way.

Arthur didn't ask anything. For a person of his age, he had seen too much suffering in the world.

No matter how tragic the story is, it seems to him to be a cliché.

The reason why the activities of the Brotherhood have gone underground in these years is because they were hit by the Nightmare Order on the one hand, and the other reason is the failure of the Brotherhood's revolution in other relatively large countries.

During these years of silence, Hei Lang had been thinking, and he soon figured out the reason for their failure.

This is actually the same reason he was worried about in the past. Although he successfully brought Arthur's thoughts to the Brotherhood, as long as the core belief of "everything is false and everything is allowed" remains unchanged, the essence of the Brotherhood cannot be changed. ——An anarchist violent organization free from law.

Just relying on killing people cannot change the whole world.

However, Hei Lang doesn't want to change the essence of the Brotherhood. This era still needs the existence of this organization.

Therefore, they chose to retreat behind the scenes and began to fund people who can really change the world.

And if there are people with similar abilities in the brotherhood, Hei Lang will make them temporarily forget their identity as assassins and join their group.

And this last moment is the meaning of the assassin's existence in this world.
Before the turmoil began, the Tsar sent an elite army into the Winter Palace.

Part of the armored force was outside to prevent the people from entering the Winter Palace, guarding the Tsar.

The other part of the combat troops was stationed inside the Winter Palace.

It is very likely that these troops have just come off the battlefield with Beichen and have experienced the baptism of blood and fire.

But even so, these elite troops are still not a single enemy of the assassins.

What they learn is how to use weapons and how to win the war.

And what these assassins learned was how to kill people cleanly.

They silently advanced towards the interior of the palace, and all the guards who saw their figures entered the underworld almost immediately.

The entire Winter Palace was eerily quiet, without any gunshots, only the shouts of the crowd outside faintly coming in through the corridor.

Death, in this silence, is harvesting lives one after another.

"There is no such emperor in the bedroom or the meeting hall." Avori walked in the gallery inside the Winter Palace, stepping on the precious Persian carpet.

On both sides are various famous paintings that were once collected by Catherine II in the Winter Palace. Judging from the value of these paintings today, this gallery alone is enough to buy several warships.

These paintings no longer just belong to a royal family or a country, but are treasures of the entire human history and culture.

In fact, it would be the best choice if they could catch the Tsar, otherwise, these paintings would not be guaranteed to be destroyed when outsiders attacked.

Cultural treasures are to be guarded when life is prosperous, but many people today do not have this awareness.

The Britannian Revolution destroyed a lot of things.

Avery continued, "Where do you think he would be?"

Ebony's face was hidden under his hood, and the dawn sunlight shone in through the stained glass windows above, illuminating the exhibition hall with a cathedral-like splendor.

He looked around, "It's normal for a royal palace like this to have one or two secret passages."

He walked forward slowly and stopped at the end of the corridor.

Go forward along the red short-haired high-end carpet under your feet, walk up two steps, and you can see a portrait framed by an exquisite picture frame.

In the portrait is a woman in a long dress. She is beautiful and confident, especially in those blue eyes that look like the shore of Lake Baikal, full of ambition, as if there are thousands of troops hidden.

There is no doubt that this one is undoubtedly the only female emperor in this country-Ekaterina II.

"What a beautiful woman." Avory looked at the painting and said with emotion, "I don't know why Peter III doesn't like him as a queen."

"If he had been in his right mind, he would not have lost his throne and his life," Ebony said.

Ebony looked around, then stepped forward slowly and tapped his arm on the wall behind the picture frame, and the feedback was a very crisp sound—this meant that there was space behind the wall.

He thought for a while, pushed the portrait away, and soon found a keyhole behind the portrait.

Without hesitation, he raised his right hand. The nail on the little finger of his right hand was very long, but the rest of the nails were normal, as if they were left on purpose.

He stuck his little fingernail into the keyhole, and with a crisp sound, a door slowly opened towards the inside.

He and Ivory looked at each other and continued walking inside.

The corridor was very dark, but it wasn't long. They didn't walk far before they saw a faint blue light appearing at the end of the corridor.

They walked out, and there were two guards standing on both sides of the exit. They seemed to have noticed the existence of the two assassins, but they just wanted to speak.

A cold light flashed in the air, and the Hidden Blade pierced their heads directly from the chin.

There is also a reason for stabbing here. Although piercing the heart can also kill someone with one blow, there is no guarantee that the other person will not be able to speak. Stabbing the chin can make the person unable to make a sound.

In order to prevent the smell of blood from being discovered by people nearby, the two of them also dragged the corpse into the corridor for a certain distance.

Then stand at the exit again.

This is an open corridor. Looking down from the fence of the corridor, you can see an oval hall with Roman columns, marble floors, and dark blue curtains on the windows around the hall.

There seemed to be windows outside, and the sunlight shone through the windows on the curtains, reflecting the space into a faint blue.

The Tsar Nicholas II, whom the 10,000+ people outside want to see, is sitting on the office chair behind the desk in the living room at the moment.

In addition, there are other people standing, such as some soldiers with guns, and two well-dressed middle-aged men, two of whom Ebony has seen photos in intelligence, are important ministers of this country .

Some were the wives and children of Nicholas II, who hid here.

As for the rest of the people standing beside him, Ebony narrowed his eyes slightly. They were wearing divine robes, and their appearance was also covered under the hood.

In some rumors of the empire, the tsar really trusted a priest with magical powers.

The priest was hated both inside and outside the country.

Queen Alexandra of this country believes in mysticism, and likes to entertain figures such as "God Monk", "Holy Child", "Prophet", "Prophet", and "Savior", and often holds ghost ceremonies.

To the couple's grief, their son Alexei often faced dire situations because of his hemophilia, and when Alexei fell ill, almost everyone was helpless.Just then, the priest appeared.

In 1907, Crown Prince Alexei fell ill again. The anxious queen persuaded Nicholas II to call the priest into the palace to see if he could save his beloved son.

Surprisingly, even the court doctors could do nothing for the seriously ill crown prince.But when the priest came in, he only gave the Dauphin a small packet of powder, prayed again, and sat beside the Dauphin and told him some stories.

Then, a miracle happened. After a few days of recuperation, the crown prince recovered to health!
In this way, the future fate of the entire empire seems to be in the hands of this priest, and the reason is that he is inseparable from the health of the crown prince.

In fact, the dauphin was healthy and lively so long as the priest remained at court; while he was absent, the dauphin grew thinner and thinner.

In 1915, the priest had a bad relationship with the Tsar and was expelled from the palace.As a result, the crown prince suddenly had a nosebleed. When the queen asked the priest for help, he was late on purpose for two days. Unexpectedly, the crown prince's condition worsened as a result.

But when the priest appeared, the prince miraculously recovered.Since then, his incredible power has completely succumbed to Tsar Nicholas II, and he must be given three points in everything.

For the empire, disaster began.

Due to the palace title of "Lamp Holder of the Tsar's Magic Lamp", the priest had free access to the inner palace and often exerted influence on the Tsar and his wife.

So the priest used his special status to seek benefits for himself, and even openly interfered in government affairs.

Especially this year, the tsar left St. Petersburg on his own expedition, and the power of the country has since fallen into the hands of the queen, but in fact it is in the hands of the priest.

As a result, during this period, the internal affairs of Tsarist Russia were messed up by this priest.

In just one year, the chairman of the Tsarist Russian Council of Ministers changed 4 times, the ministers of the interior changed 6 times, the ministers of war changed 4 times, the ministers of foreign affairs changed 3 times, and the ministers of justice changed 4 times.It is said that the priest appointed officials based on no principle, just a whim.

He made Golomykin, who was nearly eighty years old, chairman of the Council of Ministers, even just because he liked to eat potatoes cooked by his wife.In addition, many officials and nobles were dismissed for offending the priest.

In front of the royal family, he showed the face of a humble elder. When the queen looked at him, she couldn't help but believe that he was possessed by God.

But in front of the people, he showed a ferocious side—a downright drunk and vulture, and many young girls were murdered by him.

The people were very angry when they saw that the Tsar had taken in such a person in the palace, but the whole palace was puzzled and felt hurt.

In this way, the messenger of death came between the ruler and the people...

And since neither can fully comprehend the duality of the man, neither can the two understand each other, so that both the tsar and the people push each other to the brink of the abyss.

Of course, this is just a glimpse of the chaos in this country.

This "demon monk" is one of the reasons for the turmoil outside.

But the emperor who credulously believed in this demon monk was the root cause of all this.

The Brotherhood naturally knew of the existence of this demon monk, and even before coming, Hei Lang told them to be careful about this existence.

He comes from the Order of Nightmare, an organization the Brotherhood has fought against in the past.

(End of this chapter)