Our family is in decline

[Eyeball of the Prophet], those who spy on fate are also in fate.

The gift of sacrificing the prophet is his eyeball that tries to spy on fate, but the pupil is not the usual colors but gold.

The power above is abnormally not too negative, and can even stabilize the consciousness of the holder, but the conditions are harsh, and a stable place is needed to be blessed, otherwise it will lose contact with a slight interference and will not work at all.

This thing should be more than that. Lance feels that it should be limited by his talent. He does not have the inspiration of the ancient gods that the ancestor can easily spy on, so he cannot use this thing to spy on fate.

Who knows, Lance did not care too much, because Alhazred on the other side seemed to have discovered something.

"Oh! These are..."

Lance was attracted to it. It turned out that the scholar found the records of text and some runes on the benches around the prophet.

Now Lance suddenly understood that the prophet probably used the wooden boards on the benches to record something when he was hiding here, and then threw it away casually after writing it. Year after year, there were so many bench fragments around.

Then, by accident, it became a barrier to protect the prophet, after all, these wooden boards were blessed with extraordinary power.

Lance began to study mysticism through the legacy left by Alvis, but in his opinion, he could not recognize the words written on the wooden boards separately, and he could not understand them together.

On the contrary, Alhazred studied them as if he had found a treasure, and even felt a little distressed about the ones that had just been destroyed, and tried hard to piece together the fragments.

"Can scholars understand what is written here?"

"I can understand a little, but I don't know most of it. Many extraordinary people have their own way of writing to prevent outsiders from prying, so it takes time to organize and study."

Alhazred was still a little excited when he said this, and Lance remembered what he seemed to have said at the beginning, and immediately asked.

"Do you know this prophet?"

"There are many people in this world who have the ability to predict and divination, and there are also many people who can spy on fate, but only he can be called the prophet of fate. He is the world's top prophet, no one else.

It is said that he has a [Book of Destiny] in his hand that can spy on the secrets of the long river of fate. It's a pity that he suddenly disappeared for many years, and the book is nowhere to be found. I didn't expect it to be in this place in the end..."

Originally, Alhazred's words were still a bit of admiration, but he was full of regret.

Lance remembered that Alhazred was from a supernatural organization called [Council of Destiny], so there should be a connection. After all, the prophet didn't look like an imperial man.

Suddenly, Lance seemed to realize something. He held the eyeball left by the prophet in his hand, and then looked at the messy words on the wooden board intently. Sure enough, he spied a slight change, as if it was re-encoded, encrypted, and then decoded.

Hum? Enlightenment!

This discovery made him ecstatic. Could it be that the [Book of Destiny] is here?

But he could only suppress his emotions before he figured it out. After all, Lance was afraid that the prophet had written something incredible and would expose the ancestor. What if he did?

Since it was the text left by the world's top prophet, whether or not it recorded the [Book of Destiny], it must have very important value. As a top garbage collector, Lance naturally did not want to let it go. He stuffed it directly into the space of the Mage Tower. After picking up a circle, he did not forget to search

"Everyone help find it, maybe there is information left by the prophet."

After the battle, Bigby changed back. In recent days, he has used that power continuously. He has been able to control his transformation and recovery. In a sense, this is also adaptation, and the psychological pressure is not so great.

After a short rest, Junia and Jeanne also recovered a little and began to help find the carrier of the recorded text.

But sometimes no one knows which will come first, the accident or the surprise.

Suddenly, there was a lot of movement in the church, along with smoke and dust, followed by Jeanne's shouting.

"Everyone, come and see, I think I found something."

Several people gathered together and found that Joan of Arc had suddenly stepped through a piece of dilapidated floor in the building and fell down, and then found a secret door leading to the underground.

Even Lance couldn't help but complain in his heart when he saw this scene.

Is this the protagonist? You can find opportunities just by walking around...

"Are you not hurt?"

"No."

The shouts below were very stable and did not reveal any fear, but Lance didn't waste any words. He took out a torch and jumped down. The light of the torch instantly illuminated the general situation.

The space was not large, and it was even a little low and narrow. There was an ancient sarcophagus in it, and it seemed to be carved with a pattern of a brave warrior holding a long sword and fighting various monsters.

After taking a look, Lance shouted up.

"This is a tomb with a sarcophagus. Junia, do you know what's so special about it?"

"Because there are many cases of desecration of corpses, many church leaders are not buried in ordinary cemeteries, but in a space under the church.

But the space is limited and ordinary people are not eligible. Only those who have made special contributions or are powerful are eligible. In a sense, it is also part of the church ceremony."

Lance understood that it was to use the power of the church to protect the corpse from being desecrated. At the same time, these powerful remains during their lifetime could also bless the ritual power of the church to dispel evil.

But it is obvious that this thing is not so magical, and the church is still corroded.

However, Hamlet's church is so big, this thing must have been very powerful when it was alive, and I don't know what it will leave behind.

Lance really has no taboos. He opened the coffin with his bare hands. But he just defeated the Lord of the Dead, so there is really nothing to be afraid of. He is the first person to break feudal superstition.

There is no trap mechanism. I am afraid that when the church placed the coffin, it did not expect that Hamlet would be destroyed and the church would be ruined. Who dared to open the coffin under the church?

The coffin lid was pushed open, revealing a withered skeleton wearing once exquisite but now worn and dull clothes, and at the intersection of the skeleton's hands was a dusty long sword, which had not rusted after many years.

It seems that he can abandon other things, but he cannot give up his own weapon, even if it means death.

Lance reached out to take it down, and immediately felt something. It was an extraordinary weapon. Although the power in it could not be called legendary, it was definitely a good thing. It was mainly solid and sharp, and more importantly, it had no negative effects.

"Take it."

Lance handed it to Joan of Arc. This was what she found. It happened that her previous sword was broken, and now it was a bit abstract to take an axe.

"Take your sword, and I will also change a place for you to rest." Lance took the entire sarcophagus away.

It can be foreseen that when the skeleton disappears, those adventurers will definitely break in to plunder. They are the real looters, and they may even strip them naked.

Joan of Arc was happy to get the sword, and the whole person showed uncontrollable excitement, just like a child who got a toy.

Yes, she is only thirteen years old now, not even an adult...

No one cares about the lord's distribution, and they don't use swords.

Joan of Arc's discovery reminded Lance that the church certainly did not have the ability to take away the church's things back then, so there must be a lot of good things.

Lance was like a player entering a village, searching every place, even the corners. He found a lot of small vaults, and of course, there were all kinds of sealed things. Some of the books showed that the church also knew the value.

In the end, he took away the bodies of several church members outside and left this ghost place.

The team's return did not attract too many people's attention. Those heroes had a lot of freedom after completing the mission, but the guards were not like that. After a day's vacation, they quickly regrouped into teams and began to investigate the ruins, and of course, they also searched deeply.

For Lance, he needed to adjust how to deal with the ruins after the problem was solved.

In the past, adventurers were asked to come here as coolies and skeletons to slowly consume them. Now that the problem of the ruins has been solved, their existence has become a trouble, because these people have never been quiet guys.

"Begin to gather and arrange personnel to formally clean up the ruins. First, build a road to the north, collect the bones, crush them and bury them in the reclaimed land, and let dust return to dust.

Based on the information collected by the personal guards, make an overall plan for the ruins, send craftsmen to inspect those buildings, plan the construction period, and wait until the spring to repair those that can be repaired, and demolish them if they can't be repaired.

About Hamlet's business..."

The order given by Lance was very simple. He gave up letting the adventurers act freely before, and now the official intervened to formalize the matter.

But Lance did not kill them all, but gave them another way. Because the trade route was to be reopened, they could accept the employment of the caravan.

The cold winter made most ordinary people not want to leave their warm houses to go out, so the situation should not be intensified. By the beginning of next spring, the trade route should be open, and adventurers will follow the flow of commerce.

Everything in Hamlet is running in an orderly manner. For many of them, this may be their first such a stable winter.

But it was not the case for some people, because after a few days, the message he asked Amanda to pass on was finally spread through the Roma intelligence network.

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St. Helier, a large palace, guards wearing armor and holding halberds were on duty outside, and even the servants who came and went inside were dressed in gorgeous clothes comparable to those of nobles.

The interior decoration of the palace was even more luxurious, with exquisite carvings and patterns, as well as a large number of artworks, and some decorative green plants even bloomed flowers.

It was cold outside, but the interior of the palace maintained a comfortable temperature all year round. I don’t know how it is maintained, but I think it has something to do with extraordinary power.

Because this is the capital of the empire, and the palace is the residence of the emperor of the empire, representing the supremacy of the kingship.

But at this time, there were angry roars and sounds of things being thrown in the palace.

"Who does he think he is?"

"A bastard who came from nowhere!"

"How dare he?"

"I am the emperor!"

Even if you are outside, you can feel the terrifying atmosphere inside. The people standing outside seem to be accustomed to this situation. Although they look terrified, they are somewhat numb.

Among the few people inside, only an old man with white hair and beard but upright posture looks calm. The clothes he wears show that he is a noble, different from those servants.

The roar echoed for a long time before gradually subsiding. At this time, he signaled the servant to report and walk into the room.

Not caring about the mess on the ground, his eyes are on the person on the throne whose half body is covered by the shadow. That is the emperor of the empire.

"What's going on!"

The emperor did not ask a question, but a question. Obviously, the old man had also heard about the recent Hamlet incident.

And the reason why the emperor summoned him was because he was an insider and even one of the participants in the plan.

That's right, the governor of Owendo City did not lie to Lance at the time. The emperor had already targeted Hamlet.

"It should be that the lord learned some information from the governor after he captured Owendo City."

The old man answered truthfully, but this obviously did not satisfy the emperor.

"Why didn't you get rid of him? What's the point of keeping him?"

"At that time, we needed a person with local reputation to quickly stabilize the situation, and no one would have thought that Hamlet could rise again."

Is the old man's words perfunctory?

Yes.

But it's also true.

Because after Hamlet suffered a catastrophe, no one cared about these things. Who would have thought that the declining Hamlet could be revived.

Even the emperor focused on the newly rising Bastia at that time, and was even forced to confer a count because of the mountain barbarians.

It's funny to say that Hamlet was able to be preserved because the emperor wanted to restrict Count Bastia.

Now that he was scolded, he was no longer crazy. He was silent for a few seconds before speaking.

"Tell me, what should we do now?"

Why was the emperor so angry? Because he really did it, and now the bad account has been dug up, and he is the first person to break the rules.

Originally, the civil war with those nobles was a mess. Now no one can fight, but they are afraid that they will see the end of Hamlet, and they have to fight even if they don't want to.

And his biggest advantage as the emperor of the empire is the aristocratic system. Now even his underwear has been stripped. How can he not be anxious?

But the old man is not anxious, on the contrary, he looks confident.

"We were not the only ones who took action at the beginning. Don't forget that they also did it. It's just right for them to bite each other."

"You mean..." The emperor has guessed something. The matter against Hamlet was also a very confusing matter. Everyone tacitly agreed, but didn't make it clear.

"Both commerce and shipping overlap. If Hamlet gets up, how can Totnes sleep well?

I think it's better if Hamlet gets up. He can help us deal with the Count of Bastia and hold Totnes back. Whoever wins or loses will suffer a great loss."

It can only be said that the old man is still the best. The old man's three sentences made the irritable emperor stand up excitedly and shout.

"No matter what, the advantage is mine!" (End of this chapter)