In the palace, Gran was sitting on the window, looking at the expanding bloody vortex in the sky, drinking strong tea in his hand, looking as usual.
"Your Majesty, aren't you anxious at all?"
Chel put down the tea cup in his hand, looked at Gran who put his feet on the window edge with a relaxed expression, and asked in a trembling voice.
"Afraid? What's there to be anxious about?"
Gran wondered aloud. Before he became the king, he was the leader of the kingdom's underground forces, and his abilities were related to emotions. In terms of emotional concentration, he had never conquered anyone.
What's funny is that this moment of crisis was actually the most relaxing moment for him in the past three days. If he wasn't worried about Chel's safety, he would have been able to sleep here.
Seeing Gran so calm, Chel, who was originally a little frightened, felt a sense of security in his heart, and the source of this sense of security was Gran.
Boom, boom, boom,
There was a knock on the door, and Chel's hand that raised the tea cup suddenly stopped, and the tea splashed on her collar. She had no time to care about it, and looked at Gran for help.
Gran just took a breath, handed his handkerchief to Chell, and stood up to open the door.
"Your Majesty the King, just in case something happens outside the door..."
Just as Chel wanted to stand up and say something, he was interrupted by Gran raising his hand.
"If it were those lunatics from the Blood God Cult, would they knock on the door?"
Gran had a smile on his face and his tone was quite playful. Chelre usually gave people the impression of a strong iceberg woman, so precise that nothing could go wrong. But at this time, she was more like a soft girl who only relied on others. .
Click!
The door of the room was opened by Gran, and it was Ye Hui who stood outside the door with a heavy face. Gran was not happy to see Ye Hui, but instead asked a little solemnly.
"An Ye, how is the palace doing now?"
Gran looked Ye Hui up and down. Judging from Ye Hui's condition at this time, Ye Hui seemed to be in poor condition, but there was no obvious trauma. .
"Perhaps you are the only two living people in the palace."
Ye Hui took off his shirt collar, revealing his right chest that was eroded by blood poison. He didn't encounter any enemies along the way, but a kind of blood poison was permeating the palace. If it weren't for the darkness protecting his body, he would have died. .
Seeing this, Gran looked heavy. He turned around and took out a syringe under the throne and handed it to Ye Hui.
Ye Hui took the syringe and checked its properties.
…
Name: Blood poison anti-agent
Category: Consumables/Pharmaceuticals
Effect of use: After injection, the negative effects caused by blood poison can be restored, and blood damage is reduced by 30% within one hour.
…
"This is what my father left behind. He said you would need it sooner or later."
After hearing Gran's words, Ye Hui injected the medicine into his right shoulder without hesitation. As the medicine was pushed in, pieces of dead skin eroded by blood poison fell off, revealing fresh flesh and blood again.
Ye Hui tried to move his right shoulder. After confirming that it would not affect the battle, he took out a pile of lavender powder from the storage space.
Why did Ye Hui come here first? It wasn't that he was lucky or deliberately looking for Gran.
Instead, it was the lavender powder that guided him to this place.
The powder floated in the wind, and just when Ye Hui thought the powder would float in that direction, the powder actually sank into the ground.
"Is it underground?"
Ye Hui put away the remaining powder in his hand and looked at Gran with confusion. It was not an accident that the powder led him here. .
"There is indeed a basement underneath the palace, but..."
Chel hesitated to speak and raised his eyes to look at the throne.
After hearing this, Gran frowned slightly. He was not dissatisfied with Chel's hesitation, but he had some shady secrets that could not be revealed to the world.
"Forget it, I don't care about any secrets now."
Gran came to the throne, sighed, touched the throne with one hand, and suddenly exerted force. The throne was pushed away by Gran, revealing a secret passage under the throne.
"This is a secret I only found out after I became the king."
Gran looked at the secret passage under the throne and sighed. Chel, who was beside him, took two steps forward and opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
"Back then, the first king signed a contract with the Blood God Cult. The content was that the Blood God Cult would help the kingdom unify the continent, while the Blood God Cult required all subjects of the kingdom to believe in the Blood God and recognize their doctrines. If either party breached the contract, they would be You will be punished by the Blood God."
"Facts have proven that the first generation king signed that contract in order to dominate the continent, and after unifying the continent, he fell out on the spot, and a large number of Blood God believers were secretly massacred. In the end, the Blood God Cult returned to the shadows and ended."
“Just when the king thinks it’s over, little does he know that’s when it really begins.”
"The mysterious death of the first king was the work of the Blood God Sect. The power of the contract is so powerful that even your procuratorate has not found the Blood God Sect's headquarters, which is actually under the palace."
Gran looked at Ye Hui, who looked normal next to him, and felt a sense of guilt in his heart. The ultimate dream of the Procuratorate of all generations was to destroy the headquarters of the Blood God Cult and expel all the Blood God Cultists.
But the headquarters of the Blood God Sect is actually under the royal capital. If the truth is made public, the showdown between the Procuratorate and the Blood God Sect will be a joke that lasts for decades.
puff!
A mouthful of blood was spurted out by Gran and splashed on the throne in front of him. Chel quickly stepped forward to help Gran and let him lie flat on the ground.
At this time, Gran's face was as pale as paper, and he was as angry as if he would die suddenly at any time. Ye Hui had seen this state before in the old king. It can be seen that there is a price to pay for telling the truth.
"An Ye, I am not asking for your forgiveness when I say this. I will just swallow the evil consequences of my predecessors. Even if it is not for the kingdom, at least for your sister..."
Gran grabbed the hem of Ye Hui's clothes and passed out after saying this with all his strength.
Chel, who was on the side, could only hug Gran in his arms, with a few tears falling down his cheeks. The price of violating the contract was unexplainable. Even if Ye Hui could prevent the incarnation of the Blood God from coming, he could not end the cause and effect of the contract.
After learning everything, Ye Hui finally understood why the old king was so weak in his prime. He had obviously told the truth and suffered the backlash of the power of the contract.
As for who will learn the truth, it is naturally Chel. Chel is obviously the back-up man left by the old king.
If Grant fails in the struggle for power, or lacks the courage to tell the truth.
Nachel is the only hope of knowing the truth. Although she will die due to the backlash of the power of the contract after telling the truth, this is related to the fate of the entire continent.
After thinking everything clearly, Ye Hui came to the dark void under the throne and jumped down. He would resolve all the grievances in this world.
After a while, Ye Hui was down to earth, and the lightless dark environment had no visual impact on him.
Looking around, he saw a gloomy passage with cells on both sides.
Through the blood-stained prison door, one can see blood god cultists whose blood has been drained and turned into human corpses.
Although this group of Blood God cultists have been raped, the fanatical look on their faces is still the same as before. Obviously this is the price of summoning the incarnation of the Blood God.
Walking through the passage composed of cells, at the end is a basement covered with blood-red lines.
Entering the basement, the first thing you see is a pile of skeletons and corpses. Looking upward, the top of the pile of skeletons and corpses is Daler sitting on the throne.
(End of chapter)