Creed of the heavens

After the Assassin Brotherhood kept their promise and basically emptied the information Rodrigo knew, Rodrigo was released safely by the Florentine Brotherhood under Mario's instructions.

Some of the more radical assassins were quite critical of Mario and Giovanni's decision. They believed that they should take the opportunity to get rid of Rodrigo, which would greatly damage the Templars' influence throughout Europe.

The moderates believed that killing Rodrigo would completely detonate the hatred between the Templars and the Assassins, attract endless revenge from each other, and might even completely offend the Catholic Church.

Both sides had their own reasons, and it was difficult for anyone to convince the other. The final decision was made by Mario Auditore, the leader of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins.

Mario may seem reckless, but he is actually a rough and fine person. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to adopt the advice of his younger brother Giovanni and release Rodrigo.

Standing outside the south gate of Florence, Rodrigo looked back at the city that had humiliated him with somewhat complicated eyes. His mentality had undergone some changes during the process of being captured.

The Knights Templar, caught in internal turmoil, got the news of Rodrigo's release, and immediately arranged for elites to come to pick him up.

Rodrigo left Florence under the escort of a large number of Templars, all the way south to Rome, the headquarters of the Holy See.

At the same time, Uberto, Jacob and others were convicted of treason and hanged in the square in front of the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore. The crisis in Florence was finally officially lifted.

The fate of members of the Auditore family also underwent important changes during this turmoil.

After breaking San Gimignano with the help of the Florentine army, Mario and Ezio successfully obtained the pages of the Codex stored in Pazzi's mansion, and Ezio and Petruccio brought these undeciphered pages to the world. Back to Florence.

After experiencing this turmoil that was enough to shake the foundation of Florence, Federico, who had always been idle in the past, became more mature and stable.

Although he still likes to make some innocuous jokes in his daily life, his devotion and concentration to the work of the assassin has obviously improved a lot.

In view of this, the gratified Giovanni decided to let the eldest son be completely independent, and placed him in the goodwill mission sent by the Medici family to Siena to protect the main member of the mission, Giuliano Medici.

Claudia has been feeling depressed recently, because Claudia, who received traditional education since she was a child, refused to have sex with her fiancé Duccio before marriage, and Duccio, who couldn't control his lower body, had an affair before marriage. Coe hit it straight.

The black-bellied Federico did not expose Duccio on the spot, but suppressed his anger and arranged for his entourage to go home and call his sister and parents. The whole family watched the hungry Duccio flirting with a fat ugly girl. pretty.

Needless to say, the extremely angry Giovanni ignored the gentleman's etiquette, grabbed Duccio and beat him up, and announced on the spot that Claudia's engagement with him was dissolved.

Ezio learned of the news soon after returning to Florence. An angry Ezio rolled up his sleeves and planned to rush out to leave an unforgettable lesson for Duccio, but finally Claudia, depressed, stopped him.

"That humanoid planter has nothing to do with me, don't make me think of him again."

After deciphering by Giovanni, the encrypted content of the five pages was finally presented to the Brotherhood.

This time the pages of the book contain many pictures, among which Codex 25 is a portrait drawn by Altaïr for his wife Maria Thorpe. I have to say that Altaïr's painting skills are quite good.

In addition, Codex 15 is the source of Rodrigo's knowledge of the whereabouts of another golden apple. This page depicts a complete map of the island of Cyprus.

Codex 16 and Codex 18 are pure text records, respectively describing Altaïr's doubts about the future vision shown by the Golden Apple, as well as his disputes with fellow Assassins and the insights he experienced from it.

The last page, Codex 22, was the most important of the pages of this harvest, on which Altaïr depicted an incomplete world map that marked the whereabouts of multiple Pieces of Eden.

Although the American continent is missing, considering Altaïr's era, he was able to draw this map is amazing enough.

Asia, Europe, Africa, and even Oceania are all included, which should be the fragments of knowledge that Altaïr obtained from the golden apple.

When Lu Xiao and Giovanni had related discussions, they said with great interest: "I'm very much looking forward to what the complete world map will look like after collecting the pages of the book, and this is only recorded by the Apple of Eden owned by Altaïr. The tip of the glacier."

"How many artifacts left by the First Ming still exist in this world? I really hope that one day I can find them all."

In order to complete the task but considering the time cost, this is just a good wish after all.

Chapter 41 The Shroud of Eden

Even without knowing the exact number of Pieces of Eden scattered all over the world, the tip of the iceberg of the First Ming's legacy can be seen just from the map drawn by Codex 22.

Countless years have passed, and some of these Pieces of Eden buried around the world should have been unearthed by the Assassins and Templars, and changed hands many times during the battle between the two organizations.

One of these is the Sword of Eden, an artifact once owned by both the Templars and the Assassins, but no one knows where it is today, leaving only vague clues.

The biggest obstacle for Lu Xiao to collect the Pieces of Eden is not the Templars, but the Pieces of Eden itself's rejection of non-Isu descendants.

Now that she has decided to leave Florence, Lu Xiao intends to tentatively touch one of the artifacts, the Shroud of Eden, before leaving.

Giovanni readily agreed to Lu Xiao's request to study the shroud, and specially sent someone to deliver it to the Auditore mansion.

The Piece of Eden is the highest-level secret for both the Assassins and the Templars. Ezio and Claudia, who have not officially joined the Assassins, have no right to know its existence. I made an excuse to wander the streets.

The shroud was packed in a wooden box with exquisite patterns, and it was placed on the desk in Lu Xiao's guest room at this time.

Giovanni seemed to have suffered from the shroud before. He stood a little far away from the desk, and reminded Lu Xiao with flickering eyes: "Try to be vigilant when studying the shroud, and don't let it whisper Temptation, keep your mind."

"I have a little psychological shadow on this thing, so I won't accompany you to open the wooden box. You can do it yourself."

After saying these words, Giovanni turned around and slipped away, not even giving Lu Xiao a chance to keep him.

"Hehe" Lu Xiao's mouth twitched, don't worry, I won't open the box desperately, I just want to use it for an experiment.

Even through the container, Lu Xiao could feel a strange mental wave affecting him, tempting him to open the lid of the box and take the shroud as his own.

The formal assassin training in the past two years not only tempered Lu Xiao's body and skills, but also tempered his will.

Barely resisting the attraction from the shroud, Lu Xiao slowly stretched out her fingers to touch the top of the wooden box.

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Shroud of the Pieces of Eden. Do you want to put it into the system space to complete the task now?"

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Lu Xiao let out a long sigh of relief, his experiment was successful.

Before touching the Pieces of Eden in person, Lu Xiao had been worried that if she came into contact with the Pieces of Eden, would it be considered a mandatory completion of the task, and the countdown of the 1-year stay would start.

The results of the experiment proved that the system is not so overbearing, and its host is given the freedom to choose, which adds a lot of flexibility to Lu Xiao's follow-up plan.

Although he was very curious about the effect of the Shroud of Eden, Lu Xiao knew that if he did not have the blood of Eden, opening the box would cause him to be immediately controlled by the artifact and lose his mind.

Let's talk about it later, anyway, this artifact is kept in the hands of the Brotherhood, and there will definitely be a chance to get it officially in the future.

After successfully completing the exploratory experiment about the Pieces of Eden and the world mission, there is only one thing left for Lu Xiao to stay in Florence.

Standing in front of the gate of Da Vinci's studio, Lu Xiao's expression was a little tangled.

Every time I met Da Vinci before, this versatile genius would enthusiastically propose to draw a portrait of him, even though he was rejected many times by Lu Xiao, he still persevered.

"Hey"

Sighing, Lu Xiao could only bite the bullet and reached out to knock on the door, considering that she was the one asking for something.

"Come here, who is it?"

Da Vinci's voice, as always, is full of enthusiasm for life and curiosity about the unknown, and sounds very cheerful.

Opening the door and seeing Lu Xiao's reluctantly smiling face, Da Vinci happily opened his arms and gave Lu Xiao a warm hug.