Creed of the heavens

"Haha! Welcome, my friend, have you finally made up your mind to leave a portrait?"

"No." Lu Xiao complained angrily, "I need your help with something important."

Da Vinci was a little surprised, but he still took Lu Xiao's hand and led him into the studio.

"Tell me, as long as I can help, I will never refuse."

"Before that." Lu Xiao's face became serious: "I need to remind you that this matter may involve two secret organizations fighting for thousands of years. Are you sure you want to know the truth behind this world?"

Lu Xiao could clearly see the light of seeking knowledge flickering in Da Vinci's eyes. There was no look of fear on his face, but he rubbed his hands excitedly.

"Hey! My friend, don't tempt me, you know my character, the unknown is the most attractive."

"Say it, talk it, I'll listen all the time."

Lu Xiao shrugged helplessly: "I knew you would say that, but the process still needs to go through."

Without involving deep secrets, Lu Xiao told Da Vinci about the ideological dispute between Assassins and Templars, and put the pair of leather boots with damaged blades in front of Da Vinci.

"interesting."

Da Vinci studied the pair of leather boots with hidden blades with great interest: "The mechanism hidden inside the boots is very delicate, and it uses an innovative idea that has never been used in Europe."

"Lu, give me some time. I need to study this pair of leather boots carefully. If I can thoroughly understand the production principle of the boot blades, it will definitely give me a huge boost in my research and creation."

Lu Xiao had no choice but to leave the studio lightly, leaving Da Vinci alone to draw diagrams of mechanisms on paper.

"Regional suppression mission Florence is completed, rewarding free skill point 1, please use it carefully with the host."

Lu Xiao, who had just walked out of Da Vinci's workshop, paused, and then muttered to himself in a very low voice: "I don't need you to remind me."

In the spring of 1477, an oriental man wearing a brown traveling cloak drove a carriage from the north gate of Florence.

It has been more than two years since Lu Xiao came to the world of Assassin's Creed in 1474, and his age has also increased from the initial 25 years old to 27 close to 28.

This age is still in the category of young people, and there is no big change in appearance for the time being.

But Lu Xiao's temperament has undoubtedly undergone a huge change compared to when he first came to the world of Assassin's Creed.

Lu Xiao, an ordinary white-collar worker, gradually disappeared and was replaced by an experienced sect elite.

After Rodrigo Borgia was returned to Rome by the Brotherhood, his style of doing things has undergone some changes, from the aggressive and proactive attack to a more pragmatic and low-key one.

His energy on the Assassin Brotherhood gradually withdrew, and he began to pay more attention to the selection of the next pope.

The contemporary Pope Sixter IV was getting older, and the Holy See began to prepare for the selection of the Pope's successor. Many cardinals were running for this, and an undercurrent began to surge under the table in Greater Rome.

Without Rodrigo taking the lead in making troubles, Florence has lived very peacefully during this period.

The momentum of the Renaissance intensified against a peaceful background. This trend spread outward from the city of Emerald, and gradually affected neighboring places such as Siena and Pisa.

The cardinals of the Holy See are busy with infighting, and are somewhat unprepared for the rise of artists supported by private capital.

When the Holy See realized that the ideas of the Renaissance were shaking the foundation of the Holy See’s rule, the whole of Italy joined in this ideological emancipation movement, and even affected other neighboring European countries.

The class struggle between the Holy See and private capitalists has nothing to do with Lu Xiao. At this time, he was riding a carriage all the way to the Romagna region in northern Tuscany.

Chapter 42 The Truth About the Child of Destiny

"Leonardo, what are your thoughts on leaving your hometown and embarking on a journey? Do you feel sad?"

Hearing Lu Xiao's inquiry, a head poked out from the carriage. It was Leonardo da Vinci who was busy researching in his studio in Florence not long ago.

"On the contrary." After tidying up the items in the carriage, Da Vinci sat next to Lu Xiao who was driving, and said to him excitedly: "Leaving Florence gave me a sense of liberation. Sure enough, to learn more about the world, you must first Take the first step bravely."

Lu Xiao had expected Da Vinci's answer, smiled noncommittally, and concentrated on steering the carriage along the road at a constant speed.

Da Vinci is worthy of the title of universal genius given to him by later generations. After a period of analysis and research, he finally fully grasped the principle of the mechanism of the boot blade, and realized some concepts of oriental mechanism from it without a teacher.

Lu Xiao speculated that the idea of ​​making the boot blade should have been passed down from the descendants of the Mohists.

From the records about the East left by the Brotherhood in the Middle East, we can know that almost all the Mohist sects who had hidden themselves among the people joined the Eastern Brotherhood.

Not only the Mohist school, but because of the ideological restraint policy of Qin Wang Yingzheng who deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, Mohist, Yin-Yang School, Strategist and other schools that were suppressed quietly hid in the dark.

They fought against the Confucians who respected royal power and order, that is, the Knights Templar, for thousands of years. The conflict of ideas between the two sides ran throughout Chinese history.

Wang Mang, who was ridiculed as a time traveler, is the new king fully supported by the Eastern Brotherhood. Holding the Golden Apple of Eden in his hand, he has gained enormous knowledge beyond the times.

It's a pity that he took too big a step and didn't take into account the people's acceptance of his policies at that time, and he was unlucky to meet another opponent who held a powerful artifact of Eden and was supported by the Templars Liu Xiu.

Wang Mang, who was eager to promote social change, was defeated by Liu Xiu with the help of the Eden artifact to trigger the celestial phenomena and the earth's veins. Under the continuous meteorite rain, thunder from the sky and blows, Wang Mang finally fell into a slump, and finally ushered in the Guangwu ZTE recorded in history.

When he saw this part of the records, Lu Xiao had a very weird expression. He didn't expect that the Guangwu Zhongxing created by "Son of Destiny" Liu Xiu would have such an explanation in this world and it was quite in line with the world view.

Da Vinci comprehended a part of the philosophy of Mohism through the study of Mohism's mechanisms. Genius is so unreasonable.

In the early years, Leonardo Da Vinci became very interested in the vast world through Lu Xiao's description of the uniqueness of the East.

Knowing that Lu Xiao planned to leave Florence for Venice, the water city in northern Italy, Da Vinci proposed on the spot that he wanted to accompany her all the way to Venice to see the world and find inspiration.

The Auditore family had no objection to this, and Maria promised to give Da Vinci sufficient financial support as always, and entrusted members of the Venetian Brotherhood to prepare a new studio for Da Vinci in advance.

The rich and powerful bosses agreed, and Lu Xiao naturally had no reason to refute. After finishing preparations for departure, he and Da Vinci took a carriage together and left Florence with the Auditore family seeing him off.

Venice is the capital of the Veneto region, a well-known port city, known as the Pearl of the Adriatic Sea.

In this era, like most Italian city-states, Venice also established the Venetian Republic centered on itself.

The easiest way to get to Venice is by boat, but Florence happens to be an inland city.

To reach Venice by boat, Lu Xiao and Da Vinci could only take a carriage to the Romagna region in the northern part of Tuscany, and board the boat to Venice at the local port of Forli.

The name Romagna is very unfamiliar to Lu Xiao, but he already has an impression of Foli.

If Lu Xiao remembered correctly, there should be an assassin's tomb in Foli City, but he couldn't remember exactly where it was.

"Leonardo, I'm going to look for an ancient tomb in Forli. Maybe we'll stop in Romagna for a while."

Da Vinci has no objection to this. For him who just left his hometown, everything in the outside world is new.

"No problem, it just so happens that you can fulfill Mr. Giovanni's entrustment and visit an ally of the Brotherhood, the local lady of the lord."

The wife of Forli's lord is named Caterina Sforza, the daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the former Duke of Milan who was assassinated by the Templars.

Like her father, Katarina was bound to the Assassin Brotherhood at an early age.

It was with Giovanni's assistance that Caterina escaped from the sudden assassination.