Sir Aven I Blood Pact

We stood in front of the ruins of Fort Zoela, facing the ruins I once again felt the charm of the architect, although it has become a wreck, it still allows me to feel the sense of majesty exuded by it.

"Frankie said that someone found suspicious people around here." Peter put his hips on his hips, tilted his head, and squinted at Zoeira Castle in front of him.

"There are people patrolling here every day, and people can sneak in. The outside is handed over to Melon and Petra to search." Aiwen said, "Let's go in and have a look." While talking, we turned to Zoe Rabao walked in, and when we didn't realize it, not far behind us, two figures, one big and one small, suddenly followed us into Fort Zoela from the woods.

After walking along the broken passage for about ten minutes, Peter looked at the traces of the former photo frames on both sides and said, "Tsk tsk, how majestic these hanging statues used to be, each one has a unique spirit."

"Have you ever been here?" I asked him, "before the frame was gone?"

Peter nodded: "Yes, I was young at that time, my grandfather brought me here, but I didn't understand at that time, and then I was wandering around, so after being reprimanded by my grandfather, I was brought back home."

"You were so naughty when you were young." I smiled.

"Isn't that right?" Ai Wen also smiled, "He was very naughty when he was a child. I remember one time we were in my house, and he could tease more than a dozen servants a day, and none of them took the same pattern. He stumbled over the string he arranged, and some people took a plate and opened the food in the lid of the tray, but he secretly dropped the bag. For this, he was often beaten by his grandfather.”

"Hahaha." Several of us couldn't help laughing.

Not long after, we have reached the council hall of Fort Zoela, where the scene when Fort Zoela collapsed is still preserved, with crooked and broken tables and chairs, and mutilated window coffins. "It looks like there was some kind of battle here." Peter said, looking around.

Aiwen and Sass Yimon glanced at each other, and Aiwen said: "You are right. This was the starting point for Queen Somia to fight for the position of Pope."

"Why did Zoeira Castle collapse back then?" I looked up at the broken window coffin.

"When Queen Somia competed for the position of pope, she and Muric were evenly matched, and this place became an innocent point of war." Ai Wen said, "After Queen Somia came to power, she ordered the abandonment of Zuo Mia. Ira Fort, and built the current Esomi Fort on the opposite hillside, and built another temple for Pope George on the hill behind Esomi Fort.”

It turns out that Zoeira Castle was abandoned like this, but it's a bit strange, why did Somia abandon this Zoeira Castle?Could it be that the memories brought to her by this castle of Zoela were too cruel?But that's not necessarily the case, it's nothing special to her.Or in other words, what secret is hidden in this Zoeira castle, and Somia left to keep this secret?What kind of secret is that?

We left the council hall and looked at other places in Zoeira Castle. There was nothing special about the restaurant, aisle, small reception room, etc.When we walked to the Cavaliers training ground, it was similar to other places, just a little bit different.I looked at the place in front of me that looked like a football field. There were some old and rusty weapons against the wall, mostly swords and guns. I was surprised that there were no weapons like knives and axes.

"Is this the knight training ground?" I asked.

"Yes." Ivan nodded, "My father also arranged for me to participate in knight training with Anwar. The knight commander was Chia Wells White. He was the eldest son of the White family, one of the eight noble branches. He is also a knight hero whom my father valued very much.”

"Then how did he betray your father?" Sess Emon said coldly. This is indeed the truth, which makes us all feel a little sad. If Wells is really loyal to Ivan's father, Why did he betray his master later?

This topic is too heavy, and Ivan doesn't know what to say. It's not convenient for Peter and I to interrupt this matter, so we have to use silence instead.We passed directly from the knight training ground and walked into the stone gate opposite.Not long after, we went to the secret passage we walked with Ivan before, and once again came to the secret room where the sleeping George was originally placed.

"I've been here with Xiao before, and I didn't find anything special," Ai Wen said.

"You said before that the place where George really slept was not found, so this is just a fake scene?" I asked.Ivan nodded slightly: "You can say that, or you don't have to say that." I looked at him strangely, and Ivan explained: "After Charles died, the political situation was turbulent, George woke up and turned the tide, and then he handed over the pope to He gave it to his nephew, but he continued to choose to sleep, and the seven elders who sent him to sleep at that time can testify that he was indeed placed in this secret room, and many guards were sent outside to guard it. After a while, there was no one in this secret room, and no one knew where George was moved to."

After Ai Wen finished speaking, the scene was silent for a while.

"Is this George really being removed?" I couldn't help blurting out, as if asking them and thinking to myself.

"What do you mean by that?" Peter asked, feeling that my words were a bit weird.

"If it is certain that no one has entered this secret room, then the possibility of George being removed is relatively small. In other words," I said, "there is a 90.00% possibility that George left by himself."

"How is this possible?"

"Why did he do this?"

"You mean George is pretending to be asleep?"

Three people and three voices came out within three seconds after my words at the same time, which made me stunned for a while, and I said: "Hey, don't say the same thing at the same time. Actually, I was already talking about George's deep sleep before. I was very skeptical, but I was not sure whether my idea was correct for a while. I thought about many possibilities and impossibilities. I have always found it strange that Charles stepped down as a 'meaningless replacement'. A brand new society was created after leading the tribe to escape to a hidden place, and this person became the leader of the tribe. The dignity above, the world has reached such a level for the sake of rights, who would choose to give up? So I think this matter is fundamentally a matter of hiding secrets."

"You mean," said Sess Emond, "George chose to retire because of some secret matter, and gave up the pope to Charles?"

"What kind of thing can make a person give up power and hide himself willingly?" Peter touched his chin and said.

"That's the problem." I nodded.

For a while, everyone was thinking about this question, but Peter's eyes were looking around, looking around, and his eyes were not quite right. "Peter?" I noticed that his eyes seemed to be looking for something, "What are you looking for?"

"Huh?" Peter looked back at us and around, "I always feel like I've been here before."

"I've been to this place several times, and there's nothing strange about it," Ivan said.

"No, no, no." Peter shook his head, "It's just that I remember running here when I was a child. That's right, that's the time I went back to Essatan with my grandfather to visit your father, and then I was alone I ran out to play and entered Zoela Castle, and I ended up running in here, I remember when I came in, this place seemed a little different from what it is now."

"What's the difference?" We asked in unison.

Peter didn't answer, just stared at the surrounding environment very closely, and we all kept quiet tacitly, letting him recall the past.Peter looked around, looked around, and felt that something was different: "Oh, yes, I remember when I came here when I was a child, there seemed to be a door or something." He pointed to the door next to the fireplace. the walls.

We went up to check, and there seemed to be nothing strange about it.

"Strange, it seems that there is no mechanism." I said strangely.

"This shield..." Seth Aemon looked up and saw a shield hanging above the fireplace, "Has it always been hung here?"

We also looked at it, it was an ordinary shield, engraved with a unicorn's head and two crossed serpent heads with fangs, which was the national emblem of Essatan. "There seems to be some marks on the edge of this shield." After looking at it for a long time, I found that this shield seemed really weird.

Ivan reached out and fiddled with the shield. After a few times, we heard a muffled 'click'. We were all taken aback. The wall on our left, which was the wall Peter looked at before, turned and gradually turned. There is a gap, enough for one person to get in and out. "Sure enough, it's tricky." I murmured in Chinese.

"Go, go in and have a look." Ivan took a torch from the side wall, lit it, and walked in first.

This secret passage is even older than the previous ones. It feels about the same age as Fort Zoeira. There are spider webs everywhere, but there are some footprints on the ground. "Someone seems to have come in here." Ivan shone the torch on the ground, and we all saw some relatively fresh footprints.

"Really, who has been here?" Peter asked back.

"Did you step on it when you came in as a kid?" I said.

"Are you an idiot? Were his feet that big when he was a kid?" Seth Emon gave me a blank look.In other words, the footprints on the ground did not look like those of a child, but should belong to an adult male, but who would walk this way?And judging by the clarity of the footprints, it doesn't seem like it was a long time ago, it's quite fresh.

"Go, take a look inside." Ai Wen headed inside again.

I don't know how long we walked, so long that we all felt that it should be dawn outside, but my sleepiness never came. "How long have we been walking, isn't this secret passage too long?" Peter felt sleepy and yawned several times. "There seems to be a bright light in front." Ai Wen said suddenly, we looked up, and there was a faint light in front.We quickened our pace, but when we walked out of the secret passage, we were all stunned and didn't know what to say.

What appeared in front of us was a cliff, and our ears were the howling sea breeze.

"This is a cliff?!" I was surprised that this secret road actually led to such a place.

"This seems to be the back of the Qiongsi Canyon!" Ivan poked his head out, looked up, down, left, and right, and then stepped back and said to us.

"What?" Peter was also very surprised, "This secret road actually came here directly from Essatan?"

"Look below!" Seth Imon looked down a few times and said to us.

We all looked down, and there was a very dilapidated small wooden boat floating on the sea surrounded by hidden reefs under the cliff several feet high. Upon closer inspection, the small wooden boat was actually caught in the middle of the hidden reefs. "Why is there a small wooden boat here?" Ivan was very surprised. "It seems that my guess is correct." I said, "George probably used this secret passage to get out of Essatan, then climbed down the cliff and boarded a small wooden boat, and left Essa without anyone noticing it." Tanel."

"If George left in the small wooden boat, why is the small wooden boat still here?" Sass Emon asked back.

Ai Wen pondered for a while, and said to us: "Go, let's go back first."