Chapter 576 Inside the Palace
Dawn Glow City, in the Royal Palace Garden.
Otto Losi and Oro Tokat sneaked behind a rockery.
Of course, it is not completely sneaky - at least when entering the palace area, they passed through the gate openly in front of the guards. As long as they did not go to the palace area, their actions would not be hindered. All the guards knew that the Losi and the Tokat family had always been loyal fans of the royal family, and after they took over the family, they would become the chief ministers of the eldest prince.
"Hey, do you really need to do this?" Otto couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
If the Morning Light Castle, which is often seen in the Lord of Dawn, is considered a forbidden area, the bedroom in the castle is considered a forbidden area. And they knew a secret passage from the garden to the bedroom - this narrow underground passage should be one of the several escape secret passages in the palace. When they were young, they explored it with Andrea and Prince Ampein. The four of them also regarded it as their secret base and occasionally held a small party there.
Of course, they were only about ten years old at that time, and even if they were discovered by His Majesty Moya, they would scold them at most. But now that the two are already adults, what would His Majesty think if they sneak into the bedroom privately?
"Please, the three families united to find out the reason why Anpein became unfamiliar. Isn't this what you proposed?" Oro curled his lips, "Now it's time to get back, are you trying to retreat again?"
"I..." Otto opened his mouth, speechless for a moment.
"But I really admire you, and I actually used Andrea's recent situation to confront Lord Quinn's tone. If it weren't for her playmate since childhood, if it were someone else, I think the thing he wanted to do the most was to kill someone to silence him." Oro said as he leaned over and looked, "Now is the best time to know the truth. Are you going to do it?"
Otto hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth and nodded.
Because the news revealed by Earl Quinn is really surprising.
Since His Majesty fell ill, the eldest prince often met an alchemist in the palace, and would invite those who visited the disease out of the palace. I heard that His Majesty could wake up for one or two hours a day, and that person used special medicines to suppress the disease. Andrea's father, as the imperial prime minister, naturally had the opportunity to enter the bedroom to ask His Majesty for political affairs. He had seen the alchemist at a glance. The other party was actually a young woman, and her whole body was covered in black veil. Only her dull silver-gray pupils could be seen.
After hearing this, Otto thought of the church in an instant.
If he hadn't visited Gray Castle, he wouldn't have thought about this, but after meeting Roland Wimbledon, the news that the church secretly cultivated pure people and tried to subvert the four kingdom regimes and accumulate strength to welcome the war of the end of the world has taken root in his heart.
He finally did not tell Count Quinn this information. After all, the incident had a great impact. He had to confirm that his guess was correct before he could make the next decision.
I learned from the count that the alchemist would appear today, and Otto immediately thought of this secret passage that he often entered and left when he was a child.
Since it is impossible to get the support of the eldest prince, he can only find the truth in this way.
Seeing him nodding, Oro immediately acted - pushing away the knee-high weeds, and prying a cover plate disguised as ordinary stones from the rockery with a dagger. The rusty iron railing soon appeared in front of the two. The fence was about one arm long and wide, so it could only be opened from the inside with a key, but this was not a problem for the two who had prepared long ago.
Oro took out a glass bottle from his waist bag, uncovered the lid, and poured the yellowish-brown liquid in the bottle into the lock position.
A choking roll of eyes suddenly rose, and the railings stained by liquid made a sizzling sound, like butter thrown into a hot pan.
This is the iron-transformed water prepared by the Alchemist of Glow City. A fist-sized bottle costs more than ten golden dragons. The process did not turn the iron into a pool of black water in the blink of an eye as the other party claimed. After pouring two bottles, the lock that narrowed two circles before falling off the railing.
Then the two bent down and climbed into the hole. Oro did not forget to turn around and close the stone slab.
After climbing for more than ten steps, the passage was a little wider and was ready for people to stand and walk. Otto skillfully groped the oil lamp hanging on the wall and lit it with flint. The faint light illuminated the stone wall and the arched ceiling. For more than ten years after leaving here, the secret passage remained as if time had stopped here. When passing by the lounge halfway, you could still see the soft mat and wine glasses they dragged in for the party.
As the road bent and climbed upwards, Otto Losi knew that he had entered the Morning Light Castle.
The walls of the castle are divided into two layers inside and outside, like sandwich bread slices. The empty part in the middle is reserved for the secret room and the secret passage. When the two arrive at the end of the secret passage, they are equivalent to coming to the back of the fireplace in the bedroom.
Since the mechanism must be opened from the bedroom, they cannot enter the bedroom directly, but through the tiny gap in the flap door, they can roughly see the scene in the bedroom. And if it is quiet enough, they can also hear the voices of people in the room talking.
Otto extinguished the oil lamp and put his eyes in front of the gap.
The fireplace was facing a large bed, and the lying on the bed was the Lord of the Morning, His Majesty Degen Moa. The eldest prince Anpein looked a little anxious when he was walking back and forth by the bed.
The two looked at each other, nodded tacitly, and leaned carefully on the slab of the valve - it was obvious that His Highness was waiting for the alchemist to come.
After about half an hour, there was finally a new movement in the room.
They immediately turned their heads and looked at them with a squint.
Two women walked into the bedroom. One of them was the black veil alchemist as Earl Quinn called, and the other was probably the assistant of the alchemist. He was carrying a shoulder bag, wearing a red and white robe and cloak, and had beautiful blonde curly hair.
"You're late!" Anpein said unhappily.
"Sorry," the blonde woman stroked her chest, "There was something going on the road, which took a lot of time."
"What do you do if you say so much? Just wake up his father," replied the black veil man coldly, "What does it matter if it's a little earlier or later."
"We can't say that, we have to rely on the help of His Highness," she took out a green porcelain bottle from her bag. "It's good for us to maintain a harmonious relationship, isn't it?"
"Give me the medicine," An Peiyin took two steps forward, but was stopped by the black veil man.
"Did you forget our agreement? This medicine must be fed by me to be effective, and in exchange, you must meet the requirements of the crown prince."
Crown!
Otto was shocked and he would only use this honorific when calling the Pope. Is the other party really a person sent by the church?
Chapter completed!