Mystery: A Spark

Backlund, the underground area of ​​St. Samuel's Church.

Leonard, with his black hair, blue eyes, and poetic air, walked here, his expression calm as if he had accepted some kind of mission.

However, beneath his calm expression, he was inwardly ranting and raving:

"I feel like I've gone mad. How could I have agreed to steal something from behind the Charness Gate?"

"Hehe, you're wrong, Leonard. This time it's not called 'stealing,' it's called 'taking.' Haven't you noticed how few people are here today?" Pales's aged voice echoed in the poet's mind.

"Isn't that because the King is giving a speech today?" Leonard observed his surroundings discreetly and noticed that it was indeed much quieter than usual.

"Heh heh, Your Majesty? It seems you still don't understand what Arthur meant by having that little dog deliver a message to us yesterday," Pales chuckled.

“You don’t explain, how am I supposed to understand?” Leonard replied.

"Heh, to put it simply, your king is probably finished, and Rune will enter a new era."

"What!?" Leonard suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"Why are you so surprised? Don't you understand what Arthur is trying to do?" Palles asked.

“He’s thinking…” Leonard’s mind began to recall a series of recent changes in Rune, trying to figure out Arthur’s target.

When those events were pieced together, and combined with what Palez had just said, Leonard suddenly had a bold guess in his mind.

"He's planning a coup!?"

Pales smiled and corrected:

"To be more precise, it should be regicide and usurpation."

Leonard's bright green eyes widened suddenly.

"Don't be so surprised. Actually, I only realized it yesterday, and I made some deductions based on what has happened in the past few months."

"So, today should be the day your king dies. Hehe, the fall of an angel from the Sequence that has been hidden for so long will surely attract a lot of attention."

“And when most of the attention is drawn away, that’s the perfect time for thieves like us to get active,” Pales said with a strange excitement in his voice.

It's like a weasel sneaking into the chicken coop after the villagers have fallen asleep.

"...You're the only one who wants to steal, I'm not a thief," Leonard retorted weakly.

"Hey, whatever you want. Just take me through the Chanis Gate. Don't worry, your actions today will not be investigated," Pales said calmly.

"Won't they be held accountable?" Leonard asked, puzzled.

“Well, you’ll understand soon enough,” Pales said without further explanation.

Leonard approached Charness Gate with some skepticism, encountering no one along the way.

This deepened his confusion, because logically speaking, there shouldn't be no one here at this time.

A short while later, Leonard arrived outside the gate of Charness. After hesitating for a few seconds, he tentatively pushed open the iron-black gate.

The deep darkness inside suddenly surged, and even the silver candles with carved patterns burning quietly inside could not dispel this feeling; on the contrary, the ghostly blue flames deepened the deathly silence.

At the same time, invisible forces were creeping towards Leonard from the darkness.

But when they were still some distance away, they seemed to be connected to something without touching Leonard's body.

This state, where it appears to be connected but is actually not, is usually referred to as "like a connection".

“There are no internal watchdogs…” Leonard vaguely understood something at this moment.

"Let's move forward, our goal is not far ahead," Pales's voice rang out at that moment.

Leonard composed himself and started walking towards the stone steps.

Outside the Gate of Charnis, in a dark corner, stood an elderly man dressed in an archbishop's robe.

Saint Anthony Stevenson!

He gazed calmly at the closed Charis Gate, having stood there for an unknown amount of time.

……

Come to the second floor.

After passing through the sealed artifacts such as the silver armor and the ancient notebook, Leonard quickly found the purpose of his trip.

It was a translucent worm with twelve rings on its body, which was placed in a seal.

The extraordinary characteristics of the "Time Insect"!

It comes from the original Jacob family treasure.

"How could this thing be placed on the second floor?" Leonard gradually became certain of his guess.

Extraordinary properties like the "Time Worm," which are at the Sequence 1 level, could only be placed in the third layer, and there is absolutely no way they could be placed together with these sealing objects in the second layer.

unless……

"Hehe, just a moment, I'll be right there." Pales didn't explain, he just chuckled.

The next moment, the entire second floor suddenly darkened considerably, as if concealing everything that was happening there.

"Just as I suspected..." Even though Leonard had some suspicions, he still found it incredibly hard to believe.

Near the Tasok River, a bird with dark circles around its eyes, which had been watching the commotion with great interest, suddenly looked puzzled.

"Strange, what happened?"

……

It didn't take long for the darkness on the second level to dissipate, and the area returned to normal.

Leonard didn't ask any more questions and decisively turned and left.

He opened the Chanis door again, looked out, saw no one, and walked out as if nothing had happened, just like any other person who had come here normally.

"Where do we go next?" Leonard asked himself.

“Next… I should go find my lost Time Worm,” Pales replied leisurely.

……

Inside an unassuming house in Backlund.

A curvaceous woman, dressed in a semi-transparent black gauze outfit that subtly reveals her inner beauty, is resting her chin on her hand, deep in thought.

Last night, she received a message from Katarina saying that the news about welcoming the Lord's coming had been leaked and that she should find a way to capture Triss as soon as possible.

Of course, she also wanted to find Triss and offer her to the Lord, but the problem was that the container could not be found at all, as if it had vanished into thin air.

Not to mention the special sealed artifact in the other party's possession.

This situation suggests that another force may be involved, and that this force may have provided Triss with protection.

"The situation has become more complicated..." the woman in black sighed softly.

She knew nothing about this hidden force, so she had no idea what it wanted to do.

Further questioning of Katarina yielded no accurate response; the woman simply kept urging her to capture Triss as soon as possible.

If she could catch him, she would have done it already; why would she be worrying about it here?

Perhaps I should send that "Conqueror" trait back first. The situation here is far too strange and unsettling... The woman in black pondered for a moment, then got up and began packing her luggage.

She also changed her clothes to transform her image and become less conspicuous.

Once everything was ready, she took out a quaint little box from a hidden pocket in her clothes.

After the seals were broken, the woman in black opened the box and took out the item inside that emitted a blood-red light.

She needs to embark on a long journey, so the "Conqueror" trait needs to be resealed to ensure that the seal does not break during the trip.

This is because the "Conqueror" characteristic will constantly take everything around it for its own use, even including sealing away intangible and intangible entities.

However, just as the beauty in black was about to begin sealing the "Conqueror" trait anew and was preparing for the ritual, she was utterly astonished to discover that the "Conqueror" trait had vanished in the blink of an eye, after only a brief moment of distraction.

"Who is it!?" The woman in black instantly flew into a rage, and an invisible black mist of plague spread outwards.

Strangely, none of the black mist escaped from the houses, as if some force had stolen its ability to spread outwards.

“This…” Cold sweat immediately broke out on the black-clad beauty’s forehead.

……

"Hehe, my skills haven't gotten rusty yet, have they?" Pales's teasing voice echoed in Leonard's mind.

"Is this Arthur's purpose?" Leonard asked curiously.

“That’s right, he gave me a chance, and this is my reward to him. Let’s go, let’s go to Memorial Square and see what’s going on.”

……

In the center of the high platform of Memorial Square.

King George III, who was giving a passionate speech, suddenly stopped.

He looked down at the blond youth walking through the path that the crowd had instinctively parted to make way for him.

Then, he heard the blond youth say something:

Why is Your Majesty plotting a rebellion?

Chapter 287 A Grand Speech

A corner of the Memorial Day Square.

A young man with the air of a melancholy poet appeared here silently, without attracting anyone's attention.

Leonard looked towards the platform and easily spotted Arthur.

Immediately afterwards, he heard a thought-provoking question:

Why is Your Majesty plotting a rebellion?

"Hiss~ How come I never noticed how arrogant he was before?" Leonard gasped inwardly, having made a small contribution to warming up Backlund.

Good heavens, asking a king why he would rebel—what an audacious act!

This statement signified a complete breakdown in relations between Arthur and George III, and it was clear that one side had to fall today.

"Heh, what's so special about this? You just didn't realize it before. The things Arthur has done are far more outrageous than what you've seen today," Pales chuckled.