People are on the Ark, assisting Oma Zi-O

Your Highness?

Frost Star's eyes narrowed, and then she controlled her expression and returned to normal.

"Of course they don't know about this, because the mission to assassinate His Majesty was given to me specifically by Minister Robert."

I don't know when, the vizier was already standing at the door.

Behind her, the claw blade in Ascalon's hand had already bitten her white neck.

His eyes swept over the other person's bare feet even in this slightly damp basement. Fang Zhou coughed lightly in his heart and then looked at the smiling Vizier.

"Well, can you tell us why?"

"If you ask, then of course I can, Doctor."

Vizier smiled brightly, but Froststar's face was as cold as ice.

Chapter 312: Changing History

"If you ask, then of course I can, Doctor."

The Vizier smiled brightly, but Frost Star behind Fang Zhou had a cold expression.

She didn't like this Mantiko woman, but Frost Star suppressed her dislike in her heart. She understood the importance of this woman in front of her now.

"The reason Minister Robert ordered me to kill the former Emperor was naturally because, at that time, he believed the Empire had lost hope of survival. However, he did not want to die, and even less did he want to give up the power he held."

The vizier hooked a Manticore assassin next to him with his tail. The latter was unable to speak at all because of the magic of the Ark. Even though he had just seen his companion tell all the information like beans from a bamboo tube, he could only whimper anxiously and had no way to stop it.

At this time, she was hooked out by the vizier's tail and randomly piled on the ground, unable to resist. Then she felt a soft ball pressing on her back, and the vizier sat on her directly as if she were a stool.

"In a country on the verge of destruction, if you don't want to die but also don't want to give up power, then..."

The vizier looked at Ark and Frost Star with a smile on his face. The three people, including Askalon, understood what the vizier meant.

"That guy joined Oma Zi-O? Could it be that Oma Zi-O asked him to return to the present and kill Tallulah?"

Frost Star clenched his fists. Could it be that Amiya in the future had really reached this point? But hadn't he already killed Tallulah in that era? Why did he have to send someone back to the present to kill the present Tallulah?

"I don't know about that, but based on my understanding, it's impossible for him to contact Oma Zi-O directly. Even if he's the permanent secretary of the Empire's Ministry of the Interior, even if he made the entire Empire his own after the Emperor's death, Oma Zi-O wouldn't pay any attention to him. So I think it's likely... that someone under the Demon King acted on his own initiative."

Acting on your own initiative?

Hearing this, Fang Zhou remembered those guys who claimed to be Royal Knights and were just reserves who sneaked into Rhodes Island to assassinate Amiya.

Without Oma Zi-O's permission, would those people really dare to do such a thing on their own initiative?

Recalling the two times he met the future Demon Rabbit, the first time was 21 years later, and the second time was 18 years later. The Demon Rabbit in the two stages obviously had significantly different mental states.

21 years later, the Demon Rabbit obviously looks more relaxed, as if everything that needs to be done has been done and all he needs to do is wait for the results.

The Demon Rabbit that confronted the present Amiya 18 years later was obviously in a more tense mental state, like a lone traveler who carried all the pressure on himself and moved forward silently.

According to the information he could get, it was probably after that year that the Demon Rabbit launched the final decisive battle against the then Victoria Empire, killing Tallulah, and completely unified the entire Terra continent.

Could it be that the reason why the Demon Rabbit is in such a good mental state 21 years later is because he has truly completed the unification of the continent?

But what happened to the ocean back then? Was Agor, the creature beneath the ocean, also conquered by the Demon Rabbit?

There are too many unknowns about the future, and Fang Zhou really wants to drive the Demon Machine directly to the future Demon King Rabbit to ask for clarification, but as someone who has been working with Tokiwa Sougo for many years, he knows that if he keeps playing with history like this, sooner or later he will become a plaything of history.

Just like Swartz.

"How is it? Do you feel like everything is clear now?"

Vizier said with a smile, while Ark and Froststar remained silent.

"Amiya...will the future be like that?"

Askalon stared at the vizier's back.

"Amiya? Sorry, we've been calling her Oma Zi-O or Demon King, so we almost forgot she actually has the name Amiya."

Fang Zhou clenched his fists.

"Although I know this might be hard to accept, I do know that Rhodes Island is an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of the infected and addressing the discrimination they face due to their low status. It's definitely not easy to suddenly know that your leader will become a demon lord who starts a major war in the future. After all, after returning to Kazdel and announcing himself as the new demon lord and carrying out the purge, a large number of your Rhodes Island members left."

The Great Purge...

Ascalon couldn't associate the word with the gentle little rabbit.

It was as if she hadn't been able to connect what happened in Lungmen with Theresa until now.

Even though that is true.

"Put all of that aside for now."

Fang Zhou finally spoke and put all these things aside and stopped talking about them.

"But Minister Robert really trusts you. He actually gave such an important mission to you alone."

The Vizier snorted.

"Trust or not is a different matter. These bigwigs actually have similar thinking logic. While I can't say I can apply what I have learned to other things, as long as I master the tricks, I can't gain 100% trust, but I can still become a useful person around them."

As he spoke, the vizier took out a badge from his gauze skirt. It was a black and white shield emblem, with black and white crossed on the small shield.

"In order to facilitate me helping him do some shameful things, the minister also gave me this."

"The Drif family crest?"

"You'll be useful, right?"

The vizier knocked on the shield and then threw it to Ark.

The latter looked at the vizier in surprise, but the woman seemed to know what he wanted to do, and her eyes were full of deep smiles.

"I'd better deal with the current affairs in Canaan first."

Ark no longer cared whether the Vizier knew what he wanted to do. He just said this and disappeared from the sight of the Vizier and Frost Star the next second. Frost Star and Askalon were already used to Ark's sudden departure. Only the Vizier was still looking around in surprise, not knowing where Ark had gone.

"I am back."

About 20 seconds later, under the curious gazes of Vizier, Ascalon and Froststar, Ark returned to the basement and grabbed the head of a Mantiko, and the yellow-brown magic power penetrated into his brain without hesitation.

"Hmmmmmm!"

Fang Zhou removed the silencing magic on Mantiko, and then the assassin's screams made the other Mantiko assassins break out in cold sweats.

Although their strength in the entire continent can only be regarded as the elite level of other countries' military forces, and they usually only do some dirty work such as assassinations, they are assassins who have received rigorous training after all. They have a very high tolerance for pain. Even if their penis is crushed by pliers, they can remain calm... Perhaps, this is just a description of their tolerance level, so how much pain must it be to make their colleagues scream like this.

Perhaps it was the brain's self-protection mechanism. The awake assassins had already forgotten the pain of having their consciousness pierced by the mental spike.

After about seven or eight seconds, Fang Zhou had completed what he wanted to do and released his grip. The assassin fell limply to the ground, his body twitching from time to time, his eyes empty and lifeless, looking like he had been played with.

"Doctor…he…"

Although the Vizier still had a smile on his face, the cold sweat on his forehead and the trembling tail showed that Miss Mantiko was not at peace at the moment.

"I modified their memories. From now on, they will forget that they are from the future. They came to Canaan to carry out the assassination plan not to kill the so-called Demon King and Emperor, but to abort the reform of the infected in Ursus, forcing this military empire, which has been engaged in war for thousands of years, to continue to degenerate and collapse."

As Fang Zhou spoke, he grabbed the brain of another Mantiko, and with the same screams as before, he modified the memories in his mind in the same way.

"And in their memory, it was not the future Minister Robert Drif who ordered them, but the present Robert Drif."

The current Robert Drif, that guy will be the permanent secretary of the Home Office of the Victorian Empire in the future, but who is he now? Is he also in Victoria?

There was a flash of doubt in Frost Star's eyes, Askalon waited quietly for what to say next, and Vizier smiled, thinking that he had guessed right, which felt pretty good.

Fang Zhou knocked his head with a smile, forgetting that they still didn't know who Robert was now.

"I just did some research on what kind of character Robert is in this era, and I've found out."

Fang Ark briefly talked about what kind of person Robert Driver is in this era, and then everyone else present couldn't help but observe a moment of silence for this guy.

Although the current Minister Robert is not as powerful as he will be decades later, he can still be considered a somewhat influential figure in Victoria.

He was an earl under the Grand Duke Godottin. He held considerable power and was appreciated by the Grand Duke for his outstanding abilities. Although he had some issues with his personal conduct, the Grand Duke would not mind such a minor personal stain on a subordinate who could help him do good things.

But it will not be like this soon. Ark used to believe that a person's future mistakes would be attributed to his past self. Just like he is still teaching Ino and Sasha the Originium skills now, if these two children are not growing up wrong, then the mistakes they will make in the future will not happen, so they will not make any mistakes. This is Ark's philosophy.

But this Earl Robert is different. In the current timeline, this guy is already a bad person, so it doesn’t matter about the past or the future. The current Ark decides to let this Earl Robert in the past take the blame for his future self.

When they heard Fang Zhou's method, the three people present looked at each other in confusion. Is this method really feasible?

In response to their questions, Fang Zhou just nodded.

"Perhaps Godoting will still protect Robert in the end, but at least we have shifted our focus from Canaan to Victoria, an external force, and..."

Fang Zhou took out the Drif family crest that the vizier had just given him as he spoke.

"If we have this thing, the credibility of this news will increase a lot."

Having said that, Fang Zhou sped up and directly modified the memories of the remaining Mantiko assassins. Now they were all lying on the ground twitching. This symptom would take a while to heal, and then they could be used normally.

After retracting his magic power, Fang Ark suddenly felt that Askalon was looking at him with a strange gaze.

"What's wrong? Looking at me like that."

"nothing."

Askalon shook his head and spoke hesitantly as he looked at the Manticores twitching on the ground.

"I was just thinking, you wouldn't have modified our memories, would you?"

The basement fell silent for a moment, and even Frost Star's expression became strange.

Although she believed in Fang Zhou's character, there were some things you couldn't help but think about.

"I still can't explain this, which is why I've never demonstrated the relevant abilities. Once suspicion arises, the crime is established, and there's no way to explain it."

Fang Zhou shrugged his shoulders. This was the fact. The ability to manipulate memory would cause trouble. Once exposed, countless chains of suspicion would arise.

Therefore, most people who possess this ability will hide themselves, except for the one in Academy City. Shokuhou Misaki's ability is too versatile, and even if rumors about the queen are born, they will probably be eliminated within a day by this "psychological controller" using overt or covert forces or directly using her own abilities.

But at least Ark is immune to Shokuhou Misaki's superpowers. He possesses the demonic energy of the Thunder Demon Chuusu, and the principle is the same as that of a certain railgun to restrain the Star Eyes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to doubt you."

Askalon bowed her head slightly to apologize to Fang Ark, but her tone remained calm. That was just her personality, and Fang Ark wouldn't say anything.

"Should we keep them here for now?"

"Keep them locked up here. After we finish cleaning up up there, we'll go meet Mr. Spafari with Tallulah, and then we'll come over and question these people. They'll confess what happened themselves. Of course, this process will be a bit complicated."

Fang Ark looked at the assassins. The assassins, whose condition had improved slightly, seemed to sense Fang Ark's gaze and began to twitch again.

Ah, so that’s it, a bit of twists and turns…

Chapter 313: Changed History

"The work of Duke Godottin of Victoria? Hmm, it doesn't seem like it was commissioned by that Grand Duke. The Grand Duke has always portrayed himself as benevolent and kind. This kind of dark and despicable warfare method... makes me think of that she-cat from Caister."

When talking about Caister, Spafari's eyes revealed undisguised disgust.

Although conspiracy and calculation are also prevalent in Ursus, Spafari has always disapproved of those filthy things, not to mention Victoria, whose conspiracy and tricks are far more advanced than those of Ursus, and who is also the top conspiracy and trick of Victoria, Kester.

"Whether it's Godottin or Caster, sir, based on the intelligence we currently have, this assassination was undoubtedly Victoria's work."

It's just Victoria in the future.

Spafari glanced at the white-haired man. He couldn't tell his race from his appearance, but based on the intelligence information given to him by the people he brought with him, the man in front of him was most likely Draco, who mastered special Originium skills... or was he a dragon?

The body of the dragon revealed on the street at that time was indeed difficult for them in Ursus to distinguish. The Holy Lord was so strong that sometimes it was really difficult to tell whether this guy was Draco or a dragon, or... a hybrid?

Spafari thought of this horrible thought.

No, no, no, it's impossible. Draco is already outrageous. He is one of the bloodlines of the Victorian royal family. If he is mixed with the blood of the Great Yan royal family, what kind of monster will be born? Spafari dare not even imagine it.

But what Spafari could not have imagined was that the monster he dared not imagine was right next to him at this moment.

Tallulah looked at the badge that Fang Zhou placed on the table with mixed feelings. Amiya noticed that Tallulah was in a bad mood and gently took her hand and smiled at her.

"Ah."

Feeling a little relieved, Tallulah understood that this was Fang Zhou's way of getting rid of the impact of the assassination. Although it was impossible to completely prove that it was Count Robert who did it just by relying on the evidence in hand, it would definitely make Grand Duke Godottin make some decisions for the sake of face.

After all, to the grand dukes, the earls of Victoria were just some higher-ranking pawns.

"What you said does make sense. Judging from the current evidence, Victoria was indeed involved in the assassination, but..."

Spafari couldn't understand how Victoria had managed to organize so many Manticore assassins. These Manticores had always been active only in the remote areas of Sargon, maintaining a long-standing secluded tradition. Even so, some young Manticores would still serve the high-ranking officials of Sargon for a better life.

Sargon's chiefs and pashas also tried to control the outflow of Manticores. It was even said that in order to retain this race, the current Emperor Sargon had even appointed some Manticores to his side...

Thinking of this, Spafari suddenly looked at the Vizier.

This Mantiko girl... blonde hair... red eyes...