Crown of Chaos

Leonard, the former champion knight of Cormyr Obeszil and current paladin of the Knights of the Golden Lion of Tom, wanted to run away the moment he saw Aaron.

He really didn't know how to face his younger brother Aaron.

Out of the oath of devotion to the paladin, Leonard has a clear conscience in terms of public morality. He knows what he is and what he should do. Everything he does is justice. Thom always recognizes Leonard. way of devotion.

However, from a personal moral point of view, Leonard did not do so well. He was always evading. He was sorry for Lucian, the mentor who raised him, sorry for his fiancée Maria Lysa, and sorry for the people of Cormyr. and the Purple Dragon Princess who entrusted him with important tasks.

So when Leonard heard that Aaron and others came to the Sword Coast, he felt bad.

Sure enough, whatever you fear most will come to you.

"Leonard, speak!" Aaron pulled Leonard's cloak tightly. Viscount Cormyr's head had veins popping out, and the white-backed golden lion's paladin cloak creaked under his strength. A crackling voice: "You have the ability to escape, you have the ability to speak!"

"..." Leonard remained silent. He turned his head and looked to the side. The face behind the kite helmet did not even dare to look at Aaron.

In the end, it was the leading paladin Kaidong who stopped Aaron's behavior. His weathered and scarred face was weathered but still majestic: "That's enough, young man. I know you, the Fairy Princess' Flower Knight, please introduce me to me." Myself, I am Kaidong of the Knights of the Hot Heart. Our group came from Amn to track Baal’s Death Eaters..."

"..." Aaron threw off Leonard's cloak and glared at him fiercely. Then he faced Kaidong directly. He raised his eyebrows: "I know you, Kaidong Falcon, the paladin of the fiery heart. Inquisitor, you are the most respected person in the Knights, you are an old guy and a good guy."

Paladin Kaidong was a little surprised that Aaron actually knew of his existence: "You know me? I am very happy to be known by a celebrity like you. This shows that my efforts are always meaningful. Thanks to Thom, it doesn't In vain.”

"Let Leonard go, he also has something to hide." Kaidong raised his hand and said, "What we should pay more attention to now is that this murder was not committed by Baal followers, but by someone else."

Hearing what Kaidong said, the dark elf sister Nastia spoke first. As a drow, what she hates most are these paladins who claim to be righteous: "Giggle~Old guy, why do you draw preconceived conclusions? Little samurai?”

Nastia's frivolous attitude made several paladins frown instantly. Kaidong's tired eyes flashed: "I advise you to give up this title. This title is not interesting at all, and it is not elegant at all. Paladins have never Not more noble than other people, not more correct than other races, of course we have the evidence in our hands."

"Is that so? Don't you just throw a Detect Good and Evil tool when you see a person, then yell, 'Hey, any evil will be brought to justice' and then go up and kill him with the Holy Spirit?" Nestia raised her hands. With her arms crossed, the dark elf sister's bright red pupils are charming and dangerous. She has a deep prejudice against the paladin.

"Madam, this is a very inappropriate joke. You should be ashamed of yourself for harboring such malice." Paladin Judge Kaidong shook his head. His voice was tired and his eyes were filled with frost. He was neither angry nor angry. The urgency to defend himself had obviously been experienced countless times in his long life.

"Oh, it's so boring, old guy, do you get along with your wife like this at home?" Nastia suddenly found it boring. What the dark elf sister likes most is that she can constantly raise questions, while the other party can only be in a hurry. Defensively: "Don't you have to follow the doctrine of the paladin in any position you use when you are together?"

"Elf, you'd better not mention my wife." Sure enough, Kaidong could deal with any doubts and sarcasm calmly, but when he mentioned his wife, the paladin's expression changed significantly: "You must learn to respect everyone. A soul!"

Before Nastia could say anything else, Aaron took the initiative and squeezed her little hand.

He is now certain that this paladin is Kaidong. He is selfless, just, sacrificial, and dedicated, with a little guilt for his family in his heart.

It's no wonder that Leonard would act with him, as the two men have many similarities.

"I respect you very much, paladin of Amn." Aaron motioned to Nastia to stop talking: "Can you tell me the specific situation? What you should know."

"The God of Suffering thanks you for your contribution, Lord Salian. Every gold coin earned by the Three Gods of Justice from your business will be used where it should go." Paladin Kaidong did not refuse and told Aaron about the matter. .

This group of paladins came after Baal's Death Eaters.

Around the time Aaron noticed Beelak's return, the activities of the Church of Baal in Amn suddenly intensified. Kaidong led the paladins to investigate the news, and finally joined forces with the Thom Golden Lion Knights led by Leonard and arrived. Baldur's Gate Investigations.

"We have the authorization from Duke Iltan, please let us inspect the scene." Kaidong did not say the source of the information. He showed the watcher the authorization letter from Duke Iltan.

The watcher confirmed that it was indeed the ring of Duke Iltan and decisively let it go. Upon seeing this, Aaron also said to Nastia and Charlotte: "Then let's go and take a look."

A group of people entered the manor of Grand Duchess Lila.

Each Zonggui's manor in the upper city of Baldur's Gate has its own unique style, either the solemn and sacred Gothic style, or the warm and bright Baroque style, or the elven artistic style similar to Roman Byzantium, and Some are like the garden style of the pavilions, waterside pavilions, stone mountains and lake views in the Eastern Celestial Dynasty of Aaron's previous life.

However, no matter what style the nobles choose, their design structure must be compact enough, because the Shangcheng area itself is already very crowded, and every inch of land is valuable, and there is no unnecessary space.

This made Aaron think of the Emperor's Holy Terra. During the construction of the palace presided over by Dorn, every piece of Holy Terra that could accommodate it was more valuable than an entire city on any other planet (perhaps Guilliman's Except Macragge).

However, outside the palace of Holy Terra, the descendants of the ancient Terran warlords who agreed to the emperor's surrender conditions in the past owned vast lands.

The Grand Duchess's manor has been under martial law at this time, but its luxurious interior style can still be vaguely seen. It is a very typical female mage's manor, divided into a wizard tower area, a magic workshop area and a landscape area, and is heavily guarded.

Follow Leonard up to the upper level of the wizard tower, where Dumbo and several watch captains are already there.

Under the protection of layers of thick magic barriers, surrounding living armor, gatekeeper golems on each floor, a circle of magic turrets, and a pseudo-dragon familiar, Grand Duchess Lila fell into a pool of blood. , she seemed defenseless, she was probably just sitting in front of the fireplace warming herself and reading a book, when she was killed by the assassin behind her.

The level of the assassin frightened everyone present.

If this level of security cannot give the Grand Duchess time to react, then no one in Baldur's Gate will be safe!

"We discovered this." The flying elephant showed Aaron and others its clues: "Look."

Turning the body over, Aaron and others discovered that there was a blood mark on the forehead of the Grand Duchess, which was obviously added deliberately by the assassin after the murder.

Aaron's expression suddenly changed. He immediately pushed away the paladin in front of him and carefully looked at the wound on the Grand Duchess's forehead. His eyes widened and his pupils were as thin as needles!

He knows who the killer is!

Skaven, Clan Eshin, Master of Death Snitch!

The ace assassin of the entire Skaven race, he has never failed in any assassination in his life in the medieval world. Even the destruction of the old world cannot make Snitch die. Under the favor of the Great Horned Rat, Snitch is safe. He survived his final moments and continued to be active as the Skaven's ace killer in the years to come.

Hell, even Snitch is here?

Could it be that the Horned Rat plans to completely transfer his main business to the country?

Aaron couldn't help sweating on his forehead. You must know that Snitch has always been able to block the gods from killing gods and Buddhas. So far, no one has been able to escape the assassination of the Skaven ace. Ordinary mortals, even Snitch No shadow can be seen.

Only on the battlefield of head-to-head confrontation, Snitch will occasionally show his prowess, with three magical blades - everything in his path will be turned into powder.

So the question is, why did Snicki assassinate the Grand Duchess? Is it just to destroy the resistance in Baldur's Gate? Then it should assassinate Bealak, or assassinate Duke Antar-Silver Shield and Iltan.

Aaron was still thinking, and Nastia behind him spoke up: "It's the Rat Man."

"Madam, have you ever seen such a wound?" Kaidong took the initiative to ask in detail. His attitude was very sincere, and there was no sign that he had been provoked by Nestia before: "In the name of the deceased and all those who have been hurt by him, I implore you to tell the truth."

"They are Skaven. I have fought against these Skaven assassins." Nestia frowned: "In the mines of Naxikai."

"Wait!" After saying this, a younger blond paladin among the paladin, the Oath of Devotion, rudely interrupted Nastia's words: "Were you responsible for the mining disaster in Nasike? Oh my god, Tire's justice Eyes above, you killed more than twenty people!"

"If we don't blow up the mine, more than a hundred people will die." Nestia hates the gratuitous sense of justice of the paladin: "So what will you choose, little samurai? Take the initiative to kill more than 20 people, Or don’t do it and end up killing more than a hundred people in the mine?”

"I..." The paladin was speechless for a moment.

"That's enough, Wallace." Kaidong signaled the paladins to calm down: "Thank you for informing me, madam, is there anything else you can tell us?"

"Their god has given them a blessing." Aaron spoke: "I think I have a way to trace where they come from."

The blessing of the horned rat will leave residual power of chaos in the air. Aaron followed the breath of the horned rat god and restored the events.

Snitch descended from the chimney of the fireplace, but instead of going down from the top, he climbed up from the bottom, cut through the filter and protective net, and descended from the fireplace in front of the Grand Duchess.

Going downstairs and searching the bottom floor of the fireplace, Aaron and others discovered a new world.

The deep downward stairs lead to a whole new world. Just like the secret meeting place of the Knights of the Shield beneath the Elf Song Tavern, the Grand Duchess's manor also has an independent secret underground hall.

"Does every Bode person have to dig an underground room in their home?" Charlotte said with a smile: "Secret base, secret base, I always liked this when I was a kid~ I have a lot of cleverness~ little cleverness~ I There are many little secrets ~ little secrets ~”

"This is where the Skaven come from." Aaron motioned for him to go down and have a look.

The flying elephants and watchers immediately shook their heads. They were not qualified to enter Zonggui's home to search, but the paladins were eager to try. They had already heard about the darkness of Bode Zonggui.

The center of the entire underground building is a secret room with multiple corridors leading to other locations. Inside it is a separate platform raised in the center, surrounded by seats prepared for dignitaries, wizards, and guests. The whole thing looks like Like a theater built for anatomists.

On the platform lies a half-dissected Skaven.

Both sides of the hall are lined with bookcases, and there is also a mage's workbench equipped with complex potion making devices. The engineering pipeline system from the Gond dwarfs has long been used as an auxiliary tool. The level of industrialization at the upper levels of the country is actually not low.

"Wow, it's the Jieyuhua~" Charlotte calmly put the flowers on the table into her pocket. The eldest lady blinked her eyes. She didn't care about the investigation at all. She just wanted to see if there was anything wrong with her. Useful stuff: "Dragon tongue coating!"

And Nastia went even further. The dark elf sister turned slightly sideways, and while the paladins were not paying attention, the magic potions collected by the Grand Duchess disappeared one bottle after another.

Special healing potion, medical elixir, two bottles of extremely powerful arcane nourishment potion, hill giant strength potion, battle mage's power elixir, and psychic resistance elixir.

Bottles of potions were put into Nastia's satchel, which far exceeded the apparent capacity of the satchel.

"Hello?!" Just when Nastia was about to put a bottle of universal resistance elixir into her bag, the young blond paladin finally noticed Nastia's actions, and he reached out to Nastia. Ya has already held the hand of the slender glass bottle and signaled her not to do this: "Don't take it! We are here to investigate!"

At that moment, the paladin's movements seemed to be frozen.

There was a flash of green light, and a bolt of green lightning spanned the entire room. Suddenly, a bright dagger pierced the paladin from the back. He immediately fell to the ground, and the hand reaching for the potion bottle hit the ground heavily.

"Wallace!!!" Everyone was startled by this blow, and they looked up suddenly.

A pair of green eyes stared at them from the ceiling. They were a pair of cold eyes wrapped under a mask, deeply buried under the dark night cloak. A bright green warpstone dagger was hooked on the long rat tail. .

No, there was more than one, there were four masked Skaven hanging from the ceiling!

Only then did everyone realize that these rat-headed and rat-brained guys had been there since they came in. They had always been there!

Four pairs of green rat eyes stared at the people below, and Aaron heard a voice coming from the city of endless plague and decay.

The bells rang loudly, and a short, evil voice whispered along the bells of disaster.

"Yes, yes, you are finally here, here you are, the chosen son, the beloved of my dark brothers, my brothers."

"You are not complete and complete without me and my blessing."

"Come, come to me, let me bless you."

"Rat! Rat!"

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