Through the information obtained from scholars, Leo and Sylvia re-adjusted their understanding of Theresa's kingdom.

Before that, they all subconsciously ignored the existence of Theresa's royal family. From the information they have seen, the royal family of Theresa's kingdom should be more like a national symbol. In fact, they do not have much real power. The rights of the kingdom

They are all in the hands of military nobles and city scholars.

But from the mouths of these academic city scholars, they discovered that things were completely different. The Theresa royal family had almost absolute control over the entire kingdom. Both the military nobles and the academic city scholars were loyal to the royal family.

Not a kingdom.

The reason for this is because the Theresa royal family has always been the embodiment of wisdom and strength. This is not an adoring boast, but a fact, because when the royal family reaches adulthood, they will join the mercenary group or enter the school city to study according to their own preferences.

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In this process, they will use special methods to completely change their appearance and temperament to hide their identities. Only when they obtain enough military merits and scholar titles will they be allowed to regain their royal status and return to the royal family. Otherwise,

It will be regarded as an accidental death, and in the end he can only live his life as a civilian.

Under such harsh royal trials, every member who completes the trials and regains royal status is the most outstanding member, and will naturally be recognized by military nobles and academics from the city.

This is just the process of becoming a formal member of the royal family. If you want to go one step further on the basis of a royal member and become a king, you must have top achievements in military merit and knowledge, and obtain the qualification test jointly by military nobles and academic scholars.

Only then can he successfully sit on the throne.

Logically speaking, this method of passing the test to become the king can easily lead to difficulties in the selection of the king. As long as there is a slight interference from internal or external factors, the selection of the king may be delayed indefinitely.

But in fact the situation is completely different. Regardless of external interference or internal influence, the tests of kings in the past have been carried out extremely smoothly. There will always be an outstanding member of the royal family who can easily complete various difficult tasks set by military nobles and academicians.

Test, and therefore the king selected through this method will always have the loyalty of the vast majority of military nobles and city scholars, and his control over the kingdom will be extremely stable.

After the new king ascends the throne, he will usually select one from the Grand Master of the Academy or the Dukes of the Kingdom to serve as the Prime Minister. Unless there is any accident, the position of the Prime Minister is basically lifelong. Therefore, when selecting the Prime Minister, it also determines the future of the Kingdom of Teresa.

The policy trends of more than ten years or even decades, and the countries in the Old Continent also adjust their diplomatic strategies through the selection of prime ministers.

However, there are always exceptions. In the past many years, there have been several times when the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Teresa has been a member of the mysterious Belmont family. This not only makes it impossible for foreign countries to analyze the Kingdom of Theresa from the candidate of the Prime Minister.

Even the country at home is confused about the future situation, because compared to foreign countries, there is very little understanding of the Belmont family within the Kingdom of Teresa.

Belmont Castle is located in the mountains, surrounded by either cliffs or virgin forests. Getting to Belmont Castle is no less than a life and death adventure, so the Belmont family is basically isolated from the world.

, if it weren’t for the fact that the kingdom had produced several Belmont prime ministers, and that all successive kings grew up in Belmont Castle, perhaps the common people in the kingdom would not have known that there was such a prominent family in the kingdom.

It is precisely because of the mystery of the Belmont family that some overly curious scholars in the school spontaneously formed the Belmont Research Society to study the Belmont family. Although this research group is not a formal research group, it is organized every year.

Can get some financial support from the school city.

One of the scholars in the exchange team happens to be a member of the Belmont Research Society. When Sylvia asks about the Belmont family, he is often the one who answers Sylvia's questions, but even he

It was also unable to provide enough information for Sylvia to fully understand the Belmont family in this world.

Now Sylvia only knows that the relationship between the Belmont family and the Theresa royal family is very close, so close that they can almost be regarded as two branches of the same family.

In addition, the Belmont family also has very good relations with some churches in the Old World. Some of their members can even serve as non-believers as the heads of the Holy Knights or the chiefs of the Heretic Tribunals of those churches.

There is also the fact that every member of the Belmont family has extraordinary power, and some of them can even rival certain gods. However, the Belmont family has never believed in any gods. No one knows where their power comes from, so there are

It is rumored that the Belmont family has mastered the secret of the gods, and they are trying to create their own gods belonging to Belmont.

However, this statement has never been confirmed, so it is considered to be a rumor created by the enemies of the Belmont family or the Theresa Kingdom. The purpose is to let the church identify the Belmont family or the Theresa Kingdom as

Heretic, launch a holy war.

However, after Leo and Sylvia heard this statement from the scholar, they both thought that this statement might not be false. The Belmont family with the blood of the Abyss Dragon did have the foundation to become gods in this world. After all,

For example, the Abyss Superior behind the Church of Joy can become a god and be included in the Church of True God. It is not impossible for the Abyss Dragon to become the god of this world.

It's a pity that I don't know if he didn't want to say more or if he really didn't know. In short, after revealing some secrets about the Belmont family, the scholar never revealed more, even if Leo passed through the spirit.

If he can hint skillfully, then the scholar is not saying anything new, he is just discussing some details in the information that has been revealed before.

However, at the end of the conversation, the scholar revealed a useful piece of information, that is, there are members of the Belmont family in the Theresa Kingdom's investigation bureau that specializes in handling special events, but he did not know that Belmont was in the investigation bureau.

identity of.

This information may not be of any use to other people, but it is very useful to Leo and Sylvia, because as long as they find opportunities to have frequent contact with the Investigation Bureau, Sylvia can easily find out the person through blood connections.

Hidden members of the Belmont family.

Therefore, when they came to Dashu Town and heard about the mayor’s curse, and knew that Theresa’s Kingdom had a three-person investigation team stationed in Dashu Town to continue investigating the curse, they thought they could use it.

This incident served as an opportunity to contact the investigation bureau in advance.

So, while they sent Penny and Joan to inquire about relevant information in the town, they also went to the mayor's mansion to conduct on-the-spot investigation. Although they all thought that it would be difficult to find any useful clues in the mansion, they thought that even the church

Neither the investigators nor the investigation team were able to find any clues here. If they could find some useful clues, then the investigation team would definitely take the initiative to contact them after hearing the news.

However, what they didn't expect was that the scholars from the academy were also interested in this matter, and organized a group to come to the mayor's mansion to investigate.

Faced with Delkan's enthusiastic attitude, Leo put down the book in his hand and responded with a smile: "The curiosity of scholars is never-ending. Isn't this the motto of the city that Mr. Delkan told us yesterday? Although our husband and wife

I am not a scholar, but I believe my curiosity is not much weaker than yours."

At this time, another scholar following Delkan also said to the two of them with a very respectful attitude: "Your Excellency Leo, Ms. Sylvia, you two are too humble. If you are not

If we are scholars, who are we people?"

Delkan also nodded in agreement and said: "Actually, before we came here, we sent people to invite you two to investigate this matter together, but the people we sent said that you two left early in the morning, but we didn't expect that you two

Our ideas are so consistent with ours that we all thought of investigating the mayor’s curse.” As he said that, he, who was not good at communicating, did not continue the pleasantries, but went straight to the topic and asked: “You two are here first, have you discovered anything?

Woolen cloth?"

Leo shook his head and said: "After the official investigation team of the Kingdom of Theresa, the church investigation team and various people from the private sector, coupled with the cleaning by the servants of the official residence, all traces left here have been destroyed.

It’s so clean, how could there be any clues waiting for us to discover?”

"It's the same as I thought." Delkan nodded and added: "However, it's not necessarily that there are no clues at all. When I was observing the decorative patterns of the house just now, I found some special symbols. What do you think they are?

symbol?"

"It's an ancient idiom, right?" Leo quickly gave the answer.

Just like the Gamorei language in the world of Velen, there are also some words that contain special power in this world, and the ancient variant text is one of them.

Leo saw a book on the study of this kind of writing in Staff's private collection. This book was handwritten in church calligraphy. It should be a research material written by a clergyman of a certain church.

Therefore, the whole book is full of hostility and condemnation of ancient variations, because most of the primitive beliefs that are regarded as heresies use the combination of ancient variations to create extraordinary powers to confuse the people.

Although there is not much content in that book about the actual study of ancient variant texts, Leo, as an extraordinary master of symbols, has been able to deduce the complete grammatical rules, text composition and application methods of ancient variant texts from those fragmentary contents.

Delkan himself is also an expert in studying ancient variant texts, but his research only stops at the level of text composition. In the previous exchange between the two, Leo easily convinced Delkan with the depth of his research on ancient variant texts.

, and Delkan also expressed his willingness to write a letter of recommendation to Leo, recommending Leo to become a specialist tutor in ancient Chinese in the city.

With Delkan's mastery of ancient idioms, he was able to discover the existence of ancient idioms in various decorative patterns in the mayor's mansion. Naturally, Leo could not miss this clue, and he and Sylvia now came to the mayor's study.

Just to find follow-up clues.

Delkan looked at a pile of books that Leo and Sylvia had turned over, and said: "I can barely identify that these ancient idioms should contain some kind of meaning, but I don't know the specific content. Mr. Leo,

What about you? Can you decipher these ancient idioms? Maybe these ancient idioms are the cause of the mayor's curse."

"You are mistaken! These ancient texts are definitely not the cause of the mayor's curse." Leo shook his head, denying Delkan's guess, but said with some contradictions: "However, he and the mayor's curse may be

There is some connection.”

Delkan and the other scholars in the room looked at Leo with puzzled expressions.

"The meaning of those ancient idioms is protection, and judging from the carving marks and the condition of other surrounding decorations, they should have been completed in recent times." Leo explained while picking up a copy of the mayor's copy from the table.

The records of the official residence were archived, handed over to Delkan, and said: "This is a record of the recent decoration of the mayor's official residence. The location of the decoration is exactly where the ancient reliefs are, and judging from the report, those reliefs were that time.

The mayor personally participated, and that mayor seemed to be the first mayor to die from the curse."

Delkan took the information from Leo's hand and read it carefully. After listening to Leo's words, other scholars also came together to check the decoration records.

"You mean that the mayor knew about the existence of the curse, and he tried to use the power contained in ancient idioms to protect himself?" A scholar asked confirmingly after reading the information hastily.

Leo shook his head and said: "I can't be sure about this at the moment, because I don't know whether the mayor really mastered the ancient Yiwen, or whether it was the work of someone involved in the decoration of the official residence." As he said that, he

Asked: "Is there any way for you to find the detailed information of the mayor?"

"This shouldn't be difficult." Delkan handed the file to other scholars, thought for a while and said, "I remember that the investigation team sent by the kingdom is still in the town, and they should have detailed information on the mayor.

.”

"Investigation team?" Leo pretended to hesitate and said, "Is that investigation team willing to show us the information they have?"

Delkan responded: "If there are only two people, it may be difficult, but if our school city comes forward, it should be easier."

After saying that, he motioned to Leo and Sylvia to stay here for the time being, and then he quickly left the study. It seemed that he was going to find the leader of the exchange team, hoping to have the leader come forward to negotiate with the investigation team, so that

Leo and Sylvia also join the investigation.

Leo and Sylvia in the study looked at each other and smiled. It was obvious that things were going exactly as they imagined. The next thing they had to do was to be eye-catching.
Chapter completed!