Chapter 56: The Secret of the Lord's Palace
"Your curiosity is too high, Master Elfi. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Count Raphael said, he didn't understand why Stowe became like this, he now figured out that the trivial incident that caused Stowe to break with the family was just an excuse Stowe made for himself, in fact, Stowe must have betrayed the family for another reason.
"Actually, you're in a dilemma right now, aren't you?" Elfie made a bold guess based on Count Raphael's performance today, "Let me guess, why didn't you let all the magic cannons fire at the same time? Is it because you don't have enough energy? Or do you not have the means to do it? Why didn't your first shot fire at the Holy See?" You must know that Bishop Olufi was not fully prepared for defense at that time, and your single shot that destroyed the Lord's Mansion was probably enough to wipe out the people of the Holy See, and you did not do so, were you afraid of offending the Holy See completely? Or do you have another purpose?"
Count Raphael didn't expect Alfie's observation to be so sharp and find so many flaws. When he left the imperial capital, Duke Brydon handed him the key to activate the airship, a mysterious wooden block engraved with a magic circle, and told him, "Raphael, this is the last hole card of the family. Once you're at the secret base on the edge of Flosaken, you'll use this to activate the airship. You have to remember that when the other party made a deal with us, they used to say: in order to make the airship to the most powerful, it must go through a long time to recharge. I ask you to destroy the entire Lord's Mansion as soon as the energy of the airship is strong enough to fire the magic cannon, and no one will be allowed to discover the secrets!"
After Count Raphael activated the airship, he found that it would take a day and a night to recharge the airship in its full state, so he and Bishop Olufi delayed time. And after the magic cannon could be fired, he immediately followed his father's instructions and destroyed the lord's mansion.
If it weren't for the fact that Bishop Olufi was looking for trouble with Stowe and happened to be near the Lord's Palace, Count Raphael would not have carried out Duke Brydon's instructions at all. Between the discovery of the family's secret by the Holy See and the complete destruction of that secret, Count Raphael was forced to choose the latter. Although Count Raphael himself did not know what that secret was, judging from the Duke of Brydon's extremely solemn expression, this secret was definitely not trivial.
Count Raphael was not without curiosity about the secret. At first, it was indeed his true body on the ground, and when he used the Devouring Black Hole against the Dylan Priest, under the cover of the magic fluctuations of the Devouring Black Hole, he used both mirroring and concealment, leaving a mirror image to deal with Bishop Olufei. His true body took the opportunity to infiltrate the Lord's Mansion in an attempt to find the secret that Duke Bryden had revealed. To his disappointment, he did not find any clues about the secret that Duke Brydon had told him because of the time constraints.
After the mirror technique was inadvertently destroyed by Martina, Count Raphael had to give up the idea of continuing the search and returned to the airship, which also made him make up his mind to carry out the Duke of Brydon's orders.
Perhaps what really surprised him was that when he was dealing with Bishop Olufei, he didn't know that that sentence stimulated Stowe, and it completely strengthened Stowe's determination to betray the family, which had to make Count Raphael sigh, sometimes distraction is really not a good choice, and it is inevitable that something will go wrong.
"That's enough! Master Elfie, my respect for you doesn't mean that you can trample on my bottom line with impunity. I'll give you two choices, either get out of the way or die!" said the annoyed Count Raphael.
"Wow, are you doing multiple choice questions again? But neither of your options is good. Alfie pointed at Count Raphael and exclaimed, "Did I tell you something?
After entering the observation room, Alfie kept moving her feet, so that she could see Selent's movements on the deck more clearly, and at the same time attracted the attention of Count Raphael, so that he did not notice Serente's small movements on the airship.
On the deck, Silent tried to avoid everyone's sight, and stayed next to each magic cannon for a moment, not knowing what the hell was going on there. - Except for the magic cannon that was being charged, and the gunners there were nervously charging the magic cannon, and it was impossible for Celent to approach quietly.
The Blue Falling Stars, a collaboration between Stoe and Martina, helped a lot, attracting the attention of all the Snow Wolf Knights, and no one noticed that the uninvited guest was playing tricks on the magic cannon.
I don't know if it was intentional or not, after going around all the other magic cannons, Celent made a gesture in Elfie's direction that only the two of them understood, signaling that Alfie was ready.
"This idiot, I'm asking him to stop the launch of the magic cannon, not to mess around with other magic cannons that don't activate it. Alfie scolded angrily. He didn't know what Sellant had in mind, but the magic cannon that was charging was clearly more threatening.
"There is no need to maintain any manners in the presence of a dead man. Count Raphael stroked his pretty mustache gently, and Alfie was surprised to find that his feet were frozen on the deck.
"Do you really want to kill someone?" Alfie's face changed, and after being frozen in place, he could only be slaughtered.
"Now is not the time, I want you to watch a good show first, maybe you will change your mind. Count Raphael smiled, and the ice crystals on Alfie's feet began to spread up his legs until he stopped at the end of his neck.
Fortunately, he was wearing the Holy Light Guardian Robe, which kept his body from freezing, but he completely lost his ability to move except for the fact that his head could be turned.
"Master Alfie, don't you want to see the scene of twenty magic cannons firing at the same time?" After completely controlling Alfie, Raphael saluted Alfie respectfully, and waved his hands as if waving his baton, towards the outside of the lookout.
With Count Raphael's words, the remaining magic cannons on the airship began to charge automatically without the gunner's control.
"This must be an illusion!" Alfie told himself, he had not forgotten that Count Raphael was a master of illusions. But as the magic cannon continued to recharge, the huge energy surging from between heaven and earth told him that this time it was definitely not an illusion.
The magic cannon that had already begun to charge had already been charged at this time, and Count Raphael smiled at Elfie, pointed to the position of the Knights of Light under the boat and said, "Respected master, take a good look." Open fire!"