Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 549 The mission of protecting the queen and princess
After all the recipients of the "Uncertain Mist" left, Hobert thought about it for more than ten seconds before saying: "My suggestion is to just wait and see and ignore it for the time being."

First of all, he found that these recipients were not like the people on the west bank of Full Moon Lake who had been contaminated by demons or the true Creator. They looked very normal and full of energy. Except when facing specific problems, the mental and spiritual bodies No problem.

Of course, this is also the biggest problem.

Hobert realized that the "fog of uncertainty" seemed to have affected their will to a certain extent, and there would definitely be problems in the long run.

Secondly, and most importantly, the "creator" of this problem cannot be solved yet, so Hobert feels it is better to maintain the status quo.

But of course Osmond cannot know these inner thoughts.

Hobert continued: "They are not greatly affected, but they can use some powers other than extraordinary ways, which is relatively cost-effective at present.

"But if they continue to accept higher-level gifts, this matter may get out of control, so they cannot be allowed to continue to receive gifts."

Hobert didn't completely lie about this. If there is any problem with the recipient now, he can "distort" or "tamper" with the person of the "creator", and the problem can basically be temporarily solved.

That is, the recipients of the "Uncertain Mist", Hobert has such confidence. For the recipients of other external gods, Hobert feels that even if they use the status of the "creator", it may not work.

Osmond agreed: "We will no longer support their sacrifices and gifts, and we will also do a good job of observing and monitoring them."

"It's best to find a suitable reason." Hobert said: "After all, they are good young men who are willing to risk their families."

"Yes!" Osmond simply said in a subordinate tone.

Hobert asked for the honorific name of "Uncertain Fog" again. He stood up and told Rafter to write to him if he had any questions. After saying goodbye again, he took advantage of "travel" to leave.

Returning to Backlund's bedroom in the Earl's Mansion, Hobert took off his mask and breathed a sigh of relief. Then, after checking that the door was still locked, he sacrificed 8 "Insects of Time" to the goddess of night.

After the starry door opened and the "Insects of Time" were taken away, Hobert waited for a while before sacrificing all the remaining "Insects of Time" to the "Creator".

He entered the "Land of Disorder" and captured the "Insect of Time".

Looking at these insects covered with rings and vaguely occult symbols, Hobert wondered: I wonder if the "Fool" can now respond to the ritual of making spells?

Then he thought: The "wrong" path and the "black emperor" path to the "high sequence" seem to be very similar to a certain extent!For example, "deception" has a somewhat similar effect to "chaos" or "tampering".

Hobert had a bold idea: Can I try to pray to myself and use the "Insect of Time" to create advanced spells?
Thinking of this, he shook his head again, and now he prayed to himself. He only needed to use the corresponding spiritual materials to obtain the talisman of the "Black Emperor" path to the demigod level.There is no need to go through such a circle and get some talismans that are similar to the "Black Emperor" path.

Hobert summoned a piece of "Order Crystal" and made it into a small square box, then put all the "Insects of Time" into the small box, and finally closed the lid.

When you have the chance, pray to "The Fool" and try to see if you can make advanced spells.

After putting away the "Insect of Time", Hobert began to review tonight's battle.

If nothing goes wrong, Amon's other clones will surely notice soon, or now, that all the clones in the Rhoside Islands are gone, and the clones will definitely take action by then.

But with Tony Manor as a buffer, Hobert is not too afraid of the revenge of Amon's clone.

After tonight's battle, Hobert felt that Amon's clone was really powerful. For example, Hobert was completely unable to form a complete thought during the battle.

Without the help of the "Order Crystal", tonight's battle would have had a different outcome.

But the "Creator" is not a vegetarian. Hobert realizes that the biggest difference between the "Creator" and the "Fool" is that the "Creator" can use the loopholes of death and life to create two angel-level thugs.

Even without these thugs, Beverly and Raymond can be temporarily restored to their normal state and hunt for Amon's angel-level clones.

He feels that the key to fighting Amon's clone is: the true body must not participate!
If next time Amon's clone realizes that the "Order Crystal" in his hand is the key, and simply rushes over and takes away the "Order Crystal", then the "Creator" will disappear from this world.

No, maybe the "creator" who will sit on the "Iron Throne" in the future will start wearing a monocle.

Even if the "Country of Disorder" is not the source of essence that Amon needs, he may still steal it for two days. Of course, the premise is that he has a way to avoid being contaminated by the "Country of Disorder".

After having a basic strategy for dealing with possible risks in the future, Hobert began to think about the state of the "uncertain fog" and the "gifts of the past."

Hobert had thought about a question a long time ago: How did the old people in the starry sky maintain their state?

Theoretically speaking, it is necessary to have certain extraordinary characteristics and part of the source of essence in order to maintain the old status and not lose it.

However, the extraordinary characteristics of the 22 paths are basically on the earth. The source material may have been torn apart, and they themselves have retained part of them. How to solve the problem of extraordinary characteristics?
After learning about the "Gift System", Hobert suddenly thought that after the "Primary Creator" awakened, these old extraordinary characteristics and source matter were torn apart.

However, there is no evidence that the "original" attracted all the extraordinary characteristics and essence of the entire universe. Perhaps the old people still had some extraordinary characteristics and essence to maintain their own state.

And most of the extraordinary characteristics and essences in the universe that were attracted by the "original" formed 22 extraordinary paths and nine essences!
This kind of conjecture is at least true for "Uncertain Mist". Hobert clearly knows that he has a certain "country of disorder". Through the gift system, it can be proved from another aspect that he also has certain extraordinary characteristics. , and these characteristics seem to be very similar to the abilities of "lawyer" and "arbitrator".

Thinking of this, Hobert took another look at the honorable name of "Uncertain Fog" he got from Osmund: the fog deep in the universe; you are the ruler, absolute zero, and the ruler of all chaos.

This makes Hobert a little strange, because the honorific name he got from the Tamara family about the "Uncertain Mist" is clearly: "The mist deep in the universe;

extremely cold master;
Symbol of chaos and distortion. "

Why are the two honorific names different?
After thinking for a moment, Hobert wondered: Could it be that the two honorary names play different roles?
The honorable name obtained from the Tony family is used to grant extraordinary power, while the honorable name from the Tamara family can break through the barrier and establish a certain connection with the "Uncertain Mist"?

Hobert followed this idea: Or to describe it from another angle, the Tamara family received the honorary name of "Uncertain Mist" in the Fourth Age. At that time, the influence of the outer gods on the earth was very limited. Gift system?

At the end of the Fourth Age, when the barrier weakened further, did the outer gods use the method of gifts to influence the earth more deeply?

Hobert lamented that the end of the world is still more than ten years away, but some games seem to have started long ago.

Become a god!Hobert sighed in his heart: In this extraordinary world, only by becoming a god can we protect ourselves.

Finally, he thought of what the two Amon clones said to him: My fate must have been affected by Trunsoest. The direct evidence is the family curse.But who is the other person who affects my destiny?Amon's clone couldn't see clearly!

Hobert seemed to have vaguely thought of something, and his spirituality also told him that his idea was very important, but for some reason, it was difficult to form a complete thought.

After thinking for a while, Hobert simply stopped thinking about it and first thought of a way to deal with Trunsoest's influence on him.

After re-sealing the relevant memories, Hobert returned to the real world. This night he had some insomnia again. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw Amon wearing a monocle, as if he could find him at any time. .

This was the shadow left by Amon's clone on Hobert's subconscious. It was indeed quite scary at the time. For more than half a minute, Hobert felt that he was in a state of confusion.

However, his spirituality was able to realize that it was very dangerous. The feeling was like the ghost on the bed that Hobert had encountered. It was obvious that his brain was close to waking up, but his body was not in control. The key was that he could still feel the people around him. It seemed like a very dangerous person was standing there, ready to harm himself at any time.

He only slept for more than half an hour, and most of the time he was still having nightmares. However, when he woke up, Hobert found that he was in good spirits.

During breakfast, Hobert heard from Dophis that Miss Norma and her mother had arrived.

After having breakfast, Hobert went to see them and asked them to wait in the living room.

As usual, Hobert took the MI[-] carriage to work and came to the office. He was about to ask his secretary to inform Byron to come over, but secretary Charlene came in first and said: "Director, the Director-General invites you to go to a meeting." trip."

Hobert was stunned: Count Georgina?What does she want from me?
"I know." Hobert said, "I'll put on my uniform and go right away."

Georgina's underground office is also on the third underground floor, but it is not in the same area as the offices of Hobert and other operations offices.

The above-ground structure of the MI[-] office building is no different from a normal building, but each floor of the underground part is several times larger than the above-ground part.

And it is designed like a maze, not a straight-forward structure, and there are no street signs.

It is said that this is to delay some intruders from finding the location of the file room, or the location of the prison.

But Hobert feels that this protection is only useful for Beyonders below demigods. If he wanted to invade here and was confused by the maze-like structure, he would just smash a straight path.

In addition to such a building structure, Hobert also felt that there was an "early warning mechanism" established using sealed objects in the lobby on the first floor.

Although he didn't know the specific effect, he guessed that the members of MI[-] were hypnotized, possessed, etc., and the sealed objects should be able to detect it.

Hobert came to Georgina's office under the leadership of Charlene: "Wait for me outside."

He was mainly afraid of not being able to find his way back.

When the secretary opened the door, Georgina, who was also wearing a double-breasted uniform, was reading a document. She pointed to the opposite side of her desk. : "Sit down first."

MI[-] has uniforms specially designed for women, the kind with a skirt that Charlene wears, but Georgina wears a men's uniform.

This reminded Hobert of Princess Ethel of the Kingdom of Feneport. In terms of neutral temperament and sense of oppression, this Count Georgina was still far behind without using extraordinary abilities.

"I called you here today to give you a task." Georgina said after reading those few lines: "Next Monday, I will protect the queen for a day."

Hobert was slightly startled: "I just came to MI[-] and have no experience in protecting important people..."

"Don't try to shirk the blame." The general director looked at Hobert with a smile: "You are the only one who has time that day, so you must go."

Hobert smiled: "Well, it's mainly because I'm not proficient in business and I'm afraid of embarrassing MI[-]."

Then he asked: "Are there any big events that day? Do you need extra manpower to protect the queen?"

"No, one of the demigods guarding the palace had something to do that day and needed to take a day off." Seeing that Hobert had taken over the task, Georgina began to talk about the details: "And on Monday, the queen will need someone to protect her."

Hobert was slightly startled: "There is only one demigod protecting the queen?"

Georgina smiled and asked, "How many do you think there are?"

Then she added: "Look at more documents that are helpful for work!"

Georgina explained: "There are only four demigods who protect important members of the royal family. If necessary, they will be seconded from the army. Every time they are seconded, MI[-] is ​​the first choice of the royal family."

Hobert thought about it and it was right. After all, demigods are not cabbage. There are too many places where demigods are needed in Jianhai, which is confronting the Fusac Empire, as well as in vast colonies and strategic locations.

And with the addition of sealed objects, four demigods can basically defend the palace and take turns to rest. If the enemy's attack is not something that four demigods can handle, then there is a high probability that four more demigods will not help.

The greatest reliance on the royal family's security should be level 0 sealed objects and a mechanism that can quickly invite angels for support.

Georgina finally said: "Your security hours are from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. I suggest you go to the palace early. There will be members of the King's Guard who will tell you some precautions."

Hobert nodded: "Okay."

It's a pity that I won't be able to fish happily next Monday, and I won't be able to attend the Tarot Club.

Under the leadership of Charlene, Hobert returned to his office. Byron was already waiting in the reception area of ​​the secretary's room.

Hobert told Charlene a few words, and then took the carriage back to the Earl's Mansion with Byron.

The four-wheeled carriage for two people is also designed with a low chassis. People sitting inside are not as tall as people standing outside. This design also ensures the speed of the carriage to the greatest extent.

Arriving at the living room of the Earl's Mansion, when Norma and her mother saw the cold-faced Byron, there was still a trace of fear in their eyes. Maybe the MI[-] people left something for them when they went to arrest the person. Psychological shadow.

Under the auspices of Hobert, the ensuing conversation seemed to be harmonious, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement. Lord Bradley donated 3 pounds to MI[-] to obtain bail.

MI[-] is ​​different from other departments in that the interrogation work is completed internally and does not need to follow the police interrogation regulations. In other words, torture is legal here.

Generally speaking, it is just a matter of going through the process before going to court.

Lawyers were not allowed to intervene before the prisoner was handed over to the court. Especially the nobles and wealthy people who were accustomed to playing with the law hated this department.

But when they really entered MI[-], most of them immediately gave up because they were still reluctant to live a luxurious life and hoped that such a life could continue.

Under the operation of Hobert and Byron, Lord Bradley and his son were released that afternoon. Before leaving get off work, MI3 received a check for [-] pounds.

After Byron went to the bank to exchange the money, according to internal regulations, 3000 pounds of it was given to Hobert, and the rest of the money was deposited in the public account of MI[-].

Hobert gave 3000 pounds of the 1000 pounds to Byron, and distributed another 1000 pounds to the investigators of this case. Even his secretary Charlene, who only made two trips, received 30 pounds.

Hobert also promised to treat all colleagues in the Operations Division to dinner by noon next Tuesday.

No one expected that the new deputy director would be so generous. For a while, the entire operations department was full of praise for Hobert.

At the dance in the evening, Hobert met Lord Bradley's family again. The 40-year-old Lord thanked Hobert with tears in his eyes.

This was the first time he had been arrested, and he was arrested by MI[-].

Byron and the others kept interrogating them with their extraordinary abilities, which made their spirits very fragile and prone to fluctuations. It took them a period of time to recover on their own before their spirits became normal again.

While Hobert comforted the father and son, he also felt how powerful MI[-] was. In other words, in the Loen Kingdom, this may be the only department that can restrict most nobles and wealthy people.

Some people ridiculed them as the king's hawks. This insult is very appropriate. The reason why the royal family has always maintained sufficient influence and control over MI[-] is ​​that they hope to use this department to maintain the cornerstone of their rule.

However, MI[-] cannot arrest people randomly. If the prisoner has nothing to do with the spy and there is no relevant evidence, they cannot arrest the person legally.

Under certain conditions, parliament and the government can intervene in MI[-]'s internal investigations.

Therefore, rather than saying that MI[-] is ​​the cornerstone of the royal family's rule, it is better to say that it is the last deterrent of the royal family.

On Sunday morning, under the leadership of Chunas, Hobert joined the "East Balam Veterans Club", completed the formalities, paid the membership dues, and received a badge with the logo of forest, ocean and knife tip.

After a brief walk around the club, Hobert also met a few acquaintances, to be precise, several of Christine's former colleagues. He also met them a few times because of some social occasions such as dances.

Qionas joked: "Does it feel like going home when you come here?"

Hobert smiled and said, "I do know a lot of people here."

At noon, according to the previous agreement, the two of them went to the Loen Kingdom Hotel for dinner and chatted casually about the current situation.

MI[-] has relevant regulations. In public places, work is not allowed to be discussed, so everyone dining around knew that these two people were from MI[-]. While chatting, Hobert and Qionas could not even talk about MI[-]. No trivial matters will be mentioned.

On Sunday afternoon, finally able to take a break, Hobert said hello to Dophis and passed through the "Traveler's Gate" to the Green Manor in South Colson.

Forsi had nothing to do this afternoon, so they went to the grass to bask in the sun together.

The afternoon sun was very warm, and the smell of fragrant grass around him made people sleepy. Hobert fell asleep while chatting with Forsi.

Ever since he met Amon, he had been tense in the past few days, but now he finally relaxed and fell asleep while holding Forsi's hand.

Forsi looked at the sleeping Hobert and suddenly smiled, feeling very accomplished: He said just now that he had been suffering from insomnia these past few days, but he fell asleep not long after he was next to me.

This night, Hobert slept very happily. It was not until it was too late that Dophis came over to ask him to attend the dance, and Forsi had to wake Hobert up.On the way to the dance, Hobert asked "The Fool" for leave and was unable to attend tomorrow's Tarot meeting.

He quickly received a reply from "The Fool": "I know."

……

Early on Monday morning, Hobert rode in a carriage to Thordrak's palace.

At this time, there were only various carriages delivering goods to noble mansions on Queen's Road. In the mist, they lit up lanterns, like ghost ships in the sea.

Arriving at the side entrance of the palace, there was already an officer of the King's Guard waiting here.

"Earl Hobert, it's a pleasure to meet you." The officer introduced himself with a smile: "Just call me Chad. I will cooperate with you today and be responsible for the whole day's security work."

Hobert shook hands with the other party without any airs: "Today's specific work depends on your arrangement."

How could Hobert know whose relative or confidant he was among the officers working in the palace security?
Hobert was temporarily seconded to work for one day. Of course, he was as polite as he could be without being humble or overbearing.

Chad took Hobert into the palace and came to a small office. Chad began to talk about today's security mission: "While the Queen is in the palace, you only need to rest in the lounge and do daily security work. Just let us do it.

"But the queen has to go out today. Then you will sit in the queen's carriage and protect her at close range."

When Georgina briefly described Hobert's mission before, she did not make the specific mission clear.

According to regulations, Hobert's specific mission was not informed until he entered the palace.

Hobert nodded indifferently, and then he realized that even the royal family would not treat a demigod as a servant or bodyguard. As long as the royal family members did not go out, he would just rest or guard the sealed artifacts in the palace. .

Of course, a "temporary worker" like Hobert would not be allowed to guard the sealed artifacts.

Besides, the royal family made it very clear that the secondment to MI[-] this time was mainly to protect the queen.

Chad added: "As usual, when you hand over to Mr. Clemont later, you will get the temporary use right of a level 1 sealed object and a charm.

"The abilities of that level 1 sealed object are: it can discover targets in various hidden states; it can turn a small area into a 'secret realm' to effectively hide its whereabouts; it can summon a 'door' in front of itself and follow the target Being in two spaces, one can avoid attacks from most extraordinary abilities.

“The negative effect is: it will always enter the spirit world inadvertently, and if you wear it for a long time, you will become a wanderer.

"As for that talisman, it can summon the Duke of Southwell. It should be used in times of extreme crisis."

Chad smiled slightly: "You have participated in the battle in Feneport City. I believe you don't need me to explain what it means to summon the Duke of Southwell."

Hobert nodded: "I understand."

Chad told a few more things about the queen's preferences to prevent Hobert from offending the queen over trivial matters.

At [-]:[-], the two men took a guard consisting of dozens of people to change defense with another guard.

Chad first took Hobert to the lounge specially prepared for demigods in the queen's palace, where he met an old man who looked to be in his 60s, very kind and in good spirits.

After getting the sealed object in the shape of a button and the dark golden charm, the handover was officially completed. The two demigods shook hands, and the kind Clemont left, leaving Hobert alone in the lounge.

If you walk from the door to this lounge, it seems to be far away from where the queen rests and works, but it is only separated from the queen's bedroom and her office by a wall.

As a demigod, of course such a wall cannot stop Hobert's spirituality. If the queen is in any danger, Hobert may find out earlier than Chad who is guarding the queen.

There are fine cigars and cigarettes in the cabinet on the side. Coffee and black tea are special supplies that can only be drunk by the king and queen.

But there are no entertainment tools, the walls are bare, not even an oil painting is hung.

After staying for more than an hour, Hobert felt bored and sighed in his heart: This job is suitable for an old man like Lakemont.

At about ten o'clock, the queen finally went out.

Hobert stretched hard, yawned silently, and walked out quickly to keep up with the guards.

He noticed that walking at the front of the team was not only the queen, but also the noble Princess Alice. It seemed that the two were preparing to go out together.

Hobert didn't pay much attention to it. Anyway, in his opinion, one sheep was just like driving, and two sheep were just like herding.

Arriving at the carriage that only had the specifications of a king, the queen and princess got on first. Hobert stepped forward quickly and was the third one to get on.

The king-sized carriage is several times larger than the earl-sized carriage. Hobert’s current carriage has to lower its head when standing in the carriage, but the king-sized carriage does not need to lower the head at all, and he can bounce his head lightly inside. It can't even touch the roof of the car, it's like dragging a small living room around the world.

It is said that the queen likes canaries very much, so there is a special place for hanging bird cages in the carriage. On this trip, the queen took the bird cage and a canary with her.

The queen, who was in her 40s and dressed very solemnly in both clothing and hair accessories, glanced at Hobert, who came up last, and just nodded slightly to him as a greeting.

Alice was slightly startled: "Why is it you?"

"The captain of the King's Guard is resting today." Hobert explained briefly, then said hello to the queen and princess, then sat on the side of the carriage and paid attention to everything outside the window.

Alice said nothing more and continued chatting with the queen.

The carriage slowly accelerated and drove out of the palace and out of the city from the King's Road.

Hobert learned from the conversation between the Queen and Alice that today they were going to visit the Duke of Bowen, who was the Queen's brother and Alice's uncle.

Bowen has been ill since last year and has been recuperating in a manor with fresh air in the suburbs.

Today's weather is not very good. It's past ten o'clock and the fog has not completely dissipated. This makes ten o'clock noon still look like early morning.

Hobert was lamenting the weather in Backlund, when suddenly, his spirit had a premonition of danger coming.

He immediately made a gesture to the queen and Alice, indicating that they should stop talking.

Hobert injected his spirituality into the button on his cuff, a sealed object provided by the royal family, to look for any hidden enemies around him.

At this moment, Alice suddenly covered her chest with a look of horror, as if she couldn't breathe.

Hobert immediately felt an evil force descending on Alice. He immediately stepped forward to check and found that Alice was foaming at the mouth and somewhat losing her will.

The queen covered her mouth in surprise: "Oh my God!"

She stood up and wanted to help, but Hobert held out his hand to stop her.

At this time, Hobert has already concluded: Alice is cursed!
"Chaos! Twist!" Hobert plunged the surrounding area into chaos and tried to twist the surrounding evil forces to isolate Alice from the spell caster, or to "twist" the curse to the canary in the carriage. body.

But it had no effect. Hobert immediately supported the dying Alice and asked her to lie down: "I'm sorry."

There are generally two types of curse media. One is that the curser obtains the hair, flesh and other body parts of the cursed person, so he can curse the target at a long distance.

This is equivalent to a phone call in the field of occultism. The power of the curser needs to maintain occult contact with the cursed person for a few seconds in order to curse a person to death.

Some low-level spell casters also need the assistance of ritual magic to curse someone for several days in a row before they can curse someone to death.

Another kind of medium is that the cursed person has items that the curser can use, or simply items made by the curser, and the curse is carried out through such a medium.

This is equivalent to a telegram. As long as a short command in a mystical sense is given, an object can be used as a medium to trigger a curse.

So since "chaos" and "distortion" don't work, this curse should use the second medium.

Hobert spread his spirituality to the maximum and stared at Alice's headdress, earrings, etc. with "correlation": they are not these things.

He had no choice but to search her body. When he found the skirt, Hobert felt a hard object on the side of Alice's right leg. He quickly lifted up the princess's skirt.

Fortunately, the clothes of nobles were more cumbersome, and Alice also wore something similar to safety pants, otherwise Hobert would have felt a little embarrassed if there were only underwear under the skirt.

I have to say that Princess Alice's legs are still very beautiful, neither fat nor thin, and the stockings are just right to make them round and sexy.

Because it was important to save people, Hobert didn't have time to take a closer look. He found a Mitsubishi Thorn in the skin of Alice's right thigh.

It was a magical item, but it was still not what Hobert was looking for.

Hobert looked at the princess's other leg, which was also wearing stockings and had a delicate leg ring on it.

In earlier times, stockings were a rarer luxury item than they are now, and leg rings were used by nobles to secure stockings.

Later, as stockings became elastic, the role of leg rings disappeared, but leg rings were still retained as accessories.

Among nobles, leg rings are relatively private accessories. Only very close people would give leg rings to each other.

The reason is also very simple. In Loen, where the atmosphere is relatively conservative, the legs of men, women or young ladies are rarely exposed in public.

No matter how sexy the leg rings are, not many people can appreciate them.

These thoughts only flashed through Hobert's mind. He reached out and pulled off the cloth leg ring, and suddenly felt that his hands contained very evil power.

Hobert immediately threw the leg ring on the carpet, checked it, and saw that he had not been damaged in any way, then went to close the hem of Princess Alice's skirt.

At this time, Princess Alice has not yet regained consciousness, but her breathing has stabilized.

Hobert took out his handkerchief and wiped the foam from the corner of Alice's mouth: "Twisted!"

He "distorted" the concepts of Alice and the canary, causing most of the impact on Alice to be felt by the canary.

Canary immediately kicked off her legs and died, while Alice's condition suddenly recovered a lot.

The queen glanced at the dead canary, as if she was somewhat reluctant to part with her, but her daughter was more important: "How is it?"

All this happened in just three or four seconds, and the queen didn't even have time to order the driver to stop.

Hobert did not take back his handkerchief. After using "connection" to cut off his occult connection with the handkerchief, he placed the handkerchief on his seat.

It's not that he has mysophobia, but just to avoid suspicion.

After all, there was Alice's saliva on the handkerchief. If she was cursed again, Hobert would be a certain suspect, so it was better to just throw the handkerchief away.

Then he sat aside and made room for the queen.

Under the Queen's care, it took Alice another ten seconds to recover.

At this time, Hobert said: "I suggest that we return to the palace immediately and let the members of the guard who are good at divination divine the assassin's location or general information."

But the hope is not high. Judging from the ferocity of the curse just now, the caster's rank should be high. Unless you ask Klein or Archibald to divine, you may not be able to divine anything.

The queen, who was always solemn, asked a little scared at this time: "What happened to Alice just now?"

That is to say, Hobert's reaction is quick. If it were an ordinary Extraordinary person, he would not be able to find the key to solving the problem in such a short time.

As for the curse, it would take five seconds, or at most six seconds, to kill Alice.

If Hobert had moved a little slower, Alice would have been a corpse at this time.

How could the queen not be afraid of this?
"The princess was cursed just now." Hobert replied.

"No need to go back." At this time, Alice calmly pointed to the leg ring on the carpet and asked, "Is the other party using this leg ring to curse me?"

Hobert nodded: "According to my observation, yes."

The queen immediately asked: "Who gave you this leg ring?"

"Edsac!" Alice said coldly.

The late prince who was said to be infatuated with the witch.

The queen seemed to have thought of something, and she asked sternly: "Are you still investigating Edsac?"

Alice glanced at her mother: "Yes!"

This assassination using a curse was obviously aimed at investigating Alice. Even if he failed to kill her, the warning was very obvious.

"How many times have I told you not to continue the investigation!" The queen said seriously: "I don't want to lose a daughter after losing a son!"

Alice nodded: "Okay mother, I won't investigate any more."

The queen sighed. She knew her daughter too well. Alice agreed so readily, which only meant that she had not listened to her advice at all.

Hobert on the side was already shouting in his heart: Hey, hey, hey, don’t talk about this kind of thing in front of me, okay?I'm just a temporary worker!I don’t want to know your secrets and the bad things in the royal family!
Fortunately, the mother and son did not continue to talk about the matter, but they also did not turn around and return to the palace. They seemed to know who the assassin was and expected that they would not assassinate him again.

Hobert guessed that it should be someone from the Witch Church, and there must be an insider in the palace.

Otherwise, the assassin would not be able to take advantage of the experienced demigod's rest, and Hobert was temporarily seconded to carry out the assassination.

Because in theory, although Hobert is also a demigod, he is too young after all and has not received corresponding training. Maybe when he discovered that it was a curse, Alice was already hopeless.

Moreover, the other party's timing of the assassination was quite accurate. The curse was only carried out after Alice left the palace. Hobert did not believe that this could be a coincidence.

The atmosphere in the carriage became a lot duller. When they were about to reach their destination, Alice took out a delicate leather bag and put away the torn leg ring.

After the carriage stopped, Hobert got off the carriage first to be on guard.

The Queen got out of the car second. As she got out of the car, she saw Alice putting Hobert's abandoned handkerchief into her purse.

She was slightly startled, but pretended not to see it.

Hobert, who got off the carriage first, saw Duke Bowen coming out to greet him. The gray-haired Duke looked very skinny.

Hobert made a judgment almost immediately: there seemed to be an evil force entangled in Duke Bowen's spirit body.

(End of this chapter)