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Justinian, who came back in a carriage along the way, has been thinking about what to do next. From the current point of view, Fort Wiscari is no longer a place to stay for long. First of all, the Grand Duke Anastasius, who is very likely to have a fragment of the ark, is a great threat to Justinian, and the scene witnessed by Nikiforus, who rescued last night, also made investigations. There was a hint of anxiety between Steinney inexplicably. Undoubtedly, the envoy of Nicaea, George, seemed to be planning something secretly, and a group of dangerous assassins were even lurking in the castle.

Justinian didn’t want to get involved, because once exposed, he was likely to be locked in by the group of killers. Even the existence like Saladin had almost died in the hands of these people. Justinian did not want to be targeted by the Assassin. on. It's just that Odosia mother and daughter must take them safely out of here, which is undoubtedly a very difficult problem. Although he successfully lied to Leosgros, the other party was obviously very cautious, and Justinian hadn't even seen what they looked like now. Unless Justinian agrees to the party's conditions.

However, Justinian did not give the slightest consideration to this. It was not an exclusion of cooperation, but for Justinian, and Leos Grosse meant that he was tied to the war between the interest group of the Moria nobility. The car can't move, Justinian is not so stupid as to be a cocoon. Today's Byzantine Empire is torn apart, although there are reasons why the Venetians used the sword to kill people, but in the final analysis, the country has become so rotten to the point that it is not entirely accidental. He was more worried about the interior of the empire than foreign enemies. All the people in the divided empire didn't think about expelling the Latins, but about fighting for power and gaining each other, even Justinian himself was like that. The hatred of the Latins was more reflected in the lower classes, and the emperor’s promise to the people was in vain. Historically, Epirus and Nicaea even acted to bow to their enemies and restore Constantine. After the fort, it is even more willing to kill each other. The decades of the fall of Constantinople can be said to be the deepest darkness in the Byzantine Empire, and the shame of Constantinople and the subjugation has been completely forgotten, no one really cares, and the hearts and lives of people are not as good as carelessness. It can be said that the ultimate destruction of the empire was entirely caused by itself, and wasn't it the nobles who caused it?

Knock the bones and **** the marrow, greedily devour the empire, Justinian may not have the idea of ​​cooperating with them at all, otherwise, even if the Byzantine Empire is restored, it will be nothing more than a corrupt country.

It's just that this rebellious remark, once heard by anyone, I am afraid that Justinian's political life will immediately end, and there will even be a worry for his life. Therefore, for now, he can make false claims with Moria’s nobles. He will not commit the mistakes of Emperor Alexei I. He will destroy the old forces by cultivating a new class of absolutely loyal nobles. As a result, the imperial power was weak and had to ask the Holy See for help. However, compared with the civil war empire that was taken over by Emperor Alexei I, although the old bureaucratic stratum has been purged on a large scale, the foundation is still there. Now the divided Byzantine Empire faces Justinian even more disadvantageously.

The time for him is running out!

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On the other side, in a monastery in Fort Wiscari, Grand Duke Anastasius also learned of what happened at Pratunam not long ago. The old man who had spent his old age here also had to put down the collection of sacred texts in his hand and frowned.

He also felt deeply uneasy. What happened in Fort Wiscari was undoubtedly abnormal, but what happened now is doomed to cause people's attention.

Although Anastasius suppressed the negotiations between the Moria nobles and Justinian at the dinner that day, the old man understood that these nobles could not bear the temptation, not to mention the cunning one. The Duke of Leosgros was secretly intriguing, I am afraid that most of the nobles are already preparing to cooperate with Justinian.

However, Anastasius felt the great threat from Justinian. To be precise, he did not feel it, but the turquoise gemstone inlaid on the crutch in his hand.

Perhaps no one would believe it, if the pious priest learns that he will be deceived by calling him the devil's heresy. But Anastasius, as the longest-lived nobleman, has escaped political struggles from time to time, but it is indeed attributed to this turquoise stone.

About sixty years ago, when Anastasius was a fledgling little boy, he accidentally obtained this magical stone, and the heretical magician who sold him claimed that it had the ability to foretell good and bad luck~ www.ltnovel.com~ and he just smiled when he was curious. But after a while, he couldn’t laugh. After the death of John II on April 8, 1143, the entire empire was panicked. As the successor, Manuel escorted Emperor John’s coffin on the way back. In Constantinople, a potential competitor, Isaac, Manuel’s elder brother, controls the emperor’s enthroned dress and a large amount of wealth. Many aristocrats are ready to move and want to take the opportunity to stand up and launch a rebellion. At that time, the name of Emperor Manuel was shown on the green pine mushroom gemstone. Soon after, the commander John Aksuh quickly arrested Prince Isaac with thunder, and many secretive nobles were executed. At that time, although he was shocked, he only felt that it was a coincidence caused by the magician's blindness. But later he took office in Cyprus, and it was the divination of this stone that made him fortunately escaped the invasion of the Crusaders and escaped safely, making him finally believe that what the heretical warlock said was actually true. After that, whether it was the fiasco of the Battle of Milleo Cerphalon, the coup d’état against Emperor Alexei II by Andorex, and the successive appearances of the Angelus dynasty, the turmoil of Anas was repeated again and again. Tasius relied on the hint of this turquoise stone to escape the threat of death and became the longest-lived nobleman living in Moriah. And as the years passed, the older the man became, the more he couldn't open himself up. He even embedded this magical stone on his crutch, guarding him from time to time for fear of loss.

But since the arrival of the Crusades, everything has changed. Under the cue of the turquoise stone, Anastasius took the remaining nobles of Moria and fled to the Fort Wiscari, but the turquoise stone The death threat passed on has not disappeared, and when Justinian arrived, the stone gave himself a new reminder.