Riding and Slashing

"Antonius...was poisoned some time ago, and then the Snake Cult took control of him..."

Kailos turned his head and looked at Emperor Marius with blank eyes, his voice was extremely low.

Emperor Mario's eyes widened: "You mean... your son joined the Snake Cult?"

"No!... It is impossible for Antonius or myself to join the Snake Cult, although we have encountered bribes many times over the years... He was controlled by the Snake Cult with poison! I have to put him Save me!"

Kairos spoke incoherently.

"Let's be clear... what's going on? What does this have to do with these corpses?"

Emperor Marius obviously didn't understand. After seeing the terrifying scene in the altar, he forced himself to relax his tone.

"It's a conspiracy...I know it's a conspiracy, but I can't give up my eldest son..."

Kairos finally started to tell what he had been through.

This has to start a few months ago.

After Kailos took over Buyulin Village, he asked his eldest son Antonius to deal with the Red Death in Buyulin Village, and he helped Li Ang arrange food and boats and then went to Siyuan City-he followed Li Ang's suggestion. Livius' IOU was handed over to Emperor Marius himself, so Livius was transferred to Shieldwind Fortress.

There is nothing wrong with these things in themselves, the only problem is that since then, Kailos has not been able to return to Emperor Lingang, and has almost lost contact with his family.

Because Kailos has been ordered to destroy the rebels of Sheila Youzas since then, and his Shadow Legion has a lot of spies who tipped the rebels.

In order to track down the spies, and to prevent the whereabouts of the army from being exposed to the rebels, he prohibited the army from going out and did not send anyone outside.

This made the whereabouts of his troops unknown, and it was impossible to contact his family-even Emperor Marius could not contact him at the time.

The soldiers are fierce and the battle is in danger. For the safety of the country, Kailos acted cautiously to ensure that the army would not be ambushed. This is also due to his sense of responsibility as a marshal.

However, since he hasn't been home for a long time and hasn't contacted his family, the problems encountered by his family have not been properly dealt with—or in other words, he has received a series of abnormal treatments.

The Snake Worship Cult has been infiltrating in Emperor Lingang before. Many people know about this, and Kairos certainly knows it well.

In fact, if it weren't for Kairos' constant control, the Snake Cult might have infiltrated the army.

However, although the Snake Worshipers in Emperor Lingang failed to mix sand in the army, they achieved a lot in the homes of the nobles.

Especially those aristocratic homes who often don't go home - such as Kailos' home.

Kailos hadn't returned home for a long time, and no news came back. Although this lonely woman knew that Kailos had a mission, she still couldn't help thinking about it.

And Antonius, the son of Kailos, after completing the blockade task of Buyulin Village, went out to play a circle by the way, but was poisoned when he returned home.

It wasn't accidental, nor was Antonyus accidentally infected with the Red Death, he was attacked.

Moreover, the reason for the attack had something to do with the carriage that Li Ang sold to Kairos.

Since Kailos was going to fight outside, this luxury carriage was naturally taken by Antonius for a period of time-every young man is the same, seeing his father bought a luxury car, of course he wanted to have fun with it for a few days .

So after dealing with the business that his father had told him, he fooled around in this luxury carriage for a while, but as soon as he returned to Emperor Lingang, he got a poisonous sting.

In fact, the person who instructed the servant to shoot the poisonous thorn was none other than Antonius' mother, Ms. Arras.

That is Kailos' wife, a 50-year-old lonely middle-aged woman.

Previously, Kailos got back a luxurious carriage with a special style, and did not tell Ms. Arasi the origin of the carriage at all-it was traded from Li Ang, an enemy, and the transaction also involved food. Kairos did not intend to tell anyone.

But the problem is that Amy and Sarah used to ride in this carriage, and it was sold in a hurry. Of course, it will inevitably leave some young women's smell-especially Sarah, who usually uses a lot of spices... …

As a result, Ms. Arras had a little misunderstanding—Kelos was a famous handsome guy when he was young, and he was very popular with noble women in the Bacchus Empire. Even at this age, he is still quite attractive...

With the style of Bacchus, it is quite normal for a nobleman to secretly raise a few lovers.

After all, Ms. Arasi is getting old, and the creases on her face can no longer be smoothed out with an iron. Naturally, she has no confidence in her own charm, and some servants with ulterior motives are encouraging her...

So after seeing the carriage, he decided that Kailos had another new love.

Later, a "loyal" servant said that he should deal with the possible "little three"...

Therefore, Ms. Arasi found a poisonous needle and asked the servant to find an opportunity to use the poisonous needle to attack any woman who appeared in the carriage when the luxury car returned to Emperor Lingang again.

In Ms. Arasi's opinion, the poisonous needle should have been nailed to the neck of Kailos' lover...

But the problem is, Kailos didn't take this carriage to Siyuan City, and it was her son who went out to fool around with this carriage—a young unmarried man like Antonius went out to fool around with friends in a luxury car. It's normal social behavior.

Since the curtains of this carriage were transformed into masks by Li Ang, Antonius hung the tulle used by the Bacchus Empire on the windows. People could be clearly seen from the outside of the carriage, but they couldn't tell who the people in the carriage were. .

As a result, Antonius got hit after returning to Emperor Lingang with this luxury car...

In fact, Antonius did bring the girl back, and the girl in the car was fine, but Antonius was hit by a dart-the servant obviously aimed at Antonius...

In fact, being shot by the poisonous needle shouldn't be a big problem, the wound is not big, and the toxin on the needle would not be fatal in the first place.

It will only cause skin swelling, peeling and festering the skin and produce a foul smell, but there will be no sequelae after healing-this is the characteristic of many highly infectious toxins, even soaked in feces and rusty needles can do it. At this point, the poisonous needle that Alas himself can find is naturally not a rare thing.

This is just the jealousy of a confused and lonely middle-aged and elderly woman. It is not for murder, but just to temporarily disfigure a certain mistress.

But after Antonius got the poisonous needle, he thought it was the Snake Cult that made him contract the Red Death—he had just dealt with the Red Death in Bullin Village, and knew that it was intentionally created by the Snake Cult. As the eldest son of Kairos, it is obviously not incomprehensible for him to be targeted by the Snake Cult.

So he returned home immediately, and after some examination, he found that he had symptoms similar to the Red Death—the skin at the wound began to fester and pus, and emit a foul smell.

Antonius was actually a brave and resolute young man. Although he immediately believed that he might die, he was not too panicked, and even locked himself in the house for self-isolation.

However, his mother, Ms. Alas, did not want to lose this promising son—she knew that it was not the Red Death, but she didn't know how to explain to her son that it was a poisonous needle shot by someone she asked for...

The lady could only do a quick remedy—she had the needle-shooting servant suck up the poison from her son's wound, which, it seemed to her, would surely be sucked out.

But no one knew what the 'loyal' servant had inhaled for Antonius. Anyway, since then, Antonius has been in a deep sleep, and his symptoms have become more and more serious, and the servant has disappeared.

Madame Arasi panicked.

Since she couldn't get in touch with Governor Kailos, Ms. Arasi didn't know how to do things in a panic, and hurriedly called a large number of doctors of all kinds to her son's home to treat her son, and even used some unreliable doctors' bloodletting therapy.

As a result, when the most experienced doctors from the Knights of the Radiant Cross arrived, all kinds of quack doctors had already treated Antonius, who had mild symptoms, into a critical condition.

The doctors of the Glorious Cross finally determined that this was not the Red Death, but a poison mixed with various snake venoms, which probably contained some kind of hallucinogen.

The symptoms caused by these mixed poisons look very similar to the red death, but they can be treated originally, as long as the composition of the toxin can be determined, they can be solved one by one.

However, those quack doctors used all kinds of smoke and fire to cure them. They also used a lot of folk remedies to fight poison with poison. They also poured a large pot of blood on Antonius. Si's body is good enough to withstand the toss...

If according to Antonius's own intentions, he would be locked in the room and self-isolate and do nothing. In terms of the toxicity of the poisonous needle, it is estimated that he can recover on his own after a few days of sleep...

But at this time Antonyus had been bled into a coma and could not be consulted.He was tossed about for too long, fed too many useless drugs, and could not find any clues that might have been left. In this way, no matter how clever an antidote expert is, he cannot judge the composition of the poison.

However, Ms. Arasi didn't want to believe that she had found a quack doctor and killed her son. As a result, this anxious lady expelled the members of the Knights of the Glorious Cross, and turned around to find a few priests outside the house.

In other words, it is a magic stick.

Superstition activities are very popular these days, and the typical thinking of noble women is also the same-since doctors can't do it, let the magic stick do it.

In the eyes of these old women, whether it is illness or poisoning, or suffering from evil spirits or even strokes, it is the same thing...Anyway, it can be solved by jumping the gods.

If it is not resolved, it is obviously God's will...

This can't really be blamed on Kairos's carelessness in marrying his wife, after all, most noble old women are like this.

Of course, if it was a smart girl like Alina or Amy, she would definitely be able to think of it—why is there a magic stick waiting at the door of the house at this time?
But Ms. Arasi's heart was already in a mess, she didn't think about it so much, she only knew a proverb popular in mainland China: 'Sincerity leads to spirit'...

Of course, the priests who would take the initiative to appear at the door of the governor-level nobles would not be ordinary magic sticks, they would be members of the Snake Cult, just pretending to be the priests of the Temple of Damia.

But those people are not priestesses like Alisa, but some men.

In a half-threatening and half-fooling way, these magic wands easily made Ms. Arasi and her whole family join the Snake Cult before starting to 'treat' Antonius.

I don't know what their treatment is. Anyway, Antonius did wake up, but after waking up, he seemed to be in a daze. He couldn't even speak. He only knew how to obey orders. It seemed that he had even become a puppet of those Snake Worshipers. .

Moreover, on his neck, green scales like snakeskin began to appear.

But for Ms Arasi, at least her son has indeed been 'rescued'.

The people of the Snake Cult said that it would take a while to recover completely, so Ms. Arasi was very cooperative with those Snake Worshipers, and even really planned to bring the whole family to believe in the Snake Worship Cult.

In the first half of his life, Kailos may have had different political views from Emperor Marius, but he was never relentless when he met the Snake Worshipers. He did not expect that when he was fighting with the Snake Worshipers outside, his whole family would be killed by the Snake Worshipers. compiled...

Of course, the people from the Snake Cult went to Kailos' house to make troubles, and of course they had bigger plans.

After controlling Kairos's family, these Snake Cultists planned to force Antonyus to disarm Emperor Lingang and let the Snake Cult army outside the city enter the city.

But it didn't work out—not to mention Antonyus, even Kairos himself couldn't convey such an order in full view.

What's more, Antonius can't even speak now.

Shortly thereafter, Kailos' family suddenly left Dilingang without a trace—because the members of the Consul's family 'fleeed without a fight', this also caused most of the nobles in Dilingang to flee here. The pig serf general Ivaylo turned out to defend the city.

And a few days ago, when Kailos dealt with the devoured people in Siyuan City, he met his wife, Ms. Arasi, who he hadn't seen for a long time.

But his wife didn't come because she missed him...

Ms. Arasi made a special trip to Siyuan City to find him, and she tried to persuade Kairos to assassinate Emperor Marius!

The unbelievable Kairos took a lot of effort to confirm that the 50-year-old woman in front of him was indeed his wife, and she was sane and not talking nonsense...

The reason why Ms. Arasi tried to get Kairos to assassinate Emperor Marius was because the magic stick told her that only the blood of Emperor Marius could restore Antonyus to a normal person.

Otherwise, Antonyus' soul will be devoured!

This is probably not a lie. Although Kairos doesn't know how the devoured people of the Snake Cult were created, he knows that the Snake Cult can indeed do this.

After all, he was clearing those devoured people in Siyuan City at that time.

Afterwards, a priest-like person brought Kailos to Brett, and let him witness Antonyus on the altar.

At that time, Antonius's face and neck were almost covered with miserable green scaly dry shells, and her face was covered with herpes, and those herpes seemed to be gradually transforming into snake skin. His eyes were open, but they had basically become Vertical pupils - the whole face looks like a snake.

The envoy of the Snake Worship Cult pushed Antonius into the pool of blood, and then the scales on Antonius's face that floated up obviously faded a little, but it didn't take long for him to regain his snakeskin appearance.

Later, the envoy of the Snake Cult told Kailos that only the blood of the king could save his son, and he would seal Antonyus in this altar and wait for Kailos to bring Emperor Marius.

Kairos saw with his own eyes that the temple was closed.

After understanding the situation, Kailos fell into a difficult choice.

The people of the Snake Cult must have done it on purpose. This was to assassinate Emperor Marius—originally they should have planned to control Kairos himself, and Antonius suffered for Kairos.

The old Bacchus Empire in the Alma Continent fell into chaos because of the assassination of the emperor. This gave the Snake Cult an opportunity to establish a religious state on the ruins of the old Bacchus Empire.

But this time, the people of the Snake Cult obviously want to repeat the story of the past in Pendor Continent...

The so-called need for the blood of the king may be a pure deception, or it may be true, but in any case, Kairos must let Emperor Marius stay by his side.

"But now, the person on this altar is not Antonius..."

Emperor Marius obviously didn't think that his blood could bring the dead back to life. He shook his head and looked at the altar. The man whose chest and abdomen were cut open was obviously not the son of Kailos.

"Your Excellency Kailos, when you first saw this temple was sealed, were there so many corpses here?"

"Leon! Why do you..."

Hearing Lord Lord's voice suddenly, Emperor Marius and Kairos were startled at the same time.

Kairos was silent for a while, and still gave an answer: "No... At that time, there were no corpses in this temple, not a single one... Only my son Antonius was alone."