Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 550 The real George III

Hobert glanced at Duke Bowen and judged that the cause of his illness seemed to be a curse.

But he didn't say anything. He was not the only demigod in Backlund. It was impossible that no one had noticed this before.

Hobert dutifully followed the queen and princess, carrying out the task of protection and vigilance seriously. The Bowen couple couldn't help but glance at this handsome young man.

Of course they had seen Hobert, but they had only attended the ball invited by the king on April 4st, and had not attended any balls since then. They did not know that Hobert worked in MI1, so they were somewhat concerned about Hobert's appearance here. Puzzled.

More than half an hour later, the Queen's visit ended and the group set off on their return journey.

It can be seen that the Queen and Duke Bowen have a good relationship. They were reluctant to say goodbye to Duke Bowen. The Queen, who was sitting in the carriage, also glanced in the direction of the villa with a worried look after the carriage started to accelerate.

After the carriage left the manor, the Queen suddenly asked Hobert: "Have you seen the cause of Duke Bowen's illness?"

Hobert was slightly startled, why are you asking me?

He bowed and said: "Your Majesty the Queen, I have little experience and have never studied medicine, so I have not seen the cause of the disease."

The queen looked at Hobert and nodded slightly: "It is good to be cautious when you are young."

Then she changed the topic: "I seconded you from Georgina by name."

Hobert was slightly startled again. He thought he was really a demigod from MI[-] and he was the only one free today.

After observing these few days, he found that other people were indeed very busy.

At the same time, he had a question in his mind, why did the queen do this?

After thinking for a moment, Hobert said: "Thanks to Her Majesty the Queen for her favor. When I got the transfer order from MI[-], I didn't think too much."

This is to express his position: I am from MI[-] and loyal to the royal family. There is no need to win over me in private.There is no need to give me some tasks in private. If there are any tasks, just ask Georgina to give orders.

Of course, this also means: I will not accept private solicitation, and I will refuse tasks outside of public duties.

For other nobles, this is definitely an opportunity, but Hobert has no intention of staying in Backlund, so he has no intention of binding himself to the royal family.

The queen smiled and said: "The more cautious you are, the more suitable you are for the candidate in my mind."

Hobert: I...I'm going!
After all, this is the top ruling class, and every one of them is a human being. With just one sentence, Hobert's road was blocked.

"I won't make it too difficult for you!" At this time, the queen changed the topic: "You just need to help me investigate in secret who wants to harm Duke Bowen."

She sighed and said: "I sent many people to treat Bowen, and even paid a lot of money to invite the bishop of the Church of the Mother Earth to come for treatment. Their diagnosis was consistent: Bowen was hit by a slow-onset curse.

“But they tried all kinds of methods, but they couldn’t solve the curse.

"Maybe we should change our thinking and find out who is the caster of the spell."

Hobert glanced at the queen and then at Alice. Sure enough, he saw a bit of dissatisfaction on Alice's face: You still have the nerve to talk about your daughter, aren't you also doing some dangerous investigations?

But then, Hobert felt that this seemed to be human nature. Even politicians who are full of political goals will still have one or two people they care about, and that will often be their bottom line.

He sighed and continued to evade, telling the truth: "But I'm not good at solving curse problems."

The queen didn't speak, just glanced at Alice.

It's like saying: lie to your face.

Hobert smiled bitterly: "The urgent curse is different from the slow onset curse.

"According to my limited understanding, a slow-onset curse is more difficult to resolve, and it is more difficult to find the agent of the curse and the caster behind it.

"The queen should know that my ability is not good at breaking such a difficult curse."

"For this matter, your ability is still secondary!" The Queen stared at Hobert: "Actually, up to now, I don't really believe in the diagnoses of those people before! Check whether Duke Bowen is really pregnant. Cursed?"

Hobert thought for a moment and understood what the queen meant: "Because I currently have no power background, and I am not tied to any interests for the time being."

The queen nodded slightly: "As Georgina said, you are indeed very smart."

Then she promised: "As long as your investigation only makes breakthrough progress, I will promote you to major general in advance."

For a demigod, it was only a matter of time before he was promoted to major general. However, Hobert was not trained by the royal family, so he had to go through the process and work in MI[-] for a year and a half before being promoted to major general.

The hurdle of being promoted to general was once a worry for Christine, but Hobert didn't have much enthusiasm for this military rank.

The queen also noticed it, and she reacted quickly: "At the same time, I will make you the most noble person in the Loen Kingdom."

Alice, who had been listening, suddenly bowed. She understood what the queen meant, which meant that the queen was already considering marrying a princess to Hobert.

The most noble people in the kingdom are of course the royal family members!
By marrying the princess, Hobert becomes a member of the royal family.

Hobert didn't know the Queen well, and he thought the Queen meant to express her support for him to enter the House of Lords.

He knew that if he refused to agree, it would be disrespectful to the queen.

Sometimes it's so helpless to get along with those in power.

Their gifts may not be what they want, but if they don't want them or show any dislike, they will definitely offend the other party.

"Of course I will handle the tasks assigned by the queen with all my heart." Hobert expressed his needs by the way: "If there are any bad rumors about my fiefdom, Longtail Island, in the future, please don't believe it."

In the future, he will still focus on the territory, and many of the manor owners on Longwei Island are running the business for the nobles, and some have interests in Backlund's wealthy people.

When Hobert dealt with them, he might arouse Backlund's condemnation.

If there was a queen who could tell him the truth, those nobles and rich men would not even dare to fart.

The queen readily agreed: "No problem."

To her, it was just an island on the violent sea without even a gold mine.

Rumors in that kind of place won't have much impact in Backlund.

Although Hobert took over the queen's task, he did not intend to investigate it seriously.

Especially when faced with danger, he will definitely give up all his options.

However, he still had the attitude he should have. Now Hobert asked some specific information about Duke Bowen and the investigation results of several previous people.

The queen promised to send the relevant details to Hobert tomorrow.

Soon, they returned to King's Avenue and entered Backlund.

Hobert breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he sent the mother and daughter back to the palace, his mission for today would be basically completed.

Just as he was thinking of this, Hobert suddenly sensed danger again.

He stood up suddenly and pulled Alice up from her seat.

wow~
Almost at the same time, the car window shattered, and two short crystal-like arrows broke through the glass and shot in. They hit the spot where Alice had been sitting just now and made a big hole in the car!

There was a whine from the horses in front, and the remaining power of the two short arrows actually killed a horse!

Chad in the motorcade immediately said: "Protect the queen and princess!"

The guards surrounded the queen's carriage in a well-trained manner, and several Beyonders immediately jumped onto the surrounding rooftops, looking for the assassin who broke the glass.

Hobert once again injected his spirituality into the button provided by the royal family, but he immediately found that his spirituality seemed to be stuck in the quagmire, and he did not receive any feedback in strength at all.

Hobert glanced out of the corner of his eye. He didn't know when the surface of the button had been covered with a layer of white frost.

Obviously the other party knew about the sealed artifact in Hobert's hand and had made corresponding preparations in advance.

Hobert lifted the seal on his gloves: "Invisibility is prohibited here!"

Suddenly, Hobert felt someone coming from the bottom of the carriage. He immediately grabbed Alice's collar, picked her up and put her behind him.

Almost as soon as Alice's feet left the ground, a weapon like an ice gun pierced the carpet and headed straight for Alice.

Hobert kicked away and slammed his foot down, but the kick missed its target.

cough~
Alice and the Queen began to cough and have some fever.

Hobert also felt some discomfort in his throat. At the level of a demigod, he could hardly get sick.

If he feels unwell, it must be caused by the extraordinary virus.

The opponent could no longer "stealth" quietly, so he had to start attacking in other ways.

The two windows of the carriage suddenly became dark and dark, and the outside scene could not be seen, as if they had turned into a bottomless black hole.

From the car window on the left, strands of thin and tough hair stretched out, tightly entangling Hobert and Alice, making them temporarily unable to move. However, the hair perfectly avoided the queen. .

From the right window glass, balls of black flames shot out, flying toward the two people like bullets.

Hobert stared at the flames: "Chaos!"

The black flames perfectly avoided Hobert and Alice, burning off many of those hairs.Hobert, who had regained a certain degree of freedom, kicked the right car door away, and said to the left car door a little further away: "Exile!"

Pushed by a huge force, the left door flew away, gradually became illusory, and finally disappeared.

Before everyone could take a breath, two illusory-looking hands suddenly stretched out from the wine bottles in the carriage wine cabinet, grabbed Alice's neck, and tried to drag her into the mirror of the glass bottle.

However, Hobert grabbed the other person's arm and jerked it outward.

Although the Extraordinary of the "Witch" path has agility, she is not known for her strength. She was obviously staggered by Hobert, and it seemed that she was almost pulled out of the mirror world.

But at the same time, because of this pull, the force that almost broke Alice's neck finally eased.

"Use!" Hobert used the rules of extraordinary abilities to end the opponent's ability to travel through the mirror world early. Her arms became noticeably more solid, and a head of hair emerged from the bottle.

Before he could see the other person's face, the bottle shattered with a crash, and Hobert, who was holding the other person's arm, only had a handful of broken glass left in his hand.

At this time, a phantom was reflected in the window on one side of the street. Before I could see the phantom clearly, the phantom disappeared again and jumped to the glass further away.

It wasn't that the other party was beaten away by Hobert, but that her purpose was to assassinate him. After the raid failed, she chose to withdraw immediately.

Hobert, who still continued to be vigilant, realized that the opponent should be a Sequence 4 "Witch of Despair".

Hobert thought to himself: Who are you looking down on?I am the "Fallen Earl", so I am going to send a "Witch of Despair" to assassinate me?

This is not because the other party is careless, but there is a certain deviation in their intelligence. Currently, only Georgina and a few other people in the royal family clearly know that Hobert is a Sequence 4, and the others do not know this yet.

Being able to sit in the Queen's carriage for close protection, of course, immediately exposed the information that Hobert had been promoted to demigod, but the problem was that they did not have any information about Hobert's battles with other demigods, and they had no idea about Hobert's fighting style. Nothing is known.

In addition, they were certain that Hobert had not conducted any protection missions before, and they believed that Hobert lacked corresponding experience, so in the end they still only dispatched a Sequence 4.

The reason why Hobert made such a guess was because the other party had assassinated him twice in a row. This was no longer a warning, but a real assassination!

Alice didn't seem to have thought about this. After she was safe, she was a little scared: "Does he really want to kill me?"

The queen also snorted coldly: "That's too much!"

It was indeed too much to assassinate a princess in front of the queen.

The queen said to Chad outside: "Change the car! Go back to the palace as quickly as possible!"

The three people came to a carriage where the guards were riding, bypassed the already somewhat dilapidated carriage, and quickly hurried back to the palace.

When getting off the carriage, the queen specifically told Hobert who was behind him: "Come with us."

Without this warning, Hobert would indeed have planned to find a rest room to hide in. Anyway, he returned to the palace. Even if he did not follow the Queen and Alice closely, it would not be considered a dereliction of duty on his part.

But the queen said so, and he had no choice but to follow the mother and daughter.

After leaving the royal stables, passing through the square with the "Protector" sculpture, we came to the main hall of Thordrak Palace, Thales Hall.

Only then did Hobert know that the queen was going to find the king.

He sighed in his heart: We have found the right person!Instead of looking for the elusive Witch Church, it would be better to find the King quickly.

This hall does not look very grand, but there are majestic statues on the four walls of the building. The stone eyes of those statues seem to be looking at everyone approaching the hall with majestic eyes.

This makes the hall full of mystery, and anyone who comes here, including Hobert, who has been promoted to demigod, feels that he has to surrender to the master of this hall.

To be cautious, Hobert covered the "Wood of Order" and "Crystal of Order" with spiritual walls.

Although after reaching Sequence 4, Hobert can completely control the aura of the "Country of Disorder", and even angels cannot detect the abnormality, but he doesn't know why today, but he always feels a little uneasy.

Hobert was stopped outside the main hall. The Queen and Alice simply adjusted their clothes. Alice pulled down the collar of her clothes, deliberately exposing the ferocious red pinch marks on her neck, and then they entered the main hall together.

Ten minutes later, old Bernie, the eunuch, came out and said, "Your Majesty, please invite Hobert Jeffrey to come in for questioning."

Hobert was stunned and handed the cane to Chad. This was a normal move. After all, it was rude to see the king with a cane.

Seeing that he handled it very naturally, Hobert breathed a sigh of relief and followed Old Bernie in.

First, he passed through a corridor full of exquisite works of art and oil paintings, then passed a banquet hall, and finally came to a spacious room full of birds and flowers. The fog in Backlund had not dissipated, but there was plenty of sunshine.

As soon as he entered the door, Hobert glanced at George III. He was obviously stunned because he felt that the George III in front of him was different from the previous times he met!
He couldn't tell exactly what was different, but it felt different anyway.

Following the court etiquette he had learned before, Hobert knelt down on one knee: "Dear King, I praise you for your kindness and majesty."

"Get up." George III was also looking at Hobert, and then asked in a curious tone: "Are you the Hobert who performed well in the battle at Feneport City?"

Hobert realized that George III was actually asking: Are you the favored one of the "creator"?
"The 'Protector' was present at the time, and my contribution was really insignificant." Hobert stood up and glanced at the queen sitting on the side of the king and Alice standing on the queen's side with the corner of his eye.

George III didn't pay much attention to Hobert's answer, but asked: "Were you responsible for the two assassinations that Alice suffered?"

"Yes."

"Is the assassin a witch?"

Hobert answered cautiously: "The first assassination was based on a curse. I'm not sure, but the returning assassin was indeed a 'witch'!"

George III was a little angry: "These madmen dared to assassinate the princess! It was my biggest mistake not to kill them all!"

He looked at Alice, his eyes full of doting: "Don't worry, I will definitely find the murderer for you."

Alice, who was originally very noble, was crying so hard that she nodded pitifully.

At this time, the Queen pointedly said: "Your Majesty the King, I know that you are busy with affairs, but no matter how busy you are, you should be more cautious when choosing partners to cooperate with."

Hobert understood and thought that the king never admitted that he was cooperating with the Witch Church.

The queen should know some inside information, but not much, otherwise she would not give such advice.

The queen did not expose it completely, but just expressed her dissatisfaction in the direction of the king: "Today they dare to assassinate the princess, maybe they will assassinate me tomorrow, and the king the day after tomorrow!

"Such a force must be severely cracked down on!"

The queen is in the right direction. She just reminded the king: I know you have some cooperation.

Then she pointed the contradiction to the witch challenging the king's authority.

Hobert took advantage of the opportunity and said, "I'm resigning."

George III nodded lightly, and Old Bernie winked at a guard, who took Hobert away.

After leaving the hall and taking the cane from Chad, Hobert thought of the George III he had just met: Could it be that all the George III he had seen before were fake?

He thought about it seriously and realized that it was not impossible.

Hobert remembered that George III seemed to have taken advantage of some loopholes to be promoted from Sequence 5 to Sequence 1 before the ceremony of becoming a god. This caused his state to be very unstable. He should be like those vampire dukes who were in bad condition. , can only move in certain areas.

So the person who occasionally appears in public might be his stand-in?

Because Hobert blocked his memory of Adam, he did not realize that those who appeared in public might also be imaginary avatars controlled by George III.

It took more than 20 minutes before the queen and Alice came out, and Hobert followed them back to the main hall of the queen's palace.

When he was about to leave again, the queen suddenly said to him: "Thank you for being with Alice today. I don't know what your preferences are, so I will give you a few gadgets."

For the Queen, people like Hobert who seem to have no desires or desires are the most difficult to deal with.

Hobert did not refuse: "Thank you Queen!"

Alice on the side said: "Mother, let Hobert go back with me and protect me the whole time today?"

The queen smiled and said, "Do you think I, the queen, am just a decoration?"

She has sternly warned the king today that if the Witch Church continues to assassinate Alice, then the king will be contemptuous of the political power of Duke Bowen!

Standing at the bottom, Hobert said to himself: This is not necessarily the case. You only thought of the political game, not the game of extraordinary power.Besides, it is a recognized fact that George III spent time on his children. Last year alone, he lost two princes, which directly turned the prince into a "high-risk industry."

"Of course I believe my mother." Alice said, sitting on the queen's side: "I actually want to know the detailed information about the witch from Hobert."

The queen glanced at her daughter, then at the sunny and handsome Hobert: "I understand, then let him protect you."

Hobert was somewhat helpless. Originally, he thought today's task was not difficult, but it turned out that he seemed to have been approaching a dangerous whirlpool.

So Hobert had no choice but to follow Alice back to her bedroom.

It was a very exquisite courtyard in Thordrak's palace. As soon as Alice entered the door, she said to the chief servant who came up to her: "Prepare an extra lunch."

The very capable servant chief, who was in his 30s, glanced at the stranger Hobert behind him and said, "Yes."

"What I mean is, prepare a lunch with the same specifications as mine!" Alice added: "Put Earl Jeffrey's tableware in the dining room."

The chief servant couldn't help but glance at Hobert again: "Yes."

It’s no wonder that the chief servant was so surprised. Alice had only entertained the late Prince Edsac in her own restaurant, but today she made an exception to entertain this earl. This shows how special this earl is, or in the eyes of Her Royal Highness Alice. weight.

(End of this chapter)