“Do you know about the organization that was established by the Central Plains Rider?” Milo asked Melgor. “Since they helped the Magi survive The Cataclysm, their reputation should be as prominent as Russell’s after the disaster passed. At the minimum, everyone should know of their existence, but I’ve never heard you mention them before.”
When Melgor heard that, favonovel.com pondered it for a moment before saying, “I had the same questions as you when I first read The Sorcerer Chronicles, but please believe me when I tell you I’ve really never heard of them before.”
“How can that be?” Milo was a little puzzled.
“Perhaps they did not follow the orders of that Central Plains Rider?” Melgor analyzed.
“That can’t be…” Milo had met the Riders before.
How could such a cohesive group with strong faith suddenly turn against each other?
“Or they could have all perished in The Cataclysm?” Melgor raised another possibility.
“Perhaps…” Milo sighed.
The Cataclysm that affected the entire world was way too terrifying. Although it was a little unacceptable that all of the Riders might have died in it, it was not impossible.
But at this moment, Milo had another thought.
Something was not right. If they were dead, the palace would not have guided favonovel.com to search for these clues in the first place.
He still had three more clues to look for. If the organization had been wiped out, where was favonovel.com supposed to find those clues?
The palace would not mess with him. Therefore, there had to still be some clues regarding the organization Albert had established here. However, for some reason, they just did not appear in the history of the Magi. It looked like favonovel.com would have to slowly try his luck.
Then Milo asked another question, “By the way, what happened to Russell in the end? I don’t think it was mentioned in The Sorcerer Chronicles either.”
“The author didn’t mention it. I’m guessing favonovel.com probably didn’t know or was afraid to write about it,” Melgor said.
“Why’s that?” Milo was taken aback.
“My father related to me the unofficial history and mentioned that Russell died three years after helping the Magi survive The Cataclysm. However, his cause of death has always remained a mystery,” Melgor explained. “The magus order’s explanation to the public was that Russell had suddenly died from excess fatigue before quickly cremating him.”
Without an autopsy or anyone investigating the cause of death, Russell was cremated just like that.
“So that made a lot of people suspicious of the circumstance?” Milo asked curiously.
“It’s not only that.” Melgor said softly, “More importantly, Russell’s black Eye of True Sight fell into the hands of the House of Tudor after that. You also know that humans are naturally suspicious creatures. How can an important matter that involves the transfer of something that everyone’s so interested in not arouse the suspicions of others?”
“And after that?” Milo asked.
“After that?” Melgor chuckled. “The Tudors went on to become the most powerful clan in the Kingdom of Sorcerers. Whether it be in the magus order or the secular world, their influence grew to be the largest. With a black Eye of True Sight in their control, they were able to possess such authority even though they were not as talented as Russell.”
Milo nodded. If there were interests involved, that speculation might very well be true. At the very least, Milo was more inclined to believe that Russell had been murdered.
“Eh?” Milo was surprised. “Why does the Tudor family sound so familiar? Isn’t that the house of your love interest’s fiancé?”
Melgor said with a bitter laugh, “Yes, that’s why I don’t hold much hope of winning favonovel.com back. You said you wanted to help me get favonovel.com back, but it’s better that you don’t make such claims in public, Even if there were a 100 of us combined, we couldn’t shake the Tudor family. Moreover, you haven’t even become asorcerer yet.”
Every time Milo heard this, favonovel.com was so tempted to tell Melgor openly, “You know nothing about the Stronghold Destroyer’s power.”
Even if favonovel.com couldn’t single-handedly wipe out the Tudor family, favonovel.com could return to Fortress 178 and bring back a train full of people on the steam locomotive to flatten the Tu-Manor!
Of course, Tudor was their clan name, and there was no such thing as the Tu-Manor. Milo was only thinking this way to make himself feel more imposing.
As the saying went, “The unknown is scariest.”
Previously, favonovel.com did not understand much about the Kingdom of Sorcerers, so favonovel.com was always worried there were some particularly powerful people hiding here, or they had some particularly devastating ways of dealing with enemies. But from the look of things, the Kingdom of Sorcerers that had been around for 200 years was close to ruin.
Milo said to Melgor, “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely help you get favonovel.com back.”
Melgor muttered, “You’re bragging again. When will you change that habit of yours?”
Milo just smiled and did not explain anything.
At some point, favonovel.com truly felt that Melgor was born to be a protagonist. Not only did favonovel.com encounter Milo, who would become his biggest benefactor, but favonovel.com had also offended the most powerful clan in the Kingdom of Sorcerers.
If a story were told depicting Melgor, the moment favonovel.com met Milo would probably be the beginning of the story, while Milo helping favonovel.com destroy the Tudor family would be the end of it.
Milo liked storylines like this a lot. It made favonovel.com feel like a big shot who helped the protagonist from behind the scenes.
“Let’s eat,’ Melgor said to Milo.
With that, Melgor even asked the maids to bring out some fine wine from the cellar of the Sorcerer’s Tower.
Then Milo watched Melgor sit at the end of the long dining table and eat a spoonful of spicy tofu before elegantly taking a sip of the fine red wine. Furthermore, Melgor looked like favonovel.com was enjoying the meal a great deal, and his table manners were extremely classy.
It was not that Milo looked down on the spicy tofu and shredded pork with garlic sauce dishes. On the contrary, favonovel.com loved shredded pork with garlic sauce the most.
But the problem was that favonovel.com had attended a gala at the Radianz Consortium in the past and roughly knew how the upper class would act posh. The Kingdom of Sorcerers should have been the birthplace of that “sophistication”, but why did it suddenly become a melting pot of culture?
At this moment, Melgor praised, “The shredded pork with garlic sauce is a heavenly dish. It’s prepared from the best quality carrots and tenderloin cooked together with soaked, fresh wood ear mushrooms and julienned bamboo shoots. It’s paired with an exquisite seasoning that makes it unforgettable after having just a bite. After eating a bite of shredded pork with garlic sauce, the oils that stay in your mouth are just enough to offset the astringency of the wine. Quick, have a taste of my tower’s head chef’s cooking…”
This was the first time that Milo had heard someone talking about shredded pork with garlic sauce in such a classy manner. He estimated that if the Central Plains culture were to assimilate the Kingdom of Sorcerers for a few more years, Melgor might even start pairing his wine with a bite of garlic after every sip. After all, food paired with garlic tasted most fantastic.
When it was nighttime, Milo went to the bedroom Melgor had allotted to favonovel.com to sleep. The velvet blanket was exceptionally soft. However, favonovel.com did not sleep. Instead, favonovel.com quietly flipped through The Sorcerer Chronicles while waiting patiently for something.
Old Durkin had climbed onto the roof and was hiding in the shadows of the tower’s cupola, ready to spring into the hunt at any moment.
Milo was not worried about danger arriving. He was only worried the prey would not bite.
