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Chapter 266 - 64 - s Clue

Chapter 266: 64 Chapters Clue

My head hurts... I definitely shouldn’t get a hangover next time...

Aske sat up in bed and instinctively checked his clothes.

Hmm, fully dressed, clearly no one had tampered with him after he had gotten drunk the previous night; that was a relief.

He looked out the window, his mind starting to drift.

He had brought the team to the Bavarian Duchy for reasons completely unrelated to what Medea had jokingly referred to as "meeting the parents."

Firstly, it was to obtain Wilhelm’s high-rank "Luck" Extraordinary Trait to complete the main sequence of Miel’s bloodline.

Secondly, it was to acquire the "Poison I," "Rat I," and "Night Bat I" magic potions or recipes from the Hussite revolutionaries.

Thirdly, it was to find the recipes or magic potions for "Life II" and "Spirit Body II."

Currently, in the team, Aske himself had reached Lv.7, and most of the girls were already at Lv.5, with only two exceptions.

Peggy, who had chosen the "Lord of Filth," struggled to find the corresponding recipes because her bloodline included rare and minority sequences like "Poison," "Plague," "Rat," and "Night Bat."

Nora, having chosen the "Life Songster," had to start looking for Level II magic potions after reaching Lv.3, since her bloodline only included the sequences "Life," "Spirit Body," and "Mind," and Level II potions rarely appeared in the market.

For a team like The Azure Longsword, the strength of the group depended on its weakest members. Moreover, with the Magic Tide Level limit having been raised to Lv.10, individuals like Nora and Peggy, at Level 3, were already somewhat behind compared to the mainstream in the Extraordinary Realm.

Therefore, the focus was naturally on advancing the levels of these two girls.

The source of the magic potions needed by Peggy, referred to earlier as the Hussite revolutionaries, were actually natives of Bavaria, Bohemia, and Carinthia, traditionally from the Scolap.

This land did not originally belong to the Holy Solomon Empire. During the Fourth Epoch, it was the frontier province of Black Heixiniya in the Solomon Empire, constantly engaged in wars with waves of Barbarians.

Originally, the Boii of the Kates lived here. Later, the Markmanni of the Jiamani Tribe took over, only to be conquered and annexed by the Solomon Emperor’s armies. After the demise of the West Solomon Empire, it was colonized by the Scolap people who migrated from the East.

The three great Barbarian tribes and the people of Solomon had all staked their claim here, making the local residents fairly mixed. When the Divine Luo Empire of the Franks emerged and expanded, this land fell into their hands, divided amongst Frankish Lords.

As outsiders, the Frankish Lords naturally encountered hostility and opposition from the locals. In that era, such matters were not considered significant; those who dared to rebel were simply wiped out by the military, leaving only the submissive populace who, after a few centuries, would be completely assimilated.

Unfortunately, just at this time, the Emperor and the Church Court clashed, and the Divine Luo Empire fell into civil war, which once again invigorated the independence movement within the local faction.

They named themselves the Hussite after the leader of the uprising, Huss, and their political program was to restore the state of Bohemia, resist the tyranny of the Divine Luo Empire, and oppose the rule of the Solomon Church... In essence, they opposed the only two major powers on the continent. The likelihood of their uprising succeeding was naturally pitifully low, and the international environment essentially left them isolated and without support. They could only carry out indiscriminate attacks and assassinations to maintain visibility.

However, it must be said that Huss, the person who incited this uprising, was not inherently a vicious man. He was the principal of the University of Bohemia and had accidentally discovered a method to extract spiritual material and prepare magic potions from common rats, bats, and fungi.

At that time, Huss, sympathizing with the plight of the lower-class civilians and impoverished students, had disseminated these magic potion recipes, hoping that these lower-class people could become Transcendents and thus gain opportunities for social mobility.

This, of course, provoked the ire of the Church. According to Huss’s proposition, "Poison I" could be used for medical treatment, "Rat I" for urban sanitation, and "Night Bat I" for public security management, enhancing the working capacity of the poor and helping them earn a living wage.

However, the Bohemian Church declared, "How could the servants of our Lord believe your nonsense?", and consequently, they burned him at the stake as a heretic in the local square.

Without the restraint of the original leader, the uprising of the radical Hussite factions became uncontrollable. The three types of magic potion recipes quickly spread among the lower ranks of the Hussites, mainly because rats, bats, and fungi were too commonplace, making it virtually impossible for the Church to control the sources.

As long as he could get his hands on the recipes, Aske could easily obtain the materials, so there would be no worries about Peggy’s subsequent magic potions.

After reviewing the intelligence on the Hussite forces in his mind, Aske left the room planning to ask Knight Captain John for information about the Hussite assassin from yesterday.

"That was a member of the Taboer Sect," John, who had already obtained the identity report of the deceased, explained to Aske. "The Hussites have already split into two factions internally. One is called the ’Holy Grail Sect,’ primarily composed of local minor nobles and merchants, who hope the local people can obtain the right to become priests like the Franks."

"The other is the ’Taboer Sect,’ which is relatively more radical, composed largely of poor farmers and lower-class urban residents, demanding the overthrow of lordship and secession from the Divine Luo. The man who attempted to assassinate you yesterday was an extremely radical member of the Taboer Sect."

"The question is why he wanted to assassinate me," Aske said. "Do I look like a Frank to him?"

"We don’t understand either. Taboer Sect members usually lack education and their thought processes are very different from regular people. It wouldn’t be strange for them to do anything," John shook his head. "We even caught a group of Taboer Sect members attempting to poison in a manor outside the city."

"They actually targeted a sheep pen, thinking that after poisoning all the sheep, the nobles would still eat the meat without changing expression and then be poisoned..."

"I understand," Aske said. "So you mean, this guy is probably not right in the head."

"Exactly," John said. "Perhaps he just saw you with me yesterday and thought you were a servant of the Weisbach family. Anyway, we are already investigating this guy’s identity, and we should have results by tomorrow at the latest."

"Hmm," Aske fell silent, thinking that he still needed to find a way to locate the Taboer Sect stronghold in the city. With the official help of the Weisbach, it would indeed be much easier.

"By the way, Lord Aske," John suddenly spoke earnestly. "The two young masters are waiting for you in the top-floor study to discuss matters regarding the upcoming knight fighting."