Chapter 824: The Treasure of the Former Prime Minister

The dinner didn't last too long, and almost everyone talked to Lia Winistan for a while, and everyone left with a satisfied and happy look on their faces, even if Lia Winistan wasn't talking to them. Their chatter promises them anything.

Leo, who has been quietly observing from the sidelines, clearly felt that when Lia Venistan was talking with other people, her higher life body energy was showing a state of emission, silently affecting the people he was talking with, This effect is irreversible and unstoppable.

Among the people who attended the banquet, quite a few people had more or less strange things like amulets, but these things were completely useless under the influence of higher life forms.

In the universe, people who have been with higher life forms for a long time will gradually be assimilated by them in terms of thought, consciousness and physiological characteristics. The practice of lower life forms is not common in the universe, because those high-level psykers in the universe do not need the worship of believers, and there is no need to do such useless things.

There is no doubt that these people who are the most outstanding in their respective fields will have a good impression of Lia Venistan after attending the banquet, no matter what attitude they have towards Lia Venistan before they come to the banquet, and as they attend the banquet As the number of times increases, this kind of favor will turn into admiration, and finally strengthen her rule over Daliat's various walks of life.

After the dinner, Sylvia and Tessa Mocha were left behind, while Leo left alone and returned to the Ice and Snow Temple.

Leo wasn't worried about what would happen to Sylvia. Although Lia Winistan's influence on higher life forms was powerful, it was only for ordinary people, like Sylvia and Tessa Mocha. Even if more people are affected, the impact will not be great, not to mention that the blood of the abyss dragon in Sylvia is known for its domineering and frenzied. If Lia Venistan oppresses too strongly, it may be able to make Xi It is not necessarily certain that the blood in Sylvia's body will awaken some power.

So after the banquet, when Lia Venistan asked the two witches to stay, Sylvia didn't object. On the contrary, Tessa Mocha didn't want to spend too long with the Snow Queen, but because Sylvia For Via's sake, he also stayed.

When I was in the palace, I also couldn’t help my curiosity to explore the palace built in the mountain through the spiritual network, because after many times of continuous renovation and renovation, the palace no longer has the cold feeling of the cave. , There are braziers everywhere, which makes the palace very bright, and the hot air in the braziers also passes through special heat channels, which not only discharges the thick smoke outside, but also transmits the heat to all parts of the palace.

What's interesting is that unlike the important facilities in other places, there are more or less jammers placed in those buildings and facilities to prevent others from using witchcraft and other powers in these facilities, but there is no such thing here, maybe this is Because the owner here thinks that she is a witch with great power.

However, this is convenient for Leo. His mental network is almost unaffected, and he can clearly see all the passages and rooms in the entire palace.

Although there are other witches, wizards and family members sitting in the palace, they obviously cannot perceive the existence of the special psychic power of the spirit net. Only with Lia Venistan, Leo can restrain the spirit net , because the advanced life forms that have begun to step into the demigod level, even if the original power is not the cosmic force of psionic energy, they can more or less respond to psionic energy. This is true in some naturally powerful universes in the universe It is most evident in the living body.

During the day, while scanning those special runes with the Spirit Net, Leo also searched the Ice and Snow Temple, just like investigating the palace, he also found some that should have been sealed for a long time, and should be Forgotten secret rooms, there are some things stored in those secret rooms. These things include books and some strange objects, so he plans to take advantage of tonight to go to these places.

After returning to the room they had arranged for them, Leo told the attendants not to disturb him, and locked the door from the inside. After returning to the room, he took off his armor and changed into a simple set of clothes.

In fact, when the airship arrived at Kewo, Leo was able to slightly control the sinful aura in his body, and now although he could not completely eliminate the sinful aura, he was able to lock the sinful aura in his body.

Sylvia didn't know about this matter either, not because Leo didn't want to tell Sylvia and deliberately concealed it, but because he felt that he hadn't completely controlled the aura of guilt, so there was no need to say these things.

However, now this has become his best disguise, because Lia Winistan knows what will happen after she takes off her armor, and in the empty environment of the Ice and Snow Temple and the Royal Palace of Dalia The noise made by the full body armor is enough to startle anyone, so even if he made some noise when he explored the ice and snow temple and the secret places in the palace, which attracted the attention of the palace and temple guards, no one would suspect him.

After changing his clothes, Leo directly opened the window on the side of the room facing Dailisa City, and before the wind and snow outside hung into the house, he got out, landed on the narrow eaves close to the wall, and re- After closing the window, he quickly climbed down to the lower floor according to the route and foothold he had detected with his sight.

When he climbed to the middle of the sanctuary, he moved to a relief stone slab on the right side of the middle.

The events recorded on this relief slate were the incidents in which Dalia was clearly expelled from the southern kingdom and entered the northern ice field. Leo found the middle-aged nobleman who was headed by this relief.

This middle-aged nobleman was the leader of the ancestors at that time. He used to be a big nobleman in the Maris Kingdom. He failed in the political struggle and was framed as treason by his political opponents. In the end, the territory was confiscated and the family was expelled.

However, this middle-aged nobleman did not lose his recovery because of this. Instead, he led his family and other expelled people to establish the first settlement of the ancestors of Dalia on the northern ice sheet.

However, the irony is that after the settlement was built, those who were also exiled betrayed the middle-aged nobleman, and then killed him and his family, and even the family identity information of this person was not left behind. And the Marris Kingdom has already cleared the information of this noble family, so that when recording this incident, they always refer to this noble by him.

On the relief of this nobleman, there is an extra torch sculpture protruding outwards. This was originally used to symbolize the first settlement of the ancestors of Daliat, symbolizing the lighthouse of guidance, but now it has been made into a organ.

Leo pulled the torch a little harder, the wall of the relief vibrated slightly, and then the relief plate under the torch moved a little outward, followed by Leo’s pull, and the entire relief plate was pulled out A small passage at the back was revealed.

This small passage should be a convenient passage specially designed when it was built, so that when the relief board is damaged, it can be directly reached from this passage to the vicinity of the relief board for replacement.

After climbing into the passage, Leo closed the embossed panel again, then continued to crawl forward for a distance, then turned around a pipe with an escalator downwards, and came to a large secret room below.

The location of this secret room is right next to the prayer hall of the sanctuary. After Leo came to the secret room, he could still hear the sound of priests from the Ice and Snow Goddess Church praying at night from the opposite wall.

This secret room was originally supposed to be a warehouse, used to store some building materials that might be used, and to repair some building damage.

It's just because the secret room was designed so cleverly that the entrance and exit were hidden in the prayer hall by means of a mechanism, and it was also connected to other secret room warehouses that were used to repair the outer walls. In other places, such as collecting some secret and taboo things.

However, the people who used this secret room as a storage room obviously never came here after storing their things here, because it is not completely sealed and there are some vents around it connected to it, so the items here and the ground It was covered with a thick layer of dust. According to Leo's estimation, no one had been here for at least five years.

"Is it him?" Leo carefully thought about the person who was able to freely enter and exit the Ice and Snow Temple and the palace five years ago, and a name immediately appeared in his mind, Modiadi, the one who was executed by Lia Venistan The second lover, the former palace minister.

He remembered that one of the reasons why Modiadi was executed was greed and bribery. It is said that during the time when he was the palace minister, the queen's prestige was everywhere to blackmail the big nobles and big businessmen, and he also accepted Some nobles, businessmen and even bribes from foreign forces, etc., all in all, he should have accumulated a large amount of wealth in his hands.

When he was deposed and imprisoned, the queen sent people to search Modiadi's residence and secret residence, and finally found a huge amount of wealth equivalent to Daliadi's total tax revenue for one year, all of which were of great value. Jewelry, works of art are countless.

However, even so, some people still think that Modiadi’s wealth has not been fully discovered, and Modiadi should have other secret places, because some items did not appear in the list of bribes provided by some businessmen and nobles Among the treasures that were searched.

However, this conjecture has never been confirmed. The current palace minister, Kerry Fao, gave up searching for Modiadi after he had searched both sides carefully, but still failed to find any other secret residences of Modiadi. It's over.

Now it seems that Kerry Fao may have made the mistake of being dark under the lights. He just asked people to look for Modiadi's secret residence outside, but he didn't know that the place where Modiadi hid other valuables was right under his nose.

You must know that Kerry Fao has to come to the prayer hall for daily prayers every day as long as there is no special reason, and this room where all kinds of precious items are stored is next to the prayer hall, which is quite ironic.

Leo didn't think too much about it, he came to the middle of the room, swept all the dust aside with spiritual energy, and then carefully checked the items stored in the room.

Although Modiadi is a slanderous villain in the eyes of the outside world, he still regards himself as a scholar and an artist, so he has a great interest in collecting all kinds of lonely books and artworks, and those who bribe Nobles, merchants, and foreign powers also played in their favour.

Among the properties found in Modiadi’s residences and secret residences, these artworks, books and mysterious objects were missing. Later, some people thought that perhaps Modiadi was using his identity as an artist and scholar to disguise himself. He only loves money, and he would have turned around and sold those artworks and books for money, otherwise his private property would not have accumulated such a huge amount of tax revenue in a year as Daliat.

Obviously, judging from what Leo has discovered now, those who made that judgment should have underestimated Modiadi's dedication to being a scholar and artist, and also underestimated Modiadi's ability to make money.

Leo himself has no interest in those works of art, but he is somewhat curious about the strange things hidden in the works of art.

He walked to a stack of neatly placed picture frames, took out a picture frame that was more than one meter high, and untied the soft cloth used to block dust on it, revealing the portrait inside.

This portrait depicts a glamorous and dignified lady. She is wearing the lady's clothing of the knight period of the Maris Kingdom, which is simple but still exquisite. Behind the lady, the artist uses a special technique to draw a knight in the.

After seeing this painting, Leo quickly recognized this painting. It was one of the most famous paintings in the world of Velen. The name of this painting was Lady Anna and her knight.

The subject matter comes from a folktale about a countess named Anna who had a relationship with a knight in the castle when the earl was out fighting, and then did some horrible things to maintain this relationship. Knowing that the earl When he came back, he found that all the people in the castle were dead, including the children born to him by Mrs. Anna, but Mrs. Anna and the knight were missing.

This painting itself is not an outstanding work of art. Choosing some folk themes as the theme of the painting is also something that various painters often do. The past owners of this painting all ended in tragedy, and Modiadi is the last owner of this painting, and his fate is well known.

In the past, people have been trying to find the secret of bad luck in the painting, but they found nothing. Now Leo has already determined the cause of the painting's owner's death the first time he saw the painting.

"The power of sin karma actually has the power of sin karma." Leo said in surprise after carefully feeling the weak power coming from the painting.