Creed of the heavens

Federico laughed loudly and waved his hands: "How come, no matter how sloppy I am, I won't mess around while doing business."

"The owner of this brothel is a senior member of the Brotherhood, and she is also the leader of the courtesans in Florence. When you act in Florence in the future, you will probably need her and her girls to help."

The courtesan leader Federico introduced to Lu Xiao was named Paula. When seeing this middle-aged beauty who still had a charm, Lu Xiao immediately recalled her identity.

It turns out that she is the madam who helped and taught Ezio the skills of stealing and stealing in the plot of Assassin's Creed 2.

The meeting time with Paula was not long, and the night was the busiest time of her store. After a brief conversation with Lu Xiao and the two, Paula returned to the store to greet the guests who came to Xunfang.

After following Federico to meet Luciano Beccani, the leader of the Florence mercenary guild, the two finally officially returned.

It was already around 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the whole of Florence was silent. Both Lu Xiao and Federico subconsciously stepped on the roof lightly to avoid affecting the sleeping citizens below.

Jumping back to the atrium of Auditore's mansion from the roof, Federico patted the dust off his body and said, "Today I'll show you only members of the Brotherhood hiding among the three religions."

"Father will probably introduce you to some high-level assassins in Florence recently, or allies who are willing to secretly assist the Brotherhood."

"Florence is very large and prosperous. With the assistance and cooperation of Lorenzo Medici, the Assassins' influence has taken root in this city. The Templars have always regarded Emerald as a thorn in their side."

"Although the Brotherhood has the upper hand in Florence, we cannot take it lightly. The Templar forces headed by the Pazzi family have been secretly eyeing the dominance of the Medici family."

"Patch?"

Lu Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said: "By the way, Mario also said that the Pazzi family's bank is opened in Florence."

Federico yawned wearily: "That's right, it's the Pazzi family you fought back in Monteriggioni before. Those indomitable jellyfish are very troublesome. You will have the opportunity to come into contact with them in the future."

"That's all for today, go back and have a good rest. Your life should be very colorful in the future, so be mentally prepared."

Just as Federico joked, Lu Xiao had an extremely fulfilling life in the next period of time.

As the Templars temporarily fell silent in Florence, Giovanni devoted himself more to his work as a banker.

In addition to the management of his own Auditore International Bank, Giovanni also needs to help Lorenzo, who is busy with city affairs, manage the Medici Bank. This is the fundamental reason why he said that he was too involved in banking affairs .

In order to maintain the ally relationship with the Medici family, Giovanni sacrificed a lot of personal time, in exchange for the status and wealth of the Auditore family, as well as the deep friendship with Renzo.

The Brotherhood has no important tasks to perform for the time being, and Lu Xiao, eager to improve his personal abilities, took the initiative to find Ravolpe, accept his devil training for days, and walk around the vast roof space of Fei Leng Cui.

Although the training process was very hard, the progress visible in the attribute panel gave Lu Xiao the motivation to persevere. His free running skill has never been completed and turned into F, and then to E, which is already a small gain.

In the evening, Lu Xiao needs to train with Giovanni, who is freed from official duties, how to skillfully use the Hidden Blade.

The Hidden Blade is very small and thin, and it cannot be used roughly as a conventional weapon.

Just like Giovanni demonstrated in the previous mission, the Hidden Blade requires more skill, try to remove the power of the enemy's attack from the side as much as possible, and avoid the fragile front of the sword to withstand the attack.

Time is fair to everyone, but for those who are dedicated and those who are bored, their perception of time is very different.

I believe that many people have experienced this kind of experience. When they are doing nothing, they always feel that time passes very slowly, but when they are doing things, they feel that the long time is fleeting.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye, and when Ezio was still living the life of a dandy on the streets, Lu Xiao, who worked hard, had already acquired the status of a fraternity under the training of many fraternity seniors. The qualifications of a qualified assassin.

The senior members of the Florentine Brotherhood rarely gather in the secret basement of the Auditore mansion. In this basement, there is a beautiful and huge Assassin emblem carved on the wall facing the staircase.

As the leader of the assassins in Florence, Giovanian sat on the throne, the mercenary leader Luciano, the courtesan leader Paola, the thief leader Ravolpe, and many architects and artists who concealed their identities as assassins gathered. one class.

Seeing that all the participants were due, Giovanni stood up from his seat and began to preside over the meeting.

"Assassins, I summoned you here today to witness a young rookie officially join our ranks."

Giovanni reached out his hand to gesture to Lu Xiao who was standing behind him.

At this time, Lu Xiao had already changed into an assassin's suit specially made by the Auditore family tailor according to his requirements.

Lu Xiao did not intend to use the eye-catching white as the background color like Giovanni. In order to facilitate his disappearance, he chose a light gray tone. The whole suit looks relatively inconspicuous, but it still has exquisite fancy designs on the cuffs and neckline. See the exquisite workmanship of the tailor.

Taking off the hood on his head, Lu Xiao stepped forward and stood beside Giovanni.

"Lu Xiao, from the Ming Dynasty in the far east, a member of the Assassin inheritance family, has the eagle vision symbolized by the blood of the forerunner."

"It took him less than a year to complete the full set of training for an assassin relying on his own diligence and hard work."

Giovanni's tone gradually became passionate: "In the name of Mario Auditore, the leader of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, I, Giovanni Auditore, formally invite Lu Xiao to join the Brotherhood of Assassins and become one of us."

After obtaining the consent of other important Assassin members, Giovanni personally took out a strangely shaped branding iron from the brazier beside him.

Witnessed by other fraternity members, Lu Xiao, who was already mentally prepared, stretched out her right hand.

Giovanni carefully clamped the slender red soldering iron on Lu Xiao's ring finger. With the sound of "squeaky" from the high-temperature burning body, the corners of Lu Xiao's mouth twitched in pain.

When the soldering iron was removed, Lu Xiao's ring finger was imprinted with a deep assassin mark.

This ceremony is a process that all newly promoted assassins must go through to join the club. Compared with the previous ceremony of cutting off the ring finger, today's initiation ceremony is much clearer.

All the assassins at the scene stood up in awe, and recited the creed of the Assassin Brotherhood together with their right hands on their chests.

"While others blindly seek the truth, remember that nothing is real."

"While others are bound by morality and law, remember that all things are allowed."

Lu Xiao bowed her head and followed Giovanni and others to chant in a low voice: "We work in darkness, serve and light."

"We are assassins."

Chapter 16 The Eden Artifact Search Plan

After completing the training and officially joining the Assassin Organization, Lu Xiao has more free time.

He can accept the mission issued by the Brotherhood, and go to Italy and even Europe according to his own will to assist the local Brotherhood against the Templars.

It is also possible to continue to stay in Florence to consolidate the foundation of the Brotherhood like Giovanni.

The sense of urgency in his heart made Lu Xiao unable to stop, and he decided to spend some time formulating a complete planning route for his future itinerary.

Florence is now in an undercurrent, and the Templars are determined to overthrow the Medici family's control over Emerald.

Giovanni and others have not yet obtained relevant extremely secret information. Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia of the Catholic Church intends to come to Tuscany himself in the near future.

This information is Lu Xiao's speculation based on the game content. At the beginning of the game, Rodrigo appeared in the home of a young boy who was trusted by Giovanni, and even met Ezio who was eager to ask for help.

Considering the difficulty of overthrowing the deep-rooted rule of the Medici family, it is understandable that Rodrigo came to Tuscany to plan nearby.

However, Lu Xiao speculated that Rodrigo would not rashly enter the city of Emerald, where the assassins are powerful, without any certainty.

Before grasping the exact opportunity, he should temporarily stay in the territory of the Patch family within the safer sphere of influence of the Templars.

During the period of studying art in Florence, under Lu Xiao's deliberate attention, he had a deeper understanding of the Patch family.