Shadow of the Beautiful World

At midnight, Merlin pushed open the bathroom door and returned to his home.

After the blood alliance, he shared some mutual knowledge with Damon and Satana, and asked those two half-devils who also have eyeliners in hell, who can now be trusted, to help him find information about the mysterious Xia Kela. Dynasty news, and help him keep an eye on the changes in the Three Palace Dimension.

And Daemon also proposed a commission. He hoped that Merlin could use the resources of S.H.I.E.L.D. to find more children of hell, people with the same identity as the three of them, so as to strengthen their small group.

After agreeing on the time for the next meeting, Mei Lin returned to the mysterious house. The two girls had finished their homework and rested in the room of the mysterious house under Xuan Lan's care. Merlin did not disturb them.

woof

The moment Merlin stepped into the room, Frank, who was hiding in the darkness, suddenly jumped out and let out a deep bark, as if trying to scare Merlin.

But unfortunately, Merlin, who felt safe in the dark, would not be frightened.

He glanced at Frank at his feet, and said:

Why don't you go to sleep?

I want to spy on you.

Frank gritted his teeth and said:

Lest you bring back another lady I don't know.

Well, you see it now.

Merlin spread his hands and said to Carol's loyal dog:

I came back alone.

You have a strange scent, not Miss Elsa's.

Frank sniffled, and it said:

You must be hanging out with other women!

well

Merlin squatted down, he gently stroked Frank's head, he looked at the alien dog, and he said to Frank seriously:

Look me in the eyes, Frank, I'm giving you a chance to organize your words.

Frank, the silly dog, really stared at Merlin with wide eyes, but the next moment, accompanied by a white flash, the poor dog's memory of tonight was completely washed away by the cunning Merlin.

It looked dull, lying there like a sculpture of a puppy. It took a few seconds for it to shake its head and come back to its senses. It looked at Merlin who had washed off the smell from his body with a cleansing spell, and said:

Wang, when did you come back? I didn't even see it.

nonsense.

Merlin says:

You just lay there snoring, not to mention me, you can't even find out if a thief comes in to steal things. Frank, you've been getting more and more tired recently, and now I doubt whether you can be a watchdog You have to know, I keep a lot of things in this room that cannot be seen by ordinary people.

Ah, I was wrong.

The poor little dog squatted there, lowered his head, and said to Merlin:

I'll take responsibility! Please don't send me away, I can't afford next month's dentist bill.

I'm not a devil.

Merlin patted Frank on the head with a gentle face, and he said to the alien dog:

You do your job well, and I will naturally not drive you away. After all, I have to take care of Carol's face. Go and have a rest. I have to deal with some private affairs. Stay at the door and don't let others approach .”

After speaking, Merlin walked towards the sofa, and Frank barked twice before rushing out the door.

When the silly dog ​​ran out, an orange shadow jumped down from the second floor, and lay down precisely in Merlin's arms.

Cuckoo stood on Merlin's legs with an expression of contempt like a king, and looked at Frank who rushed out of the room. There was undisguised contempt and mockery in the cat's eyes.

Then Gugu turned his head back and looked at Merlin suspiciously. The latter looked at Gugu's eyes. He shrugged and said:

Don't look at me like that. I don't dare to use the Oblivion Curse on you. Are your eyes just a disguise? Don't think I don't know, you don't need these eyes to see things.

Meow.

Cuckoo let out a lazy cry, it acted like a real cat, it seemed that it couldn't understand what Merlin was saying, but Merlin was sure that this chicken thief could understand human language , it's just playing dumb.

Cuckoo put his head on his left paw, then covered his eyes with his right paw, flicked his tail, as if he planned to lie on Merlin's lap and fall into a deep sleep.

Merlin didn't disturb Master Cuckoo's rest, he took out something from his pocket in a motion of not moving his legs, and put it in the air in front of him.

The manipulated gravitational force converged into an invisible table in front of his eyes, allowing the small silver-gray box to be placed firmly on it.

This box was delivered to Merlin by Cilia on the day Dracula gave his head. It is said that it was given to him by Geralt the White Wolf, and it seems to be related to the mysterious organization behind the White Wolf.

Speaking of that organization, Merlin couldn't help feeling a little worried.

He has never been in contact with that organization, but judging from the current situation, Geralt the White Wolf and his wife, the sorceress Yennefer, are members of that organization, and Merlin's lover Elsa Bloodstone At this time, he was receiving Yennefer's treatment on an unknown desolate planet because of the strange hoarfrost growing in his body.

This means that Elsa has come into contact with the forces behind Geralt one step ahead of him.

Although at present, the contact between this organization and Merlin has always been in good faith, but it can be seen from the fact that Shiriya took away Elsa compulsively, they are not a charitable organization, and they also have their own actions And if the personnel dispatched in each operation are legends like Ciriya, then the energy of this organization is a bit too terrifying.

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, and he looked at the small box in front of him.

This thing is very delicate, and the lock head cannot be seen after turning it over and over again. There is only a circular hole at the top, which seems to be used for placing certain things.

Merlin pushed his eyes, and a bunch of data models quickly appeared on Icarus' lens. After a second, the dents and patterns inside the cavity were magnified to the point where they could be easily seen through.

Hey, this sign.

After Merlin saw the rubbing mark on the lens, his expression changed. The indented mark in front of him was very familiar. It was an arrow or hidden sword mark composed of simple lines.

Brotherhood of Assassins

Merlin narrowed his eyes and said softly:

No wonder Ciria told me that this is something I've been waiting for. So, the Brotherhood of Assassins, also part of the organization behind Geralt? Do they still have factions?

Well, it's a big organization again.

Merlin rubbed his chin. The box in his hand obviously needed something similar to an emblem to open it, but that was the way of ordinary people to unlock it. For Merlin, it didn't need to be so troublesome at all.

He pulled out his wand and cast an unlocking spell on the box. In the next moment, amidst the beating sounds of the pinion gears and mechanism, many cracks appeared on the seamless shell of the box, and those unknown metal modules turned outward along the cracks. Open, there is a very strange mechanical beauty.

Merlin can now be sure that the thing in his hand should not be produced by the current human civilization, because when the box is opened to its maximum, there is no support or connection between each of its metal modules.

It seemed to be hovering at a precise position controlled by gravity, like an open flower, showing the things hidden in the box to Merlin's eyes.

It's the key again!

Merlin reached out to pick up the brass-colored key, and looked at it in front of his eyes.

Icarus quickly scanned the small dents and bumps on the surface of the key. After a brief decryption, a world map opened in front of Merlin's eyes. A red dot kept comparing the terrain, and finally locked on to a certain point on the European land. superior.

Parthenon?

Merlin looked at the spot and said:

Let me guess, Greek mythology? Or wait, I remember Geralt saying that he knew a woman who lived from 400 BC to the present, and the beginnings of the Assassin Brotherhood appeared around that time , and in the Greek region.

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, he tightly held the cold key in his hand, and said:

So, this time

What I'm going to meet is the first assassin in history? A demigod

A moment later, Merlin took out a ribbon from his pocket, strung up the brass key, and hung it around the drowsy Gugu's neck.

He grabbed Gu Gu Gu's front legs and lifted Gu Gu Gu into the air. Looking into Gu Gu Gu's blank eyes, he whispered:

this time

You come with me, okay?

Meow!

—

Just as Merlin cracked the secret of the key, in another mysterious place, a group of people were nervously packing their things, as if preparing to evacuate this place.

They're coming fast, breaking through the first line of defense! Layla, Miles, hurry up!

A slightly flustered woman's voice rang through the intercom, making the already tense situation even more anxious. The group hurriedly packed up some seemingly complicated electronic equipment. A woman wearing a green flight jacket seemed to be the commander. .

Clutching a sharp broken spear tightly in her hand, she said to the others:

Don't panic, Miles, you take the equipment and go through the secret passage! Victoria and I have to deal with the remaining documents.

Layla, can you do it?

A tall, thin man in a strange white robe, looking the most relaxed of them all, said:

How about a change, you take them away, I'll come back. I learned a lot from the Altai ancestors, maybe I should try actual combat.

Myers! Your bleeding effect is getting worse.

The voice on the communicator warned:

You have to always remember that you are just a down-and-out bartender, not the legendary assassin in history.

But I feel like I'm no different from him.

The young man in white robe said something stiffly, but he didn't continue to refute in the end. He obediently carried a long box and followed the others into the dark secret passage.

After a while, Layla, the last woman staying in the base, arranged a simple self-destruct device in the base, and then reached out to pick up a quaint wooden eagle toy that looked like an antique on the table. Jumped into the shadows, and soon disappeared.

A few minutes later, a group of well-armed soldiers in battle uniforms blasted open the door of the base and rushed in. The crude self-destruct device arranged by Leila did not hide from their sight. It took only a few seconds for the team that disarmed the device to disengage the device, while others scoured the base.

After collecting all valuable things, they left here as quickly as when they came.

This time, they left behind a more specialized self-destruct device.

boom

With a loud noise, the entire underground base was destroyed in the explosion. However, in the flames ignited by the explosion, a woman in a small black suit with long braids, her hands in her trouser pockets, and high heels stood quietly. Walking out of the shadow of the flame without a sound.

Her appearance has the iconic characteristics of the Greek race, with a slender figure, and she walks like a female leopard hunting for prey.

This woman walked in the flames so easily, as if walking on the safest Champs-Elysees Avenue. There was an undisguised sadness and sadness in her eyes.

She knelt down, took out a fragment of the shattered emblem from the scorching flames, and wiped the ashes off it.

It was a bombed-up Assassin Brotherhood logo.

The mysterious woman looked at the broken sign, and then at the destroyed base around her. After a while, she clenched the fragment tightly in her hand, and let out a sigh.

Assassins in the dark, you have also withered to this point with time, should I say that you are not up to date, or should I blame fate for always being so cruel.

Hey, I hope that the people Geralt recommended to me this time are willing to bring the last blood of my friends and rise again.

She seemed to be trying to find more things in the ruins, but the next moment, her brows frowned, and as she moved, she disappeared into the burning ruins like an invisible light. While the flames were burning, her last voice remained here.

That tricky stupid girl from the Zeus family is coming after me again! Malaka!

Oh, how nice it would be if she were a member of the Assassin Brotherhood.