[Notre Dame de Paris] Papal Way

Ace didn't know Mr. de Gayfontaine, the captain of the king's guard, but he knew that Anna must.And he just developed a good habit recently.After sensing the mental mark he left on Anna, Ace disappeared and teleported to her side.

At this time, the ball was over, and Anna refused to go back with him because of some differences of opinion with her husband, so she stayed in the court.She had just ordered the maid to send Jeanna back, when she turned her head and saw Ace appearing from the corner of the corridor, she was startled, and asked curiously, "Why are you here, Duke? We all thought you……"

She had an ambiguous smile on her face, and her expression was exactly the same as that of Louis XI.The corner of Ace's lips twitched slightly, and he smiled and said, "I'm doing something very important, can I ask you for a favor?"

Anna raised her fan and pressed it against her lips: "Sages also need help sometimes?"

Ace glanced at her fan: "Because the saint needs it."

Anna laughed, fanning her right cheek.Knowing that she had agreed, Ace said bluntly, "I need to see Mr. de Gayfontaine."

Anna asked back, "Now?"

"Now."

Anna immediately called a maid, told her to prepare the car, and then walked out with Ace.Although she is petite, her steps are fast.While walking out, he said intentionally or unintentionally: "It looks like you have met a beautiful woman? The style of this shirt seems to be different from the one you wore before."

Ace smiled and pulled the coat on his shoulders tightly: "...your observation skills are meticulous."

"Tell me, what kind of beauty would tear your blouse but leave your pants unscathed?" Anna stopped and turned around, half teasing and half probing, "We made a A boring game, trying to find out which lady stole your attention, and was surprised to find that there were quite a few ladies present... However, before the ball was over, Mademoiselle de Gonde Laurel brought her The mother hurried away without even waiting for her missing fiancé."

Ace narrowed his eyes and said softly, "You know too much."

"..." Anna felt a certain kind of chill from him, she wisely put away her temptation, and sent him all the way to the palace gate.

In front of the palace was parked a richly decorated carriage with intricate coat of arms.The maid who was waiting in front of the carriage | blushed, and quickly explained in a low voice: "I remembered that there is also a carriage left by the former Duke of Orleans, maybe you can use it..."

Of course it works!Coat of arms is a symbol of nobility, with this carriage, it will be much more convenient to enter and exit noble families, at least you will not encounter rude questioning by the porter.Ace showed a happy smile and touched the maid's shoulder: "God bless you."

The zero-level spell "Blessing of Light" instantly submerged into the girl｜'s body, the door of the carriage was closed immediately, and the carriage drove away.The maid stared at the carriage in a daze, then suddenly covered her shoulders, blushed, and stammered to Anna: "Your Highness, Your Highness! I seem to feel the glory of the Lord! God...that is a flesh｜body Angel?"

Anna: "... you'd better go to bed early."

-

Fate is a very mysterious and elusive thing. Usually we like to call the lucky ones favored by fate "protagonists", because if their stories can be recorded, they can definitely become a novel.

Cardinal Charlie Bourbon clearly thought he was the protagonist.He was born noble, and devoted himself to theology when he was young. He is also the archbishop and earl of Lyon, and the chief bishop of Gaul. He has extraordinary popularity among the citizens of Paris. Sermons and hymns, and feasting at night.He is good at wandering between several forces, loyal to power, and has been steadily promoted because of meeting several big figures in the Holy See.Because of his relationship with the Duke of Burgundy, he had repeatedly stood opposite Louis XI; and because his younger brother married Louis XI's eldest daughter, he maintained a delicate friendship with Louis XI.After the defeat of the Duke of Burgundy, he played by ear and accepted most of his cousin's power. With the help of those big figures in the Holy See, he became the most hated person of Louis XI.

With sufficient strength, he dared to threaten the king; without sufficient certainty, he dared to deceive Louis XI into a trap.Louis XI lived in Ambrizburg all the year round, which gave the cardinal the opportunity to gradually infiltrate the palace; in addition, Princess Anna is now his sister-in-law, and it is also difficult to quietly place his own people under the other party's hands. blame matter.So when Louis XI went to the dungeon where Bishop Alangier was held, the cardinal's men followed him.After Louis XI was cheated away, they immediately stunned the guards and took away the keys from him.When Louis XI realized that it was wrong and turned back, the group of skilled craftsmen had already opened the cage door, sawed off the rusty iron chain, and fled with the old man inside.

At this time, it is useless even to be furious, and Louis XI's detention of Alangier was carried out in secret. Although many people have heard the news, it is not something that can be publicized. .What's more, I can't get anything from him, and the detention is just an attitude to deter the cardinal, so I walked around the dungeon angrily for a while, cursed a few more words, and ordered the queen's maid to be locked up. , Louis XI still went to see the queen.

And precisely because he expected his attitude, the cardinal acted so unscrupulously.It was also thanks to Claude's advice that things continued without any danger.The cardinal quite enjoyed the feeling of using scheming, which made Louis XI suffer so much that he couldn't tell, and couldn't help but feel very happy.

The people who stayed in the palace successfully knocked Alangier unconscious and brought him out. The cardinal's carriage had already parked at a secret place, and several people worked together to stuff Alangier into the carriage, and then drove the carriage openly. He drove out of the city without slowing down, and even went back to the cardinal's mansion once on the way, and took out some precious materials from it.No one dared to stop the cardinal's carriage, let alone two cardinals were sitting in the carriage.And when they leave the city, they will go to a very secret place, pull out the real location of the "Stand of Moses" from Alangier's mouth, and then kill people and destroy the corpse.

The cardinal was so proud of himself that he regarded himself as a character in an epic.But he didn't know that every protagonist has to go through so many twists and turns before he succeeds, and he can reach the top if he overcomes it. If he doesn't survive, he can only be regarded as cannon fodder under the wheel of fate.

...But now, that twists and turns turned into a city gate that suddenly closed, lying in front of him.

-

If anyone had the worst lesson tonight, it would definitely not be the Cardinal of Bourbon who will soon be there, but Mr. Phoebes de Châteaupe.He spent a supposedly happy dance party in shock and torture, and the only sex hunting operation ended in a humiliating coma, and the most shameful thing was that he was woken up in his bedroom by a bucket of cold water from his fiancée , finally persuaded her to leave, but received an urgent notice that all the imperial archers had to go somewhere to meet.

He changed his clothes slowly and reluctantly went out.When he rode a horse slowly to the assembly point, all his colleagues and subordinates had already run away, only his immediate boss, Mr. de Gayfontaine, was still riding on a horse and looked at him with a look of displeasure. A luxuriously decorated carriage.

Phoebus didn't look carefully at the coat of arms on it, and went over to greet his superior with a smile: "Good evening, Your Excellency... I just came home, but you sent someone to call me out of the warm bed, didn't it? Has something serious happened in town?"

Kayfontaine said coldly: "Thanks to you, the matter will be over soon."

The boss cannot be easily offended, and Phoebus understands this deeply.He was about to say something to save Earl Cayfontaine's impression of himself, but suddenly he heard a voice that made him fall into an ice cave: "Forget it, Mr. de Gayfontaine, let him follow us go together."

The door of the carriage opened immediately, and Ace's handsome face appeared in the dim light.He looked at Phoebus, with a meaningful smile on his lips: "You can wait here for the good news... I happen to know Captain Xia Duopei, and I know that he is very brave and skilled in swordsmanship—with him by my side , will definitely save the day.”

Kayfontaine looked at Phoebus hesitantly, but only Ace's devilish voice could be heard in Phoebe's ears: "Is that right, Phoebus?"

He nodded in a strange way, and only after Gayfondan rode away on his horse did he suddenly realize what he had promised!

Sweat fell from his forehead, and the body that had been splashed with cold water just now was blown by the wind, making him shiver with cold.He looked back tremblingly, thinking about whether he would face demotion if he ran home now, and then he heard Ace ask, "You seem to know me?"

Phoebus: "..." What?Is he hallucinating?

"It's obviously a man, but he looks so frightened that he's about to faint," Ace leaned on the back of the carriage with his legs crossed, his chin slightly raised, his gaze indifferent, and the corners of his lips curved as if Really curious, handsome as an angel, "I seem to have seen this face at a ball just now... Have you been staring at me for a long time, Mr. de Châteaupe?"

Phoebus: "..." Suddenly, I feel that the world is a fantasy, what kind of show is this! ?

"However, even if you fell in love with me at first sight, it is impossible for me to respond to you." Ace leaned slightly, his eyes were bright, and there seemed to be a hint of malice in his smile, "However... if you must persist , and I won't mind if you continue to have a crush on me."

The car door slammed shut under Phoebe's dull gaze, and even the voice inside the door became indistinct: "Let's go, Mr. Chateaupe."

Phoebus: "..."

Hehehehe, this must be a dream, dream, dream! !

-

The gates of Paris are not always open.When the city gates are closed at night, it is not so easy to get out of the city.But His Excellency Charles Bourbon, as a powerful cardinal, certainly had his way out of town.He had someone bribe the soldiers guarding the gate in advance, let them pretend to be drunk and leave the post tonight, and keep the city gate open, so he was very confident in the success of the operation.However, what he didn't expect was that just as the carriage was about to approach the city gate, a group of cavalry appeared from nowhere near the city gate and slowly sealed the city gate!

The cardinal realized almost immediately that something was wrong, and La Barru, who had been arrested once, ordered the coachman to turn back.But it was too late, before the carriage successfully turned around, a group of cavalry surrounded them.The person in front still knocked on the car window with the handle of the rapier very rudely, ordering the people inside to come down.

The cardinal was very angry and did not want to put himself in such an embarrassing situation. However, the bad thing was that Bishop Alangier was showing signs of waking up, and neither he nor La Barru knew how to stun him. There are no suitable medicines either.So after weighing it for a while, the cardinal had no choice but to open the car door under the increasingly impatient urging of the knight, trying his best to show a majestic look: "What's the matter?"

The knight looked at him with surprise in his eyes: "Bourbon cardinal?"

The cardinal nodded grimly.The knight looked more polite, and continued to ask: "Can I ask why you are here at this time?"

The cardinal said sternly: "Obviously, I'm going out of the city to do something very important, so I specifically request that the gates of the city not be closed tonight. But just as I got here, the road was blocked by you. What means?"

The knight respectfully said: "We are searching for the whereabouts of a suspicious person, but we did not expect to stop your car by mistake. It is just to prevent that gentleman from escaping in your carriage, and please follow us to Degas for now. Sit down at Monsieur Yvontaine's for a while."

The cardinal growled, "I am a cardinal! I have important religious business to attend to!"

If he roared like this normally, maybe the group of imperial archers would give in, but now is an extraordinary period, these people have been instructed by Ace, and the performance of the cardinal seems to be relentless.The knight didn't give in anymore and insisted: "We are directly assigned by the king, you must go back with me."

The cardinal couldn't help being shocked——Louis XI really dared to expose this matter blatantly?Isn't he afraid that the news that he illegally imprisoned a bishop will spread! ?

"Cardinal Bourbon," Labalue called him suddenly, reminding him, "We are running out of time... You know, this matter is very important..."

The cardinal said decisively: "Open the city gate and let us go out! I will take responsibility for the king!"

However, it was rare for him to overwhelm others with power, but he got a bad result.The knight shook his head, and waved to more companions to surround the carriage: "Sorry, Mr. Bourbon, you must stay here."

These knights were called up in the middle of the winter night. They were not very happy about this sudden errand, but Ace promised to give each of them a gold louis after the end, and even directly gave the other party the direction to escape. And the current position, let them easily block people.Ace came here with the king's order, and if he hadn't targeted the cardinal long ago, how could the king determine the criminal and know the specific location of the other party?

Louis XI was a terrible king, everyone agreed on that.The cardinal must be unlucky, and even if he is not unlucky, he will have no chance to trouble them for the time being.This was their common understanding, so everyone surrounded the cardinal without any objection, not giving him the slightest chance of escape.

The cardinal's face turned pale, and just as he was about to say something, another sound of hooves came from the silent street.Not long after, a carriage stopped nearby, and the blond, blue-eyed, sickly-looking Captain Faubus de Châteaux got off his horse and opened the door tremblingly.Immediately, a pair of long｜legs stepped out of the car.

Compared with the outdated and ugly noble costumes in this world, Ace misses the magic robes produced by those elf craftsmen before him even more.He symbolically wore a coat that had little effect on keeping out the cold, and walked in front of the cardinal like a leisurely stroll. He stopped and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet you again, His Excellency Bishop Bourbon."

The cardinal looked gloomy: "It's you!?"

Ace nodded happily: "It's me. I'm afraid you haven't realized why I appear here?"

The more light-hearted he was, the angrier the cardinal became.He couldn't figure out what went wrong with his plan. He had already tricked Ace into the secret room, and Louis XI had been successfully transferred away from the mountain. Why did they react so quickly and block the situation? live yourself!

"You must be thinking, why I haven't been imprisoned by the suspicious king as your spy even though my plan has succeeded, yet I appear here to block your way." Ace maintained a happy smile , revealing the puzzlement in the cardinal's heart a little bit, "And the answer is actually very simple... Do you want to know?"

The cardinal stared at him and nodded slowly.In fact, following Ace's words, the answer has gradually emerged in his mind-the person who knows all of this and masters all of it but can help Ace clear the suspicion, who else is there besides Claude!

But conjecture is conjecture, reality is reality.The cardinal is still very reluctant to believe that his confidant, Claude, who is scheming and has just been promoted to bishop, will be the one who betrayed him at a critical moment!If Ace really said the name...

However, in his vaguely expectant eyes, Ace stretched out a finger, waved it in front of his eyes with great interest, and said in a very hateful tone: "But I don't-want-tell-tell-you-yo !"

Cardinal: "..."

Is it fun to play tricks?! ! ! !