"How is that possible? It's just an ordinary Stone Tablet. What's really important is the Magic Script on it."
Iluri shook his head, with a hint of melancholy in his eyes, "My old friend's elder once served as the apprentice of a legendary mage, so he was also present when the seven mages made the oath. The Magic Script on Stone Tablet is He carved it with his own hands, and it is said that the content above is the text of the original oath, but no one has been able to decipher the secret yet... Some people even claim that as long as they can control that oath, they will be enough to become the new king of Arthur."
As he spoke, Iluri's eyes became cold in vain, "So, the murderers who carried out Divination Ritual's target was the rune stone from the beginning. Raphael only It was just a fool they got rid of when they were looking for Stone Tablet. Perhaps that cruel ritual was just to divine the whereabouts of the seven rune stones, or... it was to spy on something deeper."
"Something?" Li Wen keenly captured the unfinished meaning in her words.
Iluri slowly raised her head. Her silver eyes were like two bottomless cold springs. She stared at Li Wen and asked word by word:
"Before answering your question, I would like to ask you first, as a well-informed foreigner, whether you have heard of such a thing - 'Kingkiller'."
Kingkiller?
Li Wen tried to search for such a thing in the memory bank, but found nothing.
"What is that?" Li Wen frankly admitted his ignorance and asked humbly.
Iluri seemed unsurprised by her reaction. She shook her head gently, with a hint of helplessness and self-mockery in her silver eyes.
"I don't know either."
What is this answer? Li Wen under the cloak raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Even I don't know what it is." Iluri's voice became a little erratic. "Perhaps it is an extraordinary individual powerful enough to subvert the country, or it may be an ancient association that acts secretly and aims to assassinate the king. It may even be a powerful magic item with independent consciousness and the ability to kill its master... Who knows?"
She spread her hands.
"Even whether the title 'Kingkiller' itself exists is a question worth exploring. It is more like a rumor, an unrealistic concept, and it only occasionally appears in fragments in the long-standing 1 family documents or certain prophecies that are taboo. Every time it appears, it is accompanied by changes in royal power and bloody turmoil."
"But one thing is certain." Iluri's tone suddenly became heavy. "No matter what it is, even judging from its title, its existence is definitely not good for any form of royal power."
Li Wen digested this information in silence. A mysterious existence that even an old monster like Iluri cannot explain clearly. The cause and effect behind it may have gone beyond the scope of ordinary extraordinary power and has risen to the level of history and destiny.
"So, what you mean is..." Li Wen's thoughts were running rapidly, connecting all the clues together, "The murderer who killed Raphael, they did Divination Ritual for this so-called 'Kingkiller'?"
"I'm just raising a possibility." Iluri shrugged in an awkward manner, "After all, how should I put it, this timing is too coincidental."
Li Wen was puzzled. If possible, she really didn't want to deal with this kind of Riddler. "What does that mean?"
"You don't know?" White Elf store manager smiled slightly, but his tone was as cold as the biting cold wind in winter, "The man on the throne has only a few days left."
This is really shocking news, much more exciting than Seven Sages's oath or Kingkiller, who knows if it exists or not.
The current leader of Arthur, the supreme Queen Elizabeth, is about to die. Once this news spreads, the impact will be immeasurable, and the shaken country cannot even be limited to Arthur. But...
"How is this possible?"
Li Wen thinks this is too ridiculous. After all, in his previous life, Queen Elizabeth of Arthur had been living well. Even until Great Arrival, Arthur destroyed the country, player Nation Founding and many other events happened, the Queen was still alive in the world. This doesn't sound like the so-called time is running out, or is it the "time" in the elves' concept?
But...
Li Wen then thought of Victoria, thinking of her sudden appearance in Leicester, and went to Port Belen anonymously. Before, she had only guessed that the other party had other intentions, but she never knew what they were planning. But if a person in power who was about to die was added to these actions, then all the clues would be connected together. After all, whether it is Sage's Ovum Sheath or Undying Flower, they are all things that can transcend the level of life and reverse life and death.
"Actually, there has always been a tradition of 'die young' in the King Arthur room. Of course, when speaking to the outside world," Iluri said with some real malice and sarcasm in his tone, "they would say it was evil. The disease was an accident and a vicious curse from the old enemy Roland. But the truth is that since the founding of Arthur, few monarchs have been able to enjoy their old age. It seems that the blood of that king has been burdened with a heavy price from the beginning."
"The price?"
"Who knows?" Iluri's lips curled up with a trace of ridicule, "Perhaps it was in order to obtain the power to establish the kingdom that he made a contract with an unspeakable existence; or perhaps, it was the seven magicians who laid the foundation stone of the kingdom., something ominous has been locked into the blood of the royal family; or maybe it comes from the curse of countless competitors and rebels who died tragically at the hands of my king when they were fighting for the throne. The truth of history is always much dirtier than the legend."
"However, the current His Majesty Queen can be regarded as an anomaly among the monarchs of the past."
Iluri's tone was almost appreciative.
"She is the one who has sat on the throne the longest, and she has lived much longer than her short-lived ancestors. Most of the ancestors failed to survive the third hundred years after their coronation, and would die 'accidentally' in various ways. But even she has come to an end now. No matter how strong the dam is, it will one day be eroded away by the years. And when the dam breaks, the momentum of the flood that has been suppressed for hundreds of years will surely be particularly spectacular."
"As for why she was able to persist for so long... who knows, maybe it's because she's strong enough, or maybe it's just because the price she paid was far more tragic than anyone else's."