In the imperial palace, Silas looked at Connor being pushed into the operating room by a group of doctors and nodded with satisfaction.
Maria, beside him, said with a hint of admiration, "Bishop Sotos, please rest assured. This is the royal family's personal physician, a top-tier team specifically for His Majesty's medical care. They will definitely be able to save this Mr. Assassin."
According to Silas's brief report just now, in just a few hours, this Silas Sotos had not only thoroughly investigated the cause and course of this plague but had even found an assassin who possessed crucial intelligence. Such efficiency made Maria immediately look at him in a new light.
"Where are my attendants?" Silas turned his head and asked.
When entering the imperial palace, due to Silas not having enough "face," Helles and Virginia were detained outside to undergo the strictest inspection.
Maria smiled. "Please rest assured, we are just following routine procedures and will not make things difficult for your attendants. They are right over here, please!"
Afterward, under Maria's guidance, Silas arrived at the main hall on the first floor of the castle. When he saw Helles and Virginia, his face immediately turned cold.
"Lady Maria, are you sure this isn't making things difficult?"
At this moment, a group of soldiers was on full alert, with more than a dozen gun muzzles aimed at Helles and Virginia.
The two were currently back-to-back, fully armed. Helles had even entered her dragon-person state.
"Stop!" Maria, seeing this, hurriedly ran down.
Below, Silas recognized the person in charge; it was the young military officer similar to Jimmy.
This officer's face darkened. Before Maria could speak, he turned his head and glared angrily. "Maria! How are you managing as the Head of Internal Affairs! How did this fully armed knight and this neither-human-nor-ghost monster get in!"
"Who are you calling a monster!" Helles, upon hearing this, immediately bared her fanged mouth, her scarlet vertical pupils staring at the officer like a giant dragon.
The officer instantly sensed danger, his body instantly retreated behind his team members, and he roared, "Fire! Kill these two threats!"
"Stop! They are Bishop Sotos's attendants!" Maria said anxiously, immediately stopping them.
The officer turned to look at Silas behind her and said gloomily, "It's precisely because they are this spy's attendants that we must fire! This spy from the Holy Blood Church!"
It was clear that he held immense hostility towards Silas.
"Inferior human, you are courting death!" Helles exhaled a cold breath, her entire body tensing, ready to charge forward.
Silas slightly raised his hand, stopping her movement, and strolled towards the officer, saying coolly, "I forgive your ignorance; after all, the ignorant are fearless. Now, before I get angry, have your soldiers lower their weapons."
The officer sneered, casually drew his pistol, pressed it against Silas's forehead, widened his eyes, and roared, "Foreign spy! Are you threatening a general of the kingdom!?"
At this moment, two councilors in suits passed by and stopped after seeing this scene.
Maria hurriedly said, "Councilor Fulin, Councilor Arthur, quickly stop General Giss's actions."
The taller Councilor Fulin said calmly, "As an outsider, openly threatening our general, his nature itself has already been determined."
"Kill him, lest he goes on to bewitch Her Majesty later," the bald Councilor Arthur said calmly.
Maria was completely stunned upon hearing this. She then turned and ran, wanting to report to Her Majesty who was currently in a meeting, but was stopped by a soldier.
"Maria, you seem to be overly protective of them. What benefits did they give you?" Giss asked in a sarcastic tone.
"Don't you slander people!" The gentle Maria was instantly angered, her face flushed red, her expression furious.
Faced with this situation, Silas's expression remained calm, but it was no longer the previous calm; it had become cold and indifferent.
His eyelids drooped slightly, and no emotion could be seen in his deep blue, almost black, pupils.
"Last warning," As Silas spoke, Giss clearly felt a cold breath spray onto his face.
"Trying to scare me? I know what sweet words you used to deceive the Queen, but you won't deceive me today. I'll blow your brains out right now!" Giss said, pulling the trigger.
Seeing this, Councilor Fulin and Councilor Arthur's lips curled up slightly, seemingly very willing to see the scene of Silas's head exploding.
General Giss's mouth stretched wide, his face bearing a gleeful, ferocious smile.
However, the next second, his ferocious smile froze.
Under his gaze, he suddenly found that his pistol seemed to have been cut open by an invisible sharp blade, broken in the middle.
The metal cross-section was so neat that even the bullets inside were cut open, and the pitch-black gunpowder scattered all over the floor.
"Kill him! Kill this sorcerer!" Giss's body quickly retreated, preparing to hide behind the soldiers.
A piercing sound of something cutting through the air came. Silas's hand grabbed his neck, and with a forceful movement of his arm, he lifted him by the neck as if lifting a dead chicken.
"Your mouth is too noisy, scum," Silas, at this moment, seemed to have transformed into an emotionless witcher, his voice carrying a coldness that could make ice drop.
"Fight! Kill him!" Seeing this, the two councilors were greatly alarmed. They first ran to the stairs leading to the second floor, creating distance, and then shouted at the top of their lungs.
Just as these soldiers raised their weapons and turned in a standard manner.
An unknown number of invisible sharp blades instantly swept past.
The next second, all the soldiers stared wide-eyed at the firearms in their hands, which were broken in two. Their mouths hung open, and they were too horrified to speak.
This scene was bizarre. They hadn't even heard any sound, hadn't heard any incantation, hadn't seen anything. It was as if these weapons were already broken when they left the factory, and they just hadn't noticed.
Maria stared wide-eyed. She had never expected that the elegant, amiable, and kindly smiling bishop actually possessed such terrifying power.
Clack!
Including Maria, the two councilors, General Giss, and all the soldiers, everyone's Spirit Vision increased by one point.
The vigilant Virginia, seeing this scene, was shocked. "The activation method of this sonic blade has actually completely changed, and its power is much greater than last time. Damn it, what kind of knowledge is this? It's too terrifying!"
"This… this…" The two councilors, their faces pale, leaned against the stair railing, their eyes filled with panic, extremely flustered.
"Assassin! Assassin! The Duke of the Mountains' assassins are attacking the imperial palace!"
The next second, the two cowardly fellows irresponsibly let out pig-like squeals.
"You two old geezers!" Helles's face was extremely gloomy. Her body instantly shot out, covering twenty meters in a few breaths, directly arriving beside the two councilors. Then, grabbing one by the neck with each hand, she said ferociously, "Shut up!"
"Ugh, ugh, ugh…" Instantly, the two councilors' legs thrashed about, their faces flushed red, their expressions terrified.
Silas, at this moment, paid no heed. He slightly raised his head, looked at General Giss, whose face was currently flushed red, and said calmly, "For Her Majesty's sake, I will spare your life."
Then, with a flick of his arm, he directly threw him a meter away, like throwing trash on the ground.
Helles said ferociously, "Be quiet!"
Then she directly threw the two people down from the stairs.
The three people sprawled on the ground were slightly shaken, covering their necks and coughing continuously, their faces full of fear.
The surrounding soldiers were completely dumbfounded, standing there like statues, not daring to move.
Because they suddenly realized that the seemingly gentle and amiable outsider was an existence they simply could not touch.