Chapter 49 - The Disappearing Muru
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It is almost night, and the warm and gentle light in the afternoon has now turned into a cold dusk.
In terms of the lifespan of the elves, Aurelia is still young, but she has witnessed the fate of her ethnic group being displaced. In her opinion, the sufferings of the descendants of Dasrema were too much. They had lost their leaders twice - first Anastarien died in battle, and then Caelthus was betrayed and died in a foreign land. This is a bitter irony. As the one who vowed to lead the people out of trouble, he almost dedicated his people to the demons.
However, even in such turmoil, the Sindores still stick to their nature. It is precisely because of this that Aurelia was able to get the support of most blood elves. Many nobles eventually denied Kelthas's behavior and chose the path of Aurelia joining the tribe. This proved to be a wise choice. At least they did not declare war on the entire Azeroth.
The sky became darker little by little, and Aurelia's figure was still walking through the murder path, and the flowers on both sides of the street began to reflect the lilac.
However, behind this, there is a direct impact. The supreme ruler of Quel'thalas has always been the Sun-Survivor. But now, Das Rema's last direct bloodline has fallen, so who should take over the king's responsibilities next? Even if no one mentioned it, in everyone's eyes, Aurelia is still the actual leader of Silver Moon City. Wenresa told her the uneasiness. The situation where only the Regent and the King without the King makes people think that Aurelia wants to monopolize the power alone.
Maybe it's really time to find a successor to Kelthas.
Aurelia frowned, remembering the Leandra Sun Chaser who had publicly threatened to sing against her not long ago. She is also a member of the royal family, but her abilities and the bloodline of the sidelines do not support her as the throne. Now is a time when Quel's Thalas is full of destruction, and the incompetent will only get in the way.
Who else? She thought for a long time, but she no longer needed the answer, because a terrible sound suddenly came, interrupting her thoughts - this was the sound of horse hooves of the Blood Knights. Aurelia recalled the Blood Knights back to Silver Moon City a few days ago, asking them to work hard to maintain public order in the city.
But they brought a commotion, which aroused Aurelia's dissatisfaction. She walked in the direction where the sound came, and happened to encounter a team of cavalry passing by in front of her. The direction they were heading was the Tower of Sun Rage, which was obviously looking for her. One of them found Aurelia and rushed straight over.
"Regent!" The Blood Knight shouted: "We're done! The Blood Knight is finished!"
"Calm down, soldier. Tell me slowly, what happened?" Aurelia comforted him, but looking at the anxiety and fear in the other person's eyes, she couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Muru! It's gone!"
"Absent? What does it mean?"
“It disappeared!”
Aurelia stared at him with wide eyes, and for a moment she felt frightened and dizzy. Only a very few people knew the origin of Mulu. It was the source of power of the Blood Knights and one of the few top secrets in Silver Moon City. If Kelthas did a good thing for his kingdom, it was to send Mulu and establish the Blood Knights organization.
But how is this possible? Muru is not an object, but a creature, Naru, how can it disappear?
"Where are the Blood Knights who care about Muru? Where have they been?"
The place where Muru was imprisoned was not a conspicuous temple, but an ordinary house. Such a house can be seen everywhere in Silver Moon City. The idea was created by Romans and was also recognized by her as the Regent.
"Dead."
Aurelia is now desperately trying to calm herself down. "Die? Did Muru do it?" she asked, and secretly denying the idea in her heart. If Muru had the ability to hurt people, it would not surrender and let the blood elves absorb its power. Intuition tells Aurelia that things are not simple.
"No, those blood knights were killed by cold weapons."
"Take me to see!"
Soon, Aurelia came to the cold and deep house where Muru was imprisoned, but what was placed in front of her was completely in chaos.
Almost all the Blood Knights present were shouting in unison. They made sounds of fear and anger, but what made Aurelia even more worried were the elves sitting in the corner and silently.
"Quiet." Wenresa arrived very promptly. She issued orders as a Ranger General, but only a few blood knights stopped, while the rest were still making noises with each other.
"How could something happen?"
"We should send more people, I said earlier that we should send more people!"
"Without it, we were nothing, and we didn't even have the strength to lift the blood-tempering spear."
Aurelia was furious when she heard this, and she raised her tone and shouted, "Su Jing!"
The voice echoed in the surrounding streets for a long time.
The Blood Knights stopped talking and turned their eyes to look at their leader. Aurelia noticed that some of them still had doubts in their eyes.
Until all her attention was focused on her, Aurelia said, "Don't get lost, find out the truth of the matter first." She glanced around, saw Wenresa, Lothama, and another important member of the Blood Knights, Astalo Blood Swoo, but she didn't see the person she wanted to see the most.
"Where is Leadrin?" she asked, and everyone looked at each other, as if they were surprised by the disappearance of the countess.
"That's damn!"
The Regent cursed, at such an important moment, the leader of the Blood Knight was missing. Aurelia will settle the score with them in the future, but now we must find out the truth first.
"They all died of cold weapons." The one who spoke was Lothama. One-eyed eyes did not affect his observation ability. "But it was not assassination, the wound was on the abdomen or chest. One blow was fatal." The Ranger Lord paused for a moment and reached out to take off the helmet hat on the head of the dead Blood Knight. "Their expression before death was surprised rather than fear, which means that they were killed unexpectedly by someone from the front. The murderer was someone they were familiar with." Lothama suddenly stopped here, his face gradually turned pale, and he looked up at Aurelia with a fear expression. The Regent also had a gloomy face and stared at him.
The murderer is someone who is familiar with these soldiers and can let go of their guard; the murderer knows that Naru is hidden in this hidden location; of course, the murderer has already escaped with Muru, and it is impossible to be here.
"Is it..." Wenresa thought of an elf that met these conditions, and she was stopped by Aurelia before she could say it.
After only looking at each other, Wenresa knew what her sister was thinking. If she said the name of the suspect here, it would be like detonating a bomb in the Blood Knights.
"The whole city is in a state of emergency alert. All residents are not allowed to go to the streets and patrol more." After saying these words, Aurelia walked to Astalo, "Leaderine is not here... You temporarily take over the Blood Knights' troops and gather all your people."
"As for the order, Regent." Astalo nodded.
"As for you." Aurelia looked at Lothama again, and the Ranger Lord's face turned paler. "I heard that you and her are lovers."
Rothma's face suddenly changed and he immediately knelt down. "She wouldn't do this, she used a blood-tempering spear..."
"And the wound on the corpse was not caused by this weapon, right?" Aurelia said what the Ranger Lord was going to say next. Rothema bowed his head and said nothing. This reason is not enough to prove that the countess had nothing to do with this matter. Any assassin should want to hide his identity. If it was really done by Leaderine, she would at least change her weapon.
At this moment, Lothama hoped that Leaderine would appear immediately, but there was no shadow of the first Blood Knight around.
Chapter completed!