Time: After Dan Feng killed Darius
After the sky anomaly event ended, the atmosphere in the Asura Kingdom became unusually heavy.
The king urgently summoned all the representatives of the nobles, hoping to discuss this matter together.
However, when everyone gathered, they discovered one key figure was missing—that was the Asura Kingdom's upper minister, Darius, who had already been slain by Dan Feng.
People looked at each other, a sense of unease rising in their hearts.
Suddenly, everyone's gaze focused on the carriage belonging to Darius.
The carriage door was tightly closed, the surroundings silent, but the dried bloodstains at the carriage door were particularly eye-catching.
Water God Reida Lia's heart tightened at the sight, and an ominous premonition surged in her chest.
Without hesitation, she strode forward, rushing hurriedly toward Darius's carriage, tightly gripping the sword at her waist.
Arriving in front of the carriage, Reida took a deep breath, then forcefully pushed open the door.
However, the inside was empty, only the shocking dried bloodstains on the floor.
This scene left everyone present stunned. Countless questions flashed through their minds.
"How is this possible! Lord Darius was clearly staying inside his carriage the whole time. Why did he suddenly disappear?" some nobles who followed Darius shouted in disbelief.
They could not understand how, under the protection of so many knights, Darius could encounter misfortune so silently.
Those who voiced their doubts were all nobles who had sided with Darius.
They had originally thought they had followed the right person and could enjoy wealth and glory under Darius's protection, even ascend to higher nobility.
However, Darius's sudden death had shattered their wishful calculations.
These people suddenly realized that with Darius's passing, they, as his followers, would become laughingstocks, gradually marginalized by other nobles, or even used as stepping stones.
Water God Reida Lia widened her eyes, staring in shock at the situation inside the carriage.
The sword she tightly gripped seemed to lose support and slowly slipped from her hand, finally falling to the ground with a "clang".
For a swordsman, the sword is their other half. Now this sword, like her broken heart, lay powerlessly in the dust.
In Reida Lia's mind, memories related to Darius kept flashing.
In her youth, she had once faced a life-and-death crisis. Just when her life hung by a thread, the pre-amnesia Darius descended like a hero and saved her from danger.
At that time, Darius was sunny and handsome, just like a graceful gentleman, making Reida Lia fall for him at first sight.
Moreover, he had saved her life, which made Reida Lia's affection for him grow even deeper.
However, fate played a cruel joke on Darius.
At some unknown moment, Darius lost his memories.
From then on, his entire personality underwent earth-shaking changes. From the original sunny and handsome man, he became dark and wretched, even unlocking special fetishes.
Despite this, Reida Lia's special feelings toward Darius never changed.
"How is this possible? This shouldn't be..." Reida Lia's voice trembled. Her somewhat aged face was filled with disbelief.
She could not accept the fact before her eyes, could not believe that the Darius who had once saved her had just left her like this.
However, no matter how unwilling she was to believe it, the facts were right in front of her, allowing no room for doubt.
When this news swept into the ears of the Asura King like a whirlwind, he could not help but feel an irrepressible urge to laugh.
After all, in the Asura Kingdom, Darius was a figure who held immense power, controlling a large amount of authority.
Moreover, his reputation was quite bad; even the king had heard of his deeds.
Now, being able to reclaim Darius's power in such a dramatic way was truly something he found hard to suppress his laughter over.
However, despite secretly laughing inside, the Asura King knew very well that he absolutely could not show it at this moment.
He had to put on an expression of grief and indignation, in line with his identity and duties as king.
At this moment, a group of nobles filed in and entered the palace hall.
The Asura King sat high upon his throne, his dignified gaze overlooking the assembled nobles below.
His authoritative voice suddenly rang out in the throne hall: "Regarding the matter of Minister Darius, I have already heard about it."
"As my important minister, the occurrence of such an incident makes me deeply grieved. Therefore, regarding this matter, I will definitely investigate it thoroughly and show no leniency!"
Although the king's words were forceful, in his heart he knew very well that truly uncovering the truth behind Darius's assassination would be harder than reaching the heavens.
Because the scene had left no clues whatsoever; the killer had disappeared as if into thin air.
If one were to forcibly find the culprit, it would be like fishing a needle from the sea—extremely difficult.
However, although Minister Darius was now nowhere to be found, the position he held could not remain vacant. After all, the kingdom's government affairs needed someone to handle them.
Yet, the ministers present all had their own "official duties" to attend to and truly could not spare the time.
So the king resolutely declared: "Since that is the case, then this heavy burden shall be shouldered by this old body of mine! While I can still move, I will work a bit harder and properly handle Darius's affairs."
After hearing this, everyone fell silent, because they all understood the king's concerns.
The reason the king made this decision was not merely because he sympathized with everyone being busy. More importantly, it was his caution and wariness toward power.
He knew very well that if he handed Darius's power to any one of them, that person might become a second Darius, or even use Darius's private soldiers to try to control the entire kingdom.
Moreover, once power fell into someone else's hands, taking it back would be no easy task.
After all, Darius possessed his own private army. This was a force that could not be underestimated.
Now that Darius had gone missing, these private soldiers had naturally become masterless troops.
And the king could take this opportunity to bring all these private soldiers under his own command, strengthening the power of his kingdom.
Thinking of this, the king could not help but feel secretly pleased.
However, on the surface he remained expressionless and continued to say some inconsequential words, then waved his hand to indicate that everyone could leave the palace.
The other nobles did not dare to voice any complaints, much less say that they were actually quite free and could take over Darius's position.
Otherwise, they might be secretly dealt with by the king's people.
Only Water God Reida Lia did not think that much. She was very anxious to return to her Water God Style main dojo to erect a grave for Darius.