When the Dragon of Utopia told the whole story, Ask and Medea realized that they had misunderstood.
The custom of the Frankish people is that they like to name young people after their elders, nobles and historical heroes, so there are a lot of names like "Otto", "Henry", "Hermann" and so on.
The Bruno that Malkina is talking about is not the fantasy dragon demigod who is good at the realm of mind and dreams, but another young man with the same name.
Following the Dragon of Fantasy to a tent, the two of them met Bruno who was being guarded by the Blade Warriors.
This man is obviously not a stranger. When Asker met with the emperor before, he met this guard. It is said that he is a very outstanding young man of the Saxon family, a nephew of Emperor Otto, and is currently the emperor's confidant.
Guard officer.
If you think about it carefully, the person who can exert the greatest influence on the leader is indeed the secretary.
"Your Excellency." Seeing the dragon of fantasy coming in, the young man named Bruno smiled bitterly, "Have you finally had time to examine me?"
"You don't seem to be afraid." Ask was quite curious.
"There is nothing to be afraid of. I am just a victim of extraordinary abilities." The guard replied calmly, "If it is really because of me that your Majesty has been misled in a subtle and long-term way, then wouldn't I have become a member of the Saxon family?
Are you a sinner? In this case, it is even more important to find out the truth of the matter as soon as possible."
"Even if the review itself requires exposing your memory, or even causing some damage to your spirit?" Asker asked.
"Of course." The guard said firmly, "The interests of the family are higher than personal interests. My sacrifice is worth it."
Well, this is also the practice of the Frankish nobility - family is the most important thing.
Since the person being examined had no objections, Asker motioned to Medea to read her mind.
The mind sequence and the ease of exerting the mind-reading ability are closely related to the strength of the person being read. For example, a demigod, with sufficient spirituality and sensitivity, can usually easily detect and resist the mind-reading ability of a low-level transcendent.
Low-level extraordinary beings are relatively more passive. However, if they have strong mental strength or have received special and rare training, they can also develop a certain resistance to mind reading. For example, there is a so-called "brain reading" in the player forum.
"Occlumency" tutorial uses all kinds of distracting thoughts to confuse the results of mind reading.
The guard in front of me is undoubtedly the favorite target of mind-reading witches: inexperienced, unprepared, unreservedly letting go of his mind, spreading out his memories as openly as a book
, it’s effortless to read.
At the top are guilt and fear.
Medea read his current thoughts, one was guilt, and the other was fear. He was afraid that he had really influenced the emperor's mind without knowing it, and felt deeply guilty for this.
Continuing to go deeper inside, away from the active consciousness of the guard officer, you can see his shallow memory fragments, floating like bubbles in the ocean. At first glance, they are all colorful and there is no difference in appearance.
.
Soon, Medea captured enough memories to connect the young man's life together like a puzzle.
Is boring.
The boring life of a boring man.
A young man named Bruno was born into a noble family in the Principality of Lorraine. Since he was a child, he was sent to the court by his parents because of his precociousness and sensibleness...
Of course, not as a father-in-law.
The Frankish nation has no tradition of polygamy. There is no harem, and there is no need to create eunuchs to deal with the harem. In short, Bruno quickly won the attention and admiration of his uncle Emperor Otto because of his outstanding ability in affairs.
And was promoted to serve as the emperor's bodyguard.
That is the so-called leadership secretary.
After reading these memories from beginning to end, Medea still couldn't find the source of the infection. The previous warbler was infected recently, which caused some slight discomfort and strangeness in the mind, and this guy had obviously been infected a long time ago.
The time point may go back several years, so that it is submerged in layers of deep memories.
Of course, memory can also be divided into shallow and deep layers. The shallow layer is the memory that people can recall, which is displayed as shining bubbles in the ocean of subconscious mind.
Deep memories are those memories that people think they have forgotten. Some are still slightly attached to the mental body, which means they may be recalled at some point in the future. Some are completely lost from the original body and scattered into the ocean of subconsciousness.
Deep down, that is what is called complete forgetfulness.
Medea was not sure whether the memory in question had been completely forgotten. However, now that she had found nothing in the superficial memory, she could only continue to explore deeper memories.
These memory fragments are more messy and disordered, and cannot be connected with each other at all. Most of them are just a picture, a thought, and a sound. Searching like this is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, but there seems to be no better way.
The tentacles stretched out by the psychic ability are stirring in the ocean, struggling to collect memory fragments one after another.
Some were scolded by his superiors and trained like a stupid dog; some were when he woke up early in the morning and saw a wild cat squatting in the bushes on the roadside; and some were when he chatted with the palace lady.
flirt.
Huh?
Medea suddenly noticed one of the memory fragments. This fragment... was obviously too big and should not be called a fragment. It was closer to the bubble shape of shallow memory.
Perhaps it was just forgotten from shallow memory?
She fished it out with her spiritual tentacles and found a dynamic picture:
Snowing.
In the palace of the Grand Palace in Aachen, the winter snow covered the high walls and trees with a thick silver coat. A graceful palace woman stood in the snow, and the female official next to her was holding an umbrella for her.
"Your Majesty." Guard Bruno saluted her.
Your Majesty here is naturally not called the emperor, but the queen. In other words, this woman is the wife of Emperor Otto, Queen Theophano from the Eastern Solomon Empire.
Just as Medea was thinking this, she saw Theophano say:
………………
Noise?
What Theophano said could no longer be heard clearly in Bruno's memory, which appeared as a series of white noise. However, something strange soon appeared, and a faint painful emotion emerged from the memory. It seemed that Bruno started to have a headache, and his mind
It felt like a nerve was burning inside.
This is a phenomenon of mind interference! Since Bruno himself has no level and his spirituality is not strong enough to withstand extraordinary abilities, his mental body suffers from symptoms of discomfort under the brutal interference!
Medea quickly withdrew from the opponent's mental body, and saw Asker and the Dragon of Fantasy staring at her intently, while the young guard officer sitting on the chair was breathing heavily, looking like he was exhausted.
appearance.
"Have you found any clues?" Asked.
The Dragon of Imagination didn't make a sound, and blew up the illusion that rushed in from behind again, and then waited for her answer.
"Well..." Medea was silent for a moment. Of course she would not be stupid enough to say that name here (after all, the Blade Warrior and the Guardsman were both present), and then she looked outside.