After completing training and officially joining the Assassin organization, Lu Xiao had more free time.
He can accept tasks issued by the Brotherhood and travel to Italy and even throughout Europe according to his own will to assist the local Brotherhood against the Templars.
You can also, like Giovanni, continue to stay in Florence to consolidate the foundation of the Brotherhood.
The sense of urgency in his heart prevented Lu Xiao from stopping, and he decided to spend some time making a complete planning route for his future trip.
Florence is now in an undercurrent, and the Templars are determined to overthrow the Medici family's control of Florence.
Giovanni and others have not yet obtained the relevant extremely secret information, and Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia of the Catholic Church plans to personally come to Tuscany in the near future.
This information is Lu Xiao's speculation based on the game content. When the game opens, Rodrigo appears in the home of a young man who is deeply trusted by Giovanni, and even has a chance encounter with Ezio, who is eager for help.
Considering the difficulty of overthrowing the entrenched rule of the Medici family, it is understandable that Rodrigo personally came to Tuscany to plan.
However, Lu Xiao speculated that Rodrigo would not rush into the Emerald City where the assassins have a strong presence without any confidence.
Until he seizes a definite opportunity, he should temporarily stay in the safer sphere of Templar influence - the territory of the Patch family.
While studying in Florence, under Lu Xiao's deliberate attention, he gained a deeper understanding of the Pazzi family.
Pazzi is a family with an ancient history. It is said that this family originally originated during the First Crusade and became a Tuscan noble with the help of the Knights Templar for nearly 400 years.
Entering the Renaissance period in the 15th century, the Pazzi family kept pace with the times and made banking their main business project.
The contemporary head of the family is Francesco De Pazzi, a reckless man with an impulsive personality and lack of planning. He has been instilled in his family with hatred towards the Medici family since he was a child.
His son Vieri de Pache inherited his father's character, impulsive, violent, and cruel to a certain extent.
Because his father Francesco focused most of his attention on the revenge plan against the Medici family, Vieri, who had lacked his father's attention since childhood, was sensitive and lacked love. Once he did not get the attention of others, he would become
hysteria.
Vieri is similar to Ezio. He is also one of the most well-known top playboys in Florence. Due to their different family stances and constant competition for women, the two have developed a personal feud that is difficult to resolve a few years ago.
This pair of reckless father and son with similar personalities are nominally the orthodox heirs of the Pazzi family, but in fact the helmsman who protects the Pazzi family is Francesco's uncle, Jacob de Pazzi.
Compared to the two brainless juniors, Jacob, who is Lorenzo's assistant, is more calm and pragmatic.
Even under the influence of his family's brainwashing education on the Medici family, his evaluation of Lorenzo was really not low.
Jacob actually did not object to Lorenzo's rule in his heart, but he was forced by the family plan and Rodrigo Borgia. He had a relatively weak personality and had no choice but to go with the flow.
The territory of the Pazzi family is called San Gimignano, not far from Monteriggioni. The irritable Francesco will send troops to attack the Auditore family's castle every once in a while to express his gratitude to Rodrigo.
Go Borgia shows his loyalty.
If Lu Xiao guessed correctly, after Rodrigo Borgia settled in Tuscany, he should first go to San Gimignano, the territory of the Pazzi family, to stay temporarily.
Rodrigo Borgia, the contemporary supreme master of the Templars and a powerful cardinal, will even rely on bribery and **** to succeed to the throne of the pope in the future, and the world will call him Alexander VI.
Rodrigo, nicknamed "The Spaniard", is undoubtedly the biggest enemy of the Assassin Brotherhood throughout Europe.
As the Supreme Master of the Templars, Rodrigo fully demonstrated the Templars' concept of "control" during his reign, but he obviously did not do enough in guiding the people.
As he was busy fighting for power to expand his family's power, Rodrigo's actions had obviously deviated from the original beliefs and ideas of the Templars.
The Templars became pure villains in this era, and a large number of Templars were lost in Rodrigo's lies.
Lu Xiao is just an outsider and has no deep understanding of what the Borgia family is doing. He only pays attention to Rodrigo because he will master an Eden artifact in the future and is directly related to another Eden artifact.
Each generation of Catholic popes inherits a papal staff. Most popes and believers do not know that this staff, which they regard as a religious sacred instrument, is actually an artifact of Eden.
The Knights Templar tried their best to become the Pope just to recover this artifact of Eden.
According to the usage experience of past popes, the papal staff is one of the rare artifacts that does not have side effects on non-Isu descendants.
But correspondingly, people who do not have Isu blood cannot correctly activate the true power of the Pope's staff.
Everyone knows that the Papal Palace in Rome must be heavily guarded, and it is basically impossible to break into the Papal Palace and seize the Pope's staff.
Unless Lu Xiao is willing to spend many years laying out plans in Rome, gradually weakening the power of the Knights Templar, just like Ezio did in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
But Lu Xiao doesn’t have that much time in Italy to spend in this world, and he may not even be able to wait until Rodrigo Gordon ascends to the throne of the Pope.
‘If you give up, you will gain. If you really can’t get an ultra-difficult artifact like the Pope’s Staff, just give up. More importantly, there is another artifact that Rodrigo has been tracking down – the Apple of Eden.’
The Apple of Eden Rodrigo was looking for was not the one Altaïr had.
Just like there is more than one Holy Sword of Eden, there is definitely more than one Golden Apple. They are artifacts mass-produced by the Isu people many years ago, and their main function is to record ancient knowledge.
Golden apples can be seen in Odyssey as mass-produced goods. Monsters in Greek mythology and legends, such as Medusa, Cyclops, Minotaurs and Sphinx, were all transformed by the Isu using golden apples.
The so-called mythical creatures that come out are essentially human beings.
There are two golden apples that are relatively easy to obtain at this stage, one of which is related to Rodrigo, and the other was taken by Altaïr to the library where he completed his final journey in life, and it still accompanies Altaïr's bones to this day.
Altaïr's library is located beneath the ruins of Masyaf.
To enter the library, you must first obtain five Masyaf keys. Lu Xiao is not sure whether she has that much time to collect the keys scattered throughout Istanbul.
Uncertain whether Rodrigo had obtained information related to the Golden Apple or whether he had arrived in Tuscany, Lu Xiao decided to postpone the search for Rodrigo and concentrate on searching for Artest throughout Florence.
I also took time to explore two assassin tombs.
If Lu Xiao remembers correctly, the assassin tombs built by Domenico Auditore seem to be related to churches.
As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence has a very large number of churches, but there are only two churches that are qualified to be selected by Domenico as the assassin's tomb.
One of them is, of course, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, known as the Cathedral of Florence and one of the city’s landmark buildings.
Secondly, after many surveys and screenings, Lu Xiao finally targeted the Church of Santa Maria Novella.
The Church of Santa Maria Novella, referred to as the Church of Santa Maria Novella, is the first pontifical church in Florence. It has very important historical significance and is definitely qualified to be chosen by Domenico.
‘Based on the distance from the Auditore Mansion, it’s better to choose Santa Maria del Fiore Church to explore first.’