To prevent chaos, Kei ordered the attack to be sealed off.

    After rooting out a few lurking spies, the inner castle quickly returned to its usual state, operating smoothly as usual.

    As for the Black Sword Knight, after being treated, he barely survived and was locked up in the dungeon to be interrogated.

    However, for two days in a row, they failed to extract any valuable information from him.

    “That guy must have received anti-interrogation training. No matter what torture we use, he refuses to speak.”

    In the council hall, Brade reported the results of the interrogation over the past two days.

    “I say, just crush his bones one by one, I don’t believe he can endure it.” Jorton sneered.

    Brade shook his head: “It’s useless, he seems to have mastered some kind of technique that can isolate pain. He has no reaction when we torture him.”

    “There’s such a technique?” Jorton stared in shock.

    The other knights looked at each other upon hearing this.

    How could they interrogate him like this?

    Kei frowned, turned to Su Nan who was sitting beside him, and asked: “Su Nan, do you have any good ideas?”

    Su Nan nodded: “Let me interrogate him.”

    Hearing that Su Nan seemed to have a way, everyone immediately cheered up.

    Led by Brade and Jorton, Su Nan arrived at the dungeon where the Black Sword Knight was imprisoned.

    Stepping into the cell, he saw the Black Sword Knight, his limbs tightly bound to iron pillars by chains, looking extremely miserable.

    His body still bore the burn marks left by the lightning rune gem, and after two days of torture, there was hardly a piece of intact flesh left on his entire body.

    Yet even so, he still didn’t seem to have any pain in his expression.

    Seeing Su Nan come in, his face changed slightly, followed by a disdainful sneer.

    “Don’t waste your efforts, you won’t get any information from me. If you have the guts, kill me!”

    Su Nan said calmly: “If you really want to die, there are plenty of ways to commit suicide. Why do you still cling to life?”

    This remark obviously hit the Black Sword Knight’s sore spot, his eyes twitched violently, and he snorted coldly without speaking.

    Su Nan didn’t care, his face calm as he walked up to the Black Sword Knight.

    “Since torture doesn’t work on you, then let you speak yourself.”

    Hearing this, the Black Sword Knight’s expression became even more disdainful, he was about to scoff at the other party, but the moment he met Su Nan’s gaze, his entire body trembled violently, as if the other party’s eyes were like a deep, dark abyss, his soul was about to be sucked in.

    In just a few seconds, the Black Sword Knight’s face became dull, his eyes unfocused, as if he was sleepwalking.

    “Name.” Su Nan spoke slowly.

    “Yuri · Elric.” The Black Sword Knight answered with unfocused eyes.

    “Age.”

    Among them, several were the spies that had been caught these past two days.

    Without Su Nan’s instructions, Brade took it upon himself to memorize the names and hiding places of these people, then left the dungeon with Jorton, rushing to catch them.

    Su Nan then proceeded to ask about the organizational structure, outpost distribution, and member status of the Starfire Sect.

    According to the Black Sword Knight’s description, the Starfire Sect was a sect that worshiped the Star God and was dedicated to spreading the great glory of the Star God throughout the continent.

    They secretly collaborated with many nobles, using the assassination of rivals for nobles in exchange for using these nobles’ power to continuously expand the sect, and in just over ten years, they had spread their tentacles throughout the entire Star Glory Dukedom.

    As for which nobles they had collaborated with, the Black Sword Knight didn’t know much, only some barons and viscounts.

    Nobles of higher status who collaborated were not accessible to members of his level.

    After all, there were priests, chief priests, grand chief priests, and the Pope who controlled the entire sect above the disciples.

    “Great Knights are only middle-level cadres, it seems that the Starfire Sect has a deep foundation.”

    Su Nan thought silently.

    He had previously guessed that the Starfire Sect might be related to the Wizard Apprentices, but it seemed he was wrong.

    The Starfire Sect clearly followed a religious path, completely different from the wizards who pursued truth and followed the principle of “great power belongs to oneself”.

    As for outposts, the Black Sword Knight didn’t know much, only knowing three outposts located in the Goldenrock Province.

    As for those in other provinces, he had no idea at all.

    Secretly memorizing the personnel structure of these outposts mentioned by the Black Sword Knight, Su Nan then asked about the actions of the Starfire Sect in the Goldenrock Province over the years.

    The results were shocking, to say the least.

    It turned out that the deaths of seven or eight nobles in Goldenrock Province over the past ten years were actually orchestrated by the Starfire Sect.

    They fabricated various accidents and coincidences to kill these nobles, disguising them as accidental deaths or deaths from illness.

    If it was more difficult, they would simply assassinate them.

    Among them was Su Nan’s cheap father.

    It seemed he died in battle, but in fact, before the war broke out, the Starfire Sect had sent people to disguise themselves as one of his bodyguards, then secretly attacked him on the battlefield, causing him to die at the hands of the enemy.

    Although the Black Sword Knight didn’t know the real purpose behind these assassinations, Su Nan could guess with his toes that the mastermind behind it was definitely Marquis Goldenrock.

    Kill the vassal nobles, then support puppets to take their place, achieving the goal of controlling their territories indirectly.

    Marquis Goldenrock’s ultimate goal was to completely control the entire Goldenrock Province.

    No, perhaps that wasn’t the ultimate goal.

    Just to completely control the Goldenrock Province, there was no need to go to such lengths.

    Marquis Goldenrock must have had even deeper intentions!