Kingdom of the Silver Ring, City of the Silver Ring, Cathedral of St. Co., Third Inquisition.

Boom!

The heavy object striking the wooden table made a deep sound that echoed and amplified in the basement, reverberating and deafening.

Behind the iron-cast fence, the gray-haired gray-robed church deacon raised his head, his cloudy eyes looking at the whirling "objects" on the table.

The short and fat man with a huge crossbow on his back poked his head through the window of the fence, pointed to the four human heads in front of him that had been salted and shrunk by quicklime, and said inside: "Look at it, the heads of the 'Four Blood Nest Brothers' are all here! Two are 'Strength' Level III., one is 'Temperance' Section IV., and the other is 'Tower' Level IV!"

Slamming his fat palm on the wooden table, causing the shriveled head to jump up, the short and fat man shouted angrily into the window frame: "You damn guys, the information is wrong again! You only tell us that there are three power xenos and one control xenomorph, and none of them will exceed level III.!"

The old deacon glanced at the head in front of him, and with a wave of his sleeves, four "round balls" rolled into the groove under the table, and his eyes did not blink: "The information is correct." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a small bag of coins was thrown out of the window and smashed to the ground.

The fat man picked up the money bag, opened it and looked at it, and suddenly the blood flowed backwards, and he was angry, rolled up his sleeves, and his short and fat body climbed onto the table, and crawled hard along the window, and roared angrily as he crawled his mouth: "You old thing! We are fighting for our lives outside, but you are comfortably sitting inside and deducting the reward!"

The white-robed woman standing on the side hurriedly ran behind the fat man, pulled the corner of the latter's clothes, and whispered: "Walton, Walton! Forget it, the captain is still waiting outside!"

Seeing a man and a woman leave in front of his eyes, the old deacon flicked a silver coin, put it between his fingers and rolled and jumped, and said coldly: "How can there be a reason that the watchdog dislikes the bones too small. ”

In the square outside the gate of the Third Inquisition, a heavily armored knight wearing a steel mask sat on a long stone staircase, quietly looking at the statue of the cross in the center of the square. A boy with a red mark on his forehead stood behind him, holding a knight's sword in his arms, looking into the distance without saying a word.

The angry Walton stepped on the stone slab under his feet, making a loud noise, and still muttered in his mouth: "Adleena, if you don't stop me, see if I don't tear that old **'s mouth!"

The white-robed woman may have seen too much of such things, and there was no unusual expression on her face, so she walked directly to the iron-masked man's side and said softly, "Lord Dekavo, the reward has been paid." ”

"Yes, yes, I got it, it's two percent less than what I should have got!"

Listening to Walton's complaints, Alfonso de Cavo sat up from the ground, shook his shoulders nonchalantly, ignored the church personnel around him with frightened faces, and walked straight forward.

As soon as he walked down the steps, two people dressed in civilian clothes for the priests stood in front of him.

"Is it Lord De Kavo, please?"

After receiving an affirmative answer from the other party, one of them turned sideways and gave way, bowed and said, "Bishop Fabian wants to see you, please come with me." ”

The Church of the Heavenly Father in the far west of the continent and the Most Orthodox Church in the middle of the continent were originally the state religion of the ancient Tairo Empire.

The Taylor Empire has existed for thousands of years in history, and at its peak, it even controlled nearly half of the entire continent, and later split into the East Taylor Empire and the West Taylor Empire due to royal succession and other issues.

Due to the dispute between the East and the West, its state religion was gradually divided into the Sect of the Heavenly Father, which called itself "Catholicism", and the Supreme Orthodox Sect, which claimed to be "Orthodox Christianity".

The religious sphere of influence of the Heavenly Father Sect is divided into Eastern Diocese, Middle Diocese and Western Diocese, and the Silver Ring Kingdom is in the Western Diocese of the Heavenly Father Sect.

St. Cove's Cathedral, Bishop's Exegetical Chapel.

The old man with a cross on his chest in a long white robe, wearing a crystal monocle, looked at the dozens of materials on the table in front of him, picked up the thinnest and read softly: "Todd Fischer, his father is a baptized Catholic, his mother is a refugee in the wilderness of the north, he is the second son in the family, and he has not achieved anything until he is fourteen years old. Hmmm......"

Picking up a slightly thicker one, the old man continued: "Introduced by the monk Myris, he became an anonymous apprentice of the Abbey of St. Sidro. The evaluation is...... Gifted but lazy to Mass...... Hehe, interesting. ”

Picking up the thickest of all the materials, the old man shook the paper in his hand and said to the middle-aged man sitting opposite him, his face covered with frost: "Father Paul, what do you think of the written report I have in my hand written by Father Rupert?"

The man sat up straight and said without hesitation: "It's nonsense, nonsense!"

"Oh? Why?"

"The cross seeped blood, the demons came out of their bodies, rivers of blood flowed into rivers, and they were reborn in the fire. This is all about irresponsible and indiscriminate fabrication for the sake of attracting the attention of others! And that, what is the "Son blessed by the Father"?! Everyone knows that the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, such titles, which divide the Holy Father and the Holy Son into two bodies, is heresy, and I think that the monk named Todd is a heretic, and he should be immediately arrested and put in the Inquisition!"

The old man listened to the other man's roar, and said with a smile, "I think there is a little bit in it, which I find interesting, why would a monk go out of his way to exorcise a craftsman?" So I had a survey done, and to my surprise, he had built a silver refinery outside the monastery. ”

Father Paul frowned: "Then he has one more crime, greed for wealth." ”

"No, you probably didn't understand what I meant. Don't you think that an apprentice of the monastery of St. Sidro, who is greedy for wealth and does not think of the Holy Way, and who is also worshipped as a holy son by the people, does not think this is an opportunity for us?"

The middle-aged man faintly thought of something, and asked tentatively, "Bishop Fabian, what do you mean?"

The old man threw the materials in his hand on the table, and replied with a smile: "Ten years ago, you were banished from the monastery by those stubborn people who followed the old ways, didn't you think about going back?"

Father Paul's eyes lit up.

After a few taps on the table, the bishop calmly said, "This child named Todd is the best chance for us to include the convent of San Sidro in the Church. ”

The man who looked happy and was about to say more was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door.

"My lord, Alfonso de Cavo has arrived. ”

Bishop Fabian smiled and said to Father Paul: "I would like to introduce you to a man, a soldier loyal to the Church, your escort on this trip. ”

Watching the knight, covered in steel, walk into the room, the old man suddenly remembered something, and pulled out a thin piece of letterhead from the material, on which were only a few lines written:

On January 7, 1170 A.D., in the village at the junction of the Falling Star Mountains and the Moon Creek Plain, the bodies of two almshouse members were found, and the handwriting left in the cellar - 'Nascentes_morimur'.