The wheels of the carriage rolled along the dirt road of Twilight Town, making a "creaking" sound.

Seeing Todd's figure appear in the convoy, the residents on both sides of the road stopped what they were doing, stopped the ongoing conversation, hung their heads upright, their bodies moved with the steps of the priest, and their silent respect filled the quiet air. There were only five or six young children, giggling and following the convoy, shouting "Father Priest" respectfully.

In the procession, Walton, a short and fat man who had been looking around with a sense of freshness and talking loudly to his companions, was so shocked by this strange atmosphere that he was silent, and turned to look at Todd's familiar face, but there was no way to connect this man with the monk who was toasting around the church camp.

"If I'm not mistaken, just over three months ago, this was a deserted beach......" Tightening the crossbow machine behind him, Walton whispered to Adlina, the woman beside him, "Now this place has become, a lively and prosperous town...... What kind of magic does that person have?!"

Walton scratched his hair in annoyance, "Ah! That's unlucky! If it wasn't for the mission, I would have stayed in the Silverring City to see the trial!"

The boy with the red stripe on his forehead, who was walking in front of him, turned around, saw the boots above the man's head, and said in a mocking tone: "Even if you were there, you would not see it, unless you brought a pair of stilts." ”

Listening to the noise of the people behind him, Todd turned his gaze to the girl next to him as he walked.

Since the thrilling trial of heresy, he is confident that his relationship with Karin Foreman will become even more harmonious. Who knows that the phrase "a woman's heart is a needle in the sea" is not wrong at all, not only has the relationship between the two not made the slightest progress, but has a tendency to regress.

When he and the girl make eye contact, they will always avoid his gaze, and when the two are alone in the room, Karin will always find various reasons to leave the room.

There is no reason for this to happen, is it something wrong with me?

With such distress, Todd, who was puzzled, chose to turn his attention to the knight in front of him.

Beneath Alfonso's chain mail and iron mask, the giant parasite that covered his entire body was too impressive. The ability of "Perspective" can only penetrate cloth, wood, and flesh, and for this metal object, only a vague reflection of the interior can be seen. In Todd's heart at this time, that hopeless curiosity began to haunt him again.

If only the knight could take off that obstructive set of armor, or could he stealthily take it off while he wasn't looking?

This dangerous and ridiculous thought swirled in his mind several times, and finally he was thrown off the cliff by reason.

The convoy drove out of Twilight Town and followed the road all the way east. Although the distance was not very far, due to the slow speed of the carriage, the total journey was estimated to take one day and one night, half of which was spent on the road and the other half for rest.

After about an hour of walking on the plains of Moon Creek, Todd could see the "Monastery of San Sidro" on the hill and the faint smoke of the workshop at the foot of the mountain.

There are so many memories of him, Master Myris, the Seven Arts of the Morning, the terrible food, the work in the fields, the underground laboratory, the silver refinery, ......

The church gave him a power of attorney to establish the Church of the Harbor of Twilight, and also conferred on him the holy rank of a priest, and he had to take off the gray robe of a monk, but this did not mean that Todd was completely cut off from the monastery.

On the one hand, he gave the secret recipe for silver refining and all the refining stoves at the foot of the mountain to the monks of the monastery. Although the gains may not be enough for the hundreds of monks to feed and clothe them, they will at least make their ascetic life less poor and more comfortable, and on the other hand, he has privately agreed with Bishop Fabian that the Church should cease all annexation of the "Abbey of San Cidlo".

The convoy continued on, and the scenery along the road became more and more familiar to Todd.

That's the way he travels with Karin.

The priest turned his head to look at the girl beside him, who looked at the scenery in front of him, his eyes were stupid, and his face was full of nostalgia.

"Karin, I'm ......"

Hearing Todd's voice, the girl snapped to her senses, like a frightened rabbit, jumping and hiding in the distance.

The speaker touched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment, and secretly said in his heart, am I so terrible?

After a short break at lunchtime, the convoy marched for another four hours, and finally reached the Watch Fort at about six o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was setting in the west.

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The Watchtower was built at the pass of the Falling Star Mountains, at the junction of three major roads. To the south to the Moon Creek Plain, to the east to the frontier of the Silver Ring Kingdom, and to the north to the barbarian land of the plateau and snow.

The Standing Force of the Watch Fort was about 225 men, mainly spearmen, crossbowmen, and heavy infantry. The commander of the defence was Sir Adams, who had five knights, three of whom were secular knights and two of whom were ecclesiastical knights.

Judging from the cross-section of the walls of the watchtower, its height is much greater than its width, and the walls are of a structure similar to sandwich bread, with brick and stone masonry on the inner and outer surfaces, and stones mixed with mortar in the middle, and the shape is almost completely vertical, like a curtain.

The defenders inside the castle could walk freely on the stone walls under the cover of the thin, battled stone breastwork. And through the holes in the breastwork, arrows can be shot at the besiegers or other projectiles can be thrown.

The entrance to the castle is a double-door design, with a geared door to the south and a four-rope drawbridge door to the north.

Overall, the Watch Fort was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was built in a dangerous place, and it was an important barrier for the Church and the secular states of the south to resist the barbarians of the north.

Not far from this barrier, the pure water formed by the melting snow in the mountains flows slowly down the mountain stream to the groundwater in the mountain, and finally becomes the main source of domestic water for the residents of Shouwang Town on the hillside.

After the sun set, a group of uninvited guests in gray robes, under the cover of night, avoided the surging crowds and arrived at the well in the town, where they began their long-prepared plan.

They opened the wax-sealed copper kettle hidden in their arms and poured the viscous pale black liquid into the well.

A man straightened up, with the insignia of "Crown of Thorns" engraved on his chest, shining with silver brilliance, he looked at the vast night and the distant firelight, and whispered, "The experiment has begun......"