"Alchemy?!"

In the audience of the Inquisition, there was an exclamation that was enough to tear down the roof.

When the Church of the Heavenly Father and the Most Orthodox Church were not separated and belonged to the state religion of Taylor, alchemy was a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the two. There is no other reason than one person who has put great pressure and blow to the church, and he is Sutherland, an alchemist who helps xenomorphs flee.

Since the success of the Great Escape, the Xenomorph Remnant has carried out a series of attacks on the Church, both explicitly and covertly - slandering rumors, stealing holy relics, burning churches, and even attempting to assassinate the Pope. Therefore, under the deliberate propaganda of the Church, alchemy became synonymous with "demonic art", and alchemists were also equated with "demonic manipulators".

As large tables with wheels and white cloth were pushed onto the pulpit in the hall, attitudes toward the accused gradually changed.

The priests who had chosen to stand beside Todd raised the cross on their chests and stepped back, the knights who had defended him with honor looked at him with a wary gaze, and the people in the hall looked ahead with three points of fear and seven points of disgust in their expressions.

Seeing this, Father Paul and Bishop Fabian exchanged a satisfied look.

And the center of the vortex - Todd.

Standing motionless, looking at the white cloth on the large table, his face expressionless.

Paul the arraignator, commanding the church staff, lifted the white cloth, revealing what was on the table. The people in the hall were so frightened by what they saw that they let out short, spasmodic screams, and some even began to turn around and run away.

Experimental equipment of different styles, bottles and cans of unknown purpose, ugly and strange specimen organs.

That's right, these things are only possessed by alchemists, and these are tools for summoning demons.

Paul looked at the crowd on the table, held the cross on his chest, took a step back unconsciously, and then calmed down and asked loudly: "Todd!

Todd knew that since the Inquisitors could find the underground laboratory, they would naturally be able to grasp their whereabouts in the monastery. At times like these, there is no point in denial.

"That's right, it's all mine. ”

As soon as the monk said this, all four were shocked.

The priests, knights, and monks who knew Todd well were still a little lucky, believing that the alchemy had nothing to do with the true and good man, while the others in the hall were terrified by the appearance of a living alchemist, and Paul and Fabian were surprised that the accused had confessed so easily.

Queen Mary, who was hidden on the second floor, lost her composure on her face for the first time. She pursed her lips and opened her eyes wide, folding her fan in her hand with a creaking and twisting sound.

Paul sank his face and asked the second question, "So, do you admit that you are an alchemist?"

Todd tilted his head and thought for a moment, and said, "Yes, at least I think I should be." ”

Queen Mary leaned back, closed her eyes, and sighed deeply.

At the entrance of the cathedral, the figures of Huggins, Karin and others flashed by.

Father Paul's heart, which at this time was already overjoyed, was already overjoyed, his face was filled with a smile of success, and his limbs began to dance with excitement, only to hear him shout his sentence: "Then, I hereby declare that Todd is convicted of heresy......

"Wait!"

The defendant's sudden words made the originally noisy hall instantly quiet, and everyone's attention was put back on him.

As if watching an animal about to be slaughtered, Paul smiled with pity: "What else do you want to say?"

Todd looked into the priest's eyes, firm but not timid, which made the latter feel a little strange.

"I want to ask a question. The monk lifted the cross on his chest into the air: "Do you mean a group of people who go against the will of the Father?"

Not knowing what he meant, Father Paul pondered for a moment and replied carefully, "So to speak." ”

"Then why can't I find any words in the Scriptures and Holy Writings of the Father and the Most High that characterize alchemists as hereticalists?"

All the church personnel, monks and monks present were stunned.

Anyone who knows a little about the history of the Church knows that the words and deeds of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were first written in the 1,500 BC calendar, and after 1,600 years of revisions, additions, and subtractions, they were finally completed in the 96th year of the calendar. This collection of holy books continues to this day as the fundamental program of the Church.

And the alchemist was criticized as a heretic for this event. It was written in the "Holy Congregation Encyclical" issued by the Pope at the "Ecumenical Council" after the "Great Excursion" occurred two hundred years ago.

Sounds a bit complicated?

To put it simply, the characterization of alchemy as heretical scholarship is an internal decision of the church leadership, and has nothing to do with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Looking at the priests and monks in the audience, he explained the twists and turns to the people around him. Todd walked up to one of the knights and said, "Can I borrow your weapon?"

The monk with the sword in hand walked around the pulpit, and Paul and Fabian looked at the blade of the sword in each other's hands and stepped back in fear.

"Can anyone tell me whether this weapon in my hand is righteous or evil?"

Todd's question caused everyone to look at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"A weapon is a weapon, and it will only follow the user's palm and arm and swing at the designated object. When it slashes at robbers and wickeders, it is righteous, and when it slashes at civilians and good, it is evil! Alchemy is the same......"

Father Paul abruptly interrupted the monk and shouted hoarsely: "Alchemy is heresy!

Todd laughed, word by word: "Then I am strange, alchemy first originated two thousand five hundred years before the religious calendar. A thousand years later, the Bible, which records the words and deeds of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, did not define it as heresy, and two thousand years later, an encyclical of the Church sent it to the guillotine of evil witchcraft. Could it be that the Church should be wiser than the Father, and that even the Supreme could not detect the truth?!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.

Queen Mary sat up straight, a smile slowly blooming on her face, her pounding heart like a turbulent lake, difficult to calm down.

Todd glanced at the bottles of chemical reagents and materials on the table, handed back the knight's sword, and said to everyone in the hall, "I, Todd, I will prove to you that alchemy has a righteous side!

Next, he proposed to the Inquisition that a few heinous and criminal outlaws be extracted from the prison, and then some good-natured, law-abiding, simple and loyal civilians from the square should be found and mixed together. He can use alchemy to obtain the true eye of the Heavenly Father and distinguish between good and evil.

That sounds like a fantasy.

Father Paul immediately objected, but his voice was quickly drowned out in applause and approval.

The nobles who are idle and pained have great interest and enthusiasm for such sacred and interesting things.

The letter from the condemned prisoner was quickly prepared and sent to the prison.

And Todd was about to use alchemy to distinguish between good and evil, and soon spread throughout Cathedral Square. The people are boiling, this kind of thing is simply unimaginable, evil alchemy, can also borrow the divine power of the Holy Spirit to distinguish good and evil in the world?

Taking advantage of this, Todd walked to the experimental table and began to debug the so-called "Eye of God" in full view of everyone.

Queen Mary moved her chair forward a bit, quietly lifted the curtain in front of her, and looked at the monk busy with the experiment, her azure pupils glinting.

Soon, both the condemned prisoner and the innocent were brought in, and Todd finished mixing the reagents.

The first group of five people walked up to the pulpit.

Todd lifted up the cross before them and said aloud: "Almighty Creator, send down the divine flame! The sinner will be in eternal purgatory, miserable! Blood will evaporate, flesh and bones will be broken, and soul will be tormented! He will forever be a rootless ghost, lamenting and suffering, and will not ......die well."

While chanting these scary-sounding prayers, Todd used his "clairvoyance" ability to carefully observe the heartbeats and blood circulation of the five people in front of him.

There were four people who were all right, except for the one on the far left, whose face was covered in scars, with a pounding heart, increased blood circulation, and a rapid rise in body temperature.

With a bottom in his heart, he took out a cup of the "Eye of God" and dipped their hands in the solution from right to left.

The four people in front were all right, and when Todd grabbed the hand of the person on the far left, the moment he immersed himself in the solution, his sleeves flipped up, and the originally crystal clear water suddenly turned a dark brown.

Everyone was shocked to see this change.

The monk pretended to be surprised, pointed to the scar-faced man in front of him, and said loudly, "Heavenly Father has sent down a holy message, you are an evil one!"

Later, the judge announced the results.

As Todd said, that man was a death row inmate!

Everyone in the hall suddenly boiled, alchemy can really obtain the true eye of the Heavenly Father to distinguish between good and evil!

Todd smiled, the so-called Eye of God is a solution of ferric chloride (Fecl3). What I have in my sleeve is a sodium acetate solution (3CH3COONa). When the two are chemically reacted, a dark brown solution of ferric acetate (Fe[CH3COO]3) and sodium chloride (Nacl) are formed.

There was a man with a gloomy expression who shouted a voice of doubt.

"I ask for it again!" said Father Paul, glancing at the scarred man on his face, "The discerning person must wear a black cloth on his head." ”

The second time it turned out, Todd still succeeded in finding the culprit.

Paul was not reconciled and struggled again, this time to put a black cloth on Todd's head, an ungraceful behavior that almost drowned him out with boos.

The monk didn't care, the clairvoyant ability could penetrate the black cloth on his face, and the result of the third time was the same as the first two.

Father Paul slumped on the ground, his face as dead as ashes: "How is this possible? Alchemy can borrow the true eye of the Father, how is this possible?"

Bishop Fabian covered his forehead with his hands, his face depressed.

The heresy trial against Todd has been a complete failure!

When everyone stands up, cheering or whistling, expressing excitement and salutation.

A knight and several sergeants escorted an unconscious monk into the hall.

Walking to the pulpit, the knight lifted the monk's hood and said to the people in the courtroom: "When we were on patrol, we found this man, hiding in the back yard of the cathedral, carrying a large amount of flammable materials with him, apparently trying to set it on fire. ”

Bang Dang!

The bronze cup in Todd's hand, which contained the Eye of God, fell to the ground with a loud noise.

The face under the hood was all too familiar to him.

Miss Black Sheep, Karin Foreman......