Chapter 31: The Militia and the Seaport
After participating in this inexplicable consecration ceremony, Todd returned to the monastery, ignoring the strange eyes of the monks around him, and walked straight to the monastery library.
He had a whole bunch of questions that needed immediate answers.
If Master Myris were still around, he would be the best answerer. But the old man's long-term failure to return left Todd with no choice but to rely on himself.
Walking to the second floor of the library, the monk looked at the markings on the shelves.
Theology of Faith, Theology of Pastoral Spirituality, Works of catechumenism, History of People, History of Religion, Cartography and Surveying......
Got it!
With a happy mood, Todd pulled out the books from under the shelves, and without the slightest mental preparation, he saw a "grimace" behind the shelves.
The monk trembled with fright, and the books in his hands were scattered on the ground.
"Karin! What are you doing! You almost scared me to death!"
Todd stroked his chest with one hand (his own, of course) and pulled out the girl in a monk's robe behind the bookshelf with the other, and the other party looked pitiful, and he really didn't know how to reprimand.
"I'm hiding in the antechamber and I'm a little worried about you when I see everything the church is doing to you. β
Hearing her words, the monks looked at each other in surprise.
"What should we do now?" Karin looked at the lack of people around, and Karin combed her long-bound long black hair with her hands to the outside of her robes, sliding down like a waterfall.
The boy watched the feminine gesture and heard her whimsical words, and froze in place.
In the past few days, although he has been in the same room with this picturesque girl, he has been busy experimenting at that time, and he has no distractions, completely unaware of her beauty and her existence.
Karin hung her head, as if thinking about something, "Maybe we should meet in the evening......"
Todd raised his eyebrows, smiled at the corner of his mouth, nodded lightly and said, "Yes, I also think it's a bit inconvenient to do this in broad daylight." β
The girl looked out the window: "Today is the new moon, the moon is dim, and no one will pay attention to us." β
Todd nodded his head like a piledriver: "Yes, yes, yes, no one will bother you on such a night, we can wander under the moonlight and talk about life......"
"I've scouted the church's camp, and the guards are as porous as a sieve in a bakery. β
"Oh, so you like to go for a walk in the camp...... Huh, church camps?"
Hearing this, Todd felt that something was not quite right.
Karin took out a dagger glowing with silver light from her robe, and made a few gestures in the air, her face was still sweet, but her smile made people shudder: "In the second half of the night, when everyone is asleep." I can sneak into the room from the chimney, slit the throats of those vicious dogs, and smear the entire wall with blood, and give the church a warning to get out of the way!"
Girl,Your painting style is getting too fast.,Brother really can't keep up!
Todd was really intimidated this time. The mouth is slightly open, the eyes are straight, and there is a green tendon on the head that is constantly beating.
Karin, what kind of world did you live in in the past? The kind of thing that smeared the walls with blood, not to mention seeing it, even thinking about it makes people feel numb all over their bodies.
Covering his forehead with one hand and pinching the bridge of his nose with the other, Todd shook his head and immediately rejected the bloody proposal.
Placing the book on the table, he pulled Karin to her side and sat her down, and the monk patiently explained to him that assassination was not a good option from the perspective of factional confrontation, power confrontation, and power comparison.
It's easy to say anything, and finally let the other party dispel the idea, Todd calmed down and realized that he still knew too little about this girl named Karin, and he didn't know anything about her personality, her past, and her preferences.
Putting aside the matter in his mind for a moment, Todd turned his attention to the documentation in the books. After some searching, I finally found the information of the "Apologetic Exorcist Group" and the "Twilight West Harbor".
Let's talk about the apologetics and exorcisms first.
The Exotalogist Exorcism is a civilian armed force directly under the Inquisition of the Church. It is different from the regular military organization of the Church Order, first of all, it is an unofficial organization and has not been recorded in the Church's holy documents; secondly, the recognition and establishment of the Knights must first be reviewed by the Cardinal Conference of the Papal State, and then authorized by the Pope, while the Guardian Exorcism is much simpler, only the archbishop of the diocese or even the bishop needs to issue a holy letter; thirdly, the Exologist Exorcism has a limit on the number of people, generally no more than 100 people; finally, in terms of functions, the Exotic Exorcism is mainly responsible for assisting the Inquisition, conducting civilian reconnaissance and arrest operations, and does not participate in large-scale military warsγ
After reading this introduction, Todd's face couldn't cry or laugh.
At first, I thought it was a great religious organization, but in the end, it turned out to be a group of enthusiastic mass groups that helped the church find heresies by reporting and exposing and making small reports.
However, if you think about it, such authorization is not harmful to yourself, but has a lot of convenience.
As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
No one would have imagined that the zealous people who helped the church search for heretics were actually made up of a gang of xenomorphs.
Then there's a look at the Twilight Seaport.
The earliest record of this place name in the Sacred History is from the missionary events of the year 375 in the Christian calendar.
Twelve ascetics, who set out from this shore, accompanied only the scriptures of the Father and their humble clothes. They sailed through seventy-five days and nights, passing through hundreds of islands in the wilderness of the north, sowing the glory of God and the grace of the Lord to the primitive barbarians. On the way back, the storm and scurvy caused only one person to return to the Moon Creek Plain alive.
In the year 379 of the A.D., in order to commemorate the great deeds of this group of believers, the Kingdom of the Silver Ring gave this harbor to the church.
That's it for history, let's talk about geography.
The Twilight Harbour is a natural ice-free harbor. Although the salinity of seawater is not high, the depth of the seabed is large, and the volume of seawater is large enough, which constitutes the basic condition for seawater not to freeze. It also has a unique geographical advantage, with the Falling Star Mountains on the north side sheltering from the wind and rain from the Misty Sea, the hills on the south side for lighthouses, lookouts and fortifications, the flat plains on the east side for horse-drawn carriages to unload and load, and the west side to go around Waidaike Island to the north to the Northern Islands and south to the southern countries.
It is the so-called convenient transportation and superior environment.
However, today's Twilight Harbor is not as lively and prosperous as imagined.
For hundreds of years, it has been abandoned there and remains a mess of rocks and gravel.
There was only one reason - pirates from the northern islands, who went south to raid and attack.
The port of Twilight was too close to the Northern Isles, too far from the military centers of the Church and the secular kingdoms, and with kilometers of coastline that was difficult to defend, the Silverring Kingdom already had a steady source of income from silver, and it didn't care too much about the port. Naturally, piracy was rampant, seaports were deserted, and no one paid attention to them.
Todd closed the book, thinking in thought.
The Twilight Seaport may be a good opportunity.