Bishop Fabian stood up sharply, looked at the priest, and asked anxiously, "Where are you?"

"We have arrived at the main entrance of the cathedral, and the guard of honor is laying out the red carpet!"

"I'll go now! Wait...... Wait a minute," the bishop hurriedly pulled open, and the top drawer of the table found a wooden comb. He first dipped his saliva with his hands, wiped the sparse hair near the Mediterranean Sea on the top of his head, and then carefully flicked it sideways with his comb a few times before following the priest briskly to the door.

Queen Mary has been the focal point of the Silver Ring Kingdom since she married into the royal family at the age of sixteen. There are countless reasons why she loves jewelry and jewelry, opera and dance, parties and excitement, but what makes people talk about the most is her amazing beauty.

On the first day of her marriage from an enemy country, the city of Silver Ring was empty, and the moon and stars were eclipsed the moment she stepped out of the carriage to send off her relatives.

She and her husband, Guy VI, stood on the terrace of the castle and waved to the people who came from all directions. The king, who was ten years older than him, told a good story that is still circulated throughout the continent.

"Behold, my queen. Half of my people love you!"

"Oh, what about the other half?"

"The other half slept in the ground, sleeping. ”

Now, three years have passed.

Queen Mary's beauty has not faded because of time, but has gradually matured from her original youthfulness. It is like a delicate red and full and attractive fruit, hanging on the branches, no matter where it goes, it is the focus of everyone's attention.

Bishop Fabian looked at the red carpet that had reached his feet, and lowered his head on his side, but his eyes were fixed on the extravagant carriage in the middle of the square.

Under the attendants of the court ladies, the door was gently opened, first a skirt inlaid with silver tassels and crystal pendants, and then slender white hands with a faint pink color. When the queen stepped out of the carriage and stood on the red carpet, the men around her widened their eyes and the women covered their faces with folding fans.

The bishop pressed his hair with one hand and smoothed his robe with the other, and trotted all the way to the carriage, and bent down towards the queen, not daring to look at her face, but wanting to kiss the hand.

The female officer standing beside her coughed heavily when she saw this, causing the priest to take a few steps back.

"Let's go. ”

Listening to this beautiful and beautiful voice, the bishop's heart trembled, and he quickly bent down to lead the way.

When the people arrived at the audience hall of the cathedral, the maids laid out a velvet blanket on the main seat, took out fruits and snacks from the copper box filled with ice, and placed several small sterling silver forks on the plates.

The ladies measured the length with their footsteps, adjusting the distance between the others and the queen's seat.

This act stems from an unwritten rule in the Kingdom of the Silver Ring, which states that 'no man shall move within three metres of the Queen'. The man who made this ridiculous rule was, of course, King Guy VI.

When Queen Mary took her seat, she didn't seem to intend to exchange pleasantries and courtesies, but chose to get straight to the point: "My lord, I have come for the crystal relic. ”

The bishop's brow furrowed, and he was silent.

"I hope to get a few crystal relics to use as decorations for my nineteenth birthday party. ”

Fabian hesitated: "Your Majesty, those crystal relics are important items of the Church, each of them has great research value, and it should be sent to the Cardinal and the Pope first......"

Mary interrupted the other party in displeasure: "They can wait, but my birthday is next month, and I can't wait that long." ”

When the bishop heard this, he looked up a little surprised, a little annoyed, what do they mean they can wait? That's the pope and the cardinals. But the stunning appearance and intoxicating temperament of the queen in front of him made the depression in the old man's chest disappear in a blink of an eye.

The queen didn't seem to have the slightest intention of caring about the feelings of others, and continued: "I forgot to say that the crystal relics must be of the best quality, and the style must be biased towards ......."

Bishop Fabian, who had been in the church for a long time and did not know much about the outside world, heard an unheard of word and asked the people next to him: "What is the best of the best?"

Subordinates were quick to explain for him.

The secular aristocratic connoisseurs divided the crystal treasures that flowed out into three, six, nine and so on according to transparency, impurities, shape, workmanship, etc., and the special ones were the best category, and I heard that only the Lord de Noir and the King had such works.

The bishop shook his head as he listened: "This is just nonsense. ”

Just as he wanted to reject the other party directly, the old man suddenly remembered that there had been a lot of unpleasantness between the previous bishop and the Silver Ring Kingdom. In his own term, fortunately, the queen reconciled with him, so that the king and the church would not be as incompatible as in the past.

When he was still thinking about how to reply, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

"Don't you have an exorcist named Todd, and I heard that he is the Son of God who has been blessed by the Holy Father, why don't you go to him again?"

When Fabian heard this, he was shocked and hurried to ask the others how the news had reached the world.

What made his heart palpitate was that in the royal family, the aristocracy and the people, Todd's story had long been circulated as a semi-myth.

It is rumored that he followed the will of the Father, expelled demons, defeated aliens, and welcomed back holy relics, which was the grace of the True Light and the guidance of believers.

"If this kind of speech develops, it will be a threat to ourselves and the church, and it should be curbed in time!"

With this in mind, Bishop Fabian finally decided on the next thing in his heart. He turned to Queen Mary, "Your Majesty, there will be a heresy trial here next week, would you be interested in visiting?"

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Todd, who knew nothing about what was happening in the royal city, was still waiting for the bishop's reply to the three conditions.

In his opinion, neither the first nor the second condition is a problem, the key lies in the third.

It is almost impossible to find the Knights as a guard in the middle of nowhere. So, when the other side refuses or negotiates this condition, he intends to propose an alternative plan - allowing the Knights of the Knights to be built on its own in the Harbor of Twilight.

This proposal sounds a bit fanciful, after all, the consent of the Order of the Church requires the personal consent of the Cardinal Order and the Pope before the Holy Letter can be issued. But Todd was confident in the appeal of the glass relic, and would agree to his request once the cardinal and the pope discovered the religious value of the relic.

But people are not as good as heaven, and he never expected that his plan would be ruined by a robbery that seemed to be a farce.

On this day, after observing the bacteria in his body and discovering that everything was normal, Todd injected himself with Huggins' "debilitating" bacteria, intending to further test the carrying capacity of Sutherland's archaea.

On the way back to his dormitory, he left the laboratory with four germs and was stopped by a group of church sergeants wearing black robes and embroidered with a red cross on their chests.

The leader of the team asked, "Are you Monk Todd?"

After receiving an affirmative reply, the other party said, "We would like to ask you to assist in the investigation, and the carriage is just outside the door." ”

Todd looked at the back of the line through the twilight sun, and Father Paul's grim face came into his sight.