Volume 1 Dragon's Death Prologue (3) The Knight and the Pigeon

Maidelon Church

"Fromanda" Fourth Holy See

Inquisition Army Quarters

Otos took off his silver helmet, which was stained with bright red blood, and his whole body was so like this that the "Armor of Judgment", which had been shining with the so-called "divine light", became a little dim. He took off the snow-white scabbard that was bound at his waist, looked at it carefully, took a deep breath, and looked to the side nonchalantly, the candle with a bronze carved border decoration, placed on the broken wooden table, and a few wooden bowls with cracks, and the scraps of cold rice, and a lazy fellow prostrate on the table, drunk.

Otos sighed anyway.

He let go of the blood-stained blade hidden between the snow-white scabbard, and ignored it, looking at his calloused right palm again, and sighed again.

Ottos grabbed the scribbled clothes on the wooden table, walked unhurriedly into the bathroom at the end of the corridor, changed his clothes, and placed his heavy silver armor in the fourth episcopal storage room of the Church of Medren called "Fromanda". A man clutched a tattered book and ran into the bathroom, stopping and stopping along the way, and when he met the knight of the Inquisition who was doing the same thing as him, he leaned down to say hello, and when he entered the bathroom again, the Saalfrol, who was now the bishop of Bondsas, had ordered the rest of his men to sacrifice in white robes and ring the forbidden bell solemnly.

Otos heard the forbidden bell ringing three times in total, and in a booklet called "Regulations on the Judgment of Military Needs" issued by the Inquisitor Army, the meaning was very clear, that is, the meaning of the meal, but under the hostage and defense of the bloody queen Gamantha's regime, the sense of ritual before and after the meal was particularly strong.

In the past, when Dayamanda, the young and promising king of the Kingdom of Nex, was in charge of the power of the Kingdom of Nexus, he was basically very lenient about the religious beliefs of the people of Nexus, except for those royal nobles who really had the blood of the Fire Phoenix Nexus, and the rest of the time, there was basically no superfluous rules and regulations. Of course, an inferior knight of the Inquisition who wanders like a ghost like Otos is almost invisible, among the Faith cultists of the "Blood Queen" in Bondesastown. Their sword-wielding companions of the Inquisition were allowed to eat only on the floors on either side of the church hall unless they had the opportunity to pay their respects, and only the Bishop, his congregation, and the generals of the Inquisition were entitled to sit at the "long table in the congregation" Meals, so in the queue of inferior knights of the Inquisition, it is basically not a big problem to lack one less and one less, and those young white-robed priests who routinely patrol are also afraid of being punished and scolded by the strange tempered Bishop Salfrol, and even if they turn a blind eye to the past, even if he blatantly sneaks into the bathroom, it can be said to be justified, but the dirty book in his hand is enough to put him to death, once it is discovered by other believers with ulterior motives, he will probably be like the man who died tragically in the dome of the church not long ago"Judgment and Redemption", who was put on a thick hemp rope and kicked off the dome of the church by the bishop, was strangled to death by the acceleration of gravity, or like the kind old village chief named Augusto, who was persecuted by the flowers in the pool of blood of the sacrificial altar and gave advice to the world.

Because that tattered book, which was a taboo for people like them who were the Inquisitors and believers of the "Bloody Empress Garmantha", was the holy book that was strictly forbidden by the tyrannical queen's edict: the Old Covenant.

......

When Ottos left the bathroom of the Fourth Bishop of Romanda in the church of Medron, a white pigeon swept across the sky, and soon after, it was quietly strangled in the sky by the young white-robed priests who were striking, with only a faint neigh, and died without even seeing the blood splash.

In a huge pit not far from the church of Maidelen, countless birds had been thrown into the stinking pile of bones, and the knights of the Inquisition stationed in the church did not even bother to pass by this filthy road. They sneered at it and avoided it, for fear of defiling their so-called cleansed, clear and noble souls.

"Hey, Charizard! I'm here!"

"Oh no, Flo, it's really not good to joke about duplicate names! Not to mention the 'Charizard'!" Otos was a little annoyed, and the man in civilian clothes who was waving to him not far away was named Flo Sivanov, who, like him, was born poor and was a member of the Holy See's Inquisition. What disgusted Otos was that this guy always liked to call him the "fire-breathing dragon" among the forty-eight main gods in the "Old Testament", that is, the fire dragon god Otos, and the renaming was nothing, but Flo fanned the flames like this, and Otos, who was originally well-connected in the Holy See's Inquisition, could only be helplessly divided into a single person, of course, that was except for this guy who loves to joke.

Today's Otos, who is twenty years old, thanks to his early farm life, is strong and strong, and should not be considered young and promising, but he can still have a way to live and eat. When he was about eight years old, the brutal "Blood Queen" Gamantha inherited the mantle of her husband Diamanda and took charge of the dominant power of the entire Nixes Kingdom.

"Is there anything that is the matter, my dear knight Sivanov?" said Otos, grinning, bowing his head, and then opening his arms and walking towards the enthusiastic fellow.

Flo hugged Otos, and he leaned into Otos' ear and whispered, "Sect Master Salfrol is looking for you, he is in a bad mood! Did you do something to make him unhappy?"

Otos let go of his arms and said unashamedly, "No, I went to the bathroom when I returned to Fromanda just now, and I didn't do anything else, did he tell you anything?"

Flo nervously pulled Otos to the hall of the church in Maidelen, and added in a whisper: "You may have a big deal, the white-robed priest who was patrolling outside the church just now shot a pigeon, not only that, but they also found that the pigeon had a small letter tied to its left calf. It's the last sentence of the sonnet at the end of the third chapter of that forbidden book!"

Ottos scratched his head and asked suspiciously, "'The judgment of crime and punishment will come, and the great archangel Axus will send you to eternal hell'?"

"Shh

Flo made a shut-up gesture and pulled Otos into the empty bathroom of the Second Holy See, and continued: "Yes, Bishop Saalfrol said that this is a signal from the group of Federal Defenders, and there may be spies infiltrated by the Federal Defenders in our Holy See Inquisition!"

"How is that possible!" said Otos at once, "why doesn't he think it's the white-robed priests under him?"

Flo nodded, "That guy... Oh no, it was the Bishop who said that the pigeon had died under the arrows blessed by the light of the white-robed priests, and that only the holy white-robed priests could destroy the tokens that had been passed on to the Commonwealth, so he was 100% sure that the out-of-the-box spies... It is only possible in our group of papal inquisitors, and you happened to be absent when the Sect Master recited his prayer to the 'Empress', and now you have become the object of their most suspicion at the moment, or to put it more bluntly, they are 70% sure that it is you... We are brothers, and I won't hide it from you, according to the bishop's temperament, if you can't find a real spy, you... You're going to be the scapegoat being shot!"

Otos bared his teeth and jumped to his feet to retort, a little incredulous: "How could it be me? I just went to the bathroom, how could they suspect that I am such a devout believer?

Flo waved his hand calmly, signaling for the irascible Otos to calm down, and then continued: "It's okay, I believe that you are not a spy sent by the group of bastards of the Federation, you don't need to react too violently, the sect leader also said that if it is one of their group of devout cultists, the great 'Blood Queen' Gamantha will prove your innocence to you!"

Otos nodded, mixed feelings.

It's a bit bizarre.

......

When the two of them left the Second Holy See for washing, the white robed and superior Bishop Salfrol had already led a group of pious believers holding a cross carved with "blood roses" to the corridor leading to the Second Holy See with an orderly step, like a man of God.

The tedious corridor that shines with golden light through the Gothic screen windows runs through the entire "Maidelen" church, from the "Hundred Flowers" hall through the "Asics" First Episcopal See, the "Caesar Yasuo" Second Church, and the third Holy See renamed "Gamantha", to the "Romanda" Fourth Holy See at the very end of the church. This sacred church built by the tenth king of the Kingdom of Nexus for 40 years, is the most magnificent building in the town of Bondesas and even in the state of Chia Sochi, the huge and vast dome is called the "Divine Eye", which was once known as the only way for the people of the Kingdom of Nexus to go to the Holy Empire where the creator Fromantigen depends, but now, it has become a killing tool for the "Blood Queen" Gamansa to kill people.

Otos Sayavich and Flo Sivanov froze in place, standing upright, making a visual salute to the Inquisitors, watching the Bishop Salfrol approach calmly, and then the acolytes divided into two groups in front of the golden corridor leading from the First Bishop of "Asics" to the Second Holy See of "Caesar Yasuo", stood on both sides of the corridor, and stopped to watch the "Blood Queen" Gamantha's most trusted bishop.

At the end, two soldiers of the Inquisition Army, dressed in fine silver armor and swords at their waists, held the feathered pigeon that had been pierced through the chest by sharp arrows and exposed its bones, and the other held a parchment scroll that had been bound and sealed by layers of shackles, and the parchment scroll seemed to be still vibrating, slowly emitting the intertwined product of darkness and holy light...... It was like the beginning of chaos, and the light shone in an instant.

Salfrol held the cross high, staring at the dumbfounded Otos and Flo, his eyes were like torches, and he didn't know what he was spitting, as if he was singing the long hymn to the "Blood Queen" Gamantha, and the two soldiers had been groveling and silent after walking out of the golden corridor of the first "Asics" in the Holy See.

It seems to be the power of power.

Deterrence of power.

Outside the second papacy of the "Caesar Yasuo" in the church of "Medron", the young Van Schelle curiously looked through the magnificent screen window of the Gothic style, and unsurprisingly saw this shocking and magnificent scene, he also happened to hold a broken copy of the Old Testament in his hand, and the broken "Old Testament" happened to turn to the third chapter, "The Judgment of Hades", and the last section of the "Sonnet of Crime and Punishment". He was like a little elk who was at a loss before the catastrophe, and the fingertips of his little hands involuntarily fell to this page, the last line of the epic: "The judgment of crime and punishment will come, and the great archangel Axus will send you to eternal hell!"