confrontation
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Milky white light swirls around the majestic temple, and twenty-four huge stone pillars support the ivory-white dome, and the pillars are carved with praises to the gods. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The angelic sound of Sanskrit chanting resounded from all around, making the believers kneeling on the ground feel as if they were blessed by the gods.
At this time, a fierce accusation was going on in the main temple of light, the accuser was Cardinal Loew in red, and more than a dozen bishops and archbishops, including Pope Phoenix, were standing aside, except for a few bishops and archbishops who were absent from the war with the dark temple.
"Five months ago, the Dark Temple's sneak attack on Bill City, why did it teleport directly into the temple in the city? After that, we found the teleportation coordinates under the bed in one of the bedrooms of the Temple, and it was obviously this that became the coordinates that guided the Dark Legion to teleport! And Bishop Mary lived in Bill City for three days half a year ago on the pretext of learning the command of city defense, and it was this room that he lived in!"
After a burst of incessant roar, Loew hunched over, coughing violently and wheezing, but he stopped coughing and continued to roar loudly.
"A year ago, at the time of Bright's death, everyone knew that the Dark Temple was rumored to have killed Selby to kill Bright, but at that time Mary and Oscar had all returned intact. The truth is likely that the two of them colluded with Selby to murder Bright together!And according to our intelligence, it was Selby who provided the coordinates for the dark army in the sneak attack five months ago!"
Such accusations immediately caused a commotion, accusing Mary of being a collaborator, but it is not a trivial matter, Mary is not only a student of Pope Phoenix, but also the twenty-eighth bishop, if Mary is really guilty of collaborating with the enemy, then Pope Phoenix will not be able to get out of it? But if Mary has not collaborated with the enemy, then is it not a false accusation to accuse her Cardinal Loew? Loew is one of the three cardinals, and the existence of such a position is of great importance in every word and deed, and it must not be untargeted. It can be said that Loew's current approach is to directly tear his face, and there is no room for relaxation on both sides. However, since Loew said so, it must be well-founded. Many of the bishops around him, who usually had a good relationship with Loew, were pointing and whispering, as if Loew's evidence was sufficient.
Mary, on the other hand, looked at Cardinal Loew calmly, unconcerned about the chatter and strange looks around her.
When Loew finally finished his impassioned accusation, Mary slowly got up, walked under the statue of Radines, saluted the Pope and the bishops around her, and looked at Loew, "Cardinal Loew, your speech is wonderful, if I am outside, I am afraid I will agree with your point of view." Oh, and again, are you okay from the wounds you sustained in the Battle of Beare?"
"I'm not in charge of my own business! think about yourself, Bishop Jones!" Loew roared angrily, a roar that touched the wound, and then coughed again.
"Cardinal Loew's story is wonderful, and I'm sure you all think so. But his story is just an extrapolation out of thin air, and many people have stayed in the rooms I have stayed in. Mary glanced at everyone, said without changing her face, and then showed a sad expression, "What's more, Bright's matter has already been settled, do you still have to turn it out and talk about it?
Pope John Phoenix sighed and turned everyone's attention to him, "Loew's accusation is indeed somewhat arbitrary, but it is not groundless, and Bishop Jones has some truth in what he said. It's just Jones, once it's an accident, twice it's a coincidence, but what if three times? I still hope you can come up with some evidence to prove your innocence. ”
"Teacher, you're right, it's really been too many coincidences, and I suspect that someone is in the middle of it to frame Meili. Mary laughed, then looked at Loew, "Fortunately, I did think of a way to prove my innocence." ”
"Hmph, how to prove your innocence? Don't tell me you let Oscar be a witness! You're all complicit!" Loew retorted.
"Cardinal Loew, rest assured, of course it is not a human witness. Mai Li reached into her arms and pulled out a dark green scroll with silver cloud-like patterns on it, in which wisps of vague magic aura kept emanating.
"What is this?" Cardinal Loew was surprised, he felt that the divine power fluctuations above were completely different from the divine power of light, and he wondered what the meaning of Mary taking out a magic scroll from another church at this time.
"This is a lie detector scroll. ”
Lie Detection Magic is a sixth-level magic that can only be cast by the priest of the God of Lies, since the fall of the God of Lies, no one can make the scrolls of the Lie Detection Magic anymore, and there is one less scroll in the world. As time went on, the sixth-level polygraph scroll gradually reached the same value as the eighth-level scroll, and it was still priceless.
At this time, Mary was holding such a priceless treasure in her hands, which couldn't help but surprise all the bishops. The polygraph method of polygraph magic is very simple, that is, two people ask each other questions, if someone lies, it is regarded as a breach of contract and will be punished by the law.
St. Phoenix looked at the scroll with a complicated expression, "Mary, where did you get this scroll?"
"I killed a high-ranking mage of the Dark Temple during a battle two years ago, and I retrieved this scroll from him. "Mary came directly to death without proof.
"I didn't expect that the matter inside the Temple of Light would ultimately have to be solved by the remaining scrolls in the Church of the Fallen Gods. The Pope of Light sighed deeply and waved his hand, "There's no other way, it's up to you." ”
"Please take a look at it. Mary first gave the scroll to the Pope, the cardinal, the archbishop, and each bishop to examine in turn. Then he tore the priceless scroll open, and a dark green rune floated in the temple. Mary closed her eyes for a long time, and when she opened them again, she had become solemn.
Loew suddenly felt his mouth dry, and a sense of foreboding came to his heart.
"I would also like to ask Cardinal Loew to ask the question first. Mary smiled and stretched out her hand to make an invitation.
Loew thought about it carefully before gritting his teeth and asking, "Bishop Jones, did you have a role in Bright's death?" ”
Mary replied indifferently, "No." ”
The runes flashed white, indicating that the answer was true. Many bishops in the audience were in an uproar, and Loew was also stunned, but he couldn't help but think about it, and Mary's question had already come soon.
"I would like to ask Cardinal Loew if you have a grievance against Mary. ”
Loew then remembered that the rule of the Morse Commandment was to alternate between the two sides, and he hurriedly replied, "No." ”
The color of the runes suddenly turned as red as blood, as if countless lives were being squeezed with blood in it. At the same time, Loew's eyes froze, and a large mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth. Although the punishment for breaking the contract is not very heavy, Loew is already injured, and at this time, the injury is even more unbearable. Only then did he realize that Mei Li was asking if he was dissatisfied with her, and he must have this dissatisfaction, but he didn't expect to be in a hurry to deny it, and as a result, Mei Li said.
Mary smiled at this time and said, "Cardinal Loew, lying is not the quality that we light believers should have. ”
Loew snorted angrily, "I admit that I am dissatisfied with you, but what's wrong with the dissatisfaction? It can't be proved that I deliberately tried to frame you!"
"Cardinal Loew, you can continue to ask questions. ”
"Bishop Jones, did you leave the teleportation coordinates used by the Dark Legion in the Battle of Bill City?"
"It's not. ”
The runes emitted a white glow, and the bishops below were even more puzzled, it seems that Loew's inference was wrong?
"Cardinal Loew, did you deliberately spread rumors about the failure of our mission after Bright's death, so much so that the Dark Temple knew our whereabouts, leading to the sneak attack on Scott City?"
Loew was stunned, Mary asked this question very viciously, there may be many reasons for the sneak attack in Scott City, but she directly linked the cause and effect to the fact that she spread the rumors, Loew gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "That's right, yes." ”
The runes glowed white, but Loew's face was even more ugly.
"Bishop Jones, do you have any connection to Selby in the Dark Temple?"
"My only relationship with Selby is that of an enemy, nothing else. ”
The rune glowed white, and Loew's face showed an incredible look, and he suddenly rushed to the bottom of the rune in a frenzy, pointing at it and shouting, this is impossible! This silent commandment was taken out by her! She must have done something in it!
The faces of the various bishops in the audience became ugly, divine magic is divine magic, there is no way to fake it, not to mention that this scroll has just been checked by them in turn, Loew said this is equivalent to classifying them all as a member of the hands.
In the face of Loew's mania, Mary's voice was still calm, "Cardinal Loew, have you ever made a deal with the Dark Church?"
Hearing Mary's words, Loew was still angry, and yelled loudly, "Get out, how is it possible! I am a devout believer in the light! How can I make a deal with the people of the Dark Church!"
The runes turned red in an instant, red and black.
Loew fell to his knees, bleeding from all seven orifices, staring at Mary in vain, and muttering, "You...... You ......"
Loew froze, trembling and crawling towards the Pope, as if trying to explain something. But the voices of the bishops below came and went, and for a moment Loew could only tremble his lips and say nothing.
Finally, under the double blow of physical and psychological, Loew lay on the ground, his pupils gradually dilated. His last vision was the solemn statue of the god of light, and more than sixty years ago, when he knelt down in front of the statue for the first time, he had made a wish to devote his life to spreading light throughout the Amesia plane.
The dark green runes floating in mid-air gradually turned into points of light and flew upwards into the sky, as if they were the soul of Loew's ascension to heaven.
All the bishops looked at Loew's fall, and they all felt a sense of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox, and everyone used to think that Loew was a very devout believer in the light, how could he do such a thing. The fall of the clerical cardinals is a big deal, and the clerical positions of the Church of Light are very carefully arranged, and the clerical cardinals are even more indispensable. If a priestly bishop falls, someone will have to replace him immediately.
Sure enough, the will of the god of light descended, and everyone in the temple immediately knelt down in front of the idol and recited prayers. Mary's eyes were full of reverence, and she also knelt on the ground and bowed her head deeply.
The huge will swept over the archbishops in the audience one by one, and then between the hands of the god statue, a light shone down, and it was falling on the body of an archbishop, who was a little flattered, and tears were all over his old face. Then the archbishop's aura grew, and soon he reached the level of a cardinal.
But the will of the God of Light did not end there, it continued to sweep over each bishop, and then rested on Mary. Another ray of light shone down, and Mary had become a higher-level priest, that is, an archbishop-level existence.
Then the will of the god of light slowly receded, and it was a long time before the group slowly rose from the ground.
St. Phoenix stood up and turned to see Mary surrounded by a crowd of bishops. When the two parties were on the ground, he heard the hidden trap in Mary's third question, the so-called transaction, in fact, anything notarized by the contract can be classified as a transaction. Forty-five years ago, Loew was just a bishop, and he had led an army to the front lines of the war against the Dark Temple. During that period, the two sides were forced to sign an armistice because of the heavy casualties. The armistice was also signed by Loew, and these events are recorded in classified documents. But now that Loew is dead, he can no longer testify against him.
St. Phoenix looked at his excellent student in the crowd with a complicated expression, and saw that she had just become an archbishop, and there was no joy on her face, but she mechanically responded to the congratulations of the bishops, and her mouth also expressed her apologies to Cardinal Loew from time to time. San Finnix shook his head and didn't delve any further.